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How 'We nirte liseape the eiceen'e
Depths,
Bewsonnelle (Molter 14, 1894. -Rev. Drs
Talmage, who ia still alma on his round.
the -world tour, has seleeted, as the subjeet
to -Clay's Sern1011, through the preas,
"The Oarsmen Defeated," the text eleasen.
being Jonah 1 t 13, 14 r "The men rowed
lord to bring it to the laud; but they could
not; wherefore they cried unto the Lurd."
Navigation in the IVIediteeraneau Sea al.
Ways was perilous, especially so in early
times. Vessels were prepelled partly by
sail and partly by oar. When, by reason
of great atress of weather, it was ntheigiary
to reef the canvas or haul it in, then the
vessel was entirely dependentupor, the oars,
sometimes twenty or thirty of them on
either side of the vessel. You would not
Venture outside your harbor with such a
craft as my text; fled Jonah sailing in ; but
he had not much eboiee of vessels. He was
running away from the Lord, and when a
;men is running away from the Lord, he has
to run very fast
God had told Jouah to go to Nineveh to
preach about the destruction of that city.
Jonah disobeyed. That eawaye makes
reugh water, whether in the Mediterranean,
or the Atlantic, or the Pacific, or the
aaspian Sea. It is a very hard thing to
soaresailors. I have seen them, when the
prow of the vessel was almost uuder water,
and they were winking the deck knee-deep
In the surf, and the small boats by the side
of the vessel had been crushed as small as
kindling -wood, whistling as though nothing
had happened; but the Bible says that
these mariners of whom I speak were
frightened. That which sailors call "a
lump of a sea" had become a blinding,dean
ening, swamping fury. How mad the wind
can get at the water, and the water can get
at the wind, you do not know unless you
have been spectators. I Iss.ve in my house
a piece of the sail of a ship, no larger than
the palm of my hand; that piece of canvas
was all that, was left of the largest sail of
the ship Greece, that went into the storm
two hundred miles off Newfoundland. Oh,
what a night that was 1 I suppose it was
in some such storm as this that Jonah was
caught.
He knew that the tempest was on his
aocoutet, and he asked the sailors to throw
him over board. Sailors are a generous.
hearted race, and they resolved to make
their escape, if possible, without resorting
to sach extreme measures. The sails are
of no use, and so they lay hold on their
Oar& 1 see the long bank of shining
blades on either side of the vessel. Oh 1
how they did pull, the bronzed seamen, as
they laid back onto the oars. But rowing
on the sea is very different from rowing
upon a river ; and as the vessel hoists, the
oars skip the wave and miss the stroke, and
the tempest laughs to soorn the flying
paddies. It is of no use, no use. There
comes a wave that crashes the last mast,
and sweeps the oarsmen from their places,
and tumbles everything in the confusion of
impending thipwreols, or,as my text has it,
"The men rowed hard to bring it to the
land ; but they could not; wherefore they
cried unto the Lord."
This scene is very suggestive to me, and
1 pray God I may have grace and. strength
enough to represent it intelligently to you.
'Years ago I preached a sermon on another
phase of this very subject, and I got a letter
from Houston, Texas, the writer saying
that the reading of that sermon in London
'had led him to God. And I receivedanother
letter from South Australia, saying that
the reading of that sermon in Australia had
brought several souls to Chrisb. And then,
I thought, why not now take another phase
of the same subject, for perhaps that God
who clan raise in power that which is sown
in weakness may now, through another
phase of the same subject, bring salvation
to the people who shall hear, and salvation
to the people he shall read. Men and
women who know how to pray, lay hold of
the Lord God Almighty, and wrestle for the
blessing.
Biahop Latimer would stop sometimes
in his sermon, in the midst of his argu-
ment and say, "Now, I will tell you a
tale ;" and to -day I would like to bring the
scene of the text as an illustration of a
most important religious truth. As those
Mediterranean oarsmen trying to bring
Jonah ashore were discomfited, I have to
tell you that they were not the only men
who have broken down on their paddles,
and hews been obliged to call on the Lord
for help. I want to say that the unavail-
ing- efforts of those Mediterranean oarsmen
have a counterpart in the efforts we are
making to bring souls to the shore of safety
and set their feet on the Rock of Ages.
You have a father, or mother, or husband,
or wife, or child, or near friend, who is
not a Christian. There have been times
when you have been in agony about their
is/sly-adorn A minister of Christ, whose
wife wag dying without any hope in Jesus,
Walked the floor, wrung his hands, oried
bitterlY'and said, "I believe I skall go
insane, for I know she is not prepared to
meet God." Ann there may have been
days of sickness in your household, when
you feared it would be a fatal sickness ;
end how °leerily you exarnined the face of
the dootot as he thane in and scrutinized
the patient, and felt the pulse, and yell
followed him into the next room, and said,
"There isn't any danger, is thee, doctor?"
elkird the hesitatiMi and the uncertainty of
the reply in5de two eternities flash before
your vielitifia And thee you wenb and
talked to the siek one abeat the great
Saute. Oh, there are those who have
tried to bring their Mende to God! They
loses been unable to bring them to the
iitiore of Safety. They are no nearer that
point than they were years ago. You ta ink
yen bane got there Aimee te the ober%
When wee/ Are evvept briek again. What
alien you do? Pub &WA the oar? Olo
ne) 1 I do uot ativioe thet e leee I die envie%
theti you eppeel to thtee Gott to Whole.
the Mediternseeare aeration eppeeled-s-the
Glad 1410 entthi, eilereee the Ns pese and
bring the thin in sefety to. the porn I tell
aou, my friends, that there hes get to be e
gotta deei of preyieg before our &roiliest
ae brou,glit to Christ&1 i is me awfut
thing toe lipase half a, household on oue side
the line, and ehe other peat of the house.
hold oo the other side ot the line 1 TWQ
veseele part ou the ocean of eternity, one
going lei the right entl the other to the
left-efarther %pert, arid fs•rtiter apart-- tut -
til the sionals ceeee to be recognized, and
the'a enly twe speoke ore the horizon, And
theo they are lost to sight forever 1
I have to tell you that ehe unavailing ef-
forts of these Mediterranean oarsmen have
b. counterpart in 'the efforts some of as are
Making to bring our children to the shore
of safety. There were never so many temp-
tations for youna people as there are now.
The literary and: the socks' influences seem
t. be against their spiritual interests.
Christ eeerus to be driven almost entirely
from the school and the pleasurable con-
course; yet God knows how anxious we
are for our children. We cannot think of
going into heaven without them. We do
not want to Leave this life while they are
tossing on the wave of temptation and
away from God, From which of them
could we consent to be eternally separation?
Would it be the son? Would it be the
daughter ? Would it be the eldest?
Would it be the youngest? Would it be
the one that is well and stout, or the one
that is sick? Oh, I beaosome parent say-
ing to -night, "I have tried my best to
bring my children to Christ. I laid hold
of the oars until they bent in my gra p,
and I have braaed myself against the ribs
of the boat, and I have pulled for their
eternal rescue; but I can't get them to
Christ." Then I ask you to imitate the
men of the text and cry mightily unto
God. We want more importunate praying
for children, such as the father had indulged
in when he had tried to bring his six sons
to Christ, and they had wandered. off into
dissipation. Then he got down in his
prayers and said, ."00, God 1 take away
my life, if through that means mysons may
repent and be brought to Christ ;, ' and the
Lord startlingly answered the prayer, and
in a few weeks the father was taken away
and through the solemnity the six eons fled
unto God. Oh, that father could milord to
die for the eternal welfare of his children !
He rowed hard to bring them to the land,
but could not, and then he cried unto the
Lord.
There are parents who are almost dis.
couraged about their children. Where is
your son to -night? He has wandered off,
perhaps, to the ends of the earth. It seems
as if he cannot get far enough away from
your Christian counsel. What does he care
aboua the furrows that come to your brow
about the quick whitening of the hair ;
about the fact that your back begins to
stoop with the burdens? Why, he would
not care much if he heard. you were dead
The black -edged letter that brought the
tidings he would put in the same package
with other letters telling the story of his
shame. What are you going to do? Both
paddles broken at the middle of the blade,
how can you pull him ashore? I throw
you one oar now with which I believe you
. can bring him into the harbor. It is the
glorious promise, "I will be a God to thee,
Ihearted mother and father, you have tried
and to thy seed after thee." Oh, broken-
.'everything °lee; now make an sppealfor the
help and omnipotence of the covenant -
keeping God! and perhaps at your next
family gathering --perhaps on Thanksgiving
Day, perhaps next Christmas Day -the
prodigal may be home; and if you crowd
on his plate more luxuries than on any other
plate at the table, I am sure the brothers
will not be jealous, but they. will wake up
all the music in the house, " because the
dead is alive again, e.nd because the lost is
found." Perhaps your prayers have been
answered already. The vessel may be
coming homeward, and by the light of this
night's stars that absent son may be pacing
the deck of the ship, anxious for the time
to come when he can throw his arms around
your neck and ask for forgiveness for that
he has been wringing your old heart so long.
Glorious reimion 1 that will be too sacred
for outsider's to look upon; but I would
just like to look through the window when
you have all got together again, and are
seated at the banquet
Though parents may in covenant ba
And have their heaven in view;
They are not happy t111 they see
Their children happy too. .
Again, I remark that the unavailing
effort of the Mediterranean oarsmen has a
counterpart in the effort which we are
making to bring this world back to God,
His pardon, and safety. If Wnie world
could have been saved by human effort, ite:
woald have been done long ago. John
Howard took hold of one oar, and Carey
took hold of another oar, and Adonirara
Judson took hold of another oar,and Luth-
er took hold of another oar, and they
pulled until they fell back dead from the
exhaustion. Some dropped in the ashes of
martyrdom, some on the scalping -knives of
savages, and some into the plague -struck
room of the lazaretto ; and still the chains
are not broken, and still the despotisms are
not demolished, and still the world is un-
saved. What then? Put down the oars
and make no effort? I do not advise that.
But I want you, Christian brethren, to
understand that the church, and the school,
and the eollege, and the missionary society
are only the instrumentalities; and if this
work is ever done at all, God must do it,
and He will do it, in answer to our prayer.
"They rowed hard to bring it t� the land,
but they could not; wherefore they cried
unto the Lord."
Again, the unavailing effort of those
Mediterranean oarsmen has a counterpart
in every naan who is trying to row his own
soul into safety. When the Eternal Spirit
flashes upon to our condition, eve try to
Save ourselves. We say, "Give me a stout
oar for my right hand, give me a Stout oar
for my left hand, and I will pull neyself
into safety." No. A wave of sin comes
and dashed you one way, and a wave of
temptation comes and dashes you in an-
other way, and there are plenty of rocks
on vehieh to founder, but seemingly no
harbor into which to eta Sin must be
thrown overboard, or we must perish.
There are men who have tried for yearis to
become Christians. 'They believe all 1 say
in regard to a future world. They believe
that religion is the first, the lest, the in-
finite necessity. They do everything but
trust in Christ. - They make sixty strokes
in a minute. They bend forward with all'
earneetness, end they, lie baek until the
miesolo are clieteridedeattd yet they have
not made one inch in ten years tovvard
heaven. What ie the reason ? laelst is not
the way to go to work. You might as well
take a frail skiff, and petit Iowa at the
foot of the Niagara, and then head it up
toward the churning thunderbolt ofwaters
and expect to work your way up through
the lightning of the foam into calm lake
Erie, as for you to try and pull. youtself
through the and of your sin. into the hope,
Perdelli, and pleaidity of elle emepele
ou ean nee die tt in thee way. Site la it
rthigh sea., and the loognmat, yieWl,pintteale.
and„ gondola go down unieee tne leird
Whiner, betj nou will cry to Obrilit ant
ley laold of divine lather non ate aa aaftl
from ()tarot' oondeumetiort aa tholegli you
had beet twenty yeers ire heaven.
aut while I lustre hown yon helplessness,
4. Want to put by the side ef ib the ponor
and willingthes of Chriet to Raye you. 1
think it was in 1606 metal was bound for
Portugal, out it wee driveu to piethe on an
itefriendly comet. The captain had his son
with him, and with the crew they Wanders
ed op the beaoh anti eettrted em the long
journey to find relief. After a while the
son fainted by reason of hunger and the
length of the way. The <Iolanda eaid o the
orew, "Carry in boy for me on your
shoulders," They carried hini on, but the
joarney was so long that atter awhile the
erew fainted from hanger and from weari-
ness and eould cerry him no.longer. Then
tbe father rallied nisalmost warded energy,
and took up his own boy and put him on
his shoulder, Arid carried him, on mile after
mile, mile after mile, until overcome Min.
self by huger and weariness, he too,
fainted by the way. The boy lay down
and died, and the father, just at the time
rescue mune to him, also perished, living
only long enough to tell the story -sad
story, indeed 1 But glory be to God that
Jesus Christ is able to take us up out of
our shipwrecked and dying condition, and
put us on the thoelder of His strength, and
by the omnipotenne of His Gospel bear us
on through ell the journey of this life, and
at last th-ough the opening gates of heaven.
He is mighty to save, Though your sin be
long and black, and inexcusable, and out-
rageous, the very moment you believe I
will proclaim pardon -quick, full, grand,
unconditional, uncompromising,illimitable,
infinite. Oh, the grime of God. I am
overwhelmed when I come to think of it..
Give me a thousand lacldets, lashed fastbo
eaoh other, that I may scale the height.
Let the line run out with the Anchor until
all the cables of earth are exhausted, that
we may touch the depth. Let the archangel
fly in circuit of eternal ages in trying to
sweep around this theme. 0, the grace of
God I It is so high. It is so broad. It is so
deep. Glory be to my God, that where.
man's oar gives oat, God's arm begins 1
Why will ye carry your sins and your sor-
rows any longer when Christ offers to take
them? 'Why will you wrestle down your
fears when this moment you might give up
and be saved? Do you not know that
everything is ready?
Plenty of rocim at the feast. Jesus has the
ring of his love all ready to put upon your hand
Come now and sit down, ye hungry ones,
at the banquet. Ye who are in rage of sin,
take the robe of Christ. Ye who are
swamped by the breakers around you, cry
to Christ to pilot you into smooth, still
waters. On account of the peculiar phase
of the subjeot,I have drawn my present il-
lustrations chiefly from the water. I re-
member that a vessel went to pieces on the
Bermudas a great many years ago. It had
a vast treasure on board, but the vessel, be-
ing Bunk, no effort was made to raise it.
Afrer many years had passed, a company
of adventurers went out from England,
and atter a long voyage they reached the
place where the vessel was said to have
sunk. They got into a small boat and
hovered over the place. Then the divers
went down, and they broke through what
looked like a limestone covering, and the
treasure rolled out -what was found after-
wards to be, in American money, worth
one million five hundred thousand dollars,
and the foundation of a great business
house. At that time the whole world re-
joiced over what was called the luck of
these adventurers. Oh, ye who have been
rowing towards the shore, and have not
been able to reach it, 1 want to tell you to-
night that your boat hovers over infinite
treasure 1 All the riches of God are at your
feet. Treasures that never fail, and crowns
that never grow dim. Who will go down
now and seek them? Who , will dive for
the pearl of great price? Who will be
prepared for life, for death, for judgment,
for the long eternity? See two hands of
blood stretched our towards thy soul, as
Jesus says, "Come unto the all ye that
labor and are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest."
I wish I could put before my unpardoned
readers their own helplessness. No human
arm was ever strong enough to unlock the
door of heaven. No foot was ever mighty
enough to break the shackles of sin. No
oarsman swarthy enough to row himself
into God's harbor. The wind is against
you The tide is against you. The law
iranainst you. Teo thousand corrupting
iiiffeences are against you. Helpless and
inedone. Not so helpless as a gainer on a
plank in mid Atlantic. Not so helpless a
tenveller girded by twenty miles of prairie
on fire. Prove it, you say. I will prove it.
John 6: 44. -"No man can come to Me,
except the Father which loth sent Me
draw him."
STATE AID FOR WORKING MEN.
Josepn Chamberlain Explains the Lib-
eral-Uniontst Polley.
A despatch froni London says :-Joseph
Chamberlain, M. P., the Liberal-Unioniet
leader, addressed the Unionist conference
in Durham to.day. He held that the
Unionist party was growing in strength at
the expense of bhe Gladstonians, and he
insisted upon the importance of having a
definite policy of the social reforms. He
defended in detail the bill which he has
prepared foe introduction at the next ses-
sion of Parliament, providing for the
furnishing of State aid to artisans in
tee purchase of homes of their own, for
the granting of old age pensions, for the
limitation of the hours of labor in shops
and factories, for the restriction of pauper
Deice immigration and for a new Employers'
Liability Act, embodying a contracting out
clanse. Referring to the adverse opinione
of certeen Tjnionist papers on this bill he
said that if he thought the criticisms were
approved by any cqnsiderable Election of the
Unionist party he would resign the
responsible position which he now holds
in the party'councils. The party would
never sutheed, he declared, 'With a barren
policy of negative criticism or cynical indifs
fererice.
Sir Watkyn 'Williams Wynn °Was 137,-
025 acres of land in Wales, and heti manor -
la' rights over 180e" 00 sores more. Of the
land he owns 11.2,000 acres are ogettpied by
Welshospeakings, and 25,600 by English.
speaking tenants. The teneete are 941 in
all. Among them twerity4our timilies have
held the same land from 203 tg 250 years
each ; terse ib ens, parish an average of
033 years apiece one for 400 years), "while
the Foulkes family ore supposed to have
oecuttled Ga. I :Je ry r 1,000. years."
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
INTERNATIONAL LEssoN,00% 28,94.,
"A. P41110110 He tiled," Mark u,
tioxioNN WIIXT.-104trU
ORTEI4A11, surita syr.
1.Phe hula fof the new Teacher has now
boOrl blazoned throughout the land, and
from all quarters people gather to hear his
Words. The house in Cepernaum where
;ramie dwells is surrounded day and, night
by an eager throng, and within its walls
are met leading ecribes from all the citine
of Galilee And Judea, listening with oritiott
Writ, but not yet fixed in their attitude
towards him. There is a, commotion with-
out as a group of four men endeavor to
crowd their way through ,a mass of people,
carrying a couch oo 'which rests a palsied,
helpless man. Finding their attempt vain,
they mount the roof of the lowly dwelling,
remove a portion, of the covering, and lower
heir burden into the very presence of the
Master. Faith speaks in their act, and
though mindful of the unfriendly eyes upon
him, Jethe says, "Thy sins be forgiven,"
and goes on with his discourse. There are
curling lips and looks of scorn from the
Pharieees at the thought of a man taking'
God's place as the forgiver of sin. But
Jesus, calmly looks around and reminds
them that it is as easy to forgive sin as to
restore the palsied, since both are miracles.
of divine grace; and then, to convince them
that he oould do either, he bade the man
rise up and take his couch. In an instant
power thrilled through the shaking limb,
the man arose, gathered up the bed on
which he layteed walked forth to hie home,
while Pharisees were confounded and dia.
ciples rejoiced in their Master's triumph.
EKPLANATORY 'NOTES.
Verse 1. Capernaum. A little village
unnamed in the Old Testament, and men-
tioned but once by Josephns. It was hon-
ored above all other cities on earth,and more
than the conduct of its inhabitants deserved
(see Matt. 11. 12). It stood on the west-
ern shore of the 'Sea of Galilee, but its
exaot location has never been fully decided,
tbough the weight of evidence favors the
ruins now kuown as Khan Minyeh. After
some days. During the tours through
Galilee for preaching Jesus made Caper-
naum his home, aud returned thither irom
time to time. In the house. Perhaps the
house of Peter, ar of some other disciple.
2. Gathered. Showing the interest
already excited by his miracles and teach-
ing. (1) Where the king is there is the
court and the gathering Of the people.
He preached. Not in the form of
a set sermon, but declaring the kingdom of
God and its requirements, repentance and
faith. (2) Jesus gives his preachers the
example of work in season and out of sea-
son, in public and in private.
3. They come. From Luke 5. 17 we
learn that other miracles were wroughtbnt
this only is related in detail. Palsy.
Paralysis, or loss of Towel to move the
limbs,either partial or entire, a disease very
common in the East. Borne of four. An
item given only by Mark's graphic pen,and
showing the utter helplessness of the suffer-
er.
4. Uncovered the roof. Oriental roofs
are often made of clay spread upon brush-
wood, which is laid on the rafters, so that
a portion may be easily removed and
readily repaired. Let down the bed.
A light mattress, spreail generally on
the floor, as bedsteads are unknown to
orientals. (3) Those who are conscious of
their need will let nothing keep them back
hom corning to Jesus, and those who will
come can always find a way to come.
5. Saw their faith. Saw it by tlee omnis-
cience of his divine eye, or saw it as evi-
denced by their act. Their faith consisted in
their absolute confidence in his power to heal
and their trust that he would heal. (4) Faith
and prayer may be shown in deeds as well
as words. Son. He who was but thirty
years old spoke with the compassion of the
everlasting Father Thy sins be forgiven.
These words were spoken perhaps because
Jesus saw the needs of the man's soul were
deeper than those csf his body, perhaps be-
cause he wished to ;sort to the critioiaing
scribes +wound her ewn authority to speak
as God's represenuative. (5) Let us realize
as we draw nigh to Christ Mist he knows
our needs before we tell them. •
6. Gercam of the scribes. From Luke 5.
17 we leare• ;hat there were many of the
scribes present from all parts of the land,
not as learners, but as critics; already un-
friendly to Jesus, but not yet ready to
take an open stand against him. By
a few words of flattery Christ might have
won the favor of this party, the ruling
element in the nation; but he chose rather
to be loyal to the truth and meet with
bitter opposition. Reasoning. Not con-
versing, but watching and considering in
silence. •
7. This man. The word in the original ex-
presses a shade of contempt, "this fellow."
Same word is used in John 9. 29. Already
the Son of God is rejected by the sone of
men. Speak blasphemies. In claiming as
his right that which is the prerogative of
God alone. Who can . . . but God
only? "But one, even God." Upon their
view, that Jesus was a mere men,they were
justified in th sir eharge,for not even the great.
est prophet ever claimed the right to pardon
sin. (6) Those who do not regard Jesu as
God fnust regard him as a blasphemer.
8, 9: When Jesus perceived. " Strolgh-
way . . . perceiving." By hits own in-
dwelling divinity reading the thought in
the minds of his enemies. Whether is it
easier, etc. To say that the man's sins
were forgiven was easy, hemmers no visible'
effect was produced; but to say, "Take
up thy Ueda" would cover with confusion
the one who spoke without supernatural
power be enforce his utterance. Hence
that which was really the lesser miracle
seemed to be the greater.
10. But that ye may know. By working
a visible Miracle, Jesus would show his
power to work one greater, but invisible.
The Son of Man. An expression which re-
veals not only the humanity of our Lord,
but indirectly his divine nature also, since
it is riot i
used n the New Testament of any
other person, and thus marks him out from
men in general as the Son of Man. Hath
power on earth. A claim that he came not
from earth, but was of higher than human
origin, and while among men still held the
kingly prerogative of pardon which he pos-
sessed upon the heavenly throne. (7) Thus
in Jesus Christ God and man are mysteri.
ously blended and interwoven,
11. I, Joy unto thee. Prophets and
apostles wrought their miracles in the name
of another; Jesus invokes no higher name
than his own. Arlie, And take op. Thee
far the palsied man Jay' helpless, though
his sins were forgiven, and he joy of pardon
was in his beat -ti t and bet for this wetd he
wenid have still remained a paralytic.
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Se:tiillitlti
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teap(io
t‘8..0ta4.),
Seeking (3) r4ith ; (4) Pardon (5) Power;
Glorified God, Even the thanes could not
reeisb the tine of popular feeling, and prole*
ed God for riepding be men the mighty
wonder.worker. (e) Bodily restoration
makes a deeper impression on men them
the greater miracle of ealvation,
SYNTHETIC CHEMISTRY'.
The 'Wonderful Things it ie Going to Do
Have readers ever heard of synthetic
obomistry ?" Well, it is going to do won-
derful things. The food and drinkpro-
ducing animals and, vegetables will not be
milled upon for the usual human supply,
but food and drink will be nomefactured
to order by the consumer himself and served
in highly concentrated tablets that can be
oarried in the vest pocket As the ladies
now wear vest, there need be no apprehen-
sion on their account. A person may then
arry about him two co three table cl'hotel
dinners thrnplete, from oysters•or clams, to
crackers, cheese, coffee and tobacco, with
all his liquors included, This change will
be brought about, it is said, by the re-
markable progress being made in compound-
ing food and drink, from their constituent
elements, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and
nitrogen. It has advanced so far, already,
that the preparation of beefsteak and lamb
chops from its elements is assured, and
nicotine, the essential eleinent of tobaceo,
has been produced from coal tar.
But it is likely to be urged against this
commodious theory that while synthetic
chemistryis progressing so fast in supply-
ing artificial food and drink to the body,
analytic chemistry may be progressing
just as fast in preventing the waste of the
body on account of which food and drink
are needed. It will be urged by a vast
majority of mankind that no one, in any
generation, will be likely to submit to much
of any change of the familiar forms of food
and drink, It will be contended that ab-
solutely no one will submit to any change
that will oblige him to lose any of the grat-
ification to sight or hearing, thought or
feeling, on account of the table service,
cornpanionshipand environment with which
the happiest meals of life have been in.
seepaarrably associated by good and loving
hts.
Of course it would be convenient at
lunch time to have ready made tablets in
one's pocket, and by consuming one be
able to eat green turtle soup, broiled live
lobsters, chicken salad, or drink coffee or
beer withoat stopping work, save waiters'
fees and gain an hour or so every day, for
pious meditation. But at dinner time it
would be different. There would be no
cherished trysting place where; far from
the vanity and frivolty of simple living and
laboring, ono would ever find congenial
spirits to warm him with good cheer and
agreeable companionship. There would
be no oyster on the half -shell, or roast
canvas back duck, or venison and red cur-
rent jelly served on a chafing dish. And
last, but not least, there would,be no Peiper
Hydsick or Veuve Cliquot, bubbling and
sparkling and laughing in the face of the
drinkers ; there would be no Roman Punch
to produce a beautifully s welled head for
the morning, and no brandy and soda to
reduce it to its normal conditions. Life,
indeed, would be hardly worth living if
such a theory should prevail. The ready
made tablets would become horribly taste-
less in time, eating and drinking would be
purely mechanical, and we would become,
in a brief period, mere unimaginative
figureheads of humanity.
Foreign Invasions of Britain.
In all, counting hostile expeditions into
British waters, Britain has been invaded
about forty-eight times by foreign foes-
i.e. by Julius Ca3Sar, 55 and 54 B. C.; by
the Romans, under Aulus Plautus, A. D.
43; Saxons, under ./Ella, 442; Jutes,under
Hengist and Horse, 449, Saxons,under eElla
479; Engles (or Angles), 480; Gewissaa
(West Saxons), 514 ; Da.nes,who commenced
their thirteen invasions in 7S3; and began
their "polibicai conquests," 980; by Swegen
-first invasion -988; by the Norwegian
and Swedes combined, 991; by Swegen and
Olaf, 994; by the Danes; in companYawith
Pelig, 1001; by Swegen, 1003 and 1005;
Turkills (Danish) fleet, 1009; Swegens-last
invasion -1013 ; Cnut, 1015 ; the Normans,
under Edward, 1036; Lothen and Yrling,
Scandinavians, 1048; William the Conquer-
or, 1()66; the Danes again, 1074; Robert of
Normandy, 1103 Henry of Anjou (after-
wards Henry 1153; Prince Louis of
France, 1215; Isabel and Mortimer, with
foreign aid,1326 ; Edward IV., aided by the
Duke of Burgundy, 1471; Margaret, with
help from France, 1471; Richmond, with
French forces, 1485 Simnel, aided by Ger-
mans, 1487; the Dutch defeated off Lowe-
stoft, 1665; ditto,defeated in the Medway,
1657; William of Orange, 1668 ; the French
victorious off Beaohy Head, 1680; and re.
pulsed from Wales, 1795. In addition to
the above the Danes also invaded Scotland
and Ireland, 795-6,took Dublin and Fingall,
etc., 798, and again invaded that country,
which was also invaded by Spaniards and
Italians, 1580; by James II. with French
aid, 1689; by Thurot, with French aid,
1760, and by the French, 1793; whilst the
Island of Jersey was invaded by them in
1781.
The British Army.
The general annual return of the Britieh
army for the year 1893 shows that the eff-
ective strength of all ranks in the regular
army on the 1st of December last yeas 219,-
994, of which number 106,074 were employ
ed at home -76,170 in England and Wales
3,573 in Scotland, and 26,331 in Ireland -
and 111,205 abroad, namely, 36,511 in the
colonies and Egypt, and 74,694 in India.
The total slumber of recruits who joined
the regular army in 1893 was 35,202 of
whom 1,128 were under seventeeie years,
230 under eighteen years, and 14,410 under
nineteen yeare. the proportion per 1,000
of desereions from all armies was 23,as com
pared with 24 in 1892, Men were tried
for offencein 17,4'75 carses--14168 at home
and 6,307 abroad -sand sentences were
passed in 10,769 cases . The army reserve
i
shows a net nereme of 3,764.
PettyBad.
eraelt.e.ouThat cigar you gave me was the
worst I ever taokled,"
Tom—"Thatis tlacause you never tackled
v of your own"
Poets Corner.
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ThOclA Yel tit) lirtigotlw,%4J1.4118odSIAV4,:i 401;1114hk:eillIvinad. Aron,
NOW swirling in idle cutting blast,
New sodden ;lacier feet -they teaoll
T4huatotnieoonfdoey
olll)U:t the.
Titistuin
Comes sadly -home to my poor Mort,
TheWdahroksoeYnion;tillafyilal laitOopeueracia•er fled,
a'A°811),V1Itvnee9rneil°101naVileiSe aLn$44°s1dord rtie
But is ib all decay
Al) present loss -no gain remote/
monotony of paint
Ah
The robin sings -how sweet the note
A pure unearthly strain.
And or all dowers the first
Beneath these loaves 10 spring shall blow
Sweet; violets blue and white,
So all lost love shall burst
10 springlike beauty, summer glfev,
In heaven upon eur sight,
Lassie, Weel I Lo'e.
Acloon yen wild wood'e leafy shade '
At gloamin's gentle fa',
'Xlltryeb and meet thee, fairest maid,
Wha's dearest o' them a'.
Love's tale ance mair 111 whisper thee
'Mang gems o' hanglie dew,
And a' life's cares are hid 'loath bliss -
S weet lassie. wool I
The blackbird's e'enite sang we hear
Ring through the gloamue grey,
But sweeter, richer to the ear. ,
As slowly hame we stray,
Is thy sin tender marmur'd "Yes,'
'Mang gath'rin` sliver dowt
And a' life's cares are hid 'neath
Sin' thou art mine to Inc.
We'll rove nae mair yon fairy don
Beneath nicht's sky 1u' plear ;
Within a cosy but and ben
Blythe love oor hearts wilt cheer;
Sae rich love nee in thy brieht e'e,
As pure as e'enin' dew,
And deep and strong life's sang shall be -
Sweet lassie, thee 1 lo'e.
•
Vanity or Vanities.
He wrote his name
On the sands of fame
And dreamed 'twould perish never;
But time's graywave
Those shoreff did lave,
And the name Was gone forever.
With tender guile
She bound a while
Young love in a fetter of flowers;
But e'en as she dreamed
He was true as he seemed,
He had flown to rosier bowers.
Now youth and meld,
In the churchyard laid,
Know neither of love nor glory
But 01807 11 youth
And maid, in sooth,
Tell over and over the story.
•
Better Times
Better times by an by,
Wait an' see,
Dont grumble all th' time
But try an' be
Cheerful as Oa' birds that sing
C3ntinually.
Better times by an' by,
Th' clouds will pass,
For if It were not so
Alexi; alas!
No lowering gloom could e'er
Our gloom surpass.
Better times by an' by,
When crops are good,
Money be more plentiful
An' then th' mood
0' men will change an' be
More as it should.
Better times by an' by,
Hold up your head,
Step out an' Walk th' streets
With firmer tread,
Hope th' dearest friend life has,
Is not yet dead.
Better times by an' by,
Wait an' see,
Don't worry all bit' time -
'Twist you an me
I think th' times are better noW
If we'd but see.
'For My Sake."
Threelittle words, but folloC tendthest mean-
ineegl
Thrittle words, the heart ean scarcely
hold;
Three little words, but on their import dwell-
ing,
What wealth of love their syllables unfold 1
"For My sake" cheer the suffering, help the
needy;
On earth this was my work; I give it thee.
If thou wouldst follow in thy Master's foot-
steps,
Take up My cross and come and learn of
Me.
'For My sake' let the harsh word die un
uttered,
That trembles on the swift, impetuous
tongue;
"For My sake" check the quick rebellious
feeling,
That rises when tby brother does thee
wrong.
" For My sake" press with steadfast patience
onward,
Although the race be hard, thetattle long.
Within My Father's house are many man-
sions;
There thou shalt rest and join the victor's
song.
And if in coming days the world revile thee,
If "for My sake" thou suffer pain and loss,
Bear on, faint heart; thy Master went before
thee; .
They only wear His crown who share His
cross.
Champion Derelict.
The champion derelict of the world has
been again sighted, and if she keeps afloat.
for less than another three months elle,
will have been "tramping" the north At-
lantic for three whole years. The _Fannie
E. Wolston was abandoned on December
15, 1891, off Cape Hattereo, whence she
drifted eastward until the following June
when a current setting northward caught
her. She got oat of this current, and a
year after her abandonment was sighted in
latitude 35 degrees north, longitude 38 de-
grees west. At the end of her second year
this Wandering Jew of the sea was not far
south of Bermuda. Since then etre has fro.
(mealy been seen travelling very slowly
down the neighborhood of the Bahamas,
and up again in the Gulf stream. On June
6 lase she was paused only 180 miles east
of the spot where she was abandoned by
her crew 980 days before. Just now she
is right in the path of Canted States and
Brazilian vessels, and, as her decks are
awash, she is an objet to be evoided.
main deck and cabin sire completely washed
out, but it is remarkable thutt despite her
long crewleas voyage, arid the washieg and
teating oi the many storms in the region
where he has been drifting, ehe still has
her quarters above the plank shear shov-
ing remarkably white, and the paint 15 in
good order.
On the ieland of Tatihon, off 86. Vaast
la Ilougue, near Cherbourg, a Marine
laboratory has just been established, With
e.coonriniodations for eighteen naturalists,
besides the direotor and his staff.
WHAT WILL. BE: 1U EF,nct
lt the Cene Sheltie). Ole Whet aahnollit Be
the Results lo. lineope.
Froin the moment the,t the Oar of Rua.
00044 ri so flat doimitNti,edwith
tooth: las eurei tui solny, 111 w, oil ne
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likelyto be the effect of hie death upon tha
European situation1 It iteems to bet the
impression of well informed onlookerthat
the -accession of the preseat Czarewitch to
the throue of the Romanoffe would be fol'
lowed by a renewal of cerdial friendship
between the Governments of Berlin and St.
Peterilthurg, by the substitution of a revived
league of the three Emperors for the preao
ent Triple Alliance, and by the oonseglieut
isolation of France on the one side, aod of
Italy upon this other,
I Lis'ti : is thavtaoi nf Rt (Udenye tthhea tp eirne oari)lal apurt:dirlaecloY.
tions of the sovereign are weighty, if not
decisive, involving at they do the ultimate
ascendancy at his court of those Who are in
real or professed sympathy with his views.
During the iifetifne of the old Gentian Ern.
peror, William L, the feeling of werneetier.
somal Affection with which he was regarded
by his Russian kinsmen, Alexander II, and
Alexander 111., was too strongto be shak-
en even by the resentment expressed by
many Russian ,Generals and diplomatists
at what they deemed the betrayal of the
Czar's interests in the Congress of Berlin.
With the reign of William IIeerie a
change, for the Emperor evinced indiffers
encs to the Czar's good will, and the dis-
missal of Bismarck was regretted at 5.
Petersburg as the apparent repudiation of
a policy which, in spite of three deflections,'
had been based on the declaration that a,
quarrel with Russia must be avoided at all
hazards. Under such circumstances there
was really nothing for the Czar to do but
to enter into some surt of an understanding
with France, although the extreme instabi-
lity of the French Exeoutive, and the grow.
ing influence exhibited by Jacobins and
Socialists in the French Legislature, must
have made such a conibination distasteful.
The distaste must now be emphasizecloince
the complete fiasco of the attempt to en.
force the new laws against the Socialists has
led to a reaction in their favor, of which,.
signal proof was given the other day, when
a Socialist captured the seat left vacant by
M. Casimir-perier, the new President of
the republic. Nevertheless, having accept-
ed certain overtures from France, and made
certain responsive demonstrations, the
present Czar, so long as he lives, will
doubtless refrain from any sndden ancl
violent alteration of Russia's foreign.
policy.
It is said,however, that the Czarewitchhil
strongly philo-German in his sympathies,
and that his impulse will be to choose his
advisers from representatives of the German
party at his court. No doubt this personal
proclivity would, for a time at all events,
meet with a good deal of obstruction, had
the attitude of the Berlin Government con-
tinued to be what it was for some time
after the accession of William lIesButersuch
is not the case. The German Emperor's
reconciliation with Bismarck is understood
to have been prompted mainly by a desire
to signify approval of the latter's foreign
policy,especially in its relation to the Czar,
and this has been followed by a strenuous
exercise of imperial influence on behalf. of
the commercial .treaty between Germapy
and Russe, which embodies large conces-
sions to the latter country. It is obvious,
bherefore, that the personal sentiments
ascribed to the Czarewitoh will not be
thwarted, but favored, by the material
change which has come over international
relations, and by the present disposition o
he German Emperor to meet him more
than half way.
We are told that William 11. expressed
recently an intention of visiting the Paris
Exposition of 1960, and intimated that he
knew how to assure himself a. welcome
from the Parisians. This he might con-
ceivably do without surrendering Alsace-
Lorraine, provided he would give France a
free hand against either Italy or England.
He could afford to offer such a vent to the
French passion for rehabilitation, if a re-
construction of the , league of the three
Emperors had made the position of Ger-
many inpremeable.
THE FATAL LIVE WIRE.
Fearful Death of a Young Dan in Don:
treal. '
Gideon Deguire, a young French-dttna-'
diem, met a fearful death from a live elec-
tric wire on St. James' street, Montreal,
the other morning. A large crowd of people
woe passing on the street at the time. An
electric light eviee had crossed another, and
burning itself in two, one end fell to the
ground. Hissing and crackling it jumped
-.about, and the crowd of people ran for
their lives. The wire sprang about inall
direction% and the shrieks of the fright%
ed people attracted many others. The
scene was one of the greatest excitement.
In the midst of ib young Deguire arrived,
and as the wire made a, move towards the
roadway he grasped it with the right hand.
With a shriek of pain he sprang into the
air, and fell to the ground a corpse, The
live wire burned itself through flesh and
bone, and as the smoke' of the burning flesh
rose the crowd grew more excited than ever.
One spectator after the other tried to pull'
the corpse from the death -dealing wire,and
it was oniy after many had been shocked
that the body was released, and carried to
the eidewalk. The patrol waa"gen was
called, and the corpse was lifttcl in and
taken to the stations Soon afterward's the
deceesede.father arrived, and the scene as
he threw himself upon the body of his boy
was pitiful in the extreme. Deguire was
married last spring, and the yourtg widow
is so prostrated tbet her friends fewthat
her reason may he impaired. The dec tsed
was only 21 years of age. '
Rather Discouraging".
Country 130-t-'' (lisp ted,"
School Mats.-" Wcat, at? "
" saw a city feller with a guti this
morning, an' you irnotv votirst the Jaw
to kill poem till next llotolwi."
1' Well, fenerOd hire tut feetT mistm
to.day, an he missed everYthing he shot
Iklot Intetie#,Ied,
Professor Lotiglutir--" It, h (10
monstrated beyond question to t ihi c
tinont is sinking,"
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