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sanctity of the eev frank de witt talmage speaks on the evils of divorce ikntered accordinc to act of tta p jiaincnt of canada la th year oo itottssnir nino mcmlied and thrm by win muily of toronto t tho twprtment vt acrlcultur ottw look at this responsibility in another way i suit to myself yes i am wrong that county clerk cannot tell me what i ought to do the chicago says flaivr ho sands to ine is only a lic- a despatch from rev frank do wirt talmage preach- jgss cd from the following text x 9 what therefore god hath joined together let no man put usunder as the civil war was the mortal clash between two conflicting ideas so today we find conflicting ideas in mortal combat over the marriage al tar tito one is the ciirist idea which declares that marriage is n0 that a confederation that can bo broken at will but an indissoluble union this the twa the second idea declares that easy track that is no reason why i should divorce is not a crime but often forj nnl 4l t the social good a necessity it says that when a man and a woman are governmental privilege pcr- mark witting mo to marry the parties if i wish 1 am not compelled so to do for instance the saloon keojwr gets n city license and has the privilege of selling me a gloss of whiskey but because it is lawful for me to buy whiskey from him that is no reason why i should drink it because the sporting element of san francisco gets a city license for holding a prize light that is no reason why i am compelled to go and witness two u pugilists batter each others face in- idea asserts that after marriage wain in every sense becomes one j gamblers to open a race unequally yoked together it is better v r i r w that they be separated by law even has een suful y divorced that is r rxj reason why i should tarnish the g if the cause for separation be not so serious as that recognized in the bible and more that they may if tliey wish contract new marriages a call for united action against the further spread and for the extermination of this divorce evil the catholic church is already up in arms against it the presby terian church with its general assem bly committee working in unison with the sister churches is struggling night and day against it only a few weeks ago all the rhode island ministers banded themselves together to give religious combat thus as the public leaders of many denomina tions are lighting this undermining and would be destroyer of the home it is not inappropriate for mo to speak a few words in reference to those legal and domestic causes which might hereafter make easy divorce an impossibility first nothing can bo accomplished in a material way unless there is national legislation or at least con certed action among the different state legislatures upon this subject rfhero must bo all dwr tho land har monious and united legal action against tho divorce evil it it should be made impossible for a man to get a divorce in one state which ho could not obtain on tho same ground in any one of the 3000 di vorce courts of the united states all those courts ought to be in agree ment as to what causes justify and what do not justify the dissolution of a marriage avo- recognize the necessity of the criminal courts- of the united states working in harmony why shauld we not recognize the necessity of concerted action by divorce courts and rouse public sentiment upon this go and patronize tho bookmakers bccaurc the county clerk tells me that i can remarry a libertine who no by i should tarnish tho good name of my church by placing such n black record upon the session hooks no no my brother minis ters we cannot thus shirk our re sponsibilities you and i are respon sible before god when we become of ficiating parties m the marriages of divorced persons a religious mar riage means infinitely more than a mere civil contract if not why do nearly all people desire to bo married by a clergyman instead of by a police justice or a county judge responsibility of ministers wo are responsible as ministers a legal divorce in ninetynine cases out of a hundred is not sufficient ground for a church divorce we must remember that the minister be fore the world stands as the repre sentative of tho church why legal divorces are often obtained on the flimsiest excuses bishop fallows in a scathing attack upon this marital evil quotes some of the most absurd and trivial causes on account of which meu and women have boon divorced one woman got a legal divorce because her husband enlisted in the united states navy another because her husband smoked and gave her headaches another her hus band called her sister a thief an other because her husband did not like her front hair and cut part- of itoff ono husband secured a di vorce because his wife refused to sow on his buttons another because he told his wife he had found an other woman whom he could loyo b think of any minister -bo- itig guilty of such a heinous sin as to marry such divorcees to other marital partners it is high time for us ministers to band together some years ago in chicago a man killed his wife and burned her body in the vat of a sausage factory sun- posing after that crime he could have stepped across the state line and in indiana defied tho legal au thorities of illinois what would have been the result supposing that a notable murderer could have s walked a free man in philadelphia af ter he had poisoned his child wife in new york pity why murder and outlawry would be everywhere in tho united states running rampant to- day your life would not bo worth the value of a- pin only as you wore able to protect it with your own arm and defy your would bo murderer behind lhe barricaded walls of your own home no no the only safety of life depends upon this fact if you commit a murder in one state and then run away another state gover nor will recognize your extradition pavers and allow you to bj forcibly returned to the place where you com mitted the crime flood of national infamy a second breakwater to dam back this submerging hood of national in- fumy it is for the gospel ministers lo protest against it by practice as well as by preaching the pulpit cannot speak loudly ulid with the voice of a true leader unless at the same time it refutes to become a party to the national crime of easy divorce what do i mean by this statement that tho minister him self shall not bo a blatant and a brutal divorce oh no no self respecting christian church would allow her minister to continue- preaching in her pulpit after a di vorce escapade paul writes a bishop must lc blameless the hus band of one wife no ministers life can bo blameless when he turns his back upon his first wife for an unjust cause but i do mean this a minister should not officiate at the second marriage of a divorcee unless ho himself knows positively that the divorced ninn was not culp able in lite snapping of the marital bonds by such a ministerial course public sentiment would be aroused against this national evil and arous ed quickly and permanently 1 have taken oidy lately this stand in reference to tho clergyman re sponsibility like hundreds and thousands of other ministers i hav hcretoforo sa hi any way thv personal character of thoso whom i unite in marriage when i used to live in new york slate i hnd to asi tho contracting parties a long list of questions and make a re port lo the county officials in refer ence to the same but jn tho state of illinois the clerk of the county question by our actions as well as by our preaching we must protest against this national crime wo must do this because a church marriage before god and man means that- the church gives its sanction to the union and regards it as sacred and indissoluble a hint to parents t once heard of a young lady who used to boast that she was engaged to three different young men at the same time she had in her posses sion three different engagement rings after awhile she dismissed all three suitors and married a fourth do you wonder that after such perfidies her married mfo was unhappy un true to her fiance of course she was untrue to her husband a divorce scandal a few years later was the result her father a noble christian mnn of the west a a result felt himself disgraced mid resigned ids pulpit for ho was a minister his life was to some extent wrecked as well as hers you say such a course as that is an extreme caso of course but all evils should not to despised because they arc not monstrous evils the little seem ingly harmless flirtatious during summer vacations or at a church picnic or in the street enrbr concert hall arc all divorce seed plantings you cannot trifle with human affec tions in youth without being in dan ger ns an iconclnst of smashing the marriage shrine when you are mid dle aged let parents bo careful with whom their children associate let thein beware of what they arc allowed to say to others and what others aro allowed to say to them it is all well enough to talk about the vaunted freedom of tho ameri can boy and girl but for my own part especially in reference to the promiscuous association of young people and the careless pi onuses they are allowed to make 1 think they have altogether too much freedom purification of the press gold a bod boov worms its way into the moral vitals and fatally poisons the heart the way for good people to keep pure and to prepare themselves for a christian marriage which will never be broken this side or on the other side of the grave is for them to live with good people they must work to make men good they must positively ic- fuse to associate with the bad whether that bad is found in fiction or in real life when the nowapapers of tho united states made heroes out of the chicago bandits they placed u premium on crime when a bad book eulogizes unci glorifies the broken marriage ring it is only gilding the open door of the divorce court which is tho guillotine of mar ital love when divorce is justified but some ono asks mo in closirg are divorces always wrong should a husband and wife be com pelled to live together under all con ditions oh no the violation of the marriage vow justifies divorce christs own words imply that there are other conditions which justify separation even when there has been no violation of that vow it would be a grievous injustice to enforce constant companionship when one of the parties to a marriage has contracted habits which render the continued relation an intolerable misery to the other 1 have known such cases and have rejoiced that the law permits the innocent party to be relieved of the burden and af fords protection from molestation it is not for mo to say when a stage has been reached which demands tho intervention of the law but i do contend that it is a menace to the morals of the people when a contract so solemn and sacred as that of marriage can be broken on pretexts so frivolous as those now recognized in many states- i protest also against the diversity of the divoivo j laws of tho different states which i tends to confusion ahd uncertainty i in the relation to vital as this to tho morality and stability of society in this discussion 1 have present ed for the most part only the tem poral side of the divorce question if i had spoken from tho spiritual side the result would have been self evident gospel love never gave birth to legal hale may the christ who uttered the protest of the text against promiscuous divorce bless the earnest words of one whom god has greatly blessed with a happy home r war recobd of a dog once belonged to gen botha and followed troops through war unusual interest centred in a case heard in the dublin police court re cently in which the leading figure was a bulldog that formerly belonged to gen philip botha and went through a good portion of tho south african war ernest wnrmingham canteen manager for the contractors was summoned for cruelty to the animal which has been stntiosod for some time past with the royat irish rifles at richmond barracks the bulldog which now belongs to color sergeant edwards itoynl irish rifles was accommodated with a scat in the witness box from which point he seemed to tako v languid interest in the proceedings he was dressed in a coat with green facings and wore several south african medals with clasps the an imals record is an eventful one during tho boer war he was captur ed by the second royal irish rifles mounted infantry from command ant philip bothas farm in the doornberg in september 1900 from that time until the end of tho war ho trked with the rifles mounted force from griqualand in the west to basil tolnud in tho cast and he still bears the scar of a wound received in action later he was with gen frenchs column in care colony for his service the bulldog now wears the queens south african medal with three clasps and the kings south african modal with two clasps mr drury remarked when the case was called that this was the most distinguished dog in the country as he had medals a zoologists paradise englishmens pbivate zoo largest in world keeps all kinds of animals at times in his sitting room beautiful hazlcinere park in bucfc- iuhamshirc england is not only one of tho handsomest seats in tho country but is also a veritable zoo logists paradise for it is filled with almost every species of animal under the sun here young bob lcadbetter one of the wealthiest and most eligible young men in londons society is master and rides to his liearts con tent ids hobby for queer pets his beautifully kept lawns and gardens are given over to a number of mag- uiheent creatures whose roars at ono that time made african jungles shake and the sight of whose tawny and striped bodies has caused terror throughout certain purls of india in various parts of the estate there are picturesque rustic houses filled with strong and padlocked iron the other a yearold lion both in stances he puts down to their un governable tempers which for the instant got quite the better of them for according to mr leadbetter a jt animal is always sorry after ward bears he has discovered aro the most uncertain am ho warns all venturers into tho field of animal collection to beware of this particu lar branch of the animal family ho can claim experience as the basis of this warning for he had at one time seven bears -4- ants which kidnap the sunday school international lessen jan 31 text of the lesson luke v 111 golden text john viii 31 sole business of the ruling class is to fight cns plunder a hundred years ago a swiss na turalist pierre huber the son of uu eminent father made the discovery certain specks of ants kidnap members of other communities and turn them into slaves a writer in harpers magavine says that one species tho rufescent ant forms sort of military caste which raids upon neighboring nests for the cages and these cages are occupied if- la ami p lhes0 by some strange some ferocious and lhev takp home some of them to beautiul and some terrifying and serve as food and others to be turned all oddlooking inhabitants for a i into workers the worker the fjs- quiet and respectable country homoj tie the work of in england construction of foraging and feeding almost every sort of animal that the family the sole business of the roams the forest or plain is rcprc- ruling class is to light and plunder sealed in mr leadbetters collection j anrt to control the succession and and only the most exclusive blue- citizenship of tho commune other blooded members of each family are species have been found to have the allowed to become inmates of itazic- jsanie habit but the bestknown salve- lnerc park j makers are still those of ilubers dis- somo of mr leadbetters society i covcry friends in london think it is a dan- when the rufescent or amazon ant gcrous fad for a man to have but has determined upon a raid the nest then they have not seen the young a sce of wild excitement the englishman with his pets raiders issue from the city gates and he is as devoted to all of them j assemo upon the vo exterior as they aro to him and he oven has there is much running to and fro a number of the less formidable ones j challenges are exchanged by in his house where they have taken crossing antennae or striking them but the order of events is not of sc sharply upon the forehead the ants much importance as becoming bettei hurry about- as if they were engaged acquainted with god through jesui another divorce preventive the purification of the press both jn book form and in periodical and in the morning newspaper the pesti ferous crush which every day and every week anil every month like a winter blizard is flung into our faces by tho snowstorm of the print- iijg press is enough to destroy tho healthy heart throbs of any young id to mvself amnot 1v is w read it compelled to look into l j of w i m r against good publications but bad publications go to almost any bookstand that you sec and open some of the books at random and the raid there wo find the authors j th make their heroes out of bad men and their heroines out of bad wom en with here and there n i dooming whlie spot to offset these black chnr- roken marriage vows fr1vate stations there- arc a number of private rail way stations in great britain tho duke of sutherland owns a largo pro portion of the north of scotland dunrobin castlo in that district has its station for tho duke and his household called after tho castle punrohin then there is tho beau tiful station or wnlchingwell in the isle of wight which belongs to sir john s b simeon also the station in connection with avon castle and that of the earl of warwick at ens- ton lodge while mrs bomantyno dykes has had limit for lior own use and enjoymmt a picturesque sta tion about throe miles from cocker- mouth f seventieth anniversary seventy years of wedded life mr and mrs c i webster of clinton wis recently celebrated their seven tieth wedding anniversary mr web ster is ninetythree years old and his wife is ninety this estimable couple joined the methodist church two years after their marriage and have it seems been faithful mem bers ever since mr webster has held many important offices in the church since 1818 he has acted as trustee recording steward class leader and sundayschool superin tendent both mr and mrs web ster aro in excellent health they entire possession of his own private domain he has always been particularly fond of animals of every sort and kind ho began keeping wolves and tiger cats and various other small and harmless pets when ho was fif teen years old but the hunting instinct is strong in mr lcadbetter and with true huntsmans scorn of all prey that is not of the finest he refused to add to his menagerie any that were not particular fine specimens of their kind he believed that in a private col lection everything should be of the best that accounts for the reputa tion his menagerie has gained among zoologists for its exceptionally fine and healthy animals no artificial heat the young man has decided opin ions on the way to manage and rear his pets and lie carries them into practice ho does not believe in any artifi cial heat for tropical animals jn the coldastweathcrtaiid neither blsmiorej not tircrs non as the majority or them have htfon in india are sup plied with any artificial heat during the winter they have roomy sleep ing places behind their front dens and in the cold weather any amount of straw otherwise they must depend upon nature for their heat and comfort mr lcadbetter has had tamo lco- ards lions bears wolves and jackals on different occasions in tho house and in his own particular sitting- room they always owned him ns master and would obey no ono else of course ho brought them in lirst very young the most valuable specimens of this unique zoo at the present time are four lions one sultan a larger beautiful fullmanod animal is con sidered the largest and finest speci men in any zoological establishment in the world tho lions do particularly well un der mr leadbetters care and two strong litters of four have been reared and bred at ilazlemcro park mr lcadbetter head keepers favor ite amusement is to put a three- month old lion cub on his- knee and watch him play with a kitten his great playfellow tho cat always sleeps curled up on the lions back and many a fine romp the two the great and the little cat have to gether tho englishmans pride and parti cular friends arc the royal bengal tigers which are wonderfully fine animals and so devoted to their master that they make a great fuss over him every time he visits them emperor the big male always comes up to be stroked there arc some very largo whito siberian camels that arc beautiful beasts and one a stallion is an enormous creature with a wonder fully good temper tho list of the animals that tho young zoologist has spent so many vear and so much care in collecting is a largo ono great variety of animals resides the tigers lions and lion esses leopards pumas bears in cluding a very big one from alaska tome malay sun bears cevcial hyen as including the spotted or laughing variety now xery scarce indeed and a lot of big siberian wolves bred at hazlcmerc jackals from af rica audlmhn some white sibor camels todays lesson tells of several fish ermen who left all to follow jesus it would seem from john i- 4051 thut andrew and simon philip ti nathanael had already begun to fol low him but evidently not to ttw extent of forsaking all to follow him fully after the people of nazareth drove i jim out he made cupcruauw his home and from thence he went about all galilee teaching preaching and healing all manner of slcknesi and disease matt iv 13 23 it would seem from matt iv 1822 mark i 1620 that simon and andrew took a step further in follow- ling than that recorded in john i and that james and john heartily joined them on that occasion simon and an drew were casting a not into the sea while james and john were in the ship with their father mending thcii nets in our lesson today tho fisher men had gone out of their ship and were washing their nuts there is no need to try to lvconcilo the records let them stand as records of different events in the frst they forsook their nets but now they forsake all the life of the believer is a series of separations from sin and self and the world to become more wholly tlir lords for his service according to gospel harmonies it is probable that the sermon on thi mount mntt v 7 comes in be tween the last lesson and this one in preliminary evolutions and mean- whilo most of the slaves placidly car ry on their accustomed occupations although a few of them catch tho in fection of haste in their superiors and hurry about- with the air of spurring them on to battle at last tho muster is complete and the col umn moves forward while the slaves remain on duty about the nest which at once taker on its usual as pect of peaceful industry a hundred yards distant perhaps is a fuscan village the warriors fall upon it and meet with no re sistance although a few of the in habitants manage to flee carrying with them some of the family trea sure eggs larvae and pupae but there arc plenty of young left and these tho invaders bear in their jaws they take the home trail now but not in ordered ranks now it is go as you please tho slaves arc hastily deposited in tho nests and the domesticated slaves tak chaitre of them r ti then the amazons their greed of conquest not yet satisfied sally forth again in solid column their course is bent toward another settlement and this a largo and prosperous one rouses to repel them tho workers hastily barricade galleries and nurs es gather the young into interior rooms for concealment or readier es cape then comes the tug of war tho ground is covered with a con fused mass of struggling combatants here and there groups aro balled to gether in such a tangle of interlocked jows and limbs that only the fighters themselves can tell friend from foe the slnvemakeis arc not always victorious but the chances are that they do enter tho besieged city and hear away many larvae and pupae as they trail homeward one may see a warrior drnging along a trophy of battle in the shape of a severed black head tho unrelaxed jaws still clinging to its foremans leg sometimes the survivors in the vil lage will follow and harass the rear of the column pounce on tho strag glers and succeed in rescuing a few captives before long the fugitives return from the grass and fern whith er they had fled with their young or from the recesses where they had been bnrriended and tho life of tho community is rcorgnnfzed the lit tle ones for whom they had fought so desperately grow up in the con quering city and perhaps before tho season ends aro cheering on their captors to another raid on their na tive village x new friction match in germany where the government controls the manufacture of matches the use of white phosphorus hux boon prohibited a new mateilal made of nonpoisonous rod phosphorus has been substituted for it the now match ignites at n higher tempera ture than do those of the old style but it can bo lighted by scratching on almost any material its cost is much lower than that of the white phosphorus matches for which it lias been substituted court docs that he nrks the quesi actors i firs he gives the license he is vcnilde harold indecencies deceit- rrponxhnv for the marriage and not ful wives deceiving nun t lie e move i put a short tinir ago when ur an over changing kaleidoscope lulslng lo a brothr minister upon for the fascinated eyes of the oung he subject he said you are wrong leaders you vnnol shirk jour responsibility j learii to call crime respectable and terform tho operation for in thai vsy then i commenced to a mans dishonor u free lance of twenty dollars- o titer britons re tallest ie british professional clashes are tallest adult males in the world average is fift ojin united states males follow and behind them come males of all british class- es most european nationsnvernge conceivable feathered foreigner for the adult male 5ft gin but the mr lcadbetter has a strange pnw- aiistrians spaniards and portujcr over his animals and it is the giicse just fall short of this stauj rarest thing for even the wildest to ilnrd show their wcllloveil master the t ighlest atitagonlmii 1vlend but if theres no hope of of all the pinny wild beasts he has there the boy and the ulrl saiing mm what un you going of had as lets on only two orcnslons doctor j has he ikmi injured by them ono i was a halfgrown brown tear and in the centre of kildine nn island in tho north sea is perhaps the most curious lake in the world the surface of its waters is qui to fresh icveral brown camels from jnnd supports freshwater creatures egypt a number of yaks a hock of jbut deep down it is as salt as tho syrian sheop a white sacred egyp- greatest depths of the sea and salt- tlan ass llamas nlpnois peccaries water fish live in it monkeys of numerous varieties in dian zebus buffaloes and two white sacred indian zebus this about complete the list of wild animals tun by no means includes the whole collation tiore are wonderfully beautiful foreign birds scarlet macaws blue and yellow military macaws several parrots cockatoos and wry a bad memory iiiaic the liars night- its an easy matter to hoar aches of anothers corns the prisoners in franco nro krmittcd to pay one visit to dying parents as u rule men donkeys and facts arc stubborn things the forward look stimulates the fonvnrd step christ as wo sec him standing bj tho lake of genucsaret the sea ot galilee we remember that he made it and every living thing in it tlu river that flows through it and thi hills that surround it all things were made by him and for him cot i 1g hob i 3 john i 13 the people see that he spoke ai never man spake and they crowd around htm to receive the living bread and living water which are ic him that ho may separate a ltttlf from the crowd and thus be bettei able to teach them he steps into simons boat and asks him to pus out a little from the land and sit ting down he taught them out of the boat vo may safely conclude that ho taught thorn out of the scriptures the things of tho kingdom and the things concerning himself and that his word was wit and that some helievcd- belioypjl not for aic tumseli thattho spoil aluws falls side rocky thornynnd fcoodf blessed are all who receive his word with meekness jas i 21 having used simons boat as a pulpit ho will reward him for the loan of it and so he told him to launch out into the deep and let down his nets for a draft no one ever suffered loss by giving attention to the speci al work of christ but multitudes have been blessed for time and eter nity by obeying matt vi 33 if wo see to nis work ito will sec to all our need better than we could thore were plenty of fish in the sea and they were no mean fishermen but toiled and taken nothing do- scribes the result of their labor it had been thus far their skill their wisdom their labor now it is his word that they let down the net and tho result is two boats filled with fishes when he works wheth er it bo men or angels or creatures the one thing on their part is obe dience whether it bo a great fisli to swallow jonah or a little fish to bring a piece of money or a multi tude of fishes to fill these nets all aro obedient lo him jesus said let down your nets but simon snid i will let down the net un belief on our part is tile great hind rance yet on this occasion our lord wrought notwithstanding simons lack of faith it is our lords way to fill empty vessels and empty peo ple and one of 1iw very precious words to us is blessed aicthcy that hunger and thirst after right eousness for they shall be filled 11 kings iv ex xl 11 citron v lidc acts ii matt v c kjiu v v is he oft allows us to loll in vain that we may see our own hci lessness and let him work when tho lord thus wrought sic on so saw his un worthiness that lit cried pcpnit from me for i am u sinful man o lord verse 8 and so it was with others when they saw tho glory of the 1cird job xlil fi g 3su vi 5 dan x 8 rev i 17 we arc vessels ear thorn vessvls and if we would let the master have con trol of us who can tell what great nnd mighty things ho might do u iov iv 7 11 tim ii 21 jer xxxiii 3 in some unlikely way and perhaps through some weak but empty vessel the spirit ol god works and we all stand astonished when we are broken down ami con scious of our sinfulness and utter tin- worthiness then we hear his fear not or peace be unto you or other word of qulclne and encour agement it is only the proud will ful rebellious and hard of heart who have cause to fear for nil such god will humble and abuse isa ii 11 17 dan iv 37 but those who have come to tho end of themselves he will bless and use as to forsaking all notice live conditions on which we can becomi disciples in malt xvi 21 luke xiv 33 all who truly leceive jesus christ as their saviour become chil dren of god for the gift of god it eternal life apart from nny work of bur john i 11 vi 23j ill 24 iv i but to be u dlsciph means v whole hearted foisaking o all for his sake the cost f om salvation fell wholly on chrl hi cost of dlsciplcship fulls in i zfir- i