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I REV. DR. TALMAGE.j
UXDAY'8 DISCOURSE BY THE
NOTED DIVINE.
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Subject: "All Men Are Astray."
I Text: "All we, like sheep, have gone
atray. We have turned every one to hlfl
own way, and the Lord hath laid on Him the
Iniquity ol us all."?Isaiah liiL. 6.
Once more I ring the old gospel bel?. The
flret half of ray next text is an indictment.
All we, like sheep, have gone astray. Some
one says: "Can't you drop that first word?
That is too general; that sweeps too great a
ofrole." Some man rises in the audienoe,
he looks over on the opposite side of the
and says: "There is a blasphemer,
understand how he has gone astray.
HHTthere in another part of the house is a
Bfaulter, and he has gone astray. And there
Is an impure person, andhehasgoneastray."
Bit down, my brother, and look at home. My
text takes us all in. It starts behind the
pulpit, sweeps the circuit of the room, and
come3 back to the point where it started,
when it says, All we, like sheep, have gone
stray.
I can very easily understand why Martin
IjUther threw up his hanit9 after he had
found the Bible and cried out, "Oh, mysins,
my sins!'' and why the publican, according
to the custom to this day in the East, when
they have any great grief, began to beat
himself and ory, as ho smote upon his brea3t,
hamanM'nl mo o oinnor " 1 xrraa
I like many of you, brought up in the country,
and I know some of ttie habits of sheep, and
how they pot astray and what my text means
when it says, "All we, like sheep, have gone
astray." Sheep get astray in two way3?
either by trying to Ret into other pasture, or
from being soared by dorrs. In the former
way some o* us got astray. Wo thought the
wllgion of Jesus Christ put us on short commons.
We thought there was better pasturage
somewhere else. We thought if we could
only He down on the banks of a distant
stream, or under great oats on the other
side of some hill, we might be better fed. Wo
wanted other oasturasjo than that which
God, through Jesus Christ, cave our soul, ana
we wandered on and we wandered on and
we were lost. We wanted bread, and we
found garbage. The farther we wandered,
instead of finding rich pasturage, we found
blasted heath and sharper rocks and more
Stinginc nettles. No pasture. How was it
in the club house when you lost your child?
Did they come around and help you very
much? Did your worldly associates console
you very much? Di i not the plain Christian
man who came into your house and sat up
with your darling child give you more comfort
than ail worldly associates? Did all the
convivial songs you ever heard comfort you
in that day of b?reavement so much as the
sonp they sang to you??perhaps the very
I song i hut was suns? by your lit'ie child tha
last Sabba'h afternoon of her life:
There is a happy land
Far, far away,
Where saints immortal reign
Bright, bright as day.
Did your business assoolates in that day
of darkness und trouble give you anv especial
oondolence? Business exasperated you.
business wore you* out, business left you
limp as a rag, business made you mad. You
got dollars, bnt you gotno pence. God have
meroy on the man who has nothing but
business to comfort him! The world afforded
you no luxuriant pasturage. AfamousEnglish
actor stood on the stage impersonating,
and thunders of applause came down from
the galleries, and many thought it wa3 the
proudest moment of all bis life, but thero
was s. man asleep just in front of him, and
the fact that that man was indifferent and
somnolent spoiled all the occasion for him,
and he cried, "Wake up, wake ap!" 80 ooe
little annoyance in life has been more pervading
to'your mind than all the brilliant
oongratulailons and success. Poor pasturage
for your soul you find in this worid.
I The world has cheated you, the world has
belled you. the world has misinterpreted
you, the world has persecuted you. It
nover comtorted you. Oh, this world Is a
good rack from which a horse may pick
his food. It is a good trough from wnich
the swine may crunch their mess, but
it gives but tittle food to a soul Dlood
bought and immortal. What is a soul? It
is a hope high as the throne of God. What
is a man? You say, "It is only a man." It
is only a man gone overboard in sin. It is
only a man gone overboard in business life.
What is a man? The battleground of three
worlds, with his hands taking hold of des- i
tlniee of light or darkness. A man! No Hue
can measure him. No limit can bound him. j
The archaDge! before the throne cannot out- i
live him. The stars shall die, but he will
watch their extinguishment. The world will
burn, but he will gaze at the conflagration.
Endless ages will march on. He will watoh
the procession. A man! The masterpieee
of God Almighty. Yet you say. "It is only
a man." Can a nature like that be fed on <
husks of the wilderness?
Substantial comforts will not grow
On nature's barren soil:
All wc cau boast till Christ we know
Is vanity and toil.
Some of yon got astray by looking for better
pasturage; others by being scared by the
dogs. Th? hound gets over into the pasture
field. The poor things fly in every directlon.
In a few moments they are torn of the <
hedges and they ar? splashed of the ditch, i
I ana ine iosi sueep never gets nome unless
the farmer goes after it. There Is nothing
so thoroughly lost as a lost sheep. It may <
hare be^n in 1857, during the financial i
panic, or during the financial str ss in the i
rail of 1873 when you got astray. You almost ]
beuame an atheist. Yousaid, "Whereis God i
that honest men go down and thieves prosper?"
You were dozged of creditors, you <
were dogged of the banks, you were dogged i
of worldly disaster, and some of you went 1
into misanthropy and some of you took to 1
strong drink and others of yon fled out of <
Christian association, and you got astray, i
Oh, man, that was the last time when you '
ought to have forsaken GocL Standing 1
amid the foundering of your early failures, '
how could you get along without a Qod to ;
comfort you and a God to deliver you and a
God to help you and a God to save you? i
You tell me you have been through 1
enough business trouble al-nost to kill 1
yon. I know it. I canuot understand i
how the boat could live one hour in that i
chopped sea. But I do not know by what i
process you got astray ; some in one way and i
I some in anoiaer, una u you could really see
the position some of you occupy before God
your soul would burs-t into an agony of tears
and you would pelt the heavens with the cry,
"God have mercy!" Sinai's batteries have
been unlimbered above your soul, and at
times you have heard it thunder, "The
wages of sin is death." "All have sinned
and como short of the glory of God." "By
one man sin entered into the world, and
death by sin, and so death passed upon all
men, for that all have sinned." "The soul
that einnetli, it shall die." When Sevastopol
was being bombarded, two Russian frigates
burned all night in the har -or, throwing a
glare upon the trembling fortress, and some
of you, from what you have told me yourselves.
some of you are standing in the night
of your soul's trouble, the cannonade, and
the conflagration, and the rmilttplicatict..
and the multitude of your sorrows and
troubles I think must make the wiugs of
God's hovering angles shiver to the tip.
But the last part of my text opens a dooc
wide evough to let us all out and to iet all
heaven in. Sound it on the organ with all
the stops ou . Thrum it on the harp with all
the strings atune. With all the melody possible
let the heavens sound it to the e*rth
and let the earth tell it to the heavens. "Tiie
Lord bath laid onHim theinlquityof us ail."
I am glad that the prophet did not stop to
explain whom he meant by "Him." Kim of .
IlDO mauler, mm 01 ion uiuuu; sweat, xnui j
of the resurrection throne. Him cf the cruci- j
flxion airony. "Od Him tho Lor 1 hath laid j
the iniquity of us all." Oh!" says some ]
man, "that isn't generous; ihnt isn't lair.
Let every man carry his own burden and pay \
his own d#bts." That sounds reasonable. If ]
I have an obligation, and I have the means , <
to meet ir, aud I come to you and ask you to ! ;
settle (hut obligation. you rightly say. ' Pay . j
your own debts." If you and I, walking I
down the streeet?both hale, hearty and well I j
?I ask you to carry me, you say rightly, ' |
"Walk on your own feet!" But suppose you <
and I were in a regiment, aud I was wound
ed in tho battle, and I felt unconscious at
your feet with gunshot fractures and dislo- (
Rations, what would you do? You would
sail to your comrades, saving: "Coma and
help; this n an is helpless. Brin^ the nmbuJance.
Let us take him to the hospital." and ]
II would be a dead lift in your arms, an*'. you .
would lift mo from the ground where I had
{alien, and put me in the ambalance, and
take me 10 the hospital, aod hav? all kind*
oess shown me. Would there he anything
bameanins In ?y accepting that kindneeo?
J?n. no. too would be mean not to do it I
That ia what Christ does. If we could pay
our debts, then it would be better to go up
and pay them, saying: "Here, Lord, here is
my obligation. Here are the means with
which I mean to settle that obligation. Now
give me a receipt. Cross it all out.** The
dobt is paid.
But the fact is we have fallen in the battle.
We have gone down under the hot Are of our
transgressions, we have been wounded by
Ha a chore nf sin to are heldeas. we are tin
done. Christ comes. The loud clang heard
inthe skv on that Christmas night was only
the bell, the resounding bell of the ambulance.
Clear the way for the Son of God.
He comes down to bind up the wounds, and
to scatter the daikness, and to save the lost.
Clear the way for the Son oi God! Christ
comes down to us, and we are a dead lift.
He docs not lift us with the tips of His fingers.
Ho does not lift us with one arm. He
comos iown upon His knee, and then with a
dead lift He raises us to honor and glory and
immortality. "The Lord bath laid on Him <
the iniquity of us all." Why, then, will a ,
man carry his sins? You cannot carry successfully
the smallest sin you ever committed.
You might as well put the Apen- :
nines on one shoulder^md tho Alps on the i
other. How mucti lesa can yon carry all the
sins of your lifetime? Christ comes and
looks down in your face and says: "I
come through all the lacerations in mcso
days, and through all the tempests of these
nights. I hnve come to bear your burdens,
and to pardon your sins, and to pay your
debts. Put them" on My shoulder, put them
on My heart." "Oa Him the Lord hath laid
the iniquity of us all." Sin has almost postered
the life out of some of you. At times
It has made you cross and unreasonable, and
It has spoiled tho brightness of your days
and the peace of your nights. There are
inen who have been riddled of sin. The
world srives them no solace. Gossamery and
volatile the world, while eternity, us they
look forward to it, is black as midnight.
They writhe under the stings of a conscience
which proposes to give no rest here and no
rest hereafter, and yet they do not repent,
they do not pray, they do not weep. They
do not realize that just the position they occupy
is the position occupied by scores,
huu lteds and thousands of men who never
found any hope.
If this meeting should be thrown open and
the peoplo who are here could give their
testimony, what thrilling experiences we
should hear on all sides! There is a man
who would sav: '*1 had brilliant qurround
ings; I had the best e.iuoatioa that one o! j
tho best collegiate institutions oi this coun- v
try could give and I observed all the morali- ^
ties of life, and I was self-righteous. and I p
thought I was all right before God as I am ?
all right before man, but the Holy Spirit j
came to me one day and said, 'You are a i(
sinner;' the Holy Spirit persuaded me of the
fact. While I bad escaped the sins against
the law of the land. I hail really committed
the worst sin a man ever commits, the
driving back of tho Son of God from my
heart's affections, and I saw that my hands
were red with tho blood of the Son of God,
and I began to pray, and peace came to my
heart an t I know by exparienoe that what
vou say is true." "On Him the Lord hath
laid the iniquity of us all!" Yonder is a
man who would say, "I was the wor9t
drunkard in the city; I went from bad to
worse; I destroyed myself; 1 destroyed my
home; my children cowered when I entered
the house; when they put up their lip to be
kissed, I struck them; when my wife protested
against the maltreatment, I kicked
her into the street. I know all the bruises
and all the terror of a drunkard's woe. I
went on farther and farther from God until f
one day I got a letter, sayine:
My Dear Husband?1 have tried every
way, done everything and prayed earnestly
an> fervently foi your reformation, but
it seems ot no avail Since our little
Henry died, with tne exception of those few
happy weeks when you remained sober, my
life nad been one of sorrow. Many of the
nights I havo sat by the window, with my
face bathed in tears, watching for your
coming. I am broken hearted, I am sick. ,
Mother and father have been here frequently ~
and begged me to oome home, but my love
for you aud my hope for brighter days have |a
always made me refuse them. That hope j?
seems now beyond rea'ization, and I have re- "
turned to them. It is hard, and I battled
long before doing It. May God bless and "
preserve you, ana take from you that aocursed
appetite, aud hasten the day when we
snail be again living happily together. This Vl
will be my daily prayer, knowing that He |v
has said, 'Come unto me, all ye that labor "
and are hea^y laden, and I will give you w
resr.' From your loviug wife, Mabt. m
"And so I wandered on and wandered on,"
snys that man, "'until one nieht I passed a a
Methodist meeting house, ana I said to my- c<
self, Til go in and see what they are doing," ^
.r^ -..A Cl
mivi J. *vi. m uvvi, uuu mo; nw.
"All may come, whoever will? pi
This man receives poor sinners still. g,
"And I dropped rixht there where I was, re
and I satd, 'God have mercy!' and He had
mercy on me. My home Is restored, my wife f1'
sings all day long during work, my children "
come out a iong way to greet me home, and ?*
my household is a little heaven. I will tell t
you what did all thi3 for me. It was the
truth that you this day proclaim, "On Him |?
the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all." J?
Yonder is a woman who would say, "Iwan- tl
dered off from my father's house, I heard 113
the storm that pe ts on a lost soul. My Teet
were blistered on the hot rocks. I went on J*
and on, thinking that no one cared for my ni
soul, when one night Jesus met me and He
said. 'Poor thing, go home! Your father is
waiting for you, your mother is waiting for
you. Go home, poor thing!' And, air, I 1?
was too week to pray, and I was too weak to 3'
repent, but I just cried out?I sobbed out
mv sins and my sorrows on the shoulders of *
ETim rtf mV? Am if i a no { I 'fKo T.a?^ Kaf h loM O]
utiu vi nuviu ii 19 oat Ay lua jliuiu uaiu k?iu | ?
an Him the iniquity of us all."*
Someone comes here to-day ani I stand
wide. H? oom^s up three st?ps. H?? comes
(o this place. I must stand aside. Taking
lhat place He spreads abroad H s hands, and
they were nailed. You see His feet; th^y oj
tvere bruiseri. He pulis aside th* robe and n<
?how9 you His wounded heart. I Bay, "Art b
rhou weary?" "Yes." He says, "weary with ai
the world's woe " I say, "Whence comest m
rhou?" He says, "I came from Calvary." H
I say, "Who comes with Thee?" He sayg, It
"No one; I have trodden the winepress Ai
alone." I say, "Why coine3t Thou here?" ol
"Oh," He says, "I came here to carry all ii
the sins and sorrows of the people!"
And He kneels. Ho says, "Put ou My
shoulders all tho sorrow and all
ihesms." And, conscious of myownsina
first, I take them and put them on the shoul- M
lers of the Son of God. I say. "Cunst Thou la
bear any more, 0 C'irist?" He says, "Yes, m
more." And I gather up the sins of all tho3e to
P7no serve at these nltars. the officers of ct
:ho church of Jesus Christ?I gatier M
tip all their sins and I put them ai
on Christ's shoulders, and I say, "Canst oa
rhou oear any more?" He says, "Yes. more," rt
rhen I gather up all the sins of a hundred p<
people in this house aud I nut them on the
shoulders of Christ, and I say. "Canst Thou
bear more?" He says, "Yea, more." And I
gather up all the sins of th;^ assembly and
put them on the shoulders of the Son o? God. tfc
and I say. "Canst Thou b?ar them?" "Yea," gj
he says, "more." But Heis<leparting. Clear
the way for Him, the 8on of God. Open the I
door aud let Him pass out. He is carrying
our sins and bearing them away. We shall J"
never s?e them again, He throws them
down into the abysm, and you near the Ion?
reverberating echo of their fall. "On Him
the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all."
Will vou let Him take your sins to-day? or. M
do you say. "I will take charge of them my- j?
self. I will flilit my own battles, I will risk ^
eternity on my own account?" I know not ^
how near some of you have come to crossing
Lh<> line.
A clergyman said in his pulpit one Sab
bath, "Before next Satur.lny nisrht one of
Ill's audience will have passed out of life." a<
A. Kentleman said to another seateil next to ,j(
him: "I don't beiieve it. I mean to watch, ;j
ind if it doesn't come true by next Saturday
niffht I shall tell that clergyman his falselino'."
The man seated nex: to him said.
"Perhaps it will b? yours :!."." "Oh. no." i ?
Ihe other Tvplioij. "I shall live to be an old '
man." That nii^iit he breathed his last. Toiiay
the Saviour calls. All may come. God
never pushes a man off. Gori never destroys .
invbody. The man jumps otf, hejumps off. :i
It is suicide?soul suicide?if the mau p?r- 3
Ichec fftr thft invitotinn ' nrlincnniyiir vrill
let him come," whosoever, whosoever, who- tc
=onver! aj
While God invites, how blpst the day, 9'
How sweet the gospel's cbarminc "sciundt
Come, sinner, haste, oh. haste away ;c
While yet & pardoning God is found. K
In this day of mereitul visitation, while tv
manv are coining mto the kiuRdom of God, P1
join the procession heavenward.
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i;"gland to Strengthen er Nstt. A
It is stated that $35,0 0.000 will be devot- [J'
i to naval work la this year's budgot. "
GOV. GHflULGE DEAD
Massachusetts' Chief Executive Ex
pired at His Home in Lowell.
HE SUCCUMBED TO PARALYSIS
A Rusy ^ife KronKht t0 * Close?Thre
Kircted Chief Executive of tin
U?y State?Career ?? a Lawyer ant
n Politician?Kose to Eminence in th<
Liitt and Held Many OfttceH.
Lowell, Mass., March 5.?Governor Fred
?rlok T. Groenhalgs died shortly before
a'clock a. m. at his residence in this city
He remained unconscious throughout the daj
in (I his death had been expected mo
nentarily. He suffered a second stroke o
paralysis nt 11.90 p. m. and sank rapidly un
il 12.4*, when he died. Governor Green
lalge, of Massachusetts, was suddenly
itricken with paralysis nt Boston ten day*
Wore his death, ne was at oncoa romovec
:o his home at Lowell.
Hon. Frederick T. Greenhalge was born at
Lancaster, England, July 19, 1842. Twelve
fears later his parents moved to Lowell
ttass., where the young man entered the
jublic schools and won for himself even ic
>ak>K o rrnnrl nnmo Hq a nil hlif! snGIlker.
lio JWUIU u UUU.W v.? .. ,
[n 1859 he entered Harvard College, and renalned
there until the death of his father,
irhen he took upon himself the burdens ol
laring for the family without having buen
fraduated. During an interval of tcachim.'
ohool for a living he studied law. In 1863
te entered the array, and was connected
vith the Commissary Department at New
iorne, N. C, In 1365 he was admittod to
iraciice at the bar of Middlesex County,
ind three years later he began his career
13 a public mau, serving in the suooeedinfi
wo years in the Common Council of Low11.
In 1871 he was olected a member of
he School Board. Tin-n, in 1880 and 1881,
lo was electcd Mayor of Lowell, and folowed
this up by boing elected to ropreent
his district in Congress in 1888. Ho
ras defeated for a seoond term. Until
893 he did work for the Republican
>arty without seeking office for himsolf, and
hen he was nominated for Governor of
lassachusetts, acd elected by .h large masrity.
This majority ho Increased during
GOVERNOR FREDERICK T. OIH'.ENItAl.fiE.
10 two succeeding campaigns, and at Lis
ist election ho carried Massachusetts by a
Lrger majority than had been known since
le war.
Harvard gave him his degree of B. A. in
J70, just tlio sa^e. and at the iust^ reunion
f the class of'63 at Parker's F. T. Oreenalge
was in the choir. He and E. L. Ste3ns,
who died in the Civi; War, wero the
vo most notable debaters in '.he class. The
adition3 of the institute of 1870 arc filled
ith bouts which Greenhalge had with other
lembers of ih- society.
The history of Governor Greenbalge's adiinistration
contains soino elements of oxjptional
interest, and which served to give
a distinctly courageous and disinterested
mracter, but perhaps the most portentous
ling in it, in view of what has now hapaned,
is the fact that the Governor's er.agements
averaged 300 a year; they
cached so high a figure as 350 the first
sar that he was in office. In addition to
is public extra-offlciiil appearances within
le commonwealth Governor Grceohalge
(presented the State at Chattanooga in Sopimberand
at Atlanta iii November, 1895; he
ive an address on John Winthrop before
le New England Society at Brooklyn. N. Y.,
11894. havinu previously delivered a polical
address before the Lincoln Club at Dellonioo's
in New York City.
There is a pathetic significance in the fact
lat the last official act of Governor Greeuilge
was his message to the Legislature
a the 24th of February, annouueing the
nt nr-Onvftrnnr Rrihinson.
Mr. Greenhalgo was married in 1872 to
sabel Nesmitb, whose fither, John Nenith,
was Lieutenant-Governor of Maasalusetts
in 1862. Hh and threo children,
rederiok B., Harriet Nesmith and P.lobar J
paulding.
Kortr-one Ve.irs ia I'rison.
The honviest term of imprisonment, exspt
for murder, that was ever imposed
a a oriminat in Kings County was proaunced
In the new County Court in Brookn,
N. Y., when Judge Aspinali sent Kichrd
Johnson, alias H^nry Smith, a colored
an, to Sin? Slug for forty-one years,
e had been convicted of both burglary in
te second degree an I grand laroeny In the
rat degree, in each instance a second
[fence. Johnson is twenty-eight years old,
ngle. He was born in Richinoud, Va.
American Fla i'ubllcly Burned.
There have boon renewed disturbances in
adrid, Spain, and demonstrations of popu,r
anger against the United States Governent.
The students of the university seem
? havo been the onenders or the lenders in
le demonstration. They assembled baforo:he
ttdrid University aad there publicly burned
1 American flag. The po lee dispersed the
eeting after making several arrests. As a
suit the Ca in^t Council decided to temDrarlly
close the universities.
Disaster in a Prussian Mine.
An oxplosioD, followed by fire, occurred in
10 Cleophas mine at KaUowitz, Prussian
ilesia. Tho rescuing party succee.ed in
iving eighty of the entombed, miners, but
ler brought to the surface twenty-seven
)rpses. leaving thirty-three of tho miners
lissing.
lJank President Murdered.
As a result of a feud of long standing W.
[. Purdue, ana.torney,shot and killed John
. Jones, President of the Memphis (Texas)
aiionul iiauk. aud daugerously wounded
is son, Nat. Purduo w.is arrested.
Italy Arides in Wrath.
The Italian loss at Adowa, Abyssinia, Is
ow admitted to be 5000. The whole kiagomseems
Vo have arisen iu wrath, blaming
xj Government for the defeat.
iiern oney in Chfa|>.
The continued cheapness of money in Lon
r.u amazes financial experts.
1'rinniiiont I'eoftle.
"Mark Twain." havinghad a vory sucoossll
tour in Australia and .sow Zealand, is
dw in India.
Sir E iwin Arnold boasts that lut has writ:n
more than 8dlJ0 editorial leaders, averting
over a column iu eiicth, in the course
f his work for the London Daily Telegraph.
President Faure, or Fiauce, lias a fad of
(aching th bicycle to a I of his visitors,
ing George of Greece and the King of Porigal
are amonsc M. Fauro's most promising
U pi IP.
Among the celebrities now on oxhibitio"
t Mine. Tnssaiui's iu London aro Alfred
uslin. the late Prince Henry of Battennrg.
Grover Cleveland, l)r. Jameson, Mr.
hoaes and Pn-sid--' Krm?
THE HALLS OF CONCRESS.
' The Senate broke- nil pension records by Cn
>assing 120 private? bills at the rate ol two
i minute.
The appropriation for the purohase o
teed for tDo Sioux of Devil's Lake WRd in" mu'
Jreased from $10,000 to 115.000. *or
Secretary Herbert, In a letter to the Sen- Dee
ite, opposes the oreatlon of a plant for mat- a3 f
.no: armor plate by the United States. ^
, Secretary Carlisle sent to the House the tioi
lraft of a bill for the protection of the salmon dis'
Isheries of Alaska, recommending Its pas- fr0]
lage. teni
e The report to Congress of the special com- hav
b nission to investigate the Nicaragua Canal don
X project throws oold water on that enter- to 9
?rlso. a11
e Congress has appropriated $75,000 to pay
ihe joint expenses of a commission to survej J;
be boundary line between Alaska and Brltisn .. f
- America.
I Senator Hill introduced a bill making it a 0f j
. misdemeanor to present a dramatic or oper<
iHo composition without the consent of thfl wer
_ proprietor. CeU
" The Army Appropriation bill, carrying thl tnu<
1 sum of $23,279,402, wa3 passed by the Senatl ooll
rrn'fk an omanHmonl' Mrlnnlnn- fhu nnrnhftl* rtf
. hospital stewards from 112 to 100. I em
j The Senate passed the Senate bill forth*
, jonstruction and equipment of two steam chu
revenue cutters for service on the grea1 vey
I lakes?not to cost more than $200,000 each,
The House Committee on Territories vote<! -JV
; (o reconsider its former vote against thi E_.(
i Arizona and New Mexico Statehood bill? q
, Ihns leaving them still before the commit 60^
i tee. of
\ secretary Morton was attacked in th< gpri
Souse, for his refusal to continue the dla mai
ribution of seed, by Messrs. Moses an^ peo
Ohinifston, of Georgia; Boatner, of Louis raft
ana, aud Ray, of New York. H
Mr. Blanchard (Dem.. La.) gave notice o|
in amendment to be offered to the Agrlcul jEno,
' :ural Appropriation bill appropriating $100,< Bui,
100 for the prevention of the Mexicat trac
iveevil's depredations onthe cotton plant. C0VI
The President sent to Congress tho cor? COg
respondent? with the German Govern' ' t
nent relating to the exclusion of American
nsu ranee companies from Germany; the
German Government consents to reopen the
luestlon. I
Representative Colson (Rep., Ky.) intro? ' -^as
luced a resolution to investigate the actios The
>f Secretary Carlisle in refusing to accept dan
:he bid of William Graves for $4,500,00 < in wor
>onds at 115.SS91, and awarding them to J. j owi
Pierpont Morgan. was
The Utah members of the House and Sen- ' ^
ite have Introduced bills annexing to tha ye*
aow Stat? all that portion of Arizona lying * a'
aorth of tho Colorado River, and most of the ??n
sastern boundary of Utah. Arizona, how- j wat
aver, is anxious for Statehood. I
The House Committee on Postoffloes and
Postroads refuses to indorse the spy system 0_ ^
of the Po3tofflco Department. It has strloken g
uut a provision of $175,000 to pay the sppt- ?
ters who have been employed to watoh tho rjV(J
carriers throughout the country. out
A bill has been inlroduoed in the House by wor
Mr. Payne, of New York, making it unlaw- hav
tul to givo, soil, distribute, wear, display or and
manufacture the insignia of the National So- I |A
siety of the Daughters of the American Rev-' feet
slution, except by authority of that organlz- Mai
fctlon. quo
A communication from the Secretary of ?ai
the Interior was laid before the House re- ca"
questing an appropriation of $6300 for 1m- | 8e
proving the Yoseaitte National Parle, $6300 on t
for improving the Sequoia National Park and **ar
$2300 for improving the General Grant Na- waB
tional Park. ?
st G
Representative J. K. Cowen, representing th
the Fourth Maryland District in the House, rr
ha? sent to Speaker Reed his resignation as a
member of that body, Mr. Cowen was re- av(
cently elected to the presidency of the Balti
J AUU kla .aiiramanf TtCk
muz.*? auu uuiu oantunuy ouu uu louivmEm WRS
from the House will enable him to devote at) qj
his time to the duties of that position. hJs
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DUNRAVEN EXPELLED,
New York Yacht Clab Dom Not Walt tot DIS'
His Resignation. Tbr<
Lord Dunraven's name has been removod
from the list of honorary members of the
New York Yacht Olub by a vote of 89 to L jn a
The correspondence which led op to this 0f N
action, and which was made pabiio at the n
club's meeting, shows conclusively that Lord f
Dunraven was not only cognizant of the feel* ,
in# which exited against him and of the p"
contemplate 1 action of the olub, but that he fj
was ana evidently still is convinced that he V,.
was right and the findings of the speoial t~_
cominitteo wrong. The resolutions ordering
the Earl'a expuslon was moved by Rear b,
Commodore Lewis Oass Ledyard, owner of b
the KChooner Montauk. They were In part i"
as follows: l?
"The representatives of this club engaged
in the international yacht races with Lord t(
Dunraven as the representative of English
yachtsmen upon the footing of mutual con- ,
fldonce and honor. He has requited theii
courtesy and confidence by distrust, suspl- t
cion, unfounded imputations of fraud and a .
refusal of reparation. C1 ^
"Lord Dunraven by his course has forfeited
the high esteem whioh led to his election
as an honorary member of this olub. ?
Therefore.
"Resolved, That the privileges of honorary 1,""'
meinDership heretofore extended to the Ear j:
of Dunraven are hereby withdrawn, and thai
his name be removed from the JJst of honor- a??
ary members of the olub." _i.a
There was deep silence among the mem- ei?v!
bers for a moment at the conclusion of the ? TV
reading of the xesolution, and then there t '
was a uurst of cheering, which shook the
building to its foundation. Mr. Ledyard'a A
resolution was promptly seconded by Lloyd yorl.
Phoenix, of the Intrepio, and tellers were ap- H
pcinted to count the vote. In less than 1 wag
three minutes Sec-rotary Oddie announced ?ra
that the resolution had I?een carried by? _e_e
vote of 89 to 1, and that Lord Dunraven waj
no longer an honorary member of the club,
The
Lives Lost by Fire.
At CrlflfleH, Ml., three children of Nel- _.
sou Parker, the oldo9t agad four, were
burned to deatn. They were locked in t Dan?
room by their mother, who had gone to 8 Goff
neighbors on an an errand. 0our
At- Eureka, South Dakota, a gasollnt 0OW,
stove explosion caused tlio destruction of R tjj
R. Pnelfclt'a lionse and the death of Mrs m.-.
Frank Puokett finri hor two chl1 Iren, Hattie pf^
a^erl .-even, an-1 Clarence, aged iour. dudj
At F orence. 8. C., the business portion o; intOi1
thn town was destroyed by flr?. The loss In uc
wa? 5100,000. George Williams, a printer hart
was burned to death. The State liquor dis By
pensary and the Western Union Tolegrapt gard
office were destroyed. Stat*
At Troy, N. Y., the Grand Jury handec
down indictments u^alnst the Western Unioi
leli'ifmph CoTQtmuy, the Troy TeleRrj.il ! J?r ti
and Telephone Corn puny, and the Troy Gf.u ' "10.c
Company. The indictments are theresut j 9nC"
of tun recent lira in the Burnett Building WH^'
where four lives wore lost. The charge 1 ; lo-df
criminal negligcnca in maintaining overhead j ^P'1
wires. ?* ?'
liue i
father ami Duuchtcr Drowned. It al
John A. Wolfe and daughter were drowned com
in tin You^hlogheny P.ivor at Sraithton New
Wcst.nuraiand County, Pdnn. Wolfe, in hii I
li iitr 10 ro:ich h'>in<?. determined to ford tht '
nver, iustni t or driving a distance arouac Fa
to a oridge. The stream wa3 ruuo:n? full oi lynel
C-, whleli Ror?ed against tho wheals, over- '
7 - ... ? on nf
tuin.ng tli') veftlck'. '
were
ihe s
On U-iRlnml's Horvd. aiuh
Al' the massacres in Armenia mi^ht hav* brini*
1.8! n avoided. Minister Terrell wriics to tut
Stale Department, liad England's policy beer \.ftet
different. v*i?n
guilt
Three Genera's Die on One Oay.
General G org;' V7. Gilo died in his homf Ar
in Pbilnde ubi.i. He was sixty-sovnn yean ^
oM. He w;i3 born in Uethleheni, N. H. Gen- Eunr
era1 Lmvis Merrill, sixty-two years old, died vesse
in PalMelphla of an affection of the kid- dee?
neys. General Merrill was a nativnof Penn? that
syivania and a graduate of West Point. 3''rS<
Genoral Madison >tiller was found d?ad iD soldi
bis residence in St. Louis. His faithful dog hnd t
was keeping watch over his remains. MadP bafoi
son Miller was born in Mercer, Penn,, and
was eight y-five years old.
Th
Kijfht of Search Usurped. na.i<
The Ameri'-an sohooner Navarino wni Cons
;earchRd by a Spanish gunboat off Capa **
Cruz. Cuba, for deserters. alrea
STORM AND FLOOD.
>at Damage Inflicted Aloojt tho Hadaon
and In New England.
[eavy rains followed by fiooda have caused
ch damage along the Hudson in New
k and In many sections of New England,
ipatches from various points gives details
ollows:
LBAinr, N. T.t The whole southern por1
of the city lying on tho flat land for a
:ance of 2<<0 yards baok from the river
it was inundated, but there was no exjive
damago reported. Many old sheds
e been carried away and much damage
e in a small way. which it Is impossible
stimate. Cellars of business houses were
flooded, but merchants bad sufficient
ning to remove their goods generally out
each of the waters.
hot. N. Y.: The Hudson River reached
highest point attained since 1857. At 9
ook p. m. the mark of the memorable flood
886 on the bridge pier was lost sight of
the water continued to rise. The niers
e submerged to the shed roofs. All the
are along the river front were flooded and
jh damage done. In many of the large
ar factories the engine rooms were lned
and the fires oxtingu Ished. In thesruthpart
of thecity many housesare submerged
he gecond story. People who attended
rch at 7 o'clock p. m., had to be coned
to their homes at the conoluston of the
rices In rowboats and Improvised rafts,
the west eldo of the river millions of feet
umber piled along the entrance ?f the
a Canal have been washed away.
ibatooa, N. Y.: The entire upper HudRivor
valley was Inundated to the deptj
from three to five feet. In Saratoga
Ings water was over four feet deep in
ly streets on both sides of the town, and
pie were ferried from houses Inboatsand
s.
UDiow, N. Y.: The freshet in the Hudson
ar at this point whs the most severe
wn during the last twenty-five yea-s.
Idings and wharves were flooded. The
ks of the Hudson River Riilroad were
ared with water and travel north was distinued.
abtfobd, Conn.s The tremendous rain
m caused more damage to property
rnghout Connecticut than any visitation
he elements in twenty years. Serious ac>nt8,
wrecks and washouts are reported
n every quarter. The Connecticut River
swollen to three times Its normal height
blgiron bridge at Middletown wnslngreat
ger all afternoon and a part of the false
k was swept away, At Brooklyn a milller
lost his life. At Wlnsted it
> said that no auch storm had
ted the place in twenty-five
re. The streets were flooded to
jpth of from three to Ave feet. Scores of
ies along Mad R ver were wreoked by
:er and ice, and Foskett'a meadows are
ered with wreckage. The highways in
country were so badly submerged and so
ly bridges were carried away that travel
:hem was at a standstill.
ostox, Mass.: The rain wa3 so heavy in
r England for forty-eight hours that
rs in Maine and New Hampshire were
of their banks, and thousands of dollar*'
th of property was destroyed. Bridges
e been carried away, mills undermined,
dwellings flooded.
t Manchester, N. H.. the water was eight
deep over the dam of the Amoskeag
lufacturing Company, On thePiscatng,
whioh empties into tue Merrimac at
iche3ter, four highway bridges have been
led away.
jrious railroad washouts have occurred
he line of the Connecticut River in New
pshire. At Hanover the Connecticut
ten feet above high water mark,
tie bridge over the Newichewanock Rivet
tr>'at Works, on the Northern Division of
Boston and Maine Railroad in New
apshire, is gone. Themlddlespan of the
1 Central avenue bridge in Dover, N. H.,
3 way, and many houses in that place
0 flooded. The Cooheco River at Dover
higber tnan at nnynmo on recora.
mrles fl. Otis, of Spring Yale, Me.. lo9t
life while attempting to pull down the
ti boards on the Spring' Yale Cotton AIM
ipany's dam.
ASTERS IN NEW YORK HARBOR.
se SerloaB Accidents Occur Daring >?
Thick Tog.
ireo serious maratime accidents occurred
thick fog that heaped itself on the waters
ew York Harbor.
10 Atlas line steamship Allsa wa3 at
lor in the Narrows just below Fort
[sworth. She was run down by the
ich liner La Bourgonue. The stem of
Frenchman cut halfway through the
i's bow, and the water rushing in stopped
engines Some of the Ailsa's orew put
from the steamer in the only availlifeboat.
They refused to take
ird the women who were of the Ailsa's
teen passengers. The Ailsa's Captain
.ed for :ho Bhore at Fort Hamilton to
h her, but she sank in thirty feet of
jr. As she settled the passengers, the
ers aud those of the crew who stuck to
r posts took to the rigging, which rt?led
above water. They were resued by
le steamship George W. Clyde, of the
le lino, wr' in co llsion with the Wyanof
the Old Dominion line. The Wyanstruok
the Clyde on the port side, cuta
huge gash from rail almost to keel,
r passengers were on the Clyde. She
heaohed, full o' water, on the Long lslshore.
10 New York, of the American line, went
und at dawn on East Bank, about three
a southwest of Sandy Hook. She wa?
t days out from Southampton with 438
i aboard. Tuijs wore sei to work at her
ice and she was soon pulled off unngea
few hours before sho struck the New
met the St. Fau', of the same line, that
makng her first voyage out since sue
hauled off the Long" Branch beach,
my vessels, Incoming and outgoing,
hampered by the fog.
TIMORE AVID OHO BANKRUPT.
OUeit Rillroirt In tho Hands of Kece'.
ver.?.
e Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Comlsinthe
han.'s of receivers. Judge?
and Jlorris, of the United States Circuit
t, at Baltimore, Md.,' named John K.
)U. and U3?ar u. aiurrny tu lano
o affairs of 110 corporation.
e immediate cause of the appointment
e receivers was the failure of the com'
to raise tfte .nonoy necessary to pay the
est due. This amounts to $404,000, and,
Idition a large amount of car trust notes
to be provide I for.
many the Baltimore and Ohio is reed
a* the olde-t railroad in the United
s. The first stone of 'ho road-bed was
in Baltimore on July 4,1828. witn a rather
>rate ceremony. The line was opened j
raffle in 1830 as far as Eadioott's Mills, j
ars oeint; urawn by horses. The first !
10 was put on a few months later. It |
iesigne I by Peter Coooer. The system
iv comprises about 3630 miles, with a
:al stock of $30,0 7,88t>\ aarl a bonded insdn^ss
of abouc$75,G00,0;)0. The main
extends from Philadelphia to Chicago,
so has a New York terminal, the nucleus
tiich i3 the Staten Island Rapid Transit
nany, connection beine made with the
Jorsey Central at Koselle.
Tin Lynched in Luulgiutia.
ul Francis aod Gilbert Francis were
10 I in front of tho Court House at Con'
T ?* ? ? ?U T ? H'Ua n-A mun
sr. damps s pansti. jjii, hid i ??v#
not relaives. They attempied to rob
tore and residence of M. Gourdes a lew
tsajro. Mrs. Gour;ji*s carne to her hufs
assistance, whoa slm was seized by
obber?. dragged into rite yard aud aaetl.
Next day the m:>n were arrested.
ti'llin^' various stories Paul Francis
owleilged tnat ho aurt Gilbart were ,
y. The result was the lynching.
i American Vessel Searched in Coba.
3 owners of the bark Clothildo, John S.
y & Co., have received word th:it the
i wjis searched at Ponca by Spanish ofi
in a search for munitions of war. and
during the time she was discharging
t at tuat place and at Mayaijuez S') nI=a
ers remained on boarr.. Captain riow^u
:o give the soldiers ?20 for railway iaro
e he was allowed to leave port.
Leopold to Fight Dervishes.
0 King of tho Belgians has decided to
1 war on tho dervishes rhroughou e
:o State, Africa. All available ve-s i?
io Congo are said to have been chartereu
dy.
RELIGIOUS READING.
THE PEACE OF YOUTH.
It is not customary to consider youth as a
period distinguished by thee quietude or
soul and restfuln^ss of mind which we commonly
associate with the word peace. It is
more apt to l>e regarded as a.restless, unsatisfied,
ever-changing, ever-striving season
of life, full of alternate raptures and disappointments,
but little marked by that uniform,
deep content which is reckoned the
heritage of age. But as one advances
in years, ho cannot help feeling the injustice
and mistakenness of this common
conception. He looks back upon
his youth with a wistful, sense of its
unruffled happiness, its freedom from heavy
responsibility and care, its innocence of tlio
sin and sorrow of life, its bright, dreamful
days and sweet forgetful nights. Then, if
ever, ho knows that his soul was at peace.
Age may restore to him some measure of that
quietude, but the peace of age can never
t>e quite so perfect, so utter, so untroubled
and deeply sweet, as the peace of youth.
Who does not recall the days when he was
basked in the sun, as a child, and seemed to
float away intoa golden sea of hope and
joy ana rest i >v Do can rorget tne soilness 01
the pillow of youth, the rosy dreams and
rosier waking, crowned with that delicious
physical sense of perfect recuperation and
unlmpared vigor ? Truly, youtn Is a time of
peace?peace deep and sweet and memorable,
such as we may never know again until
we are born into the new childhood of
heaven. But the heart of youth is glad and
content only when it is in its natural state?
a s ate of perfect harmony with nature and
with God. How quickly the infringement of
aivine law robs the young spirit of all
this bloom of peace and delight. The soulrest
has disappeared, the brightness Is gone,
out of tho sky, and tho fleeciness out of the
summer clouds, when a boy or girl has entered
upon a course of evil doing. Conscience
has a keen and ready sting ere time
has dulled it, and the youth cannot break
the loast of God's laws without suffering for
it most intensely. The condition of peaco
in youth, then, is a condition of perpetual
obedience to law, rectitude of
thought, word and deed, holiness unto
the Lord, consecration to what is pure and
good and ennobling. Let no young person
think that the mere exuberance of his
youth will keep him in the sunshine
of life, if he gives himself over to the
things which hurt the soul. There Is no
peace, whether in youth or age, save in living
righteously and fulflling the nobler im
puiBCb 01 ones ueing. uui vj uiu yuuug
Eeison who Uvea rightly shall eosne such a
enison of peace as shall seem to bring
down to him something of heaven itself,
filling him with a sense of the Divine Presence,
and bringing him Into harmony with
everything that is good and true in the universe.
THE IDEAL LIFE.
The ideal life for this world is not visionary,
other-worldly, ghostly or unreal.
Though not constructed on an angelic pattern.
the life of man on enrth is divine; God
made Adam not less than Gabriel; and for
all our purposes in this mortal stage it is
better to.be a man than an angel. The ideal
man is clothed in flesh and blood; ho is
human, of the earth earthy. If this had not
been the best fashion, God would not have
so made man. We should never attempt to
Bake ourselves into anything unlike the
pattern. The ideals of the church have too often
gone away from humanity ;they have been,
ghostly, unreal, out of touch with humanity.
It never seems to occur to the makers
of saints that they have gone away from the
Pattern Man. Jesus was human, with red
blood in his veins; He walked among men
and discharged all the duties in His human
relations. The most human man was also
the most Divine. The ideal life on earth is
first of all loyal to the throne of God; the
law and direction come from above. At the
same time the sphere of duty is on earth
among our various human relations. The
Ideal man is a soldier of Jesus Christ, armed
and equipped, ready for the word of commnT>r1
r?A +/-? fha horHttaf nort nf t.hfl flflld.
Tho saint of the desert or the monostery la
of poor quality compared with the actual
contestants in life's battle-fleli. The
saints of the calendar with their hair
shirts, uncut nails and unkept hair, make a
poor showing beside St. Paul and 8t. Peter,
or Luther, Knox and Wesley, who entered
the human arena and fought with the beast
in man. Such will hear the glad acclaim
tho last day: ''Inasmuch as ye did it untor
one of the least of these, ye did it unto Me."
In this moral conflict the powers of the true
man are best developed ; he makes the most
of himself in doing the most possible for
others. To do duty on earth is really the
best preparation for heaven. He who has
discharged every duty here cannot fail to
find an abundant entrance and an ample reward
over yonder.
AS SEAMANSHIP.
Expert seamanship Includes today a knowledge
of the ground under the sea. A sound
pilot once savod a steamer at night, sinking
in a furious rainstorm and almost utter darkness,
by feeling his way into a harbor with
the nlummet. That is the value of looking
down wisely and at the proper time.
"Off soundings" the way is found by the star.
Nearing the coast, wisemcn heave the lead"
to find what is down below. 80 with our
Christian walk and sen-ice among men. We
coast along the world, and plain sailing by
the courses iii rather exceptional proceeding.
When a good thing is to be done,
the best practicable way to do it is
a stiil great question, and it we
undertake to reach our end by
straight line, we shall "take the ground,"
and have to be pulled off, or never start
again. Practical and practicable Christian I
work is steering amid rocks and shoals.
Ideal oourses of right must ever be cherished
but they cari seldom be followed out with
success just as one may conceive them
i 1 s can ship, one may go too fast and
too far on a rijjht course. For there comfs a
tinn . a crisis, when the right course shifts
its direction and righteousness itself requires
a change. Too reversal of an originally
riirht course, at the proper time, is simply
d-i'v1-- 1 .vk he ship from the shallows.?
N. Y. Evangelist.
MOTIVES.
A man may be morally and spiritually on
the piopliel's level, though his stammering
tongue has never been loosed. The widow ,
of f>arei tu hail some spark of the prophetess
in her, though Flijah's task was to beard
Aha i'.nd sha!:< Israel, and hers was only
t<- > his l.:?ad. There must be some
s'l! . . y ti:v ;yinpathy. There must be
suuit tiling <jf i I e poet in the man who feels
the majesty of the organ music of "Paradise
Lost," though he be but a "mute,
inglorious .uiiton." So there is a
likeness ir the rewards, because there is a
likeuass iu th< en. All actions done from
the same ir are alike in God's eyes.
We hi<- not u . led to great service, but we
are caJlfl to . >iu pathetic interest in those
w > a mo. inil ,0 help them as we may. It
v. .1 i.i.v in Israel: "Am his part is that
I !: 11 :-> .In! battle, so shall his part
l< . iai lanii:li ?<y the stuff." It is the law
Of Cut 1st .i Kli liom, in waivn mouves, uui
deeds, and spiritual susceptibility, not tho
a. ri ont.H of iin'mode of its expression, doI'Mi.iun
|1ut. capacity of receiving, and
therefore reward. ?Alexander Madaren,
D. I).
H' Th wo are : iet stars, or bygone times,
o- t ?< wr< o. s of nations, or the corruptions
r.f a: :m ng.. say or show what they will.
1' >. ! e is s'jiii' aigalso to i>e done I>y ua:
,v>- have i u in portion of the reef of
eoial yet to buiid up.?Arthur Helps.
It's a relief to begin in a new spot now
lie-1 i lien. You net tired of the same pin-upi
;?.... Whyflhouidn't folksiueiiuvei yV
11." Lord uut-s, and makes it. Or else, why
io we have n.o.iiings!?A. D. T. Whiiney.
.<!' > ;.**t Seute.ioe on Ilcord.
Ju '.g* H i i.n at .Mor^antown Imposed tho {
?li i\est s.Mit-iiSiJ of imprisonment ev>r
known in West Virginia. The co'i w.ts that
oT the Stata v.*. Jteob vlouuts, in Hcteji or
stealing a?"oij chain. Mounts wsorigin-il y
3barged wil i stealing a dog, bat as dogs are
not property in West Virginia, tho indictinent
was brought for stealing ihe chain with
which tiwi caniurt was fast?Jii"d. A plea of
guilty was entire 1. anil the Court imposed a
sentence of 100 seconds in jail.
Pre i'c..mcnt of a I'la.vlul Hii'b.
At a raneh near Phoonix, Arizona, a p'iv- i
? ,i.. iinrl eanrrht its h"H.d S'lsirv '
v* i r:?? crot"h o' a tro?. Its st rujji?l?s .v r<* ;
tva lin?r, ani on y by cutting down til*
.oj ,vas tae auiani released.
SABBATH SCHOOL
INTHRVATIOXAL LKSSOBT FO?
MARCH 22.
Lesson Text: "Faithful and Unfalttl*
lul Servant?,' Luke xil? 37-48? |
Golden Text: Kph. v., It*
?Commentary,
37. " Blessed are thoso servants whom Hx?
Lord, when Hu cometh, shall nud watching."
Faithful service is tho topic for today,
and there is nothing more purifying, or
morn conducive to faithfulness than watching
for the coming of the Lord. I testify
from a personal experience of twenty years.
If the heart is full of feare or cares, both of
which are fully dealt with in the preceding
part of this chapter, wo shall neither be
watchful nor faithful, but if we live in and
for our Father's good pleasure (verse 32)
all fears banished by His perfect love and all
cares cast upon Him (I John lv.. 18; I Peler
v., 7), then our treasure being in heaven wo
will be watching for the Son from heaven.
From the first assurance of a Deliverer
(Gen. Hi., 15) ta'the end of the book we are
ever reading of the coming One to suffer and
to reign (I Peteri.f 11). He came once, at
God's appointed time, to suffer, and the
Simeons and Annas watched for Him. He is
coming again. Blessei are the watchers.
v 38. "Blessed are these servants." Those
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come at any moment of the night or day.
While these lessons Are very practical and
most be applied to the heart of every believer
a glance at verse 34 will show that the
watchers here specially referred to are Israel,
who when Jesus shall come in Hi3 glory
shall, in the words of Isa. xxv., 9, acknowledge
Him as their Messiuh. I certhin'y do
not wait and watch for Him to roturn from
the wedding, for as a part of Himself, His
body, the church, I expect to be at the wedding.
39. "It the good man of the house had
known wjiat hour the ihief would come.be
I would have watched." His coining as a
; thief is mentioned in I Thess. v., 2; H Petei*
iii., 10; Rev. ill.. 3; xvi., 15, but only in
| reference to His enemies and the day of theLord.
Listen to I Thess. v., 4, 5: "'But ye
brethren are not in darkness, that that day
should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all
the children of light and the children of the
j day. We are not of the night nor'of dark- v
I nets."
40. "Be ye therefore ready also, for the
Son of Mancometh at an hour wlipn ye think
not." The title, '"Son of Man," takes.us
i baok to Ps. viii., 4-G, and to Dan. vii., 18,14,
27, and shows the coming ruler of Israel and
of the world, in which official capacity the
head and body, Christ and His church, shall
be manifest as one (I John iii., 2; Col. iii., 4; '
I Thess. iii., 13). Neither death, which is an
enemy, nor tne Spirit at Pentocosf, who
came as another Comforter, nor the destruction
of Jerusalem, which is contrary to Ps.
cii., 16, can in any Scriptural sense be said to
be a coming of the Son of Man. Let us not
omit trio It'sauu lUltl IS 1U una nuu Diuiimi
verses for our own souls. Be ready for service
or glory any moment.
41, 42. "And the Lord said, Who, then, is
that faithful and wise steward?" This in
answer to Peter's question as to whether the
Lord had been speaking specially to them or
to all. He seems to answer, Whosoever
will maybe a fatlifuiand wise steward." Inl
Cor. ivM 1-5, Paul speaks of himself and fellow
laborers as ste yards of the mysteries of
Ood and says that the one thing required of
a steward is to be found faithful, and that
in view of the coming of the Lord. "Meat
in due season" is also referred to in I Cor.
ilL. 2; Heb. v., 12-14, and the difficulty of
giving meat when one can only take mlllc.
43. "Blessed is that servant, whom his
Lord when He cometh, shall tind so doing." t
i It will be sad indeed for the servants who
are giving stones for bread and the poison of
unbelief instead of the milk and meat and ,
honey of the word of the Master. The Bible
is a complete equipment for every man of
God. sufficient to turnish nim thoroughly foe
every good work (II Tim. iii., 16, 17). and
the preacher who steps outside of the Word
of God for u t oplc for his people is dishonoring
the Word of God and grieving the
Spirit of God. The one business of every
teacher and preacher is to be. like Haggai,
the Lord's messenger with the Lord's message
(Hag. i., 13).
44. "Of a truth I say unto yoi that he will
nob-oKim nilop rtrpr ull thiit he hilthj" It is
said of Abraham's eldest servant that "He
ru ed over all that he had" (Gen. xxlv., 3),
for "all the goods of his master were in hi*
han<?" (verse 10). It is said of Joseph that
Potiphar "made him overseer over all that
he had" and that Pharaoh "set him over all
the land of Egypt" (Gen. xxxlx., 5, xll., 41).
Jesus said of the Spirit, "He shall receive of
mine and shall show it unto you. AH thing?
that 1he Father hath are Mine ' (John xvi.,
14.15). Consider well, 0 child of God, out
present privileges and future glories and be
faithful.
45. 48. "His portion with the unbelievI
era." Therefore this servant was never a
1 true servant; but like Judas, only numbered
i with them. There is no Scripture that contradicts
or really conflicts with the statement
of our Lord that His sheep can never
perish (John x., 27-29), The professed servant
who l?-nds his tongue to the evil one to
lash other servants and at the same time
gives himself up to the intoxications of this
world's attractions had better consider ere it
be too late these solemn woids of Him who
shall be our judge, "Not every one that
i saith Lord, Lord, but he that doeth the will
of My Father" (Math. viL, 21). "Whosoever
! will be a triend of the world is the enemy ol
God" (Jas. iv.. 4). "Ye cannot serve God
and mammon" (Luke xvi., 18). If one
chooses to be an unheliever, he cannot expect
other than the unblievers* portiou.
47,48. If I understand tne teaching of
| these two verses, it is that while all unbe|
lievers, whether professedly servants of God
| or not, shall go to the pi ice of torment, there
shall be degrees or tor.nenr iu prupumuu m
j their guilt. I am in the habit in my praach|'
ing of putting it this way: Those who receive
Jesus Christ are *aved freely by His
grace, and all are equally saved (Rom. ill.,
24), but each saved soul will be rewarded or
given his waives according to his works
(Rev. xxiL, 12; Luke xiv., 14; I Cor. iii., 1315),
so that while th?re are no degrees in . *
sanation there are in glory (I Cor, xv., 4042).
Those who reject Christ' will bo lost because
of their rejection of Him. whether
professedly His or not, but their torment
will be in proportion to their guilt. The
servants of these two verses cannot be true
servants of God, for such are not beaten or
punished, because the chastisement of our
peace was upon Him who was made sin for
us (Isa. liii., 5; II Cor. v., 21). Wherever
weeping or wailing and gnashing of teeth is
mentioned it is always with reference to
those who profess what they are not (Math.
viij., 12; xiii., 42. 50; xxii., 18; xxiv., 61;
Luke xiii., 28 etc.).?Le*.son Helper.
SLEW THE FR-AK.
A Man With Five Tongues and Three
Chins Killed In Alabama.
A traveling museum has been exhibiting
at Uciontowu, Ala., for several days
Amoug its freaks wa3 a monstrosity known
as Joseph Brohem, the Mexican wild man.
Brohem was probably the most hideous
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Arabic parents, and was born in Mexico
tw> nty-nine year* ago. It is claimed that
iwhen he wasquito young he left home, was
scalped by Indians and lived wild in th?
mountains for years, being capture I a year
ortwoai;o. When first aken ho wan v??ry
wild, but confinement made him more doolie
until he was looked upon as harmless,
Brohem had au enormous month, in which
worn live tonguas. All of tho tongues
sp.ang from the roof, which seems to have
ha>l live branches or projections, but h?
could not talk. Ho had three coins, nod
one ear was twenty-three inches long, while
the othur w.is fifteen inches in length. He
could fan himself with his ears by their motion,
which lie often did, to the am-izement
oi rapine ^pcciaror.-*.
After tho performance tho museum manager
allowsd the wild man to leave his cage,
mid he w.is waikiDjj about iu tne street in
front of tho tout, who re was gathered a lanje
crowd of hoys Broh-m was m a playful
mood, and indulged in sporr with tho boys.
Ed Simonton, a colored youth. augored
him, an 1 the wild man dished at Siir.onton.
Tho boy seized an axe handle aud dealt tho
freak a blow on the uoad that f.-aetsired his
skull and eausod his death a fow hours safer.
Brohem's boilv was sent to bo rnumtuifled
by an undertaker who understands that business.
It will r!i?n be exhibited.
Kslncitlni; the Itel Brolhor.
At the C.trJIsle (Penn.) Indian Inrtintriaf
R - tool command nont twenty-flv) student!
were ?ra !?-untho largsst elaaj in the lxisJ
?ry of the school.
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