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The Exeter Times, 1891-2-5, Page 711,10.,,•EastaeleNeeleges; VIE MODERN PULPIT colararramm PR` PAZ aeseag PARKAa, D. D. this kind will teacb s mime of inconstancy and mutation ; much of the flekleness of mr- cumstences t much ef the rottenuess of roam. Another page of the Apostlen autobite graphy coutains this eo. "Are they mieisters of Citrate? (I speak AS a fool.) I am more ; in labors more abund- ant, in stripes above the measure, in prone m learned, inwhatsoever state I an. more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the jevre the -with to be conteet."—Pora. iv.U. five tines received 1 forty etripes, lone one. Thrice wasI beaten with rods; once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a elay I have been in the deep ; in our. aeyirigs often, in perils of waters, in perila. of roebers, in penis by mine elm cenntry- men, in p.erils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils /4 the wilderness, in nerds in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in huuger and thirst, in stings oftemin cold and nakedness." Xo wonder that the Apostle, having pass ed through tbie rugged university, should emerge 4 man ef profoned and va.riecl Imre- ing. He has seen life on every side. Boas can do ooroparetieely little in the educetiou of the wlacee breadth of ourntanheod. They are uthfui up to a given point. They cannot be dispensed with in any course of liberei etlecatton. The world must always have its library. Authorship lea profession that never ean donee. 'Ile pea Abell gonrent when the rust of ages hes eetert up herotemi Inch erence in no attrzbitte of the barbarous mood. While this is hapede Christian maniacal No tear in expectect to true, le must Le Lome in mind that books can never give the learning which the Apostle here claims for Maisel:. Stoning, aucl shipwreck, andscourging, and utierepre. eeetatele, awl detertion Imager, and thlreti mul nakedneee ; fire and peetilence, mid sword ; thee) must be the Reree teachers* And esenige drill-sereentuts, to whose disen plum the heart meet Wallin He le but learned fool who has read eothingbut books, Such a reader elm nem pronounce witb authority on tun, of the deeper problems of heman I rejoice that the Apostle bas Witten age netalogue of his eutferuegs, Do you mak me why? Bemuse it does the brealtiug heart good to lifer the tiob of another's tit ett woe; The Bible could not have been Gotita book hid it been -unmarked ny the trace.; of mann fold grief. I could not have retie te Bible all suushion We need more them eturirner in may book thet is to meet ell tbefeetures mut experiences of this intestate life. God has gracetesly permitted Ills servants to put MI record the story of their strogglei In the service of Jesus, Not only so ; Ile him done more ; He has actually inepired the pen thet gave these harrowing delineations of Adler. mg In such 4 eireenteteuee there must be a deep morel. Why keep up the memory of suffermg? Why not permit the reeellection to fade away? Why throw the weeds of de - elation erountl life s milestaues ? Why in. vest the shotddere of history MO the mane et the mourner? We thought that God would have carefully obliterated the foot steps of the destroyer; that Ire would have followed closely the march of Watery, and left nothing but the flowers of beauty and the eperks of glory t Instead of thin His own book is 4 record of human endurance even in Hie own aervice. The, meat be that other Men who have yet to newel life's weary way Duty be assisted in the accumulation of " kernels." Grief has been left sitting in the dark, (ramp valleys of history, that it might comfort grief. Sorrow pales sorrow. There Is heal- ing in the gentle touch of a wounded heart. Joy vannot talk to griee—they would be interlocution. Joy's sharp, ringiug, sliming laugh would grate harahly on the attuined ear of grief. YOU eau never leeigh a man out of his woes, See Jesus when He 090153 to speak to the loreaved sisters. Though His words are concerning the joy- ous subject a resurrection, yet theyarojewels lee with the tears of His tender pity. Teara underatend tears, Hearta long sundered are brought into saintly fellowship by the -mastery of a common woe. I cannot tben, have any hesitation in claiming all this ex- planation of how the Apostlebecaree "learn- ed" as a proof of the adaptation of Holy Throughout this epistle to the Philip- pians, tleze is a bele:leaving tone of filial thankfulness and satutle tteumple Its first word is one of thankfulneen its late of beue. drationi The Apostle gladly aamonteies thee the most co:4m.y events have " iallen out unto the furtheranee of tee gospel," -- Ins eery boucle had caused many of the brethren to " wax confideut," He says I joy and rejoice with you all ; he call; the cbureli his "joy and crown ;" and in a ems meat of high exultetion. toed everbrimming gleilnerls, he exclaims, "Be careful for noth- ing ; but in everything by prayer and sup- plication, with thankssztruag let your re- queete be Made known uuto God." Once 'gain he says, "4 Rejoice in the Lord." Joy is eete_ key. mate of tbie melodious letter. Weeelbould tiara be accouuted a remaeliable ciroutestaince? Might not joy. sing in an apeatlen heart, as well as in the heart. of :garlanded conquerors and throned kings? The renterkable feet is this, that the man who thus rentices, and situutunee other per - sone to kindred gladness, is a prisoner, In his external conditiou there is nothing calling foe joy of heart. The criminal's chain IS en the author's bend, and Oren on that symbol of degradation he baa rle cusse to proacemee. So happy unka never was bailed to the throite of hTerce The chain bind e hem rather to the gram of Joule then to the dungeen of tho emperot. You ex. peeted the name of angry diecoutent from the wronged bondsman. Arad he A happy coug ea his lip 3 You expected to see a man bowed dowe with geld, and lo, * plumed heed is lifted up in the eunstatio 1 You thought his letter 'Weida *MVO been deep -bordered with the lidaeletteee of mourniuse and behold* it la fringeil Mi with refitted, Weer 1 Tilts probiten must be solved. The Mali hi Math or the diseouteuted world is mad. The emote meet be examined end pronounc. ed upoit. When men are borne up in seeh enitatio experiences, tehen their atrong free 111,08 ileAri the atut, they neceseerily express therneelvea rauguage dimly intelligible to men who are grovelling in tae dust. Their glowiag %vole are deemed poetio rather than practival ; they mitt tareleallypronetrueoi rhapeetneal and extravagant t there IS an euenteleineee in their victorstones; and men who %lever elkabeel a tree weeder how °there ont SC.de the What a baeuer tide that the Apostle -fluent trout Ma Ikeeari priecei 1 DM ever hu. uan miter.cee coluenve so mean* a, devise an that wheel it bears? While men are on everenhead complaining and tespining, one votee ed. ep higher then all the °them aud mem. word fess." have learned, in whatsoever steno I am, therewith to be con. teut" There is an air of impossibility about the utterance. The speaker is ut such a meek. ed minority that he Would, steely, self. defeat*, mute hint with insanity. We feel this all thereon) thettbe voice 4011103 from tile prison and not from. the palaee. Itisnot the imp.ered voice of Utesar,but the vole° of Cm - see eprisetter. The Festus world is iudignauti ondtastatot withhold the exclamation, "Peel thou artbeside thyself ; emelt learning doth make thee mad." Yes ; beside thyself" the wierld is in deep debt to its nuultneze These maimen keep tbe cbarlot-wheel in inotion. They ellen) heights, and fathom depths, whish atrike terror Into the coward. heart of their contemporaries. A man can- not attain any, sublinte moral experience without incurring the oharee of wetness. Christ wee plainly tole thatlie had a devil ; and the men who told Ifila this would not etottplete to call Johova.12 Beelzebub. It is difiloule to interpret tnen who are upon a higher plane then ourselves ; and, Jailing to intisrpree tnem, it is tarot le roar up into the higher upherea a vague °hereto of tnadness. The madness of one age is the sobriety of the next. We must allotv for a little foam when the tea has lost ite loon it may still be majestic, but I shall deum that its pulse bus imased end its etereal hymn been hushed in death. "1 have /earned." Special emphasis and fervor must he thrown into this word "]earned," forit ie one of the keywords of the passage it is a multitudinous word. It speaks of. a school, and of an education, of drillitte, and inauy-aided discipline. The whole utterance is that of a raan who has been undergoing a. process ; who hits been immured in a library, and who, having patiently read page after page, and undergone a severe and exhaustive (Mamba - tion, pronounces himself "learned.' If we stumble at the word " learned " we shal stumble all thrre 'et exposition. A man cannot come to en eminence by lathe tion it is no. ettained in a moment of high inspire... of genius; nothing but the ripping plough,. dragged by a fire -breath- ing team, and the pulverizing harrow, and the crushing roller; nothing but a discip- line thae grinds the bones and racks the heart, and strains the very last suggestion out of the over -goaded brain: nothing but the hardships of earth, sanctified by the Spirit of heaven, can make the "learned" man of the text. Not books, but heavy burdeno—not, gifts of the intellect, but gifts of the heart,—not paid schoolmasters, but invisible despotic, inexorable tutors, can carry us 'through the education which ends in this lofty refinement learning. The Apostle's autobiography is at kind, and that will tell us somewhat of the educa- tional course through which he passed "Th much patience, in afflictions, in neces- sities, in distresses, in stripes, in zmprison- ments, in tumults, inlabors, watohings, in fastings r . . . by honor atid dishonor, by evil report and good report ; as deceiver, d yet true; as unknown, and yet well k n; dyirig, and yet behold we live; as cha ened, and not killed ;as sorrowfdt, yet alwaes rejoicing ; as prier, yet making many ricli ; having nothing, and yet possessing all things." What think you of that? A man striking end swiftly recoiling, --hardly in one ccindi- tion until he brthrown into another ; just rising into honor, and suddenlyplunged into dishonor ; on the point of imagining him- self well known, and in a moment the world shuddering With horror at the Mentioe of • his name 1 This rapidly alternating expe.re mese gives a man profound lore. .tt is not • the gradael teteisitionlay which dee:darkens • into eight, and night brf.ghterts into day. • If an analogy eau. be found in the firmament, It must be when storms are raging there, and light breaking through the gloomy masses ; now is there 'a wing of deep blue, and aeon the clouds shut it out from the eye of the edmiring waif% ; this le ;meet there is a , fringe of boanty on the dark storm cloud and t) --e nexts thunder roars as if coa- ting teee Antrusion We must not only have variety, tut aleo suddenness. and vio 'mice of alternance bread mime be snatched out of our reeue at the very moe mem, that or hunger p'eles for it, and the water dashed from our grilses -when the fire is sceichine Our tango , A flier:inane of into etereity, end hail the emano; ,ned one in the language of the better weed? Gott its not angry withyour hot team. Like as a father 'patella bus cbildren, so the 1,ord .gtiethyou tbatsaddese and dreariest hour. He says, Be patient with the child the sterol has smiled hint at the mote I give him liberty to weep himself into a moment's rest. Thus God it; gentle to as. Ile waits ; He watches ; Re yearns ; He gives us time to pat off our stems and to gather ernmos while He commetues with us foam the frarniog bush„ It is a hollow and vulgar religion—learn- ea anywhere except at erathlehem, Gene - soutane, or Golgotha—that urgea a men to my in his first agony, "1 am content" you know what, it is to have rally one ewe Iambi and to have it pluntleree from your gentle keeping? Do vou know what it is to have one tree only in whose shade you etrale ever fled rest, and to hear the ringiug blow = of the axe, sharp and heavy, witbout hoeing any power to arrest the arm that wields the fatal weapou? 1 tell you, wins God's book open before nie, that God will not be angry with your shiver of distress; will not pour contempton the team of your surging sorrow. God is tender God is pitiful: God is sympathetic ; end He -will give power to the feint. I mend lee lieve that dry eyes are the higheet test oi start into the stoay eye 9f the statue, hut the eye of life beano; the more brightly for the stream of sorrow that rushes through it. The inan of deep grief is not to be charged with repining and ditaconteet. The cogent. meet which the Apostle opeeks heppdy, compatible with the tallest expression 0! eateries trouble; so that the man boweil down by the tempest—tiven and disman- tled by the aegry. atorm—may. feel in hie hetteat agony a wish to be reammee to the highest Dee ei acceptable with God. Ile knoweth our thought afar off. marhe the disposition lou" before it °metes the test, and upon that Ile pure the light oi Mis approbation. Hero is a lovely young creature, of loft judgment, 0814 pure heart, and band unde tiled. Sites is unobtrusive as a violet, el:14- .8411a As a sten Never die offeesive wore eseepe her wellovatehed lino Never wee her lime essociateel with umgeutle deed. Over her shines the mounter city ; annual ber beam ten thousand neorats theism. never sate on her heriteee ; kite liues through pleastutt plains Tee poor pto uounce her name with vetteratieu, and In sufferinglieteu eagerly for her worde of bete thy. All the while, hewever, a creel disease la inenliouny atrilti»g its deatlit roots ; enemy hes fixed les unpitying oe - on the yotarg, ireele noble heart; aid he michangealne parmete is to put the fate theft right re.rougit in Go tell the deem.* one that writiag of death le alleatly nealee. Tell ber that leerre-forward pain will he hie daily portien—that every meal elle cite- it buten empty nusekery. of self-preservation- - that thoperest weter poured into seems fountains of poison—that the very tweeze. of summer am only malting her more beauti- ful for (loath. I ask if, elder ouch mem, atances, you cen expect the fated one te Answer in. a moment, Ant content"? No: She meat have time for consideration; she moat recover herself from the dizziness of so awful a betviltlerment ; she rause put out het trentbling hands for tho rod and the stale mad after that she may endewoun with quivering lip, to say, "I will fear no evil.' no young !mut cannot reconcile itself to dying, all At once, The grimmest of 811 grim monsters cammt be called beantiful at first sight. There lane charm in his hollow eye or sunken cheek. Young life altuddent at. the monster's hideous revelation; and even heaven itself looks less than heaveu when it must be reached by the overthrow of ao tremendous an enemy .1 One of the hue of our loved Weil who took wing from earth's winter to heaven's sune mer said, as tete looked on the dace wide, black river which men cell death," t have no doubt of going to heaven, but oh, Scripture te meet all the exigencies of All the crossing, the evening 1" Alt 3 how that ever changing experience. It was merciful -dreaded "crossing" made the heare cringe oa the part of God to treasure up for coming and shiver 1 Yet, when that dear, titnie ages the memorials ot human :suffering ; an traveller came down to the cold river's edge. shoald thank Him pot only for present. reft of every plea but the plea thet Josur, died, the God of the floods parted the WaVe. before her feet, and she passed through no on dry ground 1 Thus is Goa even better than our fears. He sends angels before us to prepare tho way. Cerefully, with hands of gentlest care, are the impediments re. inoved. In our unfaith we look oftward t. some awful calamity, and lo I God puts op it a wreath of beauey, and we begin to pray where we expected to die ing also tho darkened eliambers nt which anguish has poured out her boiling tears 1 This "learning is not to be atteined in a day, nor can it be attained prospectively. It must come little by- little, and rouse come from the iron lips of fact rather than from the honied -tongue of theory. When God sends the need He sends the strength too; and herein is that saying true, "31s thy deg, so shall thy strength be." The world's bur- den -bearers have ever said this; said it un- der scorching sons; said itunder Chilling skies; mail there has been a troubled mo- ment of hesitation, ithas been succeeded by a lifetime of childlike acquiescence, The Apostle, then, 'became a "learned" man through long -endured hardship; and we must bane time as one condition of attaining the same reach and tone of experience. It is hard for the young heart in its first parox- ysm of grief to say, "1 am contene." I 'cannot believe, and therefore will not teach, that God requires it immediately to pro- nounce such deep and solemn words. God is the most patient of teachers, and as such He will not call for the lesson the moment He has given the book. Do you think thet while the deepgash isstill bleeding, a young heart whose summer visions have been quenched in utter darkness can say, with venerable apostles, "I am content "1 Is a man to be branded as an infidel because he bet—the shell which eontains the kernels of richest genius aral attainment—and baying mastered that, he is "content." In what la lei " centent"? He mullet. read Homer, or Virgil, or Dante; how, then, tan he be " eontent.?". The auewer is, he ie "content" with hie, acquisition o.s educationtil, not final —pz-elitninaey, not ultimate. He itext pro- ceeds to the primers, and havirig put mono- eyllablea together, end seen, as it were, the faintest outline of an ides. gleaming through the words, be is more and. more " content," He knows that this proem must be accom- plished, or he tenet remain in ignoranee of the iangeage. Patiently, therefore* he plods on until elianned with the numbers of the poet mei luformed by the narrations of the historian, The analogy would hold good also an the matter of puraumg ourney. 'Ile traveller is "conteet " with each each scene, eeelt tunnel, not on its own teeouut, but because each brings hien nearer his desired destination. Thus it sheuld isa in building human character. To -day 4 joy, te-morrow a grief ; now on the hill -heed, inhaling the lire a the mountains ; sum: in Use deep velley, cloaked with fogs or pelted with cencenteeted storms ; knowe yet. un - Wemay now pass from the word " lean- ed." to the word "content." The one refei:. to a precess ; the other to a result. The solution of the difficulty may, in my °pinkie. be condensed into a single sentence—the Apostle was "content" -with every state as educational, not final. The whole mystery of the word is to be explained, I submit, by some such expression as educational, 'weft- al—preliminary, not ultinette. No man could be content with sufferieg as a permit- nent condition of being; but the Christian reaches that high moral estate in which he can not only aeeept, but even cherish it as a purifying and perfecting discipline. He is "content" with it as a preparation forsome- thing better; he is "content" with the plough, because 18 131 preparing the very heart which it crushes to receive the seed which ehall bloom in immortal beauty and fruitful- ness. An illustration will bring the .idea -within the capacity of a child. You are cannot Bing songs of joy in the presence building a -mansion; you are engaged m of the disaster which has made life a rum? work whick must beprosecuted little by Go into that sick chamber. Shut yourself up . little ; you begin by di ging deep founds, - there and serve and wait until the darkness and the cheerless day,—serve thrcrughthe ted- ious night: touchevery duty with the untiring hand of love : steal softly from place to place, lest a footfall should agitate the sufferer. Go on so for days and weeks; mark how all your suggestions prove useless, and how all your efforts fail. Gladly would you be cut up limb by limb if you could save the sick one. Bitterly. you weep, and in anguish which devils might pity, you say,— " When such friends part, 'Tie the survivor dies.' Long do you persist in hoping. When your heart is bursting you try to smile on .the sufferer, as though there were no cease for alarm. • When your bones smite one another innore distress, and you stiffen in the cold of a great agony, you try to utter some tone of joy, but the lying event dies on the coward lip. Tell me how you feel when the terrible truth bursts upon you, that the eyes which have watched you with infinite interest for many a year can recognize you no longer, that upon them is settling the dim mist of too early death. When you realize that the heart which ever throbbed faithfully to your own is about to yield to the tyranny of Death : that the voice which was your sweetest and holiest • music, will no longer break silence and charm you into the intercourse of love. Man 1 I ask thee, in the hearing of God, whether thou caaist then say. "1 am eon • tent"? . Is not the herd -run heart overborne in that dread crieis ? Can the swelling brain keep an unwavering balance? Would you not gladly resit through the neatest gate tions, and when the east is opened like a gigantic tomb, I ask, Are you" content" with this 1 Yon answer "Yes, as part of the process;" then you pile the roughest of the work as a great endering basis, and 1 ask, "Are you content" with these im- mense, unpolished, and ungainly -looking stones? You answer," Yes, as a part of the process ;".. you are content," because each stage is essential to the completion, and your contentment arises from the progress and the prophecy rather than from each particular state of the work. Day by day you proceed, through shine and storm, content" with everything that is done, because it id tending to the realization of your ideal. Were the work to be abandon- ed when it is only half done, you could not be "content" with it ; but you are content .with even the half when you know that the other half is to be perfected. Thus "our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us afar more exceed - Mg and eternal weight of glory, while we look, not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen." Observe the words which are to receive the explain- ing emphasis. We bring "the power of an end"( ss life" to bear upon the transient scenes of etirth, and that " power " turns our heaviest woes into " afflictions which are but for a moment," and thus we are more then." content" and we" glory in tribula- tions also." The same idea may receive il- lustration fro xi the case of a man who is e0. gaged in theetudy of a laug tage Ile kooni the price wr.ch he nine pay, ana has re- solved to pay it. He sits dove* o the alpha smote youth, and beauty, and tenderneaS, and then mooked the ruin he was working. In a whisper the dying one &eked me tie read some of the words of Jesus—she knew that Jesus beel fought and cm twee the itioeseee Eyelets That OCereed el 7* e Washington born on Fridley. Queen Victoria Married Mk Idapeleon Bonaparte 5001 00 FridOrridAlr. Battle of Bunker am fought on Fraday, last enemy, and much she oved the America discovereel on Friday. undertaken that dutee 1 reed, with kuriled Battle of Weterloo fougitt on Fride.y. gNri:Tecronciwue"te eptige: tvkiQaulfoltedumaZior I. hie.yilower lauded or Friday. Jaen of Aro burned, as the atelse aa Fri, would rather have faced.a ra.vetung ban than day expression, how the Mired men epake to, Baetge destroyed ort Friday. . thou Son of David, hem mercy, rote : ; ulius (inane assassientel on eVridaor. then the dyiug bearer said, " pon.t y9u be J 1 la eioacove burned on Friele.y. rebellious, lett utter teat cry mighttlyee The Shakspeare born on Friday. word cleft my heart, The dying seeking to Knee Charles I. 'beheaded on Feiditte inspire the living with hope and eonfulence : futile, of Now ortoaue fought oe Friday. so 'impressed me that ween the last sweet i Lincoln assassinatetl on Feiday, breath passed frointhestricken breast, 'Milo ed her more tben cemeneror. Jeous about his blindness, saying " Jesus, ; Battle of marougo fought col rruluy. Do not cherise your griefs. They do but! Death fX0M Minbeg Explomons MO, wear out the finest springs and faculties of In the course of last year it appears that uature. You must have grief. It is the lot uo fewer then e$5 lives were lost by expla. of ruan„ But let grief lean lier aching head sions of gasin the welminee of Greatleritain, an great priuciple ; let her pour her tears on and yearly all of these took place during the the pitying bosom of the Saviour ; and then ffrst six months. Of the total deaths stated round about her shall shine the rainbow it appears that 273 took place in the South which over speaks 14 310 unchanging covert- Wales mining district, mid in nearly every, known, honored yet dishouored, stroug yet Ant- instauce regulted from 'ele itse of naked weak, passing through all the paradoxes It would appear as Omagh scene persous liglits or blastieg. The first fe.tal explosion which constitute e rich and manifold exper- , &lighted to eroloeg their grief. This may took place la Jemmy at the Geve Colliery, lenge. We take life by iesteetnents ; we re- be athrtned eiretame wboprofese Citristianity. neer Pontypool, when five worlireen were eeive light by glimpses ; we aeceet our joys Front the aucient church there comes a killed ovriog to v. uaked Relit iguiting the 01 sueceeneu. end our sorrow; moo ene voice which such mistaken ones should. heed . gas. On February 6, 176 one were lost at by oue wo aro e eoineee, tote each, Fret not thyself in anywise to do evil." the Llanerch Colliery, near Newport, Are there net prethetions winch pronenn efeeneesinshire, where tit-, iperailons were the Anal miegnest of the trustful heart, and cAtri,..: 4-a with tusked lights. The coroner's the perpetual overthrow of the rebellioue jury rete etel a verdiet to the offeetthatthe epirit? "Let uot thine 'tort envy sip- yeller -it— tine gained by an outheret of gas, Imre; but be thou in the fear of the addine, isewever, that the officiele and men Lord all the day long." If we found our bad uo reason to inlieve teat, it was danger. judgment upou Mere accidents, we eletil eus to week the let with et..hed Bette. .At stumble as the blind, we shall err as those the MorfeColliety. near to Aberavon, Glee who hone no understanding, "When the enorgaitehire, on Morel, 10, there wee an ex. wicked spriugas thegrasa, and when all the plosion resultine the !ma sof 87 lives. The workers of iniquity do flourish; it is Chet tury same to the coeelusiou that bleetin they Isbell be destroyed forever." God altell was tee ceuse of the xi)10$;.4.41,. atctte mock the men. of felte contentment, and on," eller-firing lee. :zee» cerrted on le ae. their boated palaces He slum hail destroy. eerdance with tee roles of the Mines Rega- in* Oro 44 There than hello reward to the lettion etete. Two lhvb usa lost in the eral man; the candle of the wicked shell be; dischergiug of new evict; t es'and two men pet out." We art not called upon to eritie were killed at the Abern,uit Colliery, near cize God's moral government. God is His:Aberdare, in May, by a Beet igniting an ex - awn interpreter. "Cast thy burden upon plosive nuxture. lu the it eel half of the the Lord; trust also in Hien and Ho Allan yeer the deatbe from eltph -1.,US in mine* bring it to pane" This is the only method . were compauntively tridiug. The fintat took by which tin spirit can know the meaning, 'petee in September, when . ite miner waa the gitiet, the ray, of perpetual canteen ;killed at. the Batherworth e9I11047$ ntar Our repining dishonors ariste It implies Itoehdale, owing to the decente.1 carreing a lack of power on His part 80 give setietee "naked light, After hearieg the r velenee, tion to the aohlug heart. Every act of die- the jury returned a verdict of " aceitiental treat is Ma act of dishonor towerd. the death," and recommended, that eetety temps Sweeter. Think, if Christ can carry the ahould he used in the future. In 180 3311135 universe, is He not able to earry tite liantV. month two men were killed at the linen:um id of duet which you eell your " property l'InCelliery., near Newcastle, by tne itteitieg of If He can govern aild control all the deem a quantity oe gas, and a leant the ewe, Pit, of creation, le He lumped to the Supervision Botmess, Scotland, was urable to eteepe of your burignificant eircurnstetamea? Be with °there on the occa.siou of an explose, 0, wise 3 Ile oleo now 3 "Delight thyself and was only reached three claim after. Tea canoe, being anchored in the Minute omen of divine love: we have "mi good hope through green ;" we bellevei therefore we Ara "Velitellt" we tie not meat ourselves to have Apprehended, but We "press toward the mere: ;" we go along fifes tugged way, itaying, 110W With a gong and &nee with a sob, "I Shell be eatiseed wheu awake with Thy likeneste" The queation of coutentment empeatioi one of greet principlee. The moment wo close our eyea to the ultitnete penitents of the divitie goverument, we are enclosed in utter nights Our borrowe bitted M4 to everything but thetneeleee Wo persist in lookulg At the thinga Which are Seen* rather than at the things which are 3105 8050. We Feepover the leek, forgetting that the key as at hand The raystertes of life cannot he reml in the artificial lieht of thee. Uneven mt d ust interpreeath. The secrete of the first volume will lie fully revealed. in the sitcom]. The morning 0,144104 ten tho tory of midelay pe-noort must be its own "nterpeeter Smug mu only sing int 0003%Weet lyrle ; it meat leave summer to utter tis deep, full, thrilling song I Don't tepee eo muds front earth ; this 0856, of which noth luta Won a 'veinier all timei is micas ellettAlsto grow fruits on whichoes tee Witty eau feed. Timmer also& rellectiort -.en.% front the feet that lentailaries which otemet pew are set mewl ;theta us. Job lie tie if atilouted, " Am 7 a aea Or awhale 333141**nest Wateh over Me ?" Jesus etwalls this fact of our limitetion, 3104 men& teem it tin argument —" Welch of yen by taking thought can add oue oubit 'into hie ;eater° ? if ye then be rtot Able et do that thing which is lead, why take at thought for the rest ?" As if Tie had ormired, "What does All your discontent timount to? Why atteelpt to do that which is bripossible? Why aot accept the .ilionnents of petered providence, and re. eartl therA AS ]adders on which aegels .'.55(4331 and. ascend in their mirustry ea servants of man?" The Apostle eontinues the remonstrance, and in hia expostulation _gives worded most inspir- ing 3108315311100 1.8111 your couversatiou be tiethout covetuess ; and he content with Ruch things as ye bare." This is severe, this 18dogniatto ; but listen, and you will see that it is tbe dogma -lion of love—" For Ile hath said, / will never leave thee nor forsake eho." In ties epistle, too, the Apoutle dwells on the erne theme, Ile talks .nueh about himself. In many a verse round tenet the text the first personal pronoun may be found. He says, "I know both bow lie abased, and I know haw to abound ; every. where and Mail thingsT tun instructed both .o be full and to be hungey, both to abound and to suffer need." This is personal detail. ft sounds like boasting. The voice appears to be ttte voice of a man well pleased with hitneelf. Bat we raust tear his evhole state - ;nod ; for just as oar rashness is about to pronounce the Apostle an egotist, he reveals the golden secret of hismastery in thenainor spheres, by saying, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." It is enough Wedeemed the boast presumtte oust, whereas there blushes uposa it the bumility of deepest self-abasement. True eontentment comes alone from Jesus. Ho enderstands us, and meets every require- ment of ourneedy nature He created angles, but lie REDXAMED Mao; if the expression may be allowed, Christ is more closely iden- tified with inan than with any other class of neelligences in the universe. He bought lam M with s own precious blood. Only there- fore, as man is vitally related to Christ can he enjoy the contentment which is too profound to be agitated by changing cir- emnstanees. • "These surface troubles come and go Like waves upon the sea; The deeper depths are out of reach To all, my God, but Thee." Need 'employ the argument thus outlined for the purpose of clearing the field of fatal misapprehensions ? Let no one quote these words as a plea for intellectual indolence. The wilfully ignorant 01310 18 not at liberty to desecrate the language by saying. "1 have learned, in whatsoever stateI am, there- with to be content." No book is so provoca- tive of intellectual exertion as God's book. From end to end there kr a call for thought and reasoning, andconsideration, and growth Every time the Bible asks man a question, it acknowledges the dignity, independence, and responsibility of human reason. Will you think of this, you who thought- lessly talk about the dogmatism of re- velation and the tyranny of faith? What more could even God himself do than sub- mit the profoundest questions to your personal consideration and decision? There is -in reality no book which is blasphemously charged with ignoring it. Let no man use this text as a plea for moral deformity, saying, "I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be con- tent." This is not contentment. Content- ment is not a negative but a positive condi- tion of being. To claim contentment while in a ritate of unparcloned guile, is to trifle with the foundations of moral life and goer. ernmet, and to insult, in one terrific act, the Father and the Son and- the Holy Ghost. Sin and discontentment can never be dis- associated. "What God hath joined to- gether let not man put asunder." I will not therefore permit the rebellious to chant the words which can be truly uttered only by the lips of the loyal. Alas I are not the best of men occasionally rebellious? Much have I been reproved on this point. It was once my lot to wait upon a dying loved one—to mark her shrivelling cheek, and to weep over her dimming eyes. Such discipline never befel me. Aforetime I had fled from death, and had never looked upon any 111111 being while eefolded in the last en- t•e awing :deep. But uoW Death came to wage war on my own hearth, and there was also ill the Lord ; and Ho 511411 give thee the ,rast explosion of the year took place en lie. desires of thine heart mother 8 at Aliertillety, hloemoutlisltite, or the sluicing of a shaft, when three uteri were killed owing to some shots tired by electriety ot go ing alt altogether as was expected. Beene Rousehold Dout'a. Don't hiteh me to an iron post or railino 'when the mercury is below freezing, 1 peed the skin on my tougue. that &heavy Mow bad been dealt them'and port% Imes me hitched in my eiAllat night with a•big cob raght where I must lit. down, were at first at a loss to knew what they v ware .to do with the large nambete of eggs 4. am teed and can't select a smooth pram. whicli beretofore hail hem exported to the Don't conmel me to eat more salt than I by 5008011 01 the prohibitive import laid on want by mixing it with my oats. I !mow better tram any other anima how emelt I United States, but wit tell were uo„t extemiee them by the tariff. It was necessary to seek 0054.new markets, andthe managers ef the trade Don't think because I go free untier the Our romp F-gg Trade. In the last number to hand the London Daily Telegraph has this to say of our export egg tpede With the comlng into force of the Me- RInley tariff the thinadian dairy fannerafelt in the Dominion naturally turned to the Old Country as a -possible outlet for their eeper- fluent' eggs. The experiment bad been tried before,and had not turned out a anceesa; but this did not discourage shippers, who had the advantaged different circumstances to those existing a decade since, and under the inittation of exports in packing from this side the _first consimunent to the English market was sent across the At- lantic. There were matter who inclined to the opinionthat the experiment would prove a failure, but when the eggs were un- packed the experience in the trade at onee gave it as their opinion that the eggs were packed in first-class style, and had arrived in splendid condition. The eggs went off, and the advices cabled from receiver to consignor were of such a Bat's - factory nature that fresh cargoes were despatched and sold here readily at from 9s. 64, to 10s. 64. per ten dozen, which compares favourably with the price fetched by French and German eggs. Merchauts here seem to be well satisfied with the eggs, which are packed when quite fresh in cases which are novel to the trade here, inseparate compartments, so that there is little fear of breakage or rolling, and sellers on the other side are congratulating themselves on pro- fits equal to, and in some cases batter than, those they would bave received by send- ing over the border, after paying freight and commission ; indeed, Mr. Sanders, who was recentlyin this country on a commis- sion of enquiry from the Canadian Govern- ment, states in his report that ho finds the markets in England are favovrable to the reception of ell the eggs they can send, and states that on a consignmeet he made to Liverpool he netted a cent. a dozen over the prices ruling in the States, and which would have been received by him if there had been no Tariff Act. For this reason the import from Canada has practically ceased, as egg producers hurried their stocks over the line before the Act came into oper- ation, and the bareness of the market has caused prices to rise beyond the export basis. That the nucleus of a profitable trade has been formed betweeu the Dominion and the Mother Country, people in Montreal, which is the port of shipment, feel assured, and some idea of the dimensions of the busi- nessthat may arisemay be gained by a know- ledge of the fact that nearly 2,000.000 eggs have arrived in Liverpool and London since the McKinley tariff became law. As we import from all sources about 1,200,000,000 eggs annually there is apparently room for all the Dominion can send us if they are good ; and if the present quality and style of packing are maintained there can be doubt that the sprieg will see a great velopment in this direction. whip I don't get tried. You would move up if under the whip. Don't think becenee I am a horse that iron weeds end briers won't Imre my bay. Don't whip mo wh en I get frightened along the road, or I will expect it next time and maybe make trouble. Don't trot me up hill, for I have to carry you and the buggy and myself too. Try its youraelf sometime. Run up hill with a big load. Don't keep my stable very dark, for -when I go out into the light my eyes are injured, especially if snow be on the ground. Dorn say whoa unless you meanie. Teacb me to stop at that word. It may cheek me if tho lines break and save a runaway and smash-up. Don't make me drink ice-cold 'water or put a frosty bit in my mouth. Warm the bit by holding it a half -minute agaiust my body. Don't forget to fileray teeth when they get ragged and I cannot chew my food. When I get lean itis a siga my teeth want filiew Don't ask me to back with blinds on. I am afraid to. Don't rim me down a step hill, for if uny• thing should give way I might break your neck. Don't put on my blind bridle so that it irritates my eye or so leave my forelock that it will be in my eyes. Don't be so careless of my harness as to find a great sore on vie before you attend to it. no de - Testing Their Courage. "One time, in order to test the courage ot a Bengal tiger and a lion," said a well known showman, 'I we placed a shooting cracker in the respective cages and fired the fuses. As soon as the fuses began to burn they attracted the attention of both animals, but m a widely different manner. The lion drew into a corner and watched the proceed- ings with a distrustful and uneasy eye. Tbe tiger, on the -contrary, advanced to the burning fuse with a firm step and unflinching gaze. On reaching the cracker he took his paw and began th roll it over the floor and when it exploded beneath his very nose he did not flinch, but cceitinued his examinatic irtil perfectly thttisiied. The lion betrayed fear when he heard the repert of the x lesion and for quite a time could not be terrible: earnestness in his method.. He coaxed out of hit Don't lend me to some blockhead thatba leas sense than I have. Don't forget the old book that is a friend to all the oppressed, that says. "A merciful man is merciful to les beast' A Pleasant Remedy for Indigestion. Another possible trinumh of medical science over disease is suggested by a paper read before the Detroit Medical Association recently on " Alimentation in Therapeu- tics," in which was announced an important discovery by Signor Viucente Menem of Venezuela in regard to the pitmapple. Ale cording to Signor Marcano there is in the common pineapple a ferment or principle, similar to pepem, of such remarkable strength that the juice of a siugle pineapple will digest 10 pounds of beef. If this prove true a new and important agent in the treatment of dyspepsia has been descovered. As nearly all other diseases are directly in- fluenced by the degree in which food can be assimilated and as millions of people have imperfect digestion, tha possibilities of this discovery are almost limitless, if it proves to be as represented. But even raoro strik- ing was the further anuouncement in the same paper, written by a preened chemist, that the juiec of the pineapple is a very tw- elve solvent of the membrane formed in diphtheriaelm pbaeapp e is a wholesome fruit without tegard to these striking vir- tues ascribed to it, and experiments on the lines suggested will be easy and safe. A 'Wonderful Clock. Lord Grimthorp who is now in his 758h year, bas construeted a clock for the pose office at Sydney, N. S. W. It is the largest that has ever left England, and was cepa:- rally designed by His Lordship, who. made models for Big Ben at Westininater. The Sydney clock is distinguished by a novel feature'as it will emit an electric) flashlighte lasting five seconds, every hour during the night, thus enabling those livingmiles away, or travelling within& certain eaten to am certain the head time. e.