Exeter Advocate, 1904-1-21, Page 7re
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ALL F011 GOSPEL ACTIYITI
Glorious Opportunities foi.•
foIriaos
(Initered Aceardins to Act of the l'ae.
liameet Q oanacia, le the year one,
Thosseend Nine Hundred one Three,
by non. Bally, of Toronto, at toe
Departmeet of Agriculture. Ottawa.)
k despatch from Chicago eays
Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage preach-
ed from the following text Matt,
xx, 7, "Go ye also into the vine-
yard."
A prospeetive theme It is especa
ially appropriate for the first ser-
• mon of a new,year. This is not a
time to sound a requiem over the
dead. It is a. time when the gospel
colors should be unfurled defiantly
to the 'breeze and when an aggres-
sive campaign should be planned for
invading ,the strongholds of evil
varrounded by satanic intrenchments.
• *Forward, march !" shotld be the
command all along the lines, tot
"Mark: time!" not ”Halt not
"Fall back !" not detailment for
'sentinel duty. We should have for
the gospel ranks a grand charge and
not a tattoo. There should be no
willingness to sleep upon mu. 411111S
tn PeaCe*
A negative policy will never cap-
ture this old world for Christ. It
is well at times to preach the com-
mand, ''Thou 'shalt not." There
came into my possession the other
• day a beautiful' suggestive :booklet
written by Bishop John Vincent.
Its title was "Better Not." But
the Christian's library, to be com-
plete needs a companion volume
called "Better Do." The Christian
is called to a life of positive, active
WORK IN THE -SUNDAY SCHOOLS
' There is Works unlimited work,
• treinendous, over powering and vital
• work, to do • among the Sunday
schools. This gospel work is the
more important because it, must, be
done quickly or it will never he ' done
• at all. The: verdant fields of child-
hood do not ,stay verdant long. Our
own ehildren seem to spring up sine
- der our very eye. it is but a short
time since they were babies. Now
they are boys and girls. Soon they
• will be grown men. and wOmen. We
go back to visit the scales of our
childhood which we left only a few
, years ago, and we: find that the
• companions of our youth are . now
grown up and married and have
ebabies of their own...,
,
..)- Sunday school hvork offers an en -
limited field for ,gospel effort. :Many,
Many are the children Miming whom
the earnest disciple can labor. Pre-
sident Roosevelt maar be tight In
• utteriegi'a vehement protest against
the tendency of the upper classes to
, shirk parental responsibilities, but
among the middle and the lower
,lasses children seem to be every-
eia
1 -here, There are broods of them,
varme of them, flocks of them,
great hosts of them. The multitudes
of pattering feet fairly fill the earth
with music when these infantile
throngs every morning start on their
daily tramp to the public schools.
In order to house them for • educa-
tional purposes ndllions upon' mil-
lions Of dollars must be spent an-
• nualise. :No Christian disciple need
be afraid of building upon another
mane foundation when -he goes to
work - for Christ among the little
, children,. There is not a consecrat-
ed Sunday school superintendent in
all the world who is not at his wits'
end to find the right kind , of teach-
ers who will gather the boys and
, the ,girls into the students' classes
for his Sunday school.
' A FIELD FOR GOSPEL LAI30R.
Sunday schoolwork is of the most
vital importance. Among all the I
fields opea for gospel labor I have
, purposely placed it first, because -I'
believe it to be the Mostimpel-tont
eaf all. No one cane fully,' estimate
eahe future influence of the children
who,. are now playing about Our
, SloorS. Then:as-4,00es, : the great
Cetateemet, 011Ce' Placed his hand up -
1)i his son's head and said, "This
: and is- greater than anyone. in
recce, for the Athenians -command
e Greeks; I command the Atheo-
ns, his mother commands me; and commands his mother." We, in
thriet's name, can. place :our hands
pon the childret, In Sunday school
erode we. can -says "The children will
'ee, greater than all, because the
)hildren of to -day will be the men
Ltd the women of to -Morrow." ,11
you can save the cradles and the
eurseries for Christ, you can save
the world for Christ. I plead -anal
beg of you, Christian disciples, to
expend a ,great part of your gospel
eneegiesin working.among tlie
children.
:Another gate stands wide open for
practiced goepel. •teen/Meese Thie
• gate, loads into a field aglow • With
- ripened human grail'', ready t� be.
garnered. It is crowded with young
: .people. But; though crowded with
• the young inen, 'and Maidens; yet
. each paeseliger train miming into
our latge:eities ie emptying Part of
,ite load info this field eas .the freight
leains daily disgOlge their cattle
.. 'Lad home andeh* into the Chi-
cago stoels yards, and yet, there is
always rdom, for more. Ttnitg men
•end Maidena dike children, Oeni to
be etoryWhoe, -We einsWd: against
them iii the eleetric Care, wo bump
. up against .thenx. on :Streee.,dorners;
we see •l:ISeni through the -sehinging
dtlooes of selebt and billiard • Melia
Who trill help save them ? •Chnrcli
Meither, IS not :Christ ealling you:
n to go and 'labor ranging, the stalwart
)01nes of youth. as Well , as to tee
the goe,Pel aX aniong the gliatiorl'atul
aporin ,eatert israncheS,bl:.siaftti old
CAIRISTIAN'S DUTY,
l'iow is the ,Chrietian to go afteS
the yetreg people ? Simply onough
He 18 "10 go • after them with -the
saAf) krZirk%r 05 the ngeil le of ' vil
after theft'. prey. Here, for instance,
is a young Man who Conies into a
large" city. :Ho has no friends.
Through an old acquaintariee of his
father he .gets a position in your
store. He has .0, email bedroom in
city boarding boase., :IfoW is tho
Christian disciple to groet him'? Is
,
he to merely pass a 'Good morn -
Mg" or is he to go to that yotng
man and open a conversation some-
thing likathie : "Geed morning
Are you a stranger in the city? Are
you from a, Christian hoine ? Of
course you have no 'church connec-
tions as yet. Wili you not 'come
to our church text Sunday morning
We have; our Cheistians Endeavor
'social next Thursday :night. 'I, wisl
that 1 could introdatie'yot to sone
of our young people. It is 'very easy
to 'drift among bad associates in a
large town like this. I want you to
getamotg the good people. Wo have
somefine young folksup ait our
church. I know that you will get a
wane weleome....Perhaps, you do not
Icriow the city well enough to find
your way. Come vThli nee to sap-
per, and we will :go together, or I
Ni411 call at youa room for you."
How many young men, _strangers in
a large city, are therewho would
refuse an invitation to c. ome among
Chrietien people if tints accosted ?
How many eomma dedicated by the
Church for the services Of tlie Chris
iian Endeavor society, Epworth
league ot Beotheehone ,of Andrew
and Philip would be empty, or prac-
tically enatity, if the Christian mem-
here of the dirndl would go out in
a plain; practical Way and giye, such
a warm hearted, loving salutation to
the vomig folks as I have indicated?
The reason the young People do not
come into church fellowship is be -
cense they aee not personally invited
to come. This invitation duty rests
with the new convert as well as
with the ord.
MISSIONARY WORK.
week orit, you will see the eyn bright.,
en and the lip smile and will hear
the blessed words of endless grati-
tude, Yon will not only near hue
man Commendations, but you will
also hear ,the Divine Savions say; '4j
was sick, and ye visited me. • Verily
I say unto you inasmuch a.e, ye done
it unto one of the least of these my
brethren ye have done it unto me,"
THE GOSPEL INVITATION.
But there is Still olio more field
of Christian activity to which I
would direct yonr attention. That
is to the side rooms where the after -
meetings sheeld be held in every
, Christian church immediately follow-
ing the benediction of the Sandi:W-
I/twit services. That is the place
where the gospel net is drawn. That
is the room in 'which after a week of
prayer the sinners are given a direct
invitation to join the church. There
they are brought face to face with
Jeete Christ and are urged to make
a decision in reference to their soul's
eternal destiny. That is the one
place above all others where the
Christian should expect to see the di-
rect results of his spiritual labors.
It is the one place toward which all
his scholars and young people should
_ !converge and concentre and find its
!gospel climax.
C THE CALL TO CHRISTIAN LIFE.
Thus the call to the Christian life
Is a bugle blast for work. The
church.pew is not meant for a bed
of roses, where indolence and slotis
can lie down for perpetual slumber.
Consecrated church membership is a
sacredaffinity for intense missionary
activity as well as for "gospel rest,"
A famous musician once said, "If I
stop practising upon the piano one
day I will feel mer deterioration, if
two days the musical critics will feel
it, if three the World at largo in my
promiscuous audiences will feel
11 the consecrated ehurch- member
- 1 stops working for Christ one day he
himself will feel his own spiritual
deterioration, if two days his Chris-
tian friends will realize it, if three
days the world at large will be the
sufferer because of it. Faith's wings
are movable. They must be kept
!working all the Vine. Now comes
the practical determination for the
Christian to settle—where are you
specially fitted to go to work for
Christ? Choose Your spiritual oc-
cupations. From. among -the many„
fields of gospel opportunities choose
them now.
Another glorious field Of Christian
usefulness is to be foimd in mission-
ary work. What do I mean by that?
Christian labor among' the cannibals
of the south seas'? 'Among the fur -
robed Eskitios,, in their igloos, of
the: icy north? Among the tattooed
Maoris of New Zealand and the half
civilized natives of the orient? Oh,
.yes. They are all included in that
term, "missionary work." The di-
vine command, "Go :ye, therefore
and epach all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father and the
Son and the Holy Chost," has a
worldwide significance. One of the
-first duties 01 a Christian is to work
for the foreign missionary society of
his church. By money donations, by
needlework and by pledges you
should re -enforce our Christian mis-
sionaries laboring in foreign .fielde.
You cannot have a world's Saviour
'unless you feel that the black man
of Borneo and the yellow man :of
China and the Bengali of India are
your brothers—brothers in Christ.
- But in reference to missionary work
I had in my mind also another inter-
pretation. I mean Christian labor
among those who are living la your
back alleys, Christian labor among
the poor and the social outcasts,
Christian labor, as a lady Some time
ago expressed it to me in a beautiful
letter. She wrote asking me if sI
knew of arty crippled child who had
110 friende. She wanted to adopt
that child. She well knew that the
ablebodied children -might ultimately
Pc able to take care of themselves,
but the crippled child never, There-
fore she wanted to adopt a crippled
child and care for the boy while she
lived and leave money enough in her
Will to care for the child after she
was dead. Ah, that is the true mis-
sionary spirit! , To care for the crip-
ples and :the heeplesseethe moral and
physical cripples. You can lied them
in the slums. You can hear them
knocking at your door. You can see
them peshing past you in the twi-
light.
THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING.
Another glorious field for Christian
activity is found in hospital work.
It is found where Christ spent most
of his earthly ministry—namely,
among the sick. It is found in go-
ing through the wards filled with
white cots and leaving here a flower
and there a word of encouragement
and yonder a prayer. It is found in
the children's wards, where many lit-
tle ones are cursed with a futile
struggle for physical existence, curs-
ed from the moment that they were
born. It is found in the old people's
homes,- when° the aged and the phy-
sically infirm, sonietimes petulantly,
sometimes lovingly and longingly,
are waiting for the last summons 'to
join the silent majority beyond. "It
is better to go to the house of
mourning than to the houee of feast-
ing:: Yes.. But I believe it is bet-
ter to go the bedside of the sick
than to stand by the caskets of the
Scan!; I3y the white couch of physi-
cal pain the opportunities for doing
good aro even greater than by the
whito. shrouds of the departed.
But, though the hospitals are.filled
to onerfiewing, how few of us over
think of geing ChM to carry a
Ohrist'^ ineeeego of good cheer! When
we think Of genuine Christian work
we are apt to look for that work far
beyondathe seas, We do not appre-
ciate the opportunities that aro at
our very doors, Oh, Christian mon
and women, never let a Month of
your• life pass unless you try to
carry Ged's lone into some hospita?
01'Sieltroeti. YOU cat find there one
of the most blessed of all works. As
you approach the "shut-ins," the in-
valids 'who are compelled to lie up,
on a bed 0f sickness Week in and
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PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Iteans of Interest From the Worlds
Pour Corners.
Mexico Produces more silver than
any other country.'
• There are 2,24-2 foreign senclents in
the -technical schools' of Germany.
The Magyars rule Hungary, al-
though . they tumber but 6,000,000
or 7,000,000 in a total of 43,000,-
000. •
project is on foot in Geneva for
the establishment of aerial excur-
sions to view the summit of Mont
Blanc.
To -day the Empire of Japan has a
Population of 49,000,000. This
means more than 300 people within
a square mile.
Rules for the More careful handling
of furniture by State railway em-
ployees have -just been issued at all
German stations.
An English railway tram on De-
cember 4th ran from 1Vrarylebone to
Manchester, a distance Of 206 miles,
in 219 minutes. I
The' pictorial post -card craze still
rages in Europe. More than 41,-
000,000 were delivered by the Swed-
ish post -office last year. .
In 1870 the German people barely
exceeded. 10,000,000; in 1885 they
had risen to nearly 47,000,000, and
in 1900 the census returns gave 56,-
815,011. •
No less than 111 • officers of the
British Army have qualified as inter-
preters in the Russian language,
eighty-three of whom belong to the
Indian service.
In 'Wales there are 500,000 people
who cannot speak Englieh; 111 Ira,
land there are 30,000 who speak
only -Irish; and in Scotland there
are 40,000 who speak only Gaelic.
A regulatio11 has been made in 1
Vienna that all. electric lights must
be raised to sixteen feet above the
pavement, as otherwise they are cal-
culated to injure the eyesight of pas-
sengers.
A 'French Apiculturist has been ex-
perimenting with bees as messengers,
He has discovered that they will re-
turn to their hives from a 'distance
.of four miles in about twenty min-
utes, beating despatches, after the
manner of homing pigeons.
Diseases of the heart have greatly
increated in Germany in recent years
one person in every seven being now
afflicted. Influenza, alcoholism, and
exceesive addiction to bicycling anc1
-other sports are named by Dr.
Steckai as the chief causeg.
Shorthand is not a modern inven-
tion. Theme were schools of short-
hand in Egypt in the third century
of our era. A recently discovered
papyrus shows a contract between a
shorthand teacher and a gentleman n
who wished the aft, taught to one of
his .
The cigar -makers' nnione of NOY,
York City have organized a oamera
corps to take snapshots of every
union man who is discoyered smok-
ing 0 non-union agar, 'Every guilty
wretch who smokes a' non-union
cigar will be fined or otherwise put-
ished.
Viscount Hayashi, the 110W +To:of-m-
ese Ambassador to Great Britain, iS
a man of fine culture. Ile speaks
Einglish with meeely the trace of a
foreign 4,COOnt. 1:08 reading has
been wide, and ,has led him to trans-
late many notable foreign works 111: -
to Japaricee,•
Portugal is the most, illiterate
country in Europe; nearly sixty-c10a
P00 coLtof her populetioe cameos
Write, ln 'Italy the proportien
illiterates is fifty-three per cent.; in.
Russia, thirty-six per CO21(,1 in Spaiit
nine per cent, and in Dritain, not
°telt° tom' Per cent, •,
THE KING'S REGULATIORS
ORDERS irmvr: TITX SOLP/Wit
NEVElt OBEYS,
Ofacers Set Their Subordinates the
• Example of Law -
Breaking,
The 'soldier is generally looked on
as the persopitication .91 ObedioUte,
and it will theretocome as a reve-
lation to 148,11y tO be told that some
ef' the most, stringent orders in,th0
SOrVi00 aro. 1101; only not obeYetl''by
the eoldier but are openly sot at der
Dance' by him.
First amongst these comes the or-
der 'prohibiting a soldier marrying
Without the consent of his command.
mg officer. Some do apply for
leave and obtain it, bet many who
are: tot mialified for the married roll
ignore all regulations on the Subject
and enter into the nuptial .state
without leave or licetse from any
of their superiors, The lot of the
woman, ae well as the man, is not
to be envied afterwards, for his mar-
riage tot 'being recognized he li,as
only his ,pay with whieh to support
his wife, and this is barely enough. to
keeP, laimeelf, without adding further
to his responsibilities.
• When nniform is issued to the men
they are strictly .forbidden to al-
ter it in any way', under penalty of
severe pimisbment; yet without more
ado they take the articles straight
to ,the tailor's shop and get them
altered to suit their wayward fanc-
ies. Now and theu an example is
made of one of these law -breakers,
but, as a rule, the order is Mose
hotored in the breach than in the
observance.
The King's Regulations enjoin that
every soldier's bedding is to be aired
daily before being folded up. Many
a soldier shows his disregard fon
this wise piece 'of legislation by ,
NEVER AIRING HIS BEDDING.
Subscriptions or testimonials to
superiors leaving the corps are ,ab-
solutely prohibited, yet ,in every case
the soldier treats this order with
open. defiance by sending round the
hat and 'presetting the departing of-
ficial with some souvenir of his re-
gard; in, this respect he only follows
the example of his officer as a law-
breaker. The regulations enjoin that
the 'publication of laudatory' orders
on officers quitting a station or re-
linquishing- an appointment is for-
bidden; yet every time an officer quits
an appointment, even amongst the
highest posts, a most flattering cata-
logue of his virtues appears in the
regimental, garrison, division, dis-
trict, or general orders, as the case
may he. In fact, general officers are
amongst, the foremost in setting this
order at defiance, by paying 0 public
tribute to the achievements of any
Member of their staff who may be
leaving them.
Ins another flagrant instance do
officers set their subordinates the
example of law -breaking by joining
the directorates of companies. A
regulation in existence enacts that
officers on full pay are not permit-
ted to join the .directorate of any
public, industrial, or other company
without permission from the Wax
Office, yet how many officers are
constantly accepting seats on boards
of directors without a thought of
applying for permission to do so?
• OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS
are strictly prohibited from commun-
icating any information to the Press,
yet there is scarcely a regiment in
the Service without its Press cor-
respondent; and, indeed, many regi-
ments possess their OW11 regimental
newspaper, wherein all kinds of mili-
tary intelligence' are publislied and
circulated broadcast to the public.
Gambling of every description is
forbidden in camp or barracks, 'yet,
where soldiers foregather together
the gambling element is ever presett,
and is winked at to a certain 'ex-
tent by the powers above.
:
Soldiersconfinedin the guard -room
should be searched and deprived of
unlawful possessions, yet this duty
of searching, which at one time was
rigidly enforced, is now practically a
dead letter.
No soldier (unless a warrant of-,
finer) is allowed to wear plain
clothes except when on furlotigh, and
then only by special permission, yet
mess -sergeants and officers' servants
ride rough -shod over this order and
wear mufti in and ont of barracks
just when they like.
Master -tailors ar0 strictly forbid-
den to sell clothing, eta, to the 111011
of their regiments, yet whoever heard
of a master -tailor who did not do a
private trade in caps, gloves, fcmcy
trousers, and alt suck kinds of ton-
traband goods? ,
Mess -sergeants are not allowed ta
cash cheques for the officers; so runs
the order, but the mess -sergeant does
not appear to he aware of it, for
the one practice he is addicted to is
this very caShing of
orpmeRw catiDQuEs.
Tho establishment of a band is fix-
ed at one :sergeant, one corporal, an(1
twenty privates, and the King's Reg-
ulation e sternly order that these
umbers are not to be exceeded.
ComManding officers throughout the
army place themselves within reach
of this kov by deliberately increasing
their bands to at lea.st double • these
no more striegent order
on board ship than that soldiers are
only allowed to smo1-ie. during certain
benne, and heatty punishments are
meted out to offenders when they are
caught in the very act. Yet theta is
110 erder which Tommy lonee to set
at naught so Muth as he do eS this
one, and he taltee advantage of • ev-
e/7 nook and torten to eniby 811r-
reptiti01181y the forbidden pipe.
Caterers of Morgeants" meseee are
strictly forbidden to Sell drink to
private soldiers, yet there is scarcely
n. nieSs 111 the Servine that has tot
ite "batik -door" trade—that le, envy
Meriting the iilioit ale of drinke to
private soldiers is carri0d. on at the
baek-door of the Imes,
Commandieg officere are directed t�
oesuid tho Admission of etrangore tb
harracks, and not tet Aetna allYone
Whose eharacter ie not good, As a
matter of fact, there are few barraekS
'in the United Kingdoni that a civil-
ian cannot enter with very little dif-
'lenity, and no innestigation is over
made as , to his character.
THE KING'S REGULATIONS
are very empliatie againet dOgS be-
ing allowed te 4141 10080 1A:barracks,
yet isa °Very harracke an number of
these animals are °weed her the of -
'leers anal men, and eve anOWed tQ
roam about where they will, without,
• let or hindrance, ••
The Marriecl woinen• hi a regiment
• are sternly erelered not to do any
ironing in their quarters, yet they
do it nowhere oleo, for the • simple
reason that there is no other place
provided for them to perferta such
evorle in.
inart • cm sentry is ordered to
walk about in a smart and soldier -
like manner, and oa no account is
he permitted to smoke. He watches
every opportunity of standing still
and resting, and at night, after the
orderly officer has paid his visit, the
soldier -sentinel limy be seeri taking
advantage of the shelter of the sen-
wtresor-ciiibx to indulge in the fragrant
For the simple reason that Tommy
is prohibited from swilling the floor
when scrubbing out the barrack-rodm
mice a week, he delights it flooding
it, and while the cleaning -out pro-
cess is in operation the floor is like
a sniniature sea„ •
It seems inbred in the soldier that
the orders to which most importance
areattached by his superiors ' are
the ones that he particularly erijoys
Eseititsing at deflauce.---London Tit -
ANINCREDIBLE SITUATION
A PERPETUAL BURNING RAIL-
WAY STATION. ,
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'THE SeNDAY
INTERNATIQNAL TfESSON,
/AT;
Text of the 'Lesson, LuUe
I6-30. Gelden Text,
,Yoltn't,, 11,
•
"He is despised and rnieetecl of
Snen; a /elan of sorrows and acquaint'
ed with grief; and we hitt as it were
our facee froin Ilim; Ile W8S 11080800
and we esteemed Hine not." •
"He
was.in the world, and the world waa
made IV rilap, end the world knew
Him not, He earae into Ilis °WA
and His 0W11 recc;ived Him not" (lea.
lin., 8; John i., 10, 11). He Itnew
it weald be so and yet Be cense,
and became, a son of Masi that WO
might laeconie sons of God. • For us
Ile ,eoffered and died; with Him ws
must -die and stiffer if we would reige
(I-Ieb. ii., 14-18).
Having met the wild beasts and
the devil in the wildeinees, and havw
ing overcoine by the word of Gd, He
returned in the power of the Spirit
to. Galilee, but not until he returned -
to where John the Baptist was bap.
tizing and John had pointed Him
out as the Lamb of Cod, and An.
drew, Simon, Philip and Nathanael
had become Ilia disciples. It is prob-
able also that Ile char/gad the water
to wine at Cana, went to Jerusalem
to the Passover, cleansed the temple,
met Nicodensus and the woman of
Samaria and healed the nobleman's
son at Capernaum before the inci-
dents of 'our lesson. occm'red at Naz-
areth. See John i., 19, to iv., 54.
That He. had been brought up at
Nazareth would not add to His repu-
tation, judging from John i., 16. Let
all such as live at soine Nazareth
take courage. It is not our environ-
ment that mars or makeus, else •
Adam and Eve would never have fal-
nle Near Glasgow, Scotland, len. The expression "brought up" is
Which Cannot Be Ex- sometimes taainslated • "feed" or
"nourish" (Matt. vi., 26; Luke xn.,
tinguished. 21; Rev. xii., 6-11) andmay suggest
It is not,geterally known that ,in adiditon tQhYs
Scotland, not more than three nourishing byC1 oDdwicillgr
h Hisworda
miles out of Glasgow, there is a fire `-and spirit, and a training or educa-
raging at a railway station which tion by His prbvidences.
has been going on for months, and,
totwithstanding that tons of water
have been poured upon this insidious
nre, it cannot be put out. It seems
incredible, butit is nevertheless
The 'details are es- follows : Sever-
al months ago a waste piece of Bis
custo11a to read the Scrip -tares,
ground close to the station WAS,
wanted by the railway com(
pany as then we cue increasing,l; interested
to see Him, as a yotmg Man, always
a 'siding. The level of this ground -
was too low, SO truckloads of refuse
were "dumped" on, It to bring it to
the necessary. level. A large pro-
portion of this refuse consisted of
rotting, vegetation, .and in the course cording to Neil- Till, 8, distinctly
of a little time it heated to such an 1giving the sense and causing them to -
extent that combustion set in and understand -the reading. He -read a
started not only a smouldering fire, very brief portion, stopped M th.o,
but flames actually burst , through kini.oidi,ro
st foldcd up
'aslelnedtelltepc' gave
the ground. ae,'
Attempts were niade to quell this it to the minister, sat down and Ise-
firo, and it was thought, after see,-, gan to say, "This day is the Scrip-.
&al weeks of hard work and tons 01 1111100 fulfilled Me your care" (verse
water, that it had been put out. 121). •
He evidently had no difficulty(
What was the surprise, however, to 'in finding
the place, but this is a
It was His Sabbath day cnstom •
ways to be in the place of Worship
on that clay, even though the spiritu-
al, benefit, apart from ,that derived
froth' the reading of -the Scriptures,
may have been very small, If the.
statement implies that it was also
taking part in the services. As He
unrolled the scroll of the prophet
Isaiah He found what we call Isa.
lxi., 1, and He must have read, ac -
see it break one afresh in another
place and nearer the station. Fears
then began 'Lb be feltforthe safety
of the station buildirks, especially
as the main double line to important
coast and co -entry towns
LED THROUGH IT.
Fresh energy was then- brought to
hear and meth More water was
poured on this fire. which seemed to
have itseetraiighold in the bowels of
the eattla, bjet from the volt/me" of
matter which is not easy to a good',
many believers to -day. As to he
portion He read, is it not a com-
plete summary of the glorious gos-
pel of the blessed Glad ? (I Tina is!
11.) Glad tidings fer the poor, the
broken hearted'', the captives, the'
blind, the brained (Ise. ]vii. 15;
lxvi, 2; Matt. e-, 8; ix, 27; Ps. xx.X-
iv, 18; 11, 17; Lake yili, 27; ix, 39;
xiii, 10a Rev. iii, 17). The accept-
able year ae still with tis-ait is still
steamand seneske issuing from. in- true that now is the accepted time,
nUmeratsfe creVicas it was seen that now is the day of salvation" ,(II
the fire demon was resisting all Cor. vi, 2; John V, 25). The glen.
&Torte, and was slowly creeping ious truth is worthy of every one's
meaner and nearer to the Soundations a,cceptation that "Christ Jesus mune
of the railway station. , into the world to save Rimless" (I
It was now,whispered and soon be- Tim. i,. 15). As He took His seat
came kown that -the station had all eyes -were fastened on Him. Was
Originally been built upon a sort of it because of the way He read, or
shale which came out of the mines was it because of what He left un -
in the near, neighborhood years ago. read ? Had He read tlie. next sen -
These shale moundshavebeen known tence He could not have said that
to take yecta's burning right through, it was then fulfilled, for the day of
and the stench from them is any-- vengeance is aot yet. Redemption
thing but pleasant. ' for Israel. and Vengeance 'upon her
Now, when it became known that enemies., so often associated in Scrip -
the fire referred to was gradually tura, will be at Bis second coming
eating its way to the foun,dations (1,e,a, xxxiv. 8; xxxv, 4.; ixili, 4;
of the station, a mild sort of alarm Luke xxi, 21-28; II nese, i, 7-10).
began to be felt, not only by the Only the first weeds of Hie efisnourse
railway company, but the arietocra-
are given, but as one has said, .I'It
tic passengers who daily use this must have 60011 rich in Matter and,
suburban stati•.n. For the mines sweet in manner." He was full of
Parc been worked out, and him-- grace and truth, fall of the Spirit,
dreds of beautiful villas have stris,en and it was the Father who Spoke
out of 'their ashes—so to speak.
through HIM '('John I, 14; xii, 10).
The fire gained ground every day,
He
until by-and-by it reached beneath sees. the unbelief and enmity in
one of the platforms, and any day the i 0 hestrts. and, Bo, 1.'enrinels them
ae's of 11)21151 and Elise
thereafter' might be seen the novelty that it the d
a ha not many benefited by the teach -
of a crowd of people waiting on
platform fsom the chinks and cre- lng 00.- the itinocuhms Powers 01
vices of which were arising in many Gotr.0 ' servants. He knew that
•Nazareth coesidered Ilim . Joseph's,
PlacersRjoehtsr rorfErsEteaaRE BELOW.
son and that His townspeople would
Such a volume of water was kept
not receive Him, but it was in the
continualler playing *upon it that Plan' that Be should thus offer Ilina
actual flames Were prevented from 8°If to tbeill'
showing aboveground, but cas-
What great blessing was within the
any
tial observer c.ouid see the evidences reach ofNazareth that day, but
of the great heat below. •
what blindnees possc;seted her 1 She
knew not the time °Sher visita,tion.
Teatime it Wila observed that the
foundations of the station were set- 10-od, GontnoofIsftnielsaiaxi, lglory be,t3 613
fling and crend
acking twisting 10rlflidSt
nwn
many plates, and all sorts of efforle in human' form theee many years;
had to be eesortea to to keel) the and nowt hill Joteoieleal, t110g10
lS11blioisnelire
buildings from being permanently .TeSos,ibe-ille,
injured. At this present moment, told Messiah of lsreel, but they will
aS these lines are being Penned, the not receive 131113, for to them 110 le
fire, has readied under the main line oilier "Joseph's son." 011, how
of the track, and it is oho, of the great and all important the
curiosities of the neighborhood to -Lion, "whet think yo 0 Christ
see the jets of steazn and smoke is- Whose Son is He ?" (Matt. xxii, 112)
suing from between the sleepers,. ;1111ey Would. Stave ii1led IIim, bat
It ie now a, foregone conclusion -Hie hour to die had net yet, come
that the fire cannot be extingaished, and no man 0000 take Ilia life from
and it is being left to have its own Him (John a 18).
:tweet way and burn itself out. When a-eaa, roe thee thee leo naen see;
nObocly knowS 110
th,ere s a,
Glle evill happen large par lindae
tiou of the station not yet roadbed; would I c0 """ 1111" 110 41121't 0 tie fo
, • told that the seed of the woman
ond as this lias been going on for cle8tr°Y. that artlw \v°121"`
oaoy months it is quite pr000bio amt he hes not, yet given up the 001p.
that this fire in (Pc bowols of 1110 P10
bet 'the Leith shall overcome,
earth will go on. sapping tinder the ile;°1,,,,et
lr" P1 Lord
1`)."1" 4n11 1111P" t)!
station tintil the buildings tumble ""hy' 1d). no quint1.3
passengers' eare.-1-,,ondoe, PasS(''d thrt'‘illgh hlidst asidl
about ihe passewe-Of
doWil
perinea, ('1111010,3)1111end taughf
•• thett On the Sabbath days; • biti
white 0(7 'Were este/lig:Iasi at, Hi(
When 11,30101 is too fCeoititoceclating tea 1I g 8
li 110 OVi
14 is apt 10 boOnie it nuisan, (Matte i 2,