The Exeter Times, 1894-11-1, Page 2TB A, 011EERY MESSAGE
ritea DR. TALMAGE SENDS OUT TO
MR GRAY WORLD.
Let Le Sane Lite a Song, Says Ile -From
the lards and, Thetr flu*ai Hight 'We
nay Learn Moen -They are More delta
-
emus Than We. -
-fittooneett, Oet. 21, IOC -Rev. Dr, Tel-
mer, who has, left India and is' tmw on
.. his homeward journey, has selected as the
subject for his sermon to -clay through the
press, "October Thought," his text being
Jereinieh 8:7: "The stork in the heeven.
ktioweth her appointed time; and the
turtle and the crane and the swallow ob.
serve the time of their coming; bat rny
people know not -de judgment ot the
Lord.%
,Whee God would seb fast a beautiful
thought, He plants it in a tree. When
He would put it afloat He fashions it iuto a.
-fish. When He would. have it glide the
air, He moulds it into a bird. My text
speaks of four birds of beautiful inetinet-
the liter% of such strong affectioa that it is
allowed familia.ry to come, in Holland s.nd
Germany, and build its nest over the door.
wear; the sweet dispositioned turtle -dove,
naingling in. color, white and black, and
blown and ashen and oheatuut; the crane,
with voice like the clang of a trumpet; the
ewallowawrift as a dart shot out of the bow
of heaven,falling, mounting,skimming, sail-
ing -four birds started by the prophet
twenty-five centuries age, yet flying on
though the ages, with rousing truth under
lofty wing and in the clutch of stout claw.
suppose it reap have been this very lum-
en ot the year--autumn-and the prophet
ut-of-doors, thinking of the impenitence
f the people of his day, hea.ra a great cry
overhead.
Now, you know it is no easy thing for
ne with ordinary delicacy of eye -sight to
pok into the deep blue of noonday heaven;
ut the prophet looks and there are flocks
torks egad turtle -doves, and cranes, and
swal dws, drawn out in long lines for flight
southwar . As is their habit, the oranes
have arranged -ahem Ives in two lines mak-
ing an angle, a wee ,splitting the air
with. wild velocity, the la.. crape, with
nommandiog eall bidding me- ezarard I`
while the towns, and. th2 ettiteaandttlan`
continents slide- under the. ' , The peopitee,
, already blinded froin looking tato the '•daz-
zling heavens, stoops dOwneetelbegits to
think how muck superior the birds are in
setae nbouttheir safety than men about
one ; and he puts his hand upon the pen,
and begins to write: "The stork in the
heaven knoweth her appointed times, and
the turtle and the crane and. the swallow
observe the time of their coining ; but my
• people know not the judgment of the
Lord."
1,• if you were in the field to.day in the
' clump of trees at the corner of the field,
yon would see a convention. of birds noisy
MI
r proposes more enonomy in the Queen's
, e
S the American °engraft the laid.night
dote adjourinzent, or as the- English
aliament when some unfortunate mem-
, household -a convention of birds all talk -
at once, moving and discussing resolua
tome ', the subject of migration, some
liroposi neve to-morrow,
some moving
that the go to -day, but aII unanithous in
a the fait at they must go geom.* they
have mar ing ordeal from the Lord written
on the flr white sheet of the frost, and in
_te0one' of then_gig leaves. There
is nota beltiarlringfis er, or a chaffinch,
or a fire -crested wren, or a plover, or a. red -
legged partridge but expects a:expend the
neater at the South, for the apartments
'
have already been ordered, for them in.
Smith America, or in Africa ; and after
thousencls of miles of flight, they will stop
- in the very tree where they spent last Tan.
nary. Farewell, bright plumage 1 Until
spring ,weather, away I Fly on, great band
• of heavenly musicians !Strew the continent
•' with music, and whether frorn Ceylon Isle
or Carolinian swamps, or Brazilian groves,
men see your wings, or hear your voice,
may they yet bethink themselves of the
eolemn words of the text : "The stork in
the Heaven knowetlt her appointed times;
and the turtle and the crane and the swallow
observe the time of their coming ; but my
, aee.ole -know, ttot the judgment of the
• -Tog" -
e I propose tio far as God may help me, in
this sermon, carrying out the idea of the
text, to threw that the birds of the air have
more tenacity than men. And T begin by
. partioularizing and saying that they min -
le music with their work. The most seri-
ous undertaking of a bird's life is this an -
'
noel fiigh1tsouthward. Naturalists tell us
at the arrive thin and ..weary, and
age lfEed, and yet "taiity go singing
way ; the ground the lower line of
usic, themselves the notes scattered
and down between. I suppose their
song gives elastioity to their wing, and
helps on with the journey, dwindling a
thousand miles into four hundred. Would
to God that we were as wise as they in
mingling Christian song with our everyday
work! I believe there is such a thing as
taking the pitch of Christian devotion in
the morning and keeping it all day. I
think we might take some of the dullest,
i he
evieit most disagreeable work of life,
'i *end set it to the tune of "Antioch" or
"Mount Pisgah."
It is a good sign when you hear a work-
man whistle. It is a better sign when you
hear him hum a roundelay. It is a still better
. sign when you hear him sing the words of
leaao Watts or Charlee Wortley. A violin
ohotded and strung, if something aoeideat,
.ally strike it, tnakes music, and I suppose
' there is such a thing as heving our hearts so
attinied by divine grace that even the rough
oollieions of life will make a heitvenlyvibra-
' tion. I do not believe that the power of
Ohristain song hail yet been fully cried. I
Riede if you could roll the "Old Hundred"
oxology through the street, it would put
bm end to any panic 1 I believe that the
diseordit and the tiorreati
tvtid the sin of the
gerorld are to be tweet out by heaven.born
1 halIettijahe. Sortie one asked Haydn the
e tolerated: MUSiCiati, 'why he always come
sod such cheerful intim, " Why," he
id. "1 can't do othetwise. When / think
t God My soul it so full of joy that the
dtes leap and death from my pen. I wish
tnight all eettlt melodiously before the
•, With God for our Father, and
it for our Seviour, add Heaven for our
e, and angels far our future compete.
end eternity to a lifetime *0 shoald
all the totes of joy, Going through
wildertess of this World, let as monetn-
at we are on the way to the stunrnery
f Heaven, and frotti the migratory
•alone flying throtigh this autumnal
1 arn elwaye to keep tinging.
ttildten of the lietimiely Ming,
ete ye tourney sweetly sing -
Ian neat' ftattiourS worthy preise,
mitoraetti Its winks and WAY&
,
To are traveling home to God,
eItt the wag' rear tethers mai ;
edeoyeare ea eater now, and we
"on Weir 4411PinOSS shall see,
• The Church Of God never viM be
urriphath Chun* until it bethmes a sleigh);
Church.
3. go farther, and remark Glatt the birds
of the air are wiser thee we, in fart that
in their migration they fly veryhigh.
Daring the etunraer, when they are in the
adds, they often come within reaah of the
gun; but when they start for the mutual
flight tiouthward, they telte eheir places in
mid -heaven and go straight as a mark.
The longest rifie that was ever brought to
sboulder cannot reach them. Would to
God thee we were as wise ea the stork and.
crane in our flight heaveuward. We fly so
:slow that we are within easy range of the
world, the flesh and the devil. We are
brought down by temptations that ought
uot to come within a mile of reaching us.
Oh for some of the faith of George Muller
of England, and Alfred Cookman, once of
the church militant, now of the church
triumphant! So poor is the type of piety
in the church of God now, that men actu-
ally caricature the idea that there is any
such a tbing at a higher life. Moles -never
did believe in eagles, But, my brethren,
beeathe we have not reached these heights
ourselves, ehall we deride • the fact that
there are such heights A man once talk-
ing to Brunel, the famous engineer, about
the length of the railroad from
London to Bristol, • the engineer said:
"It is very great. We Wall have, after a
while, a steamer running from England to
New York." They laughed him to scorn.;
but we have gone so far now that we have
ceased to laugh at anythiug as impossible
for human achievement. Then, I ask, is
anything impoesible for the Lord.? I do not
believe that Godexhausted all his grace in
Paul and Latimer and Edward Payson. I
believe there are higher points of Christian
attainment to be reached in the future
ages of the Christian world. You tell me
that Paul went up to the tiptop of the
Alps of Christian atteanment. Then I tell
you that the stork and mane have found
above the Alps plenty of room for free 41
ing. We go out and we conquer our
temptations by the Grace of God, and lie
down. On the morrow those temptations
rally themselves and attack Its, and by the
Grace of God we defeatthem again; but,
staying all the time in the old encamp-
ment, we have the same old battles to fight
over. Why not whip out our temptations
and then forward march, making one raid
through the enemy's country, stopping not
until we break reeks after the last victory.
eat. witabretheep, lot welts" esOme novelty.
oit. bra maknine " trattlienise
?tt'd 400 Aft:0401g, VW
oft*.r 0%10'2
prayers'
to havequit long ago, going on toward a
higher state of Christian character, and
routing out sin that we have never thought
of yet. The fact is, if the Church of God
-if we, as individuals made rapid advance-
• meat in the Christian fife, these stereotyped
prayers we have been making for ten or
fifteen years would be as inappropriate to
no as the ahoee, and the hats, and the coats
we wore ten or fifteen years ego. Oh for a
higher flight in the Christian life, the stork
and the crane in their migration teaching
Ix the lesson 1
DearLord, and shell we ever live,
At this poor dying. rate -
Our love so faint, so cold to Thee,
-And. thine to us so greatI
Again, I remark that the birds of the
air are wiser than we, because they knou
when to start. If you should go out now
and shout, "Stop, storks and cranes, don't,
bein a hurry!" they would, Say, "No, we
cannot stop; last night vie heard the roaring
in the woods bidding us away, and the
shrill flute of the north wind has sounded
the retreat. We must go. We must go."
So they gather themselves into cornpa.nies,
and turning not aside for storm or moun-
tain top, or shook ofmusketry, over land
and sea, straight as an arrow to the mark
they -go. And if you come out this morn-
ing with a sack °tooth and throw it in the
fields and try to get them to atop, they are
so far up they would hardly see it They
are on their way South. 'You could not
stop them. Oh, that we were as wise about
the best time to start for God and heaven 1
We say, "Wait until it is a little later in
the season of mercy. Wait until some of
these green leaves of hope are all dried up
and have been scattered. Wait until next
year." After awhile we start, and it is too
late, and we perish in tbe way when God's
wrath is kindled but a little. There are,
you know, exceptional oases, where birds
have started radiate, and in the merning
you have found them dead on the snow.
And there are those who have perished
half -way between the world and Christ.
They -waited until the last sickness, when
the mind was gone, or they were on the
express train aoing at forty miles an hour
and they came to the bridge and the "draw
was up" and they went down. Hove long
to repent and pray? Two seconds! To do
the work or a lifetime and to prepare for
tbe vast eternity in two seconds ! I was
reading of an entertainment given in a
king's court, and there were musicians
there,with elaborate pieces of music, After
awhile Mozart came and began to playasid
he had a blank piece of paper hefore him,
and the king familiarly looked over his
shoulder and said, "What are you playing?
3. see no music before you." And Mozart
put his hand to his brow, as much as to
say, "I am improvising." Di was very well
for him, but oh, my friends, we cannot ex-
temporize heaven.
If we do not get prepared in this world,
we will never take part in the orchestral
harmonies of the saved. Oh that we were
as wise ft the orate and the stork, flying
away, flying away from the tempest!
Some of you have felt the pinching frost
of sin. You feel it to -day. You are not
happy. X look into your face, and I know
you are not happy. Theze are voices with-
in your soul that will nob be silenced, tell-
ing you that you are sinners, and that
without the pardon of Goa you are undone
mrever. What are you going' to do, my
friends, with the accumulated transgres.
Mons of this lifetime? Will you. dead. still
and let the avalanche tumble over you ? Oh
that you would go away into the warm
heart of God's mercy. The Southern grove,
redolent with magnolia and °notes, never
waited for Northern flocks as God has weit.
ed for you, saying, "3. have loved thee
with an everlasting loam Caine unto me,
all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and
X will give you rest."
Another frost is bidding you away -it is
the frost �f thrtow. Where do ,you live
now "Oh," you say, "I have moved."
Why did you move? 'You say, " don't
waht a,s large a !muse now as formerly,"
Why do you not want eo large 4 one? You
eay, "My family is 1101 SO large." Whore
have they gone to? Eternity I Your mind
goas back through that lase eicknese, and
throegh the almost supernatural etforb to
keep life, and through those prayers that
theined unavailing, and through that kith
which received no response, because the
lips were Veleta, and 1 hear the belle tol-
ling said I hear the hearts breakingt-while
TINES
I tpealt, I hear them break, A heart 1 An..1
other heart 1 Alone I oath° This world,
which in your girlhood and boyhood was TIIE SUNDAY SUI10011
sunshine, is ooldnow ; and oh 1 weary dove,
11111=1,
r"
though not in the name of Religion; for
unbroken oil is enfeebling and brotalizIng."
"11 is difficult," Astra Dr. Wolofield, " to
find any growing oivilizetion or any genuine
you ily arotuut this world as though you INTERNATIONAL LESSON. • NOVENfamily life where the Christian Seltieeth is
would like to stay, when the wiud and frost /MIR 4, 1894. not kept" (2) We should etrive to make
and the blaolteatug clouds would, bid you tall God's service a delight to our souls. • (3)
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e.wey intothe heert of au alleioneforting God. . Ltt , te keep the Sabbath as a privilege
Oh, I have noticed again and, again what a o Josue Lord or Me Sitobattat etarlc 2, 23. rather than a duty.
botch this world mekee of it when it tries 281 3.' 14:1""41"41". 1'":4 Hal* 2.28. 2$. The Son of man, The Supreme Pro.
to comfort a soul in trouble I ,. It says, -- duet of humanity, the Consummate Flower
"Don't cry." How 'Oen we hrilp crying GZITS1111.1, SUMMIT., • Of the race ; a titTe which ,Tesas loved' to
when the hes.ree treasures are scattered.,
aud father is gone, and mother is gone,
Thia leas on ie memorable as being the Bret apply to himself. Lord atm of the ebbetli.
Thus does Jesus calmly caaim, for ,Ilimself
and comrecord of a "'Sabbath conflict" hctwsen
panions are gone, and the child is authority greater than that of Moses. But
gime, sad evetything seems gone? It 15 Jesus and the Pliaritees. If any criticism he does not abolish the Sabbath; he gives
no comfort to tell a man not to ory. The
world mimeo up and. says, "Oh, i , I was made when be healed eufferers on the to men, rather, a new principle for its con-
tinued observance.
"t8 only 1Sabb th d • (I'd b bitter d
it ay, it i not , theme en
the body of your loved one that you put in I 1-2. Eatered, again into the synagogue.
hostile mail he deelared his power to for mer
the ground I" But there is no comfort in . otwithsoinding the opposition of the
Mitt. The body is precious. Shell we give sins. His enemies, eager to make any rulers of the synagogue, Jesus constantly
never put our hand in thab hand again and Marge that will imam his growiug Mau- participeted in its worship. (4) Our worship
at ohuroh should not be influenced by our
feeling -toward any with whom we there
meet. It is probable that the miracle we
are now about to witness followed closely
the conversation in the cornfield, and is
the only basis for the conjecture that both
occurred in the morning before breakfast
A man there which had. a withered hand.
It was believed in very ancient times that
this man was a stone mason maimed by
accident, who had prayed Christ to heal
n ken with an authority -not less than was
shall lead. them to living founteina of Water, 8'` ° him that he might not be forced to beg.
and God shall wipe all tears from their the authority of Him who uttered the law. At all events, either disease or accident
eyes." With a single sentence our Lord brushes had caused his hand to dry up so that it
was now useless. (5) How many are found
among • God's • worshipers whose spirituel
hands are withered. • They watehed him.
Probably all in the synagogue watohed
him, so ne with love and some with hate.
More people than we imagine are watching
him now ; and profoundly sorrowful as the
truth is, many are still watching him with
malevolent hearts, "that they may' accuse
him." Whether he would heal him on the
Sabbath. Some scribes Were so scrupulous
that they forbade setting a dislocated, bone
or administering an emetic to a sick person
on titeBabbath. ' That they might accuse
him. Of breaking the Sabbath. Not in
conversation merely, but before the looal
judges, who were probably identical with
the elders or rulers of the synagogue, or at
all events present ab the stated time and
place of Publie worship. ' ' •
3-5. Stand forth. jesus remit the hearts
of his enemies, and aniiwered their oavilings
by an astounding deed. He would dodge
no issue.. Is it lawful to do good. . . or
to do evil? He. was eager to do the one;
they were planning to do the other. He
was using the Sabbath to sive life, they
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have laisse aniee Witi a :great imam
the elements have melted with fervent Judea. On the Sabbatla day. That is, there is idiot eadditilith'iiileireda' Chia bad
heat, and the redeemed are gatheredaround the Jewish Sabbath, the seventh day of stilled 'their criticisms ; not even he could
the thrcine of Jesus? quiet their hate. With anger. Not the
the week, apswermg to our Saturday, only
The Saviour calls to -day. •that it began at sundown on. Friday and evil passion, hub just wrath at wrongdoing.
Ye wanderers come: ended with Saturday's sundown. The Some have wondered that the Lord should
Oh, ye benighted souls
Why longer roam? Jewish law of traditions limited journeys he angry. But justice has its rightful
• wrath for guilt. Right is terribly hostile
The Spirit calls to -day, on the Sabbath th a little less than a mile,
Yield to His power. but in our Lord's time they had so stretch- to wrong. God is angry With the . wicked
• • Oh, grieve Hine not away. every day. All government, as it sits
ed this law that it had become very elastic.
Its mercy's hour.
I upon the jadgment seat, has this true
His disoiples began. It is noteworthy that
. the narrative does not intimate that Jet wrathful anger. Being grieved. "A mix-
. • tare of sinless passions. t -Trapp. Stretch
Solomon's Temple. sus either ate or plucked gram. He ptob.
forth thine hand. Exactly what he could
ably avoided that which he saw would
The Jews have a legend to the effect that give offence to others, while at the seine .
not do ; but with all his might, physioal,
mental, and spiritual, he was trying to do
Solomon did nee, employ men in building time he was ready to show how foolish it it, and God's power supplemented and
the great "Rouse of the Lord," but that was to take offence. Pluck the . ears.
made effective his feeble efforts. (6) And
Heads of wheat and Barley plucked as
so the strengthless soul hat power just as it
exerts itself in accordance with God's
promise.
shall we never see that sweet Moe again? entre now challenge him for breaking the
Away with your heartlessness, oh world 1 '
Bat come, JOSUE 1 and telL us that when Sabbath. He answers them after their own
the wars fall they fall into God's bottle; kind; and when, apparently on the same
014U the dear bodies of our loved ones shall <lay, a cripple is brought him he ridicules
rise radiant at the resurrectioa ; and a" the idea that God's law forbids good works
the breakings down here shall be. liftings
up there, and "they shall hunger no more, eit any day, end promptly heals him. The
neither thirst any more, neither obeli the true cause of autagonism to Jesus was his
sun light on them, nor any heat, far the distinct prooMmation. that his Gospel was
lamb which is in the midst of the throne '
You may have noticed that when the aside the accumulation of human traditions
chaffinch or the stork or the crane starts whith had crusted over God's commatid,and
on its migration, it mils all those of its ,
kind to came too. The tree -tops are full ueelares that the Sabbi
ath was nstituted,
of chirp and whistle and carol and the long not a,s a burden, but as a privilege ; not as
roll-eall. The bird does not start off alone. a tax, but as a joy. Those who plotted for
It gathers all of its kind. Oh that you his destruction violated the very spirit of
may be as wise in this migra thin to Heaven, .
sad that you might gather all your families the law of God which in form they upheld;
and your friends with you 1 I would that he, by deeds of mercy, upheld the law, the
Hannah might take Samuel by the head, letter of which he seems to break.
and Abraham might take Isaac, and Hagar
might take Ishmael. I ask you if those 1 EXPLANATORY AND PRAOTIOAL NOTES.
who sat at your breakfast -table this I Verses 23,24. It Came to pass. It hap.
morning will sit with you in Heaven? I
ask you what influences you are trying to -e . e. nen. alas s a connective phrase, which
n
bring upon them, what example you are Dr. Alexander thus pezephreles : "Au -
setting them. Are you calling them to go other instance exhibiting the spirit of these
se
ur-
you ? Ay, ay, have you started yo
- censors was as follows." Went through
Start for heaven and take your children i the cornfields. _He who travels afoot or on
with you. Come thou and all thy house horthback through the East is often so
into the ark. Tell your little ones that close to the growing grain that it brushes
there are realms of balm and sweetness for him as he passes. There are no fences
all those who fly in the right direction. there, nor hedges, few ditches and few
Swifter, _than eaglitit`stroke, put out for wails. Indeed, the best of Eastern roads
heavenedaLike the crane or the stork stop is a niere pathway, which 8S no attem;
he was aided in the gigantic undertaking
by the genii. Having a premonition thee
he would not live to see the building finish-
- ed, Soloinon prayed to God that hie death
might be concealed frora the genii until the
structure was finished. Immediately after
he made a staff from a sprout of the tree of
life, which was growing in his garden, and,
leaning upon this, he died, standing bolt
upright in the unfinished temple.
Those who saw hien thought that he was
absorbed in prayer, and they did not dis-
turb him for upward of a whole year. Still
the genii worked day and night, thinking
that they were being constantly watched
by him whose eyes had been closed in death
manyweeks. All this time, so the legend
says, little white ants (one amount says red
mice) were gnawing at the staff, and when
the temple was finally finished the staff
gave way and the body of the dead Solomon
fell prone upon the floor. Mohammed
alludes to this queer legend in the Koran,
where he says :-" When He (God) had
decreed that Solomon should die, nothing
fa covered his death unto them (the genii)
except the creeping things of the earth."
they grow would furnish poor food for us,
but orientals frequently resort to them.
Plucking corn in -Chia way from the fields
of others was not regarded even by the
Pharisees as theft, for it was especially per-
mitted by Hebrew law (Deut. 23.25).
That which is not lawful. Rabbinical law
allowed no one, except he was sick, to eat
anything on the Sabbath before the morning
prayers of the synagogue ; just as to -day,
in some oleurehes, it is not permitted to
breakfast before partaking of the com-
munion. Sonia have fancied that in the
breach of this law was the provocation of
the Pharisees' criticism. • But we have no
intimation as to what hour of the day this
conversation occurred. It is probable that
ID their eyes the sin of the disciples con -
Meted in plucking =drubbing the grain on tbe
Sabbath day. Reaping andthreshing had been
distinetlyforbidden and thee(' Pharisaic stick
lers held that plucking the ears was reap-
ing, and that rubbing out the grain was
threshing. bo, too, they forebade catching
a flea on Sunday, because they said that
would be hunting 1
25, 26. What D ivid did. 1 Sam. 21.
When he had neect. Jesus does not intimate
that David's conduct justified his need.
David used his great personal influence to
acte a 'hi h riest be remiss in his
Brutal Murder in New York State. Persu " •to
sacred duty,and tome he to help on his per -
A despatch from Rochester, N.Y., says: suasion. He tanned ; and the consequences
-One of the most brutal and atrooious of his sin were thrrible. But these foolish
Pharisaic rabbis who were quarreling with
muraers ever committed in Western New Jesus, would no more presume to criticise
York .took place on Thursday evening David than a good Catholic would dare to
eight miles north of Albion, Orleans county. criticise St Peter. They would not dare
Emma Hunt, a iiorvant, and companion of to say that David was wrong ; and if, on
Joseph Vancamp's sister, Mrs. Allis was the other hand, David did right, then item
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murdered by Wm. Lake a farm employe, tainly the diciplea of Jesus had done right.
who was ia love with the young woman. They that were with him. Abirnelech is
The house is on the road near Curtiss reprthented in 1 Sam. • 21. 1, as asking,
Corners. After simper Farmer Vatteamp "Why art thou alone, and no man with
rode to a neighbor's house, where his thee ?' But verses 4 and. 5 show that this
Meter had spent the day. Upon reaohing was a relative phrase, and that there were
home an hour later the mutilated body of some men with David. The clays of Abia-
that- the high priest. Abimeleph was the
high priest from whom David got the show -
bread ; Abiathar his son, may have been
high priest with ehislather, as he was high
of blows from the hammer, She was lying priest a part of h is life conjointly with
with arms outstretched in a corner, and Zadok. But the stet ement here is merely
and peels of blood were near both doors of that the event ooeu rred in the time of Abia-
the room. The woman's skirt was nearly thar, a noted person who was afterward
torn away. Wm. Lake, the farm handneho high priest. Show bread. Twelve fresh
in all probability oemmitted the crime, loaves which were pl aced every Sabbath
could not be found, and he is still at large, day on the table of the saneutary (Exod.
although deputy sheriffs are scouring the 25, 23-30; 29. 36). According to the law
woods in search of him. Lake is 24 years it could be eaten only in the sanctuary,
old, arid is well educated. Miss Hunt did and by the priests. Our Lord's claim
not pare for Lake, it is stated, and in all is that if these petty rules which the
probability he murdered her upon her re- Pharisees made so inuoli of had
fusel to marry him. The murdered girl been kept, David should have been punieh-
will be buried to -morrow. ' ed for eating the showbread. The house
of God in the early days of David was the
tabernacle, and stood a little north of
Jerusalem. The temple (tabernacle) arid
Sabbath were equivalent in sanctity. (1)
"The Christian mat be willing to dit for
a principle, but is not required eVen to
suffer a patig of hunger to preterve intaet a
thremetual."---Abbott.
27, The Sabbath was made for titan.
Made for his spirituel nourishment, his
intellectual improvement, and his physical
are knownto have the same shelter, The pest, and it is to be kept by heaths, men's
taste in this aerial dwelling are built in servants, simply for the sake of trian. The
regular atteets, and olosely resemble rows rineiple le true of all God's commends.
Man waa nob made to obey law; the low is
it servants to bring us to Christ; the rubric -
tions placed upon ue are to fecilitate out
development, Notiee, too, that it is for
mart in general -all men -that the Sabbath
was made. Not man for the Sabbath. As
a wise mother might, say. " The parlor
was made for the ohildren, not the children
for the p trier,"
All hietory I urn ishee il luetrati one ,
" Well," add a famous Frenchman," let us
observe Sunday in the name of Ilygie ne, oven
t
Miss Hunt was found on the floor. Lying
near her was a razor and a haminer. Her
throat and other parts of the body
were cut, and about the head were marks
Soeial Birds.
The theist grosbecks of South Africa live
in large eoeieties, They eoloot a tree of
considerable size, and literally cover it with
a grass roof, under which their common
dwelling it constructed. The roof serves
the double, purpose of keeping off the hest
and the ram and 400 or 500 pairs of birds
of tenor:lea houses,
The Mother, of Course.
First Jectge (baby Shaw)-." Who is the
mothet of that squally brat?"
Second Judge---" Mrs, Uppish, I think.
X heard her speak of him as ouniiitiga
'cute,' end 'sweet,'"
•
A. Cincinnati man ie to soli putt; •milk in
the parks at I, cent it glaze,
The Color of Gold.
Most people suppose that all gold is alike
when refined,but this is not the case. An ex-
perienced man can tell at a glance from what
part of the worlii a gold piece comes; and,in
some cases, from what part of a particular
gold district the metal is obtained. The
Australian gold, for instance, is distinctly
redder than the California, and this differ-
ence in color is also perceptible:
Again, the gold obtained from the placers
is more yellow than that which is taken
directly from the quartz. Why this.sbould
be the ease is one of the mysteries of
metallurgy, for the placer gold all come
from the voila. The Ural gold is the red.
dest found anywhere.
Few people know the real color of gold,
as it is seldom seen unless heavily alloyed,
whioh renders it redder than when pure.
It is said that while 150 feet is the limit
at which diving work can . be carried on
safely under water, a depth of 2e1 feet has
been attained by a "helmet diver" -a diver
who descends by himself and not in a dim
ing bell.
Solitary confinement is oe,loulated, doe.
tors state, to produce melancholia, suicidal
mania and loss of reason. Nine months of
absolutely solitary confinement are almost
certain to result in the mental ruin of the
convict.
The longest plants in the world are sea -
weeds. One tropical and Sub -tropical
variety ie known which measures in length,
when it reaches its full development, at
least 600 feet. Seaweeds do not receive
any nourishment from the eediment at the
bottomor borders of the sea, but only from
air and mineral matters hela in solution in
the sea water.
English as She Is Spoke.
A correspondent in Battersea who hae
made a collection of the gems of oratory
used by thine of the vestrymen in his neigh-
borhood, writes: "Most parishes can boast
of supplying some fine specimens of .'Eng -
HMI as she is spoke' by vestrymen, but in
this respect Battersea, can 'take the cake.'
In a recent discussion on sanitary matters a
vestryman talked about 'tubular diseases"
mud 'tripod fever/ and he wanted 'a crema-
toria' in every parish. Another member
wouletnot accept a statement upon the
'biped dixter' of the chairman. At thia
same vestry a member declared the chair.
man ought to be 'like Potiphar's wife, above
suspicion,' Wheu it was proposed to give a
deserving official 'an honorarium' a member
wetted to know whether it would not be
an inducement to the official to waste his
time `If he attends to his duty he won't
.110M3 Mita time to play the honoratiuma"
• A Narrow Egeame.
Jeft-I don% think this gown matohee
my complexion Very well; do you?
Jack -Which one 1"
Jess -What? '
Jacket -Which gown, I mean,
"Ah," ma the casual caller, seeing the
poet at work in the adjoining room, 'the
fire of genius is burning, eh ?" "No,"
teed the poet's practice wife, "1 wee it
is hie cigarette that smells so,,,
GOLDSMITH OF ANTWERP.
It was the beginning of the sixteenth
century. A wonderfully fine Sundey
morning in Winter had dawned ; the clear,
cold Winter sun was sparkling ou the thew"
covered roofs of Antwerp. The eunbeams
climbed end glided merrily. along the housee,
gilding the glittering stained glass window-
panes.Them they jumped gleefully over to
the etneoth fields of ice formed by the
frozen canals whioh encircle the city.
At the north end of the town, a small
well -frozen lake had been formed by the
outlets of the smaller canals. Church was
just over ; the lath sounds of the bells were
still trembling on the orisp air, as they
died away. A merry throng was on the
lake; a delightful picture of youthful
gayety presented itself to the visitor.. The
slender forms of youths and maidens, with
their glittering skates, seemed to skim
along as if drivenby the wind. Two by
two, the older ones,skated by, followed by
boys and girls, forming long chains.
Every now and then a pretty girl swept
by all the other skaters, who.bowed to her
respectfully and watched her with admir-
ation. But, like a proud swan, she went
on farther and farther. Her elegant dress
betrayed the wealthy patrician. A blue
velvet gown, falling in rioh, folds, and
trimmed with fine far, enveloped her form
and under the • turban which she wore,
and whictt was trimmed with flowing red
plumes, gleamed a mass of golden hair
which fell in two heavy braids to the edge
oe her gown. The wonderful, dreamy eye
ID ber beautiful aristocratic face often
looked searthingly among the young
patriciana, but ouly toturn away in dis-
appointment and with intense longing.
Finally the form of a Young ma,n, coin-
ing from the other end of the lake, came
gliding toward the pretty skater. Her
eyes sparkled with joy; he bowed to her
reverently -but then he confidently grasped
the little hatide which she stretched toward,
hint. They glided onin silence for some
time.
• "Why did you remain all alone, Anbje.?"
he asked, suddenly, "the young patricians
will think it haughtiness on your part"'
• Antje drew up, her rosy lips in scorn.
"That just suits me, Cousin Adrian 1"
she laughed, "I wanted to wait for you
undisturbed!"
• " Oh! Antje, you must not do it ; as
grateful as your .00usin is to you for your
friendship, you must never forget what a
deep, immeasurable abyss separates the
wealthy Anna Van Der Seat from the poor
goldsmith, Adrian Van Bensohotten I" The
handsome man spoke earnestly and mildly,
but not without a painful twitch of his fine-
ly curved lips.
"Oh 1" pouted Antje, "but suppose I do
not like anyone else as well as poor Adri-
an?" and with a proud, loving look she
scanned his noble, stalwart form in its plain
brown doublet.
"Adrian I do you know whom you resem
ble-in comparison with the gaudy patriot
ens ? • You are like the faloon among the
bullfinches."
"Sweet child, ib is well that you can
jest; I feel as if I should like to die -for
I come to you to -day for the lasb Mina -
to bid you farewell -I am going to Eng-
land."
"Go I" she said, icily. She pushed him
from het, but only to draw herself up again,
closer and more oonfidingly.to him. It
seemed as if they were made one for the
other, for they 'were the inost distinguished
looking couple among the crowd of young
people.
"You see, Antje-I must go, hard as it
is for me to do so. My honor demands it.
It is my duty. Shall I notice, Antje, how
my little cousin's affection grows stronger,
day by day? To say nothing of my own
heartache 1 And to 'know that, we may
never come together. It is better that I
go while my Antje is still young, so that
she may more easily forget the poor gold-
smith. You will know and love a better
M412, but I shall remain true to my first
love."
"Adrian t I shall never love anyone else
but you I"
"Poor Antje 1 It is in vain; the proud
Mynheer Van Der Solet will never give his
only child in marriage to a poor empren-
tiee-" "
"You are an artist, Adrian," Antje
wavered, vivaciously. "Even to -day I
will be the wooer for you at my father's
feet."
Adriairshook his head. "You don't un-
derstand Mynheeres patrician pride." He
tore himself eway, violently. "Farewell,
Ant*"
"Soon I will send yeti good news 1" Ant-
je called after him.
He milled sadly, waved one final farewell
and disappeared,
* 0 *
The finest house on the Schelde quay be.
longed to alynheer Van Der Solet.
A stately repose reigned in the reception
hall, covered with rugs and decorated with
large Mugabe, wheats, weapons and shields,
which led to a matte of richly fernielied
apartments. The last oue was Antje's own,
a charming and dainty room.
Rare tropical plants adorned it Costly
silver covered the toilet table. Heavy
red talk draperies fell from • the golden
drown of the tester of her bed, Gobelin
tapestries from Brabant showed thence
front the Bible. In • the midst of this
splendor Antje sat, in the they, upholstered
bay window,and gazed sadly out upon the
dead winter landscape. ITer eyes were
red from weeping; now and then a loft sob
escaped her &deepened lips. There had
been a terrible seem Mynheer -her
fathet, who had always been so kind and
lenient -now swore high arid low tht only
weelthy merchant should become the
husband if hie only daughter. "X Will
will never give yea to thet poor beggarr'
was his last word.
It we not on account et the different*
itt rank,for bbs goldsmith'e art wee great.
ly honored in the sixteepth santury, but
Mynheer considered Adrian au idle dream.
er, ,
"Professionhas no golden bottom with
that fellowl"grumbled the excited man.
"I shall never entrust my greatest blessing
to a men who will never be prosPerousl"
Thne crept by slowly and weighed hoav.
JIy on Antje; fluent', she found some diver-
sion in her embroidery frame. the beaut-
iful lace collar upon which she watt at work
had been intended for a bridal gift for -
Arian.
"Now the collar shell ornament my
shroud 1" thought An*, and gave way to
sombre thoughts. She did not even notice ,
that she had repeatedly pricked her middle
finger, until the drops of blood from it had
already made a large red spot; the fine
Brunets cambric was spoiled. Antje
angrily threw the frame into a corner. dinit
then Greta, her maid, entered and handed
Ant,je a small package bearing Adrian's
handwriting. .
Quickly Antje broke the seal; a small
silver article, set with a blue stone, fell out
and rolled down to Antje's feet. Inquisa
tively Antje picked it up, and looked at
the strange trinket in astonishment ; then
put it down indifferently, took up the parch-
ment and read:
"My dear, sweet Antje, I knew very
well that you would not send me a good
message. Now 3. ane on my way to Eng.
land; believe me, 1 aot only from motive's
of pure, disinterested love. But you. my
dear child, must obey your noble father,
who is anxious for your welfare only.
"Farewell, my darling I Be happy, and
try to forget. Ever your loving
" ADRIAN.
"P. S. -Perhaps I may give .you just a
little souvenir ! The silver trinket Is a .
little cap whioh I thought of for the pro-
tection of your delicate finger, when 1
noticed how often you •pricked it at your
embroidery."
Then Antje alternatelypressed the letter -
and the little finger -cap to her lips, and
held up her hand as she made the vow t
"Adrian. 1 will wait until you return to
take your Antje with you 1"
• 0 0 * * *
Three years have passed; a long mat
nificent wedding procession is moving ft
the grand jaeob's Cathedral, at Antwerp.
• The pretty bride, who smiles so happilr
under her lace veil, is Antje Van Der Boleti.
She has not lost any of the freshness of
youth, but has blossomed out even more
beautiful and queenly, a fall -blown free
grant rose.. The bridegroom is a weathy,
stately looking man from Sheffield. He
looks his best in his costly 'velvet waist.
coat, decorated with a wide golden negk.
lace of honor -altogether a distinguished
figure among the patricians following the
bridal pair.
Antje is following the man from Shef-
field to the altar, with her father's blessing
--and still she has kept her vow, for the
bridegroom is Adrian 'Van Bensohottee
the inventor of the thimble.
• The praotioal Englishmen had soon sp.
prebiated the value of the invention, and
through it Adrian had attained riches and
honors.
The renowned goldsmith of Antwerp
lived a long, happy life with his faithful
Antje. At their golden wedding, how-
ever, the venerable couple still showed to
their great-granclehildlren the origin of
their fortune -the first thimble.
On Canadian Territory.
As is already known, Mr. Ogilvie, head
of the Canadian Survey Commission,on the
Alaskan boundary, has found Mount St
Ehas to be on Canadian territory. • His
photographs taken of the great St. Elias
Alps are said to be very successful. The
nearest point he attained to Mount St. Elias
wes sixty-six miles. He describes the
peaks as "truly a grand speetaole, and in-
spires one with a epiett ofweepeet and awe
for Nature aed Nittureti Author. It seemed.
to strike all beholders on the Thistle with
the same epirit, and that was one of silent
admiration, 48 it stood glistening in its
everlasting white robe in the morning min -
light. It is a mountain par excellence, and
stands alone like a sileot watchman at ,the
extreme westerly end of St. allies Alps.
Mount Logan, sheeted several miles inland
from St. Elias, through 1,500 feet higher
than the latter, it being 39,500, from its
position does not inspire ono with the same
feeling. Eden at this distance (66 miles)
the Malaspina glaoier, flowing • from the
sides of St. Elias, plainly shows its -vast
proportions, disehargMg by numerous
streams into Yakutat and Icy bays."
• A Blessing In Disguise.
' A contemporary gives an interview with
a western lumberman, who says that the
loss from the recent fires is not SO heavy as
has been eupposed. "Fire," he says,. "doei
not burn the body of a pine tree; it only
burns off the bark and foliage. The trunk
of the &treed tree is as good as ever it was,
with thie exception. The tree, after it is
burned, must be out the succeeding winter,
else it will become worm-eaten and worth.
tem" He even maintains that the fire is a
blessing in disguise to labor. "Every
owner of &need pine stumpage must go te
work this taming Winter and out every foot
of it, and Many of these owners are formed
to cut perhaps hundreds of millions of feet
of stumpage they would not otherwise have
cut for years to come. They are forded to .
employ immense crews of men they would
not otherwise home had wea fora'
The Lower House of the Auetriatt
Beichsrath by a large majority) yesterdttet
decided to recomiriond the bill providing
for freeddrie of worship to the -House of
Magnates, for atheptamee.
The St. Petersburg Novoe Vretaya, re,
terrieg to the reported death of the Alteer,
says that joint action upon the part of
Great 'Britain awl nuacila will necessarily
lead to the 1 ertition of Oust cativo be.
tweem thee° two powers,