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HEXlale oT f Hif Three Lions K > J H. RIDER HAGGARD L Kt CHAPTER IL ( Cojjtisued. ) HI' ' " 'Lions , my boy , ' I said ; 'they are BV"hunting down by the river there ; but B/W " % * dent thInk > 'ou need malce yourself BiC uneflsyWe have been here three f KA b * nights now , and if they were going to H'\ Pay us a visit I should think that they V g would have done so before this. HowE - E C ever , wo will make up the fire. ' L \ " 'Here , Pharaoh , do you and Jim- B > F Jim get some more wood before we go H jr to sleep , else the cats will be purring Kjr' round you before morning. ' I F-W' \ "Pharaoh , a great brawny Swazi , who ROL * had been working for me at Pilgrims' M , * Rest , laughed , rose , and stretched H himself , and then calling to Jim-Jim H BL : to bring the ax and a reim , started off fc > \ . in the moonlight toward a clump of B' / sugar-bush where we cut our fuel rom Kk some dead trees. He was a fine fellow Vl jr. this way , was Pharaoh because he BMhad an Egyptian cast of countenance T m and a royal sort of swagger about "him. fl \ But his -way was a somewhat peculiar H v .way , on account of the uncertainty of K hid temper , and very few people could KJH get on wit-h him ; also if he could get HJ\y it he would drink like a fish , and when Kto h. he drank he became shockingly blood- V | \ thirsty. These were his bad points ; Ljft h his good ones were that , like most peo- Hr ] pie of the Zulu blood , he became ex- B \ ceedingly attached to you if he took to B/ you at all ; he was a hard-working and K | , intelligent man , and about as darc- BfV devil and plucky a fellow at a pinch as Hj l I ever had to do with. He was about l | five-and-thirty years of age or so , but K . f not a 'keskla' or ringed-man. I be- Kfr \ lieve he got into trouble in some way H\ [ in Swaziland , and the authorities of H t his tribe would not allow him to as- Hr sume the ring , and that is why he R tf & came to work at the gold fields. The B > / other man , or rather lad , Jim-Jim , was BDf\ a Mapoch Kafir , or Knobnose , and Ejp even in the light of subsequent events HC \ I fear at * canil0t speak very well of \ . him. He was an idle and careless K | young rascal , and only that very morn- HBL\ ing I had to tell Pharaoh to whip him Bj / \ for letting the oxen stray , which he did flT J -with the greatest gusto , although he BL was , in his own way , very fond of Jim- Bf X * Jim an * saw him consoling him af- K ( terward with a pinch of snuff from his flkirf ; own ear-box , whilst he explained to M \ him that the next time it came in the Kty way of duty to flog him , he meant to Bfc | A thrash -with the other hand , so as to Bj\ cross the old cuts and make a 'pretty Rr pattern' on his back. K | "Well , off they went , though Jim- By Jim did not at all like leaving the Br camp at that hour , even though the Kr moonlight was so bright , and in due B\ course returned safely enough with a BlVL great bundle of wood. I laughed at Bk Jim-Jim , and asked him if he had seen HPg- anything , and he said yes , he had ; he n | , had seen two large yellow eyes staring Hjr at him from behind a bush , and heard Hjj something snore. HLv "As , however , on further investiga- t tion the yellow eyes and the snore appeared - / peared to have existed only in Jim- _ i Jim's lively imagination , I was not Hv greatly disturbed by this alarming re- 0\ [ port ; but having seen to making up of kA the fire , got into the skerm and went B quietly to sleep with Harry by my Bi ] "Some hours afterward I woke up H twith a start. I don't know what woke ELf nie. The moon had gone down , or at B , least was almost hidden behind the B > soft horizon of bush , only her red rim B | being visible. Also a wind had sprung B\ up and was driving long hurrying lines B\ g cloud across the starry sky , and al- fl / together a great change had came over Pkrhe rnoo& ° - the night. By the look fl f of the sky I judged that we must be Bf * about two hours from day-break. Ht "The oxen , which were as usual tied Hl < to the disselbocm of the Scotch cart. Hf f -were very restless they kept snuffing HV aQd blowing , and rising up and lying H& ' down again , and I at once suspected Br\ that they must wind something. Pres- B 5 ently I knew what it was that they iff winded , for within fifty yards of us a BMlion roared not very loud. Bo' "Pharaoh was sleeping on the other Blyl side of the cart , and beneath it I saw Bikv him raise his head and listen. Bp s " 'Lion , Inkoos , ' he whispered , 'lion. ' B/ / "Jim-Jim also jumped up , and by K | the faint light I could see that he was Hy f in a very great fright indeed. H / "Thinking that it was as well to be Hjff prepared for emergencies , I told Bf / Pharaoh to throw wood upon the fire , Biand woke up Harry , wrho I verily be- Hk7 lieve was capable of sleeping through BAthe crack of doom. He was a little H Rf scared at first , but presently the excite- [ 4' ment of the position came home to him , I MaJv and U8 hecame quite anxious to see his Bff majesty face to face. I got my rifle Hf\ handy and gave Harry his a Westley Hv \ Richard falling block , which is a very Ur. ' aisr ul gun for a youth , being light and H/ ' yet a good killing rifle , and then we m -waited. B' "For a long time nothing happened , B nnd I began to think that the best L' thing that we could do would be to go B v. to sleep again , when suddenly I heard B"a sound more like a cough than a roar H [ -within about twenty yards of the L skerm. We all looked out , but could Bb see nothing ; and then followed an- H \ other period of suspense. It was very V X ttyfoff t0 tfle nerves , -this waiting for K y _ an attack that might be developed from B { V any quarter or might not be developed P. M- at all ; and though I was a very old LjnL liand at this sort of business I was B\ anxious a-bout Harrj , for it is wonder- ' Bl ful haw the presence of anybody to bJLwhom one is attached unnerves a man Bft. in moments of danger , and that made BB ine nervous. I laiow , although it was B now chilly enough , I could feel the per- spiratlon running down my nose , and In order to relieve the strain on my attention employed myself watching a beetle which appeared to be attracted by the fire-light , 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 fire , and so did we all give jumps , I mean , and no wonder , for from right under the skerm fence there came the most frightful roar a roar that literally made the Scotch cart shake and took the breath out of you. "Harry ejaculated and turned rather green , Jim-Jim howled outright , while the poor oxen stood and shivered and lowed piteously. "The night was almost entirely dark now , for the moon had quite set and the clouds had covered up the stars , so that the only light we had was from the fire , which was burning up bright ly again now ; but , as you know , fire light is absolutely useless to shoot by , it is so uncertain , and besides it pene trates but a very little way into the darkness , although if one is in the dark outside one can see it from so far away. "Presently the oxen , after standing .still for a moment , suddenly winded the lion and did what I feared they would do began to 'shrek , ' that is to try and break loose from the trektow to which they were tied , and rush off madly into the wilderness. Lions know of this habit on the part of oxen , which are , I do believe , the most foolish ani mals under the sun , a sheep being a very Solomon compared to them ; and it is by no means uncommon for a lion to get in such a position that a herder or span of oxen may wind him , shrek , break their reins , and rush off into the bush. Of course , once they are there , they are helpless in the dark ; and then the lion chooses the one that he loves best and eats him at his leisure. "Well , round and round went 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 Jim-Jim being caught by the trek tow somewhere beneath his arm , was hurled right across the skerm , landing by my side only some paces off. "Snap went the disselboom of the cart beneath the transverse 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 disselboom , and every thing were soon tied in one vast heav ing , plunging , bellowing , and seeming ly inextricable knot. "For a moment or two this state of affairs took my attention off from the lion that had caused 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 bush and 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 lion ! 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 lashed her tail and roared. I seized my rifle and fired 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 stroug relief , and a wild one it was I can tell you with the seething mass of oxen twisted all around the cart , in sucn a fashion that their heads looked as though they were growing out of their rumps and their horns seemed to protrude from their backs ; the smoking lire with just a blaze in the heart of the smoke ; Jim- Jim in the foreground , where the oxen had thrown him in their wild rush , stretched out there in terror ; and then as a 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 Hash-to die into darkness , and then , before I could fire again or do anything , with a most fiendish snort she sprang upon poor Jim-Jim. "I heard the unfortunate "lad shriek , and then almost instantly I saw his legs thrown into the air. The lioness had seized him by the neck , and with a sudden jerk thrown his body over her back so that his legs hung down upon the further side. Then , without the slightest hesitation , and apparently without any difficulty she cleared the skerm fence 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 have already described. We jumped up perfectly mad with horror and fear , and rushed wildly after her , firing shots at hap-hazard on the chance that she would be frightened by them into drop ping her prey , but nothing could we see , and nothing could we hear. Tie lioness had vanished into the darkness taking Jim-Jim with her , and to at tempt to follow her until daylight was madness. We should only expose our selves to the risk of a like fate. "So with scared and heavy hearts we crept back to the skerm , and sat down to wait for daylight , which now could not be much more than an hour off. It was absolutely useless to try even to disentangle the oxen till then , so all that there was left for us to do was to sit and -wonder how it came to pass that the one should be taken and the other left , and to hope against hope a _ _ -ft 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 j of the lioness which had gone off with ; Jim-Jim. And here a fresh trouble awaited us , for when at last with in finite difficulty we had got the helpless brutes loose. It was only to find 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 his head hanging down. He 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. He has absolutely ' no constitution , and never neglects an opportunity of falling sick of some mj'sterious disease. He will get thin upon the slightest provocation , and from mere maliciousness die of 'pov erty ; ' whereas it is his chief delight to turn round and refuse to pull whenever - , ever he finds himself well in the cenn ter of a river , or the wagon-wheel nice ly fast in a mudhole. There is always something wrong with him. "Well , it was no use crying as 1 should almost have liked to do , because , if this ox had red-water it was prob able that the rest of them had it , too , although they had been sold to me as , 'salted , ' that is , proof against such dis-i eases as red-water and lung-sick. Onei gets hardened to this sort of thing ia South Africa in course of time , for t suppose in no other country in the world is the waste of animal life so great. "So , taking my rifle and telling Har ry to follow me ( for we had to leave Pharaoh to look after the oxen , ' Pharaoh's lean kine , I called them ) , I started to see if anything could be ( found of or appertaining to the un-I fortunate Jim-Jim. The ground round our little camp was hard and rocky , and wre 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 take 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. In 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 thesunwas 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. But 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 there. "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 , ' I said at last , sadly enough. 'At any rate he will be dead by now , so God have mercy on him , we can't help him. What's to be done now ? ' " 'I suppose that we had better wash ourselves in the pool and then go back and get something to eat. ' ( TO BE COXTINCED.J A Glorious 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 he saw. "I say , " he said to the officer on deck , "I'd like to go on the next ex pedition. " "It's awfully cold up there , " re marked the officer , discouragingly. "I don't care about that. " "You'd have very little to eat and might have to starve. " "That would't be pleasant , " said the visitor. "I should say not , " returned the of ficer , ' and you might be eaten by your comrades. " "Is that so ? That would be dis tinctly bad. " "And then , " continued the officer , "youwouldn't see your -wife for three years and possibly longer. You know you can't take her with you. " "Well , " returned the gentleman , aft er a long pause , "I think you can put me down on your books. Your last argument captured me. " New York Dispatch. Jews * Telegrams. "Sending a telegram , ' - says a Phila delphia telegraph man , "is serious business for the ordinary man or wo man. They think it's expensive and only use the wires when they have to. There's one exception , however , and a kind of complimentary business that most people would never suspect Whenever there's a Hebrew wedding , that is , one of any importance , we handle scores of congratulations , hun dreds sometimes , from all parts of the country. They are sent with directions to deliver at a certain hour and we generally send them all to the house or place where the reception is held in one bunch. It's a good thing for the company , for the senders don't count the words , and file their tele grams without any revision. Some times they run up to 100 or 150 words. " New York Tribune. Brandied peaches served with ice cream form a combination for dessert that frequently replaces the Christmas mince pie and plum pudding. l mS'i if i _ JIIIIMTT1fll " * " ftlSiM TALMAGE'S SEEMON. "A RESURRECTION MISTAKE" EASTER SUNDAY SUBJECT. From the Text : "She , Snppohinc ' film to lie the Gardener , Sattii Uuto Hiui ; Tell Mo Where Thou Must Laid Him and I 1V1U TuUe 311m Away" John 20:15. ej < f ? ERE are Mary j Magdalen and ? j Christ , just after 11 h i s resurrection. " For four thousand J % years a grim and \pj ghastly tyrant had been killing people and dragging them into his 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 conquerors , 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 bleached skulls. To the skele ton of Abel had 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 I can calculate it , a mighty stranger came to the door of that awful place , rolled back the door , and went in , and seizing the tyrant threw him to the pavement and put ' heel of tri upon the tyrant's neck the 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 ribs of which were made of human bones 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 hinges , and marched forth crying , "I am the Resurrection ! " That event we celebrate this Easter morn , Handelian and Beethovcan mira cles of sound added to this floral decoration - ' ration which has set the place abloom. There are three or four things which 1 the world and the church have not no ticed in regard to the resurrection of Christ. First , our Lord in the garden er's attire. Mary Magdalen , grief- struck , stands by the rifled sarcophagus of Christ , and turns around , hoping she can find the track of the sacrilegious i resurrectionist who has despoiled the grave , and she finds some one in work ing 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. tion.Mary Mary Magdalen , on her face the rain of a fresh shower of weeping , turns to this workman , and charges him with the desecration of the tomb , when lo ! 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 the 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 , smiting our anvil , ploughing our field , tending the flying shuttles , mend ing the garments for our household , providing food for our families , or toil ing with wearj- pen , or weary pencil , or weary chisel. A working-day Christ in working-day appare ! for us in our cverj'-day toil. Put it into the highest strain of this Easter anthem , "Suppos ing him to be the gardener. " If Christ had appeared at daybreak with a crown upon his head , that would have seemed to suggest especial sym pathy for monarchs ; if Christ had ap peared in chain of gold and with robe bediamonded. that would have seemed to be especial sympathy for the af fluent ; if Christ had appeared with sol dier's sash and sword dangling at his side , that would have seemed to imply especial sympathy for warriors ; but when I find Christ in gardener's habit , then I spell it out that he has hearty and pathetic understanding with every day work , and every-day anxiety , and every-day fatigue. Roll it down in comfort all through these aisles. A working-day Christ in working-day apparel. Tell it in the darkest corridor of the mountain to the poor miner. Tell it to the factory maid in most unventilated establishment at Lowell or Lancaster. Tell it to the clearer of roughest new ground in the western wilderness. Tell it to the sew ing woman , a stitch in the side for every stitch in the garment , seme of their cruel employers having no right to think that they will get through the door of heaven any more than they could through the eye of a broken needle which has just dropped on the bare floor from the pricked and bleed ing fingers of the consumptive sewing- _ girl. Away with your talk about hj - postatic union , and soteriology of the Council of Trent , and the metaphysics of religion which -would freeze practi cal Christianity out of the world ; but pass along the gardener's coat to all nations that they may touch the hem MMMMMWiitiW jqyjgggiiiJgaBSI . . . . ' . . " ruTl i mi nn.m-nnirni i i wjiiit-win i. J - - i i .iriii" of it and feel the thrill of the Christly brotherhood. Not supposing the man to be Caesar , not supposing him to be Socrates , but "supposing him to bo the gardener. " Oh , that is what helped Joseph Wedgwood , toiling amid the heat 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 wants 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 Magdalen 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 Magdalen. One would have sup posed he would have made hi * first posthumous appearance to a woman Avho 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 saintly aunts. In my family circle it was aunt Phebe ; in yours saintly aunt Martha or saintly aunt Ruth. One always saintly. But not so with the one spoken of in the text. text.While 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 that she was exorcised of seven devils. What a capital of demonology - menology 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 , and 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 900 feet long , 850 feet of chasm from bluff to bluff. I passed over it without anxiety. Why ? Be cause twenty-two locomotives and twenty-two cars 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 be 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 all 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 ws the morning twilight. If the chronometer had been invent ed and Mary had as good a watch as som ol the Marys of our time 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 sunrising ; Luke says it was very early in the morning ; John says it was while it was yet dark. In other words , it was 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 unlifted , 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 see 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 Arimathea , is it strange that there should be some shadows over our family lot ? Easter dawn , not Easter noon. Shadow of unanswered question ! Why were they taken away from us ? why were they ever given to us if they were to be taken so soon ? why were they taken so suddenly ? why could they not have uttered some farewell words ? why ? A short question , but a whole crucifixion of agony in it. Why ? Shadow on the graves of good men and women who seemed to die before their work was done. Shadow on all the graves of children because we ask our selves why so beautiful a craft launch ed at all if it was to be wrecked one mile outside of the harbor ? But what did Mary Magdalen have to do in order to get more light on that grave ? She had only to wait. After a while the Easter sun rolled up , and the whole place was flooded with light. What have you and I to do in order to get more light on our own graves and light upon the graves of our dear loved ones ? Only to wait. * * * After Christ's interment every cellu lar tissue broke down , and nerve and artery and brain were a physiological wreck , and yet he comes up swarthy , rubicund and well. When I see after such mortuary silence such radiant ap- " " T : " " ' ' TilI il = = = = = = = = = = = • 1 pearance , that settles It that whatever ; should become of the bodies of our % M Christian dead , they are going to cotno , 'I up , the nerves restrung , the optic nerve I Telllumined , the ear drum a-vlbrate , the fl whole body lifted up , without Its weak- fl ness and worldly uses for which there fl is no resurrection. Come , Is It not almost - H most time for us to go out to meet our I fl reanimated dead ? Can you not hear f fl the lifting of the rusted latch ? fl Oh , the glorious thought , the glorious fl consolation of this subject when I find B Christ coming up without any of the fl lacerations , for you must remember He B was lacerated and wounded fearfully H in the crucifixion coming up without one. What docs that make me think ? That the grave will get nothing of us except our wounds and imperfections. H Christ went Into the grave exhausted and bloodless. All the currents of His H life had poured out from His wounds. . H He had lived a life of trouble , sorrow. H and privation , and then He died a Hn- H gering death. His entire body hung on H four spikes. No invalid of twenty ' B years' suffering ever went into the H grave so white and ghastly and broken j H down as Christ , and yet here He comes H up so rubicund and robust she supposed H Him to be the gardener. H Ah ! all the side-aches , and the headaches - H aches , and the back-aches , and the leg- H aches , and the heart-aches we will leave H where Christ left His. The ear will come up without Its heaviness , the eye H will come up without its dimness , the H lungs will come up without oppressed M respiration. Oh , what races we will M run when we become Immortal athletes - H letes ! Oh , what circuits we will take H when all earthly imperfections subtracted - M tracted and all celestial velocities added - M ded we shall set up our residence In H that city which , though vaster than all fl the cities of this world , shall never HH have one obsequy ! B Standing this morning round the H shattered masonry of our Lord's tomb , B I point you to a world without hearse. B without muflled drum , without tumu- fl lus , without catafalque , and without a H tear. Amid all the cathedrals of the H blessed no longer the "Dead March in H Saul , " but whole libretti of "Hallelujah \ M Chorus. " Oh , put trumpet to lip and ' H finger to key , and loving forehead , B against the bosom of a risen Christ. B Hallelujah , Amen. Hallelujah , Amenl B CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. fl The Junior Society of Christian Endeavor - H deavor was thirteen years old on March M 27. On March 20 there were enrolled B on Secretary Baer's books 11,537 societies - H cieties , with C4G.110 members. The first M society was organized in Tabor , Iowa. H by Rev. John W. Cowan. The first H signer of the Junior pledge is now a B clergyman. M "She hath done what she could. " The M members of the Christian Endeavor society - B ciety in the Indiana state prison at H Michigan City have no money to contribute - H tribute toward state Christian Endeav- B cr work , but the other day the state B treasurer received from this society fif- H ty-two stamped envelopes. One of B these envelopes is issued to each prisoner - B oner every two weeks and an extra one H is given instead of a ration of tobacco. B By abstaining from the luxury of cor- fl respondence , and from the use of tobacco - H bacco , the men were enabled to fulfill H their pledge. < H An endeavor after apostolic fashion H is recorded of a native Christian Endeavor - H deavor society in Shaingay , West Af- | rica. The young men of the society set 1 out , two by two , to preach the gospel H throughout all their district , a region - H forty by seventy miles in extent. They H held 238 services and reached 4,572 H hearers , and all without a penny of ex- H pense. The young men had many interesting - H teresting experiences. One of them B philosophically remarked , when deterred - B terred from crossing a river by the alligators - H ligators in the stream , "The Lord sent B us to preach the gospel , not to feed H these fellows. " H A company of Endeavorers from the H Broadway Baptist church , Cambridge- H port , Mass. , hold weekly meetings in a H rescue mission in Boston , providing a H free lunch for the men , in opposition H to a free lunch saloon in the neigh- H borhood. These meetings have resulted - | ed in many conversions , and in several | accessions to the church. The Endeav- J orers make it a practice to secure em- j H ployment for the converts when possi- | The Endeavorers in the State of | Washington have made earnest efforts | to secure temperance and Sabbath observance - H servance legislation. A temperance bill | was recently before the legislature and | the Endeavorers prompted prominent | representatives to personally visit the | capitol , while about five hundred telegrams - | | grams were sent from all parts of the B state to the senators and representa- | | tives. Mass meetings were also held in 1 many districts , all with the aim of H properly influencing legislation. | The first year of Christian Endeavor j H in Tremont Temple Baptist church , H Boston , has been a fruitful one. Several - H eral members of the society have unit- i B ed with the church. One of the first H deeds of the society was the publication | of a sermon en baptism by Dr. Lori- | mer. Two more of the pastor's sermons - H mons were published during the year. | a total of eight thousand copies. The H instruction committee of the society | has maintained a Bible history class fl under the direction of the assistant B pastor , and it has also provided two | courses of university extension lee- | tures. Since Tremont Temple is very | peculiarly situated in the business district - B trict , the society has made every effort | to apply business enterprise to its B methods , and at the beginning of the * < B year it issued for general distribution ! a. beautiful calendar , advertising the IbH bI church and society and time of meet- laiHll ings. t' l As a recognition of the good work B done by the Salvation Army in Detroit B in relieving distress among the poor. H the citizens have contributed $74,000 B to purchase the building used by tha fl army as headquarters. B