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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1904-08-18, Page 3PERU ABE '.1ertesesteseete • This Sermon Is Applicable to Nearly Ail Men and 'Women in Midlife ihneteredi itecordtrig to Mt of the 1, erg Maroinit f oimitea, in the Yeah Oel) wieimeited Mee Hundred exit Veer. VI Wm. Ilitnat. of Toronto, et tee wepeetenent riericultent. Ottawe & deepatch from Lon -Angelel!) Cele ea.ye Fraillt 70e Wit Talmege preached from tip following teXt t• Matthew 22;"Let the deed, bury the dead." What is true in leberotory investi. gatiorie is els° true in reference to Bade ettldn. We must not study th words Of xey text with a microscope • 'We inuet riet ieolate this senteece •from all its eonnectione; 'We must compare this pasenge with. other • thie chepter with other chapters, this book with other books T eehriot understand why Christ should have tralePled upon the filial affections a hi$ diseiplo who wanted _Joge_ beels„,anct bury his dead fa,th- OK" ealil gentlemart to ree eorrie •Years age. "This Young man evident,- ly Intended to be ilevout, disciple 'ot Jesus. • But surely he lied a duty • to his home as well eis direetly to • "tlintr). There, in the old heraesteael, hen' the eeriest) or his earthly parent, ...It Wads .naturea for 'a dutifui son to want to be present at thefuneral 'When the young, men paid, 'Lei me, I pray thee, • lint go and bury , my father, raid I will follow thee,, Chriat sheered no sympathy with his natural feeling, but prattically said: •`Let the rieighbora and the strangers crone in and close the eyelids and wash the .eeld flesh. Let the neigh-, • bore sing, .the• death client and gig the grave, Let strange hands Wrap the motionless corpse in its White shroud and carry it to ltSlest rest- ing tilaee. You lutist come,Witla ree at oele..e. Shut your eyes eo the Chride ComMand, "Follow 'Me 'comes to t,ho tired merchant, tin+ worn out merchant, It eoniesi to you Ohee in the whirl and the buetle • of Inisineen life "Oh no," you eny, t have no time fer Chriet. Iffy bun, .Iness absorbs every atom of my an- ergy. I am, so tired from nay week day tasks that I am too weery to go „ to church on SunclaY. Why, when • go, I fall asleep during the sermon, A It. makes but little difference to me - the Who preacheS the sermon, Come down to zny store any tiMe and yeti will see how I am' overeelrivert. There ie a steady stream of Men in Inn outer •office all the time. r , Must see them. Xt is work, work. work .until I am nearly dead." Yes, my brother, in one sense what you! say is true. You are an overwerired limn, but how much of that labor that . so fatigues You is voluntarily - undertaken? Have you, ars a Chris - tion man, the right to give to your own concerns, to your business and • the World the whole of your time and energy? •Have you forgotten the defies that Gon, has ution you? Bet- ter leave undone eorne of the Work. You are now doing • that you may have Strength to serve bine. Why • should y-oo • not be willing to deep some of thatbusiness drudgery? Do you rot know that much of that grinding, useless, •sellish toil is make Mg a -failure out of your life? The temporal necessities of life • aro • verY small,• yet: thousands of people plod on, and on, and on, in a treadmill of mercantile drudgery, as theugh their very happiness depended upon raising their store from, a four stoty to a ten story. dry, goods "emporium.' A RICH MAN'S FAILURE. Some time ago a lady visited an old school friend who had Married a • merchant In ono of our eastern cit- ies.' That night when they were seat- ed• together for a quiet :Chat she said, 4C1era, hew is your husband getting along?" "Miserably,"• an- swered the wife, "Why; how is that? • Is he :Ixot..ntaking A lets •el 'money? IS itiot thia, palace of home your own? Xs not his mime written high as • one .Of the great fi- nanciers of this city?:" "Oh, -Yes," answered the wife, ",..lohn is ritakieg a lot of Money. He is already what, some People call. rich. • But I cer- toinly call him poor, When We - started out in life wo did not hive much money, but We hact enough for an Our • necessary wants. Besides, we, had plenty of time tor e-tch other, and tor our . friends and, for oer chmoh: John then only had e smell stere, He -would get home for stip': per on thne. Then run the evenings were ones. We read togethet. We .visited our friends together. Some weeks John would get off, a wlicie day; and together we would take a trip to the country and rostra antong the wild hoWers. Our Sundays were always spent tog -ether' at chuide Ater in the • benne But now John has sold liftmen' to his wok, i rarely see .hirn. Be works ell day. He works, part of the night: 'He Always has some hilsinese engagement On Past. . Let the deed bury the dead CHRIST'S LOVE FOR, HIS MOTH.; ' . That Way of regarding the incident :utterly misrepresents it. °Never ;sup- pose for e moment that Christde- heands-thet any man should show his reverence for Mei by slighting or neglecting :or deserting an earthly parent. Why,. the last !tureen ,being for Wheal Christ provided when. ,.he• was dying open thecross was his • mother, He turned and 'oohed to- ward tiet gentle John, the beloved disciple, sobbing at his feet, and said to him : "John, look after :my •'old mother, , Now , that she is friendless and 'alone_ she with need your .love ' and stietenance.i.' ',Then he leaked at the agonized face‘ of his mother' as he said, "Mother, let john take in plaeg end be .a: loving son to. you." These are Christ*exact words "thomen, laehold thy. 'eon!" , . "Sen;., behold thy mother!" Thooit were net the words of one who 'there- garded -..filial duty. , His riedy was reeked at that mement..by. 'exceticiat- ing agony; yet.' his thoughts were not of himself . but ,of .her who, by .hi o death, would be left, depeitcleht. It was she for whom he wee concern- - • ed oven' in the hour of his' diseolu- • tion. His Own conduct itt. that crisis proves that when he spoke to the young volunteer the words of my text he was not _insensible to ehe claims of natural affection. wEar..,E0tti), 01314GATIONS.: Sidetracked Obligatioils'to God! We see them everywhere.-'yee See. them first in the excuses which the Young Man.makee when he te 'fitting hint:self by education to enter the battle of life. I enter the theological seethe. aty, where thitte) .or forty young men are gathered intoa cities roont. They are bright,- intelligent young mere eager for knowledge,. intent :on. . getting thorough equipmentfor the work they have tinelertaken.eI put to each. student this question "Vexing man,where do you go to church? . in what •.Sunday , school nee you • teaching? , What mission work are you doing . for, Christ?"• Some there Will be who. in order to pay their way 'through College,. are perferining ;some duties , by which. ' they: care a' little Money. But the others, in nine cases .out of ten, will answer : "Oh, I am ' net attending aily particular chinch here ram not' teaching in any Sunday 'school. I am now studying to be a Mir:deters and therefore each Sunday 1 go to hear a different mihisterin the' town." The reeult is that pines tenths of elle young theological stu- dents, and. I think t am: not over- rating the proportion, ptacticafly nothing for Christ while they • are Jiving saltine 8m:rile/try walie„ unless they are Paid for their 'services. •What is the result? With, A critical, censorious spirit they go from elitieeli to 'church. They pick flaies .in this. minister, they find fault . with that ministee, and rill the tiine they be- long to the greet army of .eoligious tramps, whorn I call the "go -round - Os." During these years of study their owe life is obbilig away'. By the time the young man who pursues this couese 'graduates fronn. ti theolo- gical sserninary he is op the verge of , epirittiel •bariliruptcY.: Why? .Mainly because In the three long :years of • mental preparation for the ministry he has neglected to do parallel Work for detlus Christ. Off TB A MN 0 INWIT lECO8 riret.o 'teener. 31.4=ING Er07.1,400r.n. 1..1.111 1101034 330 Geillone of Mflkand 130 Lb'. of Butter in 30 Days. A cow owned by H, D. ItOe fuseex county, New Jersey, ha* just sprung into tante as hearing lesrleutired the world' o butter record. The fig- uree are. effteial, for thine were hell by..the New Jereey agrteulturel, ex Raiment *Mitten. She ie regidered sal No, 48420 in the Holstein-loriesian family and car- ries around with her the formidable neme of Acres Cornucopia Pauline. In thirty day*, beginning with Feb 20 last. Pauline yiekled 2,640.25 pounds of Milk. As ei gallon of milk weighs about tight pound, her' pro- duct in thirty days was 800 gallone, or eleven gallons a dan. Any one who has seen the Milk -pail results . the night and Morning milking- of the average cow hermit that this yield is oimply enormous. 1- , The HolStein-Frieslan rite& are very rerearkettle milkers, and their average yield is from five to seven gallons a hay; but Pauline has doubl- ed the yield of the good registered olsteibehhheeian-cow. anciehas sur- paseed by one-third the record of MIA'S BEA RAII Y NUMB Aar It AMMO= 31,,A0x: or TUX rzyrIrre 43,021031: MIZZ AIM HU PX10711472. 0 rx MAIL .4.13.013T ,/01331' •mereia.1 World. Enterpriee 1'Tc:quoted by coax's Uneles-.-Britain's Ocouree in Malacca Coati. I In the Grand Ducal laklacee where drat awes in Reseian affairs find their birth very little concern, and t 0%r-woo:lay unaovingpeneeieterhiyeee, et overthewbtehlee - world on rtre *aye St. Peteeriburg letter. A nee echeate or privateering on the high seas, 'whoa* execution in- volved the breaking of a few treaties, may have been fruotrated for a time; but was mere stimulating while - it jested than the legitimate military perforraancee on land. If neutrals ocr, out t often!: gPeinxbeitwaenet ancrioanT, the Grand Xhikes and their . friends can answer with truth that they have never enlepected themselves, or been accused by others, of wing a brass kopek for the rights of stran- gers. They seized other People's land In Manchuria, why should they not seize other people's ships in the Red Sea? Disgust at tile prosaic standard of conduct Which • the Western Powers -are-trying to force on thent is their strongest senea,tion over the whole business. They have directed Count tams- clorfi and other eminent clerking- per - sone in their employment to write out reasons in Justification of the' ex- ploits of the volunteer fleet., The Grand Dukes themselves have thor- oughlygrasped the ancient, well de- fined principle of international law that highway robbery, Is morally jus- tified if you are able tO keep hold of the things you have possessed your- self of. It is to them. a matter for regret that they have not been able to keep hold of a good fat prize like THE STEAMER MALACCA, and Count Lamstierff is drafting a declaration on the general queetion. • It shoult1 be a political docuraent of the Beet internatimuil •importance: Sueclaye rie makes lots of Money, but then lie only Amite that meaty' back Into the business, and therefore it. is not his to lie°. He has to keep on working the herders to beet' after the bigger business1 pertainns think that Jehn is -Making a failure Out of life. Re is a perfect slave to work, anti ive rat* see' eaoh othek for any of our old 'good' tinies.!* TOLD ' HER TOO LATE. • Di Virgiziitiea yeoua woman was left a widow with four, small chit-.drenShe ,taught school: and 'Paint- ed and,stitched ad took in washing and worked all day and far' into the night in Circler to send her boys to college and to 'give,fier two. girls .fine .rduckitioli. After a:While-these ehildren grew • to• and went out into the world ' and left t e alone in the cotteige Where they were reared. Being finely educated,. they grew ashamed of the mother who had done so much !�r them. ' Her speeeh was het as classical as theirs. Her hands were callous witli toil; and in her leeks she was very com- monplace. Finally,, worn out with work, she was dying, and ell her four children gathered about her bed- side; conscience sinittep with 'their ingtetitude. They ion,- realited how they had ncgleeted • the best. friend. they ever had. Then one of her boys, now prominent lawyer, ieolt her in :his 'arms and Said: "1i/other, you been a good miather to us. You. have made it poseible for us to be what evaaee." Then the wOman's tieed face lighted -up with a, smile as she answeeed, "Oh, Willie; why did you not tell me that before?" Stick praises come toe late,. I tell you they • are too late. 11 we atO to Prase our loved ones, we must praise them ie they are liv ng and. not when theY are dead. • , So Christ ixt these weeds of MY most et the superior animals. THE BUTTER PRODUCT for twenty-eight 'days, or four weeks, was 129.-007 pounds, or an average of thirt,tattro .apd onehalf pounds a Week . This was -a raid -winter re- • cord, but. probably the Seasen Made to difference in the yield, for Pauline had the best cote feed that money, could buy, and every possible care. • But the result is none the less as- tonishing. At ' this rate, the cow would produce in the fitty-two .weeks of the year 1,708 Pounds of butter, or from 800 to 400 pounds Mere 'than .she weighs. , • When tithe is in inilicipg condition, her Weight is be - twee 1,800 ancl 1,400 Pounds. Pauline has •a prodigious capaciey for food, but she is exeusable • when she tures so much ' f it late railk During the last two week e of the test she consumed daily, from forty. to forty-five•pounds of corn silage, twenty-ilve pounds of tufeips, eight pounds of Clover • hay and „three pounde gf peas And oatsbesides thirty -pee • pound i of wheat bran, creatn Mitten, heel:tiny meal 'end ante diakes. . She would be expensive to board if she 'did not do so much. for her keep. But after all, she Was producing Milk and butter at a relatively low mist. The coat of producing milk was only 1.14 cents a .quart and of butter 1.3.5,. cents a pound, These figures, •how- e'ver, do not include thecod of ' . , : BEAUTY- AD UTILITY are finely blended in Pauline, Ike- her Picture'.ahows that she is .one.of the Imodscimest ratimels of her breed. She is the mother 'of an interesting amiIy comprising two sons and two daughters, Milk is Only one of the 'products that make •Patiline• a everh veluable asset, ' for lier oldest son was void_ foe • $3,000,, her youngest daughter, 2e months old, for • $1 octto and the present owners of her second son -have recently refused $8,500 for him- *Thus theincome front rE4.ul- lite, over and ribieve' her living • e* penses, 15 very ,substantial. . • • All this shows the possibilities • of breeding. It is ,supposed that ' 'all our cattle had a common • origin in the Wild cattle' that eadsteci in the ancient tomtits of urope and the wonderful improvements that have been Mede in ,those ancient small, rough and rugged cattle are the re- sult of ar fi ial treatment by man, the wor of skilful breeders who had definite !sleets. lit view.. texe was enunciating an infinite aid• • . . DEVELOPMENT, •. c MENTAL VsEkt81.18 SPIttrriTAL omnipotent truth. Jesus IS practi. Why aro there so feW earnest yell- giotts evorkee found ninong our med- ical stttcleets 7 Do iliont, n the boys o ally sayiegr "young man, higher ban yeur love or tattier • or mother r wife or child is your duty.to•Zzle nil . to the: great. world at large. ome with ine and help save the Mime; : who eredying in theft; . nte Come with me and bring back 0 a .iiie of peaty and hive those ho 'will zieVer know tne. 'unless they o me as it .hetult of thy gilidarice; onto 'with inc. • Conte with me." h's sentence,' "Ir011oW rne, and lot in dead bury the dead," is only an. her wording of the Same thotight who etiter these niedieal ochools go. a there as infidels? No, lour out of every- live studeets in my tireelogleal gemre inaly clase wethe sons •of 141 isters. Of couree lie such perceattige je found hi the medical echeols, Aiut a large number of students' those se medical Schools itre the sons of min..' C 'stet's. And, rarthermore, dry tiOt „. believe am going, beyohd rity 'right t) when. / Say eight-tenthe of all medical ot etudento came from Christian homes- W /lie more a, parent loves Clielet the lc more anXioue he is to give his ehilith• et mil ell the advaittage:4 of a good hi edaeatfen, Yet Medical etudents ao te tt nlaas are noted for theie neglect of in spiritual work. Thousands of Chrish er • Van physiciens aro found all fever w the land. Bat while in college Mesa in Medical students do nothing for the c eervice of their They say, he, "Wait, Lord, -until 1 prise my extort. b inatiens." 'The itself. of this Wait- he ing Is thilt many eoung men entirely lesci their hold •upon Christ. Oh; rn Yeang Man, young' woman,• Christ ought itot to hare to Wait for yen to get A trieetel,eduention befere yeti ?II • ere •reatly to se6c1 him, The (level- 'r • tipment of the spiritual life hi the ll Newt should go on elmulteneottely r With the Mental develcijettent. And III hich Christ epake unto his diselp- s "I-te that loveth father or Moth. • Moro than um is not worthy of 0, and he Hutt loveth son or dnugh- r more than me is not worthy of it. And he that triketh not hie ore and followoth after ine is not Orthy of me," Yori, there 001rOe ocr- Itt timee in life when our duty to hrist tied to our /*clime men eliOuld prereathee over our desires to with our dear • once in our oWn mes. But though thee Words el my text ny seem to tseparete SOMO Of Oa t for a little while Tecihi" oer loved et4 on earth, le it not a sweet and I °assured thought that Chriet Wilt ver neParate tot, his children, front elt ether, in thktt better land/ r tts, fteeortlitig to Chriet'S great':' Wit NG MAN .711Frsit:ED. Impris nment Through .3!ttiStalten Identty' At little table °in an Oxford 'erte (Lendon), restaurant there sat the other: night grey-haired, dl pd. Men, "Who; was beaming ti -otigh, a pair of eyeglasses at te ,tle group of ftiende, who surround - tint, This nian•wai Adolph' Beck, Who; Iduring the..atternoOn.: had. been released tient Brixton Prion ,- where he .had. been. inearcerated," as • the re- sult of one of the Most 'amazing And diatirAseing :crthes .of adobe -ken. iden- tity known in the annals of crime. - April beet he Was convicted for obtaining betides from -various 'seri- en by means cif fraud,, but so stout- ly and erienestly dicl proteet • his innocence that the judge forbore, to pees sentence, New it has been proved to .the 'satisfaction of Seet•- litnh Yard that'liecles protestations were "true,: . • ' Put .brittly, Adolph Beck's story is -fealows:e- December, • 1895; he was etanding at the - door a hie lodgingrieeehen Woinati 'came up and ge:ve him into eustedy on the therge of Stealing her waech, At :the po- llee dation he was detained, as other .women appeered and declared that ,he had stolen various thiogs from them, Beck Wee eentesiced to five years* pexial serVitudis, but threughout hie time in jail he never ceased to pas- sionately assort ineeeenee. • priskin roinid'that ro,VaS supposed to have alreedh • seevect a previous term for similar offences wider the: natio of "Jehti ilperi coming out' of prison, likr, 1. • Sinis,. orb)) ead known Beck be- fore,. tepOused his cense, and a num- ber of iteleheriderit gentlemen. Were Sound who awore that they had known Beck la Peru When he Was supposed to have been cormuittitig offentee in England 111 1f177. , Then came the irony of Beck's fate: Ile Was, believed, on the point 'Of preying his itinoceitee • to all tile udoin, April last, he wee again convicted of defrauding tro- melt. The- eintax came, with dremetie euddenness lest Week, when another roam, who gave the name el William Thomath Was arrested for the same kind of frauds onewomen which' Were alleged to have been prectieed by Beck. When Beck, the newly -accused mut, Attd eight others Were placed iri roW for identilleetion by the Woo Men who were brlinging the- charges, William Thomas .was pointed out , as he man who had robbed them. As the macaw' of further irrvestoga- - ions Back was released. To a represientativo of the r.,xpress leek, Whe had received a telegram of eengratultition from Mr. G. It. . kexpreseed the joy felt, at his 464164:11 hrt'Ve," maid, "printed to God 'gilt and, day to deliver me„ and . art heard MY Prayer. do not re- member what said te the judge Oven Was last eonvicted, felt hat Words front Heaven were put, Mark this -the npfritual deVeloPment la of the heart never fakes Ohio. eXcept by epirliiati labor. "Yellow mei" w Says Christ to the young men and ti *Mem itt out' edueational h nom, "Vollow ine howl" ws, we may believe that the sonar- n Mons ot, earth are only for a h bile and that tileSO earthly etpartle • ons ultintately Merin the reliftion in eaven if We only trust Christ\ atel ceept Mist for our ftviour. ti illy MOut 1, and they saVed and as such it will be a nuisance and a• vveariness to the minds of the Grra.nd Dukes. Their Standpoint is indicated at the outset of this; article eceuse t e are th 11• y e e a powerful whose, friends disapproving, of the persons here. The Department• of inerriage, had refused to take any Stete, which :in inost other countries Part whatever in the functions , trikes the lead in directing external TM; Lender). Library. which has just affairs, is in Ruasia merely a registry Orntierenthial in the Lend Thirit Beigns Suprema in the Com - The 'total indetitednees of Manc3e/4- ter, it is said, now aniounto to 421.,..0 • 000,000. • The curlew bell is atilt rung every night at Yermouth Parieth church at eight o'clock, Every year in Greet Britain some TOMO (loathe are direetiy due to al- coholic e*cees. • Thirteen life inatireince companies in Great Britain retinae to accept risko on unvaccinated Persons.' The number of outdoor and indoor paupere in London on the last day of Ord week of June was 1.08,428. • The lino old • lamps on Waterloo Bridge, Landon, were recently re- moved, their places being taken, by Standards of modern design. The value of the jewellery in Lord • Ayletibury's estate is estimated at 4170,000. The family gems Mello are valued at 460,000• , The most valuable sword in Brit- ain is one that was presented to Lord Woleeley. • The hilt is set with -hernia:rite; and it is valued ht 000, I.eeds Town Council will Ask to approve a scheme for street improve - meets, electric lighting, and hospital purposes, which will involve the bor- rowing et £280,000, ' One of the loveliest of the m,any marriage gifts received by hstnY Marjorie Gordon, was a big eairn- germ heart, serrnouhted by a little coronet of diamonds and pearls, The supply of sterilized milk by the Liverpool Corporation • has bettome, quite a populer business. As many as 500 familiesr are now supplied, the weekly consumption being 1,200 gal - ions. The death of Admiral George Lydi- ard Sulivan, at the age of 72 years, 18 announced. Ile was the youngest son of the late Adratral Thomas Ball SuUvan, and entered the nav in June, 1846• At an. Irish wedding recently a London firm supplied the best • man to the rd r ot tho bride dor the afterthought of the Emperor's uhcles. • • • 'At the very outset of the 'cliploznit- tie struggle over • .the geesticet of searching and seizing bh the volun- teer fleet, this same Department• o State made play with the character isticS Which inay be depended upon •to Merit its proceedinge throughout the negotiations. . The demand • frit the release of the Itialieca was; •in the •fuil meaning of .the term, an ul- teirratilan. , , The °Hessian Foreign' Office wished to argue the matter, ,out the British Arphassucler, replied . that no, ex- change of notes' was edmissible.Ee asked for the inuriediete delivery. of the ehip, :the alternative heinh action by force tor its release, The,anewer wee,: ' . •• • ' "All right, 'we Will give it, We accept tile British Cloyernznent's as- surance:thee • the cotitraband explo- slires in the cargo ar foie the British fleet at tron,g. Kong toad not fer's the Japanese,'"• • • The 'Amble -peeler then asked, "when, slrnll we get delivery of. the ship?" Re was told that a telegram had been sent to Port Said, at the Med- iterraneen•end of the Suez Canal. Later he learned that the Malacca had sailed from' that port before the telegram, arrived. . • It is Obedoes that the corer/lender of her Mize crew' know :laiS deeteries teen *heti he -started, and again • the Ambassador asked ." Where .the ship Was. .being taken. ••the' was informed '‘,TO A• RUSSIAN PORT.' g a p e en in r. alfour, has 'already a.artined its 63rd year, TIte idea of the institution originat- ed with Thomes. Carlyle, who • found it diffIcult to work in the British . • . There le no royal household in Europe where ' the tradesmen's ac- counts are so regularly paid as • in that of King Edward. .0itre, every month every single item in connee- tion with the ordinary expenses of the honeeloild is paid to the. 'atter-. Most farthing. • On the and inst. the Lord Mayer of London received aeletter -from I.,ord Stratlicone, forwarding by re- quest of tho Minister Of Fipance, a,. earn of £?0,000.• Voted at the lad Session of •the Dominion Parlianient as a contribution to the Queen Vic - :torte lifentotiat Fund. . The cost of lite ineurreil in Making and ' distributing drink •M tegland and Wales Orin; the past tea years is;• Said to have been the .lives of 29,210 Males from 25 to 65years of age, of whom 12,000 Would not, have 'died had they not been ringag- ed.in this particular 'trade. • Working in mines in the United . Kingdom last year were 871 889 per- , sons. Of these the vast man:with, 842,066 :worked in the coal • mines, , of which. there are 3,449.. ,The ether whieli number p7.3, employed 29,828 persons. Probably it • will CoMa as a surprise ,to the uninitiated' that coal 'mining "gives Work • -1,O. .28 'persons to every one person eraployed in other •'• .• • 0211,414.1) Alr TVISIKUTOZOOSS 04),NAlf.‘ How immunity From Diet*** May be Seoureci..-Open-air Treatment. The question of the infectious. nee. ture of tuberculosis is of special in. tweet to Cornatla, inasmuett as the 1913g winter here, compelling as it 0004 the population to live indoors and the cattle of the country to be kept under shelter tor a large por- tifin of the year, makes the chance ef infection •a reel danger to life. In a clime where the people may /lye out-of-doors throughout the whole year, while,titherculetelis May taketts 'annual toll of human We, it ie maid - feat that infection is a thing little to be feared, at leapt eomparetivelY speaking. WHERE DANGER, ZIFeS, • . It is where the people, as in Cam, ada, herd together, live in a heated atmosphere which cannot fail to be-, come laden with the germs of dis- ease, that the havoc wrought by such clrerd Malady as tuberculosis as - Surges appalling propertions. ;that thie is fie. 911 this. Con- tinent, statistics clearly establish. Every year the tubercle bacillus claims as its victims; a heavy pro- portion of our population, and it le to be feared; that, with the steadily increasing tendency to crowd into the tildes, the death rate from this cause will by no means grow less, INOCULATED DAILY. • We, are all of us being inoculated daily with tubercle bacilli. The air we breathe, especially in chuhehes, theatres, offices and all .publio build- ingsis simply loeded with them and were tepot for the element of phy- siolo ical • resisting power, • which v r ,s in different individuals, ehe human race -that portion of it; at any ,eate, that clWells in Cities, - would be Wilted out entirely, Among those who are alive to the gravity of the situation, as far as it concerns city people, is Prof. • Von Orth, the eminent German- patholo- gist, who fully endorses the finding of the British Royal Commission, which, in opposition to Prof. Ihoch's statement, Went to show that bovine and human tuberculesis Were practis BAT °{. 7_ .9 TrAgrUIVII •ZIPMeitersawritz =NUM ATM. St. 4.011.0 •Text at thAo Unto I. • wrii4., 30-40. 0•01,40M Text, X. Xing. 21. • Ahab having seeembled the Waken Of Israel and the prophet. of Baal at Mount Carmel, addressed • them le the words of vetoes 21 to • 26 and they agreed that the god who answered by fire ehould be the god whom they would worship. II* gave the prophets of Baal the first • opportunity, so thw prepared filch* altar and their sacrifice, and called upon their god from morning until noon and until afternoon, but there was no answer nor any attention to their ery from their gods. Then ra- • jah called the people near to him, and, taking twelve stow* te repro, - sent the twelve tribes of Israel; he • repaired the alter of the Lord that, Was•broken down, building it in the riame a( the Lord (verse 82), made a :trench about it, pieced the wood in order upon it, cut the bullock In' pieces and laid it on the wood and three times drenched the whole with water and -also filled the trench with water; then he prayed the simple beautiful prayer oi verse 86, 87, and the fire of the Lord fell and consum- ed the secrince, the wood, the stones, the dust anti the teeter in the trench', The people seeing this fell CM their .faces and cried "The Lord, He is the God; the I.eird, He is the good" (verse 89), Elijah had no thought of himself' nor of any glory that might cerne to him; he tete jealous only for the glory .of the God of Israel and de- sirous that the people might turn. to Him and be blessed by Rim. If Wo. were Willing to 'be so lost in God 'and so desirous of Hie glory, that we should have ne. thought of honor to ourselves or our church or denomieation or society, but only that, people's hearts should tent to the Lard, we might be able te say to all that is against God in es or about us, "Let lire from God tonsume thee!" (II. things i., 10- 12-4 Our God is a• consuming lire (Deut. iv., 24; Heb. 29) and desires a people purified, unto Him - If e may be glorified in ca y es , thorn.' He Is willing to resolve,. for - VON °WM'S OPINION. saXTE9:11-0 'Udhieniv7andonlje 0whWeiliwhilsle taaruilY•vciasalturn Commenting Upon the subject, he give' bias and Miace a blasethbgatanYia Au" u"1"1 -b oX Koch ."'"'" 7.7 howeVer weak and unworthy, that it h I ' t feet anitnels with tuberculosis Mat ter taken from human beings if the latter had been hist iefected by bo- vine ttiberculosis bacilli. :But the whale meter la nOt of •intich. Cense , quence. Dr, Koch Is right in saying time elie greatest sdeheer to manris in the •infeeted• .man, end ,I say , we heve to °want the danger in, .what- ever feria it; is. For thie reason we Must makm the'brieine 'animal -healthy then the danger of ihfectitie Man will ,cease, till then We cannot:give .up our prophylaCtic renieclies, I..qn Berlin primary abdominal' tub- erculose is very rarely 'found in chil- 1 wholly given over to Him to magni-• • fy His name. • Our Lord' Jesus said in Itie lest prayer,' "X ha,ve magnifeed Thy _ name, I have declared Thy name," and Re prayed that His People migtte he. so One with, Rim that the or d might believe and know that He was pent of God (Johia twit, 4, 6, 243,. 2.1, 28). He needed no ''fire to purify Him; the Spirit crime as a dove tireip Hint, but when the Spirit came upon the disciples et PentMost Hie came as tongues Of. fire. We need the purifying consuming fire, but We are so in love with the re dross Of self and rielf interest n and self glerification and • so, . n to. • be sac- , :rifice (for • Gott must ; 11:m4 a w a willingeoffering) that e ie He is hindered and cannot bleep a.nd use us as Be desires :Dirael, must acknowledge "0 Lord •••, '• our God, other lord's beide Thee - n have had d'cintieion ()velem." e As le God abeepting by fire. Con-, e eider the satrifi,ee .of Abel, the. offset:, e ing of Gideon - and. of Mabierh, the cleclicaticei of the itthernaCle and the v temple; and note that In the two - letter when theglory the Rol* f -Relies no men. could ' steed' to s Minister, reminding us that no flesh earl; It g•KIctzgsinviliIii,e,ipir;esiencetr,(Eix, 31)" Jehovah having been pro- dren, because in - 'Berlin children: a !hot fed me taW milk: In Kiel • th 1 ' ilikeage is more prevalent : beet:Mee. i Holstein :the custom prevails to great extent of 'giving children ra milk. We rniist.await the full repor before giving 'a 'definite opinion.", : • WHERE REMEDY LIES." Pref. thin Orth hits the mark wile he says that "We"have to donibat th dangee in whatovei form it Is." Th remecie- lies , abrupt, 'e.ntirely in th hand', or, the ptiblic,th.emseIves, Med eine can de little more than newel indicate the etwies whence the dan ger pprings, and suggest a means o treatment wherever the malady ha made itself apparent, But the strug gle, the real battle against the :.dis ease, rests with the mass of the peo phi. ,• , . '. • , . • It 18 for them to see that the dein gezicy of the laws respecting the tial of milk and meat is in uo, way r iaxed,: and that these regulations ar also rigidly raheyikl. • It is for th publ c also to secure adequate vent' letion in an Ptiblie bliildings,, and t make fresh air in .orclinsiry houses'a =itch : an article '. of faith, as 'dee hands ,and clean linen.' To inamtat and•Sirengthen the normal powers o reststance in the lungs, by wide alone the bacillus can be 'kept at hay the principles of the. open air sane toria should .be imported into ou daily lives. . At once the Foreign Ofilce Was told ' • '. - ' ' • ' .• ., , . .. that that Was not permissible,. and leteul BOUNTIFUL BULLOCK, that the Malacca must net be taken ; •,,-_ , . into a Ruselan port as -Russian prize.) ' T.L1Q bill) OCK may appear to. leati Thereupon he was told : "No; it ira -useless, all:Mese life while ' aliVe; net exactly a Russian port, it is• an but when he- is slaughtered, and izi international port; Sudo: 'Bay, in the hands of nn.'up-to-date• cob -Montt, Crete:" - Twelve hours afterward it mud, be admitted' that he Mere this ,wao, altered, without any ex-. than met up for hi erstwhile:want, planation, to Algiers, the capital Of fpurpogo, .: Feente his bones ' the port 'of France's Mediterraherin eel, company extracts handles for dainty .ony. • ; powder-puffe, "ivory" for billiard - The thing to note about all this is balls, buttons bY1 the hundred Mil- th,at,',there was no communicrition all lions, a year, knife -handles, and pipe - this rtirae with the Malacca, which items. Not a hair, not a gland, is ! was on the high seas. The Gov- Wasted. There are„desiecateci thy - eminent kneW from the first what her roils, desiccated 'thymus, spial -cord destination was, but they decided to pooders,'"aehydrous ammonia, Intuit - open . the .question with "caleelated are- powders (which fetch Ret 12e, per prevarication. In the desire to have done with cildr. pound,) fertilizers, meals for ,pigs treaded that: pivvent Russia from 4 and chickens,. isinglass for, the brew- iterranean, all classes of people speak Blank. sen•en and gelatine for the chef, glycerol, neat's-foot oil. The hoofs yield a rennet, and paziereatin, glycerine. and • 1 taking a fleet from the through the Dardanelles to the Med- eatalogueini bf products, among them With one voice.: It IS the cinly issue 'arising from the Wee on which every cyanide of potassium. Even the eye- t hall is •niade to serrender its secrets, newspaper has written freely lie tip.; inion without fear of the censorship; and one of its constituents terms the for .petriOts, progress -hires, pin -Slav- principal element in a raticii-veunted tonic, Verily, old-fashioneci folk s ids, evert the numberless group of eritice of the Government whose grid- who imagine the dead Patine& to cen- trist. merely of hide and beet are woe- c vane° is that they have been absorb. ed into Russia, against their will, all fully . behind the -Utiles. The only s !Mite in calling those treaties the bar Part of to bullock which the up-to- date company seems unahle to Malt that holds Russia from the Medi- e F. ' terrEtTleall. use of is the hellowt . ----,-....4...--..+„... . ' 1 ' . THE J'APAITESZ SWORD. „ _ . claimed God, the; prophete ef Baal r. are slain, • To be on the Lord's.eide e means that all that is against God o., must. be stein, heorever dear to us. e • Consider • the action of the. Leottes , :when iii ansWer to Moses' question,„ e • „ e or e e they stood feet)); ',See how•all such had ° to. slay 'their .brother174: ccimpaidohe' and ueighbors ,who were eget/est ' d • , • 1",- Elijah sent•Ahitb home with the as. sitrance that train would come abut- °. nail*, but- he Weat to the too Of' Cartnel and cast himself' down before 7 the Lard and preyed. seeding his . r seevant to look toward the sea . for WIIAT TEIE .7APS ---- Ritsfidan is the P.. a-eorite Languag Studied in japan. • the answer. Again and again he Went and ?duelled, saying, "There is . nothing," but at the seventh tirae lie returned, saying,,"Behold there stride e eth a little eloud out of the sea like inan's•hatid'' (verses 43, 41), So theleavene became black with clouds end wind and thee Was it great rain; A 'man of like passions with us pray- ed eterziestly and for three and a half ' years it rained not that the Word of . the Lord by, Moses' . inight be, ful- etiarnilede;,' abguathiseficie hPerwal'e.deaarnnetIsttlhye t'atindln • • Persietently lie peayed, -although God .had said, will send rain opon the earth" (xviii 1) •• • It is in His purpoSe that we shell . • ask Ilinieto 4o this and that, even thoegli X -re has promfeed to do it, as Ire says,, "I Will yet for this be in, afosrtY• pryaecatriEcitalaiygovIrkrowrii.itgIlshi4 Japan,, the only foreign literature etude:id , was the Chinese, and the first language to be taeght irt the ehools was the Duteh, • • Now, while English is the most onimon 'among the people, arid is tudied by all high-school pupils, Glei•man and Ftench are favored gen- rally lay' scholars and. physicians. There ie foreign -language school, in 'oltio,•Where almost All languages re taught, and, .curiously enough, sassier. is the favorite. The study of English literature in Japan is represerited by PtolessOr -nee Tsobouchi, Who has translated nto Japaitese some of Shakeepeare's leys---"Ottello.'' • "Macbeth," and he "'Merchant 61 Venice," t The most widely known. English writer M darian is Carlyle, Ali stet - Otte of P.;atelish, literature in Je- an read his works. Next, to Car- yle Comes Macaulay, and the new lanyekti, or frenslation. style, Was ractically created by borrowing his anguage by the Minyuslitimen, 4 lit - eery. baitd Telde. Zmerson is reatly adinieed, and his writings eve influeneed many notable japan- journalitrts teeday. Mill and he:bethrotogliptenocterrntativeerha jitlipitinnti,ueneed Tennyson, Longfellow, Wordsworth, yron, and Milton are the most po- ular poets, and fletion hiots-ay, and Diekelirt aro hese teem, Bellatty's "Looking Beek- ard" has been reeently translattd L o Japanese. „ fictetrit-"t found tile patient to be thering front abresion et the tuti.- •a, • XOTE. TONS. OF 33,1131.4E.S,, .• p • • Short in Length and a Wonderful The demande made on the British „ . -Produetion. and Foreign. Bible Society. for Scrip - First of all, n. very thin sheet or tures, from all Parts af the weed, attained record ditnen- steel is fixed to arx irdn bar that 1#., baS lately oemetely serves as a handle. To this sions. Not only is all the available sheet of Steel other *Os of the httel-cd its warehouse oecupied with same size aro soldered until the maw e cks of pricking eases,. but a liege is about eight inches long and taro Overflew lines the corridors alvalting iriches wide. The bar of steel is then Shipment to the far ends of the u breught to it white hea,t, and is bent eareh. On oho day recently, ,erighty- in half, and hammered until • it re- one caSeS Were dispatehed, represent., , SUMes RS original site, This proce•ss Mg- a total of nine tons of Scrip- ". is • repeated no • less -than Afteen tures in twenty-eight different langu, times, •ages. • Four similar bare are then made atid 'Soldered together, after which they , "A" x,,tott ,rnt ynAy, 11 g are doubled: lit half, relit -Wed and ' hartimered out, thie proeees being re- The house of Singer Luigi earban- ,n peitted live time. Ily this time the di, of Sienna, has been burgled foe fl sword is brought to the required the thiety-fourth time in. ten years,' thickness, the layers Of steel have Signor Oarbanal has now posted thie been howl -ter& so thin that the notico on eie door, "Piney° bought I) blade ,Oontains innumerable shetta of two dogs, three guns, and water „P., T1I0 haadla IR then fc'rmalv bolterwith It000 attached. Burglars It' metal. and when the finishing tiattehee have aro weiconvo, , been, .put on the blacki It is heated to w a Certain temperature and dipped in in a bath of oil or water, Together She had sent off a telegram and with the sharpening, the makftik of was waiting for an answer. 8uddett. one of these famous tweeds take,/ Iy the Neither halting click of live •to about seven weeks, The nutty thou- rsoaviog lintebint, sounded in the ei sands of inferior swords which' will &lice, and she said to her coulPall- : be used in the war are not, of course, 'iorhat.#1 ri4,42•11,001,06, x niatle by this lolig prototite. kilothr I can tell kW stutter," J ClritilltiNT SLANG, e, tuniefactiOn, eeeitymbeire and et- revasation ill the intejontent and Miler tissue about the left orbit." isdge--"Ifott mean he had a black a?" Doctor -"Yes," litottler--"I'm surprised at youl ouldn't you tell he Was going to so you?" Deughtere-"Yee, inam- 0; but there was no one for me to.: 11 except him, and he knew it eadY." al- "Taiking of the angelic creature eY you danced with at-Breieffe ball," As a tilting Milne for menet), eald Wagley, "eoppoffing neve, you C affpondulix" listis its origin irt the were; to meet a. real angel, bow ki Greelt word sponthilos, a ehell. Mhelle would you address her?" "Don't in of a certain imecies Were once need you know? Well, 1 should ftek her te as money both - Greece and tgypt. what en earth, she was doing." crewed of by 'the house of Israel to do it for them" (eek. xxxhi, 87), •Is there not a MiggestiOri in the cloud "like it mart's hand" that it was in qn/wer to a man laying hold upon God.- In IS, ixiv, -7, the conaplaiht "There is none that callethr upon, Thy name that stirreth up hitiiself to take hold of Thee." It lie would take hold of teed With the persistence of Elijah, fer that which HO. • has promised to do, what ntigitt we not eee to Ptis glory. Then AvOte the latit, verse of our •lessoit, "The hand' of the Lord watt on Minh," When we take persistent holti or Hine. hle Will take hold cif us for His glory. Let tut apply.the command in liest. .8, 7, first literally and thett ac- c�rding tie John ariv, 18, 14. , Little Samely-"What's your tee 'then VinlIfe?" tattleetVillie-oVe's Man." Little Sanney-"Oh, 1 mean vshat theee he do for his bread end buttett?"Little Willicies"Ile's artichoke; and dratre hoeSeet" "I am strongly inclined to tinnlc that your husband has append,leitis," said the physician, "That's hest like rineWered AftO. CliMrOX, "Re 0.1WaySsWititg till anything has pretty tette gone out of fivAion before be decides to get it." "Tommy," said hit mother, Who ' bad him MVOS" her kftect, "this hurter me worse than it doeS you," "I Wee afraid," said 'Nanny under his breath. "that hard board 1 put in the Seat of My treueera might injure her delicate hand!"