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Exeter Times, 1896-4-9, Page 7OPJIIIT OF THE PRESS, lacat DR. TALIVIGE FINDS TWO UNIQUE TEXTS. And !eremites a Broad' sermon on. the nitine ee oeevepaperito We says nreey awe the retest Potent aehicies o taiewiesitte et• are Aete • But 1 discourse now on a subjeo you have never heard—the immea,sui able and everlasting blessing of good newspaper. Thank God for al wheel full of eyes! Thank Gna for th do not have, like the Athenians, to g about to gather up and. relate th ; tidings of the day, since the <minion GUS newspaper does both for us. Th grandest temporal b1sing that God f las gen to the nmeteent century et the newspaper. We would have better apprelation of the blessing if we knew the money, the brains, the olsses, t he exasperotions, the anxieties., the wear THE EXETER t mirror of life as it is. It is sometinie e. complained that nowspapere esPort th a evil when they ought only to report th • S laionday or during the week tbe print- To both of them- were Irrvited the de- ' e ing press will take the sante sermon olorably poor, We are not to sop- p Aft/ cligomN NEws 8 and preaoh it to /Willem of people. God pose tha,t such Pharisees as the one wire 11 . e we ae, t e f)eod, ta as it It we tier. e good. They traust report the evil a II • la ••• b. I • 1 o wbet is to e reformed, w .te• guarde. against, what fought clown ? A news re paper that pictures only the honest e and virtos et society le a misrepresen ( tation. That family is best prepare • for the duttes of life witich, k•nowing the evil, is taught to select the gem Keep children under the impresston that, all is fair and right ' th • II awl when tlaey go out into it they wil be as poorly prepared to struggle witi . it as a child who is thrown into th middle of the Atlantic and told to learn 5 :spud the printing pres.s1 God save the was new, entertaining Jesus invited him r, printing press! •God Christianize the because they.beheved. him, but rah- "' pimiento, press. • er because ins presence at the banquet When I see the printing press stand- would make the outside goosios talk o Y Ing with the electric telegraph on the the banguet. (2) (.:4-od's grace AK a feast OWN couNTR,v. Waebington, March 29.—Newspaper row, es n Is called here m Washington, :hi. longoow of offiees connected. with peteeeinent ' journals. throughout the 'end, pa.ys so much attention to Dr. Talmage they may he glad to hear whet he thinks of t hem while he dis- cusses a subject iii which the whole toetel i y Os interesee (1. His texts toe dee' Vore: "And the wheels were full oi eyes" (Ezekiel -ti., 12), "For all the At /tee ia as end stsang,ers which .• were th ge to toll oe le bear some new things" (Ao e 'vii, 21.),- . . W he - a a prieva-er to do When he ftnsh: • tee texts equally good and stag- e ges. ; eo ? In t ha t perplexity 1 take Leeh. Wheels full of eyes? 'What but the e Leels of a newspaper printing •• preee? Cater wheels are blind, Tbey ' rcal on, railing or ((meshing. The mane utecturera wheel—how it grinds the 't epere . et. a he fatigue and rot Is over et nerve and mho le and lame and heart, . nee knowing what it dove. The sewing eteelilue a heel sees too the 'aehee - and pale,: fate erted to it —t ight er than the 1n(1 i hat ntoves it, sharper titan the needle whialt 11. plies. Every moment • of every hour of every day of every month of every year there are butte • &ode of thousands of wheels of me- elottaem, vilteels of enterprise, .wheels • of lterd ...writ in .motion, but they are tweleso. . Nei t,o the wheels of the printing • prees. Their entire Ousiness is to look • 811(1 report. They are full of optio nerves, from axle to periphery. They are like thoee spoken of by Ezekiel, as fall of -eyes, Sharp• eyes, nearsighted, farsighted. They leek up. Tbey look down. They look far away. They . take in the next street aud the next • . hemisphere. Eees of eritielem, eyes Fig.. . -•• of invest igat ion. eyes that twinkle teith retail, CyPS glowing with indginae one side gathering up materinhand the of the mchest, fare the fullest ' ightping express train on the other side ment, and the mot noble companion 1- waiting for the tons of folded sheets ship. It is well for us to think mueh of newspapers, I pronounee it the of this figure of speeetto "a great sup - mightiest force in our civilization So er " . ; I commend you to pray for all those numbered centuriee, has ken prepar who manage the newepapers of the bag a spiritual feast for your soul and land, for all typesetters, for all report- mine, and longs for us to come and en • ers, for editors', for alt publishers, joy it. Bade many. Our Lord here that xuag or standing in positions of probably would refer to the jewisl • such great influence, they may glee all people. to whom the Gospel WAS first that influenc.e for God and the totter- preached, but, as in most of hie pax t ment of the human otwe. An aged wo- ableo there is a seconaary meaning roan makingh .living I 1 • g • • 1 applies o a who hear the toil le-ound the yarn from the ball until she of Christ. The Bastern custora, wind e found in the center of the ball there invited the guests long beforehand, as t was an old piece of newspaper. She vve. do for a wedding, which announeed • Opened 't _ . oeement e coming feast of the whole neigh - which announced that she had beeome len.hood and allowed the men and .we , heiress to a large property, and that men of the streets to crowd in and line • fragment of newspaper lifted her from the wells and gaze on the guests, enuet pauperism to affluence. And do not be kept M mind as we follow the course .! know but as the thread of time unrolls of the story. (8) "All who have been and unwinds a little farther through brought. up in Christian families, all the silent yet speaking newspaper owe. who have been trained. in church and be. found the vast inheritance of the Sabbath sehool, all who have studied the word of God," are bidden to the Jesus shall rem? where'er the sun Lord's banquet. Does his successive journeys run. 17. *zit his servant at sup - His keinbogredom stretch from shore to Per time. The "servant" re- presents every bearer of the Gospel Till suns shall rise and set no more, invitation, preaeher, Sunday school teacher, friend. (1) It is a high tumor to be God's herald of the glad tidings. ME SUNDAY SCROOL At supper time. Mini went toe far when be stated that it was rust canary in the Eatet to formally remind guens • of their engagement ; but such a course IATERNATIONAL LESSON, API 12. :4nvottllipliunoet vontrary to custom, and , here timepieces are preen- - INTERESTINO ITEMS ABOUT OU • tont tear of heartstrings involved Ira he production of a, good newspaper "Under the impression that almost eery- • lody can make a newspaper, scores 0 mexpertenced eapiterisis every yea telt er the lists, and consequently dur Ing the last few years a newepape has died almost every year. The di ease is epidemic. The larger paper swallow the tenteller ones, the whet taking down 59 minnows at one swat low. With more than7000 d• '1' weeklies in the United States and • Canada, there are but 36 a half cen- tury old. Newspa,pers do not average more, than five years existence. The most of' them die of cholera, infant= lot is high time that th people found • a otglyyspaart to keepl. jefl4ssulanwka,styei to sink moo_ e most successful rne wh» ktnt that th to owith thrTet oweaeNlirrna eri.itrotalwa. Jacirirai'idunitetree. 1 this: e ee.iiirsteerareyf one ho inui- ssir ° or let n has ans procedure Hea. atolitti.ye becUtelit ititazgira:suslosi,;:ioutir:iia:scirnhirea;:snlirtifiloten?sinvtil !lir ow enn_ until yrni valgi Intl.:al at Fri:I'lle-es type anittl t theuposi4bsaign and fiyher a curer.) pectus thast p-0'roep(ols%rs'to cure Wet'ttit'rya: I thing the first eopy le flung on theatt • tention of an namiring world. Alto; taattile one. of tbe titian stoekholders rinds that, no great revolut ion has beep affeeted ths daily or weekly mild]; attion; that neither sun or moon st'And !mill; that the world goes an lying and (queuing and stealing just as it did be fore the first resutt. The aforesaid ranee- ' ter of fact stockholder wants to sell out his stoek, but nobody wants to buy, ,reel other stock -holders get infected and e tc* of newspaperdom, and .,an enornieus bill at the paper factory Into an aye - 'ante, and the printers refuse to work until back wages are paid up, and the compositor bows to the roenaging ecti- tor, and the managing etittor Pews tO the editor in chief, and the editor in chief bows to the directors, and the direetors bow to the world at large and all the sulocribers wonder wit). their paper doesn't come. The world o bave. to learn that a newepaper is ae much of an institution as the Bank of Engalnd or Yale College, and is not an enterprise. If you have the afore- said agrIcultural or seientific or re- ligious or political idea to ventilate, you had better charge upon the world through the columns already estab- lished. It is folly for any one who cannot succeed at anything else to try newepaperdom. If you cannot climb the hill back of your house, it is folly to try the ;Ales of the Matterhorn. To publish a newspaper requires the skit!, the precision, the bolduess, the vigilanee, the strategy of a commander in Odd. .rer edit, a, nevermaper requires that one to be a statesman, an essayist a teoegraPher, a statistician and, in acquisitien, eneyelopediac. To man, to govern, to prOpel a newspaper until it shall be a fixed institution. a national fact, demands more qualities than any business .on earth. If you feel like starting any newspaper, secular or re- ligious, understand that you are behig threatened with softening of the brain or lunacy, and throwing your pocket- book into your wife's lap start for some insane asylum before you do something desperate. Meanwhile as the dead newspapers week aft er week are carried out to burial all the living newspapers give respectful obituaxy, telling when they were born and when they died, The. best printers' ink should give at least one stickful of epitaph. If it was a good paper, say, "Peaces to its ashes." If it was a bad paper, 1 suggest the epitaph written for Francis Chartreuse: 'Here con- tinueth to' rot the body of Francis Chartreuse, who, wit h an inflexible constancy and uniformity of life, per- sisted. in the practice of every human vice exceptipg prodigality .and hypro- crisy. His insatiable evarice exempt- ed him from the first, his matchless imprudence from the second." I say this because I want you to know that a good, healthy, long-lived, entertain- ing newspaper is not an easy blessing, but one that comes to us through the fire. First of all, newspapers make know- ledge democratic and for the multi- tude. The public library is a, hayraow so high up that few can reach it, while the newspaper throws down the forage to our feet. Public libraries are the reservoirs where the great floods are stored high up and away off. The newspa.per is the tunnel that brings them down to the pitchers of all the people. The chief use of great libraries Is to make newspapers out of. Great libraries make a few men and wonaen very wise. Newspapers lift whole na- tions into the sunlight. Better have 50,000 people moderately intelligent than 100,000 miens. . A false impression is abroad that newspaper kuowledge is ephemeral be- cause periodioals are thrown aside, and not one out of 10,000 people files them for future reference. Suali knowledge, so fax from being ephemeral, goes Into the very. strunture of the world's heart and brain and decides the destiny of churches and nations. Knowledge on the shelf is of little worth. It is know - edge harnessed, knowledge in revolu- tion, knowledge winged., knowledge projected, knowledge thanderbolted. So far from beipg ephemeral, nearly all the best minds and hearts have their hands on the _printing press to- day and have had since it got emanci- pated. Adorns and Hancock and Otis used, to go to the Boston Gazette and ompose articles on the rights of the people. Benjamin Franklin, 'De 'Witt Clinton, Hamilton, Jefferson, Quincy, were strong in newspaperdom. Many 1 the immortal things that have been published in book form first appeared n what you may call the ephetueral teriodical. All Macauloy'e essays first ppeaxed in a review. All Carlyle's, 11 Rushing's all McIntosh's, all . Syd- ney Smith's, all Ha,xulitt's, all Thack- ray's, all the elevated works of fice ion in our day, are reprints from eriodicals in whieh they appeared SS erials. Tennyson's poems, Burns' oems, Longfeliow's poems, Em.ere on's poems, Lowell's poems, Wbit- ier's poems, were once fugitive pleces. You canoot find. ten literary men in hristettclom with strong minds and reat hearts, but are or have been =chow connected with the newspaper rinting press. While the book will lways have its place, the newspaper s more potent. Becateee the latter is ecessatrily superficial. If a man hould from. childhood to old age see nly his Bible, WebsterO dictionary nd his newspaper, he could 'be prepar- e" for al" the duties of this life, and 11 the happiness of the next. Again, it good newspaper is a useful f ea o swim. Our only complaint ✓ wbere sin is made attraetive and Inor ality dull, when vice is painted with ✓ great headings and gmel deeds are me n obscure corners, iniquity set up In s great primer and roe,hteounness in. non e panel'. Sin Is loathesome; make it loath - some. Virtue is beautiful; naake i I he t'f 1 ito,nomm. • 1• SPORT FOR DARING MEN, Shark Ottniteng Orr curia aa-neeerlbed by a 'a p n els, waldcats, browri and grizzly' 1 * If there is any one wOo has tired. of xativo,, 0 the tame sport of shootbag deer, moose, bears, and of ca.tching little trout, black bees, and salmon, teral has a longiog for el 8011)("at., wit-libeatadselsvintligetQchiatncl6ets illofrn lig:Intgo I captured, or shot by Spaniards as a spy, he will find there a sport which, for ' reallive danger, is unequalled, even by the killing of a roaring tiger, the charge of a herd of angered elepbantei and beside which even wounded boll moos are no longer cbarraing. According to a Cuban, shark fislaing is a eirort to be dreamed about. The Cuban shark fisnerneen take chunks of eef and throw them overboard out beyond the reefs, where the dorsal fins of steaks are to be seen cutting` the water with a vicious swish like the plunge of a modern rifle bullet into a . stream. instantly there is a rush, fit to make ordinary brave men blanch, or the eagernees of the sbarks to xertd. the bloody zueat is sometiaing to thinlx twice about. .Now is the time for the sportsman to do as the Cuban fesher- man does. Stripping off his Beget clothes, grasping a long keen knife, he leaps among the fisle and thrustsb . knere to the nearest stterk's beart. A quoit wrench opeoe a wound.tliat spurts blood, and theta the sport. fairly begins. It is deatit to a man who then loses his nerve. Tliere is hope for the buck - feverish man who is facing a wounded tthigeersharbles" none for the man among The Cuba o expert watches his Ounces. mad as the sharks, attracted by the blood, merle to tear their mate to pieces, he strikes them one by one, and soon the water is filled with sharks ' flapping.' their last in th t d with lilfud. Wiren a eitark conies for hina. he glides to one side, and as the ehark. rueues past on its side he atrikes thus it: a faewgsmoi:ituwteesn.ty4lve • znan-eating sharks relay be orthirty ' The teeth are the trophies. To get • thew tbe bead is boiled in a big iron e , (Loup caldron. .A. tooth of a healthy shaelc is ivory white, witb a hard, per- ; celtun finish, and could be worn as a, , troliltv. There are several rows of theee teeth. One row of them eut out oubeetteloltdtlymtraileaeogaolsaarie.teabheelieVehedireediagge • of a :Angle tooth being cut into ram - Inn teeth. The ebarks bite a man's • leg off, and do not tear it off, as is gen- erally supposed. Deakins make long. :etrings out of these teeth for beads, that the squaws may think much of the hurl - terse. Mad oro. 1,1.01,11t1, suppose that a string eif them would not be unaceePte • able to a paleface's e veetheart. The shark's may be taken in a variety of other ways. Rifles, spears, harpoons, laesues (snares), or fishhooks a feet long. • And they are taken often in nets, but not because the Letter wants to take • them, as they tear and tangle the nets for rods. athereel from Various Points from th Atiantic to the Pacific. Chatham has a deficiextey of $0,000. Ceistor Centre is troubled with •ghosts The oil boom is increasing,at Both- . Well. • - - ^ Kingston bas it little epidemic of ; mumps. 1,• New Westmineter wants the woutere • to vote. • firead in Chatbarn has gone up from , 5 to b cents. The North End rink, at Halifax:, has been :burned.. " Milstein does, not allovy snow -balling - on its :streets. lion eyes tender With 10V0,, eyes of hope, blue eyes, black eyes, green eyes, holy eyes, evil eyes. sore eyes, political eyes, literary eyes, hiet orical eyes, re- ligious eyes, eyes that me everyteing. v. - "And N‘heels were full of eyes." But in my Remind text is the world's cry for tbe newepaper. Paul describes it eines of people in Athens who spent their time either in gathering, the news or telling it. Why especially in AO - tole ? t h. more intelligent people become the more iuquisitive they are—not al.out 41111111 things, but great things. The question then most frequently is the question now most frequently asked, Whet the news? To answer that cry ineteate text for the newspaner the centuries have put their wits to work. China first succeeded and has at Peking a newspaper that has been printed every week for 1,000 years, printed in silk. Rome succeeded by publishing The Acta Diurna, in the oune column put 1 ing fires, murder.% raarriages and tempests. France suc- ceeded by it physleituri writing out the news of the day for his patients. Eng- land suceeeded under Queen Elizebeth be first publishing the news of the Spanish armada ana going on until she had enough enterprise, when the •battles of Waterloo was fought, de-" •s• eiding the destiny of Europe, to give. it one-third of a column in the 'London Morning Chronicle, al'out as much as the newspaper of our day gives of a small fire. America succeeded by (a Benjamin Harris' first weekly paper, allied. Public Ocourrences, published in Boston in 1690, and by the first daily, The American Advertiser, pub- lished in Philadelphia in 1784. The. newspaper did not suddenly spring upon the world, but came gradually. The genealogical line of the newspaper is this: The Adam of the race was a circular or news letter created by divine impulse in human nature, and the circular begat the pamphlet, and the. pamphlet begat the quarterly, and the qu.arterly begat the semi-weekly, and the semi-weekly be- gat the daily. But, alas, by what a struggle it came to its present develop- ment 1 No sooner had its power been elemonstrated than tyranny and super- stition shackled it. There is nothing that despotism so fears and hates as a printing press. It has too many eyes in its wheel. A great writer de- clared that the King of Naples made It unsafe for him to write of any- thing but natural history. Austria could not endure Kossuth's journalise ,tic pen pleading for the redemption of Hungary. Napoleon I, trying to keep his iron heel on the necks or nations, said, "Editors are the regents of sovereigns and the tutors of nations/ and are,00nly fit for prison." But the battle Are ',the freedom of the press was fought ' in the courtrooms of Eng- land and America, and decided before this century began by Hamiltou's We- 1 • getout in for J. Peter Zenger's Ga. zette America and Erskine's ad- vocacy of the freedom of publication. in England. There were the Karahton and Thermopyale in which the freedom of the press was established in the • United States and Great Britain, and all the powers of earth and hell will never again be able to put on the c handeuffe and hopples of literary and political despotism. It is notable that rhomas Jefferson, who wrote the De- elaration of A.merican Independence, 0 • wrote also, "If I had to choose between e government without newspapers, or •tewspapers without a govern.ment, ehould prefer the latter,' Stung by a eome bare fabrication coming to us in a print, we come to write or speak of he unbridled printing press, or, our e .oe,-vir book ground up by an unjust t d'.1.(17itio, we conae to write or speak of p • tie unfairness of the printing press, of• s perhaps through our own indistinct- p nem of utterance ;we are reported. as s saying just the, opposite of what we t • did say, and there is a small riot or semicolons hyphens and commas, and C wr oome to epeak or write of the blundming printing press, or, seerieg. s • paper filled with divorce coses or somal p scaadaL we speak and write of the a filthy printing press, or, .seeing a. ,jour- nal through bribery wheel round from n ono political side to the other in one s night, we speak of the corrupt print- 0 ing press, and many talk about the a lampoonery and the empiricism, and e tlet saa•Is oulottisra o f the ointingt a • press, It would work a vast improvement i all our papers—religious, political, lit- erary—should for tbe most part drop their impersonality. This would do better justice to newspaper writers Many of the strongest and best writers of the country live and die unknown and are denied their just fame, The vast public never learn who they are. Most of them are on comparatively email themes, and Mee awhile thear bond forgets its cunning, and they are without resources, left. to die, Why not at least hpavec.ohisuinoirtials attached to his mosi t always gave additiortel force to an article when you metesionally saw added to some signie fie:int tirade in the old New Noe* Courieg. end Enquixer J. W. W., or m The granule, II. U., or in The Herald, O. It, or in The Time,s., II. J. It., or 111 Tile, evening Post, W. C. B., or in The Evexting Express E. B While, this arrangement would be it fair and just thing for newspaper writers, it would be a defense for the publie. It is sometimes true that tbings damaging to private cbaracter are eau . Who is responsible ? It LS the "we" of the editorial or reportorial columns. Every man in every profes- sion or oceupatom ought to be respon- sible for what. he does. No honorable man will ever write that which lie would he afraid to sign. But thousands of persons have suffered from the im- personality of newspapers. What can one private citizen wronged in his rep- utation do in a mutest. with misre.p- resentation multiplied into 20,000 or 50,- Otni ompleo? An injustice done in print Is inimitably worse than an injustice done in private life. During loss of temper a man ratty say that for wind). he will be sorry in ten minutes, but a. newspaper injustice has first to be taken off and read and correeted, and written, set up in type, tlaen the proof then for six or ten hours the presses are husy running off the issue. Plenty of time to correct; plenty of tinae to coal off; plenty of time to repent. But all that is hidden in the impersonality of it monspaper. It will be a long step forward when all is changed. and news- paper writers get credit, for the g,00d and are held responsible for the evil. Another step forward for newspaper- dora will be when in our college and universities we open opportunities for preparing candidates for the editorial chair. SITe have in slob institutions medival departments. Why not editorial departments? Do the legal and heal- ing profe.sesions demand more culture and careful training than the editorial or reportorial professions? I know, men zna,y tumble by what seems accident into other occupations, but. it would be an incalcuable advareta.ge if those proposing it newspaper lift. had an in- stitution to whieh they raight go and learn the qualifications, the responsi- bilities, the trials, the temptations, the dangers, the magnificent opportunities, of newspaper life. Let there be a lectureship ethich there shall appear the leading editors of the United States telling the story of their struggles, their victories, their mistakes, how they worked and what, they found out to be the best wtty for working. There will be strong men who will vlintb up with- out, such aid into editorial power and efficieney. So do men climb up to suc- cess in other branclees by sheer grit. But if we want learned institutions to ne. Ike lawyers and artists and doctors an I ministers we much more need learned institutions to make editors, tt ho occupy position of influence a hundredfold greater. I do not put the truth too strongly when I say the most potent influenste for good on earth is a good editor, and the most potent in- fluence for evil is a, bad one. The best way to re-inforce and improve the newspapers is to endow editorial pro- fessorates. When will Princeton or way 1' or Yale or Rochester lead the Another blessing of the newspaper ,is the foundation it lays for accurate his- tory of the time ha which we live. We for the most part blindly guess about the ages that antedate the newspaper and are dependent upon the prejudices of this or that historian. But after 100 or 200 years what a splendid oppor- tunity the historian will have to teach the people the lesson of the day. Our Bancrofts got from the early news- papers of this country, from the Bos- ton News -Letter, the New York Ga- zette and the American Rag Bag and Royal Gazette and independent Chron- icle and Massachusetts Spy and the Philadelphia Aurora accounts of Per- ry's victory and Hamilton's duel and Washington's death and the Boston massacre and the oppressive foreign. tax on luxuries which turned Boston harbor into a teapot and Paul Revere's midnight ride and Rhode Island rebel- lion and South Carolina nullifieation. But what a field for the chronicler of the great future when he opens the files of 100 standard American newspapers, gOving the minutiae of all things occur- ring under the social, political, eccles- iastical, international hoadings 1 Five hundred years from now, if the world bests so long, the students looking for stirring, decisive history will pass by the. misty corridors of other centuries and say to the libraries, "Find me the volumes that give the century in whieh the American Presidents were assassin- ated, the civil war enacted,. and the cotton gin, the steam locomotive and telegraph and electric pen and telephone a,nd. cylinder masses were invented. Once more. remark that .a good laewspaper is a blessing as an evangel- istic influence. You know there is it great change in our day taking place. All the secular newspapers of the day —for I am not speaking now of the religious newspapers—all the secular newspapers of the day disouss all the questions of God, eternity and the dead, and all the questions of the past', present and future. There is not a single doctrine of theology but has been discussed in the last ten years by the secular newspapers of the country. They gather up all the news of all the ea,rth beasing on religious subjects, and then they scatter the news abroad again. The Christian newspaper will be the right wuag of the apocalyptic) angel. The cylinder of the Christianized print- ing press will be the trent wheel of the Lordes chariot. I take the music of this day, and I do not mark it clinain- uend.o; I mark it cre,scendo. A 'pastor on a Sabbath preaches to a few hun- dred or a few thotteand people, and on .13retbin wants a constable, ft lock-up ; but no dog tax. Everett he's toff • d • ts 'Literary Society. The aeseseor of Holland Landing gets $19 for his work. At Rossiand, B.C., it heavy 10 -sterner mill is to he 4Teetrd. • Hunter and _Crossley, the revivalists • have gone to Bermuda. arablrote Great supper." Luke X4, eclOis4e. tuongkentbowern; itanvi.(1,j01‘vildwrIe)0 getiones.j.(snaileinve ' e () t 15.24. Golden Text, Luke 14, 17, both for the host and for the guest. GENERAL STATEMENT. Them that were bidden. Thoie that While jesu,s is still in the Perean had aecepted the first invitation. Come The invitation to the Gospel feast is (1) dominions of Herod Antipas, slowly authoritative, from Gode (2) joyful, walking to Jerusalem, anti teething as 'sing only pleastaxe ; (3) urgent, dee he went, he is one Sabbath day (De.- emluondinag Jnkinaliatiei. attrntion; (1) none e east unless Ire cember. A.D. 29) invited to dine with 'honks." All things are now ready. a large company at the dwelling of The food was cooked, and the waiting n poor on the Sabbata wealthy Pharisee. For the scruples maids were ready t° serve it' So the of the Pharisees, wbich forbade cures N(%.'-'981)elcame m the fullness of tiTte he h. made no it. So tie-stheooNwV.Vilod had been prepared for of t il we only tune, our objection to feasts of the rich. 1,Ve souls shall find, ire ca.nnot say precisely. where this par- every provision to meet the full needs ly Aurae, that able WAS told, but, it was in the neigh- tilltriour souls has Iwo mode, and all borhoad of 13ethabara, beyond Jordan, 18.gs'Arue.yneali rweiatcliYe'riini*eiirconteeanafteltetril where Jesus had been baptized by John, t° make excuse. Three or four of his closteet followers Iminds were one, although the guests began their friendship for him at that fvCtXrse, ialfraateee'efralllsorts. 'Thee. ail" re - time, and many holy and strange mem- Pie, who as all, *ratece 'rt(-liseettqler OfTerilleu- ores roust have hurried botly through have any of the rulers or (teethe Pli8atrie their minds as familiar landseapes call- sees believed. on hira?" But there are 1 around our churches and homes ed back the hour when the Baptist first wiilouY a pointed. out to them the Lamb of God car li e similax excusee where a t a acceptance might be expeeted. who was to take away the sin of the (5) Thawonder is that any should seek world. That holy sacrifice was now cfrxieerle:o:inet.itlitegaNtike:eeleYeilkit,cislieg'sir l• hey .1;iriallye about to be made, though these men but at tin: dimly understood it. Read this whole °lent reason for their ttelgioiNn-,n1)ust1:1friiio- chapter very carefully, as requested by one with love be leis heart will frame I the opportunity. to warn the amembe ga s:eitecieliti(1:11)esi(eite.isil nseufefixceeuseeo eXplaline 1 of salvation. The feast, at the Lesson Committee. Our Lord takes led guests against selfishness and pride, the and to urge generosity toward the poor. Then he presents the picture of the Gospel feast, with its abundant pro- vision, neglected and despised by those who received its earliest invitation, uiatil others were called to possess their neglected privileges. A similar par- able (Matt. 22. 1-14) was utterecl in the temple on Tuesday, April 4, the last day of Tesus'e public teething. All ex- cuses from God's claims are groundless. Neither posse:ohms, 1S1•4T1CSS, nor pleas- ure should stand between us and him. None of these exeuses were honest. And racist modern neglecters of divine grace resembles these invited guests in their failure to squarely meet divine claims. How often the "children of the king- dom" aro left out, while those whose opportunities are not nearly so good embrace Gotta offers and are saved. PRACTICAL NOTES. whieh thee. all "sat" game remelt to this whole story. Those who surrounded the tabk had not treated the hospi- table summons in any such contests's- tible way, but very likely that men who had piously sighed about rating bread in the kingdom of God was at this very time making excuses in his beart for rejecting Jesus. The first. An excuse in the East is almost equiva- lept to a declaration of war, bitter en- mity. Me filen (.bat a the man who, like all weelthy farmers in the least, lives in the village, but owns held,: far and near. He has bought a nen one and makes his purehase an apology for not going. 3 be frivolity of the clause is evident. His farm would not run away; hi. might have looked at it before lie purehased it; he might have looked at it after the feast hail been eaten. Ills excuse was really an insult tourteouely ex- pressed. (6) We 'Amulet attend first to that. duty which can beast afford to wait. i (7) How many and how varied he are tnfluentae which tend to hinder Verse 15. One of them that sat at our soul's salvation! meat with him. Our Lord was the 19. I have !taught five yoke of oxen. guest, of it Perean Phariee.e. The dinner An terminii as absurd as the last. Many was probably served in the evening. Al- many as five yoke of. oxen. (e) The though it is said that the company peasant farmers in the East have as we are to understand that they one already rich has no desire for sal - reclined on couches, alter the fashion vation ; the one seeking to be rich has of the Rozna,ns and the wealthier Jews no time for it. (9) "Things lawful in each man leaning on his left side and thernselve,s, when the heart is too much taking the foocl. from the table with set upon tb.em, prove fatal hindrances his right band. As we look baOk over 'in religion."—Matthew Henry. the centuries on that. little company 20. Married a wife. (10) How often we cannot but feel how honored were earthly affections stand in the way of the guests who thus sot at supper with heavenly treasures. Cannot some. It our Lord; but (1) Mueh more highly is not customary for women in the Ori - honored will those be who shall sit down • mit to accompany their husbands to pub - with him forever in heaven. These lie places or parties. The luxurious na- things. The bleseing which tlais can- bob had simply added one woman more didate for the Messiahship had just to his harem, and. it was a plain state - pronounced on those who gave feasts • moat that there was more pleasure for —not to the rich and the famous, but to Iiim al home in his own resources than the poor. He said unto him. 11Te do ' in his friend's house from his friend's not know the name of the guest who resourees. Read lieut. 24. 5 for ex - now speaks, but we owe him it great ouses granted newly -married bride - debt for it was his ejaculation which grooms, led to the telling of the rich story that 21. Showed. his lord these things. (11) follows. Blessed is be that shall eat He who is unsuccessful in his holy en - bread in the kingdom of God. If, in dea-vors, should go at once to the Master stead of the word "blessed," we read, and tell him all his disappointments. "0, how happy is he!" we will come , The master of the house being angry. nearer to (he original. "Eat bread" Being indignant. He felt that some - means, of course, partake of food, and thing must be done at once. (12) Work - would, in the anment language,refer ers tor God must be prompt. Go out to a sumptuous banquet as well as to quickly into the streets and lanes of biscuit and water. "The kingdom of the city. The creditable and discredit - God," in the. mouth of an ordinary Jew, able portions of the city. To the Jews probably meant the dominion of the who listened this meant that as the Messiah. How far it may also have re- elders bad,. rejected Jesus he had now ferred to the glorious future after death turned to the masses, to the publicans we cannot say. On our Lord's tongue, ant sinners. The poen This deseribed "the kingdom of God" had a broader most of the congeeg,ation Jesus prettch- meaning ; it meant the prevalenee of ed to. The manned . . the halt, .. God's ideas—the fulfillment of the pray- • . . the blind. Those who have de- er, "Thy kingdom come." But dais fects in character can have them sup- , guest probably used the .phrase with a plied by Lim who summons them to m thoroughly secular eamng. Doubtless, the feast. be took it for granted that, as a born 22. 11; is done. This servant unques- Jew, he would inherit rights to all the tioningly obeys the strange command. luxuries of the kingdom of God, and it 23, 24. Highways and hedges. The rep - is very likely that he had in his mind utable and disreputable parts of the expectations of luxurious banquets to country. Compel them to come in. Not which this young Messiah would invite by force, but by the constraint of good his friends as soon as he was estab- reason and much love. The ultbaaate lished on the throne of Judah, decision of every sent rests with itself. 16. Then he said unto him. Therrien There was no persuasion offered to those was right in his theology, but wrotig in who had already excused themselves, his application of it. Those that might because they showed no interest: but be thus "blessed" were unconsclously those who axe really unfit, and not at refusing to "eat bre,a,(1 "—to partici- ali prepared. for the royal feast, are pate. in the Messianio banquet, A. core urged toad besought to come. None of tain man. This parable and that of n those. God never tolerates the non - "the marriage of the king's son" (Matt.. tempt of the self-righteous. 2 nearly resemble each other, bee . there are also important differences. I and they belong to -different periods of Christ's ministry. This "certain man"! SAUSAGES IN GERMANY, represents God, and the "great supper" In the Now Year's procession at Kon - is the feast of fat things which Isaiah igsberg in 1558 a bologna sausage exhi- mentions—the blessings of the Gospel bited by the "butchermen" was 022 feet dispensation. A great supper. In in length, and was carried on the shoula the East iich men frequently gave feasts ders of sixty-seven meti and boys. The for their own glorification.The guests are not necessarily family friends. Thee' exhibited in e year 158$ was over 1600 feet n length, t are made up of all sorts of folks, whose ewe, weighed, 434 peones. presence will increase the ostentation• scription of Sindbacl the Sailor's ban- , splendor of the host. Read the de -a Last year the ' Goldet Lode 'mine of quets, as given in the Arabian Nights, Uniacke, N. S., divided 45 per cent. on or, better still, the story, in the same the par -value of the ca,pitat stock in strange book, .of the 13armecide's feast, nine months, ; The early electing movenaent in °Al- ba is making lieadway. There has been a great deal of illness at Bradford this season. Egarowille is talking about ferreting a company of volunteers. • Severn Bridge has a gang of thieves that steal bay and fodder. A new provincial dairy school has been opened at Strathroy. Edward Middleton, Iloharte has lost three fingers in a buzzesa.w. Washago prides itself upon the pose session of a good roller mill. A man in Ottawa has been fined $40 for selling cigarettes to boys. Mr. hall-. Malthewson is president of the Winnipeg Board of Trade. The Vietoria, B.C., Sehoel Board is cutting down teachers' salaries. At 'Wolfe /eland the St. Lawrence bits raised a foot since. ()ember. Sarnia is already anxiously looking forward to its race meet, in July. At Rossland, B.C.,. gold quartz bas been discovered yielding $20 per ton. The custom of delioroing eattle in Western Ontario is rapidly extending. Rev. L. M. Weeks has been installed pastor of the Baptist tthureli itt Orillia. A Provincial eissottiation of -Mining Engineers has been formed. al, Vancouv- er. A Shakespeare man sold a pure white - bred Lepaeoret hen, the other day for $10. Kingston and Pembroke railway gain- ed 514,000 last year over the business in 1894. To fill a B.C. order, 15.0(10 glass jars were turned out, last, week at Wallace - burg. A training sehool for Frenelt and Beg- lieh tell:tillers will be established at CO - Mem Rodney is raising a bonus of $2,000 to have a 49,000 Hour inill ereeted there, in the C. P. R. shops at Ottawa a private car is being built for 3. R. Boot b. Mock parliaments are the popular pas- time in country towns and villages this winter. The Vaneouver Board or Trade does not endorse the present ship railway scheme. Last, year the (OPAL gross earnings 'WHIT nearly $19,000,000 and the net 57,504,000. I '; ory f • . f f 1. tric appliances is to be established at St. Cat ha rl nes. At Meosomin James Thompson got 17 years in tit-' penitentiary for perjury at a murder trial. Cunningham's loot and shoe estab- lishment, Antigonish, N. S., has been de- stroyed by fire. Aurora's Puhlic Library will be given to the Government unless the Town Council assumes control. Rev. Wm. Hartley, Guelph, has been called to the pastorate of Centre street _Baptist churehe Si. Thomas. Guelph's assessments shows an in- crease of 52,670 over that of last year, and the pepulation has increased 221. There is a complaint in Montreal be- cause Frenchmen in the Cooled! out- • number Englishmen ou important come I: mittees. A passenger and freight steamer may be put on the water next season to run from Wallaceburg to Montreal, stop- ping at leading cities on the way. A man near Guelph was recently of- fered 500 pounds of flour, 200 pounds of pork, 900 pounds of potatoes, twb pounds butter and one load of wood for 420 cash. „ At the industrial exhibition at Win- nipeg next summer it is proposed to of- fer a prize for the woman who can harness a team of horses, drive half a mile, and unharuess them in tbe quick- est time. The late John 13roson, M.P. left an estate worth nearly nail a million. His wife gets 5150,000: his son George is to have $100,000; a handsome sum is left to his daughter; the Foreign Mission fund of the Presbyterian church gets $5,000 and the Horne Mission fund 55,- 000; the Ottawa Auxilliary Bible Soci- ety $2,500. , Petrolea„ it is claimed, will see one of the busiest su,mmers ever known in her history this summer. Three new ! churches, at an average cost of $10,000 each, will be erected; the waterworks at a cost of $172,000; a large brick ho- tel at a cost of $20,000; also a num- ber of private residences will be built. The new railroad, tapping the C.P.R., is considered to be a. sure thing. Dr. bteelo, of Tavistock, has in his possession a curious botanical freak. Amongst the house plants is a small rose bush which sent up a single shoot about ten inches hi height., and • from the top of which two branches extend. On each of these branches is a rose, the one a (imam, the other a deep pink, and different in size, shape and nature. And i to add: to the strange difference one has e. a, beautiful rosy fragrance while the other is entirely without perfume ,oete _ COINCIDENCES, some or the Queerest lteeOrdet1 mit wooer or the Vtor1t1. The late well-known arehaeologist, Albert Way. crossing Pall Mall cannon- • ed against an old gentleman, After mutual apologies cards were exchange ed; on each card was printed: "Air. Al- bert Way." The older gentleman, dy- mg, left his fortune to the other Al- bert Way. The planet tu gat Lor t countless ages revolved in the heavens UTISeell by any one on earth, was dis- covered simultaneously and independ- ently in 1816 by Prof. Adams and M. Leverrier, the two most, brilliant as- tronomers of the day. tome few years ago a shepherd boy placed a sleeper on the railway line bettveen Brighton and Fainter, in Eng- land, with the result that a train was thrown off the rails. One year later to a day—almost to a minute — that same youth was struck by lightning and instantan.eously killed within a couple of miles from the spot, at which the accident occurred. Sir Walter Besant tells of the fol- lowing curious coineidenc.e which hap- pened to himself. "I was consulting," he says, "an artist, with regard to the face and. features of a character which he was illustrating for me, and I brieflydescribed to him the kind of face i had n mind. He was naeaneybIle rapidly eketching a face, on a piece of paper he had before him. 'Will that dor he asked, showing me the exact portrait of the man I had been think- ing of." The four Xing Georges of England all died on the some day of the week. In 1890 a few weeks before the cen- sus taker began his entuneration of the people of Elm Grove, Yieginia, the townauthorities counted thew own popula- tion, preparatory to filling artieles of incorporation. The following was the remarkable result: Number of males over 21 years of age, 148; number of males under 21 years of age, 148; num- ber of females over 16 years of age, 148; number of females under 16 years of age, 148. Some four years ago in Teheran an English sailor was caught in the act of carrying off sorue precious stones from the Shah's palace, The thief was brought before the "Ring of Kings,'' who swore that next time the sailor crossed his path he would at once be put to death. It is a curious fact that this very sailor was crossing the street when the Shah was driving in Berlin, now some years ago, and was knocked down and instantly killed. WHY DENTISTS USE GOLD "People seem," said a practical den- tist recently, '"to wonder why it ie that dentists use gold for stopping teeth, and are inclined to believe that it is because they wish to run up the 1)1118. As is well known, silver would resist the acids found in the mouth al- naost as well, and. I have been asked at least 200 times why I did not use sil- ver. 11 those who are so anxious to cast aspersions on the dentists would only study metallurgy,y el thewould r that the reason that we they gold a that it is the only ro.etal that will veld while cold; Silver will not do so; nor will anything else, The cohesive properties of perfectly smooth and clear gold are astonishing. If you take a sheet of gold foil and let It fall upon mother, both will be so firnaly joined that it will be impossible to separate them. It is this property that makes gold valuable to dentists, and not the desire to increase bills." A FIGURE OF SPEECH. SOMEONE MUST SUFFER. a If. a Chinaman dies while being tried or murder, the faot of his dying is aka) as evidence of his guilt. He has d 4, b td n his eldest son, if he has one, is eLberee fore sent to prison for it yeor. It he has no son, then bis father or brother gets' a flogging. • It's all in the family, and somebody has to pay for it. Mrs. G—Don't you thiuk, Albert, tint there is something hidden about the new girl? Mr. G.—Is there anything missing?