The Blyth Standard, 1907-10-17, Page 7Supday school,
.LESSON Iii -OCT. 20, 1007.
'Flu, Capture of Jericho. --Josh. 0: 8.20.
C a uoucnttua 1. The first day's 010reh
(s 4-11.) 5 When Joshua hod spoken
-V, he had given them directions as
god hod eonminded him, os to how they
should procetdto take the city of Jeri-
cho. The escape of the spies, whom
Joslnm heal sent to learn the condition
of the city, lad'grousest the king of jet. -
so that he.took extra care to "ave
the pales of the city well seemed against
any further intrusion front the Israelites,
)/The seven trumpets-l'hese instruments
tppverr probably moue of bora or of silver,
rand were the satire as used on the jubi-
lee. 'Before the Lord -Before the ark,
,',ilial the, ark of the covenant, for it
contained the tables on which the coven-
ant was inscribed, Blew -Instead of the
dreadful trumpet of w'nr,.€they sounded
the trumpet of ,joy, as olr d'y'conquer-
ms, acting faith in }h0 proimse of Goo.
The ark .... followed -'thein -'This \ oo
it symbol of God's pre0ente, antisho0vled
that all the victories of Israel, were
from hint. By this token the filth and
potiolen of the-peolple n'ere increased.'
The priests wont ahead that they, might
give the notice of their conlm!'.,aiid lead
the way for the mitt con1parlgr!,rvhicb
followed, By this;; Israel \i'oukf,oisasre
what a bleesing'the priests were to `t1iaml
i11 times of great need, In tills event
Cod not only eneburng'ed the people by
h0lpin them' to capture a w'i(Kad city;
but he inerensed their faith in'hhn by
his wise and well directed plans:"
Il. Armen melt went before -The sol•
4
dices took the'tead;to clear the way of
obstatidbit's. The rereward-Tire whole
company of Israel followed in the line of
march. The oder of the pt'oeessIOn
seems to have been, 3,' The ,Soldiers, 2.
The seven priests, blowing continually on
large. horns. 3, The ark, 4. T110 main
body of Israel. The procession probably
kept nt a safe (lisldnee from tits' walls,
so ' that 810 weapons or missiles could
reach theta.
10. Ye shall not slwut-Tile procession
w110 111660 in deep and solemin.silence, ex-
actly as,Joshno directed, witliout'nceln
mations or noise of any hind: It seems
a strange manner for battle. "No amount
ryas raiseiTelie sword drawn, no engine
plant ed,'"'po„pionee's undermining." It
W118 by string•tern,or'to their feelings
that ,Jerieho''ivns to' be taken and sub'-`
cried, The people. of Je0iche would at
first be nstoinshed, then the Israelites
world appear ridiculous to them, but as
the marching continued day after stay'
the would naturally become alarmed.
11. So the ark -Tie ails, the symbol of
God's presence among them. was the sig-
nificant thing in this procession. Lodg-
ed in the camp -At Gilgal (chap. 5. 10):
"Josephs states that Gilgal was ten'
stadia (about one mile enc}' n quarter),
from Jericto, and five Aimee asfor1060'
the Jordan."
11, The marching during tJln remaining
six 'day (vs. 12.10).-12 early in the
morning -To begin the march, They be-
gan early because they(vete intent' o1
gaining the victory; then, too, in warns
,an), g
ehm¢tes the early hpurs of the day are
tbo'best time for travel, 14: So they did
six days -All the days were equally im-
portant. "Though lately cone into Can-
aan, ,iiitd thou time very precious, yet
they, dust linger several days about
Jei¢hp, seenulgdy'without staking any
progt"o's. As promised deliverances must
lw ox ected in God's way, so they must
baexpected in his time." -Coni, Coni,
15, Om the seventh day -The repeated
use of the number seen insist not pass
unioticcd. "Seven priests," "seven ttunt-
r
Iets""seven days" and "seven times on
the' seventh day." Seven denotes perfec-
tion., God's ways and works are all per-
fect. They rose early -Probably earlier
than usual, as they had at great days
work. before them, Early risers gain
h otherwise would
�inaty victories that
have been lost. 10. When the priests
blew -The "long blast" referred to in
verse G which was to be the signal for
the shout. It was at tie exact time
when God declared victory. They obeyed
implicitly the directions given. Shout
-Their expectations were so great, their
faith so firm, their car so well tuned,
that their pedes were at once raised to
sound the note of triumph when God
said shout. They were to shout by faith
as though the victory were already gain-
ed. This they slid and the walls fell only
atter they had declared it aloud,
PRA UTICA A1'1'IIG-\TIONS.
"The Good Fight of,A'aith (1. Tint. 6.1.2.)
Every Jordan has its Jericho. Faith
is the victory that takes the citadel (1.
John 5, 4). Jericho was one of the cities
which the spies hnid described ars "great
heaven" (Dent, 1
and walled up to 1 a ( 28).
It was so stoirly'fortified that it was
impossible to take it by human effort.
But man's extremity is God's opo•tuuity.
"By faith the walls of Jericho fell down
after they woe compassed about seven
days" (Ileb. 11, 30).' faith is the sub-
stance, the real thing, not the shadow
of things hoped for, Faith is the evi-
dence of things not seen (Itch. 11,1).
Whom having not seen we love (I. Pet.
well as race is the gift
1, 8). Faith its u grace e
of God (Evil. 2, 8). Peter writes to those
who have "obtained like precious faith"
(11. Pet. 1,1); the faith of Goat (Diad:
11, 22, marg.); the faith that is by 111111
tr\cts. 3, 10) the faith by w111011 AVE live
10111, 2, 20) is illustrated in our lesson.
We see,
1. The work of faith, "Josinta rope ear-
ly" (v. 12). "Theykrose early" (l'. 1;3).
Prompt obedience 0vet accompanies faith.
Abraham "fore early" to begin that
three days' march of faith (Gen. 22, 3),
which earned him the title of "friend of
God" (Jos. 2, 23) and father of the faith-
ful (Gal. 3, 7).
H. The unity of faith. "Seven priests
armed men ad; of the Lord"
(v. 13). Here we see the ark of God in
the centre (Matt. 18, 20). Josinta giv-
ing the comtnaald8 of the Lord, the
priests going before and blowing trum-
pets and each armed noun in his place.
Not "many man many minds but tinny
men with one nand, the mind of Cod,
marching nolidly, unswervingly, to vic-
tory. Nothing can stood before a unit-
ed people whose centre is Christ.
III. The courage of faith. "They com-
passed the city ..... ,six days" (v. 14).
It took courage for Joshua. to lands a
coalmen(' for at military manoeuvre so
apparently senseless. Bow well this
great general heeded the loth' times re-
peated exhortation in his commission,
"Be of good courage" (Hent. 31, 0; Joslt.
1, 0, 7, 0) 3 It took courage for priests
and people to obey 0 command so appar-
ently useless, Th people from the city
walls must have laughed them to scorn.
But God honored the courage of their
faith and the walls fell,
III. Jericho accursed (vs. 17.10). 17.
The City 8111111 be devoted ..to Jeho•
rah (11, 1'.)-1"he word from which the
word "accursed" or "devoted" comes de-
notes "to cut off, to devote, to with-
draw
ithdraty from common use and consecrate
to God." ---Cam. Bib, "This was the first
victory in Canaan. It was Israel's first
fruits, and ms such must be devoted to
the Lord." The Cmnannites were slain
bemuse of their great wickedness. Only
Rehab .. ..shrill live -Because she
had aided and protected the spies. She
evidently longed for a. better life and a'
true religion. "Slee must have ('epented.
and trusted in the tic God, and' lived
a `good life henceforth, as she would
not haves been married- to 'a ;;leading
named in his genealogy,' 10' Keep
yourselves, etc. -See R. V, "It would be
sacrilege to dedicate the wholS to Jeho-
vah and then taste-p00400siot of a part
fortheir own nhc ' Steele. Make the
enIII p :moused ' (1I. V.)-13 any
one should take for personal use that
which had been dedicated to God, it
w'011ld be, the moans of bringing a curse
upon them, and'tho canthi would be trou-
bled and distressed because of it. 19.
'71134 silver, etc. Everything of value wag
to be ,(et apzn1 for the service of the
tabernacle,` 'and counted among the
sacred things. God .would be honored
by enriching his drwplling place. Itis
clause is built ripen the destruction of
the enemy's strongholds. This would
teach ticlsra0)ites notrto set their
hearts on 'worldly wealth, and would
show the nations around that they were
not a set of marauders seeking for plun-
der.
IV, Jericho captured, (v. 20). 20. Fell
down flat -Several commentators, both
alnd Christians, have supposed that
POTATO IMPRO 'EMENT,
As Carried on Throughout Canada Under the Direction
of the Canadian Seed Growers' Association.
(Extract from the, hast annual report of
the Secretary.)
During the past year very material
progress has been made by way of per-
fecting our methods of potato improve -
Inch and in instituting their application
throughout the country. At the last
meeting of the association a very excel-
lent paper on "1'otato Improvement"
was rend by Mr, \V. T. Macoun, horticul-
turist at the Central Experimental
Fauna, Upon the work which Mr. Aln
conn and many other authorities on the
hpotato plant, both nt home and abroad,
ave done, a system of potato improve-
ment suitable for use among Canadian
grovel's was drafted and is being applied
11v several this year. The system adopt-
ed is simple and practical, yet is founded
on scientific principles, the individual
plant being taken ars the basis for im-
provement. The tubers produced by each
plant are morphologically considered,
simply swollen portions of the vegetative
and not of the reproductive system, The
question has therefore Been raised as to
whether or not the principles through
of breeding which apply in the case of
sexual reproduction through the seed,
obtain in a sexual reproduction or per-
petuation through parts of the vegeta-
tive system. Bud variation is, as a rule,
more narrow than is seed variation, and
some investigators claim that a part of
any plant cannot possess qualities which
differ materially from those of another
part of the same plant, The best obtain-
able evidence at the present time does
not support this view, and the "individu-
ality of different parts is now general-
ly recognized. Since the ' tubers pro-
duced by any' single plant are all die. Hangar will m01(0 up sonic of its
tinct parts of that plant, the possibility tt'heat loss Ly all increased crop of corn.
of variation in the productive capacity Deteriorntion4 of the corn crop, however,
and in other ytialitics ie recognized, is reported by the Dtnwbian States, ov-
Tho system dlaftrd for use by this ing to the lack of rain. A failure there
association enables the grower to plant of that crop world entail serious cense•
the seed tubers taken, from t'be different '1",700,
11(7s which were especiarlly ('1100011 for nrrlyo 1pIon v's a fair crop in Germany
seed purposes the year previous, so that a tetter 1011 antiage yield iu Rus•
any promising variation which ntay re- si0, but elsewhere the prospemts are only
01111 may 'be selected and used in en• mxlernte
'r into build up' a strop'* healthy
Birley is expected to give a s41t3sfac-
dept nr g
and productive type. Furthermore is tory' yield in Austria-Hungary', Germany
almost all pails of Canada no matter and Russia• but fears are expressed as to
Imoiv suitable may be the conditions, quality' and colo,
the ''` de Fppr; bltndatlons of the there are many adverse conditions with Onts promise generally to be the crop
tlrf Brat Lil} ( k'flr the walls sails which the potato has to contend. Un• 0f the 30(1 in Europe.
wills opened,' r n 0 Fontunotely, min himself is often the Sugar h0ets m geed al are exl:rem1l •
into.the rbnsm sorthat there remainrod ao't enemy of the potato, and uucan, b;tci:haul. Botli 0 Fiance and Gera'et
nothing but plain ground for the isr'o11ael- a I = ns.ists the average weight,
of the roots and fie
' e to walk ever, Prptably the wall ortsly, though v0ry mater l y, s g
ites in its downfall. The using of 414(1(11 pn- condition 0f the plants are mach below
fel) ah 011(0. 'its foundationsio0l10 every 1
` rhe. 'hi'smira le put iutothe totes, trout degenerate halls is perhaps that,
at
the saute time last yea the sn•
pelt 0" Joshua the strongest city 1111 one of the most glaring examples of gar content is ljkowise lower, but in
h00(10 ' o oiinfii otence of aide to depart somewhat from this rule
(le'niaty the difference is not so )event.
Cannan and, proved the A P j and to reduce the size of the plot to one Ln Hungary sugar beets• while hmckward,
Jehovah stele: ;a r0ns uvith 8 trills in ore rho -eloping'
," id t of faith, "Tile people corrsistfng'pf p g gradually, and are rx-
)A A ,e £ r n snub row; bot112
lows nnd.hil7e f e ho at petted to give a satisfactory yield.
shoutedf' (7. priests
The people compassed h.,„,,,24 (whoa a a1'1(, A' plot of this 10 Great Britain potatoes are the
tlye•eity', the. priests 'blew the t the
01ts. sre, t was thou t„ hpUld not require
ryf •all Moulted in token 'that the city oma, rsorh titan the O'erage groo'er can
wa tlttll , 10bile the gates were still rvell offal (04 0xTrotld,l incl mo0e, careful
closed,,,=:rte walls still standing and an work on the xt ef'the rower ehonld
armed hipat;.still waiting to come outatria pu g
cin sheat before' be encouraged. .From eneh of the 25
destroy tlfhlllo. Faithchosen bills 8 of tile uniform, smooth
the wills Ll;'• Anybody can choly iii8 and sound tubers are then chosen, and
they see �e';enemy. sumlhtg; only: tine each set of 8 tubers so selected is used
who believe' God cab shout knowing' the to plant one of the eight -hilted rove, ,a
tummy wilt run. God said, "I have given this as inn as the seed is Concerned. The
into thine Band Jericho," Joshua be-
lieved it (v. 2.) Ile said to the people
before the walls fell, "Shout, fir the
Lord Loth given you the city" (v. 16.)
91y faith Rehab perished not" •(Heb 11;
:31.) "1 know God bath given you the
land," was her word to the spies (Josh.
2; 0.) God said to Abram, "A father of
neap- nations have I Horde thee," when
he changed his name from Abram, high
b'multi-
tude
b • uu, father of a un t
farther, to A tetra
tide (Gen. 17; fi.) For many years 'the
childless old man bore the name tr'hiell
must have made Trim 'a laughing stook
to his neighbors. But it paid to stand
with God and call "the things which be
not as though they were" (Rom. 4; 17.1
God tells us whatsoever things we desire
when we pray we are to believe that wo
"have received" them and we shall have
them (Mark 11; 24, 11. V.)' Whether we
comm for pardon, purity or power the
Process is the sauce. Desire, proi',be-
lieve, receive, isthe divine order. As we
write a grateful acknowledgment of .18
cheque before we have cashed it; '03'we
sign a postal order saying, 'Received' the
above," before the money is placed in
our hammds, so faith dares to say:. "God
Into given, I have received,' before there,
i sphysical or spiritual knowledge of it,,
Feeling is the result of faith, We have
"joy and peace in believing" (Rom, 15;
13.) Not, joy and poaoe so that we may
believe. God hath blessed ns with all
spiritual blessings in Christ,
V. The victory of faith, ' "Every man
'v h
straight before him, and they took the
city" (v. 20.) S. A. I(cen's'"experie]ce
upon entering Canaan and taking Jeri-
cho is interesting: For fourteen years
Jesus lead been the morning star of my
soul in the precious sense of pardon.
Through all the years I had longings
fon spiirtual apprehensions of a higher
life. One day Bi a storm of bewilder-
ment and heaviness I said, "Lord, I nm
thine, for thee to do this thing for me"
Peace unutterable casae, 1 did not
know that to give over to Jesus to do'
for me what I could 1101 do for myself
was faith, and that what had cone of
this was full ofsalvation; but eighteen
hours later I slit' the IIolySpirit had Grate for examination, This arrange-
ment, permits 'the grower to determine,
cleansed, filled and completely saved roe, P
-A. C. TL first, the best TOWS, and, secondly, the
- _ A best hills in these rows. The required
H CAPTAIN ALARMED. number of specially desirable hills can
FRENC then be laid; away for planting on the
p
Antwerp, Belgium, Oct. 14. -The action plot the following spring as above inili-
of an excitable
French captain whose sated. Special blank farms are sort each
gtuw•er in duplicate in oder that he
vessel was bound for northern Pacific may record certain information regard -
ports in taking 001 a war risk policy on ing the performance of each. rev, refer -
his cargo yesterday caused a groundless ring especially to yield, quality and free -
report that the Antwerp underwriters, doe from disease. While it is urged that
fearing hostilities between the 'United the crop on the improved plot be spray.
States and Japan, were exacting 0401•
premiums for their policies.
the individual Mower. In districts where
disease is troublesome the desirability of
developing strains capable of withstam-
ing these maladies is such that spraying
is ignored, and those plants which have
shown the greatest power in resisting
disease aro chose. The difference be'
tweet' varieties in their aptitude toward
1(1(3ht and other diseases as observed
at the different experiment stations is
so noticeable that tine dovelopetent of'
disease -resistant strains seems to offer
great possibilities,
Note -Potato growers looking for
Maximum crops are recommended to try
the above system. 1Vhile anyone may
carr) on the owls independent of the
abote;assoeiatier, yet there are certain
advantages which comm through organ-
ized effort. We advise ill, therefore,
win desire to know more of this work
to communicate at mice with the secre-
tary, Canadian Seed Growers' Associa-
tion, Canadian Building, Ottawa, Ont.,
as the best time for selecting for next
year's crop is not fardistatt.
Crops the World Over.
Broomhail estintates'time world's reheat
crop this year at, 3,024,000,000 bushels,
having addec131,000,000 bushels for more
liberal and later estimates of the. Uuitcsl
States and Argentilie' Crops; says "Grog
Reporter" of the Department of Agricul-
ture,
The most serious wheat losses aro
looked for in ILngary, the Balkan coml.
tries and Germany. Iciyreases are expect-
ed in Ru •.
h51a(elp I'1ng wheat) and in
France.
worst crop of the year, owing to wide?
spread disease. Oats are tine best crop
of the cereals. The quality of hay is
generally poor, but in bili: it is the crop
of the season. Root crops and oats aro
next; then wheat, barley and potatoes.
Apples and pears are short crops, bat
plums are very abundant in England, and
bush fruits have deo well, An under -
yield of hops is nlicated.
practicing of improper cultural methods 'The 1007 current crop of Greece is
smother cowmen error. Against these commercially estimated at 155.000 tons.
Last year Great Britain imported 6,-
423,704
;423,704 tranches of bananas. The import
is increasing largely 00014 year. They
re from Madeira, Canary Islands, Costa
Rica and British West Indies. The chief
consumption is in the manufacturing dis.
triet . stretching east from Liverpool in a
broad belt across England, where the
cheap 1Vestern banana finds a ready and
growing market among the workers in
the factories. 'Banana imports increase
as the raw apple imports decrease. Since
1003 Great Britain's raw apple imports
have decreased from $13,530,866 to $8,-
533,782.
8;533.782.
Oosta Rica in 1006 exported 8,072,720,
hunches of bananas, valued at 84,436,-
3114.
"Dornbusch" puts the deficiency in the
European wheat crop at 17)1.000,000
bushels. •
things this paint 'is continually strug-
gling vent after year, and while there
is at continual survival of the fittest,
wherein at few plants succeed in rising
above the prevailing difficulties in at
endeavor to maintain tie standard of the
race, yet, unfortunately, these are gnick-
ly gathered in and hurried off to market,
leaving the smaller, less desirable, and
often degenerate tubers remaining to be
used for seed purposes. With shahs a
system is there any wonder why many
of our best varieties have suffered a
rapid decline, until they, are now practi-
cally worthless? Ghat is needed among
pouts growers today is some practical
system whereby it may be possible to
select for seed purposes those hills which
have shown themselves superior to -oth-
ers enjoying equal opportunities. In
this way seed tubers which rank above
the average would be chosen while those
fulling short would be ignored, hence
making for an -upward instead of a
downward tendency. The need of just
such an arrangement has been met by
the association in its system of potato
improvement 'already referred to.
In undertaking systematic work ac-
cording to this system it is rneonpuen$-
ed in the first place that a good stens
dard variety be chosen, and that the best
possible s@ed of that variety with which
to start be secured. The new beginner
is advised to test two or three leading
varieties the first year in small plots
side by side, to keep the hills separate
When digging, and, after having decided
which variety has given the best ref
sults, to select and keep separate 20 0
of the best hills of this variety for
planting in the breeding plot of the fol-
lowing year in accordance with the regu-
lations as drafted. While the minimum
size of the seed plot recognized by the
nssobiation is a quarter acre, yet In the
case of 'potatoes it was thought (Idris
single whole tuber being used to plant
each hill. At harvest time each row is
dug separately, and the individual hills
within the rows are likewise kept sep-
A BRAVE RESCUE.
SCHOONER MARTELLO WRECK-
ED NEAR CHARLOTTETOWN.
Crew Lost Their Boat and Had to
Take to the Rigging -Ali Saved
by 77. McIntosh aro Mark Chev
Brie in a Dory,
Charlottetown, 1', E. L. Oct. 11. -At 4
o'clock this morning, when the fierce
south west ante was at its highest, the
sixty ton schooner Martello oras driven
ashore ant Souris, near the wharves, and
lour 'wreckage now strews the beach.
She W110 owned by Captain Hayden,
liivdr John, N. S., and was employed this
summer carrying gravel from Cape
George, N. S., for the new cone'ete rail-
way wharf under construction, Last
night at 0 o'clock she anchored in lee of
the breakwater; the gale freshened, the
anchor dragged, and the schooner was
driver on the -runts of the old wharf. Ly
attempting to put out the kedge anchor
the crew lost their boat.
Giving up hope of saving the schooner,
they took to the rigging, and shouted
for help. In less than an hour two 114011,
gn)ded through the inky darkness by
the shouting, reached the vessel in a
dory, and 'rescued all hands, Captain
Hayden, his sixteen -year-old son, and
another man. Fifteen minutes later the
littba schooner was in kindling wood.
The boy, clinging in terror to the rig-
ging and afraid to venture down', had
to be forcibly removed. The rescue was
ed for blight, yet tie spraying of the effected by M. McIntosh and Mark
breeding plot is left to the discretion of Chcvcrie.
COAST STILL HOT.
FORMER GOVERNOR M'INNES
DENOUNCES THE TREATY.
Big Meeting Protests Against the
Mission to Japan, Because it
Means a Long Delay While `.he
Door is Open.
Vancouver, Oct. Lt -The abrogation of
the AagloJapaneso treaty and the pas-
sage of remedial legislation for British
Columbia against Oriental immigration
was the demand last night of the most
largely attended meeting ever held in
Labor Hall.
'Pito gathering was addressed by former,
Go(Titer McInnes, of the Yukon, City
Solicitor Cowan and Rev, Dr. Fraser.
At the close the league wired Sir 'Wil-
frid Laurier that the public meeting
unanimously endorsed the r('sollitionet
of the. Dominion Trades (".ougress and
the Provincial Labor Congress regarding
Orientals. They also protested against
the commission to Japan because of the
delay which would ensue.
A 1»essag40 was also sent to Premier
McBride, requesting an immediate ses-
sion to enact the Natal Act, if Lieuten-
a nt-Governor Dunsmuir refuses his as-
sent to the present measure.
'Cho feature of the meeting was Mr.
McInnes' declaration that Lieutenant;
(Imornor Dunsnmir could not conetitu-
ticnally refuse to sign the present Natal
Act. Even a Ring could not under the
litritid ] constitution refuse to comply
with the will of the people. "Either
Dnnsnmir will sign or ;McBride must re-
sign " said Mr. McInnes.
Ile added that he had introduced the
Natal Act in the Dominion House in
10311. The east had fought it to defeat,
although it ons introduced of the ad-
vice of 1h. Joseph Chamberlain. lie de-
clared that Sir Wilfrid Laurier' had brok.
en his pledge of 1806 to carry out the
wishes of the people of British Columbia
of the question.
ST, LAWRENCE CHANNEL,
Views of Brtish Marine Interests
Changing.
�.,...� 1 t toms.
A Wish.
"nerd ho hos where he wished to lie."
-
To
When Do tli bath cane from out bile deep
To 101 my heart with endless rest,
And clots my wwuy cyos In Bleep,
Awl fold my hands across my broarlt-
When silence falls.
For OMR] 0112 be this my prayer,
That 1 may Ile not far away,
But near these heather mountains where
Shadow and sunlight Bait all day -
The curlew calls
Too spirit of the 1110011(405 breathed
In me their mystic passive spell,
And woke the love my slaw's bcquuathed
Of mounlaln height aard wooded doll,
So not one flower
That grew to fragrance on the lea,
And not ono song that from the sky
Broke in light waves of melody
And not 000 mist -wreath trailing by
But woke a power-
A power that gave unto the eyes
Tito sight to sol in glen, and hill,
And moorland gray, and dappled skies,
And placid lake, and fiashdug rill,
From dale to height,
A passion bostuty, t111 there leapt
Within my board a mad love song
That long kept silence, for it slept,
But broke the bonds that held 1t long
To sing to light.
And lay ins not beside Loch -Ness,
Where all my kindred take their sleep
In ,silent raptured toneItom00s,
Where waters plash and breezes sweep,
. Lull them to rest.
But lay me by the ohurchRhat stands
Upon you slope, and loolw across
Tho bright and green dew -sparkling land -
Tho rugged trills and moorland moss
Unto the west.
8o when tho sun strikes on the wmlkc,
And my loved one will turn her gaze
Unto the east, and some bird 00115
In mournful cadence, these bright days
With alt the glow
0f love and light wa1 dim her eyes
With ,tears that 'mourn the love she gave,
And from the soft and 100YYlertl skies
A breeze will blow above my grave
And I shall know.
-John pitman,
An Invisible Leader.
Saul started out to seek his father's awes
raid found 0 kingdom. 'rho treasurer of Can-
dace, queenof the Ethiopians, sought in-
formation in the prophecy of Isaiah, and
found personal salvation. Tho disciples
went out to fish and found ,the Son of God
Dow often God leads us by some secular In-
centive to the place where n0 has a bless -
Ottawa, Oct, 14.-I1an. 1., P. Brodeur, inn of au entirely different nature awaiting
Minister of Marine, stated to -day that us 1 Little did Said of Tarsus dream w•itc.n
while in Europe he had token special he started for Damascus what would hap -
nen to him before hie return. Little did
j Melia know when he hitched Ids oxen to the
and other marine interests as to the plow that before they were unyoked In the
need:; of the SC. Lawrence route. - At evening the muffle of God's .prophet would
the outset he was gratified to find, from be
lateen Upon
atresia Voptloat to thresh
steamship captains as well as from other wheat In the winepress of the Abiezrlts that
experts 10 navigation, that the genera] ate would thorn meet with the auger1of in -
opinion was that the year's of -,pori: ]tow lroYton In ti oolwmmomplacgosoo0 lits we
which Canada had devoted to the Me meet. with God, It is on the road to Em -
pro vement of the St. Lawrence were at mous: it is by some bush In the desert, or
last bearing fruit, on some quiot eveningIn the sheepfold, or
when we are pruning out trees Wien it
The Minister was surprised to find is that the everyday vocations of life have
that the :Mersey, the great channel of rho richest spiritual blessings, Ile who
navigation into central England, was honestly and faithfully performs tris work
not nearly as well provided with lights will invariably find a treasure hid In the
Held; when he comes to the welt be will
and other aids to navigation as is the fiat a Saviour sitting on the curb. -United
St. Lawrence. 33010 than one contain Presbaeriaa,
stated that no further improvements
were needed on the St. Lawrence, and
that it was now regarded ns an ideal
channel,
SURGERY TO CURE INSANITY,
Resignation of the Divine Will.
Resignation to the will of God frees the
tn111d from a grievous bondage, the bondage
of early pursuits and expectations. What-
ever God wins,' is pleasing to the resigned
soul; when a Christian hall, by prayer and
supplication, made known his requests to God,
-- I then the peace of God, which passeth all un-
derstanding, keeps his 'heart and mlodt
through Jesus Christ. Then only 1s life truly
erlloyed, when we tellsh its comforts, at the.
I game tine that we are prepared to part with
London, Oct. 14. -The question of 1 them, Ho who shah resigned his will to
curing insanity by a surgical opera- . the will of God, "eats his bread with joy,
"'o v' • (1( 111 u'itb to -lav by Dc and tb'Inhco his wine with a merry heart.
U n rah Even the thought of his dying hoe' throws
13ernand Iloliauode•, the n11,11(mon v g y
I no dump nu the lays oY his mind. From
alienist, in a lecture before the Brit, the contemplation of God's goodness to bum
Phrotologicnl Society, Sono time In life, he can pass without terror or amaze-
a'o Dr, lIullnndet' mblinhed details meat to tbo thought of his ytroteet3en m the
1 1 dmk valley and shadow of death. Even in
of a case of mental derangement that gloomy passage he fears nc evil; but
o d
Lord tris S ,nor
-s us ate h
o ut hit elf t h
- rc
rhinm'r,
c mm t
h t
��d s
uc
Which t had cured tc he I
a dness amd� mere to fol-
since when h0 has continued Ins in -
lowwill m ke goo Y
low Item an the days of his ]Ifs, and at last
vestigations in that direction, lo- bring him to dwell In his house above far -
day he gave other instances in sup- ever, Hobert Walker (1716-17831 -
port of his contention that insanity, Nature's Vernal Beauties.
especially in its early stages, does
not involve the whole brain, but only
limited particular areas, and it is often Of all the many and varied beaattes and at-
nm01uuhle LO surgical treatment. fractious of this fair earth of ours, the asst
brunets. and by far the most ornate is with-
out question a well designed landscape flow-
er garden in mdd•opringtlmo, Guarding the
entrance aro two stately and superb horse -
chestnut trace decorated with a clustered
Antoine Thomas Stole .Relics Worth - profusion of handsome candelabrum -shaped
$400,000 Near Limoges. ` spikes of pia, primrose and white. Farther
along tho broad walk io a logy pair of Sl-
'• •le 1 nt, ] l A 00040 aloha has been - beriaa crab -topples, the leafage entirely hld-
1 ,u ) dem beneath, a alar of almost
en used by the remarkable confession of galaxy Pura white
:Aabulic 'Thanes, uvho tuns crested flowers, as (lough transformed into two
mighty snowb llv. scattered wheat We hawus
with bis mother a'nl sister, charged with i aro numerous flowering trees and shrubs;
complicity in the theft of the famous an early rhododendron, a breat, almost cope of Orth, vallied at 120,000, from hush hie ha of lit k -rod florlags; sumo e lon-
1 � did ura6npliaat,,;�ycry brooch a sw'ried the Church of Ambasea, near Limoges. 1 reinvent of 1J(rge vase -shaped, wax -like
'190omns declares that after the passage I o'nrulure so 'i doable peaobes, a brilliant
of the separation law antiquaries of display of p!ml 0d cerynrbs of rich prank; or
1 ( a Cauaullnn �iespllus garlanded fu wavpng
Paris, some of then millionaires, hired I ta88gls and 413rays of milk -white tafloros-
him and others to bribe p,utsh 7110810 eenfe; wlthf fnany another fair and lovely
to suranatir the relics and substitute beauty' of spring.
And thea, g diversely strand flower bail,
counterfeits, which could later be toned a bew'iludeq\lzyg display of vivid coloring; tu-
over to the State, This plat continued nos 1n go . and eahrmlua, and pink, and
for months and Thomas filially went vermilion,•' "ape hyacinths, with their sp110ro
boldlyabout into wholesale burglary. Thomas varlxl [a
estimated the nm0un1 of his robberies at saffron,
Sucosful Results Achieved in Lon
don From Trephining,
(By A Banker).
ROBBED FRENCH CHURCHES
edged bells; 10 .i;,00 0
1n an shades of primrose, and
lemon; with rose-colored ]cal -
$400,060. m aa, soil' early heaths, and numerous
• other vernal gens Lanni
tura or three pe
pink•arbm` d flamingoes station; oboe in ap-
beauty PART OF FORMOSA CONQUERED. nuncio Oration of thea scene adding to its
.. l interest.
Three Months' Hard Fight by Japan- th.9g
e dii'uotsy aofba(ckobgrosuprnding a(eafhagea,t11e0s, g(rnacoei-
1
ese Wort g Subju ation, 1131. Silver birth with her pendent sprays of
lightest green; whitebeams, their snowy foll-
Tokio, Japan, t )ct. 14. -After 1110rs aro 1101v bursting forth; the beautiful Acera
than three months of had fighting schw-edlery-13 has ee F,ngiisl( ianue-a knit-
-Ole Japanese arm operations tints against ple or sycamore. with almost scarlet loaves
y 1 b 1n Spring dull dark green in summer, mad
the 0attage natives of Formosa has, ae- again an« (o Srilrlet 10 autumn; or shapely
ant-
eceding to official reports lust received,
now arrayed in their feathery cm-
contpleted its task of subjugating a -per-,snail-hued lealu;o; -
them all are the oak and
contrasting with
d the ash, still in
tion of the heretofore unnhabitable 4;06, white: nakedness; with here an11there
tion of the. island. ). a dart:, swanky Scotch air or ether cord -
Not only were the Formosans hold-
ing what may be culled their own sec-..,
tion of, the island. but they were gradi84.
ally encroaching upon that which hall
been brought nide• the control of til:II„
Chinese and their successors, the Jape,
0se. 'k The official reports show Japanese'
casualties "numbering 2.59, including
sixty-nine killed in action, . No''01110(ot
is made to estimate the losses of the
Formosans.
And pot in a very short time ail this gay
beauty will have faded away; the timer -
beds will have lost all (heir radiant bloom;
the trees will have assumed darker hues;
and the ttower9htt 'shrubs '01!! have been de-
nuded of alltheir gorgeous emblazonment.
But not. so With us, For those who have
gained an inheritance in the Land of Glory
by. coming. to the Saviour of the world for
eternal lite, and by believing drat lie died
to atone for their sins, will bo arrayed is
over radiant splendour, and wit! shine as
the stars for ever and ever. But those who
refuse or neglect to accept the Gospel et
ChYst must bo shut out from It a11,