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SUNDAY READING% I lindi a man Ile finds a being alc
to Him ewn self, somethims indeed Divine,
Every mai: ism:value ninst in the very ono
ten of theme be 11( V11‘110 in the eye" of God.
The Love of God.
1110 whet, 11 0 10112 if GO really loves ns.
. By mennot intones, thee the hoels (if nnture hag 00 Natimlying
We ought to 10V0 (101 It our &sty to answer, the pagte; of homitu philosophy
love tiod. We ore commanded to 101'0 1,01. hay e uo M ief; lug airswer. " Clod Li Mee'
4. Thou shalt love the Lord thy Cod, with la mit mil. 0,1 `1, hat we can be eure of it
All thy heart, and with all thy seul, end in any Loth lee ono. " Wo lieve Ittiewit
-with ell thy mind, and with all thy aud believed io• 1(10.0 that God 12.011 to use'
ii;trengt11." The ma 1 moil he New that wit it .,:ielled. mit with the alphabet.
Testament unite in empletehing that inhale- ;:f 00innee. est:orient:0 ; Chrietian eahl
eion. It le not likely, heavever, 1 lett text that, a Clo i .11 apostle who hail learned nf
ever persuaded anybody into hiving tted. one who 11,1.. different (rein all other 111011,
IOVO bombe at U*111010110, pay. 110 leeel to a disciple 11(0 811 pt,t/IC,
;duty, absolutely cannot 1:0 ;minuet:led. whom the Fetliet. Himself testi:limed.
Obedience can be gut that way, but love, Christ is the only authoritative teatehee of
aiever, the love. of ifod. Wo know and belleve tho
11 is of the very nature and essetwe of love love that God luttli to us, bmianee Chriet hes
that it must grow in a willing heart, Figs taught me
will grow 011 thi.t10,i quite as readily as love Christ taught God's love for inan in On?
.at tho word of law. .1. hero is u0 s I, 1 t tine blessed words that He spoke. 1 he Uneetian
els lovo by regulation. Love 1, the lolualio.11• mune for (el is Father, fled 18 000 Father.
tatiou of all nu tl'autluelu'l ch°100.,. Lb,' That is 1110 one W0011 ill W11011 1$ summed up
choice is hindered, unwillinglY, "Lr"c11'"; all that Jestis taught of (Md. See how it
'made under dietation, it le no eneiee, anti stands in the Chrietian religion at the very
the object ehosen is not loved, PreinalllY begennes of the Christine Creed, "1 hee
God sent temptatien within reach ef man lieve in ;oil, the natter," end at the very
that he might thus 'mike it peeeible tor us onenitig of the lips ia the petitions of the
to really love Mu. The test of 10v,f is pre. aigotgo, po„yer, " Out: Father." J08118
fsrenes• L°v°,0"0,0 0111 h11° ":1,111 Himself said that name so loviugly, with
dis°Dver'd 11.11011 the'e jo fit elm.l'e 1° °"' such a singular and inentoz:able tenderness
made between two, oe for atot against. in His tone, that they who beaten-1bn speak
Man, hedaed about with imperative inn(); it 'levee forgot the soend of His blessed
V0100 in dm syllables of the spun word.
feed they set it clown in the pagee of the
IN:epees tint ranslated, just 1L9 1 le proziouneed
it, to come down to us a testimony to that
close and eonlident, and Mel relation which
eetts held with the Eteenal. " Abbe," was
the word for " Father " the langunge of
that country. It was tho name which diet i tie
Galilean children learned in their cradles.
Abbas -father. ,Jesus looked up to the
greet God and 1010(1 Him, and taught us to
call Him, by that loving mune.
God is our Fee her. All thet is true of the
touderest end wisest fatherhood is true of
God. And nothime is trius of Him, though
it be written in ell the theologies, which
contradict. that name, God is 0111' own
Father. Behold what manner of leve the
Father hitth bestowed upon us, that we
should be called tho sons of God," That
means God's individual knowledge of us. It
means God's individnal care for moth one of
Chriet said, whatever our questioning
hearts muy say,--ehrist said for all who are
able to helitive Him, ab/e to trust Hint, -
that God does eitre. Christ nuswered the
nniversal queetion. The heavenly Father
loves the smallest and obectiresL of all His
children. Not one mit of the whole great
numbete not evon the prodigals, aro forgot-
ten of Gml.
And Christ fought God's love in other
ways than Ity the lesson of his words. He
taught it the leeson of his life. For the
life of .1 csus, even inore than the words of
Jesus, was a revelation of God. We do not
need, I think, to go very deep ial o the pro-
fontlities of theology to see that, God
must be better than male, man ; that is plain
enough, And the better a nem is the truer
is the reveletien which lie bears of God, the
higher the iOea of tied which he makes pos.
Bible in the hearts of men about, him.
And wile. yon tind an ideal rusa, a man
who sets 42 standard of manhood stesh as no
saint or hero in all history has ever touched
before his day or since ; when yeti find snob
a man, such a divine tnan, is he not a revels.;
don, and the trnest of all revelations,
of the Most High God ? The
highest truth that has ever been
revealed, or discovered, or dreamed of about
God is that Clod is like Christ. And that
truth must be true. Heuceforward, it be.
comes imposaible for one who honestly and
intelligeutly thinks about it to believe any.
thing less 11001 that. God is like Christ.
And every child knows how Christ was the
supreme incarnation of love. To love men
as Christ loved them has ever since been the
unrealized eleal of every ChrisLan bene•
factor.
How patient he was with tho ignorant.,
how generone in :no -king all allowatioe with
the sinner, how full of sympathy with all
sorrow, how be went about doing good and
tessing Mall manner of ways to get more
love Mtn this =brotherly woeld-all this is
written in the plain pages of the Christian
gospel. Christ gave us a bettor rule for
loving our brother than the second eons.
mandril= 1. Ho said that we should love
others as He loved us. That tenches the
supremest possibility of human affection,
The Father does seem a long way off, and
very groat, fool incorporeal, and invisible,
told almost impersonal, and so, perhaps,
herd to love. But it is not hard t0 love
Chriet. How can anybody help loving
Christ? And whoever loves Christ loves
God. Whoever has seen Christ and known
Christ has seen mid known the Father,
Christ is the very closest we can possibly
get to God,
Filially, Christ taught the love of God
for iss, uot only in the life that He lived, but
in the death that He died. Clod is our
Father, and our Father:loves us ; and God
is like Christ, and so God loves us. Bot that
old question comes back sometimes, in spite
of that -that old question abont, the
poseibility of any uniou between love
end pain. I'ain comes, and we begin to
doubt Then the ;moss teaches its wonder-
ful tenon of streugth and comfort. Fer
here is Christ, whom the Father loves 011-
praniely, set in the midst, of sorrow. Ills
friends have forsaken ; enemies,
who hate Him without a cause, crowd in
about Him ; He has experience of suffering t
the shadow of death falls about Him, and
the sky is black above Him, if pain means
that God forgets, then God has forgotten.
Yet, out of all these depths of anguish, ont
of all this blackness of desolation, He who
cenee, without ra chance to choose between
God Mal the devil, eompelled to obey God,
baying 110 Way of showinee any voluntary
loyalty to God, eveuld never have loved God.
Goil set that forhidden tree io the midst ef
Eden that man might use His gift at will,
and might thus be ahle to render God a will-
ing service : that i$, a leving service. II
took away bondage and. cotupeleion when
He planted that old tree in le len.
was liberty tree. That W0S 1119 0110 filet
in the world which kept inau fretn being a
enachine. With the c greet tree shading his
path, man was a men, having 1110 pewee of
chose°, a responsible being, the possessor ot
a free will. And 40 able to love God. Every
temptation. every opportunity' to do wrong,
from hlden down, 11118 given man a chalice to
vindicate his manhood, to choose me a man
may and show God. that he loves Hine The
best way in the whole world for a man to
show his love for God is to say " no ' to the
devil and to shield up on the side of God.
But we must not (lo that because we nee
commanded to do it, because WG are afraid
not to do it ; bat because we want to do it,
if there le to lie any real love in it. Love
must be the free elloiee of a. willing heart.
Love eannot be commanded.
The nerpose of the great commandment
is 1101 20 establish obedience, but to pew
claim an ideal. The spirit of it is mg that
we inust love God beeause we must, but that
God wants us to love Inn, The tAvosupeoine
commandments of the geepel show tts tied
sort of man that (led approves of. They
hold up no ideal. They reveal the Divine
etandard of linittan manhood. The manliest
111011 to be found anywhere in this great
family of God is he whn loves God with all
Ids heart, and ki0111, 111111 1, and streneth ;
and who loves his neighbor es he loses him.
self.
I3ut if we desire to love o,,a better than
we do, we edl have to thel some other text
than that to help us. Take this one " We
love Hiln because He tirst loved us." God
loved us. Before Christ came, bringingthat
message from the divine Father, and writing
it in the sight of all the tvorld over the arms
of that GoUd Friday cvoss Calves:3,1.BU,
people deemed it teo good to be true. In
days of prosperity, ill the sunshine, in the
sitreneth of heelth, and in the time of con-
tent, -it wits thought that perhaps it might
be true. Up above there, somettheee
among the everlasting stars, there inighl,
perhaps, be a beneficent Creator, a kindly
Ruler, possibly a loving Father. But, when
the sail went delve and darkness comedown
upon the meth, when adversity and an -
<Aunt lity in wait along the path, when pain
game and death after it, and all things seem-
ed to be goine wrong, almoet everyltily lost
eight of thaCheantiful dream. 11 WAS not,
true. God did noe core. God is not love.
The psalmist and the prophet who had
bettor eyes than other people to see God,
somehow kept their faith, Bnc others lost
heart, feared Gad, but dhl not love Him.
The truth is. there is no revelation of the
love of God in all the pages of the Book of
'Nature ; mean of that side of God's love
that 201101108 118 08 individuals. History
teachem plainly enough, most people think,
that God eaves for the race. God has till
these centuries been teaching and bettering
the race. He lots seemed soinetbnes to be a
stem schoolmaster ; He bas minished theee
who would. not leans His lesson with inevit-
able and unsparing severity, listening to no
excuses, never perdoning human ignorance ;
that is, so far as this world goes. Alm that
is just as far as mom can see. lett it has all
been for the best. That is plain eneugh.
We can look baek 110W and see that. $111
the plagues and famines, all the wars and
the martyrdoms -we can see their place in the
general bettering of human life. The world
has all along boon growing bettor, This
year, which is getting now into its last
months, is the best year that men ever lived
in since the year 1, God cares for the race.
He is a careful l'athetepossibly a loving one,
at least tbat far.
That might bean argument for the seality
of God's love for you and me. We belong
to the teem, Our good 0.1111 evil fortune is
inextricably intermingled with the fortunes
of the race. Whatever is good for the
world at largo -or, perhaps, 1 would better
say, whatever has been good for the world
at large in the past -helps us. Our broth.
ren all along have clied that we may live,
Over and over men have gone to death, as
the Ruseians marched into that tragioditoh
of Schweidnitz, that those who came behind knows God hest of all who ever breathed
might pass over them and win the victory, looks 011 into His Father's face, and calls
But how about those poor fellows down Him Fatter,
there in the ditch ? Did Gocl love them We wonder if pain and love eitu really go
when Iniegave them death instead of tri- together, and behold hero they are together
umph? You and I got into the black et the cross oi Jesus, He whom God loves,
shadow of pain, and WO 1001t up and tho suffers ; love unspeakaole, suffering un-
lace of God is hidden from oer oyes, Ib speakable. Henceforth let. no sorrowing
may be that our Pain tesi7 somehow belP soul fear that God has forgotten. The
our brother, bot doesn't God care more,
then, for our brother then he dem for us ?
God is love, St John tells us, Wo love
Him, St John says, because Ho first loved
us. Bub does C/od love us ? Has not God Rentinz out Bibles au a Busineuft.
deserted us, lost sight for us, forgotten us,
remembering only the groat race of man?
And we reitheo the infinity of God ; and we
remind ourselves that this whole planet is
hut a grain of (lost in the van illuminated
universe of God ; what is man, what is any
ono individual, that God should be mindful
of hi m 9 Is not God mindful only of the
rule The great God, out among the evsr. gyman on the occasion of a ehristening,
lasting stars, must not a vast number of US wedding or funeral in the family.
small creatures he sat (Nether before WO it 011 the occasion of these religious
can be of size enough for God to see? , socks in the family the high church dignitary
01 course, we 1.1aV13 0. ready and effects:fat should burn to the blank leaves between the
answer to that lasb fear of the human heart. Old the New Testaments he would find
God is a spirit, and the size of body metter$ them devoid of genealogical reeorcle, to the
not with Him, Igo amount 01 material consternation of the family. A deposit 18
substance ent compare in value with ft demanded when the Bible le hired, and a
thinking brain. No weight of melt eat) charge of et2 a, night, is the regular price.
enter bite competition with a send, The
groat snit, and all the suns molted together The mini who tolls you hoW he became
ilito ono vast, White-hot furnace of interrnia.
bald knows " wear off " speaks,
able flame, are not worth a soul, Whore.
Father never forgets. The Esther loves
eternally.
The popular impression that every fenny
possesses a Bible as well as a dictionary and
a copy of Shakeepeare, like many other
popular impressions, stems to be an errono;
ons 0110, for there 18 in New York a firm
that makes business of renting out Bibles
of an expensive and handsome kind, suites
ble to hand to a bishop or fashionable cler.
AMERIOA'S REAL DI SOOT Ritait
triehmatt Malt 111 any,. fereeeded !Loin 1111
WIN by SOO years.
St. Brendan, of f 1, in Kerry, is said
to have been the first European dise.,,,ror
oi the /New V‘. 01 lila; 11 181111.1c31 feet,
there fertnnately is ample eVi111.11,, 1100-
11111011(1117 111111 Ut1101.Wi8V, 81.1141 01.0)1 thisingh.
out the world, whieli ouly relent ee living
brought together itiel put into form Lo
seemly show, beyond nil d lignite that not
nitly St. Brendan lauded in Animiee at least
eight ;solitaries beton Columbus was 1,01'11,
but that Columbia, end Braeil are taken (rum
aneient lrish 111111105, 1411,1 1134 111014/V1101,
surnamed the Geometer, better known in
history by his Latinized 1111'00 of Virgillus,
it native of Ulster, mid am:holm:of the great
school Of Armagn, had demount. rated the
sphericity of the earth over 500 years before
, the Idrth of Ga111100, to whom gutturally the
credit ot the dieeovery is given.
1122111011S W148 indeed s. very extraordinaey
d fully desetwee to 1111 a prominent
place in history, for his ability and parse.
rennet; 111 printing out to the navigatore
and geographers of his (ley that Cathay or
China, coolil be leached by sailiug direct
West iestoad of going rowel the Cape of
Good Hope, as the Porleigneeo and other ex.
ploren et the time, had been in 1110 habit of
doing. In the pursuit of this purpose he was
intercepted the American elunthient,
which etretches from north to south ;so that
as far as he was oonoerned, the discovery of
America sees purely neeidental because
China \MB the object of his veyage ; aud as
he wits by no means the rivet WI1110 1111411 to
reach the Western World, he is nut justly
entitled to be called ts discoverer,
The Irishmen, the Northmen, the Welsh
and the Basques wore there ages before ha
was born ; and it is almost certain that those
ancient sea clogs known as the " 1?h,eniehois"
crossed the South Atlantie front the West
Coes 1. of Africa, where t hey lied a, strong col-
ony and where a very large ruin of one of
their eities has recently been discovered,
11111011 indeed to the amazement of the scien-
tific mid archeological world.
Some few years ago, when traveling 10
Ireland, says a writer in the Irish Cana.
Wan, my attention was directed to fit.
Brendan's elaim of being the discoverer of
the NOW World, through a pontifical 111080
celebrates] by the Biellop of Kerry in the
open air on St, 33renditn's Head, a bold
promontory forming t he south side of Traleo
Bay, whence, in the yeav 550 or 55 1 Brendan
sailed away to discover the Thalley Heath,
or Western Land, of which a tradition had
existed among the ancient Irish, and does
more or less still in the Irieli langun go. 00
subsequent visite to Ire:0ml, I of len 110 en ed
with pleasure to stories null legemls reeited
in the mellffinous tongue of the Celt by on.
eclat:uteri peasants, to whom the trnelitione
had doeceudedfrotn remote agnelming moms.
mated from sire to sen tho languege
which the Brehm) C'elle was written, and
in which Patrick delivered his message to
the Irish 'Monarch and hie F018 More, or
Parliament, :et Tam. These cis:mainly:us
awakened in me an interest in St. Hendee
and his renutrimble voyage, nod as a. result
of that interest I have, fee the last three or
four years, it. my humble way been collect-
ing evidence of Ileenthan's discovery, and I
am fairly astoended at the amount of it
there is in existence, and might by :a society
he ;so ilv ;light together for publication.
Tide evidence of classification might, in a
general tvay, be divided somewhat as fol.
lows; that found in the likeal-Fheruiselt-
thesis, or *ancient stories of Ireland, still
existing in the Irish language-rts, for in:
stance, the legend of tho Clatniech Feenh, in
which there is a pointed allusion to the
voyage ot Brendan to the Dlostoth Hettrh, or
Western World, as there aro also in the
beautiful poems of (Naiad', or, more correct-
ly speaking, Uesheee, one of the world's
greatest poets, whom the Scotch writee,
MaPhersou, tried hard I manufacture into
Sontehman, but failed. Ellank Bressil,
or as it is called in English books, "Hy
Brassil," was the traditional enchanted
ishand of joy occasionally seen when
Leath, tho Irish Sea God was in good
humor. Tho imsginary Island, which was
placed the ocean off the (1 itlway eottst, in
after ogee gave its 1101110 to Peetzil in Snuth
America, its the Portuguese wore all ac-
quainted with the story of 13rentlan's veyoge
and Brazil being in ell probability the first
portion of the New World upon which his
eyes had rested.
There is also evidence to he found in
ancient Irish books and manuscripts, many
of which, I am glad to say, are still in exis.
Vance, notwithstanding the wholesale de.
struetion of schools and libraries, in Ireland
by Danes and Normans -the first out of love
of pilbago and rapthe, and the 0000011 111
order to, e,s far as possible, destroy every
vestige and trace of Ireland's early learning
and eivilization. Evidence in favor of Brom
dan's voyaree is to be met 111 most large
lihrariee, such as thoso of Trinity College,
DeWitt, British Alusemn, London, the 13od-
lean at Oxford, the libraries of Stowe, of
Catnbriclge, of the Scotch universities and
schools, in all of which there aro numerous
Irish -written books and inannsetipts.
The inquiry might also be prosecuted on
the continen of Europa, and more especially
in such Hermits ns those of Paris, Louvain
Bruges, Naples, Pavia, Vienna, Saltelnirgh
(of which Virgilltts, the geometer, already
alluded les, W148 bi8110p), ;Salamanca, Florence
Rome and other ancient seats of learning,
some of evIdeli positively owe their origin to
Irish missionaries W110 loft Ireland when
she watt, as Alontalornbert says, " the School
of the West."
In these Binaries there aro treasures of
Irish litotature written in various periods
by nativeti of Ireland, 118 Well as priceless
books and manuscripts taken for safety itt
differeut times to tho continent: by Irish
monks and other exiled scholars. The
librarian of Norway, Denmark and Sweden
also contain evidences of Bromben's voyege
because the Danes did not destroy all the
beautifully illuminated booke and manu;
scripts which Lltey 101111d the schools of
Ireland ; but, on the contrary, lb dord of
them were savod and carried away by the
iuvaders to thele northern homes, Le 159
they plundered Nutmeat:and other monas-
teries and schools on the River Shannon and
along thu west coast ; and while they do.
strayed the buildings they generally carried
away the valuables, of which the splendidly.
bound and iilerninated tomes and documents
formed a portion and to -day many of these
literary treasures are sae in the libraries of
Copenhagen, Stookholtn, Upsal, Christies,
and other northern schools and cities.
According to eleven different Latin 101/11.
uscripts in the National Library, Paris, ono
which dates from the bleventh tentury, St.
Brendan loft Vale° Bay abouL 550 A. D. on
mission to the undiscovered country
ethich he believed to exist beyond the At.
lantio, 'rho veesel ho embarked in with
his companions and provisions, ineluding
five pigs, was caught in it eurre»ii, and after
a voyage of many weeks, he landed in a.
strange country ,whero he taught., the =Lives
tho truths of Christianity. Aftor seven
years he returned to Ireland, and subse-
quently tried Naomi voyage to Gm same
country, as he had promised to re.visit it,
but Wati baffled by the wind and tido,
lie died 1.1 110 0,11011: sanetity 111 n78,
11g1111 111.110ty.1011r y01100. The eurimes thieg
is that., when tiortc.s invaded Alexieo lie
fortnd the natives in poneession of 801110 of
the (lot:trines of (gilled:lithe:, which they
saul had been taught, them by 0 81 rill/E401.
elad in a long robe, who vane: 10 1 110111 1'1,0
the lloly Island 1.eyond the 043 ill 1,001
with Willg8 " 111011), venture% hefore, awl
promised to return to them, he advent el
Cortex was, 11/ 1401, hailed an a fultillinseit
of tide (rah Hem
The strange emmtry referred to was the
ef Devonshire in he south.
west of 1.111gland 10 'W111011 Ilreudan 11%10
00,1T/011 by the golf 01/.01111, /111,1 where,
ing hie stay, he founded the Chursit of Bren-
dan, amend whiell a village nubsequently
clustered that mill bears ins name,
Groat liVorkers.
Two friends, newmpaper men, W011 on an
emir:dun, While en a railway train, they
wore moved to mieellief by the eemieet
appearanoe of a country -looking fellow who
sa'111.clasiiI.v long did it take yent to write Par-
adise Lost " one e the heends asked, ad-
dressing his companion,
" 011, about two weeks, but I 11718 liney
on the ' Conroe of Time' a good bit of the
while. Veit worked quite a while on the
f Vicar of Wakefield,' didn't you ?"
" Well, yea, quite a while. 011, I could
have done it sooner 11 1 hadn't worked so
hard. on f Rasselas' during the time. But
when it conies to work, let nle toll yeti
Glint I caught it on The Beeline ancl Feller
tho Roman Empire.' I had to have it done
by a marlin time, and hanged if I didn't
write a vulume a week for six sveeks. After
that I took it easy ancl didn't write more
than a volume in two weeks."
They glanced oecasionelly at the country-
man and tittered gleefully. Pretty 00011
the fellow got up, approaelied thorn, aud
said :
" I have taken it lay-off merely to look
for you fellows. 1 waisted to have eome
fun with you." And before they knew what
he was abont Ile seized them in a strong
and mysterious way and humpo.1 their heeds
together ; and then, as the thain bad reach-
ed. a statien, he bowed politely and got off.
-[Arltitesaw Traveler.
Mixed.
A man went to a certain railway station
in England to buy a ticket, me it small vil-
lage named Monow, where statism had
been opened only a 10W clays pie -It -lonely.
Does this train go to liforrowr asked the
inan, coming up to the ticket office in a great
limey, and pointing to a train on the line,
with steam up and evevy indication of
speedy departure. " No, it goes molly,"
replied the clerk ourtly. He thought the
11100 W00 " trying to be funny," as the say-
ing gen. " But," rejoined the inan, who
W/1.8 ill a great hurry, " does.it go to Morrow
to -day 9" "No, it goes yesterday, the 10Vek
after nest," said the other, eareasti.mlly.
" You don't understand cried the man,
getting very much excited, as the engine
gave the warning toot, ; " I want to go to
Alorrow," " Well, then," said the clerk
steeply, " why don't y011 go Alorrow, nod
1101 coming bothering here to.day ? Step
asirle, please, and let Gust lady approach the
window.' " But, my dear sir,''
the bewildered enquirer, " iL is important
I should be in Morrow todlay, and if the
(min stops there, or if there is no train to
Aiorrow to-dity-" At thiseritical jam.
thee, when there was some danger that the
misunderstanding would drive both men
herdic, an old official happened to appear,
and straightened matters in less than a
minute. The clerk apologized, the num got
his ticket, and the tratti started for Morrow
that clay.
Going to Behrinc sea.
OTTAWA, Nov. -Early last season Limit.
Gordon, R. N, suggosted to the Minister of
Marine and Fisheries that re fast sailing
schooner should be: built on the Nova
Scotian mast on tlie lines of the Fredonia,
the fastest: ship sailing from Gloucester,
with a view to further encouraging our
fieherinen to go in for a suporim class of
vessels. Aocordingly a fine schooner was
built by McGill, celebretted ship builder
in the country of Slit therm), and was »amed
the Agues Macdonald, after the Hareems
Macdonald. The schooner proved herself a
gnat success -ft 1 5 kinitter-and able to
outsell any liebieg vessel she mot during
the season, and performing the duties of
fishery peoteetion cruises most efficiently.
Her chance with the t4ovornmont having
recently expired, the Agnes Alneeloneld has
been bought by parties interested in the
sealing business and ie slow being fitted out
foe Victoria so that she may be ready to
procoed to Behring sea, next spring. it
may be mentioned that engaged in the
sealing business during recent. years are two
other vessels which have done good work
in pretzel:Mg our Atlantic coasts from Yan-
kee poachers, V10., the 0. 31. Topper and
the Triumph.
Bight Restored At Ninety -Five.
The Welsh newspapers report a reinark•
able event at the village of folaium, Cateligan•
shire, whore Rev. eV illieen Herbert. late
reefer of the parish, eutertained 500 of his
parishionersat tea in commemontion of the
restoration of hie eyesight, its his MO year.
The reverend gentleman, who is tho oldest
clergyman in the principality, has held the
living tat Llanon for half a century, Six
years ago, however, lie lost his sight and re.
signed the rectorship 111 eonsofittenee. During
tho last few months he has been under the
treatment of an einiuent oculist, and the
cataracts being removed from his eyes, his
sight has been uompletely restored aud
he is 110W enabled to read the service in
church.
The Sabath Chime,
To Thee, 0 Lord, one bearte we tease,
In hymne of adoration,
To Theo bring eiterifIce of praise
with shon Le of exu !Lateen
Bright: robes of gold lila nelde adorn,
The Mlle with Soy :Ire ringing,
The valleys shoel en thlek with 001'11
l'hat oven they rtro singing,
And now, on thie our foetal clay,
Thy bounteous lintel eimfoesIng,
Upon Tithe Lopti, WO lay
'rho Ilrst fruits of Thy blmeeng
13y Thee the 801110 Or num 0.0 fod
With gifts; of melee supernal.
Thou, who doe( give 118 earthly broad,
Give 118 tI10 iltead if:Lerma,
We beer the leirden ef the day,
And often loll Nonni, tirOitry
11111 10110r 011118 131 11 sunset ray,
Ancl rest muss for the weery•
Alex WO, 1,110 angel -reaping o'or,
Stand at the last unnert'd.
Christ's golden "111011,VON 1'01' evermore
To garners' bright Meseed,
Oh, blesecit 11111.1 18,1111 01' (Ind,
Where seine; (Melo forever ;
Where golden fleldH emend hu: and broad,
Whore flows the ervetol river;
Tho H1110110 of ell itg holy throng
Wii,11 nuts toglay aro Wending;
Thiene Maimed le that harveat eong
Whieb never hath an ending. Anion,
AND MEB, BOWSKR,
mr. Heir see Stets ;toot her or it is .siroobs"
isrent 2.3348 or &Ire AL il/741' the Coast or rost
1114
01111 I 1/,
All huthands get "streaky." They will
rim along 011 right for a week or two ns As; further delaile about the eyelone whieli
eeiel ae pie, mid then all of a hidden and 101080(1 ovee this liert 1:111211 on Alenday
ith exPlist. OW. ill of \Vint+ 1110 rv, 1',N1 11 18 found t hat
tli„ most. eurpriettes ilui:„„„r, NS hen Mr, the damage hem ni 1 ery grime:. Besides the
Itowsee left the lieuse the other great lege of life (mem:toned by the sinking
g,ty 1,„ gr„„ g„‘„I 1)110,4. awl step. of the Indine Germ:einem el camel: Enterprise
pea to say whi,,11 fon II tiered et the A phloem hilant18,
" 1 think I'll stop and get tieltets for the end 1 he killing of sixty convicts, there hats
theatre tomight and we'll mit in en enjoy. hem] large loss of life at other phwes along
able rvenitig." he 001181.
3V1ten he returned 111 six ha aseonileil tho AcIviees from various parts of Oritmt,
,.$10ps with a serial ! scrult emelt' ! unlock- Bengal, sny that the eyelone passed 000r
011 1110 11'0111 door, gave it a kielt and made that section and did great damage. The
hie W11.3' ill 1 0 1110 1840k podur to growl : eastern part of the pros:hive lies atoms the
" Aire, Itowser, do you pretend to run Ode iihnreil of the Bay of Bengal, and W1111 0X posed
hotiee tin a. system 9" to the full fury of the gale. The cyclone
" Why, what, 10 wrong, deer ?" she quer- cleared a path through the foreste, uproot -
mg Mege trees, and every dwelling or other
strueture in the stores path wits sat opts
from its foundations.
The wind also did much damage in the
vicinity of Calcutta end below it. A largo
number of vessels 11P0P0 at anchor oil' the
nouth of the Hoogly River, and when the
gide euffilehly Imrst slumbers deagged their
tnehers and wore carried ashore, whi kt
others Ivere damaged by the pounding they
received by tlie enormous sees W111011 10000:11.
ponied the storm.
No estimate can as yet bo merle of the
total loos of life, but from all the details
received it is known that the number of
persons deowned tn. killed in vevy huge.
The steamer Enterprise, used by tho
Government to convey convicts to the
Andaman bilands, was lostduring theeyelone,
Later intelligence shows that when the
storm burst the steamer was ;alight mimes
pared and that she was blown with terrific
epeed onto the share. She cbighed upon the
rocke lying opposite the feniale convict pH.
son, end lying there a wreck, the gigantic
rums swept clean over ber, 'rho meek of
1110 V011801 Wail goon by it number of the female
convicts who were eeelcing shelter from the
fury of the gale, and they, with groat
heroism, started for the shore.
Sloivly end painfully they forced them-
selvee agni net the storm, grasping the rocks
and other things to prevent thernselvos from
being literally blown away. At last they
reached the shore. Here, nothing daunted
by the thundering inrush of the waters,
which at timeeswept high &hove their heads,
they formed a human life line, each woman
gleaming the other's hands, Then the
bravest. of the party, at the heed of the line,
rueheel into the mere and grasped a stregglitig
fc rin soon t mita twie Ling in the water,
and, aided by her companions, dragged
ashore one of tho nien who had been swepe
from tho wreck of the Enterprise.
Again and again the 14,011011 entered tho
water. and each time they returund with a
1110.11 W110, hail it net been for their heroic
aid, would surely here been drowned. Of
the eighty.three men comprifsing the officers
and crew of the Enterprise only six were
saved, and every ripe of these six was drag-
ged out of the water by. the women -noble -
hearted and self-saerilicilig, even though
1:1103 1111VO been brawled as criminals. Every
English officer:sod every English member of
the orew of the Enterprieu was lose.
Nov, 27, 189
_
OYOLONE 13A.Y Or BENGAL.
led in reply.
" l'Itereet lots of things weong 1 I had
to -merely left. the office when thie comecont
button clone Mr lahl Ole coal off the 51/2
of last May, and yoleve had five months to
secure that button."
" I didn't know it WW1 loose, NVIly
you tell ine
" Why litaven't told yen ten thousand
other thinge that (night to be done 1 There
111.0 W100,1 14110 glance their hut:bands'
clothing once or twice a year and discover
what repairs are needed. 1 wane& darning;
needle and it piece of string."
" litn I'll sow the button on."
" No V11 do it myoolf. I don't want to
take up your vele:tele time,"
And despite Mrs, lioweer's entreaties and
protestations he seeded the needle with a.
piece of steins. end sat down and sowed on
the butter. lie got it an inch 013 of line
with the 111111011.lio10, of course, and of course
it wouldn't heve stayed five !dinettes in any
event, but he had tarried his point. When
he had 1161 the mat: aside lie asked :
" Have we got a bredeewl. and piooe of
waxotl-end in the house 9"
" I don't think so, What do you want of
them ?"
" To mend my snspender, of murse. I
hadn't gol. &hundred feet from the hetise this
110011 when it busted on me as usual, If
there's another linvise in the linked Stittes
rim like this ono l'd like to hear of it aud gu
and Bit 11011.11 011 1110 1100rS1Op fur 111211 all
hone, Per:imps I can repair it with m piece
of elothemline nntil I can geL down town
again."
" you can't blame me, Air. Bowser,"
eh said.
" of enurse not ; you are not to libime
for anything !"
" Ilut how (lift 111 now your suspender was
veady to tweak 9'
" That's all right, Mrs. Homes ! ril get
pieee of whims -1i= or barbed wire and
make repairs and yon iteede't worry at itli !
There aee WiN'00 01111
" A rc WO going to the theatre ?" she asked
es he begm1 peeing up and down the room
with his hands under his coat.teils.
" What 2" he :handed in a voice which
jumped the citt out of the room.
" Are we going 10 the theatre 9"
" 'Theatre ! Theatre ! I cave you gone
Cr00,y 9 Mrs. llowscr, look -a -hero and then
tellt theatre to mu !"
He unlaced ono of his shoes arel kicked it
off, and there, at the end of his big toe, was
14 bole about as hig as 21 nj 01101.
" was intendmg to go to the theatre '
he said as he stood and pointed at the
" but cent'', get mwey this evening. I have
got to stay keine and dttrn my SOC1C8. That
hole there has started a corn on tny toe this
very day."
" ef r. Boweer, those socks were bran new
yesterday morning when you put theist on 1"
exclaimed Airs. Bowser wall 0 good deal of
with the ahem:el' W11111 a dated ugmeed le and
energy,
" Oh, of course ! 'probably cut that hole
some string or something. As long as I've
got to take mare of my clothes through the
rest of my life I might as well begin to.
night."
Airs. Bowser peotosted, but he threaded a
darning -needle with a piece of rod string and
used tip about eight feet of it in darning the
hole. Ho appeared to be growing good
named, and she ventured to Oak
" Aren't we to go to the theatre tomight?"
" If we get through in tinio we may."
" Get through with whet 9 "
" Alre. Bowser," lie said as Ito removed his
coat aml turned his back, " look at tIle
back of my vest ! "
" I see it but what's wrone "
" Wrong ! wroeg ! le there a letekle
there 1 Pet on yiter ghtesee and 11:11 me if
you can vitel lb Imelde anywhere on the Intel(
of my WW1. "
" I i1.1.!. 11i/1 1 11'0, IS 1 ho 111'811 imp
you have eallea toy al tention 10 it."
" Exae, ly. Wird., was the uso? That
buckle leisted off hrVt) years mei Met
Meenksgieite, I and yet you haven't
noticed it ! there 0 :um., bnekle kicking
nround the crOlar or lumen% up in the gar.
rot? If mit I suppose 1 cm heat the etove
poker and bend tulip to anewer,"
"You only got I lint vest three months
ago, Mr. Bowser, end the 11(1300 pot a
buckle 011 !" elm exclaimed as sho pulled at
the strap.
" And this coati, Mrs. Boweee," he W0111
on, reuardless of her protest, " feel in this
pocket I There's a hole them large enough
to let a cocoanut through 1 r vo known it for
years and years end I've been waiting to
see it you would fix it. "lave you got
pleue of bocleecird tunnel? a. yard of old
Bruseele %mob lying arouncl?"
"Why didn't you tell me about it?"
"Ten you 1 muet a husband bo eternally
telling his wife about. these things? What's
a wife for? What ore her duties? Whet
should a fond tette wife delight in 'Button
off -hole in my sock -no buckle on my vest
-hole in my pockeb-two batons loose ou
my vest--buttonholos all torn oub 111 my
shirt: I Theatre I Not this °vanilla, Mrs.
Boweer I You can go, but I luiven't time.
After dinner rvo got to get the hammer,
gas-pineere, NV, 610, brace and drill, a
paokage of rivete, serow.clriver, gimlet and
a lot of glue and soo if 'eau% repair gem° of
the damagou ancl gob myself in shape to go
to the °nice to-moreow. Yon can go and
you 11 probably enjoy tho play and have a
good time, but I shall bo unavoidably do. with us " nonqueteng and to conquer. -
tabled ttt home -unavoidably detained, Abx0"a"' '211-614".074
Mrs, Bowser." Friday,
Golden Thoughts For 3 re r Day.
NI outlay -
In the hush of the Valley of Silence
1 drenin :ell the song. that I sing ;
And the =ohs fleets down the dim valley,
Till each nods a word for a wino
'Peat to hoaets, ince the Dove of the Deluge,
A message of peace tbey mar bring.
Bet r,,/' 1he deep thote 01'0 lellowe
Thee. 110V01. :1111111 br0121. 00 110 1,00011
And I have heard senge in t he snonea
'0110.1 MAW shall fleet Into epeeell
And have had droning ill the valley
Too lofty foe lang unge to pearl,
-.14,11krr 72yon.
l'aesday-A jewel 11141110 is fitly compared
to a precious ointment, and when Ivo aro
praieed with eltill and decency it, is Mcleod
the most agreeable perfume but if too
etronstly admitted into the brain of less
vigorous end happy texture it will, like too
strong en oder. overeomo tho senses and
peeve perniaione to thaw nerves it WM in-
tender'. to refresh. .A generous mind is of
all others the most sensible of prole° and
dispreise, and a noble spirit is as much in.
vim:mated with iLs duo proportion of honor
and applause as it is depressed by neglect
and contempt. But it is only persons far
almve the (mminon level who are thus affec-
ted with either of these extremee ; as in 31
thermometer, 11 is only the purest and
mokt suldinutted spirit that is either con-
tra:11ml et. ;Meted by the benignity or in-
dentelley of the SC88011.--Sir R. Steele.
Wednesday -
:there 111,1 'heights
Beyond our (hemming,
There 111'0.241y,,
ilnvond nut selienfieg.
In 1 1;0 W10110,0 411(11110 00110001
or oar 1,or.1:
And fat), eacl 1090 woe Is -Coition,
selit h tho premier+ golden-
. ton ivItb thee, end will keep thee,
To the ttlmost of My Word.
-Mara Thwalles.
Thursday -As weponderthat " blierefore"
of onr Lord we seem to see a train of cars
coupled to a locomotive. The steam is np.
There is power enough hi it to clraw the
train. But the engineer with his hand on
the lever that he opens the throttle valve,
wonders why th train does not move. He
says ho believes in the eegine. Why don't)
he lot on bhe steam ? Faith that talks only
and does upbeat is dead :being alone." And
stioli is the faith of too many in the elinech
toolay in regard to the convent= of the
world. Tho onginery of redemption is pea• -
feet, It has boon tested in all lands for sixty
generations, end has mayor failed. " The
" all power" of the Savior waits for a wel-
come of a living. faith. Thc promised pre-
sences of the Savior by. his spirit is depend-
ent upon the WM1'0180 of faith, Let us
break, then, from the lethargy of this nont;
Mal confidence in the gospel for the world.
Let us wake up to the grand certainby which
it given to us in one Lord'e declaration and
promise, mid " therefore" go forbh to beach
all Rations, expeoting that 011E02 will go
Death Bate of Minors.
111 (411 Ilddr088 1:00011 Lly (1011V0rOd by Dr
William Oyla Soperintendent of Statistics
of the General Registrar's office, before the
Con ress of HYgiene in London, he remark-
od Lust, the mortaliey among those whose ore
oupations compelled them to inhale stone :By \vat:Unplugs wild thiteandureeiellgrim loves'?
dust WWI greater than those who inhaled re• er:Llesaul gain heaven:0 glory once its
motel dnst, Nobwithetanding this and tho fact) By 11111eing on the bright and tranquil Tslos of
that the °oat minors work under conditions Greece 1
average culmination presents, the dcath rate __a...Carlos Wilma:
considerably inoro dengerouts than the
&motile them is very much lower than one
would be Notified to expect.
Tree immortality of ennui been given
To hem that worship 11111 and grove&
And iiiionarviionfiroot 171001180 10 t110 queen of
DM Newton leern from fanny ne it 1.031.10
TO 1110100110 Worlds and fo tow whore each
SWOP 1
DiclmNoward gain renown thee shall not
"/ don't look n, very formidable folinu ,"
soliloquized the homed, milk dealer, " and
ttre no hotter in conversation than Yet, NCI made lots or bigger mon take wafer."
Eve was taken from Adnat's loft side, but wo''tIt'utiTtl'aarcvi17100lic138001'0001afmritaindbifttiolclwilontgtleal
in it foot race.
after ehe WILS 11114110 8110 always managed. to her you may make up your mind that she is
keep on the right side of 11ini, a bride,
1