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Exeter Advocate, 1905-06-01, Page 7itst 'THE SUNDAY SCHOOL THE TEMPESTS OF LIFE Mean the Ultimate Development of the Good Which Is In Every Man Yea, the fall rain covereth bless- iees.--1'aeltes, lxxxiv.. 6. Greeter stories% chull rage; the last leaf stall fall; the lettere of ice shall hold Nature: prisoner, and tho white anew 'Shroud shall cover earth as if in death. Hut the ruin and the .storm. the lee fetters and the snow Aloud do but make it passible fur earth's beauty to be reborn; yea. "the fall rains do but cover bless- ings" to be in thee reve(tled. This we know. It ie our couunon ex- pert n e. The Psalmist goof further. and In his beautiful language tnunsfee the teachings, of nature's life to human Its, Nt01'IItR any strip us of our life and its deepest. problems. I'or ho glory. But if harvests of love and vias►. -"Those who pass through the sympathy, friendship and sacrifice va'b;y •f ween( ire; shall evtanu it as have been garnered; if tho fruity of .a fountain: yea, the fall rain cover - mean the ultimate development of the good which is in every man. But the 1'srt!rnist would have us utilize our present life and make it beauti- ful despite all that seems to mar its tcauty. life is very beautiful. It can be made very beautiful. The valley of weeping can lead us to the fountain of lite giving faith, whose beneficent waters bhRll nourish rightcou8 conduct and quench our thirst for spirituality or beauty of character. Our tender Icwves of hole, the blossoms which we fondly ex- pected would expand into success, may he d. etroyed. Yea, In the au- tumn of life disaster may ot'erwheltn •olh ltleeeings." That is. tho sorrow Whit)) CaU»'9 us to weep shall be re- cognized as a fountain source of blessings. as life giving. as beneficent as thirst quenching its a fountain of water. The mission of sorrow and trial, of weeping and of soul storm, is the strengthening of our nobler powers for higher duties and respou- :sibilities. Science teaches us Ilia!, there is a constant, renewal or transmission of life from form to forst and a gradu- al development from lower to higher life in THE PHYSICAL WORLD. Law in the physical world indicates siuuilar law in the spiritual world. "Therefore we believe that there is In the spiritual world or in spiritual life a sirnilar gradual development to higher contltions. Our reason tells us that our intelligence, our • notio se our perceptions of spiritu- al iritu- al things are powers of manifesta- tions of the soul. We may therefore with reason believe that these, de- veloped l)y our earthly experiences, will be continued in a future life. Wo can well believe that sorrow .and trial, weer ing and soul storm DUTY�\ND Itl•:SPONSIBILITY. the fruits of earnestness, the fruits of truthful life have been gathered and at ored away, to make our own or other lives happier, who b -hall say that we have lived in vain? Future life is in God's hands. Pre- vent ro-vent life is in our hands also, as wo well know. Upon the future we may ponds. In the present we must act. Let us make our present life beauti- ful for us and for others with whom wo conte in contact. Let us have the home beautiful, the heart beautiful, our present life, our daily life, beau- tiful. And when wo meet sorrow and trial, when we weep and when wo tremble beneath the force of sonic soul storm), let urn remember thnt tho valley of weeping can bead to a foun)tnin of blessing; yea, that the tempests which seen) to strip life of its beauty and glory call he made the forerunners of blessings, all the sweeter because of their contrast with our suffering, our misery and our pain; all the more beautiful be- cause of what wo have endured. What aro we doing to snake home. heart and life sweeter and more benutifuk,/ fur ourselves and for others? 1 INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 4. :Lesson X. The Resurrection. Gol- den Text I. Cor. 15.20. LESSON WORD S'TUl)LES. Noto-These Word Studios for this .lesson aro based on tho text of the .Revised Version. Events Intervecling.-Tho body of Jesus was taken from the cross be- fore o-fore sunset of the day of crucifixion. and was delivered by the Roman authorittes to .Joseph of At•imathea, it wealthy and learned counselor of the Jews and secret disciple of Jesus for burial. With the assistance of Nicodenus, "ho who at firm(ame to hint by night," who contributed rare spices and ointments in lavish alnin- the whole context, a title of tender address, which throws touch light on its use by .Jesus In addressing his mother (John 2. 4. Because they -Since the antecedent of the pronoun is not expressed, many have thought Diary referred to "Ute Jews" as the special enemies of Jesus and his disciples. This may bo correct, though more probably the pronoun i8 used indefinitely. the sense being, "Homo one has taken away my Lord." A moment later Diary thinks that possibly it may have been the gardener (verse 15). 15. Whom meekest thou- Not. "What seekest thou'?" as the garden- er might have inquired. Note that Mary herself never refers to tho body of .Jesus as such; with her it Is only "the Lord." and yet more personal, "my Lord." Sho has not yet brought herself to think of hint as dead, and to her the lifeless forst is moll himself. 'Phis state of mind on dance, the, body was carefully em- her part is tho point of contract gained and placed in a newly pro- from which .Jesus gently leads her pared rock -hewn tomb belonging to buck to a recognition of himself, her Joseph (John 19. 88-12; Matt. 27. living Lord. 57, f.; Mark 15. 42, 1.; Luke 23. 50, Tho gardener -Tim tomb with f.). At the suggestion of "the others was in a garden, just as a .lews" Pilate ordered that a squad modern cemetery is a garden spot, of soldiers be placed on guard at the carefully tended and cared for. 'The grave lest tho body of Jesus be taken away by the disciples and the eluini be Sande by them( that he had risen from the dead (Matt.. 27. 62, i.). The next events mentioned by any of tho evangelists aro those of the resurrection morning. The first of these was. of course, the resurrec- tion itself, which was announced by the angel of the Lnrd ns already tic- ronililishetl just after the great earth - .quake and the rolling away of the stone from the door of the sepulcher (Mat t. 28 1-10). Overwhelmed with terror by the supernatural 'Menom- onie. the guards were first prostrated with fear and later (led to the city and reported whet they had seen and heard to the Jewish nuthurities, who bribed them to spread a false report about the disappearance of the body of .Jesus from the tomb and to keep silence concerning the events which actually did take place (Matt. 28. 11-15). Verso 1 1. Mary -Mary Magdalene, from whom .1 cline lind driven out ",even deutons" (Mark 16.9). She is when she had found again. first mentioned in gospel nar- 17. Touch rue not -Jesus had not rativo together with certain other returned to life to renew the old women who were "minister- fntnillar fe•lluwship with his disciples trig to Jesus of their sae( 'ince" on earth. His ascension wes to in - (Luke 8.2). IIer devotion and loyal- aligurnle a new fellowship, a spirt- said Bestow. clapping him on the ty 1e Jesus are attested hy the part teal union, between himself and his shoulder. "81111, we'll forgive him, she pine ed In the scene nt the tr..se disciples. hence this warning tom- won't we. 'elle? I don't think 1 (bilks• en. 49, 55; Mott. 27. (11; mend to Mary. The verb here used need introduce you to any wif ., needl Mark 15. 47) and subsequently (Luke implies in the (,reek a clinging to. I, ('rump?" 24. .John 21)). That Jesus first ap- My brethren -Emphasizing tee fel- "four wife?" peered unto her niter tie resurre.- lowship and cuteness of Christ. with '1110'Junior pnrtner stood n8 (f tion (Mark 1b. N) cannot have been his disciples which is to continue. transfixed to tho spot. Tho veins on of violins in the world. by net-idiot.My father Hud your Father- his forehead bulged like knotted "I seem to know your free and Without ntthe tomb -Peter had .1 likeness with a difference. Jesus yet 1 cannot recall where I stet you just n few minutes before entered the env herr identilies the sonship of Ise- before." said i.ord Craybrook. tong (verse 6), which wns doubt lees 1ieters with his own. then( of his own Spirit (comp. Peek. "What do you want?" hewn. ns was customary, in the side My (1041 -The risen and glotifled :17. 5). "You offered mo five hundred of a low limestone dill or hill with Saviour is still perfect man (comp. The hely Spirit -The article Is 11(11111(18 for this violin two veers a low opening on the side through Rev. :3. 12). 'This truth is pointed wanting in 1 he original, signifying which I,y stooping a person might out by both Paul rind 1'.ter. who that the gift was "not that of the enter. since inside, it was possible speak of "the God mid Ent her of our personal Italy Spirit, but rather an to again stand erect beside the )nor- Lord .1csu8 Christ" (comp. Eph. 1. earnest of that gift; an effusion of leen! 1 niche or niches intended for :1 1 1'et 1 :1 end other passages) the Spirit." th gardener was tho one person whom she might expect to meet there at that early hour. 16. Mary -Hew much of tenderness love, gentle reproach, authority, and comfort may not the Master have. put into (him one word! She turneth herself -Not having waited for tho gardener's (as she supposed) answer. tic had turned again toward the tomb, lost once more in grit f, without having caught the deeper significance of the ques- tion. "Whore meekest thou?" But at the speaking of her name mho turns again in sudden recognition to Ilia) who had addressed her. lfabboni-Lt the Hebrew literally, My Muster, n form of address used by pupils 1n speaking to their teach- er. Which Is to may, Teacher -The fact that Mary nt this moment used just this expression nucl spoke in Hebrew throws a flood of light on the whole scene. 1'or just one moment it is Jesus, her beloved leacher and friend, ♦•�•..•♦•♦•.+•4••+•♦•♦•+• I whipcord, and the blood swept madly to the shadow, his a%cs fixed upon doorway. and threw Into real the • ♦ through his Irina• the lingers of the player, and the figura of it woman standing tic• ♦ • •'What's the matter, ('rump? Sur- instrument played as he could never "Nella!" • : prised. eh? Thought you would be." play it. Then. as Lord Craybrook Tho name burst through his parch- ♦ ♦ "But the firm -you have told her?" laid the instrument down, ho ad- od lips and he leapt towards her, in j �RiN�R • began Crump at last. %unwed a few steps haltingly, as if so doing knocking down a large vaso ♦ IN� JUNIOR P ♦ "Everything. And, Crurnp, old afraid b)• his movements of breaking from t ho mantelpiece, which fel) with 4 • ; boy, she's the dearest girl in tho the 1ingerine echoes. n crash into the grate. • " world, and between the three of us ••What -tenet Is that tune?" he Ile caught her cloak and dragge•1 4 • we're going to pull the hrin uut of whispered, hoarsely. "It is superb. I her to him fiercely. ♦•Q •fc •O•+•+•+•4'•4••O.Oj the firo somehow." think 1 know the works u[ the great "Speak!" h+' gasped, his lips close Tho girl camp across and laid her masters, and yet I do not recognise agaiust her face. "What aro you 1. hand on the junior partner's arm. it." doing here?" Already her eyes, eh/triter than her Then, to his astonishment, Lord "Hush! 1'or heavens sake let me She swept out of the office, leaving husbtul's, had rend what lay ho- Craybrook leapt to his side and go! Ito must not find me here. llo both partners staring blankly at tho Heath the surface, and she looked up forced hien into a chub•, is my father! He utast Hetet' know dour tvhicl1 bad closed su softly bo- mutely into his face. You arc a eonnpnrati%c stranger that 1 Sauk so law as (o canto buck hind her. "Aren't you going to congratulate to rue." he said, quickly. "And yet -a thief! Jlut it was for you. I "Crump, that's a remarkable girl," us?" she asked, presently. I feel I must. tell you. 1t Is not a read your secret to -night in your drawled the senior partner, whose her words stung him into life. long story. I had u daughter, and I fare. You sold him the violin to twenty-seven years hung lightly upon Of course I tun. I cannot think loved her with my whole heart and save the firm, and I knew it was him. Ifo lit a cigarette and ftxoti why I forgot. Good luck-tho very soul; she was all 1 had in the world. liko selling your soul. So 1-1 meant his oyes on the coils of blue smoke best of luck!" She was a musician, a quiet, rodeo to stent!" rising slowly to the ceiling. "A I knew you would be pleased," sive girl, who lived for music ;lune. 'There were footsteps on tho stairs pretty girl and clover, too, oh, she said. "1 told George so. Now, i Then she fell in love. i did not beyond the door; someone was cont - Grump? Divinely pretty, to my wily as suum as we have settled down you ". know her lover, but I meant her to ing into the roots. of thinking." must comae and saw um, and don't for- i starry well. She was to starry a 'Have pity!" she breathed back "She's certainly good-looking," et the Cremona. Good-Uya." And! acquiesced the junior partner as Ito & , title, you understand, otherwise site as he still held her, amazed beet her shunted across to his desk and Ino felt himself grasping the little, should never marry wkth my con- confession. "r would rather kill my - gloved hand tremblingly in his own.' sent. I did not know then what a self than that he should lind mo climbed the high stool. A moment Crump waited till their deadened I woman will dare for lovo; it 1 had here!" more and the. scratching of his pen footsteps died away on the paved ; she (might have been at my side now. His (houghs maddened him. There betrayed the fact that he had plung- We had words over this lover of hers was just time for both to get let - who e who had stolen her away from ate. gond the door, but they might be "That night, as I sat alone in my trapped at the gate. Ono mono study here, I heard her playing in could go free while tho other re - her roost above. 'l'lte melody haunt- mained to face it out and give the ed mo, and 1 was compelled by some fugitive time. lie released his hold, mystic force to go and listen out- and the passing scent of violets told side her door. 11 was the piece I hint that sho was gone. played a ntotneut ago. Then slowly The door flew open and the roost I opened the door and looked in. was flooded with light. Lord ('ray - She stood there ntajestieally, like a brook stood before hint shaking with figure in stone, fully dressed and frenzied rage. with the instrument nt her shoulder, "What are you doing here? Ab! a and that sweet smile of hers wan- thief!" Bering across her face at each lift of "Yes, yes, I came back to -to take the passionate melody. And yet site the violin." Ile listened for tho slept! I shall always believe to the echo of a footstep without. "I day of my death that she played meant to steal!" that instrument in her sleep, and Then ho swerved. Tho electric light that the music was the inspiration seemed to leap into his oyes, and of her dreams. ho fell headlong against the corner "Yes , yes," broke in Crump, of the door. hoarsely, as he paused for breath. • • • • • • "I am a tolerable (musician, and His eyes opened on a luxurious I canto downstairs and wrote out rooms, and faces that he knew were peering unto his own as ho drifted back to consciousness. IIe felt that his head was on fire till a girl's cool hand was laid on his forehead be- low the bandage. "Nella!" he breathed again. "And you, too, Lord Craybrook!" Then they told hien all; how sho had paused in the garden, and, hear, ing his confession, came back to save hill). "Forgive what I said," added under another name? Possibly she, Lord Craybrook, as the narrative . y ended. "If I had only known that might see and recognise it and conte it was for her sake you branded into communication with the pub- yourself a thief! ]tut I wish to do Milers. Then you might find her." something to show that what is past is clone with. Nella has told me everything, and I am to be tho sleeping partner." Tho words 800111041 to full on deaf ears, for the junior partner had closed his eyes. 'When he opened then) again they saw it was for the last time. A faint smile, like the breath of oncoming spring floating across a winter's twilight, lived for a moment on his white face and was gone. "Tell Bestow the ledgers are in order and that -I -I sent the - cheque!" Ho paused. Then they knew that the junior partner had retired from the firm. -London 'Ti t -Ili t s. 4 - ed into his work again. Nathaniel Crump, the junior part- ner, was sixty years of ago. forty years before the firm of Bristow and Crump, music publishers, had been founded, and with Ilastow's brains and all the money Crump possessed had grown into a paying concern. Bristow had been a man of power into the calico and toro open his let - and energy, and, practically speak- let's savagely, it wits evident that ing, he had been tho firm; Crump something was amiss. was thankful to bo merely a notes- "Crump!" he roared, like a mad sary attribute, and content with his bull. "Stop that infernal pen - one -fifth share of tho profits. When scratching. What's the good of pre - Bestow died his son stepped into tending you're busy when you know his shoes, though a youngster fresh rho firm hasn't earned a ton -pound from school, while brow -beaten old note for it couple of months?" Crump plodded away at his ledgers, The junior partner carefully blot - and at times even forgot that ho was ted the last figure he had made and a partner in the firm. laid clown his pen. l'resently George Bestow walked "I met Simpson yesterday," said across to his partner's desk. Bestow, in n quieter voice, "and ho "I sacked Lemming yesterday," he told me in confidence that his firm said. "Wo can't afford to pay were going to sue us for that four more clerks than wo want." hundred pounds. To make (natters The junior partner's pen ceased its scratching, and the owner looked up open-mouthed. "Sacked Lemming?" he repeated. "But ]re's been with us eighteen years and worked well." "The truth is, Crump, the firm is going to tho (logs and we've got to save stoney somehow. We have been going downhill ever since pater died. You're a plodding old horse, Crump, but you've no brains. And as for me -well, I just hate the business." "We have cortaiuly been unlucky with our music lately," agreed the junior partner. "Sensible remark that," sneered Bestow. "And you with your forty years of experience cannot get the limn out of the iness, eh?" "Ibit these little pieces of Miss Dane's have gond rather well," re- plied (.'rump, Ignoring tho sarcasm. "A mere drop in the ocean. Ilut, as 1 said a moment ago, Miss Dane is clever -deucedly clever. Still, it will take some time for her music to mature.. and In the meantime, Crurnp, we shall brenk." Several weeks passed and the firm of Bestow and ('rump remained In the Same torpid state. From morn- ing till night the junior partner toiled at his desk, making fresh work for himself in the ledgers when tba day's business failed to provide him with any, and working out im- possible schemes in his head for sav- ing the firm. Occasionally tho day was broken by it visit from Nelle (lane, and these visits seemed like oases in the desert of his monotony. At her coining he would slide fr his stool and place a chair for her; then, if Bristow was away from the Dolce, as he often was for days together, he would talk to her or play his ('ren - ons, the only treasure he po►isessccl. Such days passed all tun quickly, and the (mond himself looking for- ward for her next visit with smelt anxiet;y that he was astonished at himself. The soft few of her voice, the curve of her lips, r •turned to hint even in his dreams. Anel so the bare truth came to hint -he loved her! For n fortnight she hit(' not been near the ofliee, rind tho senior partner land he.•n absent ter the same length of lire. \'et day by day ('rump ap- peared in his best suit, an old frock - cont the green of whirl' refuses( to harmonize with his glaring red tie. Suddenly the door wns burst open and Bestow strode in. "Duthie. Crump! Not nt work, eh? ITuw's things?" ('rump did not reply. His nostrils detected the faint oder of violets even before it rustle of skirts be- trayed the fact that a woman was in the room. "Nene!" corridor, then he climes up to his desk again and bent his head lower than usual over his books. IT. Tho senior partner was clearly in the worst of tempers. 'Three months had passed, and now, us ho bounced worse hero is their letter this morn- the mimic just as I have played it. ing: Unless the sun of four hen- I meant to give it to her the next dyed pounds owing to us is paid in three days-' Oh, you know the 0 good u or of thio it is n v usual sort. g, g reading the letter through." "What aro we going to do?" asked the junior partner, his face a shade morning and taunt her with throwing away such talent on a man of lower station, who probably did not know ono note from another. But in the morning she was gone. She had dropped out of my life. And paler than usual. I have never set eyes on her since!" "Do? That's just what I ask you. For a moment Crump was silent, If you don't think of something we his eyes fixed on the set face of the smash, that's the long and short man before him. of it." "Supposed you published that song "And what then?" "Starvation for myself and Nella until I get another job." "You mean that sho will starve?" repeated the junior partner. "What a pity you are married when the firm--" "Yes; but moralizing won't mako that four hundred pounds fly in at tho window. I'm going home now, for I am tired of staying hero and looking at stacks of music no one will buy. I shall not be up to -mor- row, eo come down to my place in the evening, and if either of us has thought of anything we'll talk it over." iie went out and left the junior partner alone. At first ('rump felt the solitude oppressive, and, unable to concentrate his thoughts, he be- gan to wander round tho room. l(e left his lunch of mamdwiche:s untouch- ed, and when the evening set in it found him still thinking. Then, as the office darkened, he paused sud- denly in his patrol, and going across to the cupboard took out his Crem- ona. "Four hundred pounds!" he rnert- tercd. "And this Is worth more; but who would buy it so quickly? They would think it was not genu- ine. Only one man knows -Lord Craybrook! ile offered me five hun- dred for It two years ago. but I never thought it would Como to this." 'To save the first -to save her! Ile thought of nothing else; it. wns the one desire of his heart. And the violin could do it? ile put on his hat and cont and, wrapping the instrument in its old plush case, stole softly out. The cold night wind stung his face, but he hugged the violin close In under his coat and drew away from every passer-by last. a collision should in- jure the instrument. So he trudged on through the 8111811, his bend bent against. the wind, and his heart. surging like that of a mull Win) is going to accomplish some greet thing without counting the cost. 111. "Is Lord Craybrook in?" The huller gaze(' dawn at the Bi- ded figure of the Maui w -ho had ask- ed the question. The nnmo left his lips almost un- "What! begging for coppers, nee consciously, find he stepped hack you?" he said, n8 ho perceived the blushing at his temerity. violin beneath ('runmp's cont. "You're getting rather familiar," "Certainly not; I wish to see him on important business. 'fell him it is shout n Cremona violin. '!'hat's all; take the message!" A moment later he was standing face to face with the widowed peer whose fame Wag known far and wide as the owner of the finest collection "13y heaven! I never thought of that." "Send it to Bestow and Crump. I should like to do them a gond turn and you also." replied rho lit- tle man. quickly. Ten minutes later ho stood in the street again. • • • • • • "'Thought of a way out, Crump?" It. was Bestow who spoke, as he sat in tho arm -chair in a corner of his dining -room at Chiswick and sur- veyed the junior partner. who was huddled up in a chair facing him. "Well, I have thought of ono way, replied the junior partner, carelessly, conscious all the while that Nella's eyes were reading him through and through. "(loud man. What is it?" "'That i prefer to keep to myself." "Hut I an) the senior partner." "In this I have no partner." re- plied Crump, averting his eyes. "1 Came only to tell you both that I had discovered a way out and Case your n ' Is," "'lave you brought your Cre- mona?" asked Nclln, at length, to fill an awkward break In the con- versation. "N -no, I have forgotten it. At least -that is, it's being mended," stammered the Junior partner, the color grilling upward in his cheeks. "It is worth a good deal of mon- ey, is it nut?" sho asked. "Well, Lord Craybrook offered Inc fcro hundred pounds for it when he saw it." he replied, trying to ap- pear calm). "Lord Craybrook! Why do you mention hire? When did he sec it''" She had grown suddenly white, and half rose from her chair. 'Two years ago. Oh, plenso don't nsk any more quest' s. 1 would like to go hone. if I May. i don't feel quite up to the mark. i-1 shall bo glad to see this business through, Bast ow. (food -nights" AIDS TO WEATHER MEN. Exhibition of Appliances Used in Making Forecasts. Weather experts from all parts of the kingdom met recently at tho In- stitution of Civil Engineers, Landon, where a most interesting exhibition of meteorological instruments was opened. They ndntirecl the 200 aide to weather prophecy with the ut- most delight, not withstancbng 1he fact that nineteen barometers were simultaneous!-% foretelling bad wea- ther• Tho principal feature of the exhibi- tion wns the great number of self - recording instruments. '1 he modern meteorologist neeit never "take a rending." Ito need not even get his fart wet by going out to ext • to tho rain gauge. nor is he called upon to risk his hat by examining the wea- thercock (politely termed anemo- graph) in a gale of wind, for eke - Welty conveys the inforuuttien to recording inetruirent5 in his study. He can go to sleep for it week if ho likes, and then find that clockwork, electricity, and recording Ink have kept a minute record of the vagaries They were conscious that he had of the British climate from hour to left tho room. A mo►neut, and hour during the whole time. the front door banged. The junior Sometimes a cyclone mei nn nnti• partner had gone, but he had left cyclqne of equal power are opposed behind hire his secret locked in a to one another, for it is necesstary M tet m bosom. guess which will outflank the other. Ile walked swiftly down the pave- The professional prophet usually meat, scarcely knowing where ho gives the benefit of the doubt to the wan going, nnd his thoughts raced cyclone. on ahead of him. The violin hail Simple ns his needs would seem to gone. To -night he [Hissed it more be, the tern expert has ninny than he ever thought he should. it wonderful instruments, at his corn• was as if they had taken away his 4nnnd, right hand. ile forgot the five hot- 'fake, for example, the micro-bnrn• dred pounds that lay at the firm's graph, which automatically records credit in the bank. minute flictuatione of the barometer. Ito paused suddenly outside a largo. The n ovementi; of the mercury are house. mild as 110 recognised the gale ltiplied twenty -fold by the re'1is• way he thought irate must have tering pen. and the result is stir - guided his footsteps. Ile night go prising. 1netend of the stately di!•• In and see Lord Craybrook about nit,% ole usually associates with a publishing that song The violin barometer, the indicator et the he would be there. Iie might even play strument was dnneing vivaclun0ly a final moiatn on its strings. over n f npr'r diagram. As showers and sunshine altee,)a10d outside in George street, Westminster, so 11 flawed briskly up or down. Anellter curious instrument It Algue's "barn -eel -tenoned er." When rt tropical typhoon strikes n vessel the captain naturally wishes to steer the cour'e' that will take him out of it with the least waste of time. Cnguieled by (ho "baro-cyclonumet- er," he might steer into the centre of the distort Hare and damage his ship. or etc'n founder. But with Its 45515tenre and an aneroid barometer he learns• n filth way the cyclone h %ing, and steers his worse accord. ingty. 'Ilse King of Siam, who is a eeie noisseur of precious stenos, has .ear of the finest collect 10115 of jewsel.€f front a cloud -bank illumnee.l thee la tho world, ago," replied Crump, producing t ho lie went slowly up the Brite; then inst•utnent. "It is yours to -night. as he neared the door, he saw a at the some figure, If you will buy." french window on the lawn was Lord Craybrook took the violin open. it led into tho very room In on n enc o and held it ler the light while ho which they had talked together the e lem0188 of the send. Iii. '1'h first day of the week--; 2:3. Whose aoever sins ve•-All these Inspected it critically. night le fere. and perchance the 12. 'l'w•o angels in white --This Is front this time forward observed by. present, apt sties and ethers alikc. "Al'. 1 remember. Let me see: you violin was still there. the only place in John's narrative of Christians ne a deny of worship nnd! One npostle at least was ebs.:nt, and were employed in a music -publisher's, A horrible temptation took posses - the resurrection where angels aro Christian fellowship in commemoro •others not apostles were pitoe it; weren't you? Clerk, or something. i sion of him. The room was in dark - mentioned (but cotnp. 1, 51: 12. 29). Born of the resurrection of .Jesus hence. whatever the power conferred renumber i was surprised that n ness. Ile could hide the violin under special vision of the angels was from the dead (48 that day. At first, t,v ('heist nt this time, all believers men in your position should have his cont. And then -who would for Mary only: the men. John and hone ver, the .Jewish Sabbath (vas alike ehnre that power. There is no such an instrument." know? Peter, had apparently not seen (hem, not on this account disregarded. Tho warrant in Scripture for limiting it Ile picked up tho how and drew it Ile drew in a long breath and crept though de uhtlass they were the s.tine complete substitution of the former to the cicr{rv. ncroee the strings; then. without across the wet gross in the shadow. ► Ile entered the ruunn and felt his fget sink into the thick carpet. 'linen he heard n sound; it seemed like the creaking of a board in front of hien, sad he wns conscious that someone else wns in the ronin, groping blind- ly in the darkness. Tho moonlight breaking suddenly mccsengers "in dnzrling apparel'- day for the !atter cair.o shout grad- Forgive , . . retain -As m esengers speaking. he began to play. suttly n mentioned In Luke 21. 4. Matthew tinily. of the gospel they nre to proclaim first, till itt last the notes rolled 128 2-8) and Mark (16. 5-8) men- In the midst --An expression retain- forgiveness of sirs through faith in higher- and higher In a melody of ex - tion only are angel, who any have ed by the Revised Version with some Christ, and at the sante time an. qui5lte sweetness, leaping higher still with wild, passionate fire. then sink- ing away into semi -silence. only to sour uguin end el•t to fall like it bird with broken wings. The junior partner shrank back in - tees n the spokesman, slid possibly in leeicogra4Tiical authority though not other res;uet(s also the more prnmi- approved of hy many of the best sent of the two mentioned by Luke writers of English. and .John. 22. Itresthed on them -A symbolic 13 WvgttA*-•IfeTe, as appears from action signifying the imparting to • nonce the terms of forgiveness. This passage must not be isolated for purposes of interpretation from the other great !s PW '1'eatameot i4u418kt d bearing upon tho forgiveu_t,s of soar.