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In four-fifths of the hotels and res
oeive no pay, and are expected to live
taurants of Germany the waiters rc
on their tips.
The railroads of Holland are so care
fully managed that the accidental
deaths on them average only one a
year for the entire country.
The Raskin commonwealth of social
ists at Waycross, Ga., has failed, ac
cording to a dispatch to the New York
Sun. Only three families remain, the
others having departed for the North
and West. Their printing outfit is ad
vertised for sale and the land will go
the same way. This will wipe out the
last vestige of the colony, which went
from Tennessee two years ago.
The compliments of the Companion
to fifteen millions of boys and girls
who again take their seats in tho
schoolrooms and pick up their books!
A most respectful bow to the four hun
dred thousand teachers whose summer
vacation should send them back to
their sacred task with freshened energy
nnd joyous enthusiasm! And throe
times three for the public schools of
America!
A lively scrap between a clergyman
and a layman was witnessed at a bap
tizing ceremony in Stancbfield I^ake.
Minn. George Tomlinson had agreed
to be baptized there by the Rev. Mr.
Orrock, but his nerve deserted him at
the last moment. The clergyman at
tempted to use force, and there was a
struggle, the convert angrily resisting.
After a prolonged contest, the minister
succeeded in ducking the unwilling
convert in three feet of muddy water.
The death is announced at Genoa, at j
the age of 98. of Pierre Maurier, a
Frenchman, who lived on the Island of
Elba when Napoleon took up his com
pulsory residence there in April, 1814.
Pierre remembered hearing the news
towards the end of Februaiy, 1815, that
the Emperor, with over 1,000 followers,
had sailed away in feluccas bound for
Provence. The lad used to carry eggs
and fruit to the kitchen of the Em
peror and one day that famous poten
tate caught him stoning a dog and
sharply reproved him. Maurier was
presented to Victor Emmanuel in 18(53
and the King was much interested
when he heard from Pierre’s own lips
his memories of the great Napoleon.
Figures may not lie. hut they are
often disappointing. Ceusus figures,
especially, are apt to fall below what
is expected of them. The recent cen
sus of Canada shows a population of
5,338,833, which is an increase of 505.
594 over the total of 1891. The gain of
about ten per cent lu ten years seems
to many Canadians a meager result of
a decade of prosperity, and of energetic
efforts to promote immigration. But it
is the rule nowadays mat city popu
lations grow faster than rural, and
Canada has few cities. Only eighteen
places in the Dominion have more
than ten thousand inhabitants. But. I
there remains the consolation that not 1
all the elements of national greatness
are measured by a count of heads.
Several articles of jewelry embedded
in the flesh were discovered in the
making of on autopsy on the body of
Paul Shirvell, a Russian, who was
killed in a mine in Pennsylvania. In
the leg was a miniature dumbbell,
about the size of a cuff button. In
each instance the jewelry had been
fastened in the man's flesh, which had
grown over the article, completely Hid
ing it from view. On the body of
Frank Lorenz, who committed suicide
at White Haven recently, was found
similar ornaments embedded in the
flesh. It is believed latrenz and Shir
vell were politic al exiles from Siberia,
and that the fastening of jewelry ir.
their bodies was a part of the punish
ment inflicted by prison authorities.
Commodore Perry is a name high in
honor in the United States navy, hav
ing been the title of two famous broth
ers—Oliver Habard and Matthew Gal
braith Perry. On September 10th,
eighty-eight years ago, the elder broth
er. a young lieutenant who had never
seen a naval fight, fought that fierce
Hattie of l,ake Erie, which saved the
Northwest to the United States and
gave the world the dispatch: “We have
met the enemy and they are ours."
Forty-eight years ago last July the
younger brother landed in Japan with
a message from the president which
practically opened that country to the
world. The Matthew Perry monument
recently unveiled at Kurihama, Japan,
is a shaft thirty-three feet high made
of a rare native stove and bearing an
inscription in gold written by Marquis
lto. A dense crowd of natives wit
nessed the ceremonies, both Japanese
and American battleships fired salutes
from the harbor, and one of the speak
ers was Rear Admiral Beardslee, who
as a midshipman under Perry, was
present at the original entry.
Henry J. Furber, Jr., professor of
political economy at the Northwestern
University, Evanston. 111., has been
decorated with the Cross of the legion
of Honor, in recognition of his interest
in the educational affairs of France.
About five years ago Prof. Furber sug
gested to the French Minister of Public
Instruction certain changes in the
rules governing foreign students at
tending the French universities. The
suggestions were yidopted, and the
change was folioweX by a marked in
crease in tii.* numhV of American
TAI,MAGES SERMON.
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DEFEATS OF OBLIVION LAST SUN
DAY S SUBJECT.
"He Shall He No More Remembered"—
Job. xxlv. SO—"The Righteous Shall
11« ht Everlasting Remembrance”—
realms exlL 0.
[Copyright. 1901, by l.ouis Klopsch. N. Y.l
Washington. Sept. 29— In this dis
course Dr. Talmage shows how any
one can be widely and forever recol
lected and cheers despondent Christian
workers; texts. Job xxiv, 20, "He shall
be no more remembered." and Psalms
cxll, 6, "The righteous shall be in ever
lasting remembrance."
Of oblivion and its defeats 1 speak
today. There is an old monster that
.swallows down everything. It
crunches individuals, families, com
munities, states, nations, continents,
hemispheres, worlds. Its diet is made
up of years, of centuries, of ages, of
cycles, of millenniums, of eons. That
monster is called by Noah Webster
and all other dictionaries "Oblivion. ’
It is a steep down which everything
rolls. It is a conflagration in which
everything is consumed. It is a dirge
which ail orchestras play and a period
at which everything stops. It is the
cemetery of the human race. It is the
domain of forgetfulness. Oblivion!
At times it throws a shadow over all
of us, and I would not pronounce it
today if I did not come armed in the
strength of the eternal (lod on your
behalf to attack it, to route it, to de
molish it.
wny, jusx looK at me way mo iauu
Iies of the earth disappear. For awhile
they are together. Inseparable, and to
each other indispensable, and then j
they part, some by marriage going to j
establish other homes, and some leave i
this life, and a century is long enough
to plant a family, develop it, prosper
it and obliterate it. So the generations
vanish. Walk up Pennsylvania ave
nue, Washington; Broadway, New
York; State street. Boston; Chestnut
street, Philadelphia; the Strand, Lon
don; Princess street, Edinburgh;
Champs Elysees, Paris; Enter den
Linden, Berlin, and you will meet in
this year, 1901 not. one person who
walked there in the year 1801. What
engulfment! All the ordinary
efforts at perpetuation art dead
failures. Walter Scott's Old
Mortality may go round with
his chisel to recut the faded epi
taphs on tombstones, but Old Oblivion
has a quicker chisel with which he can
cut out a thousand epitaphs while Old
Mortality is cutting one epitaph.
Whole libraries of biographies devour
ed of bookworms or unread of the ris
ing generations. All the signs of the
stores and warehouses of great firms
have changed, unless the grandsons |
think that it is an advantage to keep j
the old sign up because the name of j
the ancestor was more commendatory
than the name of the descendant. The
city of Rome stands today, but dig
down deep enough, and you come to
another Rome, buried, and go down
still farther, and you will find a third
Rome. Jerusalem stands today, but j
dig down deep enough and you will '
find a Jerusalem underneath and go
on and deeper down a third Jerusa- I
lem. Alexandria. Egypt, on top of an
Alexandria, aud the second on top of
the third. Many of the ancient cities
are buried thirty feet deep or fifty feet
deep or 100 feet deep. What was the
matter? Any special calamity? No
The wind and waves and sands and
tijing dust are all undertakers and
gravediggers, and if the world stands
long enough the present Washington j
and New York and London will have
on top of them other Washingtons j
and New Yorks and Londons, and only I
after digging and boring and blasting .
will the archaeologists of far distant |
centuries come down as far as the
highest spires and domes and turrets ;
of our present American and European
cities.
The Roll of Armies.
Call the roll of the armies of Raltl
win I. or of Charles Martel or of Marl
borough or of Mithridates or of Prince
Frederick or of Cortes, ami not one
answer will you hear. Stand them in
lino and call the roll of the 1,000,000
men in the army of Thebes. Not one
answer. Stand them in line, the
1,700,000 infantry and the 200,000 cav
alry of the Assyrian array under Ni
nus, and call the roll. Not one an
swer. Stand in line the 1,000,000 men
of Sesostris, the 1,200,000 men of
Artaxerxes at Cunaxa, the 2.641,000
men under Xerxes at Thermopylae and
call the long roll. Not one answer.
At the opening of our civil war the
men of the northern and southern
armies were told that If they fell In
battle their names would never be
forgotten by their country. Out of
the million men who fell in battle or
died In military hospitals you cannot
call the names of a thousand, nor the
names of 500 nor the names of 100
nor the names of fifty. Oblivion! Are
the feet of the dancers who at the
ball of the Duchess of Richmond at
Brussels the night before Waterloo all
still? All still. Are the ears that
heard the guns of Bunker Hill all
deaf? All deaf. Are the eyes that saw
the coronation of George II. all closed?
All closed. Oblivion! A hundred
years from now there will not. be a
being on this earth that knew we ever
lived.
In some old family record a descend
ant studying up the ancestral line may
•pell out our name and from the fad
r<J Ink with great effort find that some
person by our name was born some
where in the nineteenth century, but
they will know no more about us than
we know about the color of a child’s
eyes born last night in a village in
Patagonia. Tell mo something about
your great-grandfather. What were
his features? What did he do? What
year was he born? What year did be
die? And your great-grandmother?
Will you describe the style of the hat
she wore, and how did she and your
great-grandfather get on in each
other's companionship? Was it March
weather or June? Oblivion! That
mountain surge rolls over everything,
i Even the pyramids are dying. Not. a
day passes but there is chiseled off a
chip of that granite. The sea is tri
umphing over the land, and what is
going on at our Atlantic coast is going
on all around the world, and the con
tinents are crumbling into the waves,
and while this is transpiring on the
outside of the world, the hot chisel
of the Internal fire is digging under
the foundations of the earth and cut
ting its way out toward the surface.
It surprises me to hear the people say
they do not think the world will
flnallly be burned up when all the sci
entists will tell you that it has for
ages been on Are.
Why, there is only a crust between
us and the furnaces inside raging to ,
get out. Oblivion! The world Itself |
will roll into it as easily ns a school- ;
boy's india rubber ball rolls down a
hill, and when our world goes it is to ;
interlocked by the law of gravitation
with other worlds that they will go \
too, and so far from having our mem- ,
ory perpetuated by a monument of
Aberdeen granite in this world there ■
is no world in sight of our strongest f
telescope that will be a sure pediment
for any slab of commemoration of the
fact that we ever lived or died at all. !
Our earth Is struck with death. The
axletree of the constellations will
ureas ana let aown tne populations oi
other worlds. Stellar, lunar, solar,
mortality. Oblivion! It can swallow
and will swallow whole galaxies of
worlds as easily as a crocodile takes •
down a frog.
Yet oblivion do»s not remove or
swallow everything that had better !
not be removed or swallowed. The
old monster is welcome to his meal.
This world would long ago have been
overcrowded if not for the merciful
removal of nations and generations.
What If all the books had lived that
were ever written and printed and
published? The libraries would by
their Immensity have obstructed intel
ligence and made all research impos
sible. The fatal epidemic of books
was a merciful epidemic. Many of the
state and national libraries today are
only morgues, in which dead books are
waiting for some one to come and rec
ognize them. What if all the people
that had been born were still alive?
We would have been elbowed by our
ancestors of ten centuries ago. and
people who ought to have said their
last word 3,000 years ago would snarl
at us. saying, "What are you doing
here?” There would have been no
room to turn around. Some of the
past generations of mankind were not
worth remembering. The first useful
thing that many people did was to die,
their cradle a misfortune and their
grave a boon. This world was hard
ly a comfortable place to live in be
fore the middle of the eighteenth cen
tury. So many things hi.ve come into
the world that were not fit to stay in
we ought to be glad they were put out.
The waters of Lethe, the fountain of
forgetfulness, are a healthful draft.
The history we have of the world in
ages past is always one sided and can
not be depended on. History is fiction
illustrated by a few struggling
facts. • • •
Why We Should He Kememhere«f.
Now, I have told you that this obli
vion of which I have spoken has its
defeats and that there is no more rea
son why we should not be distinctly
and vividly and gloriously remembered
five hundred million billion trillion
quadrillion quintillion years from now
than that wo should be remembered six
weeks. 1 am going to tell you how
the thiug can be done and will be
done.
We may build this “everlasting re
membrance," as my text styles it, Into
the supernal existence of those to
whom we do kindness in Ihis world.
You must remember that this infirm
and treacherous faculty which we now
call memory is In the future state to be
complete and perfect. "Everlasting re
membrance!” Nothing will slip the
stout grip of that celestial faculty. Did
you help a widow pay her rent? Did
you find for that man released from
prison a place to get honest work?
Did you pick up a child fallen on the
curbstone and by a stick of candy put
in his hand stop the hurt on his
scratched knee? Did you assure a busi
ness man swamped by the stringency
of the money market that times would
after awhile be better? Did you lead a
Magdalen of the street into a midnight
mission, where the Lord said to her.
“Neither do I condemn thee. Go and
sin no more?" Did you tell a man
clear discouraged in his waywardness
and hopeless and plotting suicide that
for him was near by a laver in which
he might wash and n coronet of eter
nal blessedness he might wear? What
, are epitaphs In graveyards, what are
eulogiums in presence of those whose
| breath is in their nostrils, what are un
read biographies In the alcoves of a
j city library, compared with the imper
ishable records you have made in th''
! illumined memories of those to whom
you did such kindnesses? Forget
them? They cannot forget them. Not
withstanding all their might and
1 splendor there are some thing? the
glorified of heaven cannot do, and this
Is one of them. They cannot forget an
I earthly kindness done. They have no
! cutlass to part that cable. They have
! no strength to hurl into oblivion that
1 benefaction. Has Paul forgotteu the
j inhabitants of Malta, who extended the
j island hospitality when he and « '.hers
with him had felt, added to a ship
I wreck, the drenching rain and the
sharp cold? Has the victim of the
i highwayman on the road to Jericho
forgotten the Rood Samaritan with a
medicament of oil and wine and a free
ride to the hostelry? Have the Eng
lish soldiers who went up to God from
the Crimean battlefields forgotten
Florence Nightingale? Through all
eternity will the northern and south
ern soldiers forget the northern and
southern women who administered to
the dying boys in blue and gray after
the awful lights in Tennessee and
Pennsylvania and Virginia and Geor
gia, which turned every house and barn
and shell into an hospital and incarna
dined the Susquehanna and the James
and the Chattahoochee and the Savan
nah with brave blood? The kindnesses
you do to others will stand as long in
the appreciation of others as the gates
of heaven will stand, as the "house of
many mansions" will stand, as long as
the throne of God will stand.
of Oblivion.
Another defeat of oblivion will be
found in the character of those whom
we rescue, uplift or save. Character Is
eternal. Suppose by a light influence
we aid in transforming a bad man into
a good man, a dolorous man into a
happy man, a disheartened man into a
courageous man, every stroke of that |
work done will be immortalized. There 1
may never be so much as one line in a
newspaper regarding it. or no mortal
tongue may ever whisper it into human
ear, but wherever that soul shall go
your work upon it shall go, wherever
that soul rises your work on it will
rise, and so long as that soul will last ]
your work on It will last. Do you sup- i
pose there will ever come such an idl- j
otic lapse iu the history of that soul
in heaven that it shall forgot that you
invited him to Christ; that you, by j
prajer or gospel word, turned him
ruuiiu irojii me wrong way 10 me rigni
way? No such insanity will ever smite
a heavenly citizen. It is not half as
well on earth known that Christopher
Wren planned and built St. Paul's as it
will be known in all heaven that you
were the instrumentality of building a
temple for the sky. We teach a Sab
bath class or put a Christian tract in
the hand of a passerby or testify for
Christ in a prayer meeting or preach a
sermon and go home discouraged, as
though nothing had been accomplished,
when we had been character building
with a material that no frost or earth
quake or rolling of the centuries can
damage or bring down.
There is no sublimer art on earth
than architecture. With pencil and
rule and compass the architect sits
down alone and in silence and evolves
from his own brain a cathedral or a
national capitol or a massive home be
fore he leaves that table, and then he
goes out and unrolls his plans and
calls carpenters and mason and arti
sans of all sorts to execute ills design,
and when it is finished he walks
around the vast structure and sees tho
completion of the work with high sat
isfaction, and on a stone at some cor
ner of the building the architect's name
may bo chiseled. But the storms do
their work, and time, that takes down
< verything, will yet take down that
structure until there shall not be one
stone left upon another. But there i3
a soul in heaven.
—
CiruTen Cod's Hand.
There is another and a more com
plete defeat for oblivion, and that is in
the heart of God himself. You have
seen a sailor roll up his sleeve and
show you his arm tattooed with the
figure of a favorite ship, perhaps the
first one in which ho ever sailed. You
have seen a soldier roll up his sleeve
and show you his arm tattooed with
the figure of a fortress where he was
garrisoned or the face of a dead gen- i
eral under whom he fought. You have
seen many a hand tattooed with the
face of a loved one before or after mar
rluge. This custom of tattooing is al
most as old as the world. It is somo
colored liquid punctured into the flesh
so indelibly that nothing can wash it
out. It may have been there fifty
years, but when the man goes into his
coffin that picture will go with him on
hand or arm. Now, God says that he
has tattooed us upon his hands. There
can be no other meaning in the forty
ninth chapter of Isaiah, where God
says, “Behold, I have graven thee on
the palms of my hands!" It was as
much as to say: "I cannot open my
hand to help, but I think of you. I
cannot spread across my hands to bless
but I think of you. Wherever I go up
and down the heavens I take these two
pictures of you with me. They are so
Inwrought into my being that I can
not lose them. As long as my hands
last the memory of you will last. Not
on the back of my hands, as though
to announce you to others, but on tho
palms of my hands, for myself to look
at and study and love. Though I hold
the winds in my fist, no cycloue shall
uproot the inscription of your name
and your face, and though I hold tho
ocean in tho hollow of my band, Its
billowing shall not wash out til*
record of my remembrance. ‘Behold, I
have graven thee on the palms of my
hands!’ ”
,
Spaniard* Proposed » Bullfight.
They tell a story to the effect that
when the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals proposed to estab
lish a branch in a leading city of Spain
the municipal body courteously accept
ed the proposal and offered to hold a
r.rand bull fight at once to furnish the
funds.—Troy Times.
Australian Apples.
1 Parts of Australia are becoming live
ly rivals to Canada and the United
States in the European apple trade.
Tasmania, especially, has been found
a first-class apple-raising country.
! There are 8,373 acres in apple orchards
| there and the product In 1890 was 3C3,
• 913 buBhcli.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON 2. OCTOBER 13 GENESIS
XXXIX: 15; 20-40
Golden Text: "But the Lord with
Joseph and Showed Him Merry”
Genesis XXXIX: SI —Joseph Held lu
Prison.
Introduction. In our last Uf-son we left
Joseph In the hands of the Midlanltes,
who had bought him as a slave, and were
continuing their caravan march to Egypt.
We may well imagine that he hoped that
some of his brothers would try to save
him, and that he made some attempts to
escape as described In Ur. Male's “Hands
Otl." It was a great change for him from
being a favorite son of a wealthy sheik
to the rough treatment and hard fate of
a slave; and It doubtless was a great
mystery to him why God should have per
mitted It. The wicked seemed to triumph
and the righteous to be defeated. It was
the old story of the persecutor on the
throne and the martyr at the stake.
LESSONS FROM JOSEPH'S LIFE.
First Lesson: The Influence of a New
Civilization.—Egypt was at thlr time the
most flourishing kingdom the world had
'•ver known. It was etiltun d la the arts—
in learning, in architecture, printing,
writing, weaving, etc. Ho that when Jo
seph c.imc from his father's black tent
among the beautiful hills and pasture
lands of Canaan and entered into tho cul
tivated city |if,. Qf Kgypt, “it was a be
wildering sight to the shepherd lad, tell
ing him of beauty, wealth and gaiety,
eurh as hi could not have believed pos
sible.” He saw finely dressed officers In
quilled shirts of bright colon*; chariot,
drawn by two horses (then itnknown in
Palestine): flue ladies “In robes of pale
rose, delicate blue, faint villow or rich
purple," with necklaces of pearls and
precious stones; loots- s painted over with
striking colors “of blue, yellow, green,
white, purple, black," in line gardens anil
grove.-. Ilert* was art. organization, lux
flt'v, literature, beauty, commerce, manu
laeturi-H, business, heathen worship.
Second Lesson: Obedience.—Joseph,
when In- ri ud:ed Kgypt, was sold to l’nti
Phar, "the captain of the guard." The
military caste in Kgypt ranked next to
the priesthood: and thi entire force con
sisted of 41(i.ciii men. who ware divided
Into two corps, a ihoii.saud serving each
for a year as the king's bodyguard (Her
od. 2:lC4-iesi.
Ife learned to obey. No one ean govern
well who has not learned to be governed.
A bud citizen cannot make a good gov
ernor, nor a had scholar a good teacher.
He learned how those governed or em
ployed should be treated.
He learned how they could Improve
their condition; how honesty, faithful
ness, unselfishness, love to Hod. a desire
to do good, could do more than all else
to elevate them, to mitigate their suffer
ings, and to deliver them from the evil.
Third Lesson: Falthfulm ss. Joseph was
so wise, so faithful, so manifestly blessed
of Ood, that lie was soon raised to a high
position in I’otiphar's household, and had
general control of all Ms alTalra.
Tlu- lesson is that faithfulness In little
‘hings Is the only way to great thlngs.
Falthful use of the t< n pounds fits one
to rule well tile ten cities. “To him that
hath shall be given." It Is well to re
member that the particular sphere we are
in Is of very small importance compared
with what we do in the sphere, l’iety Is
just ns beautiful in a hove! as in a pal
ace; faithfulness, truth, courage, honor,
are no more noble on a throne th in in a
factory or on a farm; love, gentleness,
self-denial, are as blessed In the kitchen
as hi the parlor, in the prison us In the
i ourt.
Fourth Lesson: Trust In Ood.—We are
told, concerning Joseph, that "the Lord
was with him." He had learned to love
and serve Ood in Ms youth, and now he
still served and loved him. Who is the
Lord with'.’ With those who obey him:
with tliosi who are righteous for his
sake: with those win open their hearts
to Mm. Joseph had reason to cling to
Ood in tip depth of his adversity, when
there was none else to help. He had had
abundant opportunity to meditate upon
him, and his law and commune with his
father In heaven, while he wa< a Strang- r
in a strung- land, speaking a strung!
tongue, evs the children of Israel In exile
learned In the land "f idols to forsake ull
idols, In the place where there was no
temple and no Sabbath to worship the
triii- God, ami to love Ills Sabbath, so Jo
seph, in this land of exile, learned to
keep close to Ms God. This fact was
shown in Joseph's character. In his wis
dom. In Ills success.
Fifth Lesson: Buslnes Principles ami
Methods.—Tin- work Joseph hail to do In
managing I’otlphar's • stale was an excel
lent training for Ids future high position,
"for the Kgyptlan courtiers were often
immensely rich, and not a few of them
take rare to tell us In their tomb In
serlptlons csuetly the number of their
cattle of every kind. One, lor example,
slates that lie hail oxen, 220 cows and
calves, 7*!" asses, 2.2i;.-> goat-like sheep, and
:-7t goats." To care for all these would
require great skill and executive ability.
Slxlli Lesson: Bclf-t'otitrnl. - For nearly
ten years Joseph was a slave, rising from
lilt- lowest position to the highest. Then
i ann- one of Ids severest temptntlons
from the wife of Ids master Potlphar. We
are- to remember that there was much
more than passion to tempt him. “An
intrigut with l'otiphnr's wifi might lead
In tin- very advancement in- sought.'' Jo
seph wa lonely, lie desired to please.
Seventh la ss in: Patience and Faith.
Vs. 20-23. 2k. “And Joseph's master * • *
j.iii Mini in* |u r-"ii jim i in mi •< mu it
result of his faithfulness was a loss of
reputation, suffering under falsi- accusa
tions, a slur upon his religion and worse
sufferings than he had hitherto endured.
So centuries later Moses' effort to secure
the release of the Israelites from Pharaoh
brought severer bondage. Joseph's Im
prisonment siims to have been at first
very severe iPsh. tor*:17. IS), He was
bound In fetters.
Klghth Lesson: Knowledge of the Court
and Government. Vs. 1-t. 1. The butler.
The chief of the liutb-rs tv. 2). The cup
bearer, was a councilor, statesman, court
ier and favorite. Put it was not a polit
ical oilier, lie was a man of great abil
ity, wealth and Influence. "Herodotus
(2:24) (-peaks of the office (It tile court of
Cambyscs. king of Persia, as 'an honor
of no small account.'
Ninth Lesson: A Lesson of Insight Vs
fi-S. These men dreamed a dream both of
Ihent. Joseph noticed the ru-xt morning
that they were sad. and Inquired the n-n
son. They told their dreams, and Joseph
Interpreted them, asking as a return fa
vor that the chief butler who was to bt
restored should remember him and pro
cure his release.
FIGS AND THISTLES.
Men easily choke on mere crumbs of
comfort.
Rooting out malice may lie repress
ing murder.
Nothing is harder to forgive thun
forgetfulness.
| It requires gospel grace to make
gospel methods succeed.
| The cultivation of the heart spares
the cudgeling of the brains.
I Men of character are the conscience
of the society to which they belong.
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