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TALMAGE’S SERMON. HE PREACHES TO THE NEWS PAPER PROFESSION. AhiI liultlcntally THU About the (iood r.i|nr* lii tlii* Country Tomiin hikI I Itbi*. Mini th«* Wirkfil l’ii|H r* of tlie (irratcr Cillc*. — Express, rail train and telegraphic ■communication are suggested If not foretold in this text, and front It I start to preach a sermon in gratitude to God and the newspaper press for the fact that I have had the opportuni ty of delivering through the newspaper press two thousand sermons or religi ous addresses, so that I have for many years been allowed the privilege of pleaching the gospel every week to ev ery neighborhood In Christendom, and In many lands outside of Christendom. Many have wondered at the process by which it has come to pass, and for Hie first time in public place I state tlie three causes. Many years ago, a young man wito ha3 slnee become emi nent In his profession, was then study ing law in a distant city. He came to me, and said that for lack of funds he must stop his studying, unless through stenography l would give him sketches of sermons, that he might by the sale of them secure means for (he comple tion of tils education. I positively de clined, because It teemed to me an • • ■ ■ I' i ■ 111J i jr , 1/11 L Ult< i .. had passed, and I hod reflected upon the great sadness for such a brilliant young man to be defeated In bis am bition for the legal profession, I under took to serve him; of course, free of charge, Wi;hln three weeks there came a request for those stenographic re; fts from many puts of the con tli it. Time passed on, and come g jlcinen of rny own profession, evl d :ly thinking that there was hardly • ni for them and for myself In this < ftinent began to assail me, and be c ne so violent in their assault that ttie chief new-papeis of America put special correspondents In my church Sabbath by Sabbath to take down such reply as I might make. 1 never made reply, except once for about three min utes, but those correspondents could not waste their time and so they tele graphed the sermons to their particu lar papern. After awhile. Dr. Louis Klopsch of New York systomlzed the work Into u syndicate until through that and other ryndicates he lias put the discourses week by week before more than twenty million people on both sidcB of tile sea. There have been so many gucBges on this subject, many of them inaccurate, that I now tel! th" true story. I have not improved the opportunity as I ought, but I feel the time has come when as a matter of common justice to the newspaper press that I should make this statemert in a sermon commemorative of the two thousandth full publication of sermons, and religious addresses, saying no thing of fragmentary reports, which would run up into many thousands more. There was one Incident that I might mention In this connection, showing how one Insignificant event might In fluence ns for a lifetime. Many years ago on a Sabbath morning on my way to church in Brooklyn, a representa tive of a prominent newspaper met me and said: "Are you going to give us any points today?" 1 said, "What do yon mean by ‘points?'" He replied. "Anything we can remember." I said to myself, "We ought to be making ‘points’ all the time In our pulpits anil iiui ueai in iiiiuuuucs nun inanities. That one interrogation put to me that morning started in me the desire of making points all the time and nothing but points. And now, how can I more appropri ately commemorate the two thousandth publication than by speaking of the newspaper press as an ally of the pul pit, and mentioning some of the trials of newspaper men. The newspaper is the great educator of the nineteenth century. There is no force compared with it. It is book, pulpit, platform, forum, all in one. And there is not an interest—religious, lit erary, commercial, scientific, agricul tural or mechanical- that Is not with n its grasp. All our churches and schools and colleges ami asylums and art gal leries feel the (junking of the printing press. The institution of newspapers arose In i’aly. In Venice the first newspaper was published and monthly, during the time Veui e was warring cgalnst Holt matt the .Second in Dalmatia, it was printed for the purpose of giving military and . omnierciui information to the Venltians The first newspu per published a Kngland was in list, and called the Kngllsh Mercury. Who can estimate the political, scientific, commercial and religious revolutions routed up In Kngland for many years pa>t by the pr-»*»? The Bret sl'-mpt et this lustltuDun In frame wa« In Mill, by a physician, who published |v News, for the mniiu n at and health of his patients The Preach nation understood fully how to appreciate Mils pown Ho early as IB l'M there was la fur I* in Journal* Hut ia the l*nitvd Italy* the ueaspa V*|’ has roar • to ualiNtlled sway Though ia IT* tb-*re were but thirty a . it ia the . iwmi > the autu Mr ,>f publish*' ! Jourh iia fa trow errua' el by tBeu.au.i' in I ’ lay we aity a* well arhaowt I**- || as aot the re ligtou* a ad **., <t)ar tew'paper* am the S 'at sdaesioia of the ruuatry Hit *!*•' thr nagh what struggle the ytsiraytr hr* ««a»« to its pewseat M vslvpeaeai. Just as soma a* ti beam to .KWniutrst. Its purser, •wpersSIttry and tyrwaay shavhtel It There ir ass' ik i| that deer uttsku et akWeh team aad ha's* ae the jnaukf p ««a \ g.eat writer in the south of Europe declared that the King of Naples had made It unsafe for him to write on any subject save natural history. Austria could not hear Kossuth’s Journalistic pen leudlng for the redemption of Hungary. Napoleon f., wanting to keep his Iron , heel on the neek of nations, said that | the newspaper was the regent of kings, i and tlie only safe place to keep an editor was in prison. But the great i battle for the freedom of the press was fought In Hie court rooms of England and the t'nited .Stales before this cen tury began, when Hamilton made his great speech in behalf of the freedom of J. Pefpr Zenger's (iazettc In Ameri ca, and when Krsklne made his great speech In behalf of the freedom to pub lish Paine's "Rights of Man" In Eng land. Those were the Marathon and the Thermopylae where the battle was fought which decided the freedom of the press lu England and America, and all the powers of earth and hell will never again he able to put upon the printing press the handcuffs arid the hopples of literary and political des potism. It is remarkable (hat Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, also wrote these words: "If I had to choose between a government without newspapeia, and newspapers without u govern ent, I would prefer the latter." Stung by some new fabrication In print, we come to write or speak about an "unbridled printing press," Our new book ground up In unjust criticism, we come to write or speak about the "unfair printing press." Perhaps through our own In illsl InH n/’KK fif ntlnparipR wi» JlfP r6D0rt e<1 as saying Just the opposite of what we did say, and there Is a small riot of semicolons and hyphens and com mas, and we come to write or talk about the “blundering priming press," or we take up a newspaper full of so cial scandal and of cases of divorce, and we write or talk about a "filthy, scurrilous printing press.” But. this morning I ask you to consider the im measurable and everlasting blessing of a good newspaper, 1 find no difficulty In accounting for the world's advance. What lias made the change? "Books,” you say. No. sir! Tlie vast majority of citizens do not read books. Take this audience, or any other promiscuous assemblage, and how many histories have they read? How many treatises on con stitutional law,or political economy,or works of science? How many elab orate poems or books of travel? Not. many. In the United Slates the people would not average one such book a year for each Individual! Whence, then, tills Intelligence, this rapacity to talk about all themes, secular and re ligious; this acquaintance with science and art; this power to appreciate the beautiful and grand? Next to the Bi ble, the newspaper, swift-winged and everywhere present, (lying over the fence, shoved under the door, tossed Into the counting house, laid on the work bench, hawked through the cars! All read it; whito and black, German, Irishman. Swiss, Spaniards, American, old and young, good and bad, sick and well, before breakfast and after tea, Monday morning, Saturday night, Sunday and week day. I now declare that I consider the newspaper to be the grand agency by which the gospel Is to he preached, ignorance cast out, op pression dethroned, crime extirpated, the world raised, heaven rejoiced, and God glorified. In the clanking of the printing press, as the sheets fly out, I hear the voire of the Lord Almighty proclaiming to all the dead natlona of the earth. "Lazarus, come forth!” and to the retreating surges of darkness, "Let ihere be light!” In many of our city newspapers, professing no more than secular information, there have appeared during the past thirty years some of the grandest appeals In behalf of religion, and some of the most ef fective interpretations of God's govern ment among the nations. * * * One of the great trials of the news paper profession is the fact that they are compelled to see more of the shams of the world titan any other profession. Through every newspaper office, day by Jay. go tlie weakness of tlie world, the vanities that want to be puffed, the revenges that want to be wreaked, all the mistakes that want to be tor reeted, all the dull speakers who want to be thought eloquent, all the meati ness that wants to get tts wares noticed gratis in the editorial columus In order to save the tux of the advertising col umn. all the men who want to bo set right who never were right, ull the ernek-hratned philosophers, with story as long as their hair and as gloomy as their finger-nails, all the Itinerant lioii's who come to stay five minutes and stop an hour From the editorial and rcportorlal rooms all the follies and sliums of the world are men day by day. and the temptation la to be lieve neither In tlod. man. nor woman. It la no surprise to me that In your pro leaalon 'here are some skeptical men i I only wonder that you believe any ! iking I Tiles* au editor or a reporter ’ has lu hts present or In his early h<nuc a model of earnest character, nr he ' throw himself upon the upholding ! grace of tied he may make temporal and eternal ships reck. Another great trial of ihe neaspaper . profession Is lbs disease-! sppottis fur | unhealthy Intelligence You b ante tbs newspaper pi**.* for giving such prom inch s to murders ami scandals |hi you suppose lbs! *•« many papers would give imwilssrs to these things tf Ihe people did serf demand them4 If I g ■ ; into the meat marked of a foreign city ( s i | An l that the butcher* bang up on { the most resipkas'ir hooka meat thy la umted. wh i* tb* meat that la freak and savory I* pot soar wtihoot aa> sp*c:-sl care, I - om is tbs ronetoaton that (be people of that city love laims t meat V«m* know very well that tf the I giant mas* of people in this an .guy ge* | hold of a newspaper, and (here are In It no runaway matches, no broken-up families, no defamation of men in high position, they pronounce the paper Insipid. They say, "It Is shockingly dull tonight." I believe it Is one of the trials of the newspapei press, that the people of this country demand moral slush instead of healthy and Intellectu al food. Now, you are a respectable man, an Intelligent man, and a paper comes Into your hand. You open It, and there are three columns of splen didly written editorial, recommending some moral sentiment, or evolving some scientific theory. In the next col umn there Is a miserable, contemptible divorce case. Which do you read first? You dip Into the editorial long enough to say, "Well, that's very ably wrlt n»n," and you read the divorce ease from the “long primer” type at the top to the "nonpareil" lype nt the bottom, and then you ask your wife If she has read It' Oh, It Is only a case of supply and demand! Newspaper men are not fools. They know what you want, and Ihey give it to yon. I be lieve that. If the church and the world bought nothing Imt pure, honest, healthful newspapers, nothing but pure, honest and healthful newspapers would lie published. If you should gather all tlip editors him! the reporters of this country In one great conven tion, und ask of them what kind of a paper Ihey would prefer to publish, I believe they would unanimously say, "We would prefer to publish all elevat ing paper.” So long as there Is an In iquitous demand, there will he an In iquitous supply. 1 make no apology for a debauched newspaper, hut I anr Haying these ‘hlngs In order to divide the responsibility between those who print and those who read. Another trial of ihls profession Is the fact, no one seems to care for their souls. They feel bitterly about It, though they laugh. People sometimes laugh the loudest when they feel the worst. They are expected to gather up religious proceedings, and to discuss religious doctrines In the editorial col umns, but who expects them to he saved by the sermons they stenograph, or hy the doctrines they discuss In the editorial columns? The world looks up on them as professional. Who preach es to reporters and editors? Some of them came from religious homes, nnd when they left the parental roof, who ever regarded or disregarded, they came off with a father's benediction and a mother’s prayer. They never think of those good old times but tears come into their eyes, and they move through these great cities homesick. Oh, If they only knew w'.iat a helpful thing II Is for a man to put his weary head down on the bosom of a sympa thetic Christ! Up knows how nervous and tired you are. lie has a heart large enough to take In all your in terests for this world and the next. Oh, men of the newspaper press, you sometimes get sick of this world, It seems so hollow and unsatisfying. If thpre are any people In all the earth that need God, you are the men, and you shall have him, If only this day you Implore hlH mercy. A man was found at (lie foot of Ca nal street, New York. As they picked him up from the water and brought him to the morgue, they saw by the contour of his forehead that he had great mental capacity. He had entered the newspaper profession. He had gone down In health. He took to artitlcial stimulus. He went down further and further, until one summer day, hot and hungry, and sick, and In despair, he flung himself off the dock. They found In his pocket a reporter's pad, a lead pencil, a photograph of some one who had loved him long ago. Heath, as sometimes It will, smoothed out all the wrinkles that had gathered premature ly on his brow, and as he lay there his face was as fair as when, seven years before, he left his country home, and they hade him good-bye forever. The world looked through the window of the morgue, nnd said, "It’s nothing but an outcast;’’ hut God said it wns n gl gantic soul that perished, because the world gave him no chance. Let me ask all men connected with Ihe printing press that they help ns more and more in the effort to make the world belter. 1 charge you in (lie name of Ood, before whom you must account f»r the tremendous Influence you hold in this country, to consecrate yourselves to higher endeavors. You are the men to fight bull this Invasion of corrupt literature. Lift up your right hand and swear new allegiance to the cause of philanthropy ami religion And when, at last, standing on the plains of judgment, yon look out upon the unnumbered throngs over whom you have had Influence, may it be found that you were amougst the mightiest energies that lifted men upon the ex alted pathway that leads to the renown of heaven- Better than to have sat in the editorial chair, from which with the finger of type, you decided the des tinies of emplrea. tint decided then wrong that you had been some dun geoned elite, who. by the light of win dow (uni g. vied i .i o taps of a V » Testament leaf, puked up from the earth spelled out the story of Him who taketh away tk# sins of the wt rid In steratty. INrea ta Ik* Heggar* Well, my frlea-la, w* will all amm get through writing an t priattag and proof-reading and publishing Wait then* Our i f* ta a b ik Otir years are th* chapterw Our month* are th paragraphs tlor day* are the sefgleoees Our dt*u!**1 are the inletrogathxn pointe Out mi * allots of other* the guti.o tort mark* ft, f altsmpt* at display a <t*#h fteakk Ike pettod Kieiwi t th* perurs ',i O t|i«t wh«■ will we spend it* A thinking maw ta the woeal easmy the I'na-e of Ibfksrsi < ra hate t ar iyte ft«t| aad fast* always *«i*w Id rv. wad Haw are swrgtm FOR BOYS AM) GIRLS. — SOME coon STORIES FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS. l iberty >t Fable The Eternal Struggle Wti bln I let ween Wrong and flight An I'ii fortunate Interrupt ion — A C liild'n Adventure. Hoi k Tie to Mice,*. Rank ward, turn backward, O Time, In your Might, Miik** trie* a child again jusl for to-night! Mother, come hack from the echolea* whore. Take in* again to your heart a* of yore. KIwm from my forehead the furrow* of care. Smooth the few allver thread* out of iry 1 hair; Over my (dumber* your loving watch keep Ito' k me to jiieep, mother rock me to *1* ♦ p! Backward. Mow backward, O tide of the year*! I fin *o weary of toll and of tear* - Toll without rccomperiMe, tear* all in vain - Take them, uml give me my childhood again! I have grown weary of duwt and decay Weary of Mlnglug my *ottl-wealth away; Weary of nowing for other* to reap Rock me to *leep, mother-rock me to sleep! Tiled of the hollow, the bane, the un true, Mother, O mother, my heart call* for you! Muny n aunimer the gra** ha* grown green. Rlomtoincd and failed, our face* between: Vet, with Htrong yearning and pa a* ion a to pain, l*ong 1 to-night for your presence again. 1‘ome from the alienee *o long and ho deep Ik'' k me to *|«ep, mother —rock me to fleen! over my heart. In llie day* that are flown. No love like mother-love ever ha* whone; No other wor*hlp abide* and endure* Faithful. unsplllxb, and patient like your*: None like ii mother run churm away pain From the *lek *oul and the world-weary brain, Slumber'* ."oft i nlru* o'er my heavy lid* creep; Rock me to sleep, mother roek me lo sleep! Come, let your brown hair, Just lighted with gold. Fall oil your Mhnulder* again a* of old. l,et II drop over my forehead to-night. Shading my Taint eyes away from the light; For with It* Hiinny-cdgcd shadow* once more Haply will throng the sweet vision* of yore; Lovingly, softly. It* bright billow* sweep— Itoi k me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep! Mother, dear mother, the year* have been long Since I last listened your lullaby song: Sing, then, and unto niy soul It *hall seem Womanhood's year* have been only a dream. Clasped to your heart tn n loving em brace, With your light lashes Just HWeeptng my faee, Never hereafter to wake or to weep— Rock me to Bleep, mother—rock me to sleep, I liberty—A Fable, (By M. M.) Once upon a time there lived, In the land of Freedom, a great and good man, named Right Rule. He had In hi* service one, Weak Will, who was claimed as a slave hy his neighbor, Evil Passions. Tbe strife bad been long between them, but Right Rule being the stronger, Evil Passion had been forced to retreat, but not to give up. He retired to his castle in a rage, and called his slaves. He told them, with curses, that If they did n it get the man, Weak Will, for him tnelr heads should be cut off. One after another tried, but the castle of Right Rule was so strong that It resisted aLl their efforts. At last, License, twin brother of Liberty, the king of the country, whom he much resembled in feature, though not in character, offered his service to Evil Passions, for the work in which his servants had failed. "If thou wilt indeed overcome Right Rule, and put Weak Will into my pow er, I will help thee in whatsoever , i. ...i .i. " ..,.{,1 11 n.t Now. this pleased License greatly, for he huit long been secretly plotting to gain the throne of his brother, and Kvll Passions, with ills multitudes of slaves, would be a great aid to him in tarrying out his desires. Accordingly, he arrayed himself in royal garments, called his servants, and sol out in state for the castle of Right Rule, who, when he saw hint coming, thinking It was Liberty, or dered the gates to lie Uuug wide, and everything iu readiness to welcome his lord and master License greeted him with all the dig nity and roudeaceuslon due to his as sumed rank, theu inquired why he had so far violated his commands aa to ! keep slates in his service. “Nay, iny lord," said Right Rule, "I meant no offense My servants stay 1 with u “ ftom year to year, I know, for they do nut wish to change mas tere. And > keep a strong watch on the wails, fot there lie atony unprinci pled men who would carry them away by force and nahe slavaa of them llut I pay the-u their wages regularly •ad they ran go at aay lime that they ; ' really wish " ; 1 “Nay hut you should let your *»r j ' vaais gu freely lu sad from the castle and visit with the aeighhura wlthla l*s walla Tou are really mshiag I staves at them Throw open the gates sad •'•it down thy watchmen • Stag Ike law of i the toad * I will do area as thou dost <as ! gap! my L td **>4 M'dhi Nut* S avoid'aa > *>» threw op- g ige guaa j | aad tailed the watvhmea Hum the i tewers, and that algka at an ail wg* | i lark It*H Pass,sge atoto lg tgrwwgn | i 1 tga gpea gains satoed Weak Wit* I | lews! h>w hand and Not sat cant tiim Into his lower dungeon, there fn oil night Mid day in darkness aad 'halr.s. IV fnrt n nut e III terrnpt Inn. \\ ilile was asleep aud Dan was lone y. Willie Is tile minister's son; Dan - his dog. It was Sunday- morning, ■nd every one was at church but these wo friends. It was warm and sunny, tnd they could hear the good minister (reaching, for their house was next loor to the church. "Dan," said Willie, "It Is hotter here ban in church, for you can hear every word, and don't get prickles down four back, as you do when you have o sit up straight." In some way while Willie was lls eulng lie fell asleep. Dan kissed him in the nose, but when Willie went to deep, he went to sleep to stay, and lid not mind trifles. So Dan sat down with the funniest look of care on his wise, black face, and with one ear eady for outside noises. Now the minister had for his sub leet, “Daniel." This was the name he ilways gave Dan when he was teach ng him to sit up and beg, and other ricks. While the dog was thinking, lie name Daniel fell on his ready car. >an at once ran Into the church hrough the vestry door. He stood on ils hind legs, with his forepaws lroopiug, close beside the minister, who did not see him, but the congrega lon did. When the minister shouted 'Daniel" again, the sharp barks said, 'Ves, sir,” as plainly as Dan could »»• iwer. Tb» minister started hack, ooked around and saw the funny tit le picture; then be wondered what he ihould do next, but Just then through he vestry came Willie. Ills face was rosy from sleep, and he looked a Hi de frightened. He walked straiglw owaru mu miner, toon wan in ms lrnm and said. "Pleaae ’aeuae Dan, papa; I went to aleep and he runned iway." Then he walked out with Dan look ng back on the smiling congregation, rhc preacher ended his sermon on Daniel as best he could, but he made i resolve that if he ever preached on 'Daniel" again that he would not for get to tie up Ills dog. Our Little Ones. A Child's Lively Adventure. The Chicago Record reports a pret y lively adventure which befell a flve vear-old Iowa boy last summer. He tad gone out to the wheat field where Ills father was driving the harvester, ind begged to he taken up on the high •eat by his father's side. The har vester was one of those wonderful la jor-saviug machines of which farmers lse so mary in these days. It cut the wheat, swept It Into sheaves, hound them, and tossed them aside. For a tine all this was very interesting to Ihe little fellow. Then he grew tired it sitting still, and began to squirm, ind before the father knew what was going on. the hoy had tumbled off. He screamed as he found himself go ng; hut before the horses could he itopped the machinery had caught him, •oiled him up In a bundle of wheat, round him about the legs and the neck with twine, and there he lay on the ground. He was not hurt. A little skin had iicen scraped from one of his slioul lers, and he was, or thought he was, ilmost choked. That was all; hut he was very much frightened. A Magic Mqnare. Here Is a block of four numbers each way, which has the remarkable pe culiarity of adding up to thirty-four in ifxteen different ways: Add up from right to left, four times >r ways; add up from bottom to top, ’our times or ways; add up diagonally, wo times or ways; add up the four corners one time or way; add up the four nearest each corner, four times yr ways; add up the four nearest the ■enter, one time or way; thus you ge: he number* from 1 to Hi lo add tbit - y-four In sixteen different ways. The Ntoii Wanders at I urea. I. 1 he wonderful curative springs of Ho .Shan I sou 2 and 3. The two wells at the ei rsuie of the peninsula, one bluer, the ii her sweet. 4. A cold cave front which blows a viud so struug that a man cannot itand agslnat It. b An indestructible pine forest. I. A stone on a Hilltop which glows rub b»al. T An Idol of Hnddha which sweats iad which slants In a temple where liase wilt nut grow Urate nn«kl ml Man e«4 te irate a. dir William Turner ebwws that tuning >lt titled races men have the ad tentage over women In capacity of tb* raniam and In weight of the brain toll While the average) brain weight if tbe male ta from t» mantes at M unte ee In tba female tt la Mlf from 44 to 4b nances Tba difference Iff iisa and weight begins el Mirth, Mm* • the inenwaltty *»*nllned to Ksntyeii s< as It t* observable among savages, btwtgh in n leaner degree Man in n»« ml* the targ*r and aflonger animat tat hr Mind with • targ* and morn ream to* taggty af bralan THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON IX., FEB. 27 MATT. Hr 20-30 TIMELY WARNING. Jirtlrfen Text: "tome I'nlo Me All Yt Toil Labor uml Are Heavy Laden* ana V Will Live \ ** Kent*'- Malt HtwN. Tbe e» , ;loii Include* Pimp. II: 2-30—tho delegation from the Imprisoned John the Haptlst and the discourse* that grew out of it. Place In the Life of Christ Just beyond the middle of his second year. After the sermon on the Mount. New motives for entering the kingdom of heaven. Time.—Latter part of the summer of A. t> 2*. Place.—tJalllee, probably In tho vicinity of the title* on the shore of thfe lake. John the Haptlst In prison at Mat-herns Mine*- March, A. I>. 2*. Hulers. Tiberius, Caesar, emperor of Horne. Pontius Pilate, governor of Ju dea (3d year). We go back a little in time from our last lesson, but with the purpose ap parently of tracing to Its beginning a new thread In the method of Jestin' preaching, which, like a brook among the mountains, broadens In its flow as Hu? history moves on. After a proclamation of the kingdom, and th*- call to repentance, there I* now heard a note of warning and of Judg ment. "Prom this time onward these warn lugs grow more and more terrible to the (done of his ministry. Bee Luke IJS SIMM; 13; 1-5; l«; 15, and their strongest and most terrible expression in Matt., chap. 23." Abbott. Hut.pt «»•;-. mercy **<••••**• *-iuse beside Judgment. a). "Then begun he." He hud not done this before. He lagan to urge a new motive. "To upbraid " Not abuse or scold, hut rebuke, blame, including both "pitying grk-f and Indignation." "Where in .. . his mighty works." One of the .u .. ... t*> ili* New Testament. Jt I* commonly translated "mlraeles." 21. "Wor unto thee. Not a wishing of woe to them, hut a statement of the fact that woe must come to them, doing us they did. *'<'horazln." The site of this city Is uncertain, hut It was probably at K«*r aseh. tv.o miles from Tell Hum, tin- prob able site of Capernaum, a 11 • 11»* way from the geu of Ualllee "llethsalda" (House of Fish) was situated on both sides of the mouth of the Jordan where It enters the a of Hulllee. it was the birthplace of glmon Peter. Andrew, and Philip. 22. It shall he more tolerable for Tyro and Hldon at the day of Judgment, than for you..i'he Tyrians and Hldonlans. while Inexcusable and guilty, are not so Inexcusable and guilty as ye. Their con demnation, therefore, on the great day >f judgment will not he so severe as yours." Morlson, 2J. "And thou, Capernaum, which are.** etc. The better reading Is that of the K. V . Hhalt tlion he exalted unto heav en? Do you expect, on account of your exalted privileges, whatever you do with them, that you will he high in the king dom of heaven, honored and prospered, a capital city? Do you, the inhabitants, expect that you shall have the highest enjoyment and all the blessings of heav en. without regard to your character, l>e cause I have done so many wonderful works among you? "Hhalt lie brought down to hell." To hades, the abode of the dead, that Is, shalt he utterly de stroyed. ?r». "Jesus answered" the unspoken nuta tions that would arise, "i thank thee " Rather. "1 assent to thee," "I cordially concur and approve." "O Father." And therefore loving and good, full of tender mercies. “Lord of heaven and earth." And therefore able to do all that love and goodness deem wise, and with a right to ad according to his sovereign will. 27 "All things are delivered unto me of" (by) my Father." Christ had control of ali things, and could and would do what was best. It was not for want of good ness or power that things wen* not done differently. Jesus held the helm of the ship of Zion, and would guide It safely to the desired haven, In spite of tem pests, or darkness, or roc ks. 28 "Come unto me." To where- he was. to his person, his heart, to his charac ter, his method of living, his kingdom. It Is only there that the blessing cau he found. It Is a personal Invitation. "All ye that labor." Hlrtiggling under too heavy burdens, moving with difficulty and pain, as a ship Is said to labor, when badly ballasted, in a stormy sea. "And are heavy laden." Heavy laden here means overstrained with too much load to he carried. No one can mistake the almost violent force of such a figure, who has even noticed how the cruelty of people in Pastern countries leads them to pile on burdens, to such an extent that their ill-favored animals can often be seen pitiably staggering under a weight quite unendurable.—Robinson. The bur dens are our slits, our had habits, cares, sorrows, remorse for the past, fears for tin* fill tiro, anxieties, losses, sickness, dis appointments. Inability to find work, debts, business cares, and all the other things that make life a burden. It is often the burden of self-consciousness. "Ami 1.” The emphasis is on the "I." So otlur cau give the needed rest. "Will . give you rest.” Not by taking away all burdens, but giving the right burden. For "my burden Is light." Christ's burden is om> of duty, of self-denial, of labor for him i.f ihe carts thut are needful for our Iicpt character ami development. It Is a burden of faith when we cannot sec. It Is the burden of love and gratitude. Ami It is Infinitely light compared with th« other burden. There Is no real rest wlth uit some burden. FLOATING PARAGRAPHS. The waters of the (iraud Tails of Labrador have excavated a chasm thirty miles long Strasburg Tniverslty students havo combined In a resolution to drink no beer except In the afternoon and even ing. The Japanese cite 269 color varieties of the chrysanthemum, of which 63 sre yellow. 97 white. 33 purple. .10 red. 31 pal* pink. 13 russet, snd II ol mixed rotors. In sum* parts ol New Zealand orange-growing la a very prolttabl* Industry. Sometimes the crop from s« acre of trees amounts In value to more j than ll.otw. A proposal has been made by 31. Gabriel Viand a Treat h thrmUl. to obtain vastly assimilable Iron tunica I from vegetables by feeding the pliats I pidiclously with Iron fertilisers IT c Ms or INTINI9T. 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