Exeter Times, 1897-8-19, Page 3NOTES AND COMMENTS.
M. FauTe, the Erma presedent will
make, on the czar's Invitation, a form-
al visit to slt. Petersburg, starting
early this month. The visit, which
has been anticipated ever since the
czar's visit to Paris, has been rnuell
discussed, and has provoked a good
deal of adverse criticism, notably from
the Radicaland Socialists, and is like-
ly to m.11 owe still more when the credit
01C $100,000 for expentes comes up in
Ike Chamber. Among the objections
urged agaiost it are that a French
president cannot leave French terri-
tory without vacating his authority,
and that as there are under the French
constitution four Presidents of prac-
tically equal rank -the president of the
republic, of the Senate, of the Cham-
ber, and a the cabioet-it wain be
invidious to single out one for special
honor. The, first objection is osteesi-
!Ay one of precedent; no French presi-
dent ever haviing hitherto journeyed
outside, the republic, though it is one
which cannot too seen be set aside as
A confession on thief part oe a free peo-
ple Mat their ohoseo representative
cannot be trusted withthe privileges
wench a monarch by inheritance may
enjoy. The otber objeotion is acade-
mile, as is the protest that a republic+
&hailed not thus honor a despotic court,
for the preseleut of the repoblio alooe
has authority to _represent the state
in foreign affairs, and is alone recog-
nized by foreign governments. If the
Liberals were wise, they would want
to augment, not diminish, the import-
ance of the presidential office, and in
ana event would izsist upon assurances
that Frarce should receive some of the
frui•ta of an alliance of Which sae has
hltherto borne all the bu,rdens.
aearser
For the immense sums of money
ev.hich she has loaned to Russia, for
her shame in helping the northern pow-
er to rob Japau of the rewards of her
victory over China, and for her humil-
iation in condoning, for Russia's ag-
grandizement, the massacres of Turkey
STRUGGLING SOULS,
.1•11•0•M
THE EXETER' 'TINES
eameasseestese.essean
equipment. We are by our Creator so
econo.mioally built that we cannot af-
ford the obliteration of any physioal
faoulty. We want, our two eyes, our
two ears, our two hands, our two feet,
our eight fingers and. two thumbs. Yet
what multitudes of people have but
one eye, or but one footI The ordinery
casualties of life have been quadrupl-
ed, quintupled, sextupled, eye, cent-
rupled, in our time by the civil war,
and at the north and. soutb a great
multitude ase fighting the battle of
life with half or less than half, the
needed physical armaments. I do not
wonder at the pathos of a soldier.
during the war, who, when told that
he must have his hand amputated,
said, "Doctor, can't you save it V' and
when told that it was impossible, said,
with tears rolling down his cheeks:
" Well, then, tood-bye, old hand.
hate to part with you. You have
done me a good service for many
years, but it seems you must go.
Good-bye."
.A. celebrated surgeon told rae of a
scene in the clinical department of
one of the New York hospitals, when
a poor man with a wounded leg was
brought in before the students to be
operated on. The surgeon was point-
ing out this and that to the student
and handling the wounded leg, and
was about to proceed to amputation,
when the poor man leaped from the
table, tool hobbled to tbe door, and
said, "Gentlemen, I am sorry to disap-
point you, but by the help, of God,
I will die with my leg one Whet a
terrific loss is the loss a our physical
faculties! t
The way the battle of Creoy was de-
cided against the French was by the
Welshmen killing the iteuch horses,
and that brought their riders to the
ground. And when you cripple this
body, which is merely the animal on
whiola the soul rides, you may some-
times defeat the soul.
Yethow many suffer from thisphy-
sicad taking off I Good cheer, any
brother! God will make it up to you
somehow. The grace, the sympathy of
Goi will be more to you. than anything
you ha,ve lost. If God allows part of
your resources to be out off in one
pla,ce, he will add it on somewhere else.
As Augustus, the emperor, took off a
day from February, making it the
ahortest month in the year, and add-
ed it to August, the month named af-
ter himself, so advantages taken from
one part of your nature will be added
on to another. 13ut it is amazing how
much of the world's work has been
done by men of subtraoted physical
organization, S. S. Preston, the
great orator of the south-west, went
limping all his life, but there was no
Loot put down on any platforni of his
day that resounded so far as his
club foot. Beethoven was eo (lea
that he txmld not hear the crash
of the orchealan rendering his oratorios.
Taionaaa Carlyle. the dyspeptic martyr,
REV. DR. TALMAGE LIFTS UP THE
CROSS TO THE DISCOURAGED.
•
ThelVinds That Hinder Spiritual Progress
the Subject of a Powerful Ser 44444 111 -
CO 111 ort For AU laboring Coder Adverse
Circumstances.
Rev. Dr. Talmage preached on Sun-
day morning fronn the text: "The wind
was eontrary," as found in Matthew
/ay., 24.
As I well know Erma experience on
Lake Galilee, one hour may be calui
and the peat hour the winds and
waves will be so boisterous that you
are in doubt as to whether you will
land on the shore or on the bottom
of the deep. The disciples in the text
were caught lo such a stress of 'wea-
ther and the sails bent and the ship
plunged, for "the winds was contrary."
There is in one of the European straits
a. place, wbere, whichever way you sail
the winds are opposing. There are
people who all their life seem sailing
in the teeth of the wind. All things
seer :,igainst tem. It may be said
of their condition aa of that of the
disciples in my text, "tbe wind teas
contrary."
A great nunaber of people are under
seeming disadvantage, and 1 Will to-
day, in the swarthiest Anglo-Saxon
that I can manage, treat their cases;
not as a nurse counts out eiglit or
ten drops of a prescription and stirs
them in a ball glass of water, but as
wbe,n a man, has, by mistake, taken
a large amount of strychnine or parts
green, or belladonna, and the pa-
tient is walked. rapidly round the room
and sbaken up until he gets wide
awake. Many of you have taken a
large draft of the poison of discourage-
ment, and I come out by the order
of tbe Divine Physician to rouse you
out of that lethargy.
First many People are under the
disadvantage of an unfortunate name
given them by parents who thought
they were doing a good thing. Some-
times at the baptism of cbildren while
in Armenia., she has absolutely nothing
to show. With a merely verbal under- bave held up one hand in iprayer
I have held up the other hand in
standing, capable, as all such under- amazement that parents should have
standings ere, of easy evasion, she has weighted the babe with such a disson-
not even the assurance that Russia ant and repulsive nomenclature. I
would move were France invaded, or
have not so much wondered that some
could move in time to prevent her ter-
ebildren should cry out at the chris-
ritory from being overrun through the telling font tie pat others with
more rapid mobilization of the Triple such smiling face should take a title
Alliance. In the assertion of her that will be the burden of ;their life -
Rat whet other multitudes there are
under other disadvantages. Here is a
Christian woman whose husband thinks
religion a sham, and tvhile the . wife'
grays the cbildrefi one way the bus -
is a. Christian man who is trying ta
do his best for God and the daorch, and
hie wife holies him back and says on,
the way home from prayer meeting,
where he gave testimeny for Christ:
"What a fool you. "matte of youreelf I
I hope hereafter you will keep still."
And when he would. be benevolent and
give $50 she criticizes! him for not giv-
ing 60 ce,nts. I most !do justice aod
p,u.blicly thank God. that I never pro-
posed at home to give anything for.
any cause of humanity or religion but
the other partner in the dome.stie firm
approved it. And when it seemed be-
yond my ability aod, faith. in God was
necessary, she had three-fourths the
faith. But I know men who wheal
they contributed to charitable objects
are afraid that the wife will find it
out. What a, withering curse such a
woman, must be to e, good man I
Then there are others under the great
disadya,ntage of poverty. Who ought
to get things cheapest? You say those
who have little means. But they pay
more. You buy mall by the ton, they
boy it by the bucket. You buy Court
tff the barrel, they buy it by the pound.
nem. get apparel °heap, because you
pay cash; they pay dear because they
have to get trusted. And the Bible
was right when it said: ellse destruc-
tion of the poor' is their poverty.
Then there are those who make a
mistake in early life, and that over-
shadows all their days, "Do you not
know that that man was once in pri-
son ?" is whispered. Or, "Do you know
that that man once attempted suicide?"
Or "Dio you know that that man once
absconded?" Or, "Do you know thet
that man was once discharged for dis-
honesty V' Perhaps there was only
one. wrong deed in the man's life, and
that one act haunts the subsequent
century of his existence.
Others have unfortunate predomin-
ance of some mental faculty, and tbeir
rceshne,ss throws them beta wild enter-
prises, OT their trepidation nsakes them
decline great opportemity, or there is
a veto of melancholy in their disposi-
tion, that defeats them, or they have an
endowment of overwind that causes
the lenpreession of insincerity.
Others had wrong pr000vnies froze
the start. They were born wrong, and
that sticks to one alter he is born
agate. They have a natural cranki-
ness that is 275 years old. It came over
with their great, grandfathers from
Scotland, or Wales, or France. It was
born on the banks of the Thames, or
the Clyde, or the Tibor, or the Rhine,
and has survived all the plagues and
epidemics of many generations, and is
living to -day on the bank e of the Po-
tomac, or the Hudson, or the Andros-
coggin, or the Savannah. or the, La
Plata. And when a man tries to stop
aud &wears them another. Or here
was (given, the commission Co drive I7I1.17t thIS eva ancestral prorienty, he is like
out of the world's literature. The Rev.' a man on a. rock in the rapids of Ma-
llon/az Stockton, of Philadelphia, with! gam ,holding ou with a grip flora
one lung, raised his audience nearer which the etvift currents are trt ing
heaven =1St ministers can raise' to swoop him into the 4,1 kYSS leyond.
them, with two lungs. in the banks,' Ole this world is an overlairdened
the ens,urcineei oomoanisis, the commerce world, an overworked world! It is an
lel establiehments, the reformatory as- awfully tired werld. is a. drettalully
THE SUNDAY. SCH
00L.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUG.
mres
"The Excellence of Christian Love." 1 Cor;
13. 1.13, Golden rex:, 1 Cor..13 :13.
PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 1. Though I speak. Evident-
ly the arinutive Church placed, high
valuation on speech. The tongues of
wen and of angels. What the gift
of tongues" was we do nut. certainlY
know. We know several things that it
was not, and one uf tiwise is the power
to preaoh the Gospel foreign lan-
guages. There is no intimation in
the Jelble that that power was ever
acquIred in a miraculaue way. The
phrase "of angels" would. indicate that
the raysteriou.s words were sometimes
not iz humazi language. BONO not
charity. By a beautiful change in the
gaages are completely forgotten. The
majority' of living languages are rap-
idly dying out. eilse one or two lan-
guages' vitei.oh bid eair to larst as long
as time will die with time. Knowledge,
ft Shall vanish away: All earthly
knowledge, acquired in fragments and.
pieced' together, is of necessity imper-
fect. Tile ienorance of the most learn-
ed. men. co earth is immeasurably
greater time leis knowledge. Earth's
langeages,ana•soiences will be alike use-
less to the eternal world. The perfeet
knowledge; referred. to in. verse 12 will
be partieipated. in by ell the inhab-
itant:4 of heaven
9. We know in part. The know-
ledge ',het comes newt observation and
reasoa is limited by weak eyes and in-
firm minds. We prople,ey in part, In-
spiration itself is limited hy. human
pue ere as the quantity of liquid is
liraited. by the cup that holds it.
10. When that whieb is perfect is
come. When perfection has arrived.
That waidt is in part shall he done
away. Imperfection shall cease. This
is, says Dr. Meyer, as certain es that.
the "dark ceases with the rising ((Atha
process of the years "deadly" has come san."
to mean love in endeavor rather than 11. When I was a child. Paul ire -
the sentiment or principle which starts quently compares Cheestian develop -
the endeavor. Here we have the earlier want to physical mature_ty, and tbe be -
meaning, and "charity" here includes Igisjlptiknegs eb With pra, Paul
asofaCheiisidti.an Inc to tbtaiberiood.
love to man and to God, amending
brass. Copper. A tinkling oymbal. Cern-
bals were metal cups struck together
to give a clanging sound; this added to
The highest eloquence about, the Gos-
tw:dritfo,rce of martial music, but lacked
variative of tone, and became a ready
illustrution of mere clatter and noise.
Pei without love in the hear e is empty
•
2. Prophecy. Divine inspiration ; some
times, not always, foretelling the fu -
true. Understand. all mysteries. The
deep things of God. Paul often al-
ludes to tee redemption of the race as
a divine mystery, and as it was his
duty to prowaian this redemption he
became steward of the mysteries of
God. 1. Cox. 4. 1. All knowledge. Wbat-
ever insight into faets and principles
can be obtained by study. All faith.
Which both Jesus and. his a.postles con-
stantly affirmed to be the greatest dy-
like even to a grain of eanstard eeed,
ramie force. If Paul bad only a 17.
it wee yet strong enough to re,move fore each special
mountains. Rue he supposes himself. mizror factorlesof the anrrileenree"-Otreti
is here oomparing the earthly life
with the heavenly. Those who now
stand on the. laeavenly heights, if they
can hear earthly conversation at all,
recognize it as the prattle of spiritual
babes. I understood as a dal& Revis-
ed version, "I felle." "The reference
here," says Dr. M. R. Vincent, "is to
the earlier,' undeveloped exeroise of
the childish mind; a thinking which is
not yet connected reasoning." I thought
as a child. The third stage in infantile
develop/xient. First senseless prattle;
second, crude general notions; third
consecutive reasoning. When I be-
came. "New that I am become." I
put away. I have. put away.
Childish things. As the woman
locks the doll of her girlhood in
the. trunk, and has no further use for
it except that of gentle sentiment, tio
the matu.re Christian has locked up in
his memory many au experience, sac-
red, hut its use outgrown; and so, by
an ampler comparison, the saint of the
heavenly regions regards the experi-
ences of his past human life.
12.. Through a glass. "Iey means of
a mirror." The ancient rairror was
of polished metal, and so imperfect in
its reflecting powers that it was usual
to attach to it a sponge with pound-
ed Pu.mice stoine, ready) to polish it be
argument's sake, to have all faith; were in Corinth. Da.rkly. Nimly, for
the metal is imperfect,. In this life
an abundant supply. And have not char -
we see all spiritu.a.1 things by means of
ity. Destitute of the truest spiritual
life. But can a roan have these gifts,
many of them supernatural, and not
be harmonious with God? Yes, I3alaam
a mirror, and a dim and cloudy mirror
at that. We; try to understand the
spiritual world by followbag out na-
tural laws; to identify invisible things
by visible symbols; to me.asure eternity
and Samson are examples. I am noth- by time; and, as in a mirror all
ing. One mat, accomplish .wooders Images are seen reviser. we fdoutate
teassal ttngsmaotalitYorashla.arpe ildoreaWe
the Gospel, yet himself remain untouch-
ed by its power. Paul "had a right" throu li which they come. Then face to
claims in Egypt, a matter of vital time. It is outrageous to afflict chile
concern to all Frenchmen. Russia has dre,n with en undesirable name be- to say these thiongs for he was himself face. Without similitude, without par-
sociations, the churches, there are tens unfor. wale world. &tent ale are tre- pressessor of these five gifts. able, without ,need of revelation or
not rendered. her the slightest assist- cause it haprened to be possessed by of thousands of men and women to to find out the muse of those earth- need of reaaoning process ; direetly ; in
ance, though evidently encouraging the a parent or a rieh =tele from wilt= day doubled up with rheumatism ort ,n in all lands, eisatiantie and 3. Though bestow all nay goods the closest relation to spiritual truth.
this endsome . to feed the poor. Though I give &wee Know in part. See note on verse 9.
part, and ui addition to the militia
French expectation of aid, and those Livers are. expected or SOIlle pro min- subject! to tibia neuralgia, or with onl I
9. transatlantic. Some say
fraregiments which fought in the cam -
best. informed assert that the czar has e.nt man of the day who mat' end his ,gments of limbs, blie rest of whien 1 say
they left at Chattanooga. or South of what is the matter with the tarth.
that. I have takea the diamweis in handfuls my property, so as to be Then shall I know even as also I BM
known The tense indicates " was }reigns of 1812 there were. several regi -
in the modern sense thoroughly char-; •
!table Give my body to be burned. known; and yet the transearency of ments of regulars which were made up
It has so many burden' on it and so .
many fires within it, it has a fit. It • eternal,truth will ba both objective and whody ca natives of British America -
cannot ,stand. suchl a camonference No cwt. of sarrificti cen of itsele re- subjective. Paul will in the heavenly the Royal Newfoundland Regiment,
and. such a diameter. Some new Coto- deera character; one cannot learn! world recognize himself as be is 710\77 104th, our own New Brunswick. regi-
paxi or Stromboli or 'Vesuvius will goodness by penance. Have not eller- day by day recognized by these of the nient, the Glengarry Ifencibles, and the
open, and then all will be at peace for ity, it profiteth me nothing. Actions heavenly world. Cane.dian Voltigeure. The militia of
the natural world. ,But what. tibout have no intrinsic value, their worta! 13. And n.ow. But thus." " Now" Canada took eari.. in nearly every ire -
the moral woos of the world that have depends upon their motive, The mo- ! does not refer to time, but 1(1 the login portent engagement of the war, and in
racked all nations, and for 6000 years tive essential to goodness is love. !of this verse. Al/ideal. See note on every instance they conducted them -
science proposes nothing but know- "Love," says Luther, "denotes not 1 " charity never faileth," verse 8. The selves
ledge, and many people who know the what the man does, so much as what eesential permanence of. faith, hope,
nice'. are the most uncomforted? be feels." ebarity is here asserted. Faith awl hoee, eiel GOOD SOLDIERS SHOULD.
THE CLOTHES TER WEIR. -
CANADIAN VOLUNTEDIa AT TOD
QUEEN'S JUBILIOL
Lo*Mir
Canada the Only Colon, in WI:lei:the NM 4
tier wear the Same 1Jniform:8 ma the Brit.
Ash ltegulars.
The visit of the Canadian contingent
to London to attend the Queen's Jubi-
lee celebration, made prominent the
fact, of which many were not previous'
ly aware, that Canada is the only col.
way of the British , empire whose
militia wear the same uniforms as the
Britist regulars, says the St. John
Daily Telegraph. Our Infantry, cavalry
artillery and. riflexnen, all wear uni-
for.ms which are similer to those worn'
by the regulars of the same branches
of the ,service. The uniform of the
62nd Fusiliers is that of the first in-
fantry regiment in the British army,
the Royal Scots, scarlet with blue fax-
iag.s. The uniform of the 8th Hussars
of Canada is the some as that of the
13th Hussars of the regular army, viz.,
blue with buff facings. The uniform of
our Canadian 3rd Regiment of Artil-
lery, which haa its heatIquarters in St.
,Tobo, is similes to teat of the British
regular artillery. The uniform of our
St. John Rifles, and. of all the other
rifle organizations in Cagada, is the
same as that of the regument former-
ly known ars the 60t1a Rifles, but now, "
as the King's Royal Rifle Corps.
THIS SIMILARITY OF UNIFORMS.
to the regulars proved. somwhat an-
noying to our boys in England, for in
many oases they were mistaken for
British troops, and did not win front
those who sa.w them that recognitioa
to which Lhey were entitled. The Brit-
ish people are so accustoraese_ to see re-
gulars marching through Mir streets
that the sight does not inspire their
enthusiasm, and, therefore, in some
instances the Canadian contingent was
allowed to pass in silence, while the
other colonials, in their picturesque
umiorms, wluch couid not be mis-
taken, were wildly cheered. Against
this must be placed the grittifyiug fact
that the appearanoe and discipline of
the Canadian militiamen were such
that no difference could be detected
between them and the trained soldiers
a the regular army.
It is not by aecident. however, that
this similarity between the uniforms of
our militia and those of the regulars
has oorue about. The mania of Canada
are the only colowel troops that lieve
ever Dimon against a civilized enemy
side by side with British regulars. They
did this when Canada was intaeled by
the troops of the American Cougreas
during the war of the revolution, and
again on larger evade during the war
te 1812. In that war, indeed, the nail-
itia of Canada., took a very conspicuous
never had any serious intention of do-
ing so. It is tbe opinion of so compet-
ent an observer as Ifs. Eustis lately
United States ambassador at Paris,
that the alliance is wholly one-sided,
but. that, had France possessed during
life in disgrace. It is no excuee Ria- Mountain, or the Wilderness, and they
cause. they are Scripture names tocall are worth' more to the world. and. more
a, child jaheitikiin or Tiglatb-Pileser. ta3iostehe of 'hiurihus ihricliavmeoinee never
Gsood thuact
I baptized one of the name Batbsla,e- as had a finger joint stiffened by a
bat Why, ttuder all the circumembient felon.
eaven. tine pa • • t t Put. to full use all the faculties that
sigbted give a child the name of that loose remain' and eharge on all apposing m-
ile Armenian crisis a far- gitabinstoafn3c3eoshewttlulAtigo cimclesrittnattectn1
etatenna.n, she could, owing to her creature of Soripture times I cannot
r,omparative neutrality .with respect to' imagine. 1 have often felt at the bap- and yet at a battle orled out, 'Y1 pray
ten& beseech you to lead nee so far into
Turkish territory and. her guardian- annul altar, when names were an -
ship under European xaandate of the nousced to me, like suing as did the
tike' fight
tie'l-3:.1:1 ;lh\sat4rojniadr yottrike oatogowili
Catholic Armenian Church, baveused Rev. Dr. Richards, of Morristown, N. think so much of what faculties you
it to .greatly extend her prestige and J., evben a cbild was handed him for haver lost as what faculties remain.. You
ifointe enough left to make yourself felt
power. But instead of assuming the baptism, and the name given, "Hadn't
etr3artarane
leadership, she followed the Russian you better call it something else?" dvV=.643rihitilnedyolahnhtlgvtehne
Programme, as she did. in the interven- Impose not upon that babe a name Arise from. peer discouragements, 0
men and woraell of depleted or crepe
tion in China, and it is the danger that suggestive of flippancy or mea,nness,
pled pih.ysicel faculties, and see, what,
she may continue to do so that excites There is no excuse for such assault and by the specaal help of God, you ica,n
fear lest her national virility and. pow- battery or, the eradle when our Ian- accompliabil
er ma,y be sacrificed to an exaggerated guage, is opulent with names musical The skilled horsemen stood around
an t suggestive 'in meaning, such as leueephains, unable in raount or man -
dread of isolation. age. 'hate so wild was the steed.. Rut
Alexainde,r noticed Wet the sight of
hie own shadow see,med to disturb the
horse. S'o Alexander clutched. him. by
the bridle and turned his head away
It is quite possible to arrange flow- meaning ' immortal, or Andreve frone the shadow and towards the sim,
and. the horse's agitation was gone, and
meaning, "manly," or Esther, mean-
ers in. a garden neat approximately all Alexander m,ounted ihiim and rode off,
ing aetar," or Abigail, meaning "ray
tbe purposes of a clock will be answer- fathern joy," or Anna, meaning 'grace btoy.the astonishment of all who stood
And what you peolple ratted is to
ed. As long ego as the time of Pliny, ; "grace," or Victoria, meani,..tio
Rosalie, meaning beva;:titi have your sight turned away froan the
46 flowers were known to open and shut i tiwY," ar „ - . e ehadowe of. yam' own earthly lot, over
or ..uargaree, meaning a
at. oe.rtalin hours of the day. This nura-i pasearaLr"osoar, Ida, meaning "godlike," or which you have so long pondered, and
ber has siince been largely increased. I Clara, meaning "illustrious," or Ame- your'
glorioug sun of Gospel consolation, and
head turned. toward the sun, -the
For testanoe a bed of common dande- , lia, meaning "busy," or Bertba, mean- .
I names just as good that are a belp
ing and. also when it is 8.30 at night.. which mon.y labor is lack of early educe -
rather than a hindrance. non. There will be no excuse for .ignor-
These flowers open and shut at the; But sometimes tbe great hindrance
time named, frequently to the minute.1 in life is not in the given ?a.axne, but
FLOWERS AS CLOCKS.
John, meaneng "the gracious gift of
God," or Henry, meaning "the aid
of a bousehold," or Alfred, meaning
"good vounsellor," or Joshua, mean-
ing "God, our salvation," or Ambrose,
Christian. hope and spiritual triumph.
ing "beautiful " and hundreds of other ,
lions show when it is 5.30 in the morn -1 Anotherl'forra of disativraintage under
Me common. hawkweed opens at in the family name. While legisla-
tures are willing to lift such incubus-
thie morning and closes within a few es, there are families that keep a
rniftute,s of 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I- name wbie.h mortgages all the genera -
The yellow goat's -beard shuts at 12 tions with a disadvantage. Yousay,"1
o'clock noon, eidereal time wonder if he is any relation to iSo-and-
Our clocks, it is well known, do not so,- meaning some family celebrated
follow the sun, but usually a few men- for crime or deception. It is a won-
utes fast or sloev, according to the long- der to me, that in all such famines
itude of the place where they are. The some spirited. young man does not rise,
goat's -beard„ however, shows true noon saying to his brother and sister, "11
all The world over. The sow -thistle op-
ens at. 5to'clook in the morning, and
doses between 11 and 12. The white
lily oipens at 7 a.m. and doses at 5 irk
the eveaing. The pink. opens at 8 a.m.,
and shuts at 6.30 p.m. dreds of names the mere pronunciation
you want to keep this nuisance or scan-
dalization of a name, 1 will keep it no
longer than until by quickest course
of law I can slough off this gan-
grene." The city direotory has him -
the country farm servants often of wbich has be,en a lifelong obstwille.
If you have started life under a name
of whieh lies been a lifelong obstacle.
which, either through ridiculous ortho-
grapby or vicious suggestion, has been
an incubance, resolve that the next
generation shall not be so weighted.
It isnot demeaning to change aflame..
Saul of Tarsus became Paul the Apos-
tle. Hada,ssab, "tbemyrtle," became
Esther, "the sear," We have in Amer-
ica. and 1 suppose it is so in all coein-
trles, names which ought to be abol-
ished for the reason that they are a
libel and a slander. But, if for any
reason you are submerged either by a
given na.uae or by a family name that
you mast bear, God. will help you to
ovemome the outrage by a life con-
secrated to the good and useful.
You may erase the curse from the
name. If it o,noe stood for mean-
ness you can make in stand for gener-
osity.
Lf once it stood for pride, you cen
make it stand for humility. af it once
stood for fraud, you can make it
stand for honesty. If once it stood for
wickedness, you can make it sta,ncl for
purity, There have been multitudes
of instances where men and wonsen
have magnificently conquered the
disasters of -the names inflicted upon
einem,
Again, •niany people labor under the
misfortune of incomplete physical.
take t'e,eir dinner hour fn..= the yellow
g,oateebeard. which is n,ever mistaken,
wheeher the. sun be obscured by clouds
or not.
TYROLESE LOVER.
In the Tyrol the first time a young
main pays a visit as avowed lover he
takes with him a bottle of wine, and,
pouriag out a. glass, presents it to the
object of his af.fections. If ehe accepts
it the whole affair is settled. and his
. proposal of marriage, unspoken, has
ben accepted. Sometimes she is not
prepaand to surrender at once, and. then
she will melee ex.cuees as to the wine
diea.greeiaig with her, or that her priest
had fertedclen her to take any, or, in
fact, any subterfuge teat occurs to
her at the moment. The purport of the
nemeses is than the proposal made by
Ilia. offer of the wino IS prematore. Not
a word need be spoken, as the act of
"briinging the wine," !es it is called,
eynonymoue with the at of I/To-
ken/1g, rend the. custom dates back to
the ninth century. Ti any of the Wine
spillea it is .coesicItieed en unlucky
omen, arid there is a saying far an un-
happy noarriage: ". They have spilled.'
the Wine between teem"
once un the next generation. Free
schools and illiraitable opportunity of I
education will make ignorance a crime.
h believe in compulsory education, andl
those persons who neglect to put their
children mader educational advantages
have but. one right left, and that is the
penitentiary. But there) are multitudes
of Mani and women in midlife who have
lea,ct no opportunity. Free schools had
not aet been established, and vast xnul-
titudeis had little ex no sehool at all.
They feel it when as Cbristian men
they come to speak or pray in. religi-
ous assemblies or public occasions, pa-
triotic or political, or educational. "they
are ailent because they do not feel com-
petent. They owe notheng to English
grammar, or geography, or belles let-
ters. Miley would not know •ra parta
ciple trom a pronoun if they met it
many, times a day. Many of tee men
ie. !high political places cannot write an
accurate letter on any tere,aw. They
are completely dependent upon clerks
and deputies and stenographers to make
things neat. I knew a literary man-
,NWD in other years ia -Ole city made
his fortune by writing speeches for
cungressimen OX7 fixing them up for The
Cengresston. Reeprd, after they were de-
levere,d.. The millionaire literacy of
this country is beyond aneasurement.
Now, suppose a men finds beraself in
midlife without eduoation, what is be 10
do e leo the best he cam The most effec-
tive layman io a former pastoral °barge
that I ever heard speak an: reigious
theanes could within five minutes of 0X-'
hortatioe break all the laws of English'
grammer, and Wee left any law un-
fractured he would complete the work
of lingual devastation in nee prayer
with which be followed it. But I would
eather have hem pray, for me if I' were
stick or lin, 'trouble than any Christian
man r know of, Etna en that church all
the people preferred hint in exhort°,
Lieu and prayer to ell others. Why?
Because be was so thoeoughly pious and
had sruplepower with God he was irrese
tent& Lund a,s he' went on in his pray-
er. sinners repented' and Saints shout-
ed for joy, and the bereaved seemed to
get back the* dead in celestial cora-
panionship.
nal, The greatest. of these is charity.
Love fulfills the. law. By faith we re-
oeive, by hope we expect, but by love
we Income like unto God. Faith. saves
as, hope sustains us, love makes us per-
fect. •
In the way of practical relief for all 4. Having told us in the first) three like love, are in their very nature eter- It 1%ii5 in that wer. that, tae custom
of dressing the uninia, in the maiforms
disadvantages aud all woes, the only of regulars was commenced, and this
voice that is worth listening to an this plan, which was origivally adepted as
subjeot is the voice - of Christianity, a matter of. cenvemence and rneau.se
which is the voice of Alraighty God.. no other uniforms were available, hag
Whether I have mentemed the partic- been adopted by the Government of
ular disadvantage under which you la- Canada,. and is likele to be continued
bor or not, I distinctly declare, in the
name of my God, that there is a way fisoraagnouttioefaienibenopiNcjiitetsd.taTn'hdaitngthaenplaac.4
out and. a woy up On all of you. You casIonal drawback, will be generally
cannot be any -woase off then that
Christian young woman who was in the admitted, for, in the event of a war in
which Braise regulars and Canadian
Pemberton mills when they fell some militia would be f.ighting side by side,
years ago, and. from under the fallen the enemy would te unable to dis-
thnbers she was heard singing, "I am tinguisb. between there, and would be
going home to die no more."
Take good. courage from that Bible, deprived of that confidence which they
neig-he teal 11 petted against an array
of militia. Nor is there any doubt that
the moral effect. of the militia of wear-
ing the uniform of the regulars, and
feeling that they were as one with
them would Le considerable.
IL ma • be interesting to state in this
verses the obsolute worthlessness of ev-
ery virtue if love be wanting, Paul now
gives us apicture of love in actual
life by fifteen traits or exa mples, eight
of 'which are n.egative. Suffereth long.
Continues' when the conduct of others
might he expected to mom& it; en-
dures patie,n.tly without taking affront.
Is kind. Not only endures evil, (but
does good. elude, of Christ's life was
spent in merely being kind. Envieth
not. Is not grieved because of the hap-
py lot of others. True love rejoices en
the oemfort of others. Va,unateth not
itself. Does not out insolently. Is
not puffed up. Not inflated.
5. Behave iteelf unseemly. Misbe-
ba.ve. True politeness is one of (the
fruits.. of holiness. "Why dost thou set
at naught thy brother?" Seeketh not
her own. "Is not specially careful for
Jaer own thengs." Love and selfishness
are inoompatiele. Is not easily pro-
voked. "Is not irritated;" "is (not
made, smite" Self-government ibrings
peace; irritation may be compared to
rioting and meanly within the king-
dom of one's heart. People mita read -
A BOIL ON T.IIE NOSE.
! A boil on the and of the hose ispain-
Ilia even though small and seemingly
ludierous, because the skin is not only
thick and tough as that of tbe palm of
the band, but also beeause there is very
little tissue intervening between it and.
the ca,rtilage o ethe nose. An ordinary
poultice, tberefore, -will not be of any
avail, beenuse no further eveellin,g cnn
be obtained in this locality to relieve
thee pressure, and consequently a voila,
tice which will shrink the parts is indi-
cated, and sueh a one is a raw cranber-
ry crushed, laid over the boil or 'pimple,
and keot pla,ea with a dab of stiff,
boiled sterols. Try it, and you will find
it to relieve the exoratiating pain
within a short time, and oure the
trouble in twenty-four hours.
eel of whose promises are for those in
bad. predicament. There are bei ter
days for you, either on earth or in hea-
ven, I put nay hand under your chin
and lift your face into the light of the
coming <lawn. Have God on your sule,
and then you have for reserve troops
all the armies of heaven, the smallest
company of which is 20,000 chariots
and the smallest brigade, 144,000, the
lightning of heaven their drawn
sword.
ily find' excuses that will pass on earth
for irritable tempers, but the testi-
DECORATES A WAR HORSE. .n/ony of God is that love is not pro-
voked. Tainketh no evil. Does not in-
vent wrong nor infer wrong, nor in-
dulge in evil suggestions.
6. Rejoiceth net in iniquity. "In
falsehood." Bejewel:as in the truth.
Truth is here personified, and its idea
includes that of all goodness.
7. Be,a,reth all things. A phrase that
may be translated, "She covers up ev-
erything." Love is the opposite of cen-
soriousness and distrust; it is
disposed to excuse from any wrong so
long as excuse is possible. Believeth.
all 'things. Selects the best of •ev-
unholy, end ties to that Hopeth all ,
things. We show our faith by our ,
works; we sbow our love by our hope. ;
If our brother has transgressed we'
anti:Amite his repentance : if the
church is cold we, hope for Its revival.
Enduretb all things. With an even
mind bears adversities and even per-
secutions. Love does not say, "This
cannot be endured," but is perfectly
8.resignedeha rtflo.yGonde'vserfwilallie
th. There isj
otoodthe,aennpoetefeenetetumreoralwalhifeou.
eternity in love, for it is essential
t it, "for
God is loves" man cannot participate
in eternal life without it, for ell wbo
are born of God love God. Eternal en-
durance without lova would be eternal
death. e,ove is needed in he.aven as
mueh as ill earth. Prophecies, they
shall fail. Propbecy in the New Tes-
tament, stands, ap we, have seen, for
direct revelation, whether of the fu-
ture or not. The time 'will come when
the Church will no longer be strag-
gling in the world of evil, and daily in-
spiration by the Spirit of Goa. will, no
longer lib needed. Tongues, they
shall cease. The reference is to the
gift of tongues -that marvelous, mir-
aculous manifestation, already al-
luded to severel times in our les-
sons, and mob 'tongues " have
ceased already in the e. Chris-
tian, Chuatele Rut the statement
is just a.s true if we apply it to the lan-
guages of .mankind. The 'majority of
the languages in which men have dick-
ere,d and exhorted and loved and wep
are 'dead. The majorarty of need len-
One of the most interesting lea,
tures of the jubilee procession was a
small white Ara,bia,n, mare, which at-
tracted as naucOa attention as the Lord
Mayor himself. Her name is Tel-el-Ke-
bir, aye is 22 years old, and was rid-
den by Field Marsball the Right Hon-
orable Lord Roberts, who also rode her
%hen lee commanded/the Britisb troops
in the famous battle in Egypt, after
which she is named. Around her neck
was a broad band of red, white and
blue ribbon, from which hung a gold
medal of honor and the iron Victoria
cross, two decorations which are be-
stowed by her Majesty enly as a
ward for acts of the greatest gallan-
try and military service et unusual.
importenee. Gen. Roberts has rid-
den the naare through three campaigns
in Egypt and the Soudan, and Ish,e is
said to have saved the life of this fam-
ous soldier, who is secoad only to Lord
Wolseley, on two occasions. Sae
ay ery small animal, and Gen. Rob-
erts is a very small men. For tbe last
four years ` Tel -el -Kabir has been in
tee stables of the Horse Guards and
has received as much atte,ntiwy as leer
owner. She is the only horse that was
ever decorated by Queen Victoria., and
it was therefore. appropriate teat
die should have a plain in the Proces-
sion.
GIVE HIMSTILF AWAY.
George do you know that you came
home at 3 o'clock this mornitag and act-
ed. ,dreadfully silly?
VV'hat did lean?
Well, for one thing you called me
a wengless angel.
Did If say that
Yee. 1
have to own up, my dear, I was
drunk.
Mrs, Aboa Cassidy, of Coalport, Pa.,
Nebo ea now in her 106th year, was the
rn,other of eighteen ehildren, nine of
virbom, are yet being. Arooteg her chil-
dren, were four pairs of twens.
'ea
YOUNGEST WOULD-BE SUICIDE.
The suicide epidemic extends far and
near, but the youngest individualwho
was so weary of life as to try it is a
Vienna infant ,aged 5 years. This
child was the adopted son of a brick
layer, arid he tried to escape a thrash-
ingby drowning. When rescued and
sufficiently revived to speak, the poor
little deep deelared he wished to the
so no one could kW kand beat lien
Unless his preserver did samewhat more
than merely pull him out of the eva
eea• says the Boston "Herald," i
is a pity the child. did not eacceed 15
his attempt.
camphelforct herald and 3rd edition
NOT MUCH DANGER.
A death of cold, worldly knowledge
falls occasionally like a wet blanket on
a gush of warm, sentiment, arid leaves
nothing more to be said.
A. young man who had, gone to the
great city to make his tortane Lad.
written benne to tell of his -unexpect-
ed. suecess in finding a job.
I have great hepes of Archie, said
the mother, looking over ihe letter for
the fifth or sixth time, if he caely won't
fill into expensive haeits ,
I don't think he will, Matilda, replied
the father. 1. don't think he will -on
oine dollars a week.
THE 001V OBJEC1TED.
That man Baleen is the most ridicu-
louslyobstinate fellow you ever saw
i .
Re's nvariably on the wrong side of
every question,.
What's lee been doing lately ?
WAY, he went to our Sunday school
teem, and there was a cow on the
grounds, and of course, Billson said he'd
milk her.
Did he?
Did het Sbe kicked him lain the lona-,
ona,de tub before you could rein seat
What wastire trouble t
Get on the wrong side, as usual.
connection the number of raen who
wear the scarlet Weary uniform in
Canada. There arc altogether 71 bat-
talions, embracing 469 companies of
anilitia infaniry, in Canada who wear
the scarlet uniform, and 21 battalions,
embracing 149 compauies of riflemen
that wear the green uniform of that
corps. A, c,..rding to the present strengt
of the Canadian companies, the scarlet -
coated infantry number 21,870 officers
and men, and the riflemen, 6,705. The
British army has only tweive beta),
lions of regular riflemen who wear
the green uniform, so that the scarlet
coats greatly predominate in that
splendid army.. The scarlet tunic is a.
uuiform that is greatly resected by
foreign nations, and which the British
people are not likely to exchange for
any other. •
!GOLD 14.UNING IN AFRICA.
The figures of gold miming in Africa
are interesting just now to us in Can-
ada. Recent ;statistics show tbat with-
in a radius' of tbrree miles of Johannes-
burg there are 9,000 white mein, and
70,000 leaffiee c,nigaged in tele Industry.
The wages of the former react ea,000,-
000, Chose, of the latter $12,500,000. Al-
though the climate of the country is
extreraely Time the mortality among tha.
workers is high, reaching 58 isa 1,000
this year a condition attributed to the
ensafficient supply of poor 'quality of .
th.e drinking -water. An exoert opinion.
calculates' that the field being operat-
ed will rat be extexusted for , thirty
yeara 1;0 COMO. 71.1118 central district of
tho aVitwatersrand aline will produce,
to a -vertical depth of 5,000 feet gold
to !the value of $2,000,000;000. The esti,-
matedyield of the entire district. ap-
proaches three billions. Accertling to
The Engeneeriog and Man.g Journal '
taw present value ere the world.le out-
put of gold ts $21a500,000. Towards '
this amount the Witwatersrand contri-
.buted le per cent, aina still greater
returns are looked for iln tllie future
A ,POOR SPEOLWEeL
Friend -Does your town lioasi of e
basebalt team?
Suburataiite-NoWe usee to eer,
of one; brit we bar- 14' eponne says
it now would have
,len.