A MAN OF THE PEOPLE
REFUSES TO POSE IN FULL
DRESS FOR SOCIETY.
Major Henry Ziegenheln of St. Louis
Taught to Scorn the Queer Customs
of Wearing Swallow Talled Coats and
White Neckties. i
AYOR HENRY
ZIEGEN HEIN,
who has pulled the
beard of the great
Veiled Prophet by
refusing to wear
full dress at the big
ball in St. Louis, is
a plain, blunt man,
who likes not the
fastidious ways of
high society. Those
who know him are not surprised at the
stand he took. He always wears a
Prince Albert, and he says that he was
married in such a coat; was inaugu-
rated in such a ccat and has worn a
similar garment at all functions where
his office has demanded his attendance,
and that he does not propose to give it
up now. He is “a man of the people.”
He was born in St. Louis county and
has always resided either in the coun-
ty or city. “His wife, also, is from the
county and there his children were
born. His tastes are few and simple.
The fact that he is the chief executive
has not changed him, and today he
visits and dines with the humble cit-
izens who knew him before his induc-
tion into office, When the mayor is in
his office at the city hall he is always
unapproachable. As a general rule he
stands in the reception-room, hears
what his callers have to say, and an-
swers them at once. During the hot
weather he received visitors in his
shirt sleeves and in very warm
left off his vest. He is over
in height, smooth shaven and with
full, fat florid face. There is usually
a smile on his lips and a merry twin-
kle in his eve. He dresses modestly,
wearing a Prince Albert coat, with
trousers and vest of similar cloth;
white linen and a plain black tie. There
is but one oddity and that is his hat.
His hats are patterned after those of
the Quakers of Penn’s day, and the
| laboring under a delusion.
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six feet
WHIMS OF SEA-SICK PEOPLE.
The captain of a big liner says that
he should consider himself a rich man
if he had as many sovereigns as there
were cures for sea-sickness. Every
person who sails with him knows just
how to act when the ‘go roundand-
round sort of feeling” begins to assert
itself, and there are so many cer-
tain remedies that mal de mer ought
long ago to have lost its terrors,
During a very rough trip across the
Atlantic, a well-dressed gentleman sat
down in the center of the wave-washed
deck, produced a photograph, and star-
ed hard at it for hours. Passengers
who were in a condition to notice his
strange conduct thought he was gazing
upon the face of his best girl, and
winked knowingly at one another; but
their surmise was an erroneous one.
The photograph was really a repre-
sentation of the gentleman's worst en-
emy, and he firmly believed that, if he
glared at it long enough the bitter
thought aroused in his mind by the
sight of it would ward off sea-sickness.
“Fix your mind upon some one you
bate,” he explained, “and you will
never be ill while at sea.”
There was a wild commotion on
board another vessel one morning, for
the captain found that some thief had
broken into his cabin that night and
stolen his best uniform. A hue and
cry was at once raised, and the rough
sailors, secretly enjoying the joke,
questioned every one on board, not
even sparing the first-class passengers.
At last, however, the missing uni-
form walked unsteadily from the
cook’s galley, and the person inside
made a bee line for the bulwarks. “I
always thought the togs captains wore
were a preventative of sea-sickness;”’
he stuttered, “but F'm afraid I've been
Tell the
skipper I'll let him have ’em back in
half a minute—they’re no good to me.”
One of the sailors on a vessel out-
ward bound for India rushed on deck
with a livid face, and startied the cap-
tain by stating that seven passengers
‘had been found dead in their berths,
instantly assuming that there had been
foul play; the captain aroused the doc-
tor, and they went together to visit the
stricken sleeping places. To all ap-
pearance the frightened sailor had
spoken the truth for passengers lay
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of his friends will not make
change it. His hat is famous
Louis.
AN INTERESTING KAFFIR.
The Rev. Simon P. Sihlali of Tem-
buland, who returned recently to South
Africa from England, is doubtless the
most interesting Kaffir who has visit-
ed England for some years. He was
the first Kaffir to matriculate at the
Cape university, and also the first to
represent officially the churches of
South Africa at the Congregational
union of England and Wales. This
he did in May last. Mr. Sihlali, who
THE REV. SIMON P. SIHLALIL
was educated at Lovedale, was ordain-
ed in 1884 at Graaff-Reinet, entering
‘two years later on his work in Tembu-
land. He has been instrumental in
securing the erection of six places of
worship and schools, and his church
has a membershp of 600 persons. Dur-
ing his brief stay in England friends
have subscribed over $2,500 toward the
erection of a permanent church at Sol-
omon’s Vale, the center of his fleld of
labors, for which the chief Mgudlwa
has presented a site.
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that life still remained to them.
The doctor examined them, and then
went away with a frown on his face,
returning shortly with a dapper little
Frenchman, who had made himself a
favorite with every one.
“This gentleman will be able to set
your mind at rest, captain,” remarked
the doctor, and the Frenchman, with
a careless smile, rapidly proceeded to
rouse all the quiescent passengers. It
seemed that he was a professional
hypnotist, and that for a fee of one
guinea he agreed to send any one who
feared to undergo the pangs of sea-
sickness into a sound mesmeric sleep.
But for the doctor’s interference, he
said, his patients would have slumber-
ed until the shores of India were
sighted.
A Morocco Dainty.
There is no accounting for tastes.
What suits the palate of one may be
little esteemed by another. An Eng-
lish traveler and sportsman had rec-
ommended to him, when he was in Mo-
rocco, a variety of game which he
would not be very keen for at home.
His informant was a soldier, for no
foreigner is allowed to travel in that
country without such attendance. He
began telling marvelous stories of the
game in the neighborhood, of the sul-
tan’s army, and of his own importance.
One remark on cooking—for he was a
gourmand—is worth repeating, ‘There
is,” he said, “only one kind of game
worth eating in Morocco—wildcat. Its
taste is as the taste of all other va-
rieties of game mixed. When once you
have tasted wildcat, never will you eat
anything again with pleasure.” Prob-
ably not; I should think it enough to
poison most people, but I dared not say
so. I merely proposed in a weak voice
that I preferred owl stewed with mus-
tard and sand. He said that ought to
be good, too, but he had never tried it.
Membership of the Legion of Heanor.
More than 50,000 Frenchmen belong
to the Legion of Honor. Thirty-two
thousand of these are connected with
“like their portraits.
the army. The rest are civilians.
OR. THHRGE'S SUNDRY SERMON.
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A GOSPEL MESSAGE.
Bubject: “Improvements in Heavens
Heaven Has Improved in Numbers; |:
Society and Knowledge—A Great Con:
_Eclylion to Good People.
% ya : ;
TEXT: And I saw a new heaven.’—Rev.
xxi., 1.
ern.
Sop rn
fhe sterotyped heaven does not make
adequate impression upon us. We need
the old story told in the new style in order
tofarouse our appreciation. I do not supe
poss that we are compelled to the oh
phraseology. King James’s translators
did not exhaust all the good and graphic
words in the English dictionary. I suppose
if we should take tho idea of heaven, and
translate it into modern phrase, we would
find that its atmosphere is a combination of
early June and of the Indian summer in
October—a place combining the advantages
of city and country, the streets standing
for the one, and the twelve manner of
fruits for the other; a place of musical en-
tertainment—harpers, pipers, trumpeters,
doxologies: a place of wonderful architec-
ture—behold the temple! a place where
there may be the higher forms of animal
life—the beasts which were on earth beaten,
lash-whipped, and galled and unblanketed,
and worked to death, turned out among
the white horses which the Book of Revela-
tion describes as being in heaven; a place
of stupendous literature—the books open;
a place of aristocratic and democratic at-
tractiveness--the kings standing for the
one, all nations for the other; all botanical,
pomological, ornithological, arborescent,
worshipful beauty and grandeur.
But my idea now is to speak chiefly of the
improved heaven. People sometimes talk
of heaven as though it were an old city,
finished centuries ago, when I have to tell
you that no city on earth, during the last
11fty years, has had such changes as heaven.
It is not the same place as when Job, and
David, and Paul wrote of it. For hundreds
and hundreds of vears it has been going
through peaceful revolution, and year hy
year, and month by month, and hour by
1our, and mortent by moment, it is chang-
ing, and changing for something better.
Away back there was only one residence in
tho universe—the residence of the Al-
mighty. Heaven had not yet been started.
Immencity was the park all around about
this great residence; but God’ssym pathetic
heart after a while overflowed in other
creations, and there came, all through this
-vast country of immensity, inhabited vil-
lages, which grew and enlarged until they
joined each other, and became one great
central metropolis of the universe, streeted,
gated, templed, watered, inhabited. One
angel went forth with a reed, we are told,
and he measured heaven on one side, and
then he went forth and measured heaven
on the other side; and then St. John tried
to take the census of that city, and he he-
came so bewildered that he gave it up.
That brings me to the flrst thought of
my theme—that heaven is vastly improved
in numbers. Noting littlo under this head
about the multitude of adults who have
gone into glory during the last hundred,
or five hundred, or thousand years, I re-
membor there are sixteen hundred millions
of people in the world, and that the vast
majority of people die in infancy. How
many children must have gone into heaven
during the fast five hundred or thousand
Years. If New York should gather in one
generation a million population, if London
ghould gather in one generation four mil-
lion population, what a vastincreas But
what a mere nothing as compared with the
five hundred million, the two thousand
million, the “multitude that no man can
number,” that have gone into that eity!
Of course, all this takes for granted that
every child that dies goes as straight into
heaven as ever the light sped from a star;
and that is one reason why heaven will
always be fresh and beautiful—the great
multitude of children in it. Put five hun-
dred million children in a country, it will
be a blessed and lively country,
But add to this, if you will, the great
multitude cf adults who have gone into
glory, and how tbe census of heaven must
run up! Many years ago a clergyman
stood in:a New England pulpit, and said
that he Leiieved that the vast majority of
the race would finally be destroyed, and
that not more than one person out of two
thousand persons would be finally saved.
There happened to be about two thousand
people in the village where he preached.
Next Sabbath two persons were heard dis-
cussing the subject, and wondering which
one of the two thousand people in the
village would finally reach heaven, and
one thought it would be the minister, acd
the other thought it would be the old
deacon: Now, I have not much admiration
for a life-boat which will go out to a ship
sinking with two thousand passengers,
and get one off in safety, and let nine-
teen hundred and ninety-nine go to the
bottom. Why, heaven must have been a
village when Abel, the first soul from
earth, entered it, as compared with the
present population of that great cityf
Again: I remark that heaven has vastly
improved in knowledge. Give a man
forty or fifty years to study one science, or
all sciences, with all the advantages of
laboratories and observatories and philo-
sophic apparatus, he will be a marvel of
information. Now, into what intelligence
must heaven mount, angelhood and saint-
hood, not after studying for forty or ity
years, but for thousands of years—study-
ing God and the soul and immortality and
the universe! How the intelligence
oO A
Of
that world must sweep on and oun, with |
eyesight farther reaching than telescope,
with power of calculation mightier than |
all human mathematics, with powers of
analysis. surpassing all chemical labor-
atory, with speed swifter than teiegraphy!
What must heaven learn, with all these
advantages, in a month, in a year, in a
century, in a millennium? The differenco
between the highest university on earth
and the smallest class in a primary school
cannot be a greater difference than heaven
as it now is and heaven as it oned was.
Do you not suppose that when Doctor
James Simpson went up from the hospi-
tals of Edinburgh into heaven he knew !
mcre than ever the science of bealth; and
that Joseph Henry, graduating from the
Smithsonian Institution into heaven,
awoke into higher realms of philosophy;
and that Sir William Hamilton, lifted to |
loftier sphere, understood better the con-
struction of the human intellect; ard that
John Milton {ook up higher poetry in the |
actual presence of things that on earth he
bad tried to describe? When tho first
saints entered heaven, they must have
studied only the A B C of the full litera-
ture of wisdom with which they are now
acquainted.
Again: heaven js vastly improved in its
society. During your memory how many
exquisite spirits have gone into it! If vou
should try to make a ist of ull the genial
loving, gracicus, blessed souls that
You
have known, it would bs a very loug list— |
souls that have gone into glory. Now, do
you not suppose they have enriched the so-
ciety?
You teli of what heaven
Have they done nothing for heaven? Take
all the gracious souls that have gone out
of your acquaintanecéship, and add to them
all the gracious and beautiful seuls that for
five hundred or a thousand years have
gone out of all the cities and all the vil- !
lages, and all the countries of this earth
into glory, and how the society of heaven
must have been improved! Suppose Paul,
the apostle, were introduced into our so-
cial circle on earth; but heaven has added |
all the apostles. Suppose Hannah More
and Charlotte Elizabeth were introduced
into your social circle on earth; but heaven
ihr and earnest ministry of tha past.
here is not atown, or a city, oi a village |
| sweeping
Have they not improved heaven? |
did for them. |
|
that Itas so improved in society. in the last
‘hundred years as heaven has improved.
.Again: * Iremark that heaven has greatly
, fmpro red in the good-cheer of announced
Lyiotories. Where heaven rejoiced over one
soul, it now rejoices gver a hundred or a
thousand. In thé olden times, when the
ovents of life ize scattered over
4c yries of longevity and he
5 BloWIY, thors wars Hot
Y, ng ta be feported in
heaven; but now, I suppose, all the great
events of earth aro reported in heaven. If
ay truth plainly taught in this
ible It is that heaven is wrapped up in
mpathy with human history, and we
look at those invefitions of the day—at
telegraphy, at swift communication by
steam, at all these modern improvements
which seem to give one almost omnipres-
ence—and we see only the secular relation;
but spirits before the throne look out and
see the vast and the eternal relation. While
nations rise and fall, while the earth is
shaking with revolution, do you not sup-
pose there is arousing intelligence going
up to the throne of God, and that the ques-
tion is often asked before the throne,
“What is the news from that world—that
world that rebelled, but is coming back to
its ailegiance?’’ If ministering spirits, ac-
cording to the Bible, are sent forth to
minister to those that shall be heirs of
heaven, when they come down to us to
bless us, do they not take the news back?
Do the ships of light that come out of the
celestial harbor into the earthly barbor,
laden with cargoes of blessing, go back
unfreighted? Ministering spirits not only,
but our loved ones leaving us, take up the
tidings. Suppose you were in a far city,
and had beenthere a good while, and you
heard that some one had arrived from
your native place—some ons who had
recently seen your family and friends—
you would rush up to that man, and you
would ask all about the old folks at home.
And do you not suppose when your child
went up to God, your glorified kindred in
heaven gathered around aud asked about
vou, to ascertain as to whether you were
getting along well in the struggle of life;
to find out whether you were in any espe-
cial peril, that with swift and mighty
wing they might come down to intercept
your perils? Oh, i Heaven is a
greater place for news than it used to be—
news sounded through tho streets, news
inging from the towers, news heralded
from the palace gate, Glad news! Vie-
torious news!
Now, I say these things aboutthe changes
in heaven, about the new improven
heaven, for three stout reasons. F
cause I find that some of you are impa=
tient to be gone. You are tired of this
world, and you want to get into that good
land about whieh you li: yeen thinking,
raying, and talking so vears. Now
be patie you would want
yes!
nt. I could see. w
to go to an art gallery if someof the best
pictures were to be taken away this week or
next week; but if some one tells you that
there are other beautiful pictures to come
—other Kensetts, RR els, and Rubens;
other masterpieces to be added to the gal-
lery—you would say, “I can afford to
wait, The place is improving all the
time.”” Now, [want you toapply the same
prineiple in this matter of reaching heaven
and leaving this world. Not ono glory ig
to be subtracted. but many glories added.
Not one angel witl be gone, not one hier-
arch gene, not one of your glorifled friends
e. By tho long practicing the music
better, ‘tho procession will be
the rainbow brighter, the corona-
wder, IHeaven, with magnifleent
Why will you compiain when
only waiting for something better?
hor yeason why I speak in regard to
be
provements in heaven, is because think it
ng good people.
have not much t
all done and {inis
I see very well that you
ste for a heaven that was
red centuries ago.
heaven, an ever-accumuiative heaven, vast
enterprise on foot there before
of God. Aggressive knowledge, aggressive
goodness, aggressive power, aggressive
grandeur. You will not have to come and
sit down on the banks of the river
in everlasting inoccupation. O busy men,
I tell you of a heaven whero there is some-
thing to do! That
passage, “Ihe
tho lazy sense of resting.
bed within a few
and saw one of the aged Christians of the
church going into glory. After I had
prayed with her I said to her, “We have
your memory in
You will sce my son before I
seo him, and I wish you would give him
our love.” She said, “I will, I will;” and
in twenty minutes she was in heaven—
the last words she ever spoke.
swilt message to the skies. If you bad
in heaven, and sitting on the throne next
hichest to the throue of God, and not see-
ing vour departed loved ones; and on the
other
in “heaven, with
without garland, avd
ut crown or throne, and
would ¢hooso the latter. I say these things
because I want you to know it is a domes-
time improving. Every one that goesup
tions are increasing month by month and
thousand times more of a
heaven yet.
your anticipation!
I enter heaven one day.
empty. Ienter the temples
and there are no worshipers.
the street, and there are no passengers. I
go into the orchestra, and I find theinstru-
avnts are suspended in the baronial halls
of heaven, and the great organs of eter-
nity, with multitudiocous banks ot keys, are
closed. But Isee a shining one at the
gate, as though he were standing on
gunrd, and I say, “Sentinel, what does this
moan? I thought heaven was a populous
city. Tas ti:ore been some great plague
off the population?” ‘Have
you not heard the news?” says the sen-
tinel. “There is a world burning, there
is a great conflagration out yonder, and
all heaven has gone out to look at the con-
flagration and take the victim out of the
ruins. Thnis is the day for which all other
days are made. This is tho Judgment!
| This morning all the chariots, and the cav-
alry, and the mounted infantry rumbled
and galloped down the sky.” After T had
{ listened to the sentinel, I looked off over
| the battisments, and I saw that the flelds
| of sir were bright with a blazing world. I
said, “Yes. ye~, this inust be the Judg-
went; and while [ stood there I heard the
i rumbling of waezls and the clattering ot
| hoofs, and the roaring of many voi-was,
{und then [ saw the coronets and plu
und. bannpers, wad i sw that all
heaven. was coming baek again—coin-
| ing to the wafl, coming to the gute,
and the maititude that went off in
the morning was augmented by a wast
multitude caught up alive from the earth,
and a vast muititude of the resurrected
bodies of the Christian dead, leaving the
cemeteries and the abbeys and the mauso-
leums and the graveyards of the earth
ompty. Procession moving in through the
ates, Apd then I found out that what
was flery Judgment Day on earth was
| Jubi'ee in Heaven, and 1 cried, “Door-
keepers of heaven, shut the gates; all
heaven has come in! Doorkeepers, shut
the twelve gates, lest the sorrows and the
woes of earth, like bandits, should some
It
of worship,
I day come up and try to plunder the City!”
has added all the blessed andthe gracious | rem
and the holy women of the past’ages. Sup- |
pose thnt Robert M’Cheyne and John Sum- |
mesfleld snould be added to your earthly |
oirele; but heaven has gathered up ail the |
A shooting serape in which John Peex, a
negro, was Killed oceurred at a dance acar
Atlanta, Ga. a few nights ago. si5.80
of another negro had been insulted Ly Si
Pekin, and her brother. .T'om Dafile, un-
able to lind Pekin, shot his brother-in-law,
| ‘gin ¢f Prov. x.,
will be a consolation to pusy and enterpris- | EE “
: : | who shall trust in the Lord,
the throne 1
of life |
1 is ths meaning of tho |
rest not day nor night,” in | , : 5
SE Bie | earning the king of Assyria.”
doeth according to His will in the army of |
Ido not think it was superstitious when, | s : |
4 5 : ! ! | neaven and among the inhabitants of the |
one Wednesday night, I stood by a death- |
blocks of the church |
where I preached, and on the same street, |
the Christian |
i (Job. xxxviii., 11).
It was a |
your choice between riding in a heavenly |
chariot and occupying the grandest palace |
i David’s sake.”
hand, dwelling in the humblest place |
without sceptro, yet |
having your loved ones around you, you |
tic heaven, and consequently it is all the |
makes it a brighter place, and the attrac- |
day by day; and heaven, so vastly more of |
| a heaven, a s
heaven, than it used to be, will be a better |
Ol, I say this to intensify |
2y y the angel of the Lord went out and smote
is almost |
I walk down |
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(HE SHBBATH-SCHOOL LESSOR
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMEN TS |
FOR NOVEMBER 13.
Lesson Text: “The Assyrian Invasion,’
II Kings xix., 20-22, 28-37—=Golden
Text: Psalins xivi., 1l—Commentary on
the Lesson by the Rev. D. M. Stearns.
20. “Thus saith the Lord God "of Israel,
That which thou hast prayed to Mo against
Sennacherib, king of Assyria, I have heard.”
In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah the
king of Assyria came against Judah and
greatly blasphemed the Lord both by word
and by letter. Hezekiah, when he had read
the letter, spread it before the Lord and
praved (verses 14-19). Many times have I
followed Hezekiah’s plan and always found
rest. If we askanything according to His
will He heareth us (I John v., 14), and it is
His will that we tell Him everything and
have careful anxiety about nothing. See
in verse 19 that the great desire of the king
in askin for the overthrow of Sennacherih
was that all the earth might know that the
God of Israel was the only true God.
21. “This is the word that the Lord hath
spoken concerning him, The virgin, the
daughter of Zion, hath despised thee and
laughed thee toscorn.” The people of God
in Judah, called the daughter of Zion, the
daughter of Jerusalem (compare Lam. ii.,
18), having God as their defender and aven-
ger, need fear no enemy. Insuch strength
Moses and Joshua lived; Gideon also, and
David when he went fearlessly against
Goliath. When we seek only the honor and
glory of God, He wiil not fail us.
22. “Whom hast thou reproached and
blasphemed, the Holy One of Israel?’ As
in the next verso, “By thy messengers thou
hast reproached the Lord.” They spake
against the God of Jerusalem as against
the gods of the people of thé earth, the
works of the>hands of man, and for this
cause Hozekiah, the king, and the prophet
Isaiah, the son of Amoz, prayed and cried
to heaven (II Chron. xxxii., 19, 22). God
heard their prayer, and now we will see how
He answered it.
28. “I will turn
which thou eamest,”’
word of the Lord concerning Sennacherib,
See also ve 28, “I know thy abode and
thy going out and thy coming in and thy
rage against Me.” He who created all
things can set bounds that none can pass.
We can only go here and there or do this
orthat if the Lord will (Jas. iv., 15). Man
does not stop to consider that all his words
and even his thoughts are known to the
Lord (Ps. oxxxix., 1-4), and that it is im-
possible to hide anything from Him. Even
Adam, blinded by satan, thought he could
hide from God among the trees (Gen. iii.,
8). Happy are those who live as in the
sight of the Lord.
29. “And this shail be a sign unto thee.”
By comparing this verse with Lev. xxv., 21,
22, the sign seems to have been the special
blessing of God upon the Sabbath year, or,
in other words, the blessing of God on His
obedient people. What but the hand of
God could cause land to produce a threo
years’ crop in ono year? In the R.V. mar-
99
“2,
thea
back by the way
This is a part of the
ing of the Lord maketh rich and toii ad-
i deth nothing thereto.
30. ‘The remnant that is escaped of the
| house of Judah shall yet again take root
| downward and
hear The
doctrine that it is ever the
fruit upward.”
few out
The
sof Noah, of Liot-in Sodom, of .Tlijah
and such statements as “Few thero be that
find it.” ‘An afflicted and poor
which God sees to ba ever true.
After | Vil.. 14; Zeph. iii., 12.
you have been active forty or fifty or sixty |
years it would be a shock to stop you sugd- |
denly and forever; but here is a progressive |
31. “Out of Jerusalem shall go forth a
remnant; the zeal of the Tord of Hostsshall
do this.” The zeal of the Lord of Hosts
shall also bring the kingdom of peace on |
earth which have no end (Isa. ix., 7). All
shall be accomplished in and through the
Son of David, our Lord Jesus Christ, of
whom it is written, “I'he zeal of thine house |
hath eaten me up” (Ps. ixix., ® John ii.,
17).
with many or with few; nothing istoo hard
for Him (I1 Chron. xiv., 11: Jer, xxxii,, 17).
32. “Therefore thus saith the
earth (Dan iv., 35). His thoughts and
purposes are as good as accomplished (Isa.
xiv, 24; Jor. H., 29);
33. “By the way that he came, by the
| same shall he return and shall not come
: : , ; 4 | into this city, saith the Lord.”
4 red you very much, and will always | 11 3. cify, 3all :
i lo} ely Tory mach, anny Y8 | the decision of Him who had all the hosts |
of heaven under His control and all power |
say, |
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This was
to earry out His purposes. He could
“Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther”
Even the great adver-
sary must stop when God shall say so, and
he shall go to the pit for a thousand years,
and to the lake of fire forever.
34. ‘Tor I will defend this eity to save it |
for my servant |
chapter xx., 6, |
xil.; 8. |
sake and
See also
Isn.: xxxi., 5; Zech.
of Jehovah are a study of
for mine own
and compare
The “I wills”
greatest possible benefit.
ST See Ex. vi.,
statement am Jehovah.”
6-8; Gen. xvii., 1-8; Ps. xci., 14-16, Because |
He is what Ho is. Ho will do what He says, |
not for Israel’s sake, but for His own sake,
See Ezek, xxxvi., 22; Ps. cvi., 8.
not look for worthiness or merit in our-
selves, but in lim, who alone is worthy
(Ps. cxv., 1; Rev. v,, 4, 5). Take all the
i comfort you ean find in such passages as
I Isa. xliii., 25; I John ii., 12.
35. “And it came to pass that night that
in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred
fourscore and flve thousand.” The work
of this angel is also mentioned in Isa.
xxxvii., 36, and in II Chron. xxxii;; 21.
When the devil is to be bound and cast in-
to the bottomless pit, it is written that one
angel wiil do it (Rev. xx., 1-3). Consider
in each of these cases the power of an
angel and then think of the millions upon
millions of them mighty in strength, doing
His commandments, hearkening unto the
voice of His word (Rev. v., 11; Ps, cili., 20).
Think of the angel’s disregard of and
power over soldiers and fast barred gates
in the story of Peter’s release in Acts xii.
Think of the one who carried good tidings
to Paul in the storm at sea (Acts xxvii.),
remember that they are all ministering
spirits sent forth to minister unto the heirs
of salvation (Heb. i., 14), and let your
heart say, “Though an host should en-
camp against me, my heart shall not fear”
(Ps. xxvii., 3). If God be for me, who*can
be against me? I will trust and not be
afraid.
36, 37. ‘His sons smote him with the
sword.” Thus he died in his own land ac,
cording to the word of the Lord (verse 7),
and while in the act of worshiping idols.
So shall perish all the enemies of the Lord.
—Lesson Helper.
In proportion to its size Switzerland
has more inns than any other country
in the world. The entertainment of
tourists has become the chief industry
of the land. No less than 1,700 hostel-
ries, stationed for the most part on
mountain tops or near glaciers, are on
the list, and the receipts of the hotel
keepers amount to $25,000,000 a year,
so it cannot be such a bad business.
The largest flower in the world, it is
said, is the bolo, which grows on the
Island of Mindanao, one of the Philip-
pine group. It has five petals, measur-
ing nearly a yard in width, and a sin-
gle flower has been known to weigh 22
pounds. It grows on the highest pin-
nacle of the land, about two thousand
feet above the level of the sea.
Brier pipes that were once almost
exclusively imported from England
and France are now made in this
country.
[to $12; J. C.
| to $8; Mary Blowers, Oscecla Mills, $8:
we read that the bless- |
Q i employes,
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of the |
| many who are really the Lord’s and who
i glorify Him is found in all Scripture.
the changes in heaven, and the new im- | SOI
people |
indicate. that |
See Math, |
It is nothing with the Lord to work |
Lord con- |
Our Lord |
They often oc- |
cur in sevens and in connection with the |
We must |
(15TNE STATE EHS GOREASED
FUGITIVE RETURNS.
Defaulting President of the Keystone Bank Re«
turns to Philadelphia After an
Absence of Seven Years.
Gideon W. Marsh, the fugitive presi-
dent of the Keystone national bank, of
I’hiladelphia, which collapsed on
March 20, 1891, returned to that city
last week after an absence of over
seven years, and surrendered himself
to his bondsman, William H. Wana-
maker. The closing of the Keystone
bank created a tremendous sensation
at the time and the developments im-
mediately subsequent thereto resulted
in the sentencing to long terms of im-
prisonment of John Bards then city
treasurer of Philadelphia, and Charles
Lawrence, thé cashier the ‘bank.
Poth have now completed their sen-
tences.
The following pensions wera granted
last week: Samuel DMonatha
bersburg, $8; arv J. ‘Kiskadden,
New Castle, § Thomas Harkison,
Honey Grove, Juniata, $8; James
Sweeney, Lost Creek, $8; William W.
Shipmen; Pittsburg, $8; William
Young, McKeesport, $6; Samuel W.
Morgan, Canonsburg; $6; John McCul=-
lough, Waynesboro, $3; Samuel Sny-
der, Petersburg, Huntingdon, $6 to $10;
George W. Jeffries, Venetia, Washing-
ton, $6; John Vancamp, = Knoxdale,
Jefferson, $8 to $17; Joseph Hassenplug,
(dead), Milroy, Mifflin, $6 to $12; Allen
H. Wood, Athens, $14 to $24; John Sa-
ger, Jr., New Mayville, Clarion, $12 to
¥ David Moyer, Leechburg, $12; Ly-
Hassenplug, Milroy, $8; minors of
James 8. Collins, ‘Pittsburg, $10; Anna
Catharine Micha ‘arentum, $8; John
Dawson, Alle ye SWilliam: HL.
Bentley, $8; John Oskins,
Braddock, Porter Leonard,
Claysville, Washington, $6 to $8: Wil-
liam C. Knox, Ligonier, $6 to $17; Jo-
s¢ph - E. McCobe, 1 Falls, $6. to
$10; Charles Bruner 1 3
to 38; George .
town, $10 to
Romig, Milroy, Mi
ren Wellman, Unicon
Bachioum, New Station,
R. Bartley, = Bellefonte, Thomas
Watson, Pittsburg, $8; James For-
s5ythe, Monongahela, $8; Thomas Keith
dead, Mercersburg, $2: John Carns,
Upton, Franklin $8 to $10; Michael
Neil, William Hill, Franklin, $6 to 88;
Wliliam G. Heffelfinger, Blairsville, $6
to $8; Ezra Holmes, Bradford, $8 to $10:
John Houpt, Marionville, $12 to $14.
George S. Campbell, Punxsutawney, $8
Mark, New Alexandria, $6
Lewis=
M.
War-
so dAleX,
William
$6;
101 J. Walters, North
Louisa Keith, Mercersburg, $8.
An explosion, resulting in the loss of
two lives and the severe injury of five
rred at the plant of the
works the other .
Chas. McCloskey, boiler-
maker, blown 100 feet nd instantly
killed; = Patrick Frawley, laborer,
crushed to death by the falling of the
roof. The injured are: John. Smith, a
laborer, wounds thought to be fatal in
the hip, back in Gidders,
iler 1 I one arm
boiler=
body
hoiler-
r badly
$12;
pe
I'he dead are: M
and head; Jot
maker, both
broken; Dennis
maker, leg broken and: bad
es; Andrew Gustafson,
leg broken and bod
bruised; Patrick .1
badly cut about the he
other } yes sust
bruises. : boiler ‘which exploded
was of r=} power, and was being
tested. with a 1ber of others in the
usual manner, and all the workingmen
about it were skilled. The part of the
building in the immediate vicinity
was. completely demolished.
Frank P. Gray, of Beaver Falls,
whose son is in the Tenth Regiment at
Manila, received the following instruc-
tions from Washington regarding
Christmas boxes: “Boxes not to ex-
ceed 25 pounds for each soldier will be
forwarded to Manila from San Fran-
cisco free. The boxes should be ad-
dressed care of the Depot Quartermas-
ter, San Francisco, and sent charges
prepaid to that point. The last steamer
is expected to sail from San Francisco
for Manila about November 15.”
A fall of rock occurred in mine
legs
1
McMahon,
§
Severe
No.
a80,
at Windber a few days injuring
three men, one of whom, John Kouz, is
at the Memorial hospital, with two
ribs and an arm broken and a wrist
dislocated. Kouz, Simon Coving and
Joe Cineskes, all miners, were caught
under the falling rock. Coving had his
leg broken in five places, and Cineskes
Lad two ribs broken.
Mrs. M. Templeton, of Scottdale, had
a peculiar experience recently. A blood
vessel on her ankle burst and began to
bired rapidly. In a short time she be-
came unconscious and pulse and
breathing stopped... A physician pro-
nounced her dead. After lying in this
state, for an hour or more she began
to breathe. Medical aid was again se-
cured, and she.is now in a fair way to
recovery.
Frank Williams,
Arthurs, aged 18, got
the street at Beaver
night. Williams drew
thrust the blade into
domen, making a horrible gash. Ar-
thurs became unconscious, while Wil-
liams, holding the bloody knife fled in
the darkness. The wounded lad was
sent to the hospital in a very critical
condition.
Eugene Wendman of ¥ast Hebron,
near Stroudsburg, was found dead last
week near his home, half imbedded in
quicksand. Beside him was found a
hastily written note which told that he
had bcen unable to extricate himself
and that he was suffering terribly
from hunger and thirst. Wendman said
he was about to make a prayer for re-
liet. He leaves a family.
A long hidden deficiency, reaching
about $57,000, has been discovered in
the accounts of the late John H. Alle-
man, cashier -of the First National
bank of Hanover, who died about three
weeks ago. The books have been in the
hands of an expert acountant since
Alleman’s death, and the shortage was
thus revealed.
A$ Jahnsonburg, near Bradford, the
publie schools have heen closed on ac-
count of a diphtheria epidemic. Fully
70 cases of the disease in various stages
are being treated there. In several
other towns near there diphtheria is
also prevalent.
Samuel McBride, a wealthy Union
township farmer, hanged himself at
his home near New Castle a few days
ago,
The rabbit and pheasant season
opened auspiciously throughout the
Ligonier Valley. Ilabbits are said to be
plentiful, and reports indicate that the
season will be a successful one. Many
hunters are now on the ground.
The report of Joseph Carney, Secre-
tary of the Board of Directors of the
Poor of Beaver county, shows that 603
persons were given relief during the
year outside of the almshouse. Of these
327 were children.
While Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Horst,
of Shaeffertown. near Lebanon, were
away from home their 5-year-old
daughter found a bottle of strychnine
piils in the house and ate them. She
died in great agony.
aged 14, and John
into a scufile on
Falls the other
a knife and
Arthur's ab-