The Clinton News-Record, 1899-04-20, Page 2MEM FOR UN'S SOULS
REV* MUGS REM FRO
AN IMPORTANT .
the Kee:theater and °eine mit et tbe
THE GOSPB:reNE
" "Go into all tbe world and peea 111 S N SC L
epistles. Go ;with. the patriarch!, lea
til you Meet the evangelkete, RUM
.nithee and ransaok, as children,Whe a
not eatiefied when they °One to a oe
helleie, until they know what le
everY Zenon, end into what eve
door °pone. Open everyl jewel-caskis
.Exanifiee the sky -lights Forever
Peking questions. Put 'to a high
une thao was intended the Orient
PeePaearbe "Hold all the 'skirts th
mentle extended when Heaeon is rein
bag gold." " •
Passing from on to 00blentz o
the Rhine, the tacen4y is comparative
Itireett"ite.is BeitietaelrirtinrbleYnotetz to
orsrt
deek, and feel as if tbie last flash O
lesalltY Meet exh t th s ene bu
in a moment there is a tura of th
riyer, wake), covers up the former view
' 'earth Minn luxuriant vineyards, an
Mem defiant castles, and bolder bluff
vine -wreathed, and. grapeis 00
that, a the hills be touched, the
would bleed their riele life away. het
tlite bowls ot Bingen and Hockbeamer
Ire and threetiziceoee are etrearasre!
water melting in the river, LK
ef-b4"allg6rrealt)ygtilaadwitaesslit!WedAnicinyvkiheetibmInigr
be ins to throw its blaok mantle over
th: shoulder of the hills, and you are
approacheng dieenetarkation at May
once, the -lights along the sbore fairly
bewatola .the scene with their beauty
gtveng• one n thrill that he feels bet
Oilers, yet that laste him for ever. So
this river oe Ged's Wend is not a
etraight stream, but rr winding ePlen-
idhoeur-bratbrlekv,ereantduronrawnatewl weltiviilditlaer.scatiteio
attract, still riper vintage jpressiug ter
tiee of strength, S zen
Jerhannisberger aim nothing compared
with, the strong tower into which the
righteous run and are steered, and our
disembarkation at 1.aet, in the even-
ing, amidst the lights that gleam
fer.ent. the•shore of heaven. The toeu-
vetigai:eretaasetvtheetvaestebnaleanetoer,itY of Bible
;WHERE -.THE CHIEF GLORIES
• BEGIN. • • •
The see of 'God's Word is not like
,ennesaret twelve nitles by six, but
heatateeg au d Melee ens direction
you can eel' on fee ever.. Flee', then,
C
youraelf to a short psalm, Cr.
o a few verses of an epietle Tee
argeot flab' are not near the shore:
&lei all sail t� the winds of .hetareat,
Take hold ,of both oars, and pull away.
Be like some of the whalers that go
off from New Bedford oe Portsulotth,
to be gone for tvao or three years. Yea,
calcuIcite on a lifetime voyage. You
do not went to land 'until you land in
heaven. Sail away, ob, ye mariners,
for eternity I Launch out into Abe
deers; • . '
The text is appropeiate to all Chris-
tians shallow experienee. Mentes
and feaxs have in our day been almost
looted to the parlianaeot of Christian
armee. (deoubts and fettle . are not
signs Of health, but festers and car-
buncles. You have a valuable louse
or farni, . •It suggested that the title
ienoi. good. You employ, counsel: Yeti
have 'the:deeds examined. ' You swab
the record for nieutgagee, judgments,
arid liens Y satisfieduntil
ou have a certificate, signed by the
great seal' of the State, assuring Yon
hat the title is good. :Yet boar- many
eave their title to heaven an undecid-
ed matter 1 Why do. you not go to
he records and feed' out ? „Give your -
elf no rest, 4sy ,nor .until you
ean read your title clear to mansions
h. the iskies:'
.Christian character is to come up' to
*ter' standards. We have neer • to
nut through our library to find one
Robert M'Cheyrie, Or one Edwerd Pay.:
son Or one Harlan Page. , The tine:
will corae waen We will find half a
ozen of them sitting in the same seat,
witb us. The Grape, of GO can make
greet eleirletefteramen thanathoso
ave -mentioned. ' Oliaistlan men tieem
fraid they will get beterodoa by go-
ng too far. They do not believe- in
hristian perfection. 'There is no
anger of your beueg perfect for aome
tat! Owe'," sail' Chlitttl into the fao,
irstmlissi
M•
re tory, the engtneehoUse, the eluhroo
7 Into tire heleree of the elelt, tnto t
he INTERNATIONAL LESSON' APRIL 23.
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ble Verse 1, Let not your heart be
troubled. "Agitated." No men ever
be lead more reason to be egitated than
a. the eleven to who* taeise word's were
spoken. ,They bad pet heara that
he
is their muter was to leave then', after
one • deseiple had, betrayed him and
anOther bad denied bine. All their
04 ambitions and plans for the future had
j1 been been ruined by these abrupt revoke
it, tiolia, /the Meesiah were th go
away, what about the Meastallie king -
dote/ Whit would become of him
of •
e whoen they ao greatly loved? . What
a, abont their own futhee? But he who
foretells the disaster proceeds to give
'the great xeneee Whe neither they
t:it. nor any other Christians whose hoPea
03(i; are dashed and whese lives are appar-do i
ently blasted ;Mould, be agiteted or
e, troubled. Ye believe in God, believe
e also in me. In the Greek both verbs
a 'are the imperative; therefore the
best rendering is, "Believe in Goa, and
to believe in Me." Meet increasing dif-,
* Dimities- by a broader faith '
° • 2. My Father'e hens% The "My" Is
e' full of meaning. trls father is our
s, Father, ,The "house" Includes the
wbole creation, Which he God's dwell -
:e• ing ream Many emansions. Or
s "abodes," as the word is traesIated. in
8, Terse 23. This life is one abiding place;
is the eternal life, which he Was about
eo prepare, is anotaer. If it were not
so, I woold .have told you. It ip net
in.me to deceive you with vain hear%
what I pretreat+, I Will, surely perform. i
I go to. prepare.a pleas fox you. (See t
Hob. -4,14; 6, 20.) ••i
$. will come again,. and xeceive
you. • (Hob. 9, 28; 1 These. 4, 14-17.) f
Ie !zany ways.the Saviour , came ;
again, and. is cciming -e by the e
resurrection; by the inner experience of 0
the believer's heart; bredeath; by the
reed ef the World, and we know not
isy how many advents besides, become% .,
That where I am, there ye may be. t
The thought of dwelling with our Say- Y
lour should be the great hope -held up i
before us ecu the future life.
• 4..WhitherI go ye know, and the
weer ye know. See the Revised Ver-.
sion .here. Jesus had often spoken to
themeof his .return to the Father,. it
John 7, 83; and his whole 'life bad been
spent in instructing mea .aoye to go to
the ra.thet. .r. •
•
, 5, Thomas' saith. A disciple who a
ound imposts]. lel o believe without a
ri dark lane, bete the damp cellar, in
Pe' "Jeatel nee Wee" Red the Trani sad theatre. '
4" ,Yelut, le, 1-14. Golden Tina Jinni 14. 0.
"Ileorneet Out lino lee treertere.revy nolo
Ires-aerow Your lithe Oat Into the
Murree
i 14 deepateb trona Watallington says:
Dxr, T41414ge Preached frene the
** • following text; "Launch out 'into the
lieele."-Luke v. '4;
ph*, fitarting on the campaigie of
ebe world's ocingneat was selecting his
staff officers. There were plenty of
etudents With high eprebeads, and
white hods, ana intellectual faces, an•d
refined, tastes, in Rome and in Jer-
• Vegeta. Chrlse !night have called into
ithe apostleship twelve beokworras, o• r
twelve reetoriciana, or twelve artiste,
„Instead, he takes a group of men Who
• had never made 'a speech, never taken ,
a lemon in belles-lettres,-never been
nick enough to make them look delicate'
re -their hands broad, _clumsy and hard
Be•chose fishermen &Mona
other, reason.s, think, becatiee 'they
were 1ahysicallyleardy. Rowing. make
strong arms end iteut chests: • Much
climbing of 'ratlines. makes one's head
eteady. A Galilee telispest wrestled
• inen butO gymnasts, The opening work'
of the Chu.rch ware rciu,gh work, �hris
not want twelve. invalids hanging
About him compeaining all' the ti/516
IOW badly they felt. eile leayea the
delleatee etudents • at ,jereselent and
gen Dee Get Dore Then Ankle beep
-Ti's ilea of God's Word Is Wand -
worm -ammo' oat tato the great
• Deep or Goes mercy -Keep clear et the
tame for their moth'ers and: aunts -to ,
take • care of, geld goes down to the
, pea -shore and 'out of the teuetheht mar'
terial makes an apostleship. The
Aped. more corporeal vigour than:
any other class, • Fine minds and good .
intentions are important, but there
Must be physical force to back them. e
Thee intellectu,a1 mill -wheel may be
welt -built and the 'wriest good, but
iboxo, blot' blood. in the
axial -race to turn the one 'and. 'grind
" the other. — •
He Ones fishermen, also, because
they were used to hard knocks. The
anan wale cannot stand assault is not
lit for the -ministry. It has always
been and alwaya will be rough work;
and the man, wheat every censure or.
earicature, Sits down to ory, had apt -
ter be -at 'some- Other work. It is no
place far ecclesiastical doll -babies. A
Man who calinot preach because he has
forgotten his manuseeteite or lost his
epectaeles, ought not to. precteli at all.
Heaven deliver the Charoh•froM:
• Wry that preacie in kid gloves, and
from sermon.e in Week racirohoo covers.
Thee fishermen were rough and ready.
. They had been in the severest of all
colleges. When they were knocked.
rY the gold garret, late tbe cliental prleo
a Let ever man. woman and ctilld
„ Y
be; '''''tbiriall'iesynaisJIdaiwedTa9nritd atngti4treclQffilatt4
• in• heoovnaea peels tit! aordn.th"elliTtlytmuli the131
enother peeket, and aloof. of bre
„, under your arm -launch out into t
" great deep of OW wend's wretche
t▪ inneishoregttVeetto Is
•
." house would come o God ir he theine
axpyperter iltnen et Or 131 ttb
that he rcitghe just come, as he is. Pe
o pie talk ap 'though the pardon of G
• were a =raw river, like the germ
beo or the Thames, and that their is
draws toe much water to enter
No; it is not a river, nor a bay, but
i• lea. I should like to persuade You
aunoli out into the, great deep
; God's' Mercy I am a raerchant.
have bought 'a cargo of spices in Indi
O I eave, through a 'bill of exchang
t paid for the whole cargo, Yoe. are
shthomptain, I- gave you the order,
and 'say; "hring me those spices." To
land in India. You. go to the trad
- and say; "Rem are the orders;" an
You. find everything right. • You
, not stop to pity-ethe money yoursel
It is not your business to pay it, Tb
arrangementea were ' made before yo
started. So, Christ' purchases you
pardon. He puts the papers, or th
promises, intg your hand, Is it wise
stop and say, "I cannot pay for m
redemption?" Ged does not ask you, t
ilmaho j:11;Ityriningteonthwehdaetelip,aa been don
a:a etni3eitactroPlemnathiseevs,matoiej9iwnillhaenoma
pass all your sine, rad all your tempta
'gene, and all your sorrowsii The roun
me of King, Arthq ,andeleis knight
had room for only thirteen banqueter
but the round. table cif God's supply
'ergs enough for all the Present in
atiabitante of earth and heaven to ait
at, and for the still mightier pupate-.
• times ' that are yet to he.
Do' not sail coast -wise along your old -
habits and old sins. Keep . clear of
the /shore. Go out where the water
I cietipeet. Oh, for the medesea of God's
'mercyl eede it known unto you men
and brethren, that through this man
is preached onto you the forgivetiess of
sias." I preach it with- ite Much con
oh E U DA ROO
Claw we often rude for tillage Whieh,
nt.
fee."
roz Strewn When Within fienaistilesery •
sees•sealed V*014,
hat In Barbadoes there is a MYeterious
vault in, which lect One at the present
On.
if we knew all, we eboUld not W4
Then our petition/ are beat anewered
le.)71ergabgt- 14eIttird 1141,1111?);4171eVer
lil a glum; What he wants, and w
he .thiroke he Is crying for, le, d
moue told etrenietimaing drink. B
the ceatents of. the glees are poie
So the mother in her love disappot
her ROA by putting it out of leis rea
and then Cres hint a nottrisbing dri
WPM OVERTURNED*
ell-
ut time dares deposit the dead It ts
nta 4 churchyard °lose to the sea,
ch; la 1807 th
frone ano glass, So Christ trea
e trst cofflu that VIP de -
air Netted. in it was tbat of a Mr, God.
et: dard; 1849 the body of Mise A. M.
ue-else the pronise ofalleis
would be b,reken.
Logo Livgs
statisti t
4lis 91W That Women. Ong
Men,
It is Orange, but true 'that t
Xnosi: delteete ehild often outlivee
etronger brother or sister. Many i
stances are on record or the long eu
vital al t/aose who seemed deatined
• early, 'It is meld of Voltaire, w
lived to .be, 434 years old, thee w
80 delicate at birth he could not •
baptized fox several menthe'. Sir Ies
-'NeWten, the doctors said, would n
live a week, but he celebrated h
eightyeeifth birthday: Foritaenelle
ad to be 100, althouga' he vireo iso ft
at birth that the priest had to
to hie halme to baptise him.
• Even more interesting than this
tbe etaterneat by Peat. Huebner th
It is pessible fox a woman to eireser
her yeuthful beauty even to old ag
we, in pone instances to regain it, T
Ithergoise oe Mirabeau died at 86 wit
all the' marks of youth- in her. fate
Margaret Verdun ae, 65 smoothed o
t11
he wrinkles, her hair grew agate an
• .-haSe was Placed in it,' and 1810
that of Mee B. chase, Toward the
ed of_ 1810 the vault was opened. for
the. body OP. Hon. T.: 'Meese, When 'the '
tie three coffins already there were found
in a oonfused state, having apparent -
he ly been toesed.frotn their original places.
los. Again weer the vault opened to re -
o... ceive tbe body of an infant, when tlae
e„. four coffins, all of them lead and very
to heavy, were fouled moch disturbed. in
ho 1816 a Mr. Brewster's body wap placed
as in this extraordinary vault, and again
be great tlisorder was apparent among
0,0 the coffins. Three years later a Mr.
janiets Clarke was placed fa the vault,
18. And, as b.efore, the coffins' were found
in D. terrible.confusion. •
la • Beek tinee that tine dark Mysterious,
ail vault was opened the coffins were re-
in, paced. in their proper positione--that
- is, three on the groused, side by side,
and the othters laid on the top of them,
18 The nihrtio vault was then regularly
at elosed and the door -a :massive stone.
ye which required at 'least (six men to
move -was cemented by masons; and
er though the floor was of sand there
he were ,never any marks of footprints
h - visible, or signs of water, Again this
0, dreadful vault was opened in 1819.
ut Lord Oombeemere was then present,
d' and the coffins were found thrown in
ea disorder about tbe chamber of death
e, -asorare•face doWnwards and oth
fidettee to that eighty1ear7old trans -
greaser as to this: maiden. • 'Though
your sins Were bloodered,, thee shall be
anew -White.' he more ragged the
prodigal the more .eompassionate the
father. DO you say, that you are too
bade, , • .
,
, H/GII-WATER MARK
of Godes'pardon is • higher, . .than aU
your; transigreiliosi. "The. Wood ef
_Joins Carat. cleaneeth from. . all sin."
Do ycio gee that your heatt is hard?
Suppose it were ten times harder:. De
you say that yooriniquity is long
continitedt Suppoie it vvere ten 'times.
temple Do you say '.that your Crimea
. are black? Suppose : they, • Were ' ter
, times blacker. Is there ati3r lion that.
over by the main boom of the •ship,
they entered the " Sophomore;" when t
washed off by a 1;1.4)g -wave,' they en- 1
tared the- " Junior ;" when.. floating
• for two Oars, without food or drink, t
on a planlether• came le the "Senior;" a
wide when, at last, 'their abip dashed
on the beach in a ;mice/light hurricane, j
they' graduated with the fuer. honor.
• My text finds Jesus on shipboard h
" with °tie of those bronzed men,-Simen h
by. name. This' fisherman bad been
overseeing his net in shoal water. "Push
out," says Christ,: " whet is the use
of bugging the 'shore in this boat d
Rees is a lake twelve miles king and
six wide, and it is all poptelatede-einet.
• evaiting:„Sere-the-Twee'n of your net. h
--ranch out inteathe deep." a
-The advice that MY Lord gave to i
Simon is as appropriate for you and 'C
for me. We are just
line yet. I wM keep watch, and give
PADDLING ALONG THE SHORE. • t
We are afraid, to vesture out Into the
great deeps of God and Christian ex- P
periesiee. We think that the boat will
be upset, or that we dan not "clew 8
down the mizzen topsail," and our
cowardice makes us poor fishermen. a
think I hear the voice of Christ come P,a
mending as, al he did Simone on that
day when bright Galilee set in among
the green hills of Palestine like wa-
ter flashing an an einerald ouP;
"Launch out into .the deep."
This divine counsel comes, first, to
all those who are paddling. in the w
margin of Bible research. My father g
read The Bible. through three times c
after he was eighty years of age, t
and 'without spectacles; not for • the t
mere purpoae of saying he had been y
through it no oftete !but for his etern- y
el ,profit. John Colby, the brother -in- an
law of Daniel Webster, learned to read y
after he was eighty-four years of age, si
in order that he might become ac- W
quauited with the Scriptures. There y
Is no book in the world that demands a
E0 much of our attention as the Bible. p
Yet nineteenths of Christian Men get o
to more than ankle-deep. They think
it is a good sign not to venture too cir
fat. They never ask how or why, and c
if they see some Christiaas becoming t
inquisitive about the deep things of c
God, they say: "Be careful you had c
ou notice in time, if you get too near
erfection for the safety 'of your theca
1°0'. One-balf of you Christians are
unply 'stuck in the mud Why t
ot loose from everything but Gednot
are not to huh abet formal petition
8tcle env of " r"--" i,110.idx!'aee'ytphlioes,Gaelde,
arnild1"havte antOthinetW
they strew their prayers with "Gaol"
nd Forever and. ever, Amen," and
pings to fill up.
TELL GOD WHAT YOU WANT
ith the feeling that he is ready tie
ive it, and believe that you will re-•
elve, and you shall have .14. Shed
hat old prayer you have been making
hese ten years, It is high time that
ou outgrew It. Throw it aside with
our old ledgers, and your old hats,
d your old h Take•
our preeent wants, of your present
ris, and of youx,present blessings.
ith a shirt) blade out away fram
our past balf-and-half Christian life,
nd with new determination, and new
lane, and new expectatieas, launch
ut info the deep.
The text is appropriate to all Who
e engaged in Christian work. The
Minh of God has been fishing along
he shore. We set our net in a good,
ahn place, ,and in sight of a fine
ha 1, d d S
see if the fish have hien wise
better not go out no far from'shore." to
enottgh to come into our net, We
-
m earn tometning from that floe
ith his hookatrid line, 1Z throws his
ne from the bridge; no fish, He
My' answer is; The farther you go
from shore the better, 'if ou hae
the right•kind of shier, 11 you have w
mere eyoeldly Philosophy for the hulk, 11
and pride for a stall, and self-conceit
for the helm, the first squall will de- in
arty you. But if you take the Bible n
for your eraft, the blither you go tae a
hetter; and after you' have gene' ten E
thousand furlongs, • Christ will still ly
eommande "X,atinch out into the deep." g
• !Ask some nuch question OS "WhO 15 f
tins Samson cannot slay? Is there for
tress that this Conqueror cannot tidies
Is there aay sin that this Redeethe
cannot pardon? '
It is said that .when Charlemagne'
nest was overpowered by the • thee
aerates oe, the Saracens in • the
Pass of 'Roncesvalles, bis .war
ro Roland, in • terrible • earn
estness, seized a trumpet, and
vaned, his warrior, Roland; in terrible
'earnesteess, seized • a truhaphet, and
blew it with sueb terzifie strength tha
the opposing army• -reeled back with
terrora but at the Alain]. blast of tbe
trumpet it brake In two. I. see year
soul fiercely assailed 'by all the powere
of earth and lien. I put the mightee
trumpet of the. Gospel' to My- lips, and
• blow it three-eienee.-:"Elast the first-
eWhoever. will, let him come." .Blast
tae second -'Seek • ye the Lord while
he may yet be found," Blast the
third -"Now is the accepted time; now
is the fday of salvation." Does not
the host of yetiesins fall back? But
the • trumpet does net, like that of
Roland, break in, two. As it was head-
ed' down to us from thee lips of our
gathers; we had it doWn to the lips
of our ohildren and tell them to sound
. it when we are dead, that all the
generations of •anen may know that
our Get" is a pardoning God -a sym-
P 0 ic God -e loving God; and that
•enore. to him than the anthems of
heaven! more to him than the throne
05 wh h • e o i than
are tae temples Of celestial worship,
is the joy of seeing the wanderer put-
ing hand en this door -Mt& of his
fathers house, Hear it; all ye nations!
Bread for the Worst Wenger. Medicine
for the worst sickness. Light for the
etyhoireskteSsttodrneari„cness. Harbour fiom the
Dr. Prime, in his book of wonderful
interest, entitled "Around the World,"
cl. a oin ,in India o marvel -
Thus architecture. Twenty thousand
men were twenty-two thousand years
in • erecting that and tbe buildings
around it. Standing in that tomb,
if "au speak or sing, after yott have
ceased you hear the echo coming from
a height of one hundred and fifty feet.
It is not like other ethoes, The sound
is dravirn out -in sweet prolongaltion,
as though the angela of Godewere
• chanting tin the Wing.
•How Many souls here to -da in the
tomb of sin, will lift tirt the voice of
penitence and prayer? If now they
woUld cry unto God, the echo would
drop hone afar, -not struck from the
Marble cepola of an earthly manse -
teem, but sounding beak from IliS
Warm heart of angels, flying with the
news; for there is.joy among the angels
of God over one sinner that repentethf
e
KNEVit IT,
,•-ea
Landleril Couldn't Expect Ills Rent ou
• Trine Prong a Willer.
Rent day in Paled is a very import-
ant oteasion, The landlord king in
a realm where exactitude is not only
encouraged but enforced. An English,'
man Says he once went 40 see a land-
lord about some matter connected with
the house which he had hired. " The
Frenchman peeved. to be a very aus-
picious and inquisitive old gentleman
Whir had made. hie fortune in the can-
dle trade.
" What do you Sell l° he inquired.
The Englishman rieknowledged that
he made hia bread by waiting for the
rbeataier The landlord shrugged hie
"I am afraid," Mid Jae, "Mit you
will not be exact with your rent on
the fifteenth of the month."
He evidently had old-fashioned no-
tione of literature, es well ael other
arts, and, preferred that his temuite
should be, like himself, comfortably in
trade. pa, In Order to vindicate his
Vocation, the hIngliehtuan went in w-
ean to 041 upon his landlord on the
fourteenth with rent in hand.
told you to 1" exclaimed the prL
0166 Old merchant. "I knew:you.
wouldn't be exact at the day or hour
fixed. Too bate brought your rent 24
er third eet of teeth appeared. Cas
of this third dentition are not' rar
e professor has still further hop
'• Wbat could have occasioned thierf,smuYPre.
t terious and, horrid phenomenon
e In no other vault in the islaxid, had
d the like ever occurred. Was it an
d, earthquake which occasioned it; or the
e effects of an inundation in the vault?
y These were the questions asked. by a
e Barbados joorinti at the time, and no 1
00 living person could ,afford a solution
t- of the mystery. Howevere the matter
O was forgotten until the year 1856, wlien
on the ltith of February, the vault
d was again opened and all . the coffins
were found thrown about inworse eon-
_ fusion thee before.
A etrust investigation then took place
d bu, no cause could he discovered. Was
7 it possible that the sudden. 'bursting
n forth of 'noxious gas from one of the
coffins. could. have produced ehe phen-
omenon ? If so, such . a thing as
against all • human experience and
knowledge. • •
Th* f .
was then hermetically sealed again -
a we believe for the last tiene,
or the fair sex in the announcemen
that womeo live longer than men. On
French woman, Marie Prioux, who die
n 1838, was said to be 158 year d ol
Statistics of the V51501113 eountries o
his point are remarkable. In German
nly 413 of 1,000 males reach tie
go of 50, while, more then. 500 of 1,0
emales reach that age, eln the Uni
d States there are. 2,583 female t
,898 male centenarians'. In France, o
0 centenarians seven were women an
ray three men. In the rest of Eur
ope of twenty-one centenarians six
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Every day brings new repotts of ans
Increase'IslieSaline atWagesioeA1 rnn:iYa nisUfta: tbuerininteethr:
-Of-New York. :
Iterated _outlet the laws of the State
Twaehirds of the United Stator
have abolished days ef grace on cow
menial paper.
Gold worth almost 156,000,000 has
been taken. out of the mines in the
,Cripple Creek district th tb,e last eight
yeAarscO. leur.ed woman, a native 01
kayti, who died recently in Baltimore;
left an estate of 025,000 to ellerai •
tiee.
pLaocon3'inhoastivePuzlitaralised, tliaeRhodt
• The International Air. Powe*, COD"
Pxc
R. I.
Miss Caroline Hazard, the
dent of Wellesley gollege, is
not a college • graduate. She
7earlainace°111.Senator Allison ince
owfi.d.ho; erho,usoevbe9rid.f.ifte:n years age
wife's mother has been the matiag
•
President McKinley ftenuently do:
his afternoon's work in the Whit
House 'library, which is now Used a
*I's. McKinley's sitting room.
In a family in'Kixwin, Ks., one se
a a deetor, another an undertaker,
and a; third' a tombstone maker, whos
wife is a registered phearnacist.
In 805 New York sWeat-shoPs th
highest wages earned, according t
the Board of Health repeat, is 45 eent
for eighteen hours' work a day.
The statistical tabulation of church
inercilieeship in the' United States fore
1898 hes a grand , total of .27,714,523,'
with' a; net gain of • 86;300 for. thei•
Gen. .Elwell Otis, was at one timo
ono•of the best amateur marksmen in
the east, and is said still to retain
Much of his former •in this!
nixing 1898 the Labour. Coramis-
signer of Seattle, 'found, employment
for 18,154 people,in addition to e
pirekgehnoompey.er se.bt, to the hop Bale to.
The table in the 'leasehold' of Bus -
ell Sage is said to be elle of the best
urnished ie New York; both is to
Meals, and the manner in ,Which thdy
are aerved:
1 • .
EdWard. Gray, -the' prineipal of the
Leiveepote school, Fell River, who has
u.eadied,:was one of flie.'oldest edue
sitars ' in Massachtisseta. having
aught continuensly for fifty-sevair
ears •• •• • . .
Thy promoters of the AdmiralDewey
old mine on Puget Sound have sent
aemewe baatapesp afrbOsrene nt51,0y. 460. ignorantwad Aet el I t' Mirbse.
eilnr
ears . •••
An old landmark of San Feat:wiseo.
teen were women. •
The oldest person now living hotel
o be • Annie Axmstrong, who is 11
%ass old,. and lives in a little tow
n County Claire, Ireland..
'ROYAL DEVOTEES OP SPORT.
leilr'slineeatoavnerAoirpuiCalicMhbaseer.,.tbe
JUng
•The King and ,Queen of Italy lea
- ohm' evidence; and his desire to under- 0
I stand is. very, eclifying,, We know -not
✓ whither thou goest. None of the dia. 1
very 'simple life-' Ring Humbert
n early. riser, tink takes some exer
d . . •
le THE GROWTH OF LONDON. ..
. *-4-. •, , '
- . .
increased -Ely.° minions otieople in Einy I
Y .
ise before breakfast. He eats Yer,
ight food -a small remit, a little Win
clines oblild yet .have any clear under- a
s standing ef the coming Passion. How in
e can we knoW the wayl This,is net a
declaration of unbelief; it is rather an
expreSsion of 'confueion - of mind and 0
-• vague apprehension. • ' 1
- 6. I am tlie-ways, the truth, and, the
life. "The way," says Henipis, "to 4.
• thena that are entering upon the path
t' of 'holiness; 'the truth, to them that h
are aevancing in it; the life, to them ke
that are perfected." , •e • • ;
7. If ye heel known Me. Just in
the measure in winch men apprehend
Christ they apprehend God: He who o
sees in Christ only an onlinary, fall- h
ible man utterly fails to eina God. He
whosees in Christ a divine -human per-
,
sonality. led by. the knowledge of ei
nd lee water being the custoniar
enu. Aftei the noon 'meal the roy
lspair taken sheet nap, and at fou
'clock ia 'the "afternoon they taki-
ong drive.
Ring Humbekt devotes hist attentio
.• :the niinuteLt detail rof WS house-
olde eeonolny and order being: lu
etchwonle. Eight o'clock in the even
ng. is dinner time at the pitatee, eaf
etward the King visite the theatr
✓ iisteets to private recitations, an
e retiree promptly at ziaidniglat.
The Queen is devoted- to Alpine
Tae Italian Aepine As-
• .• ,- Tears. .
e • ,
• .•• . . .• '
MX. Robert Voters delivered his
Y • s
presidential address at the Surveyor's'
Inseitutiorle Savoy street, London, re-.
e eently. There Was a large attendance.
• Speaking as a suiveror of fifty years
13 standing, be had; he said; seen the Open,
•
a tra 2,000,000 Peol4 wh°-13e,t54-0 b'•
paces taken possession 4 by the ex e
•• provided for during that tine: Th'e
e
population within the adrainistrpaive Y
County/ of London lead risen. from 2,e
e 863,274.in 1851, to 4.232,118 or abeut g
• fifty-six , persons to the acre. The t,
• atimber ot inhabited houses was 806,064 a
in 1851, and 548,315 in 1891. i The seri- y
" 0115 prOlem was how to provide I' pop- .
ulation increasing it the rate of about w
500,000 in ten yetis. with the proper a
, means of internal eommunieetion;
•Speakthg benadly` the built cif , the .e
11hosiery traffic of Leaden was. between
thenortil and south„,or ehe ternithi of
the pone to a knoyvledge Of the Fa-ther J3°C
also. !Known my Fattier. • "God th, a
Christ became manlike, that he might a
show inan how to become goellike."-
Whedon Fiene henceforth Not • .1i
meaning from that mordent," but
after Chriet shall haveb een glorified, al
Which is the point of view in his' p
thou,ghts. •Te know him, and have I's
, seen him.: It was .oniy after the de- di
parture of Jasie. end then only by w
slow degrees, Diet -they realited that w
he was "the image of the inyisible 0
God," t
• 8. Philip seith. He speak uxidex a 0
SBnse p1 h. . . pe pp f
sion of what he had heard of the spirit- th
ual nature of God. Seo John 4, 24. a
Shbw us the Father, and it sufficeth
us. Be either deeired some such vision A
• as that of Moses on Mount Sinai and de
of Isaiah in the teariple, or e1se. his pa
prayer was -in spirit, "Lead us to • a
nearer and clearer knowledge ‘of him
to whom thou haat taught us to pray; •
and • so satisfy the desire of our
e,
1040 has paid tribute to her Orme-
ge this direction ber electing her
n honorary member.
In Gressoney, on the Piedmont Alpe
ill soon be tempted t� give piece to
modern business building.' ,Thin is
he Isthmus 'House, which in. 18:19 and
850. stood. on the shore of the -bee ate _
. .
hat and Jessie streets.
11 la estimated, that it 'will take six
ears to eoriplete the. New York har4
ur improvements, altboegh in less
ban that time, the. new channet
aye reached a depth •aufficierit toad.
it the larged steamer.
The Lalande 'prize of the4rench
Cadelny of Science ha n been confer,
ed.upen Prof.A. 0, Chandler, 01 Cata-
ridge,. Mass., in recognition of "the
plendoor, the importance, and the
ariety of his astronomical work." --
Ex-President Harrisbe will leave fox .
axis on May 17, arid After arguing
he Venezuelan case befere the board
OL
arbitration will probably give some
oaths' to travel through Europe and
o Holy Land, in eompeny witb Mrs.
arrison. '
It is reported that Englishmen re-
esenting a. large amount of wealth'
e secured an option on 100,000 acres
the new oil, fields in the Cherokee
ation, and it is propesed when the
ndicate comOletee its plans to com-
ae with the Standard 011.
yes Heron Peozoe, whose family has
ff
Alpine tourists. The Queen often
ves in the vile& Of the Baron, who
• now her guide and whoee father
ed- in 1895 while touring the Alps
ith Queimi Marguerite. • Ihe Queen
ears the regulation•Tyroletur costume
n her tours.
She is very fond of, the soldier's life,
a many occasions ta invites element
y her'court,.an orders
is distribution of wine and , cake
rating tbe privatee. •
Ring Humbert loves . the 'Piedmont
Ips, but his start is in hunting the
er. From a recent expedition his
rty returned with fortyefeve deer.
for ears eurnished uides fax the ray
is down on a log no fish. He stands
the sunlight and oasts the line; but,
o fish. He goes' up ,by the mill -dam,
nd steads behind the bank, where the
sh can not. see him, 31n4 he has hard -
dropped the hook before the Cork
oee under. The fish come to him es
test asehnean threw them ashore. Da
her weeds, in our Cleriistian work,
Galt" and go on for ten years; asking ot
hy do We riOt go Where the fish are?
it. Ask it at the gate of every pare w
able; midst the exeitlenent Of eiery•
is not ' so easy to' catch souls 'in
mesh, for they know that we are
ying to take them. if you can throw
year line out into the world Where
Oy are not expecting you, they will
captured. Is it fair to take men.
each stratagem? Yes. I would
ke to eheat five thousand souls into
e kingdom. Out Tabernacle Free
°liege, within One year, will be
ing the Work of many churches.
he students set their ' net last
ight on the batik atteetrennd will arst
every night this week in Many des -
ate Places; and soon we aball havb a
'tared ley preachers., proolaming
e Goapel day by day, and week by •
ek, and three or four hundred '
ristians e•repared for other styles of
flatten work. If a man does not
Predate that work -ht-trittritlid be. -
Act alLarousal.
The whole policy of the °laurel) Of
od Is to be eltanged. Instead of
tarty looking after the* few who have
One Ohrititiant), mit chief efforts
1 be.for those outside. If, after a
n is converted,. he cannot take care
hituself, I am not going to bake tare
WM If he thinks that I am Plant
stand and pat him. on the beck, and
ed him aulf af an elegant isogon, and
tab him so that he does .not get into
taught of woridlinese, he is much
taken. We have in oar (lurches
miracle; by the solitariness of every _oh
patriarchal threshing -floor ; amidst te
, the white faces of Sennaelierib's slain
tutned, Up into the moonlight; amidst th
.the flying (Antidote of the Golden City, be
• lAsk Who Jesus is, and keep on asking by
it Of every Bible lily, of every raven,
of revery star, .of every crazed brain th
• cured, of at:6 .taind toMe to ,
OWIlight, of eVerY coin in a fish% *do
rieteith, ef every loaf that got to be T
-five loaves, of . blrery Wrathful Sea, o
!Podded, of every pulsless arm stretch- it
ed forth' In gratulation; ask it of hie tit
nrotbor, of Augustus; of Herod, Of the h
• Syrophoenician woman, of the dinned th
that Woke up from .the death.aleep. of wo
. Yasaph, -who had him buried; ef 'the Cih
tried poated eentinel at his tenth; ch
ot the. duinie earth, that shoOke and
groaned, and thundered when be died. yo
sairssitrilEarl France offered a
BOA in an humble dwelling., The
Mtn 00it tOr4* Ont a &den Paige% oh
and With the* - • bee
• 13E0AX TO It/G/IT 11/S PIPIL Wil
Setae 3reard afterward the ridaslottexy Ma
lappetted in the sat* hottee. The of
lankly bad joist loot their bon in the of
Crilneert war, and hie Bible had been to
• Pent htiolt Leine, The naleselonary took fe
ft up, and isavr that it was*the very wa
Able Bible that he bad left let the it d
Y
the-Tgreet railways on each sideaof the bo
river. Tbe lighter traffic eed the ebb ' t
and flew of the' pedestrian tide was, on e
the other hand, Maixily, from east ee
to -
west, Tanyernight wonder what., the -
state of things would be ie twenty or
thirty years' time, and yet' nothilig A
had been done to natigate the grow: a
ing inconvenience. • The widening of b
the footpaths ,gearcely been con,
• eideied. The system oteube railways
would •probably absorb game of the
foot traffic, but their carrying catice;
city would soon be reached, and wide; P
:er roads and pavements become im-
perative. What • had hitherto been 6
done was mere- tinkering, and an le
enormous expenditure would have to tli
be incurred. in further widening streets
like Oxford stkeet, Holborn, • the
Strand, Fleet street.and Ludgate Hill,
'which were originally /aid out for a pr
population oneetifth the present „size. h
The value of property bad enormeitsly j.
risen hi the.city; and be had purchased N
for X73,000 ptoperty for which • the cy
grandfather ef the vendors had given p
£1500. •
•
9. *See John 1. 18; -12. 45, So long la
time. Three years of close 'intimacy,
Seen me. . . seen the Father. • The
highest revelation of God which this t
world has, ever received is that of
Jesusthe Christ.
10. I am in the Father, and the ea
Father in me. These two statements ea
it ito diffioult to separate and analyze ea
apart from* each other. Christ spoke •
and acted as God would speak and act
GIGAROLOCit. •
dleations of thararter In the Mariner of
Handling the weed.
'When you see a nxan grip a cigar be-
-men his teeth and hold it fast, care-
e,sii of whether it burns or not, you
a set him down as an aggreseive;
loulating, and exacting, not to say
nny, individual.
If a man antokes a cigar deliberately,
enough to keeP it lighted, and de-
• himan nature ; fog Christ was God ins
hts in taking it from his mouth and
tern*, and front which the leaves; bad MI6
reat, EWE oil ptoo dotal"
been torn. The dying soldier had g
Written On Obi of- the leaVell Of the feet
Bible; 'Mahn* itild scoffed at, but the
Vadat balloted and *eyed." The to
Iblie Mt* bar to light the pipe of tro
wittielete goo* but for Us it id 4 are
Obit!' on II* pill** In death, and our tret
jot forif eternity. bee
Welk W tkir and aorta thli Bible do. th
*ea' le/ Mlle path. Plunge hi at go
ori, who are doing 'nothing for
mselvee or for 'others, who weans
stop and, nurse them! Shey are era
ubled with doubt to Whether they
Chriatiane or not. The doubt is
tied. They are not Christiana. The a
t cant do with these tibia is to
row them back into the istreamr, and t
after thaw again with
StilEtt/All GOLD.
There are not? about 40,000 tellitt6
Wdrk in the gold Millar Of Siberia.
The grafts of Siberian geld_ are
o tie Ott trin Slteratige larger than those
of WO 0040 ,prort of the world.
manifest In the flesh, and God' is aig
Chrlie •dwelling in glory. I speaknOt w
• of myself: Revised Version, ''not from ey
myself ;" that is, as originating in the in
!human mind. °
• 11. Believe me; Jesus here addresses in
not only Philip, but all the disciples; res
in the Greek, "Believe me, ye." is
12. Greater works than these shall as
he do. The spiritual. is greater than eit
the Physital. Jesus had made storms, vo
vegetation, disectee, and death obey him an
by ecterittg to each, "Do this," and it sew
die it. Ws followers, by saying in thcir
hearts, "In the name of . Jesus of W
Nazareth, do this," haeie wrolight Wi
greater changes in the world of spire in
etch the• blue inooke from it curl up-,
arca .he ite likely to be an ettsYegea
g ,
There is another fellow' who satoke,s
Lermittently, takes a puff and then
Is, and funebles his cigar about, He
apt to have little decision of char-
ter, and to be easily' affected by
cumstances. A man may be ner-
us and fumble his algae a good bit.
Man good-natured and heinest.
•-
•
• Mrs. Ella Knowles Haskell, oi
Helena, • Mont., who bee just retired
om the aesistant attorney-general-
ip of that state, was Abe first and.
ly woman .to hold that place. She.
GRA,\I\NS__.OF GOLD. •
• fr
sh
Sorrow'a beat antidote is employmen.
was elected by the Populists, is a nate
.A stela heart may be ruined in fere ti
tune, but not in spiria-Hugo. at
Sooner or later the world coniea.
tomurtidiertd.
osee truth and de the right,
Though farniliarity may not breed a°
contempt, it takes off the edge of ad- w
miration-Hazlitt, "I,
Sometimes a noble failure serves the 11
eWt.tooreleedea.Infeawitahfenui.
le as a distinguished U
ve of New Hampshire, and a gradue
e of Bates College.
•
Zanies E, Wise, pf Berlin, WOrcester
ouety, Md., recently received a hand, ,
me 'ebony cane with ea gold knob
hich bore the following insoriptioee
.reaented to ,James E. Wise, of Ber-
n, edd., thetoldest undertaker in the
tilted States, by the Sonnyside, the
dest tridertaking journal in the
rld, on his 82nd birthday." Not- -
thetandieg his great age, Mr. Wise
still actively engaged in the under -
king ,businees, and 'telly a short
me ago drove twenty-five tulles. and
nducted two funerals the same
Y
Alfred von Bruening, secretary of
e German Embassy at Constantin -
le and formerly an attache of tars
b ssy in Washington, Is to marry
:
re Gordon 1V101tay of that city, The
i nee is not approved by Arabas,sa-4
e von Holleben, and it its said
•(toting asked for a -change of post
• this account, fefre, McKay, wbo is'
exceedingly handsome woman, is
e. dieoeced wife of it Poston' millioa.
as and heti an annual allowance of
5,000. Von Bruenitrg hi a deter man
about 80, a meMber of an old
stocratfe family. He la poet*
alto wrist fOreigners "Who marry XIVI
6411 WOMerli Possesees a comfortable
finlike,
• .
FEPT MTh WORD; ,
d this event he is a, would-be
vcdecand frivolous.
invariably tilts his cigar upward,
bile a Sensible, level-headed fellow
11 hold it atraight out from. the
outh. When you see a man chew.
lighted cigar, aoci, twist;
'its'. Even the few miracIes Wrought in
by the apostles in Christ's name afe in
ter hie ascension, and by the power gr
of his Holy Spirit, were, as Dr. Chore
ton reminds us greater in theit efe ali
fecte teen tiny 'wrought by Christ, 0/4 He
was been by the reed(' extension, of 10
the Chtirch and. the victorious faith all
of attints and thattyrs. Every year the
Clutteh's history witnesses conversioes
more wonderful, than the raising of
Lazartte. Because Igo unto my ra-
ther Temporary separation is the
ebnclition on wleieh all these proraises utt
h
18, 14. Whatsoever ye shall ash th
My tante. • Not merely by adding the Or
torintala, "Por Obriat's sake," to our tin
prayers, hitt by believing in lairr merits no
and trueting to his love. That will t
do. To this promise no conditions are a"
bore appended in word, 'but the whole dig
diseourse implies the great cendition all
--that figured la the vine and this
branehes of Leeson VI. If We dwell. in ere
him and he in us, our wills will be lost
18 hiS; we will still have our prefer. wb
eneee and longings', but with Mir whole Jen
hatures we will eeek &St the king- wa
dam of God add hia righteausneas; and at
in mach ease we bate brit toe ask al int
retelve. iAnything in . none. Al
g up an un
g it about, he is nervous, but o
Sat tenacitee.
A man who cannot keep his cigar
ght has a wholo-souled disposition.
has a lively nature, is a hail -fel -
IV -well -met, glib of tongue, mid iesu-
y a good story teller.
NTIPATHIES OF CELEBRATE.0
MEM.
Antipathy, like fear, is isomething
reasonable; it is aa instinct, and
erefore absolutely. unconquerable.
eat teen, have suffered, from ottange
tipe.thies. Xing Henry- could
remain alone in'a roe% With aeat..
e Duke of Episrnort fainted at the*
lit of it leVatet. Tycho Drabs was
ol
.
Nothing its so haughty and assure- we
ing as ignorance, where self-conceit WI
'sets up to be infallilble.-South
ta
We love to expect, and when ex- ti
.....Tpecothatnisooniuls,either disappointed or gra- co
tined we want to be again eXPeetinffo de
He that takes truth 'for hie guide th
and duty for his end may safely txust
to Godes:provide/ice to lead bini aright.
-Pascal. OP
QM
Every man is a hero and at oracle 34
to somebody, and to that person, what., all
hesays,has an encbanted value. do
alt
No true and permanent fame can be' on
foueded except in labors. whieh an
Mote the bappiness of mankind.-- th
Charlee air
Mistreat the Zan Who 'finds every.,
112 a treileor at the' eight of elev. •
i, Or a foie The Marshal of Albret
initie ill if a young wild boar or a
%hag pig woe served at the table
ere he sat. The famous seholar, Spa.
ger, shook all over at the sigtteraf
OM:tress. Lord B40012 AWOOtied away
an eolipee of the moon, DAY'le went
o convoleione at the sound of we -
running otit of a feudist, Laraonte
Vayer had nervous eontarielons at
ing any musical instrument. But
Most extraordinary of all was
g tadislaw of Pollettd, who tied
ipitately at the eight of an ap.
.1/ad be only been in tlrer place
Adam the temptation of Eveivould
6 been of no small.
thing good; the Mari who finds eV- ax;
erything evil, and still more the man Uri •
who is indifferent to everything. -Lav. eaa
Mar •for
A SOW Oecupied with" great ideas best
lerforms small duties; the divrnest
Viewsi of life penetrate most clearly
Into the meanest emageneles,-Mar. tal
tineari.
eltarisee of prayers are ineluded, for .61r
tenvporal keit than fax spiritual art r_
*OS. MIS puts ne premium on a, ti,,"t"'.
Ohrietian't whilna, but it dreee most ,‘",".,
solemnly declare that under the can. ...'":"L"
Clone above deeeribed efery need of 11."'"
our tuataras, put into prayer, will be Pali3
granted. We must reftember, how.
ever, that 111, oUr bunlen short -sight- lovt
Donned for the Defen8e-4110 lady
ks abeta bon ible dealing, but let
ber look to he, elf. My client tellos
uto
twain WINE. let
bout 280,000 gallons of artifielal tutn,
wine are being made from: barley every 414;
yettx 14 a large: factory in Ilarlibtirg.• 00u
The Medical profesilbe Germany F
thinka tory highly of the wine, and Viee
tournament)* it in the botpitaie .of that 'Ur
worthy. ,*
that ehe promieed to burn every
ter ,alre got from him a* eon As the
d read in
he Courb.4What has the witneas to
18 reply to the defended's
neei
laintiff-I thought they might be
fat sometime, and as / didn't want
break My word, I didn't read the
lettere,
1