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REV, DR. TALMAGE RPEAK3 ON THE
MOST BEAUTIFUL JEWEL
*Ivies for Jewete on he Motes or Coyle*
eleeesier the water the larger tile Pearl
The Jeritei Jewels were Once ittirled-",
Ifrespattes and isineetueveepei
ittertst Teem to fasitt.
desPatoh froill Weshingtop, mays: -
Rev, Dr. Talmage preatheil trora the
•following text: -"They Shall be mihe,
saith the Lord, of hosts, in abet day
wheie 1 melee tip my. jewelsearittalachi
17.ei
•Par enOugh down inthe neountaine
to make Us dig, itied deep enough in
the sea to make us dive, lar0 gems a
isnuisite. beauty, • The kihgs of the
earth gather them together, anileset
them te the hilts. of awordeeein orowns,
and vases, end cereal:tete, Queen
Charlotte and Marie Antolhette boast-
ed of thee°. Lee owned eisPeati wefib
eighty thousand crowns' Philip of
gPairt.hottght a .gem viprtii fifteen
thousand 'ducats, The vvbitet topaz of
Portugal had an untold value. The
King of Persia bought e gem worth
one million six• handredi" thousand liv-
•exteeeseThe diamond belcinging to. the
Austrian coronet, teat in the battle of
had a whole fortune, in it.
• 'Spain, France, Britain,- boast Of their
Jewels, and on coronation day are
proud of ...the crown set on the brow
a • the enthroned potentate:- The
mighty nations of the earthl have • all
- boasted a their mealy, gems, have
guarded them hale eiaremevigilance,
hive rung them ih the (hire of their
• poets laureate, and have handed them
down from age tet age as an evidence
of. natiotial. wealth.
Well, the Lord Jesus Christ, cher
' King, has been gathering up his trees -
tires for. a good while, and on the
great coronation. deels Of the judgment
he will, In the presrpe of the assem-
bled universe, show that the geed of
all egos aro his oreihrnejewels. "They,
• shall be mine; saith the Lord of hosts,
. in that • day , when 'make up my
jewels . • . •
• I sheak to you of the jewel -tinging,
the jewel-grindinge and the ,jihrel-e-
ting. It is h rare thing that a jewel
Is tough' on the surfeits of Che '•earth•
The heart of the mountains is cut out
LO find it. Boring, blastieg and huge-
• handed. machinery, Make the rolek oPen
its fist and drop the jehrel. There ere
thousaieds of:034:94 who may be seine
on the shores eetVeYiehe and Coroman-
del, veratehiig the diverewhogo out to
•' get pearls. At• the •firings of a
• ghee ,the • beats • are lowered off
and the divers:. • go clewh forty
or fifty • feet into the water,
• find. the shells centaining the pearls,
• then rep' on the side of • the divtug-
bell as a signal that they are ready
• to return, and then the -Men kt .the
• top heal swiftly to. the surfeCe,
• It is a rare !Wag that -yen find
gold on the.surfaee; it is'as thoeoughe
ly hidden • as • the pearls • are; The
miner must digs and blast,'and, sweat,
• before he comes to it. So the Lord's
jewels are hidden. Once. they were
far 'down in the harkness, • buried in
•
trespasses and inesins. No human in -
volition could reach • them. No pearl
was. ever se , far, down hi the, water, no
gold was :ever so Ler down in the
.earth, but .the grace ot God came
to the work., Thee la a miner, end it
an blast the, rock. •There is a driver;
and it can touch the bottom df the
• sea: The Gospel 'oUestts Christ wenit
on, crushing. down:through this priile,
and that sin, and this prejudice, poend-
• and breaking, Med washing, and
• tifting, until one hay the gold flashed
in the light of the Suri of Righteous-
ness'•
I have been -told that d
- ter the larger the heart. I don't
know how that is but I do know that
' ?rein thie greateal depths of 'sin the
Lord Jesus 'Christ sometimes gathers
up bis brightest jewels. Paul was a
persecutor, Bunyan was it blasphemer,
John Newton was a libertine, the Earl
Rocheater Was an faidel ; and yet
t e grace of God went plunging
though the, fathotne of their abomina-
tion until it foundthem' and brought
them up to the light. Oh, there -is
no depth that grace cannot touch the
bottom. All oaer the Dead Sea of sin
covertly the nations, God's diving -bells
are busy; all through the mountains of
death, God's mineraare blasting.
"Where sih.abountled, grace shall much
more' abound. .
The geologist tells you that the
brightest diamond is only crystallized
carbon, or, as I might call it, charcoal
glerified I and ea it is with souls that
. were coal-blaok in the defilements of
sin -by the power of God's grace they
are made his jewels' for ever.
You have noticed the great differ-
ence between jewels. Let nOt a Chris-
tian man envy another Christian man's
experience. You open the king's cas-
ket, anti you gee jewels of all gees,
ahapes, and colors. The king says to
the Sultan, who has come to visit hire:
"That is a topaz That is an artieth stl
That is a pearl; That is a koh-i-noor!"
So God's jewels are very different -dif-
ferent in taste, different in edtication,
different in preference. Do not worry
be ave the falth of
that maxi, or the praying qualitiesofthis, or the singing quelitica of 'anoth-
er. It were as unWiso as for a carne-
lian to blush deeper because, it is net
a diamond or a japonica to fret all the
color out of its cheeks because it is
not a roses God intended you. to be
different.
The trouble is that you are not will-
ing to be ordinary gold; you want to
be gold of twenty-four carats. You see
soreet extraordinary Christian man,
arideaott say, "If / could only be suoh
a man as You don't know his
history. ”Stime distance below Nisi. -
Ora the water is placid; it •says no-
thing about the rapids writhing titoong
the rocks and the fall of one hundred
and sixty-four feet. So there are
Christian expetienees floatitag pleoldly
before yr. You. envy WS experience
Mit yell don't realize the fact that that
Matt has gone through mazy rapids of
temptationes, and MaY have had many
a mien -MIL
It seems ettett to he 4 general on some
triumphal Oceasion. The arehes are
alartialg, the flowers are scattered, the
loess bombs play, and the people 'maze,
as he comes back from the war. Oh
what an ettay thing to be a general'
But you forget the nights of peell-you
forget the carnage, the thirst, and the
henget, the wounds, and the long
slatelk and that he pluelred the gar-
land Of victory °tad thestiff hand of
death. And ea there ere Cheihtlene
noW going on in the triumph of aitperi,.
We% 4ild you tretylnvy them, forget-
ful of the feet that there was Many
Water100 Of temptation and, ttlal they
Were obliged to fight. Be mama
14* gods Christian exeorleimerae God
)40 im fit to glee you.,
History tells as ••that in the Middle
Ages the precious stones were symbols
of the apostles. In those Middle Agee,
for /Milanese, the jasper was coneidered
the symbol of St. Peter, the sapphire
cif St. Andrew, the emerald of St. John,
the ohaleedoup of St, jaMes, the sar-
donyx of St, Philip, Those Atones
were net more .different than the men.
whom they symbolized. While
would have you, as a Christian, petiole
Your Christian grace to the „very last
degree of heights/tees, 1 wohtd not have
You, OoMPlahe that you Are net like
someeody elect or thigh it Avenge be-
calufa oloysolete, and topaz, and Ames
the*, and emerald don't all shine altice.
- Be content to be 'one of Cod's jewels,
although you may not have as much
lustre as some One else. Concerning
you it has been said, as well as cON.
earning the most sparkling Christie%
character, "They shall be mine in the
clay when I make up my jewels,"
• The jewel -grinding.' Th • t is the
'sawing 'and e the splitting liFobeee by
whichethe gem is taken from its rough
state and changed into any thing that
the -lapidary chooses. . Sapphire, corun-
dum, and topaz powder are used for
grinding diamonds. The rose diamond
is so flat that it would have no attrac-
tion at all, unless it passed • through
some ,such operatione Nowt God's
jewels all go through that process.
•Affliction is the wheel and the Warp
instrument that grind e the character
into shahe. You May think that con-
version gives character to the soul.
D. does not. Conversion - is only the
digging out cif the. jewel; God after-
wards shapes and fashions it by his
providence. Christ sometimes allow
his children to fell, but they fall for --
ward, not backward. Chrysoiite, to
be cleared' of its imperfections, must
pass through careful burning. Oriental
carnelian; zircon, and Brazillien topaz
Meat be submitted to the fire before
they get their lustre. Christian char-.
apterelike black spots in an amethyst, -
must sometimes be cleared out by the
• flame; in other words, you must 'go
through- the furnace,
God's 'children, in time of prosperity;
when the sun shines warmly "7"upon
them, uuleuckle the robo. of their
Christian graees and let themhang
loosely about them; but When trouble
thews .a noitheaster,then they wrap
around them, their Christian' grades.
and tighten the. girdle. Troubles may
came to us, thick as; the locusts .and
frogs of Egypt, but they wiH only
make slie-that old Pharaoh -let God's
people gce, •
The dark cloud May hover over us,
but the cross of Christ will bethe•
lightning rod that will take the bolt
out of it. -You have stain people in-
valids, and after awhile, ander some
tremendeue stroke of disease; their
entirp temperarnent •seenuid to be
changed, and they calm!. out of that
,sudden sickness strong men. ho it Is
with niehy • of those %who are going.
along invalids in the Christian life,.
very weak -in the seivice of God.- After
they have passed through some great
disaster,• that disaster e having been
sanctified to their souls, they become
strong men. in Chrisr !Theme. These
Christians, Who are swarthy now -do
you know how they got their swarthi-
ness.? It was by sweltering at the
.forge of affliction.: Their battle axe
was dulJ. enough until it Was sharpen-
ed on a grave stone. • '' • •
• Nearly all of God's jeevels• are cry-
stallized tears.' You aiik. me, "Why id
it that yonder man does not have trou-s
ble-e gets 'along without:eh:1Y misfor-
tune."- For the same .reason that .the
lapidary tioeit hotput the heheate in-
strument upon a common pebble. • It
does not sewn as if clod thought that
some men .were net worth a peewits of
The Dutch call diamonds
that'are . not 'fit to be _eleven divel
steenee-ethat-is; devil stones. ' •
' -There are those We wile are alinadt:
ready for -the kingdom; one More turn
Of the Wheel, oneemore shove of the
harsh file, and they will be ready. God
is testing in the.preselice of men and
'angels, • whether you • are paste dia-
monds or reel diamonds. You' know
there is an artifielalruby, an artiai-
ciat sapphire, artificial emerald;
Strauss; of •Strasbergh; discovered
that by taking silex, and potash, and
borax and red -lead, he could make a
.very good imitation of some • jewels,'
but before that, Satan Lound out that
he could .imitate the Lord's jewels.. A
composition of orthodox faith and :
of good works has made many a child
of the devil look like a child of the
Lord Nevertheless; bore*, potash,
•silex, and red-Iend aro not jewele.
,There Is a way in which the lapidary
tells whether a diamond is genuine or
net. lie beei,thes on it; and if the
breath linger there. it is a false dia-
mond; if the breath immediately, van -
bah, it Is it teal diamond, Then he has
the grinding process afterward if the
first fell. So you can tell God's jewel,
If the breath of temptation comes on
it, and soon vanishes, it is a real dia-
mond; if that breath lingers, and con-
tinues to blur it, it is a terse diamond.
But better than all this is the grind-
ing machine of affliction. If a soul
tee go through that and keep bright,
it is one of God's jewels. Egyptian
topaz, brought up fronl the ruins of
Herculaneum and Pompeii, shows the
same inextinguishable colour to -day,
after it has beep buried hundreds and
hundreds of years. And so God's chil-
dren come up out of the ruins of miss
farina:eft and' disaster an bright as
when they ivent dawn.
The jewel setting. The lapidary gets
the gems in the right shape, gathers
them on his tabie, and then puts thole
into heaa-bande, or hilts of swords,
•Into crowns. • The opening day comes,
and the people come in, and -the work
is displayed before them. • Well, the
.Lord jests will gether up his people, -
and before' the aisembled uniiverse
theirepiendor shall shine forth.That
will be the great je*eI-setting. Christ -
tans ofto,n tremble at the thought of
diet day. It is to be a day of fire and
thunder, and mountaincrash; and yet
not terrifying to God's 4ser children
Amidst dee multitudes of the re-
de.esned there Wilt not be one pale
cheek, not one fluttering heert: The
thunders that poundthe hills will be
no More frightful than the; beady of
a gong that calls you to abate:ed.
The soul, rising up on that day, will
wrap around it the resitrrection-robe,
iind the rocking of the earth, in its
death -convulsion, will goad as gentle
1:6 it as the swaying of 0, bough front
which a robin springs Into the heav-
ens, •
Oh! it will be the wedding daye-t14‘
Church 'on earth married to the Church'
in heaven; butinstead of human lips
to eioliininize the ceremony,, the
arch-
angel'a trump will proelaine the bathes.
instead of orangeeblossobaii, there, will
be the fragrance of burning spice -
ides. Instead of the light of n amt.
delier and caeldIabrat there will be the
bonfire of 'the consuming world. Whet
a daythat will be I the marriage of
the king's soh, when God the, lather
will take this star of a world, and set
the sparkling gem on his SOWS tight
hand, Baying; "This is the kingdom I"
When Medd Mall step out from the
beavene and take by the. hand the
Church, which is the teeth% wife, that
will he " the day in which he- ralikee
oP ade jewels,"
You know the lapidary arranges je.W.,
de iteeotding totheir size end colour.
This one will &iv beetfor that place;
another will do beat. for another place.
So it will be in heaven. I euppoee Sohn
and Peter will he Pet tel different in
heaven an When they Were on earth. I
tuppoote that if a gentle epirit were dee
Parting on oftrth the soul of Sohn
Would be the very one to eanie. anel
take It up to glory. X suppose that it
a martyr were tarn by the rack, the
soul of Pa,u4 would he the very one to
fetch him tq heaven. I suppose that
If A wanderer'of the street were dying
penitent in a prison the soul of Elis-
abeth Fry would be the very one to
bring her up to the light.
if a lapidary had an especial gem
whose °ohm he wishes especially set
forth -he tikes the nattier gems, --those
of Iess value and beauty, -garnets,
ealeiee, and so On -and seta them
around the great central wealth of
beauty. And Bo It will be on the last
day; Christ aurrohndea by the redeem-
ed -the lesser jewels of earth surround-
ing the pearl, the Pearl of great price.
Christ will jot* off upon the redeemed;
upon the troubled who were comfort,
ed -upon ttm tempted who were deliv.
ered-upon-the guilty who were par-
doned. Methinks the sweetest song in
heaven wilasbe the chime of the jewels,
ase they jerhise God for the trials that
sawed theth and arriellnd tluenr'for -the
kingdom leaWho are those? you aek. I
answer, "hese are they who came out
of great WribUlattons, and had their
robes wailied and made white in the
blood of he Lamb.'
In theretatter part of the last cen-
tury, hamar& Boozier and Bessange,
the moatcelebi•ated jeweller's of the
world, reselved that they wouldlashion•
edierixond necklace such as the world
never saw. They sent out their agents
in all lands to gather. up • the most
costly gems. They stop ed not for any
expense. In the 'Year 1782 the heck -
lace was done e there, were in it. eight
hundred diamonds, swinging around in
nine rows, waving up „ to thethroat,
dropping over the chest and ahhulders,
pendent in cremesand ' crowns and
--lilies-swinging a Very blaze of loops,
festoons and clusters, Oh I what aiday
It must 'ha,ve been when Louis -XVI,
presented that to. the queen, and, in
the presence of the Court, Marie An-
toinette put on the necklace But the
Court could not pay for it, and there
were robber hands that hewed for it;
and, before that diamond necklace had
done its work, it had disgraced one
countess, dishonored a cardinal, brand-
ed with red-hot iron a favourite of the
Court, and blackehed a Page of hiss,
tory already infamous. Not so
when my Lord gathers up his
jewels. • They shall cense from the
easte'and frora the west, and ftone the
north, and from the south, He will
send. out his messenger angels, and
tell them to gather them up from
all. the land, and gather them up
from all the sea. Golconda and Ceylon,
and .Coromandel will send their best
treasures; the whine universe, will
make contributions to it; and I think
the brightest • 'gems in the palace will
be the gems that come' up from the
earth. They will 14p in swaying
sceptre, and .in gleaming crown? and
in belt of imperial beauty, and in all
the vases of • eternity, "in the day
when the Lord of hosts makes up his
jewli0h118: ;hat Gods eltrihgenells' might'
this morning •bring you up out .of the
depths of your sins, -and that God's
wheel might grind you for the king-
dom, that you may at last be' pre,-.
pared for the great jewel -setting
In Golconda, if a .slave find a dia-
mondof extritordbiery Value, he takes
it up to the Govetentilent, and the
Ginter:hi:writ gives hira his liberty. If
some �f these who. are this morning
the slaves of sin, while they are seek -
frig for Goh, wohld, find this Pearl of
great price, .the hour of their 'eman-
cipation would come.,_ and the king
would make proclamation from the.
throne, saying; "Go free! You Wive
toned the Pearll Be one ef:mY jewels
WHAT IiLBOK DID.'
.414 • EagNollunanta Ekperleace wits aa
It. is .the bEug711PdiolfgH Iflea°br'.leestice*s and
tenacity of an Englishman that ma,kes
him 'a, conqueror even when he 'faces
a mob of barbarians. After the bom-
bardment of Alexandria by the Eng-
lish cleat had ildveh the Egyptian
troops Out, the softy was, looted by
bluejackets were
wThiarenedeok tworarc:
'lethuteresdaltbdin
stopped the, outrages by arresting ev-
ery person found with plunder in his
possession.
On arrest a person wale tried, by
drumhead eckurt-martial, and the ,sen -
tense, shooting or flogging, was axe..
ctited without . delay. An English
-
Man, Mr. Hulnie Beaman, whe assieted,
111 Punishing the robber's, describes in
his book, "-Twenty Years in the Near'
East,' a dangerous experience from
which he was enabled to emerge by
cool, fearless bulldog pluck:---
Ile had beet' detailed to' suPerintend
the flogging if' two prisohers and the
shooting of a third, the sentence Le be
carried out at their native village, a
ilea of thieves :There 'Were ten thou -
mind of the Whit looking on. Five
policemen, Egyptians, and three Eng-
lishmen represented law and order.
The prisoner, sentenced to be shot, for
a saurdek, was fitted into a shallow
grave, and the policemen fired a vol-
ley,and& the execrationof the mob,
Only Mr. Beaman and. the Egyptian
officer cemrcuthdhlg the police under-
stood whatthe mob were eeying, and
the Egyptian begged ahe three Eng-
lishmen to get away, while yet therc.
was time, ,They, however, insisted en
seeing the flogging earned out, and
eeiriarked that the elighteet symptom
Of teat Veotild .excite the mob to. mum-
dthem.
The flogging exasperated the crowd,
already seated by the execution, ,and
they pressed, dose rouel the- English-
men.
It is time to put an eud,to infidels
torturing believers)" said a pertly old
Arab sheikh, erase to Beaman's elbow;
The Englishman seized the Arab, and
told the mob they Wend be ashamed
of themselves to sympathize with a
murderer and thieves, A sulleh sil-
ence followed. The Pl'ition0'. Placed in
a 'carriage, in whieh a policeman and
two Englishmen also. rodte-the third
,riding horseback alongside -ewes driv-
en at a walk through the dense throng
to Alexandria, Where a court martial
ordered hint to be flogged.
The next 'ear that sheikh called on
Mt, Beaman at Cairo, Brought with
him little presents, admitted the jus-
tice of his punishment, end he and
Mr: Beaman remained the best of
friends. The faintest signs of weak-
ening would have turned that mob in-
to furious waives.
•
RECORD DR/VING EAT
The greateet diving feet ever aehiete-
ed wee in moving the cargo of the
ship Cape Horn, wrocked oft the
Oita of South America, when a div..
er named Hooper made seven decant%
to a depth of over, 200 feet, remain -
Mg at one time 42 mittutee under the
water. An authority date that the
greatest depth to width a man has
been known to &wend does not We*
•eted 220 feet, which is equivalent to
preeettre a 88 14 pomade to the
equare inch,
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
11,041.,4,1e
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAR. 10.
rlorlst 11000004 Shepherd." John lc kis.
node* Text. ,sona 10. xi.
PRACTICAL NOTgS.
Verse 1, Verily, verily. " Anlea,
amen," the usual opening to a signiti-
amcn,i' the ileital oPetsinte to a eagnifie
cant saying Of ilesee reported onlY by
John. He that entered'. Me hi it
Parable, let differing in form trim
• most parables, and espeoially ea the
double ,applioation ,,cif both "the door"
and Abe " ehepher*" to Jesus, vereee
7. IL Not by .the door. During the day
the sheep are pastured at a distance,
• hut_ at evening :they. are_ 'brought.. !kern°
to the village or city for sefety, and
are gathered in a fold, whieh is often
it cave. • The ileptierd stands beside
the entrance, and as each Sheep en-
ters he keeps the tally by touching
one more notch on his staff. When
ell are 'within he takeshis-. position
outside as night watehman, The
sheepfold. In the 'parable the fold
seems to represent the Church .ot
• •
iriet, co as
ible lines all tree believers. Some oth!
er way. Any person trying to enter
the fold elsewhere .than through the
door shows by the act that • he has
some ' evil .intent,
2.. Entereth in by -the door. By the
same door both the aleeep and the shep-
herd enter; and the door, as explained
below; is Christ, through- whom alone
is given entrance into the Church of
the redeemed in earth and heaven. The
shepherd of the sheep. Or "a shep-
herd," as in the margin of the- Revised
Version; the true paator or leader of
the flock of %Christ whether a minis-,
ter in the pulpit or .a teacher in. the
,Sunday ;Scheel. ' ,
.8, To him the porter openeth. It is
not necessary to find a meahing. ifl
every part of ' .thie parable, though
strictly speaking thie. is not ¶-
ble ; but the porter may represent pith -
et the controlling body. in the Church
or the HolySpirit, by whom the Chureh
is ghicled:' The 'sheep hear his voice.
The sheep ih' this 'parable' are not the
members ' of the organized earthly
Church, of which tionte are good and
•
some are bad, but the true followers
of Christ, Whose name are written in
heaven. These have an Ins Inc tve per.
°elation of truth, and .recognize the
one who utters- it. 1. Are you One Of:
Christ's % true flock 1 Bus own sheep by.
name. In the East every' mereher of
the Hoek has an Inhielduelity. to the
shepherd. He .knows each one, andcan
pall it. by name. One reason for this
is that he is responsible -for each
sheep intrusted iahini; and Must Make
•
it good to .the owner if it is lost. 2.
So our Shepherd has each one of our
names written on his beide: 3. So too
should each under ahephethe whether
a Paster of a leacher; have a ,personal
acquaintance with each soul. under his
care. • : •
4. He putteth .forth, We see no res -
.son for miking thel • :'puttinge forth"
from .the sheepfold an. emphatic pert
f the bl , or to draw, spiritual
lesions from it. "A parablef must not
be made to go .on all -fours," says :an
Old commentator. In a true sense the
flock of Christ is never outside the told
of the true Church, Be veal before
them. Among us the'shepherd and
his dogs drive the poor, frightened,
ignorant :sheep, • But • the.- orientalshepherd always walks in front, and
they folio* him, no matter hoev tenapt-'
ing the grass may be along the -way.
The sheep follow him. 'Christ leads
us. through elm darker rooms then he
went through before," -Richard • Dex-
ter. Wherever we go our Master
goes tee He has felt ell that we
feel. --They know his voice. How
may. Ve know the voice of the Lord as
'distinct trot) our own imaginings or •
the strange utterances .of fa Ise s teach-
ers? Brite harmony ,witle Scripture,
with ' the mature judgmeht. of the
Church, and With the inner light,
within us • 4 We must keep " our
heathsin tune if We would recognize
our Master's call. '. • .
5. A stranger. Anyone who has not
the message of the true shepherd, but
speaks out of his OWn will. Will flee
from him. When a strange *eke
uses. the shepherd's call, it Alla the
flock with slain, and they run hithee
and Sather in a blind way. Says
St, Paul, 'He that is spiritual jiidgeth
all things."
O. '3 hie pa: able. Better as in 'the
margin of the Revised, Version, ''This
proverb;" for thie is 'nut. a parable,
bur tether an allegory or a similitude.
It as not to he ••interpreted. In all its
details, nor • is unity of plan to be
sought for. We should, fasten upon
Iti prcMinent "lillidrative teachings,
and not -try to spiritualize its ruiner
etatemets. They understood not.
Not even, the disciples of Jesus could
understand, the deeper spiritual truths
of this "parable," and to the Iowa in
general It wad aineest meaningless. 5.
How fortunate are we who receive a
clearer revelation!,
7. Then said jesue. He went
through the allegory a second time be-
terpreting id; principal elements, I
.ani the door. The door through which
'the •sheep enter the fold, and. through
Which the shepherds come to the
sheep: These words, in Greek, may
still be seen. Inseribedover the, ..inner
door to the ., Mosque. Of St. Sophia,
whiela Was binit in the sixth confuter
an n Chrietian church.
• 8. All that ever came ham% me.
Not those coming before Christ in
,time, as the Olcl‘Testament prophets,
but those who Oared themselves be-
fore him as religious teachers. Such
Were the scribes and Pharisees, who
claimed to • be the authoritative ex-
pounders of the law. Are thieves and
robbers. Not "were," as would be the
word if the reference were to earlier
teachers; but "are ;" allowing that he
speaking otethe self-appointed rah -
bins of his own time. The sheet) did.
net hear them. Many did hear thee°
false teachers, and followed there, but
not theist who possessed the ‘spiritual
insight of the true believer. .
0. By Me If any Man enter in.
*Through faith in .Chriet as our Save
lour we enter into his fold, the invis-
ible Church. He shall be staied. Mut-
ed in a safe position, out of danger
from wolves, and sure of abundant
pasture. Pine pasture. ' • Thefoodot
the spigituai nature whit% they find
who are in Chriet. 0 He never wants
who belongs to the flock of Christ.
10, Thus far Christ has represented
himself as "the door ;" now he sheen)
another *Sped of the allegory, with
himself ad the ellepherd. The thief,
is the (teensy who.eomes to plunder
' and to destroy. Such were the pritete
of that time who robbed the people;
end the Pharbiees, who Were Planting
to Murder Christ, and aeon would per -
'serrate th the death his followers.
ithe ,tteMe. Notnew as the door
through which there tame, bUt as the'
great ShephiSt4; aerating to lead and
•
•
to feed the flock, and to direct allh4
undo she it rci'Tb THE LEISURELY BRITISHER, 140NN REVOLTS,
r pea at th
ey mi
have life. That divine life, satisfying
and eternal, which Christ imparts.
11. 1 am the good shepherd. Suet
as he is the Son • of man, embodying
complete 'de 1 b 't oi h
good Shepherd, uniting in perfection
the traits of all true shepherds. Giveth
his life for the sheep. The oriental
shepherd mita face the storms with
his sheep, and to find them when lost
must fight with wild, -Waste andmore
dangerous robbers in their behalf. So
our Shepherd gives up leis lite to save
mire, 7. Bow clearly the oroae ever
stood in the landscape before Christ 1
12,18. He that is a hireling. That is
a hired, man, working for his wages
only. The application is to ministers
who Preach the Gospel for a living, in-
a.head of living to preach the Gospel.
Whose own the sheep are not; All
he cares for thd sheep is to secure his
own living whether the sheep are fed
or whether,. they go hungry. - The
wolf. Perhaps hetet representing
Satan, the enemy of soul% or his
agents, who ever they may be. Be-
came!) he is a hireiing. To him the
welfare, of the sheep is as nothing, and
gain everything; while to the true
shepherd gain is nothing, and the sheep
are everything.
14. Know my sheep. Re knew Sim-
on before he became Peter, and Nath-
anael 'under the fig tree, •and the wo-
man by the well, and Saul While he was
yet a persecutor. He knows each one
of us, with all our traits and imperfec-
tions, but with all our glorious possi-
bilitiee.also. Am known of mine. Be-
tweee each disciple and Isis Lord
stretches the invisible telephone wire
of personal fellowship. Ha talks with
ha, and Iva talk "with him.
15. As the Father. Notice how
these two verses are connected in the
Revised Version; "I knew mine own,
and mine own know me, even as the
Father kfioweth me, and I know the
Father:* The fellowship of the Father
and the Son is the fellowship of Christ
and his chutoh: 1 Jay cloven my' life.
Not thile for those disoiples who were
following Jesus then, but for all who
have been disciples since, die Jesus
give hie life,
I& Other slie,ep I have. Here is a
plain reference to the Gentile world,
in which were many true seekers after
God.. They shall hear my voice. As
yet these Gentile seekers were ignor-
ant of their Shepherd, though uncon-
sciously led by 'hire. Soon they were.
o know him, even as his Jewish dis-
'caplet!: Ono 'fold. The Revissd Ver-
sion is far better, "ems fleck. There
may be many folds in which Christ's
people •afe gathered, but there is only
ono flotk, ahd only one great Shep-
herd.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
•••••••••••
The century 'plant is a case eat eget
beforebeauty
• If a cat has nine lives we should ace.
credit a kit -ten.
Some eddle-pated lovers aue and gilds,
thene. • • .
It scimetinees ha,phetts that a divorce
is the part of wisdom. , •
• The tanner pays mere attention to
the. bark than to -the bite:
Gratitude is tee often but a fervid
expectation of favors to coins • ,
Beauty is but akin deep, so it is en
an equal footing with freckles: •
- -Men may be bribed, but you can't
induce women to take " hush money."
• The paperbaniger finds business good
• when it drivee him to the wall.
A single epigram may loutlive a vol-
ume of machine -made philos,ophy.
.Every time a man looks at his neigh-
bors faults heuses a magnifying glass.
The more a gas jet blows the less
light it affords: Some. men -resemble
gee :jets. •.
A small boy is always very inhumati-
ons when it is time for him to go to
bed.
•fell men are born ignorant and lots
of them hover succeed in outgrowing
It; • -
• 'Every man can see where there la
room for a lot of improveraent-in other
men.
A big head doesn't always hreveht
a man from coming out at the little end
of the znorn. ' • ,
in order to mount the ladder of faint,
oan aorppaltaours.meust win round after round
f
• It is foolish to attempt the .cultiva-
• tion of • friendship .by giving your
friends an occasional dig
Revenge may be sweet at first, but
it gradually acquires At flavor that la
.anything • but agreeable.. ,
Adam had • the earth at one time.
His ,experienee should be a warniag
to those people who want' it now.
A cynic is a man who pretends to be
tired of the world, but in reality•he is
a man of whom the world is tired.
It takes some People so long to find
out what they want that the necessity
foe wanting it ceases to exist before
they get it,
•
DAINTY DRESS CLOSETS.
-
Perfume pads Or trunk trays 'eand
delihrlitanents of the dresser have
proved so esatisfattory to imparting
:that -delicate scent which women love
that one woman has carried out the
scherae still further. She, had been
in the habit of hanging sachets Of her
favorite powder in her clothe8. closet,
but it did not seem to be ea satisfac-
tory as the pads in the bureau. She
experimented by hanging sheets :trolled
the wall and Using a liquid scent. but
that evaporated. Finally she took out
the pada from her trunk and hung
them on the hooks in the dress chalet.
Then she thought, "Why not „held the
closet I'
:No • sOonier thought of than (• toile.
Her best dress closet is now upholster-
ed over all the walleand ceiling. She
did it herself. The backing of the
pads is cheeeecloth: Then there is a
thiek liver of cotton batting thickly
strewn with her favorite violet sachet
powder, and Covering- the whole is a
delicate. ahade of violet China silk. Be-
fore fastening this lining to the walls
of the eked it wan tied in "cdmfort"
sawk
lewrioitths. dainty baby ribbon, tied in
The pads are bound all around Mao
edge with violet satin ribbon, having
WOW at the upper edge to Ming the
pads to the wardrobe hooks. These
bindings 'ate not "sewed to Igo" at the
top, but May be easily ripped loose in
order to renew the powder at arty time.
rade 'me the oiling esel above the
hooks Are fastened with brass heeded
teeke hidden under the ribbon bows.
This luxurious closet may be imitat-
ed in cheaper upholatery, and.be quite
as dainty. Silkolines, which onto in
such delleate butte and patterns, with
sprays of the most delicate floweret
can be utieh. Them sheer and Mex.
penetve Materiala are to be herl with rt
white or ehaded ground, and the epraym
of Cement may match the odor utied--,
violets, roses, erabaPple blostorne,
holiotropeet or almost anything in the
way Of a flower from which perfume
tsraetxttaotoet ff a *WM ground with
enn match the flower, and if * tinted
spray's of flossfers IS thied, the bow knots
ground M ueed white ribbon Is Very
sifrty.
•
s
Now Cho BOO* n044 iltweingeo Aro Con-
ducting Operattints 1.1 Mina.
There is a great contrast between
the methods now being pursued res-
pectively by Russia and, Great Britain.
The fornxer is making prodigious ef-
forts to fortify Port Arthur and Te-
lien-eran and hue fully 13,000 troupe in
the heighboriexid. The , nelertality
among the men continues betties exoes-
eively high, Owing to the polluted wa-
ter, but additienal lives'eome forward
to take the place of the departed. The
railway line is also being pushed with
feverish etfort, and event the Ittuacov-
that themselves admit that they are
working against tiraeethough whether
the Beet is to dawn this year or the
-next they profess not -to know. Now
for the British line or action. At Wet-
hai-wei they are. taking things very
leisurely, recruiting for the native
regiment that is to he raised and
trained for the defense of that place.
Special offieers leave been chosen from
tho flower of the Arid* army,. and.
should •the first regiment come hp to
expectatIons it is more than likely
that a gerrisou equalling that of Hong-
kong will be established. There is no
hutryinge however. The °Moen, who
have already armed are taking things
easily and enjoying themselves im-
mensely. :Apropos of this the follow-
ing remark is said to have been made
to the British 'admiral at Tientsin by
Prime Henry ot Prussia: "There is no
one like you English., I see you are
going to have a big say in China. .I
have been to 'Port Arthur, an'd I find
the Russians spending. untold Wealth
there, mounting 150 guns aeld multi-
plying their garrisons. I go .to Wei-'
hai-wei and I line British officers -
- tranquilly • because strong -laying out
a cricket patch. The future's yours."
•
FOOLED IN A HORSE TRADE.
Now the Tenant Got the Better Of 01
Landlord. -
A •preminei.ft English ,landlord wan.
one day riding across a common adja-
cent to his preserves When he over-
took one of his tenants, who Was Also
mounted. • After the usual salutations
they rade on in silence for some
min-
utes, when the tenantalightly spurred.
hissehorse, a balky' animal, whereupon
it dropped to, its knees
"
What's the matter with YoUr.
horde 4" •asked leis lordship. The em-
barrassed tenant remarked by way of
explanation that his steed always act-
ed that way when there was game to
be found. •
A moment later to the tenant's satis-
faction and surprise; a frightened bare
-jumped put , of smite bushes near by.
• "This no impreas,ed the. lendicirdthat
he at once drove a bargain by. winch
• be' seelired • the tenant's barebacked
beast in exchange' for hie own fine
mount, perfectly saddled. With whole
agility the tenant. leaped to his new
Wife, and all. went welt until they
came to a small stream, whereat the
landlords new gag immediately balked.
A drive home with- the spurs brought
it again to its knees.- '
• " e11o, • t' TIiere'a nd
gime here's said his lordship.
• "True, 'my lord." was the ready re-
ply, " but I forgot to toll you ree's aa
good for efieh. isa aes ler foe game'•
' AFFECTED' MANNERS.
While a few persbaas are affected,
through ,and through, anh can de no-
thing naturally, most of us are•canght
here and, there by affectation. The -
affectation ef possessing knowledge
which is. retitlY Wanting is ohe of the
commonest forms of the failing. Do
•
yousuppose that half the: people who
talk enthusiastically about music un-
derstand,. or love it? It is the Miele
with art and its fashions..
A run on a narticuler set of. bookie
is, to a large extent, a similar pre-.
Aehtee. Many readers will say honeste
ly What they 'have thought as they
reed, but a very' large turreher will
wait on 'public 'opinion -and follow in-
to paths they woold -never tread of
their hien free will. •
As.to affectations of manner, is Mere'
not 4 tendency in some quarters to
regard gruffness, as a sort of virtue,
to think that plainness and bluntness,
are the *ions of sincerity, and to -cul-
tivate .a direct; blurting forth of
speech, Which is supposed to imply
truthfulness and thoroughness? Yet
raexi who epeak in this way lire not
necessarily more straightforward than
those who give more playto the graces
of conversation. Ti
here s an affecta-
tion of honesty, whieh may be a cloak,
her as Much double dealing as 'if
speech were oily end. looks humble,
And then there is the opposite, and
even More intuchauStible affectation Of
humility by those Who Wish to curry
favor. They fah into mild speech and
adopt downcast looks when the style
Will serve their purpose, though they
do not really entertain AO of the
sentiments which their bearing and de-
mecinme represent. .What of the wo-
men who cultivate a fascinating deli-,
chey and fineness, a shrinking timid-
Ity, an appealing innocence? It ie
usually as much pose as is the brag-
gadocio of the men who boast of Choi;
courage and daring and feats, and very
plainly hint to the world that .they.are
mighty- fine fellows. All such pates
are affectations, and they admit of
no Menet,
Be What you are. Met is the anti-
dote to every form of affectation.
•
EATING flORSal• MEAT IN PAIIIS,
The ..consumption of horseflesh, is
geowhig in Paris to ..euch an extent'
that, it ie proposed to erect a epeeial
abattoir for the hippophagists. At pre.
eout the slaughtering of horses for
human food is carried on at Videjelf,
and last year 15,137 animals, include
log 257 donkeys were contiumede,The
meat weighed 8,743,71)0 kilos. The con-
sumption of horse flesh. is, ef pourse,
no new thing in Frame. The first horse
sleughter-house was opened in 1806.
ItippophagisM -claim. that ,horseflesh is
better end as nourishing ha that of
any other animal. 'The otivintis objec-
tion is that the animate killed in Paris
are geherally old, wore -out hake or
heroes which meet with accidents;
DURL'S 1)14ATIt XNELL.
Iluellng is paesing out of rranee.
ite-
ent1y a Paris news man offended a
fellow by eriticism, and In a letter'
retaved thisl
• " You are below my Meet. So X elm.
ply send you a cuff on the care by
mail P.
fh response this was sent: "Thank
you for the tuffs • In return 1 deeire
to shoot you with mix bullete by mail.
• Consider yeureelf dead."
•
goone In an Ilignsh, inenagorlor
-Nronco 14111°4 Narrow Escape.
An exciting scene was witnessed at a
Leede Menagerie recently. Among the,
chief attraCtions are a couple of vans
containing wild beasts. In the one aro'
two Rene and in the other a liOnes0.
The exhibition was opened for the tiret
time in Leeds Met night, and As Broteee.
Mil, tile lion tamer,. was to, enter the
dens and put the animals through the '
usual performance,. there was alaige'
gathering of opectators. The two lions -
°ere the speeimens, arlsi they have in,
variably played a perfectly harmless
part. But the lioness, equally valuable,
as a specimen of thee breed, has hither..
to restated all attempts to bring her
into the e!tamed" condition. - She ate --
forded a spectacle, says the Leede
Mercury, which anust have initialled the
most ardent lover of sensation present.
Thet lion taming performance,was com-
menced about 8.80 o'clock. Following
Use usual programme, Bronze Bill
first entered the cage containing the
two lions. They growled at --him,
ftn4
supwEp =gra TEETH,
but they skipped about as., he held a'
short stick over them, and even when.
he twisted' their tails they still only
looked Magri?. It was otherwise with
the lioness, • She met him at the cage
door as if She Weald attack him at
once, and as he endeavored to exiter•
she egerled in the raost vicious wet'. e
He salught to drive her back, but she
resisted, growling, and trying to etrike
him with her paws. He persisted,'
however, and struck her again and
again on the bead with antiok, in the •
hope ot getting her to move away from
the door and, allow him , to enter.
At length she rushedaat ,hira, seuh-
init. the claws of one paw into the top.
of his head, while she lacerated. him
on the left thigh with the claws of the.
other. Afraid abet she might get
through the open door, he pluckily
fought her, whitesoine of the attend-
ants ,streek her through the bare with
iron rods. For some moments it seem-
ed doubtful what wouild bis the isane
The infuriated beast actually got its
head and half its body .out of the cage.
Naturally the spectators were horri-
fied at thesight, but they had little
oecasion to feel' alarmed about their'
safety,. for In, front of the cage door
there was a kind of porch formed of
iron bars, and the 'door of this was
closed .and, latched; Itwas inside this-ic '
smaller cage that the lion tamer was.
struggling with the, ferocious .brute;
she had him pinned and he dare not Op-
en the porch door. At length the, ave. '
eistant meinirged to driveller back into
the cage, and the, tamer was rescued.
When. liberated he was • -•
13LEEIHNG PROFUSELY
from e. Wound on the Oh of the head,
axid his thigh .bore the Meeks- of the
beaet'secIaw.. 4 •
_Bronco was taken' to' the eurgery anh
his wounds were there dressed. By and •
by he reappeared in theexhibitioge
evidently not much the worse. He.
seemed to regard the affair as ad
the way' of business,: and at a later.
hour once more attempted to enter the.
den of the,lionesa. This duke he was
more successful. As , before, she fe.;
sided his *ultra', and it was some time
Woes she could be driven from the
door, . though he Again struck her re-
peatedly on the :head and, thrust hie
stick into her open mouth, while the
NVJacal nala,•421. .•••;or dori-od
Aassistants- • %beat her with iron 'rode.
.through the door, and as she rushed .
wildlyabout the cage he discharded a
couple of pistols. Thepe seizing the,
first oppertunity, isa slipped out amisi
the cheers of the.croved, the "perform -
aim" lasting not indre than half a•
minute. It . was Undoubtedly a dan-
gerous „enterprise.
• Bronco Bill told the honso that this'
wasthe.animal which killed a tamer. •
called Virgin at Antwerp two yearn..
.agor and Made a furious attaok upon
another known es Alfonso at Prescott
near Liverpool, in lune last.
MOST WOMEN MISSHAPEN.
The'latest count in the hectictaient of
fight ,corsets an aleireessiannee tiepin a
physician who declares that indulgelice
in ehe two Iiiihimmble 'tallies named
is responsible 'for many raieshapen fee"
male farms. Indeed, he declares that
.fest wetnen pet Welt formed, adding
that practically all of them have Mile -
et; crooked arms or . crooked :legs -
sometimes both.- Inquiry among .
teachers of physical culture elicits
pretty much the same opinion, end all
lay the deformity to causes specified
above. The physician referred to has
this to say: .
"Wemen. are knock-kneed, bow-leg-
ged, 109 lean, bed fat or only partially
developed, and a straight erne is very
rare. Tight sleeves, tight waists and ,
tight corsets are to be blamed. A man
rarely has deformed arms'beeause
his clothing allows hinr to reach
anywhere,and fashion does not forbid
him to swing his urine When he takes
his daily walk. Besides being tight,
woman's sleeves -are put into a waist
Wallah a manner as to prevent her
from lifting her arms to any height.
The fashionable sleeve of the past
twenty years lute been crooked, and
women's arms have grown as crooked
as the sleeve. Dow legs and knook- -
knees often begin in childhood, .but
they are finished by the high heel*
and narrow, pointed toes which d'
tinguish the everyday footwear of ••
mankind,*
'These deformities may be re
by a thorough course of physece
owes with dumb belle and Indi.
or any one of the exesellent
now on the market, and ehil
be sexed fromdeformity by
attention. 113. Atnerican
Careless -Often Allows her
stand upon tender little I
cartilagee . are too soft, te
Wisight of the body, and so
way or the other. If easy,
baby will have bow kgse and I
other direction, knock:knee i -will be
the result. The legs should be allows.
ed strength to bear the weight of the
body; Massage of both aims and lege
of a baby should accompany the daily
bath, and if there is a -slight indica.
tion toward deformity, the lite)*
ehonid be bandaged."
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MORT AND GEMS. .
Sere are le few statistic% bearing on
the queation of height in its relation
to Rollins. Tall meo-Burke 5 -feet 10
ihehes ; Burins, 5 feet 10 Joel:es ; Sir It.
Burton, over 0 feet; Sir Walter Bee
leigh, 0 feet f Peter the Great, 0 feet
1-2 invitee'The.Iterayt 0 feet 4 'niche%
Lipeoln 660 1 ineh ; George \Vasil.
Ington, '6 feet 8 inehes. Medium stet urn
--Lord Ileaconsfield„ 6 feet 0 in -hs;
%trot. 5 feet 8 1-2 inches; Veltairet 3
feet 7 inches; Wellington, 5 feet 7in0
chem. Short - inee.---Beizec, 5 feet 4
Indies; Beethoven, 5 -feet 4 inches;
Kettte, 5 feet; Napoleon, 6 feet 1 3-4
bullies; Heiti011f 5 het 4 inches; De
Qutimey, 5 feet 3inches.