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DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN.
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What is Going on The World Over.
Important Events Briefly Chronicled.
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Washingign News, 1
Representative McCreary of Kentucky |
while leaving the capitol slipped on the icy !
sidewalk and fell, breaking one of his arms.
He was conveyed to his home and received
medical attention at once.
Logan Carlisle, son of the senator, will be |
chief clerk of the treasury department.
The election of W. N. Roach, a Democrat,
in North Dakota, to the senate of the Uni-
ted States, gives the Democrats & clear ma-
jority for the organization of the senate of
the Fifty-third congress.
George E. Spencer, ex-United States Sena-
tor from Alabama, died at his room in this
city. The funeral took place Tuesday morn-
ing. His wife was the'only relative present.
‘The remains were interred in Arlington
cemetery.
The desk occupied by Senator Carlisle of
Kentucky was decorated Wednesday with
the model of a log cabin standing in a gar-
den of roses in honor of Mr. Carlisle's suc-
cessor, Mr. Lindsay, who appeared and
took the oath of office.
' Appropos to the local celebration of
Washington's birthday a bill passed finally
in Congress, appropriating $17,138 for the
purpose of erecting a monument at Wake-
field, Va.. the birthplace of George Wash-
ington. The bill providing for an appropri-
ation of $6,000 for the wharf passed the
Senate last week and was referred to the
House Committee on Library. Nearly ten
years ago the original appropriation for the
$3,000, was made. From time to time Con-
gress became impressed with the import-
ance of having the birthplace of Washinton
marked,and the appropriation was increas-
ed severa! times until it reached $30,000.
The President has issued a proclamation
revoking the tolls levied on Canadian ves-
sels and cargoes in the Sault. Ste. Marie ca-
nal, in consequence of the Dominion Gov-
ernment adopting an order removing the
discriminations against American vessels
passing through the 'apadian canals.
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Fires
At Louisville, Ky.,the factory of the Harry
Weissenger Tobacco Company was burned.
The loss is estimated from $225,000 to $250,-
000, with an insurance of about $145,000.
At Canton, N. Y., the St. Lawrence coun-
ty court house was burned. All indictments
and the records of the board of supervisors
were destroyed.
At Peoria, Ill., the whiskey trust head-
quarters in the Ingersoll's homestead were
burned. It is believed that all the records
and vouchers wanted in the congressional
investigation were destroyed.
The buildings of the Wooeber car and
carriage works at Denver, covering an area
of 10 acres, were burned. Loss, $100,000;
insurance heavy.
At Flatbush, L. I, a block of 13 dwelling
houses in Windsor Terrace. Total loss about
$40,000. Origin believed to be incendiary.
At Kadky. Turkey, five hundred houses.
More than 3,000 persons are homeless. Loss,
5,000.000 francs. The English quarter was
not touched by fire.
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Crime ami Penalties.
Mary Shorter, 24 years of age, was mur-
dered by Jobn Archibald in Philadelphia on
Friday. He slashed her across the face
with a dirk knife and afterwards cut her
throat.
At Springville, Ala., Richard Hays, a ne:
gro who assaulted a Mrs. McBoyer, was
taken from jail and lynched.
While mail was being transferred to the
St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern Rail
road at St. Louis, a registered mail pouch
was ripped open and the contents stolen.
John C. Eno, the second National Bank
embezzler, who surrendered himself to the
New York police authorities after being in
exile for nearly nine years, went to the
District Attorney’s office and gave $10,000
bail on two indictments for his appearance
at trial. He pleaded not guilty to six - in-
dictments. Judge Wallace, in the United
States Circuit Court this afternoon, on the
petition of Colonel Bliss, counsel for Eno,
issued a writ of habeas corpus on the ground
that the offenses with which Eno is charged
do not come within the jurisdiction of the
State courts.
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Legislative.
In the Texas Senate Mr. Baldwin intro-
duc d a bill to suppress mob violence; to
provide damages for any person maimed by
a mob or for the surviving relatives of any
person killed by a mob, and to define, pre-
vent and punish official negligence by re-
moval of the Sheriff.
There has been introduced in the Wiscon-
sin Legislature a joint resolution favoring a
constitutional amendment providing for
the election of the President by direct vote
of the people. The resolution also provides
for a single term of six years, and that ex-
Presidents shall be United States Senators-
at-large for life.
The Indiana senate passed the house bill
prohibiting corporations from discharging
men because of their membership in labor
organizations.
The South Dakota divorce bill requiring
six months residence in all cases and one
year where personal service cannot be Lad
has become a law.
The Indiana House has passed the bill to
wipe out the insurance system of the Penn-
sylyania Railroad.
The Arkansas State Senate passed the
World's Fair appropriation bill by a vote of
22 to 5. The House, it is feared, will kill
thie measure. Thirty thousand dollars is the
amount asked for. The House passed the
bill prohibiting cigarette smoking in Arkan-
sas, and the Senate will do likewise as soon
as it reaches the measure.
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Disasters. Accidents and Fatalities
At Ottumwa, Iowa, the residence of
Adolph Neise was burped and his wife and
child were cremated.
Judicial.
The supreme court of Missouri has de-
cided that railroad companies have a
garding the color line between passengers.
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Miscellnnesona,
At Newburyport, Mass. Mrs. J. Gilman
Adams, who was badly burned a few weeks
ago, submitted toa novel and seemingiy
successful surgical oreration, The wound
was so large that it was impossible to obtain
human skin for the purpose of grafting. so
the skin of frogs was used. Nearly 3J0 grafts
were put on. The frogs were chloroformed.
Three members of a family named Zeis at
Waterloo, Ill.. have died and several more
are ill, supposedly from eating applebutter
that was made in a copper kettle last fall
and left standing in it over night.
W. F. Lewis, 24 years of age, died in New
York. His death is due, in the opinion of
the physicians who treated him, to the al-
most continuous use of cigarettes. He
smoked at all times, except when asleep.
Twenty-five valuable horses, the property
of Israel Underwood, were killed in the
wreck of a wild train on the Illinois Central
near Lena, 1ll., Monday.
The crew and twenty passengers on a
train on a Michigan railroad were stuck in
a snow drift all Sunday night and were dug
put in the morning.
Mortaary.
Rufus Hatch, the once famous Wall street
magnate, died at his residence in Sputen-
duyville, N. Y. He was 62 years old. He
retired from the street two years ago and
had been failing in health ever since.
General Beauregard was buried at New
Orleans on Thursday. Nearly all business
was suspended during the funeral.
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¢ apital. Labor and Industrial.
The Nanticoke (Pa.) mine strike is as.
suming serious proportions. Superintendent
Morgan ordered all the mines to shut down.
This will throw 1,700 men out of employ-
ment.
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THE MINT REPORT.
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The Director of the Mint Submits Some
Very Interesting Figures to Congress.
The director of the mint has transmitted
to congress a report on the production of
the precious metals, covering the calendar
year 1892. It follows:
The value fof the gold product from the
mines of the United States was approximate-
33,000,000, about corresponding to the
average product of recent years. {
The product of silver from our own mines
is placed at 58,000,000 ounces, of the com-
mercial value at the average price of silver
during the year of $50,750,000, and of the
coining value in silver dollars of $74,939.900.
This is a falling of of 330,000 ounces from
the product of the preceding year.
The amount of silver purchased by the
government during the year under the man-
datory provisions of the act of July 14. 1840,
was 54,129,727 fine ounces costing #$47,394,-
291, an average of 874 cents per fine ounce.
From this silver 6,333,245 silver dollars were
coined during the year.
The imports of gold aggregated $18,165,056,
and the exports, $76.735,592, a net loss of
gold of $58,570,536. The silver imports ag-
gregated $31,450,968, and the exports, #37.-
i an excess of silver exports of $6,000,-
The director reviews the recent movement
of gold from the United States commencing
in May, 1888. During the last year, that is,
from February 19, 1842, when the la-t move-
ment commenced, to February 15, 1893, the
export of gold from the port of New York
has aggregated $90,728,830.
The total metalic stock on January 1,
1893, was estimated to have been: Gold,
$649,788,020; silver, $593,365,265: total, $1,-
243,153.385.
The stock of gold in the United States fell
off during the last calendar year $39,000,000,
while the stock of silver increased $46,000,-
The amount of money in circulation (ex-
clusive of the amount in the treasury) was
$1,611,321,753 on January 1, 1893, an increase
of $18,928,124 during the year.
There was an increase ot over $12,000 000
in the gold product of the world during the
last calendar year. Ofthis increase $2,500,-
000 was from Australia, and over $9,000,000
from South Africa.
The total silver product of the world in-
creased during the last calendar year about
7,650,000 ounces, occasioned chietly by an
increase of 4,600,000 ounces in the product
of Mexican mines and 2,400, in the pro-
duct of the mines of Australia.
BEYOND OUR BORDERS.
A terrible explosion occurred in
Skalis mine, Styria, Austria. Fifteen min-
ers were killed outright or suffocated and
over a score were more or less injured. The
Rudolph mine at Carlsbad, Bohemia, was
flooded and six people were drowned.
It has been announced in the house of
commons, London that the commander of
the British fleet on the North American
dtation would attend the naval review at
New York in houor of the Columbian anni-
versary, with several vegsels of war, and the
admiralty was considering whether it would
send additional vessels.
W. W. Thomas, Jr., United States minis-
terto Sweden and Norway, gave a Wash-
ington's birthday ball at his residence on
the evening of Feb. 22, at Stockholm. Most
of the diplomatic corps and the court were
present. The dancing was led by, Mrs.
Thomas and Prince Eugene, youngest son
of King Oscar. .
In Tangiers, the rebels forced an entrance
to Wazan on Wednesday for the purpose of
looting the city. When all were within the
walls the citizens closed the gates and at-
tempted to annihilate the attacking force.
The streets were scenes of horrible carnage
for four hours. Hundreds were killed.
the
Ileven Sicilian brigands were convicted at
Caltanisetta, and all sentenced to penal ser-
vitude for life. In August last they captur-
ed a wealthy land owner named Billotti and
demanded for his release 500,000 lire. The
money was raised, but if failed to reach the
robbers at the time they had set. They
thereupon tied their victim to a stake and
built a fire around him, After he was al-
most dead they strangled bim untillife was
extinct.
In the last month 973 cases and 369 deaths
of cholera bave been reported in Russia,
principaily in the provinces of Podolia and
Kieff.
KANSAS REPUBLICANS WIN,
The Decision of the Supreme Court is
in Their Favor.
Chief Justice’Horton, of the Kansas su-
preme court, has announced his decision in
the Gunn case in favor of the Republican
house, holding it to be the legal legislature.
Of the other two justices, Judge Johns (Rep.)
supports Justice Horton in the Gunn case.
This makes the decision in fayor of the Re-
publican house. The Populists are in a
rage over the adverse decision of the su-
preme court, They are, as usual, when ex-
citement reigns, making all sorts of wild
tareats
be ya SosmiatTars co Ties Slaw TH ‘DR. TALMAGE ON CONCHOLOGY
, Among the Birds;” the ‘Mineralogy of the
BIBLE LESSONS IN SEA-SHELLS.
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How the Mollusks Saved the Lives of
the Israelites in the Wilder-
ness.. The Pearl | of Great
Price a Prize.
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TEXT: “And the Lord said unto Moses,
Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte and
onycha.”—Exodus xxx., 34.
You may not have noticed the shells of
the Bible, although in this early part of the
sacred book God calls you to consider and
employ them as He c lled Moses to consider
an Simploy. them. The onycha of my text
is a shell found on the banks of the Red Sea,
and Moses and his armv must bave crushed
many of them under foot as they crossed
the bisected waters, onycha on the beach
and onycha in the unfolded bed of the deep.
1 shall speak of this shell as a beautiful and
practical revelation of God, and as true as
the first chaoter of Genesis and the last
chapter of Revelation or everything be-
tween.
Not only is this shell, the onycha, found
at the Red Sea, but in the waters of India.
1t not only delectates the eye with its convo-
lutions of beauty, white and lustrous and
serrated, but blesses the nostril®with a puo-
gent aroma. This shellfish, accustomed tos
eed on spikenard, is redolent with that
odorous plant—redolent when alive and re-
dolent when dead. Its shells waen hurned
bewitch the air with fragrance.
In my text God commands Moses to mix
this onchya with the perfumes of the altar
in the ancient tabernacle, and I propose to
mix some of its perfumes at the altar of
Brooklyn Tabernacle, for, having spoken to
ou on the ‘Astronomy of the Bible; or,
Among the Stars;” the *‘Chronology of
the Bible; or, God Among the Centuries,”
the “Ornithol of tbe Bible; or, God
Bible; or, God' Among the Amethysts;"
the “Ichthyology of the Bible; or, God
Among the Fishes,” I now come to speak of
the ‘‘Conchology of the Bible; or, Goi
Among the Shells.”
It 1s a secret that you may keep for me,
for I have never beiore told it to any one,
that in all the rsaims of the natural world
there is nothing tome so fascinating, so
completely absorbing, so full of suggestive-
ness, asa shell. Whnat? More entertaining
than a bird, which can sing, when a shell
cannot sing? Well, there you have made a
great mistake. Pick up the onycha from
the banks of the Red Sea or pick up a bivalve
from the beach of the Atlantic Ocean and
listen, and you hear a whole choir of marine
voices—bass, aito, sopranc—n an unkmnown
tongue, but seeming to chant, as I put them
to my ear, ‘I'he sea is His and He made it;”
others singing, *‘T'hy way, O God, isin tae
sea;” others hymning, ‘“‘deruleth cheraging
of tbe sea.”
“What,” says some one else, ‘‘does the
shell impress you more than the star?’ In
some respects, yes, because I can handle the
thell and closely study the shell, while I
raunot handle the star, and if 1 study it
must study it at a distance of muilions and
millions of miles,
“What,” says some one else, “are you
more iwpressed by the shell than the
flower?’ es, for it bas far greater varie-
ties and far greater richness of color, as 1
sould show you in thousands of specimens,
and because the shell does not fade, as does
the rose leaf, but maintains its beauty cen-
tury after century, so that the onycha
which the hoof of Pharaoh's horse knocked
aside in the chase of the Israelites across the
Red Ses may have kept its luster to this
hour. Yes, they ars so ticolored and
many colored that you might pile them up
until you would have a wall with all the
colors ot the wall of heaven, from the jasper
at the bottom to the amethyst at the top.
Oh, the shells! The petrified foam of the
sea. Ob, the shells! The hardened bubbles
of the deep. Ob, the shells, which are the
diadems thrown by the ocean to the feet of
the continents. ow the shells are ribbed,
Fooved, cylindered, mottled, iridescent!
hey were used as coin by some of th: Na.
tions. They were fastened in belts by
others, and made in handles of woolen im-
plements by still others. Moliusks not only
of the sea, but mollusks of the land. Do yon
know how much they have had to do with
the world’s history? They saved the church
of God from extinguishment.
The Israelites marched out of Ezypt
2,000,000 strong, besides flocks and herds,
‘I'he Bible says * ‘the people took their dough
before it ‘was leavened, their kneading
troughs being bound up in the clothes on
their sboulders. They were thrust forth out
of Egypt and could not tarry; neither had
they prepared for themseves any victuals,”
Just think of it? Forty yearsin the wilder-
ness, Infidelity triumphantly asks, How
could they live forty years in the wilderness
without food? You say manna fell, Oh,
that was after a long while. They would
have starved fifty times before the manna
fell. The fact 1s, they were chiefly kept
alive by the mollusks of the land or shelled
creatures, Mr. Fronton and Mr. Sicard
took the same route from Egypt toward
Canaan that the Israelites toox, and they
give this as their testimony.
“Although the children of Israel must
have consisted of about 2,000,000 souls, with
baggage ard innumerable flocks and herds,
they were not likely to experience any in-
convenience in their march. Several thou-
sand persons might walk abreast with tae
greatest ease 1n the very narrowest part of
the valley in which they first began to file
off. lt soon afterward expands to above
three leagues in width. ith respect to
torage they would be at no loss. The
ground is covered with tamarisk, broom,
clover and saint foin, of which latter
sspecially camels are passionately foo, be-
sides almost every variety of odoriferous
plant and herb proper for pasturage.
*“The whole sides of the valley tarpugh
which the children of Israel marched are
still tufted with brushwood, which doubt-
less afforded food for their beasts, together
with many drier sorts for lighting fire, on
which the Israelites could with the greatest
ease bake the dough they brought with them
on smalliron plates, which form a constant
appendage to the baggage of an oriental
traveler, Lastly, the herbage underneath
these trees and shrubs is completely covered
with snails of & prodigious sizs and of the
best sort, and, however uninviting suca a
repeast ought appear to us, they are here es-
teemed a great delicacy. They are so plenti-
tul in this valley that it may be literally said
that it is difficult to take one step without
treading on them.”
So the shelled creatures saved the host of
Israeliteson the march to the promised
land, and the attack of infidelity at this
point is defeated by the facts, as infidelity is
always defeated by facts, since itis founded
on ignorance. In writing and printing our
interrogation point has at the bottom a mark
like a period and over it a flourish like the
swing of a teamster’s whip, and we put this
interrogation point at the end of a question,
but in the Spanish language the interroga-
tion point is twice used for each question.
At the beginning of the question tne inter-
rogation pointis presented upside down,
and at the close of the question right side
up. When infidelity puts a question about
the Scriptures, asit always indicates igno-
rance, the question ought to be printed with
two interrogation points, one at the begin-
ning and one at the close, but both upside
down.
Thank God for the wealth of mollusks all
up and down the earth, whether feeding
the Israelites on their way to the land flow-
ing with milk and honey, or, as we are bet-
ter acquainted with the mollusks, when
flung to the beach of lake or sea. There are
three great families of them. If I should
ask yon to name three of the great royal
families of the earth, perhaps you would re-
spond, the house of Stewart, the house of
Hapsburg, the house of Bourbon, but the
three royal families of mollusks are the uni-
valve, or shell in one part, the bivalve. or
shell of two parts, and mutivalve, or shsll
in many parts, and I see God in their every
hinge, in their every tooth, . In their
Fown bodies and is adorned with a colored
color, prism on prism, and their adaptation
of thin shells for still ponds and thick coat-
ing for boisterous seas. They all dash upon
me the thought of the providential care of
W hat is the use of all this architecture ¢f
the shell, and why is it pictured from the
outside lip clear down into its labyrinths of
construction? Why the infinity of skill and
radiance in a shell? What is the uss of the
color and exquisite curve of a thing so in-
significant as a shellfish? Why, when the
conchologist by dredge or rake fetches the
crustaceous specimens to the shore, does he
find at his feet whole alhambras and coli-
seums and parthenons and crystal palaces of
beauty in miniature, and these bring tolight
only an infinitesmal part of the opulencs in
great subaqueous world. Lienozus
counted 2500 species of shells, but concholozy
had then only begun its achievements.
While exploring the bed of the Atlantic
Ocean in preparation for laving the cable
shelled animals were brougnt up from
depths of 1000 fathoms. When lifting the
telegraph wire from the Mediterranean and
Red Seas, shelled creatures were brouzht
up from depths'o! 2000 fathoms. The Ene-
lish admiralty, exoloring in behalf of
science, found mollusks at a depth of 2433
fathoms, or 14,210 feet deep. What a realm
awful for vastoess!
As the shell is onlv the house and the
wardrobe of insignificant animals of the
deep, why all that wonder and beauty ot
construction. God's care for them isthe
y reason. Aud if Go1 provide so munifi-
cently for them, will He not see that you
have wardrobe and shelter? Wardrobe and
for a. periwinkle! Shall thers not be
wardrobe and shelter fora man? Would
God give a coat of mail for the defense of a
nautilus and leave you no defense against
the storm? He build a stone house for
a creature that lasts a season and leave with-
out home a soul that takes hold on centuries
and eons?
Hugh Miller found “the Footprints of the
Creator in the old red sandstone,” and I
hear the harmonies of God in the tinkle of
the sea shells when the tides come in. The
same Christ who drew a lesson of providen-
tial care from the fact that God clothes with
grass the field instructs me to draw the same
lesson from the shells, .
In almost every men’s life, however wall
bora and prosperous for years, and in al.
most every woman's life, there comesa very
dark time, at leastonce. A conjunction ol
circumstances will tareaten bankruptcy and
homelessness and starvation. It may be that
theses words will meet the ear or will meet
the eye of those who are in such a state of
foreboding. Come, then, and see how God
gives an ivory palace to a water animal that
vou could dover with a ten-cent piece and
clothes in armor against all attack a coral
no bigger than a snowflake. I do not thing
that will-take better cara of a bivalve
than of one of His own children.
Irake to your feet with the gospel rake
the most thorough evidencss of God's care
for His creatures, 1 pile around you great
mounds of shells that they may teach Jou
a most comforting theology. Oa, ye of little
faith, walk among these arbors of coraline
and look at these bouquets of shell, fit to be
handed a queen on her coronation day, and
see these fallen rainbows of color, and ex-
amine these lilies in stone, these primroses
in stone, tbese heliotropss in stone, these
cowslips in stone, thess geraniums in stone,
these japonicas iu stone.
O ye who have your telescopas ready look-
ing eut on clear nights, trying to see what
is transpiring in Mars, Jupiter and Mercury,
know that within a few Rours walk or ride
of wheres you now are thers are whole
worlds that you might explore, but of which
ou are ungon ani among the most
eautiful and suggestive of these worlds is
the concholozical world. Take this lessom of
a providential care. How does that old
bymn go?
‘We may, like ships, by tempests be tossed
On perilous deeps, put cannot be lost.
Though satan enrag:s the wind and the tide,
"I'he promise assures us the Lord wul provide.
But while you get this pointed lesson of
providentlal care from tha shelled creatures
of the de2p, notice in their construction
that God he.ps them to help themselves; This
house of stone in which they live is not
dropped on them and is not built around
the.n. ‘I'he material for it exudes from their
fluid from the pores of their own neck. It
is a most interesting thing to see these crus-
tacean animals fashion their own homes out
of carbonate of lime and membrane.
Ani all of thisisa ty lesson to those
who are waiting for ol to build their
tortunes wen they ought to go to work
and, like the mollu build their own
fortunes out of their own brain, out of their
own sweat, odt of their owa industries.
Not a mollusk on all the beacass of all the
seas would have a house of shell if it had
not itself built one, Do not wait for others
to shelter you or prosper you. All the
crustaceous craatures the earth from
every flake of their covering and from every
ridga 8f their tiny castles on Atlantic and
Pacific and Mediterranean coasts say,
«Help yourself, while God helps you to help
yourself.” :
Tnose people who ara waiting for thair
father or rich old uncle to dieand leave thom
a fortune are as silly as a mollusk would be
to wait for some other mollusk to drop on
it a shell equipment. It would kill the mol-
lusk as in most cases it destroys a man. Not
ons person out of a hundred ever was strong
enough to stand a larze estats by inherit-
ance dropped on him in a chunk. Have
great expectations from only two personas —
God ant yourself. Lat the onycha of my
text become your precaptor.
But the more I examin the shells the
more I am impressed toat Golis a God of
emotion. Many scoff at emotion and seem
to think that G4 is a Go1 of cold geometry
and iron laws and eternal apathy and ean-
throned stoicism. No! No! “The shells with
overpowering emphasis deny it. While law
and order reign in the universe, you have
but to see the lavishness of color on the
crustacea, all shades of crimson from faint-
est blush to blood of battlefield, all shades
of green, all shades of all colers from deepest
black to whitest light just called out on the
shells with no more order than a mother
premeditates or calculates how many kisses
and hugs she shall give her babe waking up
in the morning sunlight.
Yes, my God is an emotional God, and He
says, ‘We must have colors and let thesun
paint all of them on the scroll of that shel,
and we must have music, and here is a carol
for the robin, and a psalm for man, and a
tion call for the archangel.” Aye, He
snowed Himself a God of sublime embdSion
when He flung Himself on this world ia the
personality of Christ to save it, without re-
gard to the tears it would take, or the blood
it would exhaust, or the agonies it would
crush out.
When I see the Louvres and the Luxem-
bourgs and the Vaticans of Divine paintin
strewn along the 8000 miles of coast, and
hear in a forest on a summer morning mus-
ical academies and Handel societies of full
orchestras, I say God is a God of emotion,
and if He observes mathematics it is mathe-
matics set to music.and His figures are writ-
ten not in white chalk on blackboards, but
written by a finger of sunlight on walls of
jasmine and trumpet ereeper. 5
In my study of theconchology of the Bible
this onycha of the text also impresses mie
with the fact that religion is perfumed.
W hat else could God have meant waen He
said to Moses, “Take unto thee sweat spices,
stacte and onycha?’ Moses iook that shell
of the onycha, put it over the fire, and as it
crumbled into ashes it exhaled an oddr that
hung in every cartain and filled the ancient
tabernacie, and its sweet smoke escaped
from the sacred precincts and saturated the
outside air. .
Perfume! That is what religion is. Bat
instead of that some make it a malodor.
They serve God in a rough and acerb way.
They box their child’s ears because he does
not properly keep Sunday instead of making
Sunday so attractive the child could mot
hetp but keep it. They make him learn by
heart a difficult chapter in the book of Ezo-
dus, with all the hard names, because he has
heen naughty. How many disagreeable
every cartilage, in their every ligament, in
their every spiral ridge. and in their every
good people taere are! No one doubts their
Jin a few moments 1
doxology for the seraphim, and a resarrec- |
ct
-
will have to get fixed up before they go
there or thev will make trouble by calling
out to uw *‘Keep off that grass” “What
do you mean vlucking that flower?
“Show your tickets ”
Ob, how many Christian peoples need to
obey mv text and take into their worship
and their behavior and their cousocia
and presbyteries and general assemblies and
confergnces more onycha! I have some-
times gone in a very gala of spirit into the
presepce of some disagreeable Christians”
and in five minutes felt wretched, and at
some other time I have gone
the company of suave and genial souls, and
felt exhilarant. What
was the difference? It was the difference’in
what they burned on their censers. The one
burned onycha; the other burned asafetida.
In this conchological study of the Bible I
also notice that the molusks or shelled ani-
mals furnish the purple that you see richly
darkening so many Scripture chaoters.
The purple sap in“the ancient tabernacle,
purpie girdle of the priests, the rple
maatle of Roman Emy the fl don of
Dives in purple and fine linen—aye, the
purple robe which in mockery was thrown
upon Christ—were colored by the purple of
the shells on the shores of the Mediterra-
nean. It was discovered by a shepherd's
dog having stained his mouth by breaking
one of the shells, and the purple aroused ad-
BE le! 3s of the purpl
y purple! Six pounds ol e purples
liquor extracted from the shellfishes were
used to prepare one pound of wool. rp!
was also used on the pages of books, Bibles
and prayer booksappeared in purple vellum,
which may still be found in some of the na-
tional libraries of Europe. Piu speaks
of the purple which kest his beausy for 193
years But after awhile the 3 purple became
easier to get, and that wh had been a
sign of imperial authority when worn mn
robes was adopted by many people, and so
an emperor, jealous of this appcopriation of
tha purple, made a law that anv one except
Royalty wearing purple should bs put to
eath.
Then, as if to punish the world for that
outrage of exclusiveness, God obliterated
the color frem the earth, as much as to say.
“It all cannot have it, none shall have it.”
But though God has deprived the race of
that shellfish which afforded ths purple
there are shells enough left to make wus glad
and worshipful. Oh, the entrancement of
hue and shape still left all up and down the
beaches of all the continents! These creatures
of the sea have what roots of ensmeled por-
celain! They dwell under what pavilions
blue as the sky and fiery as a sunset and
niysterious as an aurora! Andamli not
right in leading you for a few moments
through this mighty realm of God so neg-
lected by human eye aud human footstep?
1t is said that the harp and lute wefe in-
vented from the fact that in Egypt the Nile
overflowed its banks, and when the waters
retreated tortoises were left by the million
on all the lands, and these tortoises died,
and soon nothing was lets but the cartilages
and gristie of these creatures, which tight-
ened under the heat into musical strings
that when touched by the wind or foot of
man vibra making sweet sounds, and so
the world t the hint and fashioned the
harp, and am I not right in trying to
music out of the shells and lifting them as a
harp, from which to thrum the jubilant
praises of the Lord and the pathetic strains
of human condolence?
But I find the climax of this conchology of
the Bible in the 1, which has this distinc.
tion above all pon gems sta; it requires
no human hand to ng out its beauties.
Job speaks of it, and its sheen isin Christ's
sermon, aud the Bible, which o with the
opyeha of my text, closes with the pearl.
Of such value is this crustaceous uet ‘I
do not wender that for the exclusive right
of fishing for it on the shores of Ceylon a
man paid to the English Government $60,-
000 for one season.
So exquisive is the pearl I do not wonder
that Piiny thought it was made out of a
drop of dew, the creature rising to the sur-
face to take it and the chemistry of nature
turning the lignid into a solid. ou will
see why the Bible makes so much of the
pearl in its similitudes if you know how
much iteosts to get it. Boats with divers
sail out from the island of Ceylon, ten
divers to eacia boat. Thirteen men
guide and manage the boat. Down
into the dangerous deptas, amid
sharks that whirl around them, plunge the
divers, while 60,0)0 people anxiously gaze
on. After three or four minutes’ absence
from the air the diver ascends, nine-tenths
stranguiated and blood
and postrils, and flinging
on the sand fellsinto unconsciousness.
Ob, it is an awful exposure apd strain an
peril to fish for pearls, and yet they do so,
and is it not a wonder that to get that whieh
the Bible calls the peat! of great price, worth
more than all other pearis t together,
there should be so little anxiety, so little
struggle, so little enthusiasm? ould God
that we were all as wise as the merchantman
Christ commended, “who, when he had
found one pearl of great price, went and
sold all that he bad and bought it.”
But what thrills me with gest) Tenses
is the mat8rial out of which all pearls are
made. They are fashioned from the wound
of the shelifish, The exudation from that
wound is fixed and hardened and enlarged
into a pearl. The ruptured vessels of the
water animals fashioned the gem that now
adorns finger or earring, or sword hilt or
king's crown. .
So out of the wounds of earth will come
the pearls of heaven. Out of the wound of
bereavement the pearl of solace. Out of the
wound of loss the pearl of gain. Out of the
deep wound of the grave the pearl of resur-
rection joy. Out of the wounds of a
Saviour's lite and a Saviour’s death the rich,
the radiant, the everlasting pear! of heaven-
ly gladness.
“And the 12 gates were 12 pearls.” Take
the consolation, all ye wao have bsen hurt,
whether hurt in body, or hurt in mind, or
hurt in soul. Get your trountes sanctified.
1£ you suffer with Christ on earch, you will
reign with Him in glory. Tae tears of earth
are the crystals of heaven. ‘‘Every several
gate was of one pearl.”
Gave Maria a Lesson.
Evidently there is no Servant Girls’
Protective Union in London, or if there
is the yonng woman mentioned below
did not belong to it. ‘fhink of sucha
thing happening to one of our own top-
lofty servant girls! A German merchant
in London has a servant who at first was
very forgetful. This fault was especially
+¢Maria,” said Herr B——, ‘just run
the attic and bring it here.”
dinner, gave a grunt of dissatisfaction,
the ladder.
exertion.
«sNow,” said Herr B
the top.”
observed .
us if you can see any salt on the table.
My wife and I could not find it.”
This settled the business.
Herald.
piety, aud they will reach heaven, but they
posed by two London vestries.
annoying at meal times, when somfething
esential was sure to be lacking from the
table. One day the family were seated
at the table, and the bell was rudgg as
usual. Tae girl hurried to the dining
room.
and fetch the big step ladder down from
Maria who had been disturbed at her
but ran up three flights of stairs to fetch
In about five minutes she
returned to the room, panting with her
‘put it up at
the other end of the room and climb t3
Maria did as she was told, and when
she was at the top Herr B—— quietly
«Maria, you have now a better view
than we have; just look around and tell
Maria has
pever forgotten the lesson.—Epworth
A tax on street organ grinders is pro-
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
SE
LTSSON FOR SUNDAY, MARCH .5
epee.
“Keeping the Sabbath,” Neh. xiii, 15
22. Golden Text: Exodus xx; 3.
Commentary. :
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This chapter gives an account of the dis
cip.ine of Nehemiahin separating from Is
rael the mixe 1 multitude, and in cleansing
Israel from all strangers with whom they
had become entangled by marriage (verses
3, 30). 1t tells also of the discipline in ref
erence to Sabbath desecration, which isjour
Wecial lesson for the day; but bfore taking
this up consider: the dangers o! being en.
tangled and hindered by a mixed multitude.
When Israel left Ezypt a company of that
kind went with them, and caused them much
trouble (Ex. ii., 38; Num. xi,, 4, Much
trouble in the church to-day arises from tha
people who ara half and half—the worldiy
church members who are neither one thing
nor the other,
If any think that ths restorati>n under
Zerubbabel and the reformationof Ezra and
Nebemiah fulfilled the prophecies concern-
ing restoration, let them compare Isa. xiv.,
1-3. with Neh. 1x, 36, 37. If any think that
we are now in the millenoial age, or thatths
church with her present z24l will bring that
age, let them be honest enough to. believe
what is written, and they will surely sea
that the Lord Himself must come for Isreals
restoration and to introduc» the millennial
age (Ps. cil, 16; Acts iii., 19-21),
15. *‘in tuose days saw lin Julah some
treading wine presses on thé Sabbath.”
Then he enumerates their other deeds of
Sabbath breaking and says that he testified
against them. The Sabbath was instituted
in Eden before ever sin entered this world,
and when wrote with His finger the
T'en, Commandments on two teolets of stons
He said, ‘‘Remember the Sabbath day.”
‘'hat man should give unto God oné-seventh
of his time is a law from the beginning aru
of perpetual obligation.
16, **I'here dwelt men of Tyre, also, wh~
fold on the Sabbath unto the children of
Judab, and in Jerusalem.” gives His
laws to Mis children because they are His
children. He gave no laws to Isrdel until
He bai redeemed them from Egypt. No
man can be saved by the deeds of the law,
but ony by the grace of God, but bein
saved througk Jesus Christ, who is the ns
of the law for righteousness for every one
that believeth, it is then, and only then,
that the righteousness of the law can be ful
tilled in us who walk not after the flash, but
after the Spirit (Rom. iii, 20, 24; x., 4;
viii, 4), Those who know not 30d know no
Sabbath, but the people of Judah should
bave shown the men ot Tyre that they kept
holy the Sabbath because of their God.
There can ve no trade with no buyers, and
unless the ple of Jerusalem had bought
the men of I'vre had not sold.
17. *“‘I'hen 1 contended with the nobles of
Judah and said unto them, What evil thing
is this that ye do and profane the «Sabbata
day?’ In verse 11 waread that hs contend-
ed with them because they had forsaken the
house of God. The hous: of God was Israel's
center, and the laws of God their especial
delight, 1f they were Israelites indeed; but
they were prone to forsake His house and
despise His word (II Chron. xxxvi., 16), and
for this they went to Babylon. Now taat
they have returned from captivity and left
thew idois their hearts still wander from
God and His laws. And so it was long after,
in the days of Maiucaoi, when thay robbed
God in tithes and offerings and said that it
was vain to serve Goi (Mal, i, 8, 14).
1¥, “Didi not our fathers tous? Yet ya
bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning
the Sabbftb.”! Although judgment hai
overtaken their fathers, yet they continaa
in the same sins, Tor nov until the Ethiopiaa
can change his skin and the leopard his
spots can those do good who are accustomasl
to do evil (Jer. xiii, 23.. **An empty min
will get underStandinz when a wild ass's
colt is borg a man” (Job. x, 12, RK. V,,
margin). Nothing wilt make man waat ne
ought to be but a naw heart, a birth from
‘above, and this is a new creation accom-
Plisoed by the word and the spir.t of Gol.
t is the gift of God (223k. xxxvi, 26), ant
nothing can deprive ons o. 1t but refusal tw
receive it, \
19. **And some of my servantsset I at tha
gates, that there should be no burden
vroughtin on the Sabbath day.” There is
fucn a thing as compelling law breakers to
be obedient, and it our city rulers had tae
spirit of Nehemiah there would not bs toe
Sabbath desecration whica is increasingly
and alarmingly prevalent in all our cities,
God will hold our rulers responsiole for alt
tbat they can prevent of evil and do not.
But to be personal, there are such com-
mands as these for believers. *L3t us lay
‘ a-ide every weight and tne sin whica doth
so easily beset us.” “Liat us cleanss our:
selves from all filthiness of the flash and
spirit.” “Put off the old man, with his
aeeds” (Heb. xii, 1; 1I Cor. vii, 1, Col iii.,
9). And these we are bound to obey 'if wa
would know in our daily life anything of
the meaning of true Sabbath rest.
20. *‘So the merchants and sellers of all
kina of ware lodged without Jerusalem
once or twic:.” <The perseveranc: of tha
doers of evil ought to put to shame the fol-
lowers of Jesus, Those who desire to do
away with the Sabbath are ofttimes more
united and persevering than those who bear
the name ot Jesus and ougat to stani for
His holy day. Ob, to bs fillel with the
Spirit of God and have at heart the inter-
ests of His kingdom!
2L “Tiom tnat uma forth came they no
more on the Sabbath.” He testified against
them an1 threatened $0 lay hands on them:
then they saw that he meant it, and de-
sisted. We live in the Nineteenth Century:
in the most advanced period of the world’s
history, but where are the Nehemiahs and
the Daniels, and the men who have at heart
above all things the honor and glory of God:
To come again to the topic of a little while
ago—the Sabbath is the soul of a believer—
we will not know it until we stand as decid-
oliy seine Sy bescyiing sin and every
e of the self life as did Nehemi i
these Sabpath breakers. Wiah egaingt
22. ‘‘Remember me, Oh my God, ¢
Ing this also, and spare me SARE Ri
greatness of Thy mercy.” The proper men’
were set apart to see that the Sabbath should
be santified, and they were men éeremoni-
ally clean. We must be clean in heart and
life if we would be of use to our Lord against
evil and evildoers. As to keeping His holy
day, be sure that our own ways or pleasurs
or words are not in order on that day, but
the whole day is for Him and Him only (isa,
lviii,, 13, 14).” See how Nehemiah, after all
his efforts in the service of God, takes refuga
In the mercy of God. By grace are we
saved, in graca we stand, and it is grace
that shall be brought unto us at the revela-
tion of Jesus Christ. Salvation from begin.
ning to end is all of grace, but for our works
we shall be rewarded if done unto Him
(Eph. ii,, 8, 10; Rom. iv., 5; xiv., 10; I Cor
iii,, 11-15), — Lesson Helper. :
APPEALED TO A HIGHER COURT.
A Man on Trial for Murder Calls on God
to Strike Him Dead and Is Taken
at His Word.
Harvey Wakeley, on trial at Nashville
Tenn. for murder, was asked if he had killed
the victim. He replied: “I hope God
will strike me dead,now,if I did.” The words
were scarcely ent of his mouth when he
rose from his chair, clinched his hand as if
in great agony,and fell motionless. The jury
jumped to their feet and rushed to him but
when then picked him up, life was extinct.
The judge at once dismissed the case, say-
ing the case had been appealed to a higher
court.
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ponies by the perpendicular foot, and
the purchaser has to pony up.
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