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Exeter Times, 1896-4-16, Page 7SPIRIT a THE PRESS,, >tEEn DR. TAi,MAGE FINDS TWO UNIQUE TEXTS. end n e:winee a woad sermon on the C~•iviiie• tisar~sioii or Newspapers—De )says neat ate the 'nett lenient konhicies of 4 4i elteCl'ine Age. tinthintstou, March 29,—Newspaper a rt is called here in Washington, , th, bananas of officers connected with , pronbient journals throughout the ; sand, pays so mutat attention to Dr. Talmage they maty be glad to liar hat he thinks of diem while he dis- tussse a subject, in which the whole country is inters:<ted. His texts clay were: "An'.! the wheels were full oi ern" ( z .ati-cl x. •t2), "For all -the ^th.•izians mad steaugers whieh were there tri* tell or to hear some new thinks" (Aces wilt 21). Weal is a ;,net ice• to do when he fin :ea texts egaruIIy good and sug- s gent ? in that perplexity I take 1 lee h. ;i'L.•reis full of eyes? Wbat.but th. elaels of a newspaper printing peas!? (eh es wheels are blind. They " roll on. t•:illing ur ertishing. '1'he man- uteetera's a heel• --how it grinds the opera kor v;ith f:atig,t•e and rolls: over a - nerve and jet . ale ones crone and heart. 110110 knowing what it dues. The.sewing nesse hilus w is 't1 saes net the "aches and pains insane:I to it ---tighter than the lam! that naves it, sharper than the needle 'which it plies. Every moment of i•very hour of every y day of every lnieeth of every year there are bun - Made -of thousands of wheels of me- imeelent, wheels of 'enterprise, wheels o; h.rrch r;ork in motion, but they are eyeless. :dot so the wheels of the printing press, Tbeir entire business is to look and report. They are full of optio nerves, -from axle to periphery. They are like those spoken of by Ezekiel, as full of eyes. Sharp eyes, nearsighted, farsighted. They look up. They look down. They Look far away. They take in the next street and the next hernispiwre. Eyes of criticism, eyes of investigation, eyes that twinkle (1 • with mirth, eyes glowing with indtina- tion, eyes tender with love, eyes of I hope, blue eyes, black eyes, green eyes, holy eyes, evil eyes, sore eyes, political e a s c But I discourse now on a subject you have never heard --the imineasur- able and everlastingblessing of a good newspaper. r, Thank wheel pa God for the h l fullpe of eyed Thank God for the do not have, like the Athenians, to about to gather up and relate or- paper that pictures only the honesty tidings of the day, since the omeiv nus newspaper does both for us. The the THE : EXETER TIMES. mirror of life as it is. It is someti complain d. th t ) pars report t evil when they ought only to report t good. They hey must report the evil well as the good, or how shall we knt what is to be reformed, what guard against, what fought down'? A new mss Monday or during the week the print es ing press will take the same serrno and preach it to millions SS zp,s of people. G d printing gti epr ss! printing Christianize t printing _press. When ;l see the printing press stand. ing with the electrio telegraph on th t- To both of the: e avers i.nv seri the de- STORY FOR on ploralily poor. We are net to sup- DARING MEN. od pose that such Pharisees as the one wlto Ali was a h rIr e� naw entertaining ant rite fn xtain" J aP ' in esus invite g ti cane g d h` > i xt at> 1 fes ek iii 1 i h Nifty t1 1> h., believe cued i n him but cath- ri grandest temporal blessing that Clod has zve h the newspaper. We would have better ew Keep children tinder the on g n to he nineteent century is er ' t pprelat•ion of the blessing if we kn and virtue of society is a misreprese talion. That family is best l erf•pa2 for the duties of life which, knowi the evil, is taught to select the gc that all i . , ixtrpressi s fair and right in the wor and when they go out into it they iv be as poorly prepared to struggle wi it as a child who is thrown into middle of the Atlantic and told to lea how to swim. Our only, complaint where sin is made attractive and mor ality dull, when vice is painted wi great headings and good deeds are m obscure corners, iniquity set ul. great primer and righteousness in n pureil. Sin is loatlresome ; make it: lost. sbome. Virtue Is beautiful; • make ft tiful. would work a vast improvement all our papers --religious political,. 1i erary—should for the most part dro their impersonality. This would better justice to newspaper writer Many of the strongest and best write of the country live and ilia unknow and are denied their just fame. 1 vast public never learn who they ar Most of them are on comparative small incomes, and after awhile th hand forgets its cunning, and they ar without. resources, left to die. Why nc at least have his initials attached to h most important work? It always ga additional force to an article when yo oer Basic .1 nil saw added dded to some sign ficant article in the old New a:or Courier and Enquirer J. W. W., or i The Tribune, H. G., or in 'i.he Iteral( (r. 11., or in The Tunes, 1-i. J, lt., c The evening Post, W. C. 13., or i The Evening Express, E. 13. While this arrangement would be fair and just thing for newspape writers, it would be a defense for th public. It is sometimes true that thing damaging, to private character ar said. Who is responsible? It is the "we" of the editorial or reportoria columns. Every man in every profes Rion or occupation ought to be, respon sible for what be does. No honorabi man will ever write that which h would be afraid to sign. But thousand of persons have suffered from the im personality of newspapers. What ea one private citizen wronged in his rep utation do in a contest with misrep resented= multiplied into 20,000 or 50, 000 eopies? An injustice done in prin is illimitably worse than au in'ustic done in private life. During buss temper a man may say that for whit he will be sorry in ten minutes, but newspaper injustice has first to taken off anal read and corrected, an written, set up in type, then the proo then for six or ten hours the presse are busy running off the issue. Plenty of time to correct; plenty of time t cool off; plenty of time to repent. 13u all that is hidden, in the impersonalit of a newspaper. it wi11 be a long ate forward when all is changed and new paper writers get credit for the goo and are held responsible for the evil. Another step forward for newspaper darn will be when in our college an universities we open opportunities fo preparing candidates for the editoria chair. We have in such institutions niedieai departments. Why not. editoria departments? Do the legal and heal ing professions demand more eultur and careful training than the editoria or reportorial professions? I know men may tumble by what seems accident into other occupations, but. it would be an inealcuable advantage if those proposing a newspaper life had an in- stitution to whticb they might go and learn the qualifications, the responsi- bilities, the trials, the temptations, the dangers, the magnificent, opport unities, of newspaper life. Let there be a lectureship in which there shall appear the leading editors of the United State telling the story of their struggle., their victories, their mistakes, how the worked and what they found out to be the best way for working. There will he strong men who will t11nt11 up with- out such aid into editorial power and efficiency. So do men climb up to suc- cess in other branches by sheer grit. But if we want, learned institutions to m Eke lawyers and artists and doctors ani ministers we much more need learned institutions 1.0 make editors, yr ho occupy a position of influence a hundredfold greater. I do not put. the truth too strongly when 1 say the most potent influence 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 Harvard or Yale or Rochester lead the way ? Another blessing of the newspaper is the foundation it lays for accurate his- tory of the time in 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 s-ot 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 Philadelpbia Aurora accounts of Per- ry's victory and I3amilton'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 I:slnnd rebel- lion and South Carolina nullification. But what a field for the chronicler of the great future when he opens the files of 100 standard American newspapers, giving the minutiae of all things occur- ring under the social, political, eccles- iastical, international headings ! Five hundred years from now, if the world lasts so Icing, 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 which the American Presidents were assassin- ated, the civil war enacted, and the cotton gin, the steam locomotive and telegraph and electric pen and telephone and cylinder presses were invented. Once more I remark that a good newspaper is a blessing as an evangel- istic influence. You know there is a great change in our day taking place. An the secular newspapers of the day —for I am not speaking now of the religious newspapers—all the secular newspapers of the day discuss 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 earth bearing on religious subjects, and then they scatter the news abroad again. True Christian newspaper will be the right wing. of the apocalyptic angel. The cylinder of the Christianized print- ing press will be the front wheel of the Lord's eharioi. I take the music of this days, and I do' not mark it dimin uenrlo ; I mark it crescendo, • A pastor on a. Sabbath preaches to a few bun- o. dred or a few thousand people, and on e because they t er because his presence at the banquet ---- - would make the outside gossips talk of INT the b INTERESTING ITEMS e an o. tai qu t. (2 God's grace zs a least S ABOUT oU of the richest are, the= fullest en o - a Y ovvlw COUNTRY. mens, and the most noble companion - s4115. It is well for us to think much m ai sive. If there is any one who has tired of e 1 one side gathering uI> material and th lightning express train on the sideother ng waiting for the tons of folded sheets pod of newspapers, I ;pronounce it the mightiest force in our civilization. So ill I commend you to pray for all those th and, T.far ag ttbe enewspapers of the the I s tters, for all report- rn era, for all editors, for all publishers, ,n ghat, sitting or stand ing in positions of taiuch great influence, they may give alt th that influent* for Gall and the better- pnment of the human rare, An aged wo- man making her living by knitting un- on- wound the yarn from the hall until she found in the center of the ball there was an old piece of news it paper. She. opened it and read an advertisement if ' which announced that she had become t- heiress to a large property, and that fragment of newspaper lifted her from to pauperism to affluence. Anrl I do not , know but as the thread of time unrolls rs and unwinds a little farther through was the silent yet speaking newspaper may eebe found the vast inheritance of the . world's redemption. illy' IDoes4 hisasu creS ivey �i urn {•s run, e His kingdom stretc Z from shore to is Till sunsshall rise and set no mor . e ve i- .^t VV r_ k TIIJ SU�vAA ^ pp^^ (� it Sl..li'�Q�. ?n idTERNATIONAI, LESSON, APR. 12. R tbe tante sport of shooting deer, reeose, panthers, wildcats, brown and grizzly bears, and of catching little trout, black bass,. and salmon, and has longing a ,suvin� it, Iet hitxz gu • Cuba. .besides the c banGes of be. captured. or shot by Spaniards as a. spy, he will find there a sort which fo p r • real live danger, is unequalled, even by the killing of a roaring tiger, the of charge of a herd of angered elephants, and beside which even wounded bull n moose are no longer eharming. According to a Cuban, shark fish ig is a sport to be dreamed about. The Cuban shark fishermen take chunks of beef and throw them overboard out s beyond the reefs, where the dorsal fins of sharks are to be seen cutting the water with a vicious swish. like the, plunge of a modern rifle bullet into a stream. Instazit.ly there is a rush, fit to snake ordinary brave men blanch, far the eagerness of the sharks to ,rend the bloody meat is something to think twice about. low is the time for the sportsuzan to do as the Cuban .,ismer- man sloes. Stripping off his light p clothleapses.amongg the fish, aungnd thrusts the knife to the nearest shark's heart. A uie w k sec q nhu � s. en dw oudt i p n hate t rt blood, and then the sport fairly I e�gins . It is death to a man who then loses bre nerve. There is Elope; for the buck- s ; feverish roan who is facing a wounded tiger, 1>ut none for tho man among the sharks. The C uban expert watches his ohances, and as the sharke, attracted by the blood, come to tear their mato to pieces, he strikes them ane by one, and spas the water is filled with sharks .,kipping their last in the water ued with brood. When a shark comes for 1 him, he glides to one side, and as the shark rustics past on its si,le be strikes it dead. Bags of twenty-five or thirty man-eating sharks may be captured thus has a iew minutes. The teeth are the trophies. To get them the head is boiled in a big iron soap caldron. A tooth of a healthy shark es ivory white, with a hard, por- ' celain finish, and could he worn as a trophy. There are several rows of these teeth, ()ne row of tbetn eat out would make a caw•. the te•eth being oibtusely triangular, each exposed edge • of a single tooth seeing cut into min- ? ute teeth. 'Phe sharks bite a man's leg off, and do not tear it off. as is gen- ! etrings out. of h,.p:a teeth fs Valle rang the squaws Wray think much of thdre bun ter;t. and one would suppose that a i string of them would not be unaccept- • aisle to a paleface ' eethenrt, he shank's msy tet t eke n in a variety of other w.:ys. utiles, .pears, harpoons, • leesut's (snares), or fishhooks a foot lung. ' Anel tine y are t ;ken often in nets, but nut because the netter wants to take them, ass they tear and tangle the nets for rods. th:e money, the brains, the olsses, the exasperations, the anxieties., the wear and tear of heartstrings involved in the produotton of a goad newspaper. 1 rnder the impression that almost any- locly can make+ a newspaper, scores of inexperienced capitalists every year enter the lists, and consequently dur- ing the last few years a newspaper Inas died almost every year. The easy' is epidemic. The larger pappers swallow the smaller ones, the whole taking down 50 minnows at one swal- low. With more than 7000 dailies and weeklies in the 'United States an,i Canada, there are but 36 a half cen- tury old. Newspapers do not average more than five years existence. The most of them die of cholera infantum. It is high time that the peo le found out that the mast successful way to sink money and to keep it Bunk is to start a newspaper. There comes a time when almost every one is smitten with Thee newspaper mania and starts one. or have stock in one he must or die. The couleee of procedure is about this: A literary man has an agricul- tural or scientific or political or re- ligious idea which he wants to ven- tilat' t. He htsno n mu a of hits awa— y literary men seldom have—but he talks of his ideas among confideutial friends nniil they heeoute inflarrzed, with the idea, and forthwith they buy type and press and rent composing room and gat her a corps of editor's, and with a prespectus that proposes to cure every- thing the first ropy is flung on the at - tent ion of an admiring world. After awhile one cif the plain stockholders finds that no great or revoiut iorn has been affected by this daily or weekly puhli- catthan; that nen lam sun or moon starels still; that the world goes on lying and cheating and stealing just as it did be- fore the first issue. The aforesaid mrtt- ter of fate stucikiialder wants to sell out his stock, but nobody wants to buy, anal other stock -holders get infected and sick of news,peperdom, and an enormous bill at the paper factory into an ava- lanAiie, and the printers refuse to work until back wages are paid up, and the compositor bows to the managing edi- tor, and the managing editor bows to tiic editor in chief and the editor in chief bows to the directors, and the irectors bow to the world at large and all the subscribers wontlt*r why heir paper flak: zi't conte, The world sviii have to learn that a. new. paper is is much of an institution as the Bank o J ngalnd or Yale College, and is not n enterprise. If you have the: afore - aid agricultural or scientific or re- igious or political idea to ventilate, you had better charge upon the world hrough the columns already estala fished, It is folly for any one who aunt succeed at anything else to try iewspapsrdcan.. If you cannot climb lie hill back of your house, it is folly o try the sides of the Matterhorn. To publish o newspaper requires the (till, the precision, the boldness, the vigilance, the strategy of a commander n erste.,. 'lo edit a newspaper requires h tr one to Ipe a statesman, an essayist a g •t,grapher, a st it istichan and, in equisition, eneyelopediac. '.1'o man, to veru, to propel a newspaper until it hazll be a fixed institution, a national fact, demands mare qualities than any business on earth. If you feel like starting any newspa er, secular or re- hgious, understand that you are being threatened with softening of the brain or lunacy, and throwing your pocket- book into your wife's lap start for oma insane asylum before you do omething desperate. Meanwhile as he (lead newspapers week after week rd carried out to burial ail the living ewspapers give respeetful obituary, oiling when they were born andwhen hey died. The best printers' ink hould give at least ono stickful of tpitaph. If it was a fiood paper, say, Peace to its ashes."" df it was a had paper. .1 suggest the epitaph written for Francis Chartreuse: Here son- inueth to rot the body of Franeis hartreuse, who, with an inflexible (instancy and uniformity of life, per-• ted in the practice of every human ice excepting prodigality and hypro- risy. His insatiable avarice exempt - him from the first, his matchless mprudence from the second." I say his because 1 want you to know that good, healthy, long-lived, entertain - g newspaper is not an easy blessing, ut ane that comes to us through the fire. First of all, newspapers make know- dge democratic and for the multi - u e. Tho public library is a haymow high up that few can reach it, while e newspaper throws down the forage our feet. Public libraries are the servoirs where the great floods are orad high up and away off. The ewspaper is the tunnel that brings m. down to _ the pitchers of all the eo le. The chief use of great libraries to make newspapers out of. Great ibraries make a few men and women cry wise. Newspapers lift whole na- ons into the sunlight. Better have ,000 people moderately intelligent an 100,000 salons. A false impression is abroad that wspaper knowledge is ephemeral be - use periodicals are thrown aside, and t one out of 10,000 people files them or future reference. Such knowledge, fax from being ephemeral, goes into e very, structure of the world's heart d brain and decides the destiny of arches and nations. Knowledge on e shelf is of little worth. It is know dge harnessed, knowledge in revolu- zon, knowledge winged, knowledge jetted, knowledge thunderbolted. fax from being ephemeral, nearly l the best minds and hearts have air hands on the, printing press to- y and have had since it got emanci- pated. Adams and Hancock and Otis used to go to the Boston Gazette and compose articles on the rights of the eople. Benjamin I+ranklin, De Witt hnton, . Hamilton, Jefferson, Quincy, o strong in newspaperdom. Many the -immortal things that have been blished in book form first appeared What you may call the ephemeral riodical. ' All Macaulay's essays first eared in a review. All Carlyle's, Rushing's all Mclntosh's, all . Syd- y Smith's, all Hamlitt's, all Tha k ay's, all the elevated works of fic- on in our day, are reprints from criodicals in which they appeared as serlats. Tennyyson's poems, Burns' poems„ Longfell.ow's poems, Emer- sn'sr's poems, Lowell's. poems, Whit - You canno s find sten elites yi . men c ing Christendom with strong minds and great hearts, but are or have been. somehow connected with the newspaper printing press, While the book will always have its place, the newspaper is mare potent, Because the latter is necessarily superficial. 1f . a man should from -childhood to old age see only his Bible, Webster's dictionary and bis newspaper, he could be prepar- ed for all the duties of this life, and all the happiness of the next. Again, a good newspaper is a useful eyes, literary eyes, hrestorical eyes, re- ligious eyes, eyes that see everything. "•And the wheels were full of eyes." But in my seeond text is the world's cry fur the newspaper. Paul describes a class of people in Athens who spent their tine. either in gathering the news or telling it. Why especially in Ath- ens ? Because the :core intelligent l,eopt.nancome the more inquisitive they are—not about s*mall things, but great things. The question then .roost frequently is the question now most frequently asked, What is the news ? To answer that cry in the text for the newspaper the •t:rnturies have put their wits to work. China first succeeded and has at Peking a newspaper that bas been printed every week for 1,000 years, publishing TI a ActtaimDiurna, nt theded e same column putting fires, murders, marriage's and tempests. Prance suc- ceeded by a physician writing out the news of the day for his patients, Eng land succeeded under Queen Elizaleth in first publishing the news of the Spanish armada and going on until she had enough enterprise, when the battles of Waterloo was fought, de - siding the destiny of Europe, to give it one-third of a column in the London 1MTorning Chronicle, about. as much as the newspaper of our day gives of a small fire. America succeeded by Benjamin Harris' first weekly paper, called Public Occurrences, 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 quarterly 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! No sooner had its power been demonstrated 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- olared that the ]ing of Naples made it unsafe for him to write of any- thing but natural history Austria could not endure Kossuth's journalis- tic pen pleading for the redemption of Hungary. Napoleon I, trying to keep his iron heel on the necks of nations. said, "Editors are the regents of sovereigns and the tutors of nations and are only fit for prison." But the battle for the freedom of the press tfi'fts fought in the courtrooms of Eng- land and Amerioa and decided before this century began by Hamilton's elo- quent plea for J. Peter • Zinger's Ga- zette in Amerioa and Erskine's ad- voeaef of the freedom of publication in. England. There were the Harahton and Thermopyale in which the freedom of the press was established in the t7nited States and Great Britain, and all the powers of earth and hell will never aggain be able to put on the lcandeuffs and hopples of literary and political despotism. It is notable that l'homas Jefferson, who wrote the De- c'larathon of American l.ndependence, :',rote also, "If I had to choose between, .y government without newspapers, or 'icwspapers without a government, I 'should prefer the latter, ' Stung l;y some bare fabrication coming to us in print, we Dome to write or speak of : he unbridled printing press, or, our new book ground up by an unjust static, we come to write or speak of the unfairness of the printing press, of perhaps through our own zndistinct- ile8s of utterance we are reported as. saying just the opposite of what we did say, and. there is a small riot or semicolons, hyphens and commas, and we dome to epeak or write of the blundering printing press, or, seeing a paper filled with divorce eases or social scandal, we speak and write of the filthy printin press, or, seem a , otrr- nal through bribery wheel rou ld from otte p�political side to the other in one night, we speak of . the corrupt print ing press, and many talk about the lampoonery and the empiricism, and the sans oulottism o f the ranting) press, t s t a go s s 9 t• a n t t s t Cr c ars v C eta a in b le t d SO th to re st the p is 1' ve t0 h ase ca no f so th an th le tpro aal th da C1 we of n in pe neap er ti p' a Parable of the Great Supper." Luke 14, ✓ 15,24. Golden Text, Luke 14, 17, e GENERAL STATEMENT. s e 1 - be went, he is one Sabbath day (De- o cember. A.D. 291 invited to dine with e a large company at the dwelling of s a wealthy Pharisee. For the scruples • of the Pharisees, which forbade cures of th While Jesus is . still in the Perean dominions of Herod. Antipas, slowly walking to Jerusalem, and teaching as t . Sabbath, made no objection to feasts of the rich. We cannot say precisely where this par- able was told, but, it was in the neigit- of boyhood of 13ethabara, beyond Jordan, h w1iex' Jesus had been baptized by ,Torus. be Three or four of his elusest followers • began their friendship for him at that f time, and many holy and strange mem- s Dries must have hurried hotly through • their minds as familiar landscapes call - t ed back the hour when the Baptist. first Y pointed out to them the Lamb of God P wlio was to take away the sin of the d world. That holy sacrifice was now about to be made, though these men but dimly* understood it. Read this whole ✓ chapter very Carefully, as requested by i the Lesson Committee. Our Lord takes the opportunity to warn the aeeteznb- a1 led guests against selfishness and pride, es and to urge generosity upward the 1 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, until others were called to possess their neglected privileges. A similar par- able (Matt. 22. 1-14) was uttered in the temple on Tuesday, April 4, the last day of Jesus's public teaching. All ex - s i crises from (b l's claim's are groundless. s Neitherpa,Sse>lnians, baseiness, nor pleas- ure should stand between us and him. y None of these excuses were honest.. And most, 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" are left out, while those whose opportunities are not. nearly so gcoil embrace' God's offers and are saved. PRACTICAL NOTES Verse 15. One of them that sat at meat with hire, Our Lord was the guess: of au Vereun Pharisee. The dinner •as probably served in the evening. Al- gli it is said that the company "sat," We are to understand that they reclined on couches, after the fashion of the Romans and the wealthier Jews, each man leaning on his left side and taking the food from the table with his right hand. As we look back over the centuries on that little company we cannot: but feel how honored were the guests who thus sat at supper with our Lord; but (1) Much more highly honored will those be who shall sit down with him forever in heaven. These things. The blessing which this can- didate for the Messiahship had just. pronounced on those who gave feasis —not to the rich and the famous, but to the poor. He said unto him. We do not know the name of the guest who now speaks, but we owe him a great debt for it was his ejaculation which led to the telling of the rich story that follows. Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. If, in- stead of the word "blessed," we read, "0, how happy is he!" we will come nearer to the •original. "Eat bread" means, of course, partake of food, and would, in the ancient language., refer to a sumptuous banquet as well as to biscuit. and water. "The kingdom of God," in the mouth of an ordinary Jew, probably meant the dominion of the Messiah. How far it may also have re- e ferred to the glorious future after death t we cannot. say. On our Lord's tongue, a "the kingdom of God" had a broader most it meant the prevalence of e God's ideas—the fulfillment of the pray- er, "Thy kingdom come." But this f guest probably used the phrase with a A of this figure of speech, "a great su pe'r'" The great Kin , through u numbered centuries, has beers prepay , A antro te> the 1'acl___ d l Chatham has a defleienc; - 3 y of .50,000. e , Caistor Centre is troubled with ghosts h ; The oiI loam is increasing at Both t well. 1�intrston has a little epidemic mumps. li . New Westminster .wants the wome to vote. d Bread in Chatham has gone up from 5 t.(> (" Cents. p- (lathered from Various points Isom the sort witha m g for n- tl p to10 ing int; a spiritual feast for your :soul an mune, and longs for us to come au(1 en joy it. Bade many. Our Lord leer probably would refer to the Jessica pec>ple, to whom the Gospel wits firs preach'd, but, as in most of his par antes, there is a secondary meaning wineli aplpIies to all who hear t lie ca: of Christ, The Eastern custom, wide invited the guests long beforehand, as ' we do for a wedding, whieh announce t.lte coming feast of the whole neigh • borhood and allowed the men anal w, risen of the streets to crowd in and li the wa11s p-' Tip, North End rink, at Halifax, ha ase Le.•rr burned. e? Allist.on hues not allow snow -balling e on its streets. i' I)rechin wants a constable, s. lock.up,. d but no dog tax. d Everett has taffy pulls, and wants a ri gaze an the guests, Inns be kept in mined as we follow the cours of the story. (3) "All ho have bee • brought up in Christian families, al who have been trained in church an Sabbath school, all who have studie tbe word of God," are hidden to th Lord's banquet. 17. tient his servant. at sup per time. The "servant" re presents every bearer of the Gaspe invitation, preacher, Sunday sehoo teacher, friend. (4) It is a high bonus to be hod's herald of the glad tidings At supper e x tits, e +1 . Kitto o •e Pp i , w nt too a when he staled that it was customer, in the b::i::t to forrntelly remind truest of t•he,ir engaageineni; lint such a• coot e Literary Society. Hunter and Crestley, the revivalists , have gone to Bermuda. • lia is making headway. s There has been a great deal of Blues not lie contrary to austral% and e• Egansville le talking abont forming a company of volunteers. • Severn Bridge has a gang of thieves . that steal hay and fodder. • A new rovincial dairy school has Bradford this season. °ally unknown, und a here guests live close together, it would be convenient both for the host and for the guest, had accepted the first invitation. Come The invitation to the Gospel feast is (1) authoritative, from God; (2) joyful. ising .onle' pleasure; (8) urgent, de - man ing immediate attention; (4) none can partake of the feast unless he "comes." All things are now ready. The food wee cooked, and the waiting ' maids were ready to serve it. So the Gospel came in the fullneee of time When the world had been prepared for it. eo now, in the accepted time, our souls shall find, if we only come, that every provision to meet the full needs of our souls has irean made, and all thinge are now reed Tle.sy all with. one ceneent• began to make excuse. Their hearts and minds were one, although the guests fers, first of aIl, to God's clioseri stee- ple. who as a race rejected Christ— "ha.ve any of the rulers or of the Phari- sees believed on him?" But there are many armed. our churches and homes who make similar excusee where a cordial a.ceeplanee might be expected. (a) 1 be wonder is that arty should seek fr'iends do not make exeusee; they may at times feel the need. of giving suffi- cient reason for their action. but no one with love in his herixt will frame • nee, eau es, no excuse can be framed which will suffice to explain the negleet of salvation. The feast at whirl) they all "sat" gave point to this whole etory. Those who surrounded the table had not treated. the hospi- table eturanons in any such contemp- tible way, but very tbat men who had. piously sienied about eating bread in the banietorn of God wile at eine vexy time making excuses in his bean for rejecting Jesus. l'he first. exeu.se in the East is almost equiva- lent to a deelaration of war, bitter en- mity. The first is that of the slant who. like all wealthy farmers in the East, lives in the village. but owns fielra far and near. He bee bought a !UM one and mattes his purchase an apology for not pang. The frivolity of the exeunt is evident. His farm would not run away . he might have looked at it before he purchased it ; he might have looked. a.t it after the feast had betel eaten. Ifis excuse eats really an ineutt courteously ex- pressed. (0) We should attend first to that duty whieh can least afford to wait. (7) How many and how varied are the influenees which tend to hinder our soul's salvation! 19. I have hought five Yoke of oxen. An evasion as absurd as the last. Many many as five yoke oL oxen. (8) The peasant farmers in the East have as one already Tit‘h has no desire for sal- vation; the one seeking to be rich has no time for it. (9) "Thinge lawful in themselves, when the heart re too much eet upon them, prove fatal hindrances 20. Married a wife. (10) How often earthly affections stand: in the way of heavenly treasures. Cannot come. It is not eustonaary for women in the Ori- ent to accompany their husbands to pub- lic places or parties. The luxurious na- bob had simply added one woman more to his harem, and it was a plain state- ment. that there was more pleasure for him at home in his own resources than in his friend's house from his friend's resouroes. Read 1)eut. 24. 5 for ex- cuses granted newly -married bride- grooms. 21. Showed his lord these things. (11) He who is unsuccessful in his boly en- deavors should go at once to the Master and tell him all his disapeointments. The master of the house being angry. Being indignant. He fitlt that some- thing must be done at once. (12) Work- ers for God must be prompt. Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city. The creditable and discredit- able portions of the city. To the Jews who listened this meant that as the lders had., rejected Jesus he had now urned to the masses, to the publicans ects in characiter can have them sup- , hli:dfebayst. him who summons them to 22. It is done. This servant unques- ioningly obeys the strange command. 3, 24. Highways and hedges. The rep - table and disreputable parts of the he took it for ;rented that, as a born Jew, he would mherit rights to all the t luxuries of the kingdom of God, and it 2 is very likely that he had in his rnital u expectations of luxurious banquets to c which this young Messiah would invite b his friends as soon as he was estab- r lashed on the throne of Judah, 16. Then .he said unto him. The man I was right in his theology, but wrong in 't his application of it. Those that might, b be thus " blessed" were unconsciously t refusing to " eat bread "—to partici- a pate in the Messianic. banquet. A cer- • ountry. Compel them to come in. Not y force, but by the constraint of good eason ,and much love. The ultimate ecision of every soul rests with itself. 'here was no persuasion offered to those vho had already excused themselves, ecause they showed no interest : but hose who are really unfit, and not at 11 prepared for the royal feast, are rged and besought to come. None of man. is iarable and that of t ee nearly resemble each other, but here are also important differences, nd they belong to different periods of hrist's ministry. This "certain man" epreaents God, and the "great sunper" the feast of fat things which Isaiah entions—the blessings of the Gospel ispensation. great supper. In "the marriage of t e king's son" (Matt. • t 2 is for their own glorification. The guests Lre not necessarily amity friends. They e made up of all sorts of folks, whose presence will inerea.se the ostentaelon splendor of. the host. Rea.d the de -1 strange book, of the Barmeeide's feast empt of the self-righteous. 1 SAUSAGES IN GERMANY, In the New Year's procession at Kon- igsberig in 1558 a bologna sausage exhi- bited by the "butchermen" was 622feet in length, and was carried on the shoul- ders of sixty-seven men and boys. The one exhibited. in the same city in the e year 1588 was over 1600 feet in length, t end weighed 434 pounds. been Ke,ne at Strathron Edward. Middleton, Hobart, has lost three fingers in a buzz -saw. Washego prides itself upon 015 pOS- session of a good roller mill. A man in Ottawa has been fined 340 for selling cigarettes to boys. Mr. F.W. tt heween is president of • thte Winnipeg Board of Trade. The Victoria, 13.C., Selmei Beard is cutting down teachers' atlaries. At Wolfe Island the St. Lawrence . as raised a foot since Getentr. Sarnia. is already anxiously looking forward to its ease meet in July. The custom. of delionatia cattle Western Ontario is rapidly extending. Rev. L. M. 'Weeks has been installed pastor of the Baptist eleareL at Orillia. Engineers has been formed at aneouv- A Shakespeare man sold a pure a Lite - bred Leghorn hen, the other day for 810. Kingston and Pembroke railway gain- ed 3S,000 last year over the husmess 1894. To fill a 13.C, order, 15,0011 glass jars were turned out last week at Wallaee- burg. A training school for Freneh and Eng- Roaney is raising a bonus of 82,000 to have a 89,000 flour ereeted In the C. P. R. shops at Ottawa a private ear is being built for 3. R. Boot h. Movie parliaments are the popular pas- time in country towns and villages this winter. The Vancouver Board of Trade does not endorse the present ship railway Last year the C.P.R. gross earnings were nearly $19,000,000 and the net A factory for the manufacture of elee- tric appliances is to be established at At alcosernin James Thompson.got 17 years in the yenitentiary for perjury at Cunning:banes hoot and shoe estab- lisliment, Ant igonish, N. 8., bas been de- stroyed ly fire. Aurora's Pul die Library will be given to the Government unless the Town Council assumes control. Rev. AN nr. Hartley, Guelph, has been called to the pastorate of Centre street Guelph's assessments shows an in- crease of $2,070 over that of last year, and the population has increased 221. There is a complaint in Montreal be- cause Frenehmen in the Council out- ' number Englishmen on important com- A passenger and freight steamer may ' be put on the water ne.xt season to run from Wallaeeburg 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, two pounds butter and one Ioad of wood for 820 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 unharness them in the quick- est time. The late John Bryson, M.P., left an estate worth nearly half a million. His wife gets $150,000; his son George. is to bare 3.100,000; a handsome sum is left to his daughter ; the Foreign Mission fund of the Presbyterian church gets $5,000 ana the Home Mission fund $5,- 000; the Ottawa Auxilliary Bible Soci- 'it is claimed, will see one of , the busiest sunnuers ever known in her' history this summer. Three new churches, at an average cost of 810,000 , each, will be erected.; the waterworks at a cost of 3172,000; a large brick ho- tel at a cost of 320,000; 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. Steele, of Tavistock, has in his possession a curious botanical freak. Axnong,st the house plants is a small rase bush winch sent up a single shoot about ten inches in height, and from On each of these branches is a rose, the one a cream, the other a deep pink, and different in size, shape and nature. And to add to the strange difference one has a, beautiful rosy fragrance while the other is entirely without perfume SOMEONE MUST SUFFER. If a, Chinaman dies while being tried or murder, the feet of his dying is a,ken as evidence of his guilt. He has Ids eldest son, if he has one, is there -1 L.ast year the Glidden Lode mine of f ore sent to prison for a yee,r. If he ' as no son, then his father or brother Sonte of the Queerest !Recorded 14 the motley or the Worn!. 1, Allen Way, crossing Pall Mall cannon- ed against an old gentleman, After mutual apologies eards were exchange ed; on each card was printed: "Mr. Al- bert Way." The older gentleman, dy- : mg, left his fortune to the other Al- `bert Way. The planet Neptune, wilich had for countless ages revolved in the heavens unseen 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- troritailere of the day. Soule few years ago a shepherd boy placed a sleeper on the railway line between Brighton and a'almer, in Eng- land. with the result. that a train 'was thrown off the rails. One year later same yout h was struck by lightning and instantaneously killed within a couple of miles from the spot at whiter the accident occurred. Sir Walter anent tells of the fol- lowing curious coincidence which hap- pened to himself. "I was consulting," he says, "an artist, with 'regard to the fa df t f he was illustrating for me, and I briefly deseribed to him the kind of face had in mind. was meanwhile rapidly sketching a face on a. viece a paintr he bad before him. `Will that de, he asked, showing me the exact portrait of the man I .had. been think - The four King Georges of England all died on the same day of the week. In 1890 a few weeks before the cen- sus taker began his eaumeration of the people of Elm. Grove, Vieginia., the town authorities ()owned their own popula- tion, pretaratory to filling articles of ineorporalion. The following was the remarkable result: Number of males over 21 yea•rs of age, 148: number of males under '21 years of age, 148: num- ber of females OV Pr 16 years of age, 148; number of females under 16 years of age, 148. Some four years ago in Tehera,n an English sailor was caught in the act of carrying off sonie precious stones from the Shah's palace. The thief was brought before the "Kink 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 doevn and instantly killed. WHY DENTIST'S 'USE GOLD "People seem," said a practical den-, tist recently, "to wonder why it is that dentists use gold for stopping teeth, and are inolined to believe that it is because they wish to run up the bills. As is well known, silver would resist the acids found in the mouth al- most as well, and I have been asked at least 200 times why I did not use sil- ver. If those who are so anxious to cast; ttSper$1011S on the dentists would only study metallurgy, they would find that the reason that we employ gold is that it is the only metal that will weld while cold. Silver will not do 'so; nor will auything else, The cohesive properties of perfectly smooth and clear gold. are astonishing. If you take a sheet of gold foil and let -it n•pori another, both will be so firmly joined that it will be impossible to separate them. It is ehis property 'that mikes gold valuable to dentists, and not the desire to increase bills." A FIGURE OF SPEECH., the par value of the capital stock in gets a flogging. It's all in the Sunny, t nine months. and somebody has to pay for it. • 33/Irs. G—Don't you think, Albert, 'Met here is something hidden eaten, the new girt? Mr. G.—Is there anything missing?