Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1908-01-09, Page 7Josses r.n'2 join i': n;)tiut.—John 1.,• 19-34, ( ems...nb- v,— 1, ,1 st atrteetem- eurlt; himself (vs, 111:24). This was a. Gine of great excitement and caped/. Oen u_aaer1111t„ the Alt s ill John spoke with authority and his nucees0 WAS great. He had proclauued.that a new dispensation was at hand (Alatl. 312), and itis Wlis believed to refer to the llc.5srah. Accordingly a delegation of priests and Lookers was scut to John from the Sadiadrin in Jerusalem for the purpose of interviewing' him with ''re- spect to himself and his ntidsiol. 'They asked hint, "Who nht thou?" Who do von profess to be'? Do yea assume to Abe t.he. Messiah, or are you it prophet? John positively declared that be Was not the. Christ, neither. was he Elijah nor "th01 prophet," It is true that Jesus said that John wit:, Elijah (Matt, 11:11), but he was speaking figuratively (00m. path Luke 1:17). while John's question- ers .were speaking .literally,- acid John w tti stet I?lijah returned 10 earth again. '33 )::6pliet referrcd.to was the prophet 'vf Dutt. pIlS', ohs Cowie- Humid' would be a ipcoid Moses, others a second Eli jah, other; . tjte Messiah, John replied to their' questioning by saying that he was Stile, yoke pf one crying ini the sail• donees, Alike straight the way. of the Lord." John was not the "Word," but, merely a "voice:' ]le was called to voice be ylyc,;1. Hp. was, uttering..Go.d's droughts. 2. The importance lay chiefly 10 the message, not It tate m:resenger, The message he delivered is referred to in lea. 40:3-5. The idea is taker from the practice of eastern monarchs, who, whenever they took to journey, sent liar• singers before then to prepare the way. Before our Bing will come to us there must be a thorough prepu1ration for his terming, 11. John's testimony of Jesus (vs. 25- 28), 25, they asked lite—The deputation,: irtun'Jerusti1rin risked Rim the.ilaptist. whylnuptis:ostthou then--L'y what silo. thorlty dostl'tliou administer the rite of' 1.g'snn seeing that ,tho t art not Christ, belt , E � not Elijah, nos the prophet? 'Baptism its a rite was emotion to the Jews and VMS administered to those becoming proselytes to the Jewish religiotl, "'rhe Pharisees held most strenuously that 110 prophet, after Moses, had 'a right to in- troduce any new sacred usage, rite or 00001[0my among the Mosaic institutions, except the Messiah himself. The quos• tion, therefore, Why baptixest thou then? was a very peremptory,, one."— }\hedon. 25. 1. baptize with water--Tolals an- swer is very pertinent. "Aly baptism is the symbol and precursor of a real bap- tism by the great Baptizer." the re stnndet11 one --It is not necessary to sup- pose that Jesus. was, stranding in the crowd at that -time, but he we's living among the people, and was nnknowinto them. 27, after me—John was the fore•, runner to 1001101mee his soloing, nut worthy—A proverbial expression. The work of unlacing and removing the sate dals belonged to the humblest servant, and because of Christ's gretttuess John said lie setts unworthy to do, ever that, '1'lte desire to exalt Christ -and abase himself \vas ever' nppermost in John's mind. 20. Bethaba'a—Thee R. V, has Bethany. (This wits not the Bethany on the Mount of'Ulived.). Both names have nearly the stanb& Meaning, Bethany 'some- times signifying "boat house and Beth. abara "ford house,' or "ferry house: "Probably these were the napes of two villages or districts near .together, of which the name Bethany, the smaller of the two villages faded out, Or John may have been baptizing in a place be- tween the two villages, and hence.seme• times culled by one name and sometimes by the other." III. John points out Jesus (vs. 29.31•) 29, The next dry—The day following the testimony of John to the deputation from Jerusalem, Seeth Jesus—The fact that John, knew Jesus shows that the baptism and temptation (Matt, 3; 13 to 4; 11) preceded the events 'of this les- son- lamb of God—There fe no reason- able doubt that John gave this Haute to our 1,ord because he was the true sacri- fice for sin, the trite nutitype of the passovo' lamb, and tho lamb prophesied of by Isaiah ilea. 53; 7.) Ryle. The daily saeeifice.of a lamb''0lts continually before the people, reminding them of their need of an atoncuteilt for sits. Without doubt, John, who was Ocher: Linger of Christ, was enlightened beyond others with respect tosClu'istts office and mission, and saw for Limn the great sin - offering for the sins of the whole world, wn0•'Or "beareth away;' as in John dbasos himi>zi1i,'1 :line,4Mi flatter• ing titles and exalt Christ, 1 be grclltest Paints in all ages; ldivetil(a,^.g men tit .this spirit, who liltve.l not''!ia(lght their 'owfi; honor, but.wllo"have, nlu tys bettf te:utyt: to decrense. if, Christ might only increase, 31, Knew him not—lle did not limns hien its to his nature, office en!1 misaiee until the tripe of his baptism. ,foie i;r• gal cousin of -,00,r Lord, and that he had hod' sone',acquaintance with him be- fore his baptism si'ems el suint teem Mtatt, 3; 14. While Joint did not kaon him as the Messiah, yet he bad a iounel- edge of him sufficient to recognize in him an exalted spiritual nature •that caused him to hesitate when Christ caste asking baptism at his hands. Therefore nm .I conte—Jolut here declares that the great end of ,iris ministry: was -not to form a sect in bis own. name; but to make Christ known to the Jews. The great work of the Christian church is to nutgnify:3esus Christ and bring nut his bounty and greatness to 0 lost world, IV. 'etre Messiahs/hi.p of ,Testis revealed to John (vs. 32-34), 32, Bare record— John now proceeds to tell how, more than forty days before this, at the time of the baptism of Jesus, he Wriest that be was the Messiah, I saw --"1 have' beheld."— 13, V. John hal bans an eye- witness, and 0000 not now repo ting from hearsay, Like a dove—"That the Spirit of God should descend as n dove is in acoordance with the emblematic chauac- ter, of the whole transaction," The dove represented ah undefiled . character (Cant. Il, a 0), harmless .(1taatt..13:.1(i), gtnitln odd meek .,(Cant. ,2,',14). Alxxle upoihiiu=Thus definitely,, designating to John that Jesus was the (Messiah. (v. 33), It was not a passing influence: but a per- emi ent abiding of the ~Spirit, 33, He that sent me—John Wes,.con- cions of his ,))vine mission. IIe was sent of Grid. 'Bilptizeth in the IToly Spir- it (R. V.) John could baptize with wat- er,' but it woe the prerogative of Jesus only to baptize with the Holy Spirit, "'rhe gift of the Spirit is constantly re- presented as an otrt aurin ." To -day we are living in the dispensation of the Spirit. It is the offioo work of the Spir- it to convince of sin, to regenerate and demise the heart, anal' to ;nude and to sustain the trusting soul. The Holy' Spir- it dwells in the heart of the true Chris - den. 11lattl:ew and Luke 0304 that Jesus would baptize "with fire," Fire here is at emblem of the Holy Spirit and brings out the thonght of warmth, or . heat. Baptism means cleansing—fire is . a Taketh a the margin. Ott the great Day mf Atone- ment the priest .confessed .the sins of the people and laid then upon the scape- ,g,•ost, and the goat was sent to tile' depths of the desert, - Christ's. taking away the sins of the works is borrowed from this net, ;We hove here one of this many expressions lvhich doelu•e ' the great scriptural truth �' that Christ's death was a vieni'ieus dacrifiee for sin, The sin—Alt the sins of all the chiltlret of Adam, 'Thee atonement was complete, and no one was left.; all may Be saved if they will accept the provisions made. "The world is weary with its ,cumbrous awl. futile methods of obtaining deliver- ance from sin." Salvation from sin comes only through faith in Christ, 30. After me, etc,—Jesus came after John in point of time, but he was pre- ferred Mors him in dignity and honor. Was before me—This refers to Christ's eternal preexistence with the Father. John's attitude toward '';heist from first to last affords nn illustrious example of true humility. Fcw;nnmes, in the Bible ' sten(' higher than does the name of John the. Baptist. Jesus spoke highly of crowded together, and right on the top him—See Matt, I1; 11; John 5; 35, of a lamb, The'lamb was crushed to The 'Small Yield Cow. Dairying in the Unfted States Is depressed 1 by ane clement that roust forever stand in ' )(e way ta.(1003 tate dairymen (rota success. That element is the small yield now, and the she. steer that costa' 140 or $:A •a year for Sees mat returns her own $25 to $71 100 mins it any a teak Ilroducer, with a Herd 41 50 such tows, 1epreseutlng au Investment of $1,000 or $1,211), to losing, ueuey regularly, unit must loose as long as he -Insists, on operating with suelf' cows: tie can invest 'tis $1,200 In, say, twelve cows that coot $100 anima and these cove will give hint mee0 intik than hlo 30 scrubs 5110 him, lle would vara, the feed of eighteen cows, with all the -hard labor and other' costs of their Corp, and Ole would be 1n the way to make money. 3'nere is In sight no change to.farm and Market' ceaditlous that promises ever to put soak' into dairying carried on with cows Out average 1,000 to 1,1,00 quarts of milli her head,per, year, and producers may us ivetl open their eyes to this truth, The prop- ositloa to a,ake milk with such cows is an .tbeadity, because It Is proved beyond all ,.uo;, i(lllty of doubt that they put more Immo' lute their milk than they eau ever 'hope 0rer to get out of It when It is sold itt the market The stisleat of inlnt .production Is su,o ),eel every day to observe what n large number of herds he will thin that averages Iess than 1,1,00 curia of milk per head Ucr yesr. The owners of these herds say that they "cannot afford bettor cows.' The truth Is that they cannot "afford" 'these cows 0100 correspondent says thiit lust tiaunter, 10 0 tear of aver' 500 so-called ' doers farms" he found lows than twenty herds whose. average yield was large enough 'to bring the cost of production inside of the net returnee from their milk sold at the average price of the year. The twenty who owned these herds were making money. The ether 110 owners were losing looney on their '0000) -yleld lards. The lesson le plain. The conclusion Is. inevitable. -New York Farmer." COWS NEED CONSTITUTIONAL VIGOR, • 'J hls,is the clement that produces re. o e it 0a in, rss ldc u0 eye the dollar 1 Charities, was $12.00. The value of the buter-,tt, at paces Glatt hese beet paid neighboringfarmers by the College creamery, was $110.38: 1f Hu; 20,011(1 pounds of skim milk and • buttermilk were t0 be valued at, say, 20e per cwt., it would amount to $10. Adding this to the vale of the butter -fid„ the total yield of butter -fat and skim mill: would Neal 3230,39. Deducting the cost of feed, we have a profit; over feed con- stnueed, of $157.72. At the price of cream which have been received during the past year by her termer owner, 51 '. (leo, Woe, of Thlsonburg, Ont., the butte' sat would have been worth in this cow's milk iv $224,07. The skim milk in this ease would have been, say' 175 cert, worth 355. making total proceeds of 3359.57; or a profit over cost of feed of $180.91. To state this cow's record ;methyl- way, :cording to the rule for estimating but- ter yield by adding one-sixth to the but- ter fat, the estimated quantity of bet- tor which could have been made front the cow's nilly was practically 912 I.4 pounds, which is about six tine's the yield of the average cote of this come try, This is a wonderful record, one which very few cows would be capable of not nag, Prof, Dean. writes that so i,rr as be is aware, it is cue of the best, i0• not the best, ever made in Cuuada, and he doubts whether any 00w begiu- uiug her record before she was four years old bad a better: o n,—Fermer's advocate, VALUE OF A PURE-BRED SIRE. A few poor cows may do little permit• tett harm to the dairy herd but a poor r'ee too ttl - sire will do untold damage. 1 n p y dairymen told the perry so close to the eu rat. ease ,,teat strain nt any sett— 1i tle farther off, and this is. just what in tht. ace (ease under the strain of ter. it than is doing who 11110 a. good dei,)' rifle ,;ped, in the milch cow' under the strain of e00rnuuu productimi, Uitder herd of grade costs and thinks he is eerie ionizing by buying a poor or even coun- uton sire, If the good pure-bred sire improves the milking capacity of his daughters only one and one-half pounds of milk at a milking, above the production of their dams this would nxtut ❑n uierease of Wee pounds of milk for the teat mouths or 300 drys an ordinary co00' should give atilt, the daughter' would -also be. a much more persistent milker, that is, would give milk for a longer time in the yea' and she would regain her flow of mill, better efter au unavoidable shortage of feed hs iu a summer trout(, These daughters may certainly be credited with 1,000 pounds 111000 mill/ per year fan their dams produced. At the lows estl- ahate • of $1 per 100 pounds this extra amount of mill: would be worth $111 per. year. The average cow is a good produc- er foe at least six years, or ,until he is eight years old, It will on the average be four years after purchasing the "-ie before i first will h have f0nlrs u� brought in the first exile 310.Eight dol- lars and tiventy-three cents kept at compound interest for these four leas' at 5 per cent, will equal $10, So elm daughters iniprorenleit o: lee:rease of income the first year is worth 48.23 at the time her sire fs pu0ehased. i0 the heifer calves 000 to be oaised for dairy' cows there is absolutely no busi- ness or Denson 011 earth for keeping a serub bull, The dairymen who thick• there is pry' a heavy' price annually for maintaining the tradition. The serab bull is the most expensive and cxtrn-a- geld piece of cattle f,esh ole the fano. lie dens not stop at tieing merely worth- ies bill wile lose the farmer the prise. of ft0o nr throe good hulls every yen. he to keep a scrub bull it the anima stele board- the twin of ,t severe climate it is called great purifier, 34, 'rhe Son of Cod— Ilnrdtntss, The presence 00 absence of The Messiah—the Christ. Jahn here de- this. clement is especially manifest in elided that Jesus ,was divine. God ,also the growth and development of the soaks from heaven (Matt. 3. 17), thus young of the different breeds. Of the owe they live and grow without special care or attention; of the other they perish easily if they do not have the best of care The difference is simply in constitutional vigor or vital levee born is the calves of tiles one mut not in the calves of the other. The differ. 11P confirming the sign given to John. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. "The Lamb of Cod." The Word tells of Christ, the Prophet; the Barb speaks of the Redeemer. One brines us to the revelation of God's will and truth, the other to the great Re• once continues throughout the Ilves of acorea•, It is not only a touch of love,' these animals. It may • not bo mmni- but a touch of blood, ,Spoken after fested . so conspicuously' in after -life, Christ's baptism, a short time after Ile yet it affects all their relations to their had passed under the floods of the Jor. food, care end productions. In what dant, a symbol of physical death and re- doe, 11 consist? Is 11 in possessing surreetion, In thin typical act be had Otto is sometimes called • the 111'0001 died and risen again for the sin of the temper.attaeld?,' 'Net infrequently we world. "The Chlietiau's escutebewa is find the nf�s)fring of breeds' that lay not 'the Russian best•, the 13ritlslt lion, ('5pecitldn(nt to' this temperament, ss. nor the _\utenitmn eagle. It is the Lanni socially lacking in the, nbilfty, to live of God. 'Ile eburclt is ever to be an in- ninl rapidly ,develop without special dex-fingor pofntimr to Him who taketh cnio. It n secret fm•010 hidden in away the sin of the world" (v, 29). lot alae rear, in the ))teed and in the ani: us consider the followleg points: nm'l: Perlrnps''it any be property I, Spotless, "A lamb without 'blemish aid without spot" (1 Pet 1 19) 'rho eolled,, the attar temperament. Tin utmost ea'e w•ae used by the Jewish ,bulls of the Hnlstei,iFriesiaie , breed priest 'to select a Lamb -free from all possess this vital ferric Or temperament blemish (Lev, 3, 0; 4, 32), and "without more strongly thou those of any other. spot" (Nutt, 28, 3), for God would not 'impt'oi•ed'rlary breed. The brehdets accept any other (Lev. 22. 20.25), Not" in -llolltbonl and Friesland have a101ays only Inuitthe"rnmb be spotless, but the avoided '(11.003 in breeding. in proof priest must ,certify it 'to he so (1.et', that,thlis breed has maintained a high 22. 20-33), and the words, "Phis is uty standard of vital force we point to its beloved Son, in whom I ant well pleased" use fir almost every climate, ineludiog (Matt. 3,17)', were God's seal to The sin- that of Northern Russfo nearly 'up to lessote s of Jesus, Though the was made the Arctic Circle. •' Its calves are rais- in the likeness of sinful flash (Rom, 8, cd without , difficulty. Taken from 3), yet he did no sin, neither was guile their clams at three days old, and Tea - found in his mouth (1, Pet. 2. 22)..11- sonably fed on skim mill: and a little though He was made sin for us, yet Ile oil meal, they grow like weeds,, Given larety no sin (2 Cor, 5, 21). Viewed from plenty of fond, no ;natter if most of it every poin3, He was always perfect. He is:roughage, they develop rapidly-, The was ever wholly self-possessed (Matt., heifers 110110113' drop their calves at 21. 23.27). Iia never retracted a word. about two years old, and henceforward He never altered a plat; He effectively are profitable to their owners, turned every oeoorrence to a spiritual pulses/ (John 4, 7-10; Matt, 10, 0.12), 20778 POUNDS MILK FROM ONE COW 11. Submissive, "He' wets pe,yed lett' IN 12 MONTHS, and he Avis• afflicted, yet tae °petted not his snout(. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her Visitor's of the Ontario Agricultural shearers is dumb so die opened not his College during the past sunnier were month" (Iso, 53:7), "And when he was shown a Holstein -Friesian cow, celled accused... ,h° answered nothing' (5latt, Bents -sits 1!. 1 ictertje Deltel, which was 27:12-14). Rugh Stowell say's: "1 have expected to produce. twenty thousand watched a lamb led to the slaughter and pounds of milk within the yens, As a (live seam the little guileless animal lick matter of feet, she has actually exceed - the hand about to be imbrued with its ed this estimuute, From Oct 2701, 1.111311, Blood'; patient, meek and free from all to Oct, "_Ohb, 1037,, she 11.11 given 2(1,778 resentment. Blessed shadowing of, that pounds of mill:, testing It fraction over': patient, long-suffering Man of sorrows 76 per cosh,.- and cuntauliatg 781,01 Who came 11111000 us and was never pro- seta els of butter•fnt. J he cost of the yoked to resentment or cavil or retake- teed; as 1(11113011 pp 33 the Cil'110ge au' Lion or unkindness III. Saerificcd. "The Lamb that was slain" (Rev, 5:12, 1.3:9). The Lamb of God stands for submission, suffcriug and death, •Under law, in 0 figure, the sites of a guilty soul were transferred of the white, innocent Iamb ere it 00110 slain, Under. grace, in fact, the sins of "all" guilty souls were "Laid" on the Lamb 'of lied, ere he was sacrificed for us (Ian. 50:11). Be toot: on• place. 110 died in our stead. He became our sub- stitute, ".1 gentlemnu who was travel- ling in Norway tells how he went to see the church -of a certain town, Looking up at its toyer,, he was surprised to see the' carved' figure of to lamb near the top. Ile inquired why it'was placed in that position5and he was told that when the church was being built a workman fell from the high scaffold. His fellows saw him fall nand horror-stricken, rush- ed down expedting to find hint dashed to pieces, but to their surprise and joy ho was almost uhhurt, This was how he escaped: A flock of; sheep was passing by the church at the moment of his fall, and he fell among them as they were POISONED WIFE. Omer Rochette Gave Strychnine to End Tier Life, Chilean, Jan, 11.— Omer P,00lo't.tn. n /lief of Ouches, ;whit )vas 1:!:: 3,1 in Chiengo on Nhiordny on it dun'''e nl ntitrdcrin9 his first wife, lo -night merle a. full co7tiesaiim. The num, who wits arrested with the rimmed wife Filuu linrcena Tlo/(cite, ndnr.lh'd to CBhi McCaskill, of Stunts real, that he put strychnine in food that he gave his wife. Rochette and the pretty h'rellell-Gntlndian girl were taken beef: to Montreal to -night, "1 killed her becnieso we were nlv0ays fighting," said Rochdte. . "Por eleven year0. weW001always in a row, ;toil 1 was driven hall ecuy' by it all, then after she was dead 1 loved Filen turd married her." Chief .AfoCtskill went to the eell when, Rochette was locked np. " nm going to take you beck to 3iinntrenl for murder. ing ,your wife," the Ctunndian officer said. "Are you ready to go or do you want to n -e fight?„ m Lea ;; "i don't, see why I should he perse- cuted like this," complained Iiocltette, "1 didn't. ):ill her," "Bat you did;" the chief misted, "You used enough styehnine to kill twenty persons. tom' children saw you put it in her renin, and you warned them not to eat ally Of the went, in which you mit it, IVe have the eomulete evidence against you." Bochette hesitated n mo- ment, ,and 1lien broke down. "}es, I killed leer," he said, "1 lied to do it, 11'e hail fought so long that I inst couldn't stand any more of it. Gut 1011011 liamrnit didn't hiow , anything abont this. She married Inc secretly, and we, came °m to Chicago, where I bought restaurant nt on Wentworth avenue, 't',tIll willing, to go hack without a fight nod stand trial." 0*9 ITALY IN FEAR. DISCOVERY OF UNSUSPECTED SERIES OF MURDERS. A Wealthy Count is Missing—Last of His Race Believed to Have Been Done to Death by Algerian Band, Come Ye, Oh, Come Ye, to Bethlehem! David, the shepherd•king of Israel, was bort in Bethlehem 1,080 years before Christ. The prophet Alien'', who lived more than 700 years before Christ, fore- told the birth of Christ in these words: "But thou, Bethlehem Epi rathaly which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one tome forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whoso goings forth are from of old, from everlasting * * ' and ho shall stand and shall feed' (his flock) in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God • and they shall abide; for nosy shall lie be great to the ends of the earth; and this (asset) shall be (our) peace" (Mich v, '2.5). Jesus was born Its Bet) lehent (Luke 0), Ills testimony; "I am the good shep- herd" Illy he'd" (John x); "I nm come tt Phtler's name" (v. 43); "I have trade thy name (God's) known and will make ib known" (avis. li 11, 2,.,13),; "Iame you shall hove pence (xva, +i$), -"lie 1181 0 (lIp8F8Mm1 011 (1111 1fIi4i1lide--$hoop without n shepherd --and taught them many things" (Mark v. 34); t`The vverde that I speak unto your are spirit and - life" (John vi. 06; I1. Cor. v, 17). While shepherds kept their flocks by night On Judah's plain of old, Around then) shone a heavenly light That dazzled to behold; And, lo! the angel of the T.ord Did suddenly appear, And struck that sweet and deathless chord For all souls, "Do not fent," Loudon, •tint. 0!— (Otic/. again a Mysterious disappearance is the tall: of Naples. Conus Gennave Renzttllo ]his net been seen for several weeks, and .'.it is Whispered that his name must be added to the list of - victim , of the e'nnim:tl organizations nizations that arc at tlii present time terrorizing south- ern these. 'rhe Court is 0 00(033', and somtwhet eccentric, aiid lie is • the litst of his race. An old housekeeper of his has informed the police Oita )ret master hal cherished the inten- tioni to .disappear for a base in order to nntke n sudden' dramatic reappear- ance to eejey the stupefaction of certain distant bei s,,for whom he has an aver- sion. Nei much c•red,nee is attudicd to her story, end is is believed that the Count has been foully dealt with. Police investigation its the 0ase may load to the discovery of a11 unsuspected cries; of murders, At Leghorn, three Al- gerians, tits? sten and 0 wenn 1n, w'cre al• rested (en a charge of stealing goods "h• woman J n room a, )(Wel corn] factory. x clamortd'in be ,allowed to have her baby-, w'hicli she stud 005 in Olio boring village of I'ontedeos There the police made e surprising discovery. They found t gypsy' wagon hidden in a- dense wood, and in it two young boys, wito .tilted that they had been kidnapped and cruelly treiiletf by the Algoritms, wt,, were also guilty, they said, of various murders at Dari i 'i 1' h that all thins s s g cry of a sum in gold coin, n quantity of v•o ovould tbclt feel that Gad's groat For I glad tidings do convey '!'o all the human race; The Prince of Pence is horn to -clay, Reveale• of Cod's grace,"' 'Pim Saviour, Christ the Lord, is He, This child from heaven come down, Whom in a manger ye any 000 In Bethlehem, David's town." And the starry skies above Were filled, the arches rang, over. Of God's good will, and peace, and r The blessed angels song, • "Glory to God" in grand reclaim, "In tiro highest, glory be"; "Story to God," we sing the same, When Ilis great love we see. Per Plod so loved the world that Ito' Gave us Ilio only Son: *"bt Christ" is fall salvation free; Outside Him there is 110110. Then draw we near the Prince of Peace. Without a fear or doubt; His war with sin shall never eensb Till sin be blotted out, sent )lis Son to save the World," "find ..e t "vis sin IIe doth condemn; Gent's banner, Love, is wide unfurled In Christ of Bethlehem. ' Truth. Pilate saith unto Shat, what is truth? 110 St. Join, 38 verse whether Christ being asked by Pilate Ho was a ):ing, replied saying. Thou shyest that I ant a King, 'lo this end was 1 born, and for this cruse carte I into the world that I should bear Wit- ness unto the truth, livery one that is of the truth hearethe My voice. Truth is tlto corner etto of social life, the business one, and should be of the faau• sly, o blinded b ' his were s tense's eyes 3 heathen belief that .lie • kaiew not that truth stood before ,him, Wo all knave' that He is the vvay, the truth and the 1 - g nt., bodies life; but the centre virtue is the itneoiti .; nl monad Vapir ,tun ueth stone of all belief. Ohl if wo all were curt been thrown oto the sere, convinced of that one gi•eat Further scares resulted in the diaeo0` ;, work to"other for Pod; is kept. The dah'yman mold not afford vuIt, it, e jewelry end resolvers and t work was not so touch nn tphstnot ,ret - given to bis, if he vete the for bloodstained latices. The Algerians are Hon as its spiritual moyalandiuontulde- iag the beast and giving a prro :I::n of now suspected of baring killed Count velopment. This book of Itis greet epic 310(0 per year foo using him. The pre;. Renzullo. progresses slowly, for the Almighty erne of the scrub 10 80 nutty' Illinois °"�, punctuates with noes! But it progresses herds -many flutes without a siog!o ANTI -SUICIDE BUREAUS, not the less surely on that account. Ito lius qualification except that he is e male— — � winters are perfect, though the full fo- l; an offence and disgrace to the dairy The Result of the Ffrst Year's Woxk era of its parmonious and beautiful the d it and a plain ndvertiseuu of of Repeated I whole it not be brought to bra upon the dairyman's tLnughtless bid for foil- the perceptions of any one race of Men. are. The only tiring on earth ole ,,rub sire is good Inc is sausage and i!- is 1 igh time that this piths and simple tenth was given prnetical acceptance cat -001y dairy farm. By all moils get a good dairy sire 11 you have to sell two or Iltowo colts to do it. The improved sire is without ques- tion the most economical investment in least an equal number applied at the any dairy herd, bat,eaus iu other cities. It appear; Wilber J. Fraser, front the revicsv that the seekers for 110111 Chief of Dairy Husltandry, belonged umin)y to the middle cls.;,. University of 111)11,(0 Sloth then halt of thou attributed the desire to eiid their lives to financial elm t•a0,nient or hopeless poverty, • 11011, London, Jun. 0.—'I'wehe mouths ago ionto are cold, scepttail, unspinitua, (ben. Jlooth, of the Salvation Army, start. with more lip worship, and others un ed assts -suicide bureaus in various cities grat,ful, persecuting, deserting friends. the 11 and he noir has issued .i Others see tlto prosperity of the wick - 01 0 world, teview f the ve'u•'s wort: 41tog'eHtc'f ed the afflictions of the good—in short 1,125 11011 snit 90 00111011 nought the 0s- the trials and trammels of life in :01 sisttutce of the Loudon tuneful to stave its protean forms, which aro I 'oupporl' them from self-destruction, while at able. But let Calvary once be he altar steadily fixed 111 our souls, to which all our offerings are brought—on which all our sacrifices are offered up—and be- fore which all our sorrows pray tillthey are heard, anger will soon depart from us at the parts our fellowmen net to. wardtssus in working out God's will re- specting our future fate for then we should feel that they could not have any power over us if it were not given thou front above. And feeling this we should submit; We should also analize our own beitr,s till they become ea point of cporndtaro4'hl1 .gc,-atWhtaattioevile1100t3he (cse1)211 oifn contrteo't wi h others, and should so feel the exlerietee.bf.a dee) humiliation in the el0imlhati ,of self, that our bnr- dous w0n))t 3 g lightened from it,/ con- viction thfit'h4ftr0ianly� p yetukiug, Ove des dcnGt,'- but the man was sa-:ed, And they carved the lamb o1 the tower et the exact height from widely he fell, to cotnioentorate., his. escapes Christ was crushed to death under,gnr load of sin." "Thu continual morning and evening sac- riliee of a lamb, umber' the Jn'srsh Cas, wax intended (0 1)01nt out the coutinuai eft'iciu'y of the hlood,of atonement; for, even at the throne of God Jestts Christ is everrepresented, as a hunb newly slain" (ilei, 5:0). . IV, Sovereign: The living ones and 1 theelders( adore "the Lomb;" myriads of angels m•y, "1Vorthyis the Lanmb;" the unlvchse praises "the Iamb (Rev. 5:8; 12, 13) „the wicked fear "the Wrath' of the Lands" (Rev. 6:15, 10) ; thelrun- dred 3orty and font thousand "follow the Lamb wlithertloever;be goeth" '(1300. 14:1,,4); the bride of Christ is "the Lamb's, wife" (Rev. 21:0)1,"the merrutge. of the Lamb' is the greatlfeast of the future (Rev. 19:7.0),; and, the, title of "the:Lamb" as final conqueror fy,;Lord of lords and Ring of kings, and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful (Rev. 17:14). 'I'1\e witness to ,)?sus was, 1. The tes- timony- of John, entirely disinterested and self-sacrificing. He gave his whole life to bearing Itis witness to Christ, re- sisting every temptation to13 ain notori- cry, and to make friends of the influen- tial Pharisees. 2, The witness of facts that entirely.cotuinccd John himself, 3, ').fie witness of a v0iee from heeveto 4. The witness of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It wps the token that in Jestts are fulfilled the prophecies of the Old Testament with regard to the pouring out of the `spirit in the Messianic ,age, :uul especially, to the impartation of the Spirit to the .Messiah himself (bs1Y. Off 1; Luke 4;1 8)—prophecies which de- eeribe the crowning glory of the latter days. A. C. M She (after the opera)—"If I am not mistaken, I have the honor of speak- ing to the renowned bass have I not?" He (flattered) -"And what can I do for you,. madame?" She—"If you would be sekindas to ca out'John' batt From the small untidier of women ap- plicants Gen. Louth deduces that they are better able to bear up undo sor- ows.nnd trials thou mon. Ile thanks it tfe to ,ray that 75 per cent. of the applicants Intim been diverted from con• teuipinted suicide and helped to stir- nutunt their ditiicoliies, A YEAR OF PEACE , Diplomats of the Nations at Berlin Anticipate No Trouble, Berlin, dam (1: The Lokal Anzeigor to day pubhsht'al e series of interviewswith the 0ntbessodors in Berlin of Great Britain, the 'United States, Russia, France, Spain„ Austria-Hungary, and' 'Turkey, nal the Ministers representing nest of the other nations of the world 10Lttive to the condition of international terntions1008at the beginning of the year , The diplomats whose yicw-o are quoted 11 entertiun the Most satisfactory ()phi- al the top of your voice. I can't find ions concerning the outlook for the coin' erved them. Come In, Pat. Dr, George A. Gordon, pastor of tis -Old South Church, Boston, 10110 how a witty Irishman stood Imfore tltc ate of the other world, taskutg for admi,s5ion. St. Peter' refused tum however. telling him he was too great n sinner to enter there, and brute hunt go away. The man went a title distance from the gate rind then crowed three times. like a rooster. j 1 Il `J h ' n St. Peter at once threw open the gate and /lied out: "Comte in, Pat! We'll let my carriage.'; 0113 year. bygones be bygones!„