Exeter Times, 1898-6-16, Page 6•
TEAT NB SOUL IW LIVE
nV, DR, TALMAGE PREACHES OX
THE UNPARDONABLE SIN.
acne Thing as aneucteseten etepeettantea
Venteatten or Our Cialtiren—Vntelndeae
Done to the teepartea-itaet Opportuto.
nes or tatting; Otted, one Loss Oppose
mottles or thetsetnetta
'A Washinotou despatch says :—Reer.
Dr, Talrattese preaehed from the fol-
lowing worde: "All manner ot sin and
blaaphenly shall be forgiven 'onto
men; bot the blaspheray against the
Holy Ghost shall oot be forgiven uSi-
to Zen. And whosoever speaketh a
word e,gainst the Son of man, it shall
be foreiven aim; but whosoever speak-
eth against the Hely Gbost, it ellen
uot be forgiven him, neither le this
world, neither la the world to come."
—.Matthew xii, 31, 32.
fousid leo place ot repentance,
though he eought it carefully with
tears."—Hebrews xii. 17.
Let a be 'understood at the outset
that the Protestant pulpit has O re-
velation not given to the Protestant
pew. Tbe minister a Chriet has no
rigb.a to lora it over the consciences
of men. When, we preach, we do not
ratter edicts, we only offer manatee.
Let the old. mother of harlots frora the
Vatican issue the fiat that makes the
people bow down into the ;lust; but in
thie lend, and in this age, where Haag
James's translation is in almost every
band and in almost every
hoe, let
every man understazd that he has a
right, equally with others, to inter-
pret the Word a God for himeelf, ask-
ing only Diebae illunsamtion.
As sometimes you gather tb,e whole
family around, in the evening, to hear
some interesting book read, so to-
night we gather—a great Christian
family group—to study this text mad
now may wee and. the same lamp cast
its glow on all this vast circle of lei -
mortal seals.
You see from tie first passage that
I /end, that there is a sin against the
Hely Ghost for whiele a man IS,. never
Pardooed. Once having eoramitted it,
he is bound hand and. foot foe the dun-
geons of despair. Sermons may be
areathed to him, songs may be sung
to him, ptayers may he offered. in his
behalf; bu,t eal to no purpose. Efe is
a. •captive for this 'world and a captive
for the world that is to corote. Do you
suppose that there is amy one in this
house to -night that bas ecexanitted that
sin? All sins are against the Holy
Ghost; bat my text spea,ks of one es-
oecially. It is aa'ra ciear to my own
mind that the .sin avainst the Holy
Gaost was the ascribing of the works
of tbe Spirit to the agency a the devil
in the time of the apostles. Indeed.
the Bible dietinetly tells us that. In
other word, if a mew had sight given
to him:, or if another was raieed from
the dead, and ample one standing there
should se,: " This man got his sight
by sa,tanie power, the Hely Spirit did
not de this Beelzebub accora,plished it;"
or " This man raised from the dead
was raised, by satanic influence," the
oxen who said that dropped down un-
der the curse of the text, and had. com-
mitted thee fatal sin against the Holy
Gh.est, Now I do uot think it possible
• in this day to comniit that sin. I think
it was possible only in apostolic times.
But it is a. very terrible thing ever
to say anything against the Holy Ghost
and it is a :marked fact that our raw
have been marvellouely kept back from
that profanity. You hear a menswear
by the narae of the Eternal God, and
by the name of Jesus Christ, but you
never heard a maxl wear by the name
of the Holy Ghost. There are. those in
this house, who fear they are guilty
of the unpardonable sin. Have you such
anxiety? Then I have to tell you pos-
itively that you have not committed
•that sin, because the very anxiety is
a result of the movement of the grac-
ious Spirit, and your anxiety is proof
positive, as tertainly as anything that
can be demonstrated in raathematies,
that you have not cammitted the sin
that I have been speaking of. I can
Look off upon this audience and, feel
that there is salvation for all. It is
not like when they upt out with those
life -boats from the Loch. Eaana for the
',Ville du Havre. They knew there was
not room for all the passengers, but
they were going to do as well as they
could. But tonight we raan the life-
boat of the Gospel, and we cry out over
the Sea: '' Iloom for all," Oh that the
Lord Jesus Clarist would this hour,
bring you all out of the flood of sin
and plant you oke the sleek of tale glor-
ious old Gospel craft. But wlaile The.ve
said I do not think it is possible for as
to commit the .particular sin spoken
of in tbe first text, I have by reason
et the second: text to call yottr, atten-
tion to the feet that there are sins
which, though they may be pardoned,
are in some respects irrevoca.ble, and
you oan find, no place. for repentance,
thougb you seek it catefulay with tears.
Esau bad a birthright given him. In
olden times it meant not only tempor-
al but Spiritual blessing. One day
Esau took his birthright and traded it
off for sometbing to ea,t. Oh the. fol-
ly! But let ue not be too severe tame
aalaa, tor some of us may have commit-
• ted the same folly. After he had made
the trade, be wonted to get it back.
juetas though you to -morrow morn-
ing sbouid take all your notes and
aorols, and Governinent securities, arid
•Should go into 0, restaurant, and in a
fit of teoklesseess and hunger throw
all these securities on the counter and
seek for a plate of food, making- that
exchange. This was the one that Esau
roadie, ale aold his birthright for a
toe.ss of pottage, and he was very sorry
about, it afterwards; but "he found
no Oat* for repentance, though be
;sought it carefully with teats."
We may be emery about it all our
'days. Cao -we ever get the diseipline
er the advantage that We would have
tiad had we attessded to tame duties
In early life? man wakeup et
forty years of age and finds that his
• ainith has been wriated, and he etrives
aar eat• back Iiis early advantages. Does
Ile get them leektae dean (4 boy-
hood, the days in college, tba days Un-
der his father's roof? "Oh la be says.:
"If .1 cotala only get than) times lank
ague, how I would impreve the= 1"
aly brother, Yale will never get taens
back. allem are gone, gone, You may
be very sorry about it, and God WO'
forgive so that you may at last reach
heaven; but you will never get over
some of the ralohaps that have cetera to
your soul as a result of your tegleot
a early duty. 'Yoe, may try to undo
you cannot aid° it. Wheu yoa
had a boy's arms, autl bad a boy's
eye, and a boy' heert, you ought to
have atteudedato those things. A men
saysat fifty years of age: "1 (lowish
X mold get over these habits ot indol-
eoce." When did -you get there? At
twenty or tweetyefive years of age.
Yati eauxot shake theus offs They
mid hang to you to the very day of
your death. If a young man, througb
a long tourse of evil conduct, under'
mines his paysical healtb, and thenree
pesats of it in after life, the Lord may
parcloa him; but that does slot bring
back good physical expedition.. 1 said
to a minister of the Gospel last Sab-
bath night at the close of the service:
"Where are you preacaing now t"
"Ohl" be says: "I an not preaching I
am suffering from the physical ef-
fects of eerier sin. I ean't preach now;
1 am sick," A consecrated man he
OW is, and be mourns bitterly over
early sins; but that does not arrest
their bodily effects. The simple feet
as, that men and women often take
twenty years ol their life to build up
Influences that require all the rest of
their life to break down.
'When you tell me that a malt is
just beginning life, I tell you that he
aajust aiming it. • The text fifty
years will not be of as muck import-
ance to him as the first 'twenty. New,
why do I say this? Is it for the au-
noyance of those who have only abale-
ful retrospection? Yoe know that is
not my way. I say it for the benefit
of these young men and women.
Nvant them to uoderstand that eternity
is wrapped up -in this hour; that the
sins of youth we never get over; that
you are now fashioning the mould in
which your great future is to man.;
that a minute, instead of being sixty
seeonds long, is made up of everlasting
ages. You see what dignity and leo,
portance this gives to the life of all
our young folks, Why, in the light
•of this subject, life is net something
to be frittered away, not something to
be smirked about, not something to
be danced out, but something to be
weighed in the balances of eternity.
Oh, yhung man! the sin of last night,
the sm of to -night, the sin of to -mor-
row will reach over ten thousand years
—aye, over the great and unending
eternity. You may, after awhile, say:
"I am very sorry. isTow I have got
to be thirty or forty years of age,
and I do wish I had never committed
these sins." What does that amount
to? God may pardon you: but undo
them things you never will, you never
can.
In this same category of irrevocable
mistakes I put all perental neglect.
We begin the education of our chil-
dren too late. By the tixae they get
te be ten or fifteen we wake up to
our mistakes and try to eradicate this
bad habit of the child; but it is too
late. The parent who omits in. the
first ten years of the child's life to
make an eternal impression for Christ,
never makes it. The child will pro-
bably go on with all the disadvantages
which might have been avoided by par-
ental faithfulness. Now you see what
a mistake that father or mother makes
who puts off to late in life adherence
to Christ, Here is a, man who, at fifty
years of age, says to you: "I must be
a Christian ;" and he yields his heart
to Goa and sits in the house of prayer
to -night a Christian. None of us can
doubt it. He goes home and he says:
"Here, at fifty years of age, I have
given my heart to the Saviour. Now I
must establish a family altar. What
Where are your children now? One in
Boston, another in Cincinnati, another
in New Orleans. And you, my brother,
at your fiftieth year, goiog to estab-
lish your familia altar. Very well;
better late then never; but alas! alasi
that you-el/a not do it twenty-five years
ago.
When. I was ha Chat:town, Switzer-
land, I Saw in the window of one of the
sb.ope a picture that impressed my mind
very numb. It was a picture of an ac-
cident -that oceurred on the side of
one of the Swiss =sustains. A com-
pany of travellers, with guides, went
up acme very1 steep places—places
which but few travellers attempted. to
go up. They were, as all travellers are
there, fastened together with cords at
the waist, so that if one slipped, the
rope would hold him—the rope fastened
to the others. Passing along the most
dangerous point, one of the guides slip-
ped, and tbey all slipped down the pre-
cipice; but after awbile, one more mus-
cular than the rest, etruck his heels
into the ice and stopped; but the rope
broke, and down, hundreds and. thou-
sands of feet, the rest went. And. so I
see whole families bound together by
ties of affection., and in many cases
walking on slippery places of worldli-
ness and sin. The father knows it and
the mother knows it, and they are
bound all together... Oh! there is such
a thing as coming to Christ soon enough
to save ourselves, but not soon enough
to save others. How menet parents
wake up an the latter part of life to
find out the mistake! Tha parent says:
"I have been too lenient," or, "I have
been too severe in the discipline of my
children. If I had the little ones around
me again, bow different I would dol"
You will never have them around,
again. The work is done, the bent to
the character is given, the eternity is
decided, I soy this to young perents—
those who are twenty-five, or tbirty,
or thirty-five years of age. Etave the
family altar to -night.
In this category of irrevocable mis-
takes 1 place also the unkindness done
to the departed. When I was a boy,
my mother used to say to me some-
times: "De Witt, you. will be sorry for
that when I am gone." Ana I remem-
ber just how she looked, tatting there,
with cap ana, spectacles, and the °la
Bible in her lap; and she. never said a
truer thing than that, for I have oaten
been sorry since. While we have our
friends with us, we say tuaguarded
things that wound the feelings of those
to whom we ought to give totlting but
kindness. Perimps the parent, without
inquiring into the matter, boxes the
ehild's ears. The little one who has
fallen in the street comes in covered
with dust, and as though the first dis-
aster were not enough, she whips it.
Alter awhile the child Is token, or the
Parent is taken, or the compassioti iS
taken, and thou) who are left say t
if we cocad,• only get beck time
anaiod Weird ; thoats tanhind dee°' 11
we Wald only recall them; but you
cannot get them !wk. You, =tot bow
4o!vethegrvs ttt1°roneLcery, e:aMI. a 01;
The white lips ealuatiMake no answer.
While with a. firee, alexia yo U adnallaiste
er parental dieolpline, also aandahstea
it very gently, leet Some day there
a little slals an Greenwood, arid on, it
ciliteirld
alena; t`Oia`ctroiWyiollule,b"a\oa"
v' a00, eprlig-
e
to the grave, and seek a pleas Pt re-
pentanee, and seek it carefully, with
tears, you cannot find. it,.
Tbere is another sio that I place in
the Oates of irrevoo&ble nalstakee, and.
is lost opportunities a getting
good. I slaver come to a Saturday
night but I can see during that week
that 1 have missed. opportunities of
getting goods I never come to my
birthday but I can see that I live
Waged maoy chancee of getting bet-
tor. I never go home on Sabbetb bean
the discussion ot o religioos theme,
without feeling that I raight have done
it iu Et more successful way. How ie
it with yoa ? Talte a certain number of
bushels of wheat and seater themov-
l.0.4tvp
OV-
er a number ialpip
lieearof eer,oes
yolottiolaand,
to
the amount of seed scattered., And I
ask you tonight, have the sheaves of
moral and.epiritual harvest correspond-
ed with the advantage.s given? How
/um it been with yea t You may make
resolutions for the future, but past op-
portunities are gone. While at other
reasta the cup may be passed to us, and
we may reject it, and yet Dates, wbile
take it, the csap-beaa.ers to tlais feast
never give us but one chalice at the
chalice, and rejecting that, w„, saall
"find no place for repentance, though
we seek it caeefolly with team"
There is one more class ot sins that
I pa in this category of irrevocable
offences, and that is last opportuni-
ties of usefulness. There comes a
tine when you can do a good thing for
Clarist, It comes only once. Your bus-
iness partner is a proud man. In orde
Imam circumstances say to
lieve in Christ," and be will say "You
mind your business and 111 mind
mine." 13ut there has' been affliction
itn the household. His heart is tender.
He is looking around far sympathy and
solace. Now is yoar time. Speak,
speak: Or far ever hold your peace. You
are in a religious meeting, and there is
an opportunity for you to speak out
for God., You say :. 'I must do it."
You, cheek flushes with exo.lsaarrass-
ment You rise half way, but yoa cosv,
er before men, whose breath is in their
nostrils, and you shrink back, and the
olaPortonity is gone, and a..1.1 eternity
will feel the effect of your silence. TXY
to get back that opportunity! You
cannot find 11,. It is gone; it is gone
for ersanav'earliallal
. repltaameor
ealloPordoing opportunity
ygoroodr
p
passes
st away,
17t . k) 11 Ytumayay bunt f :lit
it, 37011
canofind,nfor it,it will not take the hook. You may
dig for it you c.annot bring it up. Rr
member what 1 tell you, that there are
wrongs and sins that can never be cor-
rected; that oar privileges fly not in
circles, but in a. straight line; that the
lightmings have not as swift feet as our
privileges whem they axe gone, and det
eel opportunity of salvation go by us
an inch, the one hundredth part of an
inch, the thousandth part of an inch,
the anallionth past of an inch, and 'no
num tan overtake it. Fire winged ser-
aphim cannot corns up with it. The
eternal God Himself oannot cath it.
I stand before those who have 0
glorious birthright. Esau's was not
so rioh as yours. Sell it once and you
sell it for ever. The world. wants to
buy it. Satan Ivants to buy it. Listen
for a, moment to these brilliant offers,
and it is gone.
I remember the story of the lad on
the Arctic some years ago— the lad
Stewart Holland. A vessel crashed in-
to the Arctic in the time of a fog,
and it was found that the ship raust
go down. Some, of the passengers got
off
in the life -boats, some got off on
rafts; but three hundred went to the
bottom. During all those hours of
calasnity Stewart Holland. stood at the
signal gun, anti it sounded atross the
sea, boom! boom! The helmsman for-
s.00k leis place, the engineer was gone,
and. some fainted, and sone prayed,
and, some blasphemed, and the powd-
er was gone, and, tlaey could no more
let off tae Signal gun. The lad, broke
in the magazine, and brought out more
powder, and again the gun boomed
over the sea. Oh, my friends,. I be -
bold many of you in mortal peril.
Sickness will come down after awhile
judgment will come upon you,
eternity will come upon you.
Some, having taken the warning, have
gone off in the life -boat, and they are
safe; but others axe not making any
attempt to escape. So I stand at this
signal gun of the Gospel, sounding the
alarm, beware! beware I "Now is the
accepted time; now is the day of salva-
tion." The wrath to some The wrath
to come! Boom 1 Boom 1 Fly to the
hope of the Gospel.. Jesus waits. He
stretches out His axisas to all tlais au-
ditory, and cries to -night with a, ten-
derness I have never heard before:
"Come unto me, all ye who are weary
and heaver laden, and I will give you
rest? That is what you -want, sinful,
tempted, bruised, and dying soul 1
May the Lord. help you to accept the
mercy, and the solace, and the salva-
tion of the Gospel Hear it, that
your soul may live!
NEM BRITISH MILITARY CAP.
The gold -laced cap with the down,
peak, which for some years past has
been worn by tbe staff officers of the
British ar.my, will be done away with
at an early date. Shortly before Christ-
mas a new cap, which very isanch re-
sembles the French or Austrian "kepi,"
was issued, experimentally to the Duke
of Contaught and the members of his
Royal Highness' staff at Aldershot.
This did not meet with approval, and
dexing the'last few days another cap
has been in use at Aldershot. It is of
tbe naval or German flat, large -topped
type, macie of blue eloth, with a band
of scarlet round that part which fits
closely to the head. The droopingpeak
is edged. with gold lace o/ varying
width, which is indicative of the rank
of the ofileer wearing it. Tbere is also
an embroidered cypber with crown in
front. It is 'understood that this cap
meets with general approval.
, tO tbe
EAMIlair PRIDE,
Said Phelan: The O'Tooles are a great
fudjy
throne of ould Oirelend. And what's
that to tat O'llreana ? amid rat, for, the
hottox of las family. 'TWOS Calleran
tLieyasaolseditor.,tto the hivens, and made a
conetillation of aira. Aad thea he le
tw
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 19,
f.144-4,
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Text, Heats. U.
PRACTICAL NOTE.
Verse 8. They departed, quiekly
from the eeauleaser. The apporent dis-
crepancies lsetween the four gosPols
at this point in the story are reelly
the best proof that: the ea/valves ware
italeaeudent of each other; mad the
diaehel1ancies disappear if we aesume
that "ataxy Magdaleoe, the mast im-
allasive of the -women, ren to tell Peter
uncl john, in accordance with the an-
gers request, though she may not /save
heard it, leaving the other women be-
hind her, and then retained to the
sepuleher, following Pad and john.
When. they had lett the Lord sbowed
himself first to her, John 20. 14, then
to the other women, and thee they
altogether hastexied to the company of
disciples." 1. Whatever is -worth do-
ing, at aul is worth doing with vigor.
2. A true vision of Jesus will impel
anyone who sees it to ran with the
good news to others. This is the true
Gospel way; ,We should not ramble
Or lag, or permit ourselves in religious
activity to be outrun by those who
care caily for the things of time and
space,
9. jesus met them. Matthew relates
only ono appearance out of several .re-
corded by the othe,e eva,ngeasts. 3.
The Lord always Meets his messengers ;
he joins them or overtakes them. All
hail. Rejoice. The Greek salutation,
doubtless made familiar to them all
by its use among the apostolic, band.
Held hail by the feet. Clasped his
feet. The words, "Teach me not,"
spoken to Mary Magdalene a few adu-
lates before, appear to have meant rath-
er, 'Thee not to me; do not hamper
my proeedure." Worship him. The
question arises as to whether this was
tbe worship that the buten soul ad-
dresses to its God. Perhaps no one
can positively answer this question.
The word does not aaways mean more
than hemage, such as had been offered
even by people outside the circle of apos-
tles: It was an attitude ot prostration
which svould be inexplicable in our
stiffer life, but vtratieli would. come
naturally to every inane born in the
East. The question is really how far
the spiritual- discernment of the dis-
ciples was at this time enlightenea.
Doiebtless they all had. glimmerings of
the truth, and yet among the quivering
and. swirling events a the death and
resurrection of our Lord, when every
h'our brought its wonder, and every
wonder affected body, mind, and soul,
one need hardly expect that the wit-
nessesoccupied their time in answer-
ing theological questions. Divinity was
too neer to them to make it passible
for them to stand all like religioas
philosophers, and, after weighing the
evidence, forismaly decide, "This is di-
vinity." That they so decidecl after-
ward is groped by the record of the
Acts and by the Epistles. •
10. Be not afraid. (4) The frequency
with which Jesus and his messengers
give this assurance to frightened mor-
tals is very suggestive both' of human
weakness and of divine love. My bre-
thren. The whole body of disciples, not
merely the eleven. The use of the
phrase, "my brethren? is an act of
woaderful condescension and love to-
ward those who had forsaken lam in
hie hour of need. Go into Galilee. How
often our Lord appeared in Galilee
after hi,s resurrection we do not know.
As to this subsequentappearances in
,Tertma.lem Matthew is silent.
11. When thea were going. The women
on their, way to tbe 'disciples seem to
have paeseel 'the soldiers going to the
city. The watch. The guard. Tbey had
just recovered from their shock of ter-
ror. The chief priests. The leading con-
seirstors against our Lord's life. All
tbe things that wore done. The incide
ents of the resuereetion.
12. Assembled with the elders. Ap-
parently- a eession of the Sanhedrin,
formal or informal, probably in secant.
Had taken counsel. Had had a discus-
sion, Large money. Sufficient money --
that is, as math as the ;soldiers -de-
manded.
13. Say ye. This does not mean, make
is. fosenal report to this effect, but
spread this rumor. His disciples came
by tight. They eurprised us. Stole him
away. Stole his body. This statement
carries a felsebood on its face; for how
could the soldiers know while they were
asleep who stole the body, or that any-
one stole it? Besides, diseiples who had
fled from Jesus living were not like-
ly to dare Hainan authority and break
the governer'e sea). to steal his dead
body. ,
14 C.caneeto the governor's ears.
Come to the hearing of the governor.
The penaaty for sleeping on guard was
death, and the discspline was rigorous.
We will persuade him. By the same
sort of persuasion, that they were now
using on the soldiers—money, Secure
you. Rid you of care, •
15. Did as they were tauglat. Re-
portecl tbe story. Reported among
the Jews untia this day. Until the
day -when the Gospel was published. But
note that the story never ha4 curreemy
among the Gentiles. It would not har-
monize either Wittetheir prejudiees or
their knowledge of events.
16. Then. "But." 'While the enemies
of our Lord were teaching a lie; try -
to! disbelieve their own consciences
and the testiraony of eye -witnesses, his
diseiples with simple faith weet tcr
Galilee in meet their risten Lord. The
eleven aiseiples. All but Judas, Who had
betrayed him and killed himself. Into
Gelilee. Where all of our Lord's priv-
ate life and e large share of ads public
life had been passed. There most of
his miracles were wroughb andt most of
las recorded teachings given. IA mean -
*int( Itevised, Version, 'Ilbe inOun-
tau," which %megaseem to indicate a
manotein well. known: and it is a rea-
sonable cotues
njecrthat, it was the
place already, made eacred by
the tueaciaing of the Semion on the
aViottat. 'Alegre :taste had appointed,
them, Meet the appointment was
made We do not know. Some of the
disciples were probably areal, le
Iptes 21, lea% a •
17. Whoa, eaw Won, Frtiao 'Paul are
learn that a large body ot dieciples
were preeent withthe elevee, 1 Cot, 15,
0- Tale was the firet wept gathering
of the belleveve in Jamie. They wor-
shiped bins. -again we have a word In-
to which we sissiet read as much of
iSme.age as we believe the disciples to
have oaerishea in their beerts. It is
peed for prostrations f 443ferenee, but
includes all the deepest epiritual
Yearnings, libmiliations, and a,epira-
tions. Some doubted. Doubted waethee
oe uot it we the rieeu Lord, Hie lona
seems te have uadergone en uncles-
oribed change after the saeorrection,
althougli it was not yet invested with
heavenly glory. "What candor is shown
in this record of doubt, and how; it ex-
plodes theories which assume that the
disciples saw what they wished to Seel"
--Moulton
18, Jesus came. Canie nearer to them.
Tue whole company of believers was
addressed, not only the eleven apostles;
and in a very true sen Se :the Chorob
in all ages was addressed. All pow-
er. All authority. The universal
dominion over, heaven and. earth
which Oeatained , to hien in
bim in his divine nature wes conferred
upon him as mem in virtue of bis
fillnaent of his Father's law, and- in
reward of bits obedieuce. See Phil. 2.
5-11; 1 Cox. 15, 24-28; Eph. 1,
—Edward Caurten.
19. Go ye therefore. Since I am
King, go ye as my ambassadors and
rainieters. Teach. "Make disciples
of." Bring all nations into the fel-
worship et my disciples. Baptizing
them, The act of baptism is the baie
Ea means whereby the formal fel-
loavship is effected. The rite aynabo-
lizes cleansing away the old and put-
ting on the new. In the name of. In-
to the name of, laot pronouncing a
charm upon the young Christians, but
giving an outward sign, sacrament, or
oath of faithfulness in fellowship with
God. Ot the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Hely Most. Of the triune
Gode
20. Teaching them to observe. "To
keep watch." All things whatsoever
I have ecamnanded. 5. "The faithful -
mess of the claurches, pastors, and
teachers is to teach nothing but evbat
they have learned a Christ, but to
teach all that they have learned. of
Christ." --Edward Churton. La I am
with you. In spirit, in power, in in-
fluenee, by personal indwelling. Al-
ways. All the days. 6. "The Church
is to live a day at a time. Matt. 8.34,
and. Ise shall be present for each day's
need." --Moulton. The end of the
world. The consummation of the
ages. He will then as= and mani-
fest bineself to all. '7. "Now Christ is
with us; then we sb.all be with hirce•
when" he is."—Sehaff.
CONCERNING CLOCKS.
The first portable clock was made
in 1530.
Originally clock wheels were three
feet in diameter, '
Repeating clocks were invented by
Barlow about 1616.
There was a striking clock in West).
minster, Abbey in 1638.
The invention of the escapement is
ascribed to Gerbert in 1000 A.D.• •
Toothed wheels were first applied - to
clocks by Ctesibius about 140 B.C.
America practically supplies the
whole world with clocks, nearly every
civilized country importing them.
first
ispesnaidulx
said that Richard Harris and
the younger Galileo constructed the
Pendulums stre,affected by variation
of density of the air, as well as by
cha.nging temperature.
The largest clock in the world. Is
that in Westminster, Abbey. It was
set up on Mu 30, 1859.
Previous to the setting eel of sa
clock at Hampton Court, England, in
1540, no English clock went accurate4-
1y.
. Railroad clocks are, usually provide
ed with a compensating arrangement
of the jar to which they are exposed.
The earliest complete clock of sthich
an accurate record exists was made
in the thirteenth century by a Sara-
cen mechanic.
The first stroke of the hour in a
striking clock is supposed to take plcae
at exectiy the sixtieth second of the
sixtieth minute.
Most of the internal paxt of watcaes
and clocks, except the pipions and bo -
tions are usually made of brass bee
eatucausererles.
ite.ductilitY) at "sliaarY
P
The Westminster clock has been so
temarkably uniform that for years the
error has only reached three seconds
on 3 per cent. of the 'days of the year,
The originals intention in construct--
ing clocks that would run eight days
without winding was to give the for-
getful or a,bseet minded the day's
grace beyond the week.
The first clock on the stage that kept
time was in the Westminster Hall scene
in the second act of Gilbert and. Sete
livan's " Tolantlets," at the Bijou The -
ate, in Boston, in 1883.
A CONDITION EXPLAINED,
Yes, said the men who is generally
to be found with his feet on a desk,
there's no doubt about it; collections
ate terribly hard.
Do you speak from personal experie
ewe ? Inquired the friend.
Certainly. I haven't been able to coa-
led a dollar, in three weeks.
Have you tried I
No; I knew it was of no use.e.That
is—ere--well, to fell the truth I have-
n' been feeling xnuch like work late-
ly, and when I acne to 'think of it,
there isn't any one who owes me a
I,ATIN VS. SHAVING,
Sir John Sieclair once asked Cochrane
Johustone whether, he meant to baae
a son of his, then a little boy, taught
Latin, No, said Dlr. Johnstone; but I
mean to do something' a great deal bete
ter, for hint What ie that? asked. Sir
Soho. Why, said the other, teach him
to have with cold water, and without
O glaee. ,
A PAD CALCVLATION1.1
I thought a tvould cure my daughter
of art ettravagant fondness for candy
by letting her clerk in a, candy store.
Well how did a work ? :
Here's het employer's bill for what
she ate the tint week; either lie is e
rained Main or I eon. s
SCIENTIFIC ITEMS.
Information as to 'what is Gong on 14 tite
-Worll of fivieure.
Vie heat of comets i$ said to be 2,000
Canes greater than red -bot iron.
A newlyartscovered /Vet in the sun
vieible now, is 00,000 miles lo diameter,
Acoor,ding to a German authority, the
humanovmeliioraha compitasest of 300,000,006
n
Accotalieg to Professor Gelten, a few
WordPersttheir bearsasiet4ttitYereind.1.!iat evcrY
Birds cannot open the foot when the
log is bent; that is the reason they do
not 'fall off their perehes. If yeal watch
• • bon walking, you will notice that it
chases its toes, as it raises the foot, and
opens than as it touches the ground.
exterrarbilileontheelsetnle nati::tign rgo:othie, iani:Itiart:mba be
I:eel:1;1:11a 11Y0
photographs bf the sky, by which he
proposes to show the, movement of the
moon rancld sataawnrs "cross the sky betwee
dn,
One of the newest things in the build-
ing line is the aluminium hut, A Pen.
nsylvania firm is said to be making
this article for the Klondike miners.
When peeked for carriage it weighs 110,
lb, It is coMposed of four sides and
a. roof of thin sheets of aluminium, and
lei jou loot. tho house contaixts 190
ovillab
Zinc Wall paper is the latest odd-
ity. The zinc is attached to the wall
by a cement invented fon the purpose,
and is made to imitate maxIale. Thasux-
face is enamelled so es to reader it
permanent or washable. It is claim-
ed for, this new depexture in irecor-
ative material, that, while it is as per-
manent as tiles or, marble, it is much
chea,per, and can be as ,easily put on
as oulinary wall -paper.
• 'A.n improved diving -bell of great cap-
acity, moving along the sea -bottom by
means of screws moved, by electricity,
is o11 exhibition in Paris. It can be
worked at very great depths, and holds
ale enough to supply the crew for for-
ty-eigla hours without renewal. It is
lighted by electricity, which also fur-
nishes motive -power for any tools that
may be used. On tipping over the cases
of ballast, the bell rases to the surface
itself. .
An ingenious devic.e has been invent -
&l to increase the power of locomotives,
It consiste of powerful magnets attach-
ed to the framework of the engbae, so
that when the clamant is turned on
they attract the steel rails. This has the
same effect that ,placing a weight of
2,000 lb., or, 3,000 lb. over each drivet-
-Wheel would bave. Experienced railway
men say tbat tbe increased adhesion of
the wheels to the track will enteble
locomotive to draw from tbree to five
loaded cars more than le now possible.
For some years inventors have been
trying to devise a, gun which should be
practically silent, and which when fir-
ed would also give. no indication of its
position. Powders more or less smoke-
less have been introduced, but it may
tse doubted whether it is possible to
contrive a gun both fleshless andnoise-
less. Colonel Humbert hopes to do this
by & device for closing the extremity
of the gun as Eaton as the projectile has
made its exit, so that there shall be no
flash', and that the aim shall be pre-
vented from abruptly entering the
piece—such entrance being :one of the
causes of detonation.
.The Holland submarine boat, an Am-
erican invention, is probably the best
of her, kind. yet natsle. Recent trials
at New York Harbour show that she
can dive below the surface like a duck,
and come up again evb.exe she is not
expected— She is shaped like a White-
head torpedo, and is 55 It. long by 10
1-4 ft, at her widest. She goes 16 knots
on the Surface. and t 10 knots below it.
Her .tliisplacenaent is 75 tons. A gas
engine is used to propel her when at
the surface, and an electric motor with
accumulator when beneath it. Com-
pressed air is supplied to the crew
from: reservoirs on board. She is eaus-
ed•to dive by altering the pitch of the
horizontal diving rudders. She is kept
at the requited depth by automatic
mecha.nisea similar to that of the self -
moving torpedo.
WEST IRDI.AN TRADE.
Canadian Exports itecetvIng an Impetus
as the Resale or the war.
Canadian trade with the West•Indies
is receiving considerable iMpetus since
the outbreak of the war between the
United States and Spain, and prom-
ises to develop to very considerable pro-
portions. Reports from Port of Spain,
Trinidad, just to hand, show the ar-
rival there, per stea,mer Duart Castle,
of over one thousand barrels of Cana-
dian flour,. Six hundred barrels of
these were from 1,aike of the Woods
Milling Company and the shipment has
been followed, by others since then. In
this eamection a. letter received by the
secretary of the Montreal Board of
Trade from Trinidad is interesting.
The communication refers to recent
shipments from Canada, and says the
soar bas led. West Indian mercbants
and importers to look to Canada for
their Supply of foodsteffs. "We be-
lieve Una Canada 'can and will supply
all our foodstuffs," said the letter.
The pritee received for Canadian flour
so fax exported to the West Indies bee
been all that could be expected, leav-
ing quite a, bandsome margin of profit
to the eaporterss •
rAtiAND rioR MANITOBA LANDS,
Active demand for farm land
throegbout Manitoba and the Territor-
ice is reflected 18 .the C.P.Be salts dur-
ing the month of ieny. The coropeay
disposed a 43,000 acres, all to actual
faxinere. A large number sI people are
getting land this year, and aelegetione
from Ile tinnect States are numerous.
Three thousand three hundred immi-
grants arrived durieg Use month.
ROUND THE NE WORLD.
littIAT IS GOING ON IN TtlE FOUR
cORNERS OP THE GLOBE*
d and New World Ovents of Interest Citron,
tele4 Briefly—Interesting Happenings 01
Recent Date.
Blantyre in Nyessalana, is emanect.
ed now by telegraph with Cape Towle,
over 2,000 miles away.
• Mangosteens from the Moluccas are
now sold in the London markets. Thea
are said ta taste like carabination of
strawaerry, nectarine and pineapple.
Paris women who Wish to run auto--
me/elle carriages are obliged to pees an
ongineering examination, The Duesenea
esse do -Claes has set the example toetellr""-ae
er fashionable women.
Paper artificial teeth are pow made
in Germane. ney axe said to be elpt
brittle, to retain their et:gar, and, to be
lighter than cbina teeth, and they do
not melt in the mouth. .
Paris's Fourteenth of July celebsee
tion will comprise a, novel feateae in
a. historical procession of scenes front
the beginnings of Lutetia to tile times
of Louis XIV. Tim raunieipal council
lea vete& 40,000 francs toward the
cost. .
China has drawn the largest eheck
an tae Saank of Eogland, of which the
lwank has' o,ny reeera in settlenteat of
the Japanese inderanity. It was for
211,008,857, 16 shillings and ninepence.
rlhouIgh the State of Sao Paulo in
Brazil]. bee 1,896 nailea of railroad, tae
lines cannot use ea.& other's tracks
ing to six different gauges being osed,
which vary from 5 feet 4 inehes to 2
feet. There are only slot miles built,to
standard gauge. •
SaMarkand has a cab•servic,e, but the
Samerkanders are obliged to go on
foot on Saturdaas, as all the drivers
are strictly orthodox Jews. The town'
authorities tried to force theta to week
on their Sabbath, but the appeal
Court bas upheld the religious eights
of the &Wets.
Queer begging advextisernents are
often found in the Gernman newspapers.
IThe Basler Necbrichten recently print-
ed this: "A man On the road to re-
ligious conviation seeks for the money,
necessary to undertake a penitential
an& prayerful journey to the Holy,
Lana. Offerings -under }leading Chris-
tian Love to be addressed to the office
of tthis paper." •
Belgrade's national library, 'vehicle
opened with 40,000 voluane,e on the
she)ves has been elpsea on account of
the disaapeara,nce of all its boo'ke. It
was intendea th be & circulating libr-
ary, but the peoples who. took out books
never returned thena and on investiga
tion it was found, tbatt the books passed
from one reader th another till they,
could be no longer traced.
Beer's place in Gem= education is
being recognized in Munich, as our of
the student corps are erectimg $40,000
elubbouees adjoining the new Ilofbrau-
haus. tat the opening of this year's
Hofbean bock beer season nearly 10,000
querts of beer were drunk on a Sunday,
forenoon, the beet haveng been tested
the day before by 800 officials, headed
by the Governor of Upper Bavaria and
the Finance Mhaister.
Tuberculosie bas been communicated
to fiehes by French bacteriologists, and
proves fatal very quickly th theme
whether the baoilli atre derivedfrom
human beings, rabbits, or hens, or,
from previously infected. fish. Tuber-
culous bacilli from fish, however; have
very little effect when injected into
rabbits and fowls, the inference being
that their power is attenuated. in the
colder blood of the fish.
St. Winifrede's well at Helywall,
Weles, .which has been a place of pil-
grimage an& mixaculows cures to Eng -
lists Catholics for three or four years
past, is now a bone of contention be-
tween the Catholics and the district
council of tthe town. The latter body,
asserts tba,t it owns the well; it in-
tends to sell the water to a manufact-
urer of soda, water, who will trade on
the curative properties oA tbe water.
• Vesuvius presentea a rare sight re-
cently, real flames issuing from the:
summit. Pert of the south wall of the
orater fell in, bloeking up the vents
from which the gases had escaped, A'
few days later, on April 15, this mass
having become red hot, a spurt of
flame 200 feet high was sent put, az-
conspanied by a tremendous roar. The
column of fire was yellow, withflashes
af red, vlolet and int,ense blue. Prof.
Matteucci, who saw it, says that it waaa
the only jet of incandescent gas over
Observed on 'Vesuvius, the light which
people usually mistake for flames be-
ing merely the refleetlart of the -Sava
below on the smoke that rises from the
crater,
japan is now building' abroad eleven:
warships which will be ready between
this year and the spring of 1900. Three
battleships of over 15,000 tonsolisple,ce-
ment each mid 18 knots guaranteed
speed. are being constructed in Eng-
land. Five armored first-class cruisers
of nearly 10,000 tons ea:eh and, of from
to 211-2 knots ane on the stocks,,
three in England, ono in France, and
One In Germany, while three second-
class cruisers of from 42b0 to 5,000
tons and 221-2 knots apeed are bang
one by the Armstrongs, one by
the Cramps at Philadelphia, and one
at San Freeseisco. Besides twelve utter- -
chant steamers, of which three meas -
tire 6,000 tons awls are under deur
Structio9 in British shipyaeas.
TRAGEDIES OF FRIENDSHIP.
Altos, why have yeei Stopped speak-
ing to Elle?
Because when T naked her if my bat
wag straight she said, teething about
my back hair beiug maeSed, over taY
left ear,