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1 * f - - ': Gibraltar's 200 Years / Taker; by Rooke in 1704 as an Af ertliought. Now Briv turn's Bride. By KolmJ Mo?lll In |h? Ninternth Centnry and Afiar P?August 4. 1704 tcew style), the Rock of Gibral I ( ) I was captured by Groat L-V/ I Bvitaiu. and it lins re *^1 ItHi mained in her possession W from tiiat day to this. Among the " many possessions scattered all over the globe that are coinpris?xl in the British Empire to-day there is none that 1 the nation holds with greater tenacity ( for reasons both of sentiment and of material interest and none that it would lose with more poignant shame and sorrow that the redoubtable strongheld we took from Spain at the beginning of the reign of Queen Anne. The fact that throughout the eight- ' rentli century, wtym so many conquests hi both hemispheres changed hands backward and forward in successive wars and under successive treaties, Gibraltar, remained perma ticntly in the keeping of England, might seem to prove that British seuti??Anf u/IHi foirowl iA if U'O C fpAttl tllO lirst tbe same as it is to-day. But this is far from bavin? been the case. For. although at the end of 200 years of our possession of the fortress, at a time when the imperial instinct of ' Englishmen has become more con- J sciously developed and more deeply ingrained than ever before, and at the same time more intelligently appreciative of the true meaning of sea power and alive to the strategical requirements of its maintenance, the reteution of the key of the Mediterranean has become an essential article of our political creed, it was a considerable time before the immense value of the acquisition was fully railized by Brit- ; ish statesmen. It seems strange enough to us to remember that King George I. and liis Ministers were ready to give up Gibraltar merel/ to secure Spain's acquiescence in the arrangement by which the Quadruple Alliance was j anxious to make some pettifogging modifications in the shuffle of terri- 1 tories efT^cted by the treaty of Utrecht, 1 but it is still more extraordinary that ' , 50 dear-sighted, patriotic and high- ' pointed an empire builder as Lord Chatham himself should hare made a similar offer as an inducement to Spain to help us to recover Minorca? and this, moreover, at a time when the fortress has been in our hands for more than half a century and its vital importance to our growing maritime supremacy bad already been abundantly proved in the naval wars of the pericd. Happily the Spaniat-ds were as blind as ourselves to the supreme importance of the position commanding i.he road from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. The truth is, as readers of Mahan <l<r -iot need to be reminded, that the importance of sea power and the nature of the foundations on which it is based were very imperfectly grasped even by Eugland in the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century and scarcely at all by any other European power. Occasionally at intervals some statesmen like Colbert in France, or Alberoni in Spain, had more than an inkling of the truth. . but no nation except England made , deliberate and sustained efforts with a view tc maritime development. Even . England cu* so rather by instinct than .">y insight. Of this blindness to the true prin- . dp'es of maritime policy the taking of . -ti'braitar and its history during the following three-quarters of a century . afford a striking illustration. Jr.st as toe vast importance of its acquisition was at the time underrated both by England and Spain, so its actual capture by the former was an afterthought ?n. i at mnv almost be said> au acci lent. It became a British possession in * fhe first instance because at a time when we happened to be at war with , on.' of the rival claimants to the Spanish throne our admiral in the Medit- * te; mean happened to have no parti- | cclar objective iu view, and. having failed in his only enterprise of that year, was unwilling to return home, with a fine fleet that had done nothing r for the honor of the flag. So he thought r he might as well make an attack ou a <J ileal tar as do anything else. Nev- , crtheless. his action has to be reck- ^ ored among the notable "deeds that' r won the empire,'* aud one that ou its' ^ bi-ceuteqnary deserves to be hold in T remembrance. . . e Gr>1'od Lion Cte?k>. A i explorer, who has often, by com* pulsion, eaten the flesh of animals not. 1 generally used as human food, says ^ that grilled lion steaks arc delicious e.nd iQueli superior to those of the ii- 0 ger; that the flesh of the rhinoceros, j1 properly prepared, has ail the good jualiiies of pork; that the trunk and feet of young elephants resemble veal. &nii that stewed boa eonslr.etor is a p spieudid substitute for rabbit. t V Oarer Way of Tellinjj Tiino. i In Malay ilie natives keep a record g o? ;inie in a remarkable manuer. f floating in a bucket tilled with water y liiey place a cocoanut shell having a o fit.nrll perioration, through which by a slow degrees the water finds its way tl inside. This opening is so propor- tl tioncil that it takes just one hour for a the shell to fill and sink. Then a v watchman tab's out. the shell is einp- p tied atn^ th; operation is begun again. s # y ? k AGAINST MAIL ORDERS. . Counlr.v Merchant* Fifflit Catalogue lloniei Through Local Werkliei. Cronin Brothers. owning n general store at Morris, III., a town between three thousand and four thousand people. publish large interesting ads in the local newspaper, advocating buying at home and offering to sell at same prices as the large Chicago houses, if freight, etc.. be added. The announcements are so large as to make their reproduction an impossibility. In the paragraphs below, the gist of one of tlieui is given without display: We propose to meet the prices of the department stores or catalogue houses. All we ask is that you deal with us on the same basis that you deal with catalogue houses, and give us the same amount of time to get the goods which it would require to get tlieni from them. Plank your money down when you order the goods and we will meet each and every price they make and. furnish you the same goods at the same prices they offer you. We will go further. We don't ask you to take any goods where mistakes are made in ordering. We'll shoulder the mistakes. If any of you have ever had anything come wrong you know what a nice little job it is to get it corrected, no matter Jiow willing the firm is to uo so. It takes correspondence, stamps and freight on the goods to get them exchanged, to say nothing of tlie loss of time. Some people prefer to buy away front home because it sounds big to he able to say they ordered from Chicago, etc. We know of one party who is actually paying more for goods bought away from Morris than he could buy .them of his dealer here. This kind of people we can do nothing for. but the kind who are ranking the dollar go just as far as they ran. we can and will do something for. Give us a trial on the proposition wo make, if you are one of those who have been buying away from home. Bring your catalogue with you. If we fail to furnish the goods without a r^-.sonable excuse don't give us your confidence again. Try us once. We don't fear the result. We are residents of Morris. We are your home merchants. We help pay taxes. We have to live and consume some of your products. Is our proposition wrong? The whole trouble about our people about Morris is the same with which so many communities are suffering. That old slow-conch credit. Some of It so slow we never get it. No merchant can sell goods cheap on that plan. The dollar invested in goods toilay and sold for cash to-morrow can be invested in more goods the following day and the same process of sale may be repeated, but the dollar invested in goods to-day and sold on credit to-morrow is tied up just so long is you don't got it back, and its earning capacity is stopped for the uier " Can ;baut until tie gets u u. ?<.??. rou wonder why the catalogue house Pas the advantage in price over most )f your home merchants? The catalogue house won't trust you: oven demands the money iu advance with no ?oods in sight. Your home merchant nften trusts and often to his sorrow. ?ven though 100 per cent, sometimes l>e his profit. Many times a seeming profit of 25 per cent. 011 goods sold to 1 good man turns out to be merely a small interest 011 the money invested because of slow pay. Treat your home merchant like you arc compelled in :reat your catalogue house and we :hink you will get better results. Omnivorous Folly. Wallace Maxfield's parrot, it Is said, s receiving a remarkable education. It is understood that Mr. Muxficld is ;eacbing the bird to toll some of his jest stories. "As my parrot will live :o be nearly a hundred years old. barring automobile rides." said Mr. Maxield the other day. "I have plenty of inie to teach her before she dies." It is further understood that the drd is now studying the second verse >f the story about the G. A. R. veterin who had his face so full of bullets hat it turned the edge of the razor to ihave him. "What does your parrot cat?" was isked Mr. Maxfield the other day. "Well." answered Wallace, as he arefully adjusted the ash of his pipe, 'anything that is suitable for an elc>hant is fit for my Polly. She'll eat mything from bananas to Jacc curains."?Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Chine** Burial Cuilomi. When a rich r.ud important Chinanan dies his funeral is coudueted with nuch pomp and spleudor. His friends ind relatives, instead of sending vreaths, send innumerable banners. These are made of white silk, with incriptions beautifully worked in black civet, and express the senders' good vishes to the deceased, himself or to uembers of his family for many genrations.' On the day of the funeral hesc banners are carried by hired aen, who are all dressed alike for the occasion. After the funeral, which asts several hours at the cemetery, is .vor thn banners are all brought back, nd eventually grace the rooms of the ate Chinaman's house. An Accurate Timekeeper. The best timekeeper In the world is aid to be the electric clock iu the lasement of the Berlin Observatory, vhich was installed by Prof. Foerster 1 1SG3. It is enclosed in an airtight :lass cylinder and has frequently run or periods of two and three mouths rith an average daily deviation of illy 13-1000 of a second. Astronomers re making efforts to improve even his and to secure ideal conditions for he clock by keeping it not only in n airtight case, but iu an underground ault. where neither changes of ternera ture nor of barometric pressure hall ever effect it. ^ Conventions and Association*. i__ junNE interesting feature ot Isl Is! educational work is the || holding of conventions in v-J connection with the build I ins of object lesson roads. While the work is in progress, a convention is called and the people come from far and near to witness the work of road building and listen to instructive addresses. Such a convention seldom adjourns without forming a permanent organization. Mainly in this way good roads asso ciations have been formed in all sections, and by them the work *of education and agitation has been carried on. At a great National convention for consideration of the road improvement question, held in Chicago, in November. 1900. the National Good Iloads Association was organized, and it has sir.ee grown until, with its affiliated State, district and local associations, it is without doubt the greatest organization of the kind in existence. But it is not the only National organization of this kind. The American IloadmakerV, of which the Hon. James H. Macdonald. of Connecticut, is President, is organized in nearly every section of the United States, and its recent annual convention at Hartford, Conn., wAs attended by several hundred delegates. In 1901, an international congress of persons interested in road improvement was held at Buffalo, in connection with the Pan-AmerUan Exposition. All sections of the United States and several foreign couutries were represented. It would be impossible in this brief review of the good roads movement to even mention the many important i! ?1.! -I- I hnl.t convenuuus nun-u untc mu u,..v* since the great Chicago meeting of 1892. But no history of the movement would be complete without some account of the National convention held at St. Louis at the time the Louisiana Purchase Exposition was dedicated. In the number of leading public men who attended and participated, this gathering far exceeded any of its predecessors. Addresses were delivered by President Roosevelt, Hou. A. C. Latimer. Colonel "William J. Bryan, General Miles and by several Congressmen and Governors of States, as well as many other men of National prominence. National Aid Movement Launched.The most significant feature of the St. Louis meeting was the launching of the National aid plan. Colonel W. I*. Browniow, of Tennessee, hud given this plan prominence before the country by introducing a bill in the Fiftyseventh Congress providing that the Government should co-operate with the States in the improvement of the roads, and pay one-half of the expense. From the first this proposition attracted much favorable attention, especially among the rural population. But the idea was fairly launched on its National career by the convention at St. Louis. It was, in fact, the principal theme of discussion and the senItment for it was well-nigh unanimous. Good Ilonds in Congress.?The St. liUUin n/in ciuiuu nvmuu a vvuuu*4,iw representing all sections of the country to go to Washington, lay its demands before Congress, and argue in favor of the Nation's help in the work of improving the roads. Last January the Committee on Agriculture in both the Senate and House granted public hearings to this committee; and the Senate has since issued a report of the hearing for distribution to the people. On the whole it must be said that the advocates of National aid made out a strong case, and the report contains n large amount of valuable information. The Senate committee has since decided by a vote of six to one to make a favorable report on the Latimer bili, with some amendments, and this report will go- before the Senate for action at the next session. That public sentiment is generally favorable to the National aid proposition is shown by the fact that it has been endorsed by the Legislatures of six States, by the National Grange, the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, the American Mining Congress, and by State and local conventions and organizations of many kinds in all parts of the country. " State Aid.?No history of this movement would be complete without some reference to the State aid plan. In fact the greatest actual accomplishment of ?thc movement is that it has secured the adoption of this plan in ten States. The essential features of this plan are tl^e creation of a State Highway Commission, and the co-operation of the State with .the counties and towns in the work of road improvement. each bearing a fixed portion of the expense, though, no two States have adopted exactly the same plan. All the northeastern States from Maine to Pennsylvania and Maryland have adopted State aid, and the results secured are so satisfactory that the popularity of the plan increases every year. In New Jersey the State pays onethird of the cost of road improvement, n rwl IIia T.AnrSclofiivn tiaw onnrnnrlofAC CI1UI (lit UC^IiJJUlUlt ?W? $250,000 annually. In Connecticut the State pays two-thirds of the expenses and the annual appropriations are $225,000. Massachusetts spends nearly hulf a million a year, the State paying: three-foucths of the cost. In New York the State pays one-half the cost, r I i and {he last Legislature wade an propriation of ?(?00.000 for this purw pose. Pennsylvania's last Legislature appropriated $0,300,000 as a State fund, to be expended during six years, the State paying two-thirds of the cost of the roads built. All the other States in this part of the country have adopted this plan in some form. In these States the sentiment for National aid is strong, it being argued that the only ideally perfect and just system of eo, operation in road builJing is one in which the Federal Government enters as an active factor. A High Aim.?The good roads movement has been steadily gaining in force for a dozen years, and during the past two years it has gained at a greatly accelerated rate. The aim of its friends and promoters is to make an rtinl nf llm lirwpir nti tic mece-mpfl 1 mPtll ods ot' road work now in vogue in nearly all parts of the country, and to substitute therefor scientific methods, intelligent supervision, and co-operation of Nation. State and local community in a united and co-ordinate \ effort for the improvement of the roads j throughout the whole country This is < a high aim. and the undertaking is a 1 stupendous one. But who will say that ] it is too great for the Americau people 1 to accomplish? 1 AN HISTORIC WATCH. ' . Tim* Piece Made For King Chaile* t*l 1 Still Kiiiinintr. There is in the possession of Wilfred , Powell, who represents the Britioh eni- ] pire at this port, a timepiece that told < off the hours for England's toy a; Liar- j tyr. , After his victory over Charles II. t Oliver Cromwell wrote exultantly to ' England's Parliament, telling how the enemy was beaten from hedge to hedge till lie was finally driven into i Worcester. There were 7000 prisou- j ers among the spoils of that tight. The < royal carriage iu which the king had t been carried was there, too; and In 1 that handsome carriage was the royal ' carriage watch, which also fell into , tlie nanus or rue victorious v^rum v,en. 1 This timepiece of royalty, which 8 still ticks after a career of 2H2 years. ' was made in 1010 for King Charles I. ] by the royal watchmaker of that time. t King Charles I. was beheaded two c years before his son Charles II, was i defeated on and escaped from the lield r i of Worcester. It is of the oldest watch making pat- J | tern, being made entirely by hand, s and costing in its day a good round 1 | sum of tnon^y. The case is of solid sil- 1 j ver, ornamented in beautiful pierced c ; filigree work, and there is an outer v j case of copper with a handsome leath- ? j er cover, silver studded. The royal j; ; watch runs thirty-six hours with one a j winding. Only one hand is used in f i designating the time, j There is a silver bell enclosed within the silver case, on which the hours J1 are struck. There Is also an alarm at- j, tachment. The watch is four and one- v half inches in diameter, aud one and t a half inches thick. p Cromwell kept it as a personal pos- j, session for years. But after the res- p toration It fell into the hands of Jos- 8 eph Kipling. Esq.. of Overstone House, t North Hants. England, an ancestor of h Rudyard Kipling. Joseph Kipling was C also an ancestor of the present owner ? of the watch.?Philadelphia Telegraph, $ 0 WORDS OF WISfOM. u You cannot use virtue To* a varnish. " p Whatever soils the soul *?iust be sin. d A song will outlive ah sermons in jj the memory.?H. Giles. t Jest not with the two-edged sword P of God's word.?Fuller. B Rulers always bate and suspect the next in succession?Tacitus. ? The wonderful thing about a man is p his power to become.?E. I. Boswortu. * Evil never tempted a man whom he w found judiciously employed.?Spurgeon. tl Thou art poor indeed if thou art not tl stronger than thy poverty.?James o Allen. 1 $ When the service of the Lord seems n hard, it is because we are but imperfectly performing it.?P. Mercer. ^ A man who does not know how to v. learn from his mistakes, takes the best 8' schoolmaster out of his life.?Beecher. ft When one is sad or out of sorts for any cause whatever, there is uo rem- n edy so infallible as trying to make somebody else happy.?J. W. Carney. Where there is no mother there can ]g be no child. Their duties are recipro- o: cal: and if they are badly fulfilled on jj one side, they will be neglected on the j, other.?Rousseau. n St Fortunes In Broken GIem. ? ' The waste from glass furnaces f? ^ now made useful. Into a fire resisting gj mold are placed fragments of glass of n various colors, which are then raised oJ to a high temperature. The coherent ^ mass thus produced can be dressed V | and cut into beautiful mottled blocks h and slabs, forming an artificial marble of decorative surface. Designs ip re- y lief can be obtained by pressure while at the material is still plastic. From Jj1 broken glass a "stained glass" window can be made by firing, without pi the ordinary slow process of "leading." A prosaic soda water bottle in the final fulfilment of its destiny may tl dazzle the eyes as brilliant "dia- ai - - - ? " ^?? li uioiids" or oiner pmiuus oiuucc. Thus does the waste come to resemble ^ the most precious commodity if prop- 01 erly handled and utilized.?New York ti Herald. " Annual Diamond Output. ^ Mr. Louis Tas, one of the best known w diamond brokers, estimates the output of the De Beers mines annually at $10,000,000, and of other mines at $4,- w 500,000. Add to this the cost of la- bi bor, the profits of the syndicate, etc., hi and he thinks that the annual output | dj of diamoml5 is worth about $35,000,000, 8 . ^ A SERMON FOR SUNDAY a a A STRONG DISCOURSE ENTITLED. ? "MAN'S CONDITION: COD'S REMEDY." u An AddreM Delivered at the Mildmay n Conference by Sir Robert Anderaon, K. 11 C. K., I.L.D.?The Spiritual Helplecs- ^ neit and Uopelrssneee of Man. London. England.?The followinz ad- si dress, entitled, "Man's Condition, God's d Remedy." was delivered at the Mildraay si Conference by Sir Robert Anderson. K. C. m B.. LL. D. The special subject assigned to me is e< "The Spiritual Helplessness of Man by w Nature, and the New Birth From Above." w I am not here to defend the dogmas that w theology has based upon this truth. What b; concerns us is the truth itself. I say this it with emphasis, because of what is passing around us. ai And this should be our position in re- C gard to all the great doctrines of faith, w The age of creeds is passed. In days of al chivalry, when men had respect for truth tl and honor, creeds shut out those who tl could not honestly accept them. But now st they avail nothing to protect the gold tfc against "thieves and robbers." Men will w publicly, and in the most solemn way, N pledge their belief in every Christian m truth in order to gain office in our tli churches; and as goon as they secure the p< prestige and pay which office affords, they bl use the pulpits to attack the very truths Ix they are pledged and subsidized to defend, .as This being so, let us abandon the out- th ivories of our creeds, and, falling back cc upon the Bible, stand four-square In its bj iefense. hi In this spirit I approach my subject. I co im not ignorant of what theology teaches ibout human depravity, nor of the contro- ra I'ersies respecting it which preceded the G< settlement of our creeds. But on this th platform I will recognize no authority save it in open Bible. My reason for saying this m s because here, as on many other ques- ar dons, the opponents of the truth owe their ar vantage ground to what is called Chris- re dan doctrine on the subject. For the ah ioetrine is inconsistent with facts, where- wi is between truth and fact conflict is impossible. ki A natural man. i. e., a man who has Tl lot experienced the new birth, ano who fie ias not the Spirit of God, may live & -?C Arilitif iinrl rn/iti f 11/lrt tf/i lie Ui LUC (Ugliest/ lliuiaiu; ouu iwvuuuv. jv Scripture testifies that in these qualities ;he Apostle Paul made no advance after (v lis conversion. It is no answer to this ;o say that in his unconverted days he yc :ame under the external influences of di- "] rine truth. The fact remains that they vere unconverted days, and that with luch an environment he was able to main- I"1 ;ain such a life of purity and piety and eal, albeit he was spiritually dead in sins. ?Jj le took to religion as another man might wl ake to pleasure, or to study, or to trade, ne ir to drink. But in this, as he himself an Ieclare8. he was only following his natural >ent?"the desires of the flesh and of the . nind." Jn| Neither is it an objection that such a ']s use is exceptional. What man has done _ v nen may do. If the Fall made it impos- cP ible for men to live pure and upright 811 rves, in would be unjust in God to judge hem for their vices. r;1 There are two great standards or prin- _ iples of divine judgment. With those rno hear the Gospel, the conseguences of J ccepting or rejecting Christ are final and rit rreversible. As for the rest, men will be udged by the law of their being, whether 8 stamped on heart or conscience, or as ormulated in express commands at Sinai. tw THE NATURAL MAN. The first three chapters of Romans claim foi lotice here. The first chapter describes an he condition in which the mass of the by eathen world was sunk even in days res rhen the tide of human progress and cul- tei ure was at the flood, and when, more- th< ver, the great religious cults of classic thi 'aganism held up a standard of life as wa igh as any that apostate Christendom fiCi resents?cults of which one at least had ref uch spiritual vitality that three centuries thi fterwards it bid fair to supplant Chris- no ianity as the religion (I am not speak- bo ag of the true Christianity of the true gai Ihurch of God) maintained its ascend- snj ncy, it was first by penal laws of ex- Go reme severity, and second by adopting \y, he chief characteristic rites and errors f the Paganism which it thus persecuted, err These things need stating if we are to "A nderstand aright the closing words of pe] he first chapter of Romans. The vile he radices of the heathen world were not Qh ue to ignorance. They knew that their th? eeda were evil. They knew the judgicnt of God, that they who practiced sncn pr< hings were worthy of death, and yet they j racticed them. Ok But the case of Saul of Tarsus was tea rholly different. If what men call con- gjn cience were the arbiter of human con- as uct; if thnt were right which a man b0i onestly believed-to be right, his was a iivi erfect life. As judged by any and every pr( uman standard, Saul of Tarsus was a 374 attern saint; but as judged by God he pr, as a pattern sinner. And if you read the be middle verses of Romans 3 intelligent- ma r, this is the lesson you will learn from jt bem: It is pod's estimate of the life the f the natural man at his best?the life of dec be upright, pious, zealous Jew under law. p0i For that which is highly esteemed among J ten is abomination in the sight of God. the The story is told of the first Duke of arc ambridge, that when, in the reading of be Decalogue, the Seventh Commandment ras reached, instead of the orthodox re- ? xinse, he answered, in an aside, that was lainly audible, "1 never did that." But Fe ere was a man who could make a like !Y~ ;sponse to every commandment in the ? lecalogue. "As touching the righteous- ? ess that is in the law, blameless.' Such ni^ as his pround boast. "P You will say, perhaps, that this only ? roves that he was utterly blind and dead. . lut that is precisely what I am insisting a; that so far is it from the truth that . T uman nature is hopelessly corrupt and , epraved, as men judge of corruption and epravity, that a natural man may live a ? fe that would put to shame half the .F in ral?n(?nr Rv A pnilNP nf tin. . hristian asceticism and severe penances ?r "punishing the body," these calendar linta attained to what men deem saint- i lip. But to this man saintship was as . * atural as sin was to many of the saints : the calendar. One of the tests which people hold to be P nal is that man shall "do his best." anj fhat more can possibly be expected of '"Y10 im? This man "did his best." and his est was a "record" that has never been r&e eaten. What purity of life was his! That piety! What-burning zeal! What . 0 df-sacrificing devotion to what he beeved to be the cause of God! But looking ack upon it all, he writes, "Who was be- A re a blasphemer." And what a bias- to ( tiemer! tho And so, when he comes under the Divine Loi archlight, he declares himself the chief woj ? - o :? ?i.? 1 l;?? ?n ; 51II HITS. OiraillJIUg tile ivug nut \JL an Miv? le sinners of the race, he takes his place pro t their head, "of whom I am the first." is o : these were not the words of an in- is >ired Apostle in an inspired epistle, we- whi ight suspect exaggeration. And yet they hea ily express the well recognized principle of lat privilege increases responsibility and all ispoasibility deepens guilt. Of course he as 1 new no better. But that only made his I a ise the worse, for if ever there was a 1500 ian who ought to have known better it bod as he. And so he takes his place as pro chief of sinners." And he humbly adds, mai I obtained mercy." And he repeats this. For he was twice lercied. It is not God's way to put L iasphemers into the ministry. And so, as and e thinks of the Lord's "exceeding abun- sha ant grace" in calling him to the apostle- and lip, he says, "I obtained mercy, because self . * , / * t did it ignorantiy in belief." But for ft \ >st, dead sinner a plea like thin avail* bsolutely nothing. For ?uch. the one nd only plea is "that Christ Jesus came lto the world to save sinners." THE WORK OF REDEMPTION'. The Epistle to the Romans goes oa to nfold the doctrine oi salvation. Sijj arligns the sinner before the Divine judglent seat, and he stands there as guilty nd doomed. Salvation therefore can only c through redemption, and redemption lust be by blood. But as we have seen, n has another aspect: it corrupts and epraves the whole spiritual being. The nner therefore needs a new nature. H? iust be born again, born from above. But these truths must never be separat1. The Spirit's work depends upon the ork of Christ. Hence the emphasis with hicli Ave are told that Christ came by ater and blood; not by water alone, but y water and blood?as the R. V. renders , 'by the water and the blood." We all know what the blood means. We "?? "reHppmpH hv thp nrpriotia hlnoH of hrist as of a lamb without blemish and ithout spot." But some of us are much ; sea about the water. The water and le blood are figurative expressions. But ie figures are typical. Ana if we underand the types, both will turn our loughts to the sacrifice of Calvary. The ater was "the water of purification" of , umbers 19. Water that owed its cereonial efficacy to the sin offering. But ie sin offering was only for a redeemed ;ople; a people already redeemed by the ood of the Paschal Lamb. When the ord returns in blessing to Israel, then, i Ezekiel 36 teaches us, He will come "by ie water." But this is because His first mninfc was not by the water only, but i the water and the blood. The blood is already been shed, redemption is acimplished. > The two, I repeat, must never be sepated. And as redemption is altogether od's work, so also is the new birth. Like ie Apostle's ministry (Gal. 1: 1, R. V.), is "not from men, neither through an." No ordinance or "sacrament" has ivthing to do with it. Men can fix time id place for ordinances, for ordinance* late to earth; but the new birth is from >ove. The Spirit breathes where He ills. J It is to this thirty-sixth chapter of Ezeel that these words of Christ refer, iree elements in the new birth are specfid in the prophecy ? UJ "i win uprinKiO ciean waier upon iu. and ye shall be clean." ( . 25.) (2) "I will give you a new heart." . 20.) (3) "And I will put My Spirit within >u." (v. 27.) "'I THE WATER OF REGENERATION.* In Matt. 19:28, the time of its fulfillent for the man is designated by thci >rd as "The Regeneration?' And in the, ily other passage in the New Testament liere that word occurs, it is used in amotion with "the water of purification" id the Ezekiel prophecy. I allude of urse to Titus 3:5: "He saved us by, e washing of regeneration and renew- v g of the Holy Ghost." The word here ed is loutron. It is mis-rendered rushing," for it is & noun substantive d not a verb; and the R. V. gloss (mari) is misleading, for loutron is never ed in the Greek Bible for "the laver." . } it in the Greek Version of Ecclus. 34:25 is used for the vessel which heM "the iter of purification." But to return to the Divinely appointed e of the Jewish religion, What was the ! mbblism of the water? Scripture itself pplies the answer. The word loutron, e the word "regeneration," occurs only ice in the New Testament. I have alidy spoken of Titus 3:5; the other paste is Eph. 5:26. Christ gave Himself .y r the Church, "that He might sanctify d cleanse it with the loutron of water the Word." In the type the Israelite ? iched the sacrifice by means of the wa- , ; in the antitype the believer reachee e sacrifice by means of the Word. Hence * ? language of Scripture, "the loutron of ter in the Word." The water of puri- , v ation was, as we have seen, the water of feneration; and it is by the Word that i sinner is born again to God. It ha4 thing to do with mystic arts or shib- <, leths after the pattern of ancient Pa- .) nism. "We are born again" (as the in- ' j red Apostle teaches) "by the Word of A d"?"the living and eternally abiding & ord of God." ~ % \nd to guard against all possibility of ' ?, np nr miaannrphension. it is added. -is .nil this is the Word which by the GosI is preached unto you"?preached, as had already declared, "with the Holy ' > lost sent down from Heaven." Not . ^ ! Spirit without the Word, nor the ] ord without the Spirit, but the Word cached in the'power of the Spirit.' n all this the truth of Christianity is : counterpart and complement of the iching of the Old Testament. How can' ners, helpless, hopeless, dead ? as dead dry bones scattered on the earth?be, rn again to God? "Can these bones' 6?" was the question which led the ? ^ >phet to cast himself on God. And the1 h chapter of Ezekiel gives the answer: i J each to them. Call upon them to hear ') : Word of the Lord. (v. 4). This is' V"*T| n's part; or if anything more remains' -1 is "Prophecy unto the breath"?pray ^ it the Spirit mav breathe upon these id. The rest is God's work altogether. v r "the Spirit breathes when He wills.'" ~ den preach; the Spirit breathesj and: > dry bones live. Thus it is that sinners' ! i born again.?London Christian. Look Ahead. 'here is glory for the time to come. 'A ; i at many people seem to forget that the it is before us. Dr. Bonar once said it everything before the true believer is -.4 orious." This thought took hold on % soul, and I began to look the matter and see what I could find in Scripture t was glorious hereafter, found that the kingdom we are going inherit is glorious; our crown is to be a own of glory;" the city we are going :o abit is the city of the glorified; the gs we are going to sing are the songs of glorified; we are to wear garments of ? ory and beauty;" our society will lie society of the glorified; our rest is to '3 "glorious;" the countiy to which we; ^ going is to be full of the glory of God I of the Lamb. 'here are many who are always lookingi the backward path and mourning over troubles through which they have: , ) sed; they keep lugging the cares and ;ieties they have been called on to bear [ are forever looking at them. Why uld we go reeling ana staggering under burdens and cares of life wnen we have h glorious prospects before us??D. L. "< ody. J The Opposer of Christ. .n unloving spirit is the worst treachery . Christ that we can offer. How often do se who are full of good works for the ' ;J d stop to think of this? The harsh :d spoken by the busy teacher or super- . indent or pastor i9 a travesty on the fession such a one makes. For Christ ' < >ne with God, and God is love. Unlove anti-Christ. We cannot serve Christ ile unlove for any child of His is in oor, rts or words. "And if I have t?e gift' * prophecy, and know all mysteries and Knowledge; and if I have all faith, e? 0 remove mountains, but have not love^ ". 'j m nothing. And if I bestow all my. ds to feed the poor, and if I give my y ly to be burned, but have not . love, ift * iiteth me nothing." "This is J'fy com* adment. that ye love one another." ; Pray For Holiness. J et our prayer be ever for more holiness J ! more fitness for the kingdom. Tbea . 11 the tabernacle of God be with men, Ja 1 we shall be His people, and God Hintshall be with us.