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DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIViNE. Subject: Revival* a Benefit ? Wesson* Drawn From Famous Itrlicioun Awskenings ? The Most Useful Christian* Are inose tovcrjen c,ariy in i-ue. [Copyright IPU1.1 Washington, D. C.?This discourse of I)r. Talmage is most pertinent at this time, when a widespread effort for religious awakening is being made; text. Luke v, 6, "They inclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net brake." Simon and his comrades had experienced the night before what fishermen call "poor luck." Christ steps on board the fishing smack and tells the sailors to pull away from the beach and directs them again to sink the net. Sure enough, very soon the net is full of fishes, and the sailors begin to haul in. So large a school of fishes was taken that the hardy men begin to look red in the face as they pull, and hardly have they begun to rejoice at their success when snap goes a thread of the net, and snap goes another thread, so there is danger not only of losing the fish, but of losing the net. Without much care as to how much the boat tilts or how much water is Bnlaslied on deck the fishermen rush tbont gathering up the broken meshes of the net. Out yonder there is a ship dancing on the waves, and they hail it: "Ship ahoy! Bear down this way!" The ship comes, and both boats, both fishing smacks, are filled with the floundering trensures. "Ah." say# some one. "how much better it would have been if they had staid on shore and fished with a hook and line and taken one at a time instead of hav ing this great excitement ana trie ooac almost upset and the net broken and having to call for help and getting sopping lvpt with the sea!" The church is the boat, the gospel is i the net, societv is the sea. and a great i revival is a whole school brought in at one sweep of the net. I have admiration for that man who cops out with a hook and line to fish. I admire the way ho i unwinds the reel and adjusts the bait and drops the hook in a quiet place on a i still afternoon and here catchcs one .and i there one. but I like also a big boat anH ; swift oars and stout sails and a stiff "breeze and a great multitude of souls brought?so great a multitude that you ; have to get help to draw it ashore, straining the net to the utmost until it breaks 1 here and there, Iettine a few escape, but i bringing the great multitude into eternal 1 safety. I In other words, I believe in revivals. The great work of saving men began j with 3000 people joining the church in one day, and it will close with forty or ' a hundred million people saved in twenty- < lour hour* when nations snau oe corn in < a day. But there are objections to revivals. People are opposed to them be- 1 cause the net mi;zht pet broken, and if 1 by the pressure of souls it does not Ret 1 broken, then they take their own pen- 1 knives and slit the net. "They inclosed 1 a great multitude of fishes, and the net ) brake." ' It is sometimes opposed to revivals of 1 religion that those who come into the s church at such times do not hold out. ; As long as there is a gale of blessing they i have their sails up, but as soon as strong 1 winds stop blowing then they drop into t a dead calm. But what are the facts in < the case? In all our churches the vast i majority of the useful people are those j who are brought in under great awaken- i ings, and they hold out. Who are the > prominent men in the United States in i churches, in prayer meetings, in Sabbath- ( schools? For the most part they are l the product of great awakenings. I I have noticed that those who are i brought into the kingdom of God through i revivals have more persistence and more I determination in the Christian life than 1 those who come in under a low state of 1 religion. People born in an icehouse may i live, but they will never get over the i cold they caught in the icehouse. _ i A cannon ball depends upon the im- \ pulse with which it starts for how far it , shall go and how swiftly, and the great- < cr the revival force with which a soul I is started the more far-reaching and far- | resounding will be the execution. < l But it is sometimes objected to re- c rivals that there is so much excitement that people mistake hysteria for religion. < We admit that in every revival of rc- < ligion there is cither a suppressed or a j demonstrated excitement. Indeed, if a < man can go out of a state of condemna- < tion into a state of acceptance with God i or see others go without any agitation of | soul he is in an unhealthy, morbid state and is as repulsive and absurd as a man i who should boast he saw a child snatched j out from under a horse's hoofs and felt j do agitation, or 6aw a man rescued from < the tourtn story or a nouse on me axiu ; felt no acceleration of the pulses. i Salvation from sin and death and hell i into life and peace and heaven forever j is such a tremendous thing that if a man , tells me he can look on it without any i agitation I doubt his Christianity. ' The fact is that sometimes excitement is the most important possible thing. In ease of resuscitation from drowning or freezing, the one idea is to excite anima- i tion. Before conversion we are dead. It is the business of the church to revive, | arouse, awaken, resuscitate, startle into , life. \ Excitement is bad or good, according i te what it makes us do. it it makes us do that which is bad, it is bad excitement, but if it makes us agitated about our eternal welfare, if it makes us pray, if it make us attend upon Christian service, if it make us cry unto God for mercy, then it is good excitemeut. It is sometimes said that during revivals of religion great multitudes of children and younc people are brought into the church, ana they do not know what they are about. It has been my observation that the earlier people come into the kingdom of God the more useful they are. Robert Hall,the prince of preachers, was converted at twelve years of age. It S likely he knew what he was about, atthew Henry, the commentator, who did more than any man of his century for increasing the interest in the study of the Scriptures, was converted at eleven years TooKallo Ornliom immnrfnl it* " P ui a^cj ioauv.uu vnutiuui, (u?iuv???? ... ..... Christian church, was converted at ten years of age; Dr. Watts, whose hymns ^vill be 6ung all down the ages, was conVerted at nine years of age; Jonathan Edwards, perhaps the mightiest intellect that the American pulpit ever produced, was converted at seven years of age, and that father and mother take an awful responsibility when they tell their child at Beven years of aze, "lou are too young to be a Christian,' or, "You are too young to connect yourself with the church. That is a mistake as long as eternity. If during a revival two persona present themselves as candidates for the church, and the one is ten years of age and the other is forty years of age, I will have more confidence in the profession of religion of the one ten years of age than the one forty years ot age. Why? The one who professes at forty years of age has forty vears of impulse in the .wrong direction to correct; the child has only ten years in the wrong direction to correct. Four times ten are forty. Four times the religious prospect for the lad that comes into the Kingdom of God and into the church at ten years of age than the man at forty. I am very apt to look upon revivals as connected with certain men who fostered them. People who in this day do not like revivals nevertheless have not words to express their admiration for the revivalists of the past, for they were revivalists i?Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, George Whitefield, Fletcher, Griffin, Davie3, Osborne, Knapp. Nettleton, Moody and many others whose names come to my mind. The strength of their intellect and the holiness of their lives make me think they would not have had anything to do with that which was ephermeral. Oh, it is easy to talk against revivals. I A man said to Mr. Dawson: "I like your sermons very much, but the after meetings I despise. When the prayer meeting begins, I always go up in the gallery and look down, and I am disgusted." "Well," said Mr. Dawson, "the reason is you go on the top of your neighbor's house and look down his chimney jto examine his fire, and of course you only get the smoke in your eyes. Why don't you come in tlw door and sit down and warm?" Oh, I am afraid to 3ay anything against revivals of religion or against anything that looks like them, because X think it may he a sin against the Holy Ghost, and you know the Bible says that a sin against the Holy Ghost shall never be forgiven neither in this world nor the world to come. Now, if you are a painter, and I speak against your pictures, do I not speak against you? If you are an architect and I speak against a building you put up, do I not speak against your tf a revival be the work of the Holv Ghost and I speak against that revival, do I not speak against the Holy Ghost: And whoso speaketh against the Holy Ghost, says the Bible, he shall never be fnrrri v/in rioifhpr in this world nor in the world to come. I think sometimes people have made a fatal mistake in this direction. Many of you know- the history of Aaron 1 Burr. He was one of the most brilliant men of his dav. I suppose this country never produced a stronger intellect. lie was capable of doing anything good and great for his country or for the church of (Jod had he been rightly disposed, but his name is associated with treason against the United States government, which he tried to overthrow, and with libertinism and immorality. Do you know where Aaron liurr started on the downward road? It was when he was in college and he became anxious about his soul and was about to put himself under the influences of a revival, and a minister of religion said: "'Don't go there. Aaron: don't go there. That's a place of wildfire and great excitement. No religion about that. Don't go there." He tarried away. His serious impressions departed. lie started on the downward road. And who is responsible for his ruin for this world and his everlasting ruin in the world to come? Was it the minister who warned htm against that revival? When I speak of excitement in revivals. I do not mean temporary derangement of the nerves, I do not mean the absurd things of which we have read as transpiring sometimes in the church of Christ, hut I mean an intelligent, intense, all absorbing agitation of body, mind and soul in the work of spiritual escape and spiritual rescue. Now I. come to the real, genuine cause of objection to revivals?that is, the coldness of the objector. It is the secret and hidden but unmistakable cause i"*. every case, a low state of religion in the heart. Wide awake, consecrated, useful Christians are never afraid of revivals. It is the spiritually dead who are afraid oi having their sepuleher molested. The ci'ief agents of the devil during a great awakening are always unconverted professors of relisrion. As soon as Christ's work begins they begin to gossip against it and take a pail of water and try to put out this spark of religious influence, and they try to put out mother spark. Do they succeed? As well when Chicago was on fire might some one have gone out with a garden water pot trying to extinguish it. The difficulty is that when a revival begins in a church it begins at so many points that while you have doused one anxious soul with a pail jf cold water there are 500 other anxious souls on fire. Did you ever hear that there was a contention once held among the icebergs of the arctic? It seems that the summer was coming on and the sun was getting hotter and hotter and there was danger that the whole icefield would break up and flow away; so the tallest and the voidest and the broadest of all the icehenrs. the verv kinz of the arctics, stood it the head of the convention, and with i gavel of ice smote on a table of ice, calling the convention to order. But the sun ;ept growing in intensity of heat and the south wind blew stronger and stronger md soon all the icefield began to grind up, icebcrg against iceherg, and to How xway. The first resolution passed by the ice convention was, ''Resolved, that we ibolish the sun." But the sun would not be abolished. The heat of the sun ^rew greater and greater until after awhile the very king ot the icebergs began to aerspire under the glow and the smaller cebergs fell over and the cry was: "Too much excitement! Order! Order!" Then the whole body, the whole fle'd of ice, aegan to flow out. and a thousand voices jegan to ask: "Where are we going to low? Where are we floating to? We will ill break to pieces." By this time the cebergs had reached the gulf streatn and they were melted into the bosom of the Atlantic ocean. The warm sun is the ?ternal spirit. The icebcrgs are frigid Christians. The warm gulf stream is a g;reat revival. The ocean into which ;vervthing melted is the great, wide heart )f the pardoning and sympathising God. While the pews on one side of the altar :rv for mercy the pulpits on the other side the altar must'cry for mercy. Minsters quarreliner. ministers trying to pull ;aeh other down, ministers struggling for ;cclesiastical place, ministers lethargic <vitb whole congregations dying on their bands! What a spectacle! Aroused pulpits will make aroused pews; pulpits aflame will make pewa iflame. Everybody believes in a revival in trade, everybody likes a revival in literature. eveiyoody likes a revival in art? ret a great multitude cannot understand i revival in matters of religion. Depend . upon it, where you find a man antagonistic to revivals, whether he be in pulpit or pew, he needs to be regenerated by the grace of God. I could prove to a demonstration that without revivals this world will never be converted and that in 100 or 200 years without revivals Christianity will be practically extinct. Jt is a matter of astounding arithmetic. In each of our modern generations there are at least 32,000,000 children. Now add 32,000,000 to the ivorld's population and then have only 100,000 or 200,000 converted every vear, and how long btfore the world will be saved? Never?absolutely never! During our Civil War the President of the United States made proclamation for 7">,000 troops. Some of you remember the big stir. Cut the King of the universe to-day asks for 1,200,000,000 more troops than are enlisted, and we want it done softly, imnerceptibly, no excitement, one by one. You are a dry goods merchant on a large scale, and I am a merchant on a small scale, and I come to you and want to buy a thousand yards of cloth. Do you say: "Thank you. I'll sell you a thousand yards of cloth, but I'll sell you twenty yards to-day and twenty to-morrow, and twenty the next day, and if it takes me six months I'll sell you the whole thousand yards; you will want as long as that to examine the goods, and I'll want as long as that to examine the eredit, and, besides, that, a thousand yards of cloth are too much to sell all at once? ' ivo, you do not say that. You take me into the counting room, and in ten minutes the whole transaction is consummated. The fact is, we cannot afford to be fools in anything But religion. That very merchant who on Saturday afternoon sold me the thousand yards of cloth at one stroke the next Sabbath in church will stroke his beard and wonder whether it would not be better for a thousand souls to come straggling along for ten years instead of bolting in at one service. We talk a good deal about the good times that are coming and about the world's redemption. How long before I they will come? There is a man who says ! 500 years; here is a man who says 200 I years; here is some one more confident < "who Bays in fifty years. What, fifty j years? Do you propose to let two generations pass off the stage before the world is converted? Suppose by prolongation of human life at the end of the next fifty years vou should walk the length of Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, or the length of Broadway, New York?in all those waiks you would not find one person that you recognize. Why? All dead or so changed you would not know them, in other words, if you postpone the redemption of this world for fifty years you admit that the majority of the two whole generations shall go oft the stage unblessed and unsaved. I tell you, the church of Jesus Christ cannot consent to it. We must pray and toil and have the revival spirit, and we must struggle to have the whole world saved before the men and women now in middle life part. "Oh," you say, "it is too vast na enterprise to be conducted in so short a j time!" Do you know how long it would take to save the whole world if each mau would bring another? It would take ten years. By a calculation in compound interest each man bringing another, and that one another, and that one another, in ten years the whole earth would ba saved?1911. Before the organs in our churches are worn out they ought to sound the grand march of the "whole earth saved. It the world is not saved in the next ten years, it will be the fault of the I church of Christ. But it will all depend upon the revival spirit. The hook andi lice fishing will not do it. ' THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. ? Lincoln on Saloon Smarting ? His Kloqupnt I'lea, Which Ucnultod in thn Liberation of t iftcnn Women Charged With Uenlroylnj; Property. It will probably be news to most readers that the question of saloon smashing is one upon which we have the opinion of so eminent a statesman and so accomplished a lawyer as Abraham Lincoln. In or about the year 1839, while Abraham Lincoln was practicing law at Springfield, fifteen women of Clinton, Illinois, after having repeatedly pleaded wifii a liquor dealer to refrain from selling to their husbands, raided his saloon, smashed in the leads of his barrels with axes, and broke his demijohns and battles. The women were arraigned under indictment for the mischief done. They were without counsel for defense, when, on the day of trial, Mr. Lincoln entered the court room, and was asked by them to address the court in their behalf. Mr. Lincoln said: "May it please the coifrt, I will say a few words in behalf of the women who arc arraigned before your honor and the iury. I would suggest, first, that there be a change in the indictment, so as to have it read, 'The State against Mr. Whisky,' instead of 'The State against the Women.' It would be far more appropri ate. Touching this question, tnere are three laws: First, the law of self-protection; second, the law of the statute; third, the law of God. The law of selfprotection is the law of necessity, as shown when our fathers threw the tea into the Boston harbor, and in asserting their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This is the defense of these women. The man who has persisted in selling whisky has had no regard for their well-being or the welfare of their husbands and sons. He has had no fear of God or regard for man: neither has he had any regard for the laws of the statute. No jury can fix any damage or punishment for any violation of the moral law. The course pursued by this liquor dealer has been for the demoralization of society. His groggery has been a nuisance. These women, finding all moral suasion of no avail with this fellow, oblivious to all tender appeal, alike regardless of their prayers and tears, in order to protect their households and promote the welfare of the community, united to suppress the nuisance. The good of society demanded its suppression. Tliey accomClished what otherwise could not have een done." As a result of the speech the ladies were released by the court upon their own recognizance, and, so far as can be learned, no further action was taken. The facts may be found in Coffin's "Life of Lincoln," page 107. and in Herudon's ' Life of Lincoln," edition of 1889, page 215. Standing Treat. One of the most absurd of all foolish customs is that of inviting a crowd of friends or strangers to walk up to the bar and "take something at my expense." Men do not buy other things, either useful or ornamental, in this way?why should they make an exception in favor of this poisonous draught, which is the cause of most of the crimes which curse the land and which fill the community with pov erty, mourning and woe? Some one has sensibly said: "Now, boys, if you want to be generous and treat each other, why not select some other place besides the liquor shop? Suppose, as you go by the postoffice, you remark, 'I say, my dear fellow, come in and take some stamps!' Those stamps will cost you no more than drinks all round. Or go to the haberdasher's and say, 'Hoys, come in and take a box of collars.' Walk up to a grocer's, free and generous, and say. 'What kind of coffee will you have?' Why not treat to groceries by the pound as well as lienors by the glass?" This would be thought a strange way of showing friendship, but would it not be better than to offer to friends a maddening, poisonous, deadly draught? Suppose a man should keep a den of rattlesnakes, and allow men to come in and be bitten at sixpence a bite? Would it be a sensible thing for a man to invite all his friends in to be bitten at his expense? Is it worth our while to turn our friends into brutes, maniacs and murderers. and their homes into hells of trouble and distress by giving them "something to drink at my expense?"?Christian Work. TIio Drink Curse in Austria. r The drink evil in Vienna has become so great that the authorities have declared in favor of closing all brandy shops on Sunday. From 1883 to 1S93 the average annual consumption of beer in Austria rose from fifty to sixty-three liters (eleven to fourteen*gallons) per head; wine, fifteen to 18.5 liters; spirits 5.4 to nine liters per head. In Vienna the consumption is much larger. In one month in 1899 within the police district of Vienna 601 persons were arrested for drunkenness on Saturday, Sunday or Monday; 210 of these drank beer or wine, 475 on spirits. The number of drunken cases in the year estimated at 8000. There being no inebriate homes in Austria a large number of drunkards are found in lunatic asyiums. In one of these fifty-two per cent, of males and six per cent, of women admitted were declared to have alcoholic madnes3. In 1808 there were 177,000 drink shops in Helgium or one for every thirty-five inhabitants. These figures do not include hotels, restaurants or small grocers.?National Advocate. Alcohol Ruining Scotch Cities. Ti_ r>..?.i._ ?,lf vV,n uv, i au iVK, v? iiu m viv i,v ti iu nipeg as principal of Manitoba College, at a recent meeting of the Dundee Presbytery, in forcible terms condemned the drunkenness that prevailed in the city which, he said, was an unspeakable scandal. Repeatedly he had seen young girls %vith their hair hanging down their backs, entering public houses on Saturday afternoons and sometimes on other days. He questioned whether there was any city in Scotland that stood so low in this respect as Dundee. Only the other night he was speaking to a medical man who had traveled a good deal, and was intimately acquainted with other cities in Scotland, including one which they regarded as in some respects the least attractive from a moral point of view, namely. Leith, and he said in his deliberate judgment the moral condition of Dundee was even more deplorable than the moral condition of Leith. We see similar statements with respect to other Scottish cities. ?Royal Templar. The Blight of Drunkennosn. All excess is ill. But drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that drinks is not a man; because he is so long void of reason, that distinguishes a. man from a beast. inn truiiaue in oriei. Honolulu is about to have a temperance cru?ide. led by the W. C. T. U. and the ministers' union. There is comfort for temncrance workers in the study of recent New Year's customs as compared with those a generation ago. There are homes where liquors are offered to callers, but they are comparatively few. The Supreme Court of Illinois has handed down a decision in which the court holds that dram shop keepers are liable for personal injuries sustained by persons while intoxicated as a result of the use ot liquor obtained from them. It is estimated that John Bull's Christmas liquor bill amounted to $20,000,000 for whiskv, brandy, wine and beer. This is only for the day before Christmas, Christmas and the day following. Scientific experiments have been mada with an anti-alcoholic serum on the continent of Eurone, and it is said that sixty per cent, of the drunkards who have been treated with this remedy have been cured of their fondness for strong potations. The People's Refreshment House Association, of London, at whose head is the Bishop of Chester, has acquired many sites heretofore used exclusively for saloon purposes, and converted them into restaurants where food is sold freely, but the sale of intoxicants put under severe restrictions. THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR APRIL 14. Subject: Jc?us Appears to Mary, John xx., 11-18 ? GolJer. Text, Rev. i., 18? Memory Verses, 1G-1S ? Commentary on the Day's Lesson. 11. "Mary." This was Mary Magdalen, out of whom the Lord had east seven devils. The epithet "Magdalene," whatever may be its meaning, seems chosen foi the express purpose of distinguishing hei from all other Marys. "Stood without." Peter and .John going (v. 10) commcnds Mary's 6taying. To the grave she came before them; from the grave she went to tell them; to the grave she returns with them; at the grave she remains behind them. To stay while others stay is the world's love; to stay when all are gone is constant | love. "Weeping." She nad great love for her Lord; He had done much for her. "Stooped down." Because she was anxious to see whether she might not, after all. be mistaken about the absence of the body. She stooped because the top of the entrance was so low that she could not otherwise obtain a near view of the inside of the tomb. "The sepulchre." The sepulchre seems to have been a square room hewn out of a rock, partly above ground, its roof being as high as the top of the door, which formed its entrance. 12. "Two angels." Peter and John did not see the angels. The angels' prespnee showed the Divine hand and care. They were ministering spirits to comfort those who were in such great sorrow and need, and they gave explanation of what had been done, no one else being able. The ciinnnsnd discronansies in the number of angels seen is explained by Lessing. The whole grave, the whole region about the grave was invisibly swarming with angels. There were not only two angels, but many of them. Sometimes one appears and sometimes another; at different places and sneaking different things. "In white." This was an emblem of purity. See Rev. 10: 8. 13. "Why weopest thou?" Are you auite sure that this empty tomb does not show that you ought to be rejoicing? "Taken away my Lord." While the other women were terrified Mary seems to have had no fear, so wholly was she taken up with her great desire of finding her Lord. She was ready to brave more heroically than ever all dancer if only she might find the One she loved. 14. "Turned herself back." Still weeping she turned away from the angels. She turned to go again with the other women to Jerusalem, who had already departed, but she had not as yet gone so far as to be out of the garden. Mary wa3 so absorbed in grief, and her eyes 30 dimmed with tears that she failed to recogniza Christ; besides, she was not expecting to see Jesus alive, as she had no conception 15. "Jesus saith unto her." This was His first appearance. He afterward appeared on tnis same day to the other women returning from sepulchre (Matt. 28: 9, 10), to Peter (Luke 24: 34). to two disciples going to Emmanus (Luke 24: 13?31), and to ten apostles. John 20: 19?25. "Why weepest thou?" She had cause sufficient to rejoice instead of to weep. "Whom seekest thou?" He seeks to comfort her in her great grief. "The gardener." And therefore a servant of Joseph of Arimathea, who owned the tomb, and who, of course, would be friendly. No other person would be likely to be* there at so early an hour. "Have borne Him hence." Thinking that perhaps Joseph had ordered His body taken to some other place. "I will take Him away." She would see that it was done. She would be responsible for His removal to a propar place. To think that stranger hanas nad cared for Ilim when she had brought spices for that Eurposc was a bitter disappointment to er. 16. "Mary." Jesus stirred the affection of the weeping woman at His side by uttering her own name in tones that thrilled her to the heart and created the new, subline conviction that He had risen as He had said. What transports of joy must have filled this woman's heart! Let it be remarked that Mary sought Jesus more fervently, and continued more affectionately attached to Him than any of the rest; therefore to her first Jesus is pleased to show Himself, and she is made the first herald of the gospel of a risen Saviour. "Rabbboni." My Master. "A whole wnrM r.f pmohinn anri i)pvr>t.ir>n in a. word " .As Mary uttered the word she must ha\-e endeavored to fall down at the feet of her Lord, embracing then. 17. '"Touch Ma not." "Clin?: not to Me." The translation "touch Me not" gives a false impression; the verb does not mean to "touch," but to "hold on to" and "cling to." "I am not yet ascended." Mary appears to have held Him by the feet, and worshiped Him. Jesus says in cffcct: Spend no longer time with Me now; I am not going immediately to heaven; you will have several opportunities of seeing Mc again; but go and tell My discin'es that 1 am, by and by, to ascend to My Father and God. who is your Father and God also: therefore, let them take courage. Do not rest your new faith upon My .corporeal life, but upon that spiritual life soon to be consummated with, the Father. Then I shall receive your love, and we will resume our friendship. One touch through the Holy Ghost is worth far more 'than any bodily presence. To be satisfied with His being restored to life that she might be in His presence as before was to lose sight of the j a( T-Tia linifK T-Tfinr*r%fr\t*f 11 TTn mnef be believed in and worshiped as God, for He was not to remain in a natural body. "Go to My brethren." First servants, then disciples, then friends- now, after the resurrection, brethren. This involves in itself eternal inheritance. "I ascend to My Father." I am clothing Myself with My eternal form; I have laid down My life that I might take it again, and use it for the highest blessedness of My brethren. "My Father?vour Father?My God and your God." tather cf Christ by nature and of men by grace. Ilia God only in connection with us; our God only in connection with Him. His eternal conuciousness of the Father's love dignified all His human relations with the Father, and became the true inspiration of all consciousness of God possessed bv His disciples. 18. "Mary told the disciples." An apostle to the apostles. Mary was the first to see Jesus and the first to proclaim His resurrection. This special message was clearly given to the woman who held His feet. St. Mark tells us (chap. 16: 11) that the apostles could not believe what she said. They seem to have considered it as an effect of her troubled imagination. But they believed when they 6aw the Lord. \Tlreless Telegraphy OIT Hatteras. Professor Fessenden, the Weather Bureau's wireless telegraphv expert, has erected stations between Koanoke Island and Hatteras, on the North Carolina coast. The tests so far have beeu entirely satisfactory. It is proposed to erect stations at Cape Henry and Norfolk, so that weather reoorcs can be disseminated _ to ships at sea, which, in case of approaching storms, would greatly lessen the danger of ships being driven ashore at dangerous Hatteras. London to Raise Butterflies. An interesting experiment is to he tried by the Parks Committee of London. This spring it proposes to breed thousands of butterflies in London parks and open snaces. The species selected are red admirals, peacocks and tortoise-shells. To benefit the caterpillars beds of common stinping nettles are to be planted, though these are hardly likely to add to the attractive i.1.^ uppcaruub-t: 01 me Trophies of the Battle of Manila Bay. Two 4.7 calibre Canet guns, with their breech blocks j/orse, have been delivered at the Navy Department in Washington. When Dewey captured the armed transport Manila the crew removed the breech blocks of these 'guns and threw them overboard. These pieces will be mounted on the Navy Deoartment lawnQueen Ray? 100 Cradles. The newspapers of Rome, Italy, state that Queen Htelena has ordered a hundred seta of baby clothes, one of each of which will be given to every baby bora on the | same day as berg. { I $ GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS The Kternul Cros?-Tho <"''e limine Orcl<?a1 ?The Sweerne** o: StUueM>HII)l:ca) Kzaiup o of retihenc ? A Fr?yer foi Spiritual Mreiigtli?'Itiinkinc LiglitlyCross Eternal, sijju prophetic Of tin1 jji'iur ot (?i>.l to win IIuntil:i life to life immortal; Hicak o'er earth tue sptil of sin Cross in Nature, pain ami travail, Wreckage strown on eniiless strands; Seers divine its mystic meaning. Lo: the ajje-!oug symbol stands. Cross inlaiil on ancient altars. Wiled in lambs ami victims meek; Priest and propnet toll its story. Pledge secure to all who seek. Cross of Christ, Love's power and passion. Stooping low to lift our load; Crowu our common tusks with sainthood, Lead the way to God's abode Cross, of human life the glory. Laid wherever sin meets love. Bearing it, up-borne upon it, Iiise we to Christ's joy above. ?ilev. George \V. Phillips, D. D.f in The Cougiegationalist. Th?* Cleansing Or<leal. In some of the most delicate manufactures of this country, the web, i:i a rude and unsightly state, enters a vessel filled with a certain liquid, passes slowly through, and emerges continuously at the opposite side. As it enters, the cloth seems all of one color, anil 'that oue dim and unattractive; as it emerg/s. it glitters in a variety of brilliant lines arranged in cunning figures, like a robe of needlework for the adornment of a queen. The liquid throngu which the fabric passes is composed of certain fiery, biting acids; und the reason why it is strained through such a bath is, that in the passage all tne deforming and defiling things that have adhered to its surface in preceding processes may be discharged, and the figures, already secretly imprinted, may shine out in their beauty. Thus the disciples of Christ are ia this life drawn through great tribulation, that in its bitter waters the manifold incrustations that defile their beauty may be discharged ere tiiey appear before the great white throne. Already, and by the ministry of the Spirit, the various features of their Redeemer's likeness have been se cretly imprinted 011 tht-ir hearts; but these feutni*08 have been so overlaid by manifold corruptions in actual life that the new nature can scarcely be recognized. The Swcctncm of SndnaRft. "A sorrow's crown of sorrow is re* metubering happier filings." Wo suffer fur what we have enjoyed. We pine because we have loved. The prick of the thorn is deep because our grasp of the dower has been so tight. Not in the first shock of parting is our suffering keenest. But as we move on over the solitary way, each sijrht, each sound, calls up a fresh memory that sadden* the new sadness, even while the sadness sweetens the old sweetness. The hat 0:1 the rack, the highchair at the table, the broken toy, the ragged book ?everything becomes now a strange mingling of pleasure and pain. So closely do jov and sorrow walk together that one gains new strength from the other. They are as two lives in one. Who that sits in the school of sorrow would forget the keenness of past joys, that he might avert the keenness of present sorrows? Who is not grateful for the memory through which his greatest suffer ins comes? The sweetness of sadness is a sweetness not to be tasted out of sadness. And the memory of the "happior things" is one of God's peculiar gifts that can come only to him upon whose head memory lays "sorrow's crown of sorrow."?Patterson l>u Buis, in "Chat-Wood." Biblical Example* of I'onltance. The men and women of the Bible weiv ossein 1:11 l.v iikc us. riiiaiau naimc varies very little from age to age. In spite of their very different types of civilization and the fact that, in important particulars, none of them can have lia<i the same outlook npon life or experience of it which we have, their joys anil sorrows, loves and dislikes, hopes and fears, temptations and moral victories or falls must have been similar to our own. Therefore we gain benefit from (he study of them. If we consider them in reference to their consciousness of sin and their penitence for if. we cannot help perceiving that, with them as with us, every noble character, which valued and strove after self-consecration to Cod's service, J was profoundly distressed, and often discouraged, by the sense of jjuilt. Penitence was the same thinic then as now. It always must be the same. The occasions of it and the forms in which it manifests itself may vary. While equally sincere, it may be deeper and more overwhelming in some persons than in others. But in its nature ami its workings, in its influence upon heart and life, it is unchanged. A Prayer for Spiritual Sir-ineth. O Cod, who hast suffered us to bt tried in the fierce heat of the world's temptations, grant us thy strength that we may endure to the end in love of thee. Deliver us from pride and lust and fear. Cleanse us b.v lire, if needs must be, but make us eionn. Show us the beauty of thy holiness, that we may seek it with desire more earnest ami sincere than that which lures us on to sin. Wo have given ourselves to thee and thou hast pardoned and redeemed us. By thine own love which gave and suffered, defend and keep us evermore. And teach us how to bring forth fruit abundantly to thy glory, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Chinking I.iglilly of Holv Thin;i, We are always in danger of underrating ordinances and means of grace when we have them in abundance. Let us take heed to our own spirit, in the use of sacred things. Often as we read the Bible, let us never read it without deep reverence. Often as we hear the name of Christ, let us n?ver forget the one Mediator in whom is life. Even the manna that came down from heaven was at length scorned by Israel, as ' liehf bread." It is an evil day with our souls when Christ is in the midst of us and yet., because of our familiarity with his u?au\ is lightly esteemed.?J. C. Kyle. I thank my Hod always, making mention of thee in my prayers, hearing of thy love and of tbe faith whieh thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, aud toward ail the saints. Great Britain's Iron Exports. Durinc the year 1900 Great Eritain exported iron and steel and manufactures thereof to the value of nearly $1(30,000,000, as against $140,000,000 in 1899, and $113,000,000 in 1898. Not included in these licures, however, are machinery exports, which amounted in 1900 to .$100,000,000: cutlery and fine iron goods, $10,600,000, and implements and tools, whose exports were valued at SO,500,000. This makes a grand total of $280,100,000. Metropolis of the Southeast; Charleston, S. C., now sits up as the metropolis of the Southeast and claims tc be eDjoying a boom. REVOLUTION IN RDBSIAI Sedition is Rampant Throughout the Czai's Empire. TERROR REIGNS IN THE CAPITAL i Emperor Nicholas Holds a Cabinet Meet* 1 Ins to Discuss the Situation ? Many Plots Against His Llfo Discovered by the Secret Police ? Flees From St Petersburg in an Armored Train. St. Petersburg, Russia.?Sedition is rampant in Russia, and the Empire 1 is on the verge of revolution. Martial i law in all but name exists in St. Pet- 1 ersburg, while Moscow, Warsaw, 1 Kleff and other cities have been publicly proclaimed to be in a state of siege. Nicholas II. remains under 1 guard In his palace at Gatschina. J Money, unlimited in volume, is back ' of the Impending conspiracy. Tfle political situation is so serious i that Emperor Nicholas held a meeting I ' of the Ministers to consider the state 1 of public affairs. The Czar presided EHPEBOB NICHOLAS IT. OP BUS8IA. (Facing a crisis in his Empire, he has j been forced to call on his Cabinet for advice in dealing with a threatened revolution.) ; at the Council, which was convened at the Tsarskoe-Selo Palace. It was decided not to abolish the law for drafting recalcitrant students into the army, but for the present to refrain from applying the law. It was also resolved to Revise the uniS 4-tr fna VCIDHJ OlUlUltO. Threatening letters have been re- 1 celved by Lieutenant-General Kouropatkine, Minister of War; M. N. V. Mouravleff, Minister of Justice, and M. Sipiagline, Minister of the Interior. So many plots against, the Czar's i life have been unearthed by the secret police that for once they are dumb- i founded. The plot wherein the son of a prominent general was chosen by lot by his fellow students to kill the Czar is only one of the many startling evidences of < revolution unearthed. The Czar is In hiding at Gatschina, a suburban palace to which he fled secretly in his armored train. Thou- ! sands of Cossack soldiers surround him, their countersign being changed every few hours. < Blood flowa fieely in the streets of St. Petersburg. Five hundred workmen from the Obuchower Metal Works paraded on the Nesskoi Prospekt. On the way thither they demolished the State brandy booths. Eight hundred 1 Cossacks, with drawn swords, met the . workmen and a sanguinary encounter ensued. The number killed and 1 wounded is given at 100. A collision also occurred between the military and a body of factory hands. There was much bloodshed, and many arrests were made. In military circles it is reported that the officers of the Cossack Guard Regiment'have petitioned the authorities not to employ them henceforth < In suppressing riots, holding that to pit thein against defenseless men ana j women is beneath their dignity. Practically all tho higher education- j al institutions are idle, including, ac- j cording to the latest Information, the Ivharkoff, Odessa, Kazen, and Kieff j Universities. i The police openly displayed their reserve forces, massing several thou- , sand dvorniks, or household police, in the courtyards adjoining the Calhe- i dral of Our Lady of Kazan. FRIEND ARRESTED; HE ENDS LIFE. ' Former Mayor of jN'lles, Mich., Worried Over Downfall of Banlc Cashier. , Niles, Mich.?W. J. Gilbert, former Mayor of this town, was found dead in a storehouse in the rear of his home, ] where he had ended his life with a bul- | let. Grief over the misfortune of a frieni ' is believed to have caused the suicide. ; Warm personal relations existed be- \ tween Mr. Gilbert and Charles A. Johnson, cashier of the First National ( Bank, who fled before the recent fail- | ure of that institution, and who was brought back under arrest from Ohic a few days ago, charged with wreckfl%/* Knnlr < j 1U^ LUC uaiiu. Mr. Gilbert was Johnson's legal ad viser and trusted him implicitly. The two -were much together and their re- { gard for each other was a matter of | common knowledge among their asso- j elates. They were engaged in many ] enterprises together, and both for near- \ ly thirty years had taken a leading part, commercially and politically, in the development of the town. t Charlotte Yonjre Dead. j i Charlotte Mary Yonge, the author, j died In Winchester. England. Medicinal Spring Blown Up. The fine medicinal spring at Berke- ] ley Springs, W. Va., was wrecked with ' dynamite, the explosion awakening the | town. The spring belongs to the State, | Lord Fairfax over a century ago hav- , ing set it aside for the use of the pub- < lie. The authorities are making every ( effort to run down the vandals. Reform of tlie Spanish Army. General Weyler, Minister of War, at t Madrid, Spain, is preparing extensive army reforms, a number of which will t be carried out by royal decrees. Ne??T Gleaning* A State Dispensary law is proposed . for Arkansas. Great Britain lias ordered five Hoi- ^ land submarine boats. A dry clock company has been incorporated at Pensacola, Fla. For the first time since the Civil ^ War there is not a negro in the North Carolina Legislature. St. Louis, Mo., no longer has cable ^ ears. The trolley has become the whole thing for local transit. The Germau Navy, following the 0 British example, will discard Belle- e vllle boilers in use on warships. ' ' ' '! BOLD WORK. OF ROBBESS Blew Open a Bank Vault and Escape Under Fire. ' ' 'i i?CT<tt;nn DiiTn>/CD( r>ni/ itoc nnn ULI VCJUU, QUI uvc.nLuur\ ^OJ,UUU .':'3 Bandits Wreck the State Bank at 8oxner et, Ohio?They Manage to Get Awaj in Stolen Livery Riga, After Holding an Armed Posse of Citizens at Bay ? Robbers Under Good Discipline. Somerset, Ohio.?Seven bandits par* tially wrecked the State Bank of Somset by exploding a heavy charge of nltro-glycerine in the vault doors, sen cured $500, appropriated two livery rigs, held a posse of citizens at bay and escaped in the face of a heavy fire. Bonds and securities to the amount of $30,000 and $5000 in gold coin were overlooked by the bandits. A heavy explosion in the bank shortly before 2 a. m. aroused the citizen*. John Hayes raised a window and observed four men standing in front of the bank. He hastily donned his clothes and sallied forth. When he reached the sidewalk he was challenged, and, under the influence of four rifles, again mounted the stairs ind secured arms. Meantime many other'persons began to flnnpflr on the streets. William Lovett opened fire on the bandits with a rifle, but*his aim was not of the best and his shots only served to draw the Bre of the robbers. The shooting soon became general. At a signal from the four on guard, three others emerged from the debris of the bank, bearing several sacks. The robbers were under good discipline, and their leader gave his orders [ike a military leader. Single file they marched. under the shadows of the trees which lined the 3idewalks, turned a corner'clnmbered Into two rigs, and drove in a northerly direction. Citizens' took up the chase, and at 4 a. m. found the rigs .deserted along the roadside. The Sheriff had been notified by telephone, and arrived at daylight with a pack of bloodhounds. The robbers were successfully traced around town by the hounds. It was found they had taken the rigs in which they escaped from a livery stable near the bank. President Samuel Ream said that the bank will not suffer. The loss Is fully covered, he said, by burglar Insurance. JAPAN READY FOR WAR tflkado Sends HIh Fleet to Face BnaaianS Off Korea. London ?"A Japanese sqoadron, Admiral Tsushima commanding, left Nagasaki for Korea," says the Yokohama correspondent of the Dally Mail. The general opinion here is that the situation Is serious. Urgent Instructions have been issued by the Minister of War. General Viscount Karsoura, to the comanders of forts to attend a conference in Tokio to consider questions of home defense. 1 "The war rumors are causing a fall In prices on the various bourses. The feeling of the country is uneasy and Intensely anti-Russian.'' DYNAMITED A SALOON. Citizens of Sedalia, Ind., Destroy a Itesort to "Which Objection Wan Made. Sedalia, Ind.?John E. Floyd's saloon was blown up with dynamite by the \ Indignant citizens who had protested against itr establishment. The building was demolished, not a part of It being left standing. The force of the explosion partly wrecked several dwelling houses nearby and broke every window in the town. Whiskey barrels were burst open and beer kegs shattered, their contents flowing over the wreckage. Severs* citizens had narrow escapes. - WR0N3 PICTURE ON NEW BILL* Canadian SI Issue Has an Americas > Lock on It. Ottawa, Ont.?The officials of the Finance Department admit that the picture on the face of the new Canadian four-dollar bills is that of the American Soo lock. The department sent to Montreal for a picture of the Canadian lock at the Sault. In reply they received a picture of the Arnerlcaji lock. rue omciais s..y me.v iveic iuioku by seeing the Can.itlian Pacific steamer Athabasca in the lock, and assumed in consequence the picture was all right TWO! DEAD IN A TEXAS FlCHT. k Prominent Attorney Under Arresl Charged With the Killing. Liberty, Texas.?W. B. Duncan and bis father-in-law, W. K. Waul, were shot and instantly killed. The difficulty started between Duncan and Thomas Branch. Waul and Wharton Branch, father of Thomas Branch, interfered. Wharton Branch was arrested and lharged with the killing. He is a prominent attorney of South Texas. A EUROPEAN STEEL TflUST. said to Include tbe Creusot Company and t\?. l Tcmi Steel Works. London.?The Rome correspondent .f Hio TV>llv Mail rpnorhs the forma :lon of a new steel trust, including the Creusot Company, tilt' Elba Blast Furnace Company, and the TernI Step" Works. Pan-American Exposition Stamps. ^ The Buffalo Pan-Anicrican Exposiion stamps'will be placed on sale at )ostofllces throughout the country ou Hay 1 nest. New Commissioner of Patents. President McKinley, at Washington, las appointed former Representative VV. A. Rodenburg, of Illinois, a member of the Civil Service Commission :o succeed Mark H. Brewer, and F. I. Mien. of Auburn. N. Y., Commissioner of Patents to succeed Commisslon?r Duell, resigned. iurK??y itiaxeft UcmAnu on i>:ui;nriB. Turkey lias demanded of Bulgaria he dissolution of the Macedonian rev>lutiouary committee, thereby placing he Principality in a difficult position. Personal Mcutlon. Sir Henry Stanley has celebrated lis sixtieth birthday. Israel Zangwill declares that he loes not know the exact day of his Irth. General Lew Wallace has a fish preerve on his farm near Crawfordsille. Ind. Andrew Carnegie is to he president if the Philharmonic Society, of New fork City. Senator Hoar makes notes for his peeches on envelopes and odd scraps f paper which he carries in his pockts. > A .,?A