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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
tg ont otliingsf f Ics. noble heart. X trir well lie X couldjudge, when My dement INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEB. Oa
• Oahe tif bobs** in all ene
Of the chandelier, ev- cleetety of the °buret, The pod I Stirlatt01%, IIQW I felt ha test eu. The halettamsisee 1114911 lik4111011." Joh* 4,
the earee
09 np*Onand
004 over mile* aa
child and though he
had a do:finite theol;
beg_ of our Lord's
Ana Ideeelahahles,
ell the Goss*, it bee over" ROJO. Derma Ito ressurreeteil. r ef,ciod nheartoy have my leg. broken FltsliXTICAL NOTES. .
leatuttraw. H7e. w
toallerve,
The
ts of penury and went. with per whiles all thee. wontanly
nth than feel as X did then for „ei Verse Oa After two daps, Deig Vont the ital of believing
or co
avar-ory a "Stitch, stitch. ettteh er snide Christ will nut down their er • $ • tee hto 0,0 Be `t " X add My house will swan
The •oPeretilree bait° found A AveYbocki 'needle tor iwer. After maki *gave few setionds. Ye g man ane, 'VIC*
lait, and throned) it the mantslitla Manta for other% Woe Orte wl Make I gave mYeelf up for lost and ex -
e despeiteh from Watthington aye:el, the,„eralajnYer heve _been 401P/$11,7,1, ___ a gertnent for there; the 44 robe' we peeted every moment to be dashed in
ere will ,I own tee AMlast tile, grist trInurph lil Ai *Kee . sever weareethe robe tor the graves reeves pearly threeentartere or a mile
• too, of the mentfeet Sincerity and earn* Rev, De, Talmage Preficoee and lanes, i set down the conitneeta You wee have heard tele eeet cry
. of the /mettle. X adrnit „Re eerialle en 4 'iattin. You will have wibleseed the feet h t i
of below, i was dangling fro,* the pane
eatnosa ot Nicholas II. it le not in- following, test :7... c,..u.es rant and the balloon WAS vock-
celecenrable that Buena mey be, able "Now there was at Appa a, aotain ralrattrinto..eritIV"‘ It -44V had Ira r, orPhonage. Teu will have come in in from eide to tilde. What hed lien*
tg formulate Prnreeale that Certalle ethe died*, naMed Tabitha, vthicli 'by in. _ der Y than t e Orel It hats hut° °r-
ush th ' the Dlettleitionf It Petted X could Bet tell: X knew- It was
worn out trout Year last round of
t - e more ,00 art > --Mercy, X do not know where, yoit will eemethin that had kept the Para.,
er Conntries oatt wept, especially it terpretetion Is ea Orea has 1)31400/X0d the eve: it has Pierced •i' •" „what your epitaph. Will be t
ehe Were bereelt tO tarnish an exam* the aide ; has arm* weaknees into
g:ttigntli=c1=111Vgradt
••ple of partial disarmament by an Ina- There In Oetnass iseivaport town, the lungs; it has sent neadnese -
" Mediate. and censiddralne eeduction ef Wolnall With her- nevale embrader.;•the brain hag ailed the• Phtterl ing it, and thronp all the long night
-her attending army, Several grain) Of- ing her name. ineffaceably 'into the fr:.11.4ans,, Iglgtrnivittli. -no rude foot .w 11 disturb I' 'l
dust
(Amities, however, must be ;surmount- charitiete of the world.
-, etie end, it la throse, no doubt, upon _ flag in the village home. To the' door-
, Which, the attention of the St. Peters-, tiay, and -around about the .heildielis
berg Sievernorant, Is now 'faxed, to the, and in the room where she.stta are the
'.,) • ' end that some prelatical ;Mama of 04-, Pale facesof the poet, , She listens to,
Lt
lug tvitli them mav be traggested.
One or that% ditfloaltiee is present-,
• did by the question ,wbether the „est-
.
''.• feting istatus apto is to remain undies -
turbot]. .during the,period for whtoli the:
• • Centinent,af power's might; ' some,
grounds, he disPefied to agree to a pa -
til dirairmaineet. It. is evident that
• One no other basis could an agreement
• tee reachede but it wenld be .far from
-• . 'eain?', to arrive a definition of the
:status 410:to:winch all Bueopecal• peo.
-Plea would. subinit The Frenelfnatien,
• '
for inetanee,- woald.hu 'extremely. re-
' e .alactant ;tee bind iteself not to make any
attempt to receiver AlitaceeLOrritineeer
„to. dislodge Ehglead 'trent Egypt :dur-
leg a loug, term Of years. 'Neither is it
likely the( Germany Wishes to guar-
aantee the territorial integrity of A.us-
. trie-Hengary against the disintegra-
time, with which the dual monarchy
-• be 'threatened after the death of
eErancis 'Joseph:. -. Provided these obe
stagiest, could be overeotee it would
rove • pa est' impossible to guarantee
;at- eis. nimeineChina, °yea, if this
wind be defined, for the respective
intereaste the commercial powers
might be at any hour. earieuslY at-
feeten7, by a palace. revoletien at Pekin
"
or by a secceetifin insarrecticin in the
peovirices, The seemingly;
that could be 'done for the assurance
of atranctililltyann thia, 'quanta • Wonln
• be for Russia -6a set the example
' itniegatioxi by remitting to. .einitent
herself with 'the aequisitions .already
made by her at thereost of the kiddie
. ,
, Fingtlem end then. to assent te de-
. intimation of the Several eplieres. of 1» -
fluence of -the great powers interest-
ed in 7 the Par East If such a• demaxe
eatien could be made, end freedeni of
amens to all parte of China .for the
.Suhjecti Or citizens of alt, the, powers
concerned' could -14",geatienteed,, there
would be some 'eltanee 'of 'perpetuating
• ., the ainalagenient ihroithg a jcant
agreement .unhold the present
Manohu'dynasty for a designated Mime
• ber Of years.
edness and woe, But now tha ns•
talking of Perm and her ministeries
to the poor, Shall speak only of the
charitiesc of the needle,' - - - -
Thi i „Women was a representative
all of twee women who make garrilente
makes garmente, for theM, she :adjusts the bereneited, WheiMPOre bandages clItlifIns° raafketit; ,.b4171alen 44411411AL
et tbe suri,erirst woman will arise from the dust, and
bent form of this invalid. woman, and go into the asylums
to the °tipple that comes crawling on, and elestitute beering' that Gospel
his hands and knees._ She gives a coat Which is eight for the blinsl, and, hear.-
ing for the d.eaf, and .whieh makes the
to this one 'she gives sandals to that
ehllte fait 'Med to the balloon. dire
'Wised that the oord of the paraoluite
had got twiested around the network
cords of the balloon, and thil* was ex-
actly what had happened. Whether it
Sleet), on, amp on I Soft bed, element had occurred before X b an the met
shadews, Undleturbed renews t31ee
Asleep in etesna Blessed 'kW •
on 1 • I.?
Froin Which none over walre to weep"
° Then •ene day there will be a sky..
ewes foe ltrIngi, and a whirl of Wheelie, and the
'their Pleiat, she ,pitres their woe, she for the destitute, who knit
LUL --------------for the lacerated, w • ke Ina boxesef thu cb ri gv 'canoe waving,
the manufeetured articles to sant the clothing for western miesieneries 'ho n ors owning, and that Ohiestian
ehe be Middenly sarrounded-sur-
" In 'the ineprobable eVentethat . a ea,
'Iutiezi n.eight be footed for _the pee-
,neoblenia . relating..to the
. • statua nucie.-thliee would stifl reniabn
the: question Whether the prove:See, re-
duction ',Of epenthtures shatild. be. OP,
' plicoble to naviee as well ae:arfrniesielf
• _ aneettempt should he nteile at the con-
, terence;:te. answer Ode question 'in the
siffiimathie, the peace peoposahs *mild
. •fall through, for not only Greet Bet-.
' tan "fatalists; 'Ger:teeny and France deem
. the 'prosecution of their present naval
Prograinera a matter of 'Vital imamate
,
ainee.,• These, therefore, Who fever the
deiitereinie„ and hope:to...Oen smite, ulti-
mate .• insane from -tte &inhere:thins'
may do well to confine the scope of the
projected pattial disarmament to
ettandina arnilee ;dime, and lees* :the
poWera interested 'ie.,' Make each: ()X-
• Penditures: for naval purposes as they
may see 'fita Theacurtatlinent of ex-
penditure, in eeme .• degree at least,
w�uLd ,he the natural effect: of Buell an
, rigneentent 'to maintain the internee
tionel .etittna -geine •
one, wfo.; ttio lofts she mingles ray_ lenie man teap like a hart, and bringa
, P the dead, to life, .immortal health bound -
era and -tears and Ohriatiau encoutege- ing in thole pulses: 'What a contrast
ment. Then she goes out to be
greeted on the. street eornere by these
whom she tate blessed, and .all ihrinegle
the street 'the, cry conies, "Demme' 13
mining!" ' The deli look up gratefully
in 'het tam as she puts-,liet hand on
the burning brow, and the lost ene the
abandoned start up With hope as they
hear her gentle voice, ese though an
angel had addres,s6d them; and"as he
goes out, the Jane, eyes half put out
With ein, think the/ tie,e a halo of light
about her brow, and a trail of glory
in her pathway. That night a half -
Pain shipwright climbs the hill and
reaches honee, and gees hie boy
well clad, and says, ''Where • did- these
clothes come froth fa And they tell
him, 'Torcas, has been here." In -an-
other place a woman trimMing
lamp; Dorcas brought the oil. In an-
-other place, a faraily that had not
been at table for many a week are
gathered now, for Dorcas has brotight
bread. ‘r
But there it* a sudden' pause In that
woman's Ministry.. They say, "Where
Is D , We haven't sot* her for
ma a da . Where is Dorcas And
one of these poor p801:4 g080. uP and
ns at the .door and Bride .the,
• tery Lance.' nil though , the haunts
of 'wret climes the hews cornea "Dooms
Is siCkl" No ,hulletinefleshing from
the Pala gate, telling the' stages of a
king'ser,• ease is more anxiously awaited
ti the news from this sick bene-
factress. Ales. ..for joppti 1 there is
wailing, wailing. That voice which
has uttered 80 many -cheerful words is
hushed;: that hand which had made so
many garments for the peer, is cold
and still.; that star which had poured
light into the 'midnight of wretched-
ness is dimmed by the blinding mists
that go up from the *eiver of death In
MONEY -MAKING :l1121!XlANTS. .
. •
Inaiee et Them in the London Z�� Own Ten
. thotocand Dalian Every Year,.
• Three eiephanite.earsi 110,900 P year,
These elephants are at the London/zoo,
• and they eaten their money by tarrying
on their Inas the pattone of the gar-'
cent or afterward X mune say.
Dangling from the. ballben, my lite
was not ;worth •
A sEdoNV6§ PtaiitlEASO,
and X knew.: it. You talk about all
that avian has done in his lite cam-
ing Were his minds at such a 010 -
'tent I Weil, I reckon. mine did. It
,the balloon rocked much more. all' the
gas would be out of her like. a shot,
minded by the wanderets of the street and no earthly power could save me
whom he reclaimed, surrounded by the
wounded souls to whom she adixtinisten.
oil!Daughter Of God, so strangely
surrounded, what means this? It
mealie that •reiverd hoer come, that the
from a fearful death. .
Parachute balloons are constructed
to facilitate rapid discharge of the gas,
and their mouthe are about twelve feet
in diameter. They haVe valves, and
hetWeett the Practical 'benevolence ,,,' ef nictory is wen*, that the or , as ready,, are..mOstlY weighed on the too with a
this • woman wed a great 'deal. of tnee, ' that the banquet in siereade Shell& it weight Of some twelve pounds. 'When
ehariter- Of this day i This WoMan. mu through. ail the ambling 'eartb. Bing I am on the Seat. my weight balanee@
not seencl her time idlypdanninghow it 'through all the 41ying heavens. Der- that and ',keeps, the halloen upright.
"
. „,,
the poor of Joppa, were to. be roller:ad; cas 19 reatateoted .. . ..WhenX cast myself off eft the balloon
„, . „..... ...
sh‘took het needle and relieved thenis turns upside down from gravity, and
She woe not like those persons who
sympathise • with imaginary sorrows,
and an Out in the street 'ana...laugh
at the boy who haeGapset his basket
of cold vietmils,-, or :like that charity
which- makes a rousing speech. on the. presented -1' 030 . respecting that !vents: -
benevolent platform, and gees out to • , ri : „.,
04 ur an,,,,In Anwar; Galleries , were. caused it to. tilt- on one sidle and the
kiele the. bigger from the atep, -crying, ereetea ter, the. ewe Bowe -4..6f partite. gas. had begin gredualla to escape. I
'Hush your miserable howling I" The merit and the' royal family to sit in, *latched it coming out of the mouth
sufferers of the world want not ' little. puff e of . thin supike. Then
a the distribution of the. medals. A
a greats andience te witness like
I :geve I was passing through anot er
.wishere as loaves ,of bread; , not lute:XI" taille°4174easreir'nCetese°1-nmt Bil° nik4inesbu° There was
had lest both feet an the lot of oloudie and shortly' afterward
sc battle of Inkexmairs was pulled in on, this- balloon passed into sunshine, which
inneh unifies as elioes• not so .Miloie .a.wheeleiihair ; othere came in liniping made thUb'alloon expand, and is ad -
"God bless, your ea.- emeeete.endfrecks, on their °retches. Then the Queen of Wilt. It rose highcr>. ttaa Lua el-
Lwill put one eiienest Chnistiela • man England arose before thein in. the heeeee culeted that I must be at leasta three
every God -forsaken plane in that
fawn; wherever thene is a sick child
•and no balm; wherever there Wilde -
ger anti no bread; wherever there is
guilt aflame conamiseration• wherever
there is a broken heart and,: no com-
fort, there ate elesnairing kooks, and
streaming eyes, and frantic, gesticula.-
tions. as they orY, ."!Dorcas is dead la
Then ascend for the . apostle Refer. Ile
urges his Way -through the crowd
around the 'door, andstands in the
preseinra of the dead? What expostu-
lation and grief all about him 7 Itere
Mend somoeof the .poor people, whet
oho* the garments that this peer W�
man had made for them. Their grief
'Oen not be appeared. The Apoistle
Peter wants to perform, a miracile, He
will not de it amidst thc excited crowd,
so he Mealy orders that the whole
room he cleared: The door, is 'shill
against' the populace. - Theeapostle
stands now With the dead. Oh, it is
'serious moment, you know, when you
are alone with a lifeless bode.' The
apostle gets down on his knees and
prays, and then he comes to the life -
/Rae form of this one all ready for the
sepulchre, and in the strength of him
who is elle resurrection, he exclaims,-
"Tabitha, arise !"There is a stir in
the fountable of . life ; the heart fhit-
.tera • the , nerves ; the cheek
!Insists; the eye opens; she sits tip?
We :tese in ...this. subject_ 1)ereae the
disciple; Dorcas the benefactress;
Dorcas the lamented; Dozens the resur-
rected.
If I had not seen that word disciple
in MY teat; 1 woula }WO known this
woman was a Christian. Such rauttio
In 18,55; when eonee of the eoldiers
came back from the Crimean war to
London, the Queen of England distri-
buted among" them beautiful medal%
called Crimean medals. I think ,of it
Just now, as reeeptly had a book
49. Peparted thew. Left the beautl. Hut Jinn; obedient to
fel valleydratween Ebel and Galant. Bar' Irsetinrains,t• w4334741-4 ttaeltert4.01;
Went into Galilee. There ending hia Twit my hogve'41y Maker
,northward journey from Weroailem• And serve with heart elnettree
-4f.° This verse hardly fite into the a The word helleved„ absolutely,
atory. la Indeed strange that &onus Plies that in the fullest genie he
ishcAlld go into his own eotmtry becauae %it hie became 41444414414 '744B"'"
as the gasenieapes the, balloon falls to
the ground.
For some awful seconds I remember
watching the rocking of . the balloon
and• speoutating how- soon it would
turn over.. My altered position had
.
* dens. Every bAney takes his 'Arriet
• and him him to the Zoo on hank hone
• days, and for five cepta they can jog
Omit the ring on the hack of one of
the. elephant*.
• The elephants are atationed. in dlifer-a
• - -ant Paris ofithe 100 and there teems
tea be bit of professional jealousy be-
. tweet. .them, Apparently they are on
Very, good- terms between bourn, bat
When blieittena is break, and the larg-
est ono is coining money, for he is the
favorite,the other two try to lash him
with their. trunk's as he peons.
:The largest elephant' is . a financial
' recited breaker. He let the senior
• member of the firni, so, toupeek. On
One holiday he carried, 1,600 Pereells.
, There ate camels which are seught
after by these left out ha the /Scramble
for the elephants, but .this old patrons
* if the Zoo ay the uneven motion of a
ramet in only appreciated by ota
, aft, who is moot at home On an eXceea-
u41/ ahOpPY POO- The oathele are too:
--titivated a taste for the .erdineri
". • nerta tO affect'.
hard workbag, egaepst five ' of her.Government, and uttered words miles high. Fronritry long experience
meretheerlatson the 'subject • of char- of commendation to ;the officers and
ity.. Theeee are many who have fine the men, and distributed these medals,
ideas about aftoututoctreiriefils, hupchearitecttouebeoliawl,iste lzedrel,be dmwmiith ,tEllkfoluavrs,grienakterbmatatnine-,
church: There aro men Who can give end .seeestoree. .e14.0 the Queen gave
you the history of Buddhism and:Naha these to the Wounded Men - and the
ammedatiism, who never' sent a firth* wounded officers, ,the bands of Almelo
struckup the national air; and thence -
Pie with steearaing eyers joined -en the
"God: save our nohle: Queen I
Long' live. our gradeas Queen I
. • ' God save the Queen," • • .;
And then they shouted. "Hazes.
in& for their evangelisation. There
are woinen,who talk beautifully about
the suffering of the world, who never
had. courage . like' Dories to take thO
needle and assault it..
I:pan glad that there in net a page
of the world's history wbiale is 'net a
record of female benevolence.: God
says.: to alliands ane, people, come now • . .
er; better., ariclArladder day.willcome, 000tuirayopar;nhosrge,etatnincigi itindbtesdk,satin oiftf wriii;
and hear, 'the widoW'S. naite teeth!, down those retuened ev.arriorsl. But a ,bright -
into the 'poor -box. The. Princess ,. of.
Conti ,sold all beiejewele that she might when Christ shall gather . those who: •
, . eoer when I ascended.- My shirte. too,
help ' the : faiinneesitricken. ' Queezi have toiled in his servideegood soldiees w4,8. wringing wet, : - • •
Blanche, : the ,wifeof Louis *VIII. of of Jesus Christ. He shall rise before . Euddenly X,reeollected _the rope- I ban
them and in the, presence of all -the eeeea-tened Across flieering of the pane
France, hearing that there, were some
, . glorified of heaven he wilrsaY. "Well chute., ' By what I may be pardoned
Lor thinking . a splendid athletic feat
in Mid -airs -and in ,such a.terrible Posi-
tion, I Managed to get my, leg Oyer
tint rope and then twist it 'round it,
I Was corifervedato ,getainchaa grit-the:E.
even now; a month later,. there are
marks where the. rope cut' into the
flesh. But that fact saved me, for I
felt I was firmly held, even, if :my arms
got Stift end I could not hold on by
• .
them later on. ,
'Yoe see, it was all a case now, of
how long the balloon would last ere
it was cemented of gas and °sone down
tie:terra firma. I had no idea how long
this might be.
Some twenty minutes later, during
which time I had been passing. over
fields and gardens, I saw the sun -go
down, and then I. . got into clouds
again. How 'many Miles, I; had, come
--this was my forty-eight ascent -t
know that I was not fee out in this
calculation.
The balloon having become steady,
1 began to think what was the hest
thing I could do. I em not very strong
physically, being but slimly built and
weighing only about 110 pounds. MY
height is. etenewhere about 6 feet 4
inches, and I am just Over thirty years
of age. I get the ring of the Parachute
well Mader my armpits and , grasped
the lower portions of my .clothing '
LIKE GRIM DEATH, ,
ord, •
a prophet bath no honor in. hie own ee
01,1*110 and 099001411Y beegago he hhne ukotel.twileuchg:ris4irliataaarixes.rouosTrahtt,thleor***he-
haVe been attempted. Dr. Marton .1;b2elibt• :;15but 607,400#3.-rtinkr
eo testified, Varlets' .explanatiotte
garde this verse as giving oar Lord's • .
.
roes= for ettiying away Vont Nagar*
etiet the home or his Yoath, and going '• WEALTH or THE NATIONS
to Cana, and other plums iodead; and • ' •
belieires it to he merely a duplication eewow moo whim, etherneelea jet
of Matt. 18- K4 Xark ea,4; link° 4• 'Intimate Then Formerly,
84, But in OUr Mite not Nazareth, but The wealthiest natien ln the. World
all 0811188 is mentioned Abetter ele. at present is probably the 'United
-
Planation is reached- by reading the States, though Great Britain stands
neat verse before tine, The Galileans eletes flecoild. France „And' -ore
• received him on ae,eausit of their ob- come third. and fourth, xespective
aervatien Of hie miracles ie Jerusalem with not a great deal of. tliifferen
and japualaed hitherte leefeainen frotri tween. them, Germeny recent years,
working rairaelea in Galilee, because having 'rapidly 'overhauled' hey, a en
it iseeasier to nein honor at 114:gle ef- enemy in thie respeot.
ter „ one has sallied tt abroad, This Compared with • Most Of hen neig
'meaning is at least suggested by the
Revision, " when he came." eto: But
Dr. Alford gives, perhaps, 'the clear,
est definition of the whole' passage.
Publicity had gathered itround our Lord
and his ministry in Judea -such wide
and sudden publieffy as to endanger
his plans in general; iso he went into
Gelilee to avesid premature fame, tast-
huzzar Oh,. it '004 a 0°11.d day for you May be sure.- But I was afraid
• .
.
prisons, went out amongst the rabble
. took a stick and 'struck the door faithful servant!" and
and
,tialiellifIllaIndrisitaribute the medal? of
as a "signal., that they mighteill strike
Lt, and dawn went the *Mon 'adoor,
and out came the prisoners, - Queen
Maud,' the .wife of -Henry T., went
clown amidst the poor and washe
sores, and adininistered to them ear -
dials. Mr's. Reston, at Matagorda,
appeared onthe battlefield while the:
mu:sites of death were flying around,'
and eared fore.thei wounded: '
I now come to speak of Dorcas the
lamented. ' When death struck down
thatgood women, oh, how much Sor-
row there was in JONA! , I suppose
there were women with . larger' for-
tunes; women, perhaps. with bendeom-
er faces; but there was no grief at
their depertare like thie atthe death
of Donate . There was not more ture
moil and upturning in the Mediterran-
,
ttS thatnever tame from a heart which
is not ehorned and strung by Divine
grace. But beforet ahem. you the needM
work of this woman, I Want to show.
you her regenerated heart; the satire°
of a Pure life and of all Christian char-
ities. I wish that the wives and moth-
ers and daughters and glistens of this
cougregatioii would imitete Dorcas in
her :diseiplitship. Before you sit With
the Sabbath -alms, before, you cross the
threshold of the :hospital, before you
terry a Pack of tracts down the street,
hetet% you enter upon the t emptatiena
and trials of to -metro*, X charge you
it the name of God, and by the tat -
moil and tumult of the Judgment -day,
oh, *omen 1 that you attend to the
first, last and greatest duty of your
life -the 'seeking for Gad and being at
Peace with HIM. Now, by the e,olirtett-
les of society, you are deferred to, and
lie were less than a Man who Would
net obllige you with kind attentions;
but when the trumpet -shall Bound,
there will be an uproar, and a wreck
of Moilishtio, ant dentinent, and no hu-
man arm ean help, you. Amidst the rid-
ing of the dean, and amidst the 'belie
ing of the sea, and araidat the live.
leaping thunders of the flying heav-
one, there veil! be no chance for cour-
eternal victory, not inscribed with
works of riglAtemmnesS which we have
.done, but with tho3e /our great bath&
fields, dear. to earth and dear to
heaven. Bethlehem( Nazareth! Geth-
csemanet Cajvary! .
HANGINO IN MIDAIR FROM AN. ItNe
MANAGEAl3LH PARACHUTE.
• .
*Wen neinost by a Miracle -When the Sun
Went Down, .111m tooter, Damper Mr
. ' Brought Balloon and, raraelante, to
Earth. • •
ifying that his. own country.. was the
place where to, a prophet' was •least
likely to be honored. •
45. The Gameans reedited Win. Net
because or Memories of his beelitiful
early -life, nor because of .aittprevionS
Galilean sYteaching a ligra0 efit but
eimpiy Weems* they- seen ap, the
thingi. that be did at Jerusalem, thus
illustrating- the tintla of the proverb
our Lent quotes, as well as the 'truth
of the statement of a; nionern scholar:
"Jerasalena, set 'the fashion in Hebrew.
est -haute of men end things." The feast.
The great' passover • festival celebrated
annually at -Jan:wale= To WE ',leapt":
Men of Hebrew blood, from Judea,
Gali-
bou'S, France was it xichl. State in the
days, of Leas XX.Y. 1Hen share of the
'aggregate wealth lot the. great power*,
was Possibly even larger than her pell-
centage of .the aggregate_ popliletion.':
She had only °ea serious Competitoree
namely,-EnfelpidereGernianya. and Ital
were as peer as they were politleally
weak; Russia, in. an economio sense was
yet 'Unborn,
te.t a moderate estimate, more than",
half of the wealth of Europe wait ion-
centrated in twO,Statei-e•Brigland and
Trance. PUt kits now far more wide-
ly hietributen. Nine on. ten years. age
an estimate Was made. of the amnia*
ated wealth Of Europe by the Chief of
the Statistical Bureau of the,
Minietry cat Vivance. ale worked, out a
, .
magniticent total Of 1,000 niilliarns of
francs, each miliard being, equivalent
to 40 ' sterlbag. To theellt
great powers' of Earope he assigned':
lee, and all foreign countries, gathe_red about nine -tenths of the. whole, or eoo
Ly the.hundred theasand. `Eh
-.‘---c' °Turf"' t the head. of his list With 250 mil -
overflowed: Jerusalemai walls' and tilled I miliards. Great Britain he places. an
the ;villages on surroweding hillsides.
That our Lord attracted, the attention I needs. Stance segond with 200 rail-
lierds Geemany was a ba third with
of , all Jerusalem in such u state of 170 milliard, and Musette sai very poor
overflow indicates. how wonderful ere .fourth with ' 110 milliards. Austria, '
.the,"things tint ,Ite ,diszL"' They Also and Rol brought up the rear with
wept: "They" Melee the . Gaillealls• len ,inilliarde and 60 milliards, reapers -
Their province. was often a called "Gall- tivelne Even then France. - and per_
lee of the .Gentiles" because of many many were believed by other authori-
iGtties:iteailielYealetseeeensstawliel'amtil,minaleTithaij:bwie°Irashd:gerta;le elle no doubt . that in theinterval their
but ties to he nearer each other. than Al"
130Inkla- 'de Foville pat them, but • there can be •
of many evidences that John's gespel. relativeeeraationnhavnehenged greatly
was Witten for Gentile raiders; for et)
in fea 'ear of „Germany, •
ay the past ten yeara . +h..l.Jew. would require sueti an; explana- .,e:s
ean -x could not tell, but I knew it must
aea, dashing against the wharves I hd aa; eon announcea to make a bal- be very many She damtsness of the
Of that seaport, than there were surg-
lobe moue epee, a parachite descent balloan Made it sink considetably, and
bine to and fro of grief in 'Xenia lee
t hi in Yorkshire; on the (iv- ite lifting power was diminished. I saw
caecee.Doreafts -was:need. There, are a a 041 aro
great many .who go out of livieeryantkisrazree' Genalonrgeenf4Satwuraddaear, tuna_ 18, 1893, wretes
uninissed. There BUY be a
funeral; there may be a great many oar- • --- ' • :'
eieges and a ,peureee-hearee. there may The day had been Wet, and toward
be high-sounding eulogiun'ese• the hell night the sky was quite leaden, though
niky toll at the cemetery -gate; • there 'the' rain had slopped. Sc ' unfavorable
was the weather that the committee
were agreeable for me to postpone the
event, but I did 'not. wish to disappnint
may be a fine marble shaft reared over
the testing Place; but the whole thing
may be a falsehood and a share.. The
Ohuteh of God has lost nothing, the
world has lost nothing.' It is her people. It always creates a bad
only a nuisance" abaten; it, la only a
grumbler eeaaing bead fault; it is
impreasion for an aeronaut to put Of
only an idler stopped yawning; it is an advertised ascent; for the average
only a diasipated. fashionable parted person will. Persist in setting down the
from his, wine -cellar; .while, on the whore affair as .a.; swindle. -
other hand, no useful Christian leaves During the afternoon)! had, of eeerSei
this world without being Missed. The •
Church of •God delete out like the pee- been getting my balloon filled and MY
phet: '"Howl, fir -tree, for the -cedar prepatations made. The balloon is one
hag fillemp Widowhood -comes and.
shows thegarrnents whit* the depart- Of my own make, and has a caPaoitY of
a 16,000 cable feet of gale We were late
ed has made, Orphente are lifted-uP •
look into the iiilm-face Of the sleep- ter than usual, but at about half -past
ing benefactress. vagrancy eight, when all was ready for the as -
comes and kisses the cold brow. tra her eent,"the sky; wale very dull and there
'who charmed it away from sin, and all
ie etiourningmotienilig beCallee Dot- Donee clouds hung about, and was
strong ebuthweeterly breeze.
through the streets of /epee, there Al( a g
cas ie dead.•• ' rather afraid the whole affair would be
X suppose yell. haveread of the:Jac:4 aimed
that .when Josephine was carried out • . . ,
As for 'Myself X telt
to her grave there were a great tamely no Leareror, when '4 manhasattepaeu
men and Women of pomp and pride and
position that went out after her; but
I am most affected. by the 'Story of
history • that on that day • there were
ten thousand t of the poor of • France
followed her coffin, weeping and wail:
Ing,-utitil• the tile rang again, because,
when they lost Josephine, they lost
then' hen earthly friend. Oh, who
wtiuld not rather have Kan% obsetpdes
than all the teare that .were ever
ponied in the hiclaryinale that '11aVe,
been exhunied from ancient eitleis,
There May be no mass for the dead;
there, may be no wetly sarcophagus;
there may be no elaborate neauseleturn
but in the define cellars one the eitY,
and through the, ' lonely hubs of. the,
motintain glen, there will be mourn-
ing, mourning, mourning because Dor-
cas is dead. "Incesed are the dee.d
Who die in the Lord; -they rest from
their labour's, and their workst xle fele
lieW them,"
ebeak to you Of Depute the .resur-
was.rind said, "Aria° ; and aim sat nrt." the ring and holds on by that.
rooted. The armee, dame to where ehe
Three camels earn about $1,200 a In what a ahort CoMpass Oat great a mistake ore thia never -to -be -forgot -
New, in one important thing Treader
• the profession ot.s. Parachutist he can-
not be suspecMd .of laehtng tiontage.
So all being in reediness, with the
assisteneet.of Mr. Sivewright, my help-
er in these Matters, prepared for the
eetsting off of the balloon: from the
holding r013eC 1 bad 113YElait tied tb
paraohute the'.00rds of the ballton.
netting: be. 'glade' cord made of twist-,
ea cotton threads; and tested before-
hand, ao thcit-therWould bteat at
', A STRAIN OF 100 Pal:INDS.
X may eay that in all ordinary owlets
them cords will Map as 'soon as the
aeronaut throwe himself from the bile
• loon end there is the strain of his
weight tipon then.' The parachute -te
not fastened to the performer, but the
paraehutiet essee hie arms thrteigh
, year, but they oast lees to keep than testes, But =that day, cairn and Placid wwiltr aPtin:hitztklig ugi,,ge.b'e°e1 ten !jet/tenon. generally; before tak-
• • Olen' mote eaccestsful brothers. The will bi teaere• ivnalatias bort who hath
Zoo in one do wee 44,000e aeaLen &yore'''. the fire in the heavens were only t .
of joy Musa have started: t :What clap- thing,
lug Plate glr. the rope Seat under
But title time, APS it was se IetY,A :
elePhants vat un nmet of their profita. put her triust in- Ohriser calm not- When the apoatle broultht her out
myself passing. over a. town -I after-
ward learned that .it Was _Pontefract
-at a height Of only wine five hundred
feet." MAO people saw Me, and I now
and then 'caught. a nlinipse of hurry-
ing figures. • • _
I drifted on Ain about tette miles get-
ting lower and lower, until felt ray -
eels t near the earth. /' could •have
screamed in My joy. 'But my -troubles
were not yet over, for now, When
was actually touching the trees as I
was carried along, my arms' veer° so
benumbed that I could not move them
'X WAS g.ELPtgsS.
was dragged. over two ,more fields,
and then through a filthy octal, and
finally, landed in.a thick hedge* Which
barred my further progress:. That
hedge ,was a. savior tome. It wan very
prickly, Mad cut me dreadfully, but
the balloon had' notawneugh buoyaney
to drag me through it aloe to lift my
weight above it:
woe' prostrated. in mind and bay,
but I had never lost consciousness,
though there was a deadly cramp all
over my body, from the -crippling posi-
tion and the long exposure. had net
even strength to crawl out of the
hedge, but i,ealled out feebly for help,
' and emit some gentlemen came up and
released me from the Parachate cords.
So: much twisted had the cotton cords
become which fastened the parachute
to the balloon that, they had to .he
out away with knives, ' • •
X had alighted' in the park of .Staple-
ton Bali neer- Pontervict, some twen-
ty-seven miles from ,where I had ati-.
centled, and the journey had. taken just
over 'fifty minutes,- •
• The people it the Bell were kindnesi
itself. They attended to my, bruises,
showed Me hOspitality, and pat ma
tenderly to bed. was mon almost
right again, • except for mine severe
cute on my lig, maned by the cords
by walla hung half head-downivard
during that fearful tide in inid-air,
shall never forget that fifty min-
utes -no, not, If X were t olive to be
a thousand years eld. I feel sere; I
Can rierer he in a: worse predicament,
nor ean elan be nearer death than
Wet then. Only my presences of mind,'
especially in getting my leg, Over that
. •
which the diseiple Nethaneer, tilat
40. Our lessen . on our Lord el„„, 4ri,11.-and financial activity of the Get-
lerealite in whom there was no .eeilie •
''El ---:7•1' 1.,018.08 hi's in every direction exceeded,'
refrain° wrought in Cana. et Galileewee I
our ichOlars, To that town he eci‘aise:a I
:has been but moderately protitalela. ia,
that of the French. Assuming that it
e must have produced a corres o
was a citizen, jai fresh in the' nabcd
again. A certain nobleman. Li ekcess or accumulated Weal iaas,
progreas meye,have be s eve compared ,
the king ;" probably an officer7,111
kingly person," 'or "one 'bet&
Ilikeits,
"a }with Geeinany, but- hes been rapi
douit of Herod
Antipoe. one ene:leemparedasetata drat a France. Ails- ,
dignitary
at 1°114, meneeni .beeeine a tria and Italy, notwithstanding all
their drawbacks, have ale° been gain -,1
Ism:wort to 'Clitistianiti, Acts 13. 1, ing ground oil the nattou which, was
formerly the second richest le Europe
and another, Chuza; the.royal steevard, . , ...,
had for his Wife one a ihe holy women
who ministered to ' jams,' Luke 8. 8. . A NEW BIllTISE °inf. '
fOrAllecrilotiasdinubitinYlonors. Writ At ime. 'Ystres.'Wl-r1 renetrete Dva'r S
Cofapeeorntraiime,
is now. identified .by careful scholars Nemec, or Wrought Iron. • , ,
with Khan4tinyels, on the northern .
edge of Gennesaret. : The older theory, puthough it has been known
ethraaltlaUriletinited.76 ft:gliite' is
nCYYtr 'gen- malatynYhinavoeniinht3r.od:thuactedthefO Br rtihtiel'il a2kadYniri a'
47. When he heard that Jesus was
come out of Judee-inte Galilee, , The new type of twelve-1mile breech -load -
deeds of Jesus at Jerusalem had been Ing glin,, iew are aware of the enor.a-'
poseratehdolpeanind uhnisnumatbreirveadl.. said
dUs toadroveanatesagaesoretalreanisetingweoarp:anancie
einveGrYiriteeerearroue
hearts Which had been. like .to breek i e, the Berne
over ,dying dear ones. He went. unto "L. _ ealibre. 'The new win,
was probably, like Namnan, a great is constructed of steel on the • erii,e,-
him. Rather than sent for him, 'Ile which is to, be known asethe "Mark 8,"
man. with his master, but lie had a
sought him. From Caperndum he had to fracture, *reduced, to a minimum. :
wound principle, 80 that the liability
Jew's .deep reverence for a rabbi Be,
which Oriental officials affect; but the alengthy serietiaof experimental have I
doubtless traveled with all:the dignity Cordite charges only ivill he used, tind i
The phrase that he would come .down :shown that a °huge of 167 1-2. pound *
of cordite is sufficient to fire epeeist,.
agony of his 'eve humiliates him in the
preempts of this wonder-working rabbi.
reminds the student that Cana among tile 860 pounds in weight a distance o
the mountains' was 1,350 feet higher 10,003 yards, whereas the exiatir
... 48, Our. Lord reproves- the nobleman pounds-efler powder- 1
than Capernamn by the lake. ' . twelve -inch guns need a .iberge of a
quiring signs "and wonders to compel weighing ale pounds, the same
o fire*ii-project
and his emultrymen in .13iilk for re- .beliet. He does not reproach these who theca •.. • .
only heard of the Jerusalem woridere The new gunelitie also a greater deb-
tor not believing till those inikitcles tractive capecitY, it having.been found,
had been duplicated in their presence. that its projectile will penetrate 21.1'1
Rather he contrasts this man's forced inches of wrought iron at a distance
faith -his belief for the /cake of the. of 1,760 yards, While the penetrating )
miracle that he craved -with such spon- Power of the ordinary twelve -inch gun (
tatieoug faith as that of the Samari-
tans, who believed because of JIM
word," John 4. 41, 40 .And so prejudiced
were Some of the Galileaneabat a year
and more after this, "though he had
done SO inany miracles before, them,
yet they believed not on him," john deer type of ,weapon. Ths first di
rope, saved Me.
But yell may be sure that X alien
never twain healed to look at the eoril
holding the parachute to the bailoon
before I make an ascent.
• The greatest number of visitors to the withistanding all the tumult, as theme among her Old fliellthl i OW the tears the haIloon, giro a lelt, look et everY-
, •
age Of 500 pounds of daintiest were ted glidings of an autumnal euntiet,, at ling Of, hands there Meet have been I T Aid not take this n ecauti Unto
to the brother's of the foyal execo.tionet thtaigh the Peal of the trumpet -were .whot singing!. What laughter I Sound - - -- - ' r °IA" Mrs, Peek -Zee they iniseeli Isoni-lee
Of India. , X had Udell. thing teem the cou
' nter where X liad
only tee barmen). or Lee orchestra, it,b. it all through thet lane I Shout it Citing to th'il Illia windi
though the aWfti voiCes of the oky were tiowil that dark alley) Let all Iowa en, a little Iratere etartingf a *OP° been making some purchases. arid as. r
' There lo a good &atoll lade lta. Cane and ltstibutintit"Dorem the disciple I" Many a time; not a deed eedi, rogue. Order to eteady myself. An ‘whert, they told me I was ittapeeted 6 so. The hear .,,h.. 1. he bogol to * , ‘.....;...L.
-the oozes of ler childhood. anti tot Idartire. would this day t down at I stZaf ter death in the good. teem- Amid ohooro ftotu the srieetatorot the ' . Peck...Well, that Nee awkward, atotatien, te health to be a, gradual litre. Islosar-Do you think my dau
gratify her wish. When informed of Fertber, We See Doroot the hentraot- Vara of age, Nerving God, n
P . It a Man Ube" 'IP to Oil balloon was out loose and rose pea- to toy the letet... :,_ i devehvine 1.
u Yesterday at the ten. or yew he a nen,„*eanet
fall her eons dechlea that they testi& the feet' of Notts i
•WOri aecLitet enth hour he fever left hint. "mgr. Professor-olgan't say. She may,
thie the pritetical mother replied,: • tem. HistOtY, hot told. the stet y of the aka* 'We ere Kilt ill think that hit earth- an
" the- - fully into the air. X waved my (so too mill". Pe" AwItx"
with Us .eartli will oontielle till the World X bad reached a beiggh: of about 11,:i0i1) tifieralasi:"ritirettnlYIY**1;th, X vt
.Aeos 1V "" lug a coMplete, and midden mare. Tile den me oho somo of a 100101
rokomew...4 tettedge Of the other eleitte, Ste and to ' . •
tope, and a -rustle with, that eilk of the lioritr efeli. nere is a Wan w(w, mkt til Nee from the heneeze Not,
' at the sante distanCe is 19.4 inches.
At shorter distances the difference in
tee. destructive capacity is xi:mob more ,
pronounced, the muzzle perforation of
the new gun being. 38,5 inches of iron
as against HI inches in the ewes of the,'
aids to be armed with these 'guns.
11 til„ .
Whethaieor not ha held Jesus to he the mouth,
0 GI Devonport,
pt otittaltet bs heaoh a which win ea r
alPtSCChiallth°Pam118 aantd. POd"rn .:
efoenIthothaeoMmirraserlr oWneilkviSerrIMedvitdebolieytebsoe barbettem • •
431/tto:le, s9ithashiteatil r, . b. huc. ast3;hr:Iddh.e:3:d 13:surobedt my
That
child eopo 8Ntivuieceri : . 1:113. :13:to
drenee; not d poW.r t e ease the ' four of the tieW Weapons mount
ed
UNFORTUNATE SgLECTIOX.
,
•.
60. Go thy way, thy son Ireth. Thue Illingley, why does.Oldboy refuse ci.
he who cane "to comfort ani help the speak to you:1 You used to be great
Weak -h vted" adapt= his blesteeeere to friends. •
'the roirituel needs +el the recipienr., On yes, when We were bbachelorti; but
ano.itet occasion, as has been tiptli he's Married now, '
ail by a conita.ntatert,' • I-Ceb it he- And what , differentia floes that
tiara of humui y the , centurion, make t -
1
Matt. 8, vett sts han to 'speak the Well, the fact lie I made Ilia a hand -
word (.13 y,, he oft .re to it.) ter 'ionic wedding present of a book, mid
his -home; h re, - whan pressed he he.sn't spoken me *ince
to gi to Me borne he speaks the word . What Was the book.?
only." The nobleman believed the.- Paradise Lost.
Word, and with e glad. heart -went hie •
wok. From the 'notable: fact that Ire #••••••••••Wit
°did not meet the eervatits until the A, DANGER laitINAL,
next day it /seems blear that he re. It's inelty I noticed dis here dent
Drained during the night eithee at . mark on der fends or ra um,- walked
which ladicatea into what maturity Itio
Gana or tome niece by the Wayside, Apt' up ter me fate., Weaty.
at Meatle a xing in dee Ileum, doesn't
faith had grown. '
81, ilat he was going down, De- Newt it Intel)* a goad. 11,
emmlitig the hilleidee. Thy oon liveth, an' dat Menne a 400 * In
, IN NO lit/ItItlt
but a group of riceds bursting through hear it! Dorcas 19 reillirtedeal tterOtie the ring of the paraohute in wao leaving the store a deteOtive al * ere tea rota
" • ' 'a gate -way eventime, with laughter You and Z have eon the battle thing
ode who has hog wished, to revisit 'W'eadd t t eVety Marl and every eltateci, het the deceased iene tle 'ellbelentlentlY wed. 1217 life ` bee a, ahopilfter. d • GROUND ran uovn.:
men Re iseerus have expecte re.
to thle 4i1 2" our tors baa exact ,words that: sea
led me back to the, °Me/
kneel, aweel, ,thinkite bide crown; the opie poet has sung of the ir work is done. No 1 Uhl inflttence on r esenaea, dna or It 040A„ • ith "i/eretath hour," accordil to. the tamny
ttuti ree nits 4000t tbe. eee ha untamed 'versa full of the red ere* of eltent eeesee. Servioeir render/11,pr Christ tot. The helot et ohliott r tterudty !tea beota there
„ - the metal widerstrus ot atwo,
wee. Ztli been a gae tat ounnuor, sword; it,he pastoral • a
'deep, •
IT t one o'clock in the afternoon Lori' Itoosbery Lord 1'
orhourteun the 0,400 the gob b, man. ahe toils for the uplifting of * p b and
r te... tiou, t wake' Of the rfies. chtirth* throttgh nnay *ninetieth Vitretti laseienclitig to the atinoolterio attrA4Nelt Pliovrg a -Akre ketrewlarenay eeen, xnhn ituoutiona ere headlng move
1)11101)0=1111) latOglillt11 Prom e robe preperett the throat:1 InanY tiolf-defs tyrith - condition*, Ole otslootion, Z 141Y.6""'All. itt 1131:Ii' 1110r:tit titkIng allectlief egfeene Of fretatil!nr Gia'at" PUrehaee 4414 BflflUi
14150, garden of A to tint titeh titer Ora ell Mem and thatsiks atee, actin; * deluge *loud, and oo *an * good *or fott%time, =, nearly the Melte at our own; so that otherwise proaldes for Mr. Jae
I f
" • fle-VVicat's the nutter with tl! Hy•e , Rao the let et Goa d Aix
0)4Villt •tit bor. Me
boa t :hurrah fit ht fifteen iltre aolved that it yam than to eltet WOW
.weli
Iffniatit Welt etstolott. oisurs hut the booth hour wait about lartenTlroomon, Crosamsr oe
, -Why, dear; thy/ sui so bind*
*id that / put some eatrad!s-Oolottl. tt Ate ot SO% and
• Ostia f
-
4 •
•
apon alw
nevi*. a ee * epoetators Wean te IMP gar deed es that II ,tir 1111 the 014106h_ morning. • surviving grindeon of Robert
tk GE r bithAri eV*. 4.414*Abe „ JoSt en* Item& ^ Pg. Alr• WNW knelt that it itit uit ,Th h now 11 riare OAP.