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KINDNESS OF THE GOSPEL The Spirit of Love Shook! Enter Into Our Business Enterprises. [t:--I. Timot profitable of waiting for events to come upon us, and there is a heroic way of going out to meet them, strong in God and fearing nothing. When the body of Catiline was found on the battlefield it was found far in advance of all his troops and among' the enemy, and the best way is not for us to lie down and let the events ol life trample over us, but to go forth in a Christian spirit determined to con-qiier. You are expecting prosperity, and I am determined so far as 1 have anything to do with it, that you shall not bo disappointed, and, therefore, I propose, as God may help me, to project upon your at- SCIIOOL OF CHRIST, which declares that "godli igs, ha ring the promise of tin who v eler snce, industry, persevc ny-- a very strong busi t there needs to iber added, mightier t and not a silent partnc one introduced by of the Lord Aim longer. "With long life ^ him and show my salva Again I remark that good for the intellect. 1 have supposed that just his intellect goes into v process. So far from tl will give new brilliancy lect, new strength to t tion, new force to the wi wing t relit: ] to E fifty years to ay get into the kingdom lal repentance, but what .■nsate him for a whole 1 iviated and t. •ted ? "I can't get smallpox ; cowpox." Putting two ether, Jenner resolved tc st experiment was performed v named James Phipps, ■1th, 1776. Taking s ■om the hand of a dairy-med Sarah Nelwes, who had ;cted by a cow, he inserted of the boy. Tho the s , Dr. Jei 1 ther culato the boy 1 failed. He repeated this experi-)t on many others, failing every i these days we are supplied with ires of vaccinated and unvaccinat- .' Put no evidence is so strong as THE MICROBE THEORY." ow, what is vaccination, and how s it act ? How it acts nobody ws. Some say that the lymph. .!, microbe in it, when inserted ) the arm passes into the blood, consumed all the material on ch smallpox flourishes. It takes BE. BOTLE'SJDOD WORK-" JJJ£ S< S. LESSON, Chri nity i jsophy relal 5 is pert, All I nporttniitv to sav a prayer before I lie, and all will be well." There are . great many people who suppose hat if thev can finally get safely ut of this world they will have ex-austcd the entire advantage of our oly religion. They talk as though NOD OF RECOGNITION .1 esi to givt the 1 gloi i of a vith Hugh Mil id sandstone. 1 xnist and r this BENEFITS OFYACCHATM An Article Dealing With the B Discussed Question of the Day. raped^un way up nansion; as though it wen rission ticket, of no use ex i give at the door Of heaven ere are thousands of peopli ve great admiration for a re if the shroud and a religion o ffin and a religion of th< and a religion of the ve no appreciation of the bank, for the farm, for [ tory, for the warehouse. for i 'eler's shop, for the office. i I'hile I would not throw any | go with the heights where God shepherds the great /lock of worlds that wandoi on tho hills of heaven answering his voice as he calls them" by their Again T remark that godlir profitable for one's disposition. Lord Ashley, before he went into a great battle, was heard to ofier this prayer: "O Lord I shall be very to-day ! If I forget thee, forget me not.", With such a Christian disposition as that a man is independent of all circumstances. Our piety will have a tinge of our NATURAL TEMPERAMENT. thir f the t killed r ; thai If I i be ( A relig heart he t fretful naturally, after he becomes a Christian he will always have to be armed against the rebellion of those evil inclinations. But religion has tamed the wildest natures. It has turned fretfulness into gratitude, despondency into good cheer, and those who were hard and ungovernable and uncompromising have been made pliable and conciliatory. Good resolution, reformatory ohort, will not effect the change. ' : habiti und< ie duties oi standing well that ii f Ulyss i the prairie, that religion - hand hand God helps him help him to d.e right. Now. in the first place, I remark that godliness s good for a man's physical health. I do not mean to say that it will restore a broken down constitution or drive rheumatism from the limbs or neuralgia from the temples or pleurisy from the side, but I do mean to say that it gives one such habits and puts one | in such condition us are most favor- : able for physical health. That I her ' lieve, and that I avow. Everybody knows that buoyancy of spirit is good physical advantage. GLOOM. UNREST, DEJECTION, ! are at war with every pulsation of the heart and every respiration of the lungs. They ' lower the vitality and slacken the : circulation, while exhilaration pours the very balm of heaven through all ! the currents of life. The sense of in - : | sincerity which sometimes hovess j' held the burial Again I rem good for worldly busin the general theory is the more business the less religion, the more religion the less business, friot so, thought Dr. Hans, in his "Biographjij of a Christian Merchant" when he says : "He grew in grace the . last six years of his life. During those six years he had more business crowding him thai: at any other time." In other words, the more worldly business a man has the more opportunity to serve God. Now, religion will hinder your business if it bo a bad business or if it be a good business wrongly conducted. If you tell lies behind lly disfigured. ant thousands of people were blinded, and their constitutions ruined. The frightful disease spared no one. King William 111. lost his Queen-Queen Mary--to it ; his uncle the Duke of Gloucester, and two cousins, and he himself suffered severely from tho disease and was maimed for life. It killed an Emperor of Austria, a King of France, a Dauphin of France a Queen of Sweden, and an Empross When people advertised for e » liSiUl that they must have had the smallpox. An old police advertisement of a man wanted for coining says, "he has no pock-marks," which shows that it was quite an extraordinary thing to be without that disfigurement, says London Answers. Sir John Simon says that 3,000 per million died of smallpox every year in London, and 6,400 per mil-in Liverpool. A census of the i the following result : Had smallpox before ............1,601 Had it this year..................... 612 fed of it this year.................. 72 me end of eight days, ) be somet hing microbes ! child nd inserted 587 had s far escaped i and 1 was the terror of marriageable girls, for, if not already disligured, ey did not know the day they ight be. Ninety-six out of every hundred people who died of smallpox were children under ten years. The most curious thing was that the few who grew up without being attacked sidered themselves badly treated, they knew they must have it ie day, and they were in a con-nt state of anxiety. RAVAGES OF SMALLPOX. Thes few facts ights I you and sell for scourge smallpox forefathers. But it wa scourge elsewhere. Havii t in England for s< ies, smallpox had alt; the inhabitants. Thei r an epidemic broke o st of the people prot< previous attack. When, 3 VACCINATION SMALLPOX Many people wonder whether va filiation is a form of smallpox. Pro-, bably it is, for if smallpox is transferred from a human being to a ce"" the calf gets cowpox. And then if human being is vaccinated from this If. he shows tho same symptoms as vaccinated in the ordinary way. len, again, since smallpox became rare in this country cowpox suppeared from the farm. So that ictors believe that smallpox in iman being was the original ca cowpox. Cows suffered also i lere they were touched by lker's hands. Other animals get a form uillpox, too. The grease, or h. g, of horses, is exactly like ct ix, and it occurs where they uehed by human hands. Can lich are milked in Eastern co ies suffer from camelpox. And in mgal the chicken-pox of fowls and lied by tho same name--"gootry Jut- army and navy and post office pply very forcible evidence. smallpox mortality fell from 40 10 per 100,000. The London post office staff, which is all revaccinated, regene r pou e blast of t sand trumpets of terror is most pleting and most exhausting, wi the feeling that all are working gether for our good and for everlasting welfare is conducive physical health. You will observe that godliness duces industry, which is the foun dissipati on of the Lord Jesus thtiest auxiliary. 1 give an equipoise of I keep you from ebulli-per, and you know a rie businesses have been ns by bad temper. prompt; xt^wjfll keep l squandering and from ill give you a kind- got i ^ ril.le ha- lt I ii spii him K llig fuge or anodyne, but mers and yardsticks and crowbars and pickaxes. There is no such thing as good physical condition without positive work of some kind, although you should sleep on down of swan or ride in carriage of softest upholstery or have on your table all the luxuries that were poured distinguished from that mere courtesy which shakes hands vi ly with you, asking about the J of your family when there ii anxiety to know whether your is well or sick, but the anxiet to know how many dozen ca pocket handkerchiefs you will and PAY CASH DOWN. It will prepare you for the pru duties of everyday life. 1 d mean to say.that religion will Our relfgior Is, aha, tnd Shir i-eligioi mportance, gloi i get along good yi vine tonic ? Is your mind r, so vast, so comprehensive, ou do not want this divine tion ? Is your worldly busi-i thoroughly established that .ve no use for that religion lias been the help and deliver- M-ldly with This v, had not a single deat 10,500 members during the great epidemic of 1871. Among doctors, nurses, and the attendants in hospitals, who are nearly all revaccinated, the mortality is only one-sixth of what it is among people in general. But from other infectious diseases the doctors and nurses have a r.mortality six times greater than the public, because there is no vaccina tion to protect them. VERY CONVINCING FIGURES. In Germany--where everyone ii vaccinated in childhood, and agaii at twelve, and when all recruits an once more vaccinated on entering the army--smallpox is practically In Pn illpo? 1872, the deaths ?ere 2,620 per mil-accination became the death rate fell d to 4 per million 1874 to 36 in 1875, in 1884. Most of the statistics are rather old, for the simple reason that it is necessary to compare the periods before and after vaccination was discovered or enforced. In Copenhagen for instance, the deaths for twelvt years before were 5,500 per million per annum, and after only 158. In all Sweden they were 2,045 before vaccination, and sank to 2 in 1884-<.i4. In England 00 people died the eighteenth century for each who dies now. In the present London epidemic Pro-Boer Slanders Against Troops and Administratioi Contradicted. Slanders against the conduct months in Bloemfonti men encamped round t ing that time I only oi once heard of a s a Boer. It was becaus refused to raise his ha1 nfideiitial 'talks wi within five The soldie "Only 1 breathing out' > my le I was ii culprit wa is prompt]; Lfrica. In each case t Kaffir, and the deed venged by the Britisl THE REFUGEE MORTAL! Of the formation of the mud onan Doyle t Cd a choice o "The first wi that Bri course which became when the Boer army br lattered bands and had > leadelin ; the them wher s to gather them t ire for them as best third gether and MISGUIDED MOTHER LOVE. The Boer women themselves are to blame for the deplorable mortality among the children from measles. They refused to allow them to the arantined. 'Boer mothers, with a natural in-nct, preferred to cling to their cl ildren and to make it difficult for the medical men to remove them in the first stages of the disease. The pid spread of the epidemic, which was the more fatal as many of the sufferers were i lealth owing to the privations avoidably endured in the jc their own homes tc BOER MURDERS. The author has investigated roved cases of the Boer abuse of the hite Hag, the plundering and shi lg of British wounded, and the miatic murder of Kaffirs, quotes the actual experience Lance-Corporal Hanshaw at G the disciples of the Lord. What an evil breath he 1: ord translated "breathing $, 4; xxvi, 9-11; i Eph. ii. 1-3, h being under the of the air. i spake lie] ioil hat lai touches Chris! en the devil can g God's permission v, 35; Zech. ii, 8 aidday, this light •bove the brightnc touches a Himself, bi n go one step bi shalt thov ob xxxviii, Christ ia< >uld i aid, I a .Ies the iv hoi He recognizes a superior and o 'Who art Thou, Lord?" The an. swer fills him with trembling and astonishment, for Jesus of Kazan th s actually speaking to him. Seeing Him to be indeed the Christ, the Messiah, whom the prophets had oretold, he at once acknowledges lim as Lord and meekly asks what ie is now to do. Thus suddenly ihall Israel as a nation be surprised ome day, and, looking upon Hint they pierced, they shall be fill- vith t > peni i their long cept- xpected Mes-. Pte. Blun ed 'Don't flown my Pte. Bli umbered and threw down and held our hands up.' who was with me, shout-shoot me, I have thrown rifle.' The Boers then shot dead. He was holding his ,he i i Board 1 snital WHEN' YOU ARE SAFE. hands above his Lieut. Mair then shouted, 'Have cowards." The Boers then deliberately shot Lieut. Mail-dead as he was standing with his hands above his head. Then they Ptes. Pearse and Harvey, both standing with their hands up, the same bullet bitting Pte. Pearse in the nose, and killing Pte. Harvey." BOER RESERVATIONS. Conan Doyle's suggestion for settlement is to form a Boer reservation in the northern part of the al, like the Indian reservation in America. "Guarantee them, as long as they remain peaceable under the British flag, complete pro-ction from the invasion of the ner or the prospector. Let them e their own lives in their own way th some simple form of home rule their own. The irreconcilable ;n who could never rub shoulders th the British could find a ere, and the British colonies be all the stronger for the placing in quarantine of those who might feet their neighbors with their bitterness. . . . Without i such plan the empire will have safety-valve in South Africa. The work is at once a defence an explanation--a defence of British policy, British soldiers, an British treatment of the Boers explanation of the charges have been circulated in foreign countries by emissaries of tho late Boer Government. Dr. Doyle has this pamphlet as a gift to the people of the empire and is receiving no profit from its publication. It "hat been translated into all the European languages, and is being widely circulated in every civilized The publishers are open fc funds to promote its public may be had of all booksellei cost of production, which The i o the i (1. Tim. i, 16). was three days i either did eat no: vith 1 i who \ uth, cm;; I light i They also voice of some one speaking, but did not hear the words, for those were for Saul only. Compare xxii, 9; xxvi, 14. It was somewhat like tha experience of Daniel and of ous Lord as recorded in Dan. x. 7; John xii, 28, 29. That Saul really saw Jesus is evident from verse 17 and I. Cor. xv, 8. What Jesus said to Saul as lie commanded him to rise and stand upon his feet is fully stated in Paul's testimony before Agrip-pa in xxvi, 16-18. Consider him three days blind and fasting, tha world shut out, the body mortified, dying to self, God dea - peri I of c PERILS OF THE EYE. warning, from a trustworthy ce, of the danger in looking at ry brilliant light with unshield-yes is furnished by the singular i May. gla< After land! ten red birdi about. Upon ext that the sun's re crescent-shaped of the Dut using a shade looking across ,w a flock of eight flying erratically Lamination he found -ays had formed a • of t red 1 ■ bein left e B COl- xlii, 17; Jonah ii, 17; Hos. vi, 2 ; John ii, 19; Rev. xi. 11). 10-12. Inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus, for, behold, he prayeth. Thus said the Lord to Ananias, a devout disciple and one who had a good report of all the Jews at D.\-rnscus (xxii, 12). He, like Philip n a previous lesson, is prompt and bedient, one on whom the Lord could rely to do His bidding. Hist Isaiah (1 Sam, iii, 4, 6, 8, 10 ; Saul and his Lord in intimate conization. Saul talks with tha Lord, and the Lord in vision reveals! Himself more fully to Saul. From Jesus Christ by revelation he received the gospel and from Him also all his future instruction (Gal. i, 11„ 12, 15, 16). 13-16. He is a chosen vessel unt(X me to bear my name. Ananias hesitates just a little asf he thinks of Saul's reputation and authority and his madness against Christians. The Lord graciously bears with Ananias in his objections, but repeats His command to go and, assures him that Saul is to be His special messenger to the. gentiles.| One would think that the Lord's first Assurance to Ananias that the persecutor was praying would have been sufficient encouragement, but we are so slow to expect wonders from Him whose name is Wonderful., Saul is not only chosen to bear the name of Christ, but also to suffer, for faithfulness to Christ and suffering for His sake are inseparably connected while the ^ nid I R.V.) See also John xv, 18, 19 ; xvi, 33; Philip, i, 29; II Tim. ii, 12;; iii. 12, but be encouraged by Rom. viii, 18; I Cor. x, ],'!. 17-20. Receive thy sight and ba filled with the Holy Ghost. \ Thus said Ananias to Saul, as,: having found him just where tha Lord said he would, he put his hands upon him and told of the Lord's commission. He received sight, both natural and spiritual, confessed Christ in baptism, took food for the body and was strength-immediately pre ngogiu the Christ, the i Old things are passed things are become new, clothed vi, 34, R. henceforth thing, knows but 'or Him is ready ife. Jaffers--"I r>>nd ipring v» ed for i f Na? God, margin) a does but c e Master, a lay down ]