Exeter Times, 1898-9-1, Page 5TEV EXV,TBR, TIXES
vrEs AMP com Alwyn,
The reconeillatiou of. Russia and Bun
Oulu, after nearly thirteen yeare of es-
trangeraeut has just received fereeal
ratificatioa tae recepeion aPrinee
Eyromard of Bulgeria, aceompaaied by
the Priercess- Marie end their set%
Prince Boris, by the Czar axed Czarina
a Paella. Tao reception. a the
Vellum of pulgaia, althcnagle +staidly
in accordance witb the etiquette twee
seribea ire the ease of a vasal prinee
oe another sovereign, was marked by
much. oordiatity and ithellinese. Greet
public) intereee wae mauifested in
youug Prince Boris, the godson of the,
,Czar, who was specially toasted. by his
imperial goafather at tire ofeieial ban-
quet given in honor of the Jeulgarian
visitors, Thee visit of the Bulgarian
Prince to the Russian Czar and the
eircurastaaces conneeted within make
it a special 8101M:el:me, It has beeoure
possible only through the disappear-
enee from, the stage of Bulgaxian poli-
ties of the late M, Starnbouloff. His
eucceseor, M. Stoiloff, has alwaysbeen
in favor a the mainGeuance of the most
friendly relations with Russia, cornpa-
tible with the independence a Bulgaria
as well as with the sazerain power,
Turkey, and the other States of the
Balka,a Peninsula. His efforts to that
end' appear to have been entirely ono-
cessful owittg to the abandonment; of
the policy a chauvistid isolation
from the other Balkan States and the
defiance et Russia followed by M.
Stamiremloff during his tenure of
FOWer.
TRIS TRE SON OF GOD,
REV. DR TALMAGE SPEARS OF
omuslos oRUcirixioN.
.4.11114 Hob at Jerusalem—A Time for a
Cheteelani to neat nue People, !Maraca
fer Chelsea Coat—'key %tenor efeens rind
• neap Ilhhightitet4 hoeh
Wader at the erossaanie, Peatteee
elederactorallee. lerearage areatws a• iehre
Picture or The Seem:.
A despatch from Waslabagton says
Th. 'Talmage preached front the fol-
lowing text: ' "Andnthe people atood
beholding."—Lthe xxiii,
ahem Ls nothing moxe wied. and un-
governable thau mob. Those of you
who have read biatory may remem-
ber the excitemeut in Paris <luring the
time of Louis XVI.wand how the mob
rushed up and down feantiettlly. To
this day you may see the marks of the
bullets that struck the palaee as the
Swiss guards stood defending it. Thera
is a wild, Mob going through the street
of Jerusalen.. As it passes along it
is augmented by the multitudes that
come out fewer the lanes and. the alley
to join the shout, and the laughter,
and the lamentations a the rioters,
who become more and more ungovern-
able as they get toevaras the gates of
the city, Fishermen, hirelings of the
high priests, merebant princes, beg-
gars, mingle in that orowd. 'They are
passing out now through the gates of
the oity. They come to a hill white
with the bleached saulls of victims—a
hill that wee itself the shape of a skull,
covered with ekulls, and called Gol-
gotha, which means the place of a
skull, Three men are to be put to
death—two for theft,one for treason,
hawing claimed to be king of the Jews.
Each one carries. his own cross, but
one is so exhaustea from. previous
hardships that Ile faints under the
burden, and they compel Simon of
Cyrene, evho is supposed to be in sym-
pathy with the condenened man, to
take hold of one end of the oross and
help Hine to carry it. They reach the
hill. The three men are lifted in hor-
rid. crucifixion. When the mob are
howling, and mocking, and hurling
scorn at the chief object of their. hate;
the darkness hovers, and scowls, and
swoops upon the scene, and the rocks
rend with terrific, clang, and chok-
ing wind, and moaning cavern, and
drooping sky, and shuddering earth-
quake declare, en whisper, in green,
in shriek: "This is the Son of Gird."'
I propose to speak of the two groups
of spectators around the cross—the
friendly and the unfriendly. . In the
unfriendly group were tbe Roman sol-
diers. Now it is a good thing to
sere one's country. There is not an
Englishman's beart but thrills at. the
narae of Havelock, bra,ve for Christ and
brave for the British Government.
When there was a difficult poipt to
take, the officers would say: "Bring
out the saints of old Havelock." I
think, if Paul had gone into military
servioe, he would have eclipsed the
heroism of the Caesars, and the Alex -
enders, and the Napoleons of the world
by his bravery a,na enthuseasra. There
is a time to be at peace, and there is a
tirne when a Christian has to fight.
I do not know of a graver or braver
thing than for a young man, when it
is demanded of him, to turn his bath
upon home, and quiet; and luxury, and,
in the service of his cou-ntry, go forth
to camp, and field, and carnage, and
martyrdom. It was no mean thing to
be a Romen soldier; it was no idle
thing. But tire noblest army has in
What the consequences of the new-
ly cemented. entente between Balgarice
and Russia, may he will develop with
time. One of the immediate results is
the permission given to a number of
Bulgarians who took part in the events
connected with the deposition of Prince
:Alexander of Battenherg to return to
their native country.,„ This they will
• do, wiser from their past experience.
• One of the Russian papers has already
• hinted at the elevation of Prince Fen'-
. inend to the kingly renk, but it is top
early to speak of that Yet. Other pow-
ers besides Russia would have to con-
• cur in, the change, which could not be
made without causing complications
and perhaps, active trouble. l'or the
raoment Prince Ferdinand will have to
be content with the eery substantial
gain he has made ire procuring the of-
ficial and. friendly recognition of Rus-
sia, to whose saerifices the Bulgarians
owe their liberation from Turkish rule.
__—
Relieved also by the reconciliation
with Russia from the innumerable anx-
ieties attending Bulgaria's former
isolated position, the Bulgarian Gov-
ernment will be left free to carry on
fne work of internee development to
veneer M. Stoiloff. attaches so much im-
portance. There arc the connections
to lie, made between the Bulgarian
ilways and the Salt -mica line, • which
-will give Bulgarian trade an outlet on
the Aegean and dharet communication
with the Mediteeeanean ports and-
• western Europe without making the
long detour from the Black Sea through
• the Bosporus and Dardanelles. The
perfecting, 'of the eailway and other
communications between southern Bul-
garia and the Danube, and the harbor
works on the Black Sea, is also to be
done. This will be entirely in accord.
with the policy of Russia and the other
neighbors of Bulgaria, whieh is that of
peace. The personal exchang,es of
friendly assurances that have taken
plane between Prince Ferdinand and
the other sovereigns of the Balkan
States since the elose of the Graecca
Turkish was, have removed the danger
of the general scramble for Macedonia
that at one. time seemed iramineot, and
• have given a ranch more satisfactory
turn to Bulgarian affairs generally
than they have had for some years
past, The reconciliation witb Russia
has been the rounding off of the
situation.
The endowment of half a million
=reenters offered by Sir Thomas Lipton
for the purpose of securing cheap
meals for the working people of .Lon-
don is a forna of amity bitherto un-
known in England. As an untried ex-
periment it will probably call out
a great deal of opposition, not mere-
ly fratra the theorists of political econ-
oiny, but from the working people
themselves. It will be urged against
Id. that it is one of the pernicious
therities that pauperize instead of
• helping. If it i s a good thing to feed
two or tbree thousand workingmen in
Loudon at less than the cost on a fair
basine.ss basis, then it • would be a
good thing to feed all the working/lee»
net only in London but all over the
British Islands. There is lortunately
no dauger of-tiptonian philanthropy
being 'carried to its intimate logical
wesnits, but even Sir Thoratte himeele
would hardly assert that the condi-
tions of life among the aeritish work-
ing classes would be improved thereby,
Any effort, to check the constant re-
.
minting of pauperism trom the ranks
• of 'thee in Great Britain deserves
commeneletiou foe its purpose, but
there is little hope of enaltaing any-
thing in the way of practite-Presulte.
Salm the days of good Qaeett Bess
pauperism has been a recognized Brit-
ish inetieutiori, quite as Deitch a part
ot the Cortstitation. as the Hotted of
Lords and quite as hilly within the or-
innumeralole books leave cursed it, aral You see Ulm fainting, under it." So
that mob that hourided Carist from be did. &scene for ell the ages a
jeruealem, to "the place ofi inie nd ali the encles of etenufy ;
bee never been dispersea, but is Lets- a glass wit1i ansue at the ohe eeld
rnenting yet, ea Emmy of tbe learaed it and Siinon, et the othere saggeetielg
met crf tbe world, anti greet men a the the iclea to you, oh tolerable eould that
world, enhee oat freTa theia' aillediea no one eteed ever celery tt whole cross.
and their leboratoriee, enel their pal- Yon have only aede a (nese io c,arry,
aces, and ery: "Away with, thie men 1 Ef you are in povexty, Jesas was poor,
away with Him V' The Meet, bitter !rad ake 'conies and. Lakes the other, end
hostility wenele many of the learzree et the eroes. It you are in per:seeu-
Men ef this day exermse in any direo,. ilou, Jesus wee persecuted, arid He
tion they exercise ageinse JesueChriste oomes end •takes the ether ed of the
the non of. God, the Sae:nowt of tbe cross, If you are in lity kind et trove
world, 114110all Nviwpa we Will aye you die for ble h eyLI " Bedeenie
, eepa name
ewar- or, Ole how the taath flaahed ripen
•
In this groat) err eneneies eurrounding nlY soul this meentag, eeeas at, one
the eros, in this urefteendly group, 1 end of the °rose atd tire soul at the
also find the railing thief, It seems ether end, a the, cross; and when
that he twisted himself on the spike$: See Clarist end Simen going up the hill
he forgot his •own pain in his cone- together, I say we might to help %reit
Pieta antipathy to Jesus. 1 Io not other to carry our burdens: "Bear yo
know whet kind of a thief he was. I one *Mother's burdens, and $o fulfil the
do not know whether he had been a iaw of Cbriet." If you Lind a man in
burglar, or a pickpoohet, or a, high- persecation or sioleanie, or in busines$
wa,yetran; laue our idea. ot hs crimes trouble, go right to him and say: "My
is aggravated when we hear him blae- brother, I have come to help you. You
theming the RedeeMer. Oh, shame in- take held of on end a this cross and
describable! Oh, ignominy unsapport- will tales bold of the other end ot the
able I Hissed, at hue, thief !In that ridi- cross, and a emus Christ Will ooze in
cule I find. the fat the. there is a and take hold of the middle oE the
hostility between sins and boneless, erase; and, after awhile there will be
There cannot there never bas been, no OTOSS at all." '
ness, betwe,en zeal and. indolence, be- NO,. Ete all the World go
•
any sympathy be,betwen honesty' and "Shall•
Jesu.s near the cross alone,
tbeft, between purity and lascivioes-
k. pre's a cross for every one,
tween ranee and unbelief, between
But there .was anether marked per-
xrian going out to discharge his,duty,
and hall. And nten I see a' '`g°61:1 1,soltniagteiwinpenthitaetnIrmienoldelittetgerrcuplieTwhaest
and he is enthusiastic for Christ, and
e thief, or had been,' no disguising
I see peraecution after hirn, and saner
that fact. Alt his ceintres came upon
after him, and. contempt after him, I
him with relentless eonviction. What
eaew "Hark! another hiss of the dying
was he to do ? h Oh,” he says, "what
thief 1" And when I see Holiness go -
shall I do with my sins upon me '?" and
ling forth in her white robes, and
he looks around and sees Jesus, and
Charity, with great heart and open
hand, to take care of the sick, and helP sees compassion in His face' and he
the needy, and restore the 'lost, and Lamyse:$t"Linotrod Thremy eknehhigerdomme.,, reewbehnatThdpiud
I find. her, lashed with hyper-criticisra,
and jostled of the world, and pursued thees2fei doI?hDaivdeHseeetnur:nan5d_ousiayeci'meleo$t
from point to point, and caricatured
with low witticisms, I say: "Aha I an- and you have jeered. and scoffed at
other hiss or the dying tbief 1" It is
Thea't?no011iv, ncloie; JfeosruseveeotO71'd nDotidsahyethsaaty.
sad thing to know that this nealefactora
died just as he had lived. People near- He says: "This day thou shalt bewith
ly always do. Have you never pernark- ma in Paradise." I sing the swag of
ed that ? There is but one instance mercy for tbe chief of sinners. Mar-
mettioned in all the Bible of a. man derers have come and plunged their
repenting in the lase hour. All the red hands in this fountain, and they
have been made as white as snow. The
other ,men who lived lives cif iniquity,
as far as we ca,n understend. from the Prodigal that was off for twenty years
Bible, died deaths of iniquity. If you has come back and sat at his fath-
live a drunkard's life, you will die a ers' table. The ship that has been
drunkard; the defrauder dies a defrau.- tossed in et thousand storms floats in -
der; the idler dies an idler; the blas- to ibis harbour. Tim parched:and sun-
plaemen dies a blaspleemer; the slat- struck soul comes under the shadow
derer diee a slanderer; the debatichee of this rock. Tens of thousands
dies a debauchee. As you live you who were as bad as you and I have
will die in all probability. Do not, boon, have put down their uurclens and
therefore, make your soul believe that their sins at the feet of this blessed
you can go on in a course of sin, and Jesus. ie
then in the last moment repent.. There "The' dying thief rejoiced to see
is such a thing as death -bed. repent-' That fountain in his day;
tance, but I never saw one—I never And there may. I, as vile as he,
saw one. God in all this Bible pre- • Wash all ray sins ewer."
stents us only one case of that kind, But . there ,was another frienaly
and. it is not safe to risk it, lest our group. I do notlenow their names we
ease should. happen not to be the one are not told but we are simply told
amid ten thousand. ' there were many around the cross who
. .
"Repent 1 'the voice celestial cries, sympathised with the dying suffeter.
No longer dare delay; '- Old the. wail" of woe that went
mandate through thee. crowd when they eaw
&ea, , Jesus die. You know the Bible says if
The wretch that scorns the
And meets the Bette day." all the things Jesus did were recorded
the world would not contain the books
But thene were rays of light that that would be written. It implies
streamed into the crucifixion. As chat what we have in the Bane are
Christ was on the cross and, looked merely specimens .of the Sa,vion's
down on the crowd of people, He SaNV „,,,, We are told that one blind
some very warm friends there. And heercY•
man got his eyesight. I suppose He
that brings me to the remarking up- cuired twenty that we are not told of.
on the friendly group that were are When He cured the one leper whose
ound the cross. And tbe first in all stogy is recorded, He might have cured
that crowd was His motber. ,You twenty lepers. When He did one act
need not point her out to me. I can of kindness mentioned, He must have
see by the sorrow, the anguish, the A a. thousand we do not know
woe, by the apthrown hands! That all awe°
about. I see those who received kind -
means mother! "Oh," you say: "why
nesses from Him standing beneath the
didn't she go down to the foot of the cross, and one says: "Why, that is
hill and sit with her back to the ecene?
the Jesus that bound up ray broken
It, was too berrible for her to look up- heart." And another standing bo-
on." Do you not know when a child neathr the cross says: "That is. the
.is in anguish or trouble, it always Jesus that restored my daughter to
makes a h eroine of a inoth.er ? Take life." Another looks up and says:
her away, you say, from the cross.
"Why that is Jesus who gave me my
You ca.nnot dreg her away. She will e ,
And another looks up and
keep on looking; as long .as her son eYes'gea"
says: "That is Jesus -who lifted me up
breathes she will stand there looking. when I was sick; oh, I can't bear to
•
Oh' what a scone it was for a tender- Every pelt of the ham -
hearted. mother to look upon. How see Him die."
a spike through their
gladly she would have sprung to His mer drove
relief, it was her son. Her son 1 How lineeawrtsionEnefteatiny ogfroafolorfowChrisTthoepyenhsada
I dl he woula have clarabered up
better get on with that erucifixion
quickly or it will never take place.
These disciples will seize Christ and
enateh Him from the grasp of ' those
bad men, and take those ringleaders
of the persecution and put them upeu
the very place. Be quiet< with those
nails. Be quick with that gall.- Be
quick with those spikes, foe 1 see in
le sorrow and the wrath of those dis-
ciples a storm brewing that will
burst on the heads of those parse-
cutare.
To -day we come and we join the
friendly ceowd. Who wants to be on
tbe wrong side? I cannot, bear to be
in the unfriendly group. There is laat
8. Mali or a women in this house who
wants to be in the utfriendly group:
I want to join the other groirp. We
come while thy are bewailing, and join
their lamentations. .We see that brow
bruised; we hear 'that dying groan;
and, while the prieets scoff,' and the
devils rave, and the lightninge of
Goae) . wrath are twisted, into a
wreath for that beciody mount, you and
I will join the cry, the supplication,
of tbe penitent malefactor: "Lord, re-
member me when ' Thou. earnest into
Thy kinganne Oh, the pain, the igno-
miny, the :twine; and yet the joy, the
•thrilling, bounding, glorious hope! Son
of Mary I Son of nod 1
There wan a. very touching scene
ernong an Indian tribe in the last cen-
tury. Tt seemed that • one of 'the
chieftains had elairt a man belonging
to an opposite tribe, and - that tribe
came up and said: "Wei will extermin-
ate you. otiose you aunt:Wee the man
who committed that crime." The,
chieftain who did the crime stepped
out teem the ranks, and seed: "1 tini
not afraid to ate, but I have a wife
ate four children, aeti I heed a father
aged, and a inothet aged, whom I sap -
port by hunting, and T. sorrow to
leave thera heirdees." just toe he said
that, his old father from behind etep-
ped out and saia: "He shall not: elie, I'
take his place. 'X ame old and well
etricken in yearn / twat do no goon.
I might tee Well die. lay deers are al -
Most over, He eartribt be spared, Take
rile." Ata they accepted the emerifice.
Wondeaftel sacrifiee, yen &VI bet not
so woodettul as that foreeid' le the
Goepel; for we deeerved to dite aye, we
were 8er-tee:need, when Owlet, net Wert
tett with yettre, but in the MIA a 1114
Noah, son: "sere !het, met; front go-
ing down to i e ..; l' am the Tatiecitel
Pet hie elinteleae ien Aly shoulders. Let
stripee fali ai My bath. Take My
heart foe Ins lidera Let Me die, that
n there's a ewes for me." '
light ana darkness, between heaven
he may live." Shall it be told tmalay
in heaven. that. notwitbstatoing alt
tboee wounds, and 411 that blood, and
en those tesze, apd oll thateagonen Yen
would not except haat?
"Well Might the son in darlenees hide
And sleet his glories in
Whoa Cbrise, the reigaty maker, died
For Man, the creature's, sin.
Time might leide my blushing tee°
While Ws dear oroes appears.
Dissolve my heart it thanlefulnee$
Ana melt my eyes in tears.
Bue drops of grief can neer repay
The debt of love owe;
Here, Lord, I give raYseit avieY,
" Tis all that 1. cat ao,"
Oh. Lord jesus we accept Thee. We
alt aceept Thee new. There is no hand
in all this great audienee lifted te
smite Thee en the neck riow. No one
will spear Thee now. ...No one will
strike Thee now. Come in, Lord.Jesus!
Come quickly.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
"Dee opened it," said Shoot,
And, he ehOt, Intenil was the king on
doing whet the prophet told him, that
he might have the assuraeoe that
lvould polite from the parable he VMS
lielPi4g, (4) eaaa., And be add. That
Elista eaid. The arrow of the Lord's
deliverance, and the arrow of deliver-
anee trom Syria. Substitute tile name
Jehovah for ' the Lord. The meaning
is, tine arrow represents Jehovela de-
liverance of Teruel from its trouble,
a deliverance freie Syrian tyranny.
h'oir, thou shalt ernite the Syrians in
Aphek, till thou have consumed. them.
So it is nee merely deliverance after
all, but vietory, The army defeeted
shall be eunihilated. Aphele. A
town three miens °eat of the Sea of
Galilee, where °tee before the feral -
Res. had. routed the Syrians. ahere is
no record of this eeeend battle of Ap-
bek, but we Must assume that what
was prophesied mule. to. pass in his-
tory, The modern village Pik ie on the
site a the ancient ,Aphek.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. 4,
"The 10eaina or ele Heel.
'Bolden 'rext, Psalm 115. 15.
PRACTICAL NOT1119.
'Terse 14. Elisha was fallen sick of
his sickness whereof he died. He was
now fully eighty years of age. Dar-
ing his long life he had faithfully serv-
ed both his God and hit king. After
the vision at Dothan, which we studied
in our last lesson, the city of Samaria
was besieged by the Syrians. Their
armies surrounded it closely, and the
agony and distress of the garrison and
the baho.bitants have seldom been sur-
passed. • Even children were eaten,
and the most repulsive articles of
food were sold for fabulous prices. In
his desperation the king sent to be-
head Elisha, but Elisha announced. that
within twenty-four hours the famine
would be replaced. by superabundance;
and it was so. The whole story is full
of suggestion. And now after more
years of unrecorded. goodness Elisha is
dying. Joash tbe king of Israel came
down unto him. Things had strange-
ly changed in Israel since Elisha be-
gan his ministrations. The godly
work of his predecessor, Elijah, had had
deep effect on the national character
and sentiment, and when Elisha as a
young man picked up the old.er
prophet's mantle and started on his
career as the prophet of Israel it
der at naiure as the mortality tables
or the weather repoets, Even i/ Lip -
tot's ennewmene should, point the way
15 tholieshing pariperisra instead at
inerea ring it, it is doubtful whether
the public Lentlineal, ot Great 13ritalu
would coneent to peat with an inetittr•
tion net tally Yenerteble by age but es-
eentially wed excluelvely British in all
115 featate
it snea,ks, and these were the men who
were detailed from that army to attend
to the execution of Christ. Their
dastardly behavior puts out the
gleam ot tbeir spears, and covers their
banner with obloquy. They were
cowards. They were ruffians. They
were gamblers. No noble soldier
woulcl treat a fallen foe as they treated
the captured. Christ. Generally
there is -respect paid to the garments
of the 'departed. It may be only a hat,
or a coat, or a, shoe, but it goes down
in the family werdrobe from genera-
tion to generation. Now that Christ
is to be disrobed, who shall leave His
coat? Joseph of Arirnethea, would
have lined to ha,ve had it. Maty, the
mother of Jesus, would have liked to
have had. it. How fondly she would.
hae-e hovered over it, a,nie when she
must leave it, with what tenderness
she would have bequeathed it- to her
best friend. It was the only covering
of Christ in darkness and storm. That
' was the very coat that the woman
toothed when from it there went out
virtue for her healing. That was the
only wedding garment he had in the
marriage of Cana, and the storms that
swept Galilee had drenched it again
and again. And what did they do
with it? They leaflet], for it.
In this unfriendly group omound the
cross' also were the rulers, and the
seribes, and the chief priests. Lawyers,
and judges, and rainisters of religion
in this clay are eapected to have some
reepeat tor their offie,e. No minister
of. religion would aeoff at or mock a
coodemned criminal. And yet the
great .neen of that land 8euried to be
equal to eller etiffireniem. They were
vieing with eaoh other as to how mune
earth and Billingsgate they could east
Wito the teeth of the dying Christ,
'Why, the worst felon, When his arieraY
has fallen, refuges to strike him, tut
eliese men were not ashamed to strike
Jesus when He was down. So it has
been in all ages of the world that there
have been Men in high peeitions who
despised Christ and His Gospel. What
Popes have issued their anathemas I
What judgment -seats have kindled
their fires! • What inquisition$ base
sharpened theit swatd 1 "Not this
mare bat 13terabbas; now Betabbas was
a robber,' Agetase the Cbristian"
ligion have been brought the hiateri-
eat genies of Ilibbon, and the perish Of
Shaftesbury, and the kingly authority
of, Fredenek of Prueeia,, and the loll-
ot Jelin, Bari of Boeheeter, and
the ettwulow; intellect of Voltaire.
Itieurieerable pene have stabbed it, afid
ti cross and hung there herself
JiL
if her son eould have been relieved.
How strengthening she would. have
been to Christ if she 'might have come
close by Him and. soothed Him. 011,
there was a good deal in what the lit-
tle sick child -said, upon wbom a surgi-
cal optirationeof it painful nature must
be. performed: The doctor said:: "That
child won't live through this operation
unless you encourage him. You go it
and get his consent." r.Che father told
him all the doctor said, and added:
"Now, John, will you go through wifir
it? Will you consent to it?" ale look-
ed. very 'pale, and lee thought, a min-
ute, and said: "Yes, father, if
you will hbla nay hand I will!"
So the father held his hand and led him
seraight btanugh the peril. Oh wom-
an, in your hour of anguish, who do
you want with you? Mother. Young
man, in your hour of' trouble, who do
you want to console you? Mother. If
the mother of Jeses emil& have only
taken those laieeding feet into heanap !
If she might have taken the dying head
on her bosom! If be might have said
te Rimn, "It will nem be over, Jewis—
h; will soon be over, and we will meet
again and it will be all well." Bit
would have struck her back with their
she dared not come up so close. They
harnraers. They would turn kicked her
down the hill. There can be no allev-
iation at all. jestie mast suffer and
Mary rause look. 1 suppose she thought
of the birth -hoer in Bethlehem. • I sup-
pose elle thoegiet of that time with
her boy ert her bosom She hestenea on
ie. the darkness in the flight towards
'Egypt -1 suppoNe ehe thought of His
boyhood when He was' the joy 0/ her
bent. .1 Suppose she. thoeght of the
thousend kindnesses He had done her,
not forsaking her or forgetting her
even in His last moneents; but turn-
ing to Joinuntied saying " Tliere itt
mother ; take her With you. She Is act
now. She centot help herself, Do for
her jut as 1 woald have done for her
if I had. lived. Be Yeey tender and get-
tle with her. 13ehold thy Mother 1" She
thought it all (wee and there is no
memory, like a tatther's 'memory, and
there i$ no Wee like a mother's woe,
There wee another friend in talk
group, end, that Wee Bitten the Cyren-
ian. Ile eves a stronger isi the lafid,
but had heen long errotigh de) ehow his
Cavort dem tort fill rist, 1 euppose he wae
ohe of thoee Men who never ean see
anybody inapeeed teem but he wants
to help bine "Well, Simon," they
erlea out, "you ere StiCil a friend to
Jeetis, help Ilan to carry the creac.
18. He said,' Take the arrows. And be
took them. Elisha cemmanded the, king
to take the quiver into his herein and
the king did. so, and doubtlese held
the arrows in a bunch. Smite upon the
ground. • It is not :certain what this
means, but the best authorities ex-
plain it as a command. Le strike
With the arrows against .the
floor. He smote thrice, ancl
6t1tiajfeldoo. rTthherekeintgimsotr57akridtliteneanr3Xvegall1-1
parent folly of the whole transactiori.
coming upon hira, he stopped, nor
could he be induced to carry the sym-
bolism further. He did. not enter into
its spirit at all. He Was ready to
ethiguhah,slepuil.vthis shooting looked, like
11). The man of God was wroth with
him. Indignant at leis lack of faith
and zeal. Furthermore bo was con-
scious that there was more of real
symbolism here than Joash understood.
The same feebleness of character which
led the king to strike three times in
place of twenty would have the same
results when the actual wa.rfare be-
gan. Thou sheuldest have emitten
five. or eta. times; then hacest thou
smitten Syria. till thou haeist consum-
ed it. "The kingdom of heaven sa-
fereth violence, arid the violent take it
by force;" 'dIe is the zealous and ener-
getie who conquer. Faith and zeal
are at the bottom of every victory
"He was wanting in the proper zeal
for obtaining the full promises of,
God," --Keil. Noire thou shalt smite
Syria but thrice. The last
verse • of this lesson declares
that this prophecy was exactly
accomplished. If Joash had had more
aoverent confidence in the week of
Elisha., the conquests of the second
Jeroboam might have been anticipated
was quite another Israel. from thatt
which he was now about to leave. Then
the influence of Alaties family and
the foul worship of Bea.) were fele
everyw-here; now Ahab's dynasty was
no more, and Baal for a wane was for-
gotten in Israel. IL is true there was
much of sin and open idolatry. It is
also true, however, tliat the most of
.the people accepted the true doctrine
ofJehovah. For forty-five years and
more Elisha: has not been xnentioned
in the Bible rematch Joash was a de-
scendant of Sehu, vitho had usurped
the throne and put to death all the re-
presentatives of Ahab's family that he
could find. Vigorous as Jainu was, he
had not been able to maintain himself
successfully against tbe Syrians and.
Assyrians, but the kingdom had grown
up to comparative strength again, and.
the influence of Elisha had come to
be regarded by both king and sub-
jects as one of. the powerful forces
working toward national prosperity.
Wept over his face. The king's sorrow
for Elisba's death was sincere, and it
should have been, for he owed his roy-
al itheritanee to Elisha's innuence and
eats. 0 my father, my father! in all
religions miuisters lave been adressed
as "father." That is the ordinary title
of a Roman Catholic priest. nrequently
used by all sorts of Proteetants. Padre
and papa are the nernes that other na-
tions give eo the miniseers at the Gos-
pel, and the title Pope has the same
origin. Tbe chariot of Israel, and the
horsemen thereof, e& phrase emeiva-
lent; to the standing army ot the, na-
tion. It was ecompliment of the Ingle -
est sort, phrased in exactly the words
that, Elisha bimsell had. used when his
"father," Elijah, had been taken from.
him to heaven. It was more or less
proverbial, and. in any case carried the
idea that no fortifications that Israel
could construct were equal in their
defensive power to one good man whose
eyes were opened. by the spirit of God.
That a aing should visit a -prophet was
astounding, and M the East prophets
were kept by kings as servants. The
reverence of Joash for Elisha gives us
a favorable view oe some phase$ of
the king's character.
15. Take bownanct arrows. The East
was the land of symbols, and when the
prophee gave this command the king
aod the bystauders would know that
a symbolec eel: was about to be per-
formed. Ile took unto him bow and
arrowa. Very, likely the king, whose
faleh was not of the strongest, was
bored, by the prophet's contra:tura
16. Put thine hand upon the bow.
"Hold it in position for ebootiog an
arrow." Ile pat his hand upon it.
That is, he set the terrow, palled, the
string, and took eine Elisha put his
betide upon the king's hands. :Mishit
Was the "man of God," and whatever he
did was looked apon as being dofte by
God. The bow and arrows represented
the king's endeavers to conquer his
enemies, and Elialm'e hands put ou
thorn indioated that God was about to
give power to the king's • efforts.
"Cheat himself deigns to put his hand
upon our hand in Qffiet that we main
drew the bow &eight.- It is his arrows
that enlist be shot, and it is We who
must shoot theta but if we dci our luvrt
with eat le ea rne e ton ese, s bang h , and
perseverance, we will have it blessiug
froxn him,"--Wortisevorth.
17. Open the witdow eastevara. Win-
dows itt tliet day were not made of
glass, but of lattice work, eithich etenid
be opened and olosed at pleaseete,01
tourse Elishe's email -naiad tvas trot exl-
dreseea to the Xing, but to eservaat.
"Eastward" was in the <Inaction of the
territory which Ltaza.el, king of Syrie,
had wrested from isreol. En-
dre, was by prophecy aboat to
encourage *Mesh te take bath the Stol-
en. cotintries, end therefore he, chose
for the symbolic, eat the witalma that
looked toward them, And lie opened it.
ONES ONE THE
EVERS,
GHASTLY HEMS OF ANCIENT RE..
LIGIONS W BRIT/SII MUSEUM.
"le Irte`,ArY rratit, letrota name*
Skull OtliOrs Farlitioued Praia 11to
littektottic,‘ lltattleMake/4 eed the
lettilt at Bats.
Atreuettoned as one is to eseaciate
roseries with delicate fingers, that sep-
arate the conseorated beads while pioui
lips keep timie with devout utterances,
It is hued to realize that there are ros-
aries that one shudder touth. The
uneveanying delvers into past neysteee
les have discovered. that the roearY ie
a x.elic of barbarism, and there Ilea
jast been placed in the British elue-
earn a curions specimen that bears ell -
ern witness to tire foot that religion
when it is of the heathen kind, can
efo hand in hand with murder in the
most indifferent manner imaginable.
This strange, rosary, winch comes from
the land of •Thibet, where Explorer
Landor met with Sila terrible treat-
ment at the bench, of the eavage na-
tives, la composed of thin disks made
from a human skull, finished at the
end with three peach kernels and
5trong on a common piece of string.
What uncanny rites this rosary has
assisted in can only be conjectured.
Its discovery has opened the eyes of
tha religious people who have regard-
ed. the rosary heretofore as the sym-
bol of piety and devotion. Side by
side) with the hunaan skull rosary in a
glass ease at the British Museum re-
pose two more whose discovery has
peeved. almost as shocking to the good
people of Christian countries, One is
made of the vertebrae of a snake's
backbone and the other of the teeth
of rats.
The discover/ of these curious ros-
niee has caused an animated &sous-
sion to be opened. on. the...whole subject
of rosaries, and many are the strange
samples that leave come to light
through the 'publicity given to the
toric.
With ;the cross taken from. the beads
it seams that we must turn, to the
dim, neysteriousEast for the origin of
the rosary, for it is among the tem-
ples of India, China and Japan that the
first sign of this practice is to be
found.. Ancient pictures of the Hindu.
gods depict them with chaplets of beads
in their hands, and it is believed. that
this method of keeping count of their
many prayers was in use among the
Hindus before the era of Buddha, to
at least B.C. 500.
The ate of the rosary seems especi-
ally suited to an Eastern clime and
te the repose of an Oriental mind.. The
Buddhists are fond of using very
smooth beads of glass, polished jade or
coral, and it has been thought that
THE SMOOTH, COOL BEADS
gliding through their fingers as they
murmur the holy names thousands of
times help them to arrive at that state
of holy abstraction from things earth-
ly which is so much prized among the
20. Elisha diedd and they buriedhim.
Very different from the fate of the
man who was taken in a chariot of
fire to heaven. Where Elisha, was
buried is not certainly known, prob-
ably neer to Samaria. Tosephus men-
tions ,the magnificence of his funeral.
The bands of the Bloabites invaded the
land at the coming in of the year. An
evidence of the weakness of Israel, es-
pecially as the point where they prob-
ably dieeovered was fox from the na-
tional border.
21. As they were burying a rnan. That
is, as some annatined. Israelites were
burying a friend. Behold, they spied
a band. e'he Hebrew has it "the
band." An evielen.ce that such bands
were frequent. They east the man'
into the sepulcher of Blithe,. They had
no plaee else to put him.. There wa,s
no time for ceremony. They did not
know whose anisha's tomb was, but took
the neareet. And, when the man was
let down. This is riot 15. tb,e Bible
text. Elisha's tomb was not a pit dug
in the ground like a modern grave.
Touched the bones of Elisha. The one
corpse, wouncTin grave clothes, but
uncoffined, was strongly pushed over
to the oilier one, which was equally
bound.
' 23. The Lord was graelous unto them.
And. therefore they reeve preserved.
His covenant to Abraham was repeat-
ed to Isaac; and Jacob, a promise that
the children of Abraham • should be
preserved with gracious mercy, Neith-
er cast he them from his presence as
yet. The time came when they were
east away, rejected, but Inc that they
and not God were reaponsible. The sad
event name more than a century from
this time.
24. So liazeael king of Syria, died. This
was the e,ruei king who so severely had.
punished the Israelites. Ben-hadad his
son reigned in his stead. Hazael,
usurper, gave' to Ina eldest boy the
name of the monarch be had dethron-
ed and murdered.
25. Jeheash, the son of jelnerhaz took
again out of the hand of Ben-heelad
tee son of llazaet the cities. These had
been captured from Israe.I by the
greater Ben-hadad. Three times 'did
;leash boat him, Thrice deceated,
lics-
nel evas forced to abandon his conquest
in western Samaria. Ile :retained, how-
ever, the trans-Jordttnic territory,
whicb was not recover:ed. by the :Israel-
ites till the reign of Jeroboam
POINTED PAR GRAPHS.
The rolling wheel gathers tbe puree -
tares.
Some things in moderation are. woxse
than others itt exoess.
Some men resemble diee—easily tee -
Ilea brit hard to shake.
Nothing curdles the milk of Munroe
kindness like itdiffereace,
tehero are times when the brave de -
scree immunity- from the fair.
There is nething quite so uninter-
esting as a huMan phonograph.
A homelike 110151 15 the kind the av-
erage inan always trios i,o void
The eoad to htippinesS and the, road
to misery frequettly run parallel,
You can all an judge a woman's
character by the men she doesn't know.
The wife who chases her husbana
with a poker rules him with a rod of
Iran.
The good luck of their triende wor-
ties some tieople moro than anything
k3hlestrie.
nen have a de
or and the humor of othets 15
Scene del sense ot
86111:;3?gntate le love losee hi eelf-pos-
session in trying to get posseseion of
a nother,
Behle itea are so eriergetie it at
tempting to take thing's philoeoehitel
ly that they beeome prematurely soma
followers of Buddha.
The favorite Japanese rosaries are
made of polished weiod, crystal, onyx,
Buddhists repeat in endless devotion
and chased silver, and the Japanese
"Naini Amide. Nutzu," "Save us, Bud-
dha," while their Chinese brothers have
the blessed. name "O -mi -to -fu." forever
on their lips.
A. huge string of beads has been
found in the possession of a collector
in the north of England. . This was
brought from a tenapte in Inioto, Ja-
pan. The huge heads are of a dark
brown polished wood. They are hollow
and have each a figure -.of a god in-
side the little shrine, -which can be seen
tieroug-h the lattice of brass work.
From its great size it must have hung
on the walls of the temple. The larg-
est; bead is about six inches in diame-
ter, ana the rosary about 21 feet long.
Another is from China, and is made'
of wooden beads with leather tassels,
on ewhich are saran brass rings, and
finished at the ends with a brats or-
narueat and little ' tags oe leather.
A superb • rosary made of perfect
pearls, discovered in the possession of
a aloslete, is valued at 80,000,000 pi-
astres.
The rosary that is regarded as the
gem of the entire eollection so far
found is in the possession of the South
Inensington Museum. The beads are
little cubes of coral, an.d the large
beads ata oross are in filigree :aver
and it silver medallion. It is German
work of the sixteenth oeutury. Anoth-
er is carved it ivory, eaoh bead being
quaint head. This rosary has only
eleven beads and has a 'plain Ivory,
cross attached at 0110 etd. Id. IS Flefte
ish work oe about 1500, and is in the
British 1VItiseurn. A beautiful speci-
men of the satne kind of rosary,' but of
meth finer workmanship, has 10 beads
(served in high relief, the top and end
ornamene$ being very handsome. It is
sixteenth century Gentian work,
A traveler has donee forward Win
tells of
AN EASIEtBiN CB:REY/0NY
called the Sehhah, or 'Reiary, whit%
is perforMed the first night tater a
burial, to feellitate the eatratice ol! the
decreased into a etate 01 happinees.
Chaptere from the Koran forin the op-
ening of this ceremony, and holy sezi-
tences are repeated UN) (AMOS.
This itt kept count of en the rosery,
and, at the end, al each thorreata bootie
a rest ie taken and, coffee pertejteb
of, whet they perinea till the deeleete
number of prayers have boon rooited,
At the eoneltision One of the company,
asks his eomportions if they have trate-
fetned the merit of what they bave
retinal to the soul of the deetreeen,
end they -reply, "We have trarteferred
it," and finish by saying, "rows bo
on the Aposi lee, end praise ha to Gear
the Lord el lee boings tho whole
world."
• Eeough litte beeu diseovered ebettt
reettrieS during the dietrussien to tore
•ereer disnimee the Minds 01 the chetah
people that roearies aee peietliettly a
•Chrietiat appurtehauce,