Exeter Times, 1898-3-31, Page 7THE NIXETER
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
No matter wbethee the military
Atoms center le on the coast of China
OL in Cu,batee svorld of science elaiet-
'1.,v planes its sliecefull batteriee at the
Point, ot itreateet interest to its guild,
ejid. aalows the earth, only one °West
41 tli4 within its ken, to wag along
palatally In its owe fasition. Every
man isa citizen of the universe as
wen as of this sphere, but only the
scientists practice/1.7 recognizes the
feet, In these, times of rapid. and OM-
fortable travel the followers ot soi-
°nee csalekly comentrete:wherever 01).
serration can beat be condueted.Oi
januery 22 last they were aligned
along the tenek of the total solar
eolipse, aid are now making a prelim-
tnary comparison of notes. The larg-
est slumber of thoroughly equipped
parties went to India,. Many months
must ease before they ma work out
the. methematical part of their task
,01, examine ell thee was attempted
with the aid of appaiatus. But °nougat
Ia knowto insure that the recent
•eclipse was followed and reeorded with
a. oornploteness hitherto not reached,
--
The• cimenlitograpla was usea to se -
ours moving pictures of the eclipse,
tit eiorrean Lookyer devised a pris-
matic camera, a telesooi ..i and cam -
ere provided with a trainof pries
matie prisms before the object glass.
In two of these bonabinationinstru-
ments the number of spectra photo-
graphed amou:nted. to sixty, each plate
giving an image of the visible solar
atmosphere for ten seconds, and dis-
closing =oh about chemical consti-
tuents, Lockyer says these, photo-
graphs increase the knowledge of the
corona and. demonstrate again the
want a physical connection between
the materiels of the corma and of
the chroransphere. Lieut. Blaiskett ob-
served some unknown body between
Venus and Mars. Another party see
cured photographs of the coroea, on a
large scale. Some of the photographs
of the sun's image are nearly 4 in.
• In diameter, and are expected to re-
veal something concerning chaeacter-
• Istic coronet forms. Spectroscopic stud-
ents also are looking for developments
as to the see's gases. P
'
Brief as was the time of the eclipse,
the different parties managed to so
fix It by photography that they are
enabled, in a certain sense, to hold it
tinder ' investigation for years, Of
course the spectacle, viewed merely as
•such, had many elements of impressive
beauty. "In the midst of the dull blue
sky," says one spectator, "stood out
file inky blackness of the moon with its
slightly ragged. edge. Encircling tbe
moon was the corona, a mass of the
purest and most brilliant incandes-
ces:tee." At the moment oL totality
four extensions "leapt from the corona
hater:he surrounding darkness, feath-
ery, ethereal streams of the most ex-
quisite pearly luminosity." Those who
aoubt the world moves onward and. up-
ward, and rapidly at that, have only to
eon:spare the modern treatment of
eolipses with that of fernier centuries.
Et is true that they are still an object
of dread to the superstitious in some
eountries; but when the Turks fire
guns as a defense against them they
m.erely show their unfitness to keep
step with, the anerah of enlightened
, humanity.
FIRE -KILLING POWDER.
aontething • w the WaY or rutting Ont
a Eire.
A new fire-extinguisbing powder is
on the market, of while's great things
are promised. 11,t is said that a pinch
of the powder will instantly extinguish
a large volume of ftame arising from
'burning naphtha; kerosene or other
higilly inflammable liquid, which may
•be to either a floating or diffused state.
FL is stated that the manufaeturers of .
the powder have taken it out of the
incipient fire -extinguishing class. This
Step would appear to have ample justi-
fication, for an official record of the
New York City Fite Comraissioners sets
forth that '70 cu.bie inches of the pOwd-
er killed over 2,000,000 oubie inches of
name in seventeen seconds, and that
without a particle of damage, outside
of the titre loss. The powder is per-
fectly harmless to the person or fab-
ric, and can be swept up and used over
again if ecianomes be sought. A hand -
thrown in tiny °petting beneath the
fire in a burning flue or chimney will
kill it inetently„ whice is a manifest
nelvantage over tb,e ordinary method
of fighting tbe fire from the top, It
will keep for an indefinite time in any
islimate withou,t any loss of efficiency.
Its use does not necessitate any raeoh-
mica' appliance, ae it is put up in a
tan tube, open at one end, 22 bushes
'long, and 2 inches in dianoetex, weigh-
ing about 3 pound's. It has been ad-'
opted in many public buildinga for the
extinction of incipient fires.
" Marry, do you love your little baby
brother 1° "What's the use? He svotild-
n't know it if 1 did!"
Wbat be Doted.-" Don't you juse
love the country when the trees begin
to leave and, all nature takes on the
freshness and fuil-fed flavor of the
juiey earth, Mr. Codman "aaVell,
'ee, Miss Gushly, 1 thank so."
"And all animate thhage come tore ard
so Pull of joy and inwitebtiy life, Me.
Coalmen The, frisking, skipping, bleat -
leg Well, for instance. Don't yoe dote
on it ?" "I do, indeed, Mies Gustily, if
the lamb is well dorm, and. the ;ewe
are treat', ;tied the mint eaten atoui.
right, / keew of eothing 1 dote on
Moro
AND ISHMAEL.
A WELL OV COMPORT IN AN UNEX-
PECTED pLAcg.
be Wore That ""--tthe thither advent "
• Met be Recognizes 1!' One 'WI WOO
stis sphere pa t Ito nerd ,hithor to, A pee
age Tilt the Cleat Day - revenue
funitence.
Washington, March 20. -The Old, old
story of eIegar and. bier boy in the des-
ert furnished itev. Dr. Talmage with
the foundation of a great sermon from
the text, Genesis xxi, Dr. "And Gocl
opened her eyes, and see SEM a well
of water, and she went and filled the
bottle with water and gave the lad
arink."
• Mornings breaks upon • Beersheba..
There is an early stir van the ifouse of
old. Abraham; There has bee u trouble
among the domeetios. Hagar, an as-
si,stant in the household, and her son,
brLsk lad of 16 years, have become
impudent and insolent, and Sarah, the
ratstress of the household, puts her
foot down very hard ana says that
they will have to leave the premises.
They are packing .'up now. Abraham,
knowing that the journey before his
• servant and her son will be very long
across desolate places, in the kind-
• ness of his heart sets &boat patting
up some limed and a bottle witb. wat-
er In it. It is a v.ary plain lunch that
A•braham provides, but warrant you
there would have been enough of it
had they not lost their way. "God be
with yowl" said old Abraham as he geve
the lunch to Hagar and a good many
charg,ee as to how she sboilld conduct
the journey. Ishmael, the boy, I Slip -
pogo, bounded awa,y in. the morning,
light. Boys always like a cbange. Poor
Ishmael! He has no idea of the dis-
asters that are ahead of him. Hagar
gives one long, lingering look on the
familiar place where she had spent. so
many happy days, each scene associat-
ed with the pride and joy of her heart,
young Ishmael.
The scorching noon comes on. The
air in stifling and moves tteress the
desert with insufferable suffocation.
Ishmael, the boy, begins to complain
and ilea clown, but Hagar rouses him
up, saying noteing about her own
weariness or the sweltering heat; for
mothers can endate anything. Trudge,
trudge, trudge. Crossing the dead
level of the desert, how wearily and
slowly the miles slip! A tamarind that
seemed hours ago to stand only just
a little ahead, inviting the travelers
to come under its shadow, now is as
far off es ever, or seemingly so. Night
drops upon the desert, and. the travel-
ers are. pillowless. Ishmael, very
weary, I suppose, instantly falls asleep.
Hagar, as the shadows of the night be-
• gin to lap °vet each other -Hagar hugs
her weary boy to her bosom and thinks
of the feet that it is her fa,alt that
they are in the desert. A star, looks
ou.t and every falling tear it kisses
with a sparkle. A wing of wind comes
over the hot earth and. lilts the locks
from the fevered brew of the boy. Hag-
ar steeps fitfully, and in her dreams
travels over the weary day and ball
awalees her son by crying out in her
sleep: "Ishmael! Ishmael!"
And so they g� on da,y atter day and
night after night, for they have lost
their way. No path in the shifting
sands no sign in thief burning sky. The
sack empty of the 1 tomes; the water
gone from, the bottle. What shall she
dot As she puts her feinting Ishmael
under a stunted •shrub of the arid
reale she sees the bloodshot eye and
feels the het hand and watches the
blood bursting from the (necked ton-
gue, and. there is a shriek in the des-
ert of Beersheba: "We stall die! we
shall die!" Now, no mother was ev-
er made strong enough to hear her
son cry le vain for a drink. Heretofore
she had cheered her boy by promisting
a speedy end of the journey, and even
spelled upon aim when she felt desper-
ately enough. Now there Ls nothing
to do but place him under a shrub and
Int lam die. She had thought that
she 'would sit there and watch until
the spirit of her boy would go away
forever, and then she would breathe,
out her owzi life on his silent heart,
but as the boy begins to elaw his ton-
gue in agony of thirst and struggle in
distortion and begs his mother to slay
ladin she cannot endure the spectacle.
She puts him unde.r a shrub and goes
off a, bow shot, and begins to at-eep un-
til all the desert seems sobbing, and
her cry strikes clear through the hea-
vens, and an Eihgel of God comes out
of a cloud and looks down upon the
appal ling grief and cries, "Hagar,
what aileth thee?" She looks up and
sees tee angel pointing to a well of
water, where she fills the' bottle for
the lad. Thank GodThank God!
I learn froni this oriental scene, in
the first; plaoe, what a sad thing it is
when people clp not know their place
and get too proud for their business,
Hagar, was. an assistant in that house-
hold, but she wanted to rule there,
She ridiculed and jeered until her son,
Ishmael, got the same tricks, She
daslied out her own happiness and
threw Sarah into a great fret, and if
she had etaeci much longer in that
household she would have upset calm
Abralam's equilibrium, My friends,
reatalf of the trouble in the world
to -day comes from the fact that peo-
ple do not know their place or, field-
ing their place, will not stay in it.
When we come into the world, there is
alwaye a plate Seedy for ue. A place
for Abralmart. A place for Sarah. A.
place ‘f or Melte A place for fehmael.
A pl • .ou, and apiece foe me.
Our ly is to find out, sphere;
our second to keep it tVe !hey
be bern in a sphere fa,r off Rom the
one for which Goa finally intends es,
Sixtus V. was born on the low ground
and was a esvneieherd. God cal led
hint ap to settee a scepter, Iferguson ; I
spent his early days in footsies*, nate.'ii
sheep. God called him up to look after
stars mid be a shepherd weeehieg tho
flocks of light, on .the hillsides of het -
Yen. alogarth begat) by engraving
pewter pote, God raised him to stand Tfl
to the enehanted -realin of a painter,
5110 shoe= Icor s ie. nob held Blooms te
tield for cs little while lett God raised as
him te sit in ties ehair ot a philoso-
eller and Christian lelicear, The soap e,
shoOntleiVi; OtiaLt libiludstrne4e,taltdornotaotauhez aiow!
ciao(' thee; Hawle1 west to lei one cif
Leona.
' greatest asUononiera. ot Eng,-
On the other hand we May be born
in a, sphere a nttle higher then that
ter weash qd leteatda as. We noisy
be isore in a, oath) and elay 14 (wetly
conservittery, and feed latgii bred point -
pro, and. angle for • goldfish it artificial
peas!, and be familiar vvite princes,
yet Goa ratty better have fitted PS for
a carpenter% seoth DX' dentists' forceps,
or a weaver's shuttle, or a blacksmith's
forge. The great thing is to find
just the sphere for which God intend. -
ed, us end then to matey that speere
and. occupy it forever, Haan is 4 man.
God. fashioned to make a plow. There
is a. man God fashioeed to snake a eon,
stitutien. The men who makes the
plow is just as. honorable as the men
who raekes the constitution. There
is a waSnan who was made to fashion
a, robe, and yonder is one intended to
be a queen and wear it, It seems to
me ;that in the one case as in the other
God appoints the sphere, Old the ueedle
is just as respectable in his sight as
the scepter. do not know but that
the world would long ago have been
saved if some of the men out of the
ministry were in it and same of those.
who
are in It were out of it. t really
think that one -hall the world may he
divided into two querters--those who
ha,ve not found their sphere and those
who, having found it, are not willing
to stay there. Hove many are strug-
gling for a. position a little higher than
that which God, intended theme The
boncisweraan wants to be mistress. Ha-
ger keeps crowding Sarah. The small,
wheel of a watch whit% beautifuliy
went treading its golden pathway
wants to be. the balance wheel, and,
the sparrow with chargin drops into
the brook because it cannot, like the
eagle, cute a circle ander the sun.
In the Lord's army we all want to be
brigadier generals! The sloop says:.
"More mast, more tonnage, more cane
vas. Oh, that I were a topsail schoon-
er, or a. full rigged brig, or a Cunard
steamier!" And so the world is filled
with cries of discontent because we
are not willing to stay in the place
where God put us and intended us to
be. My, friends, be not too proud to
do anything God tells you to do; for
the lack of a right disposition in this
respect the world. is etrewn with wan-
dering .Hagare and. Ishrnaels. God has
given each ane 'of us 4 work to,e.o. You
carry a scuttle of coal up that dark
alley. You distribute that Christian
erect. You give §10,000 to the mission-
ary cause. You foe 15 'years sit with
ohronic rheumatism, displaying the
beauty of Christian submission. What-
ever God calls you to, whether it win
hissing or huzza; whether to weak un-
der triumphal arch or lift the sot out
of the ditoh; whether it be to preach
on a, Pentecost or tell some wanderer
of the street cif the mercy of the Christ
of Mary Magd.elene; whether it be to
weave a garland. for a laughing child
on a spring morning and call her a
May queen, or toscomb out the tang-
led looks of a. waif of the street and
cut up one of your old dresses to fit her
out for the sanctuary -do it, and do it
right away, Whethet it be a.crown or
yoke, do not fidget. Everlasting hon-
ors upon those who do their work, and
do their \Whole work, .and are content-
ed. in the sphere in ' which God has
put teem, while there is wandering and
exile and desolation and wilderness for
discontented Hagar and Ishmael.
Again, I find. in this oriental scene
a lesson of sympathy with woman
when she goes forth trudging in the
desert. What a great change it was
for this Hagar! There was the tent,
and all the surroundings of Abraham's
house, beautiful enct luxurious, no
doubt. Now she is going out into the
hot sands of the desert. Oh, what a
change it was! And in our day we
often see the wheel of fortune turn.
Here. 15 80010 one who liana in the very
bright home of her father. She had ev-
erything to administer to her happi-
ness -plenty at the table, music in the
drawing room, welcome at the door.
She is led, forth into life by some
one who cannot appreciate her. A. dissi-
pated soul comes and takes her out in,
the desert. Cruelties blot out all the
lights of that home circle. Harsh words
wear out her spirits. The high hope
thee shone out over 'the marriage altar
while the ring was being see, and the
vows given, and the benediction pro-
nounced., have all faded with the orange
blossoms, and there she is to -day brok-
en hearted, thinking of past joys and
present desolalion and coming anguish.
Hagar tn. the wilderness!
alere is a. beautiful home. You can-
not think 01 anything .hat can be add-
ed to it. For years there has not been
the suggestion of a, trouble., Bright
and happy children fill the house with
laughterand. song. Books to read. Pic-
tures to look at. Lounges to, rest on.
Cup of domestic joy full and running
over. Dark night drops. Pillow hot.
Pulses flutter. Eyes close. And the
Loot whose well known steps on the
doorsill brought; the whole lemsehold
out at eventide crying. Father's cora-
big i" will never sound on the doorsill.
agate. A. long, deep, grief plowed
through all that brightness 0/ domes-
tic life. Paradise lost. Vaidewhood.
Hagar in the wilderness!
(Hose often is it we see the weak arm
of woman conscripted for this battle
with the rough world. Who is she go-
ing down tee street, in the early light
of the morning, .pale with exhausting
work, not half slept oat with the sluxn-
bore of last night, tragedies of suffer-
ing, written all Over her face, her leen
erleseewes, looking fax ahead, as though
for tee ooming of spine other trouble?
Her parents caned her Mary or „Ber-
tha or Agnes on the day when they
held her eas to ±he font and tbe Chris-
tian minister Sprinkled on the infante
face the washings of a baby bap-
tisms Her name 18 changed now,
bear it in the shuffle of the worn -
oat shoes, I see it in the figure of the
faded catico, I find it in the litea-
silents of the woe-begon countenance.
Not Mall nor Berthenor Agnes, but
Hagar in the wilderness. May God
have mercy teem woman iet her toile
her etruggles, her Inardshlps, her die
solai lee, end, may tee great heart of
claire eseneathy inclose her forever I
Again, 1 :had rn this oriental scene
141 face that ' every ,mother leads eol,th
ernendous destinies. •
You eay. "met lent an unusual
Vele, it mother leaatiog, her child by
the hand a" Who ie it that she is lead-
ing? Islunael„ yea say, 'Weenie Isle
eel? A. greet natien is to be founded
tt melon so strong that 14 18 to a tend
thousands oe years against all the
IT.11.08 of the world., Egypt end, Ae-
rie thuteler against le but to wan.
auto braige up hie army„ and hie
arMis Is s smitten, iseeexander decides
upon a eaeiPaielre hrieetogists
t
and dime For a long while that itetion
Metate)clizee the leeening tittle) world.
tt is the native of dui ArAbs, Who
foanded t1 Ialenael, the lea that
Heger awletreto the wilaerneye, She
had no idea else was leading forth emit
destinies, hielth,er deers ' any mother,
Yoe pass Along the street csed see and
pass boys and girls Who wIll yet make
the earth intake with their influ.enee,
Who is that bay at Settee peel, Ply -
means, England, barefoeted . wading
down into the slush and slime until his
bare foot comes upon a piece of glass
and he lifts it, bleeding and pain
steuek1 That wound in the foot de-
class that be be sedeneary in his life,
decides that he be a atudent. That
wound by the glass in the foot decides
that he shall be John Kitto, wile shall
provide taw best religious eneyclopedia
the world has ever had provided, and
with his other writings as well throw-
ing a light upon tbe word of God sea
es has come from no other ram in this
century. 0 mother, mother, that lit-
tle hand that weeders over your face
may yet be aifted hure thunderbolts
of aver or drop benediotions! That
little voice may blespherae God in the
grog -shop or cry "Forward 1" to the
Lord's hosts as they go out for their
last victory. 'My mind this morning
leaps tel years aheact, and I see a mer-
chant prince of New York. One stroke
of his pen beings a ship out of Canton.
Anoteer stroke of his pen brings a ship
into Madras. Flo is mighty in all the
money markets of the world. Who is
he? ale sits on Sabbaths beside you
lin church. My mind beeps 30 years
forward from this time end I find my-
self in a relief association. A great mul-
titude of Christi= women have met to-
gether for a generous' purpose. There is
one woman in that' crowd who seems to
have the confidence of all the athera,and
they all look un to her for her counsel
and for her prayers. Who is she? This
afternoon you will find her in the Sab-
bath school, while the teacher tells her
of that Christ who clothed the naked.
and fed the hungry and healed the
siek. My Mind lea,pe forward 30 years
from. now, and. I find. myself in an Af-
riean jungle, and there is a missionary
of the cross addressing the natives,
and their dusky countenances are ir-
radiated with the 'glad tidings of great
joy and salvation Wht is hie? Did you
not hear his voice to-dag in the open-
ing song of our cirarch serviced
My mind leaps forward 30 years from
now, an.d I find myself looking through
the 'wickets of a peLson. I see a face
scarred with every! crime. His chin on
his open pailms'his elbows on his knee
-a picture of despair. As I open the
wicket he starts, a.nd I hear his chain
cloak. The jalikeeper tells me that
he has been in there now three times
first for theft, then for arson, now for
*murder. He steps neon the trapdoor,
the rope Ls fastened to his neck, the
plank falls, his body swings into the
air, his soul swings off into eternity.
Who is he, and where is he? This after-
noon playing kite on the city commons,
itlother, you are now hoisting a throne,
or forgieg a chain; you are kindling
a star or digging a dungeon!
-A. Christian mother a good many
years ago sat teaching lassoes of re-
ligion to her child, and he drank in
those lessens. She never knew that
Laraphier woutte COMO forth and es-
tablish the Fulton street prayer m.eet-
iing, and by one meeting revoluntion-
ire the devotions of the whole earth
end thrill the eternities with his Chris -
Um influence. Lamphier said it was
.his mother who brought him to Jesus
Christ. S_he never had an idea that
she was leadimg forth sueh destinies.
But, oh, when I see a, mother reckless
of her influence, rattling on toward
destruction, garlanded for the sacri-
fice with unseemly, mirth and godless-
ness, dancing on down to .perdition,
taking her children in the seine direc-
tion, preparing them for a life of friv-
olity, a death of shame, and an eternity
ot disaster, 1 cannot help but say,
"There they go, there they go, -Hagar
and rehired 1" I tell you there are
wilder deserts tha,n Beersheba. in. many
of the fashionable circles of this day.
Diasepated parents, leading dissipated
children. Avaricious parents leading
avaricious children, Prayless parents
leading prageriess children. They go
through every street, up every dark al-
ley, auto every cellar, along every high -
wan, Hagar and Ishmael I And while,
I pronounce their names, it seems like
the moaning of the desert wind, Hagar
and Ishmael I"
I leaen one more lesson from this
oriental scene, and that is that every
wilderness has a well in it. Hagar and
Ishmael gave up ?to die. Hagar's heart
sank within her as she heard her child
crying: ' 'Water ! Water! Water!"
" Ah,' she says, "my ,darling, there is
no water! This is a desert." And then
God's angel said from. the oload, "What
ellen, thee, Hagar 1" Aed she looked
ale and saw ' hini pointing to a well
of water, where she tilted, the bottle
for the lad. Blessed be God that there
is in every wilderness a well, if you
only know hose to find ite-fountains
for all these thirsty souls a"ten that last
• day, on that great eay of the feast, Jes-
use.
"toed and cried : "If any man thirst,
come to me and, drink." All
ti ee other fountains ypu find,are mere
3/(
let aliiin .
mirages of the desert. Paracelsee, you
know, spent his time in 'trying to find
out the elixir of life -a. liquid, which,
14 taken, woulct keep one perpetual-
ly young in this world anut would
change the aged, back again to youth,
Of coulee he was disappointed. He
found not the elixir. But here I tell
you of the cancer of everlasting life
bursting from. the " Rock of Ages,"
and that drinking that water you shall
never get old, anct you will never be
Stoic and youwili never die. "Ho, ev-
ery one that' thirsteth, com,e ye to the
watiers1" Ab, bora is A man who says,
"I have been looking for that fountain
a great Whale, but can't find it And
here is eonee cane eaee who sage, ' 'I be-
lieve all you 55,5, but I have been
trudging along le the wilderness and
can't feta the fountaie,"' Do You know
the reason? 1 wiel tell you. You never
looked in the right direclion. "Oh,"
you my, "1 have looked everywhere T
lieve loolrea north, ' south, east and,
west, and I beven't, towel the foun-
tain." Why, you roe not looking iix the
right eireetion at all.
Look tile, where Regan looked. She
never Would have found the tountnin
at alielere when she heard the voice of
the angel she looked. up and saw the
atalgeir pOiartieg to the euppile, Ancl, 0
soul, ie to-dasy wielt one earnest, in-
tense prayer, yoa would. ouly look up
to Chriee, be wotata pointyule cleat -ft I e
the supply en the wilderness. " lege
unto irie, attleve ende of the meth, nest
be ye Payette -for I am God, and there Le
Inane else!" Lople Look, its Ungar look-
ed I
Yee; there is a well tornvery desert
of bereavement. Looking Over asna
audience I fialee earns of mournitle'
earl woo. Heve yea found. coneclat-
ion ? Obl, man bereft, oil, werean ber-
eft, 'have you foited. consolation?
Hearse after eearse. W° s4ep 'fr°14
one g'raVe hillook to another greve ha-
te*, We follew corpsefe ourseivee
some to be like them, Tee world le en
mourning for its dead. EverY heart
hes become the sepulcher ot some Met-
ed joy. But one; ye to God; every
wilderness Islas a well ii it WU eorae'
to that well to -day, and, I begin to
draw water for you trona that well. I
If you. hays lived iu this country, you
have sometimes taken hold. of the rope
of the obi well ;sweep, and you. kuow
how the bucket came up, drippime with
bright, cool, water. And I lay hold Ot
the rape of God's enemy, eon I begin
to draw on thet gospel well sweep,
and I san the buckets 00rabig UP:
Thirety soul! Here is one bucket, oft
life Come and drink of it. '1,1,rhose-
evheverwWati.leir, olef tut rot rceoeilnyst aInouid. tiakaewaoyf
again at the rope, and another huasket
conies up. It is this promise: "Weep.;
hag raay endure for a nigbt, but joy,
corneas( in the morning." I lay hold_ of
the rinse again!, and, I pan away with
all my strengths and the bucket opines
up, bright and. beautiful ana cool.
Here Le the promise; "Come unto nue
all ye who are weary and. heavy
laden; and I will give yam rest."
The Old astrologers med to cheat the
people with the idea that they could
tell from the position of the stars what
would occur in the future, and if a
cluster of stars stood irr one relation.,
Ivey, that would be a prophecy of evil;
ie a attester of stars stood. in anothee,
• relation, that would be a prophecy of
good. What superstition 1 But here is
a new astrology in which I put all, my
faith. By looking up to thei star, ed
Jacob, the morning star of the Redeem-
er. I can make this prophecy in regard
tlo those who put their trust in' God:
" All things work together for good
to those who love -God," Do you love
him?
•
Have you: seen the nyetanthes? It
as a beautiful Heeler, but it gives verw
little fragrance until after sunset.
Then 14pos its richness on the air.
And. this grace of tee' gospel; that
reeoramend to you now, while it xnay
be very sweet during tlae day of
prosperity. it pours forth' its richest
aroma after sundown. And it will be
sundown with you and me after
awhile. When you come to get out
of this world., will it be a desert mareh,
er will it be drinking at a fountain?
A converted Etindoo VMS dying, and
his heathen comrades came around
lam and. tried to comfort him by.
reading some of the pages of their
tileologYe but he waved his hand, aS
renal as to say, "I don't want to hoax
it," Then they called in a heathen
ptriest, and. he said, "If you will only
recite the Nuratra, it will deliver you
train hell." He waved. his hand, as
muehl as; to say, "1 don't:want to hear
thee," Then they said, "Call on aalg-
gernaut," He shook his head, as much
es to. say, "I can't do that." Then they
thoneght perhaps he was too weary le
speak, and they said, "Now', 11 eau]
can't say 'juggernaut,' think (Whim."
He eliook his head again, as much as
to say, "No, no, no!" T,hien they benti
down, to his pielow, and, they, said,
"In what will you trust ?" His face
lighted u.p with the very' glories of
the celestial sphere as he cried. out,
rallying all his dying energies,
"Jesus!" Oh'; come this houp to the
faantain I I will tell you the whole
eery in in two or three; sentences
Pardon for all sin. Comfort for all
trouble. Light for all darkness. And
every wilderness has a well in it.
ANCIENT TIMEPIECES.
Tortola Methods of measuring Tone Prior
to the Invention of notes.
We need not do more them allude
tothe habits after reformation, and
especially in Scotland, of preachers
measuring their discourses by the hour
glass in the pulpit. These marked an
hour exactly. Those first ramie in
Oharlemagne's day ran for twelve
hours. Alfred the Great hit upon a
pee,thod of measuring time, whale shows
that there was no Saxon one, though
very probably some of the monasteries,
then the only homes of knowledge,
were acquainted with water cloeks and
hour glasses, if not by practical know-
ledge, at an' rate by hearsay.
However, the kingdom in general fol-
lowed Alfred's plan, whic,h, though in-
genious, necessarily lacked anything
like the accuracy of the other inven-
tions. Yet the king's idea was hailed
as a wonderful effort of genius, whieh,
for saob an era by comparison with the
general ignorance, it was, As every
soheolboy, in this case literally, knows,
Allred marked time by flashlights. A.
long existence, by the way, has the
raehlight enjoyed, seeing that mid -
ate -aged people still remember its use
• la the nursery at night, and the reflee-
Lion of .the, circular holes in the tall
metal shades on the ceiling..
Alfred, says an anoient authority,
"that he might properly know how the
hours passed, made use of burning tap-
ers whice were marked with lines and
fixed in 'anthems, an expedient in-
vented by himself," so, by the way,
in 302, the lasithorns of soraped horn,
which still some old-fashioned rustics
prefer tp glass. But tapers, how-
ever, were then very expensive. The
king might himself use these, but pro-
bably the rushlight was used by peo-
ple at general,
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INTERNATIONAL LESSONs APRIL 3
',The Woman of etitteaten matt. 15. 81•31,
fleideti TOO. 15. Is.
PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 21. ;Teem went theme. 'From
Capernatun. Depo eteci, Withdrew. In-
to the coat e (perts) of Tyre ana Si-
don, Phoenicia, the neareat stational
neighbor to Palestine, overflowed with
dense, iio thet even within its borders
Jesus could carry on his haiSSi.0)1 to
the lost sheep of the home of Israel.
Tyre aed Sidon, its two great capitals,
with it tante reachieg far bane through
tee centarlea, were at this time popu-
lous and actively commercial. They
stood twenty -ane miles ;spurt. Mark
tale us teat Jesus passed Oareotly
through Sidon, He sought eeclusion,
bete "could not be hid."
22. Behold, " See a' The next incident
is striking and notable. A woman of
Canaan. ".4. Greek, a Syrophoettioien
by nation," Mark's description, ex -
Presses in other words the same fact.
" Canaan " means the same as "Low' -
lands," applied •to the south of Scot-
land, and " Netherlands," applied to
Holland. Though clown to our own time
the ternt has been applied to all Pala
estine, it was at first confined to the
low plain, between sea and highlands,
known as Phoenicia. lie be a Canaan-
ite or -8,yrophoenician" was to be
heredttarily outside the holy brother-
hood of Israel; to be a. "Greek" was
to be a pagan in belief and behavior.
The worship of Beal and Ashtoreth,
with modified names and. beautified
ceremonies, but not; one whit purified,
still prevailed. Even more than most an-
cient religions, this was a deification of
morel corruption. The same coasts. The
Revesed Version gives us e literal
translation, "those borders," a phrase
%tick hoe, led some to believe that Jam
us was still within the bounds of Gal.
ilee; bu,t "going out from" refers pro
bahly to a house or village. Have mer
cy on me. As we hear this plaintive
cep we recognize that this woman iden
tifies, with el, mother's feeling, her
dalughter's afflictions as her own
The father of the luaantio child (Mark
9, 22) preyed, "Have wompassion on us
and help us," putting himself beside
his child, which is, perhaps, where a
father's enstinots would place him;
het the mother feels that she and her
child are one. Her confidence in the
power of this Hebrew wonder -worker
is noteworthy. But she may have
known name about Him, for, accord-
ing to Luke., some that heard the ser-
mon on the planet:Ind who were cured
at its close came from Phoenicia. Thou.
Sae of Da.eid. This popular title for
the Messiah hailed him to whom it was
given as heir to the Hebrew throne.
MY daughter is grievously vexed with
a. devil. Dr. Marvin R. Vincent trans-
latee this literally, "Is ba,dly demon-
ized." From. Mark we learn that the
demon was unclean,, but whiahl is pro-
bably meant 'that it, led its victim into
foul habits. It is easy to ask ques-
tions %bout demoniacal possession
-which embody can answer. Our saf-
est coarse is to note carefully the
facts which ars presented by the gos-
pels, and not to venture farther than
those facts. Those possessed with dev-
ils are carefully distinguished in the
New Testament from lunatics; and the
devils which possessed men are dis-
tinguished from that devil who tempted.
aux Lord. So prevele.nt was this af-
fliction that a class of professional men
had arisen who undertook to expel
devils by raedicel recipes and charms,
23. He answered her not a word.
And this silence was a refusal, pres-
ently made plainer by words. As to
why Jesus refused we may only rever-
ently conjecture. While the woman
had strong belief in our Lord's miracu-
lous power, as is plainly shown by her
appeal, she probably had not that su-
preme faith that was needed. to claim
this supreme blessing; and Jesus may
have refused to give her what she ask-
ed because it was impossible for her to
receive it. .13,y her steadily -increasing
faith she became at length, awarding
to Paul's logio, one of the "sheep of
the lieuse of Isreal;" and immediately
received the blessing. Send her away;
for she crieth after us. To understand
this appeal we must put ourselves in
the place of an oriental, which
is always difficult for a Can-
adian or it European to do. "Send
her away" with us would mean "send.
her away unsatisfied and with a re-
proof," because in *Anglo-Saxon coun-
tries it is not complimentary to a
man to have beggars foleew him; if
they have a claim upon him, it is his
piece to relieve them, amtl, if they eave
sxo cleim he should not tolerate them.
But in the East the glory of a man
is enhanced by the _number of bene-
ficiaries he has, and the wealthy are
everywh,ere followed by flocks of sup-
pliants, 1,), ho are never sent away ex-
cept by the granting of their requests.
That this explanation is correct seenss
evident from tbe. Lord's reply.
24. He answered. Answered his dis-
ciples. I am not sent but unto the lost
sheep of the house of Israel. Although
God. so 1 oved the world that he gave
his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him shuttict have everla,et-
ing life, we muet remember that tbat
only begotten Son was not in his own
person the apostle of the Geettles. He
was emphatically the Redeemer of Is-
rael; and as Paul repeatedly and bean-
-Litany argues, all the believing Gen-
tiles become ebildren ot Abraham -and.
adopted into Israel-npt by formal pro-
selytism, but by faith in Christ.
25. Worshiped him. Prostrated her-
self before him. She doubtless heard
all that had been, saiti by the disciples
ana by the Saviour.
26. It is not meet. It is not fitting.
The chileiren'e bread. Ties "Ohildren"
were the. Jews-charen of Got
"bread" was theta, epirituca food, of
which miraculous innestratiom would
be esteemed as most valuable. Tocast
it to dogs. This language, harsh as it
sounds to as, was probably famuli-
ar, to tee woman. There
was no intentional scorn in
though, as has been wisely said, "ii;
Mime asized50 aetuel tem Lion." In
all ages professore of discarded relig-
ions have, In oriental phraseology, hem
caUetti lalogs;" so illestern Christiana
new salt Mohammedans ; 80 Mellows.
malaise 'ait chriatisos; SI)both 0411
Thi4. 440 dicitinclion generally
heal in nand is not so much inkwell
liege anti man, tas would le the come
if a. Catteclian wiled another a dog, ae
tifin._ moo.
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while dogs roam houseless ene owner-
less, wild and unclaimed, taPieal out-
siders. This woman by mentioning
the children gives e new tura to the
pbrase "stooping to conquer."
27. Truth, Lord. She shows ne re-
sentment, and does not regard her dig-
nity as hurt by being called. a doge
"Taking her place contentedly among
the dogs, she still claims Jesus as her
Master and asks for the orumbs of his
mercy."-PluSuptre,
28. Great is thy faith. t was so
great as to change the enttre condi-
tions of the case, and bring her in
among the children. Read. Rom. e. 113.
However the words of Jesus emend to
us, from the woman's answer it La evi-
tent that to her they shosived Breathy,
Be it unto thee even at thou we t. Marie
gives us another premous sen ewe ut-
tered by our Lord., "Go thy way; the dev-
il is gone out of thy daughter." H
daughter was made whole from the
very hour. Meier says, "When she eve
come to her house, she found the evLL
gone out, and her daughter laid up-
on the bed." A beautiful lesson of
God's universal mercy is taught by this
incident. In all this -world of sorrow
and sin there; is not anyone so low, so
utterly cast out, from religious priv-
ileges, so absolutely lost to goodness,
but he may eat of the ehiseretee
crumbs ;" and his exercise of will ana,
faith will positively be accepted by Go&
a.nd his fullest blessing be given, eveh
though unchristian Christians look on
the returning penitent with scorn.
29. Jesus departed frone the.nce.
Walking straight through the streets
of Sidon, Mark went tip
into it; mountainous coma -
try, probable southeast of
the Sea of Galilee. His journey, along
the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, dr,
through the 'mountain passes of Her-
mon, and southward en the east side
of the lake, involved three or tour con-
secutive days' travel through heathen
lands.
30 Great multitudes came unto him.
The oustoms of the /and made tit easy
for crowds to gather. Cast the0 down.
With rapidity; there were so many
that each had to take his turn quiokly.
31. They glorified the God of Israel.
Thlnking for the 'moment less of the
mervelaus prophet than of the raarvel-
aus love of the God who had sent him.
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SPANISH ARMY IN CUBA.
-Luria Piet tiraair mitietry service -in spa itesaenga
chief Colopy.
Inspector -General Losada,, of the
Spaniels forces in Cuba, reeently issued
his official report,, says The Medical
News. in which are indicated, theses al -
/noel, without precedent in modern
times. His repert shows that out of
the 200,000 soldiers Beet by Spain to
put down the ineurreetion i0 the island
from t,he beginning of February, 1895,
to the beginteing of December of the
year just terminated„ not more than
53,000, it little over one-fou.rtia, are at
this moment Sit LOT active service. The
147,000 are either dead or sent back
to the motherlend ill or wounded. The
causes of this unprecedented death rate
and 'sick Wet, are besides casualties in
fiction, mainly aurEsai1, the inappros
priateness of the clothing fu•rnishea 10
the European troops; e, fatigue; end 8,
tack of. food. The report, which does
not apparently err on the score of esti-
canes paintit lurid. pieture of mll nary
service in the chief Spanish colony. the
der suecessive anneritai the :Lbw yetrra:
041,11Valit.11,xn tpite 01 numberiesa eciiaa
alist "vioteriee." leaves Cuba as pre-
earioue it Swinish posoterithri ae over;
while A whole geteration meet intere-
vene before islend end Motherland alike
etsn recover from the loss of blood, pro-.
peety and trecieures,
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