Exeter Times, 1897-8-26, Page 7'17
THE EXETER
TRIAGE AND TITUS.
NEW TESTAKAENT WRITER AND THE
MODERN DIVINE ON LAWYERS.
Tee nar Iteceives, a uompeenent Front the
washington erseeher — The Profession
From it mond and Reit:mous staesipoins.
Rev, Dr. Tab:Mtge preaohed on Sun-
day from the text:. Titus iii, 13, "Bring
'Genes the lawyer."
The profession of the law is here in-
troduced, and within two days in the
Capital. City 303 young men joined. it,
and at this season in various parts of
the land, other hundreds are taking
elteir diplomas for that illustrious pro-
fession, and is it not appropriate that
I address suoh young men from amor-
al aatt religious standpoint, as upon
them are now rolling the responsibili-
ties of that calling represented in the
text by ZOIlaS the lawyer ?
We all admire the heraio and rigorous
side of Paul's nature, as when he stands
coolly deliberate on the deck of the corn
ship while the jack tars of the Mediter-
ranean gee cowering in the cyclone; as
When, he stands undaunted amid the
marbles of the palace before thick neck-
ed Nero, surrounded with his 12 cruel
liotors; as when we finel him earning
his livelihood with his own needle, sew-
ing haircloth and. preaching the Gospel
in the, interstices ; as when we* find. him
able to take the 30 lashes, every stroke
of whiali fetched the blood, yet continu-
ing in his missionary work; as when
We find him, regardless of the cause-
quences, to himself, delivering a tem-
perance lecture to Felix, the govern-
ment inebriate. Butsesaetimes we catch
a glimpse of the mild and genial side of
Pauls nature. It seen -is that he had
a friend who was a barrister by pro-
feetion His name was Zenas, and. he
wanted. to $ee him. Perhaps he had
formed the acquaintance of this law-
yer in the courtroom. Perhaps some-
times when he wanted to ask some
question in regard. to Roman law he
went to this Zones, the lawyer. At any
rale he had a. warm attachment for the
man, and he provides for his comfort-
able escort and. entertainment. as he
writes to Titus; "Bring Zenas, tbe
Lawyer."
This man of my text belonged to a
profession in which are many ardent
supporters of Christ and the Gospel,
emong them Blaoketone, the great com-
mentator on Eng,lish law, and Wilber -
tome, the eanancipstor, and the late
Benjamin P. Butler, At
of New York and tbe late Charles
Chauncey, tholeader of the Philadel-
phia bar, and. Chief justices Marshal
and Tenterden and Campbell and Sir
Thomas More, who died for truth on the
scaffold, sating to his august execution-
er: "Pluck up courage, man, and do
your duty. (My neck is very short. Be
careful, therefore, and do .not strike
awry."
Arao.ag the mightieet pleas that ever
have, been made by tongue of barrister
have been pleas in behalf of the Bible
and Christianity, as when Daniel Web-
ster stood in the Supreme Court at
Washington pleading in the famous
Girard will case, denouncing any at-
tempt to educate the people without
giving them at the same time moral
sentiment as "low, ribald and vulgar
deism and infidelity!" as when Samuel
L. Southar). al New Jersey, the leader
of the forum in his day, stood on the
platform at Princeton College com-
mencement advocating the literary ex-
cellency of the Scriptures: as when Ed-
mund Burke, in the famous trial of
Warren Hastings, not only in behalf of
the English Government, but in behalf
of elevated morals, closed his speech in
the midst of the most august assem-
blage ever gathered in Westminster
Rah by saying: "I impeaoh Warren
Hastings in the name of the House of
Commosas, whose national character he
has dishonored; 1 impeach him in the
name of the people of India, whose
rights a.nd liberties he has subverted;
I impeaoh him iu tbe Dame of human
nature, which he has disgraced. In the
name of both sexes and of every rank,
and, of every station, and of every sit-
uation in the world, I impeach War -
ken Beatings."
Yet, notwithstanding ell the . pleas
which that prafe,ssion has made in be-
half of God and the church, and the
'Gospel, and the rights of man, there has '
COMO down through the generations
among many people an absurd and
wkiked plejudice against it. So long ago
as in the time of Oliver Cromwell at
was decided that lawyers might not en-
ter the. Parliament House as members,
and they were called "sons of Zeru-
iah." The learned Dr. johneon wrote
an epitaph for one of them in these
words:
God work a wonders now and then,
Here lies a lawyer, an honest man!
Two hundred years ago a treatise was
leered with, the title. "Doomsday Ap-
roacling With Thunder and Lightning
For lawyers." A pro.menent clergyman
of the last century wrote in regard to
that erofessioa these words: "There is
a sonety af men among us bred up from
their youths in the art of .proving, ac-
cording- as they are paid, by words
multiplied for the purpose that white is
black and black is white. F02 example,
if my neighbor has a mind to my cow,
he hires a lawyer to prove that he ought
to have .my cow from me. I must hire
another lawyer to defend my right, it
being against all rules of law- that a
man should speak for himself. In
pleading they do not dwell upon the
merits ot bhje cause, but upon circum-
stances foreign thereto. For instance,
they do not take the shortest method to
hese knew what title my adversary has to
my cow, but whether the cow be red
or blaok, her horns long or short, or
the like. After that they adjourn the
cause from thee to time and in 20 years
they come to an issue. This society*
likewise has a peculiar cant or jargon
of their own., in which all their laws are
written, and these they take especial
care to anuitiply, whereby they have so
confounded truth and falsehood that it
will take 12 years to decide whether the
field left 'Lo me by my ancestors for six
generations belongs to me or to one 300
miles off."
I say these things to show you that
there has 'Nen a prejudice going on
dewa against that profession fio.ni gen- t
eration to generation. account forit f
on the grown,' that they compel men to 0
pay de-tthat they do not want to 1
eay, ami that they arraign criminals
wile want tt, ereape the consequ nees
of their crime, and ae long as that is so,
and it always will be so, just so long
there will be classes of men, who will af-
fect at any rate to despise he legal pro.:
feasien. I know not how it is in other
ootintries, but I eave had long andwide
acquaintance with men a that prates-
shon—I have found them. in all my par
tables, I tarried in one of their officea
for three years, where there came real
estate lawyers, ipsuren.ce lawyers, crim-
inal lawyers, marine lawyers—and I
leave yet to find a olass of men more
genial or more straightforward. There
are La that occupation, .as in all our
occupatioaus, men utterly obnoxious to
God and, man. But if I were on trial
Cor ray integrity or my life, end Tweet-
ed evenhanded justice administered to
ma Ti would rather have my case sub-
mitted to a jury of 12 lawyers, than
a jury of 12 clergymen,. The legal
profession, I believe, has less violence
of prejudice thai is to be found in the
• There is. however, no in= who has
more theetations or graver responsi-
bilities than the barrister, and he who
atterapts to discilearge the duties of his
position with only earthly resources is
making a very -great minstake. Witness
the soores of men who have in that pro -
making a eery great mistake. Witness
the men who, with the law of the land
under their arra, have violated every
statute of .the eternal God. Withess the
men who have argued placidly before
tethrtillY tributals, who shall shiver in
iasotaY thfore the ,Tudge of quick and.
dead. Wibness Lord Thurlow announc-
ing Me loyalty to earthly government
soirivtehereicselztence, "It 1 forget my earthly
may God. forget me," and. yet
et00Pillg to unaccountable meannesses"
Witn,ess Lord, Coke, the learned and the
reckless. Witness Sir George McKen-
zie, thee execrated of all Scotch Coven -
80 that until this day, in Gray
Friars' churchyard, Edinburgh, the
children whistle through the tears of
the tomb, crying:
Bloody Maekenzie, come out if you deur,
Lift the sn.eek and draw the bar.
Igo other profession more needs the
grace 'of God, to deliver them in. their
txials, to sustain them. in the discharge
of their d.u.ty. While 1 would have you
briag the merchant to Christ, and while
would have you bring the farmer to
Obit, and while I would have you
bring Ma otechanio to Christ, I address
yetenow ih the words of Paul to Titus,
'B,ring :denim the lawyer." By s0 rahoh
as his duties are delicate and great, by
semuch does homed Christian stimulus
and safeguard. We all tecome clients, I
do not suppose. there: is a man 60 Years
a age who has been inactive life who
has not been stflisted with a lawsuit,
YOUX name 115 assaalted. and you retest
have legal protection. Your boundary
rims in invaded, and the courismust re-
establish it. You,r patent is infringed
Upon, and you must make the offending
manufacturer pay the penalty. Your
treasures are taken, and the thief must
be appreberuied.. You want to make
will and, you do not want to follow
the example a those who for the sake
of saving 4100 from an attorney, imperil
$250,000, an.d keep the generation for
20 years quarrelling about the estate,
lentil it is all exhausted. You itre struck
at by an.assassin, anclyoa must invoke
Lor hien the penitentiary. All classes of
persons in course of time become clients,
and therefore they are sal interested, ea
the morality and the Christian integri-
ty Of the legal profession, "Bring 'Len-
a& the lawyer."
But how is a.n attorney to decide as to
what are. the principles by which he
• should. conduct hianself in regard to his
olients? On one extreme Lord Broug-
ham will appear, saying: "the in-
nocence or gulit of your client is no-
thing to you. You are to save your
client regardless a the torment, the
Buttering, the destruction of all oth-
ers. You are to know, but one an in
the world—youx clieat. You are to
save hint though you should. bring
your country into confusion. At all haz-
ards you must save your client." So
says Lord Brougham. But no right
minded lawyer could adopt this senti-
ment. On the other extreme Cicero
whit come to you, and say, "You must
never plead the muse ot a bad man,"
forgettul of the fact that the greatest
,v.uliain on earth ought to have a fair
,trinl, and, that an attorney cannot be
ju.dge and ativorate at the same time.
It was grand when Lord Erskine sacri-
ficed his attorney -generalship for the
sake of defending ationias Paane in his
Publication of his book called "The
Rights of Man." while et the same time
he, the ad,vocate, abhorred Thomas
Palings irreligious sentiments. Be-
tween these two opposite theories of
what is right, what shall the attorney
do? God alone can direct him. To
that chancery he must tie appellant,
and he will get, an answer in an hour,
Blessed is that attorney between whose
office and the throne of grod there is
prepetu,aL reverential end prayerful
cammunication. That attorney., will
never make an irreparable mistake.
True to the habits ot your profession
You. say, "Cite us some authority on
the subject." Well, I quates to you the
deoteion. of the supreme court of hea-
ven, "If any leek wisdom, let him ask
of God, who giveth to all men liberally
and uplaraidete not, and it shall be
girven him."
What a scene is' the office of a busy
attorney! In addition to the men who
come to you wanting to know how they
men will come to you. They will offer
you. a large fee for counsel in the
wrong direction. They want to know
from you how they can escape from
solemn martial obligations. They
oame to you from right motives, bad
can make the insarance oompany pay
for a destroyed house which they burn-
ed down with their own hands, 02 they
cone to you ont the simple errand of
wanting to escape payment of their
hon,est debts.
Now, it is oo easy thing to advise
settlement, when by urging litigation
you could strike a mina a remunera-
tion.. It is not an easy thing to derapen
the ardor of an inflamed contestant,
when you know through a prolonged
lawsuit you could get trom him what-
ever you aeked. le Is no easy thing to
a,ttexcipt to dieeourage the suit for the
breaking of a will in the surrogate's
court because you know the testator
wee of soun.d pie:31cl and body when he
sign.ed the document. It requires no
small heroism to do as 1 once heard an
ettorney do in an office in a western
city. overhea,rd the conversation
when he sake "John, you can go on
with this Iawsud.t and I will see you
through a ell es I can., but I went to
tell you, betore you start that a law -
snit is equal to a fire." Under the
tremendous temptatiene that come
thpon the legal profession there are
&sores of nem who ha,ve, gone down,
and some of them from beteg the pride
of the, highest triburiaa of the ,state
hove become a diegreoe to the Tombs
courtroom.. Every attorney, iin ad -
&tape to, the inna,te sense of right,
wa,nts the sustaining power' of the old.-
faelrioned religion of Jesus Christ,
'Bring Zernas the lawyer."
There axe two or three forms of
eanptetion to which tbe legaa pro-
ession is especially eubject. The first
C all is skepticism.. Controversy is the
ifettme liminess of that occupation.
ontroversy may be incidental or ac-
idental with us but wiAlt you, it is
perpetuaa. You get so used to pushing
the sharp question "Why?" and mak-
lug unaided reason superior to the
emotions, that the religion of jegu.s
Christ, 'Match is a, simple matter of
faith and, above human reason, .alt
though not contrary to. it, has but
little Gliwice with some of you. A
brillia,nt orator wrote a book on the
first page of which he announced his
sentiment, " An honest. God is the
noblest work of manl" Skeptieism is
the mightiest temptation of the legal
profession, and that na.a.n who ca,n
stand in that profession, resisting all
solicitations to infidelity, and can be
as brave as George Briggs of Massa-
chusetts, who stepped from the gub-
ernatorial chair to the missionary
convention, to plead tee cause of a
dying race; then on his way home
from the convention, on a cold. day,
took oft his warm cloak and threw it
over the shoulders of a, thinly clad
missionary, saying, "Take that and
wear it ; 'twill do you. more good than
it will me," or, like Judge John Mc-
Lean, who can step from the Su-
preme Court room of the United States
on to the anniversary Platform of the
American Sunday School Union, its
most powerful orator, deserves con-
gratulation and encomium. Oh, men
of the legal profession, let me beg
of you to quit aakiug questions In
regard to religion, and begin bailey -
The mighty men of yaw* profession,
Story and Kent and Mansfield, be-
came Christians, not through their
heads, but through their hearts. "Ex-
cept ye become as a. little child, ye
shall in no wise enter the kingdom of
God." If you do not be.come a Chris-
tian, 0 man of the legal profession,
until you can lemon this whole thing
out in regard to God and Christ; and
the inamortrility of the soul, you will
leaver become 1a Christian at all.
Only ye believe, "13ring Zenas the law-
yer.
Another mighty temptation for the
legal profession is Sabbath breaking.
The trial has been going on for ten
or fifteen days. The evidence is all
in. It ie Saturday night. The judge's
gavel falls on the desk, and he says,
"Crier, adjourn tbe court until 10
o'clock Monday morning." On Mon-
day morning the counsellor is to sum
up tbe case. Thousands of dollars,
yea, the reputation and life of his
client may depend upon the saccese of
his plea. How will he spend. the in-
tervening Sunday? There is not one
lawyer out of a hundred that can with-
stand the temptation to break the
Lord's Day ender such circum-
stances, and yet if be does he hurts
his own soul. Whet, my brother.
You cannot do before 12 o'clock Satur-
day night, or after 12 o'clock Sunday
night God does not want you to do at
all. Besides that, you want the 24
hours' of Sabbath rest to give you that
electrical and magnetic lova which
will be worth more to yoa before the
jury than, all the elaboration of your
case on the seared day. My intimate
aud lamented friend, the late Judge
Neilson, in his interesting remin-
iscences, of Rufus Choate, says that
during the last case that gentleman
tried in New York the court adjourned
tram Friday until Monday on account
of the Ulness of Mr, Choate. But the
chronicler says , that he sawMr.
Choate in the old. brick church listen-
ing to the Rev. Dr. Gardiner Spring-
er. I do not know whether on the
following day Rufus Choate won his
case or lost it, but I do know that
his Sabbath rest did not do him, any
harm. Every lawyer is entitled. to
0210 day's rest out of seven. If tie sur-
renders that he robs three—God, his
own soul and, his client. Lord Castle-
rea,gh and Bir Thomas Romilly were
the leaders of the bar in, their day.
They both died suicides. Wilberforce
accounts for their aberration of in-
tellect on the ground that they were
uninterraittent in their work andthey
never rested on Sunday, "Poor fel-
low!" said Wilberforce in regard to
Castlereagh; ' poor fellow, it was non-
observance of the Sabbath," Chief
Justice Hale says. "When I do not
properly keep the Lord's day all the
ment."
unsuccessful in my worldly employ -
unhappy end
rest of the week is
I quote to -day from the highest sta-
tute book in the universe, "Remena-
her the Sabbath day to keep it holy."
The legal gentleman who breaks that
statute raay seem for a while tot be
advantaged, but in the long run the
men who observe this law of God will
have larger retainers, -meter influence,
greater professional sucaess than
those men who break the statute. Ob-
servance of the law of God pays
not only spiritually and eternally, but
it pays in hard. dollars or bank
bills.
Another powerful temptation of the
legal profession is to artificial stimulus.
None except those who have address-
ed a.udierices knows about the nervous
exhaustion that soraetimes comes after-
ward. The temptation of strong drink
approaches the legal profession at that
very point. Then, a trial coming on.
Through the ilaventila,ted court room
the barrister's health has been depres-
ed for days and for weeks. He wants
to rally his energy. He is tempted to
resort to artificial means. He is either
to get himself up or lethimself down
that this te,mptation comes upon him.
The flower of the Amerian bar, ruined
in reputation and ruined in estate, said
in his last moments: "This is the end.
I aan dying on a borrowed bed covered
with a 'borrowecl sheet, in a house built
by public charity. Bury me under that
tree in the middle of the field, that I
may not be crowded. I always have
been crowded.
Another powerful temptation of the
legal profession is to allow the absorb-
ing duties of the professian to shut out
thoughts of the great future. You
know very well that you who have a0
often tried others, will after awhile be
put on trial yourselves. . Death will
serve on you a writ of ejectment, and
you 'will be. put off these earthly pre-
mises. On that day all the affairs of
your life will be presented to se "bill
of particulars." No certiorari from a
higher court, for this is the highest
court. Ma day when Lord Exeter was
tried for high treason; the day 'when
the House of Commons moved for the
impeachment of Lord Lovat; the days
when Charles L end Queen Caroline
were put on trial; the day *when !Robert
Emmet was arraigned as an insurgent;
the day when Blennerhasset was
'brought into the court room because he
had tried to overthrow the United
States Government, and. all the ether
great trials of the world are 'nothing
compared with the great trial in which
you and I will appear, summoned be-
fore the Judge of quiek end dead.
There will be no pleading there 'the
statute of limitations," no "turning
state's evidence," trying to get off our -
salves while others suffer, an "moving
for rt, non -suit." The case will come on
ine.xorably-, and we ellell be tried. You,
nor brother, Who have so often been
advocate for others, will than need an
advocate for yourself. Have you se-
TIMES
leeted Itim, the Lord Chencellor of the
Universe? It any man see teebave an
advocate—Jesus Christ, the righteous.
o
It is uncertain when your ease Will be
called n. "Be ye ready."
Lord Ashburton and Mr. Wallace
were leading barristers in their day.
They died about the aline time. IA few
months before their decease Mei, hap -
Paned to be in the same hotel tri a vil-
lage the one counsel going to Devon -
attire. tbe other going to London. They
had both bean seized upon by a disease
i,vhiel they knew would be fatal. and
e
to the eame room and laid down on
sofas sidby side that
,theY requested that they be carried in -
e
they might talk
over old times ad talk aver the future.
So they were carried in, and lying there
on oppositsofas they talked over their
old contests at the bar, and than they
talked of the future world, os whieb
they MUSt S DOR enter. Tt was said to
have been a very affectinu and solemn
interview between Mr. Wallace and
Lord Ashburten. My subject to -clay
Puts you side by side with those mot. in
Your Profession who have departed this
life, some of them skeptical and 'rebel-
lious, some of them penitent. childlike
andelxistian. Thosew ere wandering'
sters for wbom was reserved the black-
ness of darkness forever, While these
others went un from the. court room of
earth to the throne of eternal dominion.
Through Christ the advocate these got
glorious ae:quittal. In, the other case
it was a hopelesilawsuit—an unpardon-
ed sinner versus the Lord Almiehty.
Oh. what disastrous litigation! Behold.
He comes! The ruclge the judge, the
!clouds of beeven .the judieial ermine
the great wbite throne. the judicial
bench, the archangel's voiee that ellen
wake the dead, the crier. °Come ve
blessed • depart ye cursed!" the acouit-
hl or the condemnation. "And T saw
the dead, small end great, stand thfore
Goa, and the books were onened."
" KIWASH GEORGE."
low•••••
was the thus who whet Sound. Klondike
Gold — The nice creeks.
X. 0. Hestwood, of Seattle, one of
the successful gold, seekers, told
how the gold was discovered at Klon-
dike.
"The discovery," he said, "wasraade
by an old hunter named George Mc-
Cormick, who is called "Kiwash George.'
He is married to a, squaw, and has
several half-breed children. McCor-
mick went up in the spring of 1896 to
the mouth of the Klondike to fish, as
salmoe weighing 90 pounds are caught
where the stream meets the Yukon.
The salmon didn't run as usual, and
McCormick, hearing from the In-
dians ot rich placers near -by, where
gold could be washed out in a frying
pan, started out to prospect.
"Near what is now called Dawson
City he struck very rich pap dirt in a
side hill. As soon as news of his dis-
covery spread, ram from Circle City
and Forty Mile rushed in. The richest
clime are in Bonanza Creek, which
empties into the Klondike three miles
above Dawson City. There are many
claims in that district, each 500 feet
long, extending clear across the creek
on which 1.1 is looated. No one can
file an additional olairn until he has
recorded his abandonment of his old
claim.
" /a the adjoining Bunker district
there are 200 claims. The two districts
have been well prospeoted, but further
up the Klondike is much territory
which has never been even traveled
over.
"Old miners declared that the north
side of the Yukon was worthless, so no
prospecting was done until McCormick
started in.
"There was a rush for Klondike as
soon as the discovery was made known
and I was among the first to go there.
I had poor luck at first, and after a
few days started to leave, but I had
only got a short distance down the
river when my boat got stuok in the
ice and went back to Dawson City.. I
ice and I went back to Dawson City.
I bought a claim and it proved one of
the rishest in the district.
"In the region now worked there
are.a. score of creeks, each rich, in
gold deposits. The creeks comprising
the bonanza district are Bonanza, El
Dorado, Victoria, Adams, McCormack,
Reddy Bullion, Nugget Gulch, Bear,
Baker, and Cbee-Chaw-Ka. In the
Hunter district are the Main Fork,
Hunker and Gold Bottom Creeks. The
banks of these streams are dotted with
white tents of miners and a prettier
sight it would be hard to find. Over
on Dominion Creek gold has been found
and three hundred minersstarted for
that place the day we started' for San
Francisco. The surface prospects
are quite as favorable as on the Bon-
anza.
"It is easier to reach Dawson Cit -
now than when the discovery of gold
was announced. Appliances have been
placed at all the mountain passes, so
that heavy loads are pulled up steep
inclines and let down on the other
side. I look for a big rush
next year, and there will be wonder-
ful stories to tell when the season is
ended."
COUNTING MONEY.
It Is Work Just Like Anything Else, When
It Becomes an Occupation.
"I've seen men chopping wood in
their shirt 'sleeves, with the sleeves
rolled up," said Mr. Bugleton, "and
laying brick and all that sort a 'thing,
but the other day I saw a man count-
ing money in his shirt sleeves. And
that at first seemed sort of queer, be-
cause it seems as though it would he
such an easy thing to count money
if youonly had it. But this 'man was
in a. bank counting money all day
long and doing nothing else; taking
the deposits as they came inland count-
ing them into bundles of like denom-
inations and uniform amounts, so that
they would be easy to handle and to
pay out again. And it was a very not
day; and this was work, Jut like any-
thing else; aad so it was perfectly
natural that he should plug away at
it in his shirt sleeves, end with the
sleeves rolled up." .
WELL NAMED.
I wonder why they call the expenses
of a church the running expenses said
Nes. Martin.
. I suppose it's because the vestrymen
are never able to catch up with them,
answered her husband.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
•WW.11•M
INTERNATIONAL LESSON) AUG. 29.
"rani opposed at lephetus." Acts 19, al-sh
Gorden. Lext, Luke 12: 15.
PRIACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 21. These things. Incidents con -
nailed with, the preaching of the Gos-
pel in Ephesus, where "mightily grew
the word, a God and. prevailed." Read
the first twenty verses of this chapter.
Purposed in the spirit. Devoutly came
to a de.Cialle decisiern. Through Maw-
donia. and Ace:tale. Two provinces of
Greek Europe where Paul had already
laiored. He had received news of er-
iou.s dis,sen.sion among the Christians
of Coriath and mast hasten there to
make peace. Meanwhile he wrote the
First Epistle to the Corinthians. To go
to Jerusalem. Which was still revered
as the oenter of Christian faith. But
the church there was narrower in its
doctrines than were tlie churolies found-
ed by Paul. It had made no friendly her. e, of Acts 20. 4; or the Gams of
eoruith, a Cita 1. 14; Rom. 16. 23;
advances to him, and, as we shall short.- or abet Game ot Ephesus, at 3 John 1.
ly see, when, at length he came there, Arsitirollustwe only know as a faith-.
laden with blessings, it manifested no eui
solicitude concerning his fate. It was Penphaettal7y Pith mThell'sferleranta.1°11Isi
has been conjectured that just at this
hour Aquila' and Priscilla, Rom. 16. 3,
4, risked their necks to save Isaul.
30, 31. Paul would have entered in.
Was landed to enter in. The diseiples
and Solomon, but whioh in the days of seuefferedchehian. vet. They heal wet -
we re resoledgatr rkeep a reminiscerics of the taxes of David
on very real need, and htntoriran safentnyd
return from captivity had been based tho chief of Asia. The tesiarchs. presid-
ents of the Rplicsion games, One was
through the centuries taken to itself
which liu.d
appointed annually, and who ever bad.
all the holy character of a tra- were his friends. The number of men
been Asiarolt retained the title. Which
ditionol command.. The Christians of high rank won to ths friendship 01
of Jerusalem were doubtless, Paul is amazing. Desiring .
help to win their favor. The desire ItetabemtularTietererdb dnodulll would have
This
poor, we can trace four or five eace over him even than that of the
request probably had greater influ-
reesons why they must have been, and Christians.
Paul sought for them what other gen- 32. Some therefore cried one thing,
eroue Jews habitually did for the or- The Asse._ „
and some another. Finely descroeiva.
thodox inhabitants of Jerusalem, i
hope, probably, that finanoial aidwould translated churoh. It Paul had i enter -
woe' was contused. The word
-0 for assembly is the word elsewbere
the goddess taooked, except Paul
goes; you. who love your city
and province, the supremacy they
have. eujoyed will disappear, ex-
cept Paul goes." All Asia and the
world worshipethe" All western Asia
Minor had built thie temple. Baca
of its hunched and twenty columns
was the gift of a oily, and tbe ae-
nual festivals of the goddess attracted
thou:weeds from all direotions.
28. Fall of vvernith. Orrew madder
and madder. Oried true. Were cry-
ing out. We can picture a group of
excited mon starting through the
streets sheeting, "Great is Diana"' and
arousieg all the idle and the bad. Wheu
Paul's traveling oorapa,nions were cap-
tured by thrie mob they rushed irtto the
theater, which was probably used for
public gatluerings.
29. The whole city was filled with
confusion. AS a city always is when
a great mob starts. Baying caught
Garus arid Aristarch.us, men of Mace-
donia. 'they were Eu,ropeans, and it
probably was not difficult to iden-
tify' them and. aseociate. than
with Paul. It seems strange that
they did not suffer injury. The fact
that GailaS is a Maxedorman makes it
Probable that he was not the Gaius 01
customary for rich and generous Jews
"of the disperston " to gather money
for the benefit of the Jews at jerus-
aleart—a custom which may have been
to take up a collection for Jerusa-
lem doubtless a4ded to the strengthwould have been over. But the theater,
have murdered Paul. their trouble
of the determination to go there. Al- with its galleries of seat% and its dig -
ter 1 home been there I must also see nified marble
ed the apostles at jerusalem he must
sembly. Tbe leaders evidently did not
know what to do next.
pillars, turned that inob
Rome. As in some sense he represent -
into a sort of turbulent deliberative as-
ropolis. As he was the apostle to the
Gentiles he must hasten to the metro-erfo
4
Jewish met -1 83. They drew. "They brought." Alex-
, ander. Probably the eoppersmith, 2 'Jim.84hrlin4e;sdhrulehte.le jese
go at stated tiraes to the
Rome, but he was a prisoner in ivere always le <longer, and as they
vvilsimaapuirttinag mbiairki°r!
polls of the Gentiles. Later ha saw ward. When a mob arose the Jews
chains. had been influential in arousing this
22. Sent into Macedonia two of
its paoification meant much to
°be':
them. Probably to gather up the con- them. 'rho Jews were eager to show
tributiothat they could not be confounded with
ias of the churches. Evidently Christians: Atexander beckoned with
compan.y of Christian workers had the hand. Peel was able on similar
gathered. around Paul and obeyed his
orders. The that ministered unto him. occasions to quiet the people. Would
This phrase would include personal ser-
lia,ve made his defense. "A. defense,"
vice, but it probably means their aid that is, of the Jews and of the
in the Christian ministry. Timotbeus. 1:110b•
Timothy. See 1 Cor. 4. 17; 16, 10. Eras- SC They knew thet he was a jeveIestead of "knew," the Revised Ver -
the treasurer of Corinth. Rom. 16,
tus. Possibly, though not certainly,
sion has "perceived," as if they re -
'23; 2 Tim. 4. 20, Asia. As before the
cognized, his eationality. Not a hard
small Reiman province so called. in the thing to tell ordinarily; and though
Asiatic features were more like Jewish
west of Asia Minor. For a season.
Probably till the Ephesian games features than are those of the Euro-
s,hould bmesses peen or American, still Alexander was
e closed and the large
of people who were peeked in the pity a raaaked man; besides, be was pro -
should disperse to their homes. This bably known to many of this
would occur in May.
23. About the same thee. A 'vague
ahronological hint. No small stir. A
great tumult. About that way.
"About The Way." T.his was aria tot
the earliest names given by Christians
theanselves to their new -formed. sect.
24. Demetrius. Evid.eatly a notable
ma.n. Ile may have had control of the
sale of the shrines. The preaching of
Paul, the growth of Christia,nity, the NOT SO SMART.
spreading skepticism, ythich to some In an English market town smoke-
ivilizatkn
degree accordingthe with the advancing room. some. farmers were having their
impressing the people. And tbe test
cof ege—all these were
evening glass. among them avas
of the impressian ma4e on the people's Yorksbiremren, known, to be a. terribly
minds was the shrinemarket. The keen. hand at driving a bargain. As
farseeing tradesman felt that Wall- the ev,eneng lesere en he get a bee
ter movement must be made. "warped," and one of the company
Silver shrines for Diana. Small mod- took advantage of tibis to make ten ex -
els of the temple, with a minature im- change of horses with him, which was
age. of the goddess. Pilgrims pm:obese bioivever, only effected after a lot of
them so that they could con.tinue their hagging--"the horses to be taken over
wors'hip niter their return to their exactly as they are—with all faults."
homes. The worship of Diana was very As soon: as the deal had been ratified
popular throughout the East. Her
n by shaking hands, and each man stand -
temple eEphesus was one of the mg drinks round, all the oompany join -
architectural wonders of the world. ad heartily in the laugh against the
Brought no small gain. "No little "tyke," When the other man said.:
business," work, employment. "Sam. I've got you, this time. My
25. Whom he called together. The 'horse is a dead 'un—died this morn -
"whom" refers to the craftsmen of the ing
previouis verse; tvhat we call skilled "Oh, no, you baven't1" replied the
laborers. The "workmen" were pro- Yorksb.ireman, with a knowing look. "I
bably the unskilled laborers in their knew all about that. My b.orse died
employ. Like occupation. Makers of this afternoon, and, what's more, I've
shrines. Sirs. 'Men," or, as we taken. off his shoes!"
would say, "gentlemen." By this
craft. By this business. We have
our wealth. Mare then one halt of
the merchandise and manufacture of
antiquity grew out of worship, and.
the student of early Church history
discovers that the financial question,
though sometimes covered frora popular
view, was after all the great problem,
and the greatest stumbling -block ue
bhe way of the advance of Christia,ni-
to.
26. Ye see and hear. The fact was
plain to every observer. Not alone at
Epeesus. As 1.1 he said, "If it were our
business only that were interfered with
by this new doctrine we might won-
der Whether we, were able to oope with
it, but all idolaters must make common
cause," Throughout all Asia. As
before, this means the proviince border-
ing on the Aegean Sea. This Paul. A
phrase of contempt. /110,th persuaded
auad tarnedmuclepeople. Half a cenatury
later Pliny tells us that the heathen
institutions in the. neighborhood. of
Ephesus had falleninto utter neglect
as a direct consequence of Christian
teachIng. Nearly all the men intent
on gain were hart by the impel spread
of Christianity. They be no gods
which are made with hands. The wor-
ship of images end crunifixes has 'often
begun in devout symbolism, as when
a poetic mind seeks an ideal represen-
tation of spiritual truth. But, how-
ever it begents, it always ends as 'here
in the common folk believing, what-
ever they say, thht real gads have been
made with hands.
27. Our craft is in danger. "Our bus-
iness interests are in peril." If ,Pal
succeeds you will be out of 'work. To
be set at naught. To come into con-
tempt, to be made a laughing .stock The lady had given the smell boy ad
of. But also. This our overthrow is apple and. he had said nothing in re -
not the worst of things: the temple cogaition.
of the greet goddesstwill be despised What does a little boy say wb.en, he
end her magnificence will be destroy- gets anything? asked the lady, insinu.-
ed. This is a, very weighty sentence. atiagly. -
It is its if he said: "Do oot persuade He hesitated a moment.
youx:selves that this is a passing Lash- Some little boys, he said, says "thank
ion or tact. You who make ahrinee you you ;" acme says "much obliged ;" a,ncl
will starve except. Paul goes; you vrbo some just: keep thinking how math bet-
wptaihip Diana, iS'ona. will be scorned and tar an orange its than an apple.
ly. The space of two hours. Exotted
as the imab was, it could: hardly have
continued this monotonous shouting
for so long a time if it, 'had, not been
in some sort and. to some degree ritu-
alistic., a formal homage to Diana.
"Vain repetitions," were common in
heathen worship.
DANGER IN BATHING.
In regard to the effect of bathing
upon Me ear it in unquestionably bad.
The water which enters the auditory
canal causes intlaramationi wthich passes
through thedrumhead into the tymp-
anum and causes suppuration. An-
other danger an bathing es that the
water is ofteu dirty and causes a
moldy growth within the ear, wlaich
produces a diseased condition. In re-
gard to diving or surf bathing, the ear
Shoulci alevays be protected from the
dangers of concussion by a wad of ab-
sorbent cotton., as 'there is otherwise
danger of breaking the drumhead.
Still an:bobber phenomenon xesulting
perhaps from constantly subjecting the
ear to water is the bomy growth found
quite commonly in the ear. 'The ancient
Peruvians and American Indians suffer-
ed greatly frorn teas abnormal growth,
as is demonstrated by an examination
of their, skulls.
MUMMIFIED MONKEYS.
In several places of Cape Coleny
caves have been explored. Which yield-
ed. hundreds of mummified remains of
a. queer species of six -fingered monkey.
All of the full grown specimen of Ithis
remarkable race havte the tail situated
high up on tha back, with other dia.
guiebing marks, meth as two sets of
canine teeth.
SOME KEEP THINKING.
THE OLD NAN ASSERTED HIMSELF.
Old Not Want Akar Duda Figuring Hit
House.
It was Suntley afternoon, seed the old
gentlemen responded: ita person Mikan
the doorbell rang, Fertrhermere, the
old gentlemen waa not in the best of
humor. However, of course, the young
man didn't know tbut, or he would JAYA
been ready to dodge.
The young meta, it may be explained,
just. to Show that everything was in
accordanee with the rules ot polite so-
ciety, never ayad met the old gentle-
man, but he bad met th veld gentle-
men's wife and the old gentlemen's
daughter, and had been iuvited to cal
Whenever he was in the city, aud it so
teopened that be was ba the city thie '
lovely Sunday afternoon).
"Is—aw—Miss Brown, in?" asked. the
young man.
No'w lut so hepperte.d. Welt the old,
geatlemau bad, 1518 opiniorn of any one
vvto said "awt" and it was not a flat-
tering one, ertaer. Consequently, he
growled oat sometteleg to the effect
that she was not in.
"So sorry, you kruaw," said the young
1115.11,
The ad, gentletaat didn't know, but
he took it for granted and made no
further comment.
Then it seemed to dawn upon the
young man, who was fumblixtg for a
coed, that perhaps be had. Poole #nis-
take.
"This is—aw—her house, isott it?" he
asked,.
"It la aot," the old gentleman re-
turned bluntly,
"Oh—aw—beg a thousan4 pardons,"
said the young man. "Thought it was,
you know. So sorry. My mistake."
Be was, turning away el= another
thought oceurred thhim, and he quick-
ly turaed, back again.
"aten you—o.w—tell me where she—
ll-Iv—lives?" he asked..
"Here," replied. the old gentleman.
"But you. told. me--."
"1 told, you it wasn't her house, and
it isn't her house." interrupted the old
gentleman. "It's my house. I. don't
count for alma, in it when she and her
mother are both here) but it's mine
just the same. She may get it ELme
time, bat 1 don't, want any oat -of -town
dudes figuring.on it jest yet. There
are enough art the neighborhood who
are going to be disappointed."
As usual, however, the you.ng man
Was equal to tdie occasion.
He said, "A‘w
GENTLE JEAN INC ELOW.
Jean Ingelow, who died recently In
London, seemed curiously out a place
in the literary life of the day when any
writer who has done anything to at..
tract attention lives so much in the
public eye. Jean Ingelowe career was
toilet and gentle in its course. The
greater part of her work, moreover,
was done at a period. previous to that
in which the public) interest in celebri-
ties was as fully gratified. as it is to-
day, For nearly a quarter a a cen-
tury slue hn.d bean neglected by the
world in spite of the great popularity
that her earlier writings had won. But
Et is certaiely notable that a writer
'who was esteemed. the most popular wo-
man Poet a her day, whose books in her
country ran through twenty-three edi-
tions and in t'he United States were
sold to the number of 200,000, should
never have been interviewed. But this
was one a Miss Ingelow's distinctions.
Probably this resulted from, the hor—
ror of putainity -which had always pre-
vented her from appearing in gath-
erings a notable persons. It is said
that elie would. not even accept invi-
tations to dinners at whieh the com-
pany was likely to be made up too much
ot well-known parsons. There was one
series of entertainments in which she
indulged herself far many years. Three
times a week slue invited to dinner at
her house the poor people lately dis-
charged from the hoepitals en the
neighborhood, and it is said that in her
own view of ths world the dinner table
was a place much more adapted to such
practical charity than to poetry. Her
acquaisitance was not limited, however,
to persons so distant from her own
sphere. Many eminent literary men
ot the time were among her intimate
friends. Reeirin was one of these—and
be is said. to have taken particular
pleasure in tier society—Lord. Tenny-
son was another, and her personal set
had incluelted Dante Gabriel Rosetti,
James Russell Lowell, Olteer Wentiell
Holmes, and. many others of almost
equal fame.
Miss Ingelow was born in a small
town in Linosanshire, where her fath-
er was a banker, and, although she had,
lived for many yeans previous to her •
death iin Kensington, it is said that
her shy, modest manners never lost
the gu.ality that her early life in the
oouintry had given them. She was
never a. beauty, although her face was
wonderfully a-ttractirve in its sweet-
ness and. variability of expression to
the persons who knew her. Although
as a chile of lshe, had shown a won-
derful sensitiveness to rluythm, her
fitrst poeans were not published until.
she was 43 years old. The book was
published anonymously at her own ex-
pense. - 'When the small edition was
exha.usted, her publiaihers advised her
that it would not be wise to attempt
the experiment of amother issue. But
the great popularity that her work
staide,nly achieved proved the fallacy
of that coutusee. She became suddenly
famous, and it was not long before all
tee, eminent writers of the day had
raa.de her acqueentence. She and her
mother had. moved to Kensinagton and
this sudden extension of her acquaint-
ance was not without its euxibarroSSMelat
to a, woman elapse previous life had
been so quiet.
She had not read a great deal before
shue. began her career as a poet, and
she attributed much a the freshness
a hex verse to this circumstance. The
seisoess a her first volume was never
repeated. The guano would never be
attracted to her succeedieg works as
it lead been to the versesthat made
tauelic appearance so modestly in 1863.
For many years before her death .she
had known nothing of the delights that
the, golden years a her fame—years
limite--had to tle brought ea themore sdiet e „ to her.
d 4t,,,pdecade
sera that,u gea ettimis-
tic natufre never slathvgd aur retie*
talent at the eadifferenee of the public;
She was eminently hopeful, contented,
and. deteamited Co talre the sunniest
view of life. .Her tebtixal disposition
luckily made this attitude the easiest)
Lor ker. Sb she was never beard to
complain of the fickle,ness ot the pole
lie taste, which for many years had
left her quite Out of its V. -taught&