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tw mobbed ji 1ibel rev dr talmage preaches on how to escape punlshmefstv sftdeni vu a tr7 wicked cjii ad- 1i to ettcape for tic litevoii ger la krjccuas cfcruttedoy sot t-mr- rw i the time to aceeplonce storied the road ito sot tuok back dr talmaxe lm mwoat lucius pdu oat ke war a despatcri from washington says p dr talmage preached from the text escape for thy life look not- behind thee neither stay tbou in all the plain escape to the mountain lest thou be consumed gen six 17 for the matt part the lakes of the earth are the darlings of the moun tainstheir necks garlanded with wild flowers and their foreheads flashing iu the sun but there is one lake loath some and godforsaken and exited f from all that is beautiful the mod ern traveller finds it it lies down ac cursed no tioged shells adorn its v banks no fish live in its stenchful waters the waterfowl for the most part do not fly anywhere near its surface and the bather comes up out of it encrusted with the salt and sick with the taste of the water bitter briny sulphurous dark it seems as if the shadows of past desolation chas ed each other across it and the traveller struck through with mel ancholy hastens from its presence perhaps taking a few pieces of nitre and sulphur to show the barrenness of the place ashere that lake now spreads out thirteen cities once stood among them sodom it would be un pardonable if in this presence i re counted the crimes of that city suf fice it to say that the citizens were so bad they mobbed an angel that came down on an errand of mercy lot re solved to leave the city but did not make much baste he had miles to travel and at the rate at which he was going death would have dashed upon him before he got to the moun tains and so the angel seizes him pushes him on pulls him out urges him forward crying in the words of my text escape for thy life look not behind thee neither stay thou in all the plain escape to the mountain lest thou be consumed well the fatal day came the morning as bright as ever per haps the citizens as usual reckless unclean and blasphemous what do they care about their coming doom there is no god or if there be who fears him suddenly there is aflame in the sky and the volcano rocks and upheaves the bitumen that underlies all thai region of country throwing it up to thvsurface and this com bustible material coming in the pre sence of the fire immediately ignites and amid the falling flame and up heaving asphaltum and the suffocat ing stench of the brimstone and the bursting thunder acd the roaring crackling allconsuming hurricane of gods wrath sodom shrieked ith last curse and diedl my friends god hates sin just as much now as ho did then and it be hoves you and it behoves mo to leave our transgressions and start not with fcl snails pace not with deliberate walk but at the top of our speed for res cue the angel that helped lot out of trouble meantime taking us by the arm and crying in our ears escape for thy life look not behind thee neither stay thou in all tho plain es cape to the mountain lest thou be con sumed what is the sin that we must hasten from sin is just one thing the legislature makes an en actment a man offends against it and he is incarcerated you make a law in your household your child wil fully disobeys and punishment fol- ions god makes a law we have all broken it and hence we are all sinners and in consequence of that sin we must be punished unless there be some pardon offered unless there be some door of escape set before us blessed be god there is one my text in the first place suggests urgency on the part of all those who would induce people out of their sins why was not the angel more polite why did not be coolly and formally invite lot and his wife to leave that fcityt the angel so far from that seized hold of him pulled him out pulled him on with irresistible force thc angel was in earnest oh does not the world looking upon us and seeing our coldness come to the con clusion that we do not believe what we say if unpardoned men wore in such peril as the bible says they are and we believe it would we be such precision utsi so cold and stolid and unemotional suppose a blind man were on a railtrack and you saw a train coming would you go up to him and say my dear friend o machine commonly called a locomotive invented by james watt is making rapid revolutions towards the place where you are and unless you change your course of podestrianism it will be soon decided which of the two is tho stronger would you do that ah no men are not so stolid about tem poral peril you would cry get out of tht- way tho cars are coming i and yet when it is spiritual danger wc use so much circumlocution and so much caution and come with so timid a tread towards the place where men are imperilled that they actually dont believe we think there is peril although there are spiritual and eternal disas ters coming on in long trains flying as swiftly as the hours swiftly as the seconds ready to crush for ever if we realized it would not we stamp our foot and cry man immortal look out for eternity i if there be no dan ger in rejecting christ we might as well drop our anxiety but if their is danger let us cry the alarm the world knows at this day that we who profess the faith of christ standing in our prayermeetings sundayschools and pulpits act as if religion were a fiction oh for something of the ur gency of the angel that come to lot not coolly discussing with him the chemical properties of the storm that was coming bat laying bold of him with both bands pulling him on pushing him out and crying with an emphasis that must have sent him at v the top of his speed escape for thy life look not behind thee neither stay thou in all the plain escape to the mountain lest thou be consumed- my subject also suggests that the mere atartino gives no security v tot had started out of the city but he j might have perished halfway before he got to the mountainsmen start for heaven but do not always get there if my house be burning i take a bucket of water and put out the flames in this and that and yonder room while i leave the flames in another i room i might as irell have wasted no saved be is not saved at all ten thou sand men start for the kingdom of christ but do not get there they either start too late or stop before they get there the le bourgogne start ed for france but was lost with near ly all on board there is such a thing as starting for a place and not get ting there there was not one inch of safety anywhere between sodom and the mountain of refuge lot might as well have stayed in his own boms and perished there as to have perish ed outside the city last sabbath night there were men here who started for the kingdom have they got there let me say to all such aiiuve not reached that place there is no rock of shelter where you are no promise of safety where you are overtaken by the storm here you perish a man has been very sick doc tors have attended him carefully and he comes up to life again begins to walk out but be takes a cold has a relapse and in twelve hours he is a dead man there are men who have been almost cured of their sin they begin to get well the heavenly phy sician stayed day after day by their soul they had almost recovered but not quite there came on them a cold draught from the world there came a relapse and they were gone i hear men saying in the audience lord i will believe i will be a christian will you now if not now to-mor- raw will take you into the whirl of business and gaiety and you may nev er think of these things again there is a man who forty years ago became almost a christian but not quite what would have become of the pro digal son if he had stopped halfway between the swine trough and his fa thers house why he might better not have started but stayed down where he was the carrots that the swine eat are better than nothing at all- oh to have started for heaven and to get there if there are any in this house who are in this position i now describe let me say that you are no more safe in this halfandhalf experience than you were in the time before you began to think and so i sound the tocsin escape for thy life look not behind thee neither stay thou in all the plain escape to the mountain lest t hou be consumed the text suggests further that a man after being persuaded out of sin sometimes looks back lots wife looked back and perished lot himself would have looked back had it not been for the warning of the text it is very natural that they should it was their home all her friends were there all his friends were there we become attached to the city of qur residence notwithstanding alt its sins still it was wrong for them to look back god forbade it but are there not persons in this day who start out of- their sins yet look back wistfully for occasional indulgence here is a man who started for heaven a year ago he had been given to dissipation he has looked back you are drinking too bard i believe a moderate drink er may get into heaven but a hard drinker never i no drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of god the snake catches the eye of the bird on the limb it begins to tremble and soon slips from the tree branch and begins to fly down toward the serpent and soon it is caught in the terrible folds and is gone the wine cup has been your fascination you have by it been brought down from the circles in which you once moved and come down nearer and nearer to the day of your destruction and after awhile you will be caught in the coils of that which biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder oh man give up drink ing or give up heaven there is your choice a man stood on the scaffold about to bo executed and the sheriff pulling out bis watch said you have five minutes to say what you have to say tho dying man said rum ruined me i had a little brother i loved him very much he was a brighteyed lad i came home one day intoxicated my little brother was picking berries in the garden and for some reason 1 got mad at him and i took up an iron rake and with one stroke i felled him now i am to die for it and you ask me i no hurry what if your breath should stop where would you be where would you go i dont ask you to take my poor words about the brevity and uncertainty of life ask any commercial man whose kind of business necessitates that he calculate the length of human life ask him in his business what he thinks of the uncertainty of human existence ob says some man i shall repent on my sick bed will you xhe last sick ness- as far as i fauve observed it is generally divided into two parts the first half of that final sickness is spent in the expectation of getting well in the discussion of doctors and different styles of medicines the last half in delirium or in stupidity or a consternation which prohibits religi ous thought so that i take it for granted that the poorest place on earth tor a mast to repent of sin and pre pare for heaven is on his deathbed in the first part of that sickness he will expect to get well and in the last half of it he will not be fit to think wjiat a foolish thing it is tq tarry in the plain when more people perish be tween sodom and the mountains than actually perish inside the city a gentle- man was telling me a night or two ago walking up the street of a lady who said i will repent and turn to god in six months i have made up my mind deliberately to that and when 1 make up my mind i stick to it in six months i mean to be a christian threo of the six months passed along and one evening at the expiration of the three months she said to some one who was talking on serious subjects just three months more and i will attend to it the next morning they knocked at her door she gave no answer they went in she had passed up to reckon with god oh man immortal woman im mortal i tarry not in the plain if it were a mere matter of temporal peril i could riot help but be interested in you if i raw yur home kindling with flame i could not help but cry out fire fire 1 if i saw you smitten with some terrible disease 1 would run for medicament but when i find it is the soul that is in disease and in peril i feel like coming and with almost a violence of earnestness crying why will you die lot and his wife were in peril if they stayed in the city what would become of them would it be the loss of an arm or foot or eye ohno it would be death utter and beforo the disasters passed from that city the people had perished in their homes and in the streets lest thou be consumed the angel cried out they who die in their sins are consumed they are struck down with none to deliver lot started for the mountains ho knew if he got there all would be safo the storm could not take him there could not destroy him jesus christ is the mountain of our refuge his side is the cleft rock in which we may hide to the mountains toths moun tains 1 no storm of death can chase you there everlastingly safe are all those who put thein trust in hirou oh make baste lighten thyj girdle for the race lay aside all impediments and may god give he speed of lightning to thy feet escape for thy life look not behind thee neither stay thou in all the plain escape to the moun tain lest thou be consumed mpaiee bah robbery pare professional burglar be trays his confederates lie tell the story or the komkxj sen- snllonrtl develoitntpiitt a despatch from manchester n h says it has transpired that george e pare the man who was recently ar rested here upon the charge of burglar izing the dominion bank at napance canada in august last made a com plete confession before being taken across the lino for trial in ontario where the offence was committed the what i have to say it is this never of how his connection with the never never touch anything that can intoxicate alas if once you start discovered has not yet been for heaven and look back to your early published and is of exceeding interest dissipations there are a large number of french- it s sxn w- city and ixjen they naturally gravitate towards what the house of shame that sodom will be the eternal dam nation of your soul unless you quit it as an ox goeth to the slaughter or as a fool to the correction of the stocks till a dart strike through his liver so says god in proverbs shall bo the doom of all the impure another man is captured by the con vivialities of life he has chosen bet ter associates but says 1 guess i will go down to the room and see the is known as tho frenchcanadion sec tion of the city the first discovery of tho fact that a number of unsigned bank bills which were stolen from tho bank were in circulation was made here upon inquiry it waa found that they had passed through the hands of a merchant who is engaged in import ing potatoes from the province of que bec three of these bills had come into boys a little while he goes down his hands the signatures of mr baines and is there one or two hours and in having been forged before they were those two hours he loses all his good i resolutions and all serious impressions psed this led to inquiries being they are witty they are brilliant made among the dealers who bad they are smart there but they are i bought potatoes from him and who stlfssi o were chiefly located in the french- many have started out of associates i and looked back oh- be not among canadian section the matter was them escape for thy life brought to the attention of tho mun- my text suggests that some men chester detectives and fares previous to got on you know that men in j for aome um resiuins in the city un order to get on in this world must mediately caused them to suspect that deny themselves and work hard must he know something abouti it almost zzfjiul j there are some men too lazy for this furnished a clue for one of the unsign- life and too lazy to win heaven if led series was found in his possession wo get to heaven it will be by gather- rr waji hiforuiod that the bill was no ing up all tho energies of our souls and burling them ahead in one persistent mupu lo rpnse but ho was direction i have seen- within the past advised to hold it and to say nothing week or two people in this church start about it us it would be made all right for heaven but they loitered by the anau was placed upon it by way so that ten thousand years would- i not be long enough for them to gct lt b identified there so it is a bad sign when men j when asked where ho got it he immo- voyaging toward heaven stop halfway diately recollected and told tho officer it is a sign of infinite peril after warning him not to say anything i don i exactly know why lot and his wife loitered by the way i think about ll tuo otiicar left but the man lots wife looked back because she apparently became alarmed and wont thought after all it might bo a hoax j to the party from whom ho hail ohtain- that there might bo no destruction dit thijtrann infornicd pare uatthe of tho city and she said to herself wouldnt we feel silly if our property j blu n0 hnd v k dl pare should be confiscated and the city very quietly replied give it to me stand undamaged just so there i hen and i will give you another one are men now who say it is all talk xc liil t about a judgment and a long eternity it is all a hoax return for a genuine bill it is i dont wonder that a man says that said tbat thu bill bad been who does not believe the bible but if a loaned by pan to a friend man believe the bible i dont know horthecan say that because this bible i who was behind in his grocery bill to declares god will turn intohellull tho nations that forget hinandsneep with the bail of his vengeance the refuges of lies in the peroration of his ser mon on the mount christ told bow some houses are on the rock and stand and other houses are on the sand and fall sodom roust perish sin must be crushed and the whole world acclaim the justice of god perhaps lot and his wife thought there was no hurry they may have said there is aa sign in the heaven there never was a more beautiful day than this we suppose that when the time comes there will be some signs of it there will be a rumbling in the earth or there will be an ominouv sha dow on the hills they were mistaken i suppose it came in an eyetwinkle one moment mirth nn song the next strength and brought- no buckets of i volcanic eruption and bursting cloud water at all the whole thing will be land horrible obliteration men now consumed and if ft man is only bilf tarry in the plain of sin and wy there square up the cluo waf followed up undit uiu found that quite a number of these bills has been passed in the french canadian section and many of them wero traced to pare told all to save himself about the same time news came that some of tho series bad also got into circulation in montreal it was dis covered that fares sister had recently left manchester and gone to mont real to live and the officers here rea lized that they were on the track of at least one of the burglars and para was placed under arrest he con sulted his attorney and after some consideration finding himself in the tolls mads a clean breast of tbo whole affair his story reads rather like a novel than like a chapter in tho criminal annals of our own country according to his story upon which tho authorities will rely to fill in the links which were wanting in the chain of evidence at the formerjtrial the plot to rob the- bank was msde long before he came upon the scene his state ments with regard to the preliminary steps in the conspiracy tocommit the robbery are of course hearsay and are founded upon information which he says he received from his confederates as originally concocted the plot was participated in by quite a number and the scheme was of an entirely dif ferent nature to that which was ulti mately carried out the card parties in the bonk were a part of the scheme in order to divert suspicion and af ford an opportunity of accomplishing their design some time passed and no favorable opportunity was afforded or those- engaged in the conspiracy be came frightened and the numbers dwindled down up to this period pare was not implicated in the scheme according to his story he first became interested owing to the receipt by him of a letter from mackie he had an interview with him and agreed to un dertake the job he however refused to proceed any farther with the scheme which they had then in contemplation and from this time was the leading spirit in tho direction of affairs he decided that the party must be reduced in number and that the method to be adopted must be that which was sub sequently tried witn success this left mackie ilolden himself and pon ton in the game ponton supplied the combina tion they obtained the combination of the vault from ponton who kept them post ed as to tho contents of the safe for a number of nights they obtained ac cess to the bank by means of keys and pare who is an expert manipulator of safe combinations worked on the in ner combination everything was got in readiness so that they could at any time when they desired enter the safe and a favorable opportunity was wait ed while pare and holden were work ing inside it was mackiev duty to re main outside and warn them if danger should arise this warning was given by means of a ball of twine which they carried inside the building with them maskie retaining one end in his had and pulling it as a signal pare and holden kept out of the way during the daytime and are the two tramps who were camped just outside the town and towards whom suspicion was directed at the time they waited patiently for the signal ponton was to give them from the railway bridge when u large sum was in the vault on one occasion the signal was given but when pare ascertained all the circumstances which existed on that particular night and which at first sight would appear par ticularly favorable for the purpose of robbery he decided that suspicion must inevitably fall upon ponton if the job was done that night and therefore he insisted upon waiting for a more favor able opportunity on tho night when the robtry was actually committed pare and holden entered the bank leaving mackie outside on guard just about the time they were through with their work mackie gave the danger sig nal by pulling on the string and at the same time they pulled to signal him that they were through and coming out this broke the string and accounts for the ball w twine being left in the bank where it was found the next morning they came out and the three of them climbed tho back way into pontons room which they entered through tho window after climbing over the roof at the trial a woman who had rooms over pontons room gave evidence that she heard voices and noises in pontons room on th night of the roblwry but her evidence was not believed by the magistrate pare says that they went into pontons room where the money was divided according to agreement pontons share which amounted to about 35000 was wrapped in oilcloth placed in a tin biscuit box and was buried by tho side of the railway track by pare who marked tho spot this precaution was taken by tho others to prevent pontons detection which might have occurred had the money been entrustred to his care when according to agreement pare there it remained until april last and holden mot in belleville they bought tickets for beseronto where they got off the train and walked down the railway track to the spot where the stolen money had been buried in order to avoid any suspicion tho mon ey was takon up but before it was handed over to ponton there were some scores to settlo a quarrel over the spoils when tho confederates saw in the press the statement of tbo amount ac tually taken from the bank some of them figured that they had not receiv ed their full share and accused each other of having been guilty of breach of faith in taking a larger sum than each was entitled to all denied having done so with the exception of pon- jtonj who had not been spoken to when they mot bun to hand over the money the others charged him with having taken the missing bills but ho denied the charge however they in sisted that he was the culprit and fined him 2000 of the unsigned bills which pare and holden divided be tween themselves pare says that the gang narrowly escaped detection on tho night that the robbery took place as they were leav ing pontons room one of them knock ed down a shutter which made a clat tering noise and then they heard some one walk across n room two of them just had lime to got into the shed and they peeped out afterwards and saw a woman looking out of one of the win dows on tho top flat they lay quiet far a while until they heard her go back again tind then all was still and they got away the string which they used as an alarm appears to have been rotten and this too on one occasion nearly caused their undoing on one occasion whilst pure and holden were working in the vault mackie suddenly found that thorowas danger and gave the signal with such vigor thnt he broke the string some party came along but apparently thought that the men in the bank were clorks working there and took no further notice the biscuit ox with the money in it was buried nt the particular spot to which reference lias been made because there is a heavy grade there and tho men could with greater readiness jump on and get away fares confession is thoroughly believ ed by the officers who liive been work ing on the case and ihe report that the ik- in which was deposited part of the stolen uiony bis iwcn found near napance wiwro ho indicated it would o found gives confidence in the re mainder of his slory ii may be how ever that his statements regarding ponton have lwen made to shield himvolf and if possible secure his safety by swearing against the other prisoners the very latest from all the world over ntcrcstlot items about our own country ureal britain the united 5taic aac all parts of the osobe ca4eac aod assarted for euy rcadlog a sacred concert mrs biltaon sunday evening cant you go to prayer meeting with ma to night f mr billson impossible my dear i promised jimson that i would go with him to a sacred concert well ph go thore with you umi believe ladles are not admitt ed positive proof teacher now can any of you give any proofs of your own that tho world is not flat little tommy please air if it was you could sec the north pole with a t4leoop canada bishop lafleche is dead at three rivers a hamilton citizen has invented a smoke consumer hamilton is already talking of the next january mayoralty contest bush fires are doing considerable damage in the vicinity of belleville the manitoba temperance party will raise 10000 for the plebiscite cam paign john midwinter of hamilton eigh teen years old was badly crushed in a gravel pit w h dailey of rockport has been appointed bursar of the brockville asylum as a result of the visit of warships a naval brigade is being formed local ly at vancouver the cpr has granted northwestern farmers the welcome boon of loading cars direct from waggons ernest donaghy an ottawa lad died from injuries received by being run over by an express waggon the h 6 navigation company will build a sister ship to the toronto the bertrams have tho contract william atkinson a fourteen-year- old london boy lost a leg at chatham while stealing a ride on the cpr tracklayers on the crows nest pass railway have reached tho crossing of the elk river 150 miles from mcleod the hamilton school board has de cided to discontinue the teaching of domestic science in the publio schools a vein of rich goldbearing quartz has been discovered on seymour creek near vancouver it assays 467 to the ton capt mclean who acted as adc to majorgeneral goscoigne has been appointed to the permanent corps at toronto w j coleman the st catharines iceman whose head was run over by his waggon died on friday lockjaw having set in there is an unconfirmed report of the drowning of rev walter l- lyon the first church of england mission ary to the klondike george moore was sent to prison for fouro months at toronto on monday having been convicted on a charge of picking pockets aid grant of ottawa has very little doubt but that that city will be chosen as the headquarters of the 10th regi ment royal canadians mrs judge ibosse of quebec was killed at river du loup through her horses running away and the carriage colliding with a telegraph pole for repairing a railway bridge near ottawa on sunday a number of labor ers were summoned one was fined 10 and the case will be appealed the first shipment of 250 tons of gal ena ore passed through ottawa en route to belgium yesterday fourteen cars were required to transport it the hebrew residents of lower town ottawa have complained to the chief of police because they are abus ed by their french speaking neigh bors the discovery of a genuine placer is announced from tho michipicoten dis trict it is said to bo located on the shores of one of the many lakes in the district the united states ship lake lemen reported lost has arrived at vancou ver from panama she was seventy- three days at sea without sighting any port w h bartrom solicitor london has sworn out information against judge edward elliott charging him with having disobeyed an act of the legislature in a division court case a shipment of galena from calumet island to belgium assayed 22 to the ton thfs ths mine owners anticipate will yield them a good profit they will ship 1000 tons to belgium at an early date the ontario government has seni mr t b speight tls to explore that section of algoma running from the head waters of the soulais river to the line of the c p r it is about 100 miles in extent tho toronto city council has adopted a bylaw providing that hereafter all bread offered for sale in the city must be in loaves of from one and a half pounds to three pounds in weight of courso this does not restrict the manu facturers of biscuits buns fancy broad etc the laboratory staff at the experi mental farm ottawa are now engaged sending out quantities of tuherculine to the various government veterinary examiners throughout the dominion there are no special outbreaks of tuberculosis but there is always a demand for tuberculine for test pur poses great britain the english artillery team cannot visit canada this year fifty thousand dollars toward the million needed by the london hospital vere raised by the recent bazaar hold by a number of tho london journals a new type of fast torpedoboat de stroyer has been ordered of tho fair field company at glasgow by the brit ish admiralty it will have a speed of 33 knots like the express but will have forty tons less displacement a critical surgical operation was per formed in london on friday morning upon lady salisbury wife of the primo minister the operation was success ful six doctors assistedincluding sir william ii broad bent physician in ordinary to tho prince of wales and dr charles theodore williams phy sician extraordinary to the queen lady- salisbury has long been afflicted with dropsy tho queen was imme diately informed of the result of tho oporation united states fifteen men were killed by a now jersey powder mill explosion in milwaukee there is a full brass band composed exclusively of police men major william g moore for the past 12 years superintendent of police ni washington is dead mrs martha m pjaco of now vork convicted of murdering her stepdaugh ter has leen sentenced to tho electrio chair lieut john j blandih who was offi cer of the deck an the night the united states battleship maine was blown up in havana narbor died in a baltimore hospital the steamer kaiser wilholm der grosse has again broken tho record iw- tween sandy ho k and the needles hav ing covered 314ft knots in five days nineteen hours and- thirtyfive min utes an average speed of 2256 knots mrs george m pjim in accord ance with her intcntfotxpmm some umo since hassled in tho prolate court at chicago her formal renuncia tion of benefits under her late bus- bauds will this is preliminary to making claim to her snare oi the estate under her dower rights general major cotote ferdinand esterhazy of dreyfus case fame and his mistress are under arrest at paris it u reported from shanghai that a french priest has been captured by brigands at shuiuchingfu who de mand a heavy ransom for his release two shipwrecked french fishermen arrived at st johns nfld- having been adrift for 23 days in a dory on the grand bonks 11 days without food prince ahmed safeddin of egypt has been sentenced to seven years impri sonment for trying to murder prince fuad he has been ordered besides to pay over 9000 for tho victims doc tors bill m chauvin the barber deputy of the last parliament who failed to be reelected has excited surprise in paris by going back to bis trade and setting up a barber shop in the tivoli passage where he shaves and cuts hair himself the british warship columbine arriv ed at t johns nfld on wednesday from a fishery protection cruise along the french shore and reports that there is no friction just now between tho french and english fishermen on that coast the british cruiser cordelia commo dore bourke sailed from st johns newfoundland for the french shore to settle a series of disputes between the owners of british and french lobster factories a number of british settlers have had their huts torn down by the crews of warships for illicitly packing lobsters bulgaria is going to take effective means to increase its population for every son born beyond a minimum number so francs will be paid not- only to the father but to the mother also a soldier showing a dozen sons will re ceive a pension large enough to sup port him and besides a decoration the same reward will go to his wife paris is emulating chicago the horse car running from the champ elysees to vauves was held up just outside tho city gates by a gang of six men who after taking the conductors money started in to rob the passen gers they resisted and two men were shot the police succeeded in arresting four of the robbers who were all boys of eighteen years of age the sunday school international lesson july 24 klijabh fil2ht anil encouragement 1 kln 10 lig colricii tvxt inalm 37 j practical notes verse 1 ahab told jezebel ahab bowed in turn to the strongwilled pro phet and to the strongwilled queen all that elijah had done tho sacrifice the answer by fire the slaughter of the priests and the prayer for rain ho had slain all the prophets most of these prophets had probably been im ported f rom sidon and tyre and were therefore countrymen of jezebel an attack on them was an attack on her 2 then jezebel sent a messenger un to elijah the strength of this wom an commands our respect even while we recoil from her personal depravity and her ruinous influence on the na tion the nation was all with her day before yesterday it is all against hef today but she does not waver the message she sent was practical banish ment- if her choice had been to kill elijah she would not have notified him beforehand if she could make him fly in terror he would probably lose his influence with tho people so let the gods do she does not appeal to jehovah as the poor widow of zarep- hath did but is thoroughly loyal to her false gods thy life as the life of one of them that is the head prophets of baal tomorrow about this time she gave him twentyfour hours in which to leave her little king dom that jezebel and not ahab really ruled israel is evident through out the story 3 when he saw that when he con sidered the queens authority he arose and went for his life he had no faith whatever in the stability of the jewish worshipers of jehovah and concluded that jehovahs cause was lost it is a great deal easier to learn to labor and fight than it is to learn to wait many men like elijah strug gle heroically and successfully and in the struggle loao that combination of nervous force moral courage and faith in god necessary to endurance itis the lost quarter of an hour of every battle that counts come to beorsheba which belongoth to judah becrshoba was nearly one hundred miles south of jozrecl and stood at tbo extreme southern limit of pales tine on tbo edce of a great desert it was separated fromjozrcel nol merely by miles but by national lines and was part of tho kingdom of judab left his servant thero 1 solitude is often helpful in hours of mental and moral strain 2 strength and weak ness lie close together in tho charac ters of tho greatest men 4 went a daysjournoy into tho wilderness a desert of gravel now called et tin which stretches for un counted miles eastward and southward westward also from ifccrshehu it was not safe he thought to remain even in tho kingdom of judah for the kingdoms of israel and judah were now friendly sat down under a juni per treo a brown ugly shrub which grows whore nothing olso will grow requested for himself that he might die the causes of bis mental despon dency are suggested by f w rob ertson as follows 1 want of occu pation while hero mis work to bo dono elijah was bravo 2 nervous exhaustion natural revulsion otter a day of mighty offort and strain 3 loneliness note how often elijah said i om alone 4 apparent fail ure his apparent success had vanish- od into thin nir his thought is all is lost let me die the entire story is in accord with the deepest principles c mental and physical science i am not better than my fathers his con science upbraids him if or his own un- tfauhfulnes cowardice end irresolu tion- ho judges himself as he judges others and decides that he is not worthy of prolonged life 3 how yrood it is that god does not answer our mistaken prayers 5 he lay and slept the needs off bis physical nature rest and nourish ment god first supplies tho thoughtful sympathetic christian will orten observe men ond women of strong affections who aro suddenly bereaved urging them to assume exper iences that they aro physical ly and mentally unable to have gods plan is best let them wait until natures strain has been some what eased an angel a messenger apparently supernatural arise and eat 4 gods people alwaya find their real needs met by his care u a cake baken on the coals a round flat cake cooked by being put between heated atones laid in embers of a char coal fire cruse of water a jar or bot tle at his head at his pillow which was very likely a atone he did- eat and drink and laid him down again he is so utterly exhausted in mind and body that he cannot even eat all he requires but takes a little and returns to sleep while god and his angel patiently watt 8 arose from his sleep under the juulper tree verse 4 his bodily wear iness is gone strength of that meat how like the bread sent us from hea ven john 6 35 christ which stren gthened me phil 4 13 fort days hore bwaa not over thirteen days journey see deut 1 2 but israel lived forty years in the wilderness on heavenly bread elijah spent forty days as did moses in preparation for the divine revelation horeb either sinm or the group of which sinai is a peak this is an unsettled point v cave hebrew the care doubt less some wellknown cavern in those awful mountains possibly the cleft of the rock where god placed moses lodged llturally passed the night werdcamo probably in a night vision which may continue until the thirteenth verse it is immaterial whether the wind earthquake andcire were real or only a vision the teach ing is the some what doest thou hereil a queswoao tender ktnd- ness to relieve the full burdened heart of the prophet that he might pour out his whole heart betfore the lord menken vs 10 jealous- not tor his own honor glory or advantage but ifor the lord who can now say that truly israel l4kn david and paul elijah held israel in his heart next to god for saken thy covenant the fiorst down ward etep thrown down thine altars aiter forsaking gods covenant the next step as 4o neglect his service and overthrow his altars slain thy pro phets hatred o good and murder collow naturally see the history of the romish church i only am left here elijah oversteps the truth see verse 18 and 1 ktings 18 4 but it seemed to him that be was alone in his struggle with wrong seek my life not that he teared fdeatb see verse 4 but it was the culmination o2 israels sin so atfterward they sought to kill jesus john 8 3740 so too in chris tianity there has never been lacking a persecution of those who have preached repentance and faith with zeal and ear nestness bah r 11 go forth the septuagint has go forth tomorrow see verse 13- it also puts tho next words into tho same sentence our version follows luther it is better to translate go forth and stand behold jehovah passeth by a great wind earthquake t fire though god sometimes ride in the storm earth quake and fire yet he revealed not himself to elijah in answer to his in tercession against israel rom 11 2 in that form that had been elijahs way of reforming men god now taught him that it was not his way jesus taught his disciples a similar lesson when they wished to follow elijahs example luke 8 5456 the lord was not in the chaldee version is the glory of the lord shekinah was not in the hosts of tho angels of the wind etc the true glory of tho lord is not in overpowering majesty but in his attributes of love and mercy 12 a still small voice literally a sound of soft stillness just the gen tle peaceful comforting voice needed by his wounded heart to him it was a rest and consolation perhaps noth ing more but to us favored by fur ther revelation it lights up the fact that the law was given by moses but grace and truth come by jesus christ john i 17 13 elijah heard and recognized it as the voice of god mantle his up per garment a sort of cloak or capo perhaps made of untanned sheepskins his face an instinct of reverence and awe stood in the entering in the cave must have been largo r than that now shown as the cave of elijah 15 go return active service is the beat cure for discouragement wilder ness probably the region between bashan and damascus anoint we have no record of tho anointing of either hazael or jehu by elijah it may have been dono in secret as in the case of david or left to his successor anoint should probably not be tak en literally but means appoint 16 jehu the son of nimshi that is the grandson sco 2 kings 9 2 jehu wasthe son of jehoshaphat the son of nimshi elisha this name des tined to rival that of elijah was a hint to elijah of hj3 mistake in supposing that ho alone of all israel served the lord he probably knew the place and the man verse 19 20 abelmcholah meaning tho field of the dance must have been in the jordan valley not far from bethshean i spanish mind tranquil ivopie 7hlltfiirlel by tlie serious evenfs tntilng ijncr a despatch from madrid says premier sagasta on monday evening summed up the situation in the fol lowing words politically there is complete calm we have a cabinet council at six oclock asked whether peace would be dis cussed he said wc shall see i quote this especially as showing the absolute calm existing in tho spun- ishiniud atl a moment when events so serious to the country are taking place what is startlingly striking and in comprehensible to everyone is tbo ab solute stoicism displayed by the span ish ministry its debates are carife on as though the times wore normal and there was no urgency regarding immediate action thu fatalism is only equalled by that of tho turk it is tbo most powerful weapon of spanish statesmanship ond one which upsets all the bestlaid schemes of either diplomacy or coer cion it is elastic and lias a resist ance however against which no or dinary pressure has substantial force- a bullet that will pierce through a halfinch iron plate is effectively stop ped by a looselyhung blanket this metaphor is suggested by the present situation in politics german cruiser fired at itnlleil stales ttunbont htmu a shell after flit irene the hong kong correspondent of the london daily mail says united states consul wildman informs me that as the gorman orulsor irene woe passing mnriveles off manila the oth er day tho united states gunboat hugh mccultocb was sent after hen to ash her tot stop as the irene refused to obey a shell was sent across bcr bows and a small boat went to discov- by death or plunged into some other i er what she was doing the german unmeasured suffering they are in admiral protested and insisted that such physical and mental j condition german ships bad a right to enter the tboy cannot at ffirat exercise the faith harbour without being searched- a in god that they really possess un- claim which admiral dewey declined wise friends sometimes do harm by to recognize i l