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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.
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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.
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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.
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BOLD WORK. OF ROBBESS
Blew Open a Bank Vault and Escape
Under Fire.
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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.
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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.
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