The Exeter Advocate, 1895-11-22, Page 7THE BANQUET OF SIN
OR. TALMAGE'S LESSON FROM
THE FEAST OF BELSHAZZAR,
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'Weighed in the latittatee and Pound 'Want,
ing-anteemiclatnness or God's judgments
--A Thought as to Venus of Prayer -Tatou
and Live.
'Washington, NOT, 10.- Since his coming
to Washington Dr. Talmage's pulpit ex-
perience has been a remaltable one. Not
only has the church in which he preaches
been filled, but the andienoes have over-
flowed into tho adjoining streets to an ex-
tent that has rendered them impassable.
, 'Similar scenes were enacted at toelay's
services, when the preacher took for his
.etibject, "Handwriting on the Wall," the
text chosen being Daniel v, 80. "in that
night was Belshazzar, the King a the
Chaldean% slain." ,
Night Was about to come down on J3abys
Ion. The shadows of her 250 towers began
- to lengthen. The Euphrates rolled on,
at' embed by the fiery splendors of the set-
a ting sun, and the gates of brass, burnish-
ed and, glittering, openedand shut like
doors a Daum The hanging gardens of
Babylon, wet with the heavy clew, began
. to pour from starlit flowers and dripping
leaf a fragrance for Many miles around.
The streets and squares were lighted for•
dance and frolic and promenade. The
theaters and galleries of art invited the
wealth and pomp and grandeur of the oftY
to rare entertainmeots. Scenes of riot and
wassail were mingled in every street, hnd
godless mirth and outrageous excess and
splendid wickedness eame to the king's
palace to do their mightiest deeds of dark-
ness.
' A royal feast to -night at the king's pal-
aoe I Hushing up to the gates ate 6harlots,
upholstered with precious cloths from
Dedan and drawn by fire eyed horses frem
Togarmah, that rear and neigh in the
grasp of the charioteers, while a thousand
lords dismount and women dressed in all
the splendors of Syrian emerald, and the
color blending of agate, and the chasteness
of coral, and the somber glory of Tyrian
purple, and princely embroideries brought
from afar by camels across the desert and,
by ships of Tarshish aoross the sea.
Open wide the`gates and let the guests
come in. The chamberlains and oup bear-
ers are all ready. Hark to the rustle of the
silks, and to the carol of the music! See
. the blaze of the jewels! Lift the banners.
Fill the elms. Clap the cymbals. Blow
the trumpets. Let the night go by with
song end dance and ovation, and let the
Babylonish tongue be palsied that will not
say, "0 King Belshazzar, live forever!"
Ah, my friends, it was not any common
banquet to which these great poeple came.
_A.11 parts of the earth had sent their richest
viands to that table. Brackets and chan-
deliers flashed their light upon tankards of
burnished gold. Fruits'ripe and lusctiotis,
in baskets of silver, intwined with leaves,
. plucked from royal conservatories. Vases,
inlaid with emerald and ridged with ex-
quisite traceries'tilled with nuts that were
-. thrashed from forests of distant lands.
ing in the decanters and bubblingin the ' Wine orought froin the royal vats, foam-
ohalioes. Tufts of cassia and frankincense
wafting their sweetness from wall and
" table. Gorgeous banners unfolding in the
• _breeze that came through the open win-
dow, bewitched with the perfumes of
, hanging gardens. Fountains rising up
la • from inolosures of ivory, in jets of crystal,
t to fall in clattering rain of diamonds and
s i pearls. Statues of mighty men looking
• . down from niches in the wallupon crowns
and shields brought from subdued em-
. pins, Idols of wonderful work standing
on pedestals of precious stones. Em-
broideries stooping about the windows and
wrapping pillars of cedar, and drifting on
door inlaid with ivory and agate. Music,
mingling the thrum of harps, and the
clash of cymbals, and the blast of trum-
pets in one wave of transport that went
• Tippling alone the wall and breathing
among the garlands and pouring down the
corridors and thrilling the souls of a thous-
and banqueters. The signal is given,
and the lords and ladies, the naighty men
and women of the land, come around the
table. Pour out the wine. Let foam and
bubble kiss the rim! Hoist everyone his
eup and drink to the sentiment. "0 King
Belshazzar, live forever!" 13estarred head
band and careanet of royal beauty gleam
to the uplifted chalices, as again and again
and again they are emptied. .Away with
case from the palace! Tear royal dignity
to tatters . Pour out more wine! Give us
moreaight, wilder In usic, sweeter per-
tunael Lord shouts to lord, captain ogles
to captain. Goblets clash; decanters rattle.
There oomo in the obscene song, and the
drunken hiccough, and the slavering lip,
and the guffaw of idiotic laughter, burst-
ing from the lips of maims, flushed, reel-
ing bloodshot; while an bilging with it all I
hear, "Huzza, Mazza! for great Belshaz-
zar!"
' What is that on the plastering of the
wall? Is it a spirit? Is it a phantom? Is it
God? The mnsio stops. The goblets fall
froln the nerveless grasp. There is a
thrill. There is a start. There is a thous -
meta and -voiced shriek of horror .Let Daniel
be brought in to read that writing. He
emnes in, He reads it-" Weighed in the
balance and found wanting."
Meanwhile the Modes, who for two years
'had boon laying •siege to Met city, took
' advantage of that carousal and came in. I
tear the foot of the conduerors on the pal-
. ace stairs. Massacre rushes in with a
. thotisand gleaming knives. Death bursts
upon the scene, and I shut the door of
4'
tihat banqueting hall, for I do not want to
Jook. There is 'nothing there but torn
banners, and broken wreaths, and the
slush of upset eankards, and the blood of
tuurdered weiten, and Oho kicked and
tumbled carcass of a clead king. For "in
that night was Belshazzar, the king of the
Chaldeatts, slain,• !
I go on to Math smile lessons from all
this I learn that when God writes any-
' thing on the walla man had better teed it
as it is Daelol did not tnisinterpret or
modify the handwriting on the Wall. It
is all foolishness to expeet a minister of
•tho gospel to preach always things thet the
people like or the people choose Young
•reen of Washington, what shall I preach
to you to -night? Shall I tell you of the
dignity of human nature' Shall I tell you
.of the wonders that our race has accom-
plishodP "Oh, no!" you say, "Toll me
the Inoseage that came from Grod," I will.
If there is any handsvriting on the wall,
it is this lesson: "Repent! Accept of
. Christ and be sated I." I might talk of a
... great many other things, but that is the
Message, and so Idealise° it. jesus never
%lettered those to %atone he preaches • He
• said to those who did wrong, and who
Woro Offensive in his sight, " 5. e.generation
•Of vipers, te whited septdenets, how oat
yo ethepe the damnation of hell!? Paul
the apostle preached borate a man who
was not teady to heat him preach, What
subject did he take? Did he say, "Oh,
YOu are a good 'nom a very fine mail, a
Vety noble Irian?" No; he preached Of'
• itighteensneas to a man Who was tuirighte
catA
thus, of temperance to a Man who Was h
victim of bad. appetites, of judgment to
mute to a man WhO Was unlit for it. ,Fio
We Must always declare the nteetage that
happens to come to us. Daniel must read,
it as 18 18. •
A. Minister preached before jaanes 1, of
Englaod, who was james VL of Scot-
land, What subject did he take? The
king was noted all over the world for
being unsettled and wavering in hie
ideas. What did the minister preach
about to this man who was James I. of
Euglaud and James VI. of Sootland? lEre
took for his text James '1,0: "He that
Wayereth is like a wave of the sea dalVen
with the wind and tossed." Hugh Lati-
mer offended the king by a sermon he
preached, and the king said, "Hugh
Latimer, came and apologize,'' "I will,"
said Hugh Latimer. So the day was
appoiated, and the king's chapel was full
of lords and dukes and the mighty men
and women of the county, for Hugh
Latimer was to apologize. He began his
sermon by saying: "Hugh Letinter, be-
think thse I Thou art in the presence of
thine earthly king, who can destroy thy
body. But bethink thee, Hugh Latimer,
that thou art in the peesenee of the king
of heaven and earth, who can destroY
both body and soul in hell fire." Then
he preached with appalling directness at
the king's crimes.
Another lesson that comes to us to-
night: There is a great difference be-
tween the opening of the banquet of sin
and its close. Young inan, if you had
looked in on the banquet in the first few
hours you would have wished you had
been invited there, and could sit at the
feast. "Oh, the grandeur of Beishaztoar's
feast!" you would have said, but you
look in at the close of the banquet and
your blood curdles with horror. The
king of terrors lias there a ghastlier ban-
quet; human blood is the wine and dying
groans are the music. Sin has inade it-
self a king in the earth. It has crowned
itself. It has spread a banquet. It invites
all the world so oome to it. It has hung
in its bent:meting halls the spoils of all
kingdoms, and the banners of all nations.
It has gathered from all music. 11 has
strewn, from its tvoelth, the tables and
floors and arches. And yet how often is
that banquet broken up, and how hor-
rible is its end! Ever and anon there is
a handwriting on the wall. A king Mlle.
A great culprit is aTrosted. The knees of
wickedness knock together. God's judg-
ment, like an armed host, brooks in
upon the banquet, and that night is Bel-
shazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, slain.
Heim is a young man who -says: "I can-
not see why they make such a fuss about
the intoxicating cup. Why, it is exhila-
rating! It tnakes me feel well. I oau talk
better, think better, feel better. I cannot
see why people have swan a prejudice
against it." A few years pass on, and
he wakes up and finds himself in the
clutches of an evil habit which he tries
to break, but cannot, and he cries out,
"0 Lord God, help me!" It seems as
though God would not hear his prayers,
•'end in an agony of body and soot he cries
out, "Is biteth like a serpent, and it
stingeth like an adder." How briget it
Was at the start! Hotedblauk it was at
the last!
Here is a man who begins to read loose
novels.. "They are so charming," he
says. "I will go out and see for myself
whether all these things are so." tie
opens the gate of a sintul life. He goes
in. A. sinful sprite meets him with her
wand. She waves her wand and it is all
enchantment. Why, it seems as if the
angels of God had poured out vials of
perfume in the atmosphere. .As he walks
on he finds the hills becoming more radi-
ant with foliage and the ravines more
resonant with the falling water. Oh,
what a ebanning landscape he sees! But
that sinful sprite, with her wand, meets
him again. But now she reverses the
wand, and all the enchantment is gone.
The cup is full of poison. The fruit turns
to asbes. All the leaves of the bower are
forked tongues of hissing serpents. The
flowing fountains fall back in a dead
pool stenchful with corruption. The
luring songs become curses and screams
of demoniac laughter. Lost spirits gather
about Min and feel for Ids heart and
beckon him on evich "Hail, brothel.'
Hail, blasted spirit, hail!" •ajo tries to
get out. He comes to the trent door
where he entered and tries to push it
back, but the door turns against him,
and in the jar of that shutting door he
hears those words, '"This oiget 13 Bel-
shazzar, the king of the Chaldeans.
slain." Sin may open bright as the
morning. It ends dark as the night!
I learn further from this subject that
death sometimes breaks in upon a ban-
quet, Why did he not go down to the
prisons in Babylon?. There were people
there that would like to have died. I
suppose there were men and women in
torture in that city who would have
welcomed death, but he comes to the
palace and just at the time when the
mirth is dashing to the tip-top pitch,
death breaks in at the banquet. We have
often seen the same thing illustrated.
1.Tere is a young man just come from eel.
lees. He is kind. He is loving. He is
eahusiastic. He is eloquent. By one
spring he may bound to heights toward
which many men have been struggling
for years. A profession opens before him
He is established in the law. His friends
cheer him. Eminent men encourage him.
After awhile you may see him standing
In the American senate, or moving a
popular assemblage by his eloquence, as
trees are moved in a whirlwind. Some
night he retires early. A fever is on him.
Delirium, like a reckless charioteer,seizes
the reins of his intellect. Father and
mother stand by and see the tidos of his
life going out to the great ocean. The
banquet is coming to an end. The lights
of thought and mirth and elo-
quence are being extinguished. The
garlands are snatched from the brow.
The vision is gone., Death at the ban-
quet I
We saw the same thing, on a larger
scale, illustrated in our civil war. Our
whole nation bad been sitting at a nation-
al banquet -north, south, east, and west.
What grain was there but we grew it on
our hills*? What invention was there but
our rivers must turn the now wheel and
rattle the strange elnittlet What warm
Ears but our traders anust being them
from the Arctic?' What fish but our nets
must sweep thorn for the markets? What
music but it must sing in our halls?
What Wog:meow but it must speak in
our senates? Ho, to tho national banquet,
reaching frona nuointain to mountain
and from sea to seal To prepare that ban-
quet the sheepfolds and thwaviaries of
the country sent their best treastires.
The orchards piled up on tho tribtee their
sweet fruits. The presses burst out with
beW Whim, Moat at that table canto the
yeontahry of Now Hampshire, and the
lumberrhen or Maine, and the Carolinian
from the rico plantation, and the Western
einigtant from the pines of Oregon, and
We were all brothera-brothers at a ban-
quet. Suddenly the feast cadet', What
meant those =male thrOvva Ilp at
Cbieklutianga, Shiloh'Min
atee GOttYae
burg, South • Mottataint Wbat meant
those goldep grain flolde, turned into a
pasturing ground for cavalry horses?
What meant, tho oorutields gullied with
the wheele of tlie heavy Supply train?
Why those rivers of tears -those lakes of
blood? God was angry I Justise must;
come. A. handwriting on the wall! The
nation had beep weighed and found
wanting. Darkness! Darkiaessl Woe to
the north 1 Woe to the south! Woe te
the east 1 Woe to the west! Dermal at the
banquet,
I have also to leant float the subject
that the destruction of the vioious, and
of those wbo despise God, will be yory
Sadden. The wave of mirth had dashed
to the highest point when the invading
army broke through. It was unexpected.
Suddenly, almost always, comes the
iloom or those who despise God and defy
the laWs of mem How Was it at the
deluge? Do you suppose it came through
a long north-east storm, so that pelage
for days before were sure it was coining?
No. I suppose the incoming 'wets bright;
that -calmness brooded on the waters;
that beauty sat enthroned on the hills,
wben 'suddenly the beaveuS bursts and
the mountains sank like mothers into
the sea that dashed clear over the Andes
and tho
The Red Sea was divided. The Egypt-
ians tried to °rose it. There could be no
clangor. • The Istaelttes had just gone
through. Where they had gone, way not
the Egyptians? Oh, it was such a beau-
tiful walking -place! A pavemene of
tinged shells and pearls, and ou either
side two great walls of water -solid.
There eau be no danger. Forward, great
host of the Egyptians! Clap the cymbals
and blow the trumpets of victory! Atter
them! We will catch them yet, and they
shall be destroyed. But the walls begin
to !tremble! They rock! They fall!
The rushing waters! The shriek of
drowning mon! The swimming of the
war horses in vain for the shore! The
strewiug of•the great host on the bottom
of the sea or pitched by the • angry wave
on the beiteh-a battered, bruised and
loathsome wreck! Suddenly destruction
came. One-half hour before they could
Dat have believed it. Destroyed, and
without remedy.
I am just setting forth a fact which
you have noticed as well as I. Ananias
comes to the apostle. The apostle says, •
"Did you sell the land for so much?"
He says, "Yes." It was a lie. Dead, as
quick as that! Sapphire, his wife, emnes
in. "Did you sell the land for so much?"
"Yes." It was a lie, and quick as that
she was dead! God's judgments are aeon
those who despise him and defy htm.
They come suddenly.
The destroying angel went through
Egypt. Do you suppose that any of the
,people knew that he was coming? Did
they hear the flap of his great wine No!
Nol Suddenly, unexpectedly he came.
Skilled sportsmen do not like to shoot
a bird standing on a sprig near by. If
they are skilled they pride themselves on
taking it on the wing. and they wait till
it starts. Death is an old sportsman, and
he loves to take men flying under the
very sun. He laves to take them on the
wing. Oh, flee to God this night! If there
be one in this presence who has wander-
ed far away from Christ, though he may
DOS have heard the call of the gospel for
many a year; I invite him now to come
and be saved. Flee from thy sin! Flee
to the stronghold of the gospel Now is
the accepted time. Now isthe day of
salvation.
Good -night, my young friends: May
you have rosy sleep, guarded by hfm who
never slumbers! May you awake in the
morning strong and well! But, oh, art
thou a despiser of God? Is this thy last
night on earth? Shoula'st thoaI be
awakened in the night by something,
thou knowest not what, and there be
shadows floating in the room, and a
handwriting ,on the wall, and you feel
that your last ho•ur is corae, and there be
ti fainting at the'heart. and a treinor in
the limb, and a catching of the breath -
then thy (Mont would be but an echo of
the word of the text, "In that night was
Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans,
silOtilt," that my Lord Jesus would now
make himself so attractive to your souls
that you cannot resist him, and if you
have never prayed before or have not
prayed since those clays when you knelt
down at your mother's knee, then that to-
night yeti might pray, saying:
Just as 1 atm without one plea
. But that thy blood was shed for me,
And that thou bid'st me come to thee,
0 Lamb of God I come 1
But if You cannot think of so long a
prayer as that, I will give you a shorter
prayer that you clan say, "God be mercie
ful to ine, a sinner!" Or if you cannot
think of so long a prayer as that, I will'
giVe you a still shorter one that you may.
utter, "Lord, save me, or I perish!" Or,
if that be too long a prayer, you need not
mate it. 'Use the word "Help" Or, if
that be too long a word you need not use
any word at all. Just look and live!
A Glass of Water at Bedtime.
The human body is constantly under-
going tissue change. Water has the power
of increasing these tissue changes which
multiply the waste products, but at the
same time they ane renewed by its agency,
giving rise to increased appetite, which in
turn provides fresh nutriment. Persons
but little aceuetomed to drink water are
liable to have the waste products formed
faster than they are removed. Any -ob-
struction to the free working of natural
laws at once produces disease,. Poepie ac -
°maimed to rise in the morning weak and
languid will find the muse in the secretion
of wastes'which many times may be
remedied by • drinking a full tumbler of
water before retiring. This materially
assists in the process during the night,
attd loves the tissues fresh and strong,
and ready for the active work of the day.
Hot water is one of the beat remedial
agents. A hot beth on going to bed, even
in the hot nights of summer, is a better
reliever of insomnia than many dugs.
For a coal in the Head.
If the cold is in the head, the following
treatment prOmiSos Well: add a teaspoon-
ful of powdered camphor to a aitcher of
boiling Water. OVer this place a cone
made of a thick paper or pastebeard and
hold tho nose and mouth over the small
opening. The vapor arising from the
water is charged with camphor, and will
speedily Volley° many of the disturaing
symptoms. It should be inhaled for four
or five minutes at a sitting, and throe
sueli treatments ere usually sufficient to
arrest the inost rebellious "cold in the
head." • But many of the victims of this
trouble inust be out and about. A ;muff
is neore tonvenient for them. A Vora good
ono eat) be made as follows: Menthol],
three grains; powdead Miracle aaid, one
drachm subnitratoof hisniuth nod pow-
dered benzoin, eath one and one-half
draehms, A geed steed pinch may be
on:tufted up five 01 SIX titne8 a day.
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01J.4'.ora8w.4.'Lettiat.
SHOWING HOW, THE POLITICAI-,
POT KEEPS SIMMERING,
Ministers 1$1aice itoyal Progresses ---
Grits I 0) II kesk Cara wcii---Dalt0,1
earthy Als0--11111 chapletta Come Back?
Story cr ,cabicet D35sensions--4nother
areeent Seat,
For Walter }templates Montague, doc-
tor of uteclicine and Secretary of Stet%
evil days are in store, Wickedand cen-
sorious Grits are on the trail et • this
oorpulent statesman William alulock
and William Gahm, two foemen of Te-
notyn in the 'hattlings of the Liberals,
have pledged themselves to give r.
Montague many a bad quarter of an
hour. Ana why? Only because the peo-
ple of Canada have had the honor to Pay
the travelliug expenses of Dr. Mentague,
of Dr. Montague's family and of Dr.Mon,
tagne's man -servant and maid -servant.
Surely 'Unlock and Gibson are vastly un-
patriotic). Who are they -we tnay im-
agine the Secretary of State as saying -
that they should object to his oecuptang
a Government private ear with his faintly
and a Government freight car with his
household goods and °Mathis? The exi-
gencies of assisting in administering the
affairs of this ungrateful country COM.
pelted Dr. Montague to remove from
DUnnville to Ottawa. A Private oar, be-
longing to the people of Canada, stood
vacant on the siding at Ottawa. How
might it be better employed than in con-
veying to the national capital one of
Canada's greatest men? And when a
Government freight oar was loaded up
with the Montague household goods these
impossible Grits, instead of casting slurs,
should have united with the rest of the
people of Canada in rejoicing for that one
of the greatest mail in the country had
condescended to allow them to oblige
him. Likewise, when the wife of the
doctor and the little Montagues went
down to Nova Scotia to breathe the re-
vivifying Atlantic breezes, it was in a
Government oar 'that they travelled.
Troly, Dr. Montague has overwhelmed
us with his abnegating suavity. Far
should it be from las to criticize him.
Ministers make Royal Progresses.
But some of us there are who are via -
dins of inherent perversity. We shall
make bold to ask why a Cabinet Minis-
ter and a Cabinet Minister's family and
a Cabinet Minister's furniture should
be carried at our expense, while we have
to hand over the bard coin when we are
compelled to travel. When the Hon. J.
C. Patterson took his wife to California
they journeyed in a Governteent car, and
the independent newspapers that objected
were stigmatised as Grit sheets, The
newspapers were right in objecting.
There is no clause in the British North
America Act that provides for giving
free transportation to Ministers and
'their families. There is no clause en-
acting that they shall get free clothes or
food. The Fathers of Confederation
would have been amazedif they had been
told that within thirty years it would be
taken for granted that Ministers should
make royal progresses through the coun-
try, and that the country should foot the
bills.
The thing is unfair. It is unjust to the
taxpayers, and it is unjust to those mem-
bers of the Government who pay their
way. Sir Frank Smith has never Used a
Government car. They have been Offered
him, and this sturdy old knight has
answered that a first-class passenger ear
was good enough for him. When Messrs.
Mulook and Gibson being the matter be-
fore parliament they will be doing their
duty. The Ministers who defend the *Ts-
• tem will be doing themselves small honor.
It would be unfair to say that all of the
holders of portfolios have erred as Mon-
tague has erred. Most of them have not.
It rested with this loud -mouthed physi-
cian, who is a model of self-sufdeient in-
capacity, to give an exhibition of greedy
audacity that has angered every right-
thinking man. There is no politics in
this. Men are not hogs because they are
Conservatives, nor are they angels because
they are Liberals. Montague's success has
named his head. And what has his suc-
cess been? The success of the stump -
speaker, of the faithful politinal part-
izan. Compared with him, Joseph Israel
Teat° is not so odorous afteT all.
'rho Grits to contest Cardwell..
The Grits of Cardwell have taken heart '
of grace. They will pirate a candidate
in the fleld. His name is R. B. Henry,
and he is a prosperous fanner of ales -
wick, in the comity of Peel. His fellow
councillors hist March elected him Wardea
of the County, and, to use a thoroughly
original expression, he is well and favor-
ably known. Alexander Smith, tho Lib-
eral organizer, has been spying out; elie
land. He has returned to 'Toronto with
ooxiadence tbat the Warden will have
favorable chances of being elected. Be-
tween Stubbs, the 1VicCarthyite, and Wil-
loughby, the Government soanclidate,
Honey may slip in, The six bundred
Roman Catholics of Adjala are being de-
pended upon to vote Liberal when the
time comes. If they (1°4 Bob White's
majority of something over two hundred
In 1891 silent(' be oblieerated. The Mc-
Caithyites and the Grits have an advant-
age over the Conservatives in that they
have resident candidates, Young Mr.
'Willoughby is a promising lawyer and a
good speaker, Mosta recommendations
will be of little weight eaten he is pitted
against ' two local men. Moreover, the
Goverameat oandiclate will be asked to
pledge Mimed to combat interference
with Manitoba. He cannot be elected un-
less he does so pledge nimself. Bob White
resigned mainly because, as an bonest
man, he could not break his promise to his
consatuents. Ana Mr. Willoughby will
have to repeat White's pledge it he hopes.
to be returned at the need of the poll.
The ex -member had much less tofear
when he so pledged Ithasele than
loughby woold have now. T3ob White
had foith in aleccieuald. Like matny ()al-
a= iConservative, he looked to he
Man to extricate the party from a most
unpleasant prodioantent But the vele
harseman came, and the Old Man an-
swered his call. The Government of to-
day has snade up its mind to faoe the
woest. The 'Remedial bill. Will be
brought in, and vvill be yotecl through.
To this, as you have boon told befell),
the Ministers; are Wedged. They will hot
break their promise, for they have been
told that it muse be, to use the words of
another man regarcliftg anothet question,
a case og oach for all and all for each
Dalton Ittecartha Also.
D'Alton McCarthy hes an eager oye on
Cardwell. His friends in the ridihg have
pursued a vigorous canvass. Next Sat-
urday, at Mono Mills, the followets of
McCarthy will hold a ottnateation, et
Whieh there will be preeented full report
tit the progress of the tainvess.It 18
known that itleCtiatily •oonsiders himself
tartan or, Securing a supporter .100113
Cardwell.. Tile _Nonni Righters ere strong
in the riding They Will VOW for any
Man who denteauces remeaial legislation.
There ere many Ortingemen In (Jardsveli,
bus Melt votes aro an uncartain cpantitY..
18 18 lmown to any man who follows the
trend or Canadian politics that theta are
very few Liberal Orangemen. lies not
the Taboret loader eveu said eo? Taoso
Orangemen may Oa vote for the Govern -
Meta; candidate. It Is 'certain that they
`will mit vote for a aleCerthyite, anti
they wouta tis soma vote for a Venian mis
for a Grit. Clarke Wallace will visit the
riding. He bas been there alretcly. The
(arena Sovelign may be able to bring
the rebellious brethren into line. They
tnay obiect; they •inay use !`language,"
but, if any man oan ' convince them that
the Governmeut is still worthy of their
support, that man is Clarke \Vallee°.
.Will Cbaplean Come Tteuit? .
The lion-leeked Oltepleau maintains
silence. Ho has visited Montreal, and
has talked with Sir tlackenzie Bosvell.
To newspaper men both gentlemen have
said that their conversation was of no
public Unmet. Whereupon the news-
paper issen have insisted that Mr. Chap -
lean was implored to re,eutes the Cab-
inet. Why did not the journalists go to
Joesph AltleTio Calmat Minister of
_ Pu blio Works? Surely 0 u imet would
have been glatito have given them an -
formation regarding the future move-
ments of his dear friend Chapleata whom
he hates with a vintlictiveness that is
very, vory French in its malignity. But
Mr. Onimet was not consulted, Geutle-
men who are to be superseded seldom are
consulted. If Chapletto comes back,
Ouimob's aseendaney as ConservetiVe
.leader from Quebec will have venished
forever. None 'amass this better than
the Minister of Public) Works. He for-
gets thee he entered the Cabinet as a
stop -gap, ana he has peramidea h 1118011
that he 1 s a man of importance.
Story of Cabinet Dissensions.
A wild story of Cabinet dissensions has
gone forth from Ottawa. A Lioeral cor-
respondent has told hie leaders that Hag-
gart, Montague and Wend tbreivened to
resign if Sir Mackenzie pet s.sted nu
brjegang 111 a Remedial bill. And, this
inventive gentleman goes on to state,. Sir
Mackenzie told them that they might re-
sign, and that he would call in Mr.
Laurier on the day that they should stop
out
Not even the most insanely hide -bound
of Gritswould believe such a tale. 11.he
gentlemen who sit around the Council
Board do not rush to the Grit correspond-
ents with stories about each other. The
alinisters are a close-mouthed lot of
statesmen. They have been known to
depart from the truth in their anxiety 80
keep secret the results of their cielibera-
tions. Bowell is an old man, but he is
not a hot-tempered fool. Haggart will
leave the Government when the Gover-
ment or he dies. Montague needs tae
seven thousand dollars' salary that a
grateful country gives him. John P.
Wood, though by no means a poor man,
likes polities, though he may not love
his bed -fellows. lain able to tell my
readers that the School question has not
been mentioned in the Council chamber
since the day three weeks ago, when the
introduction of a Remedial bill wa,s
agreed on. 'The Ministers regard the
matter as settled. The Speech from' the
Throne, when the legislators come to-
gether in January, will contain a para-
graph announcing the Government's de-
termination. Until then there will be no
further discussion of the question by the
Ministers. There will he no necessity for
raking over old ciders.
And how sliall Wilfrid Laurier expect
to profit by the Government's action? lie
oannot vote against remedial legislation.
He inay censure the Governmene for de-
lay, but has not the Administration a
very fair case to advance? The Ministers
will assure parliament that every delay
has been had in the,hope of arriving at
some basis of conciliation. They will
telt the menibers that their 'desire has
beeh to do their best towards obtaining -
a settlement. With these assertions for a
text the supporters of the Government
/nay continue to staled up to be number-
ed with their leaders.
There will be some bolters from On-
ario, but their iminber will not be
large. The party whip will crack, and
its echoes, resounding through the eor-
!Woes, will bring into lino many a
mutinous brother. It may be deplorable,
that such shall be the case, but the bonds
of party are strong. .
Anotbe?.. Vacant Seat.
By the death of Henry Simard, the
Conservative member for Charlevoix, an-
other constituency Is lett unrepresented.
The seats for West Huron, Cardwell,
;Jacques Cartier, Montreal Centre and
North Ontarionre also vacant. Each of
these ha's been represented by.a Ministee-
ialist. The Governmene hopes to carry each
again. The writs for tho by-elections,
Sir Mackenzie Bowen tells us, will
soon be sent outMeanwhile it is rumored
in Ottawa that there is a poesibility that
the Government will elect to call a parlia-
ment together in the 311idd1e of Deccan -
The report is hardly credible. With
the session commencing early in Jantlary
there assuredly would be plenty of time
In Which to talk over the Remedial. bill.
Beyond this :measure there witl be little
on the agenda ef business that wilt cause
protracted debate. It is the Government's
intention to go to the country in May.
A three months' session would thus give
the two parties -or the three parties --
plenty of time for electioneering. It is
quite conceivable that the Government
will prefer tohave a short Campaign, one
that shall give them time to secure a
spTeehdoyavgberdHieentry Simard was classed as a
ConserVative he entered parlianteno in
'91 as a Liberal. For one session he voted
with Mr. Laurier, and then he joined the
majority. Party dos do not mean much to
your Ireeneh Canadian politician. Usual-
ly he is in the mItsult for the casual ad-
vantages, The fiery Vollagatm Atnyot
voiced the political . theories of hisecan-
tPhaeLric°1att;evVioleflitliiell hie "
tgitljaVrod.'h8je1nuicde
been Mmobered with the Liberals, but he
found that there was little glory mad no
advantage in supporting Mr, LauTier.
So, oia a night early in the' session Of '02
buS aroeo and calmly 15nnoun8ed to the
Home that he had come to tee conclus-
ion that it was useless for him to eon -
Mime to seaport the Liberal leant
"The Liberate are always Voted down,"
said this patriot "They beam no hope
of attaiting power, Wba, then, should
I oontintte to advocate 11 losing °arc'?"
And, with this bit of philosophy, he east
oll the garments et Saul the Grit ana
became Paultbe Tory. I•Tis encession
10 the Government provokoa Ina OW.
buret of applause from tho Idinisterialists
nor at ooneenanation freak tho Opposi.
len. , • ;Joan Thompeon 1tit104
tutrusealy, as who slimild eay: "We didn't
ask you to (Anne, and wo sboultilt't
Mourn if you stayed waere you ere."
Thompson tad oo liklug tor sotdiers of
tontine. Tittle W430 Why 110 respected
Lauriet ; that was why he despised
Tarte, whom be esteemed a political
mercenary. I bear that the attempt 01
SOMO seoier members of the Conservative
party in r.hOronto to arlog about a die -
solution of the Young Conservative club
lots met with failure. The old inetribers
of the party saw their supremacy menac-
ed and they eet to work to bring about
disruption.
The Young Coneetvatives objected
and Mr. C. a Roblusen, the taewly-
elected. president, circumvented ;their
opponents' plans. Had the Albany
(dub anen been successful tbe Young
Conservatives would bay° had to accept
their fighting orders from the , Colborne
Street club, which is the mouthpiece of
Robert Iiirmiugliana, of Dr. Montague
and of Hon, John Haggart. The spirit
of independence that the Young Conser-
vatives have cultivated so successfully has
not injured the Conservative party. On
the oontrary, it has done the body good.
111 81148 115 Chill aS are now the young 1)1011
are certain to hews a large , voice in the •
convention. Mr. G. 11, 11. Cookbuna
the member for Centre Toronto, knows
this, and has tears that the uomination
may pass from him• to some younger,
more popular and more energetic man.
SIX MILLION BIBLES.
It Has Become the cheapest Volume in
the worici.
Six tuttlions of books are a gnat many,
and that number represents the world's
output of the Christian Scriptures during
the last year. The number of Bibles dis-
tributed since bbs organization of the Brit-
ish and Foreign .Bible Society of London.
in 1804, is 260,000,000, or enougal vol-
umes, if laid end to end. to reach a dis-
tance of more than fifty thousand miles.
The British sooiety and the American
Bible Society of New York, siuceits estab-
lishment, in 1810, have been the two or-
ganizations ol the world for the transla-
tion, mastication and circulation of the
books of the Bible. Their work has been
a tremendous and a growing one, yearly
exhausting their inereasing resources and
reaching a magnitude that is surprising.
From a rare, and the most expensive,
book the Bible hes become the most oom- •
mon and the cheapest publication in the
world. Dr. nuttier, in his tract "How to
Use the Bible, ' says: -"In the thirteenth
century, in England, two arches of the
London Bridge cost sa25. At the same
time a copy of the Bible with a few ex-
planatory notes eost .-830. Then the wages
of a laborer amounted to but ninepenee a
week."
in other words, the cost of Buell a Bible •
was equal to the entire wages, in money
of a laboring man for over =teen years.
At so late a period as that of the American
Revolution the very cheapest editions of
the Bible were valued at not less than $2
•a volume. Now an entire English Bible is
sold for twenty oente,and the New Eesta-
ment can be boaght for five cents.
The increase in the supply has been as
wonderful as the decrease in the cost. Be-
fore the age of printing a copyist would
work for months to produce a single copy
of the Bible that wasahnost priceless, to
be secured to its place with a chain and
handled by a fortunate few, only with the
greatest of care. 'Then, though the intro-
duction of printing increased the supply
allitat•apaavellously, the high price yet held
emabeyond the reach of the average
reatiereOft was onty after organized so •
cietievattictlt charge of the printing and
aistribtition that no one who wished to
Bible need go without it And the people
have wished them with a desire that has
increased with thtt advancement of gener-
al learning, thealaultivation of thought,
and the growth `ottffie -spirit of criticism.
This growing demanasefor the Christian
Scriptures has, on thitatnest part, been
met, whether it has •cume from Green-
land's toy mountains or India's, coral
strand. and whether in the language of to
Chinese, to Zulu, or any other tongue name
nearly approaching the Englith,
foreign countries, and the American
Society distributed 2,185,618 Bibles in
Last year the British and Foreign Bible
Society exported 634,025 copies. These
books were printed in forty-one different
languages. Many oomplete Bibles and.
portions of Soripture were also printed by
the Ainexicais Society at Beirut, Constan-
tinople, Shanghai, Bangkok, Yokohama,
Paris and Bremen.
An idea of the vast territory reached by
the New York society and the variety of
languages employed Islay be gained from
the fact that last year the Chinese received
from the New York -soeiety 1,205 Testa-
ments in their language, the Zulus 2,005,
Portuguese 2,162, Italians 4,717, Poles 3,-
406, Bohemians 1,778, Dakota Indians
824, Marshall Isanclers 680, The list also
includes Irish, Dutch, Danish, Hebrew.
Syriac, Arabia, Turkish, Russian and
Ojibwa.
The disteibution of these books and the
teaching of their contents moans the em-
ployment of an army of missionaries and
colporteurs, who have to encoonter many
a,nct great obstaoles in the way of poverty,
illiteracy and prejudice. They suffer from
accusations, arrest, imprisonment, an-
tagonism of'other religions, uprisings
against them; arid war itself. Yet they
work on, andwill oontinue to work. While
the heathen of foreign lands are supplied
with copies of the Scriptures those at home
are not neglected, and increasing work in
the direotien of a systematic destribution
of the English Bible le being carried on.,
During last year about 060,000 Bibles,
Testaments and 'portions of Scriptures
have been distributed by the various home
societies. Six thousand families have been
visited. About one-fifth of them were
found without Bibles and were supplied.
Then thousands of volumes of Scrip-
tures aro being distributed aanong desti-
tute Sunday schools, given to the •army
and navy, to immigrants, freedmen, the
poor and criminal institutions. In thia
connection the blind are not 'oat sight of,
foe fifty years ago Was begun the publica-
tion ot the entire Bible in the Boston lino
letter, and till books are yet Manufaetured
in increasing editions and sold at a price
slightly below their cost. '
During Itiat year 25,000 volumes of the
Soriettires were distributed • in this city.
The city Work in the distribution OT Bibles
has soma intoreeting features. Through
268 dist:halting ageneies, each as ni18-
sions, churches and Stinday schools,during
tne year 20,000 volumes Wore sent out and
900 Bibles pleated in the rooms at protnin-
ent hotels,
Largo as the home distribution of Biblei
Is, it is insignifieant When comparcal with
the vast volume of foreign Work.
Wit° (Mediate paper)-" Whet this 18 it
funny thing! Here's 11 Cotineoticut genital
vvho has cmistructed a dell that cart ory
jUst; like a live baby."
1-111Shalicl (who has to Walk this floor at
night)-"linniph I r11 bet he's on 014
bachelor."
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