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"REVTdR, TAIilAGE. f a ' e SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE a NOTED DIVINE. F ? d Subject: "An Angelic Rescue." ? . 1 Text: "Behold the Are and the wood, * but where is the lamb?"?Genesis xxii,, 7. t Here are Abraham and Isaac, the one a p kind, old, gracious, affectionate father, the v other a brave, obedient, religious son. From s< his bronzed appearance you can tell that a this son has been much in the fields, and b from his shaggy dr**ss you know that he 1; has been watching the herds. The mount- S fiin air has painted his cheek rubicund. He w ift Ittam + it Af + + r\v a a CAmo enn- A pose, thirty-three years of age. neverthe- h less a boy, considering the length of life to k "which people lived in those times and the L fact that a son never is anything but a boy te to a father. I remember" that my father h. used to come into the house when the chil- hi dren were home on some festal occasion ti and say, "Where are the boys?" although G 'the boys" were twenty-five and thirty and d< thirty-five years of age. So this Isar.c is tl only a boy to Abraham, and this father's v< heart is in him. It is Isaac here and Isaac to there. If there is any festivity around the hi father's tent, Isaac must enjoy it. It is ? Isaac's walk, and Isaac's apparel, and tt manners, and Isaac's prospects, and Isaac's prosperity. The father's heartstrings are w all wrapped around that boy and wrapped is again, until nine-tenths of "the old man's hj life is in Isaac. I can just imagine how w lovingly and proudly he looked at his only sb son. pi "Well, the dear old man ha l borne a great th deal of trouble, and it bad left its mark 01 upon him. In hieroglyphics of wrinkle the tb story was written from forehead to chin, pi But now his trouble seems all gone, and we se are glad that he is very soon to rest forever, w If the old man shall get dpcrepit, Isaac is i! strong enough to wait on him. If the father pi get dim of eyesight, Isaac will lead him by of the hand. If the father become destitute so Isaao will earn him bread. How glad we yc are that the ship that has been in such a m stormy sea is coming at last into the harbor, hi Are you not rejoiced that glorious old Abra- w! ham is through with his troubles? No, no! or A thunderbolt! From that clear eastern w< sky there drops Into that father's tent a Bi voice with an announcement enough to turn al black hair white and to stun the patriarch into u: instant annihilation. God said, "Abraham!" cc The old man answered, "Here I am," God dc said to him: "Take thy sod, thy only son uj Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into wi the land of Moriah and offer him there as a w! burnt offering." In other words, slay him; lo <ut his body into fragments; put the frag- br ments on wood; set fire to the wood and let ar Isaac's body be consumed to ashes. he "Cannibalism! Murder!" says some one. ar "Not so," said Abraham. I hear him solilo- in qutze: "Here is the boy on whom I have de- lo pended! Oh, how I loved him! He was so given in answer to prayer, and now must I if surrender him? 0 Isaac, my son! Isaac, how se shall I part with you? But then it is always p safer to do as God asks me to. I have been I in dark places before, and God got me out. to I will implicitly do as God has told me, yc although it is very dark. I can't see my yc wav, but I know God makes no mistakes, stl and to Him I commit myself and my darling pr son." Early in the morning there is a stir around I ( Abraham's tent. A beast of burden is fed tv; and saddled. Abraham makes no disclosure hs of the awful secret. At the break of day he D( says: ''Come, oome. Isaac, get up! We are Ji3 going off on a two or three days' journey." u[ I hear the ax hewing and splitting amid the w< wood until the sticks are made the right cr length and the right thiokness, and then pr they are fastened on the beast of burden, sa They pass on. There are four of them? gc Abraham, the father; Isaa", the son, and he two servants. Going along the road I see on Isaao looking up Into his father's face and sa saying: "Father, what is the matter? Are 'th you not well? Has anything happened? Are th you tired? Lean on my arm." Then, turn- an lng around to the servants, the son says. vi< ' Ah, fattier Is getting old. and he has had yo trouble enough in other days to kill him!" tw The third morning has come, and it is the wi day of the tragedy. The two servants are he left with the beast of burden, while Abra- ne ham and his son Isaac, as was the custom of ha good people in those times, went up on the Lt hill to sacrifice to the Lord. The wood is taken off the beast's back and put on Isaac's ge v back. Abraham has in one hand a pan of su coals or a lamp and in the other a sharp, gc keen knife. Here are all the appliances for gr sacrifice, you say. No, there is one thing ha wanting. There is no victim?no pigeon or tn heifer cr lamb. IsAao, not knowing that he I& is to be the victim, looks up into his father's a lace and asks a question which must have cut wi the old man to the bone, "My father!" The th father said, "My son. Isaac, here I am." The Sb son said, "Behold the fire and the wood, but th where is the lamb?" The father's Up quiv- sp ered, and his heart fainted, and his knees th knocked together, and his entire body, mind Its and soul shiver in sickening anguish as he sp struggles to gain equipoise, for he does not Je want to break down. And then he looks ha Into his son's face with a thousand rushing sa tendernesses and says, "My son, God will So provide Himself a lamb." Hi The twain are now at (he foot of the hill, yc the place which is to be famous for a most lo transcendent occurrence. They gather some st< stones out of the field and build an altar of qu three or four feet high. Then they take this "< wood off Isaac's back and sprinkle it over or the stones, so as to help and Invite the flame, in The altar is done?It is all done. Isaac has in helped to build it. With hl? father he has th discussed whether the top of the table is ty even and whether the wood is properly prepared. Then there is a pause. The son or looks around to see if there is not some liv- W Ing animal that can be caught and butchered st< for the offering. Abraham tries to choke cli down his fatherly feelings and suppress his m grief in order that he may break to his son yc the terrific news that he is to be the victim. su Ah, Isaao never looked more beautiful pi than on that day to his father. As the old is man ran his emaciated fingers through his of son's hair he said to himself: "How shall I wi give him up? What will his mother say so when I come back without my boy? I th thought he would have been the comfort of eq my declining days. 1 thought he would gl have been the hope of ages to come. Beau- pi tiful and loving, and yet to die under my ar own hand. O uod, is there not some other su sacrifice that will do? Take my life and h? spare his! Pour out my blood and save d< Isaac for his mother and the world!" But i this was an inward struggle. The father pc controls his feelings and looks into his son's m faee and says, "Isaac, must I tell you all?" w His son said: "Yes, father; I thought you h< had something on your mind. Tell it." The k< father said. "My son, Isaac, thou art the b< Iamb!" "Oh," you say, "why didn't that fit young man, if he was twenty or thirty years hi of age, smite into the dust his infirm father? te He could have done it." Ah, Isaao knew by cl this time that the scene was typical of a "] Messiah who was to come, and so he made Cl no struggle. They fell on eaoh other's necks B ana wauea out me parting, awiui auu rn matchless scene of the wilderness! Tbe G rocks echo back the breaking of their hearts. W The cry, "My son, my son!" The answer, sa 4 'My father, my father!" Do not compare this, as some people have, v< to Agamemnon willing to offer up his pi daughter, Iphigenia, to please the gods. 0 There Is nothing comparable to this wonder- ir ful obedience to the true God. You know pi that viotims for sacrifice were always bound, G so that they might not struggle away. Raw- tl lings, the martyr, when he was dying for yt Christ's sake, said to the blacksmith who ei held the manacles, "Fasten those chains al tight now, for my flesh may struggle might- tc ily." 80 Isaac's arms were fastened, his It teet are tied. The old man, rallying all his tl strength, lifts him on to a pile of wood, pi Fastening a thong on one side of the altar, he makes it span the body of Isaac, and fas- 5] tens the thong at the other side of the altar, cj and another thong, and another thong. st There is the lamp flickering in the wind a ready to be put under the brushwood of tho tl altar. There is the knife, sharp and keen, v Abraham?struggling with his mortal feel- n ings on the one side and the commands of si God on the other?lakes that knife, rubs 0 the flat of it on the palm of his hand, crie3 a to God for help, comes up to the side of 0 the altar, pu's a parting kiss on the brow of t< his boy, takes a message from him for m mother and home, and then lifting the giit- n tering weapon f-,r the plunge of the deatn n ?Vile rvmeoloa knitfin>? for fh? work? tl the ban'l begins to desc?n>J. it falls! Not c on the heart of Isaac, but on the arm of v God, who arrests tho stroke, making the C wilderness quake with the cry, "Abraham. 1 Abraham, lay not thy hand upon the lad, t nor do him any harm!" c What Is this sound back in the woods? It a ]0 a crackling as of tree branches, a bleating v and ft struggle. Qo, Abraham, and see what C t Is. Oh, it was a ram that, (King fhrongti he woods, has its crooked horns fastened nd entangled in the brushwood and could iot get loose, and Abraham seizes it gladly . nd quickly unloosens Isaac from the altar, ' >uts the ram on his place, sets the lamp unler the brushwood of the altar, and as the lense smoke of the sacrifice begins to rise he blood rolls down the sides of the altar ] .nd drops hissing into the Are, and I hear he words, ''Behold the Lamb of God who afces away the sins of the world!" Well, what are you going to get out of (lis? There is an aged minister of the gosel. He says: "I should get out of it that rhen God tells you to do a thine:, whether it ?ems reasonable to you or not, go ahead I n i do it. Here Abraham couldn't have I een mistaken. God didn't speak so indistinct- t . that it was not certain whether he called t arah or Abimelech or somebody else, but i ith divine articulation, divine intonation, i ivine emphasis, he said, 'Abraham!' Abra- ] am rushed blindly ahead to do his duty, j nowing that things would come out right. ( ikewise do so yourselves. There is a mys- i ry of your life. There is some burden you t ave to carry. You don't know why God I oq nnf if nn ttaii fhftrA 1Q QrtmA t on. some trial, and you don't know why od allows it. There is a work for you to 3, and you have not enough grace, you link, to do it. Do as Abraham did. Adince and do your whole duty. Be willing i give up Isaac, and perhaps you will not ive to give up anything. 'Jehovah-jireh' the Lord will provide." A capital lesson lis old minister gives us. Out yonder in this house is an aged oman, the light of heaven in her face. She half way through the door. She has her md on the pearl of the gate. Mother, what ouldyouget out of this subject? "Oh," le says, "I would learn that it is in the last nch that God comes to the relief. You see. ie altar was ready, and Isaac was fastened 1 it, and the knife was lifted, and just at e last moment God broke in and stopped oceedings. So it has been in my life of venty years. Why, sir, there was a time hen the flour was all out of the house, and set the table at noon and had nothing to it on it, but Ave minutes of 1 o'clock a loaf bread came. The Lord will provide. My n was very sick, and I said:'Dear Lord, >u don't mean to take him away from e. do you? Please, Lord, don't take m away. Why, there are neighbors bo have three and four sons. This is my ily son. This Is my Isaac. Lord, you . on't take him away from me, will You?' it I saw he was getting worse and worse 1 the time, and I turned round and prayed. itil after awhile I felt submissive, and I iuld say, 'Thy will, 0 Lord, be done!' The >ctors gave him up, and we all gave him ). And, as was the custom in those times, c 13 nan maw mo ^rave tiuiuoo, nuu wo wcio e hispering about the last exercises, when I t oked and I saw some perspiration on his ] ow, showing that the fever had brosen, 1 id he spoke to us so naturally that I knew t > was going to get well. He did get well, 1 id my son Isaac, whom I thought was go- i g to be slitn and consumed of disease, was osened from that altar. And, bless your j uls, that's been so for seventy years, and my voice were not so weak, and if I could c e better, I could preach to you younger s lople a sermon, for though Ican'tseemuch c can see this?whenever you get into a i ugh place and your heart is breaking, if 1 >u will look a little farther into the woods, i >u will see, caught in the branches, a sub- j itute and a deliverance. 'My son. God will e ovide Himself a lamb.'" j i Thank you. mother, for that short sermon. ( :ould preach back to you for a minute or i ro and say, never do you fear! I wish I had klf as good a hope of heaven as you have. t j not fear, mother. Whatever happens/no c irm will ever happen to you. I was going i > a long flight of stairs and I saw an aged c oman, very decrepit and with a cane, c eeping on up. She made but very little t ogress, and I felt very exuberant, and I c id to her, "Why, mother, that is no way to ] i upstairs," and I threw my arms around 1 >r and I carried her up and put her down t i the landing at the top of the stairs. She ( id: "Thank you, thank you. I am very J ankful." O mother, when you get through s is life's work and you want to go upstairs J td rest in the good place that God has pro- ] ded for you, you will not have to climb up, a u will not have to crawl up painfully. The o arms tnat were stretcnea on tne cross : ill be flung around you, and you will be s listed with a glorious lift beyond all wearies and all struggle. May the God of Abraim and Isaac bo with you until you see the imb on the hilltops. Now, that aged minister has made a sugstion, and this aged woman has made a ggfastion. X will make a suggestion: Isaao ling up the hill makes me think of the eat sacrifloe. Isaac, the only son of Abraim. Jesus, the only son of God. On those ro "onlys" I build a tearful emphasis. 0 aac! 0 Jesus! But this last sacrifice was more tremendous one. When the knife is lifted over Calvary there was no voice at cried "Stop!" and no hand arrested it. iarp, keen and tremendous it cut down rough nerve and artery until the blood rayed the faces of the executioners, and e midday sun dropped a veil of cloud over t face because it could not endure the ectacle. 0 Isaao of Mount Moriah! O sus of Mount Calvary! Better could God ,ve thrown away into annihilation a thound worlds than to have sacrified His only in. It was not one of the ten sons; it was is only Son. If He had not given up Him, ?u and I would have perished. "God so ved the world that He gave His only?" I sp there, not beoause I have forgotten the ' lotation, but because I want to think. Jod so loved the world that He gave His Kft?AffAn QATI fhof whnartflVAr haliAVOth C Him should not perish, but have everlast- c g life." Great God, break my heart at the i ought of that sacrifice. Isaao the only, c pical of Jesus the only. t You say: "If this young man was twenty \ thirty years of age, why did not he resist? t hy was it not Isaac binding Abraham, in- e ead of Abraham binding Isaac? The mus- u 9 in Isaac's arm was stronger than the uscle in Abraham's withered arm. No b ?ung man twenty-flve years of age would r ,bmlt to have his father fasten him to a a le of wood with intention of burning." p aac was a willing sacrifice, and so a type ?< Christ who willingly came to save the n arid. If all the armies of heaven had re- b lved to foroe Christ out from the gate, v ey could not havs done it. Christ was c [ual with God. If all the battalions of I ory had armed themselves and resolved to b it Christ forth and make Him come out t id save this world, they could not have t icceeded in it. With one stroke He would i Lve toppled over angelio and archangello x >minion. p But there was one thing that the omni- ( >tent Christ could not stand. Our sorrows astered Him. He could not bear to see the d orld die without an offer of pardon and a ilp, and if all heaven had armed itself to t ;ep Him back, if the gates of life had been fc >ltedand double barred. Christ would have g mg the everlasting doors from their t nges, and would have sprung forth, scat- t ring the hindering hosts of heaven like t laff before the whirlwind, as He cried: Lo! I come to suffer. Lo! I come to die." biriflt?a willing sacrifice. Willing to take Bthlehem humilatlon, and Sanhedrln outage, and whipping post maltreament, and olgotha butchery. Willing to be bound. 'iUlng to suffer. Willing to die. Willing to ive. n How does this affect you? Do not your a 5ry best impulses bound out toward this x iin struck Christ? Get down at His feet, t ye people. Pat your lips against the wound a l His right foot and help kiss away the g mg. Wipe the foam from His dying lip. 0 et under the cross until you feel the bapsm of His rushing tears. Take Him into a sur heart with warmest love and undying v ithusiasm. By your resistances you have ^ vnoad TTim lonp enoueh. Christ is willinc m ?save you. Are you willing to be saved? : seems to me as if this moment were t irobbing with the invitations of an all comassionate God. I have been told that the cathedral of St. [ark stands in a quarter in the center of the ity of Venice, and that when the clock rikesl2 at noon all the birds from the city n-11ho regions round about the city fly to ie square and settle down. It came in this ise: A large hearted woman, parsing: ona oonday across the square, saw some birds liivering in the cold, and she scattered some rumbsof bread among them. The next day, t the same hour, she scattered more crumbs f bread among them, and so on from year j j year until the day of hor death. In her rill she bequeathed a certain amount of loney to keep up the same practioe, and ow, at the first stroke of the bell at noon o tie birds begin to come there, and when the s lock has struck 12 the square is covered ji rith them. How beautifully suggestive! ? Ihrtet comes out to feed thy soul to-duy. fl 'he more hungry you feel yourselves to be $ he better it is. It is noon, and the gospel v lock strikes 12. Come in flocks! Come I s doves to the window! AU the air is filled fl rith tho liquid ohiae; Come'. Cornel a )ome! SABBATH SCHOOL I INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 3. PC Lesson Text: "Samuel the Judce," in 1 Samuel vil., 5-15?Golden Text: I Samuel vil., 12? * Commentary. at sh th 5. ''And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to ye Kizpeth.and I will pray for you unto the , Lord." After the death of Eli and his sons sh he ark which the Philistines had taken re- sh nained in their country seven months, but he t broucrht such trouble "upon th,em that they tai xere glad to get rid of it, and so sent it as lome on a new cart drawn by two milk cows lej uid accompanied by a trespass offering pr [chapter vi., 10-12). The men of Beth-she- tn nesh were clnd to see the ark again, hut ranscressed by looking into it. and over th SO.000 perished." The man of Kirjath-jearim wl hen came and fetched up the ark of the mi Lord, and it abode in the house of Ablndab w< n me 11111 lor twenty years (verse 2). It ar vas some time during those twenty years po hat Samuel urged the people to put away th; ill their idols, turn to the Lord with all their leart and serve Him only, and he would mi >ray for them. an 6. "And they gathered together to Mizpeh, At ind drew water aud poured it out before the wl jOrJ." The name "Mizpeh" is found just be seven times in this chapter and just fourteen ho imes in Jer. xl., and xli. Its significance is th een, Gen. xxxi., 49, to be that of God judg- tbi ng or watching between people?God as a to ritness. The water poured out represented an heir utter helplessness and true penitence; co; hey were as water poured upon the ground vhich could not be gathered up again (II m< 5am. xiv., 14). Samuel lived before God ne ind sought to lead the people so to do. ca 7. "The children of Israel were afraid of j he Philistines." It troubles satan when he str ieee the people of God giving themselves to ov )rayer and fasting. He seems to understand an hat such comluct means some definite busl- ci\ less with God and some sure results; hence mf he Philistines are stirred to action by Israel's < ionduct. But Israel had no cause to fear shi ind would not have feared had they but re- Po nembered the Lord's past dealings on their aD >ehalf in Egypt, and the wilderness, and in j s he days of the judges. To be afraid of man fle s to forget God (Isa. 11., 12,13). ] 8. "Cease not to cry unto the Lord our BU Jod for us, that He will save us out of the da iand of the Philistines." Perhaps they c| bought of the successful pleadings of Moses qU ?n behalf of the people (Num. xiv., 19, 20), wj ind believed that t he effectual fervent prayer an >f a righteous man availeth much (Jas. v., mc ,6). In Ps. 1, 15, it is written: "Call upon He in the day of trouble. I will deliver hee, and thou shalt glorify Me." In I 0f Dhess. v., 17; I Pet. v., 8, we are to pray |ai vithout ceasing and be sober aDd vigilant." tjt 9. "Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel, j0t ind the Lord heard him." The margin says jis 'answered him." The burnt offering spoke >f the merits of the great sacrifice of which c0. ill sacrifices weretypioal, whose merits alone ,h. sail avail anything. It also spoke of whole an learted surrender to God as fully Bhown wi orth In Lev. 1. and Bom. xii., 1, 2. Samuel n a measure represented both prophet, )riest and king. The kinur rules In rightsousness, the prophet is for God to the people md the priest is for the people beforq God. )n encouragements in prayer see Mark xi., rn, 13. 24; I John v., 15. 10. "The Lord thundered with a great 0f hunder on that Hay upon the Philistines and jm liscomflted them." The Philistines drew op lear to battle while Samuel was having lealings with God in the matter of the burnt r0, jfferinp. That was a poor time for them to frc ouch the people of God when they were ac- ex :epted before Him in the offering (Lev. i., 4). j9 Believers are always "accepted In the Be- re, oved" (Eph. i.. 6), and whoever touches mj hem touches Him. Thunder is the voice of mj Jod, as in Ps. xxix., 8, 4j Job xxxvii., 1-5; jjn rohn xii., 23. When He speaks, none can a(j tand before Him. Just two words from atj resus sent the soldiers who came to take jia lim falling backward to the ground (John [yiiL| 6). gjj 11. "And the men of Israel went out of f01 tfizpeh and pursued the Philistines and on mote them." When David went forth in jn. he name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of f0| he armies of Israel, he prevailed over the flr Philistine with a sling and with a stone (I tj,( >am. xvu., ou;. vrnen inecnuaren 01 uuaan en elled upon the Lord God of their fathers, al? hey prevailed over their enemies (II Chron. rfi! rfii., 18). "For the eyes of the xjord run to ind fro throughout the whole earth to show of Himself strong on behalf of them whose teart is perfect (or whole or quiet) toward afr lim" (II Chron. zvi., 9). X* 12. "Then Samuel took a stone and set it gu >etween Mizpeh and Shen and called the tame of it Ebenezer (the stone of help), say- thi ng, "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." t0 ["he name of "Ebenezer" is found only in , hapters iv., 1, and v., 1, and here. In the wo former places it is associated with the ictory of the Philistines, but here with heir defeat. The Philistines triumphed be- ] ause Israel relied upon the ark and not j0, ipon the Lord (chapter iv., 3), but now tut srael triumphs because it relies upon the cjj iOrd. He who reads the heart can always itv ell whether we really rely upon Him or <.?] inly pretend to (Jer. xvii,, 9, 10). ur( 13. "The hand of the Lord was against j0, he Philistines all the days of Samuel." an ?hey were subdued and came no more into jj( he coast of Israel in his days. This was .m. 'the band of the Lord," not the work of i3 iamuel, but it was the hand of the Lord beause of Samuel's whole heart for God. w izra could testify that "The hand of our , k>d was upon us, and He delivered us from j* he hand of the enemy, aud of such as lay In [L. rait by the way" (Ezra vlli., 31). He also th( estifies In chapter vii., 28, "I was scrength- ^ ned as the hand of the Lord my God wa3 tQ d ^e." m? 14. "Alia tne cities wnicntne rmustines Ji( iad taken from Israel were restored to Is- ?jo ael. And thera was peace between Israel J. nd the Amorites." They had peace and \ rosperlty because the Lord was with them. When a man's ways please the Lord, He lakoth even his enemies to be at peace with im" (Prov. xvi., 7). The way of peace and ictory is fully stated in verse 3 of our lesson hapter?a whole hearted turning to the jord, all idols put away and a prepared . eart to serve Him only. Then we are ready SJf o see some of the "great and mighty hinsrs" which He will do for those who trust jji1 q Him that His name may be glorified (Jor. :xxiii., 3). "Walk before Me, and be thou evi ierfect" is still the word for each believer sti1 Gen. xvii., 1; Deut. xvlii., 13). ?, 15. "And Samuel judged Israel all the ld< [ays of his life." We shall meet Samuel gain in connection with Saul and David, >ut it is well to note here in connection with tln lis office as judge in Israel that when an old, ar* Tay-headed man, he could call God and all si(j he people to witness that in all his life he rai iad defrauded nor oppressed nor taken a iribe (chapter xii.. 2-5).?Lesson Helper. "v IUt SHE FORCOT HER NAME. od L Woman'* Remarkable Lobs of Memory In England. ] A notable loss of memory case, involving j!" confusion of personality, 1b engaging the f ttentionof scientists In England. A lady 7ho was aittiag on the promenade at BriRhon found herself unable to tell her name, , ddress or anything connected with her life. f !he said that "she felt something break inside .f her head. ? The authorities not being ablo to And out ' .nything about her, had her sent to the { rorkhouse. There was not a single mark on ? ler clothing, letters or anything else that rould assist in the discovery of her identity. She conversed as an educated woman on . he things around her, and wrote in a similar nanuer to the doctors who examined her, re! >ut her mind was an absolute blank so far as toi he past was concerned. The woman was described widely and her :ase was discussed at length by the uewspa>er.s. Her husband, who is a civil engineer n Londoo, llually turned up ami was recog- c:i lised by her. yha unaccountably left her lorne a week before. Sbe has uo idea how ihe went to Brighton. The doctors say that ] ivhile she was struggling to remember her bei lame, she often said it was Trilby. Then she nei >aid it could not bo that. She signed uer jnj etters "Mr.?. Anybody." thf Canadu's Debt Inrrnnseil. [j|{ The financial stitement of the Dominion wi r f? i .-i on !?*.*. i mo >i3iic euuea JUUC 01/ lu-su nil hows the total revenue for that period to wi tave been 433.929,809 and the pxpendltures fro '38,009,341. leavinK a deficit of 34.079,532. foi 'bore was also added to the capital account ei0i >4.300,000. The total net debt on June 3T pas 8252,999,472, an increase of $G,816,443. ?or the first quarter of the fiscal year the , lnaace& show au increase of oyer $500,000, s compared with the previous year. Te ! n:i % IELIGIOUS READING. 6HOCLD CLEBGYMEN QO ISTO POLITICS. The Boston Globe recently printed a 9ymoium on the above subject. Hon.Elijah A. orse, M. C., from Massachusetts,ln discusses the question said: ''If by that you mean ould they take an active interest in public ralrs, should they speak and preach upon eat moral issues which are under couslderion by the state legislature or by Congress, ould they attend the caucuses "and go to e polls and vote? I answer most certainly 3. Surely tho watchman on the walls of ZioD ould love his country, should love his flag, ould be jealous of her honur. should desire r prosperity and advancement. And cerinly when great moral issues are at stake, they very often are in state and national jislation. h? should not fail to imitxte the ophet of Israel, and lift up his voice like a amphet and crv aloud and spare not. During our revolutionary struggle, when e whole country was in dire distress, and jen the people made great sacrifice, no ;n were more interested in our political !lfare, and in the success of the American ms, or had more to do with shaping the licy and destiny of the young republic ;in'the clergymen of New England. In the early history of New England the ;nister of the town or city was the adviser d councilor in all the affairs of the people, id it was the practice of the legislature, lich was continued down to a recent time, fore entering upofl their duties to go to the use of God and hear what was known as e election sermon. And on that occasion e legislator learned from the man of God legislate in his fear, and that all political d human laws should be based on divine mmands. And who shall say that Massachusetts, the >tber of states does not owe her preeminceand her wise and just laws to the politi* 1 influence of her clergy. And in our later history, during the great uggle for the union, which resulted in the erthrow of slavery, the adoption of the lendments to the constitution guaranteeing 11 rights, the clery of the country bore no wn or unimportant part. 3n the other hand, if your question asks, nil the clergyman go on the stump during litical campaigns, and discuss the tariff d finance and purely business questions ? hould say no. He had better leave that Id to public men known as politicians, [n short, tbe pulpit and tho clerjry are not pposed to have to do directly with candites and with business questions. The srgyman's parishioners are divided on these estions, and he cannot take sides on tbem thout giving offense, resulting in division d discord in the church. But on great >ral questions,like anti-slavery,temperance. )rmonist, anti-lottery, laws regulating irriage and divorce, the defense the free unsecretarian public schools, no f i~? tha rifAfanHAn /if O H * O 1VI tuo MiVbVVllVU v? VMWW V', for the suppression of gambling and teries, laws to promote the settlement of iputes by arbitration, the enforcement of v and order, showing respect for and enuraging public officials in the discharge of iir duties on ail these questions the pulpit d the man of God can and should speak th no uncertain sound. FORTITUDE. Though the term is not found in the Bible, rtitude is a Christian virtue, allied to coure, resolution and endurance, while no one them expresses its full meaning. They all ply opposition to adversity and evil, but position in different ways. Courage conrns the future; it expresses opposition nsbd, armed and expectant; the foe is in >nt and the battle to come. Courage pre^-ses a state of mind; the will in control, the purpose fixed and idy for the onset. Resolution is nor courage, or courage coping with nor difficulties: it is virtue on the skirmish ft. watching the enemy and resisting his vances; it is the training for the determinve battle of life. Endurance, on the other nd, concerns the present; the engagement s begun <pd waxes hot. it may be, so that durance is crest fallen and "holdiug the rt" with some misgivings of heart. It holds possibly without pluck or the hope of see? things much better in the future. But titude is cool and self-possessed, holding e in the presence of the enemy, sleeping on 5 morrow. Unlike courage, fortitude has tered thft battle and seen the worst without irm. Worsted today, it has strength and sources which assure victory tomorrow, rtitude puts on a bold front, is conscious resources not his own, ''endures as seeing m who is invisible." Fortitude has ength and staying qualities; i.' marches in > column of invincibles. The martyrs were pported by this great quality. In the conjts of human life, the person armed with is virtue stands firm in his shoes, prepared suffer or fight without flinching or signs to ir. WHO AI1E THF. ?OOB ? [s there a d.inger of adopting too narrow, mal, and precise an idea of what consii;es religion, and so judging other people's aracter and conduct with an unwise sever? We think there is. Faber tells us that tie love of God is broader than the measa of man's mind;" that ' we make His retooDarrow by false limits of our own, d we magnify His strictness with a zeal > will not own." This is undoubtedly true. ie fault of the sons of Zebedee still the fault of many &incere d ardent but misled disciples. e lik? to think, and we believe we nave a ;ht to think, that there are more good peo5 in the world, than on the surface of ,ngs and tried b.v conventional standards, are appear to be. Not all have really wed the knee to Baal whom Elijah is apt set down as idolaters. Lar?e allowance iy justly be made for defects of education, Terence of training, peculiarities of posin. None but God knows all tbe elements it enter the complex problem of moral 3ert. It were well that we spoke more refully about such matters than we genery do. ? AN IMPOBTANT DISTINCTION. 3n a great occasion Richard Watson doired: "One fundamental principle of esleyan Methodism is anti-sectarianism d a catholic spirit." This is true, as all ithodist history from Wesley down makes Ident Yet it also shows that Methodism mds strongly for denominationalism and spirit of loyalty to its own ?as. The combination thus indicated jms to us just the right one. Any body of iristians is sure to be weak and uninfluen1 that does not thoroughly respect itself d vigorously carry out its own special mis in; but it can no tms witnout uespisius ur iling at their bodie9, or compassing heaven d earth to make proselytes from them. To e and let live, think and let think, to be inly and at the same time friendly, is Methism's way. COMMUNION WITH HIM. [n a world where there is so much to ruffle 3 spirit's plumes, how needful that enter? into the secret of God's pavilion which II bring it back to composure and peace! a world where there is so much to sadden d depress how blessed the communion th him in whom is the one tru3 source and jntain of all true gladness and abiding r! In a world where so much is ever seekS lo unhallow our spirits, to render them tnmon and profane, how high the privilege consecrating them anew in prayer to holi ss and to God!?Trench. [n looking forward to future life, let us ?ollect that we have not to sustain all its I. to endure all ills sufferings, or to enunter all its crosses at once. One moment mes laden with its own little burden, then and is succeeded by another no heavier in the last: if one could be sustained, so ii another nii-1 another.?Jnn?* Taylor. riclit With <i Woumlcd Enjjle. E. Leary, of South Harpswell, Me., momr of the crew of the steamboat Morriconag. had a light with an eagle a few mornjs ago. Leary was out in a dory and shot ) bird in the wing. When he drew the bird :o the boat the eaj;le planted one of its ons in his right arm and at the same time th its beak got a firm hold of his other n, and set up a vigorons attack with its ngs. Leary was unable to wrest his arms im the eagle's grasp, and only by reaching ward and grasping in his teeth the bird's ek was he able to overcome his adversary. A Backwoods Orator Honored. 31arksvIUe, Tenn., has unveiled a statue Gustavus Henry, "the eagle orator of nn*wse?," who wa3 prominent in politics :y years ago. NOT EL BICYCLES. TIIE WHEEL PUT TO STRAJJC AND CURIOUS USES. Rapidly Laying Telegraph Wli "With a Bicycle?Discharging Cannon by Cleans of a 4?Blke" ?An Ice Bicycle. THE New York World < scribes a number of no^ uses to which the bicycle w be put. It savs: R. H. Wolff, of New York, who 1: invented many novelties in the bicy< ^nnln/lin/r manQ7l'nfl raniH fipi J1UC, lULiUUlUg --r? ?gun, controlled by the cyclist, and tricycle cannon elsewhere describe has juBt made public his last app ance for rapidly laying a pTOvisioi military telegraph or telephone wii The illustration shows the genei idea. On the handle bar of the bicycle secured a bracket constructed to ho * FOR LAYING the necessary equipments for esta lishiog a complete telegraphic line, well as a telephone line, if desired, telegraphic transmitting instrume and a receiving instrument are mouc ed on this bracket. When the bicyc is sapplied with telephonic apparata the receiver is preferably suspendi by holders from the front of tl bracket. Any suitable constrncti< may be employed for throwing eith the telephonic or telegraphio a paratus into the circuit. In laying the tempotary line, tl end of the wire on the reel is mac fast at headquarters, and, as the rid< goes forward, the wire is unreelei The rider, from time to time, seour< the wire to some convenient objec such as a tree, either directly or l the use of suitable insulators. To ei able a long line to be laid, tbe bicyc in nrovided at convenient uoints wil x ? ?r means for holding one or more exti reels of wire. At the end of the line the rid< grounds the battery wire by the nse < BICYCI . suitable plate provided with a bin* ingpost, to which latter one wire fro the battery is secured. The plate provided with a head, in order that can be driven into the ground. The end of the wire may be secure in the piutle of the reel, and pluced i electrical connection with the battel through the metallic frame of the b cycle, in which case the rubber tir< of the bicycle will give a perfect insi lation from the ground; or, at the en of the line, the wire may be cut an secured directly to the binding po: at the battery. With a wheel constructed as d< scribed, a telegraphic or telephon: circuit can be quickly established bi tween headquarters and outljing post or between two or more outlying postf ? 5 J ? J iav anu repuris icuciycu uuu unuiuouui given with great facility. Bicycle Cannon. The Superintendent- of a bioyel company is engaged in the perfeotio A BICTC of two applications of the oycle ide to modern warfare. A jeaiousl guarded secret is that of a rapid-tirin magazine gun attached to the handle bar of a bicycle. The deadly weapon discharging four hundred shots a mir ute from its fanlike arrangement c glistening barrels, is operated by th rider, the same power that propels th wheel being used to fire the gun s will. A platoon of cyclists mounte on these death-dealing engines woul work great havoc upon a mob or a enemy at close range. The other engine, not as yet per fected to the satisfactiDn of the inven tor, is shown in an accompanyin sketch. It is called the "America Flying Artillery." The small canno is to be a rapid-tiring breech-loader Two men ride the machine. The am munition is carried on another whet ol similar construction. In action th riders dismount, swing the carriag around, lire a volley or two, and the remounting, resume their flight. Thi novel piece of field artillery was show on the day of the opening of the Ha: lem 6hip canal, the naval parade bein saluted with one hundred guns as passed the foot ot East 118th street. A' Bicycle on Ice. Tao bicycle does not go into con plete retirement even upon the arrival of winter ioe and snow. In fact, the bicycle will be one of the big things 'k on ioe dnring the coming season. From the suggestion thrown out by a boy who lashed an ordinary skate to the 'es front wheel of his safety, and was enabled to make good time over the sur? face of a frozen lake, two enterprising young men in Chicago have invented and patented an ice bioycle, and je. formed a company for its manufacture. ?el With the first perfected model one ill of the inventors made a mile in one miDute and twenty seconds, and this ias can be improved upon, the skill of the :le rider being the only limit to the possing bilities in the line of records. The a general features of the ice bicycle are id, conveyed in the cut. The change li- from the normal bicycle to the ice lal machine can be made in five minutes, e. The rear tire is deflated and the ral toothed band of steel slipped over it. The tire is then inflated until the ten* is sion is sufficient to hold the band Id firmly in place. The cut sufficiently TELEGRAPH LINES^ b- explains the attaohment of the skate as device. A The blade is hollow ground, rendernt ing lateral slipping impossible. The it- weight of the maohine remains unalile tered. The devioe is quite cheap, h. pn&tincr Iphs than S20. and for that rea "1 'O W ? ed eon cycling on ice is sure to become bte popular if not the reigning fad of the >n winter. er p. Awlul Accusation. A terrible accusation was that con* ie tained in a complaint sworn out yes* le terday by Jacob Gorgoschillitz against it George, Steve, Frank and Jaok Tulda, d. as well as little George, of the same 53 family, says the St. Paul Globe. Mr. t, Gorgoschillitz states, swears and >y avers that the foregoing five and eevu eralThidas "did, on or about the 7th le day of September, 1895, speak, utter, :h enunciate, use and employ, with :a felonious and unauthorized reference to himself, the said Jacob Gorgoschiljr litz, certain and divers words and ex* jf prestions which would tend to provoke iE CANNON. 3-1 an assault, namely, to wit, that the m said five Thidas did, one and all, deis scribe and apostrophize the said Gorit goschillitz as bologna sausage." The warrant was at once placed in the id hands of every detective of Chief n O'Connor's force. y M j. Shark Fisliinsr. jg Among the great variety of fish that i- are caught on the coast of Southern d California, says the Los Angeles d Times, the shark is generally regarded st merely as a curiosity. It is a fact that sharks are caught for commercial purb poses, and the industry pays very ic well. McGarvin, a fisherman who ~ liwoa of. Alnmifnn Rnv R ffiW milfifi c- J, - b, south of Long Beach, makes quite a i; business of catching sharks by means is of stout lines fastened to stakes on shore. He recently caught as many as eighty in one day. The chief value of the shark is in the oil, although the [e Chinese consider the fins of the fisb n quite a delicacy. :LE ON ICE. i a [ College Boys as Conductors. 1 ^ Among the employes of the People's f Traction Company, of Philadelphia, ' last summer, were about fifty college * students, many of whom served as Jl conductors. They earned on an av- ^ 1 eraga fifteen dollars a week, and were e able thus to lay by quite a sum for the ? coming year of study. The Superin- J \ tendent, speaking of fifteen of them, , students in the Jefferson Medical College, as they handed in their resigna! tions one day, said that they made the : best conductors in the employ of the I company, which was very sojry to 3 ^ | to lose their services.?New Ycrk Jn? ' " I dependent. LI _ The I'owdcr-Moukey's Retort. i- Oace, when one of Farragut's gunil boats on the Mississippi was just goe ing into action, one of the powdere monkeys was noticed by au officer n kneeling by one of the guns saying is his prayers. The officer sneeringly n j asked him what he was doing, aud if P* j he was atraid. g "N'o, I was praying, said he. 1 it ' "Well, what were you praying for?" "Praying," said the lad, "that the I enemy's bullets may be distributed ! the samo way as the pri^e-money is i- ?principally among the officere." 'rv: ' ' TR't'% 'tsEg ; DANGEROUS GOODS. DEADLY DYES BY WHICH MAIT1 > FABRICS ARE COLORED. Poison la Wall Paper?Articles Tlul Are Highly InflammableRisks Run by Women of Fashion. J I HE microbe lias been *akinflj: *\ I ? up so much of the publio atI tention recently that people 6 are beginning to forget that there are other poisons besides those manufactured in the private laboratory of this ingenious little worker. Yet arsenic can kill as well as tuberculosis, and lead is as fatal as diphtheria; and if we put the former on our clothes and rub the latter on our faces we shall one day repent it. According to a Parisian physician, who has been taking a census of th? dangers that lurk in the boudoir of ? fashionable woman, she is fortunate if! t?:? -J J -?M*! duo cocnpco ucui? puiauucut auu cvcaju if she does she runs great risk of being burned to death. In the first; place, a great number of colored fa-i brics are more or less poisonous.! Many dyes are toxic. As is well known, [ arsenic is chiefly to be blamed for this* fact, though the law forbids the use of! arsenical salts in dyes. Some persons are apt to think that. * . the quantity of poison in a wall paperj or a fabric is, after all, very small,1 bat this is by no means the case. Certain stuffs contain more than two' grammes of arsenious acid to the yard! ?particularly the gauzy green fa~( brics. Many acoidents are caused by; aniline colors, and above all by fuch-j sin and coralin, which are made by! treating rosalio acid with ammonia.! Fuchsin is not poisonous in itself, but. rosanilin, of which this and many) other coloring matters are salts, areobtained by treating aniline with oxi-i dizere, of whioh two are as dangerous as they are common?namely, nitrate! a# -maviinon/1 avoaniM qaiM an^ if la' vi iuoivuij nuu a* oviuiu uviu ) uu\4 ?* wrare to find faohsin that does not con-, tain more or less poison. The obser-1 t :% rations of French physioians hare} shown that articles of clothing col-i ored 'with this substance and plaoed inj contact with the skin cause npt onljf local eruptions but symptoms of dia-; ease throughout the system. For in-' stance, cases ol erythema and serious inflammation of the skin have been!. caused by wearing red merino stockings colored by the makers with roaanilin containing arsenic as an impurity. This is only one of many example* of products, harmless in. themselves,: that beoome actively poisonous by reason of impurities due to some process of preparation. But the unfortunate modern woman^ not only runs risk of poisoning hersel? with articles of olothing she dons, sha> may also be seriously burned by things that she uses daily in the toilet. First, there are the articles made of celluloid?now found on every! toilet table, though often maquerading M horn or ivory. * Celluloid is a compound of camphor and gun cotton?j and is highly inflammable, but in spite of this, its cheapness and the ease with whioh it may be shaped have made it a favorite material for combs,1 hairpins and all sorts of small fanoy, toilet articles, even for artificial teeth,! whose wearers probably do not realize that they are transforming their mouths into animated bombs oharged with gunootton. Among all these celluloid toilet articles, however, combs are the only ones that have hitherto caused aociJ?? X? on.-* A/iAi'HAn^ ' UBUIiO. XUO iuuai DOIIUUO nuuiusui vt this kind,or, at all events, the one that made the greatest impression on the public, was one that occurred in France. A little girl on ber return * from sohool was set to work at ironing near a stove.? Daring her work she leaned oonatantlv towards the hot stove so that her head was almost directly over it, and after she had been in this attitnde for about an hour her imitation tortoise-shell comb, made of celluloid, caught fire all at once and her head was in an instant enveloped in fiames. Her mother hastened to her aid and put out the fire as soon as she could, but not before a large part cf the child's hair had been burned off and her scalp had sustained a p.srious burn about four inohes square which was long in healing. T ? ? 1 1 .1?,3 JU6BS aenuuu uurua unvo iccutinn from wearing the long double celluloid hairpins with whioh women so often transfix their hair. When they bend over a lamp, or even a candle, the projeoting part often comes is contact with the flame and takes fire like a match, but it is usually easy to extinguish it before it reaches tha hair. ^ There are fabrics, too, that are little better than explosive. Not to speak of the light, easily inflammable smffs that abound, there is a sort of cheap flannel called pilou, largely used for women's garments, especially wrappers and night dresses. The surface is of variegated hue and oovered with long, silky hairs forming a sort of down, and taking fire like fulminnatin<? cotton when brought near * lamp, candle or open fire. The flame spreads rapidly over the whole surface, generally going oat of itself, bat Dften taking hold of the body of the fabric, giving rise in very senoaa bums. In December, 1889, a servant tvas burned in this way, and the French authorities condemned pilou is a dangerous fabric for use in making garments with flowing skirts.?New Fork World. A Petrified (Juecn. A curious tale is toid by passengers just arrived from Alaska on the steamir City of Topeka of the discovery nade by one of their number, a Seat:le man named Brennan, on Prince of Wales Island. On a recent expedition le chanced to visit one of the lensfc iccessible villages of the isolated tribes >n Prince of Wales Island, aud there jaw the mysterious diviuity that is itipposed to keep watch aud ward over ;he tribe, a former priestess or queen, ;vho, bv some rare action of the pe;uliar soil in which herburial place ,ras made, turned her into solid stone. L'ears later the rude grave was un:overed by chance, and the petrified jody was found, 'ihe natives enhroned it in a place of honor in the rillage. Brennan claims to be the irst white man to see the statue.? Victoria (British Columbia! Letter. - - v. 'i b