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fATak of f j Three Lions £ 1 H. RIDER HAGGARD L <▼▼▼▼▼▼ ▼▼▼▼▼▼• CHAPTER ll—(Cowmroan.) •“Lions, my boy.' 1 said, they are hunting down by the river there; but I don't think you need make yourself uneasy. We have been here three nights now, and If they were going to pay us a visit I should think that they would have done so before this. How ever, we will make up the Ore.’ " 'Here, Pharaoh, do you and Jim Jim get some more wood before we go to sleep, else the rats will be purring round you before morning.' ‘•Pharaoh, a great brawny Swazi, who bad been working for me al Pilgrims Rest, laughed, rose, and stretched himself, and then calling to Jlm-Jim to bring (he ax and a reltn, started off In the moonlight toward a clump of sugar-bush where we cut our fuel from aome dead trees. He was a flue fellow in thia way, was Pharaoh because he had an Egyptian cast of countenance and a royal sort of swagger about him. Hut bis way was a somewhat peculiar way, on account of the uncertainty of his temper, and very few people could get on with him; also If lie could get It he would drink like a flsh, and when he drank he became shockingly blood thirsty. These were his bad points; bla good ones were that, like most peo ple of the Zulu blood, he became ex ceedingly attached to you If he took to you at all; he was a hard-working and iutellieent man and about as dare devil and plucky a fellow at a pinch as I ever had to do with. He waa about flve-and-thlrty years of age or so, but not a 'kesbla' or rlnged-man, I be lieve he got Into trouble In some way In Swaziland, and the authorities of bis tribe would not allow him to as sume the ring, and that Is why he came to work at the gold fields. The olher roan, or rather lad, Jlm-Jim, wu» a Mapoch Kafir, or Knohnose, and even In the light of subsequent events 1 fear lhat I cannot speak very well of him. He was an Idle and careless young rascal, and only that very morn ing I bad to tell Pharaoh to whip him for letting the oxen stray, which he did with the greatest gusto, although he was, in his own way, very fond of Jim Jlm, and I saw him consoling him af terward with a pinch of snuff from his own ear-box, whilst he explained to him that the next time It came In the way of duty to flog him, he meant to thrash with the other hand, so as to cross the old cuts and make a ‘pretty pattern' on his hack. "Well, ofT they went, though Jlm Jim did not at all like leaving the camp at that hour, even though the moonlight was so bright, and In due course returned safely enough with a great bundle of wood. I laughed at Jlm-Jim. and asked him If he had seen anything, and he said yes, he had; he had seen two large yellow eyes staring at him from behind a bush, and beard something snore, "As, however, on further Investiga tion the yellow eyes and the snore ap peared to have existed only In Jtm Jim's lively Imagination, I was not greatly disturbed by this alarming re port; but having seen to making up of the fire, got Into the skerm and went quietly to sleep with Harry by my Bide. "Some hours afterward I woke up •wttn a atari, i uon i Know waat wokc me. The moon had gone down, or at least wan almost hidden behind the soft horizon of bush, only her red rim being visible. Also a w ind had sprung up and was driving long hurrying lineH of cloud across the starry sky, and al together a great change had came over the mood of the night. By the look of the sky I Judged that we must be about two hours from day-break. "The oxen, which were as usual tied to the disselboom of the Scotch cart, ■were very restless -they kept snulhiig and blowing, and rising up and lying down agaiu, and I at once suspected that they must wind something. Pres ently 1 knew what it was that they winded, for within fifty yards of u* a lion roared not very loud. ‘ ' Pharaoh was sleeping on the other aide of the cart, and beneath It 1 saw him raise his head and listen. "‘Lion, Inkuos,' he whispered, 'Uon.' "Jlm-Jlm also Jumped up. and by the faint light 1 could see that he was In a very great fright Indeed. thinking that it was as well to h* ptepared for emergencies, I told Pharaoh to throw wood upon the lire, and woke up Harry, who I verily be lieve was capable of sleeping through the crack of doom. He was a little •cared at Aral, hut presently the excite. ut< nt of the position came home to him and he became quite anxious to sew his majesty face to fate. I gut my rifle handy and *a*-« Harry his a Weetley Mtcbard falling block, which is w very useful gun fur a youth, being light and yet a good billing rlfls, sad them we wnllevl. ' I’m w long tin* nothing happened and I began to think that the best thing that We coo Id do would he to gu to etwsp igsix, wb«n suddenly I heard n awowd moe* Uk* w tough than a roar within about twenty i«nh ul tbs •barm W* all k»dt*d nut kit >..oM •ms nothing and then twitowed an •ther ytilol of suspense It ws« very trying I* »h* nerves, thin waning for an attach that migu ■> develop.4 from Ml quarter we might nut be dsteiutpetl gt all. and though < waa a very sW band at thin wort of '■ >sta«*» 1 was MhtotM ah***' Harry, l»* ti u won 1st lot how tbs preaenev «< an tto.tr to niton* one la attgebed ttwrm a assn In stows*oIS tf danger anl that asad* ms perv«*s* I km**, flltfe■ qV tt was now thtily gn« mb. I world t»« .* *•• splratlon running down my nose, ai?d in order to relieve the strain on my attention employed myself watching a beetle which appeared to be attracted by the Are-llght, and was sitting before It thoroughly rubbing his antennae against each other. “Suddenly the beetle gave such a Jump that he nearly Jumped headlong into the Are, and so did we all give Jumps. I mean, and no wonder, for from right under the skerm fence there cime the most frightful roar—a roar that literally made the Scotch cart shake and took the breath out of you. “Harry ejaculated and tuned rather green. Jlm-JIm howled outright, while the poor oxen stood and shivered and lowed piteously. "The night was almost entirely dark now, for the moon bad quite set and the clouds had covered up the stars, so that the only light we had was from the Are, which was burning up bright ly again now; but, as you know, Are light Is absolutely useless to shoot by. It Is so uncertain, and besides It pene trates but a very little wuy Into the darkness, although If one Is In the dark outside one can see It from so far away. “Presently the oxen, after staudlng still for a moment, suddenly winded the lion and did what 1 feared they would do- began to 'shrek,' that la to try and break loose from the trek tow to which they were tied, and rush off madly Into the wilderness. Mona know of this habit on the part of oxen, which are, I do believe, the most foolish ani mals under tbe sun. a sheep being a very Holomon compared to them; and It Is by no means uncommon for a lion to get In such a position that a herd or span of oxen may wind him, abrek, break their reins, and rush off into tbe bush. Of course, once they arc there, they are helpless In the dark; and then the Hon chooses the one that he loves best and eats him at his leisure. “Well, round and round weut our six poor oxen, nearly trampling us to death In their mad rush; Indeed, had we not hastily tumbled out of the way, we should have been trampled to death, or at least seriously Injured. As it was, Harry was run over, and poor .Hm-JIm being eaught by the trek tow somewhere beneath tils arm, was hurled right across the skerm, landing by my side only some paces off. "Snap went the dlsselboom of the cart beneath the transver/e strain put upon It. Had It not broken the cart would have overset; as It was. In an other minute, oxen, cart, trektow, reins, broken dlsselboom. and every thing were soon tied in one vast heav ing. plunging, bellowing, and seeming ly inextricable knot. "Kor a moment or two this state of affairs took my attention off from the Hon that had eaused it, but whilst I was wondering what on earth was to be done next, and what, we should do If the cattle broke loose Into the hush und were lost, for cattle frightened In this manner will go right away like mad things. It was very suddenly re called in a very painful fashion. "For at that moment I perceived by the light of the fire, a kind of gleam of yellow traveling through the air toward us. *• 'The Hon! the lion!’ hallooed Pharaoh, and as he did so, he, or rather she, for it was a great gaunt lioness, half wild no doubt with hunger, lit right In the middle of the skerm, and stood there in the smoky gloom, and lushed her tall und roared. I seized my rifle and Bred at her, but what be tween the confusion, and my agita tion, and the uncertain light, I missed her and nearly shot Pharaoh. The flash of the rifle, however, threw the whole scene Into strong relief, and a wild one It was I can tell you- with the seething mass of oxen twisted all around the cart, in such a fashion that their heads looked as though thev were growing out of their rumps uml their horns seemed to protrude from their backs; the smoking ore with just a blaze in the heart of the smoke; Jlm Jim In the foreground, where the oxen had thrown him in their wild rush, stretched out there in terror; and then as u center to the picture the great gaunt lioness glaring round with hungry yellow eyes, and roaring and whining as she made up her mind what to do. “It did not take her long, Just the time that It takes a dash to die Into darkness, and then, before I could tire again or do anything, with u most fli-ndlsh snort she sprang upon poor Jlm-Jim “I beard the unfortunate Ud shriek, and then altnoat Instantly I »i» * his I*gs thrown into the air. The Hones.: had wised him hy the neck, and w ith a sudden Jerk thrown his body over her back so that his legs hung down upun the further side. Then, without the slightest hesilatiuii. ami apparently without any dtlBulty she cleared the skerm feme at a single bound, and bearing poor Jim Jim with her. van ished Into the darkness beyond, in the direction of the bathing-place that I hate already described We lumped up perfectly mad with hurru.* sad fear, and malted wildly after her, bring shuts at ha p-h an* rd »• the chance that she tnskl be frightened by them Into drop ping h«r prey, hot nothing could we j we and nothing could we hear. Tbo, (iiitteM had vanished into the dttkt CSS' taking Jim-Jtm with her, end to wt- j tempt to follow kef until dwytigbt wee Madness We should only ftp nee out wires to the risk of w like fate ihs with scared and heavy heart* w* *r*p« h*. k to the *h*im end Ml down to welt for daylight, which now would not bo m i k more than an boor ••• It www hheolutofy umlets to try even to ti**ni»ti*te the m«s tilt than an nil tint there new left few ne to do we* to ett end wonder how M • am* tw pees that the otm eh wo Id he taken and the other left, end to hope sgaleet hope that our poor servant might have been mercifully delivered from the lion's jaws. At length the faint light came stealing like a ghost up the long slope of bush, and glinted on the tangled oxen's horns, and with white and frightened faces we got up and set to the task of disentangling the oxen till such time as ther should be light enough to enable us to follow the trail of the lioness which had gone off with Jlm-JIm, And here a fresh trouble: awaited us, for when ut last with In finite difficulty we had got the helpless brutes loose, it was only to And that one of the best of them was very sick. There was no mistake about the way he stood with his legs slightly apart and bis head hanging down, lie had got the red water, I was sure of It. Of all the difficulties connected with life and) traveling In South Africa, those con nected with oxen are perhaps the worst. The ox Is the most exasperating ani mal In the world, lie has absolutely no constitution, and never neglects an opportunity of falling sick of some mysterious disease. He will get thin upon (be slightest provocation, and from mere maliciousness die of 'pov erty;' whereas It Is his chief delight to turn round and refuse to pull when ever he finds himself well In the cen ter of a river, or the wagon-wheel nice ly fast In a mttdbole. There Is always something wrong with him. “Well. It was no use crying as I should almost have liked to do, because if this ox hud red-water It was prob able that the rest of them had it, tout although they had been sold to me as ‘salted,’ that is, proof against such dis cuses as red-water and lung-sick. One guts hardened to this sort of thing in South Africa In course of time, for 1 suppose In no other country In the world Is the waste of animal life so great. “Ho, taking my rifle and telling Har ry to follow me (for we had to leave Pharaoh to look ufter the oxen, Pharaoh's lean klne, I called them), ( started to see If anything could be found of or appertaining to the un fortunate Jlm-JIm. The ground round our little camp was hard and rocky, and we could not hit off any spoor of the lioness, though just outside the skerm we saw a drop or two of blood, Several hundred yards from the camp, and a little to the right, was a patch of sugar bush mixed up with the usual mimosa, and for this I made, thinking that the lioness would have been sure to lake her prey there to devour It. On we pushed through the long grass that was bent down beneath the weight of the soaking dew. In two minutes we were wet through up to the thighs, as wet as though we had waded through water. Jn due course, however, we reached the patch of bush, and In the gray light of the morning cautiously and slowly pushed our way into it. It was very dark under the trees, for the sun was not yet up, so we progressed with the most extreme care, half ex pecting every minute to come across the lioness licking the bones of poor Jim-JIm. Hut no lioness could we see, and as for .Jim-JIm, there was not the least trace of him to be found. Evi dently they had not come therp. "So, pushing through the bush we proceeded to hunt every other likely spot about, with the same result. “ ‘I suppose she must have taken him right away,’ 1 said at last, sadly enough. 'At any rate he will be dead by now, so God have merey on him, we can't help him. What's to be done now?’ “ ‘I suppose that we had better wash ourselves in the pool anil then go back and get something to eat.’ <T0 BK CONTI NUBD.I A c;ioriou* Opportunity. A middle-aged man, with what ap peared to be a load on his mind, visited an arctic steamer and seemed interest ed In what ho saw. "I say," he said to the officer on deck, "I'd like to go on the uext ex pedition." "It's awfully cold up there,” re marked the officer, discouragitigly. "I don't care about that." “You’d have very little to eat and might have to starve." “That would’t he pleasant," said the visitor. "I should say not,” returned the of ficer. “and you might be eaten by jour comrades." "Is that so? That would be dis tinctly bad." "And then," continued the officer, "you wouldn't see your wife for three years and possibly longer. You know you can't take tier with jnu," "Wetl," returnej the gentleman, aft er a long pause. I think you eun put me down on your tiuok*. Your last argument captured me New Yotk Dispatch. Jew*’ Yeiv|i«sn. "Sending a telegram,' says a Phila delphia telegraph man. "la -ertwun business for the ordinary man or wo man They think It a expensive and only us# Ike wire: when they have to There's one exception, however, and a hind of ■ ompltineiiiary buatnena that ■tool pevtpi* would never suspect. Whenever there* a Hebrew wedding, that b one of any important , we handle srwfew of congratulation* bun died# sometime* trout alt port* of (be country They are sent with dlt ,*tuun p, deliver at a certain hour and we generally send them ait to the bowse or place abet* the re,epttun la neid in utx* u .»h It a a good thing for the «*>n»t «u>, for Ih* aenderw dug I ! count the word* and lb their tele grwwia ntthWMt any r*v lavuo ibuno |»iw.ee tbei nM up tu two or Iki aoida, ' - Now Verb ffthwa* lit and oat pgv« ho* served ouh taw ,team torn* a cOmb-lMHOd for doaaoH that It «Ww*aily reptu*** the I'hrlsttnaa mine* pf* *nd plant raiding TALM AGE’S SERMON. “A RESURRECTION MISTAKE” EASTER SUNDAY SUBJECT. , From thr Tell: **Hhe. Mupivofting Him t«» He the (Jiril#ncr, Multli Into Him; Tell He W here Tlion KImhI l,wl«l Hlin and I Will Take Him %w«y“ John 90:1 A. ERE are Mary Magdalen and Christ, Juat after his resurrection. For four thousand years a grim and ghastly tyrant had been killing people and dragging them Into hla cold palace. He had a passion for human skulls. For forty centuries he had been unhin dered in his work. He had taken down kings and queens and conqueror*, and those without fame. In that cold pal ace there were shelves of skulls, and pillars of skulls, and altars of skulls, and even the chalices at the table were made of bloached skulls. To the skele ton of Abel bad been added the skeleton of all the ages, and no one had disputed his right until one good Friday, about eighteen hundred and sixty-seven years ago, as near as 1 can calculate It, a mighty stranger came to the door of that awful place, rolled beck the door, and went In, and seizing the tyrant threw him to the pavement anti put upon the tyrant's neck the heel of tri umph. Then the mighty stranger, exploring all the ghastly furniture of the place, and walking through the labyrinths, and opening the dark cellars of mys tery, and tarrying under a roof the rib* of which were made of human bonps— tarrying for two nights and a day, the nights very dark and the day very dismal, he seized the two chief pil lars of that awful palace and rocked them until It began to fall, and then laying hold of the ponderous front gate hoisted It from Its binges, and marched forth crying. "I am the Resurrection!” That event we celebrate this Easter morn, liandellan and Beethovean mira cles of sound added to this floral deco ration which has set the place abloom. There are three or four thing* which I h o u nt'1/1 nnrl f hfi rhiirclt IlflVft Tint TIO tlced In regard to the resurrection of Christ. First, our Lord In the garden er’s attire. Mary Magdalen, grief struck, stands by the rilled sarcophagus of Christ, and turns around, hoping she can And the track of the sacrilegious resurrectionist who has despoiled the grave, and she finds some one in work lug apparel come forth as if to water the flowers, or uproot the weeds from the garden, or to set reclimbing the fallen vine- some one In working ap parel. his garments perhaps having the sign of the dust and dirt of the occupa tion. Mary Magdalen, on her face the rain of a fresh shower of weeping, turns to tills workman, and charges him with the desecration of the tomb, when 1o! the stranger responds, flinging his whole soul into one word which trem bles with all the sweetest rhythm of earth and heaven, saying, "Mary!” In that peculiarity of accentuation all the Incognito fell off, and she found that instead of talking with an humble gar dener of Asia Minor, she was talking with Him who owns all the hanging gardens of heaven. Constellations ttye clusters of forget-me-nots, the sun flower the chief of all. the morning sky and the midnight aurora, flaring ter races of beauty, blazing like a summer wall with coronation roses and giants of battle. Blessed and glorious mis take of Mary Magdalen. "She suppos ing him to be the gardener.” What does that mean? It means that we have an every-day Christ for every-day work in every-day apparel. Not on Sabbath morning in our most seemly apparel are we more attractive to Christ than we are in our every-day work dress, managing our merchan dise. smiling our until, ploughing our Held, tending the flying shuttles, mend ing the gurments for our household, providing food for our families, or toil ing with weary pen, or weary pencil, or weary chisel. A working-day Christ in working-day apparel for us in our every-day toll. Put it Into the highest strain of this Easter anthem, “Suppos ing him to be the gardener.” If Chrlal had appeared at daybreuk with a crown upon his bead, that would have seemed to suggest especial sym pathy for monarch*; if Christ had ap peared In ohaiu of gold and with robe bedlat'ionded. that would have seemed to be especial sympathy for the af fluent; if Christ had appeared with sol diers sash and sword dangling at his side, that would have seemed to Imply especial sympathy for warrtora; but when 1 find Christ lu gardener’s habit, thtu I spell It out that he has hearty and pathetic understanding with every day work, and every-day anxiety, and •very day fatigue Koll It down tu comfort all through these aisles A winking day Christ la work tag-day apparel. Tell It la Ike darkest corridor of the mountain ta the poor miner Tell tt to Ike factory maid in moat unveattlalr-l establishment at l.owrll or I «a newsier Tell It to the dearer of roughest new grwuad ta the western wilderness Tell tt ta the **w inti woman, a »tlt«h la the Id* tor every stitch la the garment, sotae of their duel employer* having an rl III i lu tfcliill Ifeat ihv* fttM |vi thrudfk III* | uf (1119 Muff lluilA tfcft) iumUI ilifV'tftti I lift #b ft til ii ttrftfc»t» ■ M#ft|)«> ft tkM")l fast# |ft«4 4tftft)(PNt 9ft lb* bitit |uMr ftiMM ifc* |tf(t bfv) ftftk) ftku»4 I (lift tlf tfeft >tl|4HM|4lhf •» ft III ft | ftftfi- fbftft? ftU|| >u*tf I#ill ftftftHI III |pwMk: ft I k- '|ft|4t|| 4ft) Itliffblbft I uf tilt 1» 'ukMftit m( Tf*kk, «li«l llift i ftf ffttiftMift ft Ilk ft ft«H«t*| - I" i eft) I* Mil 41f tft# ftu«)4. buk lb# « »ml lu ft)l I ftft«|ftk||jg lllftl IH*| Md) IkftHb UkC fcftftl of II and feel the thrill of the Ohristly brotherhood. Not supposing the man to be Caesar, not supposing him to be Socrates, but “supposing him to be the gardener." Oh, that is wliat helpetl Joseph Wedgwood, toiling amid the heal and the dust of the potteries, until he could make for Queen Charlotte the first royal table service of English manu facture. That was what helped James Watt, scoffed at and caricatured, until he could put on wheels the thunderbolt of power which roars by day and night In every furnace of the locomotive en gines of America. That is what helped Hugh Miller, tolling amid the quarries of Cromarty, until every rock became to him a volume of the world's biog raphy, and he found the footsteps of the Creator In the old red sandstone. Oh, the world wunls a Christ for the office, a Christ for the kitchen, a Christ for the shop, a Christ for the banking house, a Christ for the garden, while spading and planting and Irrigating the territory. Oh, of course, we want to see Christ at last In royal robe and bediamoned, a celestial equestrian mounting the white horse, but from this Easter of 1897 to our last Easter on earth we most need to see Christ as Mary Mugdalen saw him at the day break, "supposing him to be a gar dener.” Another thing which the church and the world have not noticed In regard to the resurrection of Christ Is that he made his first post-mortem appearance to one who had been the seven-deviled Mary Mag<ialen. One would have sup posed he would have made his first posthumous appearance to a woman who had always been Illustrious for goodness. There are saintly women who have always been saintly, saintly In girlhood, saintly In Infancy, always saintly. In nearly all our families there have been sulutly aunts. In my family circle It was aunt Phcbe; In yours Halntly aunt Martha or saintly aunt Ruth. One ulwuys saintly. But not so with the one spoken of In the text. While you are not to confound her with the repugnant courtesan who had made her long locks do the work of towel at Christ's footwashing, you are not to forget tnar. sue was exorciseu 01 seven devils. What a capital of de monology she must have been. What a chorus of all diabolism. Seven devils —two for the eyes, and two for the hands, and two for the feet, and one for the tongue. Seven devils. Yet all these are extirpated, anil now she is as good as once she was bad. and Christ honors her with the first posthu mous appearance? What doth that mean ? * * * There Is a man seven-deviled devil of avarice, devil of pride, devil of hate, devil of Indolence, devil of falsehood, devil of strong drink, devil of impuri ty. God can take them all away, sev en or seventy. I rode over the new cantilever bridge that spans Niagara— a bridge 000 feet long, 8fi0 feet of chasm from bluff to bluff. I passed over it without anxiety. Why? Be cause twenty-two locomotives and twenty-two ears laden with gravel had tested the bridge, thousands of people standing on the Canadian side, thous ands standing on the American side to applaud the achievement. And how ever long the train of our immortal in terests may he we are to remember that God’s bridge of mercy spanning the chasm of sin has been fully tested by the awful tonage of all the pardoned sin of ail ages, church militant stand ing on one bank, church triumphant standing on the other bank. Oh, it was to the seven-deviled Mary that Christ made His first post-mortem ap pearance. There is another thing that the world and the church have not observed in regard to this resurrection, and that is, it WPS the morning twilight. If the chronometer had been invent ed and Mary had as good a watch as some oi me .viarys or our tune have, she would have found It was about half-past 5 o'clock a. m. Matthew says It was In the dawn. Mark says it was at the sunrislng; Luke says it was very early In the morning; John says it was while It waa yet dark. In other words, it v.as twilight. That was the o'clock at which Mary Magdalen mistook Christ for the gardener. What does that mean? It means there are shadows over the grave unllfted, shadows of mystery that are hovering. Mary stooped down and tried to look to the other end of the crypt. She gave hys teric outcry. She could not see to the other end of the crypt. Neither can you •ee to the other end of the grave of your dead. Neither can we see to the other end of our grave. Oh. If there were shadows over the family plot be longing to Joseph of Arluiaihea, la it strange that there should he some shadows over our fautily lot? Master dawn, not Master noon Khadow of unanswered question' Why were they taken uway from u»? why were they ever given to us If they were to be taken so asm* why were they lahen so suddenly? why could they lutt have uttered some farewell words? why? A short question, hut a whole cruciBiion of a sou y in tt. Why? rihaduw on the graves of good men and women who seemed to die before their worh was done Hhadow on all the grave* of children because we ash our , selvae why so beautiful a > raft launch I ed al all If It was to ba wrecked , -me mile outside of Ik* harbor ? Hut ; * hat did Mary Magdalen have to do : is order to gel more light on that grave? Mha had unit to wall After t win • the |.4<>o »>m roll- I up 4***1 the a bole place waa It-sided a III* light What base »**u and I to do In order to get mote light on our own gmo 'and Ugh I tlfcp ||| WHtr iNWf U*»ftii uuv* * Uitljr !• «•)!, • • • (ItM t Ull«« HivMl »ltf| lit iImmm Nt4# tlaii ahJ %« i§4 iitity Umm t*t» i «il j * ll *tt*l It** tt# Vitlllltr, ruWmM ttu*t ««)l WMi I mi *fw» •tt* li illtiv* itttl ii4tel( tt#* j pea ranee, that settles it that whatever i should become of the bodies of our Christian dead, they are going to come up. the nerves restrung, the optic nerve reilluniined, the ear drum a-vlbrate, the whole body lifted up, without its weak ness and worldly uses for which there is no resurreetion. Com*, is it not al most time for us to go out to meet out reanimated dead? Can you not hear the lifting of the rusted latch? Oh, the glorious thought, the glorious consolation of this subject wh-’n I find Christ coming up without any of tho lacerations, for you must remember lie was lacerated and wounded fearfully In the crucifixion coming up without one. What does that make me think? That the grave will get nothing of us except our wounds und Imperfections. Christ went Into the grave exhausted and bloodless. All the currents of His life had poured out from Hi* wounds. He had lived a life of trouble, sorrow, and privation, and then He died a lin gering death, ills entire body hung on four spikes. No Invalid of twenty years' suffering ever went into tho grave so white and ghastly and broken down as Christ, and yet here He cornea up so rubicund and robust she supposed Him to be the gardener. Ah! all tho side-aches, and the head aches, und the back-aches, and the leg aches, and the heart-aches we will leave where Christ left Ills. The ear will come up without its heaviness, the eye will come up without Its dimness, the lungs will come up without oppressed respiration. Oh, what races we will run when we become Immortal ath letes! Oh. what circuits we will take when all earthly Imperfections sub tracted and all celeetial velo< itie* ad ded we shall set up our residence In that city which, though vaster than all the cities of this world, shall never have one obsequy! Standing this morning round the shattered masonry of our I/jrd's tomb, I point you to a world without, hearse, without muffled drum, without tumii lus, without catafalque, and without a tear. Amid all the cathedrals of the blessed no longer the “Dead March in Saul," but whole libretti of “Hallelujah Chorus." Oh, put trumpet to lip and Anger to key, and loving forehead against the bosom of a risen Christ. Hallelujah, Amen. Hallelujah, Amen! CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. The Junior Society of Christian En deavor was thirteen years old on March 27, On March 20 there were enrolled on Secretary Baer’s books li,537 so cieties, with 346,110 members. The Arst society was organized in Tabor. Iowa, by Rev. John W. Cowan. The Arst signer of the Junior pledge is now a clergyman. "She hath done what she could.” The members of the Christian Endeavor so ciety in the Indiana state prison at Michigan City have no money to con tribute toward state Christian Endeav or work, but the other day the state treasurer received from this society fif ty-two stamped envelopes. One of these envelopes is issued to each pris oner every two weeks and an extra one is given Instead of a ration of tobacco. By abstaining from the luxury of cor respondence, and from the use of to bacco, the men were enabled to fulfill their pledge. An endeavor after apostolic fashion is recorded of a native Christian En deavor society in Shaingay, West Af rica. The young men of the society set out, two by two, to preach the gospel throughout all their district, a region forty by seventy miles in extent. They held 238 services and reached 4,572 hearers, and all without a penny of ex pense. The young men had many in teresting experiences. One of them philosophically remarked, when de terred from crossing a river by the al ligators in the stream, “The Lord sent us to preach the gospel, not to ieeu these fellows." A company of Endeavorers from the Broadway Baptist church, Cambridge port, Mass., hold weekly meetings in a rescue mission in Boston, providing a tree lunch for the men. in opposition to a free lunch saloon In the neigh borhood. These meetings have result ed In many conversions, and in several accessions to the church. The Endeav orers make it a practice to secure em ployment for the converts when possi ble. The Endeavorers in the State of Washington have made earnest efTori* to secure temperance und Sabbath ob servance legislation. A temperance bill was recently before the legislature and the Endeavorers prompted promiueut representatives to personally visit (lie cupltol. while uliout five hundred tele grams were sent from all parts of thet state to the senators und representa tive*. Muss meetings were also held iu many districts, all with the aim of properly Influencing legislation. The first year of t'hrlsfian Endeavor in Tremont Tempi* Baptist church, Huelun. lius been a fruitful one Sev eral member* of the society have unit ed with the church One of the Aral deeds of the society was the publication el a sermon on baptism by lir, isiit ' mer. Two more of the pastor's ser mons were published during the year, a total o( eight thousand copies. The | instim tlon committee of the t*ty ' has maintained a Bible history i la** under (he dire*I loti ot the assistant 'pastor, and tt has also pro tided two j courses ol university evienatan le* - ! tttre*. dime Tremont Tempi* u v*ty 1 peculiarly situated in the busm*** dis j iii»i, the society has mails every effort j to apply business enterprise t» its * method* and at lb* beginning **l itr* j year It issued tor gc*»- -ivl dtstriUu'Vua a beautiful ■ateudat, .oiverttoing lita [rfeurrh and smtety ann time at m**»f i >**«*■ As * re* ogUtltuM of |h« aouti woefc daws by the tMcalptn Arms t» I re* i ott , in relieving distress among the poor, the lilbcti I**:e fiMlflbuted |ft'»s» tv» p>*ichase the huildtng used by tba I army m hvmiguaftsys.