The Brussels Post, 1902-10-23, Page 6"a^
GREAT OPPORTDITIES.
They Come to Eyerybody in an tin
expected Way,
Mewl asoeseio to not m tho Pediments,E ea Men, 10r if are alo riot 0, neg-
Om now Ont of a.,oasse4 tunity. And an opporteruty for
caws a, la teg Lao ehouteisa Mee Mite looted opportunity Is tee ill-used op -
,td Nee f4ipat, cis imam !aim er Totowa, et .
.1•"••••••••• •
A despot*. from Oa/cage nayS:
Bev, Prank De Wilt Talmage preaelt-
ed 1rem the following text; Gala -
tions oi, 1.0, "An We betve therefore
OPPertunity, lot us do good unto all
men."
,
(lea t oPPortalnitiess are willing to
itneck at, the door of only the Lion-,
orod fow who have preylously made
great preparations to meetand to
embrace th•em. Tiley are rot friends
leee and helpless waifs on the street.
They aro not eoelal outcasts who
have to beg a place whereon to lay
their heads. They are not fugitives
!rem, Jitetice who are fleeing the eon-
vietts cell or the baegmaa'e noose.
They aro august messengers, who
are particular under what roof they
lodge and at what table they sit
down and eat. Thus we find, by
tracing history, that though all num
who leave prepared themselves for
success in a isertedu line of work do )0pportunity was not grasped by the
not necessarily get tlie opportunity forehead she could not bo caught
to achieve that sucems, Yet in no again, because her wings could out -
case do We find the swift footed speed even the flight of a meteor.
travelers called "great opportuni-
tiee" dwelling in the bome of one !The Latin symbol is 0 good one.
who has not the mental and moral flomentous is the fact that the
past opPortunitles for doing good
capacity' to weicome and entertain murex,
them. come back. There is
It is essential that the Christian anY.a flaa here . who. wo uld be wl I I-
showd comacrate his life to cia,i.st mg to ctn, oli his right arm if he
in orderto bo prepared for the
could only bring back some of them.
opportunities for Christian service. ad once reof a father who in
great
It is very important fora- you and nie ic,1,,lig_ericirove his son out of his home.
to live close to Christ, to feel the bitter
to
on account of the father's
ann
touch of Christ's otating h niis I s,plunged into a life of
- 'sin. A few years later he was dying
upon our hearts, touch of his loving
lips upon our cheeks, the touch of
his annointing foot upon our feet,
before we can go forth successfully
on our mission of Chrietian service.
Many failures in the Christian life
can be traced directly to this 10,0k
of
SPIRITUAL PREPARATION,
we cannot recognize our opportunity
when it coines. An ancient sculptor
doing good once gone Is gone for-
ayersMy father used to love to
Picture lost opportunities as a floOk
of last year'e migrating birds, which
when gone cannot be brought back.
I remember well how ho once stood
10 the Ilrooltlem Tabernacle crying
with a loud 'voice to the lont oppor-
tunities in these words ; "Como
back, 0 ye past opportunities 1
Como back I Come back I" Then
in un almost inaudible whisper he
said : "I hear no flutter of any
wings. I fear my voice has not car-
ried far enough—yes, I fear theee
lost opportunities for doing good
will never, never come back," The
old Romans used to believe that Op-
portunity was a zuessenger who had
a lock of hair growing upon her
forehead and that the rest of hor
lead was bald, They also believed
that she had wings npon her feet
and that she could fly swifter than
the winds. They 'believed that if
in ono uf the London tenements.
Just before his last breath was
drawn he told the city" inihsionary
Who he was and why he was dying.
Them he sent to his irate parent
these farewell words : "Tell father
I could have died happy if he only
had been willing to forgive me. Ask
him to forgive Inc even if I am
dead." The missionary, as soon as
he had closed the dead boys eyes,
weet to the rich father's home. 'When
once chiseled the statue of tbe my-
thological goddess called "Opportun- he first met the parent and said, "I
lty," with El, veiled face. He said: illaY° emll° frmll your boy," the
"The reason I covered Opportunity's father's rage knew no hounds. Ile
face was because so few are able to exclaimed in anger : "Don't talk to
recognize her when she stantI by me about my son. I never want to
their side." Imo sculptor was wro„g see his face again while he is altve."
in part as well asright in part. Ea !Put when the missionary said, "You
.
shoold have blLuded the eyes a the will never see your boy's fece again
while he is dead," • the
Onlooker rather than the far-secing '
eyes of the mythological goddess, fattier broke clown aral
The chief reason why some of us do I SOBBED LIKE A CeLlaja.
not see the sweet faced PaulineFre then said that he did want his
sengers, which we limy call the Op-
portunities of Christian service, is boy back. And when he heard the
because most of us aro spirituaaly dying message his remorse was
greater than he could bear. All the
blinded by. our past sins, becaus
remainder of his earthly life that
most Of us are not willing by pray -
father kept brooding and. regretting g
er and close tommunion with God the severity of his treatment of his t
to make the spiritual preparetion
son. But his sorrow was uselese. n
that is necessary to lit us aright for
gospel work. IIle could aot bring back his . dead
But more than more equipment is !boy' He ;mild never undo bis past
, HIS opportunity wile gone,
necessary. Great opportunities are wrong
willing to bless those only who are and gone forever.
But, bethink Myself that, as a i
ready to sacrifice, and, if need be. to
pastor, I havo to -day au inffithe op -
Ole for the cause those opPortunitiesrepresent. There is a wide difference iportunity which may never como to t
me again. I have an opportunity to 1
between being mentally, physically
• and spiritually equipped to meet a present Jesus Christ to some ming
great opportunity and being wflhing naan or woman here who is not a t
,inember of the Christian church, as 1,
to make the sacrifiee that is assets-
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SOUDAN BEVE;o WOILSHIB
Barbartsas Marriage .Gagtoth of
These Savage Afrieans.
Tide laa truo story et the des
worshippers of the clerk Soudan
Airlea 48 teld by Mies Merl Mu
len, Vito Ilea lately returned fro
the tromallsee 0110510111
"There aro so Tory mmuy thin
to bo said about this weary i
which I aave been engaged 10 mi
sieMWOrls," Said Miss Mullen, "tit
I hardly knew where to bogie. The
too, there is 00 very ninth that
multi not tell of what the nativee il
in their so-callea religious rite
that the matter of giving auythin
like an adequate description of the
Hf e and custsoine le a most dilate.;
one, Then, tee, I dare say I tai
at times eeera iecomitstent, for, no
withstanding; the practice ol. poi
gouty and the awful methods
merriage or what correeponds t
marriage, it Is it Met that 0111011
thoefe so married the husband o
owner of the Wives hes but lint
cause to fear infldelitY. Bnch a
tion is often punished by death, an
the result is that in =stein ways th
devil worshippers of the Soudan ne,
in reality more moral than ecnne o
the bigbest elasses of eivhizatlon.
"Perlin& it would be Well to star
with this subject a marriage, an
right hero it is a fact that I dar
say will be interestMg to readers
Tho old mon for the most part hav
all of the young wives, while tit
young men must conteat themsolve
with old women and widows. TM
is easily explabled, Sentiment rar
ly enters in.to the matter of matri
menial alliances.
"11 is a pure question of trade
and as wives are considered mor
or less of an expensive luxury th
rich old mon get the pick, while th
Poor young moo have to take who,
a
is left until they have amassed
sufficient runount of wealth to mak
the purchase of more and younger
wives possible.
"Tobacco and rice are the mediums
of exchange, and I should Say that
about $15 Was the average price
set upon the head of a young and
attractive girl. Very often these
girls are contracted for while they
are still little more than babies.
`"rhe selection of marriageable
girls is one of the moat awful in all
of the customs of the devil worship-
pers. Tbe Bundoo a woman,
takes all of these young girls into
some sequestered spot in the bush,
end it would be worth any 'flan's
life to be found in. that vicinity. I
cannot go into the customs and rites
to which these girls are subjected by
the Dundee devil. But after cer-
tain ceremonies this devil selects cer-
tain ones, who are permitted to
wear a small girdle, which proves
they are the kind of girls a prospec-
tive husband would went to. buy.
"Otheri who are not so fortuhate
come from the ordeal with the string
trailing along the ground after them.
This is a sign that the Bundoo
devil has found them to be other
than virtuous. As a matter of fact,
I have been told on the very best of
authority thatm
this selectn of the
iris really has nothing to do with
heir previous life, but that it is a
mans for the woman devil to get
-megoance on some of her neighbors.
n opportunity that she never over-
°°'ksh
'Te young girls who are taken
nto the bush are carefully protect -
0, and no man ever dares to ven-
um in the neighborhood. This
slace is called the Bundoo bush, or
evil's stoznacia and hero it is that
hey are trained for wives. Some,
oo, are trained for special dancing',
and these dancing I3undoo girls drese
themselves in the moot grotesque of
costumes and paint their faces in the
most hideous manrter."
s,
tial for the success of that cause
after the opportunity has arrived.
Pilate was mentally and physically
able to realize the nature of the op-
portunity of Itis position. He knew
that Jesus wo.s guilLlees. Ite Bow
clearly and distinctly what he ought
•to do, but Pilate was not ready to
sacrifice for Christ his political ca-
reer as Governor of Judaea.. There-
fore Pilate, who saw his opportun-
ity, embraced it not, but shrank
from it.
GREAT OPPORTUNITIES
for Christian usefulness may come
to you in an unexpected way, aS
they came to a lady who was one
day riding along the streets of Rich -
were the friends to whom Paul .wrote
his Gale.tian letter. My brother or
eister, I want you to come into the
fellowship of the Lord Jesus Christ
so that you may have It part in
these gospel opportuelties. I plead
with you earnestly that you will
confess Jesus Christ to -day and be-
come one of his disciples, even
though no one may hove spoken to
you of religion for many years. You
were brought up in n. Christian
home, but when that home was
broken up en account of your par-
ents' death you drifted away from
the church and from the teachings
you learned at your mother's knee.
You hove net been to a church ser-
vice for years. It may be because
11 ,3'00 were coolly treated in one of
mond. There in the gutter lay
the large city churches when yen
first came to town. But last night
when you were alone in your room
and took down the old Lenity al-
bum. Perhaps that was the first
!Arne you had looked at tho book
for months. Then you became home-
sick for the okascenes of your chile.
young man stupidly drunk. Sho
stopped her carriage and bade her
m
coachan lift him in. Sho took
that young man to her home. She
cared for him and started him out
agein in life. By her Christian ex•
m
aple of love she started him forth
in his great career, until William e
of
:Wirt's 1111100am
MO bece that of ono of '"°°",TJteu you opened some
your dead mother's letters, now yea
the foremost Americans of his day.
ow from age. As you read them
They may came to you at an unex-
the tears came to your eyes, ,yet
Pchted way, lea they came to Stephen
Merritt during business) hours, 'when, 7(:"1 are a Mark 11010 or a matured
iwontan, but the tears came neverthe-
by the grace of God, he was histru-
less, And last eight before you went
mental in starting John G. Woolley
to bed yuu prayed just as you lised
out on his career of reform. They
to do when it child. That is the re:l-
imy come to you as they are daily
coming in so many dwareat ways., son you are let church this morning,
'That is the reason your heart is
thousands of lawyers mid merchants
'softened. That is the reason I prees
and ministers end doctors and wives
and mothers and servants and 'home the gospel to your heart that
elerks, Therefore, es our opportun-
ities for doing Christian service axe
I may start you forth in Jesus'
memo to Christian serval°. The op -
portunity tor the salvation of you a
coming in so many dilTereot ion,ys,
for theim Wo should etways be
we should always he on the lookotit Isoul may never (some so near to „`'
You again es just at this moment. -
Brother •
, sister, let me improve this T'il
ret
arly to grasp them and to turn 1
WHY TREY MARRIED.
Post cards havieg been sent out to
married mea with tho inquiry, "Why
did you marry 1" a largo number of
responses Came to hand, from which
the following is a selection 1
"That's what I have been trying
for eleven years to find out.—X." '
"Married to get even with her
mother, but never have.—W."
"Because Sarah told me that flve
other youtig men had proposed to
her. ---C."
"The father thought eight years'
courtin' 'Was alraost long enough.
—D."
"Please don't stir me up. -3."
"Because I thought she was ono
among a thousand ; now I some-
times think she is a thousand among
one.—.1i3."
"Because I did not have the ex-
perience I have now.—A."
"That's the same miestion that my
friends ask me. -0, II."
"Because had more money than
I knew what to ao with. Now 1
have more to do than I have money
with,—B. D."
"I wanted a companion of the op-
posite sex. P,13,—She is still op-
posite.—A."
-Because it is Just my luck.—
le, .1,"
"I yearned for company. We now
have it all Lbe
"Have exhausted all the figures in
to arithmetic to aguro out an
teusivetiepritentoveteonuia.1 ; betwtere
mita, and distectiotl n, eddviston hlttion,
the nnswer is hard to arrive at. -
010 Man." .
"I married to get tha best wife in
the world.-431mon.''
"Because I asked her if she'd have
me. Siee mid she would, She's got
nie.--li I ivies ."
g3700 to
them ,to account at any mat, esven,
ithe Lord Jeses. Por your dear
of life itself. iloved on& sake who are now among
Great opportunities always love tbe m
redeeed win you toko .Thus:
company and rarely tisVel alone
new and become his' true and loving
They are apt to be gregarious irt disciple 7 Will you not here and
their habits. Like troubles, they
now mato this simple, on.rnest PraYe
swim in schools. They travel in
er, which a. young roan, sick of eln,
herds. They ily in flocks. Like the made a few years ago in a largo
leader of a flock of sheep, 'ettch great religioue meeting, "Lord take 106 0.5
opportunity seelns to be the bell- I ant and make me what I ought to
wether of a whole flock of other op- be 1" Now is your .opportunity for
portunitiee. lake the koy log in a salvation. Now I Now 1 Now !
river lani, it seems to be the pre-
cursor and gots free a whole river, -
full of other opportueities.
WISE rATI/E11,
But ti3ero is a negative side of
warniag in nay text as well as a "Thought your chid wasn't going
positive Ode of exhortation. John to send you back to college 7"
J. 'twits in his wonderful poem "Yes, dad did kick on the ex -
teatime 'tho eartie two lessons in 0. potter, but I threateted to stay at
temporal sense that Paul ineuleatee borne and help run the busitiese, and
in a spiriteial suimse, he decided 'college would be cheaper."
4—
THE NEGATIVE WARNING
264,288 negroes in the 'Milted
which le /implied in my text goes State e own their honfeta 'nein are
•prae.ticallea ;Ake tide s "As We there-, altiegothes- abotit th Million negro 11
fore hove aworlAWity do good unto families in the eounery, ie
IMPRISONED F011 SMOKING.
A regulation issued by the Paris
Prefect of Police forliale cabnten to
smoke while Reeled on thefts vehiclea.
A cabman recently trensgressed thin
regulation, and lute been. ordered to
undergo it day's imprleonnieet and
pay a few, of one dollar. ye has
stem notice of appeal.
laighly-two rer cont. of the Mal-
tese have chosen English tal the
language for their ehildren to learn.
Only 18 per cent. have choren Ital.
1).
Al ileitis, has the tie -fleet moun in in
°longing to the 'United Stales, This
Mount tomtit, 19,400 feet high.
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; MENACE TO BRITAIN.
Alarm Over:Unprotected Oables Lying in Shnllow Wnter Off Y
A;tho 0038t Of NiiVa
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England bah Met awakened to ems- roUgier QUartier (Isreneh), one ea -
other (tenger that ceufreats her, 11 blo, from Brest to $t. Pierre, but
is (Me 01 eeriOos moment, to Great passing Nowfoundlituil in &hotel Wit-
ilrltain, Up to the Presents no de- ter.
Tice has been Suggested whereby this Generale (French), ono cable, from
desiger may be obviated, The facts Brest to Cep° Cod, but not passing
have been known for some thee at Newfouadiand 121 0110411 water,
tho admiralt,Y, but it 15 only lately German, onecable, from 'Eraden
that the Main details bave been re- Via Azores to Cape 000, but pot
vealed tO the general publics. Paaeing Newfouedlancl in shoal wa-
As the matter Molts at present it tem
5501115 entirely Within the bounds ef As the Geraeon Cable runa partly
POesibility that at the That outbreak through Portuguese territory it is
of wur against Great Britain the regarded as unreliable and praetical-
empire would be paralyZed by cut- by valuelees ' to Englund in war
ting her lines for the transmission of time. 11 is true there are two ea -
information, the British cablee all bles from Lisbon to Brazil via the
lying in shallow water in a small °ape Verdo islands, but their me-
rmen, off the meat Of Nova Scala. nectione aro so complicated and, un -
At a single stroke, delivered by rolioble becauee of the countries in
any fast steaming cruiser or omen- wilich the terminals are situated
going tug, the Pacific fleets rendez- that they would scarcely be availed
vousing 0.1 Esquimaule, on the Pa- of in war time, oven if they escaped
chic coast, and at Halifax and 13er- being wreaked. They oan therefore
mucla, on the Atlantic seaboard, be disregarded,
Would find themselvee out off from Attention is called to the recent
Wilitehall. They could receive no decision of the United States Su -
news from headquarters either as to peome Court to the offeet that those
the plans of the enemy or orders as interested in the )3ri1.ish cable be-
ta thoir own movements. twoen Diranila. and Hong gong had
All of Canada would be out off as no redress from the American Gov -
well as the West Indies. The Can- eminent for the destruction of their
/Wien Pacific Railway would be property and the loss to their busi-
practically worthless for the mill- nese involved by Admiral Dowey's
thew purposes for which it was large- tearing up that cable when he seize
CABLES _CONVERGING I 5 SHALLOW WATER..
ly constructed. By cable cutting the
widely scattered British possessions
would be isohtted from the home
Government.
The article in which some of these
facts have been reaealed in the .cur-
rent number of the Portnightly Be
view, points out the grave danger in
which such a possibility places Great
Britain he ciennection with a war
with the 'Witted States. Genie,
where the cables -converge after their
long journey wider the Atlantic, is
not far from our northern naval sta-
tions on the Atlantic, It is with-
in easy striking distance from the
Kittery navy yard.
In one day it is estimated a. vas -
eel could destroy ail the Matfett
trans-Atlantic cables, thereby plac-
ing Canada and the West Indies at
tho mercy of the enemy and leaving
theBritish fleets Esquimault,
Rehr= and Bar/nada without means
of communication with London or
even with each .other.
In the case of France it is pointed.
out that the danger is even. more
serious, for whilethe exact location
of the British cables is known, that
of the French cables is unkihown ex-
cept, to the French GovernMent,
while many of the British cables ac-
tually pass through French territory
on the island of St. Pierre. At the
time of the Fashoda affair, the Ad-
miral Courbet, a French warship
hovering in this locality, created
consternation in British naval cir-
cles, for it was believed she had the
single mission of cutting the Eng-
iish and American cables the mo -
meat war WaS declared.
THE CABLES.
Stretching along the ,Atlantic. bed
to -day are twelve %Ines, ten of
them being American and 'British,
with two French, while one German
cable is being completed from the
Azores. These cables are as fol-
lows;
Anglo-American, four cables, from
west of Ireland to Newfoundland.
Commercial, three cables, from
west of Ireland to Nova. Scotia, but
passing Newfoundland in shoal wa-
ter,
Direct 'United States, one cable,
from west of Ireland to Nova Sco-
tia, but passing Newfoundland in
shoal water.
Western Union, two cables, froen
Cornwall to Nove. Scotia, but pass-
ing Newfoundland in shoal water.
ed Manila bay. No country at war
with England would, it is believed,
hesitate to strike at her cables and
would mit them whore they lie off
Canso, as well as those of the Amer-
ican corapanies.
GETTING NEWS. AT SEA..
In the case ,of France it is pointed
out that a warship at sea might
pick up the Brest cable, (the loca-
tion of whieh-is known only to the
French officials), could thereby com-
municate with the home Government
and learn if war had been declared,
and would receivc3 instructions as to
precisely vehat to do, repairing the
French cable before her departure to
sever the enemy's wires.
The British navy is supposed to
bo competent to protect the cables
landing at the Cornwall and Con-
naught coasts, while cable cutting
itt deep water is only possible to ex-
perts on regular slow -going cable
ships, whose movements would un-
doubtedly be watched by Britain. It
is therefore pointed out that the
idealescene of operations is on this
side, where the cables lie altogether
in shallow water and are unprotect-
ed, even warships being drawn from
the vicinity for the greater part of
the year.
Says P. T. Meprath, the writer in
the Fortnightly Be -view:
"Prance, the power from which
England has most to fear in thia re-
spect, has a ready-made base of op-
erations for such an undertaking in
her colony of St. Pierre -Miquelon,
off the south coast of Newfound-
land. The cables froth, Brest land
at St. Pierre, and three of the Bri-
tish cablea pass through it en route
from Newfoundland to Canada. It.
might thus be promptly made the
point of a counter attack, though,
as France has no territorial inter -
este in this hemisphere, save tho
Miquelon recite, England woithd gain
very little by that. St. Pierre in
the posseesion of France is it per-
petuai menace to the security of the
British cables, and it' will ble from
that quarter the blow will come,
when come it does. It Wa6 there the
Admiral Courbet reedezvoused for
weeks in 1.8119; it is these the French
warshtps in North America spend
the telling season; it is there the
cable -cutting venture could be
lituached most speedily, and with the
best prospects of success at any sea-
son of the year."
ORIENT'S FOREMOST WEAN.
Wonderful Achievements. of Baron
ShiVusaara of Japan.
In the East as well as in the West
there are opportunities for 51 strong
man to make his °wit way. In proof
of this, the life story of Bardit Shib-
usawa, the Japanese finantier, 18
told. throughout the Orient as. an
illustratioIt of what a plain citizen'
nirty become.
Stetting wiLlibet advantages of
birth or backing, he attached him-
self as a youth to the great Tokug-
awa tinnily. Ire reorganized •tho
uneettled finances of the clan, and
out of gratitude its thief Made him
a Government officer. His obilfty
was quiekly shown ire the minor
office he obtained and he rose rapid-
ly, First he WO 0 Toe: Comptroller,
then Mail:dant Vice -Minister, next
Junior Vite-alinister and, finally,
VIce-Illnister of Finance, Then,
when the highest places within the
gift of the Emperor woro within 1118
reaoh, he suddenly gave itp stateeratt
and returned to private life. As a
plain citizini he planned, he labor-
ed, he organized.
in a, few merit is he was acknowl-
edged ati'thtO lead* of atChiStlitstelal
reVolutton Which Was to make 11 neW
Japan. Largely tbrough 11 IS influ-
ence the Empire set aside dreams of
military glory and chose the seber
triumphs of peace,
He extended her railways, her
shipping nnd her industries, A Jap-
anese admirer has counted and tab-
ulated the organizations arid COM -
ponied, of which after thirty-five
years' veork, Sit/begrime, is either the
head or the guiding spirit, „They
nufhber morothen.one bundeed and
fifty and they include every kind of
Wetness, every form of interest,
civil mid national, 111 the develop-
ment of the country aad ever Se linen
of aharity and philanthropy.,
HOW Ti) ICEEP YOUNG.
One of the secrets of keeping
young, vigorous end supple -Jointed,
is to continue to practiCe the ac-
tivities of youth, and to refuee to
allow the mind to stiffen the dlUSCIOS
by its suggestion of age limitations,
If men like Peter Cooper and Win.
11. Gladstone, who kept lip the vi-
talizing exereisee of robust Manhood
when far into the eighties, had sue -
climbed at, 40 to the thought of ap.
preaching ago, how Much Of their
valeithic life -Work 'Would have '
.
Maimed undone!
THE S. S. LESSON,
INTlailtATIOTAL LgS$0111
OCT, P6.,
Tett 91 the Lesetent J'oele, ate'
445. Golden Text, joSli.
ziv,, 14.
5, As the Lord conunanded
so the ohildroh of Israel did, and
they divided -the land,
While At one time there re/gained
Yet Very much land to be possessed,
yet In due time the Lord gave unto
Israel all the lana which he swore
to give unto timir fathers, anti they
possessed it an0 dwelt therein. There
failed net aught of any good thing
which the ..Lord had spoken unto the
holm of Israel, All came to pose
hand. Tile Lord God of :Israel fought
for Israel, They had only to °be -
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diently go forward (xil, I; xxi, 18-
4Tele5h1;olexail:roeid2d)o,,g117thaeltil.leeinnei71set' Lordti; r
6. Thou lcnowest the thing that the
Lord said unto Moses tile man of
dGeoedh_bettonrneeearning Inc and thee in Ka -
Thus said Caleb, Joshua's old
companion, when together they went
with the other ton TO spy out the
land, as he now appears before Jos-
hua on behalf of Judah, to which
tribe he belonged (Num. xii, 6). It
le refreshing, whether in the Bible
story ,or, lit the daily. life:of • our own
day, to moot people who believe God,
wise desire only to lcnow what God
hes said and who reet on a "thus
smith the Lord" as on the solid
roCk.
7, 8. 1 brought him words again'
as it was in my heart. I wholly fol-
lowed the Lord my Cod.
He looks back with gratitude to
the time when he was a young man,
forty years Lig°, and praises the
grace of God which enabled him to
be sincere before God and 4.0 1011057
Him fully. This is the only thing
on which one can look back with
real comfort 0.5 we advance in years
—that without any thought of man's
frown or favor we. have been able
to stand humbly, but sincerely, with
God.
9. The land whereon thy feet have
trodden shall be 'thine ihheritance
and thy children's forever. ,
All through the wilderness wan-
derings, as the many thousands
died who were men when Joshua and
Caleb spied out the hand. Caleb
held fest the word of Jehovah by
the mouth set Moses that whoever
elso might die His servant Caleb
would enter the land and possess it,
because he wholly followed the Lord.
We think of Paul in the stoma at
sea when all hope was paven up, say-
ing to the souls on that 'ship as he
gave them the Lord's message,
believe God, thatit shall be even
ae it was 1010 me" (Acts xxvii,
25). '
/O. And now behold the Lord hath
kept nee alive, as He said, these
forty and five years.
Caleb realized the truth of these
words, though not written in his
day : "Ire &troth to all life and
breath and all thing's, for in
Him we . live and move and
have our being" (Acts xvii, 15, 318)•
He is the God in whose hand
our breath is and whose are all our
ways (Dan, v, 23), but how few
sewn to think of this! It is well to
remember that we continue from
day to day only because the Lord
sees fit to keep us alive. Happy are
those who, like Caleb, keep them-
selves set apart for Himself, His
own poseession (Ps, iv, 3; Tit. 11,
14, IL V).
II. As yet I am ns strong this
day as I was in the day that Moses
sent me. '
Although eighty-five years of ago,
yet feeling as strong and well as at
the age of forty!. It is Written of
Moses that he was a hundred and
twenty yenta old when he died. His
eyo was not dna nor his natural
force abated (Dout. xxxiv, 7). Then
is a. renewing of strength and youth
ofttimes enjoyed by those- who wait
upon tho, Lord, bot we can quietly
leave it all with Him to give us ait
the days here in tho mortal body
that will be for His glory and 0113'
good.
12. If 00 be the Lord will be with
me, than L shall be able to drive
them out, at the Lord said.
116 asked for mountains where tho
giants were, for he learned as a
young men, giants and Walled CMOS
were nothing to 000. At the age
of forty he had said: "The Lord is
with us. Feel' them,tiot," (Nom
xis, 0), and in forty years he Wad
found 330 reaseon to change hie maid,
Ire had no ConficlenCe in himself, but
he had unbounded confidence in the
Lord God,
13-1.5. Hebron 'therefore -beceene
the inheritance of Laleb * * became)
that he wholly followed the Lord
Clod of Israel.
11 itt inrivIllingness to follow ful-
ly thnt hinders - the Lord from work-
ing in His people. as Ilo evoteld like
to, for His eyd's run to and fro
throogh the whole earth to show
Himself strong on behalf of those s
whose hearts are whole towerd llimn
(1r, Citron. xel, 9).' But where aro
the Whole hearte? How few meiti.
willing to stnini with Clod against
the wisdom of this world, against ci
THRILLING EXPERIENM,
1\l'Alt,T1tu011Ws.EirimOt0
roZ,g0c14.xs,If.Ulf..
()based by a, .r.C..^J OhnAhy--Ivreheb
Traveller's Aq, 40 With, a
iQ
To be pureueZtlh4; a Ina& donkeY .
fells fortunately to the lot of tow,
among whoni, however, Inv be
numbered Dr. Dupin, of Toulouse,
who, white out cyclins, the other
Ittic,ialititiodesgatay eeyr,e,longiecenolseex, ileogoltceed.
Wards him, Thereupon the doctor
went off at a fest SpeeS, but tho
aSS came on at a faster, and over-
taking its quarry at the ond of a>,
tWo• miles' chase pulped on to the
alarmed eyelist, bringing him and
his initehineito the ground. 11 then
PrOcceded to make things very live-
ly for its victim, he being at length
rescued by some farm laborers arm-
rppeveallis,ed er
hpitchforks, the
se
forlIcs,tewho opportunely
Do,ubtless the aiscevery of a, lion
in One's path would to most people
Do a source et embarrassment, not
to say ,of coneiclorable trepidation.
Not so, however, to Mr. North Bux-
ton and his daughter, who, cyr,lIng
O few years Enlace along the high
road to Uganda, came upon a, tawny
ma-ned carnivore awaiting Neste op
-
preach, -In no wise disamereca.• the
couple, instead. of 3"etreaing, rang
their bells violently and gallantly
mhmam'godwidtcrourit atiTactiner ado.
TURNED TAIL AND FLED,
An Englishman, named Denson, on
a'ocycle, tour, through- -Maria, was
unpleasantly surprised, while wheel-
ing along a lonely rood, at the ap-
Pearancot of an elephant, which,
with a loud trumpet of ileflo,nce,
swung down upon him from tho
rear. Not caring to await its min-
ing, the cyclist; increased his speed,
and was rapidly diataneilig the brute
whon his wheel caught in a reek and
be wfts thrown heavily, This
nihs-
hap enabled the animal to make hP
lost space, and it was barely 20
yards behind its .quarry when tho
latter reruounted. Tho chase now
became most exciting, for the road
was had, and the rider heel to com-
bine care with Speed. Indeed there
mu be little doubt that matters
would have ended badiy had lie not
suddenly struck the highway, down
which he was able to pedal at full
speed and leave his pursuer in the
rear, It subsequentiy transpired
that the elephant, Which WaS cap -
tared the same day, had escaped
frOsn a travelling menagerie.
While :waling through a rico plan-
tation' in the Malay Peninsula. M.
Rosny, the celebrated French travel-
ler, heard a rushing sound, and the
next second it tiger bail almost
sprung. upon lmimsi. Away he sped,
with the terrible beast 111 full 'pur-
suit, Allis fourth spring M. Ilosny
felt the Wind caused by its fall ; at
its fifth his MitChine vibrated beneath
a blow from its paw, whieh alighted
on the Lim. Nerved by terror, the
cyclist put forth all his strength.
Every moment did he expect to be
borne to the ground by
HIS RELENT.LESS, PURSUER
Across 41, narrow bridge be frantic-
ally rushed, to find barriag his way
the trunk of a fallen tire. Titere
was no alternative—he charged tile
obstacle, flew over it, tore down it
hill beyond, and a few minutes later
was safe among his friends at the
plantation • building. The tiger waS
nowhere tO , be Seen ; Without M.
Rosnei's knowledge it had relinquish -
ad the pursuit.
, Mr. Foster Fraser, in him bicycle
aide round the world, had many
in.ost thrilling experiences, especially
in the Celestial Empire, the waives
of which by no means, it seems,
take kindly to eyelisit0 Chi more
than one occasion ho narrowly es-
caped with his life, and it was no
rare occurrence to have to run the
gauntlet of a fusillade of Fames mid '
offal. Oflly tweet len] demo tistra-
Moils of the pugilistic art, backed
up by an elan -threatening revolver,
enabled the intrepid cyclist to emerge
serithelese froni his many &lagers, "
Last autensan, however, six cyclists
arho were on a. tour through :Hun-
gary had an ec; Litt I ly 111100a- a 11 t ex-
perience. Towards the cud of the
day they were pee:See the cemetery
of the village of U'ilicit-Proderselorf,
when they Were suddenly i.et upon by.
the superstil 101, lingers, who,
thinRing that they had to do with
eeih epirite, proceedecl with sticks Le
bent them into inseneibility. Which
done, the untives, stricken with
panie at having thee courted the
vengeance of the unseen, lied for
their lives.—Tit-nits.
rommem rARACIIZAPI15;,
It's a greet work of art Lo make
"Io
thpi'.14. knocks the life out of lots
of men long before they al'e dead
Ono touch of nature keeps thri
whole world 011 the lookout, for new
ensations,
After it lively raCe Tor a husband
many an helreSS marries e run-down
ii°birlianllif
(hof the world cavies the
thee luilf became it doesn't know
(011'
von14. hives.
regards comparisons as
odious when told that she is as
PrIffel;tnr-yukst in'imPilic14)1'iip•ho goes. tlirou-gh
filo -bemoaning ho fact, that he is
misunderstood ought, to be thank-
ful that such is the ease.
culture, society, popuier opinion and
against the false teachers who art)
found in theological millineries and
. .
In 'mane" 0 puillte 'Perhaps ns never
before! Hebron suggests fellowehip,
and the other name', Kitelath-Arba,
while it menns city of Arba, maY
inean also "the city of foto'," as the
word ataut ia the Hebrew for four.
Any one who follows fully as. Caleb
did will realize something of true
fellowship with the rather and 'the
Son an'd the Holy Spirit and, h010 -
ever alone apparently, can always
trethfelly say,' "There arc four oi
Its," This also is provided by 'John
etch 17, 23. It is more than all
that earth can give to he able to
say, "Truly our fellowship is With
tho Father apd With Vie Son Jostle
()heta" (I, John a 8). Not cora
torrne'd to Ode, world, not picageing
Mon, but '0 ed, le' the oely Way of
peace anti victory in this life,
TO MOVE 0 1.1 BAT TREES,
Actuated by a deAre to preseeve
aa many sis possible ot the trees autl
to have their shade in the broad
aVellites of the Exposition at St,
Louie, the Director of Works alit
have sewn hundred tame, ea* la to
18 inches in diameter, lifted and re-
planted.
The latest citiculiitioa woiele to
the •bXletehee in "AM. *cieat of :3,064.
separate languagee,
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