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The Clinton News-Record, 1904-07-28, Page 383 it Famous Ken Have Por .aid That It Oa mo Be Obtained From the World ii eered •aceearalhtg to Act oft the x.t, 11e►nnent a Canada, ia. the year owe Th' u.aand Nine elendrut Lied" Pear. b7 w/+!• BOAY. of Toronto,. at, lee llIPArtolMs,. of Agriculture, ottiaeye•a, f!, despatch. from Loa Angeles says: Xerie, Frank !D9 Witt Talmage preach•• et! from the fohloseing text: Mark xii. 34 "Thou are pot far from the kingdom of God.." ; •"To=day 1 :amt going to try ter ]tele Woe of you. to overcome that sad dest of all words, "almost." I am going to show ';oche of you that, like the eecribe ,of my text, who 'came to gaestion Jesus, yogi are "not far fro* the kingdom of God, but I aio also going to show you that to be "almost" . saved and .yet not saved. is to be lost completely and utterly lost. As the man whirling down the rapids of Niagara, who just misses by pee inch. the •rope `#lith is thrown for his rescue, so you who miss by -a little the offer of redemption are as utterly loot as Nay, had never "heard the offer. y, there'is in year fate the utaut- .terabit sadness of being• so near sal- vation and missing. it after all. The loss of your soul" he like the loss of lift, to the hunter 'whose rifle ball Met misses the heart of the .tiger that is leaping upon . his defenseless. body. It is to .lae,'lost just as.zrsiuch as, were, the poor fellows who were imprisot ed a few years ago in'the iron hulk of ,the steamers burning at the wharfs. tip Ti'obokcn, in. Nev�tYork Harbor, Frantically. thee. stood • . at the barred portholes. " " ,Frantically they " stretched "forth their . arms through the iron gratings• They could see the blue waters of the harbor. Then "could hear the calls of the would be • rescuers hard at work. •But they` were .lost, : entirely lost, though there: was "only °_.ono step" between thein and; perfect safety. • A CHRISTIAN HOME: Almost saved! Yes, .you are. How do I know 'it? .i learn how"near you. have come to salvation as I look' at the entries on those *hate pa es seiv- ed between the Old and. tile N w• Testaments of the 'family, B le, Bee this record of the family births .and deaths I. find •your father was .a Christian.. Your mother •was a'. Chris than. Your sisters "and, : brptheirs were all Christians. .. 1' find 'also that your parents reeonsecratej their". - lives for God's service when ` they, held you before :the sacred altar or:: the day you were baptized, .It is a *ery easy matter for.•you to..'heceetne:" a Christian, with such. a family his.; tory 'as that. ',The son of ieo.ieoc„3 doctor, all other conditions being' equal, has at ]east 'ten. vears ilia a,i•• vantage of a young: Haan entering the medical profession; who is not the: son of a physician. Tho `child Wbo comes from a' Christian home:'has :a far greater chalice of being a Carts-, tiara than one. who •?s not the don of ” a Christian, or than one who ;has ' never been brought ,by youthful sociatfon in contact' with the"".Chris-. than life. 'Tis true,"says some.young man. to me, "I was born in a Christian home.. I am not near, however,ehee very, very far froth the leingdom " of God. Why, after I left my •Chiletiaii home : I seemed . to be possessed not with seven 'devils, but sevebtyI seven devils. No . soozaei' did I leave home and go away front mother and '• father and I plunged into a "life of dissipation. ,, I drank,, I gambled;..e I blasphemed. I did everything" I ought "not to have done, and I'1'eft undone .everything I ought 'to: have. done. It is said that when. -Lysitna- thus was fighting. against, the setae. he was entrapped bee 'his enemies in the desert sands-, His thirst becanto so great • that he 'offered his whole kingdom. for a drink of water, as, Esau sold his. birthright•.for a• mess of pottage. . But no sooner had Lysiniachus Slaked 'his thirst than he cried:.'Ath, 'wretched me, • who, :ling• • such, a 'mefnentary• grit f'ri•n,te, n' should havo • lost two gre.a••, •i, dome'.• Though I have been brought" up in a Christian home, for the Moe mentary.. satisfying of my evil.:de-. sires I have. stifled. all those, ••pure influences of the .past. I aye like a man who, to quench his thirst,, has done more than to, barter away a, kingdom. I have bartered away lily life. The chalice of din whichI have lifted to my "lips Was of ;Spleen;, i feel it now dulling my brain, dull- ing my heart, dulling my tnoral sen- sibilities. I feel as' if, I. were al=• ready dead, for my, nobler self 'has perished. Eternal life . is lost to me." • • • • DONT I' LIVE FOR YOl?ES1LLr. ' Almost saved! Yes,. you• are. know by tho unthappy looks that aro chisled in the wrinkles of your •face. When you started out` in • life yeti thought the height • of . a that's hap- pinese could be estinnfated by •the length of his bank ,account. 'yoga thought • the worldwide area .of iris . joy could, be always circumscribed only •`by the holnispi)erio spread of his time. But now by bitter : nx- perfehee you know that wealth : ^nil fame only bring added cares.: Yde know that if a than lives for him- self alone, if he does net seek tits higher joys of the soul, ft alio • does, not live for Christ. :Seeking also the welfare of his brother matt; 'lye can find no happiness on earth nt I can intagine a seethe in your life which brought ifa emptiness vieldly before you, Stich scenes, vatyieg in their details, come to tetany a Man, bidding • • hini pause • and consider what is the true pur•pese of life. Let ma sse!' :Where did this steno hap- pen? Ln the east, You aro a weal- thy.Chicago Merchant. You have come out on a visit to 'Los Angelos. It *as . atntesty is near as I cart Make out, on a Saturday night, the secoiid week of ,1aintary. The. dire Was burning brightly on your afire hearth, The table by your Side vas fillet; With .papers. The eniployers. Worhine ten !^Wars"n day, nornetieiaeq think the rniployer entering his "'of- fire at 9 et 10 o`CloCk 'in the' more - kg g Vitas a Very Nieto time, But tong. after the hufie, beehive of the modern iirygoodn eanptti'funt has stopped • its 1apnn, and the tired utile cash rt•lels have crowded the streets, ,laughing, 'shouting, 'perhaps stnlllng at the Panora by, fey Sittrenile delight nt he ing•eet tree; from toil, and. the book- keepers have balanced the itetotnntai, 'mod the iron shutters •have been pal ed down, and the clerks have closed their :counters, and the caehlere have locked their sates, and the delivery wagons have ceased their rumblin and tele worn out horses hove been fed and blanketed in their stalls, an the . street lamps have become multitudinous as the visible star of the heavens, the tired me rcha t �• works on, The wood in the fir place crackled and laughed. Th flames leaped higher and higher a sputtered more loudly as the report of the different departments record the *business triumph of a who] year, Stock had been taken, to the holiday goods were all 'sold. Ev ery promissory note had been met. There Was plenty of money in • th bank to clear away the remainin debit sides of the ledger. WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT A MAN Was trot that the history, 0 ric merchant, of the first results of you mathematical calculations on th Co But Why talk so mi ch about the wonderful manifestations of the Holy d Spirit's newer in reference to ' the as world at large? Have not we. seen a that . power manifested in our own a church? Men and.women, can you e- • sit stolidly"; in your pews when bus- s bands and Velvets and children and an teoll • x were in peeler aehooed, Mw res iY and eat* 0414(*W41 end PO4,404440 *SC 1410Mich MOWS *Ad ?� ptewfortelit 1lYlAaetBoMest to the natural visioni to see that we are new living In er brim of t reatigi!eeue awatiane #Gv�'.�lae the vital qu+x�ias 1t • Meow Y.. "What shall I the do Jeeees, who is called the "° Wrut,r Mike Pilate before the JeW1$b peeple," crow truest decide the geeeation 'in reference to Jteeaas. 'lou Meat decide for Cbriitt or agednet l" Christ.' And in bringing you up to this querrtioxt; I catmint be fru wrong in starting .that thou art not far from the kingdom of God" Wendel it deea et take an inete ed young men and women are seeking Jesus Christ? While• so many old peo- ed pie and middle aged people and q young popple are coming? God will r neer give .you a better opportunity . to seek hint than just now. Will you not coma to the Saviour now? Like Ring.Agrippa, are you going to g,.be almost persuaded and loot? Or like Isau1,• the chief of &Inners, are you to le.coronated and to have a ? ,teat upon a throne in heaven with h Jesus Christ? • e 1 • ANCESTOR wcatemip• coxito 1:01 J4_*N. Smoothing About the Peet Doi kizo cors or Spirit Wrestlers. Qeeeee ` %Wreitb L. In worshipping they stand bafkore the neirror, and sec th,Eesjvep reflected in it, and so X think theee': gain that great know- ' led&e' the knowledge of Atilt. I eyelty, and patrietitectt *IV their two strong ofi poi:ate. Shinteism diecarels the be- lief its er Oa, and steadfastly holds to � Innate goodness end god -like pur$i$te of the human seri. ee AMong the unwritten religions ' of iclr 'JaPata. ere r -..•Ruane sm, Mythical s Zoology,, Fetideism, Pballioisna, and an, Tree and serpent worship, lie. Followers '' of $4=0.n11114 can be found also in any port of fihixaeee Areia• The followers of Shiaaneanifnn e Relieve In the presence and powers of - multitudes of spirits, both good and evil, and they are ,aalwaye trying bi' It would be almost irate:4 ble t find two civillzcd countries in wi :40 =Amy weird religious sect abound as in Russia and.' Jap. Each country has ata orthodox re Bion; in Japan it is now Buddhism i in Iiuseia. the Greek Church claim . the great majority. Each of thea great bodies, however, are contend Ing With smaller eects and doing a . in their' power to wipe, their adher- ents oft the face of the globe. 1 Russia the persecution of the Spiri Wrestlers and the Khylstles has pee ed all bounds, and makes . th Martyrs of old look very mall b ll etre a ways and sacrifices to the evil etpirlts satisfied and te good t ones " on their side. They employ many queer devices for warding off e the evil ones, pointed sticks called inaos are stuck in the ground by side the followers of thea'e sects For years they have been drive from pillar to post in a most cath less manner. Whenever they managed to 'sett' in a districtin , generally mime far, Saturday night of the second week in last January,? But what about M�:RRIBD IN IIANDGUFFS the second calculation you made that • important eight? As you sat there' in your easy armchair you began SOME RECENT VERY, ROFaAN- to dream about the past. You. began • TIC • WEDDINt�•S, to .wonder if all this endle gle for a wdrldly success really eel& Dramatic Pilgrimages • From. the e Prison to the. $ltar, Then • Back to Gaol. of Whether or• not 1904 has brought much comfort to the Leap -year young lady,;' it has certainly produc- ed quite an epidemic of convict - weddings. -indeed, since the year. dawned it" has been scarcely "possible to take up a Continental paper"with- • out reading.of some dramatic pilgri- ' mage from the . prison to the altar d and of. the progress of the bride- groom, after a too brief honeymoon, back to gaol. • :" • A. typical case. was reported a few weeks ago from •Buda-Pestlf. A, lean 1 named G--- had been ,sentenced to :''a year's imprisonment, and a pretty girl. ' Etelka S--, who had known the "prisoner .for some years, vowed Yon that she °would commit suicide forth- with ••if she: were not allowed to marry him.— Tn vain her father .tried As you.dreamed you thought et th many nights when, unable to steep u cep you had tossed about your 4bt}Ql flow and . thought how the business world was trying to drive you to the financial wall, even as some man with the death marks upon his cheek in itis old age may be fleeced of his all. ' You thought how your very hest , motives had always been 'im- pugned. And then, strange to say instead. of . gloating .over your past financial succesas as the fire flic lower , and . bower aft unseen flickered made you write upon' a broad sheet of • white paper this problem, "What shall it profit a man if he shal gain. • the whole world and lose' his own.sout?" • Arid as you studied that problem ,you' were, compelled to write after it a word•"of• seven letters, Yo Wrote that• one Word: in letters of fire. "Nothing••„ -**Nothing." "No- thing."" Ant L Wrong, 't].' financial magnate, • • in etatint; today. , "Thou aart"'not far:.from the kingdom of sed?,. HAPPINESS. IS NOT IN WEALTH. h;•, rich 'man! 1 •appeal to your 'ex- erience Have" you."not•'realized that happiness is.not 'in`• '•wealth?. :Have there not.,come times in your life when you have ,felt • that money and honer . and Power -alike fell. to give satisfaction? ' You are d1sappointed with your life.' Turn to. Christ, Who sot to. such•.as you, He that drink - 'all of:'the water that I shall give -pant shell iiever.thirst again.'• Vonte to him." Thou, art.•net far from' the kipgdoni• of God:":" -. Sickness has •been a, spiritual 'bless- ing to you, 0 man; as'. the palsy was tb the invalid of old..•It has. placed you almost within touch of ''our Say - Jour and King. n. For"yea.rs end yeara. you slid` not' "know . what a : pain meant. , ; \Vhen you • heard : people complaining aliotft ;their inva1idflsin you had no sympathy.. You would petulantly say, `Nine:•tentlir n1' these to dissuade het frember project. All his pleading was ueoless; and at lost, through. his lawyer, he made repre-• sentationy to the Minister of Justice to the effect. thet his daughter's Mind would: give way'uhlese herwisli was granted. -Ae the result: of this request the dote; anl,• •With a Warder for hest men and an.eseort police,. the mar- ilege took piece. As soon as • the ceremony was over, however, the bridegroom was marched' ha& to peison again, his wife bidding hine on affectionate good-bye ' TH.K DOOR OF THE GAOL. near• Geneva, Wae the scene et a Sim- ilar unconeentional Wedding. The bridegroom .had- been sentenced tO . bat 'when sentence wes paeged he hogged peemission. to, marry befere going to the central prieon. Oit the. •seeddieg-morning the convict in halide cuffs Was escorted to the office 'of the magistrate, where the eivil cererciorter was performed, With ,a cpuple ,of uni-. fereled warders. ag, witness*. After, the cereinciey the weddingeparty, warder? -mid -all, adjourned to e the f house'. of the newly -Wedded pair, silent in : feasting and song. farmers when, they desire \their crops en to tiourisht, for where the inao is the - evil ones dare not intrude, In most o •the"religions. of Japan e Sliintoism and Buddism can be trace ed; trona time to time each prophet or leader has added to or taken from, , . the original tenets, but one thing _ that is noticeable in all is the strong adherence of the followers.. • Whatever their sleet is, they hold re, willchange. th when, en once away spot that had been avoided by others as unfit for human habitation and nude it by . their marvellous in dustry, a prosperous . village, they would . be pounced upon ny th soldiers, Shots, "whips, and sabre and. galloping horses would announc their .doom With. the fierce brutality of th Church and• State it seems almos to it hard and fast, and nothing', enot even depth_ or, worse still, tor- e e they, are convinced." t l miraculousthat those humble wor shippers could have survived, an yet their number increases yearly, _ SPIRIT WRESTLERS, UORRA'S GRRAP . PRE IRR • HIS NAME IS OUh1.s.ED IN A The Spirit Wrestlers were first no= tired about. the sixteenth . century Then they were in, such very amal numbers that little notice was take of them, but soon . their rapid Bevel opulent alarmed theChurch h P C ch an State, and the. organized = syaacmati form of persecution was begun. Wh has always made .the attacks upo them so much 'worse is that the must kill neither man ter beast They therefore carry no • at fns; a refuse pointeblank to ` defend the selves when attacked. This may b the very cause, 'for which they ar persecuted, as "Russia can tolerate n one that is not suitable for; ,th army. They ✓ileo believe that th Spirit of God M. present in the sou of bran," and so when Meeting each other" they• bow" low to the ground and• thus acknowledge the divine in their brother." The. doctrine; like many other sects in Russia and 'Japan,, is not written, but 'verbally handed' down, from'gen eration to generation. It is;called "Tradition" or "the Book. of Life,' because it lives in the memory of its followers. and in their hearts. It is chiefly made up from . extracts fleet the 'Bible; : with original additions added to suit'altered conditions From the . Psalms .: the majority of their sayings can •he traced. IDEAL BELIEFS. • They hold .that all action .itot :bas.. ed on,Iove—such es thievarig„murder,, 'ying—are opposed ' to their con- seienee, and therefore contrary' to "the will of God,: Lying is perhaps the greatest sin:in their eyes. Industry and . abstinence. :ere the ,very .' breath of their lives; 'Atte word of God they underr'stand to, be• the power,' of love and life, the source of all that' really exists... • • With, such , harmless and' more • or less idealic beliefs, it seems strange hat so fence 'bitterness • should' be directed against them. ” .• The Khylyitics,,hol'dingg a more 'or; ess similar belief, meet for worship n great secrecy in caves and •other out-of-the-way places,, and are so careful in the .placing ,of sentinels hat. only very few people have ever been`•present at ; their mysterious meetings. ' Though they Believe in re* love they are strict observers of all the ordinary moral- codes of hon • • Their• founder; who lived :and flour - shed in the sixteenth century;. they toy, was the incarnation of God, and appeared al -henget onget them in the pro- rinse" .of Kostroma 'Their god is a spirit; and this pirit may be brought to earth •by acting, scourging, and appealing. feat terrible scenes are gone through >y Wein in 'ender to gain the =spirit nd when they" are supposed to. be aos'cssed` by'if they .be.otne its lave and resign all their own will. n this state. they commit the iixo'st tisane' acts of violence, but are never" rebuked, or blamed by the• others.' WAYS OF JUIIit'ERS.' Both men and women 'in t:hie sect take upon themselves the office of rophets and gods _When tinder the nfluence, of the spirit` they indulge in o ple,asitres, but exhaust . themselves y severe self -torture,' fasting and wild" dancing..` In .these .excited con- itions, they fight amongst thetn- selves', 'boasting that, they are great- er than the 'others. This leads " to blows, and the • one who `can • resist the longest without returning' the attack is adjudged the most spiri- tual. Another queer sect is the Jumpers,' so-called for their extraordinary be- havior. ' 'Their .teacher or ininititer hen. going to conduct the service is ressed in a white robe, Ho stands n the '.midst . of hili congregation, nd begins reading'in a soft dreary one. Gradually he gets livelier and ivelior until the reading becomes n ay chant in which the whole •eon- ;legation joins.. When he considers be has Worked hem all up he bogitis to jump, and' efore long •the whole congregation" s on the move, beginning Slowly nd gradually, increasing the• pace as heir excitement grows till the whole rotvd is joining in a mad and wild once that would rival the war antes of the most savage tribes in he world. " 'lo keenly ratnsed are. hat nothing but absolute exhaustion viil make them stop—then only, alien they drop. Skoptse is another strange :belief Minded on the literal interpretation f 'Matt. rift 12, The followers aro 11 uninarrfed and increafee their foie owing from the great inns of poor nd unsuccessful. ' 1. Formerly a Coolie, He Has Isis e ed . Himself to the Highest THOUSAND ?TZLAGES. Office. S ui I o will bowhen he c e low " entersporn- o Co whispered myr om hi Peee c.. at n panion. nervously. '!I will humble y myself before hint." • We were seated in: the reception au chamber of 1'i Yong Ik, the supreme m- Minister : of Corea, the• man:whose e name is cursed in a ' thousand • vil- e lager, and whose shadow is feared in a ten thousand "homes. Others have e risen before in this land who have e earned the name of oppressor and ex- t tortioner:.bet he has' surpassed them all Writes • F. A , .- McKenzie . in the London Mail. • Twenty years age he woe a coolie, sweeping the yard of -a great noble. '.1'o -day he is real commander ` ,l the army; beholds the public purse, he n has started .national industries, and he has given the Emperor money and himself • power. Other" Ministers had squeezed the people, as they thought,. to. the uttermost farthing, but when ; the hand of Yi Yong Ik caught them even, paupers". found funds somewhere to escape. If yoti can do : naught else, you san at least NeIt your child- ren. hildren" into "slavery; . when the hand: of the tyrant 'falls. • , THE DANGER, Mori romantic was the recent union of it' Foench oenviet to the daughter lachedeWas the young ;lady to •her she etmot. the Weeks 'between Ids ar- test and sentence as a deinestic sere 51 vant. When. at last he wes sen- tenced to transPortation to •CaYenne, .a she obtained eeriniesion to• marry hire, se, that in 'thee ehe enay se' On the wedding -morning the bride-. i groom drovEi froth the central prieen e at Itionl, in Auvergne, to the town- . hall, with hia bride and foino ward - beide waS soberly attired ' black and carried a hunch, Of yleleta."" The e ceremony was performed by the de- r poteemeetoe, with o feer local. officials e, tors, aed at its : 'cenclusion the. The bride had•provided some dainties and a mean' wedding -cake for the oc- casion, but the governor ot the pris- on was:. obdurate, ,and the utreost conceesion he would make was to allow the bridegroom to eat a slice of the cake. The bride at mice re- turned. to deniestie seevice in order her out to Cayenne tO jOin her bus- d Put the Contirierit has no Moho- tr 'poly: of prison marrieges, as was within half an hour td the time Axed.* fer his Wedding, On a charge ef ,thelt, of which,. it .is onbi just to dey, he denied all knowledge. On b learning the news the unhappy bride 1 wee distracted with grief, and called ei et the .Police -office to beg that the t marriage cerettemy Might be per- formed in one 'ot the cello. The re,, d quest Was liberated on bail, and the El manse, Whore the marriage -knot wae o . From the *mint where. We -werei.sit. ting we •ceuld 'gaze into the . nner Conrtyard .Of the Palace.. Picture a' corigeriee of low, eneestoreyed build - logs; The outer appeoach is a nar-. row, filthy late, leading off a, mein street. 'Armed. sentriei. .stend '.eittier end ed the lane Mid a group of armed seri:Bees loringee neer 'the great Minister to. go unprotected. Even the plEicid Cerean turns sortie - times,. and.the rider who falls. victim to a moble Seoul know* during the list hours of life the cruelest Agonies earth, can prodeice. • Through the entrances one or two' twiste end teree through gates 'and Archways bring"you into the Inner. yard. On Ulf:a afternoon there were soldiers' end ofheet.e' everywhere,. and •in the Central. square Stood •a niireber: of white -robed Cordons, Cliente, sup- pliants, hangers -en: A coolie earne in with a; e heavy load. "That is present for the. Minister," my cone, ' of the proYinees send -rich presents:" A Meet came bite, the yard and played': with one of the eolfliers. A flock of :pigeons with homes '41 the .paves; rose in fiiglit. The: ,,room •ne Which via: sat wee- , email. •Yf does oot, waste •money -on. clistelay, and. Many a ruler of . a small , provinee has a.grander•-lionse than he. The chamber had a polished, Sereens in Wooden. frames far walls, An interestilig Case ef prepaid in prison Wee reported front Paris on the first day of this year. A young Parisian dreetimaker, .Whe had been ebendoned by her <lover tinder cruel cireumetanees, was attigeti with throwing,,vitriol at him, The cite migusteetes Of the Cage arOUSed Wide sympathy, atul led to tut immediate °Or of Marriage. The offer was -accepted; but the marriage thus strangely brought about. cannot take piece until the young dcensmaker htts served lier sentence of twelve months "My daughter has a great ear fOr so bad if she tlidiiet think Oho had voice for it, Um'? ni Irate Pather,—"I'll teach you to P ,"Not neeestetry, sir; -X have just t re Japan ShIntoism is still disput- Mg the ground with Buddhiem. The Shintos worship their Einceetore, and melte great -sacrifices to the dead hereele Shinto wane the way of the gode, and the•followers of it be- lieve if they coriteutt their own hearte lid follow truly the dictates ot hem, they will• never atitrity, hey .httve many demigods, bUt bee eve that the Mikado its the dired 'Their shrines Ord befit of white arble, and are noted for their lack the ordinary adornnients of these inees. In the sanctuary there is nly plain mirror, which is there hey tieeceive it, pure, placid, and Russian trap Orta wars fang with se.idiere at Port Arthur? .4 GREAT CA , Twenty yes4r ago, an+ leas, es :have seid, Yi was a coolie. ?riemde of my own c n remember pima when he was engaged ire the most mode of Ices in the yard of e, great Lorean His toaster liked him, end had ape Pointed tax gatherer in as small 41 triet. Here Yi. was in his: eletxteat A. poor man bimaelf, he knew all the trines of the poor to avoid taxes He was unsparing, and raised mor money out of the people than anyone bad done before. He was soon pro- moted to a higher place, for he who can squeeze best is a great ratan 1 Corea, In his new district he found some gold, 4ccounte dirtiern as to how he fou d or acquirer! it, PelletierPelletierhe lighted on a gold mine in tate district -'-this at all events, is what his friend say, and what many believe. . II took this gold to the Emperor, who like all Easter rulers, ever wel an conies the mwith money. Yi be- came a court favorite, and a plac was found for hitt In the Ministry 1= "1•' 1 *TIO A D�j 41iiia` 330 1 'ant of the T+euptoxr, f I. h -33, Ten, Tett, zitv., f14. Last week's. lesson of events in Judah under J hat, aw following the death of A b, king of Israel; now we return to consider ie to -day's lesson two of the worst kings that ever ruled over the tea n tribes, Onnri and Ahab. All Scrip! ture is profitable (II. Tim. iii. 16)1 . but it is not written that it ie All 'equally profitable. Whatsoever e'. .. hinge Were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we st through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope ,(Rom, e xv, 4), and when we see the patience" _ of God front year to year, with suck inen sue• Oxnri and Ahab and the pa, thence of the Lord Jesus with Judas e escartot we do well to coneider $ia► Ne was made Oen-troller of the Erre peror's. finaices, and then Ministeris o Finance for the State. Ile strong maze he has many good bust ness qualities, and extortion is by no.means the only side' of his cher a. tterElis tnetliods can be illustrated by ono example. There wars' a Lorean e Chemulpo who, probably alo among his fellows, iiad ,succeeded in: business on a large scale. Yi prder- ed through him. a hundred thousand dollars' worth of rice. for the army In due course the rice was brought_ but not delivered, as immediate de- livery was not wanted, and the mer chant was paid. Ile . signed receipts for the money. Soon afterwards Yi met the mer chant . in the palace, "When are you goingto a hock the leo hundred thou- andoliaars you had from the Em. peror?" he asked. •"We want it at ones," The merchaut could not un- derstand what Yi meant. "Here,' said ' I'.i, "is your acknowledgment. We want .the 'money back nt>i',". He produced the merchant's receipt for the money paid for the rice, Every argument was in vain. Yi demanded the money instantly. The British and' • American Ministers took the matter up, as" the man had English and American business connections. To every representa.tioxi Yi "ret ned the". • same' answer. "We want our hundred thousand dollars back." In the end the merchant had to flee the land; and now does.business; in Shanghai: • - patience with ourselves and trust " Hina' to wort, in us patience with t others, forbearing threatening, for - 0. • bearing and forgiving (Mph, vi, 29;. - " Col. 411, 13), as children of our Father who la in, heaven (]Matt. v, - 45). ' Qinri that he eyes of the Lord eon and did Worse ,than all that were before' him (verso 25) sand of 'Ahab, Our ,lesson says wrought evil in the his son, that he did more to provoke the loord God of Israel to anger than ell the kings of lsrael that were be- • fore him (verses 00, 88); there was none like unto Ahab who :did sell hirnself to work wickedness in the sight et the Lord, wham Jezebel his Wife stirred up (*xi 05) Th - six lessons will bring befere us the . story -of Elijah, that great servant of the Lord, and we have just had in the laet two lassoes nien who did right in the sight of the Lorde it oeenis almost a pity that we ohould be , Asked to' turn aside even for. one leseon to the story of such rebellion against God as is here set before up, but if we ohall s.ve, as never beeoie 'What. an awful thing sin i5 d •learn to hate it wale Perfect haired * our study will not have 'been ,in who can o estimate • the haercic wrought? But eyen before sin en- tered n, sacrifice -Mr sie 'had • been ordained (I. Pet. 18722) and Was eevealed to Anal% as soon as he had velOped among men the two lime of believers and unbelievers, and who accept. God's way ond thee° *he rebel ainst H the Pre, Cain. So it bas gone -on, senie • be - and seme believing .noteuntil ••• this day, and se it will centinue un- til all the Oraris and Ahabe, the Ale• egainst God ;Mali be concentrated. and fully. mitifested .in- the man of sin, Who fls God shall sit le the te* ple of Ged 'showing himself that' he ie God, but the Lord shiell.:conseme hint with the breath,, of, Hie • mouth •and., destroy hint.. With the .titightuesS ef His coining -(II. • the icings • of the :eaeth' to gather -God, hut they }shall.- be vapquishede and he and his,, companion,. the false. ' IneePhet, shale be cast alive into a lake of fire burning with bripseone hrev°imrdseli.nfgx1'?ii"d•I''in:-Iireetis21; fy .himself abates every god and ehall SPeak Marvelous, things. agaitet the God of gOdSe and is "Written .of each of the kinge of .our :lassen that he provoked the •20, .08). It es, written .of Israel that ,Oway back in the wilderness theY proivooked the Most Hiih and grieend 'fee Him, tenipting Him, linaitieg is, "They Mocked the messengers of • God and 'deepieed 'His words and -,, 'Wrath of the•Lord arose-. eeaihet people- till' . there was .no reniedyei 'standing all this, "b Israel,' thou" hast' deetroyed thybelf, bet in Me is thine help. 0 :Israel, raern unto. -the Lerd thY God, for thou hast fal- len ley thine iniquity" Hos. eine 9; . eke., 1), God is loya and though sin ii that alicirninable thing' which He hates, Heeloves. the sinnet end is noe willing' that any should par- • Jeroboam, •tihe son of Neliat; who niede Israel to sin "(Verse :25),: need, who followed in his otepe, outdoing -Irt. din, need not .haVe done so. but refusing to yield to the Mee or :God or to listen to Ills voice, God aliciveed them to have their. own wee' and .gave them up to • their oven hearts' desiee. How sadly He Gaye: , "I have nourished. and brought up children •and thee have, rebelied tigainet Me. • My people would not hearkee to ray voice, and Israel woUld tone of nie, so -I gave them up, unto their .oren hearts` lust and they Walked in their own coueeels" • nov.7 POLICE DOGS WORK., Remarkable Intelligence of These • During the four years M. Louie Perfect of Police in Paris he has dis- tinguieleed himself not Only et ace count of •the energetic' manner in which he has lehoeed ter impreve the working of Its' department, bUt also in comiection vvith the prevention of critne. watOM..Lephie echo organ - whose dety •it• is to patrol the. banks, quays and bridges. 'of -the Seine, and rescne persons who haVe been flung into the river or' Who have throeen theniselves in with a .. view to pueting. an end tpe their real or The 'etgents plongeers" have for some time past been astisted in their intertvieble work by a small flotilla of steamboats, which,:scpeur the Sebui at.night and, with the ilia of power- ful. eearchlighte, diecover river poach- ers or other inarmiders and crimin- vided the "plunging policemen." with further' amdstance In the shape 9f a 'carps of dogs, who have been ,speci- ally trained to earry Otte, thp Work o' rescuing dreetning people. These dogs are•A cress between the ea, poisessing the black hair atid heavy: paw of the Newieundlend sire and the slender Snout of the Esecui- maux mother. The dogs have been trained not only to reseue the drown, ing and to recover' bodies, but also tneaesist in the capture of thie,ves the river bank. 3L Lepinp proposee supplying each ' "agent elongeur" with one of thee° dogs. Paris, heivever, is eot-the only city Van Wesemail, the Chief Commissione er pf:Police at Gheht, has .also or- capturers. Some time ago an epi- demic 'of robberies occurred in that city, which the authorities foend Moe trernely difficult to cope with on ac- count of the isolation of, the plates where the Crimes were perpeteated. M. 'Van Wesinail therefore obtained the permisslon of tha•bergomastee to institirte ePerviee cot dogs. The Corimisisioner , carefully. ar- ranged 6 -Very detail of their training, which is entirely done by kindness. The dogs are taught by ;teens of dummy figUres made to oesemble tlifeees toad ehatacters they would be likely to meet. Great patienetes 18 needed, as the animals must be train- ed to:seek, attack, seize, and hold Without hurting seriouely. The iirst step ip te hent a inert attempting to hide, which is seen learnt. Four menthse trainitg is required,. howev- er, before a dog is alleWed take his Place for seevice. The dogs are taught to swim; to seize their quarry in the Water, to save life front drownitig, and over- come all ohataeles; Ghent has six- teen of thaw accomplished dog-pd- .1icemen, width ell belong to the iheep-dog breed, They rest during he day and go on dute at 10 pen. Their uniform eonstiste of a leather tiller, strongly boued with steel, nd armed wieh Sharpened polete repel etteeks, Their keep costs about 0 cents per day, and the total oet of the dog-torpe is about 1,:)00 and a mate at one end to serve as a, seat. There wae no other fereituie. A soldier ,or' Odd would Ater° through the OPen door. °eery Minute cally Oriental, e Then, strenge in- congruity, a telephone bell rang, theiv?" he called in Corean. "Hullo What deo • you wente Why don't yeti speak npl I can't.. bear you... Hullat" At last he jerked the receiver on, One side, just .aa you• do in your office when the exchange wfil hot put • You 'Enter .Y1 Yong ik, a tall, bread- • •shouldered,, eommaeding man: You ' need no second glance at him to see that here is, orte who can accomplish ness of the typical Ceram in his face end yet there le nothing relealing the character or cuPidity aed tyran- ny, .sardvereallo attributed to him., The cast of his -features is Mongo- lian. ' One 'undeestands after seeing him hoW the coolie become head of the State. "Yi speaks• no English, bat he shook heeds Englieh fashion, arid becks:teed us to meat down on the mats the adjoining room. My, in- terpreter humbled his forehead in the dust before him. Yi. did the Same to me, ati I re- plied as best totild. Truth to tell, had real work to stow my legs away in tinobstruisive fashion, ae the t °there did, Befoke our talk' was dee were tithing in way that sadly a interfered with my enioyment. . If t you douht it, try the experiment, of sittieg on the ground for an hour e with your legs ticked ueder yeu. f The Meister promptly cross-eXatbe hied me. Ind I believe there wottld be war/ When. did I think war evotild come'? Why did think oo? Whet were the Japanese doieg? ThiS watt eourtesy on his part, and cour- tesy equally demanded -that should dieetaira au knowledge, he knowing 1 all before, end yet ehould fell hire what X kitew. Queetion as to my believe there Will be. 'petite," he said. a "There will be no war." I gated a I hint. Did lie net knoW that bet P hour before the Corwin witee had o troops laoding there? Wets lie tine ti trensports were steallog tram Teualtiratt, full of armed men. that t 5,000 DISTINCT LANGITAGES.4 Mt. J. Collier, writioe on the imb- ed, seys that over 5,000 tlistinet anguaget are spoken by mankind. The numbet of separate dialecte is etiorreoun, There are more than ixty vochbularies in Brazil, and in IiirOXi00 the, language has token up into 700 dialects. There , la there is a citiesifying the COM-. lesitiee, and generally the number • o the intellectual eulture of the pop- ' latiere Assume that only fifty die- • ett5 on at average below to every • 1 Saxilaria became the eentre of there iniquity (verses 24, 29), yet. long • afterwerd tele Lord Himself there first declared Ilimeelf es Isra- el's Messiah to a sinner of that city, and through her nianY be- lieved. There also, as Philip preach- ed Christ to them, many Were heal- ed And wow saved and there was great joy In that city (John iv., 25, 26; Acts viii., 5-8). Ole the love ot God and the sin of mat, hoet wonderful and hole awful, Yet' everer purpose of the Lord shall be per- formed, notwithstanding Melee re- bellion, and the Itiegdoin. shall be the Lord's earth filled with His gloty, OLD•PACIE PENSIONS, The British Consul at °elate, litratice, tells in his annual report, of an effort to deal with old -age pen- sions. Twenty-three years ego M. tor membership being a monthly pay- ment of a franc, an the funds to lie invested, and at the end of twent,y years the interest en capital to he equally divided arnoilg members, and in eath succeeding war those who to reftive their equal share ot this interest. The present rate of pen- nion in $72 per year. Tile reetaber- elitp bow Mends at 847,951, with a Waal of ever $?,1500,400.