Exeter Times, 1898-12-15, Page 2_
11" 114 X E R Tim*Es
NOTES AND COMMENTS
A rather ativerti finalleial crisis
wale in Germane, The Imperial Sante
Of GeX•many baa raised its Vete Oa. dis-
count to 6 1-2 per canto London is
thawing on Berlin for the romateo M-
ine' to it ; and Berlin, in consequence,
aelling, in thia and the Lonanie mar-
ket, all the Anterioan securities it can.
Tile cause of the trouble is. the usual
one—overtrading on credit and an ex-
pansion of speeulation in, stocks be-
yond the safety line. Still, there is
nothing like a panic and rime is ap-
pxehended.
A. point a great interest, to us en
the matter, is, the effect whicb, this
financial etringeney is having upon the
bank note circulation of Germany, and
the instruetion we may derive from it,
for our own guidance. In Germany
only eight broales, one for each cif the
Inineipal constituent kingdoms of the
empire, are allowed to issue circulat-
ing .notes. Of these the Imperial.
Bank of Germany, fornaerly the
Bank of Prussie, has the right
to issue without special security
note to the amount of 300,000,000
marks, or a75,000,000 and the rest may
do the same up to the amount in, the
aggregate, a $90,000,090 marks, or,
a22,500,000. The Imperial Bank has the
further privileges of issuing against
gold, Government notes, and other se-
eurities, notes to any amoont, and, in
addition, as naany without security as
it is willing to pay a tax upon bf 5 per
cent per annum. Down to 1888 it rarely
av,ailed itself of this last privilege, but
since then it has done so, occasion-
ally, as, for example, last September,
to the extent of nearly a70,000,0a0. On
Nov. 1 the taxable excess was 68.9,-
00,000, bringing the bank's total note
issue up to more than $290,000,000,
Nvincht is. $11,000,000 more than on Nov.
1, 1897. ; ;
Coincident with this increase of $11,-
000,000 in the bank's note circulation
have been an increase of a3a,000,000
in its loans and discounts, a decrease
in its loans reserve of $18,030,000, and.
a decrease in its deposits of a800,000.
This shows that of a34,000,000, which
is lent during the year, the borrowers
have, drawn out a18,000,000 in coin and
$11,000,000 In notes, making $2900,-
000 altogether. What has become of
the remaining $5,000,000 increase of
loans, after deducting the $800,C09 re-
duction in deposits, the meagre reports
of the bank do not explain, but still
the fact is evident that the bank has
expanded its credits to its customers
by a34,000,000, while losing wpm, -
coo in coin, and. increasing its unsecur-
ed note circulation $11,000,000,
The Imperial Bank is a Government
institution, its President and Council
being appointed by the Emperor of
Germany, and the empire receiving a
share a its profits. It occupies, there-
fore, a position in Germany analogous
to that of the United States Treasury
in this country, and. its success in tid-
ing over a prisis like the present one
will demonstrate the utility of Govern-
ment banking when it is conducted on
sound financial principles.
TRAINING PETS AT HOME,
Animals Treated nab consideration and
Tact wilt -Appreciate, it.
There are men whose business it is
to educate any animal, from a flea to
a lion, but in the ordinary home, with
commonplace pets, much can be done
to make them more amusing and intel-
ligent. By training they become more
companionable, and find life more en-
joyable, since developed faculties grow
sensitive and acute. A really sreart
dog will it by the window with a posi-
tive grin ou his alert, bright face,
thinking human nature, both afoot and
astride, tha greatest joke on record,
as it passes along,
Butterflies can be taught to come
to hand like their yellow cousins, the
canaries. Rats grow gentle with fear-
less, patient treatment, though certain-
ly they become more uncanny pets than
mice. Squirrels and chipmunks, birds,
and bees, ara all amenable to the areal
magician love.
There is a at that answers every
member of the family with short, ex-
pressive rounds between a purr and a
mew. He is, of course, the constant
companion of his superior house mates,.
and though naturally bright, grows
more so under the oare he receives. The
cook deolares that she can tell the dif-
ference between "yes" and 'no in
their long confidences upon the hearth.
The same family had a -white mouse,
the pet of a echool boy, who earried
him in his pocket, and allow him to
wander (wet his shoulder while riding
on the cars. The boy used to "look in-
nocent," end his neighbors "all brok-
en uo," as he expressed it, '" Pinky
Patti," so called from his vocal talent
and garnet eyes, was only an instance
of animal culture possible to many al
his kind,
luothex.s, and brothero the cola foionalittes Of the Chereh Oa
t, etel seeti
etrele argOld tii ae ;they aro 0, ,eliani ertd,ay 'norm/1g
ONE 0111U3TIAN FAXILY4 aeXIsters„ What kind of a Goat ale eees tbrou ^
where the brotbes aid not lecoan ze you, go into e merchent's s ore and buy
aDv,
D. TALMAGE PREACHES ON ea eli other, and the parents were ohare a bill of hosiery. How his feels, lights
TuE niewr OE TIME* acterized by frigidity, and heartless- up I How eneerful he is t How fasoi-
nese ? Soos and daughters of God bave noting be in while he is seUing the
you no higher alepaecietion a the larg- bele weeds! you. go awey saying
ite reenclon n Steetabtrerwara aospe1—
ee Christian brotherhood an vebioh you. "That is ono of the roeSr agAsea'ble men
Trites to inmate teheistian SoelelY.--Fteew aye getheena in amoebas Nato n that 1 ever met m my life.,, That very
Wes Take the aconaoata of aaag la that used to sit before yon the Tale- Faiday evening you go into the pray,
•!Into Their nusiness,--Tise Droettores the eeneene e Do not know. Who ht, quit ex„,alewm; .,where the same chrietten
•icona*treces, eursatton. that Used tO sit at your right hand merchant worships and. Yen find him
A despatch from Washington says:— enti at yolar left hand? Do net know., getting up and recommending the re -
Dr. Talmage' preached roithe follow-.
You ought' to 'neve known. It • is ligion of Jesus Christ with a' funeral
fn
ing text :—e thanked God, end took a who
not to be acquainted, with those countenance and a. doleful phraseology,
woo sit by us in the /acme of God year enough to inake azi undextaker burst
.courage.'—Acts, asxviii,, 16. Paul had. after year. Do not stand upon the for-. into tears. How few people there are
just come ashore at Puteoll, and was malities of society. In the name of who talk elaeerfully about the religion
soOn to go across the eountry to Rome, Christ, I declare to you the privilege of jeans! In other words, that Man of
in giving the right hand of fellowship whom I spoke had snore exhilaration
to meet,- perhaps, 4 great many trials to every one who comes to the same when he VMS selling a bill of goods
and perplexities. The Christians at chnrch, We have tried to culture this than ha recommending the religion
Rome heir that Paul has landed at Cbristian sociality in the sociable ; much which makes all heaven ring with the
has already been. accomplished,and anthenes of the free, Now, ought
Puteoli, and is on the way, so they
when our new church shall be built, that so to be? How many are elriaten
go out to eseort him to the city. When we will put our hand more earnestly te from the doors of the churches by the
ha saw them, Ids heart revived, or, as the work. The church sociable ought simple reason that they do not want
my text says, "Hethanked God and to be the most obeerful of all places, such a repulsive religion. They are -
Let there be in it a time to laughafraid to shake hands with a Christian
took courage," That le descriptfve ef Do not with long taco overshadow the man, lest they shell be religiously as -
my own feelings this morning. You young people. You go to church and sautted. I remember very well how it
m.ay ant be aware that this is the an- to the prayer -meeting to worship • thea Was when I WNS a boy. I laid one
niversary of my settlement as the pas- worship, and have nothing but Worship, hour and a hell under tlia raspberry -
You go to the sooiable; tlien have noth- butehas in the gardea tte escape from
tor of this church. • Fifty-two times ing but sociality. •Yet there are church the minister and the elder who came
the shuttle has flown, in each flight reunions so entirely formal that the to my fatherte house on a family visit;
weaving a week, with a golden border liveliest thing in all the evening is and in yfather came out on the back
of Sabbath. Three hundred and. sixty., the long -metre doxology. Be cheerful, steps, and cried, "De Witt, where are
be kind, be sympathetic with all with You?" • De 'ann. made no answer I
four times the cloak has struck twelve
for the noon and twelve for the night. Nivnhrhoas.andyrouashaesespgo
flocks
tegi fIlffissh go On8'ht our religion to repel or attract?
and My little child, four years old, said to
In that Lime how many marriage gar- if flowers go in tribes, and if stars her mother: " Ma, ma, I saw in a book
lands have been twisted, bow many swing in galaxies, then let all those a picture of a man and. a picture of
who worship in the same church move God, and the •man looked awfollv
grae es dug, how many sorrows suffer- together frightened because he saw a picture-
. loving and shining bands. rig
ed, hew many fortunes won, how many "Behold, hoev good and how pleasant of‘Goa, Now," she says, "if I had been
souls lost, how many immortals savedi it is for brethren to dwell together in there and Cod had come in, I would
In the first place, I remark, I have nalitY not have been •frightened; I would
Again, I have tried in this church have gone just right up and put my
been trying to win your confidence
and love, not by sycophancy or by the
consultation of your prejudices, but by
preaching a straightforward Gospel,
regardless as to where it hit. A min-
ister living amidst people who do not
believe in him can not be useful. When
a congregation wish that their pastor
woulel be called to sorae other position,
he really has a call to go. When they
have an idea that he Is influenced by
selfish and worldly motives, his ,use-
fulness is done, and be as really has a
call to go as he had a call to come.
There are churches being depleted and
blasted by a ministry not adapted to
them. A minister has no more right
to kill a church than a church has a
right to kill. a minister. I know a
man who professes to be a minister of
Christ, who is in his third settlement.
The two previous churches that he ser-
ved have come to extinction as the re-
sult of that ministry, and there is not
much prospect that the third will long
survive; while on the other hand, there
are ministers of Christ who have for
thirty and forty years stood in the
same places, and the tie of affection
and confidence between pastor and peo-
ple has all the time strengthened.
A good many years ago, a lad, fif-
teen years of age, heard, in England,
John Flavel preacb from the text: "If
any man love not our Lord Jesus
Christ, let hina be Anathema Maran-
atha." The lad grew up, came to this
country, and lived to be one hundred
years of age, not having found Christ,
One day he stood in the field, and the
memory of that sermon of John Floyd
crossed his mind, and the thought of
how that minister of Christ, at the
close of the service, said: "How can
I pronounce the benediction, when
there may be some here who love not
the Lord Jesus Christ, and are Ana-
thema Maranatha." The remembrance
of that minister brought the old. man
to Christ at one hunarea years of age,
and eighty-five years after ha had
heard that Gospel sermon. Ohl it is
a grand thing to preach earnestly,
taithfully, and successfully, this glor-
ious Gospel. Now, let me be frank,
and say to you, my clear people,
Haat I have tried to win your con-
fidence and your deep eympathy in
xny Christien work. If you have seen
in me many shortcoinings, be aware of
the fact that I have had a deeper reali-
zation of them then you possibly could
have had, and I am here to say that
you have given me more than I de-,
serve, and that your kindness through
the last four years has made my minis-
try in this place an undisturbed sat-
isfactoin.
I remark again, I have tried, in my
ministry during the past year and The
past years, to (create amidst this Peo-
ple, Christian sociality. There are
churches that are arctie seas, iceberg
grinding against iceberg. The attend-
ants upon them wine as men come into
the ferry -boat, sitting down beside
each other—no nod of recognition, no
hand -grasping of fellowship, no throb
of brotherly and eistexly affection.
They come in, they it down, they go
out. From Saturday to Monday morn-
ing they are ferried (Over by Christian
ordinances, and that is all there is of
it. Now, my dear brother, if you are
cold and hard and selfish, then the
higher the wall you build around your
soul, the better. You would do well to
be e,oelusive ; but if there is in you
any thing kind, any thing lovely,
tiny thing noble, any thing useful, let
it shine oat. Suppoie a vessel were
driven on the, rooks, and while fifty
people were struggling in the surf, one
men gets safely to the beach, and rune
up to the fieherintin's hut and sits
down arid, warms himself, regardless of
those who are (Jilll struggling in the
water—what a (true'. thing that would
be I How muele better, like the sate
Treat your Vete, however stupid or vivoee ot the Atlantic shipwreck, toil-
hurable, with eonsideration 'and tact, bag with both hands until the right
and they will appre,eiate it, One does hand gave oat and then -With their
• not need to beeorne etiondlin over a teeth seizing the elothing of the suf-
poodle and neglect a helPIeesg baba, faring Mies aid pulling thena ashore
but " our brothera and sisters the And what clo you slippage Geri thinks
bircts," cis St. Preemie foutid, will an of as if; having eseaped from the floods
ewer in gratitude. Talk to your pent. of sin Etna darkness and death, we are
tell them what would interest them, it eulturiag an uncluietian selfishness;
they could understand, always in a eer vbile there are Ininareds and them -
me and gentle way. Little by tittle • eands all oroured about us still strtig-
they will grow, like human beings, u glIn iri tbe wave? 1eaya let tis hate
te• the et:indent you expeet of thtrn a kindlY sympathy and helpfteltiees to -
Ani reward, you with devoted sincerity ward those 'Who are all around us. Hy -
and •continuous improvement for your er3r chureh wa,eintended by God to be
pains, • t large•fanallY t'irOLO far&
to preach an every -day religion. net arms around his neck and. kissed him."
ouoht to Invite our caresses, instead
of driving the world howling away, as
though it were eomething disagree-
able, repulsive, and to be hatad."
Again, I have, in these Yeads in
which I have ministered., to you, tried
to preacb. a Gospel of comfort to the
bereaved. This is the most delicate
work to which the preacher is ever
called. If you do not know how to,
treat a wound, you had better not
touch it. How many people come to
the wounds of the soul with a spiritual
the Gospel successful In the hearts of
Men in the way of comfort, we must quackery, and _they irritate and poi. -
bring that particular phase of it which
is thoroughly adapted to the ease.
It is a siraple fact that there are
but few men who take the 'comforts
of religion into their business. You
get sick, or a member of your' fanaily
dies; you say, "Send for the minis-
ter 1" But suppose you are in a bust- tribulation and trial does require some
ness corner; suppose the sheriff is af-
t ct, and ingenuity, and especial grace.
ter you; suppose your best friend be -
do not oppose that in othe four
trays you; suppose there are three or e
years in winch I have. ministered to
four men in the front office -with duns
you a sinele family has escapea berea-
for debts that you cannot meat; sup-
venient—if not in your immediate cir-
pose. thae you call no more sleep at ole, then in a near, circle, Ohl how
night than if you were on the top of
muay hou eholds have been broken up
a mast in, a Mediterranean hurricane;
by bereavement since I came among
suppose with flushed cheek you vralk
you., From most other sorrows you eon
the floor nights, your head aching as run away. You can go home, but how -
though it would split open—why, then,
, if a part of the home itself is gone?
do you not send. for' religious console-
Tnen it is not so 'eesy. Then every
tion? No, you do not You send for.
th ng lemmas you, of your loss. Sup -
some •poor, raiserable skinflint, and ase po-e you should sit down at a piano,
Sup -
him if he will lend you a thousand dol -
put a piece of music on, the rack, then
lars at two per cent. a month, and he
put your foot on the pedal and your
will not do it I You go to a friend you
fingers on the keys — the music would
he/ped in time of trouble, and want to start off magnificently. But suppose
get his name on your note, and he will
you struck. one key and the cliorddid
not give it, and in atter' despair, and not reopond„ because it was broken.
wild with trouble, you say, "If it were Why, that ruins the entire accompani-
not for my wife and children, I would
ment. Well, sometimes in • life you
jump off tine dock." I remember a man have been going on iia great joy and
wno, in 1857, 'helped a dozen people hilarity, when suddenly you have
through the financial straits. He loan- ' thought of a voice, just one voice, that
ea a thotisand dollars here, and five
there,' has been huelaed, of one heart that is
thousen.d there, and ten thousand still, and the silent key' spoiled all. the
and took his friends to the bank, and eoe
allowed them to go on his credit, and Ina`"
Oh, if we could all die together! If
helped them through. Five years aftert
we could. keep the lambs and the
his trial came. Where were those oldj
eheep of our family flock together un -
friends Gone; or, if they- came in- '
til eome bright spring day, the birds
to his store, it was only to say. "God a-chan and. the water a -glitter, and
bless your forgetful of the fact that
then we together could hear' thevoice
one ounce of pure financial help -at
of the good Shephered, and we could
that time would. have been worth fifty all go, through the flood, .hand in
tons of "God bless yous." Instead of hand! II oaly knew owhen we were
going at such a time to worldly re-
sources, why eclid you not go to _Gera? f:n and we could gather our family
and say, "Narw Jesus calls us, and we
Why did you not lock the door of your
private office, and get clown on your muot awey;" and then. we could put
our little ones in the bed and straight -
knees, and say, "Oh, Lord! thou
en out their limbs, and say, "Sleep,
seest my business trouble. There
ie that note in the bank. I have no now, the. last sleep," and then we
could 'go to our own couches and lie
nioney to meet it. There is nay rent down, and say, "Master, we are all
it has become due; what shall I do
ready. The children have gone, and
ahout it ? There are my unsaleable
WC are ready." But Wiz not that
goods at tho warehouse. Lord Jesus, o It is one by ooe—one by one. It:
hero me out of thisatrouble." God.
may be in malevinter, and the. snow
would. have done itlaa,s certainly as he
comes down twenty inches deep above
sits upon the throne and. offers help
our fre..sh graves; or it may be in the
to men who want it. You did. twat
dark, damp, chill March midnight; or
go for it, and you. dia not get en ee
it may be so suddenly we cart not say•
you. had made your religion do that,
it would. havet been worth something. good-bye. 0,11, death is bitter —rank -
Your reagion,einsteao of being a robe ,ng, treineridous curse! The opine
to wrap around. you and keep you that our first parents plucked from
the forbidden tree lead in it two black
warm in the chill blasts of trials, had
been merely e string ed beads around Feeds, one called Sin, 'the other celled
Death, iButal bless God that I have
your neck, very beautiful to look at,
been able during these four years to
and that is all. I have seen a man in
preach to you resurrection hope. A
a business strait go through, sustain-
ed by the grace of God. By disaster, ale from heaven lia,s blown -off the
all went. "whitecaps" of the billow of sorrow,
in one night ' leis fortune
and. the. feet of ChriSt have trampled
When I saw him before, he was worth
the waves to a level, until over glit-
hundreds of thousands of dollars; now teeing floor of the hitehea waters have
ha was not worth a, farthing. Yet he merched all the coneolations of God,
was ,counting up his heavenly treas-
ures. If God •bad knooked out the fre°P. by troop'
bottom of Ins earthly fortune, Chet "Oh e ,
bottom was found to be the 'top of the Youwis ecDomlf°ort c'straein;
chest in whieh are the jewels of hefty- The Lord is risen,
en! And if his riches took wings and 113 !acne again " •
flew away, in their flight they"- xuet
So -noev I take the harp of Gospel
the ravens Of God aiming down to
hungry Elijah! Tbat lean to -day, on comfort, and play three tunes: "Weep -
a salary of twelve hundred dollars as Ing may endn're for a'lliglat' hill joy
a clerk in the reams store over which em'eth 1.° the morning"—that (me;
he had presided with gfeat dignity, is "An thing's %"tic t°g*hel' or good to
happier than Henry 'VIII, was on the thwe' who 1°ve.G"."—that 18 tw°:"And
day when Anne Boleyn came to the the Lamb 'whioll is in the midst of the
teilaoe—than Napoleon III. at the time throne shall lead them ta imula
of his toronation—than any man who tains of Water, and G-"od shall nvipe
away all tears from' their eyes" — and•
truats in tbe wealth or bailor oa thia
an- that is the' third, ,
world. tor his chief setisfactioin I
pent the. day will come when I can set Above ell, "ring the Past year
the eneeennome oe that Gospel on met have tried to pieesent to you Christ
counting room desk; under He light the only Saaintla famn1 sin,' and deatb'
tae bank proteete„ and •tbe lea era of and hell, have tried to show Yeti. that
engry croclitors, reading like the full lanleas man ". ^born' • again he
toaeneeaa to :the 'throne, mid prima can not ftet into heaven. If there be
pa,litiee of heaven. That id what 1, any trnfh abtaat grnd or ebrietl
nen, an eeeenneeratoligeen, • death or judginent, Or heaven or hell,
nolo, a imvo tnea in these yetraln thot I have not alreee'ntecl, I evieh acne
Which I have been yout pastor' 'tat well-111,kt Me antra,' What it is, that poev•
I may cleelare at. hive triedatat Shaw
dispel the, conventionalities a the
ckurek. Tan., is a tendency emonl you that xeligann Was at indispensable
chrieti" people teaweek enegeaa . thirig,• not a snetre adornment, • but
things an etelesiaetioal stilts, instead amThthing'th° Y°11 lallat ha" °I' (11°'
of coming down upon a plain eoxnmors- knclw that truth 15 tpt alwar ecm"
vast majority of my congregation are Well, I thought that wee pretty good
in business life. It would have been theology. In other words, religion
absurd for me to talk about abstraot
trials when I saw by the paper that
gold •was going down, and men were
losing their fortunes. We nau,st bring
a Gospel cbmfort just suited to the
condition bf the people to whom we
preacle. Here is a physician who comes
into a sick -room where there is a case
of diphtheria. Does he apply to it me-
dicines for cholera or yellow fever, or
marasmus? Oh, no it is a specific for
diphtheria. And if we want to make
son the v, ounds ingtead of cure. It
may reauire no great skill to take a
sloop'across the N'orth River; but it
doe 3 to cneineer a steamship across
the Atlantic. and there may be no
great kkill required to heal a little
eorroiv of the soul, but to take oae.
through the 'storms and tossing seas of
settee level, Row few people talk re„, sidered papular at thia' day ; but some-
11-gion; they whine about What „htyvv, peeple; haVe aenalned cone and
ehe,/,01 thero or enanntwane, near it, It feel it: is a, Vital truth' of
chrtaiiitsti: qtalt4104 Ohrist and be
warm-hearted, enthusiast e man amidst
.ee.• ana''
eateeetkeaveteenatee.
saved—refuSe hies. and 41e." christ has PERS9NAI4 PQI14rERS. THE SUNDAct SCITOOL
been ioyely to me want ttll the
world to love him, anti I have, with all t tt.;04 „ .4.140itt same of tit,
the tYOes and Nantes of Gad's WOr
that I emald find, prtmented this jaella elivet Folks orthe Word, ' INTERNATIONAL LESS N, DEC, 18,
to you, Md. I aro. ,glaa to know that It is not generelly knolvel thet Ma- '
•The angels ea Gen hayo nee stepped - , Gotten Text. Jete Mtn, , ,
mealy a yog have aecepted the offer, dame Patti made ler nrofessioatir debut, "Tam CaptIvilly or AC.440." 41Ort no 1-11e
singing "Harvest II0Me." There are . . PRA.CTIOAL NoTgs,
aaorea andi scores of souls who during Sir Arthur Sullivan WA the Son Of '
d s er ees n
this past yeax liave entered the Clniaoh handelaater, and for seiroral Years Verse I" One and l'Went'Y Yep4a °14 -
on earth, prepared, as truSt, for the a chorister. ' When he begao to reign, 114! aingdom,
lic be:ir:ohtedinanh5era,vde:ty, , _Qshave ani: Nathanhal i.kBi 1.1 eu Moore:oveli 9:00.Bminog:7 Me., kWinasa saomniall, as
sut illtls.h" tfti:okatWi:3:1,47):tvinfOc: 4
lecher', any duty, •it is neeeded for
ever. Each year aas its work; if we do The wife of Mr. Dawkins, the new against Babylon, and Balealoa elaimea
not, dot this work during tha,t year, we financa minister of India, is, like the it as its frontier proYinceg against
never dol it. Tho year has been to me ..e •
Year of my ministry, and the barmiest ' Years of late/minable anxiety and al.,
Now the year Is done. If you have is toe eaampion nineroa of tliat state so young a man ; Egypt elned his.
one of great happiness—tRe happiest ykwini eergann.eed Curzon, the viceroY, an Egypt. He reigned eleven yeas.,
year in my life, The great calamity T1/8 Preaeht emPeror of China's Pe- moat matchle,ss weakness df ell rect
best blessing that coola poseibly het,re etalusollis:'rig'ofeaadcoitlsil'eea:ettlii9.asnem:oQansn'dcoofhlowerh.iisehthbee lilaaus- 01 1184111-ta4 his inc'thsrt 11°I:ill-VeriS*'
u• thnadteip. ut ht. e
ougroor hbearnnaa colt God,
ashesheen htahse,
come to us. I think we ail feel that. M. de Blowita; tbe famous Paris cor- the prophet. inbnah was a streng i
1:1oTav,;11.a.s f,:r,t,,,h, ' rheilItt:rg'.4ver 11°,1; ,
• sympathy
apsatchoynso,lai,nddateidheus gaesendotfheienl feeling
ogoueldf
have done, and. it has gathered the rbeeetpu'ontnaonEet 40eareitea,e inLo1n8d205nandemdeied wuaost cat2y. Hein dthicie tahoauttwiewheise: wet: neevro. of1115.It hit:,
httle king•dcon of Judah.
Chrietians-of all denominations in this ebacolm871. a naturalized Prenclinaan un- eynepoe toe nerd. And yet hewas net .
country, and from the other side of eu pusposely a bad -man, He was sera e
tne sees. And it has shown me that Lady Butler, the artist, whose "Roli tainly accevorse, hardly so bad, as the
hi this church there is a great band of made Ler famous, sums up the kings who had immediately Preceded
Athaliah or lalanasseb. Ho thara's Octane,
Christian men and women who will Call"
asft:°rPaidatofnnoo"blafr-ddeNuvioailiathndatmisiWto'"be.illebne- e"aRreljecytiecdissa,intuddedsamaagtiledat; picture thus
u: sueemina, n:ot linavetterlY. wamosh :eveLeaka''''.1".
dared for Christ. The succees of the eePted and skied." gods. His s --in Was in2 not reel:tails; '
recent effort made in another room Nearly ell the t a American ri ve- tbe d ' . '
t e no eo a ownward current of his time, in
in this building is significant of that, . . .
the
ed trI3euendmaatineshiosnesfhaavegnalnlid.e,aagylebreiegausn, lists are confirmed smokers. Howells is weakly submitting. to the Pernicietes.
articulaelyi fond of the strongest es- influence of the nolales, in breaking'. A
his sworn promise of fealty to Nebu- •
pl
men r ands. inwtohmiseniaaanddartheeinbeeystraligtwhs; voitiececaoyf , ththeeciegvaarnegtteeliet recently ni
free Cbristian church. laThile the best gars, and Aldrich ia a confirmed de-
et 0:haedn,,ekzinzgare.,, amj.:daahl Iwyee ra ek:rs aytri:ges:
destruction as surely as wickedheas•
with us, you know very well that a. man who declared'himself absolutely gerents of Jehovah, personally respon--
there are some who are not in sym-
church. They do not understand. it, glad to know Lt, but I'd like to ask
sinless. "Well," said the preaoher, "I'm dsiebpleentdoenhtimei.istehWeehenh,ad thheerceefmoree, iimn..-.
sym-
pathy with the work done by this
possible for Judah, a,na the word ef the;
and. never will. In proportion as you your wife first." Lord. clearly directed , submission to'
are faithful will you be -abused; in °the ;non '
Mary Kingsley, the daughter Rtbylon rather than to Egypt, it was-
er words, the faster a ship goes, the "—'''''
more angrily will the water .boil. So of Charles Kingsley, and the most fam - 't'ievveilsii: ttohedi:30,-tsdyotfhathtetaiteoertdi3O"h„.noAseil
there are some secular and. religious ous modern. woman explorer, is said cord. ge
en to all that jehoiakine had
newspapers of tbis day that are foil of to be contemplating another trip
done. With less of moral perversity, '
spite and full of venom. You say through Central Africa. however, and ranch less force, of char -
you don't urtderstand it. There is no America's oldest lighthouse keeper is ooeen. .
mystery to me about it. It is natural.
Capt.• Ellsworth, who has had charge B. lite had cast them out frora his.
It is the, history of the Church of God
all the world over in all ages. I feel of the Ipswich light house since 1861. Presence. Couxtiers in disgrace were
that our; church is on the right track, He is 86 years- of age, yet attends to cast Out from the presence of thekbag,
So these off:cers of the, kingdom are
and I defy all earth and boll; for it all his difficult duties. •
east out from the presence of Jehevah,
God he for us, who can be against us? Mark Twain frequently goes with 4. Nebuchadnezzar. .
If God spared not his Son, but gave
but isanev- he and all his army, a n
out eating, for a whole day, b ag st Jerusalem, ,
and pitched against it, and built forts- 1-•
him up or us, shall he not with him
also. freely give us all things? I am er without a. cigar between his lips,
?persuaded that neither height nor d that th • • h smoke against it. That is, he drew lines of.'
separate us from the love of God, which e cigar e an
' one side, on which were erected his
depth, nor length, nor breadth 'shall an says
has never been put togethaa. ditches around it, with a rampart an.
Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb an military engines. In those days, as wee
is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Our
Ra.d- ail know, gunpowder was not used, but
,blind girl, who, is about to .enter
churcla will go up, and Christ will ap-
very remarkable' xnachines had been.
pear in it, and. he will save thousands cliffe college, Carabridge, has become
contrived to throw huge rocks to great a°
distances. These and the battering'
rams were the chief instruments of
war used against investedncities.
Se The city was beseiged unto the el
eventh year a king Zedekiah. Of th
siege we have many interesting
tails, especially in Ezekiel and in t
Book of Lamentations. That the besieg
ed. were able- to hold out until the el-
eventh year is astonisbing especially
when we take notice of the poor rebe
ble inclosed withio its walls, verse 6.
6. The foarth month. Made up, of our
June and July. The ninth day of the
month. Possibly July 1. This day was
memorable for the breach made in the
city walls. The famine pee -veiled, and
there was no: breaa fewnhon.naeadge.„.
starved soldiers were no longer nap -
able of making strong resistance. The .
phrase of the land may point to the
fact that the,cify was orowded with
refugees who had sought its walls. for
-safety from the Chaldeans.
. 7. The city was broken up. In more ,
modern phraseology ethe northern -wall
was broken through and the city lay
defenseless before its conquerors. All
the men of war fled. The Chaldeans
came from the north side of the city,
the king and his men of war flea to-
ward the south. By night. josephus
says that the city was entered at -
midnight. By the way of the gate be-
tween tbe two walls, which was by
the. king's garden. Gathering his wives
and children and summoning a few
b•odyguards about hirahe made his way
along a street which ran between the
wall on the east and the wall cm the
west side of tha Tyropeon valley and
which erulode at a gate above the rcyal
ga.rden and the Pool of Siloam. There
are several instances in Eastern 'cities
„at the present time of a street thus
'running between. two Walls. The
!king's garden was at the Pool of Si-
loam at the mouth of the Tyropron
Now the • Chalcleans were by the city
found about, This means that the in-
vestment of tha city was „complete.
They weot by way of the. plain. The
king's party was forced. to sun along
a road leading from Jerusalem to
Jericho. They 'did toot select the one
over the mountaine, but that. over the
valley or plain. They were snaking a
mad. race for the desert.
8. But the array of the Chalcleans
pursued after' the king. The troops,
as we have seen, bad surroancled the
city, end probably. detachments of the
army held all the road from Jerusalem
to Jericho; so Zeclekiah liad little
cha.nce. All his -army was scattered
from him in uttee disorganization.
Those that were,captured were at once
made slaves. '
9. Ribtah in the land of Hamath.
- There were two Riblahs. This was
/the place to which Pharaoh-necho had
'ummoned Jehoahaz, Range, 23. 33.
t
was 016 east bank of the Orontes
I'River, about thirty-five. miles north-
west or Baalbek, A modern -triage of
the same name occupieS its eito• He
gave judgment; upon him. Commenta-
tors call attention to the fact
that, this was the trial of a rommen
eritrilatil. Zedeltiah had .torfeited his
kingship by breaking Ina oath. The
phrase is literally "spoke with him
judgments," A striking ph ra se se Ys
Dr, Terry, implying that theaudgnients
renaetecl were not vvorel only, /Mt
and thousands of souls.,I see it cern- a devotee a the bicycle, riding a tan-
ing, and I am in exuaation at the denr with Miss Sullivan, her teacher.
prospect.
We enter now upon another year. It Rear Admiral Archibald Lucius Doug -
will be an eventful year. You and I las, who has just taken command of
may not live to see its close, for God England's East India squadron, is a
can spare you and me, and ten theu- Canadian by birth, and the first son
sand better persons than we are, and of that colony to attain so bigh a
still carry on his work ; but his Church place in the English navy.
will be prospered. Having risen up Alexander McDonald, the Cincinnati
a,s,.you: have to the work of giving the •
millioneire, has given the Young Men's
Gospel to the masses of Washington,
nothing can put you to confusion. We ; Christi= Association of his city $20,-
need no pillar of cloud by cloy
to lead ! 000 in addition to a5,000 presented a
.
us, for God's angels are sworn ' short
time agoThis is to free the lo -
to defend us, and saccess in cal association from debt.
the future is ascertain as though Alexander R: Shepherd, who has niade
on that, wall I saw comiug out in let- a fortune of $12,0410,000 in the mines
ters of fire, ee-hile I speak, "Lo, am•
1.
Pletion of the, work undertaken.-
the world." I will live to see the cora- a piano from New Yoile, and to have the
hkenolevvililf llaoet dmcealclesmme eeub etf °erne tthheetha
with you always, even unto the end of
time,
instrument carried over the mountains
.haDdr.tomapanyriaeae,0
of Batopilas, Mexico, recently ordered
Davis, who has died in
ments of heaven, rind look off an the London, at the age of 70, was one of
establishment of that work for which
t
my soul longed. Roll on, sweet' days the chief benefactors of the Jews in
of the world's emancipationSewhen the that metropolis,. devoting much of his,
monntains and the hills shall break work and a thixd of his inceme to the
forth into singing, and all the trees alleviation of their necessities.
of the wood shall clap their hands; Isaac Wynian, of Salem, Mass., owns
and. instead of the thorn shall come a note for 840,000 to which the, name
up the fir:tree, and instead of the
of George Washington is attached. The
brier shall come up the, myrtle -tree;
and it shall be to the Lord for a name note was given Wyman's great -grand -
for an everlasting sign that shall not
a ler or money advanced, to supply
be cut off.the pressing needs of the revolution-
THE GREATEST SCOURGE.
• ary army. • •
. •
James Gray, the newly -elected mayor
• of Minneapolis, started life as a news-
boy, earned money sufficient to keep
consumption Hospital to be Est:doweled
adinnurea, seotiand. him while going to the common schools;
It will, soon be herd to .discover the graduateo trom the state university
a
proper limit to municipal enterprise.nd became reporter on, and than man-
aging editor of the Minneapolisnaimes
burgh to induce the corporation to start .
A "movement is now on foot in Edin-
Jamee Whitcomb Riley thinks the lot
a municipal hoepital for consumption.
of a poet a hard one. In a recent In -
Already steps are being taken to in- feaview be said: "11 you're called as
witness in a lawsuit, some little at-
sumption a notifiable disease, and the duce the Town Council to make cona
torney squares himself off and says
efforts to combat one a the greatest with withering soorn, "Let me see,
you're' a poet, are you not? FI'm, yes,
ecourges of civilization are now tend- Gentlemen
of the jurythe witness
ing in the direction of municipal con- a poet.'—and your testi18mmony is killed
trol. Ii the movement 111 Edinburgh dead as adoor nail." •
is successful, and a municipal con- ,
sumption hospital comes irito being, it GIANT GERMAN SOLDIERS,
will no doubt be a step towards the
establishment of municipal havitais vriuschu inherits His Ancestor's Fondness
voluntary eystein. -Every day it be- for pia Men.
for all purposes,' in place- of the present
In the bodyguaxcl of the German
F3a-
conies more difficult to maintain hos-
fatale upon the present footing, and no Peror, there are two giant soldiers, who
are probablY the tallest men in the
doubt the time is fast eapproacbing
uhsai inordesoLuntlieiPdalayh; °17uittaaist will phreesethine BaniliPttillee.ov°eure'seEVernitzfeeCto;ntrhaed,ctmheerasuvev•ielp.
nio,ent the argument in favor of muni-
cipal of,
consumptive hospitals is baSed
seven. For centuries past the "Erste
upon the danger arising to the coin -
Grade regiment' has bawl made up of
Inanity from the • infection. °eased by
the tallest men that could be found
eonsumption in its last stages. As
anywhere on the Continent.
locel bodies are now enapoeveredoto
e'ea"seest,thi°t:Pnietaedlss for ttmletneyxtiennfseir3otni°1Crf dtihse- sPKeelinagl f7midillateasnal "1°°fr Ps °I.1-11asiSeia' rslawillgoighaanda
tics
stature, spared- no i expense in proem,-
powers already in existence to include ing them for his guard. The hither
ooneuraption among the diseases speci-
Frederick the Great paid 700 thalers
fo
Lied in the public health acts, l
,
a men of sex feet two inches, and
a. as much as L‘
1,000 thalers for one s
' '
-
THE CHErR,FT/L IDIOT. feet five inehee tall, and in this pro -
1 played poker with an rn
portion larger sums were expended hyce,
' hien where taller men ecould be had.
said the Cheerful Idiot„ ' • - dian on
At one thee 5,033 thalers and 8 gros-
. Beat him? asked the unattaPeetialg chen, about six thousand dollars, was
ahoe-elerk boarder, .„„ pain for the Dutchinan G-rosse. James
He took my la,st ChipPewa,, salt the Hirltland, the Irishman, was valued at
Cheerful Idiot. 8,862 thalers.
-- That wile in the days when soldierg
BIT aya, a,Hatnappliy. were. hir.ed. To -day, • when military
serviee is compulsory throughout: the
Solna folks, said Uncle Eben, takes Ertipire, the chemeat morsels in the
life de Same way chit dey eats chest- of giants find their way to the recruit -
nuts. Day gits froo wif all de good ing net, and the ones towering the
VTDID
adnei. hcloadn ,cog.Ptiaa,ihn,islige'btt,etuhti, 3.thhel gerhusehse::angire.hairriadmencleiteht 07a1 yenpiacireeeeam.ollt,hfice)stie
, the Gernian Emperor no his trip to
• •
• Samthr Xatie, what willyou give bOe •
KNtle, with withering seorn--,;NCron't Re --Suppose kiss Srou.
div Y011. TonernY Tueker divs She—I r,efuse to engage LO tiny Ilypo-
mat le whole ank for a ties. thetioal entertairiment, ,
for or lai o' ? l's1011' TO 131t CONSIDE,REI).
• 10, The king of , Balaalen elesa the
sons of • Zedekial before 'hie eyee, 1
was the, refinernerit ,of ctatelty to bring
Cho death agonies of 'the , poet' kitgal
sons int() the 'last seene his eyes
beheld, SieW- also all the prinetts
of Judah. il7hey, have becii the
kirigee chief-- sadvisera , in hie re -
bell iota. An ablinslaut opportunity
had, been gItten hy Nebnehadtemzar's
officer...it for their subrtaission
11, Then lie put, out the eyes ,of,
kiah. Etc:item people regard 0 blind.
Meet 48 inda•aable ,Of ruling, Allnaaa
Zedakih's deughtete "b4il /nen
taken emptive, Bound him isaohnies•
Probably bound hire liana- oriel foot.
Put hin isa prikion tilt tile. „day of. Ills
adatb. Trenition saYa that When in
EtthatOO, Zetiotiali was laudel to work
in a mill* , • .
,
1,