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The Exeter Times, 1894-2-21, Page 7RUBITS EgiiPASSED. zorsr, DR. TALMAGE MD:IA.011ES ON viusacm. 4. Inistertationou dee Precious atenee—efhee Wen Carnitite tie tite Rube' Sugleettlx° ot the Great eaerince, Bee weaver, -Feb. II, 18D1,—In the Tab. ernacle thia forenoon Rev. Dr, Talmage preached to a crowded amdierice, that filled the great betiding to overflowing, the sub- ject of MAI. serinon being, "Rubies Serpase- ed," and the text; Proverbs 8; 12 : "Wis. dont is Better then Reties." You have all seee the precious stooe commonly *ailed the ruby, 14 is of deep red color. The Bible makes much of it, •It glowed in the Artie row of the high priest's breast-plete. •Under another name it steed in the wall of heaven. Jeremiah compares the ruddy cheek of the Nazarite tattle ruby. Ezekiel points it out in the robes of the king of Tyre. Four timeadoes Solomon use it as a symbol hy which to extol wledone or religion, alwayo setting its value as better than rebies. The world dnee Pot aaree as to ha* the precious stones were formed. The ancient; thought that amber was made of drops of 4, perepirati ' of the godden Ge. The than- deratone a supposed to have dropped m froa at n -aloud. The emerald Was said to have been made of the fire -fly. The leis lazuli was thought to have been born of the cry or an Indian giant. And modern min- eralogists say that the precious stones Were made of gases and liquids. To me the ruby Peones like a spark from the ant il of the set- ing, zsun. , The home of the genuine ruby is 13urmale, • and sixty miles from iti capital, there liyes and reigns the ruler, celled "Lord of the Rubies:" Under a oareful governmental guard are these valuable mines of ruby kept. ,Rerely hasany fore igner visited them. When a ruby of large value' was discovered it was brought forth with elebormee ceremony, • a proeessioa was formed,, and with all ban - leered pomp, military guard and princely • attendants, the gem was brought to the king's pelmet. • "Of great value is the ruby, mut* more • so than diamonds, as lapidaries and jewelers will tell you. An expert on this subject writes: "A ruby of perfect color weighing five carats is worth at the prima day ten times as much' as a diamond of aqui' weight." It was a disaster when Charles the Bold lost the ruby he wee wearing at the Battle of Grandison. It was a great affi a - once When Rudolph the Second of Ametria inherited a ruby from his sister, the Queen Dowager. It WAS thought to have had much to do with the victory of Henry the Fifth, as he wore it into tne Battle of Agin. court, It is the pride of the Russian court to own the largest ruby of all the world, presented by Gustavus the Third to the ttussien Empress, Wondrous ruby I It has electric characteristics, and, there are lightetinge compressed in its double six -sided prisms. What hall I call it 3 -It is prozyn fire I It is petrified blood I In all the world there is onlyone thing more valuable, and my text makes the compari- son : " Wisdom is Better than Rubies." But it is lini'oesible to compare two things togetberunlese reare some points of simil- arity as well at, aifference. I am glad there is nothing lacking here. The ruby is attire beautiful in the night and ,under the lamp- light than by dity. It is preferred for even- 'ag adornment. How the rubies glow, and buen, and flash as the lights, lift the dark- ness I Catharine of .Arritgon had on her finger wealthy that fairly lanterned the night. $1,7sjohn Mandeville, the celebrat- ed traveller of four hundred years ago, said that the Emperor of China had a ruby that made the night as bright as the day. The probability is thee Solomon 'ander some of the lamps that illumined his cedar palace„by night noticed the peculiar glow of, the ruby as it looked in the nilt of a sword, or , hung in some fold of the upholstery, or' ' beautified the lip of, some chalice while he was thinking at the same time of the ex-, eelleney of our holy Religion as chiefly seen in the night of trouble, and he cries out, of Wisdom is Better than Rubies." , Oh, yes, it is a good thing to have religion while the sun of prosperity rides high and everything is brilliant in fortune, In health, in worldly favor, Yet you can at such time hardly tell how much of it is natural exuberance and how much of it is the grace of God. But let the sun set, and the , shadow o avalanche the plain, and the theck darkness of sickness, or poverty, or perse- cution, or mental exhaustion 'fill the soul, and fill the house, and fill the world; than you sit down by the lanp of God's Word , and under its light the consolations of the t Gospel come out; the peace of God which passeth all underatending appears: You' never fully appreciated their power until in t the deep night of trouble the Divine Lamp ' --'• revealed their exquisiteness. Pearls and amethysts for the day, but ruleies for the night. . _ _ . , All of the books of the Bible attempt in Some way the ttesuavementof misfortune. Of the one hundred and fifty Psalms of David at, least ninety alludeto trouble. There are sighing in every wind, and tears in every brook, and pangs in every heart. It , wee originally, proposed to call the President's residence at Washington, "The Palace,' or"The Executive Mansion," but after it was destroyed in the war of 1814 and rebuilt, it wee painted white, to cover up the marks of the smoke and fire that had blackened the stone walls. Hence it wee called "The White House." Most of the things now white with attractiveness were once lack with disaster. What the world mote eeds is the consolatory, and here it ecorreo our holy religion, with both hands full Of anodynes, and sedatives, and baleame, as in Daniel's, time to stop mouths leonine ; as in Shadrach's time to cool • blast furnaces ; at in Ezekiel's time to console captivity ; as in St., John's time to unroll an apocalypse over rocky desolations. Hear its soothing 'voice as it declares : " Weeping may endure for a night, but joy °meth in the morning ,°' e Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth ;" "They shall hunger no More, neither thirst any more,neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat'' . for the Lamb whichis in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living touritains of wider, and God shell wipe away all tears from their eyes.", The most wholoseme thing on earth is trouble, if met in Christian spirit To make Paul vehai he was it took shipwreck, and whipping on the bare bridle, and penitentiary, and pursuit of wild tnobs and the sword of deesmitation, To make David what he was it took all thateAhithoe phel mai Saul and Absolorn and Goliath , and all the Philistine hoist could do against him. It took Robert Chambers' malformee tion of feet, to make him the literary we- quercee It Was bereavement that brought William aWorth, of Wesley's time, from evickednees team evangefiern that won many thousand for heaven. The world would never have known what heroic atm/ taidleer Was Made of bad not the fire been kiadled amend his feet, arid, not liking their slew work, he dried, "I cermet barn; let the fire come to the ; 1 Cannot burn." Thank God that there are genie that enfold elleir beet glociesunder the Lamp light I Thank God for the ruby I Moreover, I em sure that Soloinen was right in saying that teIrgion, or wiedoni, is better than rubies, from the fact "het te thing is worth What ib will fetein ReligiOn Will fetch solid happiness, mid the ruby will not. In all yotir obetreittioe did on eve): find a person elthettighly felicitated by i ' 0 Wahl; 0 ttt 40* di4441" gtitate, scholler, or latudent of this of ? • The great wonder a the world— ad the bridge that unites these two cities—cost U niyeraitie presume to take tobacco -in the life of the first architect. Ask the ship- ISaheb Marie's Church uppon parte of finall yards of Glasgow and NeYork how many mxpellinge the Universitie. ' Sir Walter w carpenters wentdown under accidents before Scotts in his "Heart of Midlothian," refers the steamer was launched.; cek the three to one Duncan, of Knockdundar, an import- s „sleet trans -continental railroads how many ant personage, who smoked during.. the in their construction were buried under whole 'of the sermon, from an iron pipe, to- bacoo borrowed from other worshippers. crumbling enbankments, or crushed under timbers, or destroyed by the powder -blame. We are told that "at the end of the dia. course he knocked the ashes out of his Tabulate the statistics of how many moth - pipe, replaced it in his sporran, returnee ors have been martyrs to the cradle of sick the tobacco pouch to its owner, and joined children. reit us how really men sacrifised in the prayer with decency 'and attention." nerve and muscle, and brain, and life in the The same' practice existed in Hudson's Bay effort support their households. Tell me Tereitory and some other of the British how, many men inEngland, in France, in Germany, in Italy, in the United States possessions beyond the seas for Borne time have after the erection of the first churches died for their country. Vicarions in those early settlements; there being suffering is as old as the world,. but the a general recourse at the commencement most thrilling, the most startling, thei most stupendous sacrifice of all time and of the sermon to the soothing weed, and not before the pipes were fairly eternity was on a bluff back of Jeruealein under way was the officiating minister able when one Being teo,ok upon Huneelf the sins, the agonies, the perdition of a greet mul- to proceed with his discourse., The custom titude that no man can number, betWeen of smoking during church service was not twelve o'clock of a darkened noon and confined to the laity and minor clergy, for t three o'clock in•the afternoon, purchased ibis recorded hat an Archbishop of f ork the ransom of a ruined world. Dive in all was once reproved by the Vicar of St Mary, Nottingham, for attempting to (amok° in the seas; explore all the mines •; crowbar, all the mountains, view all the crowned the church vestry. The Rev. John Disnez, of Swinderly, in Lincolnshire, writing on jewels of all the emperors, and find me any gem that can Se overwhelmingly symbolize the 13th of December, 1773 to James that martyrdomas theruby. Mark you, there are Many gems that are somewhat like the ruby. So is the comedian ; so' is the gar- net ; so is the spinet ; so is the balak ; so the gems brought from among the gravels of Ceylon and New South Wales; but there is only one genuine ruby, and that comes froth the mines of '13urtnati. And there is only one Christ, and he comes from heaven. One Redeemer, one Ransom, one Son of God; only " one Name given under heaven among men whereby they can be saved." Ten thousand times ten thousand beauti- ful imitations of that ruby, but only one ruby. Christ had no descendant. Christ had no counterpart. In the litted-up gran,. dear and glory, and love, and sympathy of Hitecharecter, He is the Incomparable, the Infinite One? "The Only Wise God, our 'Saviour i" Let all hearts, all homes, all times, all eternities bow doW before rinn I Let His banner be lifted 'in 'all our souls. In olden times, Sootleetd was disturbed by freebooters and pirates, To rid the seas and ports of these desperadoes, the hero, William Wallace, fitted out a mers chant vessel, but filled it with armed men, and put out to sea, The pirates With their flag inscribed 'of a death's head, thinking they would get an easy prize, bore down upon the Scottish Merchantman when the armed men of VValleee boarded the craft of the pirates and put them in chains, and then sailed for port under the Scottish flag fiyieg. And so out souls, aesailed of sin and death and hell, through Christ are res- cued, aied the black flag of sin is torti down and the striped flag of the Cross iwhoistod. Blessed he God lot -any sign, for any signal, for any 'precious stone that brings to mind the price paid for such a' rescue! At/other rooter of mortal exit, teeligimi and he rubies. She never had money enough to bey one of these exquisites. Sometimes she etopped at a jeweler's show. window,and rimy a row of them incarnadin. hug the Velvet, She lead keen taste enough to appreciate those genite but she never owned one of them. She wee not lealous and enhappy because others had rubies while ate had none But she had a richer treasure, and that was the grace of God, that had comforted her along the way amid bereavements, and temptations, and priVa, timet, arid trials of all sorts. Now its is going out of life, The room is bright, not with pictures or statues, hot with upholet. cry, net wieh any gems of moor, Min or of sea, but there is a strange end vivid glow • in the Mont ; hot the light of Ohentielier, ot stere Or neeri.da , 5911, b#6' itthietethitig • crowded with coatly attire give you more tour Osmond in eancert Prete her Mani eatisfactien than your first clothes -closet. Med face, I think she Meat breathe redo With its four or five pegs I Did not the enee, Yes, the does inliele ;teems, from plt,in ring e see op the third finger the gardens whose flowere never withe of your left heed en the day of your be. and from the blossoms of orchards, eve trothal give more gladness then the Valley tree of whichbeen twelve meaner f frui that is uow enthroned on the third finger From her illumined face, I think elm me of your right heed? If in this journey see a glorious sight. Yes, she twee the wa of life we have learned anything, we have that has jasper at the base amethyst at ii learned that this world neither with ite top, and blood -red rubies kesteveen. Goo etriolumeots nor gain gall setisfy the soul, bye, sWeet steel I Why eholtid You long Why, here conies as newly witnesses as I stay I Yourwork all done ;.your Marcie wish to call to the stated to notify that be- are carried ; your tears all wept I. Forws, fore high heaven and the world, in compare, into the tight! Up into the joy I 0 ionship with Jesus Christ and a good hope into the grandeur's 'I Aud after ,you ha of heaven, they feel a joy that all the re- salted Chriet, amci your kindred, sear sources of their vocabulary fail to expreess out him of the palaces ottLebanon oedareu Sometimes it evidenees itself in ejeculation. tell him that vett have foetid to be gior of hosanqa ; sometimes in doxology; some ously true what thousancle of Years ago h times in team A converted, native of India asserted in this inorelug's text : Width) in a letter said : "How I long for -my bed, is Better than Itubieee" Iu,those burnisher not that I may sleep ;I lie Awake of tea and palaces of our GO: may we all meet. If long, but to hold sweet communion with I confess to you that my chief desire f my God." If so mighty is worldly joy that , Heaven is aot the radiance, or to take ti erm Julius the second hearing that his ies suggestion of the Leese, not the rubevcen were triumphant, expired; and if Trays. Of the scene, My one idea of Reeved bearing that the Roman Senate lead decreed the place to meet old friends, God etir be him an honor, eXpired ; and if Dionysius ! Friend, • and our esothlo friends alreed and Sophooles overcome of joy, expired,and transported. Aye I to meet the million if a shipwrecked purser waiting on the coast whom I have never seen, but to whom of Guinea in want and starvation at the have adnaluisteeed in the Golipel week b week through jourealisra on both &idiot the sea, and. throughout Christendom, an through many lands yet semibarberio. Po the last twenty.three years every blast injustice against me has inultipled to readers all the world over, and elm presen malignancy printed arid uttered' !wane our chuach is in a financial struggle &fee having two great structures destroyed b fire,and we compelled to bulla three keg uhureliee—I say the preemie outregeou injustice in some quarters will meltipl my audienoe in all lands if Loam keel) i good humour and not fight back. letter suddenly telltng theta that a fortune , gentleman tapped me on the sheulde had been left them, wed how they were summer before beet on entreat ofEdiaburgh almost beside thenotelvem with glee, taking Soothing, and said, "I live in the Medan the first ship to claim' the estito. But, oh, Islands, North Scotland, and I read you what it is to wake up out of the stupor of sermons every Sabbath to an audience o a sinful life and through pardoning .grace neighbors, and my -brother lives in Cap find that all our earthly existenoto will be Town, South' Africa, and he reads the divinely managed for our best welfare, and „every Sabbath to an audience of hi that then ell Heaven, will roll in upon the neighbors." And I here axed now as soul. Compared with that a spring morning to the forty millions of the earth to whos is stupid, and an August sunset is inane, eyes these words will come that one of m and an aurora has no pillared splendor, dearest anticipations is to meet them i and a diamond has ne, flesh, and a pearl no heaven. Ah I that will be better tha light, and a 'beryl no acaut-inerine, and a rubies. Coming up from different oontin re by no ruddiness. My graoioes Laird! My entre from different hemispheres, from op glorious .God I My precious Chriet ! Roll posite Rides of the earth, to greet each °the over on us a few billows of that rapture. in holy love in the presence of the gloriou And now Insk you eat fair-minded men and Christ who made ib possible for us to go women, accustomed to make comparisons, there. Our sins all pardonedeour sorrows al is not such a joy as that worth more than banished, never to weep, never to part anything eine °an have in a jeweled casket? never to die; I'll tell you that will be bat. Was not ,Solomon right when he paid, ter than rubies. Others may have th • "Wisdom is Better than Rubies croWns, and the thrones, and the sceptres There is something in the deep carmine give us our old frien.d back again, Christ of the ruby that soggeats the ,sacrifice on the fr"iand all the kindred who hay who atioketh cioeer than which our whole system of religion depends. brother, While the emerald suggests the meadows, gone up from our bereft households, an and the sapphire the skies, and the cipal all our friends whom we have never ye seen, and you: may have all the rubies, fo the sea, the ruby • suggests the blood of 's that will be "better" than rubies." Inane, acrifice. The most emphatie and startling of all colors hath the ruby. Solomon, the of the dying has when they looked so pal and wan and sick, it will be the kiss o author of my teiet, knew all about the sac - welcome -on lips jubilant with song, whd rifice of lamb and dove on the altars of the standing on floors paved with vel at ex temple, and he knew the meaning of sacrificial blood, and what other precious quisitenees, under ceilings hung with wha stone could he so well use to ,eym„ glory, bounded by walls facing us with holies it as the ruby? Red, intensely what splendor,amid gladness towering ove , red, red as the blood of the greatest max- us with what Doxology. Far _better tyr f all times.—Jesus of the centuries I. infnitely better, everlastingly better than o Drive the story of the crucifixion out �f rubieo. the -Bible and the doctrine of the atonement is if r, ry at is as rd ut ve oit II ma ti or st us GO et of of a sight of a veittel bringing relief, fell dead from shook of delight; is it any surprise to you that the joys of pardon and eteaven rolled over the soul should sometimes be almost too inuoh for the Christian to endure and live An angel aunt 'mid to me, " De- Witt three times, I have fainted dead away under too great Christian joy. It was in all these oases at the Holy Communion," An eminent Christian man while in prayereaid, "btop, Lord, I cannot bear any more of this gladness: it's too much for mortal. Withhold I Withhold !" We have ,herd of poor workmen or workwomen getting a out of our religion, and there would be i • Smoking in Ohnroh. nothing of Christianity left for our worship The practice WU prevalent in many or our admiration. Why should it be hard churches in England in the lastyears of the to adopt the Bible theory that our redemp- sixteenthtand the beginning of the seven. tion was purchased by blood? Whet great teenth century. Previous to the visit of bridge ever sprung its arches; what temple ever reared its cowers ;ence ; what what nation James L to the University of Cambridge in ever achieved its independ1615, the Vice -Chancellor issued a notice to the students, which enjoined that "Noe mighty good was ever done without sacrifice 'nee he 6"6.;1,f re Grainger, says, "The affair 'happened in St. Mary's Church,Nottingltam,whee Arch- bishop Blackburn was there on a visit. The Archbishop lead, ordered some of the apparitors or other attendants to bring pipes and tobacco and some 'liquor into the vestry for his refreshment after the fatigue of confirmation. And ibis coming to Mr.tasnez's ears, he forbad&their being brought thither; and with a becoming spirit remonstrated with the Archbishop upon the impropriety of his conduct, at the same time telling his grace that his vestry should not be converted into a smoking - room." Ani VIOLENT R1111.11I0A11 8. British rend other Donets swept by Tr 0- linendous' Claes. A London despatch says:—A, violent hurricane is prevailing along the coasts of most of the countries bordering on the North sea. Many casualties , have been reported. Some have occurred even in the harbor of Hamburg. In Great Britain. a 'gale is blowing, accompanied in some places by heavy rain. Reports from Inverness and Perthshire, Scotland, state that floods have occurred there, Despatches iteeived Allow that the gale swept over all the coasts of Great Britain and that considerable damage was done, The sea dykes along the strait of Dover, between Dungenees and Dymehurch, were damaged by the heavy seas that pounded against there. At Appledore, Devonshire, ithe lowlands Were flooded for a dietatioe of eight, miles from the sea. The immense embankment that was built to'protect Rowiney itiatehe in Kent, against the incur, siOns of the seta did not avail to keep the place from beeng flooded, to -day. The - Romney Mars!, mesh church wee this even g surroun de, y deep Water. Tivo hun- dred vessel e toe compelled to seek refuge from the storm it. East 130, Dungereees, Several cottages at Sheffield, Yoekshire, were blown demi, and at Talenduidtio,Walea, anew Baptist chapel Was wrecked, The Scatter ceigh Peak railway etation ems eerie. plotely destroyed by the wind, So heavy Wee„the gale that the waiting -mores and - the etation-maeter's offf de were @Own Over a wall into a field. That's .Nothing. The judge end tire colonel mitered half of liaefehilS Atia ranged. tip sioerg the couee ttite • • " " h et sited AY SfiRabt, INTERNATIONAL LE3201, TE ft 25, OEN. 18, 22-23. GJIA.1.),814 GEN. 18. 25,, niaz*It4t, greiroteeter. For fifteen tmean after that night when the fire end the amoke appeared as tokens of the' covenant of God., Abram dwelt in his tent ender the oaks of Mereret at peace with, his neighbors and in fellowship with his God. Twice during those years God appeared to him. On the fleet, appearance the covenatit was renewed, Abraham re- ceived a new name, Abralieui, Father.0K. s-multitatilm" mad the promise was given him that Sarah, hie aged tvife, should have a son, who was to bear the name Isaac. The second reamifeseation Was in a different form, and with.a differene message. Three men came to his tent door and were re- ceived by the patriarch with becoming hos- pitality. A meet was spread for them under the shady breeches of the oak before his must, and the chief stoodowhile their par- took of the food. Once more the promise of a child by &Isiah wee renewed, and then two of the heavenly vielters went me their way down the mount Ain 'side toward Sodom and the other cities' In the plain. The thild, who showed the tokens of divini- ty, and spoke as only God could ;Teak, re- mained for a few momente, end told the patriarch that his errand Was to vbsit the cities of the rdain, and lies their deeds. Abraham know fun well 01,0 such a visit must be only the precursor ot their doom. The friend of God, be Vat therefore a friend to his fellow men, end sought to stay the word of deretrection. Itlistery has rarely related such a at ory of intercession as that offered by Abgahign in behalf of the guilty and doomed cities. " lee jitetioa of the Al- mighty is evoked not to destrO'estieelter which fifty righteous men may, perhaps be found. When that prayer is answered, the appeal is made for forty-five righteous, and then for forty, until at last God promises to sheathe his sword of vengeance if even ten righteous men can be found within the walls of Sodom. Not even faith can go farther, and Abraham turns beck to his tent, while the divine man goes on his way toward the devoted city. xXPLANATCMY NOTE 3, Verse 22. The men. The narrative im plies that the two created angels went o toward Sodom, while Abraham reinaine standing in the presence of the "angel o the covenant," Jehovah. 23. And Abraham. Hitherto in our les sons the name of the patriarch limit bee Abram, " Highfether ;" but after tb Covenant God appeared to him again, an cheeged his name to Abraham, Father of-aemultitude," expressive of the nation which were destined to descend from him Wilt thou also destroy. Here, as every where, Abraham appears far inadvance of his time. The ancient monument and rec ords show everywhere a. brutal insetisi laility to the suffering and sorrow of others especially of other nations. But Abraham shows's deep and broad sympathy . witl men as men. (1) Let us feel for others and have an interest in their troubles. The righteous with the wicked. When judg- ment comes as a result of natural law, as by an earthquake or war, all classes are involved in a common destruction, and we must wait for a future life to disclose the compensation to the righteous for their present suffering. But when its purpose is the especial penalty of sin, exemption may justly be claimed for the righteous. (2) We may be sure that at some time the people of God will obtain an abundant re- compense for all their trials. 24. Peradventure there be fifty righteous. (3) The godly man is generous, and hopes the best for his race. Wilt thoualso destroy. Abraham sees but two alternatives, the de- struction of the -whole city,or its preserve,- thou. Be does not consider,perha.padoes not choose to consid er, -that the righteous fewmay be preserved while the -many wicked are destroyed. 25. That be far from thee. In the Hebrew a Word expressing detestation,ae abomin able ; rendered in the Greek version by the word which in the New Testamentis trans- lated "God forbid." That the righteous should be as the wicked. There is a senti- ment of justice in the human mind which demands that the right,doer receive a dif- ferent dealing from the evil -doer. Judge of all the earth do right From human con- ceptions of Justice we may reason upward to the divine, and believe that if there is a grid he i3 just and will do right. (4) if God is just, who can live without alarm? (5) Only the man who trust to a Redeerrier,and not his own righteousness. ' 26. In Sodom. There is great unceretainty concerning the location of %dote and the other cities of the plain. The old exposi- tors supposed that they were on the south ,of the Dead Sea; but recent investigators incline to a situation on the north. Fifty righteous. God knew to a man just how many good and how many, evil there were in that doomed city. • (61 And so God be- holds the city or village in which you live Spare all the place for their, sakes, The *orld knows not how great is its debt to the t‘ remnant " of righteous men in it. A few good men in a community will suffice to turn the scale from condemnation to ac- ceptance. (11 Are you helping to save the world or destroy it? 27. Abraham aeswered. How intimater the fellowship that Yen taireothue 'to present plea after plea to the King of heaven ! (8) God 'loves to have tie come boldly toe throne of grace. Which am but dust and ashes. The nearer Abraham. draws to God the more deeply does he realize his distance from him. "He is dust at first, and ashes at last,'--Murehy.• 28. There shall lack five. Since God has already .concedecl so much it would seem easi'for him to coricede even more. A's Abraham has received oue gracious answer, he is emboldened to seek ithother (9) Every answer to prayer is a new call to prayer. I will not destroy it. God is More anxious to 'save men than to deetroy them, and will hold back the etvord as long as emeeible. • 29, 30, Yet again. The example of Abraham encourages us "always to pray and not to faint." Forty found ,ehere Abraham's plea was for the righteous; butt his aim was, if possible, to save the wicked. 10) The most faithful follower of God will he the most ardent lover of men. Let not he Lord be angry. Gird is never angry when his'seints plead far sinners. There hall thirty. From the readiness of tithe - ah to meet his petition, and from his Own nowledge of the people, Abraham fears hat not even forty good men Can be found methe accursed cities. 31, Seieqwenty fonnd there. We can ee_the good man's heart sinking, as an - veer after answer comes to his prayer. Yet ut this once. Be felt that there mutt be otte limit even to the divine Mercy. Not estroy it for ten's seke, Not ten uptight en to be found in a city I Not even. A-hre- am would dare to ask that such a eirk of niquity be spared. The generatiors to onto Would be bettor for its elestruet 33. The Lord went hie way, l'hi aliethe chile, who ie addressed as Cd,.eeceives he honor of God, and Speaks tie ,Oodewata o other than he who afterwaid Was born s the Son Of Mary. Communing with lireharn. We knoW net *both, God's illingneee or Abeehere's prayer seaehed ,8 end the boner. Itteterned Onto hie lace, The tent treat Mature, afterwerd ebroe, bl the south of Paleetinm a oajrtd`o 8;tt)tae,itobbed;!- ,1,t ititleNitet 4telal4JA4 Disaeterout Die (lorn:lea Coitet•-etterroxis St a Itiv4s3uu teeliviest Station A Paris dispatch says :—The Journal dee Dobats to -day gives details oi elie defeat be members et the nomad tribe known as TOIntrOge of the French torce near Timbee. too. The deems.) des Debuts says the three defeated , was the column which recently 9 oupied TiMIMet04. It was Commanded by Cot. 13oenier, commander of the Preneh force on the Una' Niger., The column was surprised at night when three days' march west of Tinabliettro. Many Of the officers were killed and othere, includ. in Col. Bonnier, ere missing. The Seereteryof the Colonial Department this morning received a telegram from et,„ Leidy, Senegal, stating that Col. Bonnier, eleven other officers, and 25Q privates were massacred by the Touaregs. The Govern - ordered that reinforcemerits be sent for thas meat intends to hold Tinthuotoo, and heal purpose, The lateat adeicee from, St. Louis; Sene- gal, say that despatches bearing the date of January 27 have reached there from Timbuctoo. These despatches state that Col. Bonnier, of the Marine Artillery, who •was in command of the French troops who had captured Timbuctoo, had, with nine commissioned offieere and two European sergeants, 61 native sharpshooters, and six native aergeantiebeen killed'by the Toner. egg. When the despatches left Timbuctoo tue city was surrounded by Togaregs, who appeared and dieeppeared, thee making it impoisible to form any accurate estimate as to their' number. Capt. Philipee upon eretorn the command of the French ferces develged atter the death of Col. Bonnier, sends deitice to the Governor of aenegal Disaster on the Coast' f' Car awall—A Ger that Meeis holding Tirnbuctoo with 300 to hold out, uneilreinforceinents arrive. rifles and six cannon, end that he intends STE AXONS RF.DRIED. Milan Vessel Lost at Liberia. - A Loudon despatch says :—the steamer Primrose,of West Hartlepool, has been lost off the coast of Cornwall. The steamer WAS proceeding along that coast' in a dense fog when she struck a rock. A large hole was torn in her bottom, and as she began to fill she slid off the reek into deep water and sank. It was seen that the vessel was doomed, almost as soon as she struck, and the crew took sta0fethe. . small boats, reaching the shore ly. The German steamer Adolph- Werrnann hair been wrecked at Nifu,Liberia. Every- body on board Was saved. The cargo was lost. •The steamer sailed from Hamburg on Jan. 11 for African ports. Among the passengers were Herr Zantrierer, Governor of the German colony of the Cameroons,and two other German officials. ITEMS FROM unsex& An Austrian Spy Convicted—Denote From Hunger in iYareaw. A St Petersburg special says :—Col. Gregorieff has been convicted at Kisheneff on the charge of being an Austrian spy, and sentenced to death. Many persons are dying in Warsaw of cholera. The report of the Commission of Inquiry 'into the conditions at tbe convict station at Onor, •Saghallien, ceYe6.1s numerous in- stances of merciless floggings and of fingers and arms lopped off with sabres. Canni- balism prompted by famine is a common occurrence ; murder followedby cannibalism is frequently committed, solely with a view to procuring execution as a termination of the misery of life. Several convicts some- times dispute before the officials for the re- sponsibility of guilt During 1892 almost a continual string of convoys with mutilated corpses passed from Onor to Itykovskaya, where the officials reside. No inquiries were made but the bodies were forthwith buried. Neither of thw 'two doctors in Rykovskaya ever visited Onor. A band of convicts in 1893 were committed to charge of an inspector, who was unable to read or write, to construct a road from Onor to Rykovsleaya. Their failure fully to accom- plish the work was punished with a reduc- tion of rations. When they were unable to work longer they were shot with a re- volver, and the deaths were entered as "from disease," The chief author of these atrocities was the convict Rhakoff, a fav- ourite of the commandant, who created him an inspector -general, and lately ,recom- mended him for his good cow:Inaba LOYAIDTGULA DESERTED, The Kinu of the eratabeies WanderS Alone In rise Rush &Offering Front the Cont. A Johannesburg special says :— Advices have been received here that Lobengula, King of the Matabeles, who was driven northward from Buluwayo by the forces of the British South African,Company, is now wandering almost solitary in the bush, having been deserted by nearly all his fol- lowers• Lobengula is suffering from gout TIIE SILVER CRUM. +0. What the Loudest Time has to say About the Present Situation A Lonelon despatch says :—The Times says : "Eon' the collapse of silver is due to simple panic remains to be eeen. India pauses in her absorptions and until, a strong new demand arises fears of the accumula- tion of stock will tend to depreits the value of the metal. It is out of the question that Governments will combine to protect silver. That strong private holders, Seeing hoes' small is the margin of supply to be kept off the market, will step in, IS also doubtful, because no full recovery of confidenee in finance is yet apparent. It is onla certain that, the low price will both cartailprodue- tion and extend the consumption until the decline will be arrested and probably re- versed." '1 it a a a mi Ris Telephone Experience. The following ainueieg incident recettly ccutred boned our three provincial cities: proprietet of a hotel, being buoy him - elf and hearing his telephone boll rizegiog, ailed out to one of his sporting friends Who as near: "Bill, does hc thea undentand tall. hone ?" " Ahr should think ah '" he replied. "The might just answer it for me ; atm nay just nide" mid the proprietor, "All reight," said Bill, and at mean pro - Gelded to the inetertreent. Taking the receiver Off", he beard someone eying, "Arc you there ?" but instead of eying " Yea," be simply nnaana his head: Again ciente the query "Are you there ?" rid yet again Bill nodded. Thu third time the queetient was angrilyF3k6a, and Bill, thieklemthey wore Melting fool of him, shouted. in piteeiee, " un, ahr ant 'ere. Ali ehoulci. think there lied, ve nodded twice. Just epee Lid yes, end don't be latish' doin AnSWera. taly. Cere,,..',.,44 Sant elleek aleielteaea attneeeteee y teigh:e ,oriet 'zee. The Inteitileeey,ery he the ficiteeti- end net the nerve eentre, Which ant le world is that nerve frenteeelocelteel the cease of the trouble. in or near the base of the breiuteinerite e...,.weiterful cures wrong) y trol all the organs of the body, eeed. the Great Sofitid meth Nervine when these nerve Centres are Topic are duo alone to the feet that deranged the organs which they this remedy is based 'upon the fore- going principle. It cures byrebuild- ing and strengthening the nerve centres, and thereby increasing the supply of nerve force or nervous energy. This remedy has been found of infinite value for the care of Nervous- ness, Nervous Prostration, Nervous Paroxysms, Sleeplessness, Forgetful,. nese, Mental DespOndenoy, Nervous- .ness of Females, Hot Flashes, Sick Headache, Heart Disease. The firat bottle will convince anyone that a cure is certain. ou,t SouthdcuAtintheerigearellatNesetr7rineme eiasy Weather- disooveredfor the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, and all Chronio Stomach Trouble's, because it ache through the nerve. • It gives relief in one day, and absolutely effects a permanent cure in every instance, 'Do n'ot' allow your prejudices, or the preju- dices of others, to keep you from using this health -giving remedy. It is based on the result of years of scientific research and study. A ' supply with nerve fluid, or nerve force, are also deranged: When it is remembered that, a serious injury to the spinal cord will cause paralysis of the body below the ipjur.ed point, because the nerve force is prevented by the injury from reaching the para- lyzed portion, it -will be understood bow the derangement of the nerve centres will cause the derangement of the various organs which they aupply with nerve force; that is, when a nerve centre is deranged or in any way diseased it is impossible for it to supply the same quantity of nerve force .as when in a healthful condi- tion; hence the organs which depend upon it for nerve force suffer, and are unable, to properly perform their work, and as a result disease makes its appearance. At least two-thirds of our chronic diseases and ailments are due to the imperfect action of the nerve centres at the base of the brain, and not from a derangement primarilyeeriginating In the organ itself. The great mis- riskeesosefspishthysaictiathilegy in treat t reatthi nog° rtehaenses ineinegrelediaboonttol.e will convince the most C. LITTZ 'Sole Wholesale and Retail Agent for Exeter. Du. 1110Dannon, Agent, Reuse/I. TliE LOST FRIDGES% No Trace of Nis. John W. illfackars Daugh- ter and Der Children, A Paris despatch says :—No trace has been yet found of the Princess Colonna, the step -daughter of John W. Mackay, who is suing her husband for a judicial separ- ation here. The Paincess, who wan resid- ing in Parte, was ordered by the court to allow her husband to see her children, but when the Prince went to the, hotel at which she had been living she had disappeared. It is reported she has taken her departure for the 'United States, but both her advocate and -solicitor refused to -day to either deny, or confirm the report, The solicitor of Prince Colonies will try to bring the matter before the trite:nal in Paris to -morrow. The Prince has obtained a writ in a suit he has instituted in Naples, demanding that the Princess return to her marital roof, or in default thereof, that the Prince be ap- pointed guardian of the children. The case will come up for a hearing on February 15. The general belief is that the Princess is at Mentone, at which place the court gave her permission to reside for the bene- fit of the health of the children. • Stars and Storms. Much of the beauty of the stars depends Upon their scintillation. The multitudin one flashing of their tiny rays gives it wonderful life arid brilliancy to a gvinter's night, • The great star Sirius excites the most admiration when, near the horizon, he cornocates with rainbow , hues. But the astronomer would be glad if hreould pub a stop to the sciatillating of the stars. That unsteadiness of their light is one of the chief obstacles he has to overeome hi studying them with the telesoope. Seittilletion has generally been regarded as due only to slight clisturba,ncee in the atmosphere. But as tecent observetions have shown that red slats Scintillate less than white ones, it hae been suggested that the causes of some of the easential differ- ences in the scintillations of different ;Aare may be in the stars tbeinselvtle. There is no doubt, however, that the main cause of scintillation depende upon the condition of the air. Most people suppose that when the stars appear to lose their livelhans of light, and shine without twinkling as minute bright points in the sky, fair weather is in prospect. Studies lately merle in Femur° and Switzer- land seeen to eoetradiet thie popular belief. 11 has been felted there that whee the eiare are feeble lit their ecifitillatiohe foul weather is at band. The night before a Most violent storm in France, for inetemem' the sten hung so quietly in the eity that they iteemect to have entirely lot their scintillating power. This is said to be only ono instance among ninnyiwhich Show that an unusual ettadi. Imes in the light, of the StArS precedes the appearance of aterMe. NEGLECTED &mg& N@pacui empg SAf ELY AND SUABLY CUED Eli Allen's Lung Balsam. HAVE YOU "Backaohe means the kid- neys are in Nfrouble. Dodd's kidney Pills glue prompt relief " "7.5 per cent, of disease is rat caused by diSordered . kid- neys. • "Might as well try to have a healthy city without 8E100- er9s, as good health' when the kidneys are clogged, they are Sold by all dealers 0* of le ice ,5o cetit. per I)r. L. A. Smith Ste; Co 'ook called l'idney Tel the scavengers of the system, "Delay is dangerous,. Neg- lected kidney troubles result in Bad Eloocl, Dyspepsia, Liver 'Complaint, and the Most clan- gorous of all,. Bright's Disease, Diabetes Merl Dropsy." • ,."7"he abet's diseases cannot exist 'where Dead's Kidney Pills are used.'" seat by moll oh reecipt box Or SiX fOr Toronto, Wdte tor It. 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