REY DR. TALMAGE.
FHE BROOKLYN DIVINES SUN.
DAY SERMON,
Buljec® Whe Island of Patmos.”
TexTs “When we had discovered Oy
rus we left it on the left hand." — Acts xxi.
band I. John, was in the isle that is called
{mos = Revelation i., 9,
Goodby, Egypt! Although interestin
and instructive beyond any country in al
the world, excepting the Holy Land, Egypt
was to me somewhat depressing, It was a
wt mortem examination of cities that died
our thousand years ago. The mummies, or
wrapped up bodies of the dead, were pre
pan with reference to
day, the Egyptians departing this life want.
ing their bodies to he kept in as good condi.
tion as possible so that they would
sentable when they were called again to oo
cupy them. But if when Pharaoh comes to
resurrection he finds his body
his soul will become an
The Sphinx also was to me a stern monstros
ite sixty-two feat high and about one hun
dred and forty-three feet long, and having
the head of a man and the body of a lion.
We sat down in the sand of the African
desert to study it.
looked down upon thousands of years of
earthly history, Egyptian civilization,
Grecian civilization, Roman civilization:
upon the rise and fall of thrones
armies of centuries,
It is dreadful in its stolidity. Itseyes have
mever wept a tear. Its cold ears have not
listened to the groans of the Egyptian na-
tion, the burden of which I tried to weigh
last Sabbath. Its heart is stone. It cared
not for Pliny when he measurei it in the
first century. It will care nothing for the
man who looks into its impertubable coun:
tecance in the Inst contury,
But Egypt will yet come up to the glow of
fife. The Bible promises it. The mission.
aries, like my friend, good and great
Lancing, are sounding a resurrection
trumpet above those siain empires. There
will be some other Josaph at Memphis, There
‘will be some other Moses on the banks of the
Nile. There will be some other Hypatin to
geach good morals to the degraded.” Instead
ofa destroying angel to slay the firstborn of
Egypt the angel of the New Testament will
shake everlasting life from his wings over a
pation born ina day. When, soon after my
arrival in Egypt, | took part in the solemn
and tender obsequies of a missionary from
our own land, dying there far away from the
sepulchers of her fathers, and saw around
ber the dusky and weeping congregation of
those she had come to save, I said to myself:
“Here is sacrifice of the E :
Here is heroi mmortal. Here
unto God rever, Here
grander thas pyramids,
which thrills the heavens,
men of that whic
Goodby . Ezy
the steamer Mi
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is something
Here is that
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will yet save the world.”
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va in the Grecian archi
of the Testament,
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reversal! an
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Divine Book.
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aft: we,
it on the right
Cniv two « thre i
party # bad plenty 1
deck,
nigh : | t Grecian archipelag
Islands of islands of beauty be
islands, this
neath! It rovai family of
crown of the
Grecian a
w rd # 50% ire and emerald
an i topaz and « and ablaze
S ory thats . ms i out of oslestial
andscapes ; ntiy made up His
mind tha uld demonstrate
the utmost at can be
the beautificat
» direction, have
Minerva were
[ers our
om to walk the
was Christmas
besides
the
with
of earthly SOSnery.
ped during the night
Sip was as quiet as
nad up to the deck
and found ths had anchored off the
fsland of Cyprus. In a boat, which the na-
tives rowed standing ug
instead of sitting d«
were soon landed on the
and Parna
when at Ai Paul and Barnabas got
nto a Hght-—as ministers sometimes did, ana
sometimes do, for they all have imperfeo-
£ enough to anchor them to this world
t heir work is done, 1 say~—when, because
of that bitter controversy, Paul and Barna-
bas parted, Barnabas
Cyprus, which was his birthplace. Island,
wonderful for history! It has been the prize
sometimes won by Persia, by Greece, by
Egypt, by the Saracens, by the Crusaders,
and last of all, not by sword but by pen, and
that the pen of the keenest diplomatist of the
century, Lord Beaconsfield, who, under a»
lease which was as good as a purchase, sef
Cyprus among the jewels of Victoria’
crown,
We went out into the excavations from
which Di Cesnoladiag enriched our American
museums with antiquities, and with no bet.
ter weapon than our foot we stirred up the
ground deep enough to get a tear bottle in
which some mourner shed his tears thou
sands of years ago, and a lamp which before
Christ was born lighted the feet of some
oor piigrim on his way. That island of
‘¥prus has enough to set an antiquarian
wild. The most of ita glory is the glory of
the past, and the typhoid fevers that swept
its coast, and the clouds of locusts that often
blacken its skies (though two hundred thou-
sand dollars were expended by the British
empire in one year for the extirpation of
these noxious insects, yet failing to do the
work), and the frequent change of govern.
mental masters hinder prosperity,
But when the islands of the sea come fo
God, Cyprus will come with them, and the
agricultival and commerc.al opulence whict
oroed it in ages t will be ecli by
the agricultural and commercial and relig.
fous triumphs of the ages to come, Why
the world so stapid that it cannot see that
nations are prospered in temporal things in
oportion as they are prospered in religious
hings? Godliness is profitable not only for
individuals, but for nations. Quustions of
tariff, questions of silver bill, questions of
republic or monarchy have not so much to
do with a nation's temporal welfare as ques
tions of religion, Give Cy to Christ’
give England to Christ, give Amerios to
“brist, give the world to Christ, and He will
gir them all a prosperity unlimited. Why
Brooklyn one of the queen cities of the
earth? Because it is the queen cities of
churches,
Blindfold me and lead me into any city
of the earth so that I cannot see a street or
and in the n
this floor, whe
e Insts
s when we row, we
walked and preached,
och,
begun to paw the waves like a courser im-
patient to be gone, and then we moved on
and up among the islands of this Gospel
archipelago,
Night came down on land and sea and the
voyage became to me more and mote sug
gestive and solemn. If vou are pacing it
alone a ship's deck in the darkness an { at sea
is a weird placa, and an active imagination
may conjure up almost any shape he will,
and it shall walk the sea or confront him by
the smokestack or meet him under the cap-
tain’s bridge. But here I was alone on ship's
deck in the Gospel archipelago, and do you
wonder that the sea was populous with the
past and that down the ratlines Bible memo-
ries descended? Our friends had all gone te
their berths,
the Island of Rhodes? Looking cut from
under his glazed cap, he responded in sepul-
chral voice, “About midnight.” Though it
would be keeping unreasonable hours, 1 cons
| cluded to stay on deck, for I must ses
| Rhodes, one of the islands associated with
the name of the greatest missionary the
world ever saw or ever will see. Paul
landed there, and that was enough to make
{ it famous while the world stands, and fa-
; mous in heaven when the world has become
a charred wreex,
This {sland has had a wonderful history,
With six thousand Knights of St. John, it at
ons time stood out against two hbundred
thousand wairiors under “Solyman the
{ Magnificent.” The city had tores thousand
| #tatues, and a statue to Apollo calied Co-
lossus, which has always since been con.
| sidered one of the seven wonders of the
| world, It was twelve years in building and
{ was seventy cubits high, and hal « winding
| stairs to the top. It stood fifty-six years
and then was prostrate i by an earthquake,
{ After lying in ruins for nine hundred years
it was purchased to be converted to other
| purposes, and the metal, weizhing seven
PE i twenty thousand pounds, was
put on nine hundred camels and carried
away. We were not permitted to go ashore,
but the lights all up aad down the hills show
where the city stands, and nine boats come
out to take freight and to bring three pas.
sengers. Yet all the thousands of years of
| its history are eclipsed by the few hours or
days that Paul stopped there,
As I stood there on the deck of the Min
erva, looking out upon the place where the
Colossus once stood, I bethought myself of
the fact that the world must have a God of
some kind, It is to me an infinite pathos
this Colossus not only of Rhodes, but the
colossi in many parts of the earth, This is
only the world's blind enching up and feel.
ing after God. Foundered human nature
must have a supernatural arm to help it
ashore. All the statues and Images of heath.
endom are attempts to bring celestial forces
down into human affairs. Blessed be our
ears that we have heard of an ever present
God and that throu :h Jesus Christ He comes
into our hearts and our homes and with
mare than fatherly and motherly interest
and affection He is with us in all our strug.
glos and bereavements and vicissitn dies
Rcd needs something higher than the
Colossus, and the day will comms when ths
Christ. whom Paul was grving when he
sailed into the harbor of Rhodes, shall take
possession of that island
As we move on up
pelazo, I am reminded of what an importan
part the islands have taken io the history «
the world They are tn
ing of the planet, ihe two ?
mn. As you j
pound we
through this arch
nacasmry
nil n "Te
3 DO One
zat 2
had
inn
rather,
archipelag
for more
there than
®
glories of hoa an ted
the islands and conti
at wd, As wea Come t
puises quicken. 1,
that is called Patmoa'
twentv-oight miles
cypreses and inferior olives pump a
ut of the earth, and one palm tree spr
its foliage. But the barrenness and gloor
loneliness of the island made it a priso
for the banished evangelist,
Domitian could not stand his ministry,
and one day, under armed guard, that min.
inter of tha Gospel stepped from a tossing
boat to these dismal rocks and walked up to
the dismal cavern which was to be bis home
and the place where should pass before bim
ven
wits since
ward it I fesl m
John, was in the alas
It is a pile of
circumference
he
raptures of a coming eternity. Is it not re-
markable that neariy ail the great revela-
tions of music and poetry and religion have
in beuishment — Homer
{| years of banishment from his native land:
| Victor Hugo writing his “Les Miserables”
{| exiled from home and country on the island
| of Guernsey, and the brightest visions of
the future have been given to those who by
sickness or sorrow were exiled from the
‘ outer world into rooms of suffering. Only
| those who have been imprisoned by very
hard surroundings have had great revela-
tions made to them.
i Bo Patmos, wild, chill and bleak and ter.
| rible was the best island in all the archi
| peiago, the best place in all the earth for
: divine revelations, Before a panorama oan
| be successfully seen, the room in which you
| sit must be darkened, and in the presence of
| John was to pass such a panorama as no
| man ever before saw or ever will ses in this
ings was a help rather than an hindrance,
{| All tae surroundings of the place affected
| Bt. John's ima when he speaks of
t heaven. 8t. John, hungry frog enforced
: § i
| abstinance, or having no food A that at
| which his appetite revolted, inks of
{i heaven; and as the famished man is apt to
{dream of bountiful tables covered with
luxuries, so St, Joho says of the inhabitants
HBoarcity of fresh water on Patmos and the
hot Souja of St. John's thirst leads him to
admire heaven as he says, ‘They shall thirst
no more.”
St. John hears the waves of the sea wildly
lashing against the rocks, and each wave
bas a voles, and all the waves together make
a chorus, and they remind him of the multi
tudinous anthems of heaven, and he says
'" are like the voice of many waters.”
¥, 48 he looked off upon the sen, the
waters were very smooth, as it is to-day
while we sail them in the Minerva, and they
ware like glass, and the sunlight seemed to
sot them on fire, and there was a mingling of
white light and intense flame, and as St
John od out from his cavern home nu
that brilliant sea he thought of the
of heaven and describes “As a sea of
Jas mingled with fire” Yes seated tn the
cavern of P though homesick and
bu and loaded with Domitian’s anathe-
John was the most fortunate man
earth because of the panorama that
passed before the mouth of that cavern,
Turn down all the lights that we ve
a
robed, the
nd,
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sash! orash! and the pipers ceass to pipe,
snd the trumpets cesses to trumost, andthe
manvas, whie from ahove and beneath are
voices announcing, “Babylon is falen, is
tnilen! And we halt azain to rest from the
tpectacle,
mounted Christ on a snow white
And we halt again to rest from the spect
cle, Again the panorama passes before the
cavern of Patmos, and John ths exile sees
great thrones lifted, thrones of martyrs,
thrones of apostles, thrones of prophets,
thrones of patriarchs, and a throne higher
than all on which Jesus sits, and ponderous
books are opened, their leaves turded over,
revealing the names of all that have ever
lived, the good and the bad, the renowned
and the humble, the mighty and the weal,
und at the turn of every leaf the universe is
in rapture of fright, and the sea empties its
sarcopaagus of all the dead of the sunken
shipping, ani the earth gives way, aod the
heavens vanish, Again we rest a momout
from the spectacie,
The panorama moves on before the cavern
of Patinos, and John the exile behol isa city
of gold, and a river more beautiful than tha
Raine or the Hudson rolls through it, and
fruit trees beni their burlens on either
hank, and all is surrounded by walls in
which the unholstery of autumnal forests,
and the sunrises ani sunsets of all the ages,
and the gory of buruing worlds seem to be
commingled, ' And the inhabitants never
breathe a sigh, or utter a groan, or discuss
a difference, or frown a dislike, or weep a
tear, The fashion they woar is pure white,
and their foreheads are encircled by gar.
lands, and they who were sick are well, and
they who were old are young, and they whe
were bereft are reunited. And as the last
figure of that panorama rolled out of sizht
I think that John must have fallen back int
bis cavern nerveless ani exaaustad, To
much was it for the naked eve to look at
rience.
My friends, I would
shouid have a very similar
awhile, You will be through with this world,
its cares and fatigues
rou have served the Lord and have done the
foe you could, I should not wonder if your
dying bed were a Patmos. It often has bees
#0. I was reading of a dving boy who, while
the family stood around sorrowlully, ex
pecting each breath would be the last, cried:
“Oen toe gates! Open the gates! Happy
Happy! Happy!” John Own in hh
last hour, said to his attendant
“Ob, brother Payne! the long wish
for day bas come at last!” lutver
ford, in the cian: moment his
his iife, oled out, “i shall shine, [ shall see
Him as He is, and all the fair company with
Him, and shail have my large share, | have
gotten the victory, Carist is holding
ma Now | feel! No
I foal Anns
STs Will see Ih
Sl
of
writ
a% to embraces
yt Now I rejoice!
Ihave angels food, My
Ho deamer, ¥,
uss land.” Ye: ton thousant
hisrary of the world has the
made a Parmos,
Y the time will
on
i iwe loth
bir 0X
in was exiled
ir FOO
a will be wing
a. and songs let
i lather a
fesoend into §
ron whoin
} Y&Are s
kiss will be on 3 srehends, a
soe gardens in fail
of shining gates
long ago hushed
In many a Christian departurs that you
have known and I have wwn thers was ic
the parassologzy of the departing ones 80 ne
thing that indicated the reappearance ol
those long deceased. It is Do deliriam, mw
delusion, but a supernal fact Your gilor
{fied loved ones will hear that you are about
to come, and they will say in heaven: “Mas
I go down to show that soul the way up
May I be the celestial escort? May I wait for
that soul at the edge of the pillow? And the
Lord will say: “Yea. You may fly dows
on that mission.” And 1 think all your
glorifisd brethren will come down, and they
will be in the room, and althouzn those in
heaith standing around you may hear na
voice and see no arrival from the heavenly
world, you will see and hear. And the mo
ment the flsshiy bond of the soul shal
break, the ory will be: “Follow me! Up this
way! By this gilded cloud, past those stars,
straight for home, straight for glory, straight
for God"
As on that day in the Grecian archi
Patmos bagan to fade out of sight, 1 wailed
to the stern of the ship that | might keep my
oye on the enchantment as long as I eould
and the volos that svundedont of heaven to
John the exile in the oavern on
soemed sounding in the waters
against the side of our ship, “Behold the tab
sromcle of God is with men, and He wil
dwell with them, and taey shall be His peo
le and God Himself shall be with them and
- their God; and God shall wips away all
tears from their eyes, and there shall be no
more death, neither sorrow nor eorying,
neither shall there be any more pain, for the
former things are passed away.
ny and will
Will Make Ships Unsinkable,
And now a material has been discov.
|
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The article is called cellulose and is to be
manufactured in Philadelphia. The cel
lulose is made from the husks of cocanuts
and has the property of absorbing eighi
times its own weight of water. The
husks are ground into meal, the meal i
aced in sacks, and vessels are lined
with it. Owing to the quality of the
fiber it is impossible to make a hole in it.
The discovery of the material was aoci:
dental. A French gunboat was practic.
ing at a target set up against a quantity
ot these wet husks; the shots that struck
the target pierced it and disappeared
among the husks, leaving no sigus of
their penetration, because the material
immediately closed up again. The hint
thus given led to experiments, and these
to the manufacture of the new article
If the hull of a vessel be lined with cel.
lulose it will make it practically unsinke
ble.—Atlanta Constitution.
IO vom
Finger Autographs of Idiots.
Impressions of the fingertips of idiot
bave been found by . A'Abundo
show very different
SUNDAY SCHOOL, LESSON,
BUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1901,
Christ Befcre Pilate,
LESSON TEXT,
1-16. 5
(John 10 ; Memory verses, 57.)
LESSON PLAN,
Toric or THE QUARTER:
Son of God,
Jesus the
Gorpex Texr ror THE
1 hese are written, that ye
lieve that Jesus is the Christ, the Son
of God; and that believing ye might
have life through his name.
20 : 31.
QUARTER:
Lisson Tovio: The Son
Sentence,
Receiving
r 1. Abuse inflicted, vs. 1
|
i Crucifixi remands
LESSON OUTLINES rucifixion pemanded,
ve. 6,
i Moepgteniee Given, vs. 8
i i
Gorpex Texr: Who was delivered
for our offences, and was raised again
+ 4D.
Darny Hour ReApiNas:
M.-—John 19 ; 1-16.
ceiving sentence,
T.—Matt, 27 : 1-26.
Pilate,
W. Mark 15 :
Pilate.
T.—Luke 23 :
Pilate,
Isa, 053 :
Saviour.
Matt. 16
ticipated,
8.—Heb, 2:
suffering.
The Son
Jesus before
Jesus before
Jesus before
F. The suffering
Ss. Suffering an
The gain
LESSON ANALYSIS,
ABUSE INFLICTED,
I. By the Scourge:
Pilate therefore
scourged him (1).
Unto the Gentiles to mock,
scourge (Matt, 20 : 194,
Is it lawful for you to scourge
Boman? (Acts 22 aD).
Others hod trials of mockings and
urgings (Heb, 11 3631.
Trorn:
took Jesus, and
and to
a
“0
ii. Ey the
The sol
thorns, and
Thoros also
y §
forth to
Pisiting a
garment
raiment
fa
soft
Matt
pped him, and put on him a
robe (Matt, 27 : 28,
ig
raiment
11: 8
Aan
+ VERT
k HE houses
They stri
scarlet
IV. By Salutations:
They « ame unto him,
King of tue Jews! (3,
They mocked him saying, Hail,
King of the Jews! (Matt 27: 20
Saying that be himself
Lake 23: 21,
Write he ani i,
Jews (John 19
V. By the Blows:
They struck him
the
and said, Hail,
I am King of the
1
21
with their hands
They did esteem him stricken, smitten
of God (Isa. 53 : 4).
Some smote him with the palms of
their hands (Matt 26 : 67).
They... took the reed and smote him
on the head (Matt 27 : 30.)
Il. CRUCIPIXION DEMANDED,
I. The Tumultuous Cry:
They cried out. saying, Crucify him,
crucify him (6.)
They cried out exceedingly
him be erncified (Matt. 27 : 23),
bey cried oat again, Crueify him
(Mark 15 : 13.)
Lot
him (Luke 23 : 21.)
il. The Specious Plea:
He oughtto die. because
himself the Son of God (7)
He hath spoken blasphemy ...He is
worthy of death (Matt. 26 : 65, 66).
I'he Jews sought to kill him, be-
cause he... .ealled God his own
Father (John 5 : 18),
For a good work we stone thee not,
but for blasphemy (John 10 : 83),
In,
he made
RENTENOR GIVEN.
I. The Awe-Stricken Governor:
When Pilate. ... heard this saying,
he was the more afraid (8).
I am innocent of the blood of this right-
cous man (Matt. 27 : 24).
Upon this Pilate sought to release him
(John 19 : 12).
Pilate... had determined to release
him (Aot« 3: 13).
Il. The Slient Prisoner:
Jesus gave him no answer (9),
He gave him no answer, not even to
one word (Matt, 27 : 14).
He held his peace, and answered noth-
ing (Mark 14 : 61),
Jesus no more answered anything
{Mark 15: 5).
il, The Humbling Reply:
Thou wouldest have no power against
me, except it were given thee (11),
By me kings reigns, and princes de-
cree justice (Prov. & : 14),
He removeth Hips, and setteth up
kings (Dan 2 : 21,
There is no power but of God (Rom.
14:1)
IV. The Cunning Retort:
11 thou release this man, thou art not
Cwmosar’s friend (12).
Ne an can serve two mastors (Matt.
1H),
One that maketh himself a king speak-
nh ia Ottar (John 19 : 12),
ose all not contrary to the decrees of
Cwsar (Acts 17 : Tn
They look and stare upon me (Psa, 22:
37).
T ey shall look unto me whom they
have pierced (Zech. 12 : 10).
Every eye shall see him, and they
which pierced him (Rev. 1:7).
The Cruel Condemnation:
Then... he delivered him unto them
to be crucified (16,
Jesus he seconrged and delivered to be
erncified (Matt. 27 : 26.
Pilate. . . released unto them Barabbas,
and delivered Jesas (Mark 15 : 15)
But Jesus he delivered up to their will
{Lake 25; 20
Versel,
Ii.
“Pilate therefore took Jesus
(1) An ignoble
(2 prisoner: (3) A
ruler; (2) A peerless
base cruelty,
Verse 2, —*“The soldiers plaited a
crown of thorns, and put it on his
head.” (1) The soldiers and their vie-
tim: (2) The Lord and his crown,
The erown of thorns (1) An instrument
of torture; (2) An expression of ircny;
(3) A type of trium; h.
Verse 4.—*1 find no erime in him.’’
(1; A positive conclusion: (2) A frenk
{1) Uharges investigated
Justie
Verse 0. — “Behold the man!” The
man (1) Ionocent of guit: 2, Over.
whelmed with woes. (3) Radiant with
Braces,
Verse 6 “Crucify him,
him.” Crueifixon (1) Demanded by
the mob; (2) Deereed by the Father:
(3) Accepted by the Bon; (4) Trosted
by the saint,
Verse 9.— “Jesus gave him no an-
swer.” (1) The governor's demands:
(2) The Lord's silence.
: Verse 11.— “Thon wouldst have no
POWwWer against me, except 1t were given
thee from above.” (1) The source of
power; (2; The limitations of power.
Verse 12. If thou release this man.
| thou are not Cesar's friend.” Royal
{ patronage (1) Of what value? (2) On
| what dependent,
Verse 15. ~
him." 1)
doomed,
-“Away with him
Jesus re jected;
, crucify
Jesus
Verse 16. —He de ivered
them to be crucified.’ i
cree; (2) The Lord's
judge; (2) The
Cross
him
i late 's
une
de
LESSON BI
Crovernor of .
LESSON SUKROUNDINGS,
15711 y Evexs
ficulty in arranging the
VEXIN Lhe main dif-
four secounts
uncertainty as to the
of trisls before the Jewish
rulers, John 18 : 19.23 seems to refer
to a hearing before Anuvpas, since verse
If so, then we have ac-
one before Annas
before the
John), an informal
sanhedrin at night
Matthew and Mark
The denials of Peter
The
during the hearing
that second, during
hearing before Caiaphas; the
at the close of this hearing
night trial before Caiaphas
briefly refer.
first, before or
the
The
Jesus was then led to Pilate,
: Jesus condemyed
without specific charge (John 18 : 20,
30). Failing in this, they brought a
view between Pilate and Jesus (John
The governor attempts to
but the rulers renew
be
Herod, who was at Jerusalem. Jesus
is silent before Hered,
again, Pilate makes another effort to
release Jesus; but, by giviog the peo-
ple their choice of a prisoner, virtually
abbas. About this time a message
comes from Pilate’'s wife. Two more
efforts are made by Pilate to release
connected with verse 16,
Praon —At and outside of the
torium; that is, Vilate's residence.
was either the castle Antonia, st the
northwest corner of the temple, or the
summer palace of Herod the Great, on
The latter
re.
| is the more probable place,
| Toux, On Friday morning (the prep-
| aration). There is a guestion whether
i this was the 14th or 15th of Nisan, The
strike him. Pilate brings him out to
the multitude, but they ery ont,
“Cruecify nim!” Pilate tells them he
finds no crime in him, but they refer
to his claim to be the Bon of God.
Alarmed by this, Pilate questions Jesus
farther. Pilate again seeks to release
him, but the Jews reply that to release
Jesus would be a political offense.
This brings Pilate to yield. He takes
hus place on the Lema, and says to the
Jews, ‘ Behold your king!” To their
demand for the erueifixion of Jesus, he
replies with a further taunt, which
leads to the final ery of the Jews, “We
have no king but Cmsar.” The final
order for crucifixion is then given
Pararimy Passaces, - Matthew
26-50, Mark 15 : 15-19, are parallel to
verses 1-3; verses 4-16 are peculiar to
John,
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29 :
SCIENTIFIC.
—
The population of the earth doubles
itself in 200 years,
mn mr
A thunderstorm in hot weather trav-
e's at the average rate of thirty illes
an hour,
RMA
Each of the four cables upon which
the Brooklyn Bridge rests has a capaci-
ty of 12,000 tons.
wt
A French electrician puts out 150
type-written words a minule over 4a sin-
gle wire—the capacity of his improved
method of telegraphy.
et A
Dentists have discovered the tartar,
calcareous deposit on the teeth, 1s
more abundant in persons of highly
nervous temperament than in any
others.
———- A p——
A company has been formed in Ohlo
to pipe Lake Erie water through to Cin-
cinnatl, taking the most important
cities and tcwns along the route,
Many of the Pittsburg glass compa
nies are placing plants in position to
make gas, the natural-gas supply bav-
ing given oat, The object is to avoid
going back to solid fuel,
a ————
The shell of an oyster in its native
habitat is always a little open, and mi
croscopie, waving hairs sel up currents
w hich carry the food 1 ls to its mouth,
they sie engulfed and afterwards
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ation of the aqueous
cattle will deter-
combines cheap-
iz found in per-
i On wils
bucketful of disinfectant, It je
al, and can be kept in ths stat,
until ready {or use,
tant which
reneral wortl
of © ounce
vars ¥ &
potash
Alachua Lake, a sheet of water in
Georgia, almost fifteen miles in length,
leavi'g thous
h and inertalligators cn
This is the second time
thls phenomenon has oc
has run completly dry,
nods of dea
the banks,
ce 182
curred.
#1
There is less dew on a cloudy night,
because clouds prevent the earth from
cooling. They obstruct the rays of heat
as these pass over the earth and torn
them back, thus pre-erving the equality
of atmosphere between the earth and
the air.
rs A
Oxygen is a gas whose presence Is
necessary before the phenomenon of
burning can take placa, and hydrogen
18 a gas that burns with a pale blue
flatne, and yet the combination of these
two gases forms water, which is the
opposing element of fire.
ite —
The pongee silks, both plain and fig-
ured, will be worn during the fall, the
natural shade predominating. Come
bination sults in two shades of pongee
will be favored. The two shades of
brown and black, with delicate com-
binations, will be noticeable for recep-
tien gowns,
MI ——
The cultivation of the Indian-rubber
iree on the Island of Tr n dad is receiv-
ing much attention. A few trees of
different varieties were 1mported some
years ago and were placed in the botani-
cal gardens, The resulta have shown
that the soil and climate are remarka-
bly favorable to their cultivation,
AP ———
Besides the large plants, Mercury,
Venus, the earth, Mars, J upiter, Saturn,
Uranus and Neptune, there are proba:
bly thousands of others revolving
around the Sun in orbits between those
Up to date over
ered and catalogued. Vesta, Ceres,
Pallas and Juno are among the more
important of them, the first-mentioned
i
visible to the naked eye.
A new scientific instrument has been
gotten up by Professor Bigelow, which
is cal ed the aurora-inclinometor. By
extensive researches he has found that
the same law which underlies the work.
| date, and John 18 : 28 can be explained
accordingly. The 15th of Nisan wonld
be April 7, A. U. OC. 783A D 30,
| The time of the day was before noon,
though Mark places the orncifixion at
9 A. M. (“the third hour”).
tude of the Jews,
erating on the sun, and that sun-earth
rotates as does Lhe armature of a
The instrument will be
sent to Alaska, where 1t will be used in
the study of the aurora, and it is there
Acoordion p'aiting, after its brief re.
tirement, Is agrin to the fore for the
moment at least, A costume of (ine
lace, The upper of
of fall sccordion Mery the
mock msigma of royalty are put on
of gu