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
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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 .
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?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,
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✓ 15,24. Golden Text, Luke 14, 17,
e GENERAL STATEMENT.
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- 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
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. 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?