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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
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Ariz'
' Lots of animated 'thinkers are poor
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
There's many a
. • touches the lip.
Silence may be
gains' currencer.% •
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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.
•