The Exeter Advocate, 1895-4-26, Page 2THE GATES OF HEAVEN.
Ofermon 11y Bev. T. Ile Witt. Talmage
D,l).,, at. New York Academy
of Music,
The bright, spring weather has brought
still larger crowds to the Sunday after-
noon services, conducted by Rev, Dr,
Talmage. He took for his subject to -day:
"The (,fates of Heaven," the text being
Rev. EEL, 18, "On the. East three gates,
on the North three gates. an the South
three gates, on the West three gates."
The Cashmere Gate of Delhi, where
converged a heroism that makes one's
nerves tingle, the Lucknow Gate still
dented and scarred with Sepoy bombard-
ment, the Madeline. Gate with its emblaz
ouryp in bronze, the hundred gates of
Thebes, the wonder of centuries, all go
out of sight before the Gates of my text.
Our subject speaks of a great metrop-
olis, the existence of which many have
doubted. Standing on the wharf and
looking off upon the harbor, and seeing
the merchantmen coming up the bay,
the flags of foreign nations streaming
from the top -gallants, you immediately
make up your mind that those vessels
+some from foreign ports, and you say:
"That is from Hamburg, and that is
from Marseilles, and that is from South-
ampton, and that is from Havana," and
your supposition is accurate. But from
the city of which I am now speaking no
weather beaten merchantmen or frigates
with scarred bulkhead have ever come.
There has been a vast emigration; into
that city, but no emigration from it—so
far as our natural vision can descry.
"There is no such city," says the unde-
vout astronomer, "I have stood in high
towers with a mighty telescope, and have
swept the heavens, and I have seen spots
on the streets, no massive wall. There
is no such city." Even very good people
tell me that heaven is not a material or-
ganism, but a grand spiritual fact, and
that the Bible descriptions of it are in all
cases to be taken figuratively. I bring in
reply to this what Christ said. and He
ought to know "I go to prepare"—not a
theory, not a principle, not a sentiment ;
bat '•I go to prepare a place for you."
The resurrected body implies this. If my
foot is to be reformed from the dust, it
must have something to trea4 on. If my
hand is to be reconstructed, it must have
something to handle. If my eye, having
gone out in death, is to be rekindled, I
mast have something to gaze on. Your
adverse theory seems to imply that the
resurrected body is to be hung on noth-
ing, or to walk in air, or to float amid
the intangibles. You may say if there
be material organisms, then a soul in
he even willbe cramped and hindered in its
enjoyments; but I answer : Did not Adam
and Eve have plenty of room in the gar-
den of Eden? Although only a few miles
would have described the circumference
•of that place, they had ample room. And
do you not suppose that God, in the im-
mensities, can build a place large enough
to give the whole race room,,`.even though
there be material organisms?
Herschel looked into the heavens. As
a Swiss guide puts his Alpine stock be-
tween the glaciers and crosses over from
erag to crag, so Herschel planted his
telescope between the worlds and glided
from star to star, until he could an-
nounce 1 o us that we live in a part of the
universe bat sparsely strewn with worlds;
ani he peers out into immensity until
he finds a region no larger than our solar
system in which there are -fifty thousand
worlds moving. And Professor Lang
-says that, by a philosophic reasoning,
there must be somewhere a world where
there is no darkness, but everlasting sun-
shine ; so that I do not know but it is
simply beeause we have no teleseipe
powerful enough that we cannot see into
the land where there is no darkness at
all, and catch a glimpse of the burnished
pinnacles. As a conquering army,
marching on to take a city, comes at,
nightfall to the crest of a mountain,
from which, in the midst of the land-
scape, they see the etstles they are to
capture, and rein in their war chargers,
and halt to take a good look before they
pitch their tents for the night ; so now,
coming as we do on this mountain top of
prospect, I command this regiment of
God to rein in their thoughts and halt,
and before they pitch their tents for the
night take one good, long look at the
gates of the great city. "On the east
three gates ; on the north three gates ; on
the south three gates ; and on the west
three gates. '
In the first place I want you to exam-
ine the architecture of those gates. Pro-
prietors of large estates are very apt to
have an ornamented gateway. Some-
times they spring an arch of masonry,
the posts of the gate flanked with lions
in statuary ; the brdnze gate a. repre-
sentation of intertwining foliage, bird -
haunted, until the hand of architectural
genius drops exhausted, all its life frozen
into stone. Gates of wood, and iron, and
stone guarded nearly all the old cities.
Moslems have inscribed upon their gate-
ways inscriptions from the Koran of the
Mohammedan. There have been a great
many fine gateways, but Christ sets his
hand to the work, and for the upper city
swung a gate such as no eyes ever gazed
on, untouched of inspiration. 'With the
nail of His own cross He cut into its won-
derful traceries stories of past suffering
and of gladness to come. There is no
wood, or stone, on bronze in that gate,
but from top to base, and from side to
side, it is all of pearl. Not one piece
picked up from Ceylon banks, and ano-
ther piece from the Persian Gulf, and an-
other from the Island of Margarette
but one solid pearl, picked up from the
beach of everlasting light by heavenly
hands, and hoisted, and swung amid the
shouting of angels. The glories of ala-
baster vase and porphry pillar fade out
before this gate Way. It puts out the.
spark of feldspar and diamond. You
know how one little precious stone on
your finger will flash under the gaslight.
But 0 1 the brightness when the great
.gate of heaven swings, struck through
and dripping with the light of eternal
noonday.
Juias Caesar paid a hundred and
twenty-five -five thousand crowns for one
pearl. The Government of Portugal
boasted of having a pearl larger than a
pear, Cleopatra and Philip I. dazzled
the world's vision with precious stones.
But
all these together and - lift
gath r
add to them all the wealth
them
and of
the pearl fisheries and set them in the
panel of one door, and it does not equal
this magnificent gateway. An Almighty
hind hewed this, swung this, polished
this, Against this gateway, on the one
side, dash al, l the splendors of earthly
beauty. Against this gate on the other
side beat the surges of eternal glory,.0!
the g
to . It strikes. an infinite
a a
I gate! .t
the gale
charm throe ever. one that asses it
Oneh
step this side of he gate and we are
paupers, One step: the othe
gate and we are. kings. Tb
earth going through sees in
pearl all his earthly tears in
gate of light 1 gate .of pea
heaven ! for our weary souls
open,
When shall these eyeda thy heaven -b
end pearly gates behold;
Thy bulwarks wit; • salvation strong,
And streets of shining gold?
0 ! heaven' is nota dull place. Heaven
is not a oontraeted place. Heaven is not
a stupid place, "1 saw the twelve gates
and they were twelve pearls."
In the second place I want you to count
the number of those gates. Imperial
parks and lordly manors am apt to have
one expensive gat+way, and the others
are ordinary ; but look around at these
entrances to heaven, and count them.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Hear it
all the earth and all she heavens: Twelve
gates !
I admitthis is rather hard on sharp
sectarianisms ! If a Presbyterian is
bigoted,he brings . his Westminster As-
sembly Oateohism and he makes a gate-
way out of that, • and he says to the world:
"You go through there or stay out." . If
a member of the Reformed Church is
bigoted, he makes a gate out of the Heid-
elberg Catechism and he says : " Yon go
through there or stay out." If a Metho-
dist is bigoted he plants two posts, and.
he says: "Now you crowd in between
those o posts or stay out." Or perhaps
an Episcopalian may say : "Here is a
liturgy out of which I mean to make a
gate ; go through it or stay out." Or a
Baptist may say : "Here is a water -gate ;
you may go through that or you must
stay out." And so in all our churches
and in all denominations there are men
who make one gate for themselvesand
then demand that the world go through
it. I abhor this contractedness in reli-
gious views. Oh ! small-souled man,
:when did God give you the contract for
making gates ? I tell you plainly that I
will not go in that gate. I will go in at
anyone of the twelve gates I choose.
Here is a man who says, "I can more
easily and more closely approach God
through a prayer -book." I say, "My
brother, then use the prayer -book." Here
is a man who says, "I believe there is
only one mode of leaptism, and that is
immersion." Then I say, "Let me plunge
you." Anyhow, I say, away with the
gate of rough panel and rotten posts and
rusty latch, when there are twelve gates
and;they are twelve pearls.
The fact is, that a great many of the
churches in this day are being doctrined
to death. They gave been trying to find
out all God's decrees, and they want to
know who are elected to be saved and
who are reprobated to be damned, and
they are keeping on discussing that sub-
ject when there are millions of souls who
need to have the truth put straight to
them. They sit counting the number of
teeth in the jawbone which Samson slew
the Philistines. They sit on the bench
and see a vessel going to pieces in the of-
fing, and instead of getting into a boat
and pulling away for the wreck, they sit
discussing the different styles of oarlocks.
God intended us to know some things,
and intended us not to know others. I
have heard scores of sermons explanatory
of God's decrees, but came away more
perplexed than when I went. The only
result of sueh discussion is a great fog.
Here are two truths which are to conquer
the world : Man, a sinner—Christ, a
Saviour. Any man who adopts those
two theories in the religious belief shall
have my right hand in warm grip of
Christian brotherhood.
A man comes down to a river in time of
freshet. He wants to get across. He
has to swim. What does he do ? The
first thing is to put off his heavy apparel,
and drop everything ho has in his hands.
He must go empty-handed if he is going
to the other bank. And I tell you when
we have come down to the river of death,
and find it swift and raging, we will have
to put off our sectarianism and lay down
all our cumbrous creed, and empty-
handed, out for the other shore.
"What," you say, "would you resolve
all the Christian church into one kind of
church ? Would you make all Christen-
dom worship in the same way, by the
same forms ?" Oh, no. You might as
well decide that all people shall eat the
same kind of food without reference to
appetite, or wear the same kind of ap-
parel without reference to the shape of
the body. Your ancestry, your tempera-
ment, your surroundings, will decide
whether you go to this or that church,
and adopt this or that church policy.
One -church will best get one man to
heaven, and another church another
man,' I do not care which one of the
gates you go through, if you only go
through one of the twelve gates that
Jesus lifted.
Well, now I see all the redeemed of
earth coming up towards heaven, Do you
th!nk they will get in ? Yes. Gate the
first : the Moravians come up ; they be-
lieved in the Lord Jesus; they pass
through. Gate the second : the Quakers
come up; they have received the inward
light ; they have trusted in the Lord ;
they pass through. Gate the third : the
Lutherans come up ; they have the sam
grace that made Luther what he was, and
they pass through. Gate the fourth : the
Baptists pass through. Gate the fifth
the Free-will. Baptists pass through.
Gate the sixth : the Reformed church
passes through. Gate the seventh : the
Congregationalists pass through. Gate
the eighth : the Episcopalian church
passes through. Gate the tenth : the
Sabbatarians pass through. Gate the
eleventh : the Church of the Disciples
pass through. Gate the twelfth i the
Presbyterians pass through. But
there are a great host of other denomina-
tions who must come in, and great mul-
titudes who connected themselves with
no visible chureh, but felt the power of
godliness in their heart and showed it in
life. Where is their gate? Will you shut
all the remaining host out of the city?
No. They may come in at our gate.
Hosts of God, if you cannot get admission
through any other entrance, come in at
the twelfth' gate. Now they mingle be-
fore the throne. '
Looking up at the one hundred and
forty
and four thousand, you cannot
tell
which gate they came in, One Lord.
One faith One baptism. One glassy sea,
One doxology. One triumph. One hea-
ven ! "Why, Luther, how did you get
in ?" "1 came through ugh• the third gate."
"Cranmer, how did you get in?" "I came
through the eighth gate." 'Adoniram
Judson. how did you get through?" "l
came through the fourth gate." "Ilugh
McKail, the martyr, how, did you get
through?" "I came through the twelfth
ato." Glory to God ! tw 1
g y G calveg ates, but
one heaven,
In the third place, Notice the points of,
the (sem
pass toward which these gates
look. • 'They are not on one side, or on
two sides, or on three sides, but on. four
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find a gate right
plucked bananas undo
tl'hose shot across Russian = ows behind
reindeer. From Mexican ,plateau, from
Roman Campania, from Chinese . tea -
field, from Holland dyke, from Scotch
highlands they come, they come. Hea-
ven is not a monopoly for a few precious
souls. It is not a Windsor castle, built
only fir royal families. It is not a small
town with small population, but John
saw it, and he noticed that an angel was
measuring it, and he measured it this
way, and then he measured it that way,
and whichever way he measured it it was
fifteen hundred miles ; so that Babylon
and Tyre and Ninevek, and St. Peters-
burg, and Canton, and Pekin and Paris,
and London and New York, and all the
dead cities of the past and all the living
cities of the present added together
would not equal the census of that great
metropolis.
Walking along a street, you Dau, ly
the contour of the dress, or of the face,
guess where a man comes from. You
say : "That is a Frenehman ; that is a
Norwegian ; that is an American." But
the gates that gather in the righteous
will bring them in irrespective of nation-
ality. Foreigners sometimes get home-
sick. Some of the tenderest and most
pathetio stories have been told of those
who left their native clime, and longed
for it until they died. But the Swiss,
Doming to the high residence of heaven,
wi'li not long any more for the Alps,
standing amid the eternal hills. The
Russian will not long any more for the
luxuriant harvest field he left, now that
he hears the hum and the rustle of the
harvests of everlasting light. The royal
ones from earth will not long to go bask
again to the earthly eourt now that they
stand in the palaces of the sun. Those
who once lived among the groves of spice
and oranges will not long to return now
that they stand under the trees of life
that bear twelve manner of fruit.
While I speak an ever increasing
throng is pouring through the gates.
They are going up from Senegambia,
from Patagonia, from Madras, from
Hong Kong. "What?" you say, "Do
you introduce all the heathen into
glory ?" I tell you the fact is that a
majority of the people in those climes
die in infancy, and the infants all go
straight into eternal life, and so the
vast majority of these who die in
China and India, the vast majority of
those who die in Africa, go straight into
the skies—they die in infancy. One hun-
dred and sixty generations have been
born since the world was created, and so
I estimate that there must be fifteen
thousan i million children in glory. If
at a concert two thousand children sing,
your soul is raptured within you. 0 ! the
transport when fifteen thousand million
little ones stand up in white before the
throne of God, their chanting drowning
out the stupendous harmonies of Dussel-
dorf and Leipsic. Pour through the
twelve gates, 0! ye redeemed ! banner
lifted, rank after rank, saved battalion
after saved battalion, until all the city of
God shall hear the tramp, tramp. Crowd
all the twelve gates. Room yet. Boone
on the thrones. Room in the mansions.
Room on the river bank. Let the tram -
pet of invitation be sounded until earth's
maintains hear the shrill blast and the
glens echo it. Let missionaries tell it in
pagoda, and colporteurs sound it across
the Western prairies. Shout it to the
Laplander on his swift sled; halloo it to
the Bedouin careering across the desert.
News! News! A glorious heaven and
twelve gates to get into it ! Hear it ! 0
you thin -blooded nations of eternal win-
ter—on the north, three gates ! Hear it!
0 you bronzed inhabitants panting under
equatorial heats—on the south, three
gates.
Uncommon :Solicitude For His Wife.
Thomas Stott, whose will disposing of
an estate valued at $2,000 was admitted
to probate, devised Mall to his wife, and.
imposed the following restriction : "The
only condition imposed is that my be-
loved wife, Maria Stott, shall not remarry
after my decease, but remain forever
after my widow. Should this injunction
be disobeyed, that is should she remarry,
this my last will and testament, will be•
come null and void in so far as her in,
terest is concerned, and I charge my ex-
ecutor or executors with the task of see-
ing that the benefits I desire her to enjoy
from the proceeds of my estate on con-
dition of her remaining my widow shall
be equally divided, share and share alike
among my children living at the time she
may remarry."
In the following paragraph the testator
wrote : "'The object of my life is that
after my decease I sincerely hope that
nothing may occur that will barrass or
make the remaining days of my beloved
wife, Maria Stott, anything but days of
pleasure and comfort, hence the imposi
tion of the foregoing named condition. I
am impelled to throw this safeguard
around her through a deep sense of the
many good qualities of my beloved wife
after a long and happy married life, in
which I have invariably proved her to be
my best counselor and faithful helpmeet,
and I am consequently animated with a
most sincere desire that after I have
passed away she may be enabled to spend
the remainder of her days in peace and
quietness. Having full confidence in her
wise discretion and sterling good sense
that she will make a proper use of the
benefits this instrument is intended to
confer upon her I hereby appoint as
executor Thomas B. Shore to see that
these, my intentions, are carried into
effect:"
The idea is being considered to unite
all the women's clubs in Kentucky in a
stook eompaay for the erection of a hand-
some "woman's building" in Lexington.
only since last year, when the Kentucky
F cal Rights Association secured the new
property laws, has such a project been.
possible in Kentucky. Women could
have built the building -before then, but
oul'i nut have held the title.
the.. c n
Nw
y
Kentucky women own their own bui)a.
!riga and their ex n pocketbooks, too.
WHAT ARE THE
GAVE rn i ?
ary surgeon to
ent, communi-
ole on the ,great-
s. After specifying
anees from which to
of diet for the sick hers°,
an, carrots, oatmeal, linseed,
,;the writer continues
"Bran stands deadedly foremost as
the food most generally in use for the
invalid horse. It acts as a laxative, is
fro quenly temping to the appetite and
easy of digesti n. There is no part of
the general treatment more universal
than offering this substance as a change
of food. " Is the horse very weary and
his powers weakened in consequence ?
We induce him to take a warm bran
mash, which comfortably distends the
stomach and satisfies any craving for
food, thereby enabling him to lie down
and rest his enfeebled system until re-
pose restores its wonted vigor. Does he
show slight symptoms of gold or fever ?
A warm bran mash is a convenient plan
of steaming, and oonsequently of Booth-
ing the irritable mucous membrane of
the air passages. It is a substitute for
the more stimulating diet he is accus-
tomed to and gently promotes the activi-
ty of the digestive apparatus ; it is also
a convenient medium for the partaking
of certain simple remedies. A lower
diet than that with which he is indulged
wnen in full work is judicious and bran
is selected.
"Is it necessary to administer purga-
tive medicine ? A bran mash renders
the bowels more susceptible of its action,
and a smaller portion of the drug is
therefore required to produce the desired
effect, and there is at the same time, less
risk of painful spasms accompanying its
operations. Bran mashes may be given
not or cold—cold are perhaps quite as
grateful. to the horse—but the nibbling
of the hot mash in catarrhal affections is
particularly beneficial, from the neces-
sary inhalation of the steam.
"Of all the roots with which horses are
tempted, the carrot, as a rule, is the fa-
vorite, and perhaps the most beneficial.
It is said to be somewhat diuretic in its
effects and to exercise a salubrious influ-
ence on the skin. Certain it is that a
sick horse may be coaxed into eating
carrots when disinclined to partake of
other nourishment, with the greatest
beneficial results. For the ailing horse,
then, carrots are most valuable as an ar-
ticle of diet, and a few may be given
with advantage to a horse in a healthy
condition.
"Oatmeal is extremely nutritious, and
as a food for the convalescent horse is
most valuable. The bruising process the
grain has undergone breaks the husk and
renders it more easily acted upon by the
digestive organs. It is usually given in
the form of gruel, and in that form it is
one of the most essential articles of diet
for the infirmary. It is also a ready
mode of supplying the tired, thirsty
h•trse with nourishment after exertion,
when he returns to the stable.
"Linseed is decidedly to be included in
the sick diet roll. • It is nutritious, and
from its oleaginous nature soothing to
the' frequently irritable mucous mem-
brane of the alimentary canal, and hence
is particularly to be recommended in the
treatment of sore throats. Nor is its
bland effect local only. Its more general
infinence is particularly observable in
affections of the kidneys. It may either
be boiled, so as to form when cool a gela-
tinous mass, and then mixed with bran,
or the liquid, after boiling, may be offer-
ed as a drink.
"Grass, hay, tea, etc., are also very
useful in the treatment of disease, and
should be used in connection with other
remedies."
LIVE STOOK POINTS,
A calf is a calf until it is a year old.
Then it becomes a yearling.
All horses should be broken to drive in
either single or double harness before they
are offered for sale.
Pat female animals near the time of
parturition away by themselves. The
event throws the other animals into a
state of nervous excitement.
A horse dealer says that a carriage
animal broken so that he is en; irely safe'
for a lady to drive brings from 25 to 50
per cent. more money than one that can-
not thus be warranted.
The livest and most paying branch of
stock raising at present is the hog busi-
ness. The high price, of a year ago still
prevail to some extent.
When you give ground feed. mix al-
ways a little chopped hay, straw or corn
fodder with it. Thfs gives the fine food
the proper bulk and roughness and keeps
it from packing in the animal's stomach.
Do not feed sows very heavily imme-
diately after farrowing. It stimulates
the flow of milk so that this sometimes
becomes eongested in the glands and
dries up partially. Begin light and
gradually increase the quantity.
When you are educating a colt, lead
him up to baby wagons and make him
smell them. Haut them about where he
can see them. Do the same with umbrel-
las. Let him see t ne closed. Then open
it and let him lee it and smell it. Then
wave it open before his oyes. Then open
and shut it in his face, gently at first,
then suddenly. Walk around him with
it open. That colt will never afterward
sears at an umbrella. A horse can alio
be•nead° familiar with a train of cars so
that he will not mind it at all.
The number of hackney horses in
America is . rapidly increasing, and the
collection at the New York horse show
was the finest ever seen in this country.
It is said to be one of the best ever dis-
played in the world. The famous old
Matchless of Londesboro was the hackney
that attracted most ha a os attention
Matchless
is now ton years old. Like most stallions,
his temper does not improve with age,
He is still, however, the best known sire
America, Some me of hisown •
colts are,
°
pushing him hard in this respect, though,
one of them beingEnthor a Performer,
who won the bluribbon at the New York
horse show,
A DUCK FARMER.
Mr. A, J, Balloek, of the Atlantic cluck
farm, Speonk, N.Y., raised about forty
four tons of ducks the past year. '1'0
think of'tli,t amount of careesees goin;r
into market would e a m
1 ost
venture
the idea that there was a regular clot;
but when itis known that about 8),000
•
ducltlings are annually marketed from
Long Island and all shipped to. New York,
in addition to tons upon tons received
frola other locations, ono is almost dazed
at the enormous amount of duck eating
people in the east.
At the last killingday a regular gal-
lows was erected rom the top beam
dangled a dozen cords. On the ground
lay a heavy log, to which were secured
an equal number of cords with books at
each end.
When ready, Bruno, a trained Scotch
dog, was ordered to go out into the water
and chase up the desired flock of birds.
This done, a temporary fence was placed
about the flock, and Mr. Halloek began
the work of overhauling them. In this
he proved himself to be an expert. Hav-
ing annually sorted over thousands of
birds, he is at once able to tell which are
ready to be slaughtered and which should
go another week.
After the overhauling the executioner
grabbed up four birds in each hand,
which he easily carried by the necks to
a box. Then picking up two and placing
their necks under his left arm he took up
the third, which he fastened to the cord
hangingthfrom the beam. Having a slip
loap, a feet were easily adjusted. Then
the hook on the cord from the log was
fastened in the nostrils. So on each one
was adjusted until the entire number of
cords were used.
Taking a pointed and sharp knife in
his right hand, the exeeutioner opened
the duck's mouth with his left hand, and
by a quick move severed the two jugular
veins ; then he passed to the second, and
so on until the entire number of birds
were bled.
When over their flopping, they were
taken down, and after the thick blood
was shaken from their mouths they were
placed on a platform so that the bills
could lay in a trough of water. Then
with a brush all the blood was washed
out of the mouth, and they were ready
for the pickers.
In the picker room were busily engag-
ed a lot of women and girls who took
charge of the birds from the time the
executioner cleaned off the blood. Each
picker dipped her own bird in the scald-
ing water, removed the rough feathers,
then gave another dip in water, cleaning
with a sponge, and the final work of re-
moving the" pinfeathers stilt rernaintd.
From the picker they went, into cooling
vats, winding up, when thoroughly
frozen, by being packed in barrels with
cracked ice.
Justice Oas Eone the Horse.
"Shadow of Mahomed?" exclaimed the
cacti, " Mustapha, is that a real horse?"
•`!t is a real horse.: may it please your
highness, and what is more wonderful, a
horse that can talk."
•'Allah Kebur-Gode.is meat powerful.
What does the animal want?"
"Justice, oh, great cacti," exclaimed
the horse, in the purest Arabic. " I am
told that even a horse may obtain justice
at your hands."
"Right you are. But what is your
grievance ?"
"It is this, oh, sire. Know that I was
owned by a master who loved me and
whom I served well. But he became poor,
and was forced to sell me to what is call-
ed an Ang'omaniac. I had not been long
his, when, one day, he brought a 'eruel-
looking man t , the stable, and after lock-
ing the doors threw me down, fastened
my legs. and then, with a pair of shears.
cut of the vertelaxui of my tail, and then
stopped the bleeding by searing the end
of it with a red-hot iron, thus causing
the most awful agony."
"Why did they do this ?"
"I do not know, unless their eyes and
mind are diseased."
"But it seems to have healed up all
right now."
"True, your Highness. But my flow-
ing tail was not only a thing of beauty—
it was of use."
"Without my tail my tender legs and
flanks are exposed to the merciless at,
tacks of horse flies, who sting and bite
unmercifully, and I have no defence
against them. In hot weather, when the
heat alone is torment, my lite is one con-
stant round of torture."
-Allah—God forgive me ! but this is
most cruel Justice shall be done.
Mustapha, do you know the Angloman-
iac?"
"I do, your Highness. The Giaour is
one of what they call the 'four hundred,'
and is one of the loudest psalm• singers,
besides being a member of Anthony Com-
stock's society, of Sheikh Gerry's so-
ciety, and a trustee of two or three hos-
pitals."
"Seek him out then, Mustapha, convey
him to a cell, remove his garments and
tie his hands and legs. Then heat the
cell to a hundred degrees 'and close the
door tight, having firstreleased in . it
three or four score business -like horse-
flies. Three months hence call my at-
tention to his case, and I will tell you
what further to do."
"It is well, your Highness," replied
Mustapha, as he departed to earry out
the sentence.
"'May your Highness'' shadow never be
less," said the horse ; " your highness
must come of the stook of Solomon the
wise."
Students Who «Moved.” '
Fifty years ago the family of a noted
theological seminary announced that by
order of the General Assembly students
must preach their sermons, and not read
them, as no student would be allowed to
take his manuscript to the pulpit. It
was the custom then for each member of
the senior class to deliver, during the
term, one discourse for the criticism of
his ,fellow -students and the presiding pro-
fessor.
It happened that the first student to
preach after the promulgation of the rule
was a young man noted for his self-con-
fidence and self-assertion, but to the sur-
prise of all present, his voice trembled as
he gave out his text—the absence of the
manuscript had made him fearful of fail-
ure—Acts 20 24 : "But none of these
things move me," Then there was a
pause which indicated mental confusion,
"None of these things move m4," he re-
peated, with stammering tongue, and
again there was a solemn pause.
Gathering him f
up
for a final
effort
he shouted, nervously, "None of these
things move me
:,
g v ! and stood, unable to
utter another word, -
"Pray, sir, ?" t v y
who will move on
asked the professor.
The young man Moved rapidly down
the t ter i
h p pi steers, s, am d the laughter of the
students. The witty question seemed
cruel, but it was the out of a moral sur-
geon who knew what he was about. From
that evening the student began to culti-
vate humility,
' Tho Presbyterian Banner tells of at -
other theological studentwho was also.
"moved" by the presence of extempor-
aneous
c t mpoi-
aneous discourse,
It is said that the late Mr. Spurgeon
was in the habit of testing the ability
and, self-possession of the theological
students under his care and instruction
by sending them up into the pulpitwith
a sealed envelope in their hands, con-
taining the text of the sermon or address.
each one was to deliver on the spur of the
moment.
On one of these occasions the student,
on opening the paper, found this subject
and direction given him :
"Apply the story of Zaecbeus to your
own circumstances and your call to the
ministry." And ,the student promptly
delivered himself in the following way :
"My brethren, the subject on which I
have to address you to day is a eompari
son between Zaeeheus and my qualifioa-
tions.
"Well, the first thing we read about
Zacoheus is that he was small of stature;
and I never felt so small as I do now.
"In the second plane, we read that he
was up in a tree, which is very much my
position now.
"And, thirdly, we read that Zaeeheus
made haste to come down ; and in this I
gladly and promptly follow his example."
About the Way of It.
The two girls were walking along
Avenue road talking about their best
young men, of course. At least ono of
them was. -
"Charlie was up to see me last night,"
she said with a twitter,
"That's twice in a week, isn't it?" in-
quired the other.
"Yes," and she blushed and giggled.
suppose he'll come three times in the
next week ?"
"I suppose so."
"And four times the next.?"
"That's what brother says."
"And five times the next?"
"That's what sister says."
"And six times the next?"
"That's what aunty says."
"And seven times the next ?"
"That's what papa says."
"And then what?"
"Then v e'll get married ; that's wLat
everybody says."
"And then what ?"
`'Then I won't see him any more of an
evening ; that's what mamma says."
Az, AnoieutPi'..
Let us not forget that to -day is the an-
niversary of the death of air. Theodore
Mayerne, physician to James I. and
Charles I. He amassed a prodigious deal
of wealth and arote the great cook look
of the seventeenth century. Here is his
recipe for "A City of London Pie" :
`•'fake 8 marrow bones 18 sparrows, one
pound of potatoes, a quarter of a pound
of eringoes, two ounces of lettuce stalks,
40 chestnuts, half a pond of date.., a
peck of oysters, a quarter of a pound r
preserved citron, 8 artichokes, 16 egg-; 2
sliced lemons, a handful of picked bar -
berries, a quarter of an ounce of whole -
pepper, half an ounce of sliced nutmeg,
half an ounc of whole cinnamon, a
quarter of an ounce of whole cloves, half
an ounce of mace, and a quarter of a.
pound of currants. Liquor when it is
baked with ' white wine, butter and
sugar."
A Married Man's Rights.
"I say," said a friend the other day,
"you are an old hand at it.. 1 have only
just got married, and I don't understand
much about the business. I should like
to know whether a married man has any
rights left when he takes unto himself a
wife ?"
"Rights? Yes, lots. Ho has a right
to pay all the bills."
`Stop ! I mean this. Let me give you
an instance. Every box, every chest of
drawers and: portmanteau, and, in fact,
every available receptacle of every de-
scription is stuffed full of my wife's pro-
perty, and when I want to put away a
few cuffs and collars-- "
-Hold hard. I know what you mean.
Listen, young man. If your bedroom
were 200 yards long, lined from the floor
to the•eeiling with shelves, and you want-
ed a place to stow away a couple of
shirts. you couldn't find a nook that
wasn't full of hairpins, 'old' false frox,ts,
scent bottles, odd gloves, powder puffs,
lit le bits of tape, so just accept the in
vitals]'. Wrap your personal preperty
in an old newspaper parcel and hide it
under the bed."
He grinned ironically; but primed on, &
sadder and wiser man.
When Baby was sick, we gave her (Astoria.
When oho wee a Child, the oriod for Castoria.
When the boeme Mar, the clang to Castoff
When she had Children, she gave them Casnada.
Berlin has direct telephone connections
with 250 localities. Communicltion by
this means has reached a higher state of
development in Germany than in any
other country. The capital alone has
22,070 subscribers, nearly as many as the
whole of France,
"I don't see," said the justice, -"why
this man should be prosecuted."
"For false pretences, your honor," re-
plied the lawyer.. "He sold the major a
whole barrel of whiskey, and though be
has been drinking steadily from it for
three weeks he ain't drunk yet !"
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