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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1899-05-25, Page 2• e •I 0 - - Aw/4s4=4"..6.N' CURED T1: MINERS, Itilowledge et what gees on in the teterior oBeteete filters alOWlY theeUgh to the Meter melte and in the preCeati ;Whet were facia to begin with often ttudergo bw11 trenshormation go to en- title them to little credence. But the lettere et eorrespondente 914 halm e,scaped the Censorship, MA, more authorative still, the Statementa of Out Russian journal, the "Viedomosti," leave no debt that a dieastroue tam- ine is now prevailing iu some of the Most popieloas proviuces ot the em- pire. These provinces horm two great bloeltie of territory diVicied by the Volga tliose to tbe eetateeVeatka, Perm, Ufa and Sateera, reembinie front. the river to tbe eaatern bounde,rY ef Etirodean Aimee. On the waist the group; in- laledeepaete ot the provincea thazite, Teta and- Ryazan, one all of S'*tbirak. Saran*, Veroneee and Tamboff „- thee forming 'a great block extending • to the southern. border of Moecohe the , • gelidity 44 Witieb ia broken only by the Protinee, of Penes, wbieh has escaped the general destitution. Throughout 'title Viet region, atretabing trona Mo• o - cow to the frontier of Russia, in Apia, and more than ten degrees of latitude • • 4 in width with a population oh not less • , than 25,000,000, • the failure •of the • • !rope; last year, wee tbe. most coma- ,' plete within memory, more absolute (Wen than that of 1891-92. • • 1,••••••.•••• 0 '41:a cresult, Cie people are now in kba midat of a, featune, Which in its due. h • estrous effects, Promises a:: temed the haecena eiriellar visitation in India, and auhreadequite leliet of wheat untie new . • mops are. reaped, seems wholly beyond the limit of human ability. The picture of the distress 'ane auffeting given by the "hlettlomostee a Most barrow- -- _, leg" one, the people in •some districts being reduced to a diet of bread made of a little wheat mixed' with chopped straw ana bran and even to roots, weed e and morns., with the result- teat fainine typhus and an, acute form - of ientevy have already', become nada- tufo. Te difficulty of coping with . these diseases is increased by the • mis- erabl� sanitary mealtimes, in • which tee peasantry live; and by the fact that many homes have been stripped of eve • erY aatiole of farniture in Order to buy food, and that in some distriete even fuel cannot :he obtained. What and the hlocsal authorities eould ;Om • wee used up in February, and though the Rad Oros Ste:lets, is doing an it can to meet'the need, and two months I••• • ago in Siena" aloha was. feeding: 7eet 000 people, it can do little to relieve . • the great body of distress. Appar- ently the. People are not dying in, rues as yet, but they are hrowingk • steadily weaker, and is the sapelithi are used up and acerbity' increases, txv, tendency, tow • death will. be ehta •- • • • No organized charity can mike bead against a oalaii3 o Vast, and even if it °mild now • a,uppli food, the •fever wheal • follows farai ea anti cannot be averted, muet pordeptihly reduce' the population. A. strong government, working at full steam, and, pouring out its resources Without stint, might • possiely.iteep the distress within rim" its, but the Russian admInistratioe bas never profited by the experience of the Indian gevernutent, though Climatic and agricultural conditions render in - e evitable the recurienee of famines, No provielion is made en the anneal bud- gets to meet one)? exigenoies, and with • 85 per cent. of tbe population living by agriculture:, only 02200,000 'was, in 1896, expended on it8 development, as ---tgietrtst 1)260,000,000 on the army end *ORM DR. TALMAGE SPEAKS ABOUT THE UNGRATEFUL ITINE.TENTHS. woe* fke 'Wentesale Cure er fiesseel-Xe seeiseteeey or teinso-Flesang nor neepee, atee-Aetteas or People After Oren lalesled Theini-Tite Pr. Wines Hie ancouvereed to Come to Gad. A &Watch from Washington each. Rev. Dr. Talmage preaehed Irina the following text teeaWere there not ten eleansede but whore are the nine?" Thence xvii. 17. If ten tigers had sprung out at trestle Pasiet oh Ho went through an Eastern village, the specteole could not have been more frightful than. *hen ten etiatbsome and dyng men surrounde4. Ube', thetiela at considerable distance. Teter hands and their feet were tem- rible with corruption. Their breath Was deStruotion to any one awbo came eidthinerepob. 'They had the leprosy. NOW', when a leper walks, whether he goes• northward or oeuthward, or east -1 ward ee westward, he is going all the time,to grave. .1f there had been. only one mob oath, that wineld-bave been 11' ; but here..-ia a multi- plication of . wretchedness, an eggre- gation.e miseries, a climax of horror, - Two, four, six, eight, ten lepers. The thealtby Christ, standing as a centre in a periphery eh ulcer and abscesiel "Well," you say: "Here is enough to employ a. Whole college of surgeons. Let mob of these desperate and con- firmed invalids have a separate deem, aesigeed to aim." Ale no. Here is k phyaieian who can cure ten as well as One. Christ oxwmaands those ten men to go up to the Temple at Jeruaa- lea!, and show themselves for inspec- tion t� the health officers. * They start ,to go, and no sooner are they started than the lethargy begins to go out Of their timbre, and the eaintness out of their head, ane the enatteration sleigh:1,0h and the tioatech tongue le cleared, and the pulse- is quieted from meaty to seventy. And one an looks at his foot, and sees that from toe to heel the skin is fair; and he looks at his Iud, and sees frona wrist to -nail the _heel Is roseate ; and he cries: "See, • I •am all well!" So cry five of tiaerni so cry all the ten lepers. Well, they go on toward the city of aeruserlein to submit themselves to the inspection of the 'health officer. They are talk- ing how well ante grandly they feel after such long depression of body and soul, when suddenly One of their num- ber breaks ranks and turns baok. What is the matter with hien? ' Who ie het 0; 4e is a, Samaritan; and the Jews kept on their way, and say: "Well,'.yen never could eepend upon "a. Samaritan., Rea ..nobodY, Anyhow' Ilea disobedient, • and he has tamed baekee They kept on, but this Sae •maritan had turned baek that he raight accost his benefactor, and. he comes clapping his bands, and crying at the top of his • voice: "Thanks! thanks Abd he tele:Ara himself 'down at tbe feet of Christ in gratitude and in adoration. Jesus gently takes rooe' up, and says: "T,hat will he sir, t you.; but ars you the only one of all thatgroup of ten cleansed lepers who is grateful for convalescenceand restoration? • Were there not ten cleansed? but Where are the nine? See, first, in teis subject, the whole- sale cure a the Gospel. C ist gen- mally took one invalid at a time. One bane man to be brought under mire.. colons optics. One demoniac to have. his reason enthroned. One crooked woman to have her bit* straightened. One damsel whosaheart had halted to be started again. 13tit lo! here is a decade marobing out: frora the ranks of fell diseeinto the ranks of robust health. Ten lepers cured. Twenty gangrened hands, twenty gangrened feet. A 1 Ariz' ' Lots of animated 'thinkers are poor ../ POINTED PARAGRAPHS. There's many a . • touches the lip. Silence may be gains' currencer.% • 4 . A. preferre er troubles you The Words of the eat reheated In e�i I,ove Laughs a muIe at. the gol The ion mist furnish slia after the OUp golden, but gossip or-nerine,„'„wir mnow lient man are neve t. locksmiths, but it smiths, get to be able to side tnforination. heads should produce burn- ghts, but they don't. e ea. man disputa with a fool, °61 fe doing the same thing. Truth liee.at the bottom of ' the well ' .-.and anglers never go there to fish. Energy sometimes brings success, but sueCeSS always brings energy. Fewer proposala would undoubtedly' result in fewer matrielonial failures. The beat"friend yea have on earth is a bettet friend to bitaself than be • , A beeebell player seldom strains at gnat, but he freauently struggles kith a fly. 4. Man May dodge the earthlycoI- le.etors but he must ay the debt of elate:re' 'es he goes. , A yOung man naturalli uses a choice pexpreatiion when he asks a girl to be. tem° his wife, • -•The man who hoe nothieg te say 'len't always eonaciOns of it until he has tried to say it. We are told that a eat has nine lives and we are itiolined to ballets it spends . eight of them in vocel culture. Sortie people seera to know everything eare4pt the feet thet they don't know bow,. teach they Myr% knew. ' 1 dariae the 10 -cent cigar d -to him,. but he never urein• iiiekel one he. re all well enough in a dio, bUt Ministere do not by of theta in churches. ally as important to be are wrong before backing t le to be sure you are right going ahead. ere le enYthitig in the theory rigid of the fittest, a lot of e keow must have been over- . ..11:440 IOU% - • ' If OFFICERS' PAT. a Russian army officer very emelt. A General 1,800 io 0006 4 year in oney, at to the length 5, lazaretto swept out , and garnished. 0, my friends, why not in the same. •way have immortal souls cured by wholesale t Saniettraes one Man will Come in a church, and stand up and espouse the cause of Christ, and the whole congregation will re- joice over It, and heaven itself will came down in gladness; but in that very church; at that same time, there will be ten lepereeen one gallery and fifty lepers in. inother galleTy, Why do y not.all came 1 Cbrist turned over tele whole congregation of lepers intr. exuberant health. Wend to God that we might get tired of this conversation by driblets. "Were there not ten cleansed I" My text seems to warrant the expectation that we will .have ten times as many blessings as we have received. If a hundred souls herne come to Christ, ten times a hun- dred are a thousand. If eight hun- dred souls have come to Christ, ten times eight hundred are eight thou,. sand. There have been in this church, during the past year, five thousand two hundred and eighty persons who have applied to me and the session, asking the way tif life, and I hope that most of them, if not all, became Chris- tians, uniting with this or other Churches, in this or other hada. If we had had sufficient faith, we might have had, according to the text, ten times as many, namely, fifty-two thou- sand. .. - A few days ago I Vas Out on the beach at Emit Hampton, Long Island, and the fisheritten Were there, and they Were just hauling in their netts. Thc netshdbe thrown great distance from the shore, and there were about twenty men hauiing them in. They seemed very much ex- cited, and I laid down oe the sanikaci watch thetneeBut I soon became jut as =ugh excited as they were, and I took held of • the rope and pulled with all I, might -at the captain cried: "Every man, nov4-pri1i V" and We all shouted, together as the net came up into the surf, and we saw it throbbing with marine life, the fins flapping in the two Af14-,they had been thrown into the carts, I said to the captain; "How many did you catch f" "Welt," he Sala: "I think fifty thouitand." Then I said within my soul: "Good Lord why May We not have a large haul of scene next Sabbath -day 1" Why go angling with a hook for one eolitary 'fish when tbe ace ie red with whole shoals a them? Why put so meth care upon One leper when there are tea Mtn groaning with horrible dis- integration h • 0 what a tame scene that was on Pentecostal Day compar- ed with what we might have here, If We only had, the faith to ask it. Who wilt come out for Christ to -night Shell it be a tenth of this audiencei shale it be ten-tenthe? Shall it We' fragment, Or shall it be tall Men of God, got the lever of your prayers utt- er this weight. Fishermen for sours, "lay holdl every man!" Sadler* of 3esus Christ, advance to the • 'storming of the matte. 'Unconditional surrender for Christ. If in the village of the text Chriat saved all Ilia audience from leprosy, why may It. te,t tonight Pave alt this audienee from mint There are a thousand souls unsaved. There ie another thousand monis unloved. Great night. 14x1iWier :la re antit ttbeenillea"nlasidt; and ten were all. See, further, in this subject, that those who make the tenderest *roes. Ilion of gratidule are the last people that you expect. Who le that Man breaking rank* and turning back, end leavine the other cured lepers to go on? Who le het T can tell by the color of hts slum and by the contour of his nom, and by the bair, that he la not a Jew. Who le het Ile is a Samaritan. Theahan idolator, and an outeatst. What, you, the Samaritan, plea' to come beak and threw your selt at the feet of Chriet? If all them nine Jam; worshipped Jesus, it would tait surprise me ea aa to gee you, Samaritan, come back. Is It Pea- sibleit Yes; yes. So it was then; So it is now.. The people who come into the Ringdonenthed are about the last people you ever expect to, mane.. The people in, this audience Who will be slaved to -night will not , be eio meals thooe who have been brouget up by Christian parents, for tbey are goiag to bell under the weight of superuir opportunities thaa will be saved. heredto-nTighbaSnwla er- hare. Will not be so much those who bevy kept their integrity and upright - nese, for they • are depending upoi their good works, -and are going to fall off at last into fearful disappoint- ment. But the people who will come to -'night will be them ferthest from God. It will be the Samaritans; it will be the last ones you expect. Yonder literary Saraphitan will come. Ere looks up and smiles, but his knees knock together, and there is a. wlairlwind of darkness in his soul, and within one hour he will Prate you scoffer; you did not always scoff did you? Was there in your early boye hood home, a venerable woman, with grey hairs, and cap, and spectacles. who on Sunday afternoon used to teach You hew to prae? Ohe you were not al- ways 'a scoffer. That men feels now', under the pressure of Gotha Spirit, as if lee must shriek out in the midst of this asserablage. He feels that the ea. ernal God is after him. He feels as ef he prayers t se othioso,speople.mdomentasodso,nay solicit tbe neother, do not rise now. Sit still. If lett must make scene demonstration of feeling, kneel down where YOU are, or put your head down. 0, thou of the defiant heart and of the proud wilt you are coming to -night; you will come; you Mast come, God is after your soul. God's minimum is, migletler Wan mazes maximum. There is a dissipated Samaritan who will come to -night. "0," be .says, "I drink." I know it; but you brave tak- en your last dram. When you go homo to -night, the first thing you will touch will not be the small knob of the wine Closet, but it will be Me Bible on the stand. This is to be the night of your disenthralthent. 0 wife, of the shadowed heart, he will not drink anX more. Ire sets his foot down this very "moment h'ard and puts his teeth to- gether very tight, in a resolution hover to drink any more. Be not sure Prised if at the aloe; of this service h e comes up 'some of these aisles ask- ing how his soul may be saved. 'With- in one hour I 'think all heaven will bear .the crash of his broken manacles: ' And now I will select tome. one ba the audience that' you will be serPria7 ed at. You know that in every aasem- blage there are the best and the worst. You look over this audience to -night, •and you see hundreds of men in whose integrity you have full Confidence, 1 do • not select that class. I shall take the one hundred in tbe audienee who are the worst, who consider themselves the worst. But I must narrow the subject down, and I shell take the twenty out of that hundred who lire the worst. Still I have not gained my point, and I shall take the five who are the worst out of all the twenty. But 1 have not yet gained my point, and. I 001 take the one who is worse than all the rest of the five. And now I come to the worst man in this assemblage. I do not know where he sits. f confront him. says: ri ac- knowledge Mot I have been all wrOng. I have committee every kind of sin during the • course of my lifetime. I have been a scoffer, an infidel, a lib- ertine, -my• whole life has been a con- geries of transgressions.' broth- er, .you, are about th'e last one that we would exixtet to repent but, like the unexpected Samaritan of tfie text, you will come to -night. I am not a priest, with stole and tonsure, and can- onicals, to hear your,confession. I do not want you to tell ine the store' of your tun. I only am waiting to see you thew yourself at the feet of Christ. The pull of the Holy Ghost on your soul this moment is mightier than the pull of the world. xf men could See your transgressions you wend be rid- dled with the shot of their indigna- tion; but God sees all your sin, from the first to Outlast, and yet. Ile is ready to throw over you the broadest benediction. 0, that poor distraught mut, it is struggling throne every- thing. 11 18 climbing over everything. It is pressing on toward the cross. It le full set for heaven. This is to be the hour for the redemption of Zeroes, and Neroa, and Ah'abit, and aezebee, and Athalias, and Belsbazzars, and Absaloms. Come, the proudest. Come, the hardest. Come, theses mostalrotraet- ed iniquity. Room! room for that cleansed Samaritan leper! come now to the climax of my subject, and see how the majority of people act after Christ has bleseied them. There arei ten lepers going to be inspected by the *health officer at Jerusalem, when by one flash of mire aouloue power from the heart of Christ, their ewes dry up; their feet, that could not touch the groutul without Pain. become transilient; their faces, which were written all over with hieroglyphics of cancer and elephan- tiasis, become the pictures of intern- genee and health, 0, haw thankful they will be. They will 'clap their hands, and they will say: "Where is Christ? 1 Must rush into.Ris Presence witli loud acclaim. 1 matt tell every- body about thia euro. If Christ ham never had a b -a to sleep on, then I will prepare Him a pillow; if Re has _never had a home. then will build RIM a Muse. What can 1 do for this Physician that has eurea My Teieroine" No, they go on; only entt of the fen -tunes hack to give Ged the glory. No • wonder that while Seem lovingly ad- knowledged the grateful beheviour of the one, man, ate flung His disapproba- Goa and indignation at all the relit, /crying; "Wete there not ten cletanseat but where are the nine?" Well, it is host se new; in all thoChurches there tt great number of ingrates who have been charged by the grace of Gott, who have been cured of the leprosy, but have never dared to say so, Privately ask them: "Do you, love the Lord jaws Obristr"4Yes." Pri- vately say to them: "if you were to die to -night where would you go tor "To heaven." Privately my to them:"Iieve you been oured of your spiritual dis- eased" They would say: "Yes, I think have." Publiely they have natter said anything About it. When com- munion -day arrives, here and there one dome's back, and in the presence of men, angel& and devils mousses the cans', of Mild publicly, but the reel go, the other way. So that every Plater06 oommunionolay limy WACO his hend Over the table, end say: "were Shore not ten cleanse0 but where( are the ninet" Three epleatuat defaulters are playing hide and *emit in religion. • are frying to enraggle their smile into heaven. Mewled of the leprose they are asharota or dread to tell who theft doctor ware skulking In and out t4unlielther.xsorsigthawhdalthw-beind *ntoArain thtelal o"of Juda:II:much for 0, fthoru at tafotent Clatmyrist 11.18 ds iieould do so little for Christ. Obriet took their leprosy; tbey ars not willIng to teke HisMM. 0 the ingreeitudri1. the perfidy, the abberrent iniquity et ithheati(Mr a4012e arwhaocl,hallbutr drirecichnoantgsli sob): Communitenday comes, and the hostel of the Lord eit 'down at the Saone anent; but you, my brother, take your hat laud hem Treaaoril treason against the Lord that bought you with His blood, from the *leaving ot the firat vein to the emetYtbg oa the bat art- ery. Was Carla unfeir and unree- aenable when He asked of you a puling espousalf "Wei' i there iliot ton cleansedt but where are the Diner My subject ha* also A for0421 ay' raignment for all the unconverted peo- ple in this assemblage. Have you not all received enough mercies from the hand of God to make It reasonable that you turn. aroUnd and in, worship- ful feeling throw yourselves at the feet of Christ? Via° has given you a Pleasant home? Who has provided you with a livelihood.? Al whose table have you been fed? At whose fountains have You been drinlings Wbo has kept all that wondetful machinery 'of your body in motion, se that "'oar lunge in- hale, and, your heart drums, and your pulses eeatf You are a walking miracle. If God should. take His gOod- nese away frou you for one hour, you would be bllnd, and deaf, and dumb, and tortured, And sloe, and dead. And yet you turn your bank upon this Jesus, and go off with the nine lepers. •hust (lineal the air and. see how much -of it you can hold, in, the palm of Your hand. None. But God holds in WS hand your breath, and the opening and the shuttinh of that hand decides whether you shall breathe or 'die. Daniel says so, Job says 80. yet you havehturned your boa upon Hunt and gone off with the nine lepers. "God in whose band thy breath is, bast tlual not .glorified," He has fed you, and sheltered.' you, and nurtured you, and defended you, and blessed you, in ten thousand was, and yet, you go off with the nine lepers. 0, you ungrateful souls. Etere.„..is a • thanklessnes enough to melte men weep foe a thou- sand years. You have not treated your worst earthly, enemy as badly as you have ,treated my‘ Lord Jesus Christ. If this moment you were faint and sick, and I should hand you thie glass of water, and you. had strength enough left, you would say: "t thank your and yet Christ haa been bolding out the °hallow, of his love to- ward you all these years, and you dash it baok in His face, saying: "We will not have this man Christ Jarmo to reign over us'. Does not your own heart my brother, condemn you? Now be arena. Do you not see it is unreason- able not to love and serve God? Do lea not understand that Christ is your best friend? He has been your best friend in all the past. Be' is the friend that you need for all the future. Do you remember Simmons, the railroad engineer? Accidents come so frequently that perhaps you, have forgotten that brave decd, than which there has newer been a braver deed recorded in all the history of human heroism. It was some years ago, and in the night, when a freight train •was wrecked on the Hudson River.Railread, on a bridge near New tiamburgh. Why they did not send back lanterns to warn the advancing train. I do Acit know, But there comes, She Buffalo express, like lightning, clank, and tear, and thunder, through the darkness. The river one tilde, anti rocks on the other; Coming close up the engineer, sew the wreck on the bridge. .What • she,' he do? Shallb. hap? Ile may save his own• life perhaps. Thoughts of wife, and ch:ld, anti home Gash across him. But no. be says; "I must slaw this train, and though / natty not• save all, the passengers, I taay save some of them." ;And so be keeps his hand on the steam throttle, and cries out to the brakeman behind: "Hold hard! Hold hard! Down with the brakes!" Tao late The bridge broke. Plunge crashl massacre' conflagration, and death groan. Many went; down, and were lost, but same were saved, jest 'mimeo Simmons stood to his post. The flagmen forsook their duty. The engineer did his. 01 your' heart thrills at the recital of that martyr engin- eer. You are amazed at his spirit of sacrifice. But how no you feel to- wards Josue Christ who plunged into the awful chasm of death to keep back the Jong train of the race that. was coming on with lightning speed to- ward the awful. brink? All earthly. •help had failed, and the bridge broke, and Issas sank that you might live. 01 the wilder peril, the ghastlier sacrifice, the More stupendous martyr- dom of the Son of God. Does your soul thrill with the story? Have you no tears to weep to-nigbt over this Child? Hayti you no antiphon to chant in his worship? /lave you no recognition of this trans -Alpine height.' of redeeming mercy? 01 you nine, lepers, come to-nightand kneel at the feet of Hine to whom you owe all homage and affection.. Speak outl speak out, if your tongue be not al- ready palsied with the second death. Who will be for Christ to -night? Fling Your lost and undone soul at the feet of HIM who cured the ten lepers, • Break away with violence from everything that binders you. If anyone stands in your way, and he will not at your eolnanand stand aside, then run over him, for this is the mo- ment '011ie you are to escape hell and Win heaven. / heard something einap. Was it the eoula shackle, or was it the fastening of the look of the door of a closed heaven? i 11. 1111 11 r LOW) YOU, 1)B4.R. r love you, dearl Why, so to Egypt's queen Ile spoke -her ' Anthony, who in . dis- dainful niten Counted as nothing all that he might gain So that his love would Smile on lam ' Again. I love you dear! • So ardent Romeo • cried • While MIRO from: her window leaned and sighed. Ana, 'sighing, lured the "Mese' gen- 00 To live and love, till life and love were gene. love you, deari_So to that ehatming dame, ' - Relen of Troy, the word from Paris came, And . ell the ',odd In Iloraer'i°11ries May read for that loving, half 9. world, did bleed, love you, dear! 4,k, .yes, the words are oid, To many a woman has 550' tale ben told. And yet, the world VOWS young,- If In your ear lirwhisper thbs-T love you r. ADVICE TO TotiNa.wgx., • W. C. Andrew, who perished by fire in New York, a few days ago, Was fond new Inventions and owed, Inuoh of his Urge fortune to a device for tieing coal screenings es fuel. Ris 'advice to young men was: "Save every dollar you eon and invest In 'nothing Clot has to do with the developtnesst 01 . '"'"aa"'s ...4.1,0,07•Ierrirrowoommoriommorornomona THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTEENA,TIONAL LESSON, IlAY 1 1111 11a In all.111. Hall HM111111.11 .1.110. III II 131 on. 11 m 11 • mote "Meet nem, Jritalo." "he 14• 045, Gold,* Text. aloha 10. 4. PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 28. Then led they. The lead- ers were the ohief priest's and Phan - se, political opponent, for one strange hour working In harmony. 'Un- to the halt of pdgment. Te the ilaY** ernorso palace, called the Pretorium. A few yeara later the Roman governoro - lead their official residence on the west- ern hill of ,Teruaalein in a gorgeous palace erected by nevoid the Great. But Aatonia, and tradition here may be ;parrot. The Ronan capital wag Ce - tradition meta Pilate'o headquarters in urea but at the great toots, when tum- ultuous multitudes thronged Jerusalem the governor found it 'Mee to he pre-. sent. It was early. In the fourth watch or the night, between three and Six in the morning, The Jews held it wrong to gondol:on anyone to dealer at night, and it is probable that an ad- ditional ' meeting of the Sanhedrin is bere indicated, wheat formality eon- afitrrameid.d4tigheht,deRolosmioann lenofuorrratoalolpyuimadee held after entree). They themselves went not IOU th'e judgment hall, lest they should be defiled, Many rabbins taugibt-though 'the law of Moses is Went on the subject -that entrance in- to a Gentile's •house was defiling. The deaire to eat the passover made de - liniment new especially adieus to them, As preliminary to this toast leaven was scrupulously removed from all Ilebiew houses, but, of course, 'no attention would be paid to this in Pilate's house. 29-PlIate then went out unto them. Because their religious customs pre- vented their Mining in to' him. The hints as to Pilatees character given us by contemporaries do not prepare us for such scrupulousness onhis part as is here shown; at first we wonder at his repeated pleadings with the Jews; but a partial explanation is to be found in Katt, 27.19. Whet accusation bring ye against this Men? Not that Pilate clid not know, but thet be desires a formal and prohaley a written charge. Doubtless the whole case had been, gone over 'before him, for be would not 'ordinarily lie in hie Judg- ment -hall at so early an hour; but there had arisen in his heart a deep suspicion of these Seivii3li plotters. Pontius Pilate had. at tbis time been governor for about four years, and for about six years longer he held the position. HIS -obstinate [Wilke of :the religibas prejudices of the Jews made constant trouble, Be,was ac- cused of deliberately insuitig their most sacred rites, of killing, notable men uncOnderatied, of ungovernable passions, implacable arida, and steady "111071.fanheitIWe; 0 e worker, we would not have delivered him up unto thee. Raying privately labored with Pilate, tbe hews expect him to agree to their terms. But there is a point at issue 'between him and. them which appears to involve the whole question of the relationship of ItoMs to Jerusalem. The Sanhedrin ap- parently does noti dispute Pilate's sole power over life and. death as Roman executive, but. it disputes his right to try again one whom they have con- demned. Its rights as a hide:dal. tri- -bunal are alnaket at stake. *81. Take yet him; and judge him according to your law. These seem to be words of irony and retort. If you are not bound to review the evidence before me, why bring your prisoner to me? If your law is independent of Rome, go on ea& execute it." The -hews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for 'us to Put any -man to death. A mortifying oonfession-Rome had snatched away their legal power; an equally embar- rassing confession was that the only thing to satisfy them now is the death of Jesus, for it is not justice they seek, but murder. There are many inciden- tal evidences that the Jews had al- ready hreenunisra derived of all .power of itu 02. That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he sptke, signify- ing what death he should die. This verse bears on our everyday theology. It directly implies that the whole pone tioxil order of the world was held in service by God to fulfill the sayings of his Sen. Jesus had spoken of being "lifted up," and had charged the Jews with plotting to lift him up to his death; both of which, statements point- ed, to the cross as a -means of punish- ment. But crucifixion was not inflict -7 ed by the Jews. Then, too, iir,one pa - sage• al: least, he predicted his death at the hands of•Gentiles. Bat before these prophecies could be fulfilled the right to inflict capital punishment must be taken away from the Jews; and to take it away required' a long chain of circumstances, cause and effect in many links, involving deci- sions by manyminds who had no knowledge or consideration of jesus. And yet -though through all the com- plications of Remelt and Jewish gov- ernment this divine purpose ran -each actor had an unfettered free will, 88. Pilate entered into the judg- ment' hall egain. Away from the howls of the crowd, Called Jests, and said unto him. Pilate de- sired to have a calm conversation with this inert, whose lofty behavior puzzled him. Art thou, the Xing of the Jews? Words which May mean either, Art thou the Man who is said to be the Jewish king? or, Pest thou claim; the title? Stole a online might be expect- ed to call forth all the patriotic fanaticii3m, of his misgoverned country- men, If Arming really ciainfed to be he- reditary King of the Jews, why did not the crowds follow Welts they had heretofore followed every such claim, - ante' [Pilate probably expected a neg- pl. Sayest thole . this thing of thy self, or did others tell it thee of met -Have, you read prophecies of the cosh- ing Xing, or have you heard of sedition fostered by me/ or are you simply re- peating a baseless charge'? Do you . get Your Information from your own observation or your °yin police, or from politicians and mad bigots? Ob- serve me; am I it rebel, or a lunatic, or a maligned mai? Strange, indeed, and contrary to all experiences of the past, foe jews to darner for the death aea rebel against Itorae? 86. Am I• a Jew? Can You exPect inc to understand the minutia of your de- • epicable religion! Thineown nation, not mine, and the 'chief prieete have delivered thee. They eonstantly sent the control of foreigners, bat they ask me to put you to death for object- ing to auch control. • What Nutt thou done? How is it that a claimant to the throne has come into conflict wIth these chronic, grumblers against Rowel In short, I do not say We thing of my- self, but others make the charge. O. rams /flowered in substance that he is univereally raimpprehended. Roy- alty 5 emphasized in this verse -my kingdom. But the kingeone is not of this world. IN mystery and State, WI army and navy, its treasury, are not to he snalittained like those of Iereel or Rome. Its laws aro aneh as "this world" eannot understand. Servants moms "oeficers." Our Lord's king- dom fa riot to Imes geographical boun- daries; It Is an empire of human hearts. *ran than, and in Jerusalem, %"4"b " und' "3'1'6'44 AN OLD 1411.11VS AGE. of faithful followers ot Jesus; but he 11*4 tanskt them not to fight. Now is say kingdom net from lience. It dose sest rest GA jewi.0 pa pulartt ys but It livery odd to look look oti the titer- transept:ids, lininan Ideas. ation whiobhas taken phone In *aught* VI. Art thou a king then/ So, and opinion* during the last few sen* then, after all, thou art a king, What MAN at the world. In that time nOU etiYeet that I am a king. heel when, Juliet and other hereinattain* is probably an _affirmative, meaning, ed the height of their fame et four - "I apa." But the directer meaning of teen or fifteen, a WoCeanall personal the phrase is preferred by many sh ettee e areeereu nay / am a maw, bee I cam6 rins seemed to love waned far ACV. ittAirnegn.triTul tw tato this world with an entirely dif. her then iheY do in °Ur da740- 4104814 i He!: end nliafromthatithabot tou. tare a eaorbtihildy, Ettweenneiteythatttitalarmiha4bewwasailitioad anst twhoo;:enadt: om liethieheina. Per this pauthe se Cairo I • tracheate ana growing old; and a girl into the woral, Down frgloriee a1:wu heaven. That tThehawtortiaohboyuwelisdboeniareowulitdall e Pathbedtweninoette3ennowrilat:he ut hactanheit nem unto the truth. The thoughts of A wife W041 04111,1dered to getting 004 not reach. Every One that is of the tretle heareth ma voles. Here, then, are the bolutdariee of our Lord e em- pire. Obedience in tbe teeth Christen- dchn Whoever is open to the truth is inevitably governed by tite, ChristlY teachings, This is not a matter of creed merely; all honest aearehers after the • truth of life shall find it through Cboarist.,w134 t 5 truth? "'What is truth?" said jotting Pilate, and did not question on Pilate's tongue meant hardly_ mme or less than "What, has truth to do with the charge that you conceptions; but Pae sees"' clearly worldly mind has nortione for spiritual that this Man does not deserve death. Went out again. ; Be takes unwonted trouble. I find in bin no fault at all. No crime; no ground. for the charge of rebellion. Ana just here"mluse'be in- 2tr8od. 4.7120e.d ithe terrible scenes described in Matt. 27, 12-14; Mare th feet Luke 89 But ye have a eustom of this custom, nothing is known except what is here related. 1 should release unto you one at the passoyer. In . the modern theory ' of government a crim- inal is one who offends society, andhis punishment is a blessingi to • society; but when government was not'lor-the people and by the people;1! the people were pleased to have a criminal • re- leased; he was, in some sense, a fellow - sufferer. • • 40. Not .thia Man, bUt Barabbas. A violent man, who "iztay have been real- ly guilty of the charge brought wickedly against the; holy Jesus." • • sort of a king, it no rivet to tamer FLOWERS ON, SAILOR HATS. Munohes of flowers- will be chiefly. used this summer to deo% strata mill - ere and Bailors, conjointly with drap- eries Of gauze or white lace yeils, ar- ranged about 'crown, the single feather being reseeved, for the Alpines, only to , be /haunted really season- able when 'the long vacation is .at hand. Loose sprays of flowers and rib- bons will net often be seen on ane but bermes, 'to whiehcircular arrange- ments are best 'suited, and even there torsades of gathered gauze will often take their place; the ribbon trade can not count much on the milliner this year.. One very Marked difference is Made between everyday and smart hats, and this .lies in the clioice of the color for the straw, For the former, white, neutrals and pale tints of al- mond and other browns will be prefer- red, whereas for the latter positive colors will be moat in favor, and where gossamer enters into the trimming, it will generally be of . the same tint as the straw, •unless it happens tO be in the shape of a single layer oe white Matinee; tulle enveloping the entire hat, an arrangement wheel promises to - be very fashionable( later on. in the summer, when tulle .strings may very possibly be among the novelities. Much ingenuity is exercised in the working up of gauze and tulle either into cov- erings for shapes or trimmings. One of • the latest ideas le to run in innu- merable mull tucks close together, with silk twist of the same color. This is best done by hand, but for the "mdre ordinary work the machine is put 'into requisition. A still more *difficult process consists in gathering .up small frillings, about half an inch wide, and sewing them 'on a foundation of simi- lar gossamer. Very narrow, fancy ribbons,are used to edge each frill. Reset tea aro scentetimes made of frills of this sort, a circular brooch or poppy staniens placed in the center. Trim- mings of different sorts are also evolv- ed out of straw, which -is twistee into torsades and sometimes into shapes vaguely resembling horns or certain sewing ha bands on gauze or tulle, asked a girl of an old gentleman. er- . pointed shells'. Very fine strai.v passe- menterie likewise in request for " men cease to take an int which is afterwardused for the crown- swered ; "and when that happens de- - erah'at est be your sooiety, my dear,' he an- ing of hate or for making. draperies. • Pends altogether on yourself." _ So it is pleasing for any girl who thinke an unmarried state a terrible STREETS OF GLASS. thitig to -reflect that there ies appar- ently now no age at which a Woman Of couree title wau partly due to the times. In 'those rough and warlike dare tnere was no protection for we- enie outside their husband's homes or She convent. reroute, Were too glad to eemire a Safe asylum for their girls under a laiebend's roof, and hurried them into marriage at tbe earbeet possible age. Another reason was to be found_ in policy. Pathere triecl to secure boil* - asses for their Sons and feria with a good dower were married in the sure. ery, sometimes" even in their oradlen . Early marriages were an absolate nee- , moony. . Even in the 'days of our gran mothers, twenty-five weto known' " the old maid's first coiner," a ' d she reached thirty, a still unappr oatedbblessoiciess blessing. ease was looked up- nitai Nowadays, we have wonderfully • changed all that. Early marriages are looked upon with diefavor, and year bryear...the marriage yew* grow lat- er. This is partly due, no doubt, to the fact that Men are less .able ,to , support wives till they approach mid - die age, but *kerma in the comatries Abroad, wbere the same necessity pre - mils, men of thirty-five and. forty. °home girls of eighteen or twenty fo_ ..14 their wives, with us it only extent* the marrying age among Women. . But another wonderful thing ea that the tyMoal old maid has now died Mt as completely as the mail come or bull baiting. The witb,ered, eantakerowil scandalmonger, soured -and bitter and spiteful, 'happily no longer exists, thee married women ot uncertain age now- " adays are sometimes the most delight- ful members society boasts.. They are fburlitfintea hot, good-tempered andperearaevemusirnyk and ' the moat popular companions of young . Not only that, lout enore extraordin- ary sum moirien tto longer look old . at the age they used. At thirty a • beautiful women is often but juat ape oroacbing-the zenith of her beauty? At forty, and even forty-five, if ehe . has good health, good temper, and wide - . enetthil tenets, she should still be in her pr5i. The dreaded period "far, . fat and forty," is no' longer a bug- a bear to the woman of to -day. She in • . still called a. girl in society, still plays tennis, dances, fitrts-if she be so in- clined -and has her little courts of love. In fact, the- debutante of sev- enteen intent it chance beside her. with . . most mene-who will turn away from thc shy and gentle little person with nothing to say for herself to the in- telligent, sympathetic woman- of the ,. world, pleaserldtvho ttemnows just how to amuse r -_-__., Women dre,ss young nowadays, too: ' . and that helps to keep them young. Nobody laughs at a woman of Piety . who wears a hat; but if she takes to caps she is likely to be considerably jeered at. Nobody -except a few eel - fashioned people living . out • of the' world -think that a woraan ahould give up, Wearing ' white after girlhood has passed. Nobody slinks into poke -bon- nets and meek skirts and depressed • styled' ofwearing their hair the nice. latent they have passed thirty. - No; all this is changed, and the - phraae " old maid,* seems pretty well dying out of the lariguage. Only the other day an anxious inquirer, who wrote to a ladies' paper asking at what age' she could be considered an old maid, was consolingly told she need : not call h'erself onetill she was fifty. " When shall I be an old maid!" A Lye*, France, Has Tried the Experiment may not be sought in marriage.' We Not satisfied with cobblestones and eiretesuccess. ' have had some famous examples of late wood, the city of Lyons has been ex- of trraen mete have married lenttheir perimenting with glass as a street more frequent and leas remarked. ri:1 etiggraryleellar suworInsfaTes°11(3)ect,:et pavement. Since lac' November the Rue de la Repbulique has been paved RAND PAINTED DRESSES, . With devitrified glass. This new pro- duct is obtained from broken glass Printed intaglios and silks will not do heated to a temperature of 1,250 de- this year: They must be hand paint- . form of blocks, de- grees and compressed in matrices by ed, and very lovely and unusual hydraulie force. The glass pavement signs are the result. Let not the an - is laid in the (limbos skilled amateur imagine that she is equae to the task of decorating a gown square, each block containing 18 parts in -the form, of checkers. These blocks or parasol, for nothing could be more ' ter cannot pass between them, and the unlovely otolmionrinagw.award arrangement are so closely fitted together that wa- whole pavement looks like one gigan- ora are twed_iilies,ApIltsan.ssoires, opfopfploiwes: 'roses, tulip tie draught board. As a pavement it ahruhl daffotills-in wreaths is said to have greater resistance than and borders and mattered over the goods. One can choose one's favorite flower and have the ;design made to order, and it is net liable to be duple. - stone ; i5 ia a poor oonductor of cold and ice will not form on it readily ; dirt does not accumulate upon item easily as upon stone and it will tot retain mierobes. It is more durable than stone and just as obeap. • mite& The gown simnel be Mt first and the - pattern Made afterward, and so ad- apted to the style in which the dress is to be made. Parasol and fan are designed to accompany the gown. - ADVICE TO GIRLS. Fiend painting it especially adapted to *gar' Gray gave some vac/ and whole. the decoration of parasols, and in this form, will perhaps be more generally home counsel to the young girls of used, for Unless one is able to do the ' Nevecastleon-Tyne when- the founda- painting oneself it is a somewhat ex - tion -stone of a new high-school was l'ensive Illturr• laid.The new girl, like the new wo- man:hie said, wiehect to have a Principal DELGI'MYPS POPULATION. hand fla Making thh top of the world Within the last 96 years the nonubi- rin round.In order to do that she tioa of i34Igium • has doubled itself, roust be properly equipped, and She needed to equip herself with a good character, high spirits, and mental alertneete - The world may •eaa that education could not make an ugly face into a pretty one. But the connection be- tween pleasing end attractive looks and a well -Instructed, happy, and con- tented mind was far more intimate than many persons suppose. There- fore a cheerful charaeter and an alert mind gave the plettstint countenance which made the society which gathered round it happy and contented. He ea. vine'. girls to 'cultivate cheerfulness and mental alertness, and to reraember that the wonian who got suteete in thin world was the Olia otio had the knack of making people round her happy and contented 4110 woman who had the hithit of contented cheerfulness' anti Who did not think anything worth troubling about, so fax as it concerned herself, unleett it left an ugly weight upon Jew mind and 00ittneientitiIthen ebe caw* to it& rising,from 8,000,000 to 0,000,000. But the records of the larger eities make a *MI moreointerestiog showing. Ant- werp in a century hoe risen from 53,- 000 to 257,000, an lemons*. of 888 per cent; Liege has ,advaneed from 46.000 to 100,000; Ghent from 55,000 to 150,000, and Briiesets froM 60,001 ta 187,000. ° 13/G hTraNG Oh RIBBON: • , Nearly 1,000,000,000 yards of ribbon et all 'shaded and eolors are consumed by the fair sex of the continent of FairoPe every year. Of this huge tin:Leant France al0110 takes neatly one-third, Frenchwomen being par- tieularly prone to anything of a showy color. Dritain canes next, but it long way behind., with AMMO yarde, and the rest is divided principally.sbetween Spain, Italy, Germany and Belgium, and smaller principalities. Blue and. the bleier pinks and markt are at present the &volts shades. •