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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1907-12-05, Page 7L IPSON X.—DEC. 8, 1907. 1 Wine Choice,—Ruth 1; 14.22. s , n ny, I-Naomi's Bequest and A:,• , , , s, I , ..;n, 11. ti opt again -:vele moved to teals at i- tv (ig the faithful we• nen , I reel who had lived so eonsiet• mill). e u thee, t the. words of tee del s made Mein in clung nwra closely to be -r. tri ,h kissed her, thas ohowieg her love no ht u, tut der'ided to return to her r v , i'uoty, on hearing the matter' disetis sad so frankly by Naomi. She could not go with her on the ground of se'v• ins ab, hod of Israel. Ruth clave—Ruth elide unto Naomi and decided to return with her to Bethlehem. This is an in• stare: where natural affection was Wird ins(11100(1)101012411 in leading to true religion, "A blossom of heathendom stretching its fiolver sup desiringly toward the light of lore:ation in Israel," Rutin joined herself to the family of Israel with all the power of love. 1.5. She said. ,.return thou—After Or - pa had, returned Naomi again puts the lest noon Muth 'Ij"nomi would have her kno0 turd reuhze`-fiilly the importance 3fleedetiaicn ,tial" urge upon her to decide for God. This 'also would help heather: woman and 011. Israelite. 'rho question would then be'ktittled upon the side of religion. Het' deciStan w'oudd cost hot something, - 11 was lhomelitnd with its e i2to ts, familiarities and idols; or it was a strange laud, nn for g,str -ager,,, in the -emacs of Israel's (0d:;,It was :r sepa,itton front.') her 1'ormefclife to go wftlt n101111 arid, '.11173 (11x1,, 10. llnt.ii sate:' ti's reply i0 very 'toach:ug and distfh0tly poetical, `Like 7)aty i l's lament overolo oOt tn, her words have sunk deep into the human heart:" lid -root me not to leave thee—Here came the :lower from 'the heart, 11t this great crisis in her life, Ruth kept close company with one, who served the God elide) ie nee chose, She '1.111 fan. the t o,.al "help arta- fellot,01)11, of 51,e 110,)0)x1 that she would not refer to her Mels, relatives and home while she was in su011 a trying position. At once she decided on her atssociates, and broke away from every opposing in- fluence, Whither thorn guest, 1 will go— Tlu1s Ruth ends the debate. Nothing could be utore decisive or brave than this; silo scents to have had another spirit, and another speech, now her sis- ter wile gone, and it is an instance of the grave of (o4, inclining the soul to the resolnte choice for the better part, Though to a country unknown to her and one of which she 111141 been trained to have a low opinion, she would travel ther6 with Naomi.—Com, Com. Whore thou lodged, 1 will lodge—By her fh•m resolulio:s, she declared her purpose to be one with Naomi's people, Though Naomi was ander affliction, and retinv- ing to her own country in humility, ltuth teas first fu her purpose to share ire• lot. Thy people shall be my people— This etie would`tmnotitice. all her connec- tions and prospects in the land of Moab, and live according to all the rules of Naoni's people in Canaan. And thy God my God -1 will adore the God of Israel, the (ally living and true God, trust in Him alone, servo Hinz, and in everything he ruled by 11.1.—(:cin. Cont. 17. -Will I die—Muth made this her lifetime choice. There will I be buried —"Not desiring to have so much as her dead body carried buck to the coun- try of Moab,' in token of any remaining kindness for it," '•'Orientals make more of the place of burial than we do. To Ruth Palestine 'was holy lend.' She would, by this choice, (Leire to forget all relationship with her own people or their religion,. She was ready to Make the ehnnge with MI it meant,`The Lord do so, etc.—"'Po prove her sincerity in this matter Muth called God to witness, and asked Ilim to multiply her troubles if she did not keep true to this solemn vow. Iler words were an ancient form of an oath. She thus fixed a lasting- ob- ligation upon herself, never to °leave this wary. It came to pass, even as they desired, for when Naomi became old she lived with Ruth and Boaz and was ' the nurse of their son Obed" (chap, 4, 15, 10). 18. Then she left speaking—"There could be no room to doubt ler sincerity and true motive, lier vow wasconivhw- ing, Since Ruth's purposes reached be. yowl 0 mere impulse and family a.ftee. tion, Naomi was safe in allowing her to face ;ill the consequences with he'." 11. The arrival and reception al Beth- lehem (ve. 10.22), 10, They two went— When they were both of the same mind, they could walk lovingly. together. When they were pledged to be true to God, they then could find abundance of love and fellowshipfor osoli other. The jour- ney could be made with joy, even though they keenly felt their loss and bereave. melt in Noir widowhood. Tlic city w,rs moved—Thus we see that she was well known fu Bethlehem, The town stirred. And they—"And the wmnen,"—R. V. la this Naomi—Her friends hod remem• bend her as they last saw her. What their sorrow was et having her go in- to 0 heathen country we do not read, but they eagerly stet her. The change which afflieti0u, clad wrought surprised Nnonti's friends, They probably were surprised at her poverty, since she had left Canaan to escape the fanzine, 20. Call 010 not Naomi—Which means "beau- tiful," "pleasant," "sweetness." Call me 11fgu'a— `llrtte:" Her former name was fitting in her former life, but now that affliction had changed her lot, Mara Sons n more suitable name. Almighty Karst dealt, etc.—She aeltnowledges the hand of God in her affliction. She felt the bitterness of her severe trials, but her heart did not rebel against the Almighty, "Her distressing bereave• mnents were not accidents and they are not here referred merely to' physical causes. Everything that takes place, great or small, prosperous or adverse, in the affairs of nations or of individuals, occurs in the providence of God (Markt, 10„ 20, 30; Prov. 10. 33; Autos 3: 0; 1 Sam. 3. 18). _t. ,vent out full—having a husband, two suns and family possessions. IHer sup of joy ens full. home again empty --,TI e Lord spored ler life and enabled her to return, but he had taken all her family, and she was left in poverty. teo- lifien against ue "'Phe figure is that of n judge presiding over a court, and acting the part of witness and prosecu- tor at the same time. See Sam. 1:10; 1 Kings 11:18. ,lob often speaks of God as testifying against him, and even chat. lenges Jehovah to appear as witness in ope t court against him,'—Davies, af. flictcd• me ----The Hebrews regarded suf. feritig ns the direct penalty of sin. No douh she sow that they had done very wrong in leaving Canaan for a heathen haul in order to obtain a hotter lids. rest. 22, barley harvest—Usually in the mid. die of April. The fact of its being barley harvest suggested to Muth that she night go forth to glean, "This right of *Ironing was one of the legal provisions for the poor of Israel; moll as the land holders were not subject to money taxes for the support of the poor, this claim was liberally construed by thein. The part of the field to which Ruth was pro- videntially directed belonged to Boaz, a near kinsman of Naomi's late hos- hand."—Kitto. The remainder of the book of Ruth tells of her reward for the choice she had made. "1. Sbe found a means of supporting her mother-iu-law. 2. She won the respect and favor of the people among whom she lived. 3, She gained a moat 'excellent husband and home. 4, Muth had the honor of including among her descendants the great kings David and Solomon, and, above all, Jesus the Christ. Still we are to be careful not to confound outward cowards with the real reward of virtue," PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. I. Ruth's choice, 1, Distant, "Ruth said, entreat me not" (r. 10.) Immedi- ately, without hesitation, without asking time for consideration, Ruth answered', A gay, worldly youth, onreless of his soul and 11, ioghtless of'Cod, wits aunl- aned early 0110 morning by..a divine call to reflect upon bis wasted, sinful life II( saw• at once his guilt, 1110 danger. Deeply impressed, he did nothesitate a moment. Ile sprang from Ids bed, knelt, and made an instant, solemn dedication or himself to God, He wont to his business anoth- er nnan, and never turned back., He lived to be extensively used in the ministry of the gospel. 2. "•.ffcetionate, "Entreat oto not to leave thee" (v. 10.) Naomi had no more sons that Ruth night wed. She was poo, lonely, sorrowful, appar- ently indifferent. but Ruth loved ler, She could leave her other earthly friends, but not the one friend who had shown her the way to leaven; she could leave her own mother who had taught her to worship idols, but not the husband's lee tier who had taught her to worship Cod. Stephen H. Tyng says: 'This is the young Christina's affectionate choice. It is not the stand of ditty, obligation, fear or necessity.It is not an involuntary, sorrowful relinquish- ment of a world that was loved as long ea it bloomed and is forsaken because it has faded; but the perception of some- thing infinitely ino'e precious tobe, of trained. Ile• choice is of the Saviour be- cause she wally doves him. Could she be always with him, ,forever like him, she would desire nothing besides." 3. Hum- ble. "Or to return from following after thee" (v. 18.)' "Ruth was poor. She could fo0050, That sons 1a11. She had only Herself -to offer, only affection and fidelity to give, We come to Christ ns ive are, and reeetro of his inberltnnt0 (Matt. 11; 28.30.) 4 Entire, "Whither then -goest T will gn; and where thou lodgest I will lodge" (v. 10.) It cost Ruth something to go with Naomi. She left her country, her home, her friends, her OIL President Edw r says im his diary: `thhave this daaybee l before God and given myself, all that .I am and have, to God, so that'I am in no respect my own, I can challenge no right in my. self, in tlda; utiderstnnding, this will, to this body or any of its members, no to this body or any of its mebers, no right to this tongue, these hands, those,feet, these eyes, these ears; I have giver myself clean away." 5. Influenced by Another. "Thy people shall be my people, and thy God un' God" (v. 10). Ruth loved Naomi, then ,she (those Nnomi's G(i{ii An Afghan spent an hour will' Willi Marsh. Marsh. Afterward hear. ing of the ihenth of the gond man, he exclaimed: 'Ills religion shall be my re- ligion; his God shall be may God; for I must go wdnere lie is and see his face again." I{umnn love leads to heavenly love. A godly life has an attracting lamer, "I thunk God," said one, "I have lived a few months in the family of a - Christian woman, 1 learned more about religion from that Christian another, ns she went about her duties end bore up muter her trials, than from all the panthers I ever heard." (1. Determined, "Where thou ripest will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, an l more also, if aught but death part thee and me" (v, 17). Rutin was "stead• fastly minded" (r. 17). Here was it de- teiminntiot from which there was no Mining back, as Cortez and Itis soldiers, entering on the ememest of :Mexico, l'miroed the ships behind them to cut off• all possibility of retreat, 7. Rewarded. 'fel Lord recompense thy work, a full rev ,u•d be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, wider whose wings thou art mune to trust" (Ruth 2:12). This pray- er was ahundnntly answered. Ruth found, (a) Service (2:2). (8) Favor (2:13): (c) Kindness (2:20). (d) hest (3i1, 18). (e) A Redeemer. (f) A hus- band (4:13). (g) A son who was the altcestor of Israel's greatest king and of ,Tears the Christ (4:16. 17). H. Naomi, the pilgrim. 1. A beloved pilgrim. "They two went" (v, 10). These word: recall an aged prophet and his young -follower journeying to Jericho (2 liing4 2:0); a loving father and his only .f Marvelous case of Leo Corrigan which shows that skin diseases here- of ars cosshdcrc(1 hopeless can be cared. f: a re. cirblitood, Leo C ri gnu lr d .0, 11 t tr.,,) t, 18 the Itureisg atom> ud t 't r ,d Lczentn. tits p t,li ha 'i rp,a t. y meat dead of money is coo - E !n':,In:uts nod buying utedic;,.ea —1„1::,,1 14, rl.t ilttippOSe. As be grew older he sought other ,'hetes out), of them specialists, 11-1e va ns eleven se, els in a Toronto la osp)tal— c ight i, elm its bed, At times the irri- tation and pairs caused by the Eczema were :to severe, life was a burden. He would get so bad he could not walk. Several winters he could do no work. Ile wrote, on February 20, 1906; "In November, 1115, Shad another attack, and was advised to use Mira Ointment, 1I thought this would be like the other remedies I had tried, and of no use tome), lint, to my great delight, a few hours after the first application, I felt great relief. nave na00 it, now, two and a -half months, and unhesitatingly state that it is the best remedy 1 ever used, It has worked wonders '.for"me, ;ince using Mira Ointment I have ',been able to work every day—without irritation or pain—no .stiffness of the limbs or soreness, l feel a new person, 'Prom n state of great irritation and some. tinea excruciating pains to freedom from all such, being capable of doing hard work every lay, is a marvelous change. Mira Ointment has effected it, "1 strongly recommend anyperson n1'mcird with this terrible complaint—Eczema—to uoe Mira Ointment." Vd hat this wonderfully effective Oint- ment has done i11 this extreme chronic • •,oe it car do in other seemingly inenr- - ', :float's. If pots Suffer from see, ui sent -disease, (101'1 11080x. selisf a11(i cure is waiting!' 1,00 191 " rn ant, Geta box tu.i1r1. 100. ', n. rc. At drug -stores --or fr,an ti5ta' Co, of Canada, 11011 Toronto, 15 as sou climbing a mount of sacrifice "both of them together" (Gen, 2218); n sorrow - 1111 mother and her baby boy, more sin- ned against than - sinning, wandering Mom in the wilderness (Gen, 21:14.21). 2. A returning pilgrim. "They two went ..to Bethlehem" (v. le). Naomi was u 1, home, bask le het• place as an Israelite, taking with her a heathen eon. veal:, picture of Jew and Gentile on their tray to heaven, 3, A chastened pilgrim. "'1'I. Almighty bath dealt very bitterly with me" (v, 20). "The Lord hath tes- tified against me" (v. 21). A good man in deep affliction said, "Lay on the rod, Father, now I know I am thy child." Pastor J. R, Miller says; "Receive sorrow reverently, as sent from God. Even in lours accept its message as divine There is always some blessing in Pain's, hot hand. Some bands God designstoburn off in the fire. Not to be able to accept from the Father's hand the seed of pain, is ter miss fruits of blessing which eon grow from no other sowing. We should give sorrow, when it comes, just as lov- ing welcome as we give joy, for it is from the same hand and has the same e' - rand." 4. A restored pilgrim. "I went the Lord.. . brought me hone" (i'. 21). A. C. M. TOOK HIS LIFE. DEPOSED PRESIDENT OF BROOKLYN BANK SUICIDES. Had Been Indicted on Charges of Forgery and Larceny—Made Despondent by the Desertion of His Financial Friends. • New York, Dec, 2.—Howard Max- well, deposed President of the Borough Bank of Brooklyn, who w'as under in- dictment for grand Larceny and forgery, and sons last night released from jail on $30,000 ball, coiuuitted suicide to- day. He cut Lis throat and left wrist With a raze' and penknife in the bath- room at his crone in Brooklyn, 111111 died tonight at the Long Island College Hos- pital. Maxwell, who was locked up last Thursday, had felt his humiliation keen- ly, and during his incarceration had ap. '(tared hopelessly despondent. He had, however, given his family no intimation so far as known that he contemplated uuakiag away with himself. His wife was prostrated by the tragedy, and was under the wire of physieiaus to-uight. Maxwell was 40 ye -u, old and :can's a wife but nu children. On November 21 he was jointly indicted for grate Larceny with former Cashier Arthur Campbell and Director William Gow',.of the Bor- ough Bank. There were other indict- ments against him involving forgery in a quarterly bank statement made to the When State banking department. W u t h cse three met were arraigned Campbell and Gow secured bondsmen, but, to the sur- prise of many who !anew Maxwell's pop- ularity in financial circles and socially, none offered to go upon his bond. For some time only his four sisters, who, offering the home left them by their mother, who died three days after the Borough clank suspended, could secure only a $10,000 bond, came to his aid, The desertion on the port of men to idiom he hod looked for his freedom, it is said, embittered and depressed Max- well, and the despondency increased be- fore bis release was brought about. Dur- ing his arraignment Maxwell's counsel rtatod that Hs client had put up every dollar in the world that he possessed to :,"etre the bank, and that iia. had abso- lutely stripped himself to protect that institution, JAP IMMIGRATION. MR, LEMIEUX DISCUSSES QUESTION WITH BARON HAYASHI, Received Assurances That the Mikado's Government is Planning the Limita- tion of Immigration to Canada— Emigration Companies to Discuss Situation. Tokio, Doe. 2.— Rudolph° Lemieux, Canadian Postmaster -General and Min- ister of Labor, to -day had a conference lasting Offen hours with Minister of For- eign Affairs Hayashi, at which the emi- gration problem was discussed, It is understood that he received assurances that • the Japanese Government is new engaged in planning the limitation of emigtution to Canada. The opinion is entertained hero that after the return of Kieki Yiro Ishii, chief of the Bare lief Commerce of the For- eign Office, the Government will an- nounce its decision to limit the cmigra- tdon of alt classes of Japanese to Amer- ica, pending the adjustment of the ex• teams, dtffe1eces. A resting of the var- ious emigration companies, at which the situation has been discussed, has been called to convene at the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, Dee, 3. The Emperor is indisposed and unable to grant .tlr. Lemieux an audience, but the Empress will receive hint at lurch on Thursday. AN INDUSTRIAL REVIVAL, Effects of Financial Stringency Passing Away in New England. New York, Dee. 2. --Recent resump- tion of industrial activity in the eastern Status controverts to some extent the stories of general depression that have gained cirenlation on account of the clos- ing down, partially or completely, of Many c0110e11s, The financial stringency throughout the country had its guttural reflection in the partial suspension of operations in the chief Atlantic centres, but the fear of a complete industrial de- pression has not ixee realized. News was received last night of the resimmption of full time of some indus• trios OP the New England Status and New York, and the hope is that with the general relaxation in the money market this resumption will be largely increas- ed, and that the eastern manufaeturisg section will soon experience a return to normal conditions. ROBBED OF SILVERWARE, Burglars Do a Well -Planned Job at Montreal. Montreal, Dee. 2,—The residence of Mr. James Crathern, MacGregor street, was robbed early this morning and about $3,000 worth of silverware taken. About midnight vivo men were noticed on Sher- brooke street west, and while near a cittze' one made the remark to his com- rade, "Crathorn or Shaughnesey— whoeh?" These two men are suspected of tin robbery, They brought a ladder with them and opened , doors lending from the balcony to the dining room. Th; booty was put in bags and lowered from the balcony by means of a rope nide from two linen table cloths. The balcony had been carefully swept of snow with a broom, probably so that no traces might be left. The loss is partial- ly covered by iuourance, SAW TRAIN FOR FIRST TIME, James Silverwright Comes Out of In- terior—Bound for Scotland. Vancouver, B, C.. Dec. 2,—When Jas. Silverwright, ager seventy-six, arrived in Ashcroft last week on board a train for the eastern route to his old home in Scotland, iso saw for the first time in his life 0 railn'ny train, and also had his initial experience of being provided with light by electricity. It was after a residence of nearly fifty yea's in the in- terim• that Mr. Silverwright bade good. bye DISASTER ON BLACK SEA. Over Two Thousand Persons Have Per - felted in Storms. Constantinople, Dec, 2.— According to reports received here the recce( storms on the Black Sea have resulted in terrible suffering and great loss of life. Among the disasters to the ship- ping is thefoundering off Gregli, Asia Minor, of the steamship Kaplan. The 110 persons on board perished. Numer- ous smeller craft hm'o been overWbcln,- ed, and these dt ,stets, :g01111 with the loss of the Kaplan. bring the num- ber of casualties to more than 200, r.♦ Work on Detroit Tunnel. Detroit, Dec. 2.—Tie second section of the Michigan Central double tube tunnel under the Detroit River was laid this afternoon, and sons joined to the first tube laid a few weeks ago, Among the onlookers were Icon. R. F, Suther- land, Speaker of the Commons; Icon, J. 0, Beaton°, Minister of Public Works, and Dr. Smith, collector of customs at Windsor. No more tubes will he inid until next spring, The two already down are near the Detroit shore. Work is being pushed forward, on the -approaches on hotlt sides of the river, THE DRUCE MYSTERY Miss Mary Robison Tells About (kens at Kensington. London, Dec. 2.—The hearing of the Druce ease, involving claims to the Port• land estates, was resumed in court to. day, having been adjourned from Nov. 21. sirs, Mary Robinson, who was mm ul- nensie for the hate '1'. C. Druce, who 18 said to have been the fifth Duke of fort• land, was shown letters purporting to ]rave, beat written by the Duke of Port- land to T. C, Druce She admitted that the handwriting was not the same and she failed to recognize the handwriting in letters signed 1', C. Druce to the defendant, Herbert Druce, as the hand. writing of her employer. As corroboration of Miss Robinson's statement that she met Charles Dickens in Kensington Garden, shortly before his death, and her allegation that at that time the novelist told her that Druce and the Duke of Portland were one and the 501110 15005011, L. Atlge'ly-Jones, con• sol for the prosecution, read an extract from the reminiscence of Sir Wemyss Reid, stating that he had seen ,AIr. Dickens walking in Kensington Garden. 011 GREAT FUR SWINDLE. Hundred and Fifty New York Dealers Have Been Defrauded, Poughkeepsie. N. Y., Dee. 2.—District Attorney John 7. Mack, of Duchess Jaunty, and the local Nike are endeav- oring to uncover a swindle which pro• miser to grow to gigantic proportions, according to a statement made by the District Attorney to -night. 'Warrants have been issued for three members of a tarty of sevenor eigli I t"ht met who have been ordering furs from at least 150 fur ,balers in New York city and having the consignments shipped to n store that has been open'here but a short time. As fast as the furs ensue to the store, at is nllged, they were re -shipped, and the New York funis acre mtalile to locate th-i'r funs or get ,any payment for them. The furs are valued at between $15,000 aid $18,060. The District Attorney has tidon possession of the store, and de- reloements are expected within a few days CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BOOM. Active Campaign for Converts Started in Berlin Society Circles. Berlin, Dec. 2.—A determined effort is being made by the American end of the Christian Science movement to stir up the faithful to procure: more con- verts in this country, 0112 a sort of min- ister extraordinary, 1V. 0. W. Clarence ltuskirk, of Boston, has started a cam- paign in Berlin. Cards of invitation to meetings have been scattered broadcast in German, end American social circles. The first meeting was crowded with American women to such an extent that the service at the regular American church was abandoned for lack of a congregation. Buskirk is a fine-looking man of about 60. He declared that he was proud of the fact that Christian Science was nn American discovery, and that lie was equally proud of the fact that the discoverer of the work was a woman. BEFORE HUSBAND. Port Huron Woman Takes Life After Visit to Mother-in-law. Port 1k{ores, :Aiello, despatch: "It would'• be better, Alice, if you would remain away from my mother's" said Willian Foster, a Grand Trunk engineer, to his wife, aged 22, whom he says quarrelled with his mother. "is that so," she replied, and went to her room, where she put some strychnine into a glass of water and returned to hit. "What are you mad about, Wi11T" she asked. "Why, nothing, Alice." "011yes, you art," she said, and drank the poisoned water. She died shortly ofterward. Foster says his wife went to his moth- er's Imine to get some milk for the baby. \fiat the subject of tine alleged quiet -et was, he says be does not know, HEIR TO $120,000 • Sentenced to Michigan Reformatory for Year and Half. Port Huron, Mich., Dee. 2.— John P,oberts, aged 25, who is on the eve of being taken to the Ionia Reformatory for chicken stealing, is heir to $120,000. Roberts has received word that he would get half of an estate of $240,000 loft by an uncle, Joint Law, who recently died at Stratford, Ont, There nro only two heirs—him and Allen Roberts—ail the money is divided equally. "1 guess 1 won't do much to that after I servo my time," said Roberts, The will has been filed for probe in Stratford. A SOUND BANIUIS'G SYSTEM. Saved Canada in Time of Difficulty, Says the Times. London, don Dec. 2.—The Times editorial- ly emphasizes the satisfactory condition of Canadian finance compared with that In _the United States. 1t says: "Our Canadian brothers are not Much behind their .neighbors in adventurous action in the sphere of industry and commerce, but they Imve been tinder the wltole- seme restraint of n annul banking sys- tem. The working of the Canadian banking system in a time of difficulty hits been eminently saatisfatatory.. -- Prayer. Holy and merciful God, who didet make man that he might glorify Thee, and in Thy service find his truest joy,, have pity upon those who, by their Nin, have separated themselves from Theo and are seeking happiness in those paths of 'y folly which lead at last to despair. Let Thy Spirit strive with them that they may turn and live, raise up those among their brethren who will seek and help i r them, defeat the forces of evil which was against their souls, visit diem with Thy salvation. And grant to all who bear the name of Christ, the mind that was in their Lord, that they may seek, not their own good merely, but the good of alters, and as they obtain strength from Thee may they use that strength, not to please themselves, but to bear the infirmities of the weak. This we ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Fantasies of the Night. A. child of earth is indulging in along reverie, giving rein to his imagination, and, in a flight of fancy, casting off the gyves and trammels of mortality and soaring through the universes. Gradually sinking into the waters of Letbe, his reveries have now assumed tangible form and shape, and he feels that he is no longer subject to the let tering thraldom of earth. Vaulting up- wards into the other, lin the flash of a thought he alights upon It cold, dead world, without air, without water, with- out life, Hanging threateningly overhead is a stupendous and gigantic orb shin•tes_' ing brilliantly in the starless heavens and lighting up the rugged scenery with a flood of reflected light, which from the configuration of the markings on the surface he recognizes to bo his na- tieo earthy and he realizes that lie is upon her satellite. After exploring the wonders of those huge volcanic craters --Copernicus, with Ts mighty upreared walls, Tycho aid, Ptolemy, souring up to the skies, or Shickard, more woudrous tlmn them all, its crate' about four hundred miles in circumference, and of a capacity snffi•:, clout to contain perhaps every volcano' on earth --depressed at the dismal and melancholy aspect of this dotal, cold world, he hies off to visit that other side of the moon which is for ever invis- ible to us, and of the aspect of which tybi*` know absolutely nothing, Leaving -this arid and lifeless wilder cess he speeds away, past our net' neighbor Mars, unravelling the ntyster: of the great canals, past mighty Jupiter ` past stupendous and majestic Saturn r tli wo 1 other of o and pastplanetary ri,. dors of the midnight skies, up to the., dazzling glory of the sun itself; the, mighty, surging tornadoes of fire, and'' the infuriate whirlwinds of flaming gases ever wildly raging with conyulo, sive energy on its surface transfixing , him With awe and wonder. Then, hurts led into the abyss of space, midst rush; - - fig luminaries careering each with their planitary train on their long orbit' round the great central pivot of all the universes of God, midst binifng, coruscat• ing sluts in the zenith of their effulgent lustre, and midst lightless, lifeless orbs whose fires have in the long course of the aeons faded away into eternal dark- ness, startled at the overpowering glory of it all, he awakou--and behold it is a dream. But although all this is fancy, yet for those who have not spurned and con, demned the commands of their God, but have with His never refused help lived the life of the righteous, and whose 51115;' inherited and committed, have been exp punged from the record through the great expiation made on the cross by the Redeemer of mankind, for these a time will comp when they or angel wing will surely be accorded permission to visit all these wonders of creation and to roam through all this vast and glor- ious universe. -13y A Banker, The Value of Pain. Looked at from one standpoint, pain is but a meaningless blot upon God's creation, a reality from which we cannot. escape, and yet one which perhaps more than any other suggests doubts as to sternal goodness and wisdom. It is a mystery, that for all time has perplexed the children of men. If it were simply a scorpion whip to sting men into right- ' 0011)1 ass: if it were simply but the fiery bit: 1100111 of wilful and shameless wrong -doing; then we might understand it better. But when its awful coils, in" dreadful, unrelaxbrg, grip lay hold upon the spotless and the true, and its poi- soned fa strike deep into the soft white fiel Of helpless child and lily- IVO i on its work lily - hearted wit tgazep with horror and dismay. It is not ours to solve the riddle; but as faith grazes upon' the work of paha and f yfis r aead' the ,reason, we ask, 'Is r( tie'th ,to;goin,in this," "le pain clear loss"80 1l(an?" And to these ques- tions we can ullmoyver truly, "There is a rain to 11 n, avenin this work of pain" Pain softens heals and widens sym- pathy. fain draws the mother nearer to net child. 'Paan wars on self10hness, an•1 makes men think. Pain smites .. men'; pride and teaches hint humility. (PM• 0 othsounnes are not c'ursos, bat blessing's. They smite us sorely, until we sweat the bloody sweat of pain; lou from the darkened garden we go fort' to a fuller, sweeter, nobler life; and the heros of ropily bear fruit in years of unselfish toil and lifetimes of unfettered sympathy. Pain is the nod that sorties seaters of healing out of granite hearts. Pain is the elmriot of fire by which Inca often rise to other worlds. All un- w'elcotno is its touch, yet not mildest.; by divinest wisdom, even pain is yoked to the great chariot of humanity and helps to drug it forward. This, of course, does not sweep the full circle of its orbit, but this is surely one section of that cir- cle, and one that we can see,