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THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN^
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "The Wonders of Athens.*'
' Text: "TVhile Paul waited for them at
Athens his spirit was stirred in him, when
he saw the ctty wholly given to idolatry."?
Acts xvii., 16.
I It seemed as if morning would never come.
"We had arrived after dark in Athens, Greece,
and the night was sleepless with expectation.
and my watch slowly announced to me
one and two and three ana four o'clock; and
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look out of the window upon that city to
which Paul said he was a debtor, and to
which the whole earth is debtor for Greek
architecture, Greek sculpture, Greek poetry,
Greek eloquence, Greek prowess and Greek
history.
That morning in Athens we sauntered
forth armed with most generous and lovely
letters from the President of the United
States and his Secretary of State, and during
all our stay in that city those letters
caused every door and every gate and every
temple and every palace to swing open before
us. The mightiest geographical name
?n Anrth to-riav is America. The signature
of aa American President and Secretary of
6tate will take a man where an army could
not. Those names brought us into the
presence of a most gracious and beautiful
sovereign, the Queen of Greece, and her
cordiality was more like that of a sister than
the occupant of a throne room. No formal
bow as when monarchs are approached, but
a cordial shake of the hand, and earnest
questions about our personal welfare
and our beloved country far away.
But this morning we pass through where
stood the Agora, the ancient market place,
the locality where philosophers used to meet
their disciples, walking while they talked,
and where Paul, the Christian logician,
o ctnm cmt thp l&uch.
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on many an impertinent Epicurean. The
market place was the center of social and
political life, and it was the place where
people went to tell and hear the news.
Booths and bazaars were set up for merchandise
of all kinds except meat, but everything
must be sold for cash, and there must be no
lying about the values of commodities, and
the Agoranomi who ruled the place could
Inflict severe punishment upon offenders.
The different schools of thinkers had distinct
places set apart for convocation. The
Platceacs must meet at the cheese market,
the Deceiians at the barber shop, the sellers
of perfumes at the frankincense head*
quarters.
The market place was a space three hundred
and fifty yards long and two hundred
and fifty yards wide, and it was given up to
gossip and merchandise, and lounging and
philosophizing. All this you need to know
m order to understand the Bible when it
lays of Paul, "Therefore disputed he in the
market daily with them that met him."
Ton see it was the best place to get an audience,
and if a man feels himself called to
preach he warts people to preach to. But
before we make our cnief visits of to-day wo
must take a turn at the Stadium. It is a
little way out, but go we must The Stadium
was the place where the foot races occurred.
Paul had been out there 110 doubt, for He
frequently uses the scenes of that place as
figures when he tells us, "Let us run the race
that is set before us," and again, "They do
it to obtain a corruptible garland, but we an
incorruptible." The marble and the gilding
have been removed, but the high mounds
against which the seats were piled are still
there. The Stadium is six hundred and
eighty feet lone-, one hundred and thirty feet
wide," and held forty thousand spectators.
There is to-day the very tunnel through
which the defeated racer departed from the
Stadium and from the hisses of the people,
and there are the stairs up which the victor
went to the top of the hill to be crowned with
the laurel.
In this place contests with wild beasts
sometimes took place,and while Hadrian,the
' emperor, sat on yonder height one thousand
beasts were slain in one celebration. But it
was chiefly for foot racing,and so I proposed
to my friend that day while we were in the
Stadium that we try which of us could run
the sooner from end to end of this historical
ground, and so at the word given by the
lookers on we started side by. side, but before
I got through I found out what Paul meant
when he compares the spiritual race with the
race in this very Stadium, as he says, "Lay
aside every weight." My heavy overcoat
and my friend's freedom from such incumbrance
showed the advantage in any kind of
a race of "laying aside every weight."
We come now to the Acropolis. It is a
rock about two miles in circumference at
the base and a thousand feet in circumfer
ence at the top and three hundred feet high.
On it has been crowded more elaborate
architecture and sculpture than in any
other place under the whole heavens.
Originally a fortress, afterward a congreStion
of temples and statues and pillars,
eh ruins an enchantment from which no
observer ever breaks away. No wonder
that Aristides thought it the centre of all
things?Greece, the centre of the worJd.
Attica, the centre of Greece* Athens, the
centre of Attica, and the Acropolis the centre
of Athens. Earthquakes have shaken it,
Verres plundered it.
Lord Elgin, the English Embassador at
Constantinople, got permission of the Sultan
to remove from the Acropolis fallen
pieces of the building, but he took from the
building to England the finest statues, remAtn'nw
of on ATmtriflonf ftitrht hlinHppH
thousand dollars. A storm overthrew many
ot tnfe statues of the Acropolis. Morosini,
the General, attempted to remove from a
pediment the sculptured car and horses of
Victory, but the clumsy machinery dropped
it and ail was lost.
The Turks turned the building into a
povfder magazine where the Venetian guns
dropped a nre that by explosion sent the
columns flying in the air and falling cracked
and splintered. But after all that time and
storm and war and iconoclasm have effected,
the Acropolis is the mouarch of all ruin?,
and before it bow the learning, the genius,
the poetry, the art, tha history of the ages.
I saw it as it was thousands of years ago. I
had read so much about it and dreamed so
much about it that I needed no magician's
wand to restore it.
At one wave of my hand on that clear
morning in 1SS9 it rose before me in the glory
it had when Pericles ordered it and Ictinus
planned it and Phidias chiseled it and Protogines
painted it aud Pausanias described
it. Its gates, which were carefully guarded
by the ancients, oj>en to let you in and you
ascend by sixty marble steps the propyls,
which Epaminondas wanted to transfer to
Thebes, but permission, I am glad to say,
could not be granted for the removal of this
architectural miracle, in the days when
tea cents would do more than a dollar now,
the building cost two million three hundred
thousand dollars. See its five ornamental
gates, the keys intrusted to an officer
?r'cr only one day, lest the temptation
to go in and misappropriate the
treasures be too great for him; its ceiling a
mingling of blue and scarlet and green, and
the walls abloom with pictures utmost in
thought and coloring. Yonder is a temple
to a goddess called "Victory Without
Wings." 0o many of the triumphs ot the
world had been followed by defeat that the
Greeks wished in marble to indicate that
victory for Athens had come, never a sain to
flyaway, and hence this temple to "Victory
Without Wings"?a temple of marble, sudw
white and glittering. Yonder bshold the
pedestal of Agrippa, twenty-sev^n feet high
and twelve feet square.
But the overshadowing wonder of all the
hill is the Parthenon. In days when money
was ten times more valuable than now it co^t
four million sis hundred thousand dollars.
It is a Doric grandeur, having forty-six
columns, each column thirty-tour feet higa
and,six feet two inches in diameter. Wondrous
inter-columniations! Painted port:- j
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gold hung up, lines o? most delicate curve,
figures of horses and men and women and
gods, oxen on the way to sacrifice, statues or
the deities Dionysius, Prometheus, Herme?,
Demeter, Zeus, Hera, Poseidon; in one frieze
twelve divinities; centaurs in battle; weajponary
from Marathon; chariot of night;
chariot of the morning; horses of the suu,
the fates, the furies; statue of Jupiter holding
in his right hand the thunderoolt; silver
looted chair in which Xerxes watched the
.battle of Salamis only a few miles away.
Here is the colossal statute of Minerva in
fnli armor, eyes of gray colored stone, figure
of a Sphinx on her head, griffins by her side
(which are lions with eagle's beak), spear in
one hand, statue of liberty in the other, a
shield carved with the battle scenes, and
oven the slippers sculptured and tied on with
thong* of gold. Par out at sea the sailors
saw this statue of Minerva rising high above
all the temples, glittering in the sun. Here
are statutes of equestrians, statue of a lionness,
and there are the Graces, and yonder a
horse in bronze.
There is a statue said iu the time of
Augustus to have of its own accord turned
around from east to west and spit blood;
statues made out of shields conquered in
battle: statue of Apollo, the expeller of
locusts; statue of Anacreon, drunk and
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memorable for the fact that he was cheerful
when others were cast dowu. a trait worthy
of sculpture. But walk on and around the
Acropolis and yonder you see a statue of
Hygeia, and the statue of the Theseus fighting
the Minotaur and the statue of Hercules
slaying serpents. No wonder that Petronius
said it was easier to find a god than a man in
Athens. Ob, the Acropolis! The most of
its templA3 and statues made from the marble
quarries of Mount Pentelicum, a little
tvav rrom the city.
1 have here on my table a block of the
Parthenon made out of this marble, and on
it is the sculpture of Phidias. I brought it
1 from the Acropolis. This specimen has on
i .t the dust of ages and the marks of explo|
sion and battle, but you caa get from it
some idea of the delicate luster of the Acroj
polis when it was covered with a mountain
i jf this marble cut into all the exquisite
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striped with silver and aflame with gold.
The Acropolis in the morning light of those
ancients must have shone as though it were
in aerolite cast off from the noonday sun.
The temples must have looked like petrified
i foam. The whole Acropolis must have
seemed like the white breakers of the great
acean of time.
! But we cannot stop longer here, for there
| is a hill near by of more interest, though it
has not one chip of marble to suggest a
statue or a temple. TVe hasten down the
Acropolis to ascend the Areopagus, or Mars
Bill, as it is called. It took only about three
minutes to walk the distance, and the two
hilltops are so near that what I said in re|
ligious discourse on Mars Hill was heard distinctly
by some English gentlemen on the
Acropolis. This Mars Hill is a rough pile of
rock fifty feet high. It was famous long before
New Testament times.
The Persians easily and terribly assaulted
the Acropolis from this hilltop. Here assembled
the court to try criminals. It was
held in the night time, sj that the faces of the
judges could not be seen, nor the faces of the
lawyers who made the plea, and so, instsad
of the trial being one of emotion, it must
have been one of cool justice. But there was
one occasion on this nill memorable above
all others.
A little man, physically weak, and his
rhetoric described by himself as contemptible,
had by his sermons rocked Athens with
commotion, and he was summoned either by
[ writ of law or hearty invitation to come
| upon that pulpit of rock and give a specimen
of his theology. All the wiseacres of
[ Athens turned out and turned up to hear
him. The more venerable of them sat in an
amphitheater, the granite seats of which
are still visible, but the other people
swarmed on all sides of the hill and at the
| base of it to hear this man, whom some
a fanatic, and others called a mad- |
cap, and others a blasphemer, and others
styled contemptuously "this fellow."
Paul arrived in answer to the writ or invitation,
and confronted them and gave
them the biggest dose that mortals ever took.
He was so built that nothing could scare
him, and as for Jupiter and Athenia, the
god and the goddess, whose images were in
full sight on the adjoining hill, he had not so
much regard for them as he had for the ant
that was crawling in the sand under his
feet. In that audience were the first orators
of the world, and they had voices like flutes
when they were passive, and like trumpets
when they were aroused, and I think tney
laughed in the sleeves of their gowns as this
insignificant man rose to speak.
In that audience were Scholiasts, who
knew everything, or thought they did, and
from the end of the longest hair on the top
of their craniums to the end of the nail on
the longest toe, they were stuffed with
hypercriticistu, and they leaned back with a
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supercilious iook lu usku. as w *.
stood on that rock where Paul stood, and a
s;ab of which I brought from Athens by
consent of the queen, through Mr. Tricoupis,
j the prime minister, and had placad in yon|
der Memorial Wall, I read the whole story,
j Bible in hand.
What I have so far said in this discourse
I was necesseary in order that you may understand
the boldness, the defiance, the holv
recklessness, the magnificence of Paul's
j speech. The first thunderbolt he launched
J at the opposite hill?the Acropolis?that
moment a'.l aglltter with idols and temples.
He cries out. "God who made the world."
Why, they thought that Prometheus made it,
that Mercury made it, that Apollo made it,
| that Poseidon made it, that Enos made it,
that Pandrocus made it, that Boreas
made it, that it took all the gods of
the Parthenon, yea, all the gods and god|
desses of the Acropolis to make it, and
here stands a man without any ecclesiastical
title, neither a D. D., nor even a reverend,
declaring that the world was made by the
Lord of heaven and earth, ana nence me inference
that ail the splendid covering of the
Acropolis, so near tnat the people standing
J on the steps of the Parthenon could hear it,
[ was a deceit, a falsehood, a sham, a blasphemy.
Look at the faces of his auditors; they
I are turning pale, and then red. and tben
wrathful. There had been several earthquakes
in that region, but that was the severest
shock these men had ever felt.
The Persians had bombarded the Acropolis
from the heights of Mars Hill, but tnis
Pauline bombardment was greater and more
terrific. "What," said his Hearers, "have
we been hauling with many yokes of oxen for
centuries these blocks from the quarries of
Mount Pentelicum, and have we had our
architects putting up these structures of unparalleled
splendor, and have we had the
greatest of all sculptors, Phidias, with his
men chiseling away at thcAwondrous pediments
and cutting away atxhes9 friezes,and
have we taxed the nation's resources to the
utmost, now to be told that those statues see
I nothing. bear nottting, Know noiainj?.*
Oh, Paul, stop for a moment and give
these startled and overwhelmed auditors
time to catch their breath! Make a rhetorical
pause! Take a look around you at the interesting
landscape, and give your hearers time
to recover! No, he does not make even a
Eeriod, or so much as a colon or semicolon,
ut launches the second thunderbolt right
after the first, and In the same breath goes
on to say, God "dwelleth not in temples
made with hands." Ob, Paul! Is not deity
more in the Parthenon, or more in the Theseuin,
or more in the Erechtbeium, or more
in the temple of Zeu3 Olympius than in the
open air, more than on the hill where we are
sitting, more than on Mount Hymettus out
yonder, from which the bees get their
honey? "No more!" responds Paul, "He
dwelleth not in temples made with hands."
But surely the preacher on the pulpit of
rock on Mars Hill will stop now. His audience
can endure no more. Two thunder
bolts are enough. No, in the same breath he
launches the third thunderbolt, which to
them is mora fiery, more terrible, more demolishing
than the others, as he cries out:
"hath made of one blood all nations." Ob,
Paul! you forget you are speaking to the
proudest and most exclusive audience in the
world. Do not say "of one blood.'- You
cannot mean that. Had Socrates and Plato
and Demosthenes and Solon and Lycurgus
and Draco and Sophocles and Euripides and
iEschylus and Pericles and Phidias and Miltiades
blood just like the Persians, like the
Turks, like the Egyptians, like the common
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one blood all nations."
Surely that must be the closing paragraph
of the sermon. His auditors must let up
from the nervous strain. Paul has smashed
the Acropolis and smashed the national pride
of the Greeks and what more cad he say?
Those Grecian orators, standing on toat
place, always closed their addresses with
something sublime and climacteric?a peroration?aud
Paul is goinc to give them a
peroration which will eclipse in power and
majesty all that he has yet said. Heretofore
he has hurled one thunderbolt at a
time; now he will close by hurling two
at once. The little old man, under the
power of his speech, has sfraightened
nimself up, and the stoop has gone out
of his shoulders, and ho looks about
three feet taller than when he began; and
his eyes, which were quiet, became two
flames of fire; and his face, whi?h was calm
in the introduction, now depicts a whirlwind
of emotion as he ties the two thunderbolts
together with a cord' inconsumable
courage and hurls them at the crowd now
standing or sitting azhasti?the two thunderbolts
of Resurrection' and Last Judgment.
His closing wonfs were, "Because
He hath appointed a day in the waich He will
judsre the worfH in righteousness by that
man whom He hath ordained, whereof He
hath given assurance unto all men in that
He hath raised him froaf the dead.
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Remember those thoughts were to them
novel and provocative: tnat Christ, the despised
Nazarene, would come to be their
judge, and they should have to get up out
of their cemeteries to stand before Him and
take their eternal doom. Mightiest burst of
elocutionary power ever heard. The ancestors
of some of those Greeks had heard
Demosthenes in his oration on the crowD,
had heard JEschines in his speeches against
Timarchus and Ctesiphou, had heard Plato
in his great argument for immortality of
the soul, had heard Socrates on his death
bed, suicidal cup 01 nemiocK in nana, leave
his hearers in emotion too great too bear;
had in the theater of Dionysius, at the
foot of the Acropolis (the ruins
of its piled up amphitheater and the
marble floor of its orchestra still there) seen
enacted the tragedies of JEschylus and Sophocles.
but neither had the ancestors of these
Grecians on Mars Hill or themselves ever
heard or witnessed such tornadoes of moral
power as that with which .Paul now whelmed
bis hearers. At those two thoughts of resurrection
and judgment the audience sprang
to their feet. Some moved they adjourn to
some other day to hear more on the same
theme, but others would have torn the sacred
orator to piece?.
The record says, "Some mocked." I suppose
it means that they mimicked the
solemnity of his voice; that they took off
his impassioned gesticulation, and they cried
outi "Jew! Jew! Where did you study
rhetoric? You ought to hear our orators
speak! You had better go back to* your
business of tentmaking. Our Lycurgus
knew more in a minute than you will know
in a month. Say, where did you get that
crooked back, and those weak eyes from?
Hal ha! You try to teach us Grecians!
What nonsense you talk about when you
speak of resurrection and judgment. Now,
little old man, climb down the side of Mars
Hill and get out of sight as soon as possible."
"Some mocked." But that scene adjourned
to the day of which the sacred orator had
spoken?the day of resurrection and judgmAnt.
As ia Athens, that evening in 1SS9, we
climbed down the pile of slippery rock?,
where all this had occurred,on our way back
to our hotel, I stood half way between the
Acropolis and Mars Hill in the gathering
shadows of eventide, I seemed to hear those
two hills in sublime and awful converse "I
am chiefly of the past;" said the Acropolis.
'I am chiefly of the future;" replied Mars
Hill. The Acropolis 6aid: "My orators are
dead. My lawgivers are dead. My poets
are dead. My architects are dead. My
sculptors are dead. I am a monument of
the dead past I shall never again hear a
song sung. I will never again see a column
lifted. I will never again behold a goddess
crowned."
Mars Hill responded: "I, too, have a his
tory. i naa on my neignts warriors who
will never again unsheath the sword, and
judges who will never again utter a doom,
and orators who will never again make a
plea. But my influence is to be more in the
future than it ever was in the past. The
words that missionary, Paul, uttered that
exciting day in the hearing of the wisest
men and the populace on my rocky shoulders
have only begun their majestic role; the
brotherhood or man, and the Christ of God,
and the peroration of resurrection and last
judgment with which the Tarsian orator
closed his sermon that day amid the mocking
crowd shall vet revolutionize the planet. Oh,
Acropolis 1 1 have stood here lone enoueh
to witness that vour gods are no
gods at all. Your Boreas could not control
the winds. Your Neptune could not
manage the sea. Your Apollo never evbked
a musical note. Your god Ceres never grew
a harvest. Your goddess of wisdom, Minerva,
never knew the Greek alphabet. Your
Jupiter could not handle the lightnings.
But the God whom I proclaimed on the day
when Paul preached before the astounded
assemblage on my rough heights is the God
of music, the God of wisdom, the God of
power, the God of mercy, the God of love,
the God of storms, the God of sunshine, the
God of the land and the God of the sea, the
God over all, blessed forever."
Then the Acropolis spake and said, as
though in self derense. *'My Plato argued
for tne immortality of the soul, and my
Socrates praised virtue, and my Miltiades
at Marathon drove back the Persian oppressors."
"Yes," said Mars Hill, "your
Plato laboriously guessed at th9 immortality.
of the soul, but my Plato, divinely inspired,
declared it as a fact straight from
God. Your Socrates praised virtue, but expired
as a suicide. Your Miltiades was brave
igainst earthly foes, yet he died from a
wound ignominiously gotten in after defeat.
But my raul challenged all earth and all hell
with this battle snout, "we wresue uu?
against flesh and blood, but againt principalities,
against powers, against tbe rulers of
the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places, and then on the
29th of June, in the year 66, on the road to
Ostia, after the sword of the headsman had
Riven one keen stroke, took the crown of
martyrdom."
After a moment's silence by both hills
the Acropolis moaned out in the darkness,
"Alas! Alas."' and Mars Hill responded,
"Hosannah! Hosannah!" Then the voices
of both bills became indistinct, and as J
passed on and away in the twilight I seemed
to hear only two sounds?fragment of
Pentelicon marble from the architrave of
the Acropolis dropping down on the ruins of
a shattered idol,and the other sound seemed
to come from the rock on Mars Hill, from
which we had just descended. But we were
by this time so far off that, the fragments of
sentences were smaller when dropping from
Mars Hills than were tbe fragments of fallen
marble on the Acropolis, and I could only
hear parts of disconnected sentences wafted
on the night air?"God who made the
world"?"of one blood all nations"?"appointed
a day in which He will judge the
world"?"raised from the dead."
Aa that night in Athens I put my tired
head on my pillow, and the exciting scenes
of the day^passed throughjmy mind, 1 thought
on the same subject on wnicb, as a boy, I
made my commencement speech In Nlolo's
Theatre on graduation day from the New
York University, viz., "The moral effects of
sculpture and architecture," but further
than I could have thought in boyhood, I
thought in Athens that night that the moral
effects of architecture and sculpture depend
on what you do in great buildings after they
are put up, and upon the character of the
men whose forms you cut in the marble.
Yea! I thought that night what struggles
the martyrs went through in order that in
oar time the Gospel might have full swing;
and I thought that night what a brainy religion
it must be that could absorb a hero
like him whom we have considered to-day, a
man, the superior of the whole human race,
the infidels but pigmies or homunculi compared
with him; and I thought what a rapturous
consideration it is that through the
same grace that saved Paul, we shall confront
this great apostle, and shall have the
opportunity, amid tbe familiarities of the
skies, of asking him what was the greatest
occasion of all his life.
He may say, "The shipwreck of Melita."
He may ?av. "The riot at Ephesus." He
may say, "Sly last walk out on the road to
Osth:." But," I thintc he will say, "The day
I stood on Mars Hill addressing the indignant
Areopagites, and looking off upon the tower
ing form of the goddess Minerva, ana ine
majesty of the Parthenon and all the brilliant
divinities of the Acropolis. That account
in the Bible was true. My spirit was stirred
within me when 1 saw the city wholiy given
up to idolatry!"
A concert was given in New York
a few evenings ago to raise funds for
the Grant monument. New York
men of wealth seem to be willing to
do almost anything to raise the money
excepting to put their hands in their
pockets man-fashion.
"ir> TT?? * AJ/mnrt Vna Vva.
rKIJMJiS mSJNKX Ul uncaus uoa
come a journalist, but if he can be
persuaded to throw up his job as a
prince he may become a newspapei
marWhy
doesn't Ralnmakfer Melbourne
trade a pair of old boots for a few
thousand acres of desert and make
himself a millionaire in one season?
3CHAMBURG (to J~aoobs)?You vas a
liar und a schoundrel. Do you hear
dot? Jacobs (to Schamburg)?I hear
you already, und I dinks you vas talking
to yourself.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
MY HOUE ABOVE.
There Is for me a home above,
Which every day brings nearer,
Where dwells the Christ whom I so love,
Whoso name grows ever dearer.
Ah glorious sights that I shall see!
Earth's hills and crystal fountains
Will seem but childish toys to me
When on the heavenly mountains.
There shall I meet the friends I love
Who long a^o departed;
They dwell in those bright realms above
Wlinpo n/ino nm KrnVon.honptM
And yet sometimes my heart doth Binlr
With foolish dread of dying,
Afraid to stand on Jordan's brink,
No pearly gates descrying.
0 foolish heart, why dost thon fear?
Why shrink at thought of meeting
The One of all to thee most dear?
He waits to give thee greeting.
? [By Egbert L. Bangs.
WHAT TO DO WITH LITTLE WORRIES.
"Why is it that we worry so much, and so
often, about our little cares and vexations?
these " little foxes that spoil the vines "?forgetting
that our great Burden-bearer is ready
to help us with these as well as our greater
burdens and trials?
1 have in mind a most excellent Jady frienfl
of mine who was anxious to have her little
girl's hair grow long, while her good husband
lusisted on having it cut short. About this
time an elderly friend visited them. One
morning, in talking over their trials and experiences
and experiences she told of this
and otter little domestic vexations. After
patiently hearing her the friend said, " Sister.
the dear Master is just as much interested
in these little matters as he is In our great
trials. Suppose we tell Him about them."
On their knees " they went and told Jesus,"
and their ' burdens were lightened." Since
then 9he bas learned to "cast all her care
upon him," and finds help in every time of
need.?[Amer. Mess.
PERSONAL EFFORT NECESSARY.
Happiness is always in the ratio of asefuW
ness. The need of the world and of the church
today is work?downright, earnest personal
effort. No m^ can become a saint in his
sleep, and a lazy Christian is a contradiction
in terms. If you are going to become a blessing
to others, you must stop talking about
what mav, can. must, might, could, would,
or should, be done, and ask: "Lord, what
wilt thou have me to do?" Use your talents.
When you bury your talent you bury yourself.
"Sou can easily find ground enough to
dig a grave for the finest abilities and noblest
powers. The story i* told of an old man appearing
at the counter of a bank, asking for
and receiving specie for bills on the bank
to the amount of one thousand dollars. He
had kept those bi.ls unused for twenty years,
whereas had he deposited them in the bank
at interest he would have received double
the amount. So our talents, lying used, are
wrapped up in a napkin, or buned in the
ground, instead of being employed in doing
good.?[Hugh Johnson, p. ?>. "
A 1j Is
A prccious revival had come npon one of
our churches, to the surprise ox most of the
members of it. They were not expecting it,
or prepared for it. If they had been praying
for it in a cold, formal way, tbey hardly
expected their prayers to be nuswered. But
now the Lord was manifestly among tbem,
reviving Hit) people and converting the impenitent.
How shonld they acconnt for it?
True. He has graciously said,' 'Ask, and it
shall be given you" ; but they have not been
asking iu a way tbat authorized theip to
, expect such a blessing. But eome one lias
been praying, if no more, was the reply.
And so it was. It was ascertained that one
humble woman had spent a whole nieht in
prayer for tho very revival that God was
then giviug them. How precious her reward?
- '
And have we none among us at this dav
to feel enough for the impenitent, enoueh
for the glory of God, to apend all nigbt in
prayer? One night 1 We have preaching,
and that which is jjood, and perhaps enough
in general of it, lint wbat the church now
seems to need especially is praying on tho
part of the members, May they become so
burdened with the worth of souls perishing
in siu that they cannot rest, by night or by
day, but as they cast their burdens upon the
Lord; then the windows of heaven will be
opened and blessings abundant will be
showered down upon ua.?[I'resbytcrian
Journal. "
THE LAPLANDER'S BIBLE.
The Lapps have the Bible in their own
tongue, and few stories are more interesting
than the account of its translation.
Over thirty years ago a series of religious
riots took place in a number of villages in
Lapland, and among the rioters was one
Lars Haetta. Durinsr the riots several homicides
occurred, and Lars and some oi.ber of
his companions were committed to prison
on a charge of murder. They were found
guilty anu several were handed, but in consideration
of his youth Haetta was condemned
to Hfe-long imprisonment. Commiserating
his condition, his keepers and the
prison chaplain extended to him such favors
as could safely be grauted to a life-long
prisoner, aud finding them rewarded by
good conduct, took especial paius to teach
him to read and write.
Lars became interested in the Bible, grew
day by day more fond of reading it, and
finally formed the bold project of translating
it into bis native tongue. Through mauy
weary years the labor went on, for Lars was
no great scholar, and the Lapp language, as
may be readily supposed, is not a fluent
literary medium of thought.
But finally the work was done, the Bible
iransiaieu unu priiituu in me in
Lapland, aud the remainder of Haetta's sentence
was commuted. He was living as late
as 1870,atu! though an old man, was still
active, and often served parties of travelers as
a guide.?[Boston Trauscript.
FASIIIOXIXG CHARACTER.
There is no former and fashioner of character
like the Lord Jesus. Tuere is no mould
of beauty and excellence iuto which the
spirit of a man can How comparable to the
mind which was iu Christ Jesus. There is
no school for the education of man in
patience, in truth, iu boldness, and in all
virtues, like unto his disciple band. There
is no predominating influence which will
make men true, and wise, and spiritual, and
faithful, like the influence of fellowship
with Christ. There is no formative period
in which men may be enriched with nobleness
and grace of character, like hours spent
in bis presence: those bear tne bloom, and
in time the truit, of Christ-likeness of whom
it can be said, "They are wont to be with
Jesus." "Strength and beauty arc in bis
sanctuary/' Fellowship with Christ is the
power that makes men Christ-like. Yet this is
not a gncc to give to some but denied to
others, as a sculptor is limited by the shape
and veininsr of the block on which he is
working. The two men. St. Peter and St.
John, with so much that was different and
even opposite in their natures, are yet found
bearing the unmistakable lineaments of the
Master. In spite of their opposing
tendencies, fellowship witb Christ has
bcstowen on eacn a useiiesb u> mrisi.
As In the mint each coin, whether of
gold or of silver, hears the king's "image
and superscription," so may each soul bear
the imape and superscription of the eternal
Kins- As the artist leaves the impress of
his per-onality upon all his handiwork,
whether it !<e wrought in plastic clay or hard,
mirieldinz marble, so upou each nature
does the divine Artificer, the great moulder
an<I former of character, leave hi* ?nark a id
signature, the likeness of himself.?[Sunday
at Home.
Tiiere may bs no roinancc left In
these matter-of-fact days, but the
brigands of Greece and Turkey are
doing their best to provide it. Athanasias,
the Greek brigand, is as romantic
a figure as ever figured In melodrama
or sang his melodious course of
villainy through an opera.
Recent festivities at Chicago
served at least one good purpos'e in
demonstrating that the man-of-war
Michigan could fire her guns twentyi
one consecutive times and still float.
-.Ay ' ..
"SABBATH SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
DECEMBER 13.
Lesson Text* "Christ Risen," John
X, 1-1S?Golden Text: Rom.
viii., 34?Commentary.
1. "The flr.=t day of the week cometh
Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet
dark, unto the sepulcber, and seeth the
stone taKen away irom rne sepuicner." one
was one of those who saw Mis death and
burial, then with the others returned and
prepared spices and ointments, and rested
the Sabbath day according to the command*
merits (Mark zv., 47; Lukexxtii., 55, 56).
2. "Then she runneth and comefh to Simon
Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus
loved, and saith unto them, They have taken
away the Lord out of tbe sepulcher, and we
know not where they have laid Him."
There had been an earthquake and a resurrection
not only of the body of Jesus, as He
bad foretold, but also of the bodies of many
of the saints (Math, xxvii., 51-53i, and when
Mary and the other women reached the
tomb an angel sat upon the stone by tbe
mouth of the tomb and said that Jesus was
risen (Math, xxiii., 1-6). Mary Magdalene
was the first to run with the tidings to the
disciples, but she did not take in the ange'.'s
word that He was risen any more than she
had received Jesus's own word that He
would rise. How fearful is unbelief!
8. "Peter therefore went forth, and that
other disciple, and came to the sepulcher."
4. "So they ran both together; and the
other disciple did outrun Peter, and came
to the sepulcher."
5. "And he, stooping down and looking
in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he
not in." Joseph and Nicoaemus had wrapped
the body in linen clothes with about a nundred
pounds' weight of myrrh and aloas
(chapter six., 89, 40). Had His body been
taken away by either friends or foes they
would not likely have disrobed it; friends
??* ha?fA KaAM
wuuju iiui, ouu cucluico nuum uuv uavo utwu
careful to leave the clothes lying even if
they disrobed it.
6. "Then cometh Simon Peter following
him, and went into the sepnlcher, and seeth
the linen clothes He." Impulsive as usual;
the same Peter who would die with Him
before he would deny Him; who would walk
on the water to Him, and who a little later
cast himself from the boat into the sea to go
to Jesus. And yet it is Peter who by the
spirit teaches us that "a meek and quiet
spirit is in the sight of God of great price;"
and that we are to be "clothed with humility,"
and take things patiently until the
revelation of Jesus Christ. (I Peter i.t 18;
ii., 20; iii., 4; v., 5,0.)
7. "And the napkin that was about His
head, not lying with the linen clothes, but
wrapped together in a place by itself." Who
wrapped up the napkin that was about
Jesus'B heaa and laid it by itself? Or better
still, what is the significance of the fact? Let
those tell who know; I am still pondering it
in my heart, while waiting for the garments
of light never to be laid aside.
8. "Then went in also that other disciple
which came first to the sepuloher, and he
saw and believed." He saw the clothes and
the napkin and that the body was gone, and
he now fully believed Mary's story that the
Lord'sbody was taken away; but that Jesus
had actually risen from the dead the next
verse would seem to teach us they do not yet
believe.
9. "For a3 vet they knew not the Sctip- j
ture, that He must rise again from the
dead."
10. "Then the disciples went away again
unto their own home." Had He not risen
all preaching and faith would be vain, all
people would be yet in their sins, all the dead
have perished (I Cor. xv., 13-19), and yet this
great fact being all but proved to these foremost
disciples, thay go disconsolate to their
homes. Ob, what patience our Lord has
with them and with us. Let us be patient
? *. ?i _t_. _j.ni -u? ,4
Iwicq au who stm unu^ iaj cm tu vi
heaven.
11. "Bnt Mary stood without at the septUcher
we&ping; and as she wept, she stooped
down and looked into the sepulcher." She
loved Him greatly, she was truly His disciple
(so were Peter and John), but it was all
dark, her heart was sad, her tears flowed
fast, and why? She ,was unbelieving, and
looked for the dead when she ought to have
been looking up to see the living.
12. "Andseeth two angels in white, sitting,
the one at the head and the other at
the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain."
When He died He committed His spirit into
the hands of His Father; the angels kept
guard over His body. We wonder what they
thought of that other guard whom one of
them caused almost to aie with fright (Math,
ixviii., 4). What have you committed to
Jesus's care, and how fully are youjpersua^ed
that He does and vsUJ gave forycu and keep
all you have committed unto Him?
13.'"And they say unto her, Woman, why
| weepest thou? She saith unto them. Because
I they have taken away my Lord, and I know
not where they have laid Him"
14. "And when she had thus said she
turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing,
and knew not that it was Je3ua." Why
did she turn? Did the angels lookup ana
thus call her attention to one behind her?
Possibly! And now she sees Him whom she
sought, and does not know even Him. Oh,
how blind we are made by grief and unbelief!
15. "Jesus saith unto her. Woman, why
weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, !
supposing Him to be the gardner, saith un- J
to mm, Sir, if Thou have borne Him hence,
tell me where Thou hast laid Him, and I will
take Him away." In answer to "Whom
seekest thou?" or "What seek ye?" (chapter
i.. 38) may our hearts say, "Jesus, alive tor- j
ever more." See in Jer. xxix., 13, how we
shall find Him. But observe from this verse
in our lesson that He may ba speaking to us
and we may not recognize Him.
16. "Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She
turned herself and saith unto Him, Rabboni;
which is to say master." She seems after
turning from the sepulcher, and supposing
Him to have been the girduer, to have
V10/.1- tn t-.Ko aAnuicher azain. But
butuou wuvii W g
that one word ,4Mary" reached her heart.
17. 4'Jesus saith unto her, Touch Me not;
for I am not yet ascended to My Father;
but go to My brethren and say unto them,
I ascend unto My Father and your Father;
and to My God and your God." What
grace and love beyond description, that on
the way to the Fatnar in His risen body, He
should wait to see and speak with Mary
Magdalene. Oh, for such heart longings for
Him as she had.
18. "Mary Magdelene came and told th9
disciples that she had seen the Lord, and
that He had spoken these things unto her."
Her tears are wiped away, her sorrow is
gone, her heart is at rest. The risen
Savior did it and a word from Him, and
now she bears the first clad tidings from a
risen Christ. ?Lea son Helper. I
Tiie earthquake across the central
portion of the Mississippi Valley
from Memphis to Keokuk, extending
on the east to Louisville and west for
a shorter distance from the river, recalls
the great earthquake which had
its center at New Madrid early in
this century, and which was one of
the most severe known in this coun
j try. All great river valleys have
their shocks and slips, generally in a
line parallel with their course?this
one ran north and south?and which
arc ordinarily attributed to the
changes due to erosion and the deposit
of alluvium which change the
balance of the earth's crust. It is interesting
to note that in the present
! instance the shock was in general
j confined to the territory on each side
j of the Mississippi and its tributaries
i under 500 feet of elevation. The
i places reported as feeling the shock
, are nearly all below this elevation,
: and the 500-foot contour line runs
back farther on the left than on the
right bank of the Mississippi at this
point, which may account for the
wider eastward extent of the shock.
There is a two-h?aded boy in a New
York dime museum who presents the
strange phenomenon of having one
head very fond of beer while the other
drinks nothing but soda-water. What
a candidate he'll.make some day.
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TEMPERANCE
HARD CIDER.
What ails that man? He walks with a swag*
ger,
So very pronounced it is almost a stagger;
Now, that he is tipsy don't ever be thinking,
For how can that be when he's only been
drinking
HarJ cider?
What make him so sullen, so savage and
cross,
And for words of profanity ne'er at loss?
What makes the breath so offensive and
strong?
He doesn't drink anything all the day long
But hard cider?
What makes his face such a cardinal red?
Suggesting the thought that he ought to be
bled,
His eyes look exactly like ripe melon seeds,
And to cure all these ailments it must be he
needs
More hard cider.
He never degrades himself drinking "old
rye,"
But guzzles Lis cider at home?on the sly?
Complacently thinking that nobody knows,
And forgetting his face is an index which
Bhuwa
The hard cider.
?Sacred Heart Review.
HOW WE CIVILIZE INDIANS.
Indian soldiers, under the influence of un
limited whisky. are not so very much better
than their civilized comrade-!.
At Whipple Barracks, in Prescott, A. T.,
where the garrison includes one company of
Apaches, the last pay day was followed by
a spree, with the result that seven Indians
are in the guard house with as many more
Indian and white soldiers in the hospital.
The culprits who sold these soldiers whisky
ought to be iu a worse place. We commend
this matter to the attention of General Morgan,
General Howard and their other eminent
Mohonk associates.?New York Teler
gru in. |
BP.UNKENKESS IN FRANCE.
A recent French writer, referring to the
spread of drunkenness throughout the ham*
lets of France, says; "In the villages the
women are obliged, like the wives of workmen
in the cities, to bang about the wineshops
on pay-days in order to fight for their
children's bread with the victims of alcoholic
shipwreck. Instead of putting away his
sous and silver in the clothespress, or in a
corner near his chimney, and saving them for
a 'rainy day,' as he formerly did, the countryman
now spends them freely in daily visits
to the tavern."
"ALCOHOL."
Ton have heard of the Philosopher's Stone,
no doubt;, a wonderful stone which folks in
years gone by were always, trying to discover.
They thought it would turn into gold
everything that touched it. How veir ally,
wasn't it? Another silly idea some had?they
*-1 u iJ L?.L Tm I
buuuguu i/Lieru was u certain liquid which u
they drank would make them live forever.
They called it "The Elixir of Life." Some
men spent their whole life trying to find it
out?of course they did not succeed. WTiy!
Because it was all rubbish?no such thing.
One day an Arabian philosopher who was
trying to discover "The Elixir of Life" distilled
a liquid which mado those who drank
it do some very silly things, so ho said that
it was an evil spirit?or, in his own language,
A1 Ghoul, which means evil spirit.
Know what it really wds? Yes?alcohol.
Alcohol being a corruption of the words A1
Ghoul. He was quire right, alcohol is an
evil spirit. Let us see?
I. What it is..
(1) It is a mocker.?That is, it professes to
be something which it is not. It tells you it
is gooa; but in reality it is tad.
Illustration.?It professes to be a food; but
in reality is only a narcotic. Food strengthens,
narcotics weaken.
"(2) It is a deceiver?Many use strong
drinks because they think them good and
beneflcia'. These become slaves to drink,
but it works their rum and their death.
II. What it does.
Solomon says that it bites like a serpent
and stings like an adder.
(1) It fascinates.?A serpent lies hidingin
the grass or in a hole. There is nothing
bold or heroic about it. Then, when it has
got its victims near enough, it fascinates
them, so that they cannot cscape. Thus it
is with drink?ithides under a pleasant form
or taste, and then fascinates its victims so
that they cannot escape.
(2) It destroys?A serpent bites and an
adder stings when they nave got their vicUpis
iy their poorer, so destroying them. So
with alcohol; it strikes a man, poisoning his
blood, destroying his intellect,often destroying
him altogether. ,
III. What are we to do?
We must take Solomon's advice when be
folio nc nnt; in Innlr nn f.hA winA whan if.
red, which means the juice of the grape
when fermented. If we do not wish to oe
fools we must not be deceived by alcohol,
which is certainly an evil spirit, and "he
who is deceived thereby is not wise."?
Arthur Walker, in National Advocate,
TEVPEHA.XCE NEWS AND NOTES.
Mr. St. John calculate* that there are 800
miles of saloons in the United States.
Out of 40,783 conmitaients recorded during
the year in Ireland, no fewer than 19,075
were for drunkenness.
In the Bible Christian denomination there
are between 200 and 300 ministers every ono
of whom is a pledged total abstainer.
Chicago has six tliousaud saloons?one for
every two hundred people. Chicago has a
church for about every threa thousand
people.
The natives of the West Indies jlrinl; run
and gin, whicu they can purchase for one
cent a glass, the glasses being about as large
as a wine goblet.
A million homes were visited in England,
October 1", by 30,000 persons, uuder the
auspices of the United .Kingdom Band of
Hope,, with a view to encouraging their
children to become members of the society.
: The keeper of a bar-room in San Francisco,
while among his casts in the cellar was
killed by the explosion of an empty cask,
one of the staves crushing His skuii. nis
light ignited the accumulated fuaies iu the
j cask.
King Kama, a South African chief, is
[ said to be very enlightened and tries tin sale
of ardent liquors to his subjects. Ho besought
the Euglish Government to prohibit
the liquor traffic among his subjects, but all
in vaia.
Miss Belle Kearney is one of the rmst enthusiastic
temperance workers iu the South.
She is known as the maiden mother of
Young Women's Christian Temperance
Unions, haviug organized in Misiissipji
twenty-eight Vs.
Canon Scott, of Woolwich, says that one
of the greatest blots on our Christianity is
the fact that in Eugland we have 70,00 ) girls
engaged iu pubiic-housesand driuKing-b-irs,
thero to work, lor mahy hoars amidst
.temptation, foul language and impure air.
The United Kingdom Band of Hop9 Union
reports that 17,441) juvenile societies, with an
estimated membership of 2.11'2.073, are now
at work iu this country; 1676 meetinzs werj
attended by the Union's agents in London
alone during the past year. k
The Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland, has ordered
the priests iu his diocese not to say mass,
nor attend the funeral, nor recommend the
deceased to the prayers of the congregation
in any case where intoxicating drink is supplied
at the wake of the deceased person, or
at the funeral.
The enforcement of the recent order of
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad,
prohibiting railroad men from frequenting
saloons, has had the effect to close
one saloou iu Elkhart, Ind., where the Lake
ou^*"k ",,r? nnH Afharc nrtmnlflt'n
OUUiO SUUJJ3 Ul O AilU UVuv?? vvu.j/M?.u
of greatly reduced custom.
The liquor traffic is no friend to the workman
so tar as employment i3 concerned It
gives occupation to fewer men than auy
other busiuess in proportion to its capital.
For example, the animal output out of a
brewery estimated at $5,000,000 employs but
(W0 men, while an iron ore works of the
same capital requires 4-SOO laborers.
Dr. Albert Day says; 4"As tha jackil follows
the lion and preys upon the slain, so do
disease aud death await upon tho footsteps
cfiuebriatiou. The Tree aud universal usa
of intoxicating liquors for a few centuries
cannot fail to i)riu$ down our raca from the
majestic athletic forms of our fathers to
the similitude of a despicable and puuy race
of men. Already the commencement of the
decline is manifest, and the consummation
of it, should the causes coutiuue, will not
linger.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.
1 '. ,
Salmon, pike and goldfish are the only
fish that never sleep.
A man can live and enjoy perfect
health on milk and its products alone.
The fall of rain in the mountains of
Southern California has greatly increased
since the formation of Salton Lake. "'
I f' ' ''
It is only a few years since the nonr- ^
ishing qualities of milk and its hygienic
?1..*_ i w
vaiuu ucgau tu uc pi
The indispensable use of gutta-percha ; $?
ia for the protection' of submarine telegraphs,
for which all other substance*
have proved more or less failures. . |
G. W. Dunn, the California natural- " . ^4
ist, has collected over 70,000 insects belonging
to the hornwinged family, 6000 i?
of the cricket tribe and abont 4000 bat- }'{:
terflies, and numberless rare plants and
animals. .. <{
. ->4;5F3
A French anatomist has- examined the '/' <
skeletons of eighty-six chimpanzees, ' V?
gorillas and orang-outangs, and tatata
that he has found in them bone disease* , ; v
like those which afflict mankind, and ia
about the same proportion.
A new artificial honey, called "sugar >
honey," bids fair to become a fornxra?? |
ble rival o* the natural product. It cost- / ^
sisis or sugar, a smau proportion ot <;
mineral salts, water, and a free acid. Jr*
taste and smell it very closely resembles.
the genuine honey.
Professor Munsey says thai a good
churn..will make at least ten per cent. ?j|&|
more butter, than is called for by <hs v,:
butter fat found in the milk, and if all iji
the butter fat got into the butter It
would overrun the amount called for. ^
nearly eighteen per cent.
The germs of yellow fever, it is $?
thought, ma; be conveyed from tropical ':yi
countries by the pet birds exported in so JT?j
large numbers. Recent coses of the di?- A
ease in Marseilles, France, could be
traced to no other cause than a pair off 7^'parrots
from the Australasian'Island*.
Corn husks boiled in caustic soda an ; - ^
being utilized for the manufacture of
paper. The cooking process results in j||aj
the formation of a spongy, glutinous
paste, which is subjected to heavy pressure
so as to eliminate the gluton, the
fiber remaining being made into paper In -l.j
the ordinary way.
Ia using the heavier grades of
seno or refined petroleum oils in lampr^ -- h
the wick often becomes charred at th*
top, which obstructs the capillary actioa
of the wick. When the wick is x,?sedr V ; /-j
the charred top obstracts the slot in ft* '
flame guard and diminishes the flame.
Wicks should be often renewed. The
old wicks become hard and partially obstructed
in the tube.
An ingenious cauutra for photograph ^
ing the internal oigans of men or aolv '
mals has been invented in Germany. It f-M
is cylindrical in shape, is contained in
rubber tube, and has two hemispherical
shutters^ and ^wo mmute Jnca^e¢^^
Taiifps. Prcssing"a pne'umatic ball move*
the camera ^forward in the tube, opeo?^?^|
the shutters, and makes the electrie light .
contact. Removing the pressure close?
the shutters, puts out the lights, and replaces
the camera. - .
Experiments made in America wifh.'
the cottonwood show that the increaM^'^^
in the girth of the tree is made only dor- i- j-4
ing a week or two about midsummer.
is believed to be the rule with bum*
AWCUUOU iaov-^1 unui^ uwviuuvw mm?vwf^Twg
Exp erimeats on coniferous trees, fcecenl^^sg
made in Scotland by David Chris tison,
show opposite results. There Is a
tardation of growtu at midsummer, sad;
a rather rapid increase just before and
just after that time. '
A Famous Hunting Place For Wlutla.
From the northern part of Hudson's S
Bay, already uctic in character,stretches
far toward the pole a deep inlet, which $3|
some early navigator of those d esc late
polar shores has termed Roe's Welcome
?as if anything within that ice-bound
and lonely coast could be welcome to a
person just from civilization! 16a
name no doubt was given in memory of *?j
some escape from the drifting ice-packi, 'v'.
when tbe inlet furnished refuge from ana
of the fierce storms of that polar region, ' . ./. j
Roe's Welcome is a famed huntiag <
place for the great'polar whale, or "bow*
head," as the whalers call it. This huge
whale, which in indeed immense in else, ^
often makes-his home among the graft I
ice-packs and ice-fields of the polar seas, "i
and a goodly quantity of these it finds ia
Roe's Welcome. Bnt these ice-packs,
swinging to and fro with the tides, car*
rents and winds in such a long narrow
inlet as this, render navigation danger* ';
ous even for the stanch whaling ships,
and they generally make their fishing
grounds off the lower mouth of the great
inlet, where the cruising is much safer ; ^
if not always so profitable. Occasionally,
when some exceptionally good ice-master
is in charge of a whaler, he dashes into
the better fishing grounds for a abort
cruise; another less skilful, lured bj
the brighter prospects, or discouraged
by a poor catch outside, enters tbeonlet,
and either reaps a rich harvest of oil and '
bone, or wrecks his vessel. Or he may
even escape, after an imprisonment la
the grip of the merciless ice-fetters for a
year or two longer than he had intended
to stay.
Such was the fate of the good ship
Gladiator, from a .well-known whaling
port in southeastern Massachusetts. She
sailed to the northernmost end of the ?
"Welcome," as the whalers call it, and,
after a most profitable catch of "bow- '<
beads," had the ill-fortune to remain
firraly bound in the ice for two yean.
During this long time, much longer than
that for which the vessel had been provisioned,
the crew were dependent oa
the many Eskimos who clustered around
the ship. The natives supplied them '
with ample quantities of reindeer, muskox,
seal and walrus meat in return for
small Quantities of molasses aud coffee.
Their companionship, too, rude as it
was, did much to while away the dreary,. }i
lonely hours of the two years' imprisonmeat.?Si.
liicholtis.
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Sunflower Oil.
Sunflower oil when fresh p.nd pure to
very rich in Hesh forming elements and
delicious flavor. The delicate fecula of
our native arums would furnish a pleasant
variety of food akin to arrow root
and farina, while tho oamassin bulbs, of
Oregon, -would be a better food than the
potato. We want evaporated food pulp*
and fine dried fruit, which often exceed*
the canned in richness. Will there be
any pcach butter in the market after the
glut of that superb fruit this year, or
any pcach honey, indescribable luxury of
food beyond all ciasiic hon?y of Hymet