Exeter Advocate, 1901-6-6, Page 2111
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"God Hath Devised Means That His
Banished Shall Not Be Expelled
From Him,"
' T, T bs gathered, for 0110 greet battle
IA7 despateh from la ashington says .
—Rey. Dr, Talmage preached from the
followang text :—"Yet aloth he devise
meane that his, banished he not ex -
pelted from blin."-2 Sam. xiv, 14,
i ht paeeage nevex noticed uutil
laat week. The witty and imaga
illative woman. ea Tekoale said this in
t.rying to persuade David to taken
hack Ida beautiful but necreent son
'Abeelom. For eaquisite strategena )wo-
Man ha: no equal in the other gex.
If there had been a plain clemand that
Abealom tale.en back it would have
been Meffeetual, but this woman com-
pceed a fiction which completely cap-
tured David' e heart. She winds up the
etory by asking him to imitate. the
Lord, ea'ying: "Yat Cloth Gocl devise
means that his banished be not expell-
ed faem him." a
Indeed, then, are we all banished
fram God, What do aou mean by ban-
iehanent ? Well, it meana being driven
away and wearing fetters. It means
bittea absence from home. It 11101111S
in eoune places,- and on some occasions
stn expatriation to Siberia to ,delve
the mines, and to be fastened in a
°alai/a-gang. Yes, the whole race is
banished; our first permits from
Paradise.; the recreant angele banish-
ed from heav-en; the whole human
family baniabed from peace. Where
is: the worldly man who has anything
avorthy of the Ramo of happiness?
What are ?tbose anxious looks of the i
brokers, of the bankers, of the mer-
chante, of those men in the club house,
of that great multitude of people
who tramp up and. down Broadway?
Banished from God. Banished from
peace. Banished from leaven. Sin has
broken in, and it ha e snapped all the
etrin'ge of the heart; it has untuned
all the. imetrumeaate of earthly accord;
it has thrown the whole earth into
a jangle. An old writer telle of two
brothere -who went out to take a walk
in the aiglet, and one of them looked
up to the aky and 'said, "1 wish I had
a pasture field as large as the night
heavens." And the other brother look-
ed up into the eley, and said, "I wish
I had as many oxen ae there arc
stars in the. sky. " Web,'" said the
feral, "how would you feed so many
oxen ?" Said the second, "I would turn
them bato yona- pa eture. " " What I
whetheirIwould or not?" "Yes, whe- t
thea- you would or not." And there a
axoee a auarrel, and when the quer- :1
rel ended ono had [slain the other. st
there woulcl be only one name the
°mild x -ally the universe, and that i
the mune of Jesus!
Among the means that God ha
deviled that the banished be not ex
pelted from aini, I notice still far
eller, spiritual influences; do rto
mean any influence gee° up from
earth arid etherealized, but the Di
vine. Spirit. Some eall him the Colticl)
fortea; it is best for ma, purpose
'night that 1 call him the soul -say
tag power of the nations. When
that influence comes upon a man how
strangely he acts. 1 -le cries; he trem-
bles; he says things and does things
that five minutes before he could not,
have been coaxed or hired to say or
do. The human soul and religion
seem aptageeistic elements; but this
divine spiritualism seems the liar,
monizing chemistry that brings in-
to comity these opposing elements.
The general mode of the Holy Spirit
is in selecting means that are utter-
ly insignificant, and then making
them the steps of Christian ascents
At a fair ia England a man stepped
up to a. peddler's, stand and bought
something. Then he took a leaf
froan a catechism and wrapped the
article in that leaf; but one line in
that catechism ushered, his soul into
the kingdom of God. Two men were
weaseling GIN the green. One threw
the other. A Christian man came
along and said, "It will be sad indeed
a Satan trips up your hope, and you
are both etemeally overthrown." That
ushered both of them into the king-
.
dom of God in due time. Oda it is
a mighty spirit. Sometimes people
laugh under it. Sometimes they
pray under its power. There is a
soul bowed down. The Holy Spirit
A bowing him down.
THERE IS AN ANXIOUS ONE.
WITHIN YOUR MEANS—UP TO YO1JR
MEANS—BEYOND YOUR MEANS.
t yrpm to peovide lei' the Velure
Pleasure spending, Aed Tea Earn
—It is a crane to Iave Aleyoud Tour
Means.
The Man who hveA Within his means
is wiae- A Young couple, who, in their
amgle days, had a free hand in most
6 tiiings cloaneetic, spent money, and en-
s joyed coanfoat to the •full, perhaps
feel it a texrible hardship to xneaeure
s out personal comforts in handfuls
°11113411..L. this Le the wisest thing to
in early married days', for ancie
- though the old saw. is there is mu
commotn-eense in' take care of t
- pence and the shillings and poun
will take care of therrieelves.”
, you to live within yo
meane ? It can be done easily, a
110 121/11:tz tow email aour income na
be, it ought to be done.
If one's life lent iteelf easily to a
oun t r e,g is t er ed un der the hea d in
of "Dr," and "Or.," and if one we
really. honest in keeping theae
counte, it may be Safely assumed th
the hea.vieet itesea appearing in t
books: would be without a dou
"Keeping up appearances."
Haase:ea earts end men 'here t
be promirea an a in a in te ine4, and a
busineee people exe not in tirade ,a0
the fun of the thaig, or for your
d DAUGHTER OF A WELL-KNOWN
AMERICAN GENERAL.
conventence,theee hoases end carts an
Men must be maintained by the pee
'WILL WEI) A NOVA SCOTIAN
r••••
pie for whoa° bente.fit they exiet. Nev-
er Mind what people hay, don't keep
a servant for ehow, and do your own
marketing. It is eheaper.
Living beyond your means ie a crime
still infinitely worse, If people be-
come, liable for more money than they
can walae fecal their own resources,
it haa to be borrowed,. The balanoing
up of theix accounts ie too depressing,
an occupation foa them ; they aever
analyse their expenditure, they new-
er know how they etand, but as the
various; Lille COMO in they meet 1,1101.11
IE THEY _HAVE MONEY.
They axe, of courae, spending both
d° aaPital and intenest and as such a
nt etate- of thinge cannot possibly ex -
eh it for long, the day of reciconing
he comee round, and they are floored at
ds laet.
; '
a he line d vid g the pe op le wh o
liva up to their means. and those who
UI- live beyond their means is very thin.
A stride takee you from one to the
nd
othex division.
ay It begine by entertaining, perhaps,
an a gaancler ecale than your income
0- ,warrants—again fox the sake ap-
gs id.)ecurancee—going in fox expensive
xe.se, and procuring various kinds of
re! ziinoetneheae,,,,s,a, which, perhaps, you would
haet t..fvattrintsi.rs. itIhnobuinershatn,ofwgbsneiabtansg alt but
If all the inowne you have be de-
bt rived from only your ealarY, then be
morally honest and avoid mode,rn
a. snobbishness, and go back- to the
a starting point. Live within your
means, and apply the balance to lay-.
a ing the foundatioia of something tang-
0- oibonle.3.f:..r aell and your e whe.n .the day
of—perhapa your forced—retirement
With' the prospect before you of an
endowment or an annuity, GO eaeily
procurable. nowadays, by exercising a
little patience and thrift, you will not
fear its,. advent. In the absence of this
assistance. it would go badly with
There is a deriding* face trying to
throw off religioue impressions. It
is often the case when the Holy Spirit
comes to a man's heart he acts in-
fernally to? throw off the impres-
sion. And so eomeatimes when the
Spirit comes to a man he prays, and
sometimes he blasphemes; but the
Holy Spirit always comee esith one
id,ea, and that is to show, man that
God Lath clevuse.d MrSatas that the
banished be not ex-pelled from. him." 1
That Holy Spirit is in this house to-'
night. You hav.e felt strangely ever !
since you came into this room. There I
are doors Opening' in year ,soul that
Ja:aae never been cipened. Yon are
eaandexing where yon will come out
at, the last. Yda .see that these!
Chaistian people are an a roa.d. that
you are not travelling, and though I
yon may not admit the words heaven!
Or hell iin your mina, you are, cousci-;
oats of the fact that there must be!
two destinies, two catreeas, two con-
ditions, two texmini, two wards an-;
agonistic, and eve4rlastmgly s.wung I
part. 0, wetat is this. .suppressed.
eta tion? What is this awful sit -
1100? The Hotly Spirit! The infinite!
36rit! 'Ties etertnal. Spirit: The
vine, SpLrit I The lightnnig-footed
d fire-win,ged Spirit! The armed 1
ierit! The all -conquering. Spirit:.
e amnipoten,t Spirit! He c.omes
And so there. Lae been a ridiculous .1 Da
conteet in all ages of the world, some- I an
timea about immaterrial things, some- si
timee about supposititious thinas,and ?pa
t man had all the, night heavens do
for esta.te, he svould not be 'happy, an
a d if that man bad as many oxen to
ae taere tare eters in the sky he would
not be, happy. i
I3ANISEIED EROM GOD, ;
Banished- firom peace,. Banishe,d from
heaven. Now, if my eerinon should
stop just bere, would be as though
a man :should look. through the wic-
ket' of a penitentiary aud say to thc
incarcerated, "What a hard time you
hav-e." What a email ;room. 'What poor
fare, what a hard pillow. Alas for
No, Sir, 2 will not go to the wicket
of the. prison, until I cen say, "Sirs,
do you knoev what this' document is?
Can you read that signature at the
foot of the page? That is the goy-
extnor'a signature. You are a free
man." If my eeaernen should stop at
this's' point it would be as though I
went into a penal colony, and I ehoulcl
eay: to the elaves. "On what small lim-
it you axe kept. It ie mast dread-
ful that you axe raea-er to be allowed
fara,what a hard pillow. Alae- for you!
yonl" No, I willnot go to that penal
colony, until I can say, "Sere, have,
good newa to tell you. The queen
Lan takea your case into especial
clemency, and in two or three weeks
you are, to go home to your wive,s
axad children. Give me your toiled,blise
teured hand in congratulation." A man
,who tell,s only half the story of the
gospel might better not tell any of it.
Well, my friend, what are some of
the /mans that 'God has devised, that
the bacnahed be not expelled from
him?" In the :first place, the foot-
path up through the rifts of skull -
shaped Calvary. Constantine hal
designated that hill as the one on
evhich Jesus died. Dean Stanley says
there are an that hill shattered( frag-
ments af lime -stone rock cleft evi-
dently of the crucifixion' eartaxqualte.
And, my friends, it is through that
fissure af the rock that our path to
pardon lios; through the earthquake
of conviction, trader the dripping
crimson of the cross. Ah, do you not
like the smell of laloo.d? Neither do I;
but without the shedding of blood
there is no remission. Our debts nre
never to be paid unless from! the cloy -
en arteries ea Jeetie Christ they are
liquida ted.
, Corning to -night through hose
fissures in the rock, you going up,
Chriat coming down, you will meet,
and thee° will be jay on eari,h and
joy in heaven over yoga; .souls
PARDONED AND ivoRatvviiv.
Now the. Cheistian txacks the blood
all around the shelving of the grey
limeetone reek an Caleary--the blood
o1 the great martyrdom of Jesus
Chriet. The spring rains canto, :Ind
they washed that red carriage into
the valley el, the foot of the, Moline
;Vain ;• hut Chris n •. easily
Stade the red niark on the :reek, and
the gaimpae of it in song, or aermorr
51,11'5 all hie sensibilities and ,03'ONV/IS
fat his prayers. . If it were needed
that ell the hosts of heaven ehould
wn upon your soul aval-
ohe of power. He commands; you
xepent; ha tbe,g,e you. to believe; he
asks yo.a to hae. Have, ye xeceived
the Holy Ghost?"
Among the nae,ans that `'Goa.1 has de-
vised that the banished be n,ol: expel-
led from him," I ,notiee also Christian
su.rrounclings. First, there is the in -
flue= e .of nces tral piety. Was
thew° Ilot a good man or woman in
your anoneatral line? Is there not an
old Bible around the, house with worn
covens and t,urn.ed down leaves, giving
yopa the hint that there was eoine one
who prayed? Was there a family
altar at which you used to bow? The
carpet in.ay have been worn ount, and
the chair may have. been sold for old
furniture, and the knee that knelt on
the one and beside the other may
never a,gain be pliant in earthly
warship; but you remember,
DO YOU NOT REMEMBER?
Ah! that Christian home.stead, the
meraery of it to -night al -not swamps
your soul. ,Whon the first death
came to the, house what was it that'a
comtforted the, old people? When b
you stood fanaing therm in their last 11
hour what was it that gave them, t
coura,ge, the dear, old departing souls?
Oyou banisla.e.d ones, hear the voiee of a
the Christian dead toeni,ght, bidding
you come home, I remember being
with my father. one day when he was le
ploughing in a new ground. It was s
very hard ploughing, and I remember p
how the sweat dropped down on the e
n/5 fatllit0U5 custotm which has d
eta -eyed the happiness of :many
home and dispexeed from many
young heart the eeede of domestic f
licity and contentment, leads people
to spend money they cannot afford.
Though the future is yet far &s-
eta/at for the many, provision should
noier, this vary day, be made for it.
But unleae,you live within your means
it is inapossible for iyou to
PROVIDE FOR THE FUTURE.
It Le not logic to spend what you
can earn and trust to luck for the
future. It Ls a ruinous .policy to fol-
low, Chance, or expectation, has
disagreeable knack of forgettin
friends. Chance is a fickle dame lwh
chancee to the tune of uncertainty.
Of course, it is a most dialcul
thing to be anybody, or to preten
to be somebody when you are not
and not keep up. appearances. If ;you
accept invitatione to oil '
houeese you are bound by all the law
of self-respect to return the compli
ment. All thia vera nice, but what
does it amount to? The money spent
in thia way may ncet be much, dissect-
ed in its various individual items, but
that is not the point. „
This. is the taend of it; Mrs. B.rown
has beea to Mrs. Robinson's, and as
lair. Robinson is in a ,goocl position,
tenhieisix house is very, nice in all its de -
On the other hand, Mx. l'erown ie not
in such a good position, but his wife
would not for world% let Mrs R
son know that, $o when it is Mrs.
Robineon'e turn to visit the Browns,
the Rohineons. must be impressed with
the idea. that their new friendS, the
Browns, are well off, when they are,
as a mattar of fact, poorly off.
To effect this, mitraele you'ng Mre.
Brown buys a new gown, new this
and ne-w that. Tbe hueband does' the
same thing, being Robineon's friend,
and theix 140 or; $50 a year domestic,
too, if it can he managed, is' changed
for a $100 girl, who will be told to
wear flowing atrings to her cap
LIKE THE ROBINSON GIRL.
To live withiu 'you': means, put by
O fifth of your income, even though it
goes against the grain to do as the
young Smith e and Browns and Rob-
ineons do, for, after all, your neigh-
bour s may be hying up to their means
possibly beyond them.,
The. couple, who live quietly in a
little houee in a aide stxeet, ,where
rent and rates and taxee are lowest,
are far ihappier than those who are
domicileclain a house on the main road
where. all the charges' are approxim-
ately higher. Live, them, within your
naeana, rememberin.g that you are do-
ing the wieest possible thing inere-
spect of the future. .
Living. up to your me.ang, 15, pare
excellence, the commonest form of
medern living.
People do thie' becattee they are not
(meet even with themeelves. They
re deceiving themaelves and every-
ody eke all round. They do not rea-
ze haw Many thinga they do because
hey are 'right or Ineccesar a but b
auee the Rebinsons and the Joneses
nd the Smithe do them.
This spending, of all their money
a„nnot afford them, pleaeure. ' The
vinge of conscience must come in
ounewhexe. It La but a passion which
OSSOSSOS 50,1215 people to appear grand -
a than, they are, more influential,
e er off than they are, and this
d j is why the world ie sueh a great
shavinb.y start
lira by giving a inun
higher rent than can be a.fforded out
e of your email income? Of course, your
Idea in to live in a nice locality, oth-
d e,rwiree it would mean your being look -
e ed down upon. '
t Bear the, brunt of what Your friends'
- ea neighbors think. The day will
, most assuredly arrive wbe,n your
' neighbore will have forgotten you and
,your attempts to inapre,es them with
the importance of your poeition, a
ditinotionfurived t at the coet of
O comfortable future ,
A person who lives up to his means'
is risking a mighty stake ---his vety
all. If hie future depended upon his
living up to hie naettns', the rashness
of hie living might 'be eaccueed, but
this is' not the cage. Rather is it to
b found thecl '
SEIVIPEY TO MAKE A SHOW.
•The people who live up to their
cane will keep a servant> when they
uld etieily manage the work them-
selves, with oceasionol help. The,a keep
a eeeerant 1101 becaase they want to,
but becatiee the people all round
them de, and they must, too.
Again, they cannot go out market-
ing far theanseives ; none of the neigh-
bouae do Plat, Instead, the trades- a.
/Iseult in theta trapa end take or-- a
re at tha kitehen doorr
THE HOUR OF DEATH..
many Insane versens rass Awn*? Toward
a the ?close of Day, Dr. PII,grinit
g A study of etatistica by Charles W.
° Imperintend,ent of the
Hudson Rives State Hospital at
Poughk.eepsie, N.Y., which has been
a publiehecl in the Aramaean Journal of
Insanity has been reprinted in pamph-
let form, and attracts some attention
peracularly by reason of Dr. Pil-
s grira'e citations and deductions con-
- corning the hour 'of death. Dr. Pil-
grim's paper ia entitled "The Study
of a Y ear's Statistics." He says :--
" An examination. of the hour of
death showed th,at 2a Per Cent. died
between xnianiaht and 6a.m., 10 per
cent between 6 a.m. and noon, 31 pex
cent. between noon and 6p.m., and
24 per tent. between p.m. and mid-
night. By adding the ee percentages'
together we fisad the curious face. that
the deathel were very evenly distribut-
ed between the houre of claakness and
light, patiente having died be-
tween Cipan., and 6a.m., and 116 be -
tweeze 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Desiring to a
pursue this question still further, I s
examined the details for the ten pre-
cediag years, nearly 1,500 in all, and ',13
found thie etatement strikingly con -
flamed, as a change of •
plough handles aria 1 real:toll:Ibex' at
noon hearing my- mother as she slam
at the earner caf. the house far (away
calling 1/19 to come, home, that th
table was spamad, and the dining ham -
had arrived. And som.e. of you.
down in and you have a, h:1;'d
tim
tibe.
51•Vie
herr
Is
ings
not
cavil
a
a g
bee
atop
clo
s
storm, or the opening aurnaces of the
doomed. world? What next? God
-tv.114 not be for:ewer repeeting abase
e. It is rough ploughing, 'am
re is the swoat of toil and, tb.
at of many sorrows. Do' you no
r to -night voieee from heaven, cry
"Coale home, the table is spread
banqu.ert is ready. Come home?'
here not 13 YOILT pxosent surround -
a Christian, influenee? Is there
a Chriatiaa esisfe, or husband, or
d, or brother, or 51.Ster? Throu,gb
in luenne God has been calling
rent 'while. Oh, you roust have
n a persistent ea'se to have 'with -
d Much, and withetood so long;
It you.dry neat? What will Gad
next? He will somehow break up
monotony. Will it be fire or
measages matte/one and alanern, na
Willa& next? Th.ore will be a' change 00
Id YOUR' • ease 0 soul r 0 th
yea. trav,e1 there is a turn just ahead
afi you. This night thy smut may be
required of thee. Some of you haVe
been called by the gospel for 011505
yeara, you suppose that Goal Well
always, keep on in that lino?' NO I tOn
you, pleonly, my dear liextaer, there will dfre
Pc a chlwage115 Y,00mr cage, dci
Romance Cenneeted 11-11h the ithlreht
Dr, alene,eli and miss .aiagier, of
avasainaton, D. 10.
Waeldrigton society thee beau Pro-
vided Nyitil eoenething oa a mild sensa-
tion by " announcement of Miss -
Raz abe t h Magi° r's forthcoming
mareiage to Dr. George Wilbert Mc-
Kean, of 13addeck, Nova Scotia:
Miss rangier is, the daughter of
Brigadier -General Flaglea, and Was
some five years ago one, of the laelles
of the United States capital. She is
iltatexneting, oat only an aeeount of
her wealth and laeauty, but also be -
000513 of the somewhat romantic etory
that ie told about her.
ao of
It eeems that in 18015 the Flaglera
'vesere terally haunted by emelt boys,
who, in spite at numberless warnings,
treepassed in the orchard whieh ad-
joined their maneion in the suburbs
c.0 Wetelangtem. A8 soon as ever a
member or iservant of the family
voila:shed from eight they would scale
the high svalle and set to work like
t14.1 ve,n,d
One hot A.ugusa: day Misa Flagler
hapne.necl te be atanding behind the
drawing roam blinds -when a negro
boy atolls over the. wall ancl scrambled
up one of the lade,n apple frees. She
seized a small aparting rifle that be-
loagad to her brother with the, intea-
'Can of searing the urchin. She raised
the (weapon and fired it.
APPEARANCE IN COUR:12.
Almost simultaneously something
fell from the tree, and. when the
amolee clea.red away the child vras
ouncl lying on the ground mortally
.wouncled. The coroner's jury ex-oner-
ated aVaises Finagler, but the verdict
reface' a st.arm indignatioa eniong
the negro residents in the neighbor-
hood; and after a period of cousider-
able agitation the General's daugh-
ter was indicted and brought to trial
when a verdict of '`guilty of involun-
tary manslaughter" was returned,
and Miss Flagler was sentencecl to, a
nominal fhree honrs' imprisonment.
Miss Flagler was a great favorite
in Washington society, and her
friends planned to receive her with
dinners mad dances, but she would see
nobody and go nowhere.
One day she suddenly disappeared,
for she had imposed a sentence of
veluntaryexile on herself, being de-
termined to renounce the :world and
its gaieties for ever.
She became aarecluse in a little
fishing village called Baddeck, in
Cape 13raton, Nova Scotia, where her
aim was to expiate what she consid-
ered her sin by doing gcod to the
poorest and saddest—mothers who
vaaited vain for the return of their
Sons, and wives who were still wait-
ing for the deep, waters to give up
their loagarcaesing husbands.
y edegree a she. -was able by her un-
iting kintineas and helpfulness to
yin the c.canplete cosafidenee of, these
imple fisherfolk, and her services
apidly aecame, eo. much in denaand
hat ehe. had no tinae to brood over
er trouble.
WHERE SHE MET THE DOCTOR.
And it was while tending the sick
hat ehe was first brought back to
he 'world she had left, for ia was at
he bedside of an invalid that she raet
Dr. George McKean, a young ply
ONE-IIALF OF 1 PER CENT.
Nvould have made the deaths exactly st•
even during the hours of day and
night.
"A chart which Imade of the deaths
for the year—and I Might also add
that the statements which lam about
to make were corroborated by a chart
made of all the death a during the pre-
ceding decade—ehowed when
ed into ?sections of three hours each,
that the highest point of the curve
was reached, both for men and women
bet-vv-een the hours of 3 and 6 p.m.,
ne.axly 20 per cent. of all the deaths
having occurred between these hours.
The next higheet point was, laetween
the houxe of 3 and 6a..m., although
there was a decided. fall Inc both
aexea fox the single hour from 4 to 5
when the line went down to the low -
eat point reached in any hour of the
twenty -forme There was also a de-
cided fall, especially for wome,n, be-
tween 11 and 12 in the morning.
" These figures, therefore, show that
there is some reason for (be popular
belief that many cleathe occur during
the -early morning hours, but they will
show still more plainly that the me-
joaity of those who suffer from long
continued mental disease give up their
lives toward the close of the da A
gerneral rule ' death eaftly follows
life' and Suffering at the end, either
physical or mental, is of rare occur -
1 -00100. In fact it is not an uncommon
thing to ;notice a clearing up of the
clouded bralla a few hours
sician, who hacl gone to seek experi-
enee and practice aroong the poor of
Nova Scotia. .
It • was but natural that the man
of aeadicinee should frill in love with
the good Samaritan, whom the grate-
ful village folk were wont to call "the
'blessed lady." The beautiful, sorrow-
ful -looking lady, stria) deaelt in a her-
mit cottage called ''The Bowsprit,'
awake_ned in him an interest infinitely
more_ absorbing than medicine. So he
set himself ate I ask which her rela-
tives and' friends had failed at— to
eatice her back to the lager world
she had left.
In ?the eveninga used tol gd up
to the osiottage which ales Fla.gler
had built on the lonely reeks to con-
sult liar about some, pat plan or new
p.roject in which her help wee neecIL
ed.
on. until mac day Washington society
was agreeably tsurprise,d to hear that
the Brigadier -General's dause,hter was
coraing back to the gay, busy world
which had not known her fax five
whole years. '
Early in June her return La to be
signaliz.ecl by a brilliant wedding in
Si. Margaret's ehurch, to be lollowed
a great reception, at which Wash -
ton enclety will be present. In-
d, adass Flagler'S bids fair to be
weddina of the season.
°mantic as the wleale story is' it
not appeal to any reader half so
verbally as to the heroine of it,
o will thus plunge back into the
tex of a society womarns life after
absence of over five years—years
rit in leading what has practically
al a hermit existence as far aa her
mer friends have been concerned,
vill prObably siedna to her as though
had., been sod den ty a avak ed f rola/
trange dream; all the .events of
life among the fisherfolk of 'Nova
,Lia being compressed into the
cies cf a night's alumbers.
And oc. this remantie wooing went
by
ing
BEFORE' THE FINAL CHANGE. I det1a!
This; fact was, n'oticed, by Rush a hun- R
years, ago, and, in epinion, too 1 c'an
has; been written of it since. rA),,'
From ONN'71 observations, and from w"
the reporta or reliable :nurses, many v°a
patiente, especially these dying of an
phthieis, ar surgical operations, or 1 esPa
faom acute intexcurrent diseases, or et'ea
inju;riee, which produee a profound .aar
shock upon the geueral stcm, becom0! dial/.,
c,alm and coherent • shortly before )
detEaltshe;:w' Imre Dr. Pilgrim makes this 'f.l.aars'
remark :—"The number of . eagee diag- aa'a
nose.d upon adlnission aeute melan-
hol in., whil3 /1 15 ,just about Iwo • and
orne.-balr times .ae g,reat as that of
acute mania, a; quite ?suggestive, It
not only yieovee, ae is generally admit-
ted by alieniete, that it is the rule
for ineanity to begin with depression,
but it also shows that cases are sent
Id the, hospital much earlier than they
used to be, be,fore the later stage of
manta has had time to aevelop. .ft. Id
undoubtedly tide fact which SD often
given e to the a sser ti en t t t he
foam of izeanity hits'clangeci of !etc
an.cl that the. laessibly trotibleeome
cases of former years, in which re-
stxaint :seemed so necessary, are no
longer :seen. , But it ie my belief that
the real reason for the infrequeney
of ettch cases is that hospitals for the
insane are to -day regartled mach
more favourably than they wera even
deeade ago,. and their aid is retie)/
"exile/. eought and their full benefits
ratieh of ken er ob t a in e d."
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NOW 'THEY ARE MARItIle'D.
A baehful aoung man went three
timee to etek a be,autiful young lady
if ha might be the pantner of her
joye and borrows andl other household
furniture; but e1011 time hie heart
failed him, and he, took the question
away unpopped.
She Saw, the singuish of 'his soul,
and bad compaeaion on lairn., So, the
next time he calm:, 8the (iskaal him if
he had thought to bring a acrew-driv-
er With 11(11,
Ilo bluahea, and vanted to know
w antd fox Ntile fulness of her heart,
Said she did not know but that he
would wout to eieraw Ilp hie courage
bi:ret,00k heI1021.lhint and the glad.
THE SUNDAY sqll()oL.
t.g5soN scoraD QUARTER, INTERi
NATIONAL SERIES, JUNE 9.
Teat of the Lemson, Acts, =ail, G-1(ik
.11E]ow:y ,Vermem, 0-S—Gelden. Test(
Act d x=1,vi,'19--Comoleetery Preaur4
ed by the Itev. 13„ 51. Stextrnik..
0. "Nigh unto Damascus about noon
been studying the appearances of our
Lord to 1-Iis dieciples after His resurrec-
lion, mid now in this lesson :tad the next
we have two, oil His vest a.seension ap-
pearances. It wouhl be very profitable
to eonsidea 1 -lis firet post ascension ap-
pearanee Lo Stephen. Let every one lay
up .Acts vii .55, and may it become a con -
stelae Nand' in 0111' hearts. In studyin“
this leasou woula be very profitable to
write out in parallel coltunns the three
accounts of this incident in chapters ix,
1-20; xxvi, 0-20, and tae portion we aro
iibout to study. Paul tells us that lie
was on Lis way to Damascus to bring the
believers there to Jerusalem to be pun.
ished (verse 5), imcl, believing that he
ought to do iliany things contrary to the
(81,11teat7iattl:t1ti:s1, so(iazuftxi 11:11.10,):21.n.,,Nyd halyzi cal sl elped put tsihtnednat hpotuct:l
ale?" IIe ancl all who wee° with him
fell to the ground, but he alone /actual
these words, spokea. in the Hebrew Ian<
gunge (compare the parallel a0coun1s)4
The voice was for him, not for his cona
panions. In Dan. x, 7. we read that he
alone saw the vision; the men who were
with hini saw it not, but were filled with
fear. ' The vision and the voeds Were lot
Daniel, not for them. 1Vhen Peter \vita05
released from prison, he alone saw andAI
heard the angel;, the guards knew notle-
ing of it. So it may be when He calla
1 -lis saints to meet I-Iim in the air. The
world may see or hear nothing, but pers
haps le afraid.
8. "I am jesus of Nazareth, whotn
thou persecutest." This in answer to his
question, "Who net thou, Lord?" What
a revelation for Saul, who had believed
Jesus to be an impostor and who, sincere<
ly wishing to do right before God, secg
in a moment that he is all wrong and
tliat the believers in Jesus whom he had
been persecuting were right and that he,
Saul, had been persecuting Christ in
them. Teat Iaeners Messiah had actual -
15 come and boon rejected and crucified
by the rulers of the people, and that he
is, with them, guilty of His death. In ti
moment he sees his Lora; and he sees
himself as a rebel against his Lord and
Saviour. ,
9. "They heard not the voice of Hint
that spalce to me." Chaptea ix, 7, saya
that they heard a voice; there is no con-
tradiction; there can be none tn Scrip-
ture. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit et'
Truth, cannot contradict I-Ihnself. They;
heard a sound, but not the words, which
were for Saul only. Compare John xi!,
28, 20, where some heard words, but oth-
ers only heard something like thunder.
Do you hear Him speak to you personal-
ly when you read His word, or is it all
indistinct?
10. "And I said, What shall I do'.
Lord?" or, ns in. is, 6, "Lord, what wilt
Thou have me to do?" Saul sub/nits, he
accepts the risen Christ as Israel's Mes-
siah and as his Lord and afastev, and
his question is no longer what the chief
priests would have hiin do, but what the
only true High ,Priest would have him
do; he has ceased from man, for he has
seen, the Lord. He is sent to Damascus,'
but under a very different authority from
that which sent him from Jerusalem, and.,
to learn the things that have been ap-
pointed by God for him. It our honest
questions are, Where wilt Thou, Lordl
(Luke xxii, 9) and, What wilt Thou,
Lord? He will not fail to shwa us tilt
the things appolatecl for us and guide ux
in them. '
11. "I could not see for the glory oi
that light." So those who were with -
him led him by the band into Damascus, ,
and was three days without sight, and
neither did eat nor drink (ix, 9). He
must have learned much as he communed
with God those three days of dying to
self ancl the world, and doulitiess the
Lord wondrously alai lovingly revealed
Himself to him. What a blessed ,expe-
rience it would be to have such a visiett
of the glory of God that we would no
more see the attract; veness of thii
world's vanities because of the glory 'el
that light! Eyes endears for Mtn!
12, 13. "Brother Saul, receive tha
sight." Thus said Ananias, a disciple(
having been commissioned by the Lord al
search out Saul and be a blessing, and a
'comfort to him. Give much attentioa
Parc •to Acts is, 10-10, ,and note athena
other thing's that the Lord in 'ller.ven.ob(
,.serves the street in the city on which nr(
sojourn and the house on the street. HI
knows just where to find tux always and
just what He can do with us, and thest
who are` wiaing may be chosen vessels
unto Him to bear His nan3e.ie ivillinj
also to puffer for Nils name's sake. Seta
had spent anich of the three, days 12
prayer, and the Lord had granted him t
vision of a Irian coming to hiai and putt
ting his hand npon him that he thiaht re
ceive his sight.
14-10. Note the honors conferred upoi
Saul and take them to yourself AS far at
your faitb will allow, remembering that
all things are yours but yoarself, and
you, if redeemed, should bo act apart for
Himself (1 Cor. iii, 21; vi; 11, 20;15s. iv,
8). ','Cliosen to know His will." See 12
Pet. 0; Jolue vi, 38-40; xvii, 24; Luke
xxii, 42, and coasider how fully you are
living -in the will of Gocl. "See that Just
One." "Thy eaw no man any more SAVA
Jesus only with themselves." "Rurt
with patience looking . unto Jesus''
(Mark aa, S; Heb. xii, 1, 2). "Hear the '
voice of I-Iis mouth." "This is my be4
rlojevteclnuSronoleatleilelanrimilItiintnn" (afatia .xvii,
what Ged the Lord wbaell "1 will 11.(Peast?
lxxxv) 8); not the opinions of men, but
only the voice of God. "Thou shalt he
His witness unto all men of what thou
hest seen ancl heard," Compare Acts iv?
20; I John i, 3, and say before God bola
and where, you etand.- Are you the
Lord's serval] tet living eta_ turn 3ico/31q
from -daalineas to light, from fiatal) unta
fiGnocid inthhzti brtlySfyai1t'OheeloiVOobrI011s'gtiVIleytIdOSel.,
daring because you cannot help it that
which you have seen for yourself in'
Christ and heard with your awn, earl
froinaTim? (Chapter xxvi, 16-13.) It is
the privilege of .every sinner who haa
ever beard the gospel to receive the Lord
,Tesus MO be saved; 11 10 the privilege ei
every saved one to be joyfulla eon:Pelona
of the forgiveness of sins and by a coa)
eistent life and teetimonw Iced others td
Ilini Acta 38 30' Ak„I`
(lohn i, 12; 37; I John v,
ee