Exeter Times, 1901-3-28, Page 2re
VIE FISH
TALMAOE ON WI
FOR RELIGIOU
COLDNESS OF
S OF MEN
Make us cry unto God for mercy, for mercy, the pulpits oin the other
then it is a. good excitement. THE SUNDAT SCHOOL A. W. ROSS, EX -M. P.,, DEAD.
It is sometimes said. that durin.g Ministers quarrelirig. Ministers trta - cane cif the Pioneers in Opening Up the
, revivals of religion great multitudes
ESPREAD OFFORT ina to pull each other down. Ministers
I of 'children and young people are LESSON XIII, FIRST QUARTER, INTER- Ctsuadiati Northwest rasses Away
AWAKENING. stroggling for ecclesiastical place.
brought into the church„,artd they do NATIONAL 6E111E8, MARCH 31. in Toronto Saturday Night.
s Ministere letbargic \vita whole eines'
side the altar must cry or mercy.
1 earlier people come into the kingdom, Wilikarrtaua. sPeetaalei . 4 Comprelsensive Review of tue IN'ellington.
l'orento, efareh 25.-11r. Arthar
. Ross, ex-X.P., died na
has been ray observation that the
THE OBJECTORS.
nOt know what they are about. at gregations dying on their hands,
of God the more useful they are. secl pulpits will make aroused (Inn.rter's Leasqus.,GOlden Text, Saturday night in Grece RosinI
Robert /tall, the prince of preacn-
, pews. Pulpits aflame will make peWs Ise., Iffi, 3 -Commentary Prepared, Mr. Ross was taken suddenly ill ot
i °averted at 12 ears Of . - • by the elev. D. 3.1. Stearin,. his home in Coltunbia, British Oos
The Washington Poviati Expresses Ms ers, was c aflame LI., erybody believes in a re-
vival in literature. everybody likes a (Comdata, lifill, by American Press essociatioa3 dillirien_ia" in January 'last' but' ids riii..
Otani. Belief int Revivals, lend raw- age. It is likely that he knew whet vival in trade, everybody likes a re-
elally So tlae ;thfItcy of the Citureb, he was about. Matthew Itenry, the it gave no alarm. A week later
commentator, who did, more then revival in. art, yet a great multitude LEssox I. -Jesus anointed at Bethany he was seized with a stroke, which
Gathe.ring far the Toung-..The Sin cannot understand ii. EeVilto,), lo MO- Math. XXT1, 0-10). Golden Text, "She cOmpietely paralyzed his left side,
,
ainst Man our
anY f his centy for increas-
Athe Moly Ghost, . . t,, r t religion. Depend upon it, bath done what she could" afarO xis', 8). Shortly afterwards lie suffered aps
g
inff the interest in the study of the ' " „, -
Washington. March 24. -This dis- Scriptures. toles converted at 11 revivals. whether he be in pulpit or
witere you find a luau antagoiltstia to The approval of Christ is everything. other stroOe and on Feb. 10 he Was
'course of Dr. Taltuage is most per- Tem.'s ..ot. age; .!,a,b1la, Grahana. int- ,pew. he needs to be regenerated by even apostles, we need not mind it ()WY 1-1
Let those find fault who will, he they brieouglhatugteo Lorcointoctlen tlimgehhtopdec that
spread effort for religious awakening , converted at 10 years of age; Dr.
ram tat in the ultristzan church. 'was
Watts, whose hymns will be sung all the grace of God.
I could prove to a demonstration. Ile approve& Let our aim be according some good. He showed no eign a
ii0 II Cor. v 9- II Thn. it 15. May our improvement, however, and in the
Itinent at this time when a wide-
fs being made; text. Luke v., 6, down the ages, was converted at 9
ddThey -enclosed ii, great raultitude of Years of age; Jonathan Edwards.
lithee, and their net brake." , perhaps the mightiest intellect that
. the American pulPit ever produced
Simon and his comrades had exper- - . - - '
was con' at 7 ,years of age. and
wed. the night before what fisher- that father and mother take en awl.
'Men call "poor luck." Christ steps ful responsibility when they tell their
Oa board the fishing smack and tells child at 7 years of age. "You are
tae Bailors to pull away from the t°° ,Y°ung to a Christian." or
"You are too young to ;connect your -
beach and directs than again to sink
the oet. Sure enough. the net is 'aeltr tlith therhurrh-" That is a
ten oe fishes. and ale sailers begin =state as long as eternity.
to
baul in. So large a school
/f during a revival two persons of
themselves. as candidates' for
ashes 'eves i.taela that the hardy men
the church and the one is 10 years
begin to look red in the faeti as they
pull, end hardly have they begun to
tejoiee at their etweess when snap
goes a 'thread of the net. and snap
goes another thread, so there is dan-
ger not onty of losing the fish, but
nt losing the net.
Witioset =melt care as to how touch
the boat tilts or how utueh water is
eplashedezm deck the fiebermen rush
.tibout, gathering up the broken
meshes of the net. Out yonder attire
is a. Shill the wave, und
tbey hail it: -Ship aboyi Bear ; LIAO-140M o
eown this way:" f God and into the churelt
Th„ ship emes. at 10 years of ago than the maxi at
l
and both boats. both fishing enlaces.
are Mice with the floundeI am very apt to look upon re -
ring .trease .
; vivals as connected with certain en
ores. who fosteredmthou. People who lo
this day do not like revivals never-
theless have not words to express
" their adadration for the revivaliste
of the past. for they were revivalists
onitt hart Edwards, j an Wesley.
• -Geerge Whitfield, Fleteber. Griffin.
' liavies, Osborne. Knapp, Nettleton,
and many others wbose names
' come to noe Vaud. The strength of
• their intellect, ahd the Imainess of
their lives rialie me think they
. would not have had anything to do
with that which. was .ephemeral. Oh,
it is easy to Wit against.revivals!
A man said to Arr. Dewson: "1
like your sermuns very much. but
the after meetings I despise. When
the prayer meeting begins.. 1 always
go up into the gallery and look dottn
and 1 am disgusted. "Well," sald
Mr. Peerson, "the reason is you go
.on the top of your neighbor's house
and look down his chimney to exam-
ine his fire, and of course you get
only smoke in ,yoer eyes. Why don't
you come in the door and sit down
I and ivarra?"
Oli., I eta afroid to say anything
against revivals of religion or
1 against anything that looks like
them. because think it may be -
:toga -Ix with 3.000 people joining the a sin asesaist tne TOMO talost. and
sin
a -Attach in ono day. and it. will close you. know the Bible says that a
With forty or a hundred million peo- against the Holy Ghost. shall never
'
, be forgiven, neither in this world
nor the world to .come. Now, if you
i are a painter and I sipeak against
I your pictures do I not speak against
1 you? lf you are an architect, and
essure itf souls it does not get speak against a. building you put up,
of age and the other is 40 years Of
age, xcia have more confidence in long before they will come? There is
the profeseiont of religion of the one
u. man who says :Aye
tka ars. Here m
10 years of age than the
40 eome one more confident who says
one
years of age. war Tile one who in 50 years. NI hat, at) years? 110
o
professes at 40 years of age has 4Q you propose tlet two generations
years of impulse in the wroug di-
pass off the stage before the world is
1iirolougne
reetion to eorreet, and the child ha. ,
teenvert al? Seppose .y
only ten years In the wrong dimes , raxt 50 years you should walk the
titwit of human Iffe at the end of the
tion to correct. Four times 10 are ,
40. Four times the religious pros. e'ngth 01 I'enneeteania aventle.
peet for the lad that, conies into the Washington, or the length of Broad-
way, New York. In all those walks
you would not find one person, that
you rerognize. Why? All deod or
so changed you would not know
them. In other words. If you post-
pone the redemption of this world
for 50 years you admit that the Moo
away of the two whole generations
shall go off the stage untilessisol and
unsaved. 1 tell you the Church of
Jesus Christ ,canuot cOnSerit to it.
We must pray and toil and lave the
revival spirit. and we must „struggle
to haw the whole world saved be-
fore • the Itlett aud women now hi
middle life part.
"aill." you say, "it is too vast an
enterprise to be contlueeed in so
short a, time." Do yosi know lioW
long it 'would take to have the whole
world if each raan would bring an-
other? It would take ten years. By
it calculation in compound interest,
each man bringing another and that
one another aud that one another,
in ten years the whole earth would
be saved -1911. Before the organs
In our churches tire worn out they
ought to sound the grand march of
the whole earth saved. If the world
is not Rived in the next ten years,
It will be the fault of the Church of
Christ. But it will all depend upon.
the revival spirit. The hook o.nd
line fishing will not do it.
In some of the attributes of the
Lord we seem to share on a small
settle. For insto.nce, in his love and
in his Oindnees. But until of late
foreknotvledge, omnisciento, omiaipre-
sauce, omnipotence, seem to have
been exclueively God's possession.
God, desiring to make the race like
himself, gives us it speeies of the
foreknowledge in the weather prob-
abilities, gives us a species nf omni-
science in telegraphy, gives us a
species of omnipresence in the tele-
phone, gives us a species of omnipo-
tence in the steam power. Discov-
eries and inventions all around about
us, people are asking what next?
I will tell you 'what next. Next, a
stupendous religious movement.
Next, the end of war. Next, the
crash of despotism. Next, the
world's expurgation. Next, the,
Christlike dominion. Next, the
judgment. What becomes of the
world after that. I care not. It will
have suffered and achieved enough
for one world. Lay it up in the dry-
docks of eternity, like an old man-
of-war gone out of service, or fit it
up like a Constellatioii to carry
bread of relief to some other suffer-
ing planet or let it be demolished.
Farewell, dear old world. that began
with paradise and ended with judg-
ment conflagration.
Last summer I stood on the Isle
of Wight, and I had pointed out to
me the place where the Eurydice
sank with 200 or 300 young men
who were in training for the British
navy. You remember when that
training ship went down there was a
thrill of horror all over the world.
Since then there was another train-
ing ship missing, the Atlanta, gene
down with all on board. By order
of Her Majesty's Government vessels
went cruising up and down the At-
lantic trying to find that lost train-
ing ship in which there were so many
young men preparing for the British
rutty. Alas, for the lost Atlanta!
Oh, ray friends, this world is only a.
training shipl On it we are train-
ing for heaven: The old ship sails
up and down. the ocean of immen-
sity, now through the dark waves of
midnight, now through the golden
crested wave of the morn, but sails
on and sails on: After awhile her
work will be done, and the inhabi-
tants 'of hetaten will look out and
fled a world missing. The cry will
that without revivals this world will
never be converted and that a 100
or 200 years without revivals Chris-
tianity will be practically extinct.
It is it matter of astounding arith-
metic. In emit of our modern gen-
erations there are at least 82,000.-
000 children. Now edit 32,000.000
to the world's population and theft
have only 100,000 or 200.000 con-
verted every year. and how long Ile -
fore the world will be saved? Nev-
er-o.bsolutely never!
We talk a good deal about the
good times that are, coming and
about the world's redemption. How
"Ah," says some one, "how much
better it would have been if they
lead staid on shere and fished with
it Iwo!: and line and talten one at
1. time instead of beving this great
excitement and the boat alinoet up -
pet and the net .broleen and liavitig
to call for tell* and getting sopping
wet with the sea."
The theme/ is the beet, the gospel
ie the nee, soeiety is the sea. and a
gs-eitt revival is a whole school
ought in at one sweep of the net.
4 have admiration for that man who
gees out with a hook and line to
1 admire the way be unwinds
the reel and adjusts the bait and
'drops the book in it quiet Once on
It still . afternoon and here catches
gem and there one. but I like also
ai big boat anda large crew and it
het a. mile long and swift oars and
• toteUt sails and a stiff breeze and .a
eat rtutIf Pude of souls brought -so
eat a multitude that you have to
t help to draw it ashore, strain -
in the net to the utmost until it
-breaks Imre and there, letting a few
view., but bringing the great multi -
"tilde inteealiernal safety.
In othc woedi, 1 ataieve in reviv-
als* The great work of eivine. aetr.,
4 ple saved in nenty-four hours when.
stations :Will be born in a day. But
tilere are olsieetions to revivals. Peo-
pte are (Towed to them because the
xitat might get eroken, and if by the
oken, then they take their own
penknivee and slit the net. "They en-
closed a great multitude of fishes,
astd the net brake."
It is sometimes opposed to reviv-
als of religion that those who come
into the church at such times do not
hold out. As long as there is o. gale
a blessing they have their sails up.
Rot as soon as strong winds stop
blowing then they drop into a dead
eaam. But what are the facts in the
ease? In all our churches the vast
'majority of the useful people are
those who are brought in under great
awakenings, and they hold out. Who
are the prominent men in the United
States in churches, in prayer meet -
Zags, in Sabbath schools? For the
most part they are the product of
treat awakenings.
. „ . • .1 1 have noticed that those who are
arought into the kingdom of God
itareisigh revivals have more persist-
ence and more determination in the
Christian life than those who come
*under a low state of religion. Peo-
ale born in an i.ehouse mite-slit:a-but
they will never get over the cold
they caught in the icehouse. A can-
non. ball depends upon the impulse
witb 'which it starts for how far it
------ealaill go, and how siviftly, and the
stop -ter the Oevival force with which
a. sOlii, is started the more far-reach-
ing and fax resounding will be the
execution.
But it is sometimes objected to re-
vivals that there is so much excite-
ment that people mistake hysteria
for religion. We admit that in every
[ravival of religion there is either a
suppressed or a demonstrated excite-
ment. Indeed, if a man can go out
a a state of conderanation into a
state of acceptance with God or see
others go without any agitation of
soul he is in an unhealthy,' morbid
state and is as repulsive and absurd
toe a man who should boast he saw
a. child snatched out from under a
horse's hoofs and felt no agitation
or saw a man rescued from the
fourth storey of a house on Ore and
felt no acceleration of the pulses.
Salvation from sin and death and
teal into life _and peace and heaven
forever is isueh a tremendous thing
that .af a Man tells me that he can
1 , on it without any agitatioa I
clauht-his Christianity. The fact is
that sonalutimea:,...excitement is the
moot ampoirtant possible.'tlifiagz In
co,* of referscitation front dronfiabag
or; freezing the ono idea is to toceite
azolonatioes lagi'02N) conversiom we
are dead. l'Al Vs tlite htosineWl el the
I41lIr43. to riM*11) Wrilettft, iit.Wnkel, rt. -
5 Oa* ta --Kee tate WO. Excfite-
1 is Iad lea goad araerisliog to
it alsilaiiii MI see.. th it wales
ela thee tettede a talk
*enema Vat re 0 wasib Itis Stfir-
,altrdattt eat allig*Cal Wolttrlif. il
I . Itians •hts Peat,t, V IT $00els lie *It -
do 1 not speak against you? 11 a re-
vival be the work ,of the Holy Ghost.
and 1 speak against that revival, do
I not speak against the Holy Ghost?
And tvho speaketh against the Holy
Ghost, says the Bible, he shall never
be forgiven, neither in this world nor
in the world to come. I think some-
times people have made a fatal mis-
take in this direction.
Now I come to the real genuine
cause of objeetions to revivals. That
is the coldness of the objector. It is
the secret and hidden but unmistak-
able cause in every case, a low state
of religion in the heart, wide awake,
consecrated, useful Christians are
never afraid of revivals. It is the
spiritually dead who are afraid of
having their sepulcher molested. The
chief agents of the devil during a
great awakening are always uncon-
verted professOrs of religion. As soon
as Christ's work begins they begin to
gossip against it and take a pail of
water and try to put out this spark
of religious influence, and they try
to put out another spark. Do they
succeed? As well whon Chicago Ives
on fire might some one have gone
out with a garden water pot trying
to extinguish it. The difficulty is
that when a revival begins in a
church it begins at so many points
that while you have doused one an-
xious soul with a pail of cold water
tb.ere are 500 other anxious souls on
fire. Oh, how much better it would
be to lay hold of the chariot of
Christ's gospel and help pull it on
rather than to fling ourselves in
front of the wheels trying to b3ock
their progress. We will not stop the
chariot, but we ourselves will be
ground to powder.
But I think, after all, the greatest
obstacle to revivals throughout
Christendom is an unconverted min-
istry. We must believe that the vast
majority of those who offieiate at
sacred altars are regenerated, but I
.suppose there may float into the
ministry of all the denominations of
Christians men - whose hearts have
never been changed by grace. They
are all antagonistic to revivals. How
did they get into the ministry? Per-
haps some of them, chose it as a. re-
epectable profession. Perhaps some
chose it as a means of livelihood.
Perhaps some of them were sincere,
but were mistaken. As Thomas
Chalmers void, he had been many
yeats preaching tlie gospel before his
.heart had boom ehanged, and as
Many, ministers ef the gospel declaze
they were pteaching and had been or -
Wiest te sacred orders yews axid
Tame %dors their beetle were ranee -
*meet. Graelfros hiedwant a set-
ae= %este& ter %emu of we who
sobefster at fie *Mai tates She are-
sette*. leilaistry mo as present tamper,
aerate id pleb; dalutend will never
a oitatiaiattl wit& nerixaik, Vlar
'upon tealletheat OM*f at afeefsea et* tite Ofeer
be: "Where is that earth where
Christ died and the human race was
emancipated? Send out fleets of
angels to find the missing craft."
Let them sail up and down, cruise
up and down the ocean of eternity,
and they will catch not one glimpse
of her -mountain masts or her top-
gallants of floating cloud. Gone
down! The troining ship of a world
perished in the last tornado. Oh,
let it sot be that she goes down with
all on board, but rather may it be
said ef her passengersas it was
eaid of the drenched passengers of
the Alexandrian • eorn ship that
entailed let° the breakers of Melita,
'allay all escaped este to lanai"
(inc of alany.
Uirff CLIPle-Willist does /Ow ,
OF TTIE NAUGHTY BOY
I DON'T KILO, OUT THE TRAITS, THAT
I GET I-1114 THAT REPUTATION,
attitude be ever at Hisaeet receiving His latter part of February he was re- ,
word (Luke x, 39), for see how Mary of inoved to Grace Hospital. There he
liethany uuderstood as even Peter and gradually failed until last Wedoese
Jam did not, day, when be became unconscious.
Lossoa 1L -The tatimpbal entry The late Mr. A. W. Ross was the
telatie eel, 1-17). Golden Text. "Bless- eldest, son of Donald Ross. J.P., 414
el is he that cometh in the Llama of the was born in Nairn, Out:, March. 25,
Lord" Math. xxi, 0). Ile, in this lesson. 1846. Had he lived until to -day Mr.
fetfilled the prophecy in 'Seel!. ix, 9. that Ross would, therefore. have been. 56
Ziefee King would come sitting epee an yeas 01 age. Ue reeeived his early
ass' colt. In due time Ile voll fulfill es-- education at the leardsville lligh
every prophecy contenting Hun just as School. and at the Termite Noe -mal
elrY other propltecy of Zeeheriale and
School, obtaining at the )atter =tie
literally. Ile wept over Jerusalem be- tution, a, firstaless eertiacate.
cause of her unbelief aud because of the then entered Toronto Ihaversity and
trues that would therefore come upon graduated in 1874 with the degree Ot
B.A. He became headmaster of the
Cornwall High School in 1869' aud
three years later was appointed 1114
epector of Public Schools in Glatt
garry. He was it law student WIMP
los went to Manitoba in 1879 and in
the following year was called to tall
bar there. In 1880 he was elected
beneher nail for several years pree,
tised Ids profession in Winnipeg.
At an early age Mr. Ross became
interested in real estate in Manitobe
and invested extensively. At thie
time British Columbia. was a wild
and undeveloped country and etr4
Ross Was quick to see the great pose
eibilities of the future. Ile continue
to invest in lands there. In the mete
ter of building railways Mr. Rose
took the Initiative and was bistro-,
mental In interesting others in the
development of the country. Ile bee
came thrice president of the Mani-
toba. and Northwestern Railway,
Company and in 1881 became aSSO4
elated with the Howland s.yndleate 18
its offer to build the Canaclien Pae
eine Railway.
Mr. Ross entered polities in 18781
when he was elected as an Independe
cut Conservative to represent Spring,*
field, now Selkirk. In the Manitoba
Legislature. In 1882 he was re-eleete
cd by acclamation for the same rid-
ing and in - 1887 was the Liberal -
Conservative choice of the electorate
of Lisgar for the House. of Cora,
mons. Ire continued to represent
this constituency mail 1800. wilful
he retired. He leaves a widow and
two sons.
bee. Unbelief is ever His great grief.
Lessem IlloeGreelis seeking Jean
(John a, 20•331. Golden Teat, "Wo
would see Jesus" (John xi', 21). Wheat -
ever we read the word of God or hear it
read, this word of this golden text should
be our heart's cry. But neither Jew
uur Greek eau see Him with profit unless
they ram Him as the corn of etheat flyine
for them, tied thou, seeing Him as our
substitute and being leaved by Ms bleed,
we must glorify Clod In loving uot (fur
lirce unto. death (Rev. xii, 111.
LESSON Vie -Christ silences the Pbar-
isees (Math. xxii. 34-46). Gold= Text,
"What Welt ye of Christ?" (Math. xxia
42.) The great question is not one of
peeing tribute or comparing the eowe
mandments. but wbat does may heart say
et Christ?. What is my relation to Ube?
Have I aceepted ibini as my own pee.
amid Saviour? Do I then own HIM as
my Lord autl Master? Then am I !masa
Ily one with Him in looking for the glory
that is awaitino Him as Son of Da.vid,
King of Israel:Xing of Mugs and Lord
of lords.
LESSON V. -Parable of the ten virgins
(Math. ear, 1-13). Golden Text, "Watch
therefore, for ye know ueither the tlay
nor the hour wherein thh Son of Mao
comeat" (Math. xxv, 13). The Unto will
canto when the cry shall sound forth
from an innumerable multitude, "Let us
be glad and rejoice foul give honor to
Him, tor the marriage of the Lamb is
ague, and His wife bath made bereelf
ready" (Rev. xix, 7). There will then be
those who will await Min as Ire returns
from the wedding (Luke xli, 46).
LESSON VL -Parable of the talents
(Math. xxv, 14-30). Golden Text, "So
then every one of us shall give account
of himself to God" (Rom. xis-, 12). While
salvation is Molliy of grace, the free gift
of God and cannot by any one be earned
or deserved (Rom. ill, 24; la 5; Eplo
Titus Hi. 5). there are good works ex-
pected from all who are saved, works
wIdell Ile has prepared for us to walk In,
fruit to be borne to His glory, and for
this we must appear before the judgment
seat of Christ to give account ot our
steemnisbip and be rewarded according
to our works (Eplo 11, 10; Rev. xxii, 12).
LESSON N'11.-Tbe Lord's supper
(Math. XXII, 17-30). Golden Text, "This
do in remembrance of Mc" (Luke xxii,
19). Having kept the last passoveriIs-
rael's great annual feast commemorating
their deliverance 'from Egypt and point-
ing forward to the kingdom, He institut-
ed the supper to take the place of the
passover for His disciples till He shall
come again (I Coo xi, 26), the bread rep-
resenting His body and the wine His
blood, by which -i. e., by His sacrifice for
us -we receiving Him have eternal life.
LESSON VIM -Jesus in Gethsemane
(Math. xxvi, 30-46). Golden Text, "Not
My will, but Thine, be done" (Luke xxii,
42). We should ever consider and pray
to understand more fully the sorrows
which we may never in this life fully un-
derstand. Seeing even Peter, James and
John heavy with sleep at such a time
and remembering His word, "What,
could ye not watch with Me one hour?"
and also the admonition in Rom. xiii'11-
14, it becomes us to pray earnestly to be
always awake to His interests and live
as He did in the Nrill of God.
Leessort 1X. -Jesus betrayed (John
144). Golden Text, "The Son of
Man is betrayed into the hands of sin-
ners" (Math. xxvi, 45). That some one
should betray Christ did not make the
betrayer any less guilty (Luke xxii, 22;
Mark 21). Judas, might have been a
true diseiple if he had been willing, but
with all his privileges and opportunities
he chose the devil's service. Truly "the
heart is deceitful above all things and
desperately wicked". (jar. xvii, 9). We
should not look around to find wicked
hearts in others, but consider what we
might have been ILO done but for the
grace of God. •
LESSON . X. -Jesus and Caiaphas
/Math,: xxvi, 57-68). Golden, Text, "Thou
art alle Clirist, the Son of the Living
God" (Math. xvi, 16). As we see Jesus
yielding Himself to be bound and led as
' the people willed,and as we see Him
who is indeed God's Great High Priest
: submitting to be ill treated by him who
was recognized by man as high priest, We
should leant meekly to bear a great deal
in this present life even from those who
stand high in the anima but may feel
led cruelly to misjudge and ill treat es.
LESSON XL -Jesus and, Pilate (Luke
1
xxiii. (3-26). Golden Text, "I.. find no:
'•
i
, fault n this man" irate' •xxiii, 4).
1. Though it were possible for us to be as
faultless as Christ Himself. we would
not therefore be .sortto escape ill treat-
Perseeution for righteousness'
sok e be the privilege of the saints
till Je'stis comes. But there is great cc's-
. fort in the words. of Jesus to Pilate,
couldest have no power against
Me eseat it were gives thee from
t-" tJohn .xiN. 111.
LE"--ztiff Mg. -Jesus crucified and bor-
ied (Luke xxiii, 35-1.54 Golden Text,
.
"Christ died for our sins according to the
Scriptures" (I Cor. xv, 3). Wecannot
understand nor enter into the agony 01
the crucifixion and those six bolas on the
cross when He bore our „sins ia His own
, body, but we can believe that the Son of
God loyed me and •gaee Himself for me,
' and we can say from the heart, "His
own self bare my; sins In His own aodo,
eI
rreir IN sine= AT.LIANCIO
Walser Displeased Over the Almaden.
want of Italian Army Manoeuvre*.
London, March 25. -There note
seems no doubt of a hitch 18 nego-
tiations in the Triple Alliance, but it
Is impossible to say exactly what
has gone awry. The current report
in diplomatic quarters places the
point of friction at Rome, and there
are indications of the early retiree
mere of Signor Prinetti, the Italian
Minister of Foreign Affairs, The MO
that the Italian War Department,
yielding to pressure and much wore
ried by the Minister of Finance, has
again decided that there shall be no
great army manoeuvres this year,
timer have something to do with the
diplomatic disturbances. This will be
the third year in succession that the
manoeuvres have been itbondoned.
Emperor William of Germany is sits -
permitted over this an the ground
that the military efficiency of an ally
is imperilled.
TragedyNear St. Boniface.
Winnipeg, March 25. -Yesterday
morning Onesirne Falcon, was found
dead on the Seine Myer, under a
bridge, about a mile northeast of
St. Boniface. The bridge is about
25 or 30 feet above the ice, and it
is surmised he fell over the railing at
'the side, which is about three feet in
height. He had come from his home
18 Starbuck to Winnipeg, to collect
genie money which a iawyer had col-
lected lor hirn, but found it had been
garnisheed, leaving him without a
cent. He stayeet with different friends
until Saturday night, when he was
seen m St. Boniface about 11 o'clock
a little the worse for liquor, and
looking for a place to stay. He
leaves a wife and family. An in-
quest ,will be held this afternoon.
I Uncle Sam Now owns Them AU.
Washington, March 25. -The Span-
ish Minister, Duke D'Areos, Saturday
received from the Secretary of the
Treasury, a warrant for 3100,000,
ant the , United States received the
final cession of "Any and all islands
of the Philippine Archipelago lying
outside of the line described in arta
cle 3 of the treaty of peace between
, Spain and the "United States of Dec.
19, 189S!." At the same time a pro-
tocol was signed by Mr. Hay and
Duke D'Arcos, exchanging aetifica-
'Lions of the treaty of cession. The
specific purposes .of the transaction is
to add the islands of Cagayan, Sulu
and Siaitu to the possessions of the
United States.
vii.0.7141 fee, see Isis ereeeessee ma.ame on the tres" (Gal. ij, 20; I Pet. O;24);
esee, apessalso-oo, be likes any- and, accepting Hhn we eitii trust Rim
(king /19'n )avgliTt 1144"-Ckicagn 11,fgair kgerd'aelen teri0siass"abeasle tieraltd*elo;aikrultE:stkEra;
'Esteem
Us say te *OW Sit _
efe May weed Them Wiless He es a men -
The Ihree Attitudes of the Chitd-The
righting Ono Is Ilia Most Troublesome
for Those Who Have Its Training At
Mend,
Dr, George E. Dawson's lecture at
the Art Museum, yesterday was 011
"The Child That Resists." sags The
Springfield Republican. He said he
part: There are three things that
child may do with the world that
surrounds him, . He outY eleProerlate
it; he znay run away from it; Ile may
fight t. Tbeze three types of actioa
suut up the efforts of a. Illan'S Wee
frOin, the cradle to the grave. Thea
spring from three emotions, the meet
fundamental and the most difficult to
coneroI. Tbese are sympathy, feer
and anger. Whet it child sym-
pathizes with. what he fears, what
he gets mad at -this will determine
very largely what he than become,
The training of these einotiows
should. therefore, be the priumr,Y alus
of every parent eud teacher. TOW
fact has not been generally reeoguig-
ed. Aud because it has not the
world is full of men and women who
selneathize unwisely, light unwisely,
and live miserably.
Of these three attitudes that a
child may telta toward the world,
the fighting or resisting attitude is
the most troublesome for those who
have the government. of children. Of
the childreu reported on in our studw
50 per Mt. of the boys and 56 per
cent girls are dillicult to goven be-
cause they resist othee people. This
resistance takes the form of ells-
obedieuee, stubbornness. anger, jeal-
ousy and fighting. Now mime, par-
ents think that such resistance is the
worst possible offense. Much of what
is called training it thilel up in the
way be should go consists in crush-
ing out Ids spirit of resistance.
Resistance in not in itselt it bad
thing. Moreover, what is true ot
the -ulnae es true of its parts. Dis-
obedience, stubbornness. auger, jeal-
ouse and fighting are not in there -
selves bad things. There are condi-
lions under whist a human being
may have to be disobedient, or stub-
born, or angry. or' jealotes, or com-
bative to preserve his food. And If
this be true it can be sai eiga Of
wisdont in a parent or of virtue in
it child if the latter be made abso-
lutely passionless. It is rather it
sign of wisdotn in the parent, and ot
virtue in the child when the latter
is capable of being disobedient, stub-
born, angry, jealous or combative at
the right time. and only then. And
this is the legitimate aini of it
%edict's training, so far AS it relates
; to resistance.
The problem, then is first to deter-
mine when o. child should resist and
when it should not. This will de-
pend upon the child and the oh--
cilmstances that provoke resistance,
and must be left to the wisdom and
conscience of the parent. The °ilia
general criterion is that of the
child's inalienable rights as a bu-
man being, mid the equally inalien-
able rights of others concerned%
There is here no place for "obedi-
ence for its own sake." Obedience
has no "sake." There is no merit
in curtailing a. child's disobedience
or his stubborness, or his anger, or
his combativeness unless his own
or somebody else's well being is ti.V
stake. In the next place, the probe
lezu is to keep the child's life healthy,
in order that its impulses of resist-
ance may take the right direction; to
get rid of positively harmful typeit
of resistance -and nourish positively,
beneficial types of resistance and to
transform in general the struggle foX
i life on a physical plane into a. strum.
gle for life on an intellectual and
moral plane. How may this be
done? The mothers Nvho have had a
part hi, this study hove given the
following suggestions, to zuost of
which I submit lolly: (1) Attention
to hygienic condition surrounding
the child; (2) widening the ashild's
horizon by intellectual training; (3)
appealing to reason; (4) appealing
to sympathy; (5) trying to awaken
some other impulse; (6) trying not
to arouse harmful opposition; (7)
offering alternatives in giving com-
mands; (8) being patient; (9) whip-
ping. Such methods, used discriaa-
inetingly, according to the type of
resistance, and directed toward the
end indicated above, would certainll.
do much to 'make the resisted child
what he should be -wisely disobedi-
ent, wisely stubborn, wisely passion-
ate, wisely combative.
flections in the Northwest.
Winnipeg, -Match. 25. -Three bye
-
elections for vacant seats in • the
alarthivest Territory Assembly were
held Saturday. Bennett, the formes:,
member, has 225 majority in West
Calgary. Lake is re-elected for Grim -
fell by about 550 inajority. At last
reports Ilitcheock was leading fa
Moose Jaw;
There Will Be no Canadian Soldiers.
Ottawa, March 25. -Canada Will
mot 'have any military 'representation
at the opening of tbe Australia
Commonwealth Parliament. Sta. Wta.
trid Laurier, in ,a *able naessage
Hen. XiiIward,-tallon, has expressed
reg -ret over. .Iiis etiability to sane le
Elasadiaid nmmIl18vy guar&
ITEMS OF INTEREST. 'r
Leicestershire is the greatest greats
produthag county in the United Kluge
dole.
Norway, Servia, Greece and Bul-
garia are the only European nations
Whiclabeve but one house of Wile.
ment
It is estimated that in the world
there are at least 8,000 men, \role?
Mid children who gain their liding by,
pocket picking.
On Wall street Southern Pacific ie
nicknamed "slow pun" Ontario aad
Western, "that old =rimer Sugar,
"sweetness." and American. Steel and e
'Wire, "swipe."
Saeob Ries says that 000 01 the worst
features a tenement louse lite Is the
sleeplessness aused by mixed ale hi-
larity. Drunken revelry hi oue apart-
ment keeps the whole house awake.
Two Belgian specialists who were
sent to Glasgow to study the plague.
geestiou decided that under prop=
pituitary etenditions the plague is not 11
a serious menace in any European.
eity.
Tim steel manufactories of the Unit-
ed States, width two decade e ago
Were in their infaney, today centrel
the Markets ot the world and dictate
either directly or Indirectly the prieee
Of troll and steel In all Countries.
Accoreitig to Malte-Brun, the Meet
aecurate authority of his time, the
Mahal= of the world in 1804 was
040,000.000. At the end of 1900 it IS
estimated at 1.500,000,000. Tee pops -
ration in 1800 was probably About 636-'
000,000.
The raittlug laws of RuSela allele;
the taking up of mining claims iudire.
ethaluately by Russians or by foreign, -
e -s. The only persons not allowed
Ithis are Jews. elergyinee and ?eremite
not in possession of their civil rights
In their own eouutree
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Sultan Ob4joors to 'Bicycle*.
The Sultan of Turkey objects to
bicycle races, not because he is
afraid of anyone getting hurt, but
because he fears he may get hurt
himself. Crowds are not welcome in
the neighborhood of his sacred per-
son. When a number of people are
gathered together it becomes a. riot,
and they make it easier for the ca-
liph's subjects to conspire together,
and, perhaps, to arrange attempts
against their sovereign's life. This
feeling on the part of the Turkish
authorities has acquired fresh en-
ergy sineet.the assassination of King
Efunabert. Further races in Con- •
-stsaitinople haVe, therefore, been for-
bidden by the police.
STAGE GLINTS.
Mme. Bernhardt has played 112 at.
ferent roles,
Fanny Rice Is presenting it Nell
Gwynn play in vaudeville,
hliss Agues Lane of Chicago te the
only American member of the eom-
jenny traveling with eftne. Bernhardt.
"Alice of Old Vincennes," with Mlss
• Virginia Mimed in the star role, will
have an early eneeluetlop next seaSerg
11 is Mid that Olga .NethersOle will
be compelled to undergo a very seriOne
operation before she MU Wipe to re -
Mime acting.
Melba says the will not sing in Amer-
Icit next year, but will go, with her
own opera coMpany, tO AuStmlia, ber
native land, for a tour.
William H. tfaeDonald, the baritone
of the Beaconing: will deliver lectures
en thd art of singing Zilliegetelhat the
cities his company wilt OA thietibeer
"IP
son.
Charles Barnard, author of "The
County Fair," has written another
rural play„ "'Mountain Laurel," tuad
Archie Boyd Will take the principal
part In it
Selma Herman, wbo Is the heroine
in "A Young Wife." receives the lox-
geet salary paid to any leading actreest
not a member of a New York stock
company, so it is sald.
The first and only Portuguese thea-
ter in the United States was opened
at New Bedford. Mass., a short time
ago by the Tournee Dramatica sympae
thla (Portuguese Dramatic club).
THE TURF RECORD.
McKinney, 2:1134, will make the eat -
son at San Jose, CaL
A green mare in California bas beeu
named MorMon Girls
Hamilton .Bros., Bellefontahae, 01
now own Alice .1, 2:0934.
Red Rover, 225, at Darlington, Wis.,
Aug. 28, is said to be by Merry Brooks
a son of Meadow Brook.
Charley Doble is wintering at Apala-
chin, N. L. and may open a public
training stable at Syracuse.
Boydello, 2:14%, who had an memo
severely sprained at Santa Rosa, gay
last Ally,. has entirely recovered.
eh A 4 -year-old by Oro Wilkes, 2:11, out
of Mary Best, 2:1214, owned in Cali-
fornia, is said to be a great prospect.
At the last meeting of the North
Penn Trotting association, Philadel-
phia, 80 names were enrolled on the
membership list.
Sohn S. Bretton, the well known
East St. Louis horseman, is suffering
from an attack of paralysis. He is
reported to have lost the use of his
legs.
The old Spokane (Webb.) track be-
came so valuable that it was cut into
buildindiots, and now borsemen are
looking for capital to build a new
track.
Philadelphia now has the honor of
having more directors of horse asso-
ciations than any other city, and there
are still five vacancies in the Road
Drivers' club.
' Good Farin Disinfectant.
One of the best disinfectants for
the stable, drains, poultry yaids or
contaminated ground is to dissolve a
pound of copperas and a pound of
bluestone in four gallons of boiling
water, adding four ounces of sul-
phuric aaid. This mixture may have
twice as much water if used once a ,
day for a week, but it is better to
use it somewhat strong for the first
two or three applications. It will
destroy the germs of all diseases.
A. Touch of Nature.
We have a weakviess for a porch
over the front door rpf the home and
for a, pretty vine to tre,i1 OYEZ' the
porch -a clematis, a creeper, a
bier rase or even just common old
inereteg glories.
e
VICTORIA'S ESCAPES.
In 1839 a madman was arrested for
trying to, break into Buckingham pal-
ace. , •
June la 1840, Edward 'Oxford fired_
twice at tbeiqueen wbile,drivina He
was gent to an insane asalum.
may 30, 1842, John Fratielj fahot at
the.Oeen while driving; sentencedto
bang ; sentence commuted to life im-
prisonment at queen's request.
July .3, 1842 Jelin Beata pointed pis-
tol at the o.neezOand tried to fire; got -
seven years' imprison:neat.
In 1849 a man •rfained Hamilton geed
at Ike Nesen.
„ .
'Yob'. 29, 1870, ekritiver Oheonnor ,drew
a pistol en the 411111831 bit the &my -it
Bueklagbasa palace.
In 1888 Jledetlek MacLean Atoll Itt-
tte greaviweirti.