GR ENTE
“aw wae ITLALE mattars to be settled? Ah,
my Irienas, we must have an atonement,
No Christ, no salvation. The great Re-
deemer comes in and says: “I will pay your
lindebteduess.” Bo that which was dark
enough before is bright enough now, The
str wo deserve are fallen upon Christ,
On soourged bleeding shoulders He
oarriee us up over the mountain of our sins
the hills of our {niguities. Christ's
a Eu wt
who re em, depe upon own,
wust perish. Traits of charactar that ma
make us influential on earth will not Noor)
fy open to us the gate of heaven. The plank that
will be strong enough for a house floor would
do for a ship's hulk. Mere morality
t be enough here, but cannot take you
avons I» dents stor thie heaven's harfor.
~ 1 IC announ or : “I am the
t Alknd 10 Christ at She top of the Bsmpia, ‘way, the truth and the life; him that cometh
Wapon sin as it always is. Could ape junto Me I will in no wise cast out.” Bus
Abe pit, the putrefaction of Ihinits caperi: | Pitiable in the day of accounts will be the
ities. the ghastly, loathsome: Gl Sapa tondition of that man, though he may have
“ ven all bis estate to benevolent pars
Shouter yaas Hprodted Bin nd killed Posen and passed his life in the visiting of
face into darkness re i 3 a the and done much to excite the
Snfernal ch ourt be gad pales ' | pdmirasion of the good and the great, if he
our first atm Ota Hota. ore ve no intimate relation to Jesus Christ,
%p them Rr a greased, sin ap hare is a prideand a depravity in his soul that
the sweetness of fruit and the be- | |g hes never discovered. A brilliant outside
coming as gods. To Absalom it was the be
; no apology for a depraved inside, Itis
Pleasure of sitting upon a throne. To men theory of mine, but an announcement of
how po js Jnughtier and De aon to luxur| | Kod, who eaniot lis: “By the deeds of the
suggests a faot which everybod coon to w shall no flesh ving po Jussiieg ¥ o
know, and that is that sin, to hide its de. | [0° door of heaven and look tn. Howard is
form and shame, 1s accistomed to wear! fore, but he did not secure his entrance by
ing oo A and the Saviour ako sots forth! | | he dungeons he illumined and the lazzaret-
the truth that God can see straight through | Foul 1s hero, 0, Garried the medicines.
all sueh ings and thicknesses, I ng Paul fs Shdre, but He wr fbb lis way ia
now to speak of several kinds of cloaks with! by he aulp ind jn Sue i
which men expect to cover up their iniqui- Jeo gL C8 : Mires oth pk
ties, for the fashion in regard to these gar-| paps al clai axceps & Fists, so od fais
ments is constantly ch , and every day! | (pas ACun: ny tha o a
behalds some new style of wearing them, and) | | af.
if you will tarry a fittle while r will show
you five or six of the patterns of cloaks, i
First, I remark that there are those who,
being honored with official power, expect to
make that a successful cloak for their sin. j
There is a sacredness in office. God Himself! |
is King, and all who hold authority iu the|
world serve under Him, That community
has committed a monstrous wrong who has
elevated to this dignity persons unqualified
either by their ignorance or thelr immoral-
ity. Nations whoelevate to posts of author-
ity those not qualified to fill them will feel
the reaction, Solomon expressed this
thought when he said: “Woe unto thee, © | Hen, and he understands yet most thorough y
land, when thy King is a ohild and thy | how to instonate himself Kto any door of
Princes drink in the morning.” While | ®8seand splendor. Men frequently judge
positions of trust may be disgraced by | of sin by the places in which it is committed,
the character of those who fill raem, [ | Put iniquity in satin is to God asloathsomo
believe God would have us respectful tothe, | 8 iniquity fn r and in the Day of Judg-
offices, though we may have no admiration | "nt the sins of Madison avenue and Elm
for their oocupants. Yet this dignity which | street will all be driven inone herd. Men
office confers can be no apology for trans | CARDO escape at last for bein Fespectably
gression. Nebuchadnezzar and Ahad and | sinful. You know Dives was clothed in pur-
ierod in the day of judgment must stand on | Pie and fine linen and fared sumptuously
the level with the herdsunen that kept their: | every day, but his fine clothes and good dio-
flocks and the fishermen of Galiles, Pope | Ders did not save him. He might on earth
sad King and President and Governor must | have drunk Sofndihiing a4 rich a8 ehampntn
give an acount to God,and be judged by the | 80d cognac, but as last he asked for one
same law as that which judges the beggar | drop of water. You cannot trade off
and theslave. Sin is all the more obnoxious, | Your attractive abodes here for a house
when it is imperial and lordly. You cagnot | 0 many mansions on high, aad
make pride or injustice or cruelty sacred by | Your elegant shade groves sre will
giving it a throne. Belshazzar’s decanters | DOt warrant you a seat iinder the tree of
ould not keep the mysterious finger from life, Ww ben God dros : iam and Eve out
writing on wall. “Abab's sin literally: | Of Eden He showed that merely living in a
hurled him from the throne to the dogs. | ¥3rden of delights and comforts will never
The imperial vestments of wicked Jehoram | Vea man Or a woman, Sl firing Peo,
could not keep Jehu's arrow from striking | @uch earthly luxury and sment He in-
through his heart. Jezebel's queenly pre- | timated that He would have you enjoy your-
tension could not save her from being | ives, but He would not have you wrap your-
thrown over the wall. No barricade of | lf up in them as a cloak to hide fio a Sina.
fhrone can arrest God's justice fn its un- | Fod now walks in your garden as He did in
erring march. No 0 pe or thickn Eden, and i - stands by your wall as He did
of official robes can be a sufficient cloak of | UY 8 well i: Samaria, and He would make
sin. Henry VIIL, Louis XV. Catharine of our comfort. va earth a type of your rapture
Russia, Mary of England--did thelr crowns jin heaven.
mve tiem’ No rule: ever sat so high that | Furthermore, me “wines of religious
the King of Kings « 2s got above him. All | belief will not nities. There are
victors shall bow befor: Him who on the | men whose heads are as sound as Jonathan
white horse goeth forth cou: ring aul tof | Edwards's or John Wesley's, whose hearts
conquer, {areas rotten as Tom Paine's or Charles
ance of manners cannot suc-
Wie, i, el Guiteau's. It isimportant that we be theo.
y hide iniquity from the eye of God.
retical Christians, It is utter folly in this
That model, gentlemanly apostle, Paul | day for a man to have no preference for any
writes to us: “Be courteous.” That man
form of faith when itis 80 easy to become
tan neither be a respectable worldling nor | onversant with the faith of the different
a consistent Christian who lacks good | wets. An intoxicated man staggered into
manners, He is shut out from refinedcir- | ny house one night begging for lodging
cles, and be certainly ought to be hindered | He made great pretensions to religion.
from entering thechurch. We cannot over- | wked where he went to church, o sald:
ook that in a man which we could | “Nowhere; I belong to liberal Christianity.”
Bardly excuse in a bear. Owns of the first | But there ars those who never become
affects of the grace of God upon an indl- | Christians, because their obstinacy pre- |
vidual is to make him a gentleman. Gruff- reats them from ever I air
ness, awkwardness, im lity, clanish- | riew of what religion is, y are |
ness are fruits of the il, while gentle- ike a brute beast in the fact that
ness and meekness are fruits of the Bpirit. | heir greatest strength lies in thelr borns
But while these excellences of manner fey are combatant, and all they are ever
are so important they cannot hide any | willin
teformity of moral character, How often
‘s it that we find attractiveness of person,
suavity of manners, gracefulness of
sonversation, gallantry of bebavior
thrown like wreaths upon moral death
The flowers that grow upon the scorie of
Vesuvius do not make it any less of a vol- i
sano. The sepalchers in Christ's time did o doctrines of man's depravity and Christ's
not exhaust all the whitewash. Some of tha stonement and God's Sovereignty &re
biggest scoundrels have been the most fas. | theoretically received by them. Bal, alas!
cinating. If there are any depending on out- | there they stop. It is only the shell of
ward gracefulness and attractiveness of de | Christianity containing no evangelical life,
meanor, with any hope that because of that They stand looking over into
God will forgive the sin of their soul, let =a | and admire its beauty and its song, and
assure them that the divine justice cannot | we so pleased with the looks from the outside
be satisfied with smiles and elegant joula- | that they cannot be induced to enter. The
tion. Christ looks deeper than the skin, and | rould make a better argument for trut
such a ragged cloak as the ous in which you | ‘han ten thousand Christians who have in
are trying to cover yourself will be no hiding | their hearts received it. If syllogisms and
in the day of His power. God will not in the | iilemmas and sound itions and logical
judgmen ask how y you walked, | deductions could save their souls they would
nor Bea” you nor how sweetly | be among the best of Christians
REV. DR. TALMAGE.!
The Brooklyn Divine’sSunday
Sermon.
Subject : “Cloaks for Sin.”
XT: “But now have no cloak for
r sin” John ig ,
Sin is always disguised. Decked and
umed and masked it gains
places from which it
[ahorwise be topollad. As sl)
Hs glided into en, and as plausi ¥ as when
} exalted social position will be no
el forsin. Men look through the wicket
tdoor of prisons, and seeing the incarcerated
wretches exclaim, “Oh, how much vice thers
{ is in the world!” And they pass through the
the doors of hovels and the dens of corrup-
tion they call them God-forsaken abodes,
ut you might walk along the avenues
through which the opulent roll in their flour-
walks of lite Satan works mischief and death.
dssiastical fight
would talk allday upon the ninth chapter of
Romans, who were thoroughly belpless bee
‘ore the fourteenth chapter of John. Bus
Jere are those who, having escaped from
this condition, are now depending eéntirely
ipon their soundness of religious theory,
. They
you nor how: impressively you correctly define repentance and faith and
estared. The deeds done in the body will | the Atonement, while they have never feld
the test, and not the rules of Lord Ches |
terfield. ' confidence in the
Again, let me say that the mere profession | almost immovable in thelr posi
of religion is but a poor wra of anaked | not Jens anything
soul. im of an public iC
profession of if the heart res |
newed cannd Christ posi-
tively and with the earnestness of the night
before His crucifixion commanded 8. But it
i= the result of Christian character, not the
cause of it. Our church isa poor
titie to heaven. We may have the nameand
not the reality. There are those who seem
to throw themselvesback with otmpiatuney!
upon Shot public ctmfession of be
thou dhoy ve no wal,
Satan can induce a man go 4 om ch a
His o:
his Lord's will and
neither did accord
beaten with many
gion have a beauty of
result in no warmth in
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by artists and azgregated into a pictorial
splendor. What Pana out of broken shells
and broken glass! Oh, yes; God t that
by the transforming power of His Spirit we
may all be made a t of the eternal
palaces, our broken snd rojfinontar natures
polished and shaped and up to make a
furs of the everlasting splendors of the
eavenly temple!
For sin Lord, thou cam'st to bl
And Pm & sluner vile Indeed. oh
Lord, 1 belive Thy grace is free;
Oh, magnify Thy grace in me,
A Great Hunting Country.
Royal Phelps Carroll, a New Yorker
ho has just returned from a hunting
trip in the Masal country, Africa, says:
““There is no question about the fact
m the Masal country is the finest shoot-
~
ng ground in the world, Enormous
racts of it have never echoed to the sound
pf rifle or gun. But notonly that, The
sole inhabitants of the land, the warlike
and ferocious Masai, never kill the
beasts that literally fill the country. It
is true that the Masai are wholly & flesh
eating people, but they kill only do-
mestic cattle. They do not raise them
much themselves, either, but constantly
make raids upon neighboring peoples,
often hundreds of miles away, and cap-
ture and bring home enormous droves.
When they kill their cattle the Masai
love to put their mouths to the wounds
themselves with the hot blood.
“*But they never kill game. The ele-
Ths lion preys upon their people. The
rhinooeroses take possession of their vil-
unharmed. Antelopes and
snd giraffes scour the occasional plains
and feed in the thickets in countless
herds, These beasts have not learned
to fear man, The rhinoceros charges at
him in pure sport, the lion leaps upon
him only to attack him when enraged.
You can imagine what that land is from
it for
they have worn trails
right inches deep inthe solid rock with
their naked fes', and during all that
time have nes intentionally killed a
sative beast, If [ saw one zebra there [
vw 10,000, and the antelopes, elands,
} es and other game
estimate, I,
le slaughter that
giraffes, rhinoceros
Wer absolut iy i you i
anaidedy could have wm
would have brought sh. ne on my entire
arty of 200. But, beside elephants
wd lions, we killed only for food.
————————
How a Congressman Got a Publisher.
Some time ago a corvnittes of New
York publishers went tv Washington
with a view of urzing Congress to pass a
rertain intersation«d eonyright law fa.
vored by the pubiisaers. A sub-commit.
tee of publishers was holding a meeting
st the Riggs House when a member of
Congress Lan the West called upon
them. He said to them thst he had his
wn vote and could influence the voles
»f four or five friends, but he declared
that he would not do anything for them
anless they promised to do something
for him. When they asked what he
wanted, he said he had written 8 book
snd tried to get every publisher in New
York to publish it, snd none of them
would do so, because the book was pro-
nounced unsuitable for the market. Now,
if they would agree to find a publisher
for his book in New York he would
sgree to give his own and several other
votes for the international copyright
bill,
The committee told him to call upon
gone they discussed his proposition. On
yablish his book and
the truth that no one can tell whether a
book or a play will make a hit until the
experiment has been tried. — Chicago
Herald,
Horse Against Locust.
While the locust Is not confined to any
one country, it is particularly the pest of
the farmers in India and Africa, where
the sirocco, or hot winds, facilitates the
hatching of the eggs. A short time ago
the pests infll terrible sufferings on
the people of Algeria, and at Setif the
streets and walks were invaded by the
insects, which were often so numerous as
to obscure the sun, and did not depart
until they had left acres upon acres of
desolation behind them. The farmers at
Bou-Baada dig big trenches in the soll,
thoy are reduced to a pulp.
od, howtver. count of the
large number. A few years ago squafirons
of cavalry were employed to beat down
the locusts, but to little and tes
Government has been as yet to
discover a remedy.-—~American
Bald Calves.
farm of F. P. Weller, near
are two fine, well de.
Dutch Kitchens,
It will probably interest those house-
keepers who take particular pnde in
the culinary regions to know how the
women of Holland devote themselves
to their kitchens. In the unplastered
red and white dwellings which there
abound, out of the entire two stories
there is noe room so much delighted in
as the kitchen. 1t 1s usually large
very large. Housekeepers will recog-
nize the extreme usefulness of a place
where they can move about their var-
ous duties without coming in contact
with erowded obstacles in a room of no
size. The windows are ornsmented
with a bird cage or a basket of flowers,
Snowy curtains fall from the top, and
the lower panes are shielded from the
gaze of passers-by by a net-work of
fine wire. Evervthing 1s snowy white
and beautifully clean. Even from the
mantel hangs a lambrequin of muslin,
The fire-place is tiled with china bricks,
It follows with the whole nation to be
so particular about detail. Even in art
it is the same, and on this account peo-
ple say there is something lacking in
the pictures of the most famous Holland
minters., A thing is not always pleas-
ing just as it is, but as the eye sees it,
and it is because these artists omit
neither the pleasing nor the dis-pleas-
ing that people miss a vague something
beautiful,
But this is digressing,
the kitchens.
shaped like cork-screws.
mation to a traveller:
should watch one of these
an hour,
sponged and rubbed like a person.
women for
It
“he blows in the cracks between the
bricks, picks in the corners with finger
enough to fatigue the eye as well as the
arm. It 1s truly a national passion
These girls who are in general phleg-
matic enough, become quite excited on
cleaning days. We are not masters in
our own houses then. They invade
the chambers and turn everything up-
side down. They are real cleaning
They excite themselves
So much
of a Duteh-
Holland and
ils
But something may of course be said
deed, good housckeepers will admit
There is
wpherieal dampness about the
od and
The women of Holund are
of erowding their homes with
Here is of
and
is such a super-abundance of
“Cleanliness is next to Godliness’
i
wooden-shoed housekeepers of
It would
much as soiling it. When
take on the aspect of mirrors, and
Talking of appetites we are told that
The cooks are oooks.
Said a
in Holland: “Were it not
for the scarcity of bread, I would like
to sit at Dutch tables for every meal of
my life.” Cannot one immagine what a
the food comes from.
I. A. Non.
How To Destroy Moths,
leading from the room about to nnder-
and eloset, and
chairs or upon a clothes-horse brought
into the room for the oceasion,
a piece of gum camphor as large as a
hazel nut for an ordinary room ras
large ua a walnut for a room 16 by 20,)
ut it in an iron pot, and place the
tter within another iron pot or upon
an iron stand. Set fire to the eamphor
It burns very fiercely, so set it at a safe
distance from furniture or hangings;
the middle of the room is the best
place for it, unless this be directly
under a chandelier, in which case it
it oun be placed more toward the side
ns the heat is apt to injure the gilding
or bronze. The dense smoke soon
suffocates every insect that inhales it,
Canary birds or goldfish are to be
carried from the room before beginning
operations, and as soon as the cham-
k or begins to burn the operator may
eave the room, as, provided she has
taken the above Brosnutions; there will
be no danger of fire spreading.
The camphor will burn from a quar-
ter to half an hour, but it can be ex-
tinguished at any moment by plan
over it a stove lid or cover o
the pot. Let the smoke remain in the
room about half an hour, then open
the windows wide, leaving them so all
day. After a few hours airing the
races of duiuke will be scarcely notice
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
BUNDAY, JULY 14 1890,
The Great Supper.
LESSON TEXT.
(Luke 14 ;: 15.24, Memory verses. 22.24.)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or THE QUARTER:
Saviour of Men,
Jesus the
Gorpex Texr vor THE QUARTER:
He is able to save to the uttermost, —
Heb, 7 : 25.
Lesson Torio :
Opening the Door
of Salvation,
f 1. The Great Bupper, ys.
| 15:17,
Lessox Qurring:{ = 1pe Bupreme Folly, vs.
| 8 The Enlarged Call, vs,
L 21°24,
Goroex Text: Blessed is he thot
shall eat bread in the kingdom of God,
—Lmke 14 : 15,
Davy Home READINGS &
M.—Luke 14 : 15-24.
feast,
P - Prov. 9
feast.
W.—1sa,
calls.
T.—John 6
life,
F.-—John 4 :1-15.
life.
B.~—~Matt, 22 :1-14.
the king's son.
B.—Rev. 19 : 4-10.
per of the Lamb,
The great
1-12. Wisdom’s
55 : 1-13. Gracious
: 27-561. The bread of
The water of
Marriage of
Marriage sup-
LESSON ANALYSIS.
I. THE GREAT SUPPER,
{
{ I. The Kingdom:
Blessed is he that shall eat bread in
i the kingdom (15),
| Beek ye first his kingdom (Matt 6 ;
The kingdom prepared for youn from
the foundation (Matt. 25 : 34).
Lo, the kingdom of God 1s within you
(Lmke 17 : 21).
<4: 29;
il, The Supper:
A certain msn made a great supper
(163,
She also
{ Prov. o -le
Let your soul delight itself in fatness
{ Isa. 55 ta)
A certain king, which made a marriage
feast (Matt, 22 : 2).
{ The marriage of the
{ (Bev. 19: 7).
| 111. The Bidding:
Come; for all things are now ready
*y
furnished her
Lath
Lamb is
Come, eat ye of my bread ( y
Come ye to the waters (Isa. 55:
Bent forth. ...to call them
hidden (Matt. 22: 3).
Blessed are they which ar
the marriage (Rev. 10: 9
to
ndden
(1) The
(3) The
in the kingdom of God.”
kingdom; (2) The bread;
blessedness,
<. “A great supper.” (1)
(3) The teast: (3) The
The guesta.—The supper
vided: (2) Offered:
(4) Accepled.
“Come; for sll things are
ready.” 1} The provisions of
grace; (2) The eall of grace.—{1)
God's bounty; (2) Man's indiffer-
ence,
The host;
called; (4)
Ii. THE SUPREME POLLY.
I. Excuses Framed:
They all with one consent began to
make excuse (18),
I cast it into the fire, and there came
out this calf (Exod, 32: 24).
Suffer me first to go and bury my
father (Luke 9: 59),
First suffer me to bin farewell. . .at my
house (Luke 9: 61),
Their thoughts. . . .accusing or
cusing them (Bom. 2: 15).
11. Honor Declined:
1 pray thee have me excused (18),
I have called, and ye refused (Prov. 1:
24).
| My people
; 2: 18).
| They made light of it, and went their
ways (Matt, 22: 5),
else ex-
...have forsaken me (Jer.
children, . ..
18: 84).
L111. Self Indulged:
I have bought....I have married
(19, 20).
and ye would not (Luke
is not worthy (Matt. 10: 87).
Let him deny himself, and take up his
cross (Luke 9: 23),
If any... .hateth not... his own life,
....he cannot be my disciple (Luke
14: 26).
They loved not their life even unto
death (Rev, 12: 11).
1. “They all with one consent began
to e excuse” (1) Solid in
sontiment; (2) Fertile In excuses;
(3) Imexensable in culpability.
2, “I pray thee have me excused.”
(1) Ine guise of courtesy; (2) The
fact of enmity; (3) The mina.
tion of folly.
8. “I eannot come.” (1) The plea of
inability; (2) The purpose of re-
bellion,
If. THE ENLARGED CALL,
I. The Extenaed Cali:
Bring in hither the poor....snd
blind and lame (21).
The kingdom... shall
nation bringing forth
(Matt, 21: 43). balk dtodd
As as ye shall fin he
Mow Matt, 29: 9).
Go - lute i She world, and preach
( : 40).
Secing ye thrust it from you,....lo,
we turn to the Gentiles (Acts 13: 46),
It, The Gracious Purpose:
That my house be
filled (23
Look unto me, and yo saved
45: 22).
The
ven to a
fruits
I come and will receive you unto
: 14: 8),
Who willeth that all men should
saved (1 Tim. 2: 4), be
1. The Just Exclusion:
N those
Bind him, .,..and cast him out (Matt,
22: 13).
Your blood be upon your own heads
{Acts 18: 6),
L “The master of the house being
angry said.” ‘Lhe master's ange
(1) Opening the door to the lowly;
(2) Lp the door on the proud.
—{(1) The master's grace; (2) The
master’s anger.
2. “And yet there is room.” The
master's (1) Ample mansion; (2)
Abundant provision; (3) Generous
spirit.—Room (1) Expressing God's
grace; (2) Stimulating God's ser-
vants; (3) Encouraging God's sub-
jects,
8. “shat my house may be filled.”
(1) The heavenly house; (2) The
bappy guests; (8) The divine bene-
factor.
LESSON BIBLE READING.
THE GOSPEL FOR JEW AND GENTILE,
Offered to the Jews (Matt. 10 : 5, 63
Luke 24 : 47 : Acts 13 : 45).
Rejected by the Jews at Nazareth,
(Luke 4:28, 29; in Perma, Luke 8:
87; in Bamaria, Lmke 9 : 52, 58; in
Galilee, Luke 10 : 18 ; in Jerusalem,
John 8B : 59; everywhere, John 1: 11).
Offered to the Gentiles (Psa. 2 : 8; Isa.
11:10:42 :6; Matt. 21: 43-22 : 9;
Luke 14 : 21-23; Acts 13 : 46).
Aocepted by the Gentiles (Acts 10 : 34,
80, 44, 45:13 : 48, 40 ;15:12 ; 28;
28),
AS pe,
LESSON SURROUNDINGS.
Inrenvesing Events. —The last les
son is followed by a report of two para.
bles, which were spoken earlier, but
may have been repented at this time
(Luke 13 : 18-21), Then a reference is
made to a continued journey. Accord-
ing to Robinson, this was the begin-
| ning of the final journey from Versa to
! Jerusalem, after the rawsin gof Lazaros
see last ‘Lesson Surroundings”). The
warning against Herod follows (Luke
| 13:31 85), in which many find san indica
{ tion of speedy death. Andrews, how-
| ever, places this immediately before
the feast of dedication, and joins with
that visit the occurrence at the house
of Martha and Mary (Luke 10 : 38.42),
The withdrawal beyond Jordan comes
| next in his view (John 10: 40-42), then
| Luke 14-16, after which the raising of
| Lazarus from the dead occurred (John
{11}. In any case, chapte's 14-16 be-
long together. The discourse of which
| the lesson forms a part, was uttered af
| the of a Pharisee, where our
| Lord was dining on a Sabbath. A mir-
{acle of healing leads to instruction
| about the lawfulness of such cures upon
| the Sabbath (Luke 14 : 1-6). This was
| followed by a rebuke of self-secking af
| feasts, and an injunction to the host in
| regard to inviting the needy. The les-
i son follows.
| Prace.—In Perma, probably not far
house
| named Pharisee.
Tue, According to Rol n, short-
{ ly before the arrival at Je:io 10, some
| time in March, 783; that 1s A. D. 30.
| Andrews, in accordance with his view
as already explained, dates it in De-
| camber, 782; that is, A. D. 28,—about
| three months earlier.
Persoxs. Our Lord, the company
{at the Pharisce’s house,—one among
them specially prominent.
IxcipesTs.— The blessing uttered by
one of the company; the parable of the
| great supper; the invitations; the vari-
ous excuses; the bringing in of the poor
i and afflicted ; the command to constrain
| others to come; the exclusion of those
| first invited.
| There is 22 sarallel passage ; the para-
| ble in Matthew 22: 1-14 resembles this,
| but is quite distinet.
| Inqu sitiveness the Chief American
i Trait.
| I have said that inguisitiveness wa
| the chief American trait, and that it
| arose from the childish character of a
| man who belongs to a great, successful,
| but young nation. Are there not oth-
| er traits, more or less typical of Ameri-
{ean manners, arising from the same
| cause? I believe there are. Generos-
ity, impulsiveness, forgiveness, and-—
| excuse the word-—cheek are among
them. The American runs wildly after
| the dollar, but he is lavish of it: be
does not love it; he likes it for what it
procures; and avarice, which you so
commonly find in England and in
| Franoe, is a vice—an agly vice—that
you very seldom find in an American.
| He will resent an insult, but very quick.
ly forgets it; and there is no man in the
world that can stand gocd-humored
chafling as well as he does. He is an.
dacious, simply because he has done such
marvellous things in such a short time
| that he simply believes nothing is impos.
sible to him. His dens are eccentric,
but eccentricity is only an exaggrerated
form of the activity of mind. He lives
on a continent so vast that he can hard.
ly see a limit to it. He bas the word
“big” carved on the cranium, and is
a wonder that sometimes the word is so
deeply carved that it makes a hole or a
crack in it? I repeat it, I have never
discovered the typical American, al-
though I have discovered traits that
are characteristic of most Americans;
and, as for American gentlemen, I have
never been able to distinguish them
from English or French gentlemen
The aristocracy of nature 1# universal,
— Max O' Reil in North American Re-
view for May.
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If They Were Men,
One ot the newspaper syndicates puts
lishes the replies of famous women to
the inguiry:—' ‘What would you do il
you were aman?” The best replies are
rom the women who are content to be
B