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The Exeter Times, 1894-1-24, Page 30 E SWEET UOMB TALIOCABEI PeteRAOStMelS ON Tee " Weihleahriel MOTIPIarts N Anil et eilene enb Feet tatoonent needled ay rite etreonera Ihreirelter "Wee lother oreisere %Amnon out ue "nel odow. Boots o tone Jen. 11—This novel and tinkle. subjoin wee nesnented by Dr. Talmage tie efternoon to the %Intel throngs gremlin the largest Protestant church in Amerie • The eoligregenioo, led by the organ an cornet, tong a Geepel hymn to the tune e 4c Horne, Sweet Ito 4e." TeXt : Judges 5 28, "The mother of Sieere looked out PA wiadow," Spneed to the ground of jeers tent loe the deed Commender-in-Chief of the Cena anitish host, Generel, Sieera, nob' far fron the River Kishou, which was only a dm bed of pebbles when in 18139, in Palestine we oreseen it, but the gullies end ravine which retreat° it indicated the poseibilin of great ereehote like the one at " the tune of the text. General. Sisera had gone out with nine hundred iron char rots, but ha wile defeeted, and hi' chariot wheel a interlocked with the wheel of other , chariots; he could not retina, h and, so he leaped to thegrouno ig till exhausted he went Ina, it for safety. She had just heee anti whee he asked for wane- elm gaveluen buttermilk, which in the Eastis e'en siciered a most refreshing drink. Very tired, and euppesing he was safe, he went to sleep • upon the floor, but jaol, who had resolved upon his neeeth, took a tent -pin long and round end sharp in one nand and a hemmer in her other hand, miel putting the shams end of the tent -pin to the forehead of Sieera evieli her other hand, she lifted the • hammer eanil brought it down on the head of the pin with a stout stoke,when Sisera straggled to rise, and she struck him again, and. he struggled to rise, and the third time • she struck him, and the commandehio-ohief • of the Crenamaitish host ley dead. Meanwhile in the distance Siesta's mother sits amid. surrounding e of wealth and pomp •and scenes paletial, wetting for • his rehnen, Every mother expects her eon • to be •enotorious, and this mother looked out of the 'window expecting to see him drive inhis chariot followe-d by wagone loaded with embroideries and also by regiments of men vanquished and. enslaved. . I see her now sitting at the window'in high expec- tation. She watches the furthest there of the road. She leeks for the flying dust of the swift hoofs. The fleet flesh of the bit of the horses' bridle she will patch. • The ladies of her court tand round and she tells them at what they shell have when her son comes up—hbaine of gold and came nets of beauty and dresees of suelegoondrous fabric and splendor as the Biblemely hints at but leaves us to imagine. " He ought to be here by this time," says Ina mother, fast eme and et Jael's ehurna that ---'''''''''''..-4, at bo'llte hwouriirreevorneneeemenn z freehet of the river Kishon has not unpede him. / hope these atra,nge appearances we saw last night in the sky wore not ominous, when thehears seemed to fight in their course. io ! -No I he is so brave in 'settle I know II as won the day. He will soon be here."' But alas for the disappointed mother ; she 'sill not see the glittering head- gear of the horses at full gallop bringieg her son home from victorious battle. As a solitary messenger arriving in hot haste, rides up to the window at which the moth- er of Siberia sits, he cries, " Your armies are debated and your son is deed," there is e so of horror and anguish from which the idiotic superstitions. You may give we tur away. that girl before she is ten year old a fond-- No see the full meaning of me. ness fee dress that will make her a mere short t : "The Mother of Sframe," looked "dummy or fashion plate, for forty out et a window." Well, my friends, we years. Ezekiel16, 44—" As is the mother are all out in the battle of life; it is raging so is her daughter." Before one decade has now and the most of us have a mother passed you can deeide whether that .boy 'watchand waiting for news of our vie- shall be a Shylock or a George PeObody. tory or efeat. If she is not sitting at the Boys and girls are generally echoes of fath- window of eaves she is sitting at a window era and mothers. What an incoherent thing of Heaven, and she is going to hear all for a mother out of temper to punish a child. about it. for getting mad, or for a father who smokes By all the rules of war Sieera ought to to shut his boy up in a dark closet -because have been trine -Thant. He had nine bun, he has found him with an old stump of a • dred iron ohariote and a host of many cigar in hit mouth,; or far that mother to • thousands vaster than the armies of.Israel, rebuke her daughter for staring at herself But God was oaths other side; and th too much in the looking-gless • when the angry freshets of Kishon and the hail, the mother has her own mirrors so ar. lightning and the unmanageable war-horses ranged as to repeat her form from all and the capsized chariots and, the stellar sides. The great English poet's loose panic in the sky dieemnflted Siesta, mciral cheraeter was decided before he left , J-oseplais in his history describes the scene the nursery; and his schoolmaster in the in the following words : " Wheinthey Were school room overheard his conversations come to a close fight there came down from "Byron your mother -is a fool," and he en- Efee.ven &. great storin with a vast quan- swered I know it." You can hear and tity of rain and hail, and the wind- all the historic life of Senator Sent Houston • blew the rain in the face of the Canaan-. the words of his rnothar, when she in • ites, and so darkened their eyes their the war of 1.812Put a musket in his hand arrows and slinge were of no advantage and said; "There, my son, take this end to sham, nor watild the coolness of the air never disgrace it, for, remember, I had • permit the soldiers to make use of 'their rather all my sons should fill one honorable • swords; while this storm did not so -much grave than that one of them should tiirn. • incommode the Israelites, because it came his back on an enemy.'- Gb, and remember, • on their ba'eks. They also took such cour- toe, that while the dborthf my cottage is age upon the apprehension that God was open to all brave men, it is always shut • assisting them they fell upon the very Midst against cowards." Aggrippine, the mother • of their enemies and slew a great number of' Nero, a murderess,, you are not of them; so that some of them fell by their surprised that her son was a murderer. Own horses, 'which were pot into disorder, Give that child an• over -dose of mete- • and not a few were killed by their own cha. chlorin and make him recite verses of the riots." Bible as a punishment, and make Sun - Hence my hearers the bad news brought day a bore, and he will become a etreng • to the mother of•Sisera looking out at the- antagonist of Christianity. Imprese him • window. And out mother, whether sitting with the kindness and the `geniaity and the at a window of earth era Wiedow of heaven, lovelinees of religion and he will be its ad - will bear the newit of our victory or defeat. vooate and exemplar for all time and for Not according or our talents or educational eternity. A few days ago right before our • equipment to our opportunities, but ecord- express train on the Louisville and N'ash- ing as to whether God. is for us or against villa 11. B., the preceding train had gone Ore down through a broken bridge, twelve oars •Where's mother?" is the question most felling a hundred feet and then consumed, I euently asked in most hew:guilds, 'Ibis I saw that only one span of the bridge was • a el by the Iiiiebend as well 'tenth° child down andsil the other ripens were stand. rifled, bat the power ofpeneil pen • i tongue en present, and n the window • that Palace the snubber her ellm the. etching for news froe • battle, /eel) a contrast between, the eel- -'hal surrounding and her cues irtely surroundings. What a work bring up a family in the old - etre way with but little Or no hired help, xeept.perhaps for the washing day, or for re switimeleughterieg, commonly called the killing day." There was then no reed, ig of elaborate treatises on the best modes rearing children, and then leaving it all is hired. help, with one or two eqsite a day o the nursery to 'Nee if the principles an lounced are being carried out. The most of hoes old folks did the sewing, the washing, he mending, the darning, the patching, the eillinery, the mentueerealeeng, the house- -hoping, and in hurried harvest time helped prowl the hay or tread down the load in the now. They were at the same time caterers, aelore, doctors, cheplains aod Muses for a •vhole household all together down with meeeleti or scarlet fevers, or round the house with whooping coughs or croups and run- mund fingers and earaches, and ell the in - !mettle distempers which at SOMA time swoop limn every jeouseluilcl. Some of those moth. ore never got rested In this 'world. Les teed of the self -rocking cradles of our day, vhich, wound up, will go hour after our for the selaoe of the young slum - borer, it was weary foot on the rookor, ioreetimes half the day, or half the eight — eagle — rook — rock — rook. In- deed of our drug stores filled with all the wonders of materiel needier). and called up through a telephone, with them the only apothecary ehort or Lout' miles' ride was the garret, with its bunches of peppermint end pennyroyal end catnip and mustard end eamomile flowers, which were expected to do everything. Just think of it! Fifty years of preparing breakfast clinoer and supper. The chief music they heard was then of spinning -wheel anti rocking -chair. Fagged out, heaoleachey and with ankles swollen. Those old fashioned mothers—if any person ever fitted appropriately into a good easy, comfortable heaven, they were the folks, and they got there and they era rested. They wear no spectacles, for they have their third sight—as they lived long enough on earth to get their second sight— and, they do not have to pant for breath after going up the emerald (stare of the Eternal Palace, at whose wfndow, they now sit waiting for news from the battle. Buttif anyone keeps on asking the ques. then, "Where is mother ?" I answer, she is in your present character. The probs.- Witty is that your physicalefeaturesteuggest her. If there be seven children in a house- hold at least six of them look like their mother, and the older you get the more you will leak like her. But I speak now especially of your character, and not of your looks. This,is easily explained. During the first ten years of -your life you were almost all the time with her, and your father you saw only mornings an nights. There hheeetemesears in any life so important for frapaeu'ia;Zeire-Nsevee,,,,rse-. tnn. Then and there is the impression made for virtu eoreaelee for truth or, falsehood for religion or scep- ticism, Suddenly start out from behind a door and frighten the chili and you may • shatter his nervous system for a lifetime. During• the first ten years you can tell him enough spook stories to make him a coward till he dies. Act before him as though •Veld ay were an • unlucky day, and it were baleful to have thirteen at the table, or see the moon over the left shoulder, and he will never recover from _ Ming in et nightfall. " Where's mother?" Mg., 'Plan a good bridge of morals for your It is asked by the little ones whenthey get sons and, damghtere, but have the first span hurt and come in 'crying with the pain : of ten years defective and through that ." Where's mother?" It is asked by those they -wilt crash down that they will crash -who have seen some grand eight or heard down though all the rest keep standing. some good newe cm received some beautiful Oh menlOh woinerseif you have presorvered gift : Where's mother ?" She sometimes hour integrity and are really Christian, ieele wearied by the question, for they all you have fleet of all to thank God, ask it and keep asking it all the time. She and I think next you have to is not only the first to hear every case of thank your mother. The most het - perplexity, bat she la the judge in every preseive thing at the inauguration of datnee court of domestic appeal. That it what A. Garfield, as President of the Vnited puts premature wrinkles on so many ma,. States, mit that after he had taken the ternal feces, and powders white so many oath of Office he teemed round, and in the maternal foreheads. You see it is a (plea- presence of the Supreme Coert and the Sen. tine that keeps on for all the years of arena. ate of theeTdented,Srates, kissed his old hood. It comes front the nursery and, from mother. It had. time to take statistics the evening stand where the boys and girls out of this audience, aud I could ask whet are learning their school lessomi, and from. Otoportion of you who are Christians owe the starting oat in the roothinea when the Your salvation under God to maternal fidel- tippee or bat or slate or book or overseen ity, I think about three-fourths of you is lost, until at night all out of breath the Would spring to your feet. "Ha I ha l" youngsters 'come in and shout until you said the soldiers of the regiment to Charlie, Oar hear theta •from cella r to garret, and one of their comrades, What has made from Anne door' to the hams fence of the the change in you? yen ailed to like sin at back yard, ,4 Wilere'S mother Indeed, a well as any of us." Pulling from his pocket life is so full Mt that question that his mother'e letter in which after telling if he be taken away one of the things that of some 0OrtifertS S110 had Sleet hint, she con - the mother meet misses and the Silence that‘ eluded; We are praying for you, retest oppresses her, is the absenee of that Charlie'that you may be a Christian,' he niceeime which she Will never hear on said, "Boys, thatn the sentence." earth agehe'except she hear a it be. drearn The trouble With Siscre's mother was Which eornetitnee restores the uursery just that while sitting at the window of my s it was, and then the voice comes back So teat watching for news from her son front al, end so sweet, and so innocent, and the bettlefieleloeho had the two bad quell- thet the dream breakat the ties of being dieeolute and being to fond of eore's mother t' petonel adornment- The Bible aecohne -1 'on were put to most of ire says i "Her Wise lediete answered her, this meld heroT to say, if we yea, he returned answer to herself; "Rave ripen sieeeeee meteor, elle the not speed I Have they not divided She has become the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; q a she is hell. to oiera a prey of divere coloee a peeyetqf ftig5'$' dlv re colors f heedieWork, of div tnel ere not 01 dee ivory as in earliest time, or of bronze, In rllny'e time, or of dteel, as in modern times; whether leboeieniely faehioned as lor- nterly by one hand, or as now, when A hundred workmen lire factory eve employed to make the different: parte of one needle. It is an loStrninent divinely ordered foe the comfort, for the life, foe the health, for the adornment of the hunieu rime, The eye of the needle heal Seen more doknestio oomfort end more gladdened poverty, and, more Christian service thau any Game eye- 0 -he modern sewiug machine bee in no wise abolished the needle, but rather enthroned it. Thank God for the needle,vvork, from the time when the Lord Almighty front the heavens ordered in regard to the embroider- ed door of the ancient Tabernacle "Thou shalt make a hanging for the door of the tent of blue and purple and scarlet and floe - twined linen, wrought with needlework," downto the womanly hands which thiswiuter in this Tabernacle are presenting for boom - kelt purposes their needlework. But their wee nothing except vanity and worldliness and social eplesh in what Sisera's mother said about the needlework she expeoted her son would bring home from the battle.. And I am not surprised to find that Sisera fought on the wrong eide, when his mother at the window of my text, in that awful eeigenoy, had her chief thought on dry goods ethieve- ment and social display. God only knows how many homes heve made shipwreck on the wardrobe. And that mother who sits at the window watching for vain -glorious triumph of millinery and fine colors, and domestic pageantry, will after a while hear as bad news from her children. out in the battle of life, as Sieera's moehersheard from the struggle at Esclreelon, There is one thought that is almost too tender, for utterance. I almost) fear to start it lest I have not enoughcontrol of my emotion to conclude it. As when we were elfildren we so often came in from play or from a hurt or from some childish injustice practiced upon us, and as soon as the door was opened we cried, "Where's mother ?" and she said, "Here I am," and we buried our weeping feces in her ap ; so After a while, when we get through with the pleas- ures and hurts of this life, we will, by the pardoning mercy of Chriet, enter the Heav- enly Home, and among the first questions; not the finite but ternong the first, will be the old question that we used to ask, the question that is being aeked in thousands of places at this very moment—the question ; ' Where's mother ?" And it will not take long for us to find her or for her to find us, for she will have been watching at the win- dow for our corning, and with the other children, of the household Of earth we will again gather mend her, and she will say:— "Well! how did you get through the battle of life? I have often heard from others of you; b\ now I want to hear it from your - own so i. Tell me about it tnyhilaildrenl" And thf a we will tell her of all our earthly experiences, the holidays, the marriages, the birth -hours, the burishethe heartbreaks, the losges, the gains, the victories, the de- feats and she will say: "Never mind, it is all over now. I see each of you has a erheinen that was given you at the gate as you chinteahaough. Now cast it at the feet of the Christ who seined you and saved me and saved us all. Thank latitlesWinoseene ee never to part, and for all the ages of eternity3e6an will never again have to ask. 'Where's mother?" NOTES AND COMMENTS. London is one of the few hianedian cities where the street car service is not operated by electricity. It muds a bargain with the present company, which will• not expire until 1935. London knows now that aeong lease is a big mistake. The Government of King George of Greece has broken faith with its foreign creditors by defaulting she f all payment of the coupons of the natioaal debt. England and Germany have taken steps towardsmro- testing, but France and Russia remain. pas- sive. The Czar and. his ally are probably pledged to support the Gocian King, There is a prospect of the coming elec- tions in Norway resulting in the severance of the union of ,that country with Sweden. King Oscar and the Norwegian Storthing have disagreed on the question of self-gov- ernment, and if the Radical majority in the House is returned it will mean that the Norwegian people favour independence. Claims amountino to something over $20,000,000 have been filed by American citizens before the Milian Claims Commis- sion. The Chilean claims on the United States amount to a very moderate sum, leaving a heavy balance against Chili. As a monetary transaction the big republic • apparently got the best of the recent eta- broglio. In their crusade against the Anarchis ts the Parisian police lave discovered " c om- promising letters from French, Swiss, and German' Anarchists" at the residence of Mises Reclue, the author of the " New Universal Geography,"and a Man of brilliant literary capacity, and accomplishments. It is extraordinary that limb a man should be implicated in a scheme to destroy society with the refuse of the streets, as represent- edby Valliant, the bomb-thro wen ' • Statistics respecting dieasters and crime in the United Statee during the year have been compiled by the Chicago Tribune, the totals of which are food for refl ca- tion. Fire, in 18e3, destroyed property worth $188,356,000, and caused the death of 1,817 persone, Explosien killed 777, and mine dieasters Me. There were 6,615 murders during the year, and only 126 official executions. Of suicides there -were 4,436; The total sum embezzled during 1893 'evae $19,929,692. The Americana are ferried for doing things on a large scat,. 'Montreal has had a narrow escape. At the session of the Legislature just ended an attempt was made to take from the people the highly important previlige of electing the"Me,yor of the city. An, amend- ment was introduced itito the Montreal bill to provide that heroafter the Mayor shall he elected by the City Council, end a few hours before prorogation the clause was struck out. The effect of such al change would be to pat a clique of aldermen pram tically in control of the city government. That they did not euoceedm capturing the prize is through no fault of theirs. The incident shows that to eonserve their rights small although they are, the people of Que. bee have to be constantly on the watch. Superetitious people in the United States are reminded by ad .m01141(40 that "the American' 25 cent piece hes 13 stars, 13 letters in the serell held in the eagle's beck, 13 marginal feathers each Wing, 13 tail feathers, 13 parallel in- the ehield, 13 horizontal bats, and 13 arrow heads. The 13 be each inetanee reprosetts the 13 orim- inal States, a very Unlucky number, for Greet teitain whet, in 18 (7 plus 6 equals 13) the pluck; 13 decided to entko nation of themeelves," The eagle begins '04 (9 and 4 ere 13) with rather dilepideted feathers, and salver quarters are at 0. &t- oot:mt. A dollar' is worth Oda 85 dente, S and 5 aro 18). In fact the myetiki thin. ter it playing the very iniochiet With ,the trio TT iu NRAT SCII0Off. NITANATION AL LES$ON, JAN. M 9. :t& GOLDBE apt9 8-17, oentonen ST4TaenneT, Between the events of our last lesson and of the present intervenes a period of more then fifteen centuries, one fourth of all human history, All the annals that remain in this world, before the flood, from the Sens Once of Cain to the building of the ark,ere found in less than fifty verses of the Bible, The young and vigorous blood of the race enabled men to live through the centuries, so that those who heard the story of Oren. - time from the lips of Adams could relate it to the ears of shem. There were Worriere and conquerors, peas end musicians, eras- ans and builders, in those archaic ages, But espeeially do we dishern then, as in all his. tory since, two chaos of character : the holy children of God and the winked seed of most. We monk the one gradually wan- ing in numbers,in power, and in faithful - nes, f 1- nes, while the othee increased apace in every evil element, until the utter extino- time of religion was threatened, God,whorie eye is ever on the watoh for the intereste of his kingdom, saw -that there was but one way to avert the catastrophe of a ruined werld r the destruction of its evil elements, and a neva stare to the race under better amenities. He who holds all forces in his hand, determined to let loose upon earth the storing of a deluge. He commanded hie one faithful servant, Noah, to commence the building of a great ark, or floating chest, which should, during its very construction, serve an a warning to the world, The man of God obeyed, though no signs of danger were at hand, and persevered in his task through the scoffs of the wicked around hitn for a hundred and twenty years, until at last the huge vessel stood finished upon the land. By divine command he placed within it pairs of all the animal life in the region inhebited by men, which may not have extended far beyond the borders of the Mesopotamian basin, and reached upward toward the Caspian on the north. Himself and his family then entered, and the door Was shit, A fierce storm now began with rain pp king from above'the rivers flooding around, and, perhaps, by a recession of the earth, the seas encroaohing upon the land, Gail +YEBNU s. otas Nan), Source, °enable. wi:re:;41ena:::13*'68758P01"Llf:rof4 Professor Motley woo former ly a ei surgeon, A pedigree hook of highbred oats has just been issued. The best ovals are now obtained from. atingary and IZtouduras. mePssigaegoenss70w0 eyreearilsr4to,used oarrieee of Spain has fewer daily papers than any other Eurepean country. During the last five years about 30,000 couples have been divorced in France. The Empress of Russia's court derma is Every night ie. Lennon over 6,000 per - sone sleep in the open air. It would require 12,000 cholera mierolsee to form a procession an inch long. Greek sculptors often used eyes of glees or crystals in the faces of their statues. Eighty-six of the 355 towns in Muses- churetts contain tin reeident physician. In all the wars in which Britain has taken part she has won 82 per cent. of the battles, valued at 15 000 Mme. Albahi designs her own operatic dresses which coet on an average from 6300 $400. A speck of gold weighing the millionth part of a grain may be easily Seen by the naked eye. At a depth of more than- four miles the ocean is without life without vegetation and without ' Peru has only 36 telegraph offices in the entire country, and but 1,600 miles of wire, ' Recruits for the Chinese army are not accepted unless they can jump a ditch 6 feet wide. Fbr acidity of the stomach a teaspoonful of glycerine ma, wineglassful of water is a useful remedy, The Empress of Russia's physician when in attendance upon his auguse patient re - until every mountain top of the inhabited ceives a fee of 6350 a day. region was eovered, and the dying wail of . The worth of a ton of diamends at the earth's last inhabitant was drowned in the roar of the tempest. Month after month posed by, until at) last the strange ship grounded on some mountain in the Armeni- an diatrienando.fter;a year spent vi ithin the walls of their wandering home, the patri- archal family emerged upon the desolate earth, Their first act was a sacrifice of thanksgiving and consecrateon to God- As the smoke ascended from the earth, the rainbow spanned the arch of heaven, God's token of a covenant never again to destroy the human race by a flood. EXPLANATORY' AND PRACTIOA.T. NOTES. Verse 8. And God spalee. After the flood, and thedeparture' of the patriarch and his family from the ark, in the moun- tain regions of Armenia, How God spoke _ea men in those early ages is unknown, (1) Weenermehl be gree.tful that we are not de. pendentOtonehe infrequent utterances of God's voice, biitehilene the Scriptures, in which we can read hie Weill. Unto Noah. The son of Lamech in the Btir gettehation from Adam, by the line of Seth. He was born six hundred years b.efore the flood, and lived three hundred andfifty years after it. In an age of universal wickedness he showed by a godly life strength of cliaracter, faith in God, and preserving obedience to the divine commands. His Sons. Sheen, Ham, rind Jephothn it w'ould appear from Gun. 1. 21 that thei last named was the old- est. 9. I establish my covenant. An agree- ment or promise, generally made between ,two parties • but in ,this .caseby God alone, -without a pledge entire part of men. "This may be called the oeveheatit of Godar for- beeraoce, under which man lives to the end of timee"--William Smith. (2) Observe God's goodness not only in his promises to men, but in their confirmation by oaths and tokens. With you. As the represen- tatives and parents of all mankind. This would show that the flood destroyed all the hentan race except 'Noah's family. Your seed aftee you. (3) We, who live at a dis- tance of forty centuries from this covenant, have an interest in it. 10. Every living creature. Not only men, but the lower animals, are included in the benefits of this promise of preserva- tion. (4) Nothing'is so low in the scale of reation as to be beneath God's interest. (5) These are blessed by God who are unconscious of his blessing. That is with you. It is not necessary to -suppose that Noah placed in the ark pairs of all kinds of animals on the earth; but only those of the inhabiter' district. From all that go out of the arien to every beast. This may mean to eery beast descended from them ; or it may mean "not only the animals of the ark, but all. others on the earth ;" indicating that all people were de- stroyed, but not all the animals on the earth. 11„ Neither . . . any more be a flood. The family of Noah, as they saw the desolate appearance of the earth, might dread a return of the deluge, and, hence prepare for their own safety rather than for the cultivation and settlement of the ground. Hence God gives thent the neces- sary promise. (6) Not because of man's worthiness, but God's mercy, are the floods held back from the ereeth. To deetroy., While God has given his pledge egailist earth's destruction by water, he has also given warning of its destruction by fire in 2 Peter 3, 0, 7e (7) The Alteighty holds in hie quiver more than one ereove to slay his enemies. , 12, 13. The token of the coyenant. With every covement God gives a sign or token to keep it in remembrance. Perpetual generations. That is,,as long as the human race endures. I do set. "I do appoint." There is no reason to suppose that no raisin bow had ever appeared until this time. The same causes were doubtless in existence to produce it before as after the flood; but at that time it was adopted as the token of the covenant. e 14. When I bring a cloud. But for the promise and its token every rainstorm might have been regarded as the precursor of a new deluge, thus filling men's hearts with fear. The bow shalt be seen. "When the storm consee to alarm, the rainbow shall come to reassure. Notice the symboliezei of the rainbow-, • as representing God's promise (1) It Conies in the eitue of storm, as the promises in hours of trouble. (2) It Conies only when the sun ehines, as God stands batik of our troubles. (3) It comet at the Giese of the Merlin as God's peomiees show that Satan's }Sower is be shorn (4) In the vision of tled.,e threne (Eiek. 1, 28 ; Rem 4.• 13) the tainbow serrate& it, sheen fog that his promises are ever before hint, 15-17. I Will temember My covenant Goa here speaks if ter the manner of men, though be needs no token to remied him of Iris promises. (8) Miele we look upon the rainbow lee it remind us to be grateful, as it reinintle Goa to be gracions. Thie is the tokoh. This re4indicitte that: at the ine., snout the symbol of the preinite was etch- ing the clearly heeetene, “PeeL” Anni ll present day is estipented at exactly 35,000,000. Bees never store honey in the light, be cause honey so exposed granulates, and it is thus useless to the bees. It is said that hawthorn flowers make capital seasoning for puddings, and add a pleasant taste to Irish whiskey. Five hundred and fifty -million telegraph message forms have been required in this country during the last two years. The total number of American news. papers has grown from 5,319 to 20,006 dur- ing the past twenty-five years. An. oak tree at Windsor Castle is over, 1,000 years old. Local history says that William the Conqueror many times admired On one day he the year amen-,bthe Him - does gambling is considered nob only allow- able, but commendable. It is called Devali. The little island of Ieelarecle, with about 10,0601.thvbitientii; has the arms n'eteeleeer of newspapers as the great• Empire of China. Tlast census shows that there are no fewer than three million of men over thirty ybeeeanrsmoafrraige. ageinAmerica who have never It is claimed there is a lighthouse to every fourteen miles of coast in England,to every thirty-four miles in Ireland, and to every thirty-nine miles in Scotland. Telephone operators in. Belgium are required to pass an examination in French, German, English, and Flemish, and to be able to draw a map of Europe. The Queen does not spend more than I10 a year on gloves. She is "Careful" with all her wearing appe,rel, and, it is said, often wears a dress until it is quite "shiny."• Three good washes are received by an • Abyssinian &unit his career —at his birth, on his marriage morn and at his death. All other times be shims soap and water. The Empress of Austria, it is stated, nob only, smokes from fifty to sixty Turkish cigarettes a day, but daring the course of the evening also smokes several " terrib- iystrong eigarsea New Zeeland has set apart two islands for the preservation of its remarkable wild birds and other angels; thereon all hunt- ing arid trapping are forbidden. There is no gold Canadian coin in ex- istence; but the British sovereign is a legal tender. In the• United States there are gold dollar coins equal in value to 4e. 2d. Birds with long legs always have short tails, Writers oh the flight of birds have shown that the only use of a bird's tail is to serve at a rudder, during the act of flight, • New -street Station, Birmingham, which is jointly owned by the Midland and Lon- don and North-Western Companies, covers an area of nearly 12 acres. In 1881 the world's consumption of cot- ton was estimated at 9,424600 bales;- in 1886.81 the total was 10,468,800 bales; and in 1891-92 it had further increased to 12,- 033,619 bates. Three places at least are known where green snow is found. One of these isnot Monett Heckle Iceland; another fourteen •Miles east of die mouth of the Obi; and the third near Quito, South America. The method of cutting down trees by means of electrically -heated wire has proved a failure for the reason that the ashes accumulating in front of the wire prevent the wire from coining in contract with the wood. A number ot orders have been given to Philadelphia ironworkers for machinery- to be used, in distilling alcohol from sweet potatoes. A. gallon of alcohol can be lit. tilled front a bushel of sweet potatoes at a small cost. Ibis said that the real reason why Queen Victoria took up the study of Ilinduetatil fourteen ago was in order that she might eonveree in their' own tongue with the Itidian Peincerises who come from 'nine to time to pay their respects to het, DANGEREI OF EATOTION. The Fart Thai' Fear tear; he, etennerIng ' remote Liable o Metres°. • Many violent ina1tidiee4aVe been suppos ed to have hem produced under the opera- tion of morel influences. Sennett believed thee fear was capable of provoking orysipeo Ins, Refine= also lined° fear mid the edynteney resulting from it play an impor- tent part as the predisposing cause of con- tagioue dirmaiite, Dr. II. Tido believed, in particular, in the itillueriee of feat npea the contagion of rubles. 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