The Exeter Times, 1894-2-1, Page 6kB BE .LRM OF GOD, ?'
OVS-ReVieeSTeMtlear OTel'etOBSTIVA.
114.5S IN eell4e.1" leetee'VAPHOU.
'relinettedi Tatest eerneotte-The leen-
:vette or site Text so theta:me Vail or
lager)* that the Inmeelter has to Coen,
or Courage to !enlarge Erma et -Tete
reerill'a lately krtek,
tlen 2,4 0 doe hle eters that Ilereehel oheerve
ed a ulstering to the whims of the
variable steers as their glance becomes
beighter eir dine preparing whet ehtroni»
mer' called "The girdle of Andromeda,
and the nebula ire the sword 'Meals)
of Orion, Worlde on, worlde I Worlds
under Worlds I Werlde above worlds !
Worlds beyond worlds 1 So many that
arithmeties are () no use in the oeleula-
!doe I 'But He counted them as Ile made
then), and He neeede them with Hie fingers I
Reseevetion of power? suppression ct
omnipotence ! Reeourcee as yet untouch-
ed ! Alinightinees yet undeameetrated I
My text inekes it plain that the reotifi-
:melee of this vverld is e stupendous under-.
taking, It takes more power to make this
woehl over again then it took to make it at
atilt, A word was only necessary for the
tirst creation, but for the new ereetion the
=sleeved, arid unhindered forearm of the
Almighty? The reason of that I can under-
stand, In the shipyards of Glasgow, or
New York, a greet veseel is construeted.
The excitant, draws out the plen, the
length of the beam, the capacity of tonnage,
the rotation of wheel or screw, the cabins,
the masts and all the appointments of this
great palace Of the deep. The architect
finishes his work without any perplexity,
and the carpenters mid the artisans toil on
the craft so many hours a d.ay, each one
doing his part, until with flags flying, and
thousands of people huzzaing cii the docks,
the vessel is launched. But out on the sea
that steamer breaks her shaft, and is limp'
fog slowly along toward the harbor, when
Caribbean whirlwinds, those mighty hunt-
ers of the deep, looking out for prey of
ships, surrouad that wounded vessel and
pitch it on a rocky eoast, and she lifts and
falls in the breakers until every joint talons,
and every spar is down, and every wave
sweeps over the hurricane deck as she parts
midsbips. Would it not require more
skill and power to get that splintered
vessel oft the rocks and, reconstruct it than
it requires originally to build her ? Aye !
Our world that God built so beautiful, and
which started out with all the flags, of
Weak foliage, and with the chant of Para-
disaical bowers, has been sixty centuries
pounding in the Sherries of sin and sorrow,
and to get her out, and to get her off, and
to get her on the right way again, white -
quite more of Omnipotence than it required
to build her and launch her. So I am not
surprised that, though in the dry-docks of
one word our mind war made, it will take
the unsleeved arm of God to lift her „„faorn
the rocks and put her on the right course
again. It is evident from my text, and its
comparison with other texts, that it would
not be so great an undertaking tee make
whole constellation of worlds and' v-')eea-ee ted;therehis Itheleelverkdalesson and the last
galaxy ot wodds, and, a whole astronomy an interval of about fie hundred 'end
of worlds, and swing them in their right -twenty-six years, of which we have an ac -
orbits, as to take this wounded world, this count in chapters 8-10. After the flood
stranded world, this bankrupt wontrl, „ehis the descendants of . 'Noah settled on the
destroyed. world, and make it as good as plain betw-een the Euphrates and Tigris.
when it started. 'Mew again departed from God and corrupt -
Now, just look all the entleroned dial. ed their way upon the earth. BIC it was
culties in this way, the removal of which, not God's purpose to Vinit obi_ as iddelre
the overthrow of which seem to require the days of Noah, *with a universal judgment.
bare arm of Omnipotence. There stands He determined to select a man, and through
heathenism, with its 860,000,000 victims, him a family and. a nation to be his witnesses
I CIO not care whetherwou call them Brah- upon the earth, to separate this nation from
mins, or Buddhists, Confucians or Fetish contact with the surrounding world, to
idolaters. At the World's Fair in Chicago place it under special laws, and -out of it
last summer those monstrosities of religion to bring in the fullness of time (Gal. 4: 4)
tried to make themselves respectable but the promised Saviour. The than choen to
the long hair and baggy trousers andtrin- be the father of apeople to exert so power-
keted. robes of their representatives cannot. ful an infleence on the salvation of• the
hide from the world the fact that those world, was Abram. At God's call Abram
religions are the authors ot funeral pyte, had left Ur of the Chaldees some time be.
and juggernaut crushiwz, and Ganges fora this, and. hail gone as far as Hagan.
infanticide, and Chinese shoe torture, and There he tarried,and there his father,Terah,
the aggregated Massacres of manyeenturies. died. It was after Tenth's death that this
They their heels on India, on China, second call came to Abram. The promise
on Persia, on Borneo, on three-fourths of here made to Abram took in 'not only his
the acreage of our poor old world, I know own natural seed, but all the faithful, who
that the missionaries, who are the most are embraced he the true "seed of Abra.
sacrificing and Christ -like men and women ham."
on earth, are making steady and glorious liners DT Fu-nt,tnixa.
inroads upon these built-up abominations
of the centuries. All this stuff that you I. The Call of Abram.
see in some of the newspapers about the V.I. The Lord said. -Before Abram had
missionaries as living in luxury and left Ur, his native place; (Acts 7:2). The
idleness is promulgated by corrupe command is now repeated.. Abram. -The
American or English .or Scotch mer- son of:level), born in Ur of Chaldeas,B.C.,
chants, whose loose behavior in heathen 1996. He lived in his native place seventy
cities have been rebuked by the mission- years, then five years in Horan, and after.
Davies and those corrupt merchants write wards a hundred years, mostly in Canaan,
of the innocent and unsuspecting via- and died B.C., 1322, aged one hundred and
itors in India or China or the darkened seventy-five years. Get thee out. was
islands of the sea these falsehoods about -required to sunder foreeer the ties that
our consecrated missionaries who, turning bound him to country and kindred. Unto
their backs on home and civilization and a land that I will show thee. -Leaving all,
emolument and comfort, spend their lives in he must follow the guidance of Jehovah, to
trying to introduce the mercy of the Gros- a country of which he knew noineven the
pet among the dowIntroelden of heathenism. name.
Some of these Mere:bents leave their families 4.2. A greet nation. -Fulfilled, first in
in America or England or Scotland, and the Hebrew nation, and next in the great
stay for a few years iwthe ports of heath- number of his spiritual descendants. Gal.
(mine while they are making their fortunes 329. Will bless thee. -With national e.nd
in the tea or Tice or opium trade, and while spiritual prosperity, with worldly wealth
they are thus absent from home, give thern- and heavenly glory. Name great -Widely
elves to orgies of dissoluteness, such as no honored. Shalt be a blessing. -To his
pen or tongue could, without tee abolition family, his posterity, the world.
of all decency, attempt to report. , The V. 3. Will 'bless thee. -God will treat
presence of the missionaries withtheir pure Abram's friends and enemies as his own.
and noble households in those heathen ports In thee. -Through Christ, the seed of
is a constant rebuke te such debauchees Abram. Rom. 9:5.
and miscreants.
'13TteDiMrtr, Jaza appre-
pelete and impreestite was the old Gospel
hymn as it was sung this morning by the
thousands of Brooklyn Tabernacle, led on
Imp cornet end organ :-
Arm of the Lord, awake, awaked ,
Vet on tbg strength, tnEi xtatiOitC Mane.
Rev, Dr. Telroge took for his subject,
" The Bare Arne of God," the text being
Isaiah, 52. 10 The Lord, hath made
bare His holy arm."
It almost takes oar breath away to read
some of the Bible imagery-. There is such
boldness epf nureaphor in my text that I have
been for some time getting my courage up
to preach from. it, Isaiah the evangelistic
prophet, is sounding the Jubilate of our
Plenet redeemed, and cries out, " the Lord
has made bare His holy arm." What over-
whelming suggestiveness in that figetre of
speech, "The sare arm of God 1" The
people of Palestine to this day wear inuah
hindering apparel, and when they want to
run a special race, or lift a special burden,
or fight a special battle, they put off the
outside apparel,as in our land, when a man
proposes a special exertion, he puts off his
coat and rolls up his sleeves. Walk through
our foundries,ournmehine shops, our mines,
our faotories, and you will find that most of
the toilers have their coat off and. their
HleelreS rolled up.
Nothing more impresses ne-in the Bible
than the ease with which, God does most
things. There is such a reserve of power.
Ile has more thunderbolts than he has ever
flung; more light than he has ever distri-
buted; more blue than that with which he
has over -arched the sky ;More green than
that with which he has emeralded the
grass; more crimson than that with which
he has burnished the sunsets. I say it with
revereace; Prom all I can see,. God has
never half tried.
You know as well as I do that many of
tile most elaberate and, expensive indus-
tries of our wcerld have been employed he
creating artificial light. Half of the time
the world is dark. The moon and the stars
have their glorious uses, but as instruments
of illumination they are failures. They will
not allow you. to read a book, or stop the
ruffianism of your great cities. Had not
the darkness been persistently fought back
by artificial means, the most of the world's
enterprises would have halted half the
time while the crime of our great munici-
palitles would for half the time run rain -
pant and =rebuked. Hence, all the in-
ventions far creating artificial light, from
the flint struck against steel in centuries
, past, to the dynamo of our electrical manu-
factories. What uncounted numbers of
people are at work the year round in male-
.
in chandeliers, and lamps, and fixtures,
and wires, and. batteries where light shall
run, or where light shall be made, or along
which light shall run, or where tight shall
poise! How many bare arms of human toil
-and some of those bare arms are very
tired -in the creation of light and its ap-
paratus and after all the work, the great,
at part of the continents and hemispheres
at night have no light it alhexceptnierhaps,
the fire -flies flashing their small lanterns
across the swamp. ,
But see how easy God made the light.
Be did not make bare his arms; He did not
even put forth his robed arms He did not
lift so much as a finger. The flint out of
which He struck the noonday sun was the
word, "Light." "fiat there be light I"
Adam did not see the sun until the fourth
day, for, though the sun was createcheon
the first day, it took its rays from the first
to the fourth to work through the dense
mass of fluids by which this work was
compassed. Did you ever hear of anything
as easy as that? So unique? Out of a
word came the blazing atm,the father of
flowers and warmth and light? Out of a
word building a fireplace for all the nations
of the earth to warm themselves by. Yea,
seven other worlds, five of them inconceiv-
ably larger than our own, and seventy-nine
asteriods, or worlds on a smaller scale.
The warmth and light for this greet
brotherhood, .great sisterhood, great family
of worlds, eighty-seven larger or smaller
worlds, arid. from that one magnificient, fire-
place made out of the one world, "Light."
The sun 886,000 miles in diameter! I do
not know how much grander a aolar system
God cotild have created if he had. put
foeth his robed. arm, to net nothing of an
arm made bare. For this I know, that eur
noonday sun was a Finagle struck from the
anvil of one, word, and that word -"Light."
says some one, "do you notthink
that, in making the machinery of the uni-
verse, of which our solarsystem is compara-
tively a small wheel revolving into mightier
wheels, it must have cost God some exer-
tion I The upheaval, of =arm either robed
or an arm made hare ?" No; we ere die-
tinetty told otherwise. The mathinery of
a universe God made simply with the fin-
gers. David, inspired in a night song, says
: "When I consider Thy heavens the
work of Thy flagon."
A -Scottish clergyman told me a few
weeks agO Of dyspeptic Thomas Carlyle
walking out with A friend one starry night,
and as the friend looked up and said,
"What a splendid sky I" Ma. Carlyle re-
plied, as he glanced upward, "Sad eight,
tad eight !" Not so thought David, as .he
read the great scripture of the night hes,
yens. It was a sweep of embroidery, of
vast tapestry. God manipulated. That is
the allusion(if the Pnlinisttathewoveri hang.
ings of tapestry, as they were known keg
before David's time. Far beck in the ages
what enchantment of thread and color,
the Florentine velvets of silk and gold and
, Persian carpets a oven of goat's hair! If
you have been in the Goblin Manufactory
of tapestry in Paris -alas.! now no more -
yeti witnessed evoneireus things, as you saw
the Wooden needle or brooch, going back
and forth and in and Out; you were trans-,
fixed with admiration, at the patterns
wrought. NO wonder that Louis KI.V.
bought it sad it became the possession of
elite throne; end tot' a long while none
bet thrones anti palaces might have anv of
its work I What i triumphs of loom! Whitt
victory of skilled fingers I So David says
oLthe heaVene, thet Gocl'e fingerswove into
them the light; that God's fingers tapes-
tried them with titere ; that God's fingers
embroidered them with worlds. How
intich of the immensity of the Heavens.
be.V141 understood I know not. Aetreti.
Only was torn in Chink terenty-eight
hendred yeara before Christ was born.
Duringthe reign of Menet' astronomers
were pat to death if they made Wrong
cattail aeiene abou t the heavens, job ender.
istooa the refraction of the euri'e rays, arid
said they were "turned as the clay to the
seta," Tho pyramids were astronomical
obecevaiorice, awl they were so log
age built that, Iniati refore to one if Odin
it; his nineteenthohaptere, and calls it the
vatilier et, the beaten", The first of all the
sMencett born was astronomy, Whether
from knowledge already Abend, or trent
s to me David had
huedred cannon en the WAS. Artillery on
the heights Of Givonne,, and twelve Ger-
man batteries on the heighte of ,I4a leleueello
The Crown 1.?rince of Saxony watoned the
scene from the heights of Navy. Between
a quarter to six o'clook in the inorning and
one reektelt in the afternoon of September
2nd, 1876, the hills dropped the ehelle that
shattered, the French nest in the val-
ley, The French Emperor and the
80,000 of his army captured by the hills.
So in this conflict noms raging between holi-
ness and sin " our ()yea are onto the hills."
Down here in the valleys of earth we must
he valiant soldiers of the °CPU, but the
Commander of our host walks the heights,
aid views the scene far better than we can
in the valleys, and at the right day and the
eight hour all heaven will open its batteries
on our side,and the couneender of the hosts
of unrighteeusness with all his followers
will surrender ; and it will take eternity to
fully celebrate the universal victory through
our reorele,Tesus Christ. "Our eyes are Ante
the hills," It is so certain to be accomplish.
ed that Isaiehia my text looks down through
the fieldglan of prophecy, and speaks of it
as already acoomplished, arid 1 take my
stand where .the prophet their his stand,anel
look at it as all done. "Hallueljab, 'tis
done I" See I _Those cities, without a
tear' Look ! "'Then contieents without
a pang I Behold Those hemispheres
without a in I Whg, those deserts -Arab-
ian desert, American desert and great
Sahara desert -are all irrigated into gar-
dens where God walks in the cool of the
day. The atmosphere that encircles our
globe floating' not one groan. All the
rivers and lakes and oceans dimpled with
not one fallen tear. The climates of the
earth lia,Ne dropped out of them the rigors
of the cold and the blasts of the heat, and
ii
It is universal spring I Let es change the
old world's name. Let it no longer be
called the Earth as when it was reeking
with everything pestiferous and malevolent
scarleted with battle -fields and gashed
with graves, but now so changed, so aro-
matic with gardens, and so resonant with
song, Med eo rubescent with beauty, lee us
call it Immenuel's Land, or Benle.ht or
Millennial Gardens, or Paradise Regained
or Heaven. And to God the only Wise,
the only Good, the only Great be glory for -
ever. Amen.
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ho kipawnital. Groutt4 9r on'r 1-144 ri43A
14111,30,Destroyeetee, weeeeet preen the
heepiter htinleter or etcher/es:
The Deputy Minister of Fisheries insists
that .the titruing of sawdust into rivers
frequented by food fishes clotroys the
spawxiiu heds aizd dierilelehee the ash nee.
diced,, Ids attitude on the question being
based upon the reports of the superintend-
ent of fish eilltnee, Mr, Samuel Wilmot.
Au exenspecter of fisherin for Neva Seetiat
Mr. Rogertakes the directly opposite
position, arid oites sbatietin to show that
in waters iota which van quantities of saw-
dust have been emptied -the 'St, John (N.
B.) river and harbor, for example -there
has been an incremie in
TUE SkIAD VISilEnY
from 428 betiels in 1878 to 4,618 barrels in
1$91,om4 "the salmon and alewife fisheries
give evidence ia the same direction, though
not so pronounced." The St. John river is
alleged to be "the most sieve:lust-covered
river in Qatieela except, perhaps, the Ot-
tawa." Mr. ethltriot declares that water
polluted by sawdust cannot be utilized for
planting fry in, while Mr. MacFarlane, an
analyst of the Inland Revenue Department,
who tested the Ottawa water, found no
evidence of sawdust having injured the
water •in any way. Mr. Rogers claims
that hundreds of thousands of salmon fry
planted in clean rivers in various parts of
()aileda show, no results; and it is a no-
torious fact that while tens of millions of
young seize= were turned into the waters
of Ontario for a period of twenty years, at
an expense of teem of thousands of dollars,
not a barrel of salmon has ever been
marketed in the whole of that province.
The Fisheries Department, through Mr,
Wilmot,claime that young salmon have been
killed by 'breathing' sawdust into their
gills.; whereas the ex -inspector alleges that
'to have it go out before an intelligent pub-
lic, through the reports of a- Government
department, that fish breathe is most humil-
iating, because everybody knoWs they do
not; that they have no lungs to enable
them to do so. At various other points
these "
AUTHORITIES ON FISIT
conic into direct conflict the quarrel being
a very pretty one. We have reason to sup-
pose that the failure of the fish hatcheries
to produce the results at one time antici-
pated for them is leading the officials to
look around for excuses for their failure.
After over twenty years of experiment-
ing in planting young salmon id the
waters of Ontario, the Department dis-
covered that the water of the streams
was too wairn ; that there was too minii
sediment from the drainage of farm
hands; and other drawbacks. Nothing
was said of the- fact that the sal-
mon is, in part of its yearly life, a salt
water fIsh,and that the young salmon were
being fed by the Government into the maws
of the lake pickerel. The excuse for failure
in other rivers, it appears'is sawdust.; and
while sawdust as an article of food may not
he of muchvalue to the fry, it would seem,
according to ex-inspeetor Rogers, not to be
particularly detrimental. Thera arc other
reasons, howev,er, why sawdust should ,be
kept
Our OF Tan =yeas
of the country, and these are backed up by
stringent government regulations, which
in many instances remain a dead letter.
Whether the presence of sawdust is a draw-
back to fish culture or not, this, material
should not be permitted to be thrown into
our great streams, where it forms bars
and shoals, to the injury of navigation.
The Department of Marine and Fisheries
has ordered the enforcement of the law in
some streams, while in others of much
greater importance it has permitted the law
to be defied in the most open manner.
Political 'pulls' are said to be responsible
for this partial administration of a east and
necessary law.
TUE. SUNDAY. 81)1139.1.1
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9. Golden Text. -Gen. 12.2.
OONICHOTiNti LOMB.
evse ,
XI AND MR,S, BOWER
'rehhaeielr.eiciethas:nonhe 0:trelg4.trent ite,ite.00.weitt a
entered the sitting room after the evening
meet. and found, rt bundle in favorite
" What's this ?'' asked W. Bowser as he
"That Bowser
sheliremoved i
1,ltatelnycrbash," replied
at
"More towels For the kitchen eh ? How
many thousand roller towels does that girl
get away with in the course of the year ?"
"It's crash for the steirs, The oared
is getting o. bib worn in the Middle and I
want te save it. The carpet man said he'd
choeilllvealparidemproprobably tiotOdabwu'usyt.h"is evening, "t
" In other words, he lied!" growled Mr.
Bowser "1 eever knew a carpet man yet
who wouldn't lie rather than tell the truth.
What was your object in paying, him $6 or
88 to put that thing down? .
"Six or $8 I Why, he.will only 'charge
50 cents I"
"Well, have we any 50 -cent pieces to
throw away? Mee Bowser, let roe call
your attention to the fact that this country
has been on the verge of bankruptcy for the
last six months."
"Well, we can sere 50 cents in crash and -
wear out $10 worth of carpet," she answer-
ed, as the noticed that he was smoking his
usuM brand of oigars-two for 25 cents.
-h "We will save the -50 cents and wear out
nothing. I shall put down.the crush myself. •
I was just wishing theme was some little job
around the house I could do."
"Do you think -think you could make a
good job of it 2" she hesitatingly asked,
"And why not, Mrs. Bowser?"
"Well, yee know you get out of patience
if things don't go jot right, and it always
ends in your blaming Me."
"Never got out o,f patience in all my life.
Never blamed you in all my born days, I'll
have that crash down inside of fifteen min-
utes,and it will bees neat a job as you ever
saw done. All 1 mile of you is to remain
right bre and not do any -bossing."
-Mr. Bowser got hammer and tacks, un-
folded the crash on the stairs and removed
his coat and vest. He had just begun work
when Mrs. Bowser came to the foot of the
stairs and queried:
"Do you expect to geiethat down straight
without a measure or guide to go by ?"
"Perhaps you have written a book entit-
led ''What I Know About Crash;" replied
Mr. Bowser as he hammered away.
rYu Bowserr° tinwt gh
et it straight without a
me
istled and hummed te show
his indifference and he was lookingat the
head of the tack with one eye and had the
other on Mrs. Bowser when the hammer
struck his thumb, and he uttered a yell
which made the cook in the kitchen drop the
tea kettle. He also sprang up and kicked the
stowpimhstaiirstlherg.ee times as had as he could,
"I knew how it would be. The carpet man
would have put that down--
" The carpet man be hanged I Didn't
tell you to go away? You are hanging around
here expecting to see me knock niy nese off,
but you'll be disappointed. You either get
into the sitting room or I give up this job I
When I can't manage to tack a piece of
blamed old crash over a blamed old stair
carpet I'll go off and hely myself." •
"'Well,please get it straight, because
every bit of it will showf front rome
th
door." -
ee. -isee e4in,
Ito 4,1,1tiFre'ce..e,
' ',tea 464.41.ti;Kzeie.,
There, too, stands Mohammedanism, with
its .176,000,000 victims. .Its Bible is the
Koran, a book not quite as large as our
blew Testament, which was revealed
to Mohammed when in epileptic fits, and
resuscitated from these fits, he dictated it
to scribes. Yet ills read to -day by more
-people than any other book ever written.
Mohammed, the founder of that religion, a
polygamist, with a superfluity of wives,
the first step of his religion on the body,
mind and soul of woman, and no wonder
that the Heaven of the Koran is an ever-
lasting Sodom, an infinite seraglio, tensile
which Mohammed promises that each fol-
lower shall have in that place severity -two
wives, in addition to all the wives he had on
earth, bat that no old woman shall ever
enter Heaven. When a Bishop of England
recently proposed that the bests way, of
saving ivlohammedanis was to let them keep
their religion, but engraft upon it some
new principleg from Christianity, he per-
petrated an eccIetnistical joke, at which
no man can laugh who has ever seen the
tyranny arid domestic wretchednees which
always appear where that religion gets
foothold. It has marched wren continentS
end now proposes to set up its filthy and
accursed banner in America, and what it
has done for Turkey it would like to do for
our nation,
eel, letiteihhe4 tie Whether
,tifinf4adiael What he
rr4LPAMO,''
o
I heve no. time to specify the manifold
evils that challenge Christianity. And I
thirdt I have seen in some Chriatians_, and
read in some newspapers, and heard from
Some pulpits, a disheartment, as though
Christianity were so wended that it is hard-
ly worth while to attempt to win this World
foe Goa, and that all Chrietiati work would
collapse, end that it is no use for you to
teeth a Sabbath class, or distribute tracts
or exhort in roar meetings, or preach in
a pulpit, as Satan is gaining ground. To
rebuke that pc:eel re le ne the Gospel of 8 alas h
up, I peeecie this eerrnoit, showing that you
are on the witniing gide. Go ahead I right
t What I want to Make out to -day is
that our anntimition is not exhaueted ;
that all Which hag been adeoreplietiede ham
been only the eltirmiehieg, before the great
Armageddenthat net more than one of
the thousand' fountains of beauty in the
King's Park ham begun to play ; that, not
more than one brigade of the inuffit4brable
hot e to be marehalled by the Rider' On the
Wuitallerse has yet taken the field a that
whet God has done yet has been With Men
fielded ie fleering robe s but that the time
fs-climing When lb Vch, iaf,vemn hits throne
A45,,-00 thetft Jkiiitioeffie.Ont tit
II. The Obedience of Abram.
V. 4. Departed. -In feith and dutiful
obedience. Pleb. 'ii: 8-10.
V. 5. All their substance. -Herds and
flocks. Semi his wife. -,-Afterwards called edethem by his natural geniality and the
Sarah. Lot. -The son of Harem, Abram's interest he displayedin their rural affairs.
eldest brother. The next morning he declared his intention
. V. 6. Passed through the land. -Not to continue his journey; but the whole
yet knowing they had reached the promised family united in urging him to remain over
land. Sichem.-Shecken, near the middle until Mortclay. Ere accompanied the three
of Palestine, between Mounts Ebel and girls with their mother, to church, partici-
Gerizitn. Plain of Moreh.--"Tbe oak of pated in the worship, and spent the after-
liforeh." The Canaanite was an the land. -
Gen. 13:7; 31: 30. The promise seemed
to imply that these people would be dis-
placed, Their presence waS another trial
of Abram's faith. They would dispute his
possession of the land. • „
III. The Promise to Abram. V. 7.
This is the firiie time that any appearance
of the Laird is mentioned. Unto thy seed.
-The promise was to be fulfilled in Abrame'
posterity, and not to hirrein person -
another trial of his faith,, Builder' he an
alter. -In token of his faith and gratitude.
He carried his religien with him.
V. S. Bethel. -About twelve miles north
of Jerusalem. An altar. --Tent coed alter
went where Abram went -Celled upon
the Lord. -Worshiped him in' faith
Sot : : Root 10: 11-13. -
V. 9. Journeyed. -As his flocks needed
fresh 'pasture anti, water springs. Toward
the south.-Thas surveying the promised
land from the extreme north to the extreme'
south. The Lord guided his journey,
showing him the lend according to hid
promiee, though as yet nbee of it became
his own poesessiom All Abraham himself
ever had was the premise, but he believed
God, and the promiee thus became real to
Frederic* tb.e Noble in lioreray.
During the Hummer of 1873, when the
noble...Hohenzollern was Crown Prince of
Germany, he travelled incognito in the
Norseland, with but two or three attend-
ants. One Saturday evening he found him-
self in a remote mountain valley, where the
inn was so dirty that he preferred to spend
the night under the open sky. It began to
rain, however, and the print:vs, upon in-
quiry, learned that the person of the val-
ley sometimes took pity on travellers. To
the parson accordingly he went, explained
his predicament, and was most cordially
received.
"This is very fortunate, indeed," ex-
claimed the guileless gentleman; "for my
daughters have been trying to teach them-
selves German out of Otto, but they have
no one to °Berea their pronunciation. My
OW11 German is very rusty, as you observe,
so that I cannot be of much use to them.
Now, perhaps you would be so kind as to
talk with them and give them some hints
as to the pronunciation?"
The prince declared that he would be
meet happy to talk with the young ladies
and afford them ever e- assistance in his
power. He sat dowtrawith his aideodemamp
at the parson's simple table, conversed in
the moat affable manner with all, and charm -
for kifa Children.
C t 1 a is row ell Wapted to chilarenthet
I reconmeendit as eimerior to any procription
Gatown to me," A. .A.norma it; D.,
111 Sot Oxford St„ Brooklyn,
"The use 'of 'Ontario.' is so universal and
ite merits so well known that it opine a work
of supererogation to endorse it. Peur are the
intelligent families who de not keep (easteria
within easYret•leilL' Los Meersie, D
elew York City,
Late Pastor Dloomingelele Reformed chureh,
TEM CICNTAVT4 CODIPANT, 77 muerte e nett Tom
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Coterie cured Celle, Costipation,
Seer gtomeale Diarrhoea, Eractation,
Tills Worms,gives 1cop, and promotes di.4
g.estion,
'Without injurious medication.
4, For severai, years I have recommended
your dastoria,aucl shall always continue to
do so as Olio invariably produced beneficial
resuits.:11
town; F. Iternme,
"The Winthrop,"1S5th street and 7th Ave.,.
- New Yore. City,
eee iaeuse, else „eneree '
•••••••••.0.*••••*••••••emourr••••••*"....
A Royal Rightism' ()astable,
It appears to be not generally known
that the unhappy Lelaenqula has, in his
fight, his royal sistereNina, with him. She
decidedly plump, tremendously embon-
point, and her skin is of a coppery hue.
She wears tee dyne, the only coveringabont
het waist being it nember of minded dheins,
"Straight I Ant I a squint-eyed. China-
man or a purblind Eskimo? If you start it
straight it's bound to coine out straight.
There may be a bald spot on top of my
head, Mrs. Bowser, but there is nothing
baldheaded about my ey,esight."
She went away, and he had reached the
middle stair when she returned to take
another look. One glance was enough.
"Mr. Bowser, you've got that down
crooked. You've pulled it way over to the
left as you came down, I knew you'd do
it without a :guide."
"Hey? You back again? Where is it
pulled to the left?"
"It begins on the second stair from the
top."
"Never ! If that isn't a bee line I'll eat
dough for ad we e k. "
"But measure it with the handle of your
hammer. It's an inch more to the left
than the right."
Mn 13owsermeoured. It was at least an
inch and a half. He couldn't deny it, for
Mrs. Bovssegwas at the bottom of the stairs
ready to come up. He did the best thing
he could do under the circumstances, or he
started Out to dont. •
" It's straighter than the straightest
line ever drawn by mortal hand 1" he shout-
ed, "but if you are going to stand there
and boss, and find fault, and jaw around,
why—" e
He bad -his back to her. He seized the
mash with both hands and ripped it off the
step above him and was moving on the hext
when his left knee struck a t'ieck waiting for
a job. The sudden pain and surprise over.
balanced him and Mrs. Bowser suddenly
saw something coining down stairs. It was
Mr. Bowser. He never missed s. step. It
couldn't have been done More nicely by a
det-elass actor in a first-class play. There
were eight steps, and Mr., 13owser uttered
eight yells. As he brought up at the bot-
tom one of his feet struck the hall tree and
upset it, and the other sent a -chair crash-
ing against the front door.
"Are you hurt, dear ?" anxiously rolled
Mrs. Bowser as the dust settled down.
Mr. Bowser slowly got up and limped
Into the 'sitting room and set down. For
ten Minutes he eat and glared at Mrs.
Bowser in a cold and stony way and then
finally said:
"We will have breakfast half an hour
earlier than usual, as you will want to
catch that 9 o'clock train for your mother's
You can have the custody of the child, add
our respective lawyers Will settle the
question of alimony'. Good night, design-
ing woman! Thenk heaven but my eyes
aro open at last V'
noon tramping with them in the woods and
correcting their pronunciation. On Monday
morning he took his leave much to the
regret of the parson and his girls, who bad
never before enterteineci so delightful a
geese. ` And, moreover, they Mid, obvious-
ly profited by his itistruction. They now
talked German with a glibness which
astonished their parents. No persuasione
availed, however, to detain the unknown
gentleman; and they heard nothing more
about hire until a few weeks before Christi -
mat, when a, box arrived at the custom-
house in Christiania (duty prepaid) address-
ed to our liaison. It was promptly fort
warded to bine, and proved to coritein a
epleudid piece of silver (it I remember
rightly, a souptureen) and a letter which
caused paroxysms of excitement in the
parsonage. The writer thanked the clergy-
man for his horipitality (for which he had
refuseti compensation), and begged him to
accept thie present ass soevenir of his guest,
Frederick, Crown Prince of the German
Empire. The letter also expressed the
hope that the young belies were continuing
to make progress in German. -(11.H. 13oye.
sen, in February Lippincott's.
TUE BEITI811 ARMY.
Distribution of time Ica:mina Forces at Vents
and abroad.
The latest return of the tegular forces at
home and abroad shows that the total num-,
ber of officers and men borne upon the iegi:
mental rolls (exclusive of the Indian army)
is very little below 220,000, and about two
thousand more than were le the ranks a
some encircling her, some pendant. Round year ago. Of thole nearly twenty, thousand
her elms are theesiVe brazen bracelets. A are eithalrY 87,000 ardlierY, 7.500 engine'
blue and white Pece Mason's apron appease ere 143 500 itifantry, 5,200 delOnial tenept,
in front and looks strangely anomalous
there, though really not mibccoming,
rroiti her waist also thetas hang down'be-
hind a number of brilliant-coloted woolen
neck wraps, rod being the predominant
color. tinder' the 'Veen. le e ,*rt of short,
black skirt, •covorm the: .thrg
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8,500 army. Service eorpa, and %SOO Medford
staff Corpg,,Tul the remainder being made up
an4
Britan trturvi1.6:tatinl,4 n66;c424.ily half 'the
of the smaller departmental corps. Glreat
being little eheet of 107,000 troops in the
replier army for hereto eerviee, there
threel dentswe74,000 n gitgland and
00 /St SeOthkitid,
may be inherited; ,not Consumption
chested children are the ones to
Everybody with a tendency toward
should take
Thin, narrow
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Weak Lungs
Sc tasi n
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The Land of Sense,tioall Orime.
The case of Marie Oolombin, committed
to the parts assizes for attempted murder
and suicide, came on for trial the other
day. Marie Clolembin, 42 years of age,who
was in busineee as rt feather -dresser, fell
deeply in love with a porter named Beard,
eome 15 years younger than hereelft Their
reletions Jen smoothly enough for three
years, but one day in August lot Rotel
told his mistress suddenly that lie ititendecl
leaving her,as 'he was about to get married.
A distressing scene followed, hut -finally
be appeared to beetnne reconeiled to the
idea of this deeertiou. At dinner that
night, however, she poured a narcotic in
Beard's glass, and both retired to bed,
14ring the night the porter woke up, iii
spite of the drug, and was horrified to Sec
that hie mistress had lighted a eharcoal fire
'in the nom, with the evident intention of
putting an mid to their lives. As he jumped
out of bed mid was endeavoring to make
his escape froth the fatal bedroom, Oolombin
fired two shots of a revolver and inflicted a
slight wound on her lover, who, however,
succeeded in making his way out, Baffled
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revolver, against herself, and was wounded,
in the hitrid and breast. She was conveyed,
to the hospital, where slm soon recovered,
mut 'wee given into eitetoey, The prisoner
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eyes, and neve 50 pathetic, an mount of
the etate of despair ifito the Mee of
the impending &needled of lover iditew
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