The Clinton News-Record, 1898-02-26, Page 41 � •.
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' (,�I A i �i�j f7 r p ik A j��j �1p It Its remarkable that Thombas Jet- long enough to nay, "Well, that's vee
u.l,l!tl.�l'iJl U L �j.1l�liilJ,1J irb a ferson who wrote the Declaration of ably wa'jtteA," and you read the divori
_ Independence, also wrote these wards, the top to the "nonpateil" type i
BEV. -DR. TALMAGE ON PRESS AND "If I had to choose between a govern- the top of the "nonpareil" typGe at tl
meat without newspapers and news- bottoms sad theft you ask your wife
PULPIT RELATIONS. papers without a government, Iwould she has read itI Oh, it is ouily a cal
r prefer the latter." Stung by some new Cf supply Bled demand 1
fabrication in print, we come to write (Another temptatiion of thie newspapt
THE GREAT POWER OF THE PRESS or speak about an "unbridled printing profession to 'the greart alluremaent thi
_ prerps.,. Our naw 'book ground up 1n surrounds theam. •Every Occupaation am
The Noted Divine Conimeaterates the just criticism, we come to write or profession has temptations peoudiar i
speak about the "unfair printing itself and the new
it,e@tilh TaLilcnttea of ills Serttions by a reaper profesainm
press." Perhaps through our own in- Wait tin exception. The great deman,
Timely Sermop wrens a most Unique and distinctness of utterance we are re- as you know, is om the nervous fore
Apparently prophetic 'Text — Tho Text ported as saying just the opposite of and•the brairhi is racked. Thee blonde:
of the Press. what we did say, and there is asmall eTimg palitiaal epeeah ¢oust resd'we
Washington, Feb. 20.—Rev. Dr. Tal- riot of semtoolons and hyphens and for the asks of the pasty, and so t1
commas, and we come to write or talk rerporter or k
. mage this morning preached from the about the "blundering printing press," iie ill eve y s to make
text, Nahum ii, 4, "They shall seem like or we take up a newspaper full of coo- a ca str' he togih every sentence wei
torches' the shall run like the li ht- ial scandal and of cases of divoroe,and °oho tO the haa, ish la hat a
Y g we write or talk about a "filth iscur- rhe reporter must hear all that a
aftosa,' He Qa.id: Y. inewdLbe aptsaakeT, whC thinks it le vu
rilous printing press." But this morn -
Express, rail train and telegraphic Ing 1 ask you to consider the immeas- be t° nut, says, earl ill mut
communication are suggested, if not arable and ever'asti blessin of a be r't in the next s, thug or the Wei
g befog in the papers, once a the ni t
foretold, In this text, and from it I good newspaper. before the whole awdisn,ce se,t wlthgi1
start to preach a sermon 'in gratitude I find no difficulty in accounting for 'band behiuid Its ear in vain trying t
to God and the newspaper press for the the world's advance. What has made catch ilt. This than must
the hangs? "Books, you say. No, sirl killing• nigrht work. alta muusst go int
fact that I have had the opportunity The vast majority of citizens do not go int
?1 � of delivering through the newspaper read books. Take this audienoe or ane 'sated ssermlrlagea and lata unvenGL:
press 2,000 sermons or reli ious addres- other promiscuous assemblage, and how atoll. , the cl roams that are enowg
B to take fila fide Drat of hilm• fie mus
many histories have they read ? How
�.,, sea, so that I have of many years been visit aourtrooma, which aka almost ai
allowed the rivile a of reahin the orany treatises on constitutional law ways disgusting wfm tura Bund fire. H
P e P g political economy or-vorks•of sci- ga must e
gospel every week to every •neighbor- ence? How many elaborate poems or must write irn• fetidsalleyways.ytAd e
hood to Chr61tendom and in many lands books of travel? Not many. In the all that^ he gnat have hasty maatimu
outside of Christendom. Many have United States the people would not av- ilea and Lrre pylar habits. To boas U
wondered at the Y erage one such look a year for each under the tremendous nervous straid
process b which it individual. Whence, then, this intelli- they are tempted to artificial stimidw
has come to pass, and for the first time gence, this capacity to talk about all and ihonv many thousands have n
themes, secular and reli ious, this ac- on
Ln public place I state the three causes. 6 dawn wndres their pressure God onl
quaintance with science noel art, this
Many ears ago a young man who ,bas knows. T meust have somethin t
power to appreciate the beautiful and I countexac tt he wet, thea must li ry
since become eminent in his profession grand? Next to the Bible, the news- samelthim to kee out the chill}„ am
was then studying law in a distant city. presen s fly in i over thedfence, shoved f after a sc.an,t nieg•ht's sleep they mm,us
He carne to me and said that for lack uner to door, tossed into t•he recant- I have something to revive them for th
of funds he must stop his'studying un- in house, laid on the w•orikbeneh,hawk-' marv,:mg's work. That ie what made
g I Hmorrace Greele such a stout teem
leas through stenography I would give ed through the cars 1 All read i t —' nano team I said to ehLm "Mr. Gree er
hive sketches of sermons that he might white and black, German, Irishman, w Y
Swiss, Spaniard, American, old and hY erre Yo'u� more eloqueat on the sub
by to sale of them secure moans for young good and bad, sick and well, be- , elect of tempersaee, than any othei
the completion of his education. I fore breakfast and after tea, Monday, I subject?" $e reaplied, "I have seen sv
positively declined because it seem- morning, Saturday night, Sunday and j marry od my best friends i•n jouxnaeiisu
ed to me an impossibility, but after weekday. I now declare that I con- gU 'd'o'wn und,es intem,perance.-
aider the newspaper to be the grand •Another trial of this profession is the
some months had passed, and I had re- agency by which the goapel is to be ; fait nd °ale seems to core for thein
fleeted upon the great sadness for such preached, ignorance cast out, opprea- ,souls, They feel bbtterlp about it
a brilliant young man to be defeated sion dethroned, crime extirpated, the though they laugh. People sometime:
im his ambition for to legal profession, world raised, heaven rejoiced and God ! w ugh •� loudest ;-'hem they feel the
glorified. In thea clanking of the i owst, Thep are expected to gather ul
I undertook to serve him, of course free printing press as the sheets fly out I religious proceedings and to discuss ro-
of charge. Within three weeks there hear the voice of the Lord Almtgbty I ligiaus doctrimras Ln the editorial col•
came a request for those stenograph- proclaiming to all the dead nations of umns, but who expects them to be sav
the earth, Lazarus, come forth I" and e'd by the sermrana they stenograph of
is reports from many parts of the con- to the retreating surges of darkness, by, the doctrines they discuss W the
tinent. "Let there be light 1" In many of our edutariad colwmms? Tie world looks up.
Time passed on, and some gentlemen city newspapers, professing no more om the,m as professiom.a,l, 'Who preacee
of my own profession, evidently think- than secular information, there have to reporters and editors? Some of thsm
Lug that there was hardly room for appeared during the past 30 years some Caam,e from religous homes, and when
of the grandest appeals in behalf of they left the parental roof, whoever re -
them acrd for myself in this continent religion and some of the most effec- I g,rdrd ow disregarded, they came off
began to assail me, and •became so vio- tive interpretations of God's govern- r with a faather's benediction and a mo-
lent in their assault, that the chief Mont among the nations. Cher s prayer. 'They never thigh of
There are only two kinds of news-, thoss good old tiemes but tears come
newspapers of America, put special Cor- papers—the one good, ver im'to their e
respondents in Y good, the Yoe, and toy move thratugh
mry church Sabbath by other bad, very bad. A enrewspaper' tehese great cimtiea h,amesick.
Sabbath to take down such reply as may be started w✓.th an undecided char- I Lelt the ask Del men couinectod with
I might make. I never made reply, ex- a,ctar, but after it has been going on the p-rintime press that they help us
cept once for about three minutes, but for years everybody finds out just more and more ince the effort to make
those correspondents could not waste what it is, and it is very goad or it, t>he worlld better. I charge yocu i,n the
their time, and so they telegraphed the us very bad, Te one paper is the em- • iin,tn9 o Godi, before' ;whom you must
sermons to their particular l,apers. Af- bodi,ment of news, the ally of virtue, � acoount for the tremendous influence
ter awhile Dr. Louis Blopsch of New the foe of crieme„ the delectation of you hold in hhim country to consecrate
York systematized the work into a elevated taste, the miightiest agency o•n yours�alves to higiher endeavors. You
syndicate, until through that and'oth- earth for making the world better. The are the mem to fight back tbie invasion
er s ndicates, he has put the discourses other paper is a brigand among moral of corrupt literature. Luft up your
. week by week before more than 20,000,- farces; it is a beslimcr of reputation, riight hand and swear new allegianea
000 people on both aides of the sea. it is the right arm of death and bell, it to the ca use of pth,i,erathropy and ro-
There have been so many guesses on is the mightiest agency in the universe 1e11guan. And, wrhen at Last, standing oil
V , this subject,' many of them inaccurate, for makieng the world worse and bat- the pdaims of judgment, you look out
that I mow tell the true story. I have tlfarg against the cause oP God, the one uPan the—numebered throngs over
not improved the opportunity as I as angel oP intelligence and mercy,'wh6m. you have bald influence may it
sught, but I feel the time has come the other a fiend of darkness. Be- be foum.d that you were aanong the
ahem its a matter, of common justice tween this arch -angel and this fury is m,ig;htie.st energies that lift men upon
to the newspaper press I should make to be fought the great battle which the exalted �srthlway that leads to the
11i this statement in a sermon commem- Is to decide the fate of the world. If renown of heaven. ,Batter than to have
orative of the two thousandth full pub- You havo asap doubt as to which is to sat fin editorial chair, from which with
lication of sermons and religious, ad- be victor, ask the prophecies, ask God ; the filager of typ% you decided the es -
dresses, saying nothing of fragmen- the chief batteries with which he Uneires of empires, but decided ahem
tary reports, which would ruxi, up into would vindicate to right and thunder wromfg, 'tmhaat you had been same dung-
manp thousands more. dowrn the wrong are now unlimited. � Coneed exude, wnho, by the light of window
There was one incident that I mi ht The great Armageddoni of the nations' iron grated, on scraps of a New Testa-
- mention in this connection showing is foot to be fought with swords, but mean Leaf, picked up from the earth
how an insignificant event might in- with steel peas; not with bullets, but spelled cwt tlhe story of him who tak-
fluence us for a lifetime. Many years with type ; not with cannon, but with eth away the sins of the world. In et-
laaRgo on a Sabbath morning on mp way lightning perfecting presses, and the ; ernuty Dives is tahe beggear. WCIL my
church a Brooklyn a representative Sumters, and the Moultries, and the frilends, we willl all soon got t1hrough
. of a prominent newspaper met me and P nflicts, and the editor tars of the wri.tlmg an -d printing and proof-reading
id, "Are you going to give us an conflict will be the editorial and re- and pubdisbin,g. What then? Our life
Y portorial rooms of our great news- is a book. Our
' Points to -day ?" -I said, " What do ou' yenta are the ahaipm Our
� , mean: by ' points ?' ' He replied, "Any paper a od h shmiet a Men pe the day momt,he are the paragraphs. Our
i thing we can. remember." I said tom Pte' God has put a'�iore stupendous days are t:e sentences, Out doubts are"
self, ' Was ought to be making 'points" responsibility upon you than upon the interrogation points. Our imita-
ail the time in our p akin, and not any other class of persons. What tion of Others the quotation marks. Our
k-• • deal in platitude and inanities." That long strides your profession has made, atteanpta at diaplap a dash. Death the
, ome interrogation put to ma that In influence and power since the, perilod. Eternity the peroration. 0
g day, when Peter Sbeffer invented cast' God, where will we spend iet? Have
mornin smtarted in me the desire oY
metal type, and because two books were
": making Po• its all the time anal noth- You heard the nervus, mare startling
found just alike the were ascribed to journals of the
Lag• but points. �' than any fawnd in the
the work of the devil, an•d books were last six weeks ? It is 'the tidings thaat
i..�t ,t- fry And novv how can I more approprL- printed on strips of bamboo, and Rev.
kk ately commemorate the two thousand- Jesse Glover originated the first Am- nam is Lost' ;that eau heard the neve,
1�• 14_. tb publication, than by speaking of to erican printf the gladdest that was ever antwanced
ng press, and the cam-
` newspaper press as an ally of thepul- mon council of New York in solemn coining 'this day from thio throne of
pilt and mentioning some of the trials resolution, offered $200 to ane printer d lighitnimg couriers leaping from
I of newspaper men ? who would come there and live and aha palace Bate? The Wawa i The or al -
The newspaper. is the great educator when the speaker of the House of Par- nus nenvs 1 That there is pardon for all
of the nineteenth century. Tere is no liament it, England announced with in- guilt and 'comfort far all trouble, Set
force compared with it, It is book, dignation that the public prints had in Up "double leaded" columvns and
I pulpimt, platform, forum, all in one. And recognized some of their doings, until direct it to the whmole race.
I there is not an interest—religious, in this day, when we have in this coon- And now before I close this sermon,
literary, commercial, scientific, esti- try many newspapers sending out oop- thankfully commemorative of the
cultural or mechanical* --that is not ies by the billion+. Two TOtohsandth" publication, I wish
within its grasp, ' All our churches, One of the more fal.11y to acknowledge the services
great trials of this news- rendered b p
and schools and colleges and asylums paper profession is the fact that they Y the secular real in the
fend art galleries feel the quaking of are compelled to see more of the shams °°atter of evangelization. Ali the new
the trinting press. o the world than• nap other profession. alar newspapers of the day—for I atm
The institution of newspapers arose Through every newspaper office, day not speaking this morning of the rews-
in Italy. In Venice the first newpa- by day, go the weakness of the world,' tails newapapera—all the secular news -
per was published, and monthly during the vanities that want to be puffed, papers of the day discuss all the ques-
p1 . the time Venice was warring against the revenges that want to be wreaked tions of God, eternity and the dead,
Solyman II. in Dalmatia, it ws print- all the mistakes that warnrt to be cot- and ell the questions of the past, pres-
eal for the ur g' g Y ant and future. There is not a single
I p pose of i.vi militar meted, all the dull speakers who want doctrine of th�aology but has been dis-
and commercial information to the to be thought eloqueia�t, all the mean- cussed in the last ten
t _ Venetians. The first newspaper pub- mess that wants to get its wares notto- yearn by the
. . lisped in England was in 1588 and call- ed secular her pepll eP. thb country?
g Y gratis ire the editorial columns in tJLey gather up ail the news of all the'
ed the En pleb Meraur Who eau es- order to save the tax of the advertieGnp�
timate the political ; scientific, eommer- columin, all to men who want to be set earth n they a religious subjects,
sial and religious revolutions roused right who never were right, all the and then they scatter the news abroad
k, up in England for many years past °rack brained philosophers, with story be tn. Tie Christian newspaper will
by the press? as long' as teir hair, and as gloolmy as n the right wing of the Apocalyptic
i• The first attempt at this institution their finger nails, all the itinerant angel. Tthb cylinder of the Christian -
i`, In France was in 1631, by a physician, bores who come to stay five minutes i,a printing press will be the front
who published the News, for the amuse- and stop an hour. From the editorial wheels of the Lord's Chariot. I take
the music of this day, and I do not
gent and health of hie patients. The and reportorial rooms all the follies mark it diminuendo—I mark it cre
French nation understood fully bow to and shams of the world are seen• day
appreciate this power. So early as in by day, &ad the teimptation is to be- condo, A pastor on a Sabbaths preach -
1820 there were in Paris 169 journals. lieve neither in God, man, nor woman. cis tO a few hulndred or a few thousandf
t, But in the United States the newspaper It is vo surprise to me thet in your People, and on Monday or during the
hoe coma to unlimited away. Though profession, there are some skeptical week the painting press will take the
V in 1775 there were but 87 in the whole men. I Only wonder that same sermon and each it to millions
U you believe
country, the number of published jour- anythdng. nless an editor or a re- of people. God speed the printing
nals is now counted by thousands, and porter has itv his resem.t or [n his earl press I God save th'e printinlg press
to-day—we may s well acknowledge home a model of earnest character, or God Christianize the printing press I
it as not—the religious and secular he throw himself updn the upholding When I see the printing press stand-
neewspapers are the groat educators of gra,00 of God, he ma make tem oral Ing with the electric telsgrapii an the
the country• and oternal shipwreck. p one side gathering tip material and '
But alas, through what struggle the Another great trial of the newspaper the lightning express train on to
' ribwspaper has coma to its present de- profession 3s the diseased appetite for other side waiting for the tons of
velopment I Just as soon as It began Unhealthy intelligence. You blame the folded sheets oP newRlxiper, I epron-
': to demonstrate its power superstition nlawspaper press for giving such prom- ounce it the mightiest force in our I
slid tyranny shackled it. There is no- imenee to murders and scandals. Do you eivilizatdon. So I commend you to
thing that despotism so much fears suppose that so (mai,ney papers would pray for all tbbse who manage the i
and hates as the printing press. A give prominence to these things if the newspapers of th'e land, for all type- 1
great writer In the south of Europe people did 'not demand them? If I go setters, for all editors, for all pufblishr '
declared that the ging of Naples had into the meat market of a foreign city, long thaat, sitting or standing in posit- I
made it unsafe far him to write on any and I find that the butchors hang up tone of such) groat influence, .they; :
sub�'ect save nature"[ hLetory. Austria oat to most consplouous hooks meat °my ggive all that influence for God1 i
Could not bear liossuth's journalistic that is tainrted, while the maeat that is and the bettermosnit of the human' 1
ppeen pleading for the redemption of fresh and savory is put away without race. Am ed woman making hot, r
Hungary, Napoleon I., wanting to neap special care, I Come to the conclus- livin1g by °knitting unwound the yarn I
keep his iron heel on the neck of na- Ion that the peoplb of that city love from thla Mall until she found In the e
tions, said that the newspaper was the tainted myeat. You know very well centro of the ball there was an olcl I
regeent of kings and the only safe place that if the great ,mass of people tm this Piece of newspaper. Shle opened it and I
to keep an editor was in prison. But country get hold of a newspaper and read an adv'ertieement which announc- i
the great battle for, the freedom of the there axe In it no runaway matches, no ed flint she had became heiress tee i
proal was fought in the court-rooma broken up families, no defamation of large property and tbht friugment afl 1
of England and the United States be- Mon in, hi h a newspaper lifted her up from pauper- t
gg pid. T ny they pronounce ism to affluence, Anil I do not know e
fore this century began; wen Hamid- aha paper bnsipid. They say, "It is shock-
, fon made his great speech in behalf L ly dull to,nig'ht." I believe It is one but as the threail of time unrolls and t
P ^0 'aha freedom of .J, Peter Zenger's ofthe trials of the newspaper press that u°winds a little farther. through the s
k °�..,„.., p” Yiazette to America, and when Rrsktne the people of this country demand mor- asulent yet speakinlq ntvwspaper may r
made his great speech in behalf of the a1 slush instead of healthy and into,- be foaind the vast Inheritance of they i
freedom to pulillah Paine's "Rights of leotual food. Now, you are a respects- w'orld's redemption. I
Dian" in England. Those wdl'e the able mane, ane intelligent man, and a Jess ahall reign wbere'or tho,sun r
Marathon and that Thermopylae) where ppaper comes into your hand. You open noes hie successive journeys run, I
the battle was fought which cieoided it, and there are three,columns of RIs kingdoms stretch from shore to
the freedom of the press in England splendidly written editorial, recom- shore t
and Americaa,, and all the powers of mending some moral sentiment or Tiii stns ablall rise and set not mors. 1
earth and boll will never again to able evolviAN some scientific theory, In the v, .,,` 7
to put upon to printing prase the next co umn there is a miserable, con- � � I
handcuffs and hopples of litlorary and tem, ible divorce case. Which do you AAs We advance In lufe we learrn tihe c
political depotkinu. acrd first? '�Cou dip into the editorial 1bbit rof calm albklltka.—•ii`rCmda. ,i
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bfuading.than the law, ¢lad that is the
a Carr. ie --blob underlies the law."--
Carr. " "
L ZIBILS -• OF FIBREflNEN
and men need to give. Every law, litre
the law of the Saabbath,
is even worse than when he Ip v,Iotlfil�
for his
If INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAR. B.
Mercy is better than "aaeri-
floe °' deeds aro mora important than
•+ws
outfit in summer. Ice ie oil
up i'n the bays and tickles, and he wi
e
ceromoal<iss; love is better thhan any
SOMETIMES BLOWN OUT TO SEA ON
,
often haws to haul his boat for txiloo
'Jesus sad the Sah ab the Dliatt. tA. L 1>t.
r Belden Text, Matt. it.
o0nctmand based on the gut of love.
y
The Pharisees habitually inverted the
AN ICE FLOE.
off the ice in order to get to clear va
ter Por fiahtng. Then, wheat the aeE11M
a.
,t
d PRAC'PICAI, NOTES'.
Proper order of things, and mac the
foram- of more consequence than the
,
pard Life of Newroundiansc]'s Ftbhernten
come in be goes out with e
— and all da lon Poor or clutl
y g. and often far intq
a Versa 1. At that time (season). Lasko
power. Ye would not have condemned
TbOy l:ke Out' a Hiserable Xxtstenee
— he' night, ranges the tee in searok 09
a glues the time ps the "second-firpt
the guLltlesa. When Jesus defends hie
Planing Ilk Suwtuer and Sealing to
Wtiater—Their
seal. Av off -shore gale springing up
when
I, Sabbath." whatever
awn he does it not by halves; ,here is the
Fenduesr for molaasee,
— the seWhunters are on the la�
that mens. It is
�_
argumeplt of a vigorous debater.
Dt11tculties of Pari■l. Work,
means deatth to many. The ice is apil
clear that the event oY our lesson oo-
aurred between the Passover
8. The Sole of Dian. A phrai whboh
Probably was understood by our Lord's
The news prom 61t, Johne, Newfound-
land,
tO break ,up, an'd before the men cap
got COTe they find themselves drift.
'1 and the
e Pentecost, "between the beginning of
t
hearers as implying ghat he was the
Messiah. Lord even of the sabbath' day,
that Ina srecent blizzard a num-
ter of Trinity Bay fishermen and seal
Ing Cult to sea, with Bat the horrors
of a death bey freezing staring thong
the barley and the end of the wheat
That the Mesaiah was
gseennor oP all
hunters had been W,own to sea on
im the face,
e 1(arvest," Went on the Sabbath day,
Sabbath laws the Pharisees, probably
an
ice floe apt heave only just been res-
Even in spring, when the ice breaks
n Evidently on his w -ay from the syna-
Messi admit, dint that Jesus was the
Messiah they denied.
cu0d, is but a repetitioml of similar ac-
up along the shore the Deal fishermen's
experience with wintry is
- goguo. Through the corn. Through
t
8. ;VU'lien he was departed thence. At
cidents which halve ha Peened otP the
cold not over.
In the g g
s)irin the sealin steamers
the wheat, the restriction of the word
t "corn"
first sight t&IS wquld indicate, and the
ahores of that rookbouud island, writes
leave St. Johns and Harbor Grace with
t to Indian corn is an American
s idiom ; rye, and wheat, and b¢rley in
UQrratilve of Mark conveys a aaunilar
Dmpi�sthe debate Jesus left albs place
a correspondeliL f
As,' many s forltq of these islanders
crews of several hundred men and
flCesOf driift down
o England are called corn. Mark says,
,vh�.s ,te phaJi•iBeas were„ and etre; ht -
iv wremt into
ha'Ve perished on ice floes in a single
ice ng f omeDavW
Straits.
° eBegan to make a path, plucking the
° ears,' whim vividly brings to Dux no-
s n
a Y Cg°g's w6th whdch
those Pharisees 'were connected; but
wintry off -shore gale. Perilous, indeed,
WINTER HARDSHIPS.
- tice the lack of both fences and "made
a roads" in Syria. His disciples
Luke states that the healinge we are
about to study came on another Sab-
is the life and hard the lot of New-
foundland's hat dy
In one of the little Newfoundland
were
t ahungered. Pious Jews were ¢ecus-
tomed to to
beth. It is very likely, however, that
Gt also took pvah In C
sone.
While truising along the coast of
outports one winter the kerosene oil
SUPP1Y was so small that the litt}•
- go morning prayers
oho synagogue before they had eaten
n 10, There vval3 a nam whish had hie
n whi h
Newfoundland I came on deck one
commumi burned onl p,
ty y one lam It
3 any Pood. Began. The use of this word
I Shows how eager the Pharisees were
hand witt,hered. "Hiis right hand:"—
Lake. It was paralyzed. Am ancient
morning, and lookin seaward saw
what can only be desc�ibed
wAe Passed from house to house, and
the People would gather for the even
- to find fault with Jesus ; they began
their critic is
tradition• says he was ¢ tnasom, -vlho had
lvuTt ,hie hand while working with
as a erYect
p
forest of icebergs. They were drifting
g• in the tilt in which the lamp hap-
pened to be. In this way they man-
> m just as soon ae the
disciples began to eat. To pluck the
stns. They asked h:m. They evident-
ly expected that he
Slowly down from the north, those mys-
terious
aged to eke out the amall oil supplyy.
A priest whose
ears of corn. Luke says, Rubbing
, them in their hands." It is not unusu-
would heal the
accuse h'ni of breach of the law, It miight
regions whence the are borne
by the Arctic current,
parish work extent
ong a st some one hun-
al in the East for countrymen to eat
a little
be baferred from, this incident them the
rabb;s gsverallq regairrded ¢a
which flows close
by Newfoundland and largely accounts
dyed Elft miles i
Y n Notre Dame
Bal' told me that in winter he
, wheat and barb without
Y
grinding or cooking.
aiinful all
efforts to heal on, the Sabbath day.
For the ri or of the Newfoundland cls-
g
made
all hie visits Ory dog sled, and that
1 2• When to Pharisees saw it. Pro-
bably these I'harisees
Bat this was not the case. In cases
of life and death they taught that
mate.
sometimes he would be ovwrtaken at
night Y 8o were a snowstorm tbab
; were those who
, haad been sent down from Jerusalem to
a
physician should be called ; but an
aOEBERGS BY TI1E HUNDRED.
progress would be impossible.
, m -sure to influanco of the new
Teacher, and report• They
liermanen*, diaflgurement or pain they
thotught should be endured without re-
Steppin,Q to count these icebergs I
found tere were
Then he and his guide would dig a deeps
were not
friendly olsservers. Jesus did things
that
lief en the Sabbath ; chronic sufferers
must not take medicine nor
no less than one hun-
dred and thirty-five huge ones in plain
t e b tt m of tthhe tr n h. The gastfrom
the flames would keep the snowflakes
shocked them. IIe assumed
to forgive slns ; he ate and drank
; might a
dislocated bone be set. Is it lawful to
view and innumerable others so small
out, and the men woul l lie in this snow
with
, publicans and sinners ; from their point
heal on the Sabbath clays? A formal
that I took no account of them. Far
trench' until th fey journeyed on in the
of view h,e taught men to dishonor the
Sabbath.
question, asked simply that they might
accuse him of breaA�a of the law,
eyond the line of icebergs there was
of°rains. Such is one o£ the vt u
Parish work in Newfoundland.
No -vendor they were alert
with teir criticism. Thy disciples,
and so
put a stop to his career as a rabbi and
°urloua whits glare on the horizon.
the
and. ,
Every rabbi had his followers who
(s the su
y PPosed) ae a candidate fol
skipper told mei it was a " loom oP
ex-
emplified his tearhinga: so 'that the
criticism -on
� °town,
11' Wluit man shall there be among
Ice „ When I asked him to explain his
TO PLAY POLO ON WAT&R,
a rabbi's disciples was
really a criticism on himself. That
yO etc. To relieve an animal that had
fallen into a frit was regarded law-
meaning he said it was an atmospheric
effect produced by large masses of floe
--,�
Bq M1fcaus of Odd Lookhix water�Sheos the
which is not lawful to do upon tiro Sat
bath day. The "law" here referred to
as
ful even by our Lord's critics, but
Ice in the distance.
Snort Calk tie Transferred from Orr
is not to be fo,and in the 'Mosaic"
of the rabbi's taught that to pull
Nor wen all to ice seaward. Icebergs
f"a"ct to 'Lake or orwili.
books. It had its origin among the
Pharisees theniaelvea.
¢ sheep out Cf a pit on the Sabbath day
was a sin, while to let Pood down to it
had drifted in between us and the shot Q
Through a clever Invention
Miller, ,f C2ielsea, Mass.,
So intent were
they to avoid transgt+tssaion.oY the Mos-
law
was a good deed. In Mark and Luke
we have the question in ¢somewhat
and sono 1¢rge boos were stranded,
sand the waroes beat a them
a d xJ
a aVaw and ea
aitinlg outdoor sport is 'made possible.
aio that they mads many minute
and aw that th regu'.e ma clear ate
different form, "Is it lawful. to do
gainst with
a surflike roar, In the distance was
Thais new game is water polo, and it'
ex the a dge of DZosos's commands, and
b,eld
good on the Sabbath .day or to do evil?
to save life or to destroy it?" Phari-
the sea circled heap of rock, which to
Coubtl eS many elements that will
doubtless
that It was as wicked to disre-
gard these man-made regulations as
aces would answer, "To do nothing at
called Belle Isle,—why, it would be im-
do a great deal toward malfl-
imps it exceedingly for the
to break God's law. This led our Lord
0,11 till the next da •," But our Lord's
5
io that it is
Possible to sa for a more
y. greweome,
popular suint
mer matytha.
on another occasion to charge them
with "making void the law." The
leeaavelag never right to
gO°d good undone, It has been
wreird, uncanny object is rarely lis-
closed to
e
Water polo has basial played eindoors
plucking of even one ear oP corn, they
said, was reaping to it
well said, "Not to do good when it
lies in our Power is practically to do
view. Lying athwart the en-
trance of the Straits of Belle Isle, ice
lnl large tanks, but the idea of gliding
aha
; rub with the
ha•nds was to thresh ; to catch a
Plea was to hunt; even to
evil."
12. How Much then' is a ma.ni better
lease against it, fog hangs around
it, and sea gulls, crying shrilly,
over rippling surface of lakes, riv-
eM and even, old ocean, ds an entirelyl
eat a
fresh e gg on the dap after the Salr
bath; was a daubtPul act, because the
than a sheep ? The argument here Is
mush mare sample and direct them that
en -
circle it. Upon it$ craggy aummlt
1w' proposition.
The i2wention wlztah makes this de
he:u imig^ht have laid it on the holy day,
Such quibbling sehow's an utter lack of
iia Mark and Luke. Wherefore it is
lawful to do well an, tJhe Sabbath days.
That
stands the last lighthouse, north, on
the American continent. Beyond it the
-
lightful possibility a reality is noth-
unrg 'more
ulnderst.anding o tlhe loving purpose of
God's law. Notice, however, that there
is, to do good on the Sabbath days.
No truly good deed in out oP order
navigator steers into the unknown for
(xreenland
or less than a huge, boat
shaped shoe. The ,Ineventor of this
was Inn, objection made to the plucking
oP th sears; ouyly to lets beiui'g
ever.
13, Then saith he to the man. Mark
or the inhospitable shores
of Labrador. To add to the desolation
wnlique footgear, fn spealciag of his
done
an the Sabbath. Acoordin to our
modern laws, th. are ording•,
a
adds, "Lookd� ,
ng round about him, be-
LIIg grieved at the bardness of their
;All thio I sanv on a summer's day
there is, half wad* up the rock, a shel-
shoes said:— i .
"There has been) similar inventtans,
pagan,
ite their origin, it might counted
intrusion,
hearts." Stretch forth thine hand.
The tittaZi ws called upon to do
ter for ice erusned or ship -wrecked
but mthling like this. I can walk on •.
arm even robbery, for aper-
soon to help himaself! to the product of
what
he seemed s called o loin's; just so
thae sdkner Is called upon to believe
sailors,
ICEBOUND STRAITS.
water -vith these with ¢s much ease
and Com7fort as you can walk on land."
another's field, but the Mosaic, law
made s eaial
p provisian for the way-
bis
sit. taken awe He stretoed it forth;
All this I sa won a summer's day,
TJiese water to shoes era u trdflo
Po
farer, Dent, 23. 24.
3. Have ye read David
and it was restored whole. After all
their questions and anxieties the cure
and you may imagine how far more
rigorous the scene is in winter, From
over four feet logg, six inches wide and
1'nChea `the
,not what did?
The story is told i,ti I Sam• 21. 1-17,
which, accordinwg to Dr. Farrar's
was performed without or labor es
all, It is esy to figure moral natures
September until June the straits are
ice locked, but the lighthouse keeper
sax deep. The place •fol
foot is iea tehe centre, After it is placed
hril-
liatbt conjecture, for which lie
as'having eyes to see, aad ears to hear,
on 'that lone butpost of civilization
inl position and the shoo strapped to
gives
some reasanA, 'bad been read in the
and bands to work for God. There are
many withered bands in our churches;
must stay where he is all winter long,
Completely isolated from the outer
It, tihe top of. the shoe is hovered, rem,.
synagogue as the appointed Scripture
that very morning. Jesus ciid not need
let them reach out in action in obedi-
world, with storms howling about the
lighthouse
derieng the shoe perfectly air tight. The
an(y i�ndoersement from David, but he
ence to our Lord's command, and they
will find to
tower wind snow and sleet
beating against it. He
ooverLng is of wihite cedar wood. The
used the Pharisees' weapons against
themiselves ; they were
power work.
cannot leave
it, for tt is impossible to tell what
bottopn, ias of wlh,ite hickory, to give
worshipers oP
the letter oP the law, and he shows
theory that the ideal Hobrew of oarlier
THE EARTH IS A PYGMY.
moment to ice maty break up. He must
be there to lighft the autra.nce to the
stren}9th to the shoe. The opal
th'i'Wg is shaped like a small sizeciyt
times on a pivotal occasion of his life
Almost incredible t! Ntnelksious the Sun
straits the instant navigation becomes
possible.
The maim feature of Miller"s odd in -
broke one of the direetest laws out-
rLgh�t. He fences the Pharisees dared
of
as Cou.pated with'r41s Sphere.
The shores of Newfoundland are deep-
-colic n and by wlhdch ho claims great
not indorse this act of David's, and
they dared not criticise it. But if not
.A diemmo hlald rut arm's len' gt.h from
the eye will much more tha.ncover.the
l Y indented by bays, and in these b¢ys,
in turn, are many little islands. The
speed is possible, is a set of fins on .,
1 each shoe. These axe located. on eith-
then why should they oriticise the dis-
oiples"af Jesus, whose act •not
e)nitire disc of tlhe sun. If it'were placed
narrow passage between these goes by
the curious name of "tickles," but af-
erside and at the ebottcxni.' They oper-
I ate ion a peculiar way and solely by
was di-
illegal?
re4.
a,t tthla ,axat poimrt oP coincidence and
ter you have sailed, through them the'
the action of the water. When aha
T
4. The house of G d. Which was the
i,ts diameter sand distance from the eye
word does ndt seem a misnomer. You
have a feeling that
wearer takes a step forward with ane
tabernacle at Nob.4 Mark, 2, 26, anon-
tions Abiatha.r as the name oP the
accurately 'measured, it might be used
at some remote
epoch to sea gnat have run out its
foot,
T$F� FINS CLiLOSE.
high priest; the record in Saimuel calls
him Abimelechv
as a meatus od determtinIng ,the sun's
dimmAlar, his distance being known.
foamy fingers and have tickled the rock
robbed coast until tt a lit its sides with
P
When he steps with the other foot the
The showbread.
It eonelated of twelve cakes or loaves,
Throe fammost philosophers of lonlg ago
laughing. Some of the scenery around
these tickles " is
Git,s on the shoe remaining in the water
open- In Chris way a resistance to the
placed two piles on a golden table
every Sabbath,
would have beers appalled at the true'
pretty enough, but
even in the fairest weather there is a
water ds secured, g
preventin h•im from
and on each pile, or
else between the two waa ]aid &golden
gl}atickiwon•t of bath the nun's distance
sense of desolation in the rockiness of
slipping backward or losing his bal-
an
cup of frankincense. These stood forth
and •its size.
the scene and ,the sparseness of the
population:
:o'
The ienve'ntor says bee has thoroughly
perpetually in the presence of the
The, anms diamerter is about 866,000
tested lids itu'emtion. ,(He c,aims to
Lord, as one of the most sacred and
Mie,%- Permhaps a fabnit conception of
DESOLATE SHORES.
have walked down the ll,udson Mver
beautiful emblems of the ancient -vor-
ship. "It was," says Dir. 14lcient r-
hhb eanaTmuus bulk dndicated b these
Y
Oftep you will p� many islands
from Alba�nry to New York. Tlie most
reemarkable teat o£ his invention, .he
,
significant and sublime a morison, de-
Y
noting that Jehovah was the
figures may be head from the reflection
thiut the ulnihra of a Edla6*le huge sari
without seeing a sign of human bab-
itation, and when you, do see it it will :
says, was on, Lake Ontario last fall.
He wenrt out on the lake one hundred
provider
of his people's food," Ever week when
Y
the new bread was the
spot, observed sty Jalnuary, 1897, was I
be a little but or tilt, as it is called,
made of upright logs, driven into the
he p by boat, Strapping on this
he put otY Pram tine •boat and
pun upon table
the old cakes -vera removed, and the
law forbade any to
extemisive e'nou,gth to entet-tain sixteen
earths steal""d em a salld square, It
ground, the chinks filled in with moss, I
and the roof often covered with sod.
made
made
his way to share in, sixty-five hours.
Oath -is occasion h,e for
eat of these but
the priests. By thus instancing Dav-
is bewitd,ering to be assured that it
I ha'v'e seen a nanniy goat contentedly
was extremely -
tumate and did not encounter any
ids breach of Moses's law our Lord
would take 1,300,000 earths 'toe ual the
sue in volumiea. If time inLerio rof that
browsing on the roof of a Newfound-
land tilt, Sometimes the island
ro Qi weather. He
ug guided himself oto
would tea ch that when God's commands
seem to come into collision with the
truly gigantic ,dlabpj weero eh,ollow, an.ct
on
-"bleb the tilt stands will be ao rooky I
shore ro means of a compass and oar -
tied provi5ians on ,his back.
real needs of mankind, as they must on
tLe earth were glaced at its center with
the moot, re'✓olvinig mbcaut it at its usual
that the fisherman will have his patch
of a garden on a small island near eby,
Tote athlete or lover of outdoor sports
rare occasions in a 'world of infirmit-
ies, it is men's needs that have
gne¢.m, diseta;n:.re of nearly 240,000 miles,
I
It so bappems that enough soil is col-
�
who desires to be in proper atyle the
oami•ng season will do well to lock u
the
ri ht of w apr; for God's commands ex-
iston
throno wou'Ld still exist a vacuit �be• lected
y
twean the mwn an,l tJye aoalosing shell'
there to make it worth while
to Plamt vegetables, yet the island
beia bit ole olfi out it p
y g nig f ,etc., and fit
'
account of those needs. The .Jew-
ish sailor, whl9, to the peril of many,
of the sum: of a--arl cw,00ll miles. This �
is
too small for both garden and tilt.
So,
hilmseif out with a pair of water polo
sdi'Ces. Whom s it dome he should
refused to touch the helm on the Sab-
bath, when a wNd storm was raging,
ie perhaps, th,s mrayst graphic, noel im-
pressriv,e illustration possible of ,t�g
while the mem, are out fishin g, you
will see the women rowing,across from
the
hdo away to ramie secluded lake or un -
e
frequented portion of the beach and
was a badly mistUken moral hero, if
sun's Colossal bulk. We, must ate)
,however, that to deimsit oft su
Y
tilt island to the garden island in
order to till the sparse soil.
take a few quiet lessons unobserved.
not, rather, an un�*nsCious criminal.
n
God does riot need
fe oiml a7ontt o
Y na-quarter that• of the ,
In winter the misery which prevails
For he will (incl it ust a little diffi-
cult at first to mai�nipulate the shoes,
sl§owbread to eat;
God does
earth, so that it would 'weigh" only'
along the cost of Newfoundland is
th by
not need & Sabbath to rest; as much as 930,000 earths, In ,very terrible. It is not too much to ea s ey are g anmd awwward to the
Grod does not need the mane ave th t y beginner. After a few trials in ori- 1 _1-I
Y 5 n
to the Church ; but men need to rest,
round numbers the aur s wen ht ma a every winter many of the dwell -
� s, ers an this r
Ixa atalteed at two oatillioas of taws, Cady shore are brought
tate, however, the knack of walking on
and men need to give. Every law, litre
the law of the Saabbath,
whi8ch, if ex face to face with starvation, Almost the
encased in figures,--oul.d
the wast oa�n be ac, aired and the rest
q
is ear
was made for
man'
require as ,nonny ciphers as a news- humblest Canadian would turn up his
T..he costumes that,t are worn in wa-
p. Have qu�, not; realld Ln the law? See
paper line can aceogmmodate. nose at what these poor people consider
A very compreihensive illustration luxuries. Outside of fit. John
ter polo are a miixture of golf and re-
gum�. 28, 9. Me priests Ln, the temple
Profa'me the Sabbath. By doing•
of every
tlhe pygmeau dimensiotns of •the earth place in Newfoundland is called an out-
gulatian batk4n ,, outfits—bloomers and
stout stockings for the water polo girl
work
svdthien the tesimple which air general
Prtmciples hiad beern forbidden; for in-
as oQmp&red wRili, thea sum, is to repre- port. The Interior of the island is ab-
sent tlbse latter by a globe two feet ten eolutely wild. There are no settlements
and the regular knickerbocker costume
for the meta. Both are required to
d-neae 'tlhey removed to show bread,
whey ligheted the fires
diwmlator and t�he earth by a daintypea.: of any hind, save some small Indian
A,nd yet .tits little pea weighs snore , guide villages in the hunting district.
wear a cap modelled on the lines of the
yachting headgear. These caps are
a,nd even, slew
:IbO ♦Latbma od sacrifice. Thee• Sabbath
than, six quiatillian tons. As to to I The entire outport population may be
sellar surface, it is somlo 12 000 :times said to live from fishing in summer,
Usually of some bidlkiant color, and
vas their bum,iest clary. But who would
slam a theem ? They served, Jehovah.
tihat of our planet. Yet the sum, and sealing in winter.
wilen a lake or a stretch oP beach id
covered over with crowds of entbusi•
6. Butt I Say n,11'td you. Tlhin p!hTase
wJw&, oobuparled with its true peers, ! FISHERMEN'S HARD LIFE.
do stars, is not only of extraordinary
astic, polo players the scene cannot fail
v4uieh Jeaus repea,6ed4Ly used„ mast have
When a Newfoundlander says fish he
size, bub in, 9,11 epToba.bility is only to
to be a plesimlg due.
jarred L&ralbliy am, the Pharisees' ears;
or they were forever quAtbng incus
means codfish. Fish is to him money.
be raunloed among the .medium self-lumT. The fisherman goes to his trader in the
"heaven's
—
preced-
met amd aulfaliorirty; what sem,® dead rab-
A ehaad said wms of far inlowe importance
bodies which spaskLe in spring and practical) mort a es bin
ebony vauirt." And because' of its spot- I entire catch for the season for his
ALUMINIIM COOKING IITENFaII,t3.
them this Ie
t dw,ess It has a place, although a hum- I summer outfit, which also includes pro=
baa oUuo, agnawg the "variable" stare.
7Lecent experiments show that aLum-
& ne lgrea. erfho�ht.
shin place is dare tatian the
ewle, ,Very nmtulru.11yy in thiel phrase
,eferred
visions, IIe considers himself lucky if inusn
Thio shiu>itug shrdll" s Miss Clarke after a hard season's fishin he can
terms it seen, throuWgh a piece of well I ] g si1e.
in
is a safe metal for Cookingi uten-
Some slimght corrosion takes place
to oafs Lord ,h,i,mael2. Our ani,aked
ioclifee are teamples Sot the Hely Giboat, eph,�re.
i „photo- A1y enough flour, tea and molasses bat
lg,1ass, is termed the to last him and his family over the ing•
' We thus perceive its actual
it soon ceases, as an insoluble coat-
scents to farm on the metal which
. Cor, 6. 19. amd Barely the Son of span
a •his awn pihyalowl person
diameter, al,thawgh it ayeoms much winter. Ybu glee ht suppose that he .protects
would put i•n a se ock of fish. But no,
it. This is analogous to proteo-
was a per- snyalL3r
ee't ltemapde o God. • But our .Lord Cause
than our cIanoaption of it, be- he can't afford bo eat fish, any more on
thb fierce glare hes been •nega- than Cm
dee wo.t r- iron b hie plates and
w,ilnin are °Poen
aeamet more than merely that he him- Lived
elf was greater t,ben the t eamrple; mare ' amde
he could afford to eat mons
by tbn shoe glass. U we can- y' produced
dl dried herring are about the only
that the is
due by water c„
by water oamtaimia;g salts. It
N0n (than tdiat the hninnsn bat of a tosphiei+a
temple
sofa glaseous, the oho- kind oP Pish ha la a awe for tho win- �
kin
tray Ire regarded as a sort of ter, ensiles
ammaunced theft nearly all tzhe ut-
carried by soldiers of the Frenahl
elimevitig Christian is abetter skin:
,ban a'n'yy Oat cam bo WAR of marble
gold. The deeper
and he keels those on hand as
or Crust, of inrandrascant clouds, mucic for his dogs as for himself. Mo- after
after
di;rouegh which aro °onustoatiy breaking rases is the a luxur f the New-
f to marcor wimLl be made hero•
of alutnietum. l
end tneoai,in of bis
g
eve great y o
geyeerlike aptness aP metallic vac-
tatemen,t In that the
ae ,naw dleclares ie isQ e prune! le or%
Quu• ator
foundiander. Give him " long sweeten-
which exp&nd their energies as far Ing,,' as he Calls it, for bis tea and his
pain- above
fele than tJiat for whl>Dh rho temple Is
Hilo sora itotnetimeq, an the moon biscuit, and be will consider himself
distamlt Preen the eearth. Environin � IQ1
Wig, THE BRAIN GROWS.
tood. For lt'he better translation to, thb
free is somethiln greater tahhsn surrounds
the Presence of a fe&st.
phetosph,sre, ns the atpiosphI
the earth, but vastl,1� deep- D,RJIFTING TO THEIR DEATH.
A prortnime.nt educator talking to mo-
be temple,'' If, whether we eat, or, er,
rhether we drink, or whatever do,
is thb "Wiromosphere." detAn in A missionary told nie he had once tbrrs,
says tbat wirth all children tbera
we able
ve do all to the glory of God, we there-
spectroscope it rese,mfbiles a deli- been trying to explain the luxuries are
nascent periods ---that Is, there ars
o&to
a perforin tate h�'ghest and holiest ser- 010be;
'too; acid our bodied become
but brilliant ring about the solar of Europpeean court life to an audience certain
alad thio same instrument re- of Newfoundland fishermen. He des- to
times when a child can lenrn
do things o"Ie,r and better than
fit tem- veals
rite for the Hioly Ghost to dwell in. form
the "prmni,nonces," whose varied Bribed to them the German Emperor's at
are so fassofenatinlg. palace, hie arriily and the style
others. The growth of the bralsi in
There
7, If ye had kenown what this moan-
th. If ye had Understood Hosea
grand tidt
in which a lived• 'A.nd what do you honvtwer
W(nerably understood. fay
am oibh and titles of interest,
8. 6.
will ltiive mie roy a,nd not saotifice.
CU11.i0IIS COINCIDENCk.. thinic he has to eat?" he asked, and This
paused for a reply•
c.bUbclren apply tbeansolves ngstdur
for
'his uotation had been given beforui
2att! 9 18. It touches In other phrase- o
B a cartons coLncidenco tho number ausly
y Molasses,' was the answer that be- educators
lives lost at sea duaring 1896 in Brl- i.ng the fisherman's supreme idea of
a timmd, then names arrest, and
are tion- ollApu-tinf wh6bhov
the
logy the very doctrino that Jeaua bad tiah
to
lmorbhs,nit ships is returned as ex- lukury
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