"REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN-
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “The Human Face.”
Text: “A man's wisdom maketh his face
fo shine, and tha boldness of his face shall be
changed,” or as it may be rendered, *‘the
gsourness of his face shall be sweetened,’
Ecclesiastes viii, 1.
* Thus a little change in our English trans-
lation brings out the better meaning of the
text, which sets forth that the character of |
the face is decided by the character of the
soul. The main features of our countenance
were decided by the Almighty, and we can- |
not change them, but under God we decide |
whether we shall have countenances be-
nignant or baleful, sour or sweet, wrathful
or genial, benevolent or mean, honest or |
scoundrelly, impudent or modest, courage-
ous or cowardly, frank or sneaking. In all
the works of God there is nothing more |
wonderful than the human countenance, |
Though the longest face is less than twelve |
inches from the hair line of the forehead to
the bottom of the chin and the broadest face
1s less than eight inches from cheek bone to
cheek bone, yet in that small compass God
has wrought such differences that the 1,600,
000,000 of the human race may be dis-
tinguished from each other by their facial |
appearance.
The face is ordinarily the index of charac
ter. It is the throne of the emotions, It is
the battlefield of the passions, It is the |
catalogue of character. It is the map of the |
mind. It is the geography of the soul. And |
while the Lord decides before our birth
whether we shall be handsome or homely,
we are by the character we form deciding
whether our countenance shall be pleasant
or disagreeable. This is so much so that
some of the most beautiful faces are unattrac- |
tive because of their arrogance or their de- |
ecoitfulness, and some of the most rugged |
and irregular features are attractive because |
of the kindness that shines through them.
Accident or sickness or scarifleation may
veil the face so that it shall not express the
soul, but in the majority of cases give mea
deliberate look at a man's countenance |
and I will tell you whether he is a
eynie or an optimist, whether he |
48 a miser or a philanthropist, whether he is |
noble or ignominious, whether he is good or | P
bad. Our first impression of a man or
woman is generally the accurate impression.
You at the first glance make up your mind
that some man is unworthy of your friend.
ship, but afterward, by circumstances being
put into intimate association with him, you
come to like him and trast him. Yet stay
with him long enough, and you will be com-
lled to return to your original estimate of
is character, but it will be after he has
oheated you out of everything he could lay
his hands on. It is of God's mercy that we
have these outside indexes of character,
Phrenology is one index, and while it may
be carried to an absurd extent there is no
doubt that you can judge somewhat of a|
man's character by the shape of his head.
Palmistry is another index, and while it may
be carried iz: the fanciful and necromaantic
there is no dount that certain lines in the
palm of the hand are indicative of mental |
and moral traits
Physiognomy is another index, and while
the contour of the human face may some- |
times mislead us we can generally, after
looking into the eye and noticing the curve
of the lip and the spread of the nostril, and
the correlation of all the features, come toa
right estimate of a man's character, fit]
were not so, how would we know whom to
trust and whom to avoid? Whether we will
or not, physiognomy decides a thousand
things in commercial and financial and so-
cial and religious domains. From one lid
of the Bible to the other there is no science |
#0 recognized as that of physiognomy, and |
nothing more thoroughly taken for granted
thao the Ln of the soul to transfigure the
face. Bible of the “face
of Gud,” the “face of Jesus Christ”
the ‘face of Esau" the “ince of
Israel.” the “lace of Job," the “fuce
of the old man.” the shining ‘ince of Moses ™
the wrathful “face of Pharaoh,” the ashes |
on the face of humiliation, the resurrection- |
ary staff on the face of the dead child, the
hypocrites disfiguring their face, and in my
text the Bible declares, “A man's wisdom
maketh his face to shine, and the sourness
of his face shall be sweetened.” If the Bible |
has so much to say about physiognomy, we |
do not wonder that the world has made it a |
study from the early ages. In vain the Eng-
lish Parliament in the time of George IL
ordered publicly whipped and imprisoned
those who studied physiognomy. Intelligent |
people always have studied it and always
will study it. The pens of Moses and Joshua |
and Job and John and Paul as well as of |
Homer and Hippocrates and Galen and
Aristotle and Socrates and Plato and Lavater |
have been dipped Into it, and whole libraries
of wheat and chaff have been garnered on
this theme,
Now, what practical religious and eternal
use would I make of this subject? I am go-
ing to show that while we are not responsi
ble for our features, the Lord Almighty hav- |
ing decided what they xaall be prenatally, as
the psalmist declares when he writes, “In
thy book all my members were written,
which in continuance were fnshioned when
as vet there was none of them," yet the
character which under God we form will |
chisel the face most m ghtily, Every man |
would like to have been made in appearance
an Alcibiades, and every woman would like |
to have been made a Josephine, We all want |
to be agreeable. Oar usefulness depends so
much upoa it that I consider it important |
and Christian for every man and woman to
be as agreeabls as possible, The slouch, the
sioven, the tian who does not care how he
looks, all such people lack equipment for
usafulness, A minister who has to throw a |
quid of tobacco out of his mouth before he |
begins to preach or Christians with beard un-
trimmed, making them to look like wild |
beasts come out of the lair—yea, unkempt, |
uncombed, unwashed, disagreeable men or |
women--are a hindrance to religion more
thau a racommendation,
Now, my text suggests how we may, inde-
pendent of features, make ourselves agree |
able, ‘A man's wisdom maketh his face to
shine, and the sourness of his (ase shall be
sweetened.” What I say may come too late
for many. Their countenance may by long
ears of hardness have been frozen into stol-
dity, or by long years of erusl behavior they
may have Herodized all the machinery of ex.
pression, or by long years of avarice they
may have been Bhylocked until their face is
as hard as the precious metal they are hoard.
ing, but I am in time to help multitudes if
the Lord will. That it is possible to over
come disadvantages of physiognomy was In
this country mightily ils rated by one
whose life recently closed after having
served in the Presedential cabinet
at Washington, By accident of fire in
ohildhood his face had been more piteously
searred than any human visage that I ever
saw. By hard study he arose from being a
Juat hoy 16 ths vary height of the legal pro-
, and when an Att General for
the United States was needed he entorad the
Presidential cabinet, What a triumph over
destroyed human countenance !
I do not wonder that when an opposing at-
torney in a Philadelphia court-room erusily
roferrd to this disfigurement Bea.
lod In these words
When I was a babe, I was a besutiful blue
child, [know this becnuse my dear
mother told me so, but I was one du
playing with my sister when ber olothas took
fire, and I ran to her relief and saved her,
but In doing so my clothes took fire, and the
fire was not put out until my face was as
black as the of the scoundrel who has
st now referred to my d rement,”
erolsm conquering physical Helos !
That scholarly regular features are not neo.
{ on the down grade,
| of good womanhood,
| upon a man's countenance,
| heaven impersonated,
| sannas in human flesh,
{ It
| Divine Seuiptor.
| heart
| man
{ with him
| in the revengeful
with pale and siek face In invalids chair
while he thrilled the American congress with
his eloquence, and thousands of invalid
preachers and Sabbath-school teachers and
Christinn workers, Aye, the most glorious
being the world ever saw was foreseen by
Isaiah, who deseribed His face bruised and
gashed and searified and sald of Him, “His
visage was so marred, more than any man,"
S80 you see that the loveliest face in the unl-
| verse was a soarred face,
And now I am going to tell you of some of
{ nnd the smoothed hair that
the chisels that work for the disfiguration or |
irradiation ofthe human countenance, One
of the sharpest and most destructive of those |
chisels of the countenance is cynicism, That |
| sours the disposition and then sours the face,
| It gives a contemptuous curl to the lip,
It
draws down the corners of the mouth and
inflates the nostril as with a malodor, What
{ David said in haste they say in their deliber-
ation. “All men are lars,” everything is go-
ing to ruin,
are going to be, Society
Tell them of an act of
benevolence, and they say he gave that to
advertise himself, They do not like the
| present fashion of hats for women or of coats
They are opposed to the adminis |
for men,
tration, municipal and State and National,
Somehow food does not taste as it used to,
and they wonder why there are no poets or
| orators or preachers as when they were boys,
Even Solomon, one of the wisest and
atone time one of the worst of
men, falls into the pessimistic mood and
cries out in the twenty-first chapter of Pro-
verbs, “Who oan find a virtuous woman?"
If he had behaved himself better and kept in
| good associations, he would not have written
that interrogation point implying the scarcity
Cynicism, if a habit,
as it is with tens of thousands of people,
writes itself all over the features ; hence so
which he so well {llustrated when he sald,
“Some of our generals complain that I im-
pair discipline and subordination in the
army by my pardons and respites, but it
makes me rested after a hard day's work If [
ean find some good excuse for saving a man's
fe, and I go to bed happler as I think how
Joyous the signing of my name will make
him and his family,” Kindness! It makes
the face shine while life lasts and after death
puts 4 summer sunset between the still lips
makes me say
sometimes at obsequies, ‘‘Bhe seems too
beautiful to bury."
But here comes another chisel, and its
name is hypoerisy. Christ, with one terrific
| stroke in His sermon on the mount described
| this charroter, “When yo fast, be not as the
| possession of the soul,
All men and women are bad or |
and the church are |
hypoerites, of a sad countenance, for they
disfigure thelr faces that they may appear
unto men to fast,” Hypocrisy having taken
it immediately ap-
pears in the countenance, Hypocrites are
always solemn, They carry several country
graveyards in their faces, They are tearful
when there is nothing to ery about, and in
their peayues they catch for their breath and
have such general dolefulness that they dis-
gust young people with religion. We had one
ofthem in one of my churches, When he ex-
orted, he always deplored the low state of
religion in other people, and when he prayed
| it was an attack of hysteria, and he went into
| demand resuscitation.
| way until we had to expel him from the
| how showing it in his face,
many sour visages all up and down the |
| street, all up and down the church and the
| world,
worse is to say it is worse,
and foreboding opinion of everything take
possession of you for twenty years, and you
will be a sight to behold, It is the chastise.
ment of God that when a man allows his
heart to be cursed with cynicism his face be-
comes gloomed and scowlad and lachrymosed
| and blasted with the sams midnight,
But let Christian cheerfulness try its chisel
Feeling that all
things are for his good, and that God rules,
and that the Bible being true the world's
i floralization is rapidly approaching, and the
day when beer mug and demijohn and distil-
lery and bombshell and rifle pit seventy-four
sounders and roulette tables and corrupt
book and satanic printing press will
quit work, the brightness that comes from
a paroxysm of obs and ahs that seemed to
He went on in that
church for stealing the property intrusted to
him as administrator and for other vices
that I will not mention, and he wrote me
saveral letters not at all complimentary from
the West, saying that he was dally praying
for my everlasting destruction. A man can-
not have hypocrisy in his heart without some-
All intelligent
people who witness it know it is nothing but
| & dramatization,
One good way to make the world |
Let a depressed |
Oh, the power of the human face! I war-
rant that you have known faces so maguetic
and impressive that, though they vanished
long ago, they still hold you with a holy
spell, How long sinee your child went?
“Well,” you say, “if she had lived she would
have been ten years old now, or twenty or
thirty years.” But does not that infant's
| face still have tender supremacy over your
entire nature? During
does it not look at you?
many san eventide
What a sanctifying,
| hallowing influence it hes been in your isl
have |
| days,
such anticipation not only gives zest to his
work, but shines in his eyes and glows in his
entire countenance,
look for in an audience
are sections of millennial glory. They are
They are the sculp-
turing of God's right hand. They are ho-
They are hallelulahs
alighted. They are Christ reincarnated. I
do not ears what your features are or whether
| you look like your father or your mother or
} look like no one under the heavens, to God
and man you are beautiful,
Michael Angelo, the sculptor, visiting
Florence, some one showed him in a back
yard a piece of marble that was so shapeless
that it seemed of no use, and Angelo was
asked {f he could make anything out of it,
and if so was told he could ownit The
artist took the marble, and for nine months
shut himself up to work, first trying to make
of it a statue of David with his foot on Go-
liath, but the marble was not quite long
| ride,
Those are the facts I
Those countenanons |
| 8 father's
enough at the hase to make the prostrate |
| form of the giant, and so the artist fashionad
the marble into another figure that is so Ia-
mous for all time because
ness, A critic came in and was asked by
Angelo for his criticism, and he sald it was
beautiful, but the nose of the statute was
not of right shape. Angelo picked up
from the floor some sand and tossed
about the
ing he was
improvement
“What do you
{aoe
using his chisel to make the
suggested by the eritie,
think of it now?" said the
artist, “Wonderfully improved,” said the
eritie. “Well,” said the artist, “I have not
changed it at all.” My friends, the grace of
God comes to the heart of a man or woman
and then attempts to change a forbidding
and prejudicial face into attractiveness. Per.
haps the face is most unpromising for the
But having changed the
it begins to work on the countenance
with celestial okisel and into all the laea-
ments of the face puts a gladness and an ex-
pectation that changes it from glory to glory,
and though earthly eriticism may disapprove
of this or that in the appearance
Christ says of the newly created countenance
that which Pilate said of Him, “Behold the
Here is another
countenance, and you may call it revenge or
hate or malevolence,
taken possession of the heart, it sncamps
seven devils under the eyebrows, It puts
cruelty into the compression of the fips.
You ean tell from the man’s looks that he is
pursuing some one and trylag to get even
There are suggestions of Nero
and Robespierre and Diocletian and thumb-
sorews and racks all up and down the feat-
ures, Infernal artists with murderses’ dag-
gers have been cutting away at that visage
of its expressive |
| mother's
f the statue pretend. |
You can say in the words of the poet, ‘Bet.
ter to have loved and lost than never to
have loved at all Or it may bave
been a» sister's face, Perhaps she was
the invalid of the family. Perhaps she
never want out except on very clear
and then she Baa to be carried
down the stairs to the plasza or for a short
but she was 80 patient and cheerful
under it all, As that face looks at you
through the years with what an elevated and
heavenly emotion you are filled. Or was it
face? The storms of life had
somewhat roughenad it. A good deal of the
brightness of the eye had been quenched, and
the ear was turned with the haad behind i
in order to hear at all, But you remember
that face so vividly that if you were an
artist you could put it on canvas, and It
woukl mean to you more than any face that
Rembrandt ever sketched, That face,
though long ago velled from human sight,
fa as plain in your memory as though you
this moment saw it moving gently forward
and backward in the rocking chair by the
stove in the old farmhouse, Or was it your
mother's face? A good mothers face is never
homely to her boys and girls. Itis a “Ma-
donna” in the ploture gallery of the memory.
What a sympathetic face it was! Did you
ever have a joy and that face did not respond
tot Did you ever have a grisf and no tears
trickle down that maternal cheek? Did you
had thing and a shadow did not
Oh, 1t was a sweet face! The spoe-
round glasses through
you, how sacredly they
bureau or closet! Your
your mother's smile, your
mother s What an overpowering
memory | Though you have come on to mid-
lis or old age, how you would like just ones
more to bury your face in her lap snd havea
:
ever do a
ross it?
tacles with large,
which she Jookead at
have beans kept in
tow
tears |
»d ory !
But I can tell you of a more sympathetic
and more tender and more loving face than
any of the faces | have mentioned, “No, you
cannot,” says some one, I oan, and 1 will
it is the face of Jesus Christ as Je was on
earth and is now in heaven, When prepar-
ing my life of Christ, entitled “From Man-
ger to Throne,” | masacked the art galier-
| fas and portfolios of the world to find a ple-
f the face |
ture of our Baviour’s face that might be most
expressive, and [ saw it as Francesco Francia
painted it in the sixteenth century, and as
the emerald intaglio of the sixth century
presented it, and as a fresco in the ostacombs
near Rome preserved it, and as Leonardo da
| Vinel showed it in “The Last Sapper,” and I
mightly ohisel for the |
This aplrit baving |
| for the most
looked in the Louvre, and the Luxembourg,
and the Vatican, and the Dresden, and the
Berlin, and Neapolitan and London galleries
inspiring face of Christ, and
many of the pressntations were wonderful
for pathos and majesty and power and exe.
eution, but although I selected that by Ary
Scheffer as in some respects the most expres.
sive 1 felt as we all feel <that our Christ has
| never yet besn presented sither in sculpture
or painting, and that we will have to walt
| until we rise to the upper palace, where wo
The revengeful heart has built its perdition |
countenance,
tion of diabolic passion!
But here comes another chisel to shape the
countenance, and it Is kindness. There
came a moving day, and into her soul moved
the whole family of Christian graces, with
all their children and grandchildren, and the
command has come forth from the heavens
that that woman's face shall be made to cor-
respond with her superb soul. Her entire
face from ear (0 ear becomes the canvas on
which all the best artists of heaven begin to
put their finest strokes, and on the small
compass of that face are put pletures of sun
rise over the sea, and angels of mercy going
up and down ladders all aflash, and mount
ains of transfiguration and noonday in
heaven, Kindness! It isthe most magni
cent sculptor that ever touched human
countenance,
No one could wonder at the unusual
gentality inthe face of William Windom, Sec
retary of the Treasury of the United States,
Disfigura-
| after seeing him at the New York banquet
just befors he dropped dead, turning his
wineglass upside down, saying, “I may b
doing this offend some, but by not doing It i
might damage many.” Be kind to your
friends. Be kind to your enemies, Be kind
to the young. Be kind to the old. Be kind
to your rulers, Be kind to your servants
Be kind to your su ts. Be kind to your
inferiors. Be kind to your horse, Be kind
to your dog. Be kind to your oat, Morn.
ing. noon and night be kind, and the effects
of it will be written in the language of your
face, That is the gospel of physiognomy,
A Bayonne merchant was in the south of
Europe for his health, and sitting on the ter
ros one morning in bis invalidism he saw a
from a horse into a river, and
of 10
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| mother's arms inte His arms!
shall see Him as He is.
What a gentle face it must Fave been to
induce the babes to struggle out of their
What an ex-
pressive face it must have been when one re-
proving look of it threw stalwart Peter into
a fit of tears! What a pleading face it must
have been to lead the psalmist in prayer to
say ot it, “Look upon the face of thine
anlointed |" What a sympathetic face it
| must have been to encourage the sick woman
{
who was beyond any help from the doctors
to touch the hem of His garment! What a
suffering face it must have been when sus-
pended on the perpendicular and horizontal
pieces of the wood of martyrdom, and His
antagonists slapped the pallid cheek with
their rough hands and befouled it with the
saliva of their blasphemous lips! What a
tremendous face it must have been to lead
St. John to describe it in the coming judg-
ment as soattering the universe when he
says, “From whose face the earth and the
heaven fled away.’
O Christ | Ones the Nazarene, but now the
polestial | Once of cross, but now of throne |
Ones crownsd with stinging brambie, but
now coroneted with the jewels of ransomed
empires! Turn on Thy pardoning face and
forgive us, Thy sympothorte faoa and console
us, Thy suffering face and have Thy stone
ment avall for us, Thy omnipotent face and
rescue us, Oh, what a face! Ho scarred, so
Incerated, so reaplendent, so overwhelming
ly glorious that the seraphim put wing to
wing and with their conjoined pinions keep
off some of the luster that Is too mighty even
for eyes cheruble or angelic, and yet this
morning turning upon us with a sheathed
splendor lke that with which He ap-
rod when He sald to the mothers
ful about presenting their children,
“Suffer them to come.” and to the or
wall of the street, ‘Neither do I con
thes,” and to the eyes of the blind of
, “Be opened.” 1 think my
brother John, the returned foreign mission
ary, dying summer before last at Bound
Brook, caught a glimpse of that face of Christ
when in his dying hour my brother said © “I
shall be satisfied when I awaken in His like-
ness.” And now unto Him that loved us and
washed us from our sins in His own blood
hath made us kings and » unto God
is Father, to Him be and domin-
Amen and amen!
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about 600,000 casos a yenr and its wool
olip exceads 16,000,000 pounds, There
are 25,000 square miles of pine forests,
and the annual gold yield exceeds 81,-
000,000,
——
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| thy father and the God of Isaac
{| to th
| last three beholds
i the angels, behold the 1a
{ the earth, and thou shalt
| the west and tc the east and to the north and
| to the south, and in thee and in thy seed |
i shall all the families «
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SABBATH SCHOOL,
INTERNATIONAL LESSON
MARCH 11.
OR
Lesson Text: ““Jacob
Gen. xxviii, 10.22. Golden
Text: Gen. xxviil., 15
—~Commentary,
at Bethel,”
10. “And Jacob went out from Beersheba,
and went toward Haran.” Sines the last les-
son Isaac has been to the Philistines and,
being forbidden to go to Egypt, he sojourned
at Gerar, where he fell to his father’s sin
concerning his wife, He afterward made his
home at Beersheba in the extreme south,
where his father dwelt when called upon to
offer up his only son. Then follows the story
of the deception practiced upon Isane by
Rebekah and Jacob, with Esau's consequent
hatred of Jacob, resulting in Jacob's leaving
home to go to his mother's people at Haran,
in Badanaram, where Abram had sojourned
on his way to Canaan till Terah died,
11. “And he lighted upon a certain place
and tarried there all night, because the sun
was set, and he took of the stones of that
place and put them for his pillows and lay
down in that place to sleep.” If we consider
Jacob from this on apart from his nature
and eonduet as a sinful man, there are sev-
eral things in his history suggestive of facts
is the history of the Lord Jesus. He goes
forth to obtain a wife (verse 2), for whom he
labors patiently a long time (chapter xxxi.,
40, 41), but it seems short to him because of
his great love to her (xxix., 20). Christ
loved the church and gave Himself for it
(Eph, v., 25). Ellezer seeking a bride for
the son at home with his father is sugges-
tive of the present work of the Spirit in gath- |
ing out the church. As you ses Jacob in
his loneliness with the stones for his
pillows you can't help thinking of Him who
wd not whereto lay His head (Luke ix.
BR). |
12. “And he dreamed, and behold a ladder |
sot up on the earth, and the top of it reached |
to heaven. And behold the angels of God |
ascending and descending on it." By cem- |
paring John i., 51, the ladder Is suggestive
of the Bon of Man, who becoming man reached
down 10 where we were, and being God
reaches up to heaven, the angels being min-
istering spirits unto the heirs of sa. vation,
It will be fully seen lu the hereafter of the
millenial kingdom. |
18. “And behold the Tord stood above #8 |
and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham, |
the land |
whereon thou Hest, to thee will I give it and
sead.” Notice in this verse and the |
behold a ladder, behold
rd
be as the dust of
spread abroad to
14. “And thy seed shall
{ the earth be blessed."
Abram was promised a seed as numerous as
the dust of the earth and as the stars of
hearen (xili., 16; xv., 6). Thelatter was ro
peated to Isase (xxvi, 4), and now the
former Is confirmed to Jacob
15. “And behold I am with ‘hee and will
keep thee in all places whither thou goest
and will bring thee again into this land, for
I will pot leave thee until 1 have done that
which I have spoken to thee of.” Here ls a
fourth behold and associsted with what
seems to me the most comprehensive assur
anos in the Bible, “Iam with thee," Com-
fi... 12: Joshua i, 5; Judg. vi, 16
, 8 19; Isa xii, 10; Hag 1,13; KK,
4: Math, xxvill, 20, ete, Consider well this
promise of God's presence and loving care
and gracious purpose in the light of Jacob's
unworthiness and crookedness and see if
your soul is not comforted and strengthened
by the fact that this God is your God, the
{ same yesterday, to-day and forever,
16. “And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, |
| and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place, |
and 1 knew it not. His partnership with |
his mother In the deceit Jrascisnd upon |
Isaac would not tend to fellowship with
God, but tobe alone and awa
sometimes causes thoug!
from home
, and it Is
possible that ere Jacob slept be had turned
to God with true penitence and confession,
and that this vision was the answer to his |
prayers,
1. "And he was afraid and sald, How |
dreadful is this place | This is none other
but the house of God, and this is the gate of
heaven.” Ever since Adam sinned and
said, “1 was afraid“ (Gen. iil. ,10) sin has made
man afraid at the presence of the Lord, And
yot God is love and Joved us when we were
dead in sins, and Christ died for sinners
We cannot have pesce in the presence of
God apart from the forgiveness of sing, but
this also He has provided in Jesus Christ
(Acts xiii, 38, 99 Eat £.6, 7
1%, “And Jacob rose up early in the morn
or and took the stone that he put for his
pillows and set it up for a pillar and poured |
oll upon the top of it “ A senae of the pres
enoe of the Lord is now upon him, and he Is
awed and subdued and grateful, It should
be always so with the believer, with joy
added joy in the Lord and the joy of the
Lord, serving the Lord with gladness, The
stone that was prostrate, but now upright |
and annointad, may stand for Jacob himself,
19. “And he called the name of that place |
Bethel, but the name of that city was oalled |
Luz at the first,” Near this place was one of |
Abram’s first tenting pisces in Canaan (chap
ter xil., #), and later God appeared to Jacob |
as “the God of Bethel” (chapter xxxi., 18)
But Jeroboam defiled it when he here sot up |
one of his golden calves (I Kings xii, 29), |
Every spot in our pligrimage may be to us a
Bethel if we will not defile it by any idol,
2, 21. “And Jacob vowsd & vow, saying,
If God be with me and will keep me in this
way that I go and will give me bread to eat
and raiment to put on, so that I come again
to my father's house in peace, then shall the
Lord be my God.” Ia view of the most gra.
clous and unconditional assurances of verse
15, it is surely too bad to hear Jacob come io
with his great big “I1.” and yet how many of
us leave out all the “ifs,” and when God
says a thing boldly declare, ‘I believe God,
that it shall be even as it was told to me,” or
gratefully say, ‘Be it unto me according to
my words’ (Acts xxvil., 35; Lukel 38)?
22. “And this stone which | have set fora
illar shall be God's house and of all that
shall give me [ will surely give the
tenth unto Thee.” Yet there are O inns
without number who never yet began to
give God atenth and are therefore more
mean than crooked, scheming Jacob, If we
are children of God by faith in Christ Jesus,
then we are Abraham's seed (Gal, 1H, 29),
but Abram gave Melohisodes tithes of all,
Lot us therefore cheerfully give our Mel
chisedee tithes of all as the very least we
should do, and then plle high the free will
offerings on top of that, Let no one try to
mon hy saying, “All I have is His" Well,
rie Lord grant it to be so, but show up the
tench anyhow as a little evidence that
are all His, Read Prov. xi, M4, 256; xii, 7.~
Lesson Helper,
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Theft of an Orchard.
A novel theft has been reported to the
by a iarmer who lives near French
This farmer
| reader.
| BOOTS
| ence-—for they
| ance of travelers and explorers, and in
LAND OF THE TINNEES,
CIVILIZED INDIANS OF THE FAB
NORTHWEST.
Chey Subscribe For a Paper Pri:
in Their Own Language and H.
n Postal System,
WAY to the Northwest ol
America in the mysterions
corner of British Columbia,
fo bordered by ‘npexplored
territory” and hemmed in by mighty
mountains, dwells a race of red men |
who daily grow more numerous, who |
have made themselves proficient in
many of the arts of pesce, and who,
us they become known in their customs |
and conditions, must excite the won
der and attention of the civilized |
world. The people are known to the
few travelers who have found their
way among them as the Tinnees, and
they have their infrequent cominuni
ontion with “‘civilization’’ chiefly |
through the Hudson Bay Company |
posts at Fort George and Fort Fraser.
Their morals are more strictly guarded
than are those of any white Nation of |
to-day ; they esteem cleanliness both
of person and surroundings as they |
do courage; snd they have a saying |
that *‘to desert a friend is worse than |
to slay him,"
The last white visitors to the home
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| of the Tinnees were the men compos
| ing the Government survey party sent
north last summer under A. L. Pou
drier, which has recently returned.
The appended notes of the chief of
the expedition give some interesting
facts concerning the Tinnees and the
| land they live in.
“The immense country north of the
fifty-fourth parallel, generally de
scribed as the ‘lake region,’ is hardly
known to the present generation
Years ago, during the gold excitement
in Omineca, s great deal of trade and
travel was taken that way, and nearly
all the old pioneers are familiar with
the wonderful scenery of the section
“Since the gold boom the only in
habitants of this exis
Indians snd a few Hudson
The natives
thi
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nsive country
have been
Bay Company employes.
are known as the Tinnees, TAT
including the whole race, » of the
representatives of which inhabit the
country east of the Rocky Mountains
othe res peopling the lake region prope:
and still others living as far to the
as the Chileotin River The
divided into many families
the Chileotins, living on the
that the ‘Car
‘porteurs,’ around Fi
again, the Siee
south
race
First,
plain of
riers,” or
is
name ; then
rt
Fraser, and anies and
the Nahanies,
north and east of the N¢
“In language the 1
relationship with the
the North, but, cur
ing as far south the
Navajoes, for example Okla-
homa, the Chilootees, speak a tongue
very similar to that of the Tinnees |
“Of late years a young and ener
etic missionary, Father Morrice, of |
occupyl the country
haco River
have nd
other tribes of
usly, Indians iv
nnees
as California
, Or In
mas ind i
tnart Lake, has been giving his Lime | grest-grandchildren.
and talents to the upbnilding of a
Tinnees Nation which shall compare
not unfavorably in many ways with
that of the whites The mother
tongue of the Tinnees, which is ex
ceedingly rich in expression, has been
through his efforts reduced to a sys
tew of phonetic writing, the charac
ers being remarkable for the simplic
ity and from the fact that they rest
tather than weary the of the
The written language
simple and so systematic thats child |
or & man may with equal facility learn
to read or write it to perfection. Not
one of the tribe, from a child of six
to the old men and women of three
and ten, is unable to-day
either read or write
“The phonetic Tinnees is employed
by the Indians in their correspond
have risen to the dig-
nity of a postal system of their own
in the marking of signs for the guid.
ove
is so |
| the hundred and one other ways fa
miliar to civilieed Nations
“To further develop the theory and
render its success more complete |
| Father Morrice, with theaid of the In- |
dians, had special types cast from his |
own designs, bought a printing press
and three years ago printed and pub.
lished several elementary works on the |
language and history of the Nation,
For the past two years he has been is-
suing a monthly newspaper, to which
every Indian in the vast district is a
willing subscriber. It is called the
News. Its first page is devoted ex.
clusively to local affairs, such as hunt
ing and trapping and all else which
may practically interest the commun
ity in which it eireunlstes. Another
portion is devoted to religious sub:
jects, and the remainder of its sixteen
pages of space treats of the world in
general, a great deal of attention be
ing paid to science, the customs and |
manners of foreign countries, useful
inventions, ete,
“There is,” says Mr. Poudrier, '‘no
other part of the province where the
Indians are so highly civilized, so |
truthful and so honest rare qualities
indeed for an Indian race, One great
advantage traceable to the publication
of the News ie the development of a
taste for and a knowledge of agrical. |
ture. The hunting and trapping are |
pearing an end in the lake region, and |
the natives see that the resource which
they muss in future look to is farming.
The new generation is fast becoming |
a community of scientific tillers of the
soil. Were all the Indiansof Amerion
in so advanced a state they would at
no time be a cause of anxiety; the
Government would never be called
upon to suoply their wants, sand the
white brother could learn not a little
from them that he does not now
know.” EL ——n
In fourteen States snd Territories
of the Union marriage between first
eunsing is by law,
| house on upper Fifth avenue,
| York, is being built of white sosp-
| stone,
| ex-President of France,
Amateur classes in nursing are ®
new fad.
A woman's hair is said to weigh om
the ave rage fourteen ounces,
Mrs. John Jacob Astor, of New
| York, is fond of all outdoor sports.
The female members of Wesleyan's
Freshman class, have voted to carry
{| CRADES,
The Empress of China has sent five
| ladies to the court of Berlin, in order
leurn German manners and etiquette,
There are few spinsters in the Osu-
oarinn settlements in South Africa, as
the men outnumber the women ten to
me.
Mrs Astor's fine
Jacob new
New
John
Mme. McMahon, widow of the late
has sold her
residence in Paris and removed to the
country.
The mother of the Sultan of Turkey
ws supreme authority in his harem,
and is the only person who is allowed
to go unveiled.
Mrs. Cleveland's favorite jewel, it is
said, is a rose leaf spray of diamonds,
a wedding gift from cx-Secretary of
the Navy Whitney.
Queen Elizabeth was annoyed by a
red nose. Her attendants were accu
tomed to powder it every few minutes
to keep it presentable,
The number of medical women 1n
Great Britain is now 186, and of these
twenty have become members of the
jritish Medical Association.
The pretty fan carried to a recep-
tion the other evening by a Gotham
“bud,” was of pink ostrich feathers,
with dismond set mother of pearl
| sticks
Sir Edwin Arnold ssys that there
are 30,000 young women in England
who write poetry and look forward to
the day when fame will perch on their
brows,
England has a womsu coroner, only
over there they call her the ‘lady
coroner. Women in the vestries
are no novelties in Queen Victoria's
country.
Mre. Gladstone is an artist in mak-
ing home-made mince pies The
Queen is so fond of them that Mrs
Gladstone sends one to her st Christ-
mas each year
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, wife of
the Standard Oil magnate, teaches a
Sunday-school class of young men of
which her son, John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., is a member.
The dowager Viscountess Sidmouth,
| who died the other day at the age of
ninety-six, in England, bad ninety
living children, grandchildren and
Mrs. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, has
a penchant for Mexican and duchesse
laces. She probably owns one of the
finest assortments of these delicate
embroideries in the world.
The palace hotels of New York are
| employing maids to wait upon guests
at a oost of fifty cents an hour. The
maid must be able to do hairdressing
and to array a lady for a ball.
Twenty years ago Queen Victoria
was taught how to spin by an old wo-
man {rom the Scottish Highlands. Her
Majesty is very fond of the occupa-
tion, being proud of her kill
Mrs. Bishop, whose nom de plume
is Isabella Bird, has left Liverpool for
Corea in search of material for another
book. She is more than sixty, and
thinks nothing of the long journey
ahead of her
A tiny sachet bag hidden away in
| the depths of a eost or wrap will make
it smell delicious. The furry odor
| which often clings to capes and coats,
even of the best of seal, will be neu-
tralized by this plan
Don't look for novelty as much
as quality in china and glass,
for many novelties have no intrinsic
| merit, while the finer goods like Coal
port, Royal Vien aa and American cut
glass are always desirable.
When the wrist bone presents a
prominent, ungsinly knob, ruffles of
Ince are a delightful resource, and so
is the Flemish cuff. An over-fat wrist
is quite as unlovely, and should be
just as carefully concealed.
Slizabeth Cady Stanton, the vet.
eran woman's rights agitator, despite
her years, is actively engaged in or-
ganizing a grand rally in the interest
| of female suffrage, which will bo held
| simultaneously all over the country.
The Czarina of Russia, forgetful of
her own serious aitack of the grip,
pursed back to life with her own hands
ber third son, the Grand Duks Mich-
sel. A mother's love is the same in
the palace or in the peasant’s home.
Mrs Hoke Smith, Mrs. Bissell and
Lamont ave the Jonnie three *‘Cabi-
pot ladies,” unless Miss Herbert is
counted in. Miss Herbert is then the
most youthful, then Mrs. Cleveland,
then Mrs Smith, then Mrs Bissell
and Mrs. Lamont a close fifth,
Mme. de Matos is the Joan of Are
of the Bragilisu revolution. She enters
the field with her husband attired ins
dress which is a mixture and woman's
attire. Nhe is about thirty years of
age, with blue eyes and © hair,
and possesses a groat deal of personal