Exeter Times, 1898-6-2, Page 2NOTES .42VD• CON111tENTS,
aasfore deseaseina the question as
te what dispoeition the United Stat.
ee ehali Melte of the PhiliPPine Is-
ialias he tale event a their per-
UtaineOt nenUirement it would be
well to first form some aecurata 0011"
ceptio:o of the megnitade at the prize.
It 14` ,SaIe tri Say that very few peo-
ple Jaave aa adequate notion a the corn-
raercial importance of these newly ace
tedred possessionse which the United
Stetee haye taken by a brilliant naval
ncounter to say nothing' of the problem,
involved in the control or disposition
a 0.000,900 aliena who heve slight, if
aelY, adaptability to their ideas of go
eenment. There is al small resident
Spanish popaIetion and a large number
a Chinese, but the na,tive intabitants
are mostly of the Malayan rece, with
oome tribes, of Negritos.
enseet
It is the cenzaerciel aspeot of the
acquisition, however, which, will have
aetermining weight in arriving at a
final conches-icrn as to the permanent
reteetiou of the islands. The British in-
terests in the exports and imports of
the Philippines exceed those of any oth-
er country. On an average 34 per
mat. of the import value is from the
;Mated Kingdom, 21 per cent. from
Hong Kong ana Amoy, la per cent.
from Spain and. 10 taer cent. from Sin-
gapore and British India. The total
Imports in 1894 were vehtea at $28,-
580,000, and. the exports at $33,250,000.
TI e estimated revenue of the islauds
for 1895 was 'X2,715,980, or over 413, -
ammo.
In maculating the eommercial value
of the islands it is well to bear in
mind that more than half the popula-
tion of the world. lives in countries
facing the Pacific% and, Indian oceans,
and that the foreign commerce of the
countries bordering on these oceans,
excluding North America, is more
than two and a half billions a year.
The American, trade with the east last
year was about $35,000,000. It is be-
lievecl that the east offers the larg-
est and most inviting field for fa -
tare American commercial conquest.
American trade with China and aspen,
particularly in breadstuffabas increas-
ed at a remarkable rate in the last few
years, bet it is a mere bagatelle to
what it might become if they made the
Pailippiues a basis for the development
of their commerce with the Orient. It is
the value a the Philippines for this
purpose rather than the richness and
productiveness of the islands them-
selves that will have greatest weight
in considering the question of their
final disposition provided America es-
tablishes • her claim to them as a re -
mat of conquest.
THE IAN IN THE TRUNK.
A New Way or Getting a Retreat. int
the Rouse.
Two well dressed men from Peri
drove ap to the best hotel in a, coun
try town in the Department of the Ear
recently, and. engaged a double bedde
room. They deposited 11 very heave'
trunk in 11 corner, and then went to se
the town telling the landlady, a wid
ow, that they would return at night
But night came and. the two men di
not come back at the time specitied
'Me landlady waited, much surprised
and. kept her establishraent open afte
the usual hour for closing. This wa
soon observed by the local gendarme
on duty, who entered the hotel, and re
• minded the proprietess of the place
that the curfew, or les modern substi-
tute, had. tailed the knell of departing
ditty, and. that it was full time to ex-
• tinguesh lights in all inns and. cafes
The widow said no was waiting for
two men who had left 11 big trunk b e-
0
• hind them. This oeused the gendarmes
to reflect a. little. One of them. well
versed, in criminal annals suddettly re-
raembered the Gouffe case. He also
thought of the young stamp collector
who was murdered in Paris a few years
since, and whose body was thrust into
a trunk. (Anxious to seoure aal. the
credit of a discovery which might lead
to promotion and glory, the gendarme
learned in criminal lore asked the wid-
ow to let him see the trunk, and told
las companion to wait for him at the
bar or buyette of the hotel. 'The land-
lady accordingly led the man to the
room, and. he began to gauge the -.weight
of the big box when sud.denly the lid
flew open a.nd out jumpe,d a wiry lit-
tle man who brandished a big revolv-
er in his right hand,. The widow
screamed, and. the gendarme was tena,
porerily thrown off his guard, but he
soon pulled himself together and
grapple& with the person who had been
anting jaek-in-the-box. The other gen-
darme, hearing the landlady's shrieks
and the scuffling overhead was seem on
the scene of motion, and helped his tol-
leagues to menecle the mysterious per-,
soil who had. jumped out of the trunk
and to take bat to the look -up. There
the fellow refuaed to give hie name,
or to eay anything about his eompani-
ons, wbo are supposed to have reeuramd
to Paris, leaving hita te plunder the
inn when its owner and her servants
were asieep,
INVENTIVE GENIUS OF ROMANS,
ltirgiIoectisionally is in he
mot et the expense of his friend, Maec-
enas. He mede at one time a pilgrim-
ge to the oracle at Delphi, ante on his
retare said to latiectues, I was awfully
bored while f Was aWay. So ? said Mao-
certaS, arid what was it thet bored You,
tetanus mous? The etigure, of course
W115 Yawn's quick response. This in-
cident goes far to prove tile invent/vs
*matte of the Greeks end eMane, since
tweet at that early date leagues ana
gimlets hea dome late Use.,
THE RUSHIN OF TEARS
DR. TALIIIAGg AND THE suatoN TO
THE ISRAELITES.
christ Appears in the Form of au Angel—
Renewa toe a Good Deal of Roottoline:—
Danger of Negierting
Great itekoonsibilittx rareitto
Washington despatch days :—The
Rev-. Dr. Talmage preathed from the
words: "And they ea•lled the name Of
that place Bociam."--Judges IL 5.
Jesus preacaed at least one sermon
to the ancient Israelites in the wilder-
ness. Ile appeared not with the look
that Leonardo de Vinci aseribes to Hien
in the Milan fresoo, nor that which Ti-
berius gives Han in the emerell intag-
lio, nor as Paul de la Rohe and Alb-
eit% nor as Paul de in Roche and Alb -
emelt Durex sketeh Etian., but in the
shape of an angel. Thera was a great
Ewald:tee iza tee open air. The sur-
rounding galleries of the mOuntains
were filled with the people. Christ, in
the form of an angel, preaches to these
Israelites abou.t how He had. brought
them out from Egypt into Canaan; and
while he is preaching, they can hear
again the snapping of their elides, and
see the oryetelliza•tiore of the Red Sea
into towers of triumph for them, and
intd11 saroophagu.s of death far their
pursuers. And again they saw quails
all around. about when they wanted
mea.t; and again the rook seeras to
breekiuta water as they wanteddrink;
and. again they see, the cloudy iflar
that beekoned them when they wanted
11 supernatural conamenderan-chief;
and they think of how Canaan put
clusters iri their lee andsong in their
mouth, and. the trees dropped with
honey. and. the fulluddered cattle, com-
ing up froni the pastures, yielding de-
lieious supply. Oh, whet a change be-
tween the dusty brick -kilns of Egypt,
where they ha,d tailed under a task-
master and this land of Cauaan, full
of music and mirth, and gardens, and
sunshine, But Jesus, be the form of
an angel, goes on, and. in the second
head of His disoourse He tells them
how they had. wickedly made an alli-
ance with the Canaanite, and as He
displays the height and. depth of their
ingratitude, they haug their heads, and
one deep sigh after another is beard.
Here, an aged. man, overwhelmed with
memories, groans aloud; end. yonder,
a. young man responds to it in like
exclama,tion. Soon the tears start in
all the eyes of that ,great audience—
teers of sorrow, tears oi contrition,
tears of peril --and the whole ocingrega-
tion breaks down into sobbing -and
a,nd wring their hands, 'and
make outcry that pierces the heavens.
Alas, elzat a spectacle! Hundreds of
thousands of people in lamentation.
"And they called the name of that place
Bochine" or the place of weeping.
If this hour we could realize God's
goodness -toward us, and our conduct
tweed Him, a great grief would. seize
upon this audience, and on these aisles
repentance would meet remorse, and re-
morse eoald meet ingratitude, and me-
mories of the past would jostle the
fears of the future, and the silence of
this occasion would be brokeu by sobs,
and groans, and shrieks, and the place
would be called a Bochim.. Oh, nate
God's Omnipotent Spirit now shake this
audience with arouse" and conviction,
as though it were the heart of one
man. Amen! So let it be, Lord Jesus.
I have, in the first plape to rean.ark,
that many of these Christian people
have reason for a good deal of mourn-:
ing.
What have you been doing these ten,
twenty, thirty, forty years? Did not
God lead. you out of Egypt? Did He
not pert for you the Red Seea of trou-
ble, and has He not rained mannn all
teround about your camp'? Did. teee
not divide the .Torda,n of death for
your loved ones, until they went
through dry -shod., not wetting even the
soles of their feet/ Has He not put
dusters of blessings u.pon your table,
and fed you with the finest of the
wheat? Mercies above you. Mercies
beneath you. Mercies an the right
hand, and meroie.s on the left hand.
Mereles before you. Mercies behind
Jou. Mercies within you. And yet,
• re must cenfess, we have, like the Isra-
elites, made a league with the world.
Three-fourths of oar Christian life has
been wasted. •Opportunities for useful-
ness gene for ever. Golden sickles plac-
eci in aue hand. vet ao harvest reaped,
Silken nets of Cite Gospel at our dis-
posal, yet no fish oeught. Going
along toward heaven, while there are
thousand niflhioxjs of the race un -
warned, unblessed, unease& Our path
toe ard heaven a zig-zag path, now on
the Lard's side, now on the world's
side ---"hale fellows well met" with men
who despise God. The beach strewn
evitla vessels breaking on the rockts,
and we too cowardly to wade
down waist deep, or even ankle deep,
and/ give a handto those who are
struggling in theasurf lying germs
the path toward heaven, until 'men
have come up to where we are, and
staxablea over: us, end fallen, dever
to riee. Has not this been the history
at -many • here? The robes of oar
talarieezars enerfesseon soaittered with
the blood of lad seals ; God holding us
revonsible for ,serrows that we did
not appee, and tor ruin that we did
not avert.: Oh, that (.4.od limr,ld to-
night break bar hearts with the fact
of oter inconsistencies as professors ef
religion, arid rouse us up to sele-scree
tiny, and an imploration, and * larnera-
aim, that 1,voald. Make this place a
actelam, a. place of weeping. 1 eelieve
that, there are souls in hell 'het would.
not have been there if yoir and 1 had
done our ditty. Oh weep for our dere--
lictio.ns I weep foe our wendertnes
weep for Oar lost opportunities that
wilt never return
There is greet reatha for sadness on
the pert of. some of these parents when
they look over their families. You,
know thee there mud be a 'eighty
change in year 'mediae -1 before you
eaa all Dye together in eternity. A few
years at the most, and the separation
must take piece. 'Your eoregion some
teaohoks yonthat, if there bo tvvo pethe
arid they diverge, and atter the twine
TFIE EXETER TIMEs
of divergence they keep on in a
etrateht line, tiley go farther and, far-
ther off from ettch other ; and, as by
inexorable mathematical law, as well
as by moral Lew, if one goes to the
eight in t religioele sextets, and tlx oth-
er to the Left, they ceueot come to-
Reither. Can youi sit to -night 'dada,
alatioa j/Iltdfr000lzuiteaMapylitotfe irtottaretelor‘ceadl soeniensr,-
Things are looking that way, T/eeir
0PPoreities of salvation less end lees,
You.o oppertunitiee of plying teem
with, religious motives less and less.
The prospeet that Goa's lavitetioa will
c,ontiwee to them, less and less, The
day of their merey almost goue, yet
they have not put up one earnest Prey -
en or repented of one sin, and not giv •
en one bopetta sign and death conaug
to snap the conjugel bond, end break
up the fraterutel and filial tie. Oh,
sister. canal, then bear to think of being
for eternity away from thy brother?
Oh, wife, for unending ages away from
thy leuelemel. t IC)hriatian mother, is
youx daughtea• on the wrong side ?
Christian father, will you, be on the
right hand of the judge at last, and
nee your son on the left hand., far
away, ehained and captive trodging
off e
Are you ready for such a farewell
word.? Is there anything that eau
pay youl for it? The comforts of your
present home, your domestic, reunion?
NO, no. There is nothing oa earth
that tan pay far that, I announce
what I believe will be the history of
some families represented in this
house to -night; part of the fandly• will
spend eternity in heaven, and part of
the family will spend an eternity in
hell 1 .011, if that thought could come
vith, ita overwhelming power u.pon
you., as it ought, there would be a
shudder through this audience, and
nee, would; sweat as though 11 were
great drops of blood. Parents would
ry out to Caod, and cry out ,to the
eagle : "Save my children 1" The wife
would, erg out: "Save my husband 1"
The sister would cry out: "ave my
rethee la -lead this eiaclieince, would.
be struck with &wild terapest of agony
nd this place would be a Bochim, for
veeping. Oh, there has been a very
reat change in some of the families
n my Church d.uring the last two or
hese weeks. Some of them have come
nto the kingdom., but left others out-
ide. There have been oases where the
usbanct has chosen Christ, and the
dfe has resisted Divine mercy. Lash
Sabbath night, in the adjoining room,
n aged woman came in. I said: "Are
out seeking: the salvation of your
out ?" She said: "No, I have sought
nd found. I came in to ask your
rapers tor my sons. They are on the
rong road." 0 Lord Jesus are we to
e parted. from any we have loved
Vill some .of us be saved, and some of
its be lost ? Which one will it •be
issing, missing, missing for eternity?
h, bow your heacl in silent prayer, and
sk God for the redemption of all the
ovea ones of the household. Lay hold
f God. in an im.portunate petition now.
eels I Let, it be a moment of silent
rayer all threugh. the audience.
I say farther; there are impenitent
oats. here who ought to be sad from
he feet that there are sins they have
omenitted that cannot be corrected
ither in this world or the world to
orne. I am not speaking of the un-
erdonable sin; but I will illustrate
-hat I mean. Suppose there is a
an in this audience to -night, at fifty
ears of age, becomes a Christian, but
e bits been all his life on the other
de. He is o, father. He comes to t
brist to -night, bet can he newest the
act that for twenty or thirty years, t
ver his children, he was wielding a
ong influence, and. they have started
the wrong • direction? euppose a
neliene of shipowners started a. sea. P
aptain with an imperfect chart and 1
th an unseaworthy vessel, and, after b
e vessel has been gone five days they e
el sorry about it, and wish they.had t
ot let the vessel goout in that way. j
oes that make any difference to those
ho have gone out? No1 In the first
orm the captain and the crew go f
wn. And if you come to God in the
tter part of your life, when you have la
ven your children an impulse in the E
rang direction, those,. • ten, or fif- c
en, or twenty years of extimple in P
e wrong direction will be mightier
MI the few words you can utter now t
the right direction. So it is with P
e influ.ence you have had anywhere w'
community. • If you have all these 0
ars given countenance to those who ce•
e neglecting religion, can you cor-
et that? Your common sense says in
. Here is an. engineer 011 I000311.0"
e; He is taking a long train of t
rs loaded with paseerigers. He comes
an.d sees a red flag. He says: "What
care for the red flag?" He p-ush- s
oia th,e train, and, comes to another e
d flag. • He says: "I don't care for e
e red flag." After a while he sees
at the bridge is down: bat he ie by of
marsh, and. he leaps arel is not dam- ho
ed. Does that stop the train? Nol b
goes on ora,e1i1 crash! crash! That o
the history of some men who haye w
en converted to -night. I congratue oi
e tbein, hut I cannot: hide the fact eh
at they started a train of influences in
the wrong 'direction; and though in M
afternoon of their life, they may w
p off the train, the train goes on. It
man said. to me during the week): jo
am fifty-three years of age, and las
e made up my mind that it is time ca
me to become a, Christian." I de
graiulated him in coming; but, of
est say to aa thane who come in the -W
ernoon. of life yowl have let yoar he
L chances go—there is no hiding fa
t—yoar best talents gone, your best th
ortunities of usefulnees gone. You an
not hide the fact that. you at
ve only on ,e life to live on earth,. w
d you. have thrown the raost of it w
ay. It is enotgb to make one weep no
at bitter tears; it is enough to he
Ire this house a very Declaim. la
it
Bo
will sweep upon your sotilS. Pe
from above nutt petits front belie
Mete you to the abyss. Out of ei
not; one moment's etifety, lATithata G
withoet hore, Oh, m hat an orphana
whet an exile, what a detiolation a\
will go your eat"? Who will lelp
.e-n.u• immortal spirit? ,lereail moa
tor thy lost estate.
Freee you not; mid cizance for h
ven?, "Alt," you say "that is
worst of it, Thee; ,ia weet makes
weep." l'eas ,yoier father bad?
year mother wicked.? "No," you. s
"Say nothing .against my mother.
there twes ever ee goad woman, s
was oue; and I remember how, in
old days, end when bent with yea
and. in her plain frock, she knelt del
anel. prayed for ley seal, and With ki
aprorz wipea away tee tears. c
never forget it, She IS gone now,
i gave her no intimation that. I wou
ever meet her again. Oh, ha
trampled on ter broken hea
an a wretch undone. Who w
prey for me? I am se sick. of sin.
-eau 80 weary of the world!" No wo
geeter nYaTionweoefpiltie"‘lasttbedagy'reaa'itlelsthoc(f)
those Mee had pious parents and w
resisted their admadtion. Oh I to
throu,gh loat eternity earrying
remembrance of family altar
which you were taught to kneel, an
the "Now 1 lay me down to sleep," th
YOU were taught to pray, and t
death -bed of father and mother whe
with their last words they importun
YOU to do your duty! Oh 1 that me
ory will be heavier than the chain
that. will be hotter than the- fire. Ma
God Almighty keep SA from the ove
weebning woe that comes dow-
u.posa that man's head that trampi
an a, father's counsel and on an ol
mother's peewee.
But %stet is a sadderthought is, that
some of these people not only stay
out of the kingd.om a God themselves,
but they will not let their children
come in. I have to charge some par-
ents who are here with the feet that
they hindertheir loved ones frees. COM-
ing into. the kingdom. If you
wo,uld only give themone encouraging
word, if y.ou. would only get out .of the
vvay with you.r worldly example, they
would have some chance. But no;
you stay back team Christ and the
Church, yourselves, and you keep them
back. Ohl father, mother, It you are
determined to go down to death, d.o not
take your children with you. If you
will not stand. back,' say: "1 am go-
ing to take the plunge, but don't you
do it." Ton sound no alarm.. They
are in the eame boat with you. You
are rowing on: towards an eternal Ni-
agara. Yon. aave almost mune to the
plunge, and yet you drop not the oars
you. clutch not the eide of the boat.
You cry not out to the shore for help.
You trip them up. Yon know it is.
an easy thing to trip one up, -especially
if he comes at a. bounding .gait; and
yOU see your loved ones coming on to-
wa,rds heaven, and yea put out yoar
foot and 'they fall over it into a sinful
life here, and aftex twenty, thirty,
forty years have passed will fall deeper
down, and it will be ,known :for ever
that yeue'tripped them up. Oh! by
the solemn birth -hour when your life
was spared and another given, by the
inemories of the family hearth, by the
account wiiich you must give at the
last day for your performance of your
duty in regard to those children, I im-
plore you. not to hinder them. "But,"
you say, "I do not binder them." You
do. Your children feel it. Christians
eel it. Angels of God. feel it, The
Lord Jesus Christ feels it. That fa-
he,r and mother who stay away from
Christ themselves are bringing on all
controlling and potential influence to
keep their children back. •There are
arents here, all wrapped. up in world-,
iness and fashion, who are actually
locking up the way to Iteeseen for the
ntire family. They think more of
he trimmings on their hats 'and. the
etvels an their 'fingers tha,n of the
ouls of the immortals for which they
mast answer when. the world is on
ire. Oh, that the prophet's red would
trike the rock to -night and. make it
eep, and that this place might be a
othira—parents praying for thei•r
bildren; children praying for their
arents, tb.e husband praying for the
vies, the wife praying for the husband,
he pester praying for the people, the
eople praying for the pastor, this
hole audience iv-heti:nett with one wave
f penitence and pardon! - Oh. parent!
ming up at the last day, how will
au stand it if these children grow up
to lives of sin, living to old. age in
mpenitence, and then meeting you in
he judgment, deliberately charge you
ith the ruin et their souls, saying:
You. never invited me to Christ. You
toed in my way. You gave a wrong
aderaraypleso. soul 1"
ther., mother, you ruin -
But I remember thee there are tears
joy as well as tears of sorrow, and
w the foundations of the deepwould
reek u.p to -night if one hundred or
ne thou.sand souls in this audience
mad march. up and take the kingdom
heaven! This place has been a Be-
im. It was last Sabbath, here and
the adjoining, town. It' wes last
onday. WaS last Wednesday. It
5.5 last Friday. It was this morning.
is new Bochim for weeping for
y. Right, here, on this very seat,
t Sabbath night, there sat, a sea-
ethin. He seemed very restless un -
r the serna.on. thought he was
fended, and would go • out.
hen the service wrte closed
came into the adjoining room, his
ce shining, with joy, and he told us
at on that night, He had found Chriet
it then he tola hove, during the gale
sea, he voweel to be a Christian, but
hen the sea went down and the stoern
as past he forgot his, vow.
t keep the dory to himself. He was
says, "I start for heaven." He could
'ling thoee who were aronnd. about
'Ira in the rooin what a .joyful thing
was„to follow Christ. Ohl it was a
ohim all" around about where the.
II stead, acid ileaseicl as he passed
out Of the door: "Pray for roe. 1 sail
to-nnorrocv for Sari Domingo," The same
night; there came a child., het face rad-
iant with gladness,' fielding her fath-
ese-by the Mind. She tied found the Sav-
iour the week before. Now else was
bringing her 'tither. He ale° totted
aesue. Then the marl who said he was
" past feeling " asked. us to pray for
him And then there were aged ones
who came in the eleventh hour and
got Diviee paeclon; and there were aa
tars eel; in families where there had
,never beet any prayer; azicl. lips that
had. never epoken the tante of Jesus
tare lijaeehenty, hive been all this -
week Singing " Theree nOne like
.reenS, B011elni8,11 V' AWL the place
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• So, elso, there is occasion for sad-
ness in the peril tla,17 surrounds every
unforgiVen soul, "Oh," you say; "it is
a starlight night, The wind is blow-
itg from the west. All is fair, Tilde
teeeporel, het Of spiritual danger. You
stay: "I don't •see any spirituia dang-
er. ' Teen 1 remembet that summer
eefore foe on :shipboard, at evening
time, we were romping, up and down
the decks with laughter, and shout, and
song. We were a Very dierry party at
eeentirne; but tix e few hours there
Were between Seven hundred end eight
bundred people groaning and crying
and ehrickine at what seemed the
thundering of the ship, Sena all gene.
Betnee lost. leife-boets ertishea to kind-
ling -wood on the side ca the vessel. Oe
the „blenchad cheeks of the teptaie,
crew end passengers, bile word writ-
teri "Salpwreck !" And 80 yet wee
go en pfaciden stebeflay, gaily for
tswhi1 in your sin, bat the hurricane
wale. elbey will not come. They 3011
net repent. Tbey will not pray. They
will uot ase any one else to prey for
theme Their h)earts are too proud.
'With a steel grip they adze the door
01
thei(e4°,sd'6eeistu, '"ircKeyanlady sh1011(tl, Olft'tbs ri01118)81;
Of the boa, so thob they may strike
the death -knell of their own einem--
tal spriL. "The harved is pest, lhe
summer la ended., and they are not
saved." Floating out feather and far -
tiler into the derk.ness, 4 wave them
one lad farewell, and. I feel helplese
when I ,stancl before tame • 1 think of
eo other argument drawn from death,
judgment or eternity, or the moss of
'the San of Gad, and I feel very much
as the people did on Long 'Island
(meth some years ago when a vessel
wee driving on the rooks. The people on
shore could do nothing. Taey saw the
danger and knew the ehipwreek was
coming, and ran up and down the beach
wringing their hands. So to -night T
see these vessels emning for the theirs,
r cannot help them, 1 Tun up and
to do
ntollegosod.
hors erYinge "Stand off.
Put back! Stop, stop.P But it seems
I rejoice that therewill be whole
families to -night tbat will come to Yes -
ma In Georgia, some years ago, there
were two men who had broken their
mother's heart by lives of dissipation.
They went lionee to see her. It Cape
the time foe them to go back, and they
cued: "New, mother, we go back to-
night at nine o'clock." "Well,' she said,
"boys," however old they ma.y get they
are never anything but boys to a moth-
er, she said: "Boys, go to church;
they're going to have religious service
there." Her heart was aching for their
salvation, but she did not want to tell
them. "Oh 1" they said, "we're- going
off at nine o'clock." " Well,' see said,
"you will hear tee stage -horn blow
and. you can then go out and take
the stage." So they went; but before
the stage -horn blew ,they begird a dif-
ferent sound. 1.1 was that which peal-
ed forth froni the silver trumpet of the
Gospel, and their souls quaked under
the sound. They dia not go away that
night, and, on the _following night,
when, at tee °lase of the service, the
minister of Christ asked. that all those
who were. eeeking tbeir sours salva-
tion should come up and kneel at, the
altar, the first that started were these
two men; and they knelt there ask-
ing for salvation; and while they were
kneeling there, there was an aged. wo-
man who arose in the midst of the
audience, her face- all saturated with
tears, and the people said: "Who is
She? Vcr110 is she? Why does she stand
up and disturb the assembly? All the
rest are sitting." Oh, she had a right
to stand up. She was the Christian
mother of these two young men. She
had prayed for their salvation so long,
she had a right to stand and look as
they knelt down at the foot of Divine
mercy. She had sown hi tears—she ha,d
a right to reap in tearful joy. And
to -night, if the prodigals would only
mane and kneel dawn at the foot of
the cross, there would be others stand-
ing up to watch. The world might stand
up and scoff, but- there would be oth-
ers standing up with differeut mo-
tives—parents standing up to watch
as the prodigals came. They
would be glad with an infinite glad-
ness, if their children were saved. And
there would be companions in life who
would rejoice as their conapanion came.
They would say: "Now, we are one for
ever. Married on earth to be married
in heaven." •The angels of God would
stand, harp in hand, twitching, and
ready to strike the symphony. The
'Lord. Jesus Christ Himself would stand
watching—Hine of the crushed foot,
andthe mingled brow, and the deft
heart, saying: "My soul is satisfied.
have loved thee with an everlasting
lave." There would be tears of joy
mingling with tears of sorrow, and it
would be told in the ages to come that
on this Sabbath night, between these
walls, because of the weeping -over sin,
and the weeping over pardon, the
piece was a &china. ,
• AGE OF THE EARTH,
Noted scientists Do Not Agree as to the Time
of Life on the earth. -
Pleuras, it must appear to merty
thinkers, lose their substantial mean-
ing after they pass the million
stage, the fact that we can
say seven: or tea or a hundred
million does not mean that we can
grasp what these millions, have power
to effect or that we can follow them
out into the beginningless tract of
• time and space. However, to such
people as may think they are able to
follow battalions of figures it may be
of interest to give the latest opinions
on the work of the geological ages.
Lord Kelvin estimates the age of the
earth, since it was sufficiently cooled
tci become the abode of plants and ani-
mals, to be aboat 20,000,000 years, with-
in limits of ertor perhaps ranging be-
tween 15,000,000 anct 30,000,000 years.
This estimate, nearly agreeing with
another by Clarence King, from simi-
lar physical date, has gerierally been
regarded) by geologists, says Warren'
Upham in the American Geologist for
October, 1897, as too short for the Pro-
cessee ot sedinientabion and eresion,
Lund for the evoaution of floras and
faunas, of which the earth's strata
bear reoord. More probably, as ratios
and oonaputations by 'Dana, Welcott,
andother geologists somewhat har-
moniously inaioate, the duration of.
time since the beginning of life on the
aorta has hews three to five times
longer than Kelvin's estimate, or from
60,000000 to 100,000,000years
i ,
The larger figures imply from the
dawn at life to the develepneent of
tare Cturibrient and (aitterian felines
probably 50,000,000 years ; thence to the
end of Paleozoic time perhaps 30,000,000
years onvvetd through lifeeozoic time
aboutA5,000,600 years, and through the
Tertiary era. about 5,000,000 years. The
comparatively very short Queternary
era, having in its organic evolution,
as .shown by the marine nollasea, no
higher ratio to Teetiary time then
1.50, may therefore "ews occupied only
about 100,000 years. •
FINE RECRUITS.
Are you interested in ,this "clon't
Worry" movement?
Yes; I wish 1 could, get all nVy cred-
itore into it.
A VEIL IP 011 AVAIL.•
Ta• endeavor to look well on a windy
day is without avail, if you are foolish
enotigh to go out—evahcitit a Veil.
ME SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL. LESSON, JUNE
5,
"Jesus Conatenuethe matt, ez. re.ee. Golden
'rest, 11 Wini. 1. la.
PRAOTIOA.L NOTES.
Verse 11, Jasus *stood • before the
governor. Pontius Pilate had been goy-
erner of Judea about six -ears; lis was
unpepular, for he govereed, with arb-
itrary videnee. About four years aft-
er the trial of Jesus ae was dismissed
from his offiee, and, is said to have de-
stroyed himself while in • banishment.
Tee offietel residence of the Roman,
governor wa,s at Caesarea, hut his pres-
ence at Jerusalem was eustomary clar-
et
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ing the national testivals,
in the "jed:ganent hall," a stated pia
fox the esra.mination of p,risoners, whi
Jewish councilore AVOUld, 1101; enter Ou
ing the lately passover season for fe
of ceremony defilement. So Pile
went out "into the court" to he
their c ample int John 18, 28=3
Luke 23, • 2, It was the dawn
FrNs
idaiThea
. Art trzk iforra,imly
hutieKing
sarcasm, and insult, shows the natu
of the formal charge, wile& is state
more fully in Luke 23. 2. "The R
man g-oeernee woulci not take cogni
ance of blasphemy, fox' which th
octuncil had condemned our Lard, b
he coulcl not help attending to
charge of rebellion against Caesar."--
Churtan. Jesus said unto him, Thou
sayest. , This phrase was customary
as an expression of strong assent'. Tt
is equivalent to "Assuredly 1 am."
Our Lard thus expressly, aecepts the
d.esignation of king. Jesus had often
before' affirmed his Messiathship. See
Matt. 14. 33; 16. 16, 17; Luke 9. 20;
John 7. 16, 17; 10. 24, 25.
12. When he was accused of the chief
prieats and elders, Their accusations
new presented were what we would
cellspecificatioins dxann up under ,the
charge of claiming royalty, to which
Jesus seems to have already in a man-
ner, pleaded guilty. He answered no-
thing. ' As en his trial before Caia
phas, so now our Lord freely admit;
what he knows his enemies may in-
terpret as a legal ground for condem-
nation Jut refuses to reply to false and
calumnious charges.
aglatisHowmanythee? Their
hThetirinagseauestetyrionwsimtnaedees
him Gut an infamous character. They
include, as we have seen, charges of
blasphem.y, aohn 19. 7.
14. He answered, him to never aword.
in this sentence accords with a
quaint -and. disused oldEnglish custom
Our Lord was unruffled under dignity,
wane amid others' f uey. No wonder
-thee governor narveled greatly. This
VMS the majestic silence of innocence,
purity and power. Just at this point
Pilate leereed that Jesus was a Gali-
lean, and, therefore sent him for trial
to Herod Algrippa, tetrarch of Galilee,
-who waa then in Jexusalean. Pilate's
scherae was vein, far Herod, refused to
judge the case, and; after mocking ,Tes-
as, sent him back, Luke 23. 6-12.
15. At that feast. The feast of pass -
over, The governor was wont to re-
lease unto the people a prisoner. As-
serting the innocence of Jesus, but aux-
ileus to please the people, Pilate pro -
Poses to chastise Jesus, Luke 23, 16, 22,
end release him according to this an
cient custom. The great strides that
humatity has made in civilization, are
seen by the fact that what would now
be regarded as an unmitigated injury
to public weal was a few centuries
ago regarded as a kindness to the
eonmeanity at large.
16. A notable prisoner. A rebel, mur-
derer and robber. Barabbas. Dr. Plump-
tre conjectures that Ba.rabbas had led
a tumult 'which had. recently occur-
red becanee of Pilate's profane ap-
propriation of , the "Corban"-- mon
eys consecrated to holy purposes. This
supposition wetted explain how Barab-
bas came to be a popular hero.
17, 18. When they were gathered to-
gether, Pilate said unto them. It
was not to the accusers of Jesus this
offer was made. Between verse 14 and
verse 15, as we 'have seen, comes Luke
23, 4-16. Some time initst hawe elapsed
before Jesus was returned in charge of
Herod's guards. In the meaircyhile
Pilate probably had. made inquiries
about him, and, hearing of his gener-
eat' vpyoPtilhelarcihtief hperiesc°tVuhdadi dtehliavie-if•eadr
ham The idea then occurred to him
• that Jesus might be released without
offending the Setyleh leaders by ap-
/*Ming to the populace, never doubt-
ing that they would be delighted to
see him let go. Accordingly. Luke
tells us that "he called together the
chief prfests and the rulers of the peo-
ple," which explodes the words "when
• they were gethered together ;" that
is, after.the return from Herod. The
Priests were now ' alarmed lest
an uproar should arise amongtbe peo-
ple, and in desperation they seized tbeir
last chance by trying to persuade the
multitude agaiost Jesus, verse 20, no
doubt tellieg them that the great coun-
cil had feend Jesus guilty of blas-
phemy. How well they seceeeded was
soon Seen, and Pilete's astonishmeet
at the unexpected shouts of "Let him
be crucified 1" verse 22, is shown( by
his exclamation, "Why, whet evil hath
he done?" In these comments we have
gone same -whet in advance of the story,
but this was necessary . for a full ex-
planation of our text.
19, 'Phe- judgment seat was e 'raised
platform, in the bedtime the eourt,
where the judges sat. This platform
was por;taide and was placed on a tes-
selated pavement, caged Gabbatha. Pil-
ate's wife, whose name was Claudia
Procula, according to tradition, al-
thettgh a, /Roman had become a Jew in
religion, The early Church had a tra-
dition that she afterward became a
Christian,
20. 'Persuaded. Ey threats and agile. -
tions, See Mark 15, 11, See also our
note on verses 17, 18. Ask Barebbas,-
and destroy Semis. Their spirit would
shut up heaven and open the bottom-
less pit to all men. ,
22. What shall I de then with Jasus,
question thee has been asked by agi-
tated souls in every clime and in every
e,entury since. Which Is tailed Christ t
Who is alleged to be, the AlesSittli. 'Let
him be ertielfiech eruaifiklon as a
punishment was never used among
the Xews white their state was free.
It was leaded by Roulette on slarce
and the worst, ofmalefactors, 'Me
bitterness of the eneiniee of Christ is •
saon in their special demand tor such
a method of death.
23. Whet evil hath be done? S0e
Luke 23; II, Pilate admits that he was
about to pass an unjust sentence,
24, Pilate saw that he eenld prevail
nothing. Still, the third time aceord-
ing to Luke 23, 82, maintaining the ila-
neeence of jesus, he yields to the mob.
He bad reached the climax of imbeeil.
ity. Washed his hands befeciie the mut-
titude, Thi e was a. mummer/ ceremony
in protesting innocence. Witness Deut.
21. 6, 7; and Psalm 26, 26. in PiLate's
case it was the act oe a conscience --
smitten, compromising hypocrite, 1
am, innoeent. His saying so id not
make him so.
25. ERE blood be on us, His death
and. the guilt and penalty of it. Com-
pare Dent. 19, 10; J"osh. 2, 19; 1 Kings
g, 32; Acts 5. 28.
26. Teen released he Barabbas. Pil-
ate yields little by little till be be-
comes peenrless. When he had scourgr
ed Jesas, A cruel scourging before eruei-
fixion was inflieted aocording to the
barbarous Roman stom. For other
indignities, john 19, 'Ilae weak govern-
or hoped by this punishment to satisfy
the Jew, tend even yet to open the
way of escape for the innocent prison-
er, Like 23. 16-22; Ade 3. 13. Eel de-
livered. him to be crucified. Our Lord,
who was wearied from the fea,rful
awooning in Gethsemane, and by the
leng hours of base insult front mid-
night till dawn, and who had just been
mangled. by the scourge, was now de-
livered to tJae most lingering and cruel
et deaths—for our salee,
ALASKAN CAVE DWELLERS,
queer S mid mentor Mantes on. tete
Same mot Grounto.
A race of cave dwellers live on a small
island of the Alaskan coast. It is
King's Island, in Bering see, due south
of Cape Prince of Wales. There is
only one village there and this has a
populaton of 200, Dr. Sheldon Jackson
the Ohited. States agent of education
in Alaska, says that it is one of the
moat remarkable settlements in Am-
erica, yet few- people know of its exist-
elring's island is about a mile in
ienwhign(hil'riafesci peisrpaenincliacsusla°rilyboausatltofr°Ire,
sea to a height of from. 700 to 1,000feet.
At the south side this is deft in tteet
by a deep ravine, whioh is tilled by a
huge permanent snowbanlir. High isp
on the west side of the ravine is the!
village of Oukivale which consists of
about forty awellera, partly hollowed
out of the cliff and built up outside
with stone walls. Across the top of
these wa,Lis axe laid large driftwood
poles; ever these are placed hides and
ov-er the hides gra-ss and. dirt. The
houses are entered by a tunnel which
rums along undesneatle, sometimes for
disten,. ea- of fifteen feet, and ends un-
der a hale—eighteen inches in diameter
—in the floor of the room above. This
is the front door of the establishment.
The tunnel is so low that it is necessary,
to stoop, and ofteaa to crawl, the en-
tire length of at.
In summer these houses generally be-
come too (temp to live in. The people
then erect another dwelling on top; this
is a tent of walrus hide which is stret-
ched over a wooden frame and guyed
to the rooks by ropes to prevene its
being blown off into the se/e. These
tents allow of a room. aboui ten or fif-
teen feet square, and entered by means
of an °yea hole in the hide about two
feet above the floor. A narrow plat-
form two feet wide runs along outside
of the door arta leads back to the hill,
These platforms are often fifteen or
twenty feet above the winter dwelling
below. .
At the other side of the deep ravine
at the base of the cliff, is a huge cav-
ern into which the sea dashes. At the
back Of this is a lerge bank of perpetu-
al -snow. The cave dwellers use this as
a storebouse. They dig rooms in the
snow and store their]: provisions, which
freeze solid and. keep the year round,
for the temperature in the snow never
rises above 32 degrees.
AGES OF SOLDIERS.
Noted enteeterin Leaders Olive Been Over
the Regulation ehate.
AI native of Holland, an American
citizen by adoption, writes to a New
York newspeper, that he is 53 years old,
but as able to fight as any man of 2.5,
and suggesting the formation of a
eorps of men from 45 to 55 years old.
lee thinks there are many thousands
oIl foreigrobern citizens reedy end
anxliou_e to take, up arms for their
adopted country in case of war with
,
That old men have sometimes Inert
the best and most successful fighters
hiseurry neezedantly shows. 71.ocord-
ing to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Far-
ragut, the great e.dmixel of the eivil
-weal was OVer 60 wben he ran his
fleet up the 'Mississippi under the guns
of the Contecierete forts below New
Orleans, and, in spite of warniugs in
regard to torpedoes in. Mobile bay, ex-
clabneel) :"— tine torpedoes, Go ahem&
Robert Anderson was 50 when he de-
fended Port Sumter, Don Oates Buell'
was 44 when he belped to save Grant
from clieaster at Shilob.
Soeeph Hooker, orie of the best fight-
ers in the "Onion army, was over 50
when he captured Lookout Mountain.
David Porter wag 52 when he cote -
mended the largest Remands, the world
heel evet seen, et the capture of Fort
tester. :The heloved, :John Sed,gwick,
wee 51 when he Was trilled at the heed
cif Ids corps in the Wilderness, George
If Tionnes was 48 vvlien he won the
battle of Nashville, one of the five most
importcanti battles of the war. :Johns
A,' Winslow, was 55 when the Hear -
dirge sank the Altibithia.
althea. E. Early was 40 wheint he
canio go near capturing Washington,
joseiph E. Johnston was 57 when he
W55 holding 8hertnan's army in eheek
In' Georgia, end Robert It. Ice was the
same age when he made his able dee,
fensive campaign, of 1864.
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