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gfomamisi department. QUARTER FOR A QUARTER OF MUTTON. Extract from a letter to the governor of Arkansaw : "I send you by John Cobbletree, one of my neighbors, a quarter of mutton and a mess of young squirrels. I do this jest because I like the course you have always . took. I killed the squirrels yistidy an' I know they air fresh. Thar ain't nothin' nicer than young squirrels. I eat 'em sometimes till I am fit to dod. Now let me sav < something about the mutton. It is fresh an' fat an' I hope you will enjoy it. One of my neighbors lost a sheep the other day an' he has accused me of stealin' it. He has had me arrested an' I am now in jail. He come to my house an' grabbed holt of a sheep that I had jest killed, but I managed to keep enough to send to you. I am mighty fond of sheep meat an' when I am right hungry I ken eat it till I am fit to pop. My trial will come off in a day or two an the way things are shapin' I am afeerd they will put it to me jes fur a joke. These folks out here air the prankinist set of people I ever seen. They air alius happy when they kan git a joke on a prominent man like me. I wouldn't be surprised if they carry the joke so far as to want to send me to the penitentiary. This would hurt my chances for the legislature. I don't want to be beat, but if they keep me shut up very ^ long the other feller will git ahead of me. After you eat your mutton I wisht you would write a note to the sheriff an' tell him to let me out. Say, I forgot to tell you that the gran' jury has been let into the joke an' that they have brought in a joke of indictment ag'in' me. They may try me en' pass the joke of a sentence on me before your note gits here, so I wish you to write out a pardon after you eat your mutton an' tell the judge that I am free. I know the joke will tickle you and you may make the pardon read just as amusing' as you please.''?A rkamaw Traveler. Two Miserable Sinners.?At a revival in Rocky Hollow, Deacon Budd arose to "relate his experience," and gave himself a very hard name, and so did everybody else, that he did not deserve the half of it. But it was the style for the saints to give themselves a setting down for the benefit of sinners, and Brother Budd played it for all it was worth. "Yes, brethren and sisters," he said, in conclusion, "I'm sech a pore, mis'able sinner that it's a wonder the Lord has marcy on me, and lets.me live. I feel as if I hain't no business in sech a meeting as this, and my place is in the corner behind the door." Sister Briney, who was a widow, and sus pected of a fondness for the widower, Deacon Budd, arose and told her story, and a sad one it was. There had never been such an utterly unworthy object, such a continual monument of mercy, as Sister Briney, if her showing up of herself was to be taken for truth. "Yes, brethren and sisters," she said, at the windup, "I'm such a pore, mis'able sinner, that it's a wonder I'm allowed to stand here. I feel as if my proper place is behind the door along with Brother Budd."? Traveler's Magazine. Yearning for Blood.?Master Stuart R. Crane, the precocious six year old son of William H. Crane, the popular comedian, terrified his mother the other day by rushing into her room at a Cincinnati hotel, flourising a mammoth toy pistol. "Stuart Robson Crane," she cried, "what on earth have you got there?" "A pithtol, answered the boy, "an I'm goin' to thoot a man!" "No, you're not, either," said Mrs. Crane, in a stern, commanding voice. "Give me that-horrid pistol at once or I'll tell your father." "Oh, I don't care," cried the young hopeful, defiantly. "He's the man I'm going to thoot?"?Chicago Herald. - flaT"I intended to tell Jane tobringa fresh bucket of water," said the wife of Professor Nottlehead, looking up from her sewing. "You doubtlesss mean a bucket of fresh water," rejoined the husband. "I wish you would pay some little attention to rhetoric; your mistakes are embarrrasing." Some months later the professor said: "Mydear, that picture would look to advantage if you were to hang it over the clock." "Ah !" she replied; "you doubtless mean if I were to hang it above the clock. If I were to hang it over the clock wecouldn't tell what time it is. I wish you would pay some attention to rhetoric; your mistakes are embarrassing." % The Penalty of Profanity.?The average small boy of the present day is seldom at a loss for something to say, even in the most embarrassing situations. Bobby, a precocious youth ot six summers, had been indulging in profanity, and in order to escape the punishment for which his mother had made preparations, he crawled under a barn and remained there in a state of siege for the greater part of the afternoon. When his father returned at night and learned how matters stood he made his way, with much difficulty, under the barn in search of the boy. "Hello, pa," said Bob by cheerfully, as his sire approached, "you been swearing, too!" The Barber Was to Blame.?There were innumerable little scratch marks on the girl's face when she appeared at breakfast Monday morning. "My gracious, Kitty!" exclaimed her father, "your face is all scratched up." "Yes, papa, she replied demurely; I "George was here last night." "What's that got to do with it?" "Why, papa, you know the barber shops are closed on Sunday now, and"? "That's enough," he interrupted, "I'll see about this," and he hustled off to see the authorities. - A Reasonable Explanation.?"Ifyou are a quiet, honest citizen of New York, how did these skeleton-keys a ad brassknuckles happen to be found in your pants pockets?" asked Judge Duffy of a hardlooking case. "Were those things really found in iny pants?" asks the prisoner, incredulously. "You know yery well that they were." "Well, judge, the only explanation I can offer is that during the scuffle me and the policeman who arrested me must have changed pants. We were very much excited at the time." French for Seven Buttons.?"Let me see some of your black kid gloves," said j Mrs. Snaggs to a clerk at a Fifth avenue store. "These are not the latest style, are they?" she asked, when the gloves were produced. "Yes, madam," said the clerk. "We have had them in stock only two days." "I didn't think they were, because the fashion paper says that black kids have tan stitches and vice versa. I see the tan : stitches, but not the vice versa." The clerk explained that vice versa was ! French for seven buttons, and Mrs. Snaggs j bought the gloves. JST Little Jack?"My rpamma's new fan j is hand-painted." Little Dick?"Pooh! who | cares. Our whole fence is. ' IHiscfUancous fteadiitg. AX ODD CHARACTER. ANECDOTES OF AN OLD KENTUCKY CONGRESSMAN. A Washington letter to the Minneapolis Tribune says: One of the characters in , the House is General Wolford, of Kentucky. When he is at home he wears an old flannel shirt and trowsers strapped about his waist. When he came here he found he had to change his costume and put on a "biled" shirt and black clothes. At first he was averse to this, but some friends bought him a black suit. He has j worn it ever since, and this is his second I term. But he would not dare to go home j dressed as he is now, for his constituents | would think he had become effeminate. Several good stories are tout 01 ins nrsr campaign when he took the stump against I General Fry. When he was first nominated for Congress, General Fry asked him to unite with him and make several speeches together. Wolford accepted the invitation. The first meeting was enough for General Fry. General Wolford commanded the first Kentucky cavalry in the Confederate army, and the regiment was known as the "critter-backs." He had several of his men on the platform with him when he made his speech. He opened most brilliantly but suddenly startled General Fry by asking the assemblage if they knew what the Union had done with General Lee after he surrendered at Appomattox. "Why, gentlemen, will you believe it, when he was out walking under on apple tree, near the very house where he surrendered, they grabbed him. Yes, the men who had granted him a parole seized him, and, sir, they not only did that, but they hung General Lee to the very apple tree under which he was walking! Hung him dead !" General Fry was so surprised he could not speak, but jumping to his feet, he said: General Wolford, you know that is not so. General Lee was never hung." "But, sir" exclamed General Wolford, "I was there, and I know it is so. Wasn't it, John!" and he turned to one of his "critter-backs." The man nodded his head, as did the others, who sat near him. General Fry sat back in his chair overcome. "This is not all," said General Wolford, turning to the crowd in front of him. "The Union men locked Jeff Davis up in Fortress Monroe, and one beautiful moonlight night when the tide was low, they took him out and tied him to a stake on the beach. The sea came in gradually, the waves swept over him and he was drown e<l, and they stood and heard his cries." This was too much for General Fry. Again he protested and said that Jeff Davis was alive still, but the "critter-backs" endorsed General Wolford, and seeing that his opponent intended to keep the thing up, General Fry withdrew and General Wolford was elected by a rousing majority. Another story is told of General Wolford when he was trying a case in his native town in Adair county, Kentucky. His client had been charged with poisoning some one. The chemist for the State had testified to finding arsenic in the stomach of the deceased, and then General Wolford took the witness in hand. "Did you find any flies' wings in the stomach?" asked the general. "No, sir, for I did not look for any. 1 found arsenic," answered the chemist. "Could you swear that there were no flies' wings in the stomach?" he asked. "No, sir, because I did not look .for them." "How did you know they were not there?" "I don't say they were not." "That's funny ; you say you found arsenic but no fly wings. Yet you are not certain as to their not being there," said General Wolford. The witness in vain tried to explain, the lawyer had twisted the witness up, and so he addressed the jury. "Gentlemen, I demand the acquittal of my client. This chemist says he found arsenic in the stomach of the deceased, but no fly wings. Yet everybody knows that when any one swallows one or two flies they turn to arsenic in the stomach, yet no fly wings were found; therefore I doubt if there was any arsenic there either." The man was acquitted ! HINTING FOR AN AEROLITE. The finding of the great aerolite which was seen by many persons in Independence township, Washington county, Pa., on the night of September 14, is told at length by the Pittsburgh Dispatch. About a month after the aerolite was seen and was said to have fallen, Prof. Jonathan Emeriek of Willioni on/I "\r.ir\r f'/JImr/i looron ?P!1 ff'h i nor flir it. His search led hi in into Butler county, then into Allegheny, and, although he decided that if the stone fell anywhere it must have been near Claysville, he examined very minutely all that region of country lying contiguous to Claysville, extending his researches north and south of that point, for about six miles, and also spent some time in wandering through that part of West Virginia lying adjacent to Washington county. On the loth ultimo, the savant was rewarded by finding the huge stone on the farm of Mr. Frederick Miller, about two miles north of Claysville. It was lying at the base of a high hill, which is heavily timbered with oak, and was deeply imbedded in the soil and almost concealed from view by dead leaves the wind had blown over it. The discovery was only an accidental occurrence. The Professor being well acquainted with the geological strata of Western Pennsylvania, was engaged in locating a well for the Claysville Oil Company, and in the discharge of this duty stumbled upon the spot where the immense aerolite lay. It required three men several days to unearth the monster. It had penetrated the earth until it came in contact with a stratum of limestone, when this sudden check of its fearful velocity caused it to break into many pieces of all sizes and shapes, yet when the earth was removed from around it, it still preserved its original shape so that the Professor was enabled to have a photograph made of it, and it only fell to pieces when the specimen hunters tackled it. Prof. Kmeriek states that there are only IS well-authenticated cases in which aerolites have fallen in the United States during the last GO years. Besides these there are 2G1 the date of whose fall is reasonably well determined. There are also 74 instances of aerolites in which the date of fall is not given authoritatively. Add to these 8G masses, which, from their peculiar composition, are believed to be aerolites, though the date of their fall is not ascertainable, and we find the entire number of aerolites which have fallen to be about 4G0. Prof. Kmeriek says this stone will weigh perhaps 200 tons, being considerably heavier than the aggregate weight of all which have heretofore fallen. On an analysis it was ascertained that there was in its composition chromium, nickel, aluminum, copper, magnesium, tin, and other metals and metalloids. It contained 87 per cent, of iron which may be readily worked. This indicatesthat the stone is not of terrestrial origin, for while iron ores are abundant in nature, iron in the metalic state is exceedingly rare. It also contains in a small quantity a substance called schrelbersite, a composition which has never been found except in aerolites. Its specific gravity is 7,412, about twice that of the Gurnsey, 0M aerolite, which fell on the 1st of May, I860. The elevation of the aerolite was computed to be about 25 miles above the earth's surface, and its path was nearly horizontal. The length of its visible path was about 150 miles, and it moved from northeast to southwest. The time of its flight was estimated between 5 and 10 seconds, indicating a velocity of not less than 15 or 20 miles per second. HOUSEHOLD*PETS. One has only to observe to discover how curiously dogs vary in character. At no period of life have I, a real lover of dogs, been without one dog or more, but I cannot recall any two that were precisely alike. In this respect dogs resemble ourselves, both human and doggie characteristics being largely the result of trainingand treatment. Some dogs are, of course, more readily taught than others are, being naturally quick and intelligent. But a willingness to learn seems to belong to all kinds. The more gentle and attentive you are to your dog the more anxious is the grateful and affectionate animal to give you pleasure, and when it finds that by doing this, that or the other it can win your petting and praise, its desire to please is sure to beget more or less quickness in learning. "Man," said the poet Burns, "is the god of the dog." On the other hand, no animal ismore shrinkingly sensitive to unkind treatment; a harsh reproach or angry word falls like a sharp blow on most dogs, and under the influence of systematic neglect and cruel treatment they become brutish, surly and unteachably stupid. Men and women, school-boys and girls, are apt to grow vicious, spiteful, cowardly, envious and suspicious under the same influence, and to be correspondingly difficult toteacb or manage. The most capriciously ferocious and savage of bulldogs are said by those who are most familiar with their breed, nature and training, to be naturally exceptionally patient, gentle and peaceable, their ferocity being purely the artificial result of training and treatment. I don't know much personally of this breed of dogs?said to be a genuine old English breed?but from what I know of other dogs the statement appears to have nothing about it that is either extravagant or improbable. "The virtues of a dog," runs the well known saying, "are his own, his vices those of his master." One thing to be borne in mind while training a dog to perform any of those tricks which, as evidence of intelligence and obedience, dog lovers are so fond of displaying, is not to make the teaching wearisome. Short lessons frequently repeated will be far more effective than longer ones, which convert that which is a pleasure to the animal into something he is anxious to avoid. Reward sweetens labor, and the satisfaction vnn indicate hv rewardine- vonr net for his efforts to please, when successful, say with a piece of meat or some other favorite luxury, will be thoroughly well understood and appreciated. It is an excellent plan to carry a dog whistle and teach the animal to understand and obey its signal. If you would teach your dog when young to enter the water and enjoy a good swim, which is an excellent thing for the animal, never begin to do so by throwing it in. Entice it to enter the pond or river by throwing in pieces of biscuit, and, if this fails, attaching it to a boat in shallow water and so leading it out into deeper, is sometimes effective, care being taken to avoid weeds. The shock a young puppy receives when roughly thrown into water is a very serious one, which the animal is not likely to forget. ?Housewife. A RIVaVof" Sl'tlAH. Chemistry has recently given to the world another food element which, like oleomargarine, butterine, etc., will probably arrouse the ire of the producer of the natural article until Congress will be called nn to lpo-isdfite fnr thp nrntPetinn of sne^nr "" %v -w I' - ~ o cane. "Saccharine," discovered by C. Fahlberg, is derived from one of the hydrocarbons of coal tar. It is a white powder dissolving very slowly in cold water, but more readily in warm, and perfectly in alcohol, either glucose or glycerine, etc. In diluted solution it is intensely sweet, one part in 10,MO parts of water giving a very sweet taste, or about 230 times sweeter than the best cane sugar. It has no nutritive properties but is eliminated from the system without undergoing change. Mixed with glucose or starch sugar, in the proportion of one part to 1,000 or 2,000, it forms a compound scarcely distinguishable from the best sugar, and considerably cheaper than the product of the cane. "Saccharine" has been carefully investigated, as to its physiological properties, by Dr. Stret/.er, of Bonn, and .others, who claim that in the quantities necessary to sweeten food it has no injurious elfect on on the system. Fed to dogs in a quantity equal to two and a half rounds of sugar a day the animals remain*. .1 in health during the entire course of these experiments. Patients suffering from diabetes, in which l cntiur ic 5nfor/-lir?ftirl hotrp Kopn trnntpd with "saccharine" at discretion in one of the principal hospitals of Berlin for several months, without in anywise aggravating their malady. In this respect, at least, the new discovery is already of value, and there j seems little room to doubt that this product i of a refuse is destined to become an important rival to beet-root and cane sugar.? ! Chicago News. Thk Ncmkiials.?When the noble lionian of remote antiquity wanted to mark the number one he drew a single straight line or digit to represent the uplifted forefinger. In our modern type we print it I. For two he drew two digits or II.; for three he wrote III., and four he represented, not by IV., which is a comparatively late innovation, but by the good old clock-dial symbol, IIII. These, in fact, are nothing more than just the fingers of one hand. But how about five? Why should it be represented by the apparently meaningless symbol V? I Simply because V is not V, but a rude hieroglyphic of one hand, the broad stroke I standing for the four fingers united, while i the narrow one stands for the extended 1 thumb. V, in fact, is nothing more than a ! degenerate pictorial symbol, like the j still used by printers in certain circumstanc; es to call attention toa particular paragraph, j As for X, that is usually represented as j equivalent to two such hands set side by j side, but this interpretation I believe to be j erroneous. I think it much more likely (on I the Indian analogy) to stand for "one man I up," that is to say, ten, with a people who counted by fingers alone, or, in other words, employed a decimal notion. If this hypothesis be true, X represents a double of the Indian man figure, with outstretched arms and legs like a colossus, the hand having disappeared entirely by disuse, as often happens in the evolution of what are cursive hieroglyphics.? The Cornlnll Muyazine. A Georgia Mystery.?Some men in Georgia while out hunting recently, near : "Bloody Bluff," came on a house that seemi ed to have been built many years ago. (Irass and weeds had grown up over the steps, as if no one ever visited it. Looking in, to their surprise they saw cooking utensils, stove, bed, etc., tumbled up as it just left that morning. Everything seemed so mysterious that the party set about solving it. Five miles away a farmer was found who shed light on the mystery. Two years before a man with a wife and three children took possession of the house. They would never give their names, their origin, nor their history. A few weeks after the neighbors were summoned to the burial of the wife. The next day the hither and three children disappeared, and have never been heard from since. lie left the house in its present condition, and so great was the superstitious fear of it that it has never been disturbed. Cause of a Candidate's Defeat.? Parson Brown low's son John used to tell a good story about the canvass for Congress in a Tennessee district by Maj. Pettibone, a very eloquent man, a classical scholar, UMfl. .> r>. r.v.,1 ,lni,lll r>f 111 fAfmofinn tlllll Willi (l Ulilgc (111U U4 tutviuii?v?v*i which proved his defeat. It was said that he quoted the Latin poets, while his competitor told familiar jokes, adapted to the comprehension of the not over-intelligent populace of the region, and thus secure his election. One day during the canvass Taylor dealt in jokes and stories to the comprehension of the crowd, and kept them in a roar of laughter. Pettibone followed in his usual learned and solemn style, saying that he should not attempt to excite the risiblcs of the intelligent crown. "What's that he said ?" asked a mountaineer of Brownlow. "He said he would not attempt to excite your risibles," replied Brownlow. "Excite my risibles!" exclaimed the mountaineer ; "what does he mean by that?" "Why he means he won't make you laugh," replied Brownlow. "Then why didn't he he say so? I can't vote for no sich !" and a good many others didn't, and Pettibone was defeated. Origin of the Term "Teetotal."? Both England and America claim the starting the-first total abstinence society. The English claim is founded upon the fact that in 1832 a society at Preston, England, adopted the principle of total abstinence. It is also claimed by this society that the word tetotal originated with them in this way: Dickey Turner, a stammering farmer, referring to a moderation pledge which had been in use, said: "I'll have nowt to do wi' this botheration moderation pledge. I'll be right down teetotal forever." In a letter dated Troy, Pa., Sept. IS, 1885, the Itev. Joel Jewell disputed both of these claims. He says that in 1827 he was secretary of a temperance society in Hector, X. Y., whose constitution included a total abstinence clause. In writing the names of members on the roll he prefixed the letters 0. P. to the names of those who adhered to the old pledge, and a big T to those who were total abstainers. "By continually explaining that T was for total," he says, "we were directly called T-totalers, and this-ivas the origin of the word years before if was coined in England.?New York Sun. Remarkable.?Of Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, there have been seven in ninety-seven years. The first was John Jay of New York, appointed in 178!), served six years and resigned. The next was John Rutledge of South Carolina, who presided atone term of Court, but the appointment was not confirmed by the Senate. The third was Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut, who presided five years and resigned. Next came John Marshall, of Virginia, who presided 31 years and died in 1835. Next came Roger B. Taney, of Maryland, who presided twenty-eight years and died in 1854. Theu Salmon 1*. Chase wa? appointed, served nine years, and died in 1873, and was sue ceeded by Morrison R. Waite, the present incumbent. So while there were seven appointments to the office, we, in reality have only had six Chief Justices since the organization of the Government. As a people, we are among the youngest nations of the world, but quite well grown of our age. Marriageof Presidents?The only instance of a President marrying a second time is that of John Tyler, who was too bashful to kiss his first wife during their engagement, but was bold enough to marry a young girl shortly after her death in the White House. The first three Presidents married widows, and Washington had one or two love affairs before he got Martha Custis. Washington seemed to make it a principle to fall in love with nothing but heiresses, and he got a nice lot with Martha Custis, who used to tell him she brought the money into the family. Jefferson was a good match while he was in the White House. He was a widower and true to his first wife. Martin Van Buren was also a widower Prdsident, but though he said sweet things without number, he did not talk love. Jackson's wife was buried in the dreas made for her White House receptions, and Arthur put a memorial window to his wife in St. John's Church while he was President, and also sat in her old pew. Destroying Cabbage Worms.?A correspondent, writing to the Country Gentleman, says: "J never plant more than half an acre, but have not failed for forty-two years in freeing my cabbages of worms. I was at the house of a lady in Kentucky, who had the finest cabbages I had seen that year. I asked her how she had managed to keep them free of worms. She told me by sprinkling them with Hour, shorts or ship-J stuff. As soon as I got home I had mine I well ploughed, and the next morning 1 put I a large tablespoonful of coarse Hour or middlings on each head while the dew was on. The dew made it wet, and the worms began to crawl and roll over on the wet flour. The more they struggled the more paste they gathered ; they soon fell on the fresh ' ploughed earth, which being wet, would stick to them and clog their feet and legs, { so that they could not get into the ground. I Those that could not get off died on the I heads. The paste prevents all eggs from I hatching. South Carolinians Divorced in At- j lanta.?The Atlanta Constitution of Tues-1 day says: "Yesterday was divorce day in I the Superior Court. Seven suits were disposed of, total divorce being granted in each : ease. Judge Marshal J. Clarke had stricken from the docket about twenty-five suits for want of prosecution. There still remains a good number for his and the jury's consideration. From the number of suits it looks like that Atlanta is really the Chica-: go of the South. Ida 31. Davis was granted a total divorce from her husband, ltobert T.Davis. They were married in Clinton, South Carolina, in 187G. She alleges that he was very unkind to her aiul was an habitual drunkard, lie frequently beat her with sticks and in every way imaginable ' made life for her as miserable as possible. In 1879she quit him, finding that it was! dangerous to longer live with him. The evidence sustained the charges and a total | divorce was granted." j?"The lirst ship which sailed from Fug- j land in 1562, under Sir John Hawkins, on! the errand of buying human beings in Af- j rica and selling them to the West Indies, | bore the sacred name of Jems, and the ; Spanish Government during two centuries concluded more than ten treaties in "the name of the most Holy Trinity" which authorized the sale of more than 500,000 human beings, and received, from it a tax n f n vo r 50. Of 10 1 i vos_ fteadiag foi the JfaMath. j . .. I CONDUCTED IIY Itl^V. ItOBEIlT LATHAN. [Original.] THE CHI'Rt'll OF EFHESl'S-REV. 2 : 1-7. r?^? ? * r; i. ~ r a 1. ^ mere were in iuuior, uuiure meuusc of the first century seven flourishing church- j es. It is not certainly known by whom these churches were founded, but it is prob-1 able that it was by Paul, or some of those who accompanied him, in his missionary tours. Near the close ot his life, John, the beloved disciple of our Saviour, was, by I)o- ; mitian, banished to a rocky, barren island I in the .Egean Sea. While enduring pa- | tiently the hardships and privations of ban- j ishment, there was communicated to him | the book which we call the Book of Revelation. One feature of the Book of Revelation is that it consists, in part, of seven prophetic letters addressed, one to each of the seven churches of Asia. The first letter is addressed unto the angel of the Church of Ephesus. By angel of the Church of Ephcsus, and by the angel of each of the other churches of Asia, we are to understand, not one of those spiritual beings often spoken of in the Scriptures, but the pastors or bishops or presiding officers in each of those Churches. The contents of the epistles arc designed for the warning, admonition and encouragement of all the members of the several churches to the angels of which the epistles are addressed. There is evidently, whether we can understand it or not, a close and inseparable connection between the seven letters and the seals and trumpets afterwards mentioned in the Book of Revelations. It is supposed, and not without reason, that each of these seven letters embraces seven periods of the world's history. The letter to the Church of Ephesus contains, it is thought, a prophetic history of the state of the Christian Church, from the beginning down to .30.1, or to the beginning of what is known as the Diocletian persecution. The state of the church during the Diocletian persecution, or the Church from 303 to 313 is contained in the letter to the Church of Smyrna. The third period of the Church's history which extends from 313to GOG, when Boniface III. became Pope, is prophetically described in the letter to the Church of Pergatnos. From 606 to 1260, was a period of crreat affliction to the Church. These afflic tions are supposed to be prophetically described in the letter to the Church of Thyatira. The letter to the Church of Sardis is supposed to cover the period in the history of the Church from 12G0 to 1517. The letter to Philadelphia prophetically describes the state of the Church from the beginning of the Reformation in 1517 down to the Revolutionary settlement in England, in 1G88. The seventh letter was addressed to the Church of the Laodiceans and prophetically sets forth the state of the Church from 1G88 to the end of the world. Without either calling in question or attempting to establish the truthfulness of the above theory, in reference to time included in these confessedly prophetic letters, it may be said that, since history constantly repeats itself, there is much in each and all of these letters which describes the state of the Church in all ages. The first letter is addressed to the Church of Ephesus. At one time Ephesus was a city of considerable note. In it Paul preached Christ for three years, and in it he wrote several of his epistles. It was from Ephc sus that John was banished to I'atmos, and to it he returned after he wasdelivered from banishment, and here he died and was buried. The letter to the Church of Ephesus consists of two parts. Everything that is good about the Church of Ephesus is first stated, and then its defects are mentioned. This is suggestive. God takes no pleasures in punishing guilty and rebellious sinners, much less in chastising his people. The favorable features of the Church of Ephesus consisted in its having patiently labored and not fainted in its efforts to disseminate the truth as it is in Jesus Christ. There were at the time this letter was addressed to the Church of Ephesus, and after that time even down to the present period in the world's history, false apostles and false teachers. The object of these was then, and is now, and ever will be, to deceive. The Ephesian Christians tried the teachings of these deceivers by the word of God and finding that they were lies, rejected them. This was certainly commendable and it did receive the unequivocal approval of the king and head of the Church. There was another favorable feature in the Church of Kphesus. They hated the deeds of the Nicolaitans which God had hated then and always will hate. The Nicolaitans were a class of persons in the Church who held a creed, in all its funda mental principles, very similar to tnat nei? by the Mormons. The creed of the Nicolaitans was based upon bestial lust and their practice was in conformity to their creed. Whether there were any Nicolaitans in the Church ofEphesus or not we do not know. Probably there were some, but their influence over the mass was not at that time felt. Viewed from a human stand point the Church of Ephesus was certainly in a good condition. It labored patiently for the truth as it in Jesus Chirst and was prompt in rejecting false teachers. This is more than can be said of many congregations at the present time. No more can be said of any congregation at present than was said of the Church of Ephesus. Notwithstanding all that was really good in the Church of Ephesus he who walks in the midst of seven golden candlesticks had somewhat against it. This is suggestive. A congregation may have an orthodox creed and be on the constant lookout lest it be de- j ceived by those who claim to be apostles but are liars. As a congregation it may theoretically hate the doctrine and the deeds of the Nicolaitans, but still, as was the case in the Church of Corinth, there may be in it a species of fornication which has scarcely an existence among the heathens. The defect in the Church of Ephesus was that it had departed from its tir.st love. This may mean that it had departed from or forsaken the object of its first love, or that its ardor for the object of its first love had cooled. In fact the one includes the other. It had forsaken Jesus Christ, not entirely, but to a reprehensible degree, and to that extent had fixed its affections upon something else. This is startlingly suggestive. A congregation may be not only theoretically but practically, in appearance at least, orthodox and at the same time have lost its first love. God requires a great deal of us. lie is a jealous God. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind and thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." How far or to what extent the Ephesians had i left their first love we are not told. Perhaps it was only one single deed that had! been performed. The language favors this view. Certainly we are not warranted in concluding that the Church at Kphesus had, as a whole, entirely forsaken Jesus Christ and set its undivided affections on something else. All that it had done was it had ceased to love Jesus Christ supremely and had fallen in love with something else. "We are not told what that something else was. Silence on this point makes the lan-; guage emphatic. The Church af Ephesus is exhorted to consider the extent of its fall and repent and do its first works. The fall although it may have consisted of a single act, evident-1 ly was very great. Not only had the Ephe-! sian Christians left their first love, but they* had also ceased to do their first works. A ; part of their piety was a thing of the past. 1 In the event they refused to repent our Sa-; viour plainly and positively says : "I will come unto thee quickly, and remove thy candlestick out of his place." From verse twenty of the first chapter we learn that the candlestick means the Church itself. Obey or perish is a precept of the gospel as well as of the law. A lesson is suggested to those congregations which are dilapidated and apparently on the road to extinction. Remember from whence you have fallen and repent. ihc f orhviUr <?ut)nim. TKIIMH OF SUBSCRIPTION s Single copy for one year, 8 2 50 For six months, .*. 1 25 For three months, 75 Two copies one year I 00 Ten copies one year 20 00 And an extra copy l'or a club of ten. 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