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CAPTAINS OFHICH PURPOSE. Let timid sailors homeward fare, Let fearsome prophets cry "alack!" "When captains of high purpose dare. There is no turning back. The charm of indirection lures Tho Hrifh nn nfpnn wide? Adventurers, whose hope endures Just to a change of tide. But. here and there, there sail life's seas Stout hearts that strive to weather all; ICor stormy doubt nor calm's long ease Their faith shall overhaul. ?Fran!: Walcott Hutt, in Success. COOOCOCOOOGOOOCCCOOOOOOOOO | EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES. 8 ooococooooooooooocoooosooS IT was a quarter to 12 on Saturday night?a time when, standing as one does on the threshold of a new week. It is only appropriate that new resolutions should be formed. This, at any rate, was Phyllida's Tiew of the matter, and no Saturday within my memory had ?ver been permitted to join its predecessors until she had solemnly registered a determination to lead a "higher and more purposeful life" for (the future. "You musn't go yet," observed Phyllida, laying a detaining hand on my arm. .' "Eur my train will," I protested. "Never mind that?you can catch Another." | I resigned myself to the inevitable fend sat down again. j "I called you back because you'd forgotten something," she remarked. "I don't think so?my overcoat is hi the hall, and I've cot your letters for the post all right." "It's something more important than letters," returned rhyllida. "Guess." "Piircels?" "No?nor telegrams, either. You know perfectly well what you've omitted to do. I'm not going to give you the opportunity of making another silly remark, though, so I'll tell you at once?you haven't made any . .good .resolutions for next week yet" "Quite so?I'm afraid it slipped my * memory. Have you noticed how the :wind is rising?" "Yes?it will probably be fine if it doesn't rain," broke in Phyllida. "I don't think we need talk about the jweather. though." . "It is unspeakable," I agreed. "Then perhaps you will give me your attention for a few minutes. Do you know what day this is?" I consulted my notebook. "It is the j H5th of the month." "Yes. and it is also Saturday evening." returned my companion in a <ieny-it-if-you-can voice. "In a quarter of an hour or so we shall enter on & new week. I should like to know therefore, what your resolutions for Its proper observance are?" "I think, Phyllida," I remarked, diplomatically, "that It would be as . well if you would mention the more ^conspicuous of my moral lapses." "It is a time for self-examination," she replied, severely. "Still, perhaps It would be better if I did as you euggest." "You needn't look so relieved." she ^continued. "I'm only going to tell you jrour faults, because I don't believe I should get the truth out of you." "That is not the way to iuvite confidence," I replied with dignity. "A moment ago and I was more than ready to reveal the utmost workings Of my mind to you. As it is?well?" Phyllida rose from her seat and {crossed to my side. Looking at the matter impartially, I cannot regard faer subsequent action strictly in accordance with the dictates of propriety. It was, however, distinctly (tranquilizLng?and then, there were no spectators. "Very well," I observed, as she returned to her OAvn chair, "ask me anything you like." . "Now you're nice again," she answered smilingly. "You can't think how attractive it makes you. Well, .what I want you to do is to describe al? the girls you've fallen in love with eincc last Monday." t "All of tfiem?" ' Phyllida nodded acquiescence. "I'm nfrniri T shnll linvp tn era in |en*minutes," I replied. "Don't be frivolous. Have you seen J bny girl whom you liked very much during thf past week? Now, be C&ndid. Examine yourself thoroughly." "I have given the matter my attention," I ventured at length, "and find that I have only erred and strayed in one single instance." "Ha!" exclaimed my inquisitor, sharply, "so you admit that you have fcetn misbehaving, do you?" "Don't make me regret my confidence," I pleaded. "I was not wholly to blame, I assure you. The incident occurred some time ago?three days at least." "It's inexcusable," was the stern retort. "I declare, you're not to be trusted out of my sight for more than an hour or two at a time." 4<T Aiilr to hor fr\T flro tnlnnfnc A. VU?J OU IT iiV.1. 4V4 Hit 1UIUUVV,0 or so,'' I explained. "Upon my honor, Phyllidn, you have no cause for alarm on my account. I assure you that nothing beyond a hasty kiss passed between us.'' "What!" she exclaimed?"You?you ?kissed herV" "Only once," I answered soothingly. "You must consider I hadn't been introduced to her long." "Oh, this is too much!" "My own, you asked for frankness," I observed. "Yes, but not for callousness, too. Oh, how could you?how could you';" "It was quite easy," I answered, reassuringly. "What! You actually boast of it ."Why, you must be brazen!" "Xot at all," I returned. "I am pained mill .vuu suuuiu uuiiui'mii iue uubeard. You do not know all tbe circumstances." j "What ones?" "The?ci?extenuating ones." "Tell me one of them." , "Well, the lady didn't object." ' "Then she was brazen, too. I knew 5t! You were both of you equally guilty." "I cannot permit you to asperse an innocent lady who is not k?*re to defftnH liovaoif " T nhsprvpel "The blame. If any, tvas entirely mine." "Ab, you only say that because you are a man." "It is the truth," I asserted proudly | 1 "Never shall it be said of nie that 1 j * stood In* aud saw the character ol | a woman assailed in her absence [ g without raising a voice in her defense." "Rubbish!" was the inelegant retort. "She's a designing minx, I'm sure ?and a cat, too! I expect, though," she added in another tone, "if only the truth were known?she led you on." "Well," I admitted reflectively, "her * behavior might certainly be consid- t ered?er?er?encouraging." x "There! I was sure of it all the t time," cried Phyllida triumphantly. e "Tell me. now, what did she do?" t "My dear," I expostulated, "you * really oughtn't to ask me such things." a "Why, was It so bad as all that?" 8 I am afraid I must have unconscious- & ly nodded an affirmative. Phyllida j] came to my side. ' n "You poor old thing," she whls- c pered softly. "Did 6he put her arm# ? around your neck like this when she ^ kissed you?" h This time I nodded purposely. * "Oh, the minx!" R "Don't condemn her unheard," I j t pleaded. i 1 "You dear, good-natured old goose," ( * said Phyllida gently, "it's only your h generosity that makes you find ex- J cuses for her." J "But she was very young," I urged. a "Young, indeed"! H'm?quite old s | enough to know better, I'm sure." j? "Indeed, Phyllida, don't think this 1 I was the case." p "Well, how old was she?" a "Oh, I don't know exactly?it's not ? considered polite to ask a lady her t age, you know." t< "Well, you seem to have got on | ? such intimate terms with her that I j g should have thought you would have t asked her anything." I ? "I did ask her mother," I admitted. }, "Ah, well, that's something," re- n turned Phyllida in a decidedly more ? satisfied tone. "Tell me, though," she ^ continued, "did you ask on the day v that she made this disgraceful exhl- t bition of herself V" ' j[ "Meaning?" v "Oh, you know perfectly well?the t day when she kissed you?" h "Yes." 5 "Well, how old was she then?" C "I don't think I ought to tell yo\ ? Phyllida. Consider?how would you t like " c "But I want to know such a lot." J "All right, then?but promise you'll t never tell her." "Of course, I won't?now!" ? | "You don't want to know out of j mere curiosity. I hope?" I asked. t "Oh, don't be aggravating. If yoa d still care for me at all?and don't want J me to withdraw my forgiveness?tell ? me at once how old that horrid girl " was when she kissed you?" v "Put your head nearer." j ^ Phyllida inclined a shell-like ear to j f a suitable proximity. i J "Just two years," I whispered into j ? it.?The King. I t ! I The Man Who Had Five Daughters. | ^ A citizen of Higginsville, Mo., who | j bad five daughters saw one of them h married to a gentleman named Short. a The next was wcoert and won by a j, man named Brown. Two young gen- t tlemen named Poor and Little led the j] (loiiohtorc tr? thl> fll- I lU 1UlUU' ? - y tar, and not long ago, if one of our Western contemporaries tells the \ truth, the youngest of the little flock 1 gave her hearc and hand to an esti- ? mable citizen of the name of Ho&g. h Everything passed off pleasant, until 1 the guests were partaking of the wed- t ding supper, when the disconsolate ^ father got up and said: a "I have taken pains to educate my n daughters that they might act well e their part in life, and now I find that j, all my expectations have come to h i nothing out a Poor, Little, Short, d t Brown, Hogg." e j We publish this story at the request y I of several people who claim it is new, s. but we have a suspicion that It was * first told at one of the feasts of Lu- }, cullus, and we believe Mark Twain t has it in one of his hooks' as an orig- <j inal little thing of his own.?Chicago t Record-Herald. g (i A Dangerous Occupation. J The occupation of the miner is dan- _ gerous both from its liability to acci- n dent and from his inevitable suscepti- ? bility to certain dread diseases. No J other class of men suffer so heavily from consumption, and the life under- n ground is apt to produce blindness and ague. Paralysis follows if work I a is persisted in after these ailments v first manifest themselves. Sometimes ^ the loss of reason i.s the next step. In <j lead, copper, and quicksilver mines the c results are even more disastrous. Min- 1( eral poison becomes injected into the ? sj-stem, and besides originating blind- y ness and paralysis, causes the teeth to 1 fall out. while a "copper canker," as ? it is called, oats into the flesh in pre- f cisely the same way as does leprosy, k Coal miners are the healthiest of all J" miners. They are unusually free from j, phthisis, and they suffer inapprecia- Y bly from alcoholism. In recent years, J too. the liability among coal miners to accident has decreased very consider- y ably. a Changed llcr Mind. t Tht. hrmsf* was "handv to the street- ? car line" and in good repair, there t were the proper number of closets i and the rental was reasonable, but 1 before coming to terms the house- \ hunting matron said to the agent: a "It is only fair for me to tell you 8 that we have five boys." J "That won't make any difference, t ma'am," he said, with a smile. "You c will find big families of boys on both * sides of you." . \ "Oh, then, I don't want the house at f all!" she exclaimed. "I want to find < a neighborhood where there won't be J any boys but mine!" At last accounts she was still numing.?Youth's Companion. Sick of TIjrerB. A cynical old man once found himself in the company of a large number of Anglo-Indians, and he proceeded to ask each guest if he had shot a tiger. At last one gentleman declared he hatl never even seen the royal beast. "Thank God!" exclaimed the questioner; "may I sit next to you at dinner? I am so weary of hearing about the deaths or tigers."?The Athenaeum. ] rr vtV rn I T \r I n r?n nTmifnv I JK. i'ALMAUJB'ft aCdVULUU itJNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. object: The PrrganRlvn Word ? It Culls All People to Gladdens ? What We Moat Need?The Star of Faith?There li Pardon For All. [Copyright, 1WH.] Washington. D. C.?In this discourse )r. Talmage calls all people to gladness nd opens all the doors of expectancy; exts, Genesis vi. 18, "Come:" Revelation 3tii, 17, "Come." Imperial, tender and all persuasive is he word "come." Six hundred and sevnty-eight times is it found in the Scripures. It stands at the front gate of the lible, as in my first text, inviting antediluvians into Noah's ark. and it stands t the other gate of the Bible, as in my econa text, inviting tne postauuvians ui 11 later aaes into the ark of a Saviour's aercy. "Come" is only a word of four litters, but it is the queen of words, and early the entire nation of English voabulary bows to its sceptre. It is an cean into which emDties ten thousand ivers of meaning. Other words drive, ut this beckons. All moods of feeling ath that word "come." Sometimes it reeps and sometimes it lauehs. Someimes it prays, sometimes it temots and ometimes it destroys. It sounds from he door of the church and from the seaglios of sin, from the prates of heaven nd the gates of hell. It is confluent nd accrescent of all power. It is the eiress of most of the future. "Come!" rou may nronounce it so that all the leavens will be heard in its cadences or ronounce it ,so that all the woes of time nd eternity shall reverberate in its one vllable. It is on the lip of Baint and rofligate. It is the mightiest of all soIcitants either for good or bad. To-day I weigh anchor and haul in the lanks and set sail on that great word, lthough I am sure I will not be able to each the farther shore. I will let down he fathoming line into this sea and try o measure its dcnths, and, though I tie ogether all the cables and cordage I have n board I will not be able to touch botom. All the power of the Christian reliion is in that word "come." The dictatorial and commendatory in religion are f no avail. The imperative mood is not he appropriate mood when we would iave people savingly impressed. They lay be coaxed, but they cannot be drivn. Our hearts are like our homes?at a riendly knock the door will be opened, ut an attempt to force open our door rould land the assailant in prison. Our heological seminaries, which keen young fien three years in their curriculum bejre launching them into the ministry, rill do well if in so short a time they can each, the candidates for the holy office iow to say with great emphasis and intoation and power that one word "come." ?hat man who has such efficiency in Ihristian work, and that woman who has uch power to persuade people to quit he wrong and begin the right went hrough a series of losses, bereavements, 3rsecutic-ns and the trials of twenty or hirty ve&rs before they could make 'it a riumph of grace every time they uttered < he word "come." You muot remember that m many cases ur "com'*" has a mightier "come" to onquer before it has any effect at all. uet give me the accurate census, the staistics of how many are down in fraud, in runkenness, in gambling, in impurity or n vice of any sort, and I will give you he accurate census or statistics of how ' v- tl. 1 fiany have Deen siain uy ine wo?u come." "Come and click wine glasses nth me at this ivory bar." "Come and ee what we can win at this framing taile." "Come, enter with me this doubtul speculation." "Come with me and ead those infidel tracts on Christianity." Come with me to a place of bad amusenent." "Come with me in a gay bout hrough the undereround life of the ity." If in this city there are 20,000 who re down in moral character, then 20,000 ell under the power of the word "come." was reading of a wife whose husband ad been overthrown by strong drink, nd she went to the saloon where he was uined, and she said, "Give me back my usband." And the bartender, nointing o a maudlin and battered man drowsing a the corner of the barroom, said: There he is. Jim, walce uo. Here's our wife come for you." And the wornn said: "Do you call that my husband? Vhat have you been doing witn mm: is hat the manly brow, is that the clear ye. ia that the noble heart that I maried? What vile dru? have you given im that has turned him into a fiend? 'ake your tiger claws off of him. Uncoil hose serpent folds of evil habit that are rushing him. Give me back my husand, the one with whom I stood at the ltar ten years ago. Give him back to le." Victim was he, as millions of othrs have been, of the word "come." Now, we want all the world over to larness this word for good as others iave harnessed it for evil, and it will raw the five continents and the seas beween them?yes, it will draw the whole arth back to the God from whom it has randered. It is that wooing and persuaive word that will lead men to give up heir sins. Was skeDticism ever brought nto love of the truth by an ebullition of ot words against infidelity? Was ever ha blasphemer stopped in his oaths by enunciation of blasphemy? Was ever a runkard weaned from his cups by the emperance lecturers miminrv 01 Diapering step and hiccough? No. It was. Come with me to church to-day and iear our singing;" "Come and let me inroduce you to a Christian man whom ou wi'.l be sure to admire;" "Come with le into associations that are cheerful and ood and inspiring;" "Come with me into oy such as you never before expeienced." With that word which has done so \uch for others I approach you to-day. Lre you all right with God? "No," you ay, "I think not. I am sometimes larmed when I think of Him. I fear I rill not be ready to meet Him in the last a.y; My heart is not right with God." 'onie, then, and have it made right, 'hrough the Christ who died to save you, ome! What is the use in waiting? The anger you wait the farther off you are nd the deeper you are down. Strike out or heaven!* You remember that a few ears ago a steamer called the Princess llice, with a crowd of excursionists board, sank in the Thames, and there pas an awful sacrifice of life. A boatman rom the shore put out for the rescue, and le had a big boat, and he rg? it so full it rould not hold another person, and as he aid hold of the oars to pull for the shore, eaving hundreds helpless and drowning, le cried out: "Oh. that I had a bieger ?oat!" Thank God I am not thus li nted. and that I can promise room for all n this gospel boat. _Get in, get in! And ret there is room. Koom in the heart 01 , nardoning God. Room in heaven. I also .ajjply the word of my test to hose who would li'.:e practical comfort. any ever escape the struggle of life, I lave not found them. They are not cerainly among the prosperous clasees. In noBt cases it was a struggle all the way ip till they reached the prosperity, and lince they have reached these heights ;here have been perplexities, anxieties ind crises which were almost enough to ihatter the nerves and turn the brain, [t would be hard to tell which have the riggest fight in this world, the prosperi;iea or the adversities, the conspicuitieB >r the obscurities. Just as soon as you lave enough success to attract the atten;ion of others the envies and jealousies ire let loose from their kennel. The greatest crime that you can commit in ;he estimation of others is to get on bet;er than they do. They think your addi;ion is their subtraction. Five hundred jersons start for a certain goal of suc:e8s. One reaches it, and the other 499 * Ti 1J A-1? i._ ire maa. it wouiu ttiKc vuiunius tu uuiu the story of the wrongs, outrages and lefamations that have come upon you as i result of your success. The warm sun >f prosperity brings into life a swamn full >f annoying insects. On the other hand, the unfortunate classes have their strue?les for maintenance. To achieve a livelihood by one who had nothing to start with and after awhile for a family as well ind carry this on until children are reared ind educated and fairly started in the world and to do this amid all the rivalries of business and the uncertainty of ?rops and the fickleness of tariff legislation, with an occasional labor strike and here and there a financial panic thrown in, is a mishty thinpr to do, and there are hundreds and thousands of such heroes and heroines who live unsung and die unfa on ored What we all need, whether up or down in life or half way between, is the infinite solace of the Christian religion. And so we employ the word "come." It will take all eternity to find out the number of ? 1 tf A Unnn U UU5IUC5S 1UVI& "iiu O^Cil DUCU^bU* ened by the promises of God and the people who have been fed by the ravens when other resources gave out and the men and women who, going into this battle armed only with needle or eaw or axe or yardstick or pen or type or shovel or ahoelast, have gained a victory that made the heaven resound. With all the resources of God promised for every exigency no one need be left in the lurch. I like the faith displayed years ago in Drury lane, London, in an humble home where every particle of food had given out and a kindly soul entered with tea and other table supplies and found a kettle on the fire ready for the tea. The benevolent bdy said, "How is that you have the kettle ready for the tea when you had no tea in the house?" And the daughter in the home said: "Mother would have me put tbe kettle on the fire, and when I said, 'What is the use or Jaimm WO ^ 1 XT a nAfklTII* 4- V? /"? UUUl? OVJ >Tilvit ww v? umtv. ujmmg in uut house?' she said: *My child, God will provide. Thirty years He has already provided for me through all pain and helplessness, and He will not leave me to starve at last. He will send us help though wc do not see how We have been waiting all day for something to? come, but until we saw you we knew not how it was to come." Such things the world may call coincidences, but I call them Almighty deliverances, and, though ycu do not hear of them, they are occurring every hour of every day and in all parts of Christendom. But the word "come" applied to those who need solace will amount to nothing unless it is uttered by some one who has experienced that solace. _ That spreads the responsibility of giving this gospel call among a great many. Those who have lost property and been consoled by religion in that trial are the ones to invite tho.?e who have failed in business. Those who have lost their health and been consoled by religion are the ones to invite those who are in poor hea^h. Those who have bereavements and been consoled in those bereavements are the ones to sympathize with those who have lost father and mother or companion or child or friend. What multitudes of us are alive to-dav and in trood health and buoyant in this journey of life who would have been broken down or dead long ago but for the sustaining and cheering help of our holy religion! So we say, "Come!" The well is not dry. The buckets are not empty. The supply is not exhausted. What dismal work of condolence ths world makes when it attempts to condole! The plaster ey spread does not stick. The broken bones under * their bandage do not knit. A farmer was lost in a snowstorm on a prairie of the Far West. Night coming on and after he was almost frantic from not knowing which way to go, his sleigh struck the rut of another sleigh, and he said, "I will follow this rut, and it will take me out to safety." He hastened on until he heard tho bells of the preceding horses, but, coming up, he found that that man was also lost, and, as is the tendency of those who are thus confused in the forest or on the moors, they were both moving in a circle, and the runner of the one lost sleigh was fallowing the runner of the other lost 6leigh round and round. At last it occurred to them to look at the north star, which was peering through the night, and by the direction of that star they got home again. "But, says some one, "you Christian people keep telling us to 'come,' yet you do not tell us now to come." That charge shall not be true on .this occasion. Come believing! Come repeating! Come praying! After all that God has been doing for 6000 years, sometimes through patriarchs and sometimes through prophets and at last through the culmination of all the tragedies on Golgotha, can any one think that God will not welcome vour coming? Will a father at vast outlay construct a mansion for his son and lay out parks white with statues and j green witn foliage and all a-sparkle with j fountains and then not allow his son to live in the house or walk in the parks? Has God built this house of gospel mercy and will He then refuse entrance to His children? Will a Government at great expense build life-saving stations all along the coast, and boats that can hover | unhurt like a petrel over the wildest ; surge and then, when the lifeboat has j reached the wreck of a ship in the offing, i not allow the drowning to seize the life line or take the boat for the shore in ! safety? Shall God provide at the cost cf I his only Son's assassination escape for a sinking world and then turn a deaf ear to | the cry that comes up from the breakers? "But," you say, there are so nan7 things I have to believe and so many things in the shape of a creed that I have to adopt that I am kept back." No, no! You need believe but two things?namely, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners and that you are one of them. "But," you say, "I do believe both of those things." Do you really believe them with all your heart? "Yes." Why, then, you have passe'd from death .into life. Why, then, you are a son or a daughter of the Lord Almighty. Why, then, you are an heir or an heiress of an inheritance that wi'.l declare dividends from now until long after the stars are dead. Halleluiah! Prince of God, why do you not come and take your coronet? Princess of the Lord Almighty, why do you not mount your throne? Pass ut into the light. Your boat is anchored, whv do vou not so ashore? Just plant your feet hard down, end you will feel under them the Rock of Ages. I challenge the universe for one instance in which a man in the right spirit appealed for the salvation of tne gospel and did not get it. Man alive, are you going to let all the years of your life go away with you without your having this great peace, this glorious hope, this bright expectancy? Are you going to let the pearl of creat price lie in the dr.st ai y?ur feet because you are too indolent or too proud to stoop down and pick it up? Will you wear the chain or evil habit when r.eai by you is the hanv.ncr chat could with one stroke snap the shackle? Wi'.l you stay in the prison of sin when here is a gospel key that cou'J unlock your incarceration? No, r.o! As the one word "come" hr.3 sometimes brought many souis to Christ, I will try the experiment of pi ing up into a mountain and then cer.d down in an avalanchc of power many of these gospel "cornea." "Come thou and all thy house into the ark;" "Come unto Me, all yc who labor and are he?.vy laden, and I will give you rest;" "Come, for all things are now ready;" "Come with us, and we will do you good;" "Come and see;" "The Spirit and the bride say 'come/ and let hiri that heareth say 'come/ and let him that is athirst 'come.'" The stroke of one bell in a tower nay be sweet, but a score of bells well tuned and rightly lifted and skillfully swung ia one great c!iime fill the heavens with music almost celestial. And no one who has heard the mighty chimes in the towers of Amsterdam or Ghent or Copenhagen can forget them. Now, it 6eems to me that in this Sabbath hour all heaven is chiming, and the voices of departed friends and kindred ring down the sky, saying, "Come!" When Russia was in one of her great wars, the suffering of the soldiers had been long and bitter, and they were waiting for the end of the strife. One day a messenger in great excitement ran among the tents of the army shouting, "Peace! Peace!" The sentinel on guard asksd, "Who says peace?" And the sick soldier asked, "Who says 'peace?' " And all up I and down the cncampment of the Russians went the question, "Who says 'peace?' " Then the messenger responded, "The Czar says 'peace.' That was enough. That meant going home. That T->annt flip war was over. No more wounds and no more long marcheo. So to-day, as one of the Lord's messengers, I move through these great encampments of souls and cry: "Peace between earth and heaven! Peace between God and man! Peace between your repenting soul and a pardoning Lord!" If you ask me, "Who says peace?" I answer, "Christ our Kinc declares it:" "My peace I give unto you!" "Peace of God that passeth all , understanding!" Everlasting peace! I THE SABBATH SCHOOL i INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR NOVEMBER 10. Snbject: Turnel OppreMed in Eerrpt. 1?*. I.. 1-14? Golden Text. Ex. II., 24 ? Momory Ver?e?, 8. 9, 13. 14-floinmen* tary on the Day'* tesson. 1. "These are the names." Though this book is a continuation of the book of Genesis, with whirh nrohably it was in former times conioinerl. Moses thought it J__ i_" i il. :i.i- ~A. necessary 10 lritrouuce it wmi an ai-'ouim i of the names and number of the familv of Jacob when they came to E^ypt, to show that though they wre then very few. yet in a short time, under the snecial bussing of God thev had multiplied exceedingly, and thus the promise to Abraham had been literally fulfilled. "His household." Which fact is of some importance in computing the time needful for their increase to such a large nuhiber as went out from Egynt in the exodus. A hint as to the numbers of the households may be rained from the fact that in Abraham's household there were at least 318 men who could bear arms. Gen. 14: 14. The servants were reckoned as part of the household, and were admitted to the covenant and recognized as Israelites. Gen. 17: 27. 5. "Seventy souls." This number included Joseph and his two sons, and it must have also included Jacob himself, but it did not include the wives and daughters. 6. "Joseph died." That is. Joseph had now been some time dead.' as also all his brethren, and all the Egyptians who, had known Jacob and his twelve sons, and this is a reason why the important services oerformed bv Joseph were forgotten. Death removes the most useful men and the iargest families. "All that generation." All the men of that age, Egyptians as well as Israelites. 7. "Were fruitful." There are five expressions in this verse joined together to give emohasis to the fact that there was a remarkable increase of the Israelites, beyond all ordinary calculations. One original word implies that they increased like fishes or insects. From the call of Abraham at Haran to their deliverance from Etrvnt was 430 years. During the first 215 years they had increased to only seventy I souls, but during the latter half of the I time, while they were in Ezvpt, they increased to over 600.000 fighting men, besides women and children. And this prosperity came notwithstanding the great fersecutiona to which they were subjected. t is thus c'.early shown that the blessing of God is' the great secret of true prosperity. "The land." Of Goshen. "Was filled." When the women and children are taken into account it will be seen that there must have been a great host. A conservative estimate has placed the number at 2,000,000 souls. 8. "A new king." One of another family, according to Josephus. The old rulers under whom Joseph served were overthrown, and an entirely new dynasty came into power that had no knowledge of or interest in Joseph. "Which knew not Joseph." This new king was not in sympathy with God's plans and purposes; he was envious in his disposition (v. 9), shrewd in his plans (v. 10), and cruel in ms requirements. Vs. 11, 12. 9. Said unto his people." He probably summoned a council of his nobles and | elders to consider the subject. "More and | ~L L i U?/J I'ifAn fA rrrOQ f Time nilgiitiur. xucjr uau hoku ?u j/?w , perity, for during the lifetime of Joseph and his .royal patron they had probably enjoyed a free grant of the land. 10. "Deal wisely." Their policy waa shrewd, but it was not wise. Sin is always folly. Such a policy is at once shortsighted and wicked; short-sighted, since kind treatment would have made this rapidly growing people their fast friends and helpers; wicked, because it violates common morality. When men deal wickedly it is common for them to imagine they are dealing wisely, especially if tneir wickedness seems to be to their worldly advantage. "Lest they multiply." As well might the monarch of Egypt have sought to stem with his puny hand the ocean's tide as to prevent the increase of those ! who were tne subjects of Jehovah's ever- I lasting purpose. "Join ? our enemies." I The greatest enemies of Egypt were on j the cast, and the first great danger the king saw was that the Hebrews would join themselves to some invading army and fight against the Egyptians. "Out of the land." The king was also afraid the Hebrews might escape. The Egyptians -would lose a large revenue if the Israelites should leave them, and steps were taken to pre- i vent this. - " ** /? vl* i I 11. "Taskmasters." Slaving nrst ODiigeu i them, it is thought," to pay a runinous rent and involved them in difficulties, the new government, in pursuance of its oppressive policy, degradea them to the condition of serfs, employing them in rearing the public works, with taskmasters, who anciently had sticks?now whips?to punish tho indolent, or spur on the too languid. | "Treasure cities." "Store cities." R. V. Cities where arms and provisions were gathered, necessary for armies and caravans. "Pithom." Meaning "a narrow place." This was a city of Lower Egypt, situated on the eastern bank of the Nile. i "Raamses." The sa,me as Ramesss. It was probably near by. These two fortified cities, built by the Israelites for Pharaoh, were both in Goshen. Barneses- was the point from which the Hebrews started at the time of the exodus. 12. "The more they multiplied." The king not only oppressed the people, but he ordered the male children destroyed. Vs. 16, 22. But the more Pharaoh afflicted them the more God blessed them. AfflicaL fhp ! tions serve ine purpusv ui moral character. Divine chastisements tend more to growth than to destruction. 13. "To serve with rigor." Intending to depress their snirits and to rob them of everything valuable; to ruin their health and shorten their days and so diminish their numbers. The word translated "rigor" is a very rare one. It is derived from a word which means "to break in pieces," "to crush." 14. "Their lives bitter." This God per- | mittcd for wise and just reasons: 1. Asa J punishment for their idolatry, into whi,ch | it appears many of them had fallen. 2. j To wean them from Egypt, which was in many respects a desirable land. 3. To quicken their desires for Canaan. 4. That they might be aroused to earnest prayer for deliverance. 5. That God's power might be displayed in their freedom. "With hard bondage." So the bonda^a which Satan puts upon his servants is hard and makes the life bitter. The way of the transgressor is "hard" and "full of misery." But a deliverer was provided, and so in Christ wo may all be set free. John 8: 38. "And in brick." Ruins of great brick buildings are found in all parti of Egypt. Thousands to Winter in Komf, Statistics carefully compiled show that 9000 persona went to Nome this season, and that 10,200 have returned or are returning, leaving about 4000 in the district for the winter. There were eighty _ vessels. Bteam and sail, engaged in the Nome traffic, carrying from Seattle. Wash., 55,000 tons of general freight. The estimated receipts for the transportation of freight and passengers arc ?1.874.000. and the value of the freight shipped from Seattle $5,500,000. About SI,500.000 gold has been shipped from Nome this season. * Indians at the Training School. Seventy-seven tribes are represented by the 1007 pupils in the Indian training school at Carlisle, the Senecas having the largest number. That the work of the students has been profitable is shown by the earnings, which reached the aggregate of $2fl,715 during the past twelve months. The deaths in the school during the year were only four. Viking Ship Found. A Viking ship has been found embedded deep in the mud of the harbor of the old Hanse town of Wisby, in the Swedish island of Gothland, "the vessel is exceedingly well preserved in spite of its antiquity. It was found under a quay built in the eleventh century, and is of remarkable construction, wooden nails showing a manner of fiiing boards now unknown. ... _ s GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN; PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. Poem : A Creed?TVhy Religion ?nd Patriotism Are Inseparable?Without Being Devout One Cannot Be a Genuine Patriot?Government Represents GodI believe in human kindness Large amid the sons of men, Nobler far in willing blindness Than in censure's keenest, ken. I believe in self-denial, And its secret throb oi joy: In the love that lives through trial Dying not; though death destroy' I believe in iove renewing All that sin hath swept away, Leavenlike its work pursuing Night by night ana day by day; In- the power of its remoulding, In the grace of its reprieve, In the glory of beholding Its perfection?I believe. I believe in lo?e eternal. Fixed in God's unchanging will, That beneath the deep infernal Hath a depth that's deeper stilll In its patience?its endurance To forbear and to retrieve, In the large ant? lull assurance Of its triuc.'ph?I believe. ?Norman Macleod. *. Religion and Patriotism. "The higher powers"?rulers, governments?says our Scripture lesson, '"are ordained of God." They are designed as a "terror to evil works." One who bears the sword is termed "a minister of God, and avenger for wrath to him that doeth evil." The function of government is to maintain righteousness; yea, to represent God. Religion and patriotism are inseparable. One cannot be deeply and genuinely a patriot without being religious, hor religious without being a patriot. Under a despotism or absolute monarchy the problem might not represent God, and patriotism, true love of country might demand resistance. | Our Scripture implies that the government is just. In a democracy the people make the government, they themselves are the "higher powers." The governed are themselves governors. Their governI ment is self government. The problems of patriotism are thus very direct 'and per| sonal. Every voter is responsible to God for his vote; every woman even, for her influence in training and nurturing voters. Religion, then, as showing itself through patriotism must see to it: 1. That government represents God. [ It must be true to the principles of religion?these are the bases of all right liv| ing. The Pilgrims knew this when they founded their renublic on Christianity. They made their civil law to conform to divine law. The Christian patriot must do the same. He must attend the primaries, must take politics out of the saloon, must bring God-fearing men to the front, must dethrone selfishness, the tyranny of corrupt wealth, must not allow government?municipal or national?to oecome the property of a few financiers. Pere [ Hyacinth, from his renov/ned pulpit in I France, once said of the United States: "The light of this nation is "in its faith in Jesus Christ." It is for the Christian'citizens of each generation.-,to make this saying forever true of our beloved land. 2. Christian patriotism (and there is no other) cannot evade taxes. "Pay ye tribute also." "Tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom." Nothing is more unpatriotic, un-christian, unheroic than the constant evasion of taxation by individual and corporate wealth. It is mean and cowardly also for people in affluence to throw such excessive and increasing burdens on the poor. Public conj science needs quickening on this question. Decay and revolution are bred whenever wealth becomes selfish, heartless and corruDt. j 3. Patriotism requires obedience to law. | "Be subject to the higher powers." One | of the greatest perils of pur nation is the general disregard of law. Public statutes j are freely ignored. Public opinion will not enforce them. Evils are permitted which the laws prohibit. "He that resistpf.Vi t.Vin ordinance resisteth God." Paul was right. Men are fightine God who transgress the righteous civil laws which forbid Sabbath desecration, profanity, immorality and intemperance. Patriotism must show its genuineness in maintaining law, in antagonizing public evil, in exalting civic righteousness. This must all be done "for conscience' sake," for obedience j to conscience is the law both of religion and true patriotism.?New York ObserverDnlly Prayer. One always finds time to eat and sleep and work. He can find time also to pray. The prayer need not be long, as to time, but it must be deep and true, and pervade the spirit from dawn to twilight. A lover may only stop at the door on his way down-town to say good morning to his sweetheart, but her smile and greeting will fill his soul with sunshine all the day. A moment of special communion with Christ in the morning will fixj the miad with His presence through the long hours of stress and care. The soul needs its f morning and evening meal, "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies." A well-fed soul is eveu more attractive than a well-kept end well-nourished bodv. Any religious obligation or custom that makes daily prayer J the rule of life is a spiritual blessing.? I Christian Endeavor. The Footpath to Peace. To be glad of life, because it gives yon the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions, but not contented with yourself until you have made the'best of them; to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness, and to fear nothing except cowardice: to be governed by your admiration ratnen, than by your disgusts; to covet nothing that is your neighbor's except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners; to think seldom oi your enemies, often of your friends, and every day of Christ, and to spend as much time as you can, with body and spirit, in God's out-ofdoors?these are little euideposts on the footpath to peace.?Dr. Henry Van Dyke. Godlike Giving. God so loved that He gave.' That is the expression, as it is the test of love. Giving?not receiving, not withholding, not condemning. We sinners can receive and. withhold and condemn. Can we love? That is to be Godlike. God is love, and whosoever loveth is born of God and knoweth God. God loved, and just because He loved He gave. Can we measure that love? Only by His gift. Can we On!v hv "Hia IfkVP. uieasuic luai Both are measureless. ? Northwestern Christian Advocate. In Kqual Need. Pastors are often asked to put up prayers for those in distress, disappointment, bereavement, indigence, yet a man who is naking money needs more praying for than the man who is losing it.?Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, Presbyterian, New York. Highest Patriotism. There is a better and higher patriotism than even to die for our country, and that is to plan for it. live for it and so to serve it as to make it a land of God and morality, universal brotherhood, justire, mercy, law and order.?Rev. Madison L\ Peters. Baptist, Brooklyn. Indian* at tlie Training School. Seventy-seven tribes are represented the 1007 pupils in the Indian training school at Carlisle, the Senecas bavins; the largest number. That the work of the students has been profitable is shown by the earnings, which reached the aggregate of $28,715 during the past twelve months. The deaths in the school dur? t?/?nr ifftrn nnll* fnni'. Saving* Banks In Runslan Schools. Savinpw banks in connection with the intermediate schools are planned by the Russian Minister of Education. Cells in a Honeycomb. There are 9000 cell# in a piece of honeytomb a loot squire, * * " ' ffi .< <-Yi . ; TO ICSES HIS POST ' Is Relieved of His Command and Placed on Half Pay. RFSIIIT f)F HIS RFHFNT SPFFP.H General Franch, When He Itetnrn* From SontU Africa, Will Command the First Army Corpt-Hin Selection a Popular One?Buller Would Not Resign When He Had the Opportunity. London?Sir Redvers Buller, of the First Army Corps, lias been relieved of the command practically in disgrace, In consequencc of the speech he made on October 10, after the luncheon given in his honor by the King's Royal Rifles, dealing with Lie famous dispatch to General White, in T.o/Ittcj m I f Vi TCTa hno Knnn nn ? uuujoiiiiiiii lit iiao uuuu piac^u uu half pay, and General French has been appointed to succeed him. In the official announcement the War Office says that the Commander- . ' in-Chief, "after full consideration of > } all the circumstances and the explanations furnished," recommended that General Buller be relieved, -which has been done. ' The appointment of General French is to take effect "when his services are no longer required in South Africa.'* Pending General French's return General Hildyard will command in Aldershot. . General Buller's supercession was not unexpected, but the manner of It has caused a sensation. It is understood that the Government endeavored to break the fall by giving to him the option of resigning, but that Buller declined to give way. The morning papers all express sympathy for the unfortunate ending of a brilliant career, but they are unanimous that no other course was open after his indiscreet speech, and they express the greatest approval of the selection of General French to succeed him. The speech which has caused the disgrace and downfall of Buller utiiiseu a. jtreai tieusauuu on u?ci uugland. In it he expressed his condemnation of the newspaper criticisms, of men who were doing their best and risking their lives for th<? country. He asserted that nobody junior to him was fitted to command an army corps and he challenged the critics to name * one. General Buller said he had been attacked on account of a telwam which it was said he had sent ordering General White to surrender Ladysmith after his (Bulier's) attack on Colenso, on December. 15. 1900, had resulted unsuccessfully. General Buller described his own and General White's difficulties at that time. He said that that time he prepared a message telling General White that his (Buller's) attack had failed and he could , not make another attempt to relieve < him within a month in the then slow fighting. ' ,v General Bullev said he read this . telesram over several times, saying td himself: "That's a mean thing to send a fellow." but he knew the responsibility was his. and that General White could say. If he surrendered, that General Buller had advised it. Hie same telegram suggested that it might be necessary to surrender, and In that case General Buller made some suggestions as to what General White should do and how he should a do it, thinking that it -\voiua ue cover for a man whom he believed to be in , . greater difficulties than his own. The London newspapers were dl vided in their opinions of Buller'gspeech. A majority of them, including some that were not hostile to General Buller, regarded it as an amazing blunder, and greatly regretted that the General did not adhere to his lately avowed practice not'to answer f: newspaper criticism. Several papers declared that his explanation that he heliographed to General White, sug- .; grating that it might be necessary for him to surrender and advising what to do in such a case, actually was instruction to surrender, and' they con tonned him accordingly. cwiPu/rATHERED CALVESTON STORM Was Blown Upon the Island and Lay There a Year. New York City.?A souvenir of the Galveston hurricane of September 8, 1900, reached this port in the shape ot the British steamship Roma, which was blown broadside on the current apil swept through four bridges witk Cjiptain Storm and his crew hanging oa amidships. Had not the wind changed to the southeast the Roma would have been ' bkywn to the end of the Island and into the Gulf by way of the San Luis PSS&s. She was high and dry a year, lacking one day. ;The Roma will be dry-docked and overhauled at this port, whence she will double Cape Horn for the Pacific trade. SPEECH FREE IN VIRGINIA. Provision in the Xew Constitution Fink. ly Adopted. Richmond, Va. ? After a long and bitter light the Constitutioual Convention, by a vote of 37 to 17, adopted * * L- - fnr hi the Bill or K.gucs a ijh/?io^^ freedom of the press and speech. It Is as follows: "That the freedom of the press Is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. And any citirau may speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that lib* erty." Plague Kills 1000 a Day. The bubonic plague is ravaging Fo? Chow, China, and Its vicinity. Fifteen hundred cases are reported daily, and ior two weeks upward of 1000 coffins have been carried out of the city gates daily. Player Killed in a Football Game. Sil Hugo, a member of the Michicrnniinc toolball team, died at the hos pital at (Jnampion, Mien., as iui- iconic of injuries received in a gauie witli a local team. Prominent Peopie. Andrew Carnegie has been asked to become Lord liector of St. Andrew's University. Empress Augusta of Germany has insoniuia from drinking tea to reduce her weight. Senator llanua's secretary says that since ISM five hundred children have been named after {he Senator. It is related of Hall (Jaiue, the novelist, that he once worked in the Laxey lead mines, in the Manx Mountains, in place of a young man wlio was ill. to keep the young fellow's position for I him. ? '<