Exeter Advocate, 1901-4-4, Page 6aS ,
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:At despatch from 'Waehhigton says:
—Rev-. Dr. Taamage preaohed fooln
the following text:—"With long life
will I satiety him."—Fsaluas xci. 1Q.
My design thia morning is to show
to ,you that practical religion Ls the
friend ot longevity; 'and I prove it,
first, from the fact that it mahee.
the care of our physical health 0
poeitiv-e Christian duty. Whether
we shall keep early or late hours, whe-
ther we 'shall take food digeetible or
indigestible, whether there shall be
thorough or incomplete mastication,
are questionvery oft deferred to the
realm. of whimsicality; but the Chris-
tian man lifts, thig whole problem of
health into the accountable and the
divine, He soya: "God has given me
this body, and he hag called it the tem-
ple of the Holy Ghost, and to deface ite
altars, or to mar it walls, or crum-
ple ita pillar, is a God -defying ewe-
rilege." Ile see g God's caligraphy in
every pago—anatomical and physic -
logical. He .say a: "God has given me
a wonderful body for noble purpose."
That arm with thirty-six curiena
bone, wielded by forty-six curious
muscle, and all under the brain's
telegraphy—three hundred and fifty
pounds of blood. ruelling through the
heart every hour—the heart in twen-
ty-four hours beating one hundred
thousand time—daring the twenty-
four hour e overcoming reaista.ncea
amounting to 225,000,000 pounds
weight—during the same time the
lunge taking in fifty-aeven hogsheads
of air, and all this meohaniein not
more mighty than delicate, and easily
unhook -ed and demolished. The Chris-
tian man says to himself, If I hurt
ray nervee, if I hurt my brain, if I
hurt any oi ray physical facultiea, I
insult God and I call for dire retri-
bution." The care of all your phy-
sical forces—nervous, muscular, bone,
brain, cellular tiss.ues—for all this
you must 'be brought into requisition
when the world ie on fire. Smoking
your nervous. :system into fidgets,
burning out the coating, of your
stomacli with wine logwooded and
strychnined, w-alking through snow-
banks with thin ahoes to make your
feet look delicate, pinched at the wa.i.st
until you are nigh cut irietwoe aud
neither part worth anything, groan-
ing about sick. headache and palpita-
tiona of the heart, which you think
come from God when they come from
the devil! You are no Christian.
NI,rakat right hti.s any man or any wo-
man to deface the temple of the Holy
Ghost? What is the ear 1 Why, it is
the whispering gallery of the human
sonl. What in the eye? It is the
observatory God constructed, its tele-
scope Sweeping the heavens. So won-
derful is the body that God nainea his
a
own ettributes after different parts
of it. Hia onmiacience—it is God's
eye. His ominipreeence—it is God's
ear. Hisoraipotence—it ia God's arm.
The upholstery of the midnight hea.v-
ens—it is the work of God's fingers.
His life-giving power—it iii the breath
of the Almighty. His 'dominion --the
governraent shall be upon hie shoul-
der. A body so divinely honoured and
so divinely conatructed, let us be
careful not to abuse it. When it ,be-
comes a Chrietian duty to take care
of our health, is not the whole ten-
dency toward longevity?
- Again, I remark, tha.t practical re-
ligion is a friend of longevity, in the
fact that it is a proteat against all
the diseipations which injure and de-
stroy the health. Bad men and wo-
ram: live a very short life. Their sin
kills them. I know lonoirede of good
old men, but I do not know a half
dozen bad old men. Why? They
do not get old. Ohl how many peo-
ple -we have known who have not
livocl out half their days because of
their dissipations and indulgc:nces,
Now, practical religion is 0 protest
againet all dissipation of any kind.
"But," you say, "all profes.sors of re-
ligion have fallen, professors of re-
ligion have got drank, professors of
religion ha.ve misappropriated trust
funds, professors of -religion have ab-
,sconded." Yea, yes, but they threw
' away their religion before they did
their morality. There are aged peo-
ple in thie house to -day who would
have been dead twenty-five years ago
but for the defences and. the egui-
poise of religion. Oh! if this religion
is a proteat against all forms of dis-
sipation, then it is an illustrious
friend of longevity. My text right
again: "With long life will I satisfy
thee." ,
Again: religion is a friend of long-
evity in the fact that it takes the
worry out of our temporalities. It is
not work. that kills men; it is worry.
When a man becomes a genuine
Christian he makes laver to God not
only affections, but his, family, bis bus-
inese', his reputation, 'his body, his
mind, his aoul—everything. In-
dIestrious he will be, but never wor-
rying, 'because God i$ managing his
• effaire. How Can' he worry about
business when, in answer to his pray-
ers, ood toile him when to buy and.
aVheu to sell, and if he gain that is
beet, and. if he lost that is best. Sup-
pose you had a supernatural neigh-
bour :who etiane in and said: "Sir, I
Want you to tall •on me in every ex-
igency; I am your fast friend; I
could fall back on f$20,000,000; I can
foresee a panic ten years; I hold the
controlling stock in thirty of the best
monetary institutions of New York;
y
whenever ou aro ha any trouble call
on me, and I will help you; you can
have my money, and you can have
my influence, hero is my hand in
pledge for it."- How much would you
worry about business 3 Why, you
woulcl say; " Pll do the best I ean,
and than P11 depend upon Wy friend's ori
generesity for the rest," Now, more
than that, is promised to every Chris-
tian business man. God says to him:
"I own New York, ana London and St.
Petersburg:, and Pekin, and Australia
end California are mine ; I can fore-
eee a panic a million yeas 1 have
all the reeources of the universe, and
I am your fa et friend; when you get
in business trouble, or any other
trouble, call on nie, and, I will hear,
and I will help; here is nay hand in
Al -ILIAD OF1,` 1.1 E TIMES.
lik0111,0, Wi()011144 :°14,),S Stnr Zealand
govtotp, too ntsn
New Zealand ie looked upon aa the
Moet progreasive country in the world
as regarda experimeotal government.
Ezt1ber 9.$ )21'01eeted there by hard
And, faat law, while all differences
hetweeo employer and employe are
ae,tiled by arbitration. Even women
can vote at electoral campaigue as
well ae: all men who have xeached the
age of 21. }Jere al.so i ail old age
pensien, while Governmeut owner-
ship i$ now ancient history, so far ate
the little colony is concerned.
"Progress nao.y bo all very well,"
declared Zdr. Thomae Fleming, an ex-
teneivo •miller and grain merchant,
at hivercargill, Gore and Winton, N.
Z., )viio is apelitinig a tow weeks in
pledge ot omnipotent dhlivoranee.' this country, "but 1 think- the Govern -
flow much is that man going to WOr: doinge too _ —huh. The laba
ry ? Not much." Oh I nervous ann
feverish people of the world try this
almighty sedative; you will live
twenty-five yeara longer 'under its
soothing power. It is not chloral that
you want, or morphine that you want;
it is the gospel of longevity. "With
long life will I satisfy thee."
Again: Practical religion is a friend
of longevity, is the fact that it re-
moves all corroding care about ftiture
existence. Every man want e to know
what is to become of him. If you
get on hoard a rail train, you want
to know at what depot it is going, to
stop; if you get on board. a ehip you
want to know into what harbour it
is going to run, and if you should tell
nee you have no intere.st in what is
to lee your future destiny, I would, in
as polite a way as I know how, tell
you 1 did not believe you. Before I
had this matter Settled with reference
to my future existence, the question
almo,st worried me into invalidism.
The anxieties you would have had up-
on this subject, put trgrether would
make a martyrdom. This is a etate
of awful unhealth. There are people
who fret themselves to death for fear
of dying. I want. this morning to
take the strain off your nerves and
the depresaion off your soul, and I
make two or three experipeents. Ex-
periment the first: When you go out
of this world, it does not make any
difference whether in this world you
have been good or bard, or whether
you believed right or wrong, you will
go straight to glory. "Inipoesible,"
you say, "my common sense as well
an my religion teaches that the bad
and the good cannot live together
forever; you give Inc no comfort in
that experiment." "Experiment the
secona : When you 'leave this world,
you will go into an intermediate stale
where you can get ,fLeed up and pre-
pared for heaven. "Impossible," you
say, "as the tree falleth, so it must
Ile, and I cannot postpone to an in-
terniediate• state that reformation
which ought to have been effected in
this state." Experiment the third:
There is no future world, when a man
dies, that is the last of him. Do not
worr about h t - • to ao in
y NV a ey ou ale
another state of being; you will not
do anything. "Impossible," you Say,
"there is eornothing that tells me that
death is not the appendix, but the
preface; there is something that tells
me that on this side of the grave I
only get started, and I will go on for-
ever—nay power to think says Fore
ever O my affections say 'Forever
my capacity to enjoy or sto-ffer. 'For-
ever.'" Well, you defeat me in ray
three experiments. 1 have only one
more to make, and if you defeat mc
in that I am exhausted. A mighty
One, on a knoll back of Jerusalem,
one day, the akies filled with forked
lightnings and the earth shaking with
volcanic disturbances, turned his pale
and agonized face towards the heavens
and said: "I take the sins and the sor-
rows of the ages into my own heart.
aro the expiation. Witness earth,and
heaven, and hell. I am the expiation."
Accept that eacrifice and quit 'wor-
rying. Take the tonic, the inspira-
tion, the longevity of this thought.
Religion Ls sunshine; that is healthy.
Religion is fresh air and pure wa-
ter; they are healthy. Religion is
warrath; that is healthy. Ask all the
doctors, and they will tell You that
a quiet conscience and pleasant antic-
ipations are hygenic. I offer you per -
1 eel: peace now, everything hereafter
which can fillip the blow and irradiate
the disposition. You /have been accus-
tomed to open the door on this side
the sepulchre. This morning I open
the door on the other side the sepul-
chre. You have been accustomed to
walking in the wet grass on the top
of the grave. I show erou the under
side of the rave;gthe bottom has fall-
en out, and tie long ropes with
which' the pall -bearers let down your
dead let them clear through into
heaven. Glory be to God for this ro-
bust, rubicund religion! It will have
a tendency to make you lire long in
thi.s world, and iu the world to come
you will have eternal longevity. "With
long life will I eatisfy thee."
or legislation' savours too muelt of
olasa, aod 1 doubt that—the Arbitra-
tion and Conciliation Boarda are do -
'Lug much good."
E E,
HARON THFARMERS.
The labour laws, explainad Mr.
Flaming, are very hard upon the far-
mer. They set the nuniber of houra
hire hands are to work, fix the scale
of wages to be paid by Min, reetriet
him regarding the eimplOyment of
boys, etc. "Why, it would he juat
as fair and equitable' to legislate
what 'a farmer 'is to receive for ilia
produce.i' ,
-All shops in New Zealand must
oloae at six o'clook and at one o'clock
at least one day during the Week.
it is contrary to law for a atoree
keeper to eell even a loaf' of bread
after the hours of closing.
"Our ,Govenunient runs nearly all
the railways. I believe in Govern -
anent ownership of railways, but I
don't think the railway should be
under the governing power of the day.
They should be controlled by a non-
political board of niece expert come
misaioners, as was formerly done."
Beeidea operating the telegraph and
telephones, the Government alao runs
a life
INSURA.NCE DEPARTMENT.
This department competes successful-
.
ly, against th.e vareaue insurance cora-
ponies.
Woman suffrage, Says, Mr. Fleming,
makes very little ditference in the
elections.
Thi.s experimental Governroent, he
declares, ia frightening away capital.
"1 am inclined to think that we are
drifting- on to socialiem. We are go-
ing too fast for the good of the
country." t
Confederation with Australia no
in sish, t yet though a comthission
has been appointed by the N. Z. Gov-
ernment to inve,stigate the advan-
tages of euch a union.
ELECTRIC PRINTING.
London EnvcinlIon Hoe4 Anay 11111k Use of
Ink tit
It has Seen discovered that by in-
troducing certain chemicals ,in the
proceea of manufacture, paper may be
printed without, employing inks or any
other sensitizing matter. The pre-
-
pared paper Is staple, and colorless,
and remain,s unaffected by any oilier
agent than an electric current. It
is at cheap as common paper, and
yields instantly a dense, black, per-
nument print, evhich requires 310
sequent treatment, Tor there is noth-
ing like ink or smirching to require
drying, The maelaine for this elec-
trical printing is eina.ply ao ordinary
presS divested of its inking mechan-
ism, and having the paper -bearing
1:19.1•1:aee covered with a suitable con-
ducting' metal. ',Ube amen ms eon-
ne3tea with, one pole al the Current-
.5,upply, which alloy be an incandescent
light wire, and the papel‘-bearing aux-
face, to the other. The paper th.u.a be-
comes an inerl: conductines medium,
nd tho chernicalS, 'w'hich are combined
in it, become, eloctro.lyzed at the points
of contact, thus forming the, print. .1"? -i
appearance the electric printing is
paid greatly Le rase:able lithographic;
/3EW LIGHT RAYS.
a -a -a
rheeew Etemeat, :flay RIval in Impurt
:MCC IhC Inelltg-C11 nays.
A discovery has just been made
which may create as great a aensa-
tion in the scientific world aa the
Roentgen ray. Bioguerel, a French
chemist, diecovered in 1893 a ray
which possessed properties similar to
the Roentgen ray. The discovery of
the latter, however, eclipsed the form-
er and Becquerel rays, aS they are
called, welt employed only in a minor
vray in physical lo.bora.toriea. At
that tim.e nje Mariays the French aci-
entist, asserted that the rays were
emitted frora a new element, but his
statement made no impression.' Re-
cent experiraents by the Berlin High
School of Technology, have proved this
to be go, and the interesting fact has
Scan observed that these rays render
almost every transparent substance
luminous in the dark. These rays
make it .poseable to tell genuine dia-
monde from artificial onea in the
(lark. This will prove of great prac-
tical importance in testing. The ex-
periraents have also resulted in ob-
taining, for the first tipae, larger
quantities of the new element, which
has demonatrated that rays emanat-
ing from a large quantity make the
air each a conductor of electricity
that it is hoped this property can be
utilized in wireleeS telegraphy. • The
greatest secrecy is maintained con -
corning these experiments'. They
are considered to be of So much im-
portance that the result will be laid
before the Emperor. ,
SPLENI)I0 HEROISM DISPLAYED BY
SOME OP THEff.
zertileed Traeir
LiviL"s 10 Sare Pay,enteri—$tatt1902masOr
1"evirormg1 a I'llathy Act—Stoppol the
But 1.0\1 1114 Lire—'1'elegra1111
(Pperacor Sa:tal l'ilree,12nnalren
Not long ago Walter Peart aud
Henry Dean, the driver and fireman
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 7.
"the Itesurrec110n nt JeAu5." Ixt/i II, 1-19,
TV•Xt, 1 Cia., 15, 20.
PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 1. The firet day of the week.
Sunday, April. 9, though, of course,
neither the Jews nor the disciples used
our na.mes for day e or months. Jesus
of a Great Weateru train from Wind- had lain in the tomb from Friday af-
:tor to Paddington, aacrificed their ternoon to Sunday morning, a term
lives to Save the passerigore, says Lon- which would be called three days by
don Tit -Bits. just as the train was the jewe. who,like other ancient ori -
approaching Acton station it waa enta.a,
reckoned each part of a year
suddenly enveloped in a cloud of
or day as a full year or day. Very ear-
steana an deinderee The connecting-
iy in the morning, This was their
rod of the engine had broken, and at
each revolution one of th.e pieces was
being, driven through the caeing of
the boiler.
In the explosion that followed a
inaea of piping, fire, cinders, and
steam were blown from the fire -box
right into the faces of the driver and
and fireman. Terribly injured as
they were, they atuole manfully to
their postuntil they had -shut off
steant' and brought the train to a
standstill without mishap. Not till
Last opportunity for the " embalm-
ment" ,since the burial. They came.
Women who had come with Jesns from
Galilee, Luke 23. 55. fUnto the sepul-
cher, which we suppose to have been
a little distance north of the middle
of the northern wall of the city. The
epicea which they had prepared. See
our intreductory note, The addition
of certain others to the Galilean w0 -
men nia.kes conjecture aa to the num=
ber of the party vain. 1
2. They found the stone rolled away
then did tlaey stagger off the engine,
from the sepulcher. "Rolled book," as
to 'be conveyed, to St. Mary's Hospi-
tal Paddington where they died of
their injuries next morning.
Front the north of Scotland a rare
act of, railway heroism was reported
twelve months ago. ,One Tueaday
na.orning aga.ng of men were at work
on a broken rail on the Highland line
just south of Altnabrea station, when
a distant w-histle announced the ap-
proach of the Morning mail train
from Wick to Inverness. The men
had a bogie with therm which threat- such a doorway near to Jerusalem ap-
ened to cause a terrible dieaster, aspears in recent pllOtograP114 and en"
Matthew tells, "by an angel of the
Lord who had descended from hear:
en." Mark is impressed by the great -
nese of the stone, and :records the WO-
raeres w,onder as to how it. could be
rolled away, and 'their dismay when
they found that it was gone—an as-
tonishment that is echoed in John's:
story. Illow common was this custom
of closing a tomb by a circular stone
la a groove we have no means of
knowing. An ancient, specimen of
it completely blocked the line, and
there was 910 mean a of stopping the
train, which at this point always ran
at full speed.
Wlaile hisi cetera -deg became panic-
etricken, John • Morriaon, a young
married man with two children,
strove 'with superhuman strength to
remove the bogie from the raiLs. He
succeeded in doing thia, but only at
the
'SACRIFICE OF IIIS OWN LIFE.
The driver of the oncoming train sava
hira struggling with the obstruction,
but could not atop in time. Morri-
son had juat got the bogie off the
metals when the engine taught him
and cut the brave fellow to pieces.
Not long since a number of plate-
layerwere engaged in the four -
toot way near Nunhead station. just
as an express froin Victoria, to the
Crystal Palace was due it was noticed
' that a wedge -bolt of the line over
which the train hacl to peso was loose.
Despite the warnMga of his comrades,
one of the men ran forward and be-
gan hammering at ths bolt to insure
the safety of the train. His efforts
•••••••••mieloommalmemema
LOVE'S SACRIFICE.
The following, which we are eure,
is an exceptional case is narrated of
a. certain Mr. add Mrs. Cabiff, of No-
where -in -Particular.
Mrs. Cabiff's education in the art
of cookery had been somewhat neg-
lected, but she did her best, and her
hu6sband struggled manfully and 'un-
complainingly with ,the tough Steaks
and sour bread, ahe set before him day
after day.
One morning, about three years af-
ter their wedding she said to him: sey City was one of them. Early
Oliver, you don't love your wife as one morning ho saw a boy amusing
i
you i o
Why do a -En say that he asked, in
eurprise.
Because you ' don't eat the thinge
I cook any More. .
Phillida rejoined Oliver, with all the
earneetness he could command, I love
you as fondly a$ ever, but my digea-
tion is ruitied ! e
graving.
a, 4. They entered in, and
found not the :body of the
Lord llesue; and very naturally
they evere much perplexed thereabout,
In deep trouble. Suddenly two men
men stood by them in ahining gar-
ments. Tao Greek word is often ap-
plied to the fla.shing of the aun's rays
and to lightning. All visions of the
Supernatural world have glory and
brightne.sa as their predominant
traits. Mary remained with,the oth-
er women until it was (Recovered that
our Lord's body wag not in the tomb;
apparently she left before the angela
revealed tlaenaselveg. See note on
veree 10.
5. They were afraid. And no won-
der; they were surrounded by disaster
and Woe. During hours of agony
they had apprehended their Master's
murder; now that he was dead their
suspense had sunk into despair. TheY
feared the chief priesta, for who
could measure" inc cruelly of the men
who had, put the Master to death?
Sabre They feared the Roman soldiers, and
were quite euccessful, but ,`,Perhaffs had half expected one to
could int spring from. behind almost every bush
get off the lhe was atruck on their way to the tomb. They fear -
Mr. John Coates, the etationraa.ster
by the engine and killed. ed lest Some indignity had been done
at Upper Bank elation, on the Mid -
to the body of him. they loved so well.
land railway, near Swanaea, perform -
'But beyondall comparison they were
ed an extremely plueley acta few afraid, panic-stricleen, in thia super-
.
years ago. On a Sunday night, while natural presence, and their terror
paseengers were Crossing the level in roust have reached its climax vahen
large numbere he noticed an engine
rushing toward l the station at full
speed. He at once jumped on the
line and pushed the paesengers aside,
thu.s saving several from
CERTAIN DESTRUCTION.
He was, however, caught by the ena
gine hina.self, and daeleed to the ground
receiving seriou injuries to his head,
which laid him. up fox a considerable
time.
.
aPPea
Itre that during a heavy fog
a man fell prostrate a.croes the met-
als in front of an approaching train.
Having sustained two broken ribs he
lay there helpless', until the inspector
went to his assistance. Having
-jumped down on the line, Dakin pull-
ed the man to the side. and held him
between the platforra. and the train
until the la.tter had paseed. He thus
rescued him. from ceitain death.
Great courage was displayed by the
driver of an Edinburgh expresS, which
met, with a disaster in October, 1894.
After the collision, seamch -was made
for him, under and around the orrecked
engine, but he could not be found.
This _wag subsequently explained by
the fact that, though severely bruised,
and with ono arm hanging, he had
managed to reach the signal -box aome
distance away to telegraph news of
the accident, and to stop the second
portion of the express from coming
on. .0n the arrival of doctors hie
crushed arm was immediately ampu-
tated, but the oPera-tioni
FAILED TO SAVE HIS LIFE.
He was certainly not the least of the
heroes of the Northallerton accident.
Our American cousins can boast of
some brave railway men. A ewitch-
man on the PennsylVania lino in jer-
CURED..
No, said the man in the mackin-
tosh, my wife doesn't give away any
of toY old clothes or sell them to the
ragman any more. I cured that hab-
it effectually once.
How. Was that? they asked him.
• When I found she had dispoeed of
a coat I hadn't wortalor Eieveral weeks
I told her there was a letter in it
she had given me to mail the laat time
taa 11' en, And it was no lie eith,
sr, he added, will; deep natiefaction.
TOTNIMY'S LDEA.
Teacher—Thomas, what are "parte
of speech 1"
Fomxmmy T,utker, after an exhau.stive
mental effort—It's the way a Man
talke ev.hen, ha tilitteri.
lumaelf OM the metals, in blissful g-
norance of the train that was rapidly
approaching. He shouted, but hie'
voice failed to reach the youngster,
who continued his play. Than the
awitchnean jumped in front of the lo-
comotive, and With one hand puehed
the boy off theline. With his oth-
er he endeavoured to seving himself
on to the pilot, but iniased his grip,
fell, and was entailed to death 'be-
neath the wheels of the engine, The,
boy w -as not at all injared.
A superb act of heroiam vras per-
formed just Six years ago by a young
railway telegraph operator. It hap-
pened in the course of a foreSt and
prairie fire in Minnesota, which' de-
vastated the country for many milea.
The telegraphist, whose name was
Thomas Dunn, waa being fast sur-
rounded by the flaenes but before
quitting hiS office he ilelerrnined to
dispatch a me:sage for a train to be
sent to a threatened diatrict for the
reaelle of 300 pereons. He succeeded
in getting his meSsage through, but
by the time he had done thie the fire
had cut off all chance of escape, and
lie perished in the flame:S., But the
people for whom he sacrificed hia iifc
were all !saved, So he did not Aie in
vain.
to the vision wag added the voice.
Bowed down their faces to the earth.
Dazed by fright and light. Why seek
Ye the living among the dead? "Why
seek ye him that that liveth among those
that are dead—he who is alive for
evermore ?" The words are a gentle
reproof, followed, in the next verse by
a reference to our Lord's ow,n decla-
ration that he should riae again.
which the wcimen remembered.
0. When he was yet in Galilee. Thiel
reference to the "old home days" made
to Galilean women by the. ang,e1 was
deeply pathetic, fax Galilean.s in Judea
always felt themselves to be half for-
eigners. •
7. Delivered into the -hands of sin-
ful men. According to our common
use of the wordo this might mea.n not
more than "surrendered, by God, pos-
sibly, into the power of the wicked,"
but the implication, of the eriginal is
"pasted over 'to the punitive power
of the Roman government"—the
greatest disgrace, a Jew could suffer.
Be crucified. The utmoet disgrace the
Romans could inflict.
8. They remeMbered word.
Not, perhaps, that 'they had ever quite
forgotten th,era, hut that Jesue had
been constrained to gave an large a
share of Ilia teachings by means of
parables and figures of speech. that
his followers) hesitated to ta.ke liter-
ally so astounding a statement as
this.
9. Returned from the sepulcher
"With tear and great joy." Told all
things unto tile eleven, and to alt be
rest, Already there existed a vigor-
ous germ of the Chrh.tian Church,
How many "the'rent" were we cannot
certainly say, but ,aoon after this they
oumbeita one hundred and twenty.
1.0. An explanatory verse. hietry
Magdalene, Familiar to modern
Christendoia a4 is the conception of
Mary of Blagdala, a town on western
shore of the Sea of Galilee, Very few
facte concerning her life before thie
episode are known. With otiaere she
'ministered to Christ of her sub-
stance." Out of her our Lord had
cast eeven demons. She had stood
near to the erose. Joanna,. The
wife of Claiza, the steward of Herod
the morf
MaryAntipaa,tetratToh,, of
G jaalroileese
i
A comparison of Matt. 27 50
with Mark 15, 49 leada to the con -
elusion that this person was the same
as Mary the wife of Cleopas, John 19
25, and as " that °tiler Mary," of Mate,
27. a and Mark 15. 47, and that :she
was the sister of our Lord's mother,
Told these things unto the apostles,
if we had no.other account than this
we would understand that the eve-
onen came all together to the apos-
tles, when the apostles were all to -
together, and told of the words of the
men in shioiug garmente ; and. that
as a direct consequence of this in-
credible story Peter, verse 12, ran to
the tomb. But it is better to take
verse e 9, 10, and 11, ae a very gener-'
al statement of the fact that the wo-
men were the earliest discoverers of
the resurrection and, • the informants
of the apostles 'rather than to sup-
pose that the group of men and the
group of women came together in any
one place. In the „light of the other:
three stories we are to suppose that
each woman told all Ohe knew to each'
apostle as she met him. This under-,
etanding makes, plain, how, Mary, 'eta
cording to John's story to he studied
next Sunday, was in despair, and
without any thought of the resur-
rection, even after Peter and john
had visited the tomb. She had lief(
the tomb before the angels appeared
to the other woinen and had hasten.
ed to Peter, had followed Peter and
John to the tomb, and, when they
left, etill atoocl outside. t
11. They believed them not. HOW,
could they?
12. Then -arose Peter. Such' a than
as Peter could not linger in doubt I
he must investigate. His visit to the
eepulcher Le more fully related by
John, who accompanied 'laim. Depart-
ed, wondering in himself at that which
was come to pees. This is the only
emergency in all of Peter's record-
ed life where he :said nothing. He waa
dumbfounded; nothing was left 'for
him hut silence—a result whioh of it-
self must have added to the confu-
sion of hie friends. ; .
• WHERE WAS THE SWINDLE?
Ethel, .said Lionel 13ertram
as he. dropped his, slice oL broad' in the
plate with. a noise that Sat tile can-
ary in the gilt cage overhead chirp -
trig .merrily. Ethel, 1 have some- OF,
thing to say to you.
They ha -d been raarried, only, four
weeks, and the time had not arrived
when she did all the saying; Do you
remember the day On Wliell I pro-
posed to you'i
Yes„ elle replied, I will never for.- 4
gel it.
lJo you remember, he Avent on, as
he abstractedly drilled a -hole in the
loaf with the point of a carvingelenilm
how-, when 1 rang the boll, you came
to the door with your fingers sticky
d
with dough, ansaid youthought it
w -as your little brother who wanted
to get i_n?
Yes.
Oh, Ethel! How could you? How
ccula you?
lionr could I what? she reepon(lea,
as a guilty look crept into her face.
I -low could you make me the vietim
of mach a sevindle?
111511115.
Riches do not bring happiiiese, said
Curarox.
That's very true answered the ear-
nest man. But tiee ,Marest and an-
noyances of thi vorld Can be very
• coneiderably aggravated by poverty,
You Least admit that. k
4
A COSTLY ERROR.
Young Doctor, -Did you ever make
a mistake in a diagnosis ?
Old Doctor—Yes. A shabby old fel-
low, came into my office one day, and
after I had told him he had only a
stomach ache and charged him $2
found out that he was rich enough
to have 'appendicitia.
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