Exeter Times, 1897-11-4, Page 3-TH
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NOTES AND COMMENTR. BY LESS THAI .11
Oceasiontay some one who has bee
exploring the recondite side-pathe of
evolution amsounoes that the time must •
arrive when mankind tviel be heirless
or toothless, or lose some other feature
beeaveci advaneing civilization will
make it superfluous. Clearly, the tail
Primitive man is said to have tta,d
woad be a it humiliating impediment
4144V. '11110 vermiform appendix is a
mere relic lagging needless and dan-
gerous, aud tbe wisdom teeth have an
sPoaogetite waY of CO ming late, as if
leaf convinced that it wouad be well
not to come at all. A writer in one
of the magazines takes for his theme
the downward elevation of the great
leoe and speaks regretfully of its loss
of grasping power. This member of
the helmet frame is seldom a subject
of tho'ug'ht. The person is best off,
indeed, tvho is unconscious of its ex-,
istenee. But science looks with doubt
upon tie Toss of les ancient ability to
be a thumb to the rest of the foot.
One cense:beton is admitted to remain.
If the services of the greet toe should
be required it eau again be trained in-
to utsefue activity. Perhaps the new
- Zed of going barefoot is it step in that
direction.
The susceptibility of the great toe
to culture is frequently instanced, even
in these times. Armless artists paint
a,nd model with its aid, South American
Indians use it to pick up coins and
make baskets, and trained. Japanese
with its assistance perform all sorts of
feats of dexterity and equilibrium.
They shoot an arrow with the feet,
snuffing out a candle, and a Jap carp-
enter stands on a board with a swift
adze glancing around his toes, appar-
ently within it hair's breadth of ampu-
tating them, nahomeyans of the Mid-
way Plaisanee picked their teeth with
toothpicks held between the first and
second toes. Some of the native sail-
ors of the West Indies navigate a sail-
boat with it rope running between the
toes. The wearers of the ;Riede° san-
de! and the Axetic snowshoe make con -
latent use of 'the toes, and Arabs em-
ploy them in the fabrication of lace.
nese are but a few of the examples
that eould be mentioned.
After ell it is probable that the great
toe eontinues to be extremely useful
to men, even though it; is cramped and
dwarfed and compelled to be subdued in
tts prettegions. A man sbould be able
to fulfill his naissiun with Ms brain
and hands without the dexterous par-
tioipation of his toes. A few years ago
an American inventor produced a piano
with a keyboard, for the feet as well
as the hands. As his fingers rippled
over ths board the feet struck keys
near the floor, each of which added a
chord of four notes. At times he play-
ed the Ilene with his hands accompani-
ed by his feet; or played the piano with
one hand and two feet and devoted the
other hand to a second instrument.
When he came to market the inven-
tion he found that nobody else could
play it or wanted to play it. He may.,
lia.ve been a, victim to great toes that
were too sensitive to ancestral influ-
ences. On the whole, the modern great
toe le having an easy time. frt has been
released from manilla], labor and yet
is not a mere idler. 'The graceful move -
ciente of the human body depend upon
it. it is the main prop of the walker,
runner, dancer and. cycler, and better
occupied than in picking up pins or
complicating manual operations.
QUEER LAKE SALAWIK.
11, Waters Grow Warn) lit Winter and Men
ran F1i411 There with Clubs.
Tho rich placers of Klondike are not
the oney curiosity of the country tra-
versed by tbe Yukon. Not far from
Dawson there is in Alaska a really ex-
traordinary lake whioh was named
Sala,wik by its disocwerer, the Rev. P.
Test, a missionary among the sav-
ages. .
This lake, which is ninety miles long,
and about fifteen miles wide is per-
haps the only one in all that ex-
treme northern region which does not
freeze over during the winter. No
communication has been discovered he-
bween, it and the sea, nevertheless, at
•• high water upon the coasts of the
WW1:hem ocean, the level of the
lake rises, a,nd it falls again at low
tide.
Thie sympathy with the seadoes not
extend to the point of making Sala-
tvik a salt lake; on the contrary, its
waters are good to drink. But another
of its peculiarities is that its temper-
ature rises in winter and, falls in sum-
mer. When all the water courses of
t1ie. neighbering country are complete-
ly frozen over, teke Selawik becomes
eto warm that it is really pleasant to
inthein it. On the ether hand, in
(he summer time the water is extreme-
ly col&
This peculiarity makes it in the
winter time a Mecca, of fiehennen. The
abintdance, of, fish in the lake iS so
great that a person can almost catch
them with the band, and Sam kill
lerge • quantities with a club. Here
for the minor's is a source or footi
supply will:Oh certainly will contribute
Lo diminisb the, cost at living, es-
pecially during flaw itn,er in that
inhospitrible• region.. In an .hour a
man can get enough fish to supply
tarneelt for it month; and of the very
best quelity, including salmon,
'ranging from 20. to 50 pounds in
weight,
It will not be astonishinig if same
fine day' he may see upon the shores
of bike Salawik one of ehose fash-
ionable botels which are the glory of
tv•atering p1 aces,
_MODERN( CrlfrefALRY.
Awkward Miss; with en umbrella -
Beg pardon?
Polite Gentleman -Don't triention it.
have another we Left.
UAIRSBREADTII.
DR, TALMAGE SHOWS HOW NARROW
AN E'TCAPE JOB HAD.
eiegiteint and Powerful Sermon From
a unique text - the Noted Di vine eaves
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Rev. Pr. Talmage preeethed on Sun-
day from Job xix, 20, "I am escapee
with the skin of my teeth."
Job had it hard,. What with tactile
and. bereavements and bankruptcy and
a fool of a wife he wished he was dead,
and I do not blame him,. His flesh
was .gone and les bones were dry. His
teeth wasted away until nothing
but
the enamel seemed left. He cries out:
"1 ant escaped with. the skin of my
tea' h." •
There has been some difference of
opinion about this passage. St. Jerome
and. Sohuliens and Drs. Good and Poole
and Barne,s have all tried their forceps
on job's teeth. You deny my. interpre-
tation aud say, "What did Job know
alma the enamel of the teeth' Ile
knew everythIng about it. Deutal sur-
gery is almost as old as the earth. The
mummies of Egypt, thousa,n.ds of years
old, are found to -day with gold filling
M their teeth. Ovid and Horace, and
Solomon and Moses wrotie about these
inaportant factors of the body, To oth-
er provoking complaints job, I think
bas addled an; exasperating I:Gotha-eh%
and, putting his hand, againe. the in-
flamed ewe he says, ".I. am eseapedwith
th,e skin of my teeth."
A very narrow e•scapet you say, for
Job's body and Knee but. there are
thou,sands of naeu who make just as
narrow escape for 1:bele soul. There was
a time when the partition between
them and ruin was no thicker than a
tooth's enamel, but, as Job finally es-
caped so lave they. Thank Goal
Thank God!
Paid expresses the wane idea by a
different figure when he says that some
people are "sa-ved as by fire." A vessel
at sea is in flames. You go to the
stern of the vessel. The boats have
stoved off, thn flaraea advance. You
ten endure the heat no longer on your
face. You slide down an the side or
the vessel and hold on with your fing-
ers until the forked tongue of fire be-
gins to lick the back or your hand
and you feel that you must fall, when
one of the lifeboats comes beck, and the
passengers say they think they have
room for one more. free boat swings
under you. You drop into it -you are
saved. So sonie men are pursued by
temptations until they are partially
consumed, but after .all get off -"saved
as by ire.
But I like the figure of job it. little
better than that of Paul, because the
pulpit bas not worn it outs and 1 wont
to show you er God will help, that some
Intel make narrow escape Lor their souls
and are saved as "witb the skin of their
teeth."
II. is as easy for some people to look
to the (eats as for you to look to the
pulpit. Mild, gentle, tractable, loving.
you expeot them to become •Christian.
You go over to the store and sate
"Grandon joined the ohureh yesterday:"
Your business comrades say, "That is
just what might have been expeeted;
he always was at that turn of mind."
In youth this person whom 1 desoribe
was always good. He never broke
things. (Re never laughed when it was
improper to laugh. At 7, he could sit
an hour in church, perfectly quiet,
looking n•eithee to the right hand nor
to the left, but; straight into the eyes
of the mtnisber, as though he under-
stood the whole discussion aboutthe
eternal decrees. He never upset things
nor lost them. He floated into the
kingdom of God, so gradually that it is
uncertain just when the matter was
decided.
Here is another one, who started in
life an uncontrollable spirit. lila kept
the nursery in an uproar. ells mother
found lam walking on the 'edge of the
house roof to see if he could balance
himself. There was no horse that he
dared not ride, no tree he could not
climb. His boyhood was a long series
of predicaments; his manhood was reck-
less, his middle very wayward. But
now he is oonverted lama you go over
to the stare an.d say, "Arksyright join-
ed the church yesterday." your friends
say: "It is not possible! You must be
joking." You sa,y, "No; I tell you the
truth lie joined the church." Then
they reply, "There is hope for any of
us if old Arkwright has became a,Chris-
tiam I" In other words we' will admit
that it is more difficult for some men
to &wept the gospel than for others.
I may be preothing to some who have
cut loose from churches end Bibles and.
Sundays, and who have no intention or
becoming Christians themselves, and
yet you may find yourself escaping be-
fore you leave this house as "with the
skin or your teeth." I do not expect
to waste this hour. I have, seen boats
oft from Cape May or Long Bran•oli
and drop thee- nets and after awhile
come whore, pulling in the nets with-
out hoeing caught a single fish. • It
was not e, good day or they had not
the right kind of a net but we expect
no sueb excursion to -day. The water
is full of fish the wind is in the right
direction, the gospel net, is strong. 0
thou. cadet help Simom end Andrew to
fish, show us how to cast the net On
the right side of the ship.
Some of you in, coining to God will
have to run ageinst skeptical notions.
It is useless for people to say sharp and,
cutting things to those who reject. the
Christian religion. W cannot say such
things. Bat what process of temptation
or trial or betrayal you have come to
your present state Ilknow not. There
are two gates to your nature -the gate
of the head, and, the gate •of the heart,
The gate of your head, is locked. with
'bolts and barsthat an archangel could
not break, but the gate of your heart
swings easily en its hinges. 11 1 as-
saulted your body with weapons, you
would -meet me with ' weapons, ancl it
would be sword stroke for sword stroke
and wound for wound and blood for
bloed, but if I come and knock at the
door of your house you open St and.
give me the best seat in your parlor.
11 I should come at you now with an
argument, you would anew& me with
an argument; if with sarcasm, you
would answer me with sarcasm; blow
for blow; stroke for stroke, but when I
come and knock at tee door of your
house you open it and say. " Come in,
my brother, and tell me all yoa know
about Christ and heaven."
Listen to two or three questions, Are
you as happy as you used. to be when
-
you believed in the tru,th of the Chris-
tian religion / Would you like tohave
your ehildren travel on in the road
twhieh you are now traveling? Yea had
relative who professed to be tt Chris-
tian and was thoroughly consistent, liv-
ing arid dying in, the faith of the•gos-
pel. 'Would you, not. like to live the same
quiet life and die the some peaeeful
death? I hold in my hand a letter sent
me by one who has rejected the Chris-
tian religion, It says: "1 am old en-
ough to know that the joys and plea-
sures of life are evanescent and. to rea-
lize the fact that it must be comfort-
able in old. age to believe in something
relative to the future and to have a
faith in some system that proposes to
save.
"1. am free to confess that I would
be happier if I could exercise the simple
and beautiful faith that is possessed by
many whom I know. I am not willing-
ly out of the chueoh or out of the faith.
My state of unvertainty is one of un-
rest. Sometimes I doubt my immoral-
ity and look UpOn the death bed as tlae
elasin.g scene, after which there is note -
mg. What shall I do that I lave not
done?" Ah, skepticism is a dark and
doleful lead. Let me say that this Di"
ble is either true or false. If it be false,
we are as well off as you. it it be
true, then which of us is safer/
Let me ask also whether your trem-
ble has not been that you confounded
Christianity with the inconsistent char-
acter of some who profess It? You are
a lawyer. In your profession there are
mean and dishonest men. Is that any-
thing- against the law? You are a doc-
tor, There are unskilled and contempt-
ible men in your profession. Is that
anything' against medicine? You are a,
merchant. There are thieves and de-
frauders in your business. Ts that any-
thing against merobandise ? Behold,
then, the. unfairness of charging tleen
Christianity, the wickedness of its dis-
ciples! We admit some of the therges
against; those who profess religion. Some
ef the moat, gigantic swindles of the
present day have been ectiried on by
membera of the church. There are men
standing in the front rank in the
churches who would not be trusted for
p;.) without good collateral security.
lheY leave their business dishonest-
ies in the vestibule of the church as
they go in and sit at the communion.
Having corioluded the sacrament, they
get ,up. wipe the wine from their Ups,
go out, and take up their sins where
they Mt off. To serve the devil is
their regular work, to serve God a,sort
Q play spell. 'With a Sunday sponge
tl)Oy eaceeet to wipe off from their bus-
iness slate all the past week's ineonsist,
encies. You lV o more right 10 take
such a man's life as a. speolmen of re-
ligion than you have to take the twist-
ed, no anti split timbers tbat lie on
the beach at Coney Island as a speci-
menof an American ship, It is Hine
that we draw a line between religion
and the frailties of those who confess
it.
Do you not feel that the Bible, take
it all in all, is about the best book that
the world has ever seen? Do you know
any book that has as much in it. Do
you not think upon the whole that its
influence has been beneficient. I come
to you tifith both hands extended to-
wards you. In one hand I have the
Bible and in the other hand I have
nothing. This Bible in one hand Iwill
surrender forever just its soon as in
int hYa toitsllebrabtaenrd you can put a book
1 invite you back into the good olcr-
fashioned religion of your tethers -to
the God whom they worships, to the
Bible they read, to the promises on
which they leanete t o the cross on ts-hich
they hung their eternal expectations.
You have not been bappy a day since
you swung off. You will not be lumpy
a minute until you swing hack.
Again. there may be same who in
the attempt after a Christian life will
have to run against powerful passions
and appetites. Perhaps it is a disposi-
tion to anger that you have to con-
tend against', and perhaps while in a
very serious mood you bear of some-
thing that makes you feel that you.
must swear or die. I know a Christian
man who was onee so exasperatea tbat
he grad to a mean customer, "T cannot
sivear at you myself. for I am a mem-
ber of the church, but if you will go
down stairs my partner in business
will swear at you." AU your good.
resolutions heretofore have been torn
to tatters by explosion of tem-
per. Now there is no harm in getting
road, if you only get mad at sin. You
need to bridle and saddle those hot -
breathed rasions and with them ride
down injustice and wrong. There are a
thousand things in the world we ought
tele mad at. There is no harm in get-
ting red hot if you only bring to the
forge that which needs hammering. A
man who has no power of righteous in-
dignation, is an imbecile, but be sure it
Is a righteous indignation and not a
petulancy that blurs ancl unravels and
depletes the soul.
There is a large class of persons in
midlife who have still in them appetites
that were aroused in e.arly manhood at
a time when they prided themselves
on being "little fast," "high livers,"
"free and easy," "hail fellows well
met." They are now paying in com-
pound interest for troubles they col-
lected 20 years ago. Some of youare
trying to escape, and you will, yet very
narrowly, "as with the skin of your
teeth." God and your men ,soul only
know what the struggle is. Omnipo-
tent grace has pulled out many a soul
tbat was deeper in the mire than you
are, They line the beach of heaven,
the multitude wham God bee rescued
from the thrall of suicidal habits. If
you this day turn back on the wrong
and start anew, God will help you.
Oh, the weakness of human •help!
Men will sympathize for a while, and.
then turn you off. Tf you ask for
their pardon they will give it and say
they will try you again, but falling
away again under the power of temp-
tation they cast you off forever. But
God forgives seventy times seven!
yea, seven hundred times; yea, though
this be the ten thousandth time, he is
more earnest, more sympatbetio, more
helpful this last time than when you
took your first misstep.
If with all the influences favorable
for a right life men make so mane
mistakes how much harder is it whets
for instance, some appetite thrusts its
iron grapple into the roots of the
tongue and. pulls it man down with
hands of destruction it If under such
circumstances he break away,there
will be no sport in the undertaking,
ne h'oliday enjoyment but a struggle
in which the wrestlers move from side
to side and bend ame twist andevatob
for are opportunity to get in a 1;6vier
stroke until, with one final effort, in
which the muscles are distend.ecl and
the veins stand out, and the blood
starts, the swarthy habit falls under
the knee or the victor -escaped at last,
as "with the skin' ef his teeth."
The ship Erame bound from Gotten -
burg to Harwich, was sailing on, when retirees a time on shipboard when every -
the ruan on the lookout saw something thing lamest be seerifioe</ to save the
that he pronouneed it vessel bottom up. Peessengers. The cargo is nothing, tbe
rigging nothing. 'Ilse militatui pubs,
tee trumpet to, lies 'Up and shouts, "Cut
away the riatest." Some or yout have
been tossed or driven, •and you liege
in your effort to keel) t•he world well
Mgt loot youe soul. Until you have
decided, that matter let everything else
go. Ovenmard with eel the other
enxieties and, barcierts. You wee have
to drop the sales or your pride and
me, away the meets. \Vith one earn-
est cry fotr hp putt your eause into
the hand of him. who heeped paul out
of. the breakers of Melita, and who.
above the shrill blast of the wretthiest
tempest that ever Weakened the sky,
or shook the ocean, can hear the faint -
esti; impforatien for mercy.
I shall close this sermon feeling that
some a you who eave considered your
cage as hopeless will take heart again,
end thatwith a blood red earnestness,
such as you have never experienced be-
fore, you. wife start for the good land
of the gotepelx at last; to look back, say-.
ing: "What a great risk 1 ran! Ale
moat lost, hurt saved! just got
throweh and no more! Escaped by
the skin of me teeth.
There was sonaethieg on it that looked
Iika aeagull, but was afterward found
LO be it waving hanakerehief. In the
small boat the crew pushed, outto the
wreck and found that it was %capsized
vessel and, that three nien had been dig-
gingtheir way out throngh the butte=
of the ship. When the vessel capsized
they had no means of escape. The cep-
tain took his penknife and dug awee
through the planks until his knife
broke. Then an old nail was found
with which they attempted. to serape
their way up out of the darkness, eaels
0115 working until his band was well
nigh paralyzed, and he sane. -Stank
faint and sick. After long and tedious
work the light broke through the bate
torn of the ship. A handkerchief was
hoisted. Help came. They were ta-
ken on board the -vessel and saved.
Did ever men mune so near a watery
grave without dropping into. Lt? How
narrowly they escaped --escaped oaly
with the skin of their teeth." There
are men who have been capsized oC
evil passions and capsized. in midoceari
and, they are 1,000 miles away from
any shore of help. They have for years
been trying to dig their way oat,
They have 1 een digging away and die -
ging away, but they can never be de-
livered unless now they will hoist some
signal of distress. Hotvever weekend
(Wile it may be. Christ will Fee it and
tear down upon the helpless craft and
take them en leard and it will Le
known on earth and in heaven how
narrowly they eseapecl. "escaped as
with the skin of their teeth"
There are others who in attemptiag
to come to God must run between a
great many business terplexities. fro,
man go over to business at 10 o'clock
in the morning and come away at 8
o'ceoele in the afternoon, he has sores
religion, but how shall you find, time
Lor religious contemplation when you
tare driven from sunrise to sunset and
have been for five years going behind
in business and are frequently dun-
ned, by creditors whom you cannot
pay, and 'tvhen from Monday morning
until Saturday night you are dodging
bills teat you cannot meet? Youwalk
day- by day in uneertainties that have
kept your brain on fire for the past
three years. Some with less business
troubles than you have gone crazy.
The clerk ha' heard it noise in the leek
counting room and gone in and found
the chief man a the firra 0. raving
mania(' or the wife bas heard. the 'Sang
of &pistol in the back parlor and going
in' stumbling over the dead hody of
her husband -a suicide. There are men
Pursued, harassed, trodden down and
scalped of business perplexities, and
tvhich way to turn next they do not
know. Now God will not be hard on
you. Re knows 'what obstacles are in
tbe way of your heing it Christian
and your first effort in the right
direetion, he will crown with suecess.
Do not let Satan with cotton lalee
and kegs and hogsheads and
counters and stocks of unsaleable goods
bleck up your -way to heaven. Gather
lea all your energies. Tighten the gir-
dle alsceat your loins. Take 0.0. agon-
Lzin,g leek into the face of God, and
the say. "Here goes one grand effort
for life eternal," and then bound away
for heaven, eseapling "as with the skin
a your teeth."
in the lest days it will befound that
Heel Lathe:Ler and. John Knox and
Hess and Ridley were iaot the great-
est; martyrs, but Christian men who
went up mcorru.pt from the conta
ations and perplexities 1>1 Pennsylvania
avenue, Broad street, State etreet and
Third. atreet. On linen they were
°ailed brokers or stock ;jobbers or re -
tellers or importers, but in heaven
Christian heroes. No faggots werei
beeped about their feet; no inquisi-
tion demanded from them reeantation;
no soldier aimed a pike at their hearts,
but they hadmental tortures comper-
ed with which all physieal consuming
is as the breath of a spring morning.
I find in the community a largeclass
of men who have been so °heated, so
Iliad about so outrageously wronged.
Met they have lett their faith in every-
thing; in a world where everything
seems's° topsy turvey they do not see
how there can be any God. they are
confounded and frenzied and misan-
thropic. }-1: aborate arguments to
prove to them tbe truth of Christian-
ity, or the truth of anything else, touch
them n.owheree Hear me, a'A su.eh
men. I preach to you. no rounded per-
iods, no ornamental discourse., but put
nay heed an your shoalder and invite
you into the pease or the goepel. Here
is a. rock on which you, may stand firm
though tbe wages dash against it hard-
er than the Ateantle pitching its surf
Wear above Eddystone lighthouse. Do
net charge upon God all these troubles
of the world, ,Ats long as the, world
etunk to God, God stuck to the world
but the earth seceded froni his g,ose
ernanent and henoe all these outrages
and. all these woes. God is good. For
many hundreds a years he has been
coaxing Me world to come back to him.
but the more he has coaxed themore
violent have men been in their resist-
ance. and they have stepped back and
stepped back Weill they have dropped
Mto ruin.
Try t•his God, ye who have had the
Woodholiede after eroa and who have
thought that Gof bee forgotten you.
Try him encl. see if je wile not help you,.
Try .1.titn and see i he will not. pardon.
Try him and ese it his will nett save.
Tthe rowers of seeing have no bloom so
sweet as tbe fiewering of Christ's af-
fections. The sun heel no warmth
compared with the glow of his heart.
She waters ha,vie no refreshment like
tbe fountait that will slack the thirst
of thy sone At the moment the rein-
deer stands veins Nis eip and nostril
thruel in the cool mountain torrent,
the hunter may be coming through the
thickets Witheut cracking a stick
under his foot, he comes close by the
stag; aims his gate draws the trigger
and the poor theng rears: in its death
agony and falls batetward, its antlers
crushing on the rooks, but thepanting
heart that drinks from tie water
brooks of Godes promise allele never be.
fatally wounded and theall never clie.
Vela -world is 11 poor portion for your
souls 0 bueinees maul An eastern king
hes graven on his tomb two fingers
representing ais sounding on each other
with' a snap, and on der them the motto,
iS n.ot worth that." APieilis Coe -
'kis hanged himselt bemuse his stew-
ard iineormed hem that he had malty
£80,000 beta All of tiles world's riches
make bug; a small: inheritance for a
Fouls fR,obespierre attempted to sviet
the appeiteese of the world, but when he
was d.yihag a woman tante rushing
through th orety.e, Fine; to him;
arStruaelerer ;ate' Fki'
ndred dee.fla hti
covered _ with the oursee of every
mother en rance • Many who have
ex,peoted the preeeditte ,lcie the world
bate died under its anathema.
Oh, find yaw peace in God. Make
One strong pull for heaven. No half-
way work will do it. There eemetimee
HIE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONALaSON, NOV. 7.
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Tex1(71:tuoink. 8 128.
" out lit Menet as ne.•• At 28, 1.18.
PRACTICAL NOTES,
Verse 1. When they escaped. From
their struggle with the destructive sea.
They knew. They ascertained. There is
holder au, hones for reading, "we were
escaped." and "we knew." The laud
was valkd elelite. Every in.cident, of
the narrative favors the supposition
hat this Leland was Malta, whish lies
OA the direct route from Alexandria to
Rome, The opiniou, now near ey ex-
ploded, teat an island of similar name,
etc.:mile off the coaet, of Dalmatia is in-
tended was based on a misappreheusion
a "Adria." ia Avis 27.e7. Tide line
taken for the journey from °elude to
Melita corresponds with the distance
between Claude and Malta; but to
drift from Itieleda, would take mush
.onger. The mention of Syracuae, Rhe-
giuni, and Put), verse 12, 18, wee the
nearest "lobate in the journey onward
is additional evidence that the place
of asisepe was Malta.
2. ,Barbarous people. That is,
foreigners; people who spoke eat her
Greek nor Latin. The Moetese of
Pauits. day were or Phoenician race, and
not at. all "barbaroutt" according to
our use of Lite word. Their isetrid was
butty with manufactures anci bail ad-
mirable architectural features. The
modern blattese Show the traits or the
North African Arabs, with wham they
iniegled much ie the Middle Ages. No
little kindness. "No common kind-
ness." The present rain. '"The
rain that had set inn" heavy con -
Hulloes rain. The coed. According
to the most correct, chrome:04y thus
Netoreveskna joe)ereuered. toward the maidle of
0. When Paul had gathered a bun-
dle of sticks. Of dry brushwood. Com-
mentators have noted. how Paul's ee-
ergy of body and soul is shwa even
in this, There came a viper out of
the heat. "By reason of the heat."
Roused from its winter torpor be the
sudden_ heat, it flung its deadly fangs
into his hand. At present there are
no venomous serpents in Malta; pro-
bably bemuse of the density of the
11°41).1iNtl'IlLI:nli'the barbarians saw the ven-
omous beast hang on his hand. Paul
was probably 1.n chains; chains, how-
ever, did not prove guilt; for Roman
magistrates were often unjust; but
surely the gods were justl No doubt
this man is a murderer. The logit' of
this conetusion was in harmony eith
the prevailing sentiment of that age
-a sentiment which, in spite of our
Saviour's rebuke, is widespread even
to -day. Vengeance suffereth not to
live. "Vengeance" was a goddess,
the avenger of (gime, who requited like
with like, killing with killing. tr now
this man's doom had indeed been de-
clared by the heavenly powers the is-
landers would watch its execution with
great interest..
5. Tie shook' off the beastsinto the
fire, and felt no harm. The story plain-
ly indicettes that the viper had bitten
Paul. Read Mark 10. 18, and Luke
10. 19.But, as Professor ;Lindsay
says, to'have escaped. biting in such a
lease was almost as muelt a miracle as
no lave been bitten and not suffered
. •
a They looked.. Continued. to look.
When he shoul1 have swollen. Have
becerne inflamed. Or fallen down
dead. So virulent and fatal were
the fangs of the viper known to be.
They changed their meets. le inch
easily-imeressed people are very apt
to do. Said that he was a god. They
stepped, aot half way; a startling eel-
emity proved its victim an assassin;
power to ignore it proved, him a god.
Compare. Aces 14. 11-10.
7. The seine quarters. The same
neighborhood. Possessions. The estate.
The chief man, The Protos, "the first
nem." This is ten unusual phrase, but
inseriptions have been found in Malt a,
in both Latin and Greek, which u•se
it as th,e, °Metal title of the chief Ro-
man magistrate of Malta, "the Mal-
tese representative of the Roman me-
ter of Sicily," or else its an honorary
title given to ante who had. been
magistrate. Received us. Paul and
his two companions; they were pro-
bably letter treated, than some of
their fellows because they were vener-
ated as religious teachers. Lodged, us
three days. Till winter quarters for
the whole party could be prepared. Tra-
dition tells us that Publitis afterward
became Bishop of Malta.
8. Sick of a fever, Literally, "rev-
ere!' meaning what we ;would now call
an intermittent fever. Bloodyflux.
Dysentery. Luke's earofessionaa inter-
est glees peculiar vividness to his de-
scriptions of disease. Prayed. Vocal
prayer was of value in such, eases as
an evidence that the cure was the re-
sult of faith in God's power, and not
of magical charms. Laid his hands on
him and healed him. This is a second
fulfillneent eof the prepotegnesXark 16
Mfiffsd,re lxm4 5, IA-, 15.
9. Others also "All the rest;" all
who were digeaSed during the apostle's
three mouths' •stay. came and were
healed. "Kept coming and. getting
healed." Itis.aop Jaeobsoncommenta 00
the singular brevity of an historian
who can thus record a long series of
imilmommoirowasuumminumennamerimisouniMMIMMIll
add not one word coneerzung their war -
astonishing and pleturestme faots an t STORIES OF THE MINES,
effect, or the unwearied evangelical
labors that acoompanied them -
10. Many honors. Manifestations of INTERESTING YARNS TOLD
KLONDIKE OOILVIE.
+PON
PreliCia Joe's EIGAinpte Alnericitu 4011
tice--GoW a Fervid Aioericito Amok ilia
411CCIVIS Ilesitth el' Mew*
Mr, Ogilvie denies the Welly -colour-
ed, reports of lawlessness at Dawson
City, says the Victoria Colonist. In
spite of the namber of foreignere, the
miners show a dispositioe to abide by -
the Canadian laws, At the same time
it is to the raounted pollee that the
people look to maintain order, and the
• talk in United States newspapers about
the miners running things their own
wo.y by means of rainers' meetings is
alt nonsense. Mr, Ogilvie has a feW
comical incidents to relate in connee-
tion with tue uncertainty that former-
ly existe I. as 10 the boundary lino. Hs
has marked out the boundary along
the 141st meridian and finds that that
will be quite sufficient to prevent any
disputes as to the mines. The luxe
shows that Miller and Glacich
er eeks,
formerly believed to be in Alaska, are
welt Oh the Cfanaillan side of the lino;
and. as to the rest of the groutid when
gold. bus teen etruck, that is SO far
east in Canaela as to set at rest the
least doubt about, it.
AMERICAN' JUSTICE,
ligiolie teacher was sure to be given one
reverenee. In the ancient world a re -
of two sorts of treatment aed to be giv-
en it with emphasis; either reverence as
it messenger of God, or colateinpt as
a fraudulent pretender. When wa
departed. "Whenwe mere settles'
sail," The chronologists three tide in
February or early h elaroh. TheY
lasted us with suoh things as were
supplied us to overflow, with tbe
neeeeeary. Moved by gratitude thet
thIngs travellers need. These gifts
were timely, for 1-ht01 and Ms cora-
penions had lost all their goods in the
wreck.
11. After three months Bated from
the shipwreck. A ship of Alexandria,
tar to the Mediterranean ports. The one
Alexandrian grain sliipe were fatnil-
which had. just been. wrecked was large
enough to accommodate ter) hundred
and seventy-six people, eounting both
crew and passengers; and it, was net
unusually large, for Josepluts tells us
of une which hail six bundred on
board. Had wintered. The captain
of this ship had acted wiser thaft he
with whom Paul and his companiona
had. steeled; for he bad taken timely
refuge frem, the destroying- storm.
Whose sign was Castor end Pollux.
Attelent shipbuilders carved, in relief
on. each side of the protv a figure
whieh gave netne to' the ship. thstor
and Pollux were ditinities whom
seamen especially venerated. It is a
Pleasing onneldence Llat it famous
modern steamer- one of tbe finest
ever built le any oeuntry - bears
the name or "Sign," or St. keel.
was eighty miles from Malta. Tarried
12. §yracuse, the chief. city of Sickly,
there three da,ys. llips of that, day,
being witbou.t any motor but the
wind, were at the mercy of evere
breeze tha.t blew. Voyagers frequent,
ly had 1,o welt for the weather. It is
a favorite, tradition in ii y that Paul,
"instant in seastin and/ out of season."
took adarantage of this delay to go
ashore and preitelt the Gospel, aud that
he was able to found the church there
before the wind changed.
18. We fetched a compass. "Pro-
ceeded circuitously; worked to wind-
ward, availing ourselves Of the sine -
°steles of the coast." -Smith. ithegium.
1A lb lee town now called Itlieggio at
the very extremity of Italy -its south-
western corner. it is worthy of note
that the wins te this ancient teen pre-
sented the profiteer of Castor and Pollux
as its guardian deities. After ane day
spent bore the south wind, for want of
which they had been compelled first to
"tarry," and then to "fetch a. com-
pass," or tack, blew and with every-
thing in their fever they soon reached
Puteoll, now called Pozzuoli, in the
northeast angle of the Bag of Naples.
was the port at, which the Egyp-
tian grain was usually =kneed." its
ruins include fragments of it great
heathen temple and a mole meth twen-
ty-five arches.
II. We found brethren. leo Chris-
tianity was aeready established in
Putehal, whether it had come thither
from Rome. or Iron). Alexandria, or
from jerueallem. Were desired -"In -
vitas" 're tarry with them seven
days. The narrative throughout In-
dicates that singular privileges were
given by the cent:anon thems to his
Christian ,prisoners. Probably the
greatest of u.1 tb.eee privileges was
this permissien, eiuse to elle gates of
Rome, to speed a. week of .avintr inter-
eourse with the Chnstiens of l'uteoll.
ing from Puteole by land.
And so we went toward Rome. etart-
15. From thence. From Rome. When
the brethren heard. of xi. '1 he stamen
inference is tbat the Christians of Pu -
tea) notified the Christians of Route,
perhaps writer:1 godly Hebrews also,
of the arrival a this distinguished
rabbi. As far MS Alien Forum. About
forty-three mireel from !tome. 'rhree
Taverns. About 'ihirty-i hree ratles
from Rome. Be thanked God and look
courage. Pate had a special dispoei-
non le thank God, ILI LS shown 111 11.1
his epistles. In the latter years there
lied. been meth to depress him. The
cliag.rin a his faleure la Jerusalem, the
apparent lack of eympaihy on the part
of Jerusalem. Christians. the wearisome
eaptivity in Caaearea, the terrine. in-
eidetatte of -tee voyage the dreary whi-
ter in Malta -there was not migh
pleasure ia any of their events; tut
the true -hearted greeti.nes of these
Lwo parties of Roman Chrtstians, come
to show him that the faith to which
he had given his Ote's energies had al-
ready taken root. in the it-evert:it eity,
chased all diffieulties aNS'ay fi•oin le -
fore his peeress
le. The centurin. Julius. The cap-
tain or the guard. The Pretorian pre-
fect, who if our chronology is correct,
was Borrus Affrantus. a noblemen,
a distinguished general. Seneee's
friend, and Nero's tutor. The oldest.
manuscripts, however, omit the words
between "Rome" and "reel." Suffer-
ed to dwell let himself. This. like other
kindly incideuts seems to indic ate an
unesual indulgence to this very un-
usual prisoner. It tvas a favor allow-
, ed by Roman law only to prisonere
not suspected of gerious offenses Pro-
kably Festus had sent a favorable re-
port of Paul; eerteenly Julius would
speak well of lime then, toe his own
Pmduot in contrilmting to the. safety
or Ids escort and hie fellow -pris-
oners would. make it favoralde
impression on t he n
at Rome. A soldier. Iletq
stelw rstei ars_
stenthe soldier; the one to whom he
was bounrt with a chain. See Acts:14,
27; Eph. 0, 20: Col, 4. 18. 'rhese g-uarsts-
men were periodically ohanged. and
Paul was kept so long in oustody that
he meet have been (•hained in turn
to a large mtmber of the members of
the famous Pretorian guard. .A. holy
impression made on these men would
inevitably reach to the inmost of tbe
oonceatrie imperial cireles. From Phil.
1. 12, 18, we learn that' Paul was
distinotly aware of the great. influence
God's mysterious providenee hail thus
secured him, and regarded it, as at
once a great responsibility and a great
BY
ON A PAR.
Billinger is going to lecture on the
Klondike.
Fudge -he bas never been. there.
Well -neither have the people who
will hear him lecture,
PROOF ENOUGH.
When 1 boughe that chest, said
the angry Nehmen, eha said it was
moth proef. Now loole ettheee furs!
Ss these meths, See these' patches
wbere the lief 15ril4 (setae out? Look.
ati theseflannels. They look like a dog
had ohetved the,m1 Moths did iti What
have you, to sae novv?
Madam, said the meek merchant;
what further proof of moths do you
rage i re?
One mare a French -Comedian, com-
monly known as French Joe, who lied
a claim on, Miller Creek, was very anx-
ious to Had out when Mr. Ogilvie first
went to the Yukon, whether the mine
wa,s in Canada or Alaska. When he
discovered Le was in, Canada, Jae was
quite contented. for, as hessid, "I gob
all I want of dein miners' meetings."
"I tell you pooty quick w'y too
myself," continued Joe.
"Meese you know Josh Breen down
de wick. Well. one day a feller 'bout
two miles Imp to de none ht say as I
pass de mine:
"Hello. Joel 'spose you tak des two
bounces of gold down to Josh."
"Bien." I say, "I take im."
I take de duet to Josh, but
Interne! Waited of say inerei, he yell,
"By gar! dat feller howe me tree
bounce. w'erees de hodder?"
"acre I I gut no hodder, de man
bendy gif me two," I say.
"josh he git nio.d cause 1 honly got
two hounee to gif him and he call it
rainer s meeting.
"elaudit, wot you sigma dent feller
do. I tell dein 1 honly got two hounee
to tette to josh, but dey mak me Pay
do hodder hounse and all (le exi 011515
ab de meetin. Dere was 80 men in hall
and honly five tote for Pie but (10 hod -
der iellow have stx on his side. ne ree
'day say, ''We don' g-ite a dam nohow,"
.1 "No," said Joe, in ouneluding 1.1, un-
hlateeeet; :.•;;Lreiteia.
nce, "I dw
on' ant eo more
un
are not run ly miner's meet-
ings tin the Cana:dean skit of the line."
went un Mr. tigetie. and Joee
eancee adteealytie
nortiri,Tete then tery
iA
NA1'ION:0,1TV 1)1" 2slJ.Nl'it
tu the p, ue le composing t he
pupututien (a the mines, elr. Utegie
e states that tee nutive horn Aincrteit as
are in the ininerity. '!'l' 1 uott•iian;
outnuniner them auti the others are
Scandinavians un 1 l.nr atan
The ewedee an:I .Norti tits ans ma e
' particularly dadratle 01154 of i
grunts. They are eleated elle 1eir
treatnient in taniale aa 1 like on. eies.
; e A great many 4.1" thge w.1 . tan
the g. 1,1 they Make halt to liurgat
. with teem.' eala Mr. teriltie, "f••r
theugh they male front 1 he 1.117ted
states they are rist, go ao' 11le
live. :=0:111. of them it :um, teat
if they did n i van. to ii.e :It • : in
out to
t ot
tarltitionnaTa again ai ns
they w:1; give their .rien.is a g.n,i
account o the Dominion."
Mr. (4 lvie, in sp.-al:in,2; t he reds
of it miner in the mirth. that,
. only men who were alt' in take a
year's supel es with theei an.1 'u!d
endure ha aisle.'
ut and .lisai,c;oint ment
Should ma e the attempt. A man who
eould >eau 1 these hardsleps soar food,
had water and tenet put up with all
the disadvantages ot cold ant! lar(
• work leeithe would he lielieteel suc-
ceed in malting mene.y. text there
were plenty of men. \Silt), although
alile to stand the toil, wouls suseumb
to other difficulties. As an instance
Mr. 00, IA spoke of two young Se odes
Who made torte nes itt the mines. ailout
Sti0,00,1 in all, and started roc home.
Huwever, they were taken ill with ty-
raved at Daiseon tett- and both died.
S I KN ESS AT DAWSON.
There was a good deal of sickness
at Daevan due to want of sanitary
:nee tatiItting
in an outbreak of typhoid.
The water of the creek had lecorne
foul by reason or the drainage from
the place running into it, and the tear-
ing up of the banks in the mining and.
o consequent; decomposed t ems: utile
matter falling into the water had
added to the trouble.
Mr. Ogilvie had one little amusing
incident to tell of how a very fervid
American from away back east drank
the Queen's health. The man, will) is
.a sort of character atuong the miners,
goes by the name of flee Ile has a
little place on *Forty Mile and instead
of mining runs a track garden le
which he grows potatoes at two bits a
poand. The potatoes do not grow very -
well for they are watery and sour;
yet fresb vegetables are a rare cons-
modity in Yukon, Jim's ranch Is right
on the line, and it was with great re-
liei that he.found after the boundary
had been rue that he was still in the
United States wtih the exception of 'a
corner of his potato field..
When Mr. Ogilvie was corning away
he had a small quantity of good Cana-
dian rye whiskey which Jim regarded,
with leeging epee_ "1,201 _got' i o,
tete coalltiolle'l'aid Mr. flgllvie, and
that; is that you drink the Queen's.
he,a,1141t1
.'d'o teat," replied and tip-
ping up the bottle he swallowed his
drink after a fervid "God ellees Queen
Victoria and all her subjecee "
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