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B B U S
i'Co T.
HOW PkLACJ3 WAS TA
{EN.
Chinese Asked for an Arnnistice and
Then Attacked Legations.
A dospatail to the London Morning
Bost from Patna, a, via Chefo°, says (,
that the Tsnng•ii-Yarnen on August
12 regaosted. a conference with the
Ministers, ' with the view to bringing
about pease, the request was refused,
as there was nobody on either side
who. was authorized to treat, That
• night there was the longest fusillade
of the siege, the firing lasting twelve
hours. On August 13 the Tsult-1i-Ya-
men begged to he excused trona hold-
ing a oonforonoe, saying the numbers
were too busy. Later' the board wrote
that they had forbidden further firing
on the Legations, and that they would
court-martial anyone who disobeyed,
but that evening tilers was the sharp-
eat general firing. Many shells fell
In the Legation. Fifteen hundred Am-
ericans attacked the Imperial palace
on Aug. 15, and captured the four
courts. The American flag is flying
on the 'imperial granary. The Imper-
ial -Bank has beim looted.
GAN. GASEL ISE :S REPORT.
A. dsspatoh fndm London says :--Gen.
Gaselee, the commander of the Bri-
tish forces at Pekin, has telegraphed
to the War Office as follows :—
" At
—"At a 'confereuee, August 12, it
was agreed that the allies should con-
eentrate within five miles of Pekin,
August 14, and the assault should be-
gin August 15. The attack, however,
oommenoed barly lin the morning of
August' 14, and our troops had to make
a forced maroh of 15 miles from Tung -
chow in great beat.
' We were on the extreme left, and
attacked the soaith-east gate of the
Chinese city. There was practically no
opposition, as we were not expected
at that point
o Tito Indian troops broke clown and
rushed the gate and I entered with
oavairy and guns. I then Sept ot11or
cavalry end the Punjab Infanty to iilte
Temple of Heaven to secure our left
flank and Damping ground, and with
the otber corps pushed on towards the
Legations,
At 3 o'cloek we got on the canny
opposite the water gate and: were sig-
nalled from the wall held by the Le-
gationers.
1, with aportloli of thio staff and
seventy Endieus,rushed across fhb al-
meat dry moat and entered through
Che water.gate without doss. Wo found
all well In the Legations, Macdonald
immediately showed me around the po-
sitions with the view of further ac-
tion.
"In the meantime oar field artillery
had been brought up to bombard the
central gate of the Tartar city; but a
ottie by the Ainericans and Russians
a the garrison along the wall antici-
pated the bombardment, and the gate
fell into OUT Innate
"Two field guns were then brought'
into the Legation, and the rest were
soot back to the .11'emple of Heaven.
Ababoa't five' in the atteinooa the Am
erioans, under Gen. Chaffee, entered
the Legation, and than we moved on
towards the central gate of thie Tar-
tar city for Me night.
"By nightfall we had four hundred
men in the Legation."
'.Here apparently soon words are
missing.
"During the evening at the Temple
of Heaven: we were engaged, and, af-
ter inflicting heavy losses, we occupied
khie south gate of the Chinese city."
DE WET BURIES HIS GUNS. WILL REATTEST THEM.
Gets Back In Orange River Colony hgilloia Department's Instruetione to
With 300 Men. Col. otter.
A despatch from Landon, says:— A despatch from Ottawa, 'says. The
The Was 0ifiae has ,received from period of service of the first contia-
Laird Roberts the following:— gent will terminate in October, and in,
"Paget reports Erom Hammanskraal reply to Ooi. Otter's request for Ire
a r tL doubtless be advised
that linden 1 orvell engaged Grabler's et uc ens, he will
(rear guard all day yesterday. Grobler to reattest the men for further
was driven back east of Pienaar's short term in the field should tboy be
river, Baden-Powell aoeupied 'the required. In official oiroles it is not
railway station of that name. During constilared any of the men—mush as
the fight-Baden-Powell's advance their friends would like to sea theta in
farce end that of the enemy galloped Canada again—will oak for their dis-
into cab °their, the Rbodesians losing charge, although they would be en
Colonel Sp,rekley and four men killed titled to -It. There is just a possibil-
and seven wounded. Many of the ity that the regiment will be ordered
Boers were killed or wounded. They Jaime before October.
ware at Cy0erkuil this morning. Lieut. Ecclestone, in °barge of th:e
Pioneer and Barkman were closely Canadian postal corps in South Africa,
purse ng them. writing to Dr. Coulter, Deputy Post-
"11'wsee•ma certain that De Wet, master -General, states that Sergt. R.
finding it hopeless to make his way Johnston, of Winnipeg, a member of
eastward, has recrossed the Magalies- the postal staff, has been invalided to
berg with u few wounded, with the Netley after a severe attack of enteric
intention of returning to the Orange fever. Murray, of the -London divi-
lirvew Colony. Ht is in a very dif- sign, has been detailed for duty with
Percent condition from that when ho the Canteh an -Mounted Rifles, and has
left Betbleheml with six or sight guns .rendered such good service that be has
and 2,000 men. His guns ,have most- been recommended for promotion to
ly been buried and his personal fol- the rank of sergeant -major. India ham
lowing cannot bo more then 300. sent a.postal contingent of Your dusky
It is' stated that Steyr with u natives to South Africa to look after
&mall bodyguard has crossed Pie-
nnar's river on his way to join Kru-
ger at Maohadodorp.,,
WILL POUR IN TROOPS.
Capture of Pekin Makes No Differ-
enee to Russia.
A despatch from Odessa says:—The
capture •of Pekin will not make the
slightest difference iu bile regular de-,
apatah od Ruston troops to the far
Bast. The military authorities eon-
tinue to charter extra troopships in
every available quarter. Fifteen trans-
ports are now in berth here, destined
for the East. The suburban camps•
and city bar.raeks are filled with
troops arriving for embarkation,
Tnoops from :a tllarnber of the central
and northern Governments are ar-
riving here on account of the congas-
, tion of military traffic on the Siber-
ian railway.
STEP NEARER ST. HELENA,
Pani Kruger"s ProelamationCounter
to That of Roberts.
A deepttnla tract Loudon, says :—
Plesident Kruger, ` according to a
despatch --from Lorenzo Marques to
the Doily Express, hoe issued a pro.•
ol;rmallou counter to the latest pro-
o1ctrnalleon. issued by Lord Roberts,.
Tho Transvaal President says:—
"It will help you nothing to lay
dawn your arms or to leuvis, the eon
masixioes, Every :step homeward
insane a step nearer St. Helena,"
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CHANGE OP FRONT.
Sueeese oi' The Allies Has Brough
Mandarins to Time:
A deapateli from Landon says:—A
despatch from llom,g Kong to the Cen-
tral
olitrval News says the Saws of the 'sac-
oars of the attics has s t;'ecail rapidly
l L Y
tit Soul la' China, and has caused a won-
derful oliange 111 the attitude of the
Mandarins, who are tow vary ener-
getic iu protecting fotelgrtsra,
the India ,work. The Australian postal
men gait alerting lettere to get
into the figb'ting line, witb the result
that they had to be replaced with an-
other postal staff from Australia, The
Canadian postal corps stands as the
pioneer contingent from trio colonies
and their good work is warmly cam..
mended.
LIEUT. CORDUA GUILTY.
Sentence on the Aeeused Postponed
for the Present.
A despatch tram Pretoria says:—
The tial of Lieut. Cordua, formerly
of the Transvaal artillery, on the
charges of being concerned in the plot
to kidnap General Lord Roberts, was
concluded to -day. The prisoruer was
2011041 guilty of all the counts in the
indictment, against him, but sentence
was deferred until the findings of the
court should be confit•mod by Lord
Roberts.
Col, Godfrey, the judge, in Humming
up, caused a sensation by declaring
that a violation of parole was punish-
able with depth.
A period of 43 minutes was occupi-
ed lin oonsiderilig the verdict.
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BOERS ARE 1YIOBILIZING,
Botha, With 8,000 Butgheee, is at
Mach adodorp.
A despatch tram Twyfetaaar, says;
Through aecret intelligenoe agents the
Britian authorities learn that Gen.
Louie Belem, the coriimender-in-chief
of the Boer (•groes; Gen, Luau Meyer,:
Lite ocanmander of the Orange Fine
State farces; and Gen. Sohnikbnrger,
Vice -:resident of the Transvaal. Re-
public, with eight thousand Beers,
have asseernbled at. Mnelrudodorp, get -
anti ty
en-arolly underabood to be the headgnar-
Lars of I'reaident Kruger, on the. Pre-
tarie-Delagoa bay railroad, with the
Whole hoer artillery, including the
heavy pieces formerly at Pretoria,
NEWS SUMIVARY,
CANADA,
The Hull -Ottawa retie f fend has
been closed,
'l1illarney, Men., bud a destreetive.
hailstorm 'I'bursday,
(Twenty-two delegates from Kamm
are at Regina, N. W, T.
The steamer Mayflower was burned
at Penetang yesterday,
Camerou'p warehouseat Rroeleviule
has been destroyed by fire,
)dsrzeesters aro wanted at 7iartney,
Deloraliie and Carberry, Man.
Hamilton had a lively electric
storm, Thursday morning.
Labor candidates will figure in
the municipal ejections at London.
Henry 1'Lpar, prostrated by a eun-
etrake at London last )Prlday, is dead.
Vivien Rnrpprecht, a Gorman, com-
mitted suici.do on his wife's crave
Norwich.
G. T. R. Thieturea have been awitid
ed a gold medal at the Paris Ex-
position.
There hos been 24 business failures
thin week in Canada, against 26a year
ago.
Mr. Arthur Dawdney, of Harvey
township, was struck by llgbtning and
killed.
Nathaniel Parsons, of Jarvis, Ont,
was fatally injured by a threshing
machine.
The Canadian Horticultural Society,
in session at Montreal, will Meet next
year ab Zondon.
A Bolton dietrict farmer has sold a
11 months' old calf to E. S, Itelly of
Yellow Springs, Ohio, for $1,000.
Thirty Icelandic emigrants from the
Narthavestern States, passed through
Winnipeg Saburday fax Edmonton.
Aba'aham Creamer, carpenter, was
kill by a fall awhile at work at Port
Hope an. Thursday.
French -Acadian in convention. at
Ariobat, C. 13., sent a loyal message
to the Queen on Friday.
Tito seventh annual meeting of the
Nabiontel Council of Women of Canada
has closed at Victoria, B. O.
Lt: Col. Stone, who has resigned the
inspeotoalabip of artillory for Canada,
sails for England to -morrow.
Capt. William Wood, of the barge
Massa, was fatally crashed by a
freight train at Point St. Charles,
Que.
nesse Merriam, 18y .ears old, was
struck by a L, E. & D. R. R. train
at Blenheim, Ont., and fatally in-
jured.
Prof. Robertson, of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, is at Grimsby
in conneclion with the eold. storage
export of fruit.
Neepawa, Man., farmers expect 20
bushels to the acre. Receipts at the
elevators there will. reach 400,000
bushels.
The charge of murder preferred
against three residents of Perkin's
Mills, Que., bas been dismissed at
Hull.
James Patton, Jr., charged with
personating at the polls at Hamilton,
brought back from Buffalo, was ilia -
charged yesterday.
Mrs. H. le Hawkins, of Hamilton,
is suing to have A• A. Sprague of
Winnipeg, remeved as executor of
her h'usband's estate, valued at n11,000,
N. De Struve, Russian Consul at
Montreal, and A. Paikrt, Hungarian
Agricultural Commissioner, are'visit-
ILag the Brandon, Mao., experimental
farm and district.
IDr. J. G. Evans, of ls.ingstan, claims
ire discovered the use of bioxide of
Isodium as an absorbent of poisonous
gases and which the French Academy
is now making a furore over.
The Ogilvie Milling Company now
estimate Manitoba's wheat yield at
20,000,000 bushels. The full orale, with
the acreage under cultivation this
season, should have been 40,000,000.
A Rochester woman, otaLmLng to be
the mother of young Marshall, drown.•
ed, off the steamer North Xing, made
a demand for' his wages and cloth-
ingiat Kingston on Thursday, It was
refused.
Rev. H. P. Wbiclden, -late pastor
of Galt Baptist Church, and now a
professor of Brandon-C'ollege,, was
given a farewell and presentation at
Galt yesterday.
A yacht, with a party of live Crown
St. Simon, Que., was capsized in the
lower St, Lawrence yesterday and
three of the party drowned, Capt.
Foster, P. and C. Morita,
Ald. J. B, Oke, of Pette,rboro', will
go to England far Lite Dominion Gov-
ernment, to investigate the com-
plaints .reg'ardiug the condition in
whish fruit shipped in cold oLorege
reaches the British market.
The Department of Trade and
,!Commerce hats just issued another
past of its .report for 'Janie, covering
the unrevised returns of imports and
exports for the past year, tariff
ohatnges in other oountelee, etc.
TheItaitvay Committee of the Brit-
ish Calumbin Legislature has thrown
out lbet,trppplicati.°n of the Lake Ben-
nett Railway Coanpany for a char-
ter to build an opposition road to
the White Pasts 1'tatinv,ay from D.yea
to Bennett,
Lieutenant Gordon 13. Johnson,
ltesyal iliogiueer, son of Mayor John-
son, of Belleville, hos been ordered by
()able 'trout the Adiattant-General of
the army, It/mike it Join his regi-
anoint at 011athaan,. Sngland,
September 1st,
UNITED STATES,
Proposed loprovepaaalla Io Lincoln
Park, Obleago, will east over 01,000,-
000.
Over nn20,000,000 111 gold was shipped
to nlits:ape ft'om the United States
lastweek.
All Chicago is being decorated for.
l,isa Grand Army of the Republic con-
ven tiow,
Susscdents:ailil professors of the Uni-
versity of Chicago, favour ,the shirt
waist for men.
Over 1,000 har:ses were sbipped from
New Orleans yesterday for the lira -
army Ip Saulb Africa. .
The Libarby Cangress of the A'm-
erioan League of Anti -Imperialists at
Indianatpalis yesterday, endot•eed
Bryan.
Judge Taft, chiet of the United
States Philippine Commission, reparis
n "sal:isfactary condition of things on
the whole,"
The year ending June 30 was the
banner: year for all western railroads
according to President Hill, of the
Noe lhern Paaoifie.
Charles Geiger, a painter, was run
over and killed by a train at Lock-
port, N.Y., Thlursday. The step of
a carstrluck the ladder on whish Gel-
ger wee at work.
The court at Grand Rapids, Mob.,
is being ahked to dissolve the partner-
ship of lite Buckley & Douglas Lum-
ber Company, of Manister. The inter.
eat involved amount to 04,000,000,
lneluding heavy lumber interests in
Canada,
FIGHTING INANTI,
Flying Column Succeeds In Reaching
Kunlassi.
A desipatclt from Beikwai, says:—
The ooi.amu under Lieut. -Col. Bur-
roughs, consisting of 740 men, which
started for Knmssst on the 4th, re -
Named here yesterday, hosing rein-
forced the Rumassi garrison and re -
victualled it far two months.
Three old stockades erected by the
enemy near Kumaes't were attacked
and destroyed. The enemy fought
desperately, and waited to..meet the
bayonet charge.
On, the night of Aug. 7, Lieut: Ool.
Burroughs made On attack on the
Ashanti war camp, one mile from Mi-
mosa.-
rised and
Tha enemy were sat p
1
lenge numbers ware killed with the
bayonet avid sward. No firing Look
place. The camp and stockades weave
destroyed.
The enemy defeated by 1fajar Bed -
does on. July 30 moved south, and were
rnurprised by levies from Insuaim, wbo
captured their women and children.
Tho later are now under the Protec-
tion of a British' officer. The Den-
kera levies, 3,000 strong, are feeding
themselves on the Ashanti farms
north of Beikwai. They are accom-
pamled by an esoart of the West Af-
rican ce.
ricer, Frontier for
The punishment which is being dealt
out to the enemy, though gradual,
Will not soon be forgotten by them,
Two more flying columns start this
week far a destination unknown.
Recent fighting proves that the re-
bel forces have not quitted the vici-
nity of Kumassi, and it will bay neces-
sary to inflict on them two or three
more defeats before the country south
o2 the Ashanti capital can be consid-
ered eolear of rebels. After this part
of the country has been cleared it is
probable that the rebel forces will
cease hostilities.
A telegram from Colunel Wiiloocks
received at the Colonial Office, states
that Lieut. -Col. Burroughs' col-
umn consisted of 750 native soldiers.
Deseribtng his night attack on the
stockades end the rebel camp, the of-
ficial account says:—"Before the en-
emy could quit the rebel camp the fly-
ing column was an them, and they
killed a lagge number, all will) the
bayonet and the sword. The rebel
fomes were severely punished."
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YUNG LU'S OATH.
Swore To Murder AU The Foreigners
With Aid of Boxers.
A despatch from Haug Kong, says:
—A prominent reformer has obtain-
ed frown' the Yemen runners a letter
fram General Yung -Lu, commander -
in -shirt of the Northern armies, to
Genesai Tung -Fu -Sian, cemmnncling
the Ines -Su troops, saying:—
"It is not convenient to accomplish
my secret orders," and proceeding:—
"The foreign devile, counting theirs
superior strength in warships and f
guns, .have dared to exert all their
power to rob and insult ns, but their ,
populations axe small and entirely de-'
pendent on the Chinese. prodnctions.1
China now possesses cannon and rifles
and plenty of well-Lrained troope.I
don't fear the fareignera. In the case
of Suen-Mun, I refused Doty, with the
result that nothing was taken, It is
evident that the foreign devtls. are
cowards. tend Prince Tuan recently
obtained the help of millions °ftioxere
poaeessi.ng magic boldness. I mew to
murder all foreigners, with the assist-
ance of the Boxers, who are supplied
with arms."
Genteel Tung -Fu -Sian, in his reply,
whiali was oleo obt aimed, says he to
of the dame opinion, and plates the
Kati -Su . troops at Genera} Yung -Lula
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
It1TI:RNATIQNAI, LESSON, SeP. 2.
Text of the Leraca, l.ulae K, 1-1i,
Plcntea'y' Rersae, ,:.e ^ l:eltieu
10101re q, 4,
PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 1, '1'be Lord appointed other
seventy also, Revised Version ; " sev-
enty others," referring not to any pre-
viously^appointed seventy, but to the
twelve. That the selection of twelve
apostles was symbolical is evident
from several passages, notably, from
the promise that they should sit on
twelve thrones, judging the twelve
tribes of Israel, Severity, sometimes'
seventy-two had grown among the
Jews to be almost as seared a number
as twelve. Moses had Wiesen seventy
alders to assist him in the govern-
ment of the new-born nation, and, too
cording to tradition, when the nation
had its second birth the elders wbom
Ezra sufnemoned to be his counselors
were seventy or seventy-two in num
bar; as a oonsequence the Sanhedrin
numbered seventy; and when the He-
brew Scriptures were turned into
Greek it was by seventy elders. Fol-
lowing the traditions and the senti-
ments of his bountrymen, Jesus now
selects seventy disciples to proclaim
him. This oommiseion is not notioed
by the evangelists. Its spacial ob-
ject was to prepare the way for our
Lord's tour through Pares. This
was he occasion described by
Matthew, when "Jesus went
about all the cities and villages,"
teaching in their synagogues, and
preaching the Gospel of the kingdom,
and 12eaning every sickness and every
disease among the people. Two and
two. In pales. Before his face.
They hastened along the rural roads
and through the cities to prepare the
people for his owning. Beery city
and place. An inclusive phrase far
bot' the centers of population and
(110 sparsely settled oommunities.
Would come. Willed to come; Por -
posed to coma.
2. The harvest truly Le great, but
the laborers are few. According to
Matthew Jesus spoke these words!
when he saw the multitudes, and was
moved, with compassion for them, be-
cause they fainted, and were scattered,
abroad as sheep having no shepherd.
Pray ye, itherefore, the Lord of the
harvest, that he would sant north,
"blsrustforth," laborers into his har-
vest. The disciples were to pray
body' as a condition of fulfillment
and as a means whereby their own
spirits might be prepared for the
wank. See the promise of Jer. 15.
3, 4. Bare the more detailed he
struotions to the seventy begin.
These instructions enjoin greater
haste and imply greater present
danger than in the case of the previ-
ous mission of the twelve apostles.
Hence the special injunction, salute
no man by the way. Avoid the leng-
thy and ceremonious salutations then,
as now, common in the East. Com-
pare 2 Icings 4. 20. Our Lord's first
warning was singularly picturesque
and pathetic: I send you forth as
lambs among wolves. Human lang-
uage could not more startlingly de-
scribe the ooutrast between guileless
nesses and conscienceless hatred, be-
tween helplessness and organized
11•':0-
4x:51,
hostility, for "as lambs" is the only
way in which heavenly virtue can "go
forth" in this world, Our Lord's
kingdom is not of this world, else
would his servants fight, and while
there have been bogus and sham
Ch.rietianities that have sought to
spread themselves by fighting and
persecution, the "simplicity of Jesus"
has only one possible method for its
dissemination. A lamb cannot change
its character. Jesus is the Lamb of
God, and we, in so far as we are his
followers and, so Lar as may be, his
duplicates, hare Lite character of
Lambs. Wolves cannot change their
:apses A. Bell, of Beaverton, Oat„
brother of the .Rev. John 'l' esaey taell,
B.D., prostrated by nervous headaches
A victim of the trouble for several
years.
South American her i
♦ ae effected
a
complete .aero.
In their own particular field few mea
are beter known than the Rev. John
Wesley Boll, B.D„ and hie brother Mr.
James A. Bell, The former wnl me re-
cognized by his thousands of friends all
over the country as the popular and able
miesioaery supglrintendent of the Royal
Tempters et Jemperanee. Among the
20,000 members of this order in Ontario
his counsel is sou ht en all sorts of oc-
caslons. On the public platform he is one
of the strgq�n�j mer, of t p,�y matt{Ing
against file evils i0 C tdlar p,irn5ce.
Equally well known is hlr. Bell in other
provinces of the Dominion, having berg
for years a member of the Menetba
Methodist Oonferenes and part of this
time was stationed in Winnipeg. i}ie
brother, Mr. James A. Bell, is a highly
respecter resident of Beaverton, wnere
his influence, though perhars more cir-
cumscribed than that of his eminent
brother, is gone the less effective and
productive of ggood. Ofrecent years,hpw-
evor, tke Nei ing elnlity of Mr. James
A. Bell has been sadly marred by severe
attacks of Imam' headache, nrcom-
pasied by lac! gestion, Who can do fit
week when t ria trouble takes hold of
them end especially ween it bee
chronic, as was, seemingly, the case w1
Mr, Bell'/ The trouble melted such 1
tensity that last Jane be was compieti r
ly prostrated. In this condition fryer!
recommended South American £erej]o
Ready to try anything and eyerytlsl
g
though he tilQQ n ht he had ¢ vereu t `
Ilet of Pro riot
l
m
to ea ha eau
a bottle o; thio greet dT3vry.
second bottle of the medielpo was tate*
and the work was done. Bmployi g hilt
own language: "Two bottles of out� yy
American Nervine itumediately .reI eve4
my headaches and have bunt up my
system in a wonderful manner." Let as
not deprecate the good our orergymes
and social reformers are doing in 22hhb
world but how ill -fitted they would bd'
for tyeir work were i}t not the relief
that South American ;,eritne bringpp ne
them when phyzieal ills overtake
thane and when the system, as a urs
suit anion, bren a earnest and en!, continue s
T.., l; s .
eys`£em as MO wire rel° ln¢ frb a
evils he is battling evilest It mike'
the root of the trouble. Alf di'
ease comes from didergauisatlon of t •`
c5
nerve canters. This is a scientific Sac
Nervine at once works o these nervi
centers; gyres to them hOnit and v4
I or; and then there courses ihrondh the
system strong, healthy, lite-mainto.iala*
' blood, end nervous troubles et every
variety are things of the past.
Sold by G. A. Deadman.
shall rest upon it. No mere form shall
your blessing, be, but your advent to
that home shall be a real, benediction
to that household. If not, it shall
turn to you again. Your prayer of
peace shall be blessed to you, though
ineffectual ito them. In the same
house remain, eating and drinking
such things as they give. A command
which prohibits two unworthy cours-
es of conduct. They are to be content
with what is provided ,for them,
wherever that take up their abode.
They are not to seek for the best of
this world's goods, but for the best
gppartunity to proclaim their Mas -
nature. Sin is always a ravening; ta'r's message. On the other ]rand,
wolf, seeking when it may devour, they are not to think that they are
even now, among the courtesies and I indebted to these people who entertain
elegances of modern civilization, as them. For, in the spirit of the old
really as before the wrorld' Jewish maxim, "Thou shalt not muz-
had taken a Christian veneer I ale the oxen that treadeth ant the
1 to hide its pagan realities, ' cart," dray had au abundant right to
Carry neither purse, nor• scrip, nor eat of the good of the land, which
, sheep. Do not provide yourself with was so unboundedly blessed as to bear
money as if you were a traveler of their teeehings. Go not from house
wealbla; nor with a bag for food as to houee oerriea the further• meaning
if you were an ordinary wayfarer; that while they must hasten trona
de not take Sal extra pair of sandals place to place, their feet sped with the
as if you learn a traveler of any sort. tbau.ght of the importance of their
5, 0, 7, Since bbs dbetples „era 1101 , mission. They nevertheless must take
to travel as ambassadors of earthly auffioient time at each stopping place
sovereigns or as merchants paying to thoroughly prepare for the eomfng
their way, but, amid the easy brtrth- of the Master in their towns.
i 8. 9, 10. 11. After the directions for
rely relations of t.hs Orient, 10 lean ' personal equipment and for conduct
of their follow in the homes of ent:ertaiuing friends,
vary come more comprehensive directions
as to how to treat their hosts, and to guide the disciples in their general
the filet item is to treat the hoarse- policy. In the aifies which received
holder with the elaborate courtesy thein with candor and hospitality they
which oriental soeioty dema.nds. Peace were to accept whatever pf dignity
be to the house. :This is the ordi- or comfort was offered; eat such
nary salutation. While in their things as are set before you—a phrase
haste to reach the center from which that might include all the necessities
they might spread the good tidings' and luxuries of life. In return they
they were to be brusque and abrupt ' were to heal the siek and to announce
on the highway, they must be courts- The 1sIngdnw of God is Dome nigh un -
oriental
• and taetful and grateful, as the to you, This was a proclamation of
oriental at his bslt is capabletbleof be the 1Vlessiahts kingdom, and ca tuiree-
dn
g to an almost inimitable degree. ulcus sign of the truth of the.ran
The, son of pellet, is an Eastern idiom of xuatfon. But It was more than this.
yvlzieh means 0 peaceable man; such nen was seeking,in John Wesley's
a parson as we would desaribo as a phrase, the,. good of the bodies card
Christian; gentlemen, lour: peace 'atlls of mon;" it was an annoteme-
r
on the hospitality
Jeevs, instruatians brae
ment of the twofold mission of the
Gospel, which gives promise of the life
'that now is, and of that whit* is to
Dome. It was a challenge at the out-
set to every part of man's nature,
the secular as wall as the spiritual,
the mortal as well as the immortal.
Cities which rejected the disciples, and
in their persons rejected the Messiah
himself, were also to receive a two-
fold treatment—a sign of rejection ma
the part of Christ, and a repeated
statement of the nearness of the
Messiah. Even the very crust of your
city, which oleaveth oat us, we do wipe
off against you. See A:ots 13. 51. The
action woos both testimony and warn-
ing, and was in harmony witbh oriental
manners and customs. The kingdom
of God is came nigh unto you. Ale
though your rejection of Christ has
been great,. Verse 11 is a good verse
fax the teacher to dwell upon, There is
a sense in which kingdoms occasional.,
ly go ou their travels.An injury in-
flicted on a national ambassador is
felt as an injury by the nation he
represents; an honour offered to h;im
is offered to the nation. And so In
'this case, though the Xing of God's
kingdom, Jesus of Nazareth, never en-
tered the cities which had rejected his
I disciples, 10 was true that the king-
dom hard come nigh unto them because
his ambassadors had offered them
(their services.
17, Even the devile. The evil spirits
were expelled by adjurations in the
natme of Jesus,
18.1 beheld, 1 see it, while you are
ou title a,issiuu, being in spirit with
'you.. Our Lord expresses his joy in
the success of his disciples tie a pledge
of thee power by which the domitaibt
. o8 Satan will be finally overthrown.
Compare Ida, 14. 0-15, end Rev, 12. 7-12.
As lightning. Compare chap. 18.24.
19. Sorpeuts, ete. All evil and des;
bructive agencies, whether pbysloal or
Apt rthan 1,
• 20. Rejoice not. Not all Christians
leave the power of working wonders,
hub all have their Hamas written to
Maven. lle,ioice not in gifts peculiar to
yeui•sotves, but in your sbare of the
cornmeal blessedness, as believers in
Christ, and therufare children of God
and inheritors of the kingdom of heat
ern.