Exeter Times, 1900-7-26, Page 7Notes hind Commerits.,
The eapture of Pretorie ley Lord
Roberts hasinot shaken the eonwietion
of inielligent Englishmen that the
provisions for the defence cif the
British Empire need to. be thoroughly
reorganized., T1ie. obstacles to a drae-
-,to recoaseruotion are aot underrated,
and. for that reason there is some -
thin like a consensus that a stroog
and reseleite man, like Mr. Joseph
Chamberlain, should he the uext °cou-
pe= of the War affix*. Ae to the
principle, however, on which the ree
cieganization should take plait% there
Le as yet a lack of agreement. "Will
the voluntary system be maintalued,
or would it be possibte to reconcile
the British nation to the modified
form of emoscripzien which eeeras to
work well in Switzerland ? That sortie
treochant ehaoge must be 'nettle la
universalty admitted, Never again
0110111(t lingiand bexeesed tee tlee
jeopardy in whteh slie has been plac-
ed by the eencentration of something
like 200.000 eoleliers i wath Africa,
DrEunateiy. „e has eettaped the nee
ceasity of defendiug Witt or Egypt.
or of rewletiog an invaeiou et the Brie
tieb biol, bet ire the oriole by which
she hes been ituddenly coetronted in
01111a, She might hove used to great
advantage soltliera who were not
tortheorniug. She gannet teke for
granted thot ;tech geed rcerkune will
ageha be hera, She meet, in one way
enoithoe, acquire a military force
Ooramensurate with her woridewide
responeibititiete
Moot of the nellitery experka an the
Contioeut believe that only in one
way earl the problem be eolved ; uaun-
17, adopting the Coetinental me-
thod et coneeription. which converte
•every man of military ago into a.
trained soldier. it is probehte that,
man England herselt isscunfronted
with the neceselty of totatiug tn in- h
toinent outit a remedy wilil
he regarded as worse than the disease. I
Ooneidered as the elder pu.rveyor of t
ufaceured artielea to the rest of D
the world. Englend cannot affore to e
deduct from her productive energy b
Athe work that might be done by all .th
helerhef bo r robuat edult males during 6
throe or even two year of their lives.
Can the defence of the Britieh Empire 8
be assured in any other way ? We be-
gan by intimating that two other me- to
thuds of eolving the problem have
been Suggested. It Is alleged that the a
voluntary principle+ might suffice to f°
tweurit the needed extension of force, w
provided the inceativee to enlistment 3h
were magnified by increaeed pay and ef
by the promise of a. pension after a
fixed term of service, or liability to ve
service. Those who advocate this Th
mode of reform propwee a number of ele
change., in the existing state of pe
things. They would, to be aura re -
THE BXTE ER TINZS
A CASE OF LIFE OR DEATH.
Rev. Dr. Talmage Speaks of the
World's Great Evils.
A despatch front Waehingtoo, sate , wants row is, to lift it feet from
i -Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from the , dauta,sk ottomans, and Wet them in the
following text;—"Ele was a mighty stirrups. We want a, pulpit on
hunter before the Lord." --Gen. x, 9, wheels. The Church want e not so
Row enteeh awkward Christian work much cushions as saddle -bags and
!there Ls done in the world! How many teetwowe. We have got to put aside
good people there are who drive emits ` the gown and kid -gloves, and put on
haway from Christ instead of bringing the huntingeshirt, Theis re outside
thein to Hine! AU their fingers are work to be done. Whot is that 1 sea
,thumbs—religious blunderers who up- in the backwoods? It Is a tent. The
set more then they right. Their gun hunters have made a elearIng and
has a crooked barrel, and Mae as it reeved out. What do they are
it
gees off. They are like a clumsy they heve wet feet, or it they have
conerode who goes along with skilful nothing but a pine branch for a pia-
huntera: at the very moment he low, or tor the northeeast stern It
°U0t tu be most quiet* he is eliaekliag .1' a moose in the darkness stepa into
an alder or faflang over a log the hike to drink, they hear it right
frightenind huh/ the game- eway. ff a loon cry la the midnight,
few Christian people have ever leant- they beer rt. SP ip the tierviee
the Jeseon of which1 ead at the God we heve exposed work.. We have
beginning ot thihserhieel how that the got to camp out and rough it. AV'e
Lord jesue Crit at the well went re putting all our core on the forty
front talking about a cup 9f water to thoueatad people in Brooklyn who,
the meet preetical religious truths,
e ,t they eay, eome to Church. What are
wQn tile womaa's "at tur tlealwe doing for the three hundred and
Joule in the wilderneee was breahing ixly thousand that do not come?
bread to the people. I thiok it w eve they no souls? Are they sin -
good bread; ie Was Very light bread, les:, thlt they need no lhardoni, Are
anti the yeast had done it worle there they cut off from, Goa, to go int°
oughly. Chriet, after he had breken eternity—ao wing to bear them, no
of the yeast, or of the leaven ot the
the bread, eaid to the people: "Beware light to cheer thehn no welcome to
g
phArihRe.S." uaturat a traneitiou it . ret them? r sometimes think thet
was; and blew easily they all under-
stood Him! But how few Christian
people there are who underetand bow
to fasten the truths of God and
religien on the souls of men. Turman
Gillum,•one of the evaugeliete who
vent throligh, this country mime years,
go, had a wonderful an in the right
irection. He came to my fetheris
ouee Mee (ley, ;wit white we were all
tated in the room, he said; "Ur.
;Outage, are all yuur chiltireu Chris.
West" Father amid: "Yes, ull but
e Then Truman Osborne look-,
it down. into the fire -place, and
egan to tell a story of a storm that
teue on the mountains, and oil the
beep were in the fold; but there wise
ne lamb outside that perished in the
torah Had he looked mo in the eye,
should have been angered when ror on an iceberg? What would have, Univereity ot Edinburgh was the
Prince ot Wales. a whom, a curious
Id that :story; but he looked into the hbeectole of Du Chaillu and Livingstone anecdote he
nd beautifully done that.' never heart and a weak knee? When a
relhhee, au" wtte „ haibeticutly in thee African thicket, with a faint
" It was while the Prinee of Wales
tend any peace until was mire /
nther comes within twenty paoes Of waS living in Edinburgh, as Playfair's
;IA inside the fold, where the other you, and it has Its eye on you, and It pupa in the applioation of science to
industry, that an interesting incident
has sewattod for the fearful spring,
In the tithe place, if you want to be
COp are.
"Steady there." occurred. The two were standing
tactual in doing gaud, you =tee i Courage, 0 ye spiritual archerst near a cauldron, containing lead
which was boiling at wbite heat. 'Hee
ry There are monsters of iniquity prowl -
SURE OF XOUR WEAPON. 1 hire all around about the community. Ymr r°Yai higha6"'' asked PlaYfeir'
ere was Something verY fascinating; Shall we not in the strength a God 'any faith in ecience ?" Certainly.'
out tl e archery of oldeu times.: go forth and combat them'? We not Was the reply. Pla.yfair then carefully
thaws you do not know what. they only need more heart, but more bark- washed the prinote's hands with am-
kL do with e low and arrow, bone, What is the Church of God mono- to get rid of any grease that
by the chief battles tought by the , that it should fear to look in the eye
might be on them. Will you now
t, is ail agenets mete with the f any transgression? There is the
• )
place your hands in Ude boiling metal
g -bo. They would take the Bengal tiger of edruniteriness that and ladle out a portion of it ?" said
.ow of polished woad, and feather I prowls around, and instead a attack- Playfe.R. `Do you tell me to do this?'
with the plume of a bird, and, then , ing it, how many of us hide under the asked the prinee. do,' was the an -
would fly from the bow -string a I church -pm, or the communioratable. swer. The prince instantly put his
Red silk. The broad fields of Agin- Ohl to attack this great mon- hand into the cauldron and ladled out
,some of the boiling lead without sus-
taining injury. It is a well known
scientific fact that the hunian hand,
if perfectly cleaned, may be placed un-
injured in lead boiling at white heat,
the moisture of the skin protecting it
under these conditiona, from any in-
jury. Should the lead be at a temper-
ature perceptibly lower, the effect
would be, of course, very different."
• wept out on tue meuntains, the starlet
took them, and they died.
There la in forest in thermaay
place they call the " deexeleap "—two
°raga about eighteen, yard* apart, be-
tWeen them LI, a fearfal chasm. This
lee called the deer -leap, because mice
a hunter was an the treek of a deer;
it came to one of these crags; there
was no esoa.pe for it from the persult
of the hunter, and be utter despair
• it ggathered itself up, and in the
death agony attempted to jump
acres.% Of course, it fell, and was
• dashed on the rooks far beneath. Hero
is a path to heeveo. it Ls plain; it is
Jesus marks ih out for every
man to walh in. But here La mau
who saws " I won't walk tn that pathe
wilt take my own way." Re comee
an until he eonfronts the Ohara that
divides. hie soul trona heaven. Now, his
last hour has come and he resolves
that he will leap the chasm, from
the heights of earth to the heights of
heaven. stoma. haek now, and give
him full awing. for no soul ever did
that. euceessfully, Let hire try. Junitel
Jamp. 1 He inistsee the mark. and he
goee, dowu, depth belew depth, "dee
mroyed without reedy," Alen:
gels! devils: whoa shell we eall that
Woe of awful catastrophe ? Let it be
lertown for ever as The Siemer% Death
teenp.
THE PRINCE HAD FAUN.
rut tots eland Inte gotten Nenel Iteceus
Prof. Elnyralr Told Elm Te.
One of the most honored and con-
juet as God blotted out the Church epicuous figures in the publie life of
at Greet Britain during the last half
Thyatira and Corinth and Loadicean eentury was Lord, Playfair, says
ber'nse of their sloth and stolidity,lmoyo W. Hazeltine in the North AM.
he will blot out American and English:
Christianity, and rise on the ruins, a erican Review. The 'eat eanitary
stielwart, wideot wake. ralesionarh improvements which have taken place
eE
Lug of that cat:amend, "Go into all thee „lent/tie and technical inetruction are
""t "11 take the full wean' tinhetgoll4untictonlvtotfbitniaetbnt'hVkoYle Yeey32utand
world. and preach the Gospel to every
creature"
I remark, further, if you want to
succeed in spiritual *robe ey. you muse;
have courage. It the hunter stand
with trembling betide or shoul-
der that flinches with fear, instead of
his taking the eatamount,
THE CATAMOUNT TArcss mf.
er if, when out hunting dor the bear,
What would beeonae of the Greenland -
should stand shivering with ter -
due to Playfair more than to any oth-
er man. Ile origi.nelly suggested the
odoptiem of open half -penny letters,
now 'mown as "post -cards," and be
was largely inetrumental in suggest-
ing the beats of an equitable agree-
ment between Great Britain and Am-
erica when President Cleveland's
Venezuelan xneautge had brought the
two countries into clangeroue antag-
ism, Among Playfeirh students at
tam the present regular army, as it w
exists abroad, for the purpose of serv-
ing as the ,polioe of the Boapire, and 1011
14130 the regular array, as it now ex- am
Iota at home, for the purpose of train- it
ing men to serve in the Imperial pa- R
hoe abroad.
cou
In the second place, they propose Cr
that the Guards, increased to twelve are
athalions of a thousand men each, frie
should, like the Household Cavalry, be tha
retained norraally for the defenee of Gos
the British Islands, except in the it
event of a sudden emergency abioad. lea
They hold, however, that the militia dor
and yeomanry should be greatly in- 'mo.
creased in numbers and organized as far
an efficient field array in all particui- has
ars, No regiments from this army, lion
nevertheless, should lad ever ordered the
abroad! as units, but, if extra troops the
were required, composite regiments hea
might be arraed from companies vol-
unteering for service abroad out of
militia battalions. In tbe next place,
the Voluateers should be thoroughly
reorganize, and furnished' with
transport and full equipment. while
retaining the present voluntary and
elastic chaxacter of the twee. So
much for the active array. With re-
ligarel, to its supplements, the advocates
..e./.,,the-v.tellentary system. would retain
the present' regular army reserve; the
militia and yeeneaney re.serve, destin-
d, however, solely for home service,
•luzatear reserve; a home -defence
e formed from the trained men
country, and, finally, a simple
nization for °ailing out a levy in
mass of the populatien in case of need.
EfOUSEHULD ECONOlefy.
Verh a t's gOe..701-el cum ed the y o g
'husband, referrin,g to the raezaoran-
dum she had given him. One dozen
eggs, ope pound of raisins, 'bottle of
lemon extract, a tin of ground ci
namon and halt a pound of sugar.
Wt do you, want with all these
things, Belinda?
I've got a stale loaf, replied the
'young wife, that I'm going to save by
working it up into a bread pudding.
/ never let anything go to waste
Henry.
rt, and Solway Moss, and Neville's ster of batemperance, and the kin -
ass laeard the loud thrum of the dred roonsters of fraud and un-
her's bow -string. Now, my Christian ! °Leanness, requires you to ra Ily all
ads, we have a mightier weapon I your Christian courage. Through
n that. It is the arrow of the the press, through the pulpit, through
pel; it is a sharp arrow; .1, the platform, you must assault it.
is a. straight arrow; it is 11 Would to God that instead of here
thered from the wing of the and there a etraggler going out to
O of God's Spirit; it flies from a bow fight these 'great monsters of ini-
de out of the wood of the cross. As crafty m our country, the million
as I can estimate or calculate, it membership of our churches would
brought down three hundred mil- band together and hew in twain
souls. Paul knew hew to bring + these great crimes that make he land
notch of that arrow on to frightful with their roar, and are fat -
bowstrings, and its whir was tening upon the bodies and souls of
rd through the Corinthian the. immortal men. Who is ready for
• Saab a party as that? Who will be
a mighty huntea before the Lord?
I remark, again, if you want to be
successful in spiritual arcellery, you
need not only to bring down the game,
but bring it in. If you go out to hunt
tor immortals souls, not only bring
them down under the arrow of the
Gospel, but bring them into the
Church of God, the'. grand home and
encampment we have pitched this
side the skies. ffl'etch. them in; de not
let them lie ant in the open field.
THEY NEED OUR PRAYEES
and sympathies and help. Thai; is the
meaning of the Church+ of Gad—help.
0 ye hunters for the Lord l not only
bring down the gams, but bring it in,
otre.s, and through the court -room,
until the knees of Felix knocked to-
gether. It was that arrow that stuck
in Luther's hea.rt when be cried out:
• my sins Oh, ray sins l" If it
strike a maef in the head, it kills his
sceptioism; if it strike him in the heol
it will turn his step; if it strike lam
in the heart, he throws up his hands,
as did one of the old when wounded in
the battle, orying; h Oh, Galilean,
Thou haat conquered."
• Again, if you want to be skilful in
spiritual archery, you must hunt in
unfrequented and secluded places. The
good game is hidden and zeoluded.
Every hunter knows that. So, many
of the souls that will be of most worth
Lor Christ and of moete vatue to the 4 Elm sure that there are same,here
Church are secluded.lley
come in your way. You will have to
d° n'it who. at some time have been hit by
Lha Gospel arrow. Jesus.Christ is on
GO WHERE THEY ARE. yeur track to -day, impenitent man!
Yonder they are down in that cellar; not in wrath, but in mseey. 'Oho
yond•er they are up in that garret. chased- and Renting, souls! here ts Lhe
Fax away froea the door of any charch stream, of God's mercy and salvation,
the Gospel arrow has not been pointed where you may. cool your thirst! Stop
at them. The treat distributer and that chase of sin tosdah. By the
the city miseiona,ry sometimes just red fountain that leaped from the
catch a glimpse of thena, as a hunter heart of my Lord, I bid you
through the trees gets a momentary stop. There, is mercy+, fax
sight of a pariridge or roehuek. The you--merey that pardons h mercy
trouble is, we are svaiting for the that heals; everlasting mercy.
game to dome to as. We are not good re there in all this house anyone who
h • 't rs. We ere expecting that tne own refuse the offer that oetne.s from
e-fewl will light en our church- the heart of the dying Son of God?
e. It isnot their habit. If the Why, do you. know that the,re ,are in
h slached wait ten millione of , the banished world, souls that, for
for the world to eome in and be that offer you get, to day would fling
, tl. will wait in vain. 'The world the orown of the universe et your
ot come. Wha t the Chuteh' feet, it they poseessed it? Rut they
e
prairi
ARMOR. steeni
The fourteenth centary armor was 1 Chere
en heavy that many soldieri oely 30 yea,rs
1
years old were deformed, or pernaan- saved
eel`niy cosabled by its v/eiget. will n
AFTER FORTY-THREE YEARS.
Forty-three years ego -Lieotenant
R. H. M. Aitken, of the Thirteenth
Bengals, was awarded the Vichoria
Crass for conspicuous bravery at the
siege of Lucknow. 'When the time
came for the ceremony the precious
bit of =Etat could not be found, so
the Queen pinned a bit of cardboard
to his breast. Later a new medal tvas
cpined. Recently the lost medal turn-
ed up in Soft Iteby's auction rooms,
in Loindion, where it was sold to a
Mr. Davis for $500. The me.diet, to-
gether with a lot of other refits of
Indian campaigns, was eeld Ler the
benefit af the widow, of the kite Ma-
jor judge-. How it came mato his pos-
session is unknown,
• CHLOROFORM WILL NOT WORK.
It has been found that an apparatus
fox killing animals with chloroform
in England would not work in India,
because the high temperature pre-
vented the concentration at the
cialocroform vapor. That tlais was the
ease was proved by the fact that by
placing ice in the box the animals
were readily killed. In some of the
German hospitals an iced chloroform
is used, which gives rauch better re-
sults in its promnt aetion, its safety
and the entitle) absence oi any un-
pleasant after effects, than the or-
clinary chloroform.
A TBAVELER'S TALE.
japanese babies look so much like
Japanese dells that it must be bard
tot distinguaelt between' them.
. Why, s eo.sy enough. Japanese
dolls 'cry when yon punch them, and
Japancee babies never ory. at all.
A coRREsPoruntr r s AovENTuRg.
tiotr Ite Narrowly Escaped oath at the
01 tbe
One of liathr ikteeorma'nionp.laces
• of hilManity—that the vengeful pas-
sions of war are often sottened and
supplanted by chevalrons naagnanigaity
and teoderness-eis illustrated auew ip
• a story furniehed by a South African
correspondent of the Loadon Daily
News, With a fellow-eorrespendent,
he was riding between the advane
and ewer guards of a eoroPauT ui
Austrian horse, on its way to join
the British, line, when they were cud-
denly surrounded and attacked by a
party of Boers, Although ordered to
surrender, the detaehment made a
dash for liberty. The corresPou-
dent's chum was shot deed, and he
laimself wounded in the temple by a
glancing bullet, fell uncortscions
beneath his dying horse.
With a partial restoration to con-
estiousness, he found himself again in
the saddle, supported by two Boers.
On haltinh, one of them, a young man
with a handsome, kindly feee, lleet
held the prisoner while the other re-
lied him tram waterbottle. Then
ying him to the shelter of a road-
side grove, they bid bine gently down,
Uy dressed and bendaged
his Imo:tiled temple. 13y this time,
be began to eee things clearly and
to realize his position. Tie says;
The same good-looking young fellow
aN5giathin.the curly beard bent over him
'Feel any better 00W, old fellow?"
I etared hard at the speaker, for
he epoke like an Englishman, and n
well-educated (toe tote
"Yee. l'uo. better. I'm a priiOnere
Va I?"
eyes..
"Are you an Englialimen 1" 1 asked.
He laughed. "Not I," be eaid.
o Boer born and bred, and I am. the
man who bowled you over. What on
earth made yoo melt a fool's trich
as to try to ride Crone our rifle.s at
that distance t"
"Didn't think I was welcome in
these parts,"
"Don't nuke a jest of it, man,"
the Boer said, gravely. "'Whin'
thenk Gad you are a living Man this
moment. It was Hie hand that saved
you; nothing else could. have done so."
Ile spoke reverently; there was no
ant in the sentiment he uttered—
his face was too open, too manly, too
fearless for hypoorisy.
"How long is it :dace I watt kuooked
over ?"
"About three hour."
"Is my comrade dead?"
"Quite dead," the Boer replied.
"Death came instantly to him, He
was shet throu.gh the brain."
"Poor beggar I" I muttered. "And
he'll have to rut on the open velt, I
suppose?"
The Boer leader's face flushed an-
grily. "Do you take us for eavagest"
he :asked. "Rest easy. Your friend
will get decent burial. Wbat was bis
rauk 1"
"Wax oorreespondent."
"And your own?"
"War correspondent also. My pa-
pers are in my pocket soraewhere."
"Six," said the Boer leader, "'you
dress exactly like two British officers.
You ride out with a fighting party.
You try to ride off at a gallop uncle
the very rauzzles of our rifles when
we tell you to surrender. You can
blame no one but yourselves for this
day's work."
"I blame no man. Inlayed the game
and am paying the penalty."
They told me how poor Lambie's
horse had swerved between myself and
thern'after Laznbie had fallen. Then
they saw me fall forward in the sad-
dle, and they knew I was hit. A few
strides later on,e of them had sent a
bullet through my horse's head, and
he rolled on top of me. Yet with it
all I had escaped with a graze over
the right teraple anti a. badly injured
shoulder. Truly, as the Boer said, the
hand of God nmet have shielded zete.
TILE RETIRED MIRQLATI,
He Is very Pitt Out over an En
counter With a Deer Vain
"1 don't know as I ever felt any
meaner in roy life." said the retired
burglar, "than I hid one. eight over
meetin' I heel with a deef man. I
had looked • over this man's house
hownetaire and up, without finding a
Ne•hseei thing, and then, I was emu-
inh along' the hall on the eeeond floor
Q4 the way to the stairs to go down
and out, Ifound him standing in 08
deer of a roorxt that opened- right by
the head of the steire, a good big
man in a dreseing gown; and he'd
Boa of popped out ene no jut as
Ole elong to thee door; so that we
wasn't moven two feet apart when
we met.
"'Were you looking for *time -
bode'? the melt sere,
"Well, now, I'd hut cool ducks sa,y
that to me before wider eintilar
• urowtanees; this bele' the simplest
and easiest way of poheing a man
and getting rid of him. I'd eay that
I was; but I guess P4 got into the
wrong hou.ee. Then the man would
say 'Oh" or 'Ali.' or something of the
*end, and then wait for you to go
ant and you'd go, openly now, ol
couree, down the front etaire and out
the front door, sneaking out, all the
the same. But this man that I'm
tatting yoe about, when I says to him,
'Yes, I was looking for a man, but I
guess I umet /reset got into the wrong
houeeh didn't say "Oh,' or 'A h,' or an)
thing of thit dart, but he put his right
hand Up hank of his right eel'. and
sort of skewed that side of hie head
around toward. nee a little and says;
"What did you say?'
"I was looking for a Man." says 1.
little louder, this time, that guess
must have got into the wrong house,
"'What % that?* says tho
twisting his head a little more, so as
to throw that ear with the hand u
to Lt a little forward, a little, a lit-
tle eloser to me; 'whet's that? 'Wrong
house 7"
"The min Was &of as a post„1
had to holler to Wan loud enough
't you could hoer ms all over t
neighborhood; I thought if there w
a polite station within half a mile
the house the reserves would con
running up before I could gat our.
'I was lookin' for a man,' I sa• y
'but I guess I must have got into t
wrong house!'
"Oh, ye -es; larn-m; I think very lik
ly, says the man, he'd heird me tir
time, and he dropped his hand fro
his ear, and straightened his hea
and smiled at me a little, and stop
back a little, in the doorway of h
room; all of which you underatan
was sthe signal for me to pass o
which I did. I would everlasting
liked to have passed him one unde
the chin as I went by him, but o
course I didn't; it would have bee
a mighty serious business for me if rd
done him any injury in his own house
and been caught; and then he was
deef ; and hitting him. would have
been like hitting a blind man or a
oripple. So there wasn't anything
fox me to do hue to pass on out,
which I did.
"There wasn't anybody outside to
disturb me, no police, no nothing, all
I had to do was to walk away and
take my own time about it as easy
as you please but I should have liked
it better if I eould have met there
outside, before I went away, about
three men, not deef."
THE S. S. LESSON.
NTERNATIONAL LES9ati, J111:1 29.
'The wrausigertettee,"/ tette d. Int -Oft
GOO* Text. /Luke 9. 00.
PRACTICAL NOTES.'
vg,rses 20. About an eight day"
after these sayings. Matthew end
Abet say six days, both expressions
meaning About a week. The jewel
had "4 loose colloquiol fa4hion pg
reckoning time, by treating frao-,
tions a days as days. "'Theati ear*
ins" mast xefer to the conversatien
Previously reeorded in whielt esua
foretold hie death. The dieeiples
Must heve heen deeply depressed bet
our Lord* definite statement of
lete owning death, and the glories at
he transfiguration were. imperatively
needed to cheer their heorte and
ehengthen their faith. But these
glorie.s were given only to the three
was etetritual oeturee were utostla
develeped. Peter and John and
James had already been oleeted. front
the twelve as our Lord'e epee 01$1144
elates. They had been areseut et
the raising of Aires% daughter, Aud
hthin a few months were to be neem
when he prayed in Getbsemanee
is seen the working ot the great
iple, "To him that hath shall
given." The other nine dieuiplea
lie foot of the netneetain,
we arty reverently as -e
sume, they could slot have received
spiritual comfort front the trans-
uration that eame to the chasm
80, 81. There talked with him two
men. which were lieses and Elias. The
ret lawgiver and the great prephett
appeared in glory, whith moat
that they, too, partieipated in
• 1 splendor which encircled
of his decease which 110
°asphalt at Jerueelent. The
110. f Christ was the accome
Omen of all that the law was
iveet to do, and all that the propheciee
retold. The word for "decottee"
ally "exit"- bis passing out of tide
world.
There are many beautifully instrnc-
w thoughts that come front ale
I'd paesage ; not the leaet 01 these is that
448 we shall know each other in heaven.
hc' 32. Peter and they that were With
43 him Is a phrase Lull of auggeetion and
°I inepiration. Jarnea and John were not
le inferior men, and yet tie strong was
Peter's initividuality. no unquestione
8* obly was Peter the leader, that re -
Ile hpeatedly the evangelists describe the
ne probably in the daytime, had climbed
I three or the twelve as "Peter and the
to rest." Heavy with sleep, and yet
et awake. They had had a long walk
I
a.; up a steep neounta;n, hod been en-
d gaged in earnest prayer; doubtless
is body and mind and spirit were ex -
d haueted, and yet so glorknie was the
n; experience now given them that they
y were awake. "Fully awake" says the
✓ Revised Version. They had overcome
f the force of sleep, and saw his glory,
n and the two men that stood with'
m.
33. As they departed from him,
Ar Moses and Elias seem, to be about'
leaving. Master, it is good far us to
be hare; and hat us make three tear-
nacIes; one for thee, and one for
Moses, and one for Mies. It is w.ell
in studying this requesti cd Peter to
notice the last five words of the verso.
Not knowing what he said. He did
not realize the absurdity, of the pro-
position, but he realized the tnferior-
ity of himsea.f and his two compan-
ions to tete three glorified beings.
All his ambitions on earth were swal-
lowed up with th,ei desire to prolong
this happy hour. Dr, Trumbull learns
from. this that a. reiverent spirit Is
not in itself wisfactme A sincere de-
sire to do thee best thing passible
may sometimes he misdirected by
ignorance+. "Church 'building -would
seem to be a gooce business; yet a
serious proposal to build, a.ralemorial
church may from adevout but poor-
ly informed disciple, wale doesn't
know what he says when he makes the
Pr3)113.°3•Wlaih-”Iie he thus spake, there
came a cloud. God's best answers to
our prayers are often oirounastancesi
not words. This oloud. benettotently
answered Paten's foolish petition. It
wee a cloud of glory., according to
Matthew, and made all present feat
the iramment presence of, Gad. Th7
feared
as they entered into the doe.
Probably it concealed from then
view) Jesus and lVfoeee and Elijah+. No
wander thee were afi-aidl
35. There came a vales oat, of the
cloud. The other gospels tell us that
at this voice the three apostles fell
on their faces and remained in terror
until Jeans touched them. The voice,
lettere nearly the same words that
were need at the baptism of Josue;
This is my belceved Son; hear him. It
was a divine atteetation of our Lord's
teachings. It °manned Peter and
James and John as nothing. else oould
ha.ve confirmed them in the Chrietbite
faith. See wliat Peter writes after.
NMI d Memel: ibis experience, 2 Pat.
l'irey kepii- 1, •oloor'a.nfatold;r1;1;
those days any of Lhase thing -a
they had seem This enenee may
een prompted by all, but Jesna
namanded it. There was every
ty at the hresent time to avoid ,
lug the mind of the people evith,
ught of eetablishing an eaa-thly
tn.
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uch in Earnest
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