DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON The Uses of Stratagem. “Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city." Josh, 8: 7. Sermon to the Thirteenth Regiment of New York State National Guards, reached at the Camp at Peekskill, New “ork. ¥ One Sabbath evening with my family around me we were talking over the scene of the text, In the wide-open eyes, and the quick interrogations, and the blanched cheeks I realized what A THRILLING DRAMA it was, There is the old city, shorter by name than any other city in the ages, spelled with two letters—A, I.— Ai, Joshua and his men went to take it. How to do it is the question. On a former occasion, ina straightforward, face to face fight, they had been de- feated; but now they are going to take it by ambuscade. General Joshua has two divisions in his army-—the one di- vision the battle-worn commander will lead himself, the other division he sends off to encamp in an ambush on the west side of the city of Ai. No torches, no lanterns, no sound of heavy battalions but thirty thousand swarthy warriors moving in silence, speaking only ina whisper: no clicking of swords against shields, lest the watchmen of Afi dis- cover it and THE STRATAGEM be a failure, If a roystering soldier in the Jsraelitish army forgets himself, all along the line the word is **Hush!” Joshua takes the other division, the one with which he is to march, and puts it on the north side of the city of Al, and then spends the night in reconnoitring in the valley. There he is, thinking over the fortunes of the coming day, with something of the feelings of Wel- lington the night before Waterloo, or of Meade and Lee the night before Gettysburg. There he stands in the night, and says to himself: “Yonder is the division in ambush on the west side of Ai. Here Is the division I have under my especial command on the north side of Ai. There is the old city slumbering in its sin. To-morrow will be the battle. Look! the moming al- ready begins to tip the hills, The mil- itary Officers of Ai look out in the morning very early, and while they do not see the division in ambush, they be- hold the other division of Joshua, and the cry “ro anus! To Arms!” rings through all the streeis of the old town, and every sword, whether hack- ed and bent or newly welded, is brought out, and all the inhabitants of the city of Ai pour through the gates, an in- furiated torrent, and their cry is: “Come, we'll make quick work with Joshua and his troops.’’ No sooner had these people of Al come out against the troops of Joshua, than Joshua gave such a command as he seldom gave “Fall back!” Why, they could not be- lieve their own ears! Is Joshua's cour- age filing him? The retreat Is beaten, and the lsraelites ara flying, throwing blankets and canteens on every side un- der this worse than Bull Ran defeat. And you ought to hear the soldiers of Al cheer and cheer. But they huzza too soon. The men lying in ambush are straining their vision to get some signa! {rom Joshua that they may know what time to drop upon the city. hua takes his burnished spear, glitter- ing in the sun like a shaft of doom, and points it towards the city; and when the men up yonder in the ambush see it, with hawk-like swoop they drop upon Ai, and without stroke of sword or stab of spear take the city and put it to the torch. So much for the division that was in ambush. How about the sooner does Joshua stop in the flight thao all his men stop with Lim, and as thunder he cried *"Halt!" arm driving back A TORRENT OF FLYING TROOPS, And then, as he points hisspear through the golden light toward that fatal city, his troops know that they are to start for it. * What a scene it was when the division in ambush which had taken the city marched down against the men of Ai on the one side, and the troops under Joshua doubled up their enemies from the other side, and the men of Ai were caught between these two hurri- canes of lsraelitish courage, thrust be. fore and behind, stabbed in breast and back, ground between the upper and the nether millstones of God’s indigna- tion, Woe tothe city of Ai! Cheer for Israel! Lesson the first : thing as VICTORIOUS RETREAT. Joshua’s falling back was the first chap- ter in Lis successful besiegement. And there are times in your life when the best thing you can do is torun. You were once the victim of strong drink, "The demijohn and the decanter were your fierce foes. They came down upon you with greater fury than the men of Al upon the men of Joshua, Your only safety is to get away from them. Your dissipating companions will come around you for your overthrow. Run for your life! Fall back! Fall back from the drinking-saloon! Fall back from the wine-party! Your flight is your advance. Your retreat Is your victory, There is a saloondown on the next street that has almost been the ruin of your soul. Then why do you 80 along that street? Why do you not pass through somo other street rather than by the place of your calamity? A ‘spoonyul of brandy taken for m One strong There is such a the presence of might and overwhelm. ing temptations, and the men of Al made a morning meal of them. So, also, there is victorious retreat IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD, Thousands of times the kingdom of Chrigt has seemed to fall back, When the blood of the Scotch Covenanters ve a deeper dye to the heather of the Tighlands, when the Vaudois of France choses extermination rather than make an unchristian surrender, when, on St, Bartholomew's Day, mounted assassins rode through the streets of Paris, cry- ing. “Kill! Blood-letting is good in August! Killl Death to the Hugue- pots! Kill!" When Lady Jane Grey's head rolled from the executioner’s block; when Calvin was imprisoned in the castle; when John Knox died for the truth; when John Bunyan lay rot- ting in Bedford Jall, saying, *‘if God will help me, and my physical life con- tinues, I will stay here until the moss grows on my eyebrows rather than give up my falth”-the days! of retreat for the church were days of victory. THE PILGRIM FATHERS FELL BACK from the other side of the sea to Ply mouth Rock, but now are marshaling a continent for the Christianization of the world, The Church of Christ fall- ing back from Piedmont, falling buck from Rue St. Jacques, falling back from St. Denis, falling back from Wurt- emburg castles, falling back from the Brussels market-place, yet all the time triumphing. Notwithstanding all the shocking reverses which the Church of Christ suffers what do we see to-lay? Three thousand missionaries of the cross on heathen grounds; sixty thousand ministers of Jesus Christ in this land; at least two hundred millions of Chris- tians on the earth. All nations to-day kindling in a blaze of revival, Falling back, yet advancing until the old Wes- leyan hymn will prove true: “The lion of Judah shall break the chain, And give us the victory again and again!” But there is a more marked illustra- tion of victorious retreat in the life of our Joshua, the Jesus of the ages, First falling back from an appalling height to an appalling depth, falling | from celestial hills to terrestrial valleys. i FROM THRONE TO MANGER; | yet that Jud not seem to suffice Him as ia retreat. Falling back still further {from Bethlehem to Nazareth, from | Nazareth to Jerusalem, back from Ja- | rusalem to Golgotha, back from Gol- gotha to the mausoleum in the rock, | back down over the precipices of perdi- { tion, until He walked amid the caverns of the eternal captives and drank of the wine of the wrath of Almighty | God, amid the Ahabs, and the Jezebels, | and the Belshazzars, Oh, { pulpit, and men of the pew, Christ's | descent from heaven to earth does not | measure half the distance! It { from glory to perdition. He descended { Into hell, | treat are as nothing compared with this Santa Anna, with the { fragments of his army flying over the i | i the awful snows of Russia, are not | treat, when all the powers of darkness seem to be pursuing Christ as He fell | back, until the body of Him who came { to do such wonderful things lay pulse- less and stripped. Methinks that the city of Al was not so emptied of its in- habitants when they went to pursue { Joshua, as perdition was emptied of { devils when they started for the pursuit | down lower, down lower, chasm below i scorn and torture, Oh, the long, loud, | jubilant shout of hell at the défeat of | the Lord God Almighty! But let not the powers of darkness rejoice quite so soon. Do you i that DISTURBANCE IN THE TOMB which fraudulent men do business, the splendid banking institutions where the president and eashier put all their prop- orty in their wives’ hands and then fail for $200,000-—all theso institutions are to become the places where honest Christian men do business, How long will it take your boys to get through your ill-gotten gains? The wicked do not live out half thelr days, For a while they swagger and strut and make a great splash in the newspapers, but after a wh ’ IT ALL DWINDLES DOWN into a brief paragraph: ‘Died snddenly, July 22, 1888, at thirty-five years of age, Relatives and friends are invited to at- tend the funeral on Wednesday, at 2 o'clock, from his late residence on Madison Square, Interment at Green- wood.” Some of them jumped off the docks, Some of them took prussic acid, Some of them fell vnder the snap of a Derringer pistol. Some of them spent thitr last days in a lunatic asylum. Where are William Tweed and his as- sociates? Where a Ketcham and Swart- wout, absconding swindlers? Where is James Fisk, the libertine, and all the other misdemeanants? The wicked do not live out half their days. Disem- bogue, O world of darkness! Come up, Hildebrand and Henry 1I, and Robe- spierre, and with blistering and blas- pheming and ashen lips hiss out; **The triumph of the wicked is short.” Lesson the third: How much may be accomplished by lying IN AMBUSH FOR OPPORTUNITIES, Are you hyperenitical of Joshua's mane ceuvre? Do you say that it was cheat. ing for him to take that city by ambus. cade? Was it to kindle camp-fires on Heights, giving the impression to the opposing force that a great army was encamped there when there was none at all? I answer, if the war was right then Joshua was right in his stratagem. He violated no flag of truce. He broke no treaty, but by a lawful ambuscade cap- tured the city of Ai. Oh that we all knew how to lie in ambush for oppor- tunities to serve God. The best of our epportunities do not lie on the surface, but are secreted; by tact, by stratagem, by Christian ambuscade, you may take almost any castle of sin for Christ, Come up toward men with a regular besiegement of argument and you will be defeated: but just wait until the door of their hearts is set ajar, or they are off their guard, or their severe caution is away from home, and then drop in on them from a Christian ambuseade, There has been many a man up to his chin in scientific portfolios which proved there was no Christ and no divine revel- ation, his pen a scimetar flung into the heart of theological opponents, discomfited and and year-old child who has got up the spear in any other direction. Oh, for same of the courage and enthusiasm of Joshua! He flung two armies from the tip of that spear. It is sinful for us to rest, unless it is to get stronger mus- cle and fresher brain and purer heart for God’s work, I feel on my head the hands of Christ in 2 new ordination, Do you not feel the same omnipotent pressure? There isa work for ali of us, Oh, that we might stand up, side by side, and point the spear toward the city! It ought fo be taken. It will be taken. Our cities are drifting off to- ward loose religion, for what is called “TABERAL CHRISTIANITY,” which is so liberal that it gives up all the cardinal doctrines of the Bible; so liberal that it surrenders the rectitude of the throne of the Almighty, That is liberality with a vengeance, Let us de- cide upon the work which we, as Chris- tian men, have to do, and, in the strength of God, go to work and do it. It is comparatively easy to keep on a parade amid a shower of bouquets, and hand-clapping, and the whole street full of enthusiastic huzzas; but it is not so easy to stand up in the day of battle, the face blackened with smoke, the uniform covered with the earth ploughed up by whizzing bullets and bursting shells, half the regiment cut to pieces, and yet the commander erying “Forward, march!” Thea it requires old-fashioned valor. My friends, the great trouble of the kingdom of God in this day is the cowards. They do splendidly on a parade day, and at the communion, when they have on their best clothes of Chris- SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. Buspay, AvGuer 12, 1888, The Day of Atonement, Hares s—————— LESSON TEXT. (dev. 16: 1-16, Memory verse, 186) LESSON PLAN, Toric o¥ THE QUARTER: Covenant Relations with Israel, God's GOLDEN TEXT YOR THE QUARTER: Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according Wo all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from i to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest have good suop- cess whither soever thou goest-—Josh, 1:7. Lesson Toric: Chvenant Relations Promoted by Priestly Mediation, 1. The Priestly Approach, va. 1-4. 2. The Priestly Offerings, ve. 8.10, £& The Priestly Atonement, vs. 11-18 GoLpex Text: Without shedding of blood is no remission. Heb, 0 : 22, Lesson f Outline: sme ——— Dairy Hous READINGS: M.—-1lev, 16 : 1-16, The da atonement, T.—-lev. 23 atonement, W.—Lev, 10: 1-11. Offering strange fire, T.— Num. 16 1-22, against God’s order, F.—Num., 16 : 23.50. punished, of : 26-82. The day of tebellion Hebellion tian profession; but in THE GREAT BATTLE OF LIFE, they dodge, they fall back, ranks. We confront the enemy, that do not try to pay their debts, ance, and we find on our own side a And we open the battle against profan- ity, and we find on our own side a great many men who make hard speeches, | And we open the battle against infidel- ity, and lo! we find on our own side a | great many men who are not quite sure about the Book of Jonah, And while we ought to be massing our troops, and bringing forth more than the unite courage of Austerlitz and Waterloo and time in hunting up ambuscades, There are a great many in the Lord's army who would like to go out on a campaign with satin slippers and holding las over their heads to keep « es ¥ a umbrel. ff the Cod. Oh, make a flank movement; STEAL A MARCH OX THE DEVIL; heat that man in Heaven! A five-dol- tise that will stand all the Jaws tletics may fail to do that which a penny tract of Christian entreaty may accomplish, Oh, for more Christians in ambuscade, not in idle waiting for a quick spring, wating une the right time comes! Do not to a man about the vanity of this on the day whe bas bought at “twelve. and is go ‘fifteen. But talk to him vanity of the world he | Iving talk Ww rid something it at about the day when “fifteen,” “twelve ™ n he ser § In 0 on i ws bought something at and is compelled to sell it at ng Do not fake the be subjunctive Do not talk Way. try to tickle a torrid temperament with an icicle. You can take any man for ing! What means that stone hurled coming out? j must not stalk in this open sunlight. {Oh, itis our Joshua, Let him come tout, He comes forth and starts for the city. He takes the spear of the Roman | guard and points that way. | militant marches up on one side, and on the other side. And the powers of darkness being caught between these ranks of celestial and terrestrial valor, nothing is left of them save just en- ough to illustrate the direful overthrow of bell and our Joshua's eternal victory. On His head be all the crowns, In His hands be all the scepires., At his feet be all the human hearts; and here, Lord, is one of them, Lesson the second: The truumph of the wicked is short, Did you ever see an army in a panic? There is nothing #0 uncontrollable, If you had stood at Long Bridge, Washington, during the opening of our sad Civil War, you would know what it is to see an army run. And when those men of Al look- ed out and saw those men of Joshua in a stampede, they expected easy work, They would scatter them as the equi- nox the leaves. Oh, the gleeful and jubllant descent of the ten of Ai upon the men of Joshua! But their exhilara- tion was brief, for the tide of battle turned and these quondam conquerors left their miserable carcasses in the wilderness of Bethaven, So it always is, The triumph of the wicked isshort. You make $20,000 at the gaming-table, Do you expect to it? You will die in the rhouse. You made a for- wuneé by iniquitous traflle. Do you ex- pect to it? Your money will scatter, or it will stay long enough to curse your children after you are dead, Call over the roll of BAD MEN WHO PROSPERED Do not send word to him that to-morrow batteries upon him, but come on him by a skilful, persevering, God-directed ambuscade, Lesson the fourth: The importance of TAKING GOOD ATM, There is Joshua, but how are those people in ambush up yonder to know when they are to drop on the city, and how are these men around Joshua to know when they are to stop their flight and advance? There must be some signal-—a signal to stop the one division and to start the other, Joshua with a spear on which were ordinarily hung the colors of battle, points towards the city. He stands in such a conspicuous position, and there is so much of the morning light dripping from that spear- tip, that all around the horizon they see it. It was as much to say: **There is the city, Take it. Gord knows and we know that 4 great deal of Christian attack ammounts to nothing simply because we do not take good aim, Nobody knows and we do not know ourselves which point we want to take, whed we ought to make up our minds what God will have us to do, and point our spear in that direction and then hurl our body, mind, soul, time, eternity at that ONE TARGET, In our pulpits and pews and Sunday- schools and prayer-meetings we want to get a reputation for saying pretty things, and so we point our spear toward the flowers; or we want a reputation for say- ing sublime things, and we point our spear toward the stars; or we want to get a reputation for historical knowledge, and we point our spear toward the past: or we want io get a reputation for great liberality, so we swing our all around; while there is the old world, proud, rebellious and armed inst all righteousness; and instead of running any further away from its pursuit, we ought to turn around, plant our foot in the strength of the eternal God, lift the old cross and point it in the direction of be a year successes for th | Joshua, but of doom for { You put your ear to the you can hear the train So 1 put my ear the thunderi EL eye COM + 4 away 0 the ground and I hear i» : ¥ ¢ i g on of 1 5 al indgments, The men y of God spon this nat weached in the pulpits, in Ww streets, everywhere, w invited fo scoept the Gospel, and the story and the song the prayer will be “mercy.” {pose they do not accept the mercy--what then? Then (Qod with His judgments, and | grasshoppers will eat the crops, and the ru is 0 be tried | come Year of mercies and of Year of invitation and Year of jubilee and of woe, WHICH SIDE ARE YOU going to be on? With the men of Al or the men of Joshua? Pass over this Sabbath into the ranks of Ismel 1 would clap my hands at the joy of your coming. You will have a poor chance I ia to Ix i, judgments, warning. without Jesus, is to come upon you and upon the world unless you have the pardon comfort and the help of Christ, Come over, On this side 18 your happiness and safety, on the other side is dis. quietude and dispair. Eternal defeat to the men of Ail Eternal victor to the men of Joshua! ——————— a —— Locking Up Unconscions People. More care should be taken by the police in the locking up of persons brought in from the streets in an un- conscious condition, The policeman always assumes that a man lying on the street, without sense or motion, is drunk. The hoodlum wagon is sum- f moned, and the Mmp form carried to the calaboose and hustled into a cell In the morning the prisoner fails to re. spond to the call to come cul, He is dragged out, and then it is found that he is dead. The police report reads that *‘a chronic drunkard was picked up on the street yesterday in an uncon- scious condition and taken to — station. During the night he died of alcoholism. The coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the facts.” Now the facts may be that there was no alcoholism in the case. There area hundred causes that will reduce a per. son to unconsciousness, Often the man picked up should be taken to the hose pital in an ambulance, and not to the calaboose in a hoodlum wagon, These cases are of such frequent occurrence as to warrant serious attention. Dur- ing the heated term there were a num- ber of such deaths. In New York city there is a qualified physician at each police station to guard against just such accidents, AI RA 5 Size of Rain Drops. Variations in the size of rain a S.~Rom., 5 :1-11. The great atone nent, S.—Heb, 7:11.28, priest, The great High- om A M5 SE Like those high priests, to offer... . for the sins of the people (Heb, 7 : 7). ITIL. Atonement for the Tabernacle: He shall make atonement for the holy place (16), Beven days thou shalt make atonement for the altar (Exod. 29 : 87). He shall go out unto the altar, ....and make atonement for 18 (Lev. 16 : 18), Thou shalt cleanse the sanctuary (Ezek, 45 : 18), All things are cleansed with blood (Heb, 9:22). 1, “Atonement for himself, and for his house.” (1) Human sinfuiness; (2) Divine holiness; (3) Atoning blood, *That the cloud of the incense nay cover the mercy-seat.” (1) Symbolism of the mercy-seat; (2) Symbolism of the incense; (3) Com- bination of the two, 3. “Bring his blood within the veil,” (1) Whence brought? (2) Vi hither brought? (3) By whom? (4) Why? ~{1} The blood; (2) The veil; (3) The in-bringing, LESSON BIBLE READING, THE ATONEMERT. Foreordained (1 Pet. 1 11, 20 13 : 8). Typified (Gen. 4:4 and Heb. 11 : 4 ; Gen, 22:2 and Heb, 11 17, : Fxod, 12 : 5,11, 14, and 1 Cor. 5: 7 Exod. 24 : 8 and Heb, 9: 16 : 30, 84, and Heb, 9: Lev, 17 : 11 and Heb, 9 : 221. Foretold (Isa. 53 : 4-6, 8-12 : John 11 : 50, 51). Accomplished (John 1: 4:10, 11 ; 1 Thess, 1 5,6; Heb, 2 Recures Hom. : Rev, fy ’ p+ a5 . 10:3 Ti :9:1 Pet 2:24), reconciliation (Isa. 45 LESSON ANALYSIS, I. THE PRIESTLY APPROACH, {| L The Divine Presence : I will appear in the cls | mercy-seat (2). There 1 will meet with thee, .. above the mercy-seat (Exod. 25 : The glory of the Lord filled the taber- nacle (Exod, 40 : 34). i The Lord of hosts, which sitteth upon | the cherubim (1 Sam. 4 : 4). | Thou that sittest upon the cherubim { shine forth (Psa. 80 : 1). { IL The Prohibited Approach : That he come not : that he die not (2). There came forth fire... before the Lord (Lev. 10:4 The earth and swallowed Dathan (Psa, 106 : 17 | | | | yd the | HY LP fron | i 6 ang 3 i Fran : al opened igh priest wit blood (Heb, 9 . hh the mounsain, it Heb, 12 : 20 I Approach i i LJ LO shall | Oi IIL The Permitted Herewith shall holy piace 3 Aaron shall make atonement Oi i It once in the vear (Exod. 30 : 10) He shall... .brl (Lev. 16 : 1 The high ARTO w priest § place year } ft Having... .Ix holy place i ntereth b ¥ year (Heb, 9: & 4 . fo : § rood vi pow SK niet #13 5 wn s 31 feb, JO: 19), ew near before (1) An august 3 he [a Presenos terrible doom, “1 will appear in the cloud mercy-seat.”’ Manife 2) Dispensing my | Vindicating my sacy “Wherewhith shall into the holy place.” sties of approach unto Atonement {a sin offering); fication {a burnt offering: fication {bathing the flash}; (4) Serv- ing {arrayed in priestly robes). il. THE PRIESTLY OFFERINGS, | L The Burnt Offering: He shall take... . one ram for a burnt | offering (5). € { altar (Gen, 8 : 20). { Offer him there for a burnt offering i (Gen 22:9). It is a sweet savour, an offering made { by fire (Exod, 20 : 1B), { To love,....1Is much more than all whole { burnt offerings (Mark 12 : 33). {IL The Sin Offering: Aaron shall present the bullock of the i gin offering (6). | The flesh of the bullock....is a sin of- fering (Exod. 20 : 14). They made a sin offering with their blood upon the altar (2 Chron. 20 : 24). Thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin (Isa. 53 : 10). Where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin (Heb, 10 : 18), III. The Scapegoat: Send him away for Azazel into the wilderness (10), One lot for the Lord, and the other lot for Azazel (Lev. 16 : 8), Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat (Lev. 16 : 21), The goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities (Lev. 16 : 22), The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all (Isa, 53 : 6). 1. “Aaron shall. ...make atonement for himself.” Aaron and Christ contrasted: (1) In personal needs; (2) In official offerings; (3) In resultant benefits, 2. “One Jot for the Lord, and the other lot for Azazel.” {1 The two ts; (2) The two allotments; (3) two destinies; (4) The two significations, 8. ‘““T'o send him away for Azazel in- to the wilderness.” Sent away: (1) By the Lord's decree; (2) Bearing sin; (3) To a remote region; (4) Never to return. HI, THE PRIESTLY ATONEMENT, IL. Atonement for tha Priesthood: Aaron shall....make atonement for himself, and for his house (11). Offer thy sin offering ie . atonement for (Lev. 9:7) Is bound,....for f, to offer for alns (Heb, 5 : 8), Who needeth not I Do offer... for lis own sins 7:9). Not without which he offereth for himself (Heb, 9: 7), 1L Atonement for the Then shall he kill the goat. ... that is 3:20, 2: 5:10: ¢ 18-20 : Heb. § Perfected LESSON SURROUNDINGS, The 11 significance of the lesson cannot be understood unless be regarded as the culmination of that precedes in the Book of Leviticus, In chapters 1-15 we find three distinct arts, —chapters 1.7 treating of sacri- £1 present 1 : i telling of the consecration of his sons, with the punish- and Abihu; chapters iinute directions respect- uncleanness, With each theses Jesson has a close cons t of N: wiab 8 the most wessive sact on] he last lesson belong kinds of offerings: offering 1, the peace (or thank) offer- { flering (Lev. 4), offering (Lev. the first three the meal offer. AV, fnaer 1 1% ng {iey. 2), ng (Lev He sin and the trespass Sto6: % , were offering . though edicatory; re expiatory n Leviticus 6 : and his s 3 MT bereaved 1 the ch 18 made to serve th | pose of religious education, The i cal uncleanness against which Ley 3 i 11-15 guards, was related actually as { well as figuratively to the moral defile. | ment from which God’s people must be {freed. The specific injunctions are re- | specting animals to be used for food | (Lev. 11), the purification of a mother { {Lev. 12), diseases of the skin indicat- {ing leprosy (Lev. 13, 14), and the im- { purity arising from issues of blood. ete. (Lev, 15). The place of the lesson was the camp at the foot of Mount Sinai. The time was shortly after the death of Nadab and Abibhu, which seems to have occur- red on the eighth day of the first month of the second year (comp. Exod. 40 : 17; Jev.9:1;:10:1) e pur- ¥ hys - cu ¥ A Wisconsin Philosopher: is — One of 1" & chief charms of politics is g hat it gives a man a chance to work the weakness of his fellow creatures. The trouble with dreamers is that they often think the impossible **might hnve been if it were not for untoward If the world could be reduced to a basis of absolute truth, half the popu- lation would go crazy and the rest be tempted to commit suicide, Reaching for the unattainable may not be profitable, but it is nobler than sitting dle and gradually sinking in the slough of stumdity, Lives there a man who away down in the bottom of his heart weuld not HE to bea pugilist; not pecsssasily for publication, as a guarantees of get- ting there in case of accidents. The man who can always control his feelings and his temper is a model citl- zon, taken siugly; but a nation com- posed entirely of such fellows would be a very cold place to emigrate to, Abandoning Girlhood Too Soon: the : ans abShaaet fox the people (Lav; 9 w tan”
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