Exeter Times, 1898-5-19, Page 3NO TIV,S AN1)
The Modern fighting ship is an en
fates:vet anteatety which e deeisive nave
at battle between the leuited State
and, in would, determine. In such
at battle would come the fleet aetuel
tast Of terMorolaatt and all the aeces-
aries of scientific pa,vel werfere. The
powerful,tament a modern bate
the shiPal end oruisere aua never bee
used egainat veaseis of Similar ooze
• extraction and, equip:cleat, The re
stet/mace a armor plate to the heav
•steel projectiles fired fron rifled gun
oe great caliber hasbeen put to tes
Only* ander the most favorable condi
tions in target practice. The efft
Pacy of torpedo warfare is as yetearge
ly theoretical. Nolthing bat 'ii,wbll
• fought navel battle will prove the re
tatty() figbling strengtb of the vari
•ouse types a war ships, and only in this
way oan be ascertained the degree of
utility of such special class vessels
as the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius and
the ram. Katandin., a the United
States.
11
mage this morning preached from the
Words. "(Now aloSee kept the Hook of
Y ,Te throe hie father-in-law*: the priest of
IVeldian," from Exeates We 1. He ealie ;
let the eauebeastern pare of arable a
EVERYDAY. RELIGION
tes—t
THE ORIENTAL WELL ruansfiES
REv. DR, TALMAGE A. TEXT-.
elpeoralles rtdexite to easy inthera Enter-
' este, melt Her etistom of working,
Though the Danahter or a Itiella Mau,
Wait iter the (their* of Ilase$ 84 ION
, Itria14.-1htk Otenlity of erotic.
Wa,shinglon, /Kay 8,—Bev, Dr,
raan its sitting by ft well. 11 is an, arid
country, and water at scam, SO that a
well Is of great value and flocks end
herds are driven vat distal:uses to have
their thirst staleed. Jcthro a'Midianite
sheik and priest, was so fortunate as
to have seven dauglittere, and they are
penalise' girls, end yonder they come
driving tae sheep and cattle and cam-
els oe their father to the watering.
They lower the buckets and then pull
them up, the water splashing on the
stoves and chilling their feet„ and the
troughs are filledWho is that man
out, there eitting unconcernedand look-
ing on •? Why does lie not come aaa help
the women inethes hard work of draw-
ing water? But no sooner have the. dry
lips and panting nostrils of the flocks
begun to cool a little in the brimming
trough oT the wellthan estate rough
Bedouin shepherds break in upon the
The evolution of nasies leas been
Wholly theoretic:al, and. if all theories
prove true a battle may result in the
annihilation ot both fleets. None of
the conditions ander which the naval
-heroes of the world achieved their vic-
tories will govern a naval engage-
ment at the prase.nt time. The his -
torte naval battles, with two excep-
tions have been fou,ght..with wooden
ships --mostly stifling vessels. The re-
sult depatuled largely upon wind and
tide and acts of personal daring, in-
stead of steam and scientific appli-
ances. The captain fought his ship
from, the quarter deok, not from a Pen
of steel; his small caliber, smooth -bore
KU1LiS were effective only at short
range, while the modern rifled gun
- of great, caliber does execution at a
distance of many miles. Grappling
irons and cutlasses played important
parts, and the crews, naked to the
waist, often and in hand-to-hand con-
flict. It was poseible then to, forecast
0, battle with, a degree of accuracy, but
there is no precedent upon which ,to
base the result of an engagement be-
tween the great armored war ships of
to -day.
The only engagements ever fouk,ht
' between ironclads—the Monitor and
Merrimac in the American civil, war,
awl the Yalu -River battle in the Chin-
ase—stapanese war—are of no value in
determining the fighting strength of
eauedern war ships. The Oferrimec is an
•obsolete type, and the Monitor which
sank her is insignificant when compar-
ed with the modern ressel at the same
claesifioation, Neither the Franco-Prus-
sian war of 1871 nor the Turko-Rus-
sena war of 1877 solved the naval: pro-
blem upon which the great nations of
the earth are at work. In the Chinese-
japaneee war the Japanese navy out-
ela.ssed the old junks of the celestial
empire, arta only in the battle of Yalu
River was there an actual test of long-
range taarl rapid-fire guns. 13y reason
of the great inferiority of the Chinese,
both as to ships and men, the lessons
of that war have no permanent value.
The first real test of armor plate, of
pewerfal guns andhigh explosives will
•oonie in the existing wax. The result of
the confliot may sustain every theory
-
upon which the evolution of navies has
been based, white on the other hand it
may bring about a revolution in naval
construction.
SOME OTHER DAY.
there'are wonderful things we are go-
ing to, do,
Some other day ;
And harbors we hove to drift into •
Some other day.
With folded hands the oars that trail,
We watch and wait for a favorite gale
To fill the folds of an idle sail ,
Some other day.
We knovewe must toil if ever we win
Some other day, -
But we say to ourselves there's time
° to begin
Some other. day;
And so, deferring, we loiter on.
Until at last we finctwithdrawn
The strengtIr of the hope we leaned
14011'
Some other day.
And witen we are old and our rate is
run.
• Some other day,
We fret for the things that might have
been done
Some oLher day.
We trace the path that leads us where
The beckoning hand of grim despair
Leads us yonder out or the here,
Some other day.
FRIGHTFUL PRECOCITY.
Ob, john, exclainte,d the fair young
mother: I'm glad youere barna I have
been so worried.
Why, dear, be asked, what's the mat -
It's about the baby. tremble to
think of it, You know theaesaa child-
ren that are too smart never grew ap,
Yes, yes, he pried, go on! Whet is it(
Wbere is our darling? Whet has hap-
pened? Go on
,Tolue she said, puittirtg her arms ar-
ound his nook and sobbing upon his
breast, he said. 'da dm' to -day, and he
Is only 9 months old 1
el; WIRY' ILL BOY.
te.
Anxicate letotben—E' a.rn afreid Jphn-
iSsick. '
atithereteety Goadttesal,What does he.
comaistin of? •
Ansione elotlier—He hasn't, he,gatm to,
eon/plain Vet; hut I fOrgoe to loek the
jam eioeet te-atsee end there isn't whit
scene, and with clubs aad shouts drive
back the animals that were drinking
and affright those girls until theysfly
and affright those girls lintel they fly
Mannered shepherds are driven to the
troughs, taking the places of the other
flocks. Now that man sitting by the
well begins to color up, and his eye
flashes with indignition, and all the
gallantry in his nature is aroused. It
is Moses; who naturally had a quick
temper anyhow, as he demonstrated on
one occasion when he saw an Egyptian
oppressing en Israelite and gave the
Egyptian a sudden clip and huriedhien
in the :sand, and as he showed after-
ward, when he broke all the Ten Com-
mandments at once by sbaltering- the
two granite slabs on which the law was
written. But the injustice of this treat-
ment of the seven girls set him on fire
with wrath, and he takes.this shepherd
by the throat and puehes back another
till he falls over the trough, and i aims
a stunning blow between the eyes of
another as be oleos, "Begone, you vil-
.
lions!' and he hoots and emirs at the
sheep aria cattle and camels of these
invaders and drives them back, and
havens; cleared the place of the doves -
°Aloes, he told the seven giv1s. or this
telidiatiite sheik to gather their flocks
together and br:ng them again to the
watering.
Oh, you ought to see a fight tetween
the shepherds at a well in the orient
as I saw it in December, 1890. There
were here a group ot tough men who
had driventhe cattle many miles and
here another group who had driven
their cattle as many miles. Whoshould
have precedence? Such claehitig of
buckets! Such hooking oe horns Such
kicking of hoofs! Such vehemence in as
language 'E rfortunately cbuld nee un-
derstand! Now the sheep with a pecul-
iar mark across their woolly backs were
at the trough and now the sheep of
another mark. It was one of the most
exeitin,g scenes I ever witnessed. An
olcl book describes one of these -conten-
tions at an eastern :well when it says:
"One day the poor men, the widows
and the orphens met together and were
driving their camels and their flocks
toI drink- and were all standing by the
waterside. Daji came up and stopped
tbeen all andt took possession of the
water for hie neasteee cattle, .Just tata
an old woman 'belonging to the tribe•
o Abe came up end accosted hira in a
uapliantenenner, guying: "& so good.
blaster Dai, as to let My cateles drink.
They are all the °property I possess,
nd f live by their milk, Pity my Hoek;
aye eompaesion on me. Grant my re-
uest and let them think." Then came
holler old woman and addreested aim:
Oh, Master :Mee, 1 am a poor, weak
Id woman, as you see. Time has dealt
ardly with me. It bee aimed, its ar-
(two al, me, and les daily and: nightly
alamitie,s have destroyed all my men.
have lost my children' and ,my, hus-
and, tine since then hitve been in
reat distress. These sheep are all
hat I possess. Lel, them drink, for
iye the mille thee ther produce:.ity my forlorn state. I have no one
o tend them. Therefore grant nay sup -
Bastion an I of thy kiadnees let them
rink." But' in this' case the elute'
.ave„so far front gianting this ham -
la regitest, smote the woman to the
roused." ,
A like scrimmage litteataken place at
he well ih the triangle of Arabia be -
seen the Bedouin shepaerde and Mos -
championing the cause of the 8E:v-
ie daughters who had driven their fa'.
heres frocks to. the watering. One of
he girl% Zipperale her name meaning
little bird," was captured by this
expie behavior of Moses, for, bovvever,
mai. woman herself may be she alwieye
tmeres courege in it man, • Ziaportth
came the bride or Mosee, one, of ehe
ealthiest men of all the centuries Zia -
Oral little thought' tbet that morning
she helped drina her father's,elocks
the well she was splendidly tleitidiag
r own destiny. atted. she staid its the
nt or house, while the other six
ughters of the sheik tended to their
rds her life would probably have been
Janie ana eneveatfol, life in the soli
-
des. But her industry, her eidelity to
r father's interest, her spirit of help-
lnees, brought her into league with
e of the grandest eharaoters Of all
story, ',they met at the famous well,
l,
while, She Admired the eourage of
oses admixed the filial behneior
• ZippOriali.
the face that' •if, took the tievexi
lighters to drtve the' flocks to the
11 impliee that they were immense
aka and that her father was a man
even:felt. What war the use at Mint
/ales hetneerting herself with week
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hillside gear her father'S tent,' .attd,
plgolted 40i:eremite end areatened Met M.'
mamma and eighed idly to the eviads
whea 'elle might have reeliged tort the.
and wePt Over iMagilaterr Sone to the
breoke ? No, she know that work weer
lionotable and that °eery glee ,ought to
have something to do, end so ,sliesterts
wittm tele bleat:beg ani lowing ana Wee
;lowing and neighing drovesto the Well
.for the wateelag.
eAroltest every laome there ere .flottke
and droyee of earee and anxietlee, and
every daughter ef the family, th.ough
there be seven, ought to be doing her
P4rt to take tette Of the abecies° lo mane'
householdsnot ottly is Zipporithbut all
her sisters, 'without praotioal tend use-'
Itil emPlOymehts. Many of them are
waiting for fortunate and prospeechis
matrimonial alliance, but some 'Olinger,
1lkethenteelves will come along, and,
after es:melting the large number ..of fa-
ther Jethro's, sheep ani. camels will
make proposal that will ee aecePtedt
and neither of them having done ittlY-
thing more practical than ..to phew ,oho -
(white caramels, tee two nothings wUl
start on'the road of life together, ere
OrY step more and, more a failure. Thai;
daughter of the atationieish elteik witi
never find her Moses: Girls of Anleri-
CS,• imitate Zipporali e Do something
practical. Do something helpful:,
something well. Many have fathers
with Kreaf; tanks of absorbing dales,
dent 8u.ch a father needs help in bonen
or office or field, ,(1-0 out and help him
weth the flooks, reason that so
thane- men nove eoneenan themselves to
unaefianced and einitary Bee b4 beoauee
they cannot support the mode,rii young
womenwho rises at hell past 10 ,in
the ram ning and retiree; attar midnight,
,one of the trashiest of morels inhe,e
heads, most of the time leetween, the
tete rising, and tee late, retiring, a, thou-
sand of them "tot worth une Zipporah.
There are questions that every father
ant mother ought to ask the "deughter
at breakfast on tee Utile, and that all
the daughters of the 'ea)ihy heik
ought 'to ;tale each other ! •
would you do if the family fortune
should fai],jf sicknes should prostrate
the breadwinner, if the flocks of :Jethro
should be destroyed by a sudden excur-
sion of wolves anti bears and ',hyenas
from the mountain.? What would you
do for a living? Could you support
'yourself ? Can you take -care of an in-
valid, mother or brother or sister as
well as yew -self ?" Yea. lering 11 dewn
to what any day might eonne to a
prosperous family. "Cita you cpcx•k* a
dismer it the servants should make a
strike for higher wages and 'leave that
morning ?" Every minute of every
hour of every .day of every year there
are families flung from prosperity into
handship, ,and, alas 11 in such exigency
hardship, and, alas,' if in sash exigency
the seeen claughtere br Masai ean do
nothing but sit around and ory and
wait for some one tU 0011141 anti. hunt
them up a -situation for which they
have no qualification. Get' at some-
thing useret get at it right away! Do
not say.• "'if Twere thrown uponmy
own resources, 1 would become a 11111Sie
teacher." There are now more music
teachers than mien be supported if
they were all alozerts and Wagners
and Handels. Da not say, "1 will go
to exnbroldering 'slippers." ` There are
more slippers now than there ,are feet.
Ourhearts aro every day wrung ey
the story of elegant women who were
onee affluent:, but through catastrophe
have fallen helpless, with nu ability to
take eare of themselves. . .
Our friend awl Washingtonian
taansman. W. W. ( otooran, did a meg-
nifieent thing when he toile: and en -
40145(1 the Loin :e home for the sueport
of the unfortunate aristocracy of the
sauth-ethe people who once ha.d every-
thing, hut hits -e come to nothing. We
.want another W. 'W. Corcoran to build
o fouiseehome for the unfortunate a rise
aocracy of the north. But.institutions
like that aist• every ci(y of the land
could. not take care of one-half the
ten fortunate aristooracy ,of the north
and seuth whose large fort -tines have
failed arid alms through lack of ac-
quaintance • with any etyle of work,
cannot now earn their own bread.
T.here needs to he peaceful yet radi-
cal revelation among, most of the pro:
sperous homes of America by which
the elegant de-aothings may be trans-
formed into. practical do-soinethings.
Let: useless women go to work and
gather the Sleeks. Come, sZipporah, let
Inc introauee you to Moses. Buiteyou
do not meat that this Man affianced to
this cottritry girl. was the great Mos-
es of history, do you.? You do not
mean 'that he Was the man who after-
w.ard, wrought: .such wonders 'there?
Surely you do not mean he whose staff,
dropped; wriggled into a serpent and
then, detached, stiffened again iritoeta
stall? You do not mean the chal-
lenger of Egyptian thrones and pal-
aces? You,do not mean he who struck
the rock so hard it wept in a stream,
:fore Meaty hoists? Surely you do not
mean the man who stoodalone with
God. on the quaking Sinaitio ranges
not him of that mostfamous funeral men all etp end down the pews, their
f• OMB letosees dessen•.ling the seven daugh- all of faces showing they have been on moan..
our churches more men like Mos -
at all time, God coming- down ot
the beavens to bury him.? Yes, 'the „
tains of transfiguration. We went in
Mas -
88, men who have been through the
deeps and climeed up the shelled beach'
on the other side. We want aged
Jacobs, who have SeCLI ‘vhich
Id t down heaven into theer dreams.
of Axel= eva,s thrlaw schoolethe theo- We want egad Peters, who heve. been
seminary, the university of at rentecosts, and aged Pauls, , who
reek and Nend frorn which he graduate Isaac made efeteix tremble- are
ed for a mission that, will balk seas, here and there- those who feel like,,the
and drown ermies, and follow the cloud, Woman et 90 years who said be e en -
of fire by night, and. start the work- termite, who wee 85 yeere of age,
tadetrtiotideairiVation he. came, leen ea-
•
And you Wiit have to go 40Wa before
Yott ttp, pin the pit into which his
wbiltillrriasistilernlYiev;m4iLlw In40dartho:Zeidsonitilaln
• josephroee to be Egyptian Prime Min.
atter, Elijah, who was to he the great-
est of eat the eneient 'ProPhets ; glijah°
Who Made Kink Abab's knees •knock
together with the prophecy that the
•dOgS would be his only ondertekers ;
whoee, one prayer brought more
taan three yearsof drought, vent wieose
other prayer bronght. drenching show-
ers, the- matt who wrapped itti his (tape
Of sheepeltin into at role end with it
out a. path through ragtag aordaa for
ailat tvv-o, men to pass over, the man
who witia wheel of fire rode over death
and ()soaped ineo the skies without
mortuary cliintegratiou, the mart who
theenetuds 01 years after was (Ailed oat
of the eternities to atom!. beside Jesus
Christ on M.ount Teem., wh.eh it was
• ablaze with the splendors at transfig-
teration—this man eould look back to
the lime when voraeious and filthy
ravens were his only caterers.
You see Jelin Knox premising- the
eoronataon sermon of Jame s Vie and
arraigning' (Sneers, Mara and Lord Darn-
ley in a initial casoonrse at Edinhurgh
and tett ting the e'renele ambassador to
go borne ana call his king a murder -
et', John iCtiox tuakbag all Christen-
dom •feet his moral. leaser and , at kis
I to ria I tne Bari a ivior ton, Saying,
"tiere Beth a man wha in his life nev-
er feared tbe face of
Where did john Knox get tatuel
of his schooling for suoli resound-
ing arta everta,seing achievement? He
got it white in chains pulling at the
• ametet, oar in French captivity. So the
privatiens and hardships of your life.
may on a sxnallee, scale be, tee preface
and introduction to usefulnese and vic-
tory,
See also in this call of 1VIoses that
God has a great memory. Four hund-
red years oefore he bad promised the
awe. of the oppressed Israel --
et— the hour, alit( now lVfoses iv
callea to the svank reeette. tei'moues.
hunetred years is a, very long
but you ,see God can remember a pea -
Luise 400 years as well as you can re-
member 400 nainutes. 'Four huncirea
years inctudes all your ancestry that
ites ea Egypt. The' °look- of time has
you. know nothing about and all the
proinises made to them, and we may
expect fttifillment it our heart ttnd.
life blessings that were pre.dict:ed
our Christian ancestry centuries ago,
You have a dun reinembrance, if any
rememorance 'at all, of your great -
grand teener, but . God *tees these who
were on their knees in 1598 a; etvuleill.
as those on their knees in 1898,
the blessings •he promised the form-
eoir. and takrreiriveciescendants have arrived
While ;acts is floe
hereditary it Is a grand thing to have
had a plows ancestry_ So God in this
chapter calls up the pedigree a the
eeoale whom 1VIoses was to deliv-
liver, and Moses is ordered to say to
theirs, eThe Lord God of your fath-
e I'S, the God of Abraheen, the Goe of
rearm and the God of Jacob hath sent
nee unea you." If thee thought lee
divinety accnrate, lett the ask. What
are we doing by +prayer awl by a, holy
life for tee redemption of t he hiexl 401)
yeates Our work is not. only with the
people of the latter part of the nine-
teenth century, but with; those. in the
closing tal the twen teet century, and
• the closing of ' the taenty-first cen-
tury, anti the closing of the twenty -
succinct century, and the closing of the
twenty-thira century. For 400 years
if the world continues until that time,
or if it drops, then notwithstanding the
influence wilt go on in other latitudes
a'nd longitudes of God's universe.
No one realizes how: grea.e he. is for
good or for evil. There are branch -
Inge out and rebounds and reverbera-
tions ante elaborations of influence
that cannot be estimated. The
fifty or one hundred years of our
rarrtsligersetay is only fe small -parts of.
Do not retire too early. Like Moses
you may ianve your chief work to do
after 50. • It ratty not be in the high
places of the field. It may net be
where at strong arm and an athletic
foltt and a, clear vision are required,
but tnere is something. for you. yet to
db. Perhaps it may be to round af
the work you have taready done: to
•demonstrate the patience you. have
- teen recommending MI Taus lifetime.
Perhape to stand a lighthouse at the
&mute ot the bay to light :others in-
to harbor, .Verhaps to show how glori-
soutoerrathyecrsauvnset may come after a
sea of Lis whole world. Three times
has he preen:le/Illy been king of Great
flf 11TIOriltk* eArICIlota"nlottlnwigretlinll 1'1:1
thrilled and overawed by .hiselouttegoe,
Oh( Sunday, morning reading prayers
for the people with illumined counten-
Rice and, brimming eyes and resound-
ing' veiee, Saying: "I believe in God
r 01
So,
tc(11 1,151:104aLtwrt 111, her::;.,4:14:rn,thld71,3.ilf.:1110(11%06enhieC:11.7: seunb aa'art7t1 Y9"I
lose ae Gladstatie. The eleuralt bee ne
other -such chemplon to eamern Oyer.
shall etever (Tame to thank GOn that, ml
Glad( tone's invitation NW tad ni41
itt Hawardensitud heard from, his own
lips his belief In the authentieity of the
Holy Scriptnres, the divinity of Jesus
Christ and the grandmas of the world
•to come. ekt his table and in the walk
through 'lie grounas I -vtas implessed as
I was oester before 'end probably will
never be again, with the majesty of a
8.vyittuotti dr:snail ailelitx°t:elm7etanititra.lva:1 adt htbohosee.ePt°01t:stFytorot,:0601.
profese to think that *oar ealigion is a
pueillarnimons and weak and cowardly
lavetidlittuntaireittsoultaia,b(liest,;,tintili• Ma. less
Still farther watch this spectacle of
geattine courage, No wonder. when Mo
58 scattered the rude shepherds he won
Zipporah's heart, What mattered it to
Moses whether the cattle or the seven
de ughtere of Jethee es ere dreven from
the Lough i by the rudesherdsmen ? A
tt.se. justiee fired his courege, and
the world wents more of tee. spirit that
wel. dare admost anything to este others
riethted, All the time at e -elle of com-
fort, at wells of joy at wells of religion,
atm at wells of literature • there are
ou trages practieett, • the wrong herds
getting the first water. Those who
have the previous right come in last,
if they, come in at ell. Thank God we
have here and. there a strong mare to
set things right I 1/.111 so glad that
when God has. an especial work to do
he has some one ready fo aCcomplish
it. Is there a 13111le to translate, there
is a Wyclif to translate it; if tbere is
literatare to he eaergized, there is
a Shakespeare to energize it; if there
is an error to smite, there is a /Luther
to smite 11; if there is to lie a nation
free, there is a Moses to free it. But
courag,e is needed in religion, in litera-
ture., in StO tesamnship, in all spheres;
heroics to defend Jethro's seven daugh-
ters and. their flocks and pat to flight
•the insolent invaders. And those v ho
do the brave work will win somewhere
high reward. The loudest cheer of
heaven is to he given "to hien that over -
cometh."
Yoar call will probobly tame in let -
ten; of fire, Ministers get their call to
pretich in lelser8 on paper or parch-
ment or type -written, but it does not
amount to much until they get their
neet call in letters of fire. You will
no amount to much in usedu'ness until
somewhere near you find a burning
bush. ft nifty be.found lierning in the
hectic.. flush of your child's che,ek. It
may be found buil:tine in laisiness uses- that was not ,profounaly syml °heal.
fortu,ne. may. be found burning in Before the Jewish aanlaedrin acquitted
the fire of the world's scuen or hate or prisoners were placed on the right
misrepresentation But hearken to hand of the judge and convicted ones
the crackle of the burning bush! on the- left.
31. The King. The Supreme Ruler
of the world, who is here identified
with the Son of man, and the Son of!
er.,e man with Jesus Christ. Come, ye bless-
,' Etrer IllutA About Proper LivIng: attach ed of my Father. ler. Carr cells
it would lee Well to roitow. attention to the fact that the
We should like to take the opportune words "of my Father" do not fol-
low -ye cursed' in verse 41, and makes
the. comment that the leeesing comes
front God and the eurse is brOlV.I'llt" bc
the sinner on himself. Inherit the
:kingdom prepared for you. '[1 child-
ren then heirs," Rom. S. 17. Those are
the ebildren of God who accepting hies
as their Father, partake of his life and
show forth his graces by their behavi-
or. For all such a noble destiny has
been prepared. The foundation of the
world. The beginning of things.
• B5. I was an hungered. and ye gave
me meat. 1. the 'king," in the. persou
of representati.es. Meat and drink
are necessities so iniperative, and the
sufferings caused by their want are so
every hour taken from sleep is an hour pathetically evident. that it. does not
gained. To imagine that if a little require an annually tender heart to
work or exercise is good, violent or give food and drink even to one WII0
prolonged exercise is better. To con- as not loved; but this feeding the
elude that the smallest room in the hungry ane giving drink to tee thirsty
house is large enough to -sleep in. To is tee first graeious act 01 series
any season. To imagene that whatever 10 le
sleefs exposed to a direce draulght at Nrse•hai(ciyh awliceskeesdst;aheeinlytitioeywa;editsae
femedy eauees one tole& immediately hospitable. • Our Westet n device of inns
better, as eleoholie stimala.nts, for ex- an hotels his 'wee° meat of the an -
ample, is. good for the'system, withoitt oient hospitality unnecessary in mod-
regited to ehe af tee `effects. To' eat 'aa etn' life.' Yee took Mee in, t 0 your
if you had only a minute in which to bourne, into voter h arte
finish the meal, or •te eet withont an
appetite,' or to'contintle after it has
if aged men do not feel strong en- •been satisfied to ,gratify the taste. To
°ugh tor anything else,, let t,hem sit give unnecessary time to a certain es -
around in our churches' and pray, and tabliehed routine of houeekeeping when
PertlaPs in a way thee alaY acoom" it could be more profitably spent in
plish more good than they ever did. in re8t or ricreation. We trust that
the meridian of their life. It makes US these little mistakes, which, as we
feel strong to see aged men and evo- pointed out above, are so apt to be
made, will in future be avoided.
HIE SUNDAY sctiooL,
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAY 22,
" The DZ'rol9ttetijr;deegnit.iellosit't"tt.";latet.ad. 31,444
• BACTICAL NorT.s.
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Lord's application of this title to 11444
self. To us it means the, consummate
Men, the perfect flower a humanityIt ,
osrried with it whatever of religious
sentiment had gathered about, the
'Book of Daniel, sin which it first: oc-
curs. Come in his !glory. At the isecond.
advent. The Itoey amseie svith Wean As
a. celestial' bodyguard. Tbe Boa of Ma'n
was to be the King oe heaven and
earth, and. the glory a his Bish,ttiera
WAS t Mita() in the splendor or any
of tie royal servitors of earth. The
throne ot glory., That which he
shares with Jehovah, "the Anteater. of
(lave." We think of it SS surrounded
by the erightness wheels no man.
reach unto, enoircied with the ra,
bow. (See flan, 7, 13.)
32. Detore hint shall be: gathered
na t ions. Better, "el late net ton
wIsica carries the thought. of ail
42, 43, Gas's
elothed not,...„Niskzed, Me not, 1
is wronght by tvaxit, of tbo4aixi, 83 *la
u,0 want, of heart, Negleet is one 9f
the inost disastrous of eine,
44, Lord, when The wickod Wad, the
eltrietion alike are unconeteoute of the
greatness of their Byes, of the far
• eNyeep at their deeds, the long eehoeS
of. their word,s. They are unconscious
in spite of the asSuranCea of Mis pio-
144.6, that Jesus nooks tite door
w ith the beggar's feeble fiagersi,
• hoepieal Lanka and PeerS 0141 44 f4iletf,
Made /Mint by 'hangar, •
• 46. Illassentecti ea ye did; it tint, •SO'
we will be punished for good, left rine
done as weti as for evil done, '
46, Everlasting puniehment, tile et-
ernbl. The Greek word for "everlast-
ing" and for "eternal" is the same,
What the punishment is 18 not in this
text stated, but the reward is eternal
life, •
MATI!EVI'A:1'19.1AN'S EYES
Couriaslolaa OlbraWs l'rosa riailt.re* 141
lo Alarrlage, Rittilf•s, mad caber
Nearly every one has heard of the
sitetement of the. enatheinatician 'who
declared, ugd afterward. reiterated, that
al• Ireland furnished three and. a half eol-
e
diere to every two soldiers which Scot -
Gentiles. Many expositors 11FIVe. un-
derstood this to be the simple meaning
of the passage, and have explaiaed the
cottecionsness of more( character shown
bY the juit and unjust to be due to
the Ignorance which they had as Gen-
tile heathen; nut many who are supee-
ficiadiy acqeminted with Christ aro
Ignorant of what Christ stands for; and
there is no reason which tan he Meng
from the rest of hely Scripture to e.
elude Jews and Christians from tit
picture of the judgme,nt. Rom. 1.18 -
and 2.9-16 make plain (what we shot
have to expect erora a God of justicetha
ate entightened and unenlightened, a
judged by a standard of justice whic
all recognize. He shall separate them,
Dr. Marvin Vineent calls attention t
the change in the grammatical con
struetion here, which very suggestiv
ly ehanges the sense. The multitude
are gathered together as nations,
the Lora judges them one by on
as individuals. As a shepherd divid
eth his sherd from. the goals. Whir
the oriental shepherd always does o
aPProa.clung tbe fold. One notate
feet throws brighter light on ele
whole parable, that the goats and shee
do not instinctively mix ; they ten
like. to like ; although when led acros
lone spices of wildereess their group
may somewhat intermingle, there is a
ins t tive lassificat ion of them.
8511 58 apart when they wait for wate
at the wells or for housing at th
fold.
33. The eheep on his right hand, hu
the goats on the left. Hardly an:
move could be made in oriental lif
land supplied to the British Army, But
perhaps every one hes not Iteard, of the
serioue report, made by a learned math-
ernatieian of his eeseareheis in, the sta-
tistics of matrimony in various eoun-
tries, Ile found by a comparison with
various official reeords and by 'oorres-
pondenee with various Government alt -
ht„,
tummies, mat tee number of men, mar -
2O nimiber of women married in a like pe -
is vied in year was identical with the
riod, and. he added that "it is a 'fair
t • a
re inference that the same rule prevai s
h v.na. the same propertton obtains in
those countries wherein rto =ethernet -
o iral records are kept." It *as an ern-
e iable mathematician Avian in answer to
a- the question when kilts were disearded
s generally in Sootland, reported that, al-
t though the rule 4tdnittted of sorne ex -
e ceptions. it was found, by a comparison
- of records front various :Highland
h towns. that they were discarded he-
n tiveen sundown and midnight.
tl,
t the general ave rage. of persons tined in
bi:110e,enoroiaany.edbeassum
not 6 per 1.000 in England, but 6 per
is greater than in the rural distriets,
England being about 6 per 3.000 of the
population, but as the same persons will
probably ten times in a year,
ea that drunkards are
This is not a very violent assume, -
tion, hut it is lacking in the minute
aTtitlithraletY.
ical line, shown by a colleague of Prof.
ofuprophecy..in the mathemat-
IV a ere was his statement of a
historical occurrence which, one might
think, by reason of the patriotee hero-
ism of tlesse elm partkapated in it, and
the familiar poetic tribute to their
courage paid. by Tennyson would be ex-.
mentartredinafeilcmiltnes:an the diseussion of a
ail is said, that of the 600 horsemen
who took part in the charge of Betake
lava 321 rode on white horses, 166 on
sorrel horses 83 on roan horses, 28 on
black horses and. on gray horses. As-
suming these figures to be correct, it is
A C-TeiRIOUS- FACT
THE STRONGEST POINT
with the amiable mathematician, how-
ever, is not his precision in the state-
ments of facts, but • the concluitions
whieli he finds himself able to draw
from them. Thus Prof. Mulhall says;
'The number of drunkards fined
yearly per 1,000 inhabitants in eeme of
the large cities of the United Kingdom.
SOME MISTAKES WE MAKE.
ity of pointing out a few of the mis-
takes which are too frequently made
nowadays. It is a mistake to work
when youare not in a, fit. condition to
do so. To take off heavy u_ndereloth-
iag ,because ,you leave become overheat-
ed. To think that the more a person
eats the healthier and stronger he
will bec,aine. To belieye that children
can do as much eseerk as grown people,
and that the 1)110Ve they eteudy the more
they learn. To go to bed late at night
and rise at daybreak and imagine that
tees of the Midittentish sheik, Who ant
terwards rescued all nations.
Why, do you not know that this is
the way men and women get prepar-
ed for special work'? The wilderness
INDELIBLE 1111PR,ESSIONS.
There is one queer. thing a,bout the
memory.
.What is that?
No matter how it fails, we never for-
get the good thingse seed about as nor
the. meau things said about us.
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ECONOMY'.,
My wife spent ten (seats on the cars
men with bleeding backs among Egype "Deate appears to have. foegotteh us." going (loan town to pay the gas bill
•tian brink kilns tow pasture lanes "trush," said eantenelle, the wit:, hat_ and saved•eight eente disoment,
that flaw .withe mine and the trees of Hag his finger to hi.s lip, No, my ,EIhene two centa out,
Canaan. dripping with honey. Gracious friend, you have not leen forgotten. , ev„orse than that; she lost a $10 tene
God., teach, all the people this lesson. you '00 called tbe eight time. ureinh
You Must go into .humiliation and .v6- Meantime he holily °erupted,
treat and hidden closees' of preyet if Int: the aged remember that by in- MISSED IT AGAEN.
YOU- are to be fiteed for speoial. useful.- cremate longevity of the race men are Man proalbses, you ktrosv, Ltegaiu the
nese. How did john the Baestist get not so old at 60 as they ased to be ab 8j50115d
PrePared ta become a forerunner of 50; not so old at 70 as they used toles ate does nothing of the kind., ettap-
,Ceehlrli8eit7h:nih:\';'hitalesitikleenws,o,a,roigoala Ibtet at not so ssomnoilidarayt 810)r,eaosat"Iihtie0yri Illseeetet°1.., (pue3e.ep.,,,s.,,.,..stisd'eettoaeurctlytexcamuseend ebleierselattfrnmclidii:
e ere „,„ £h
en
robes and attire of Syrian aunvdacatsseetodo;dtittinwesdicoati heeaeliesoliEcienolf:li.."tleieat she went ottt to tear her hair end bump
PlIt•Plea Show Me his dining fable. d
he rhead against a partition wall.
On_ it, the tankards a blush with ,the Mighty adopted; d.entietry eontinuing
Itchiest wtties of the vneeeards ot for longer time auccessfui nitestioetion,
lgv
-eneglaeolai,ugahntdin, ntrerert; birds that were homes. and. churches and otau,m
rtrons
and sweetest von- rand places of business better ventile,t-
sion thae ever droppea antlers lefore annael these have peolongea life, and
the hunter? NO, we are, direotly told men and women in the elose of this
"Us sanle John had his reimeta; Oe century ought not to 'retire ante] at
eatneles hair," aot the fine heir of the least 15 yeare later than in the open
oaanal which, we call oamlet, but; the ing of the century, Do :not put the
long, coarse hair suoh ae beggars in the harnessr off un tit you have fought a
east wear, and his anlysmeat was of in.,. few more battles. Think of Moses start'
sect% ',the 'green toens'e, abotit two log outs for his thief work an octogene
ches long, roasted, it disgusting- food, ttria,n ; 4(4 yeare of wilderness life after
These insects wete caught and the 40 years of paltuse life, yet just, begin:-
winge,and lege tern ofet and they were rting,1 ' I do not, believii in ringa, declared the
stuck 051 woodentante . he- here hes, dying- et Tanya rdea, lenge ainat eur petit:fettle who Was balling on
fore tho fire, Tha Hedouins. peek them fend one or the Moet woadetret nten Ine bei git
in ,stilt and'carry them in socks, What that ever Itved SinCa tha ages of, time I do Gt pouted, as she twieted her
a menu for gob» the ilaptistt Threttleft began their roll." tie is the chief °Bi-, empty engagement finger. '•
MI. MINI. le,
sal?, COldleDN'T BE 200I,F,1).
'I'll have to ask youe a dotter more
a week said the new servant. Yous told
me 'there'd be three in family.
Sotthere are, replica the mistrees, uly
haebana, ray daughtee and myself,
• tee here,' baba% four'? It's
dellar more, mum.
AT V A 11.1: A N C ,
.-39,....Naleed, and ye_e !lathe d e, To
do thisa. ginTe- beyond
mere kindliness and hospitality. Siek,
and ye, visited me. Visii ing of the
sick, also, is an act of notable, eelf-
sacrifice. See Luke 7, 2,3; Ur. 30-37,
The word -visited ' in the oriainal in-
dicates looking tif ter. caring for. En
prison, and ye came unto me. In the
East prisoners are not, as a rale, pro-
vided with daily rations. A. man once
jailed may starve tf no friend outside
the tars visits him -with timely refresh-
ment. The peieoners of the -Orient are
outcast in a sense that nobody in our
Western civilizetion tan be. They have
no rightseand to visit, them with sym-
pathy and help Wati an "unheard-of act
of charity.
37. Th,e righteous. The "workers of
good. Lord, when saw we thee. Dr.
Plumptre's rem:Lek that it is clear that
this euestion itt surpriee mated not in
asked' by any who, as be tiev e rs 11 Christ
have come under this teaching, is 1101 11
sansfacto remark. Christians do not
know even now the 'full significance of
their acts of mercy. The question IS
rather a beautiful assurance that the
bung,er read thirst after righteoustess,
the yearning for God, which is the gist
and eseenee of Christiatity, is of itself
righteousness, and is to be iewarsted,
as such by the King.
40. Theft; my brethren Every man,
woman aud, chilcl who recogitizes our
Father in heaven as the Father of all
is our Lord's brother or a sister, jews
and. Gentiles alike our Saviour "is not
ashained to call brethren." He goes far-,
tiler than the 'pagan Who nobly said, he
• counted nothing human alien from
himself,. It is a most comforting
thought that we are Unconsciously per-
forming .personal service for Christ,
What ahl,easing it is that whatever We
try to do for Christ he cou.nts as'tione
to hint I Glance again at Acts 9. 4,
where' he so thoroughly identifieshim-
self With his .0hurch that When he
would ask Saul why he persecuted the
Church his words, Were, "Why parse-
entest theta mer,
41. Ye cursed, •As we have seen, God
is not the author of the °use tho
wieked are cursed by their own wuilted
deeds oua thoughts. "
that the proportion of white borsee woe,
10 per cent. less than the number of
Freneli soldiers in the Crimean war, the
number of sorrel horees. 10 per cent. less
then the number of French soldiers in
than the number of British soldiers. the
number of roan horses. 10 per cent. less
ancl the number of black horses. 10 per
cent. less than the number of Sardini-
an soldiers engaged in the Russien cam-
paign,
One of the amiable mathematician's
favorite' tables is based upon the de-
struetibility of armies. ;He has estab-
lished. for instance, to the satisfaction
of his aseoeiates, the proposition %thee;
at • the battle of Agineour a fought at
a'.paainen; when theta were More' etediers
than mai hen:lath:tansthe number of
men, put _hors de combat. ,wa_s _18 per
Fent.-of thoee-eieterafigaged
Bennockbarn. of Scotch memory,' the
percentage was 28, and. at Waterloo it
was 23. It has been estimated that in
the Crimean war the Russians fired. 45,-
000 000 shots as the result of which they
killed 48 000 allies. Th.erefore, eon -
eludes the amiable mathematician it
re.quirea 910 shots from the Russian
guns to ken "an ally." But the Eng -
lash in the. :same tsar, end mecording to
the same athority. flred 15,000,000
shots, These killed 21.000 Bussiausani,
therefore, eoncludes the amiable stat-
istician 11 needed 700 shots froin the
Osh (Teuton. inummkebs, 00 small
arms to kill a Russian. The French
soldiers 'in the Crimea. fired 29.000,000
shots wheel killed. 51,000 Russians, so •
it took 590 Shots from, French cannon
or muskets to kill ono Russian. In
ot her vs oats the French Were supo.rior
Lo the English in the itigurriey and the
deadliness of th.eir aim in the Orintaa.
NOT A FIT MAN.
Ibis pertectly ridieulous for Tim-
mins to think ot becomiug an Artie ex-
plorer, remarked Goldsborough.
01 coarse it is, replied Dillingham,.
He couldn't deliver a lecture to 5578
his life.
WHY TIE WONDERED,
Bookkeeper, to the new office boy -et
My bay, 1 have had my nose to tink
grindstone for over 50 years.
And the by is wondering what it
mttst hare been before he commenced
grinding.
PULL.
So yoU say 11tiss Seadde is dull
• Hull I She hasn't any mOre ar 1
ttou than. a rabber-pls.nt.
TIM Aux TO SPX. ,
h,obbly, 411:11:nutdteefultaehl
the crose-greetneti fentily physieian
Whadi eat we do about it/
t Detter oOnSult a/49)me ckaor,
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