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I gttwa^tts gcjrattment. He Did Not Know Him.?Mr. Potter Palmer, the veteran hotel man, has such an army of employes about the Palmer House that he doesn't know half of them even by sight. Recently he ran across a man who was cleaning windows?at least he was supposed to be doing so. In reality he was trailing the semblance of a human face in a thick coat of soap with M'hich he had covered the window pane. Mr. Palmer abhors trifling and laziness. "Go vvflrnn rtrt/1 *t/\M m r>mr J j v* A r*??OQmn_ w tnc uiiivu auu juui uu torily commanded the man. The fellow put on his coat and got his pay and was just going out of the Monroe street entrance when Mr. Palmer spied him. He took a fancy to his appearance at once. "My man," he exclaimed, benevolently, would you like a job?" The discharged employe was too much astonished to do else than murmur "yes, _ sir." "Well, I have just discharged a lazy fellow who was washing windows. If you think you can take his place you'll find his bucket on the etresol floor." The man is still working for the hotel man and the latter doesn't know the difference.? Merchant- Traveler. Ruined.?Jake Packard, of Echo Hollow, an old fellow who has been a squatter all his life, called on Col. Jickerson, the well known lawyer. Old Jake had a short time before employed the lawyer as counsel in a divorce case. "Good mroning, Uncle Jake, good morning, sir." "Hy'r!" said the old man, as he sat down. "Col'n, yer tole me that you'd have that 'vorce by yistidy." "Yes, I know that, Uncle Jake, but I have not been able to obtain it." "What!" the old man exclaimed, springing to his feet. "Ye9, haven't been able to get it." "Wall, I'll ber durned! I thought you had got it, an' I staked my all on your promise, an' now I'm ruined." "How so, Uncle Jake?" "W'y, bein' sartin that yer had the documents, I got married yistidy."?Arkamaio Traveler. Condiments in the Tea.?It is related that when Judge Wright, of Cincinnati, and Mr. Corwin were traveling together during a recent campaign, stopped to stay over night at the home of a prominent citiin Xa nantral nopf nf thA Sfflfp At WU AU V11V llik U1 V V* vatv v?? vw? ? ? supper the host's daughter waited on the table, and'knowing the distinguished character of their guests, was inclined to put on some style; and before pouring tea inquired, first of Judge Wright:?"Do you take condiments in your tea ?" The old judge was too polite to say anything but "yes" and let her fix his tea as she pleased. When she came to Mr. Corwin, she repeated the same question. The chance for a joke was so good that he could not resist the temptation to improve it, and he replied :?"Pepper and salt if, you please, but no mustard." A Needed Change.?"It all very well for you rich men to talk about law and order," said a young enthusiast to a Chicago millionaire yesterdny as the two rested in front of the First National Bank, "but the more I study the more I am covinced that the present distribution of wealth is entirely wrong." "What do you study ?" asked the millionaire, who began life without a cent and is now the owner of one of the greatest manufacturing establishments of the West. "I study political economy, of course." "I would advise you, my son, to adopt a portion of my old curriculum. Perhaps you would succeed better." "Why, what do you study?" "Domestic economy."? Chicago News. Afraid of Nothing.?How wouderful and adaptive are the twists and kinks of our varied and comprehensive language! A young gentleman, extolling the bravery of a friend attached to General Cook's command, finished with : "That fellow is absolutely afraid of nothing." "My case exactly," said a young lady present?one by the way, noted among her friends for more than usual feminine allowance of cowardice. There was a general shout of derision. "You ! why you'd be scared at a mouse?" "Well," was her calm reply, "didn't I say so? A mouse is, at least, something;' and I acknowlekged to being afraid of nothing."?San Franciscan. - ? Hurried Too Much.?Horace was standing in the upper hall one day doing something which his mother disapproved and ordered stopped. He continued at it after one or two prohibitions, and finally she started toward him. He darted toward the stairway and down the stairs with such haste that he went two, three and four steps at a time and landed in a heap on the floor. Gathering himself up, he managed to climb upon a chair, and sat there puffing and panting until his frightened mother reached him, when he was just able to gasp out: "Mother, you oughn't?to?to?hurry me so!"?Harpers Jiazarr. Ix the Natural Order.?School Teacher?"What! a boy of your age doesn't know the parts of speech!" Boy?"No'm" School Teacher?"Haven't you ever heard of a noun?" Boy?"Oh, yes'm." School Teacher?"Well, ?ow what comes next?" Boy?"Don't know." School Teacher?"A pronoun. Now please remember that. Then there's the verb. Now what follows that?" Boy?"A proverb."? Tid-Bits. A Good Chairman Sometimes.?Politician (pointing to a passer-by and addressing a friend)?"Theregoes the man we want for the chairman of the convention." Friend?"Why, Patterson? Why he is rather deaf." Politician?"That's why we want him for chairman. He belongs to our faction, and won't hear any motion that is not to our interest. Best chairman when he happens to be on the right side, I ever saw."?Arkanisaio Traveler. Of Course He Couldn't.?"I have loved you and I love you still," he said to the girl he had been courting for several months, "but there has come recently into my affairs a new order of things, and I fear that we can never be more than friends. I cannot marry you." "Well, who ever said you could?" she answered, with a snap that jerked him backward out of the front door and shattered even the hope of friendship.? Washington Critic. Changing His Opinion.?Smith?"I heard Brown speaking very highly of your neighbor Black yesterday. Jones?"Brown is a lulsome flatterer." S,?"He also said that he thought you were one of the most estimable of men, a kind husband and father, and a loyal and true friend." J.?"Oh !?er?Brown said so?h'm, I thought you meant White. Brown is an excellent fellow, honest and reliable." (Njiual foetrjh Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. THE JUST JUDGE. Palmam qui meruit ferat. by in'gomar. The Goddess of Justice smiles when he draws near, And surrenders her scales without dread or fear; A halo of glory encircles his brow, And Justice exclaims?I am satisfied now ! A just Judge is rare, and my heart oft doth grieve, For to tell you the truth I really believe That the people are mad, else they never would send To my Temple of Justice, nor countenance lend To the miscreants vile, who're infinitely worse Than some victims they sentence; for 0, 'tis a curse To have drunkards and villains, whose names I know not, Sit on my Bench ; and I oft blush with shame At the moek'ry of justice such vipers proclaim As the law of the land; for if I had 1113' due, 0, foully wrong'd victims, they'd change places with you: But this Judge, intelligence beams from his eyes, And his soul is as pure as the light from blue skies! My decrees he will temper with mercy most kind, And to worldly allurements he is ever blind: My white robes of ermine he ne'er will befoul Like the Vampires, the Furies, the Gnomes and the Ghouls, Who mock at my blindness while "decrees" they do sell,? They are fit only for the meridian of hell! ?His locks they are ven'rable?hoary with age,? And in his long record there is not a dark page To befoul or to tarnish, or bring blush of shame, And I bow when I hear his glorious name ! I bow with glad thanks for this one noble son, And his name would embalm forever in song. I know that when he takes his seat on my Bench No reeking foul odor,?no vile, filthy stench Will exhale from the ermine bis shoulders upon? That he'll frown upon vice and all that is wrong: That my scales he'll suspend like a featherweight, And no countenance give to the lordly or great, But justice mete out to the rich and the poor,? Ilis decrees will be justice simple and pure. So I smile in his face, and greet him with joy, Wlipnfivpr mv Tomole mv fav'rite draws nigh ; I greet liim?All hail! 0, my glorious son ! Thou art spotless and pure as the rays of bright sun! 0 long may you live, and with wisdom adorn The tribune of Justice!?you're my Temple's charm! 0, would that all Judges were like unto thee ! No more from my Temple in shame would I flee! No more cloud my face with a mantle of woe To hide shame's suffusion, which burning doth glow,? Whioh tells that I'm stifled my own Temple in! And I mourn and weep for the grievous sin That is done in my name, whilst I'm tied band and foot By a miscreant vile, or a base, drunken sot! But you, noble son ! my Temple adorn Like the first flush of light from a glad Summer morn! ?Then hail to the just Judge! 0 long may he live! Green laurels he's won,?I the crown to him give! Entwined laurel andpalm are as fadeless as time, So 'round his pure brows I them lovingly twine! Then, rejoice Carolin'ans, when his name I now mention. This, my glorious son, is?Chief Justice Simpson ! Columbia, S. C., 1SS6. Miscellaneous gteadiug. THE TERROR OF A CITY. Between the woman who wanders about the streets shoving a baby carriage before | her and the woman who drives a horse and | buggy there is a choice. The baby carriage can sometimes be dodged, jumped over or got around. You can sometimes evadeit by climbing a telegraph pole or rushing into a basement. If you are armed with a club and can look ferocious the woman will sometimes turn aside and cripple some one else. But for the woman who drives a horse and buggy?look out! I saw her start out the other day. When the horse left the post the woman was looking back to wave her hand at somebody, and the lines were on the dashboard. There was an ice wagon coming up the street, but wave she must and did. She was almost ready to turn her attention to the horse when he stopped. He had to. He had run plump into the ice wagon, and he couldn't climb over it. The woman picked up the lines, pulled on the "gee" and then on the "haw," ran the horse over the curbstone and twisted around a tree, and as she got into the street again she upset a swill cart with the off wheels and went her way with serene countenance. When she reached me avenue sne was iussing with the lap robe, and the horse took a long turn. There was a street car passing, and if the driver hadn't put on the brake and turned his horses across the track she must have been run down. It is doubtful if she noticed the fact. She pulled on one rein with both hands, told Dobbin to "git up," aud finally got away on astraight line, on the wrong side of the street, of course. A brick team crowded her into the curbstone, but the smile never left her face. A milk wagon rubbed the fore wheel, and the milk man yelled at her, but she looked straight ahead. The horse finally crossed over to the other side on his own account, and the street car missed the hind wheel by such a close shaye that half the passengers cried out in alarm. All of a sudden the woman pulled hard on both lines and cried "Whoa!" She had been struck at sight of a new hat on a passing woman, and she wanted to see more of it. A grocer's delivery wagon was following close behind, and the sudden stop brought about a crash. Horse, woman and phoeton were slewed around and almost upset, but the only one at all disturbed was the horse. He didn't seem to believe in sudden changes. He was hawed and geedand pulled into shape, and as he jogged along agaiu the lines were dropped while the driver fussed with her hat. Her buggy struck the nose of a horse backed up to a grocer's door?brushed against an express wagon?skinned along the side of a street car, and finally locked wheels with a beer wagon. Nothing was broken?nobody disturbed in mind or body. A harnessmaker backed her horse out and headed him down street, and the serene journey was again resumed, to be interrupted on the next block by the animal bringing up against the i DacK enu 01 a iarmers wagon. "What in blazes?!" roared the farmer. But he stopped there. She had dropped the lines to tuck in the lap robe. Down at the next street three men stood talking. The phaeton crossed over and made a bee line for them and drove them off, and then crossed back and skinned along a pile of brick and drove four or five stonecutters to jump for their lives. It was just half a block further that the horse was "hawed" to cross to a photograph gallery. Vehicles were crossing in a mob. A carriage ! was stopped still, a Ashman's cart backed into a sand team, and a plumber's horse given a setback to last him for a month. But retribution was at hand. A two horse j dray caught a hind wheel of the phaeton i and wrenched it off, and drove splinters ; into the pavement. Some one held the i horse, and someone else helped the woman j out, and when she had surveyed the wreck she mildly observed: "I wonder how on earth that could pos1 sibly have happened, when I am such a good driver!" I give you fair warning. I saw her at ' the wagon shop yesterday bargaining for a new wheel. She intends to drive out again. No arrangements can bo made with the signal service man to hoist the danger signal when she starts out, nor will the police ride on ahead and clear the streets. The public must look out for itself until the legislature again convenes and some law can be made to cover the case.?M. Quad, in Detroit Free Press. THE FARMERS' MOVEMENT. The News and Courier of Wednesday contains the following card from Mr. Stackhouse, chairman of the committee on organization of the recent Farmers' Convention : As chairman of the committee on organization of the late Farmers' Convention I am in receipt of a number of letters in reference to the future conduct of said organization, and as another member of the committee is in receipt of similar inquiries, I ask the space in your columns for a short open letter of answer and explanation, and it is due both to parties writing to me and to myself to say that my delay in answering was caused by severe personal affliction. The committee on organization is not now charged with the duty of aiding in the formation of clubs and county associations; the president of the convention appointed one man in each county to aid in this work. It is expected that the official statement of the convention's doings will be published in the June bulletin of the department of agriculture by reference to which it will be seen who was appointed to the discharge of that duty. The organization is not "launched for the campaign" nor is it expected "that it will die out after the election." The purpose of the convention was to perpetuate the organization. It arranged to form a State association next November, which it is hoped will be permanent. The representation from the countieslo the State association next November is to be on the basis of representation in the General Assembly, and may be elected by a county mass-meeting. But surely it is not necessary to argue the advantages of organizing. Let there be a club in every township or community, and an association in every county in the State; let there be a general discussion of the convention's recommendations and the farmers' interests, and all good men may dismiss their fears, for before the November meeting of the State association they will have reached safe conclusions as to the importance of adopting them or the necessity of rejecting them. It could scarcely be expected that so large a body as the late Farmers' Convention, in attempting so much in so short a time, should fail to make mistakes. The recommendations of the convention are submitted to the consideration of the farmers of the State. Let them organize, pass upon them and render their verdict at the association next November. Because a farmer is not in favor of all the convention's recomendations is not sufficient reason why he should not identify himself with the movement unless he thinks the organization of a farmers' club is sufficiently dangerous, on general principles, to justify its being throttled. I submit that the better way would be to join the movement and aid in shaping the policy. E. T. Stackhouse. Little Rock, S. C., June 19,183G. Some Uses of Hospitality.?We are never more truly ourselves than when at home. In the home atmosphere is free, unhindered bloom of whatever gift or grace is native tothesoul. It follows, therefore, that the influence of men and women is pre-eminently persuasive, subtle, and helpful, when that influence is felt through the associations of the households, or, outside its circle, through its hospitalities. The home-life, the most precious of our earthly comforts, is indeed, in some sense, the one least susceptible of being shared with others; yet its sunniness and warmth are shed, not only in the tone and temper-of the household, as each one goes his way in thft world, hut more obviously in its hos pitalities. In many a village or country neighborhood, some one home, a little above the homes around it in culture and refinement, or in simple Christian living,? be it of pastor or teacher, of doctor or farmer,?is helping to lift the lives it touches, or which touch it, through its kindly hospitalities, to a higher and broader intelligence, thought and purpose, is setting the ! standards of many young men and women, raising them far above what they would otherwise be ; and theso ideals are to be realized in homes yet unestablished. The pictures on the walls, the volumes on the shelves, the dainty table appointments, the flowers, the little tactful conveniences, the air things have of being lovingly cared for, and most of all, and rarest the home atmosphere and the home ways, are all noted by the guests in such houses, though those guests seem to be awkward boys, or shy giggling girls. I suppose a girl or boy often gets her or his first impetus towards some possible attainment, from such infl uences.?Good Housekeeping. Stonewall Jackson and Barhaka Frietciiie.?Col. Henry Kyd Douglass, in an article on Jackson in Maryland in the Century, has this to say of the alleged incident which gave rise to Whittier's poem: "The troops being on the march, the General and staff rode rapidly out of town and took the head of the column. Just a few words here in regard to 'Barbara Frietchie,' a touching poem which sprang fullarmed from the loyal brain of Mr. Whittier. An old woman, by that now immortal name, did live in Frederick in those days, but she was 84 years old and bed-ridden; she never saw Gen. Jackson, and Gen. Jackson never saw her. I was with him every minute of the time he was in that city?he was there only twice?and nothing like the scene so graphically described by the poet ever happened. The story will perhaps live, as Mr. Whittier has boasted, until it gets beyond the reach of correction. "On the march that day the captain of the cavalry advance, just ahead, had instructions to let no civilian go to the front, and we entered each village we passed before the inhabitants knew of our coining. In Middletown two very pretty girls, with rIKIinnenf rod whitofinfl hi IIP tlOfl 11 nif frOIli their hair and small Union flags in their | hands, rushed out of their house as we j passed, came to the curb-stone, and with much laughter waved their colors defiantly in the face of the General. lie bowed and raised his hat; and turning with his quiet smile to his staff, said: 'We evidently have no friends in this town.' And this is about the way he would have treated Barbara Frietchie.''? Chicayo Herald. A Mohammedan Joke.?It is the belief among the Mohammedans that if early prayers are said forty mornings in succession at the mosque before any one else arrives, the person so doing shall have good luck and prosperity. There was a poor man in Constantinople who was the picture of bad luck and improvidence. Every morning early he repaired to the great Mosque of St. Sophia and invariably found some one ahead of him, thus breaking the charm. One morning, as usual, he discovered the earlier devotee, and, as he proved to be the same one all the time, he thus spoke : "My friend, I am poor and need good luck. For many mornings I have come hither to pray, each timecarlierthan before. Give me a chance; tell me how you get here earlier than I every day." To which the early devotee replied: "I have two wives. When I awake in the morning, one brings me my slippers, the other my ablution bowl, and by these wives attending to my wants together, I am enabled to be off earlier for prayers than if I had only one wife." The poor man resolved to profit by the advice. lie got him another wife, and in a few days discovered the real secret of the early devotee, viz., the war between the two women made very early morning prayers at the mosque a blessing. - - - - - % ?o- - Silhouettes.?Until Daguerre made his discovery, the wealthy had their miniatures painted on ivory, but the cheaper portraiture invenced by Silhouette was very common. Profile cutters, as they were called, were found in all cities and large towns while others went about the country from house to house, so that it was rare to find a sitting room in any decent house that did not boast of a framed silhouette, one looking to the right and the other to the left. There were different ways of arriving at the same result, but the work was chiefly done by cutting the profile out of white paper, which was backed by a piece of black silk or black paper neatly mounted. To insure success it was necessary to have a steady hand and a correct eye; with these qualities one could cut a likeness in a few seconds. There were also several mechanical contrivances for producing silhouettes, one of which Sam Weller doubtless had in his mind's eye whetf^fc inditing his valentine to Mary, he likened the growth of his love in its rapid operations to the "profeel machine," which "doesfinisha portrait | and put the frame and glass on complete, with a hook at the end to hang it up by, and all in two minutes and a quarter." Applying a Madstone.?Mr. J. H. Blackwell, of Iteidsville, was bitten by a mad-dog some days ago. Mention was made of it in this paper. He was bitten by his own dog the morning of the Gth instant, lie applied the Sam Pointer madstone to the wound the evening of the Gth. At the first application the stone did not adhere very tenaciously, but at the second application, about two hours afterwards it stuck very rapidly and remained sticking tightly one or two hours, when it fell off. The pores of the stone were tilled with a white, frothy substance. The stone was put in a vessel of water, slightly warmed, when a green, greasy-looking substance arose upon the surface of the water. The stone was taken out of the water a few minutes afterwards, and was apparently as free from any foreign substance as before it was used. The natural color of the stone is black ; one side of it being hard, solid and glossy, while the other side is dull-looking and porous. The stone was afterwards applied at intervals, each time the adherence to the wound become weaker and weaker, until finally it refused to stick at all. The stone did not became discolored after the first ap plication. This stone belongs to Sam Pointer and George W. Barnett, of Roxboro, Person county .?Raleigh (A7. C.,) Observer. A Relic op the Middle Ages.?"Andorra" is an independent State in the Pyrenees, adjoining the Spanish province of Leredo. It is not dependent upon either France or Spain and has been self-governing since the time of Charlemagne. The great monarch recognized the Andorrans because they helped him against the Moors. This little State has an area of about 600 square miles and an estimated population 01 /,uuu. Those who indulge in dreams as to what the future may bring forth, believe that it is the fate of modern Europe to break up into small communities which will be self-governing locally while acknowledging a central authority, which would dominate the Western World. The most perfect form of Democracy known to ancient or modern times, was the New England town meeting. The neighbors in the local cities met and managed their own affairs. This seems to be impossible in densely populated cities. But the dream of all consistent Democrats is that the authority of the central power should not interfere with the self-government of the different localities. These pigmy governments, like Andorra and Monaco, which have come down from the Middle Ages, are types of the decentralized governments of the future.?From DemoreaCs. A Substitute for Ivory.?An extensive industry has arisen in France to supply an artificial substitute for natural ivory in view of the growing insufficiency of the latter to meet the demands of art and industry. The majority of the products formerly employed were obtained by injecting white wood with chloride of lime under strong pressure. At the Amsterdam Exhibition, however, almost all the products had been prepared with the bones of sheep and wQcfo ninwc of doer and kid skins. The bones are for this purpose macerated and bleached for two weeks in chloride of lime, then heated by steam along with the skin, so as to form a fluid mass, to which are added a few hundredths of alum; the mass is then filtered, dried in the air, and allowed to harden in a bath of alum, the result being white, tough plates, which are more easily worked than natural ivory. Don't be too Fine.?Dr. Thad Davidson, in his new book foryoungmen, "Forewarned, Forearmed," bits out at the "fine young man" in this style: "He admires a scarf or a breast-pin, and, as be must have it, he purchases on credit, and ten to one, before he has money to pay, the one is threadbare or the other is lost; and so he grudges payment and is tempted to evade it. Thus the mischief grows. Don't seek to be too line. Be manly enough to appear just as you are. Be content to begin life at the beginning, and wait as others have done before you, till your income warrants this or that unnecessary indulgence. It is an awkward-looking arrangement when a youth begins with the large end of the horn, and comes out at the small end." Bayakd Taylor's Notion.?Bayard Taylor always insisted that animals recognize and remember the speech of their ^ inn/l nn/1 !f ic volntoil nf him thill. I Hill 1 VC I(UIU) C4I1V4 11/ JO louiwv. ...... J noticing a hippopotamus in Barnuin's museum that looked dejected, Taylor spoke to it in English, but the beast did not move its head. Then, going to another corner of the cage, he said in Arabic: "I know you ; come here to me." The beast at once turned its head and listened. Taylor repeated the same words, when the animal came to him and rubbed its head against the bars and looked in the face of the speaker with evident delight. It was probably homesick, and a sound it had heard in its native land was vastly comforting. A sheet of ordinary paper warmed in front of a tire will, in a dark place, give a very decided electric spark upon the application of the knuckle, with a crackling sound. Place a sheet of goldleaf between two sheets of paper thus electrified, and pass a pencil point over them in a zigzag course, and a strong luminous Hash will appear. J8?TThe perfection of the providence of childhood is easily acknowledged. Welcome the puny struggler strong in his weakness. The small despot asks so little that all reason and nature are on his side. Ilis ignorance is more charming than all knowledge, and his little sins more bewitching than any virtue. Heading fat the $>ahhath. CONDUCTED RY KEV. ROBERT LATHAN. [Original.] THE CHURCH OP SMYRNA-REV. 2 :8?11. The city of Smyrna is situated in Asia Minor, forty miles north of Ephesus, on a bay which extends into the land about forty miles. Itsnresent Donulation is somewhere between one hundred and twenty and one hundred and flfty thousand. The modern city does not, however, occupy the site on which ancient Smyrna was built. Scholars feel an interestin Smyrna, on account of the fact that it is one of the seven cities which claimed to have given birth to the poet Homer. "Seven cities claimed the Homer dead, Through whidh the living Homer begged his bread." The ancients bestowed upon Smyrna a number of names by which to indicate the estimate in which it held its beauty and grandeur. They called it "The Lovely, the Crown of Ionia, and the Ornament of Asia." All travelers agree that these descriptive epithets are not exaggerations. By Christians Smyrna is regarded as one of the important cities, because there was in it an apocalyptic church, for which an epistle was given by the Saviour to John when an exile on I'atmos. This epistle is addressed to the angel, that is, to the pastor of the Church at Smyrna. The Saviour styles himself "the fir9t and the last, which was dead and is alive." This is suggestive, and its significance will appear as we proceed. The prophetic period embraced in this epistle to the Church of Smyrna is ten prophetic days, that is, ten years from the year A, I). 303 to 313. This period is called the Dioclesian persecution. It might, however, with equal and perhaps greater propriety, be called the Galerian persecution. It is customarv to sneak of ten persecuting periods through which the New Testament Church passed during the Hrst three centuries. The first was during the reign of Nero and began about A. D. G4, and continued to the lime of that monster's death, in A. D. G8. The second began about the year A. I). 93, under Domitian, and terminated A. D. 9G. During the first persecution Paul and Peter were put to death, and during the second, John was banished from Ephesus to the Isle of Patmos. The third persecution occurred in A. D. 107, during the reign of Trojan ; the fourth, in A. D. 163, during the reign of Antonius; the fifth, in A. D. 202, during the reign of Severus ; the sixth, in A. D. 235, during the reign of Maximilian ; the seventh, in A. D. 250, during the reign of Decius; the eighth, in A. D. 256, during the reign of Valerianus; the ninth, in A. D. 273, during the reign of Aurelian ; the tenth, in A. D. 303, during the reign ol Diocletian us, and lasted ten years, or to the year A. 13. 313. It is clear from the predictions contained in the epistle aauressea to the apoeaiyptic Church of Smyrna, that a time of great tribulation awaited the Church, and that it would continue for ten prophetic days, that is, for ten years. This corresponds with the Diocletian persecution. The order to persecute the Christians was issued in February A. D. .'103, and Diocletianus died A. D. 313. Diocletianus was the descendant of an obscure family in Dalmatia. His birth place was Dioclea. From this town he derived the name Docles, which was changed to Diodes to make it conform to the Greek. It was afterwards changed to Diocletianus, which is the Latin form of the name, and that by which he is generally known. From a common soldier, Diocletianus rose to the high position of emperor, in A. D. 284.For political purposes, he, in 292, made Galerius, Maximian, and Constantius his colleagues. Maximian was given control of T?nln on/1 A fri/xi fJiiloriiic nf Tlimpp r?ml A I ?11 Jr' UUU ^LIllVll ) V. M.IM Illyricum; Constantius, of Gaul and Spain, while Diocletian us retained Asia and Egypt. Galerius, for some reason, was always hostile to the Christians, but until February, A. D. 303, Diocletianus had shown himself well disposed to them. Galerius repaired to Nieomedia, where was the court of Diocletianus, and by representing the Christians as a horde of conspirators induced him to issue an edict against the followers of Jesus Christ. The Jews favored this, and Jews and heathen priests went to work to devise means by which, in the most cruel and barbarous way, to exterminate all who professed to be followers of the Lamb of God. These persecutors believed they had accomplished their design and erected a monument to perpetuate the memory of their success. Time has demonstrated that the Diocletian or Galerian persecution failed so far as its agents were concerned, to accomplish the purpose for which it was begun and carried on by them. Assuming that the apocalyptic letter to theChurh of Smyrna prophetically reveals the sore trials through which the whole Church passed during the reign of Diocletianus, a marvelous dispensation of providence is presented for our consideration. It will be noticed that not a single word of condemnation, censure or rebuke is uttered against the apocalyptic Church if Smyrna. "I know thy work, and tribulation, and poverty." Evidently this is said in commendation. It wouldbeabsurd toconclude that this apocalyptic church was absolutely without sin, and that all its works were right, absolutely, in the sight of God, but we are warranted in concluding that it was following Jesus Christ in sincerity and endeavoring, by tne strength of Divine grace, to keep all the commandments of the Lord. The apocalyptic Church of Smyrna was made up of "true believers who delighted in the law of God in the inner man. Notwithstanding the fact that Jesus Christ approvingly saw their works, they were the objects of the persecutor's hate, and by him reduced to poverty. But says the Saviour "thou art rich." It is worthy of notice that our Saviour declares that all the evils which the apocalyptic Church of Smyrna would be called upon to suffer would be brought upon it by the devil. Diocletianus and Galerius and their aiders and abettors, were only the willing servants and misguided dupes of the devil. It is readily admitted that the devil is neither Omnipotent nor Omnicient, and that he is a creature, and a fallen creature, still God, for wise and holy purposes, which we cannot fully understand, permits him to cast many of those who are Israelites indeed, into prison. Encouragingly our Saviour begins his let-1 ter to the apocalyptic Church of Smyrna, by declaring "that he is the first and the last, that he was dead and is alive." These words seem to stand in close logical connection with the words "fear not those things which thou shalt suffer." In other words our Saviour encourages this apocalyptical Church by declaring unto them that he is the prince of life. They need not fear what either the devil, or his deluded followers, can do. It will be well in the end. The character of the apocalyptic Church of Smyr na and the sore afflictions which it was called, in the providence of (lod, to endure are very suggestive. To be tormented of the devil is perhaps not as common now as it was at the time our Saviour was bodily hereon earth, but it is certainly not uncommon. God grants the devil power which he uses in tormenting the saints. This is as far as the devil can go. He may erect monuments to mark his success, but in the end they serve as monuments to mark his failure. In not a single instance has the devil gained a victory over any of God's chosen ones. He has cast some of them into prison, but Jesus Christ has always delivered them. He is the first and the last, the beginning and the end. He was dead, but he isnow alive. To all his faithful followers he says when the devil persecutes, "Fear not, be faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life." We can form some conception of a crown of gold studded with sparkling diamonds, but no language will describe a crown of life. We may learn an important lesson from the apocalyptic Church of Smyrna. 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