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Notes and Comments.
The visit ef the Anetrian Fenperor
te Berlin, even in, as is Vigorously des
elaxed, it lets no political signifitionce
end is intended simply as a compliment
te Prince. Frederiek Wittiara of Pros-
eia, the Crown Prince of GermanY,
la Still euggestive of the relations that
obtain between the two countries. For
twenty-one years Austria and Ger-
many have been allies, and thou.gb tlie
Dreibund is supposed to nave lost
sontething of ite first vigor. the fact
that tbe two chief partners in it tan
atilt visit one another speak* well for
their etaitical eopetancy. Nobodo
would cant to prophesy that twenty
y tette rhe Czar of Russia and
the President uf the French Itepublie,
U there is a Preneb Republic then,
will be on speaking terms. Iles fact
Is all the more iuteresting when oue
bers -that the Hapsburgs aud
zolierns sieve fur centunes
be greet rival houses of tentral
Eureee, the final aseendaney of the
latter baiting onty been achieved alth-
ea the last forty years through a
elierecteristie strehe of Biemareleian
114.4.044niae:14hvwnich the Hapeteargs
ivere the eufferers. sio Lin, then,
.riati there beine any nistorical *nes
yons why tierurtny and Austria should
Tin frienne, there ie every historical
intieou why they 6hould nut; and that,
tilianses etewitlistauding, is a fact
MAL to be furgotten.
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*RE EXTEER TIMES
A PICTURE OF CHRIST.
Rev. Dr. Talmage Discourses on His
Wonderful Mission.
Difficult to Be Anything Great or Famous-4ft This
World We Get Only the Faintest Outlines •of
What Christ ls--The Dr, Says Christ is Every-
thing in the Great Plan of Redemption.
A despatela from Washington says:, that of Montgomery, more bold than
-Rev. Dr Telortge preached front the 1 that tit Milton, more terrible than
following text: -"Christ is all dlidiU
in. IL
Every age of the world has had tts
historians, tts philosophers, its
artists, its thinkers, and its teachers.
Were there histories to be written?
at of Dante, mere natural than
that of Wordeworth, more impassion-
ed time that of Polloek. more tender
than that of Cowper, more wetra than
that of Spenser. Thie great Poem
brings all the geree of the earthin-
to its coronet and it iveaves the
frames of judgment in ns garlands
there has been many a Moses, or a ;no p e ernef h zrmonies In
Xeloolshon, or a Josephus, to write its rhythm. Everything this book
them. were there poems to be one ?
"strueted? there was always a Job or
pti,uitnhessteintestri4kethsebsenamutroifeurntLrvratewthae,
fl:or to the daughters of Nailer filling
a Homer to construet them. Were the trouglit for the camels; and the
tu,tieernetxtib,‘,1roenteuselluvt turtzteattinwt41. tztat. fliesaltimpirt 1 sr voisifeinlagethiot
ef worm andiwhirlwind, and Job leads
'David tLr a (Weser to rinse them g non, Arcturus and the
Were there teztehers demanded for Pleiseles. It is a wonderful poem, and
the intenert aud the beart? there hreat many people read it as they
.bas been a Sorr,ites, and a Zeno, anda71,.3aRotboklif"iTh-li
a Cleauthes, and a Marcus Antonius and Southey; •;neese of o:ennfineete
tuning forth on the grand and gime. Thee: sit down and are so absoi•hed in
our, otiesion. Beery age tit the world ifolking at the shells ma the shore,
oiget to look off on the
, hes bad hs triumens of reasou and get'eti Sit'Pail of God's mercy and sale -
Morality. There bas not been a eingle AUon
age ef the world which has not bad Men there are others who cornet°
this si.me 4ieel,led system of religion: the aiiss hook as sceptics. They mershel
,rt. after passage, and try to get
Orlentelism, StoichinellEsnothaw and Luke in a quarrel and
Dieldhisra, considers: woul letive adarrep mei; bet'weiee
rL,. •• :11,y "re t abt liter .lnatio _ Jtinies sty ahout ra oil
;inns I. voire net izteliing in ingenuity € n"(rull;
r.. New, line tone- ,.:111.0. detesitcnrisn sleei'lleelevatl!oaid Pet.
f; tett teetittitiont ette en awn, soinio lilal. ell fleet' lone' Nov/tell
tl
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11"1;1:." ear,' :any r,ri, set thee ; sit'itert ''n
a.
stet • ie Lein, it • in e V.1 a VI' ' he mei"ere, vagt%y
We Feel1.
itifelentay utria the truths
ti he al heve hid leases spit te hes ven,
ere seihein Thtre st a Leis dist or k'.1 vieions, prephet
t ie ites. i.• itOre, den after dew, IRI•cr; war w:zta proploa aro event
tee rep, 1 itiete
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val. • •
. .
Titereutre
imesas far; her f net net ' eri
.4 "..; two allies, over the 1,34'4.631114A of
Au:Arian subjects froca tiertniny
Tlititutands of A:tette:1u notes eeelong
work in the Poliels protinees of tier.
many were euraintrily turned bitek•
and ordered imam. No aiteram wae
mad t I ion on, ette
grounds. It WaS, taken solely out of
eoneideration for Germanyn private
po1iicaIbUttation arid the protests of
her ally were quietly disregarded.
However much reason there migeo
have been for the l'eniser's attitude,
It was felt very keenly int the* Dual
Illonareby, and Francis Joseph
would never have treated Gentle:1
Subjects so brusquely as the Kaiser
bad. treated his.
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it
' 11 , A., , 2 f v. 1.1,, , ,o, tr,.,ig, to gee se . wl h evainteli to anti ;Apse: le
9 a ,ie---- of
an -
is ere I; ,17. r. i.. ire. ,iiii.., er ,Iti :thy- rai of ith tramp!
. Ae h Growls; and if ihey eda 74, iflito3ilille•
,, ewe, li ea , mit is. ii ie. of fi.); Dlo."..t.L'ine^1 7-.4' ; • •
•;la fee -o•- - .. ,,,
g t; tenet, thine
ut 4tny eariscie srowe eew ana nip their wnigs
no ;wane t ; • fi
•••••.01%.1.
er • sarcase. Flpeausv they cannel
name - xiotes- er on-
a:olio-stare! betv tie. whale swallowed
teez rue o • 111" .lowih, they at: empt the more wen-
w'Itn the ineeitt.nts it Er„. f...tt of .*
rni! ollieinn ith etilenin ptittte tiler whale of
atea anti t•nlere, and with a voiee ' MODERN SCEPTICIiint.
Mt, rang through lentelo and wilace
und over ship•:-. deen 0.11$1 tOp
i itua the light uf 111
eerie, r' 3Ien were laken all antek a
tb'ides thst that hun-i, yet bent lam
• the use of the at', and saw, and adz
end hatehei., should %taw, the seetar
of authuritt, ; and that upon that
. brow, front oliich tney had so often
seen Him wipe the sweat of toil, there
outlet yet evine the (Town unear
alleU ependour and of universal dom.
iinion. We ail know how difficult it
! is to beanything great or famous; and.
!no wondee that those win/ had been
boys with Christ in the streets of
• Nazareth, and eeen Him in after years
in the days of His complete obseurity,
should bave neen very slow to sallow.
ledge
CIllile.Tat WONDERFUL ItifinstION
remerk„ in the first paten Mallet
, They do not believe it ponehle that
the Whip story sh.ould be irue which '
t sate; ;hat the dumb ass sietke, while
L they themselves prove tbe thnig pos.'
t sible by their own utterances! I am
amuset heyond bound when I hear -
one of these men talking about a fu-
ture life. just ask n man who ra-
t' • . that ' .
; ven i , and
t hear him befog your soul. He will tell
you that heaven is merely the devel-
opment of tbe internal resources of •
a man; it is effloressence of the dyne-
- mit forces into a state of ethereal and
- •tritnssendental lucubration in close
• juxtaposition to the ever present .
r "was," and the great «+o be," and ,
, the everlasting "not" Considering
themselves to be wise, tbey are fools
- .
- for time and eternity. '
1 Then, tbere Is another class of per-,
1 ' sons, who come to the Bible as contra-.
versialists. They are enormous Isms'
byterians, or fierce Baptists, or
, .
• I lent Methodists. They cut the Bible ,
And, finally, the Gertnan-Czechfeuel
in Austria has been anything but a.
source of amity between the two mon-
archs. The Emperor Francis Joseph
cannot he ignorant of the fact( that
both in, Vienna and Berlin there are'
vigorous political parties which are
working for the aecession of German
Lustria. The Germain Colonial party
is doing all it can tot accusepra, Ger-
mans to; look upon a larger slice, of
Austria as their natural prey; and its
efforts are backed up by a famena ni
Vienna whish openly advoeates ex-
changing the Hapsburgs for the
HohenzoIlerns as the only means
whereby the Germaneepreaktng Aus-
trians can escape being ewaraped by
the Slays. It is certain that should
the Dual! Monarchy break up on the
death of its present rater Germany
will insist on a vocice in lite partiton.
64.444444.4
There is, tberefore, good reason
for thinking that Francis Joseph s
visit to Berlin is merely a visit pf
caurtesy and a proof of his kindly and
forgiving disposition. No doubt it
.will be made the occasion ofl pleas-
ant references to the virtues and
stability of the Triple Alliance, but
that alliance, has really got past; the
point where it can be resurrected, by
incantetions, Germany has outgrown
It. Italy has half ruined herself by
trying to live up to its requirenaeants,
and Austria, has gained from in only
an ally who scarifices her interests,
expels her subjects and hopes in time
to divide her inheritance,
• _PRETORIA..
The town of Pretoria nestles ant-
eing hedges of roses, wateh grow ev-
erywhere in wild profusion, and
etreams of clear water flow down the
Fides of the broad steeels, which are
latd out in straight lines.
s BIG ESTATE,
r 'The Czar bas one estate' which cov-
eys over 160,000,000 acres, more than 3
times as lenge as Englarel, and he
:les another estate, which is more tlita.n
Urine the size of Scotland.
is everything in the Bible. I do not
care where I open the Bible, I find
Jesus. In whatever path Istart, I
emee, after awhile, to the Bethlehera
manger. I go back to the old dis
pensation and see a lamb on the altar
and say: "Behold the Lamb of God
oho taketh away the sin of the
worItte" Then I go and see the manna
provided for the Israelites in the
wilderness,- and I say: "Jesus, the
bread of hie." Then I look at the rock
which was smitten by prophet's rod,
and, as the water gushes out. I say:
I to suit their creed, instead of cutting
, tbeir creed to suit the Bible. Tf the
1 their creed to suit the Bible. ft the
• Seripture thinks as they do well • if '
not, so much the worse for the Srrip-:
-: tures. The Bible is merely the whet -I
'stone on wluth they sharpen the die-,
' sectingeknife of controversy. They
,
some to it as a government in time
1 of war comes to armories or arsenals
9 for weapons and munitions. They have;
1 deelared everlasting war against all
1 other sects; and they want so many:
i broad swords, so many muskets, se;
i many howitzers, so many eolambiads,I
• i so much grape and canister, so m.a.ny;
1 field pieces, with which to take the 1
.1 field of dispuee, for they mean to get 1
1 the victory though the heavens be;
I5 darkened with smoke. and the earth
e. thunder. rend with thunder. What do they i
care about the religion of the Lord!
Jesus Christi I have seen some 1 4
' sueh men oome back from an ecelesias- ' '
It is Jesus, the fountain opened fox
sin and uncleanness." Igo back and
look at the writinge of Job, and I beat
him exclaim: "I know that my Re-
deemer Beetle" Then I go to 'Eze-
kiel, and I find Christ presented there
as "a plant of renown;" and then; I
turn to Isaiah. and Owlet la spoken
of "as a sheep before her shearers is
dumb, so He opens not His mouth."
It is Jesus all the way between Gen-
esis and Malaciai, Tien I turn over to
the New Testament, and it is Christ
itt the parable, it is Christ in the mir-
acle, it is Christ in the Evangeltsts•
story, it is Cbrist in the Apostles'
epistles, and it is Christ in the trum-
pet peal of the Apocalypse.
1 know there are a great many
beibofele whodois
de not find Ch,rist in the
e eteoriwan, w
who stetd,rais
the Bible as anhis
f
you come as an Instormn, you wili
find in this book how the world was
made, how the Seas fled to their
places, how enipires were etablished,
how nation Tought with nation, jave-
lin ringing against harbegeon, WAD.
!he earth was ghastly with the dead
You will see the corena.tion of prin-
ces, the triumph of conquerors; and
the world turned upside down, and
back again, arid down again, cleft
and scarred with great agonies of
earthqua.ke, and tempest, and bat-
tle, It is a wonderful history, put-
ting to tbe bindle all other e in, the
accuracy of its recital, audit in the
stupendous events it records. Homer
and Thu.cydides, and Gibbon, could
make treat ,stories of little events;
but it took a Moses to tell how- the
heavens and the et r; h were made
in one chapter, aid to etve the history
of thousands of years 1
TJPON TWO LEAVES. I
Then there are others who find I
nothing in the Itible but the; poetry. '
Wein if you come as a Get, you will
find in this book faultless rhythm,
and, bold imagery, and startling anti-
thesis, and rapturous lyric, and sweet
pastoral, aud instractive narrative,
and devotional pealnesthou.ghts, ex-
preesed tirt a style naere solemn than
Heal massaere as proud of their
achievement as an Indian warrior
boasting of the number of scalps be
bantaken. I have mere admiration
for •a Mao who goea forth with hia
fists te get the ohampionsbip, than
X have for these theologioal pugilists,
who make our taeologieal magazines
ring with
IIORRIRLE WARCRY.
There are men who seem ro think the
only ase of the ewer' of truth is to
stiok somebody. Tbere is one passage
of the Soriptores that they like bet-
ter than all others, and that is tbisi
"Blessed is the Lord which teaoneth
my bands to war and my fingers to
fight." Woe to us if we come 1.0 God's
word as controversialists or as scep-
tics, or as connoisseurs, or as faults
finders, or merely as poets. Those only
get into the heart of God's truth who
some seeking for Christ. Welcome all
such. They will find coming pot from
behind the curtain of propbeey, until
He stands in tbe full light
of New Teel araent disolosures
Jesus t be Son of God, tat;
Saviour ef the world. They will find
Hint genealogioal table and citrons
;stogies.' calculation, poetic ntanza
and in Itistorical narrat'v
found parable and in startling mir-
acle. They will see His foot on
every sea, and His tears in the drops
,of dew on Hermon, aud hear Hie
voice in the wind. and behold His
words all abloom. in the Tetley be-
tween Mount Olivet and Jerusalem.
There are some men whs come and
walk around this temple of truth and
merely see the outside. _there are
others who walk into the porell and
tben aivay. Titers are others who
some in and look at the pictures, but
they know nothing wbat are tbe
chief attratitions of the Bible. It is
owe the man ego; comes arid Itnoolts
at the gate. saying. -"I would eee
Jestis"-for bite the glories of that
book open, and be goes in and finds
Christ, and with Him, peaoe, pardon,
life, comfort, and hciaveto "AU in all
is Jesus" in th•s
I remark again taat Christ is•every-
tin tie in t he great plan tit redtirap-
non. We itri. ,•1:.V.P•i; Christ gives
deliveranee thp captives. We are
thirsty ; Chriei is -aver of selves
tiert to slake ...ir thirst. We are
altiagry Jettis seen -1 am the bread
tif Nne are ve, tuned. to die;
1.11 rts*sittn, -Sete thei tuatt ft' in go -
bag titiwn •I i he pie J. ,tm the ren-
ame" We are nosed on a sea of
11.43%11,1es; Sii.eus e; Leis over it seying,
i•t 1, be oz NVe aro in
seasstil;ig et 'II:1'7 t';':r-d'
• • si • 5."
11 •emit reed and
grave hilitseit, a: 11* er:••i,
lin tin. re41,1.3.01nm atel tilt fife, he
Jett believeth in ins tie -sigh lei were
dead, yet shell he live." We want
jest Meat lin; 'being jai: Hied be
faith, we have peeve with (led
through our Lord Jesus Omen" WO
W.1111 to eatereise taint: "Believe in
the Lord Jo -;1' Christ thou
shall be saved." I %tare to get faint
under condemnation '•There is new,
therefore, no eondenuat ion to them
oho ant in Christ Jesus." Tile cross
--Ile carried it. 'the flames of hell -
seafood thena. The shaxne-Ile
endured, it. The crowntehe wore
It. The beights of heaven sing it, and
worlds of light to worlds of. light, all
around the heavens cry, "Glory I
glory!"
Let us go forth and gather the
trophies for Jesus, From Golconda
mines. we gather the diamonds; from
Ceylon banks we gather the pearls;
from all lands and kiugdoms we
gather precious stones; and we bring
the glittering burdens and put them
down at, the feet of ,Tesus, and say.
"All these are mime. :Chou art
worthy."' We go forth again for
more tropines, and, into one sheaf we
gather all the sceptres of the Caesars,
and the Alexanders, and the Czars,
and the Sultans of all royalties and
dominions, and then we bring the
sheaf of sceptres and put it at the
feet of Jesus, and say. "Thou art
King of kings, and these thou hest
conquered." And then we go forth
again to gather more trophies, and
we bid the redeemed of all ages, the
sons and daughters of the Lord Al-
mighty, 1.0 come. We ask them to
come and offer their true thanksgiv-
ings, and the hosts of heaven bring
crown and alra and sceptre,and
here by these bleeding feet, and by
this wounded heart, cry. eBlessing,
and honour, and lor , and • b
unto Him that sitteth upon the
throne, and to the Lamb for ever
and for ever." Tell me of a tear He
did not weep, of a burden that He
did not carry, of a battle that He
did not fight, of a victory that }Ie
did not achieve. "All in all is Jesus"
n the great plan of rederaption.
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THE S. S. _LESSON.
IRTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAY 27.
“irarattes o Me ntitgdoin.” Matt. 13.
24-33. Gowen Teiit, nett. 13. 38.
PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 24. The kinedora Pf neaven is
likened unto a man whieh sowed good
seed in his field. We are to !leek of
the seed as' already sown when the
story begins, and a good and •wrhole-
some erowth alreany beguu. For a
key to the explanation of this parable
see verso 3749. The sower of wheat
le the Lord Jesus ; the sower of tares
is the devil; the seed le human ellen-
totter, good and bad; the field is "the
world," human life. But ornat is the
kingdom, of heaven e It is "tbe con-
ditiori in human affairs in which those
two petitions of the Lord's Prayer,
'Thy kingdom, come,' and 'Thy wiU
be done in earth as it is in heaven,'
shall be fulfilled." Salient features of
tbat kingdom. have been and are
about to be made plain. From this
parable we learn thee in the earth-
ly organization of the spiritual king-
dom, whet we cell the visible Church,
there are persons who do not belong
to it, Other alielicatione may be
made with profit to our classes. Most
boys and girls, recognizing the moni-
tions of their consciences, will agree
that there was an origipal sowing in
their aeerts of good seed-1*1y
irapulees. etc. They may, by a
little graphic description, be made to
realize the ba ee interference of Sa-
tan, with bis false seed. Their experi-
ences, like our own, are of conflicting
growth, good and bad apparently
thriving togetaer. But in personal
life one sort tends to kill the other;
and there is tio need to wait -
for the
final har‘eit, before tl:tiri.x.iting the
tares.
25. Wbile root eleitt. At nighttime.
Tbere is no Itint that the servants of
the fanner were negligent. Ms enemy
. . eowea tares, . . went his way.
Sala it eft elite) ee ere wt.....
aol hasnens nway beenving thin evil
seed as wall ate g$11) I w-.11 geiminate.
Wogs always bave small beginnings.
Ezek. 17 23 as a beautiful allusiou
whielt comes to our mind wane study-
ing verse sg.
The first of the three parables we
study describes the evil growing along
with the good in the kingdero, of God.
The second shows the outward growth
and beneficence of the Gospel in the
hearts of men, end of the dornieion
of Christ in the world. This parable
has an iudividu,al, as well as a general,
application. Turning to the third, we
learn that the kingtient of Glad grows
inwardly. "It epreads be space and
inoreases in bulk; but it traneferroa
inert matter into its own nature, and
thus growa by assimilation,"-eMeLiar-
eni
33. Leaven or yeast, is used as
stint ol of the transforming power.
The woman eeerats to nave no special
meaning. Three measures of meal are
mentioned becenee probebly that was
the gaantity moat usually leavened at
once, or beeause u definite number
would make the story more realistic.
But the main lessons of the parable
are that tbe quiekenieg influence
which, is to comfort and transform
human nature is to come from wale -
out, that title world of moo and wo-
men cannot of itself develop 3 king -
dem of heaven. It is an exotic'. God
works in secret. His Soirit comes into
the depths of tbe itulividual spirit and
graduelly peruiteatee the whole being.
Bat this menet he done without
thorough fermentation and sroriag
Ite. In another place our Lord says
ixe cows not to bring peace, but a
sword; that is, not at first, but even-
tually he is to bring pence. Till the
fal indication of the final permeation
of the mass with holy influences.
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A WOMAN IIER.a.)11T.
On one of the priecipal streets et
the quaint old town of Brooltville,
filename, in a weatherbeaten two..
story frame house, Gm Winne to one
of the windows of which bays remain.
ed closed for sixty-five years, lives a
woruan ...those life has been a Mystery
to the two generations tbat have
grown up during bar selftenforeed
seciutlion, without having eta nitwit as
it glimpse of her or ever batting Leen
admitted. to ber mom. In the sixty-
five years of her seciusiou the pepulet
tiun bxa c1zange:1 two ur Unite times,
and to -day there are few eats intew
thst ' hermit eNists find.
\S bo can recall the -deire when, for
Bones uneepleinni re.* am, ante And
Tares are darnel, which iu the early hirreelf up in her roam and lode a
stages 01 growth is not to be readily tine' adieu to tie etwial circles of
d'azinguislied front w.teat. So eilunters wheal the was At:nut:My the bright -
fen Christians art. sometizues iielistins era to iteratint.
enistiabie from real Clirimians• "It is lo June, 184, wa* ere
notorioue," writes Dr. Tuttle, "that; gaged to be metteel to 'Limey John.
many in the Chureh cannot be aUll. One evening just tietore the
\twitting they were teitied on the
glt:slied trout avowed v.urld.ings."
can.il bann. eratinung the bents go by,
:-11. Whin' thu Wu" was sPrtIng UPP wiwit. she stuidenty rime and, without
anti brought torth truat, then appear-
oord, went home. 1)et.pile the vend-
ee the tares also. The tares were sown
tnge of the younn man elle refused to
istion alter the wheat, but not until see him or explain how he hed offend..
the grain appeured. could the differ- ee
enee be seen. So only by the full Nonni after month passed, and Miss
"fruit" of men's liven can their char- Meeks remained in her Immo, and ro-
amer be discerned. tour said that she remained as well in
27. Whence then hath it tures? How her own room, the blinds to which
were slow always shut. The father
and mother died, Out. Miss Phoebe
heard the funeral sermons only from
the adjoining room, tu 'which no one
else was admitted, and did not even
follow the bodies to the graves. The
montbs lengthened into years and still
the hermit kept in the old /tome, and
the fact ot her existence almost ceased
to be known to any except tbe older
residents.
An only sister lived in the house with
the parents the two opened a millinery
Miss Phoebe, and after the death of
store in one of the front rooms. The
younger sister attended to the store
and Miss Phoebe trimmed hats in her
own room, and was never seen by any
of the customers through the ten
years or more that the business was
can the Church or any portion of it
ever do wrong? Why is evil permitted?
28. An enemy bath done this. The
conversation is added tor picturesque
effect. The farmer knows that. no acci-
dentyou'd bays brought this evil
crop. I -Ie whose ripe powers are bent
on the destruction of every hutnan
soul is tbe great sower of tares. Wilt
tbou then that we go and gathef them
thou then that we go and gather them
' up? The question is ignorant zeal.
29, 30. Nay. There was a greater
• difficulty than even the similarity of
the two elantsi their roots were so
, closely intertwined that to get rid
• of the tares would destroy the wheat,
Our Lord distinctly applies this para-
ble to the development of the kingdom
of heaven on earth. God's method is
or as 1.0 wait, not hastily to decide earned on.
and the purer and the more progrese , wealthiest men in the Par West. On
sive men are, tbe more inapatient are his return home he stopped at, Brook -
questions of ckaracter and life, but to i After several years of waiting Had -
give good as well as evil time to grow. ley Johnson went west and became a
This is a difficult course for a zealous prosperous business man in Utah Ter -
came one of the
the century for the development of I oeioarsreodestoinnedthuneiverfattonilknnigothyt.wEiheatdioecd-
safe time to make judgment, and
them in bundles to burn them. In
Christian graces in the Church ; who
allows good and evil to work
tory comes •to the good. herself, and the birds. She has ample
God would : means on which to live,
they of evil. Cowper's nervous hymn, villa and made a last effort to se
teach mankind that there is only one loess of milliner
,of the good, until the true chara.cter is
reapers are the angels. Gather
n or
together first. the tares, and bind
wonders to perform," draws its key- 'years before. Miss Meeks waseovbednuro-
note from the strange atienof ate and • f d
God, who waits by the decade and I receive any word trona him. Johnson
gether, even to the apparent peril
of each is shown and the final vie"
that is the last hour. Do not decide trecreation it would give, and wa
until all the testimony is in. Do Inhoet
reap until the harvest comes.
Ter -
soul
God moves in a mysterious way His his affianced bride of more than fifty
take. most any action is ntory. Then he invested in mining
easier than that of patient waiting, stocks, and ere long be '
tot last year in his eVestern home never
y e 1 vt al ) IE )1 . :e uni :',
i diverting. She is said to be an omni-
s
abandoned as soon as it ceased to be
having married.
popular h h. -priced magazines are
ister, several years younger than
Miss Meek's Only companions are her
and nearly all of the
to see
was taken up for the
.
and the busi-
reoandeigeer,has
an atterdpt •been
harvest time there is no difficulty in 1 ;
separating the tares from the wheat.
Our Lord explains the harvest to be '
the end of the world, the consomme -
tion of the age, the time of final de-
cision, when nothing sbail be left in
the kingdom of heaven but the sons
of the kingdom. We are not to ex-
plain this parable as referring to
church disoipline so much as to the
development of the kingdom '
of God on ea -rill. That king-
dom was to be, as Or. McLaren
Says, "a rose amid thorns," to grow
op amid antagonisms, as the next
two -parables, set forth, -
31. ,Another parable. Still our
Lord has the fields in full. view, fund
hes third story also taken its figures
and .symbols from them. A grain of
mustard seed has remarkable growth
in size when compared with its small-
ness.'
32, Is the least of all seeds. It is
not needful to prove this statement
to be, scientifically exact, jests was
holding conversation with country
folk of; Galilee; he was not teaching
science to a class of students. He
Calked to thern as they were accustom-
ed to talk with one another. It is not
certain to what plant he referred as
"mustard." The birds of the -air come
OUTLET
that ie mentioned, to show the great The Iargest body of water in tbe
size of the tree. The thought is not so world having no outlet in the ocean
mueli now concerning the sower as is the Caspian Sea„ it being 180,000
concerning • the seed. God' great square miles in extent.
made by outsiders to learn the history
of the night that she separated from
her lover. A newspaper man sought
tbe house on one oreasion for that
purpose, but was refused an interview
or even permission to see her. He per-
sisted beyond the limits of -courtesy,
and narrowly escaped a scalding
from a bucket of hot water that was
tlarown from one of the upper win-
dows.,
_
HIS EXPLANA.TION
An old sea captain who had navi-
gated his ship many times round the
world persisted in maintaining that
our globe is not a globe at all, but
a flat surface. No arguments, deris-
ive or painstakingly educational,
could alter his opinion one jot. Some-
one said to him once;
But if the earth is as you say. Cap-
tain, there must be an edge to it.
flow is it that no one has ever tumbl-
ed over the edge ?
Why, of course, they have, hit an-
swered triumphantly, that's where
the ships go that are reported miss-
ing.
and lodge in the branthes. A fact
tiiitttit.
THE t-ENALTY OF. MUSIC,
players Wo Are reread to Wilt Dee
of Dennuese,
are obliged to go out of the busineee
eausie
"FeW realize bow mane' Muelciane
on account 01 deafness," said au old
musician to a. reporter, "Only a few Af
the tbousttede of players in the conn.
try become fatiwitin The great mass
of theta plod along day efter day iu the
aa()lit, no one cares to inquire Wilte, but
many times the reason Is deateees and
nothing
elpsa:b. Wl2en one of ea deeps
"Loss of hearing Is partieularly the
affliction of those wbo play brass in-
struments, A cornetist who bas Play-
ed in Nausea City orchestras for marlY
years bas stopped playing now be.
cause he Is losing Ms faculty of hear.
ing, He went out of the business J*
fore it was too lade. Many of the old
players bang to their Instruments until
the loudest strains of an orchestra or
clamor of a hand sounds to there like a
mere hunt.. Theo they are forced to
stop. Their usefulness is gone.
The musician's deafness fa undoubt,
edly caused by the injurious effeete of
tuhaeetti:eatalleuteni
terall
iratia7bigerstth.ear
musolea1 notes
pm .
A Men Wlio bletve Cerilet er trom..
boue or a boa of any kind for several
hours will notice a queer buzzing In hl,
ears. When the playing Is kept up ev-
ery day in the week and every week in
the year for a long number of years.
it's no wonder that deafness comes,
Seine musicians play without effort,
Their skill is natural. They pour out
music as free as breath. But the skill
of others Is acquired only by hard and
eOnstattt labor. In addition to their
regular playing in band or orchestra
they must practice industriously sever-
al hours every day. And these are the
ones who lose their hearing and drop
' out of sight unuoticed."-Kansus City
Star
HE GOT NO MONEY.
fl Ittvideut 114 the 740310104 Ear
Louis X121 of torninee.
One day, when the dauphin. after.
ward I.ouls X111, was a Years eldi the
Duke of Sully cam,' out to St. Germain
well supplied from the treasury with
poelzet money for the dauphin. says
Mrs."Luey Crump in The Minnie. The
uewit of the liff1Cal
Set the Whale IMUSellifill astir, eager
for a share in the expeeted Mme.
de Monglat hurried the dauphin into /
the great courtyard of the castle to ro-
ceive Sully with as much honor as if
. he had beeu tlie king himself. To
please the great man the little prime „
put his Wawa d'honueur and tither
attendants through a drill with their
toy arquebuses ant) morale
At the etul of the show M. de Sully
gave the dauphin 50 crowns, Which his
mock soldiers seized out of his hanti*
so quickly that he had scarce thou even
to feel them. At last but one piece re --
twined, which he held fast hold of in
spite of tbe efforts of Mule, de Mous
glans tailor to get It from Wm. He -
he -he's trying to take It from trier
snouted the child.
Mme. de Monglat took it, gathered
together all the rest of tbe coins from;
the reluctant bands of their possessors
aud kept them all. The dauphin did
not complain, but soon after he said,
"But I, too, was a soldier, aud I didn't
get any money."
Eferouard always maintained that a
certain reluctance to both spend aud
' lat-
er years, was the direct result of Mme
glee, which characterized Louis in
'de Monelat's teaching' and enample.
--
Potion Ivy.
I Bathing with alcohol will prevent In-
: junous effects from poison ivy, or, if
• the poison has taken effect, wetting
I the affected part with alcohol, to which
,sugar 01 lead has been
added, untll a
milky appearance is obtained will give
relief. The wash is poison and for ex.
term' use only.
A Torturing SuggeistIon. •
The doomed man shuddered. "There
will be no music when I mama to the
scaffold?" he asked anxiously.
They reassured him.
"There was a march played when 4
was married," be muttered. "1-1 conld
not bear to be reminded of that!" -New _eel"
York Press.
• The Difference.
Willie -Pa, what's the difference be
tween "insurance" and "assurance?"
Pa -Well, the latter is whet the
agent has, and the foemer is wbat he
tries to sell you -Philadelphia Press.
The Voice of Envy.
Upson-Tbey say Miss lifuclicash has
rented a fiat. '-
Downes (one of the rejected) -Only
rented? I heard she'd tuarrled him. -
'Canute City Inclepeuclent.
Same Rule. ...-
Efewitt-Do- you love your seconc
wife as much as you did y.ous first?
Jewett -Just the same. 1 married,
sisters-- same mother-in-Intr. Town'
Tooic.s.
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•
KEPT HER, WOIRD.
Bess -So Jeannette.married a farm;
or! I thought she said she Wean
marry onl.y a ina.n of culture?
Nell -And So she- did -a man of agri.
eu 1 fp re.
-A REMEDY:.
Cashier -I cannot possibly live o
the salary you are paying me!
Itraptayer--I-I'n0 just as 1 thought!
You must give me a bend toonorrow
or $i5,000.
STRONG IN DEATH,
,The people on shore were 1 ransfixed
with horror. -She et -as ;lama to sink
for the last time. But, • stay !
ltero was almost witteit reach of het
now. Give ene your ha he eriedi
:This is so stet-- :the gu'rgie(1; and
the cruelleaVe engulfed tier.
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