Lucknow Sentinel, 1892-04-15, Page 7A
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INLAND ALASKA.
Slow Progress of the Schwatka Party
Cp the River.
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rough interpretation. Paddy had also cording to their strength and endweialee, • GOOD GARDEN FLOW;.
acquired a small share of it emong the from , 5 until 7 "is clack.' It was 41
miners, while, in fact, all of them under- getting clear that some would fail For Early Blooming and Late Blooming
stood it better than they pretended. me if the road ahead got any worse This Latitude:
It will be remembered that the Indian or the slightest add-ition ahoulcf happen In answer to many inquiries I 3;n;. 4-h
packers would • have to "double " their to thi h
e labor
in
loads of 200 pounds over the trail. In
order to keep the effects together at night
it was thought five miles would be a
- fair day's work, ten miles of packing 100
pounds and five miles returnieg, the latter,
by comparison, being equivalent to a rest.
Before 6 o'clock the packers started with
the first loads, and at 7.30 dumfounded us
by returning, stating . they had made some
four miles. At this rate the ,enthusiastic
promises of some to make ten or twelve
miles daily eeemed probable. My doubts,
however, as to their accuracy were con-
firmed when later the four nides dwindled
down to a scant two ; still, I thought to
myself, as I wiped the perripiration off mg
face, I might have deemed it a good half
dozers if I had carried 100 pounds over it
instead of a, camera and a tin cup.
The first part of the trail led- through
groves of " jack-piuee" It is _a flexible
conifer, if ever there was one, as in many
'places the Indians had tied trees and
branches together to mark the trail. This
had been done years before, but the pines
had grown right along, just the same, and
these knots ia the bodiee of the now large
trees, or two lashed together, louked
curious enough.
Where we found the first packs there was
also camped a Tahku family from the in-
terior, bringing out furs to trade at Juneau.
The principal furs of Southeastern Alaska
are black, brown and grizzly bear,
mink., beaver, land and sea.martin,
lynx, welveriue, silver, cross and
red fox, and occasionally white
and blue fox from the lower Yukon. When
the skin of any fur -bearing anhnal is dark -
colored the fur is poor ; the lighter the
color' the. better tlie pelt. al an V. Ind lens, in
moments of forgetfulness, will glue loose
hairs on.long-killed animals just. to brighten
up the pelts a little bit.
All day we were crossing beautiful moun-
tain ril'Is, with water cold -as ice. In the
warm duety day My eye•glasses blur•red•
badly with perspiration. In the Arctic the
frozen breath was as bad, and in geneti ral
the pear gight79a explorer is short-sighted
for going on a rough trip. ,
Ca•mp 8 was but four miles from No. 7,
but no doubt the packers had done well for
the first day. That night I learned a new
" wrinkle ' on roughing it. I had selected
a nice e.pot in a slight hollow, full of leaves,
for making dawn my bed. It was cut off
just right at one end by a log, half buried
n the turf, that formed an excellent pillow.
• The next Morning the Indians were up by 3,
and they began cutting firewood from the
part of my tree that projected from the
slope. There were nine thousand seven
'hundred and forty-two other logs in the
immediate vicinity, all of them. dry,.
solid and reeking With pitch,' while
mine was water -soaked, rotten . and
heavy, but they kept beating a. tattoo ou
it with axes, Il al 5 o'clock, When they
got away with the first, packs, . every
inother'e 'son of them stumbling. over the
onlypart ()Vibe, trunk they had riot vet. -cut
first up. Foe ahe mile or two the tritahat
day strewn with fallen timber, The
natives .a.re quite careless. with their camp-
fires, and especially the signal enroaes they
often send up when treadling, to eonvey
intelligence. to others far away, and this
burritemt timber soon falls, forming an
alinest• intpassable network of prostrate
trees. How the pacliers got. :slang se
well over. this labyrinth of logs sur-
prised me more tha,n my ()ten econstant,
falling off of them. I had reeerved my hob-
nailed shoes for any serious mountain work
that might occur, but aftehalippingeoff of•
half the logs, skimming Over the Slick pine
needlesin the path, sliding all over the wet
DESCRIPTION OF THE INDIANS.
The Many Fur -Bearing ADimals
and the Timber.
RATHER ROUGH ROADWAYS.
TAI I K 0 V -YAK ON PORTAGE, B. N. W. T.,
June 3, 1891.—The night of the 29th and
30th ot May gave us a light frost, but as
nearly all vertation peemed fairly well
along, it demonstrated, I assumed; its very
hardy charayter.
Great fire swept spaces among the timber,
no doubt the work of wandering native,
hunters, now appeared along the mountain
slopes, and here the conifers stood out,
blackened and bare, while the green -hued
populace were, still alive, making, the con-
trast very vivid.
A slight wind helped us as we started,
the morning of the 30th, but it was varied
duriag the day. Despite the cold the river
rosetTarne three inches, and I find in my
journal the mournful prediction that " if
the Indians: keep camping loWer rod the
river keeps rising, the 'camps aud the cold
water will soon meet." By noon we had
made only a mile and a half, the morning's
au
camp in sight and the pole -men about ex-
hausted.
Early in the evening, tired • out, we
camped ; .not es -en atteniatieg to imarove
on a coarse gravel bar for a •bed 'Place, by
going a little farther. That evening I
heard a ruffled grouse drummiug in. the
woods near the camp, but so far we had
scan no game birds.
The night.of the 301h and 31st the 'river
rase •a seant inch, but Robert insisted -that
the stream Was So swollen that unless we
got a 6trong ap-stream wind we could go no moss of the bill sines end essent rally skating
, farther, although it was but a few miles to the vhole five miles into camp on the
where riaer tranepertation ceased, andall smoothesabottomed sh,oes I ever wore in
my life, I came -to. the conclusion the serious
work had arrived.
-Apia that day a number of interior fur
traders passed us on their Way to Juiseau.
We camped in the evening at the deeerted
Indian village of Ah•kah•tee. That .• was
one of the toughest days of the trip, the
Indians being on the trail from -.very
early in the meaning until 8 at
night. Of course -they took •long and
frequeuh, rests, buI think they were
needed ones. That evening aeveral• com-
plained of strained tendons, and one of them
adopted the heroic treatment of 'standing
lialf an hour nearly kneedeep in the ice
water of the mountain stream.
Net morning it could be noticed , that
the iadians were getting sore where the
pack -straps cut,. and someof them.. wete
effects week' have • to aa carried on oar
packers' back.
• At noon we got neviiy with just enough
wind to spread our sails'but these had to
be aided by the poles, paddles or tracking.
By 4 30 we had sighted the houeeat the
head of canoe nayiaatiou, a couple of 'miles
away, 'but, it took three hours hard work
to reach them. •
The qountry Was now much more open,
the ti ier growth extending °seer the tops
of most of the At 5.30 we made a
despera yet brilliant fight through high -
rolling pule, to attain a .point which we
got by the very epidermis on the skirl of
our teeth. It settled the day's success,
however, and by 7.30 we camped at the
head of canoe navigation, with the Consola-
tion that on the next river we were to float
down.. This day we had made but three Neen to tear up great broad strips Of
• and a half miles, but equal to any fifty of blanketing to make new shoahler straps for
common travel. At least the Indians packing.
thought so; for ' they begged to stay over •Lunch dine, on the 4th, saw us •hut two
the next day. ' miles on the trail, coming .up to the first
The day's delay was taken advantage packs at the village of Klicknoo (des&ted),
• of inastronomical observations, arranga pet above which there is a beeentiful water,
ing packs, the doctor investigating fallon the river.
geology, etc., etc. . Bear tracks were
very numerous and the Indians reported
this locality full of large game, deer alone
being absent. W6 were now getting far
enough inland to leave behind the greater
moisture of the Pacific coast,. and the
Indians assured me that it was dry here
when the seaboard„ was usually drenched
with swers. A strange 'rehirem
cae iato
,
camp s ading the cheerful report that the
snow waTtfrom ten to fifteen feet deep some
twenty miles ahead on the trail. I thought
I saw a scheme in it at the time and felt
satisfied of it later. I did not hire him as
a guide. Now that the 'Indians Will en-
douletedly enter closer into the descriptions
of the adventures, it may ,be well to men-
tion them here more in detail, so I give
their names below, both native and
Americanized, and the tribes to wnich they
,
belonged. :
Native. Ameriennized. Tribe.
Kook-sahlk, Robert, Tahlot Mink:it
, "
..lc.
,ha-flua-tah, SaIll,
Jahn. sit ka
Kali-ce. Neat znahoo "
skeet,-..lah•kali, Edward, chilkat, ---..:--- ---
Koo-n a eds. ka,,ah, Jim, Tisk h 11
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N 001. I v(t). faddy, To I:1111
To h•woot 7., , 1 la rney, Ta I ta n •" *That night we catnped at a place the
The Taltans are an interior tribe near the Indians call " the pole bridge," where a
Classiar mines of British Columbia. ! number of pine poles had been thrown from
Skeet•lah•ltah, the son of Shot -rich, . either shore to meet a high rock in the
Chilkat ehief, had served me as a palter centre of a foaming cataract. These pole
when,a hoeaof but 14 years of age, in 1883.. bridges are not uncommon on trails, and as
Even then he carried sixty•eight poitncla t he trunks are usually free of bark and
re.:eientfeeteareile,„iteptattain ter, rind this estiparetyawith Jae_ water that, Iras dashed . Belgium is: the first country to make
i one iin witn—arri•r- , irt"fic- ill -slim -en' arra a.,i41;::-:eii,,crs- -tAii7eiii7—;•:11,1:q.,y-• lire erratailiedaitaiiaiaGaTa liffili'df Tarn a ti ,,,o fie ri.i".•`er . 41'11V, .. i TF6' .11iiV.i).
enduring of all the packers. Sam hail at • ways possible or crossing a dangeroosetreani, (the land.
tended mission school in his younger (lays That (evening the parkera did not arrive .•- An advertisement is not -a luxury, be
itel knew our language a•ell enongh for in a body as usual, lint Were strung out, ac•.keecsAary,
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Thatng t and the nex
t fore- following list of garden fiewers for various
purposes, assuring those who have asked for
suggestions regarding selection of seed that
they can depend On:
For cutting—Sweet pea, petunia, stock
aster, pansy, phlox, calliopsis, gypsophilia
nasturtium and mignonette.
For brilliant show—Calliopsis, petunia
marigold, verbena, phlox, nasturtium
candytuf, a chrysanthemum, larkspur, cocks
comb a d
noon, however, a drenching rainstorm gave
deem a rest they had little expected. They
swung out on the trail in the afternoon, but
returned to camp, thus having part of their
work ahead of them for the first time on the
trip.
Robert stayed over in camp until the.
middle of the afternoon when lib started
back for the head of canoe navigation, as-
suring me that he would reach it that night
and overtake us next day on the trail. He
evidently thought we were making slow
progress and that he ought to return for
more provarions. Fitaueeica SCII WATK A.
Premium on Large Families.
One of the French railroads has begun
the encouragement of large families among
it employes. Beginning with this year
every workman having more than three
children under 16 years of age, and whose
salary does not exceed $407 a ,year will
receive! $4.80 a year for each such child,
payable quarterly. The children need not
be the einployee•s own, and the allowance
is made equally for young relations of the
person under sixteen, which are supported
by him.. A father or mother, and father-
in-law, or mother in-law, supported by the
employee is counted as a child in making
the payments.
For Fly Time.
A correspondent of an English pharma-
ceutical paper recommends he following
receipt for making a seductive and never -
let -go fly -paper. The paper must first be
sized with a flour paste, made by mixing
one pound of flour with one gallon of water.
The mixture should be brought to a boil,
and the sheets of paper thoroughly sized
with the paste and dried. Then melt to-
gether one pound of white resin and eight
ounces of castor oil over a slow fire, ard
apply the mixture to the sized 'sheet.
a warm season use a little more resin an
u cool season a little more oil. '
tfritred-tite-Sltitiffiiiii:
In
you wont(' do wellin comedy; ; have you
ever tried to do a comic part ?'
For late blooming—Pansies, sowed in
June; aster, stock, petunia and dianthus.
. For clinabing about porch or veranda—
Morning glory, gourd, scarlet bear 1 and
wild cucumber.
For screen—Sweet pea, supported on
brush, and zinnia.
For shady places—Paesy, nemophilia and
For low beds—Verbena and portulacca.
Best for avases—Calliopais; nasturtium
and sweet pea.
Easiest to care for—Petunia, phlox, nas-
turtium, aster and portulacea.—Ladies'
Home Journal.
One on Sol swan unseen!.
The Chicago revs tells a good story a
the expense of Sol Smith Russell. He gave
his new play at Tacoma the other evening—
the play that Kidder wrote for lane and one
which 'Minneapolis critics pronounced the
apotheosis of American humor. Things
seemed to move along all right at Tacoma,
but after the show one of the audience—an
Englishman of apparent culture—tarried to
have a word with Mr. Russell. " you are,"
said he,. " an actor of real promise ; I have
enjoyed your performance so highly that I
venture in a spirit of admiration to venture
a suggestion. ,1 trust I am not offending ?"
" Oh, no ; not at all," urged Mr. Russell.
"Go on, my dear sir ; I •am only too glad
to hear suggestions." " Well, then," con-
tinued the stranger, " it occurs to me that
Mr. Topricely is no lawyer, but his wife is
an able svoinan. He was stumped in his
reading the other evening and appealed to
to her.
I'Are you up on Latin,. my dear ?" he
asked.
" What.do you want to know?" she in-
quired withaproper caution.
"1 want to know the difference between
de jure and de facto."
Mrs. T. studied a moment.
" Well," CA he said, "you are at the head
of this family de jure."
"
Vee,
" he putin " I understand that."
"And," she, conciuded., With some vigor,
am thehead of it de facto."—.0etroit
Free Press.
ae sat to (Pne Fire..
Househelder—I am goinq to move to the
suburbs next Monday, and I'd libe you to.
do the ,job.
Iklover—How many loads ?
" 1. don't know. You moved me once,
you may remember."
" Yes ; I needed three waggons then to
get through, but that was some years ago.
Have you moved since ?" •
" es, Indeed, half a dozen times."
" Hem ! I guess one waggon will carry
all you have left." •
s Necessity linars No taw.
Magistrate—You are charged,sir, wi
dragging this young woman„foreing her in
cab, and driaing like mad to the ferry.
Prisoner—Y-e-e, sir, I live in the suburb
This morning my NVIfe, told me -not to date
to come honie without .ft girl, and I didn't
knew of any other way to get one. •
Magistrate—I'll take this young girl borne
with me and place her under my wife's pro-
tection. I live in the suburbs • myeelf.
You'll haa.e to catch •another one,
e Devil isa Ingenuity.
A Japanesegentleman, named Gompe,
has patented a , little instrument which,
enablethe possessor .to send a cloud of
blinding' duet iuto the eyes of a foe at a dis
tance of twelve feet. It is said that the
poor "foe" is • therebyabsolutely deprived
of sight, and is therefore, Of course, at the
mercy of his, assailant.
th.
A 4Areat Head.
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to •
" When does your wedding teke place,
s. Chelle ?"
Paufs-lino-frt-or wire4sgefaerar"lii•treiraitiatiry:
Mr. Labouchere writes : My attention.
has been called to a system•said .to be in
force in Germany, by which a man may be
imprisoned for an assault on his wife or
children Ivithout causing the punishment to
react to the further ditiatiaantage of his
victims, The plan eonsist•s in imprisoning.
him oaly On his holidays. He is taken
eery saturclay when he leaves work and
locked up till Monday morning, and this
process is repeated until he has done hie,
" month," or whatever the term may be.
The idea i8 ingenious, . but I do not see how
it ,could be worked effectually except in a
country where -the whole population are
under close 'police sepeeaision.. •
A Bit nt Diplomacy..
Alexander H. H. Stuart, who lately died
atitaton,, Va., and Was 'Secretary of. the
laraterior, under Pre.sideat Fidmore, used to
tell how he got rid ot an office -seeker. Said
he : "1 'vus very in'uch annoyed by a per-
sistent applicant for the post of - messenger,
The man came' in regularly every .day for
several weeks untilhe became an unbearable
bore. Finally, one day after the 'man had
gone out, I asked the •messenger then in
office, if he kne-v what that man was after.
He 'eaid. 'No, sir." Weil,' said I, 'he
wants yonrplace, and if I ever see him.
again he shall have • it.' I never saw the
man again."•
Caught in the Act.
Mother (to Jimmy caught in the act of
smoking a cigar)—I don't want you to let
me see you at that again.
Jiminy—And I didn't want to let you see
me this time.—Ph,arezareutical Era.
•Areritoroir the electrical execution law
has been in force in New York State three
years and three mouths, it has only been
put in force eight times. Yet during that
period, says the New York Heral,c1, not
fewer than -a hundred murders have been
committed within the State. Only one out
of twelve of the offenders has paid the
penalty of his crime. District Attorney
Nicoll • recently stated that there are
twenty•five persons charged with homicide
in New York City elope now awaiting
trial. At the rate capital cases are dis-
posed of it will take several years to try
this number. Meanwhile almost every
week brings an addition to the list.
Juiors, it is charged, are growing lees and
less inclined to convict of murder in the first
degree. Judge Andrews declared that he
could not understand how any honest and
intelligent juror could acquit Webster of
the murder of Goodwin on the evidence pro-
dueed. Recorder Smyth said he never
heard plainer proof of "a• premeditated,
deliberate murder" . than that., against
Preiti. Yet the jury would not convict of
this crime.. When the jury acquitted Ram-
sey, tried for shooting his wife, judge
Martine said :
I am korry.to be compelled to say that it is
exceedingly lamentable that ,inries are inclined
to give the greatest encouragement by their
verdicts to this part ienlar kind of erinie—shoot•
ing afrrn:t•-:. The flat ural result 15 0011 on every
side of us. Clinics' of this sort (WO growing
'Moro minieroia daily, and, in my Sedgment.
the blame nnist be placed upon jurors who re•
Inge 10 actupon the evidence and Who tea vt,1
outside of it ta find exert, e, fel, the crime. The
jury box has, heeeme a mirsery for such crimes.
It may be that criminals escape became
jurors are more hutnano than are the laws.
" It is indefinitely postponed, sleah boy."
" What is the matter ?'
""Weginal Freshb igh, who vas to be best
earn, is down with the grip."
" Why don't you get some one to take his
place ?" •
" Be ilawve, you're right. I never thought
of that dentcherlinew. What a heed you've
ot !"
Srealfing AdvisedlY.
Primus—Gaston is a fool. ,
Secund•us—How ?
Primus—He came to see me when I was
so ill and believed I was going to .die, and
kept saying that death loved a shining
mark, etc.
Secundus-1 'call that tact. He meant to
cheer you up.
WE often hear the 'question asked "Why
do the papers not publish this or that
news ?" A writer in Lippincott's' Maga-
zine "partly at least answers the question,
when he saes .;
That newspapers print all they know, is a
Popitlar b9lief held by nearly everyone. That
newspapers print more than they know,, is a
vulgar belief held by that large and ignorant.
portion of every community which doe not read
newspapers to be informed, but to be interested
and, if pcissible, shock( d. That newspapers
print all that they hear. is a supposition enter-
tain( by the people who bring what they think
is nes. s to newspaper offices. That newspapers
print nothing that they hear from irresponsible
sources., without investigation., is the truth,
known to all trained newspaper men. Fierce
as competition is, there could today be started,
in every large city of the East a newspaper which
would outstripevery other newspaper in the vital
interest of its newby simply Printing what the
other newspapers refused to print. This news
would all of it, too, be within legal and conven-
tional bounds of decency. The why not start
stuifh a newspaper will be risked. Such news-
papers have -been started in plenty. but none
were sustained. The reason, simple though
seemingly paradoxical, '1,1 that the 'stock in
trade of every solidly established newspaper is
the news it does not print. In other words,
confidence is the source of every piece of really
valuable 'news • and to obtain that confidence
and obtain that: news the newspaper -man must
daily sacrifice a vast amount of readily print-
able and vastly readable matt er the publication
of which would cut him off from.his source of
supply.
Violin -makers prize above all other kinds,
of wood that which they extract from the'
seasoned timbers of old houses.
• —The Canadian advertisers are not back -
weal in blowing the trumpet loudly, but
they would appear to be outdone by aTokio
bookseller, who thus announces the advan-
tages he bas to offer : " Pricesecheap as a
tottery, books elegant as a Ringing girl,
arint clear as crystal, paper tough as
elephant's hide, geode despatched as expedi-
tiously as a cannon ball, and customers
treated as politely as by rival steamship
companies."
Sosir, ,tiyen ty Toronlo tobacconisteeevere
Tamar
to children undar 1.1 year's of age.
small advertieement ie better th9n a
had traveller.
DOES HE PREACH HERESY?
A Toronto Methodist. Minister on the
Atoneplent.
OHRIST'S WORK AND MISSION.
Eeclid avenue Methodist Church, Toronto,
was crowded at both services yesterday,
when the pastor, 'Rev. A. M. Phillips, spoke
on the subject,, ," Why the Sacrifice of
Christ." Mr. Phillips is a radical in re-
ligious matters. The central thenie of all
his sermons is the fatherhood of God, and
from that he deduces a system of theology
that, whether conformable to the canons or
not, is certainly popular with his bearers.
In -brief he believes and teaches that Christ
did not die to pay the death penalty fpr the
sins of mankind demanded by tiled, but
simply to show forth to men .the fact that
God, despite their sin, is eager to be recon-
ciled to them. s
The sermon of last night probably affords
as good an examp!e of Mr. Phillips' system
of reasuning as could be desired. Taking ,
for his theme the sacrifice of Christ, and for
his pricipal text the words " The Son of
God Loved us and gave Himself for us,"
he said the idea he \via h e cl to convey was
that " the plan of ea lvation, the scheme of
redemption, is in leeniony with the father-
hood of God, is bread on and is in harmony
with His love and righteousness of nature."
DID CIIIINT l'AY A DEBT ?
The question, " Was the eacrifice of
Christ intended to pay a debt to carry out
the idea so common in the evangelical
• hvin.ns, the idea, Jesus paid it all, all to
Him I owe?' " was put, and answered in
the negative. If the sacrifice of. Christ were
a quid pro elno, an equivalent given, where ,
was the manifestations of a ,forgiving spirit
on the part of God ? " If Jesus paid it all,
all the debt! owe, how could the Father
turn about and collect a debt that has been
paid?" To this the speaker answered that
such action would show a waiat of harmony '
in the nature of God, it wouTd strip Him of
the attributes of al loving Father and leave
Hinran exacting jaidge affid•—a—ballecter oiT
penalties. In the Lord's Prayer Christ
taught us to pray " forgive us our debts."
In Scripture debt was a duty not done, and.
trespass was a wrong done. It was aoseible ,
that both of these ideas were contained in
the prayer. It would be seen that forgive-
ness was conditioned there. Our debtor
'inlet first be • forgiven, and the petitioner
prayed, " becauseI forgive, I ask to be for-
givend? Gad could not set for Himself a
lower standard than that taught in the
Lord's Prayer. • God could not and be con-
sistent eaact even from Jesus' Christ as; our
representative an exact equivalent. From
a Methodist divine, whose name he with-
helda the speaker quoted; " There is no
grace in the release of .a debtor, when his
debt is paid," and said that was precisely
his view. Christ therefore could net .have
been sacrificed to pay a.debt slime salvation
was by grace.
NOT AN EQUIVALENT. •
The next question asked, " W.as the sacri-
fice of Christ an equivalent fornian's sins?"
was answered with an emphatic "• No."
" Even admitting," said „Mr. Phillips,• .
"what w.e.are.free 'CO 'admit, that sin must
be punished, and violation of the law is
punished even in physical life can , the
suffering of Christ be inade a substitute for
the punishment of our eins? I say no.
And the fact that the -infinite suffers for the
finite makes no difference. The suffering of
Christ can no mare relieve us from the con-
sequences -of sin than of physi-calr wrong-
doing. Again' I quote a Methodist divine
and- endorse the the . view, that 'the sub-
stitution of Christ for the sinner is not
taught in the word of God.'" Continuing,
the speaker said that the influence of
Christ's' life was not as a substitute but
as a counteracting force. • As Adam
could not live without 'influencing the
-race, so Christ could not live without in-
fluencing it to good. The salvation he
brought hal for its purpose the making of
men to be like God, not the imputation to
men of Christ's righteousness, but the im-
partation' to men of the Christ life. All
this was said with an earnestness that
showed how deep were the speaker's con-
victions. • Themediationof .Christ was
touched upon, and here too new views were
given. Christ's death was not the means
of bringing two parties, both • estranged,
together. God was not hostile to man, andf
there was no need for Christ to come in and
change God's intention and stay hira from
the execution of the law. The purpose of
reconciliation was eternal. God the
Trinity before man was created made a
plan of redemption contingent upon the
thought of the fall of man through the •
exercise of hie will. Christ Was simply the
agent revealing to man God's intention of
reconciliation.
CHRIST TIIE REVEALER.
Christ came as a representative of the
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entire Godhead, not as an appeaser of the
Father. He came down to the world and
took upon him flesh to declare, the principle
of God's eternal love and forgiving nature.
This point the speaker .urged again and '
again in different ways. Christ did not die
to remove an obstacle on God's part. The
atonement was manward—it was to mani-
fest God's love • it was to satisfy God's love
for His lost children, which would not be
content until every possible means had been
tried to reach man. Christ came and lived
nnd suffered the life of man, and the
death penalty of all men as an in-
dividual man,' "but not," oried the
speaker, "for me or for yeas. He did it to
get before us the idea that God rather theta
lose us would come down and suffer Him-
self, and there was no way for God to mani-
fest Himself to man except as marl and by
suffering as a man." The preacher in dos-
ing drew an illustration from his own feel-
ings as a father, averring that as he fondled
his children sometimes he thought that he
would rather be damned himself than sec•
them go to perdition. That was' the feeling
God had when He sent Christ to suffer the
death penalty as a sign to men of His love,
of the awful punishment shotild God's 10 VC
not induce mat to measure himself up to
God, to seek to rise to righteousness. A few
impressive words were said in closing.
The position of a judge is an exceedingly
tr,Yilillgee7Were you drunk when yeti oni-
mitted the assault ? Pt isoner—I must has e
been, y' honor, 'cause the other feller 'e
twice my size.
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