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DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
The Reservation of America.
“And hath made of one blood all nations." =
Acts 17: 26,
“AND hath made of one blood all na-
tions,’ That 1s, if for some reason
general phlebotomy were ordered, and
standing in a row were an American,
an bnglhishman, a Scotchman, and an
Ivishman, a Frenchman, a German, a
Norwegian, an Teelander, a Spaniard,
an Italian, a Russian, and rej resenta-
tives of all other nationalities bared
their right arm, and a lancet were
struck into it, the blood let out would
be red, complex, fibrine, globuline,
chlorine, and containtng sulphurle acid,
potassium, phosphate of magnesia, and
s0 on; nN: Harvey and Sir Astley
Cooper and Richardson and Zimmer-
man and Brown Sequard, and all the
scientific doctors, allopathic, home-
opathie, hydropathic and eclectic,
would agree with Paul, as, standing on
Mars Hill, his pulpit a ridge of lime-
stone rock fifty fe:t high, and among
the proudest and uiost exclusive and
undemocratic people of the earth he
crashed into all their prejudices by de-
claring, in the words of my text, that
God liad made “of one blood all na-
tious.”” The countenance of
THE FIVE RACES
of the human family may be different
as a result of climate or education or
habits, and the Malay will have the
projecting upper jaw, and the Cauca-
dian the oval face and small mouth,
and the Ethiopian the retreating fore-
head and large lip, and the Mongolian
the flat fuce of olive hue, and the Awmer-
ican lpdian the copper-colored com-
plexion, Lut the blood is the same, and
indicates that they all had one origin,
and that Adam and Eve were their an-
sestor and ancestress.
I think God built this American con-
tinent and organized this United States
republic to demonstrate the stupendous
idea of the text. A man in Persia will
always remain a Persian, a man in
switzerland will always remain a
Swiss, a man in Austria will al-
ways 1emain an Austrian, but
all foreigm nationalities coming to
America were intended to be Ameri-
cans, This land is the chemical labor-
atory where foreign bloods are to be
inextricably mixed up and race pre-
judices and
RACE ANTIPATHIES ARE TO PERISH,
and that sermon is an axe by which I
hope to help kill them. It is not hard
for me to preach such a sermon, be-
cause, although my ancestors came to
this country about twn hundred and
|
from Wales, and some from Scotland,
and some from Holland, and some trom
other lands, and I am a mixture of so
want to breathe the air of our free In
stitutions, and get opportunity for bet-
ter livelihood, and it 1s only a question
of time when God will turnble that wall
flat on our own heads with the red-hot
thundeibolts of His ommpotent indig-
nation,
You are a father, and you have five
children. ‘The parlor is the best room
in your house. Your son Philip says
to the other four children, *‘ Now, John,
you live in the small room in the end
of the hall, and stay there; George,
you live in the garret, and stay there;
Mary, you live in the cellar, and stay
there; Fannie, you live in the kitchen,
and stay there, I, Puilip, will take
the parlor. It suits me exwctly, I like
the pictures on the wall, 1 like the
lambrequins at the windows. 1 like
the Axminster on the floor. Now, I
Philip, propose to occupy this parlor,
and I command you to stay out, Tha
parlor only for Philippians.”
You, the father, hear of this a:range-
ment, and what will you do¥ You
will get red in the face and say, “John,
come out of that small room at th: end
of the hall; George, come down ou’ of
the garret; Mary, come up from Lie
cellar; Fannle, come ont of the kitehen, |
and go iniv the parlor, or anywheso
you ctoose; and, Pllip, for you
greediness and unbrotherly behavior, 1
put you for two hours in the dark closet
under the stairs.” God is the Father |
of the human race. He has at least
five sons; a North American, a South
Awerlcan, a European, an Asiatic and |
an African, The North American
sniffs the breeze, and he says to his
four brothers and sisters: ‘Let the
South American stay in South Amer-
ica; let the European stay in Europe:
let the Asiatic stay in Asa; let the
African stay in Africa; but America 1s |
for me. 1 think it is the parlor of the
whole earth, 1 like its carpets
grass, and its upholstery of the front
window, namely, the American sun- |
rise; and the upholstery of the back
window, namely, the American sunset.
Now, I want you all to stay out, and
keep to your places.” I am sure tbe
Father of the whole human race would
hear of it, and chastisement would
come; and, whether by earthquake or
flood or «roncht or heaven-darkening
SWATINS vu. t and grasshopper, or
destroying angi of pestilence,
WOULD REBUKE OUR
NESS
as a nation, and say to the four winds
of heaven: “This world Is my house,
and the North American is no more
my child than is the South. American |
and the European and the Asiatic and |
the African. And 1 built this world
for all the children, and the parlor 1s
theirs, and all is theirs.” For, let me
say, whether we will or not, the popu-
ol
GoD sSE1
JFISH-
with people from
have a right to call them blood rela-
tions, There are madcaps and patriotic
lunatics in this country who are ever
and anon “*Anerica for
Awericans | with ti
mans! Down the Iiish!
with the Jews!
Ou,
ie
with Down
Down with the Chinese!
all of which vociferations I would drown
out by the full organ of my while
I pull out thie -tops and put my foot on
the pedal that will open the loudest
pipes, and run my fingers over all the
four banks of ivory keys, playing the
chant. “God Lath made blood
ill nations,
‘Lisere are not five men in this audi-
ence, nor five men in any audience Lo-
day ip America, except it be on an In-
dian reservation, who were not des
cended from foreigners if you go far
enough back. The only native Amern-
cans are the Modoes, the Shawnees, the
Chippewas. the Cherokees,
asaws, the ~eminoles and such like, If
the principle, America only for Ameri-
cans, be carried out, then you and 1
have no right to be here and we had
better charter all the steamers and clip-
pers and sen-of-war and yachts and
sloops and get out of this country as
quick as possible. The Pligrim Fathers
were all immigrants,
THE HBUGUENOTS ALL IMMIGRANTS,
The cradle of most every one of bur
families was rocked oun the bank of the
Ciyde or the Rhine, or the Shannon or
the Seine or the Tiber. Ilad the watch-
word “America for Americans!’’ been
an early and successful cry, where now
stand our cities would have stood In-
dian wigwams; and canoes instead of
steamers would have tracked the Hud-
son and the Connecticut; and, instead
of the Mississippi being the main artery
of the comtinent, it would have been
only a trough for deer and antelope and
wild pigeons to drink out of. What
makes the cr: of “America for Amer-
icans!’ the 1 re absurd, and the more
inhuman is ti.ut some in this country,
who themselves arrived here in their
boyhood, or arrived here only one or
two generations buck, are joining in
the ery. Escaped from foreign despot-
isms themselves, they say, “Shut the
door of escape for others.” Getting
themselves on our shores in
A BIFEBOAT FROM THE SHIPWRECK,
saying, ‘‘Haul the boat on the beach,
and les the rest of the passengers go to
the bottom!” Men who have yet on
them a Seotch or German or English
or Irish brogue crying out, “America
for Americans!’ What if the native
inhabitants of Heaven—I mean the
angels, the cherubim, the seraphim,
born there—should stand in the gate,
and when they see us coming up should
«ay. **Go back! Heaven for the Heaven-
fans!’’
Ur course we do well not to allow
{ereign nations to make this country a
convict colony. We would have a wall
built as high as heaven and as ns
Liell against foreign thieves, k-
keds, and. hists, We wonld
po let them wipe heir feet
on the mat
of the outside of Castle Garden
If England
or Russia or Germany or
France send here their desperadoes to
get clear of them, we would have these
DESPERADOES SENT BACK
in chains to the places where they came
from. We will not bave America be
Sagaboniem, yg ou Dali up wall
y a
ut Narrows before New York Har-
or, he Sc, Col, Bt
oa Eros Gs
fares '
ext,
ui one
» WH
Ra pW ;
Taos ch F:0%
RUPE
lands will come here,
here harbors all the way from |
's Bay to Galveston, and if you !
if gates, there will be other
guarded. And if you forb
foreigners trom coming on the stean
ers, they will take sailing vessels,
~
mn
coming
vessels, they will of
lation of other
are
Off Bang
me in boats,
'
you
raft,
i + |
Hook |
SUP
And
to t
Sandy
if
ae
rafts,
wharfage
ave it outside
for free America
You might as well pass a law |
a swarm of summer
ting on the clover-top, or pass
forbidding the tides of the At- |
y wil come on
OW
3
+
HOV #i
y will |
bron 8 i
not irridiate
have
They
had a voice loud en- |
across the seas, |
to the utmost tension,
abould
They
HOW,
sun
atmosphere,
are
And
the noonday
come, |
coming Will
if 1
Colne,
and cry:
LET THEM COME!
ner-plate piled up with breast of roast |
turkey ivcarpadined with cranberry,
your fork full and your mouth full,
rorized, ‘et the millions of yoor fellow.
But sous of this ery, America for
Americans! way arise from an hones. |
lest this Jand be overcrowded,
ern Pacifie, or Union Pacific, or South.
ern Pacific, or Atlantic and Charlotte |
Texas and Santa Fe, and |
go a long journey and find out that no
more than a tenth part of this contin.
ent is fully cultivated, Ifa man with
a hundred acres of farm land should
put all his cultivation on one acre, he
would be cultivating a larger ratio of
his farm than our nation is
THE NATIONAL FAUM,
Pour the whole human race, Europe,
Asia, Africa, and all the islands of the
sea, into America and there would be
room to spare, All the Rocky Moun-
tain barrenpess and all the other Amer-
ican deserts are to be fertilized; and as
Salt Lake City and much of Utah once
yielded not a blade of grass, now by
artificial irrigation have become gar-
dens, so a large part of this continent
that now is too poor Lo grow even a
mullein stalk or a Canada thistle, will
through artificial irrigation like an
illinois prairie wave with wheat, or
like a Wisconsin farm rustle with corn
tassels, . Besides that, after perhaps a
century or two more, when this contin.
ent is quite well occupied, the tides of
immigration will turn the other way.
Politics and governmental affairs being
corrected on the other side of the
waters, Ireland, under different regula-
tion turned into a garden, will invite
back another generation of Irishroen,
and the wide wastes of Russia brought
from under dezpotism will with hisown
green fields invite back another gener-
ation of Russians, And there will be
hundreds of thousands of Americans
every year settling on the other contin.
ents. And after a number of cen-
turies, all the earth fall and crowded,
what then? Well, at that time, some
night, & panther meteor wandering
through the heavens wiil put its paw
on our world and stop it, and putting
its panther tooth into the neck of its
mountain range will shake it lifeless, as
the rat-terrier a rat. So 1 have no
more fear of America being overcrowd-
ed than that the ises in the At.
lantie Ocean will #0 numerous
it is through
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this land with a race of people ninety-
five per cent, superior to anything the
world has ever seen.
HOW HEAVEN FEELS ABOUT IT
we may conclude from the fact that
Christ, the Jew, and descended from
a Jewess, nevertheless provided a re-
ligton for all races, and that Paul,
though a Jew, became the chief apostle
of the Gentiles, and that recently God
has allowed to burst in splendor upon
the attention of the world, Hirsch, the
Jew, who after giving ten million dol-
lars to Christian churches and hospitals,
has called a committee of nations, and
furnished them with forty million dol-
lars for schools to elevate his race in
France and Germany and Russia to
says, the prejudices against their race;
these fifty m'llion dollars not given in a
last will and testament, and at a time
when a man must leave his money any-
how, but by dunation at fifty-five years
of age, and in good health, utterly
eclipsing all benevolence since the
world was created, I must confess
there was a time when I entertained
race prejudice, but, thanks to God that
prejudice has gone; and if I sat in
church, and on one side of me there
was a black man, and on the other side
and behind
as |
vas a Chinaman,
Purk, I would be as happy am
brilliant audience; and [ am as happy
now as I can be and live. The sooner
we get
THIS CORPSE OF RAC!
the healthier
American atmosphere,
PREJUDICE
will be our
Let
get as far down as the centre
and half-way to China, but no
further lest it poieon those living on
the other side the earth. Then into
this grave let down the accursed carcass
mean things that have ever Leen
Turk and Russian, be-
tween English and French,
and anti-Mongolian, be-
and white, and put up over
it for epitaph: **Here lies the carcass of
Aged near
Departed this |
e il came,
ads
vy
A WORD TO FOREIGNERS,
Get oul your naturalization papers
any other. If you don't like {hem
there are steamers going out of our
ports almost every day, and the fare is
cheap, and, lest you should be detained
parting civilities, 1 bid you gos
bye now. But if yo
Wt
islative hall,
not to «
ry
#
spun wuto a relig
foreigu
condensation of ail tl
lsin, lust, murder,
in Russia Is
France called
America called Anarciisio, nite
us in making, by the grace of Go
fifteen million square miles of America,
fif
f Panama,
Or
calle
Communisin
Isthmus of
My other word suggests what
By all possible means explain to them
Coming here, the vast
majority of them know about as much
republican or democratic
form of government as you in
United States know about the politics
or France or Italy
namely, nothing.
the
Of
Switzerland, Fx.
=~ i
is.
NOT LIBERTY
Never their presence
TO I WHO
in
say anything
sacred places, cabins orf
around wuose doors they played and
over, to be let down, for it is mother’s
grave, and it would be like going again
ed them, My! my! how low down a
man must have descended to have no
regard for the place where his cradle
was rocked. Don’t mock their brogue
or their stumbling attempts at the
hardest of all languages to learn, namely,
the English language. Treat them in
America
AS YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE TREATED,
it for the sake of your honest principles
or a better livelihood for yourself or
your family, you have moved under the
shadow of Jungfrau, or the Rigi, or the
Giant's Causeway, or the Bohemian
Forest, or the Franconian Jura. IT they
get homesick, as some of them are, sug-
gest to them that God is as near to help
them here as He was near them before
they crossed the Atlantic, and that the
soul's final flight is less than a second,
whether from the bench of the Caspian
Sea or the banke of Lake Erie. Evan.
gelize their adults through the churches
and their children through the schools,
and let howe missions and tract socie-
teh and i Tipie en in all the
n these foreign people, bave
fall .
1lejoice as Christian patriots that, in-
stad of being ” siemens on se,
the fore people, roug evangel-
zed, ot oh
OUR MIGHTIEST DEFENCE
against all the world, The Congress of
the United States recently ordered built
new forts all up and down our American
coasts, and a new navy is about to be
Projeciol But let me say that three
ndred million dollars expended in
coast defence will not be so mighty as a
vast f population living in
America, ith hundreds of thousands
of Germans living in New York, Ger.
would as soon think of bomb-
shelling Berlin as attacking ns, With
hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen
in New York, France would as soon
think of firing on Paris. With hun-
48 to stop shippiv
TD hty addition of for.
olgn population to our native popula
I. Oh A ———S
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A ————————— A ————
think of destroying London. The
mightiest defence against European
nations is a wall of Europeans reaching
all up and down the continent—a wall
of heads and hearts consecrated to free
government,
A BULWARK OF FOREIGN HUMANITY
heaved up all along our shores, rein.
forced by the Atlantic Ocean, armed as
it is with tempests and Caribbean
whirlwinds and giant billows ready to
fling mountains from thelr catapuit, we
need as a pation fear no one in the uni
verse but God; and, if found in His ser-
vice, we need not fear Him, As six
hundred million people will yet sit
down at our national table, let God pre-
side. To Him be dedicated the metal
ot our mines, the sheaves of our harvest-
fields, the fruits of our orchards, the
fabrics of our manufactories, the tele
scopes of our observatories, tho volumes
of our libraries, the songs of our
churches, the affections of our hearts,
and ail our lakes becoms baptismal
fonts, and all our mountains altars of
| praise, and all our valleys amphitheatres
of worship, and our country having be-
come fifty nations consolidated in one,
| may its every heart-throb be a pulsa-
tion of gratitude to Him who made Hof
one blood all nations,” and ransomed
that blood by the payment of the last
| drop of His own,
———
Cnidren,
There are a number of little ailments
which small children are subject lo,
which the mother could easily allay
| without calling in a physician, We
| spend money very often for doctor fees,
| when we could have doue the same
thing as he did, ourselves, if we
i but Koown it,
From the time the
hiseyes on this world he is
various ills. Jaundice, sprue, ‘‘red-
gum,” scurf, colic, and balf a dozen
similar maladies are lying in walt for
i the little vietim,
Colic is one of the
afllict the young baby.
poor baby
woes that
Some
months old, but six mouths is the Hmit,
Colic will never do the baby any real
{ harm, but how
mother, to see her child suffer,
| he certainly does suffer, no one
doubt that who has seen the tortured
| writhings of an
i tack of wind colic,
and
f tr
ant,
{hers are various
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
BuspAay MARCH 24, 1533,
Blind Bartimeus,
LESSON
40-02.
TEXT.
Mark 10 Memory verses,
61-020
LESSON PLAN,
Toric o¥ THE QUARTER:
Mwhty Worker.
GOLDEN TEXT POR THE QUARTERS
Believe me that I am in the Father, and
the Fiber in me: Or elue belweve tne for
the very works® sake. —Johm 14 : 11
Jesus the
Lesson Toric: How to Seek,
Lekson [ L The Seeker's Appeal, va. 6.4%,
) ! 4, ‘The Seekers Approach, va. 49,50,
Outitne: 5 & + .
Phin L 3 The Seeker's Reward, ve Bl, 62
GoLpes TEXT : Thou Son of David,
have mercy on me.— Mark 10 : 48,
Dany Houe READINGS:
M.—Mark 10 405-52,
BOE,
T.—Matt, 20 : 29: 4
parallel narrative,
W.—Luke 18 : 35-43, Luk
lel narrative,
Matt, 7 : 1-12,
seek,
F.—Luke 18
Matt.
seeking,
Prov. 1
seeking.
How to
Matthew's
T
: 1-14,
15 ' 21-2
A
How to 8 wl,
~ Mie
Un
a
LESSON
1. THE §
ANALYSIS,
EEKERS APPEAL.
Jesus :
Ile began to cry out,
thou of David (47).
Lord, if th wilt, thou
R «9
| should be kept close at hand,
{ efficacious, as is also ging the aller is
| hot water for a month-old baby. This
| dose may be repeated at the end of an
| hour if relief has not been gained, For
i a child theee-months old a teaspoonful
jof gin 1 i
waler,
There
lernal
flan:
i% pola
appiicativi
wl dipped i
and placed on the
Dowels a8 Wario as o
| mother should t tie
the Lier «
| naked arm.
Milk crust
ances Lhal
Dear ik,
heat by
& Call
flannel again Less
Car
le
Louie
sie In inoving this
well rubbe
r left Wwdry
soap is adm
Tl
the soap, and
fn, as itihen soliens ana |
crust so that it can be removed
jess difficulty. Vaseline
cellent remedy for this, also sv
up with lme-waler
mixture is of the consistency of thic
cream. Th-se ointments should be ap-
plied at night, to the scalp, and washed
{
"
posit.
wit
wilh
I8 ali
healen until
off in the morning, and a great deal ©
the scurf will wash off with it, by usin
the tal and warm water. The
| batlance may be removed with
| comb or Lrush, used very gently.
soap
it
{ Matt,
M8
ol
=2).
ord, } . he whon
sick (Jolin ll : 3).
IL. For Mercy :
Have mercy 47).
Have mercy on my son {Matt
Have mercy on
(Matt, 20 : 30),
behold
L
on Ine
ns 1
AVE Imercy on us f
17 : 13).
have mercy
{Luke 18 : 3S).
With lmportuanity:
He cried
48).
Lat
« 8).
L
them cry m
They cried out tix
Lest she wear 1
iI. THE SEEKERS
Waiting Jesus:
Toots
it BLOOM
| will generally be clean.
—_—-—
A Wild Chicago heanty,
tion to what she was pleased to call
| *the hoydenish ways’' of a young lad}
| who is noted on the Chicago thorough
| fares for her beauty aud sprightliness,
land at home for her mnocence and
ness for all kinds of adventurous hoyish
sports. 1 watched her closely
being reminded of ber presence,
| noticed that she was rather over Jdress-
power; that she wore rings and brace-
jets on a shaply white arm; that her
| drapery and artificial restriction, na
| ture was constantly bubbling over. For
she did the most unheard of things in
the few moments that I watched ber,
{down on her knees to belp a forlorn
| child find five ceuts with which she
| was required to purchase yeast; poised
! herself before the head of Beatrice in a
picture window, and never noticed the
| “‘nice young man’ staring at her stood on
| one foot on the corner and cheered two
| dogs engaged in mortal combat; gave a
peuny to an urchin who made faces at
her; tied up an unraveled old woman
who had lost her way; looked back and
Jaughed at the vagaries of a drunken
man who imagined himself particular-
ly sober; whistled three bars of “Shoo
Fly” under her breath in response 1o a
boyish alley-gator; laughed in the face
of an insipid young man with blonde
features, and then ignored him with a
glance of contempt; then suddenly
changed into & very proper lackadais-
ical sort of a young lady as her aunt's
carriage came in sight. Do you know
it seemed to me that that girl felt at
every step that too much civilization
Was a curse
tO
Jess stood wt
“TEP €%
i
ne .
iil, and called them (Matt,
ng of God waited (
stand at the door an
The Comforting Call:
Be
49).
of good cheer: rise, he calieth th
that thirsteth, come yw
{ isa oo: 1.
unto me, all ye that labour and
are heavy laden (Matt, 11
ther to me (Matt. 17: 17).
wl the bride say, Come
« EH2Y
« M33
spirit
{Rev, 22:
iL, The Glad Hesponse,
ie and came to
505.
hey dtraichtway left t
jowed him { Matt, 4: 20).
They BL Lay left t boat an
father, and followed (Matt. 4 :
ie forsook and rose up and follow-
ed him (Luke 5 : 28
They then that received his word
baptized (Acts 2 : 41),
1. “Jesus stood still.” (1) Filled with
a sovereign’s power; (2) Overflow
ing with a Saviour’s love: (33) Stop-
ped by a beggar's cry.
2, “Call ye him.” (1) The omnipotent
Lord: (2) The needy man; (3) The
appointed messengers,
8. “He casting away his garment,
sprang up, and came to Jesus.” (1)
Instantaneous response; (2) Self-sace
rificing response; (3) Christ- ward re-
sponse,
11, THE SEEKER’ REWARD,
L Opportunity:
What wilt thou that I should do un-
to thee? (51)
According to your faith be it done un-
to you (Matt, 9 : 29).
What will ve that I should do unto you?
{ Matt, 20 : 32).
W hatsoever ye shall ask, ....that will I
do (John 14 : 13).
I have set before thee a door opened
Rev, 3 : 8),
11. Commendation:
Thy faith hath made thee whole (52).
1 have not found so great faith, no, not
in Israel (Matt, 8: 10).
O woman, great is thy faith (Mats
15: 28).
Well done, good and faithful servant
(Matt, 25 : 23).
Thou didst keep the word of my patience
(Rev, 3:10),
id.
Jesus
SHANE Ul
prang up,
he nets, and fol-
141
i Laer
23).
were
Straightway he received his sight (52)
The woman was made whole from
hour (Matt. 9 : 22).
Go in peace, and be whole of thy plague
(Mark 5 : 34).
by has make thee whole (Luke
i
Faith... hath given him this perfect
soundness { Acts 3 : 16).
1. “What wilt thou that I should do
unto thee?” The Lord's
(1) To him
2. "Go thy way: thy
thee whole.” (1) A believer; (2) A
sound man; (2) A missionary.
, “He received his sight, and follow.
ed him in the way.” (1) The Lord's
treatment of the man; (3) The
man's treatment of the Lord,
LESSON BIBLE READING,
JEBUS
somii—
AND THE BLIND,
Restoration from blindness a work of
God (Exod, 4 : 11 ; Psa, 146 ; 8)
Restoration from blindness a work of
the Messiah (Isa, 20 : 18:35: 5 42 :
8, 7)
Restoration from blindness a work
Jesus (Matt. 9 : 27-31 ; 20: 30-34 ;
Mark 8:22.26 ;: 10 : 46-52 5 Loke 7
21 ; John 9: 1-7).
Nestoration from blindness demonstrat.
ed the membership of Jesus (Matt,
11:46;12:22306; Jom ¥: 16, 17.
30-353 «+ John 10 : 20, 21)
{ blind
01
commended (Luke
LESSON SURROUNDINGS.
A discourse about rehes (Mark 10.
23-27) follows the last lesson, belong oc-
casioned by the depariure of the rich
young wan. A question of Peter Jed
to further discourse (Maik 10 : 28-31),
concluding with the parable of the
laborers in the vineyard (Matt, 20 : 1-
16). Another prediction of the Passion
seems to have been made immediately
alterwards (Mark 10: 52-34), giving
the most graphic account of the cir-
:umstances, The ambitious
Salome and her two sons is recorded by
Matthew [ Matt, R28) and Mark
(Mark 10: 35-45). The most natural
view of the order of evenls places this
week's lesson next in time; but, as Mat.
thew and Mark say that the miracie oc-
curred while coming out of Jericho,
some think the events narrated in Luke
19 27 should be placed before the
healing of Bartipeus, Yet Luke bun
self gives the other order, and hs lang-
uage in Luke 19:1 is quite general,
probably, referring to the journey as a
whole, and not to some specific entrance
to Jericho, This would sufliciently ex-
plain the divergence in the accounts,
Others think that Matthew and Mark
refer to the old city, and Luke to the
new; but this is less probable. The
city
The time was within a day
or two of the fical departure from Jer-
icho to Jerusalem, This latler An-
lrews fixes on Friday, Nisan 8 {March
31), giving as ihe { the
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date of 1 #8900
Fhursday, Nisan 7 (March 30), year of
Rome 783 (A. D. 30).
Parallel passages: Maths
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Phuosophic.
1'v notised thet all fools is egotisis
yut all egolists is not fools,
I've notised them thal asks Lhe
yost queslchu aint allus the Dest
there’ more surprizes
s» than ennywheres else
86,
av
in
het's ashamed of hi
, fur be hain
to
§ re.
be
renerally got enuff of it for be
shamed of,
I've notised that when a feller finds
ut thet his opinyun conflicts with his
glerests he changes either one or tother
nitey quick.
1 reckon it "ud been a heep easyer
fur to “find a needle in a haystack’
than it "ud be to find two human bein’s
sggsact mates,
I've notised that them thal thinks
inet there haint no hell is ginerally the
mes thet haf the most reeson to be
afeard thet there ::
've notised thet there's mighty few
men thet's sharp enuff to diskiver a
wole in a feller’s shoa, ef the shoe's
well blacked an’ polished,
i reckon ef we'd pever find fault
with a man’s work when be's done it
setter than we cood do It our own
selves, there 'ud be a heap less fault
ndin’ in this world.
reckon it "ud make a heep o' hard
fealin's ef we cood *‘see ourssives as
thers see us,”’ but ef others cood see
us a8 we see ourselves, It ‘ud be the
biggest surprise party thal ever was
knowed,
1 reckon ef everybody ’ud gel what
they think they deserve in this world,
yo’ cood find standin’ room on the top
o' the Washin ton Monument fur all
the poor fokes yo' cood scrape up; and
ef nobody ud git no more’'n th y ack-
shully deserve, the rich fokes wood't
be no ways crowded in the same place.
vital Power of Women.
State Botanist Thomas Meehan, of
Germantown, Pa., was the fired scien-
List to discover that the vilal power of
the female is superior to that im the
male. He likes to talk over the mem-
orable debate that occurred at the
meeting of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science years
ago when he first announced his discov-
ery. ‘The meeting,” he said recently
to a correspondent, ‘was beld at Salem,
Mass, and I shall never forget the
scene that followed when 1 sat down.
One alter another of the greatest
American scientific attacked my theory
and endeavored to tear it to pieces,
Professor Agassiz opened his heaviest
batteries on me, but I had an answer
to every argument, and came out of the
fray well satisfied with the days work.
And what is cause for additional sell-
congratulation is that I have lived to
see ty discovery universally accepted as
an established scientific fact, Some of
the most commonplace examples prove
the truth of my theory, An unexperi-