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I have heard. more than once, tip“ you have nlwnyl spoken of your put his A: Having been led and sorrowful nnd hove begged to be excused from making any reference to is. This shown an honorable intention on your part, but. if there ha been no suggestiofidsi,there he. certainly been a suppreoeio verb}. which "g, .1me pp echeeto it. _ «You have. 5» III-moo. (not that rpm. “I shall certainly respect your confi- dence,” I answered. “ whatever it may be shot you have to any.” - t , °‘ You ere very kind,” he replied “ and I think you will be acting prudently. 0f oourle you saw me yesterday with‘ your fuller, who was somewhat .eurprised at seeing you here. 3nd from whom I gatho ered with astonishment, and I must also admit. not without a considerable amount of pin. that. you had been stopping emongst an under aname, Which you possibly acting under mistaken advice, had been led to ”some with the view of concealing your put history. “Tint is why,” he continued, I have uken the perhaps unusual course of calling “one, because 1 wish, if you desire it; that. whn panes between us should be known to no one but ourselves, unless you think fit. to make in public on your own at}. .“AA 1) tome .3 a maker of duty, upon a .very pdnful and difficult subject. . I Ind guessed“ much, and I tgld him Personally, fortune had favored Dr. Pro- pel t. He wss A man of fine presence, if uotaltoget’ner of handsome features, and would have made a capital field officer of Foot Guards. He was now. to all appen- mceg, just about the wrong side of fifty. but by very little, and now that I am recal- ling these details. 1 may as well add that he bed a faultless sent in the saddle, and in nanny other respects contrasted more than favorably with the county squires of the neiglzbflhood. ' , liter 3 little exchange of sentencéa about. nothing in particular, the Desi: told me. u I had qxpecced, may he came to speak -_ _- -- - ‘_u, tionskwho, like the Athenians in the days of Paul. are always seeking after something new. T hirhad led to his gmcionS‘notice by a. certain moat exalted personage. through whose persons! influence he had been elevated to the Deanery oi Salchester, with the entire concurrence not only of the [amenable world, bung-f Printing House Square. the inspired voice of which pro- nounced him to be. in these days of doubt mu! difficulty, perhaps the very best men that could have been selected for the pre- ciao piece of preforment in question. and bed gone on to dnw a. most learned and i intemting parallel between him And Cyril ‘ of Alexendrie, and Tillotson, And Keble, and a dozen or so of other eminent ecclesi- notice. After this he had beelxflinvmed to preach when I believe are termed show sermons to fuhionable and critical Leudoe eqngregao .4... _.L- L'L- AL, .e a moment. that I was not very bitterly annoyed. Early next morning, while I was still wondering .what might happen. I was, 1 moot but confess, mtonished to be told that the Dean himselfâ€"not the Dean of Sonthwick,but the Dean of Salchester itself â€"would be glad to see me if I were disen- gaged. I, of course. replied that I should be delighted to see him, and in he came. Ihsve hitherto omitted to describe Dr. Proport, and I may perhaps conveniently do no n; this point. Unlike my father, he had taken a high University degree,’ and had tor some years acted as n Fellow sud Tutor ‘ of his College. In this capacity he hnd ,4 embed seVersl University sermons,which without being markedly heteroddx or mili- iantly orthodox, had yet given rise to con- sidersble discussion of a chnncter entirely favorable to their author. ~ So I went back tn my lodgings in a most. unpleasant slate of uncertainty. I was not going to Now myself to be distressed at the miter. let it turn out. how it. might. ; but. it. would be a distinct afl'ectation to pretend for if the two first. are apt at times to puzzle you, ynu can certainly say of ecclesiastics as a class, that; it, is uzteriy impossible ever to tell how theyrwiu act under any given set. of circumsmnces, or even whether they will act at all. ' For the world. as an old provei'b runs,» is divided into men, women, and priests, and This much I might. take for granted Then came the question what would follow and here I was fairly puzzled. dance. And, when I came to recollect it when. a» malignany tissue of lies that evidence had been, 3nd how craftily framed to discredit me to the utmost possible extent. He would prefer them to the cruelly misleading reports in the papers, of which I felt certain that his vanity had prompted him to make an slbum, if only for the value of the sentence in ‘whieh the. reporters described the manifest emotion and posit??? mguish with which he had given his evi- was must probably doomed we. natural death as soon as in was seen thnt \Ir. ‘uleadowsweet and myself continued friends n rarugsr and not, in seeming merely. But my fuher wouid be certain, out. of men malice. to tell the story from his own point of view, and with his own embellish mama, to the Dean and toeverybody else. What. was I to do? I did not want to leave Salchester if I could possibly help it. The Meadomweet 'troublejf I may"'so term it, “are [made several small purchases, loitering over them until! cofxld see that the coast. was perfectly clear, and then I allied out, and, as quickly as I could, hurried home. me a chance of retreat, nnd which, provi- dentiully, was: a. milliner’a and ladxea’ drapers. I made show which was most unmis- ahbzy directed to the Dean of Sdchester eloue, and intended to exclude his oom- panion, and then quickening my pace Walked mm the very first, shop which gave CHAPTER. XXV. - I was walking down the High Street one day looking in at. the shop windows. rabher thm emu:me,wheu,iorsomereason orother, I threw my eyes across the road, and saw tpproachiug me on the other side of the way the Very Reverend the Dean of- Salchestcr uccompnined by no less or other' in ecclesiastic than the Very Reverend glue Dean of Southwick, and my eyes me: those of the two. THE DEAN AND HIS DAUGHTER. VOL 1- NO 36. The Omemee Mirror; covered ecclemuu‘cal novel of Trollope's ylyich I had pqrchued at. the bbokltall as fining more 0} less tpprofirifiive $0 the can; [do not mind é'onfesaing that I kissed the volume 3nd put. in tenderly by in my travelling bag before turning to A yellow covered eccleaiutical novel of Trollope’s He ut my rate was not ashamed that, so for n: I was ~oncerned, all the world should know we had been the closest. of frienfis and possibly even more. I saw the messenger myself, and with a heavy heart sent back a message of thanks. By noon next day I had completed all my arrangements, paid all my bills, disposed of my pony and carriage, and taken an af~ fectionate farewell of my little maid, whose sorrow at having to leave me was only equalled by her astonishment at the unex- pected present of a Post Office savings bank deposit book. assuring her of the fact that five pounds stood to her credit. I took her round to the Post Office myself, and went » through the necessary formalities. The poor child was fairly amazed, but I am sure that the present had nothing whatever to do with her manifestations of regret at my departure, which were very sincere and, in spite of herself, demonstra- tive. She was a nice bright girl. and i hope she has married or will marry a good hus- band. I had written to Mr. Meadowsweet a. re- quest which he could hardly refuse, that he should he at the station to see me off. He was there as boldly and as regardlessly of possible Salchester opinion as need be. And e also was armed with some hot-house flowers which I knew must have come down fropthondon, and with a copy of the christian Year. He saw me into my carriage, remained talking to me at the door, did not finally shake hands until the train had begun to move, and then stood watching it from the platform until it turned a curve before reaching the bridge over the river, and so hid him from sight. I put the flowers by and opened the book. Right across the titlepage he had written in his own bold, clear hand, “ Lady Craven. from Sebastian Meadowsweet, with every hearty good wish.” ' Hé shook hands very cordially and took his leave, and some two hours afterwards his gardener brought round a. lovely bouquet of flowers, attachnd to which was M rs. Propert’s card, and the intimation in her autograph that they came with her kindest I will always think welldand kindly of you. I can answer for her as certainly as for my- self. Should chance bring us anywhere together again, pray remember that we consider you our friend. and hold you in the hat of our lriends. I am sure you are right in going. and were I you. I should not needlessly defer my departure. Let me again assure you of my full belief in all you have told me, and of my sorrow and sym- pathy. “ You will certainly not be forgotten at the Deanery, Lady Craven,” he said. “ I have no secrets from my w_if»e, but. she and n. u K ' ’ _ D The Dean was cordial In his manner, but evidently relieved at, the urn affairs had taken. “And now,Mr.Dean,” I conclurled,rising And offering my lumd. “I must seek rest. and a h1dlng~place elsewhere. I shall go as soon as possible, and I can only hope that I shall be 3.3 soon as possible forgotten." ML, 1\ rest. “'ould any woman have done otherwise than ldid‘? I told him the whole story from beginning to and, leaving out nothing that told against me. and carefully doing justice, as I always have done and always shall do in my own mind, to the highly honorable and dignified manner in which my husband had acted throughout. I spoke of him without a word of bitter- neas. I spoke of him in fact as I had always found himâ€"honorable, and, but for his foibles: a. man to be admired. 0f George Sabine I also told the truth. Of myfather I also told the truth, without concealing any portion of it. and carefully avoiding anything that mightbe construed into vindictiveness. And I then added, what of course he knew, that I had come to Salcheater solely to hide myself and to I "1 am sure you will acquit me,” he went on, “of any desire to judge harshly ‘ of your conduct, or to in any way dictate ; to you. But I cannot help thinking, you will upon reflection agree with myself, I that it is advisable that you should leave Salchester. Personally, I shall be sorry to llose you, and I may say the same mast lunreservedly for my wife. But you will, Icsnnot but feel, see that by stopping here you will place many members of the Chapter, together with their families, in a position of the greatest ditficulty and embarrassment; and this, as a mere matter of good feeling, if not indeed of positive duty, you on ht to do your best at any ; personal sacri co to avoid.” It is refreshing to meet a. gentleman. even though he may be bigoted. And I doubt. after all, whether clergymen are by any means so bigoted as it is the custom to represent them. And once again I could not help thinking of my father, and reflect- ing how meanly and shabbily he had be- haved, not only all through his pitiful his~ .tory, but in this last miserable incident in its course. Had there been a spark of manhood in his soul he would have bitten ol'i~ his tongue sooner than have used it of deliberate mal- ice to drive me out of my little harbor of refuge. ‘ but as one which might Very well present itself most untnvombly to the judgment of others), allowed yourself to publicly pur- take or the most sacred ordinances of the Church. That you should haw: done so is entirely matter for your own conscience. 1 do not presume to question your conduct, or mimpute to you for a moment any un~ worthy motive. But other ministers of the Church might very well take a. dlfl‘erent View, and probably would. ..v Bel. I- -. .u... "n, . " 'x “E unulc, owner I must have thought better of the sick headache, or else must have forgotten it, for I most certainly dressed myself very care- fully and went. I want to describe my dress. It was a high-cut black velvet of that kind which announces its excellence by the way in which its folds hang. It was trimmed with point-lace. and my jewels were my favorite pearls. Beyond those I wore no jewelry whatever, except a large fire opal. The stone is not one which ladies as a rule affect; but for myself, I have always had asort of superstitions fancy for it. I knew as I entered the room that there was not- a woman in it better dressed than myself, or. to speak quite candidly. with anything like my taste. And men have an instinct over taste in a woman‘s dress exactly as women have an instinct over wine. 31- w w â€"â€"vv u... Iu-quyu vvyn "II-Iv, .1. though whou i nonnt of via es and even of brand: 3 tag ’ I danced most of the «pure dances, de- 1 hesitated for some time. Then I decid- ed to accept but not to 'go, and to plead a nick. headache as an excuse, if I should ever hereafter be asked my rc'w n for stay- ing away. When the (-w-n ug c:n_me. either 1 “.-_‘ As soon as they had settled dOWn com- fortably, it began to be known that the Queen’s Musketeer’s intended giving a. ball and inviting all the residents who were what might be officially described as upon the local Court Directory. I need not say that Mrs. Gucoigneâ€"that is to say, myselfâ€"was among the number of those who received a. card of invitation. At laét, however, the time came. The barracks were finished, and the cavalry, a. regiment of Dragoons, and the infantry, a battalion from a double battlion Line regiment, came down to their new quarters, filling the whole place with animation and ustle. I dwell upon all this, because I might. otherwise seem to be hurrying my story. But for the present, at any rate, 1 am in an uneventful pan of it. Had I kept a. diary it would have been 3 blank for day after day, little better or moxe significant than the wooden cross of Robinwn Crusoe, with its six consecutive short notches regularly followed by a. deep one. Accordingly I took Sea View Bungalowâ€"- so.called,Isupposehecauseithad no veranda, a second floor, and a set of garrets over that «and I furnished it modestly and unpre- tentiously, but Very prettily, although I say it, gave my taste full scope. I also, or course, started not a pony-basket, buta respectable Victoria. with a strong sedate cob. I took three seats in the parish church, and sub- scribed liberally to all the charities ; but ‘ carefullfy avoided acquaintance of the min- isters o the altar, who, with their Wives and daughters, knew their “ Crockford” as well as the members of the Irish peerage knew their “ Debrett.” My exercise beyond the bungalow garden was a daily drive. If I wanted a walk I drove a mile out up into the country, dis- missed my carriage with intructions to the coachman to meet me again. and took my walk by myself among the lanes. It was a dull life and yet a very pleasant one. I had my flowers. I took to breeding canaries, and I had a regular supply of books from London through the railway ‘ book-stall. I thus had enough to do ; and if I am told that my days must have hung heavily on my hands, I can only answer that I was busy and happy as compared with what I had been either at ()ssulston. or in St. J ames's Square, or even at Sal- cheater. For me Egsbhamptonlhad this great. ad- vantageâ€"that. I should not be likely to be identified unless I went. into society in my own name, which I had no intention of do- ing,and also that, athough the place was expensive, it. was yet quite within my means. râ€"â€"â€"--, no poor~rate, and nothiné even remotely approximating to a. slum, the average mor- tality was astonishingly low. And at last. apxcr was bunlt, not, for the vulgar purposes of commerce, but to arl‘onl a. p omenade and a. landing place for yachts. The 01.! land jobber’s wealth grew like that of Jacob Astor himsalf. The fore- shore, which he had purchased by the acre, he let out. or. building leases by the square fom. As there were no poor In the place, “A “A..- _-._ , Fashionable valecudinnrians flocked to it. The railway opened n. branch line. Old :Esculnpius was wise in his generation : he intended to be a. baronet, and to found a family. There were three hotels in the place ; but. he would only allow one public- house, and sternly refused so much as a road of land for a. dissenting conventicle of any denomination whatever. l Essthampton is on the South Coast,some- where between the Solent on the east, and Plymouth on the west. It was originally a. fishing village, and that too, not so many years ago. A London physician liked the air and built himself a. Swiss chalet there. Little by little he began to buy up the land “as an ox licketh up the grass of the field.” Then he built one or two pleasant villas, which he let, on distinctly advantageous terms. to brother medical men. It was then discovered for the first time that the air of Euthampton would arrest consumption in its earliest stages, and was an absolute spe- cific for all infantile diseases. “0â€"-.. --_.. vquyu-unc. So I gave the preference to Enzland,and, as I have said, pitched upon Easthampton, of which I could say, with even more truth than the Tichborne Claimant said of Wapâ€" ping, that]: had neve: been there in my life, but had heard that. it was a very re- spectable place. England was my better chance. though even in England there were difficulties. At one time I almost thought of the Chan- uel Islands. where, so long as you pay your bills once a. week with regularity, nobody cares who you are, what you are, or what may be your destination, either in this world or the next. But the Channel Islands, except for u. very few weeks in each year, are practically as remote from civilization as the South Sea. Archipelago itself, and far cer‘tai'nly less enjoy able. I was very much in the position of a. chess-player who apparently has all the board open to him, while in reality every square is hopelessly blocked. There are plenty of foreign watering-places but in every one of them there was the certainty, rather than the risk, that my husband would be perfectly well known by reputa- tion at any rate, and that I myself should be recognlzed. After a couple of days again devoted to maps and guide-books, with their corres- ponding pros and cons, I decided upon Easthampcon as my future abode. .Buv u; 5v vu qu run]. I badly missed my little maid, but there was my supper at. any rate, and there are worse things uftera. long journey than a good English mutton outlet and a glass of champagne. My sleep that night was sound and it. was as: ten o’clock the next. morn- ing before Frang far my chocolate. ._._ .u. Aauuul5vllu. A bruugham, for which I had written, was waiting forum, andI very quickly found myself again within the hospitable portals of Ruwlinga’, tired with my journey, ready for supper, and a little annoyed that it. w,“ too late that. night. to go to the play. I L...n.. .7 - So the trainâ€"it was the expressâ€"tore on through the pleasant. country until we bagan to reach canals, and then brick-fields, and then suburbs, and at, last. drew up in that busy focus of life, the Great. Western Terminus at, Paddington. \LÂ¥ H OH‘ ', WAD SOME POWER THE GIFTIE 01E US, CHAPTER XXVI. OMEMEE, ONT. FRIDAY. AUGUST 10, 189:- A man working the other day at the foundation of a house which is being erect- ed in Derby road, Douglas, Isle of Man, unearthed a stone receptacle containing a large quantity of coins, rings, and bangles. The man, being short-sighted, did not ob- serve what his find was until some of the bystanders seized some of the coins and ornaments and appropriated ,them. He then took possession of as manyas he could, nearly a shovelful. They were apparently all of silver. The spot where they were found is about six yards from the high road, and about one foot below the surface. The coins are silver skeatta or pennies, the l common Saxon coinage. Such as have been examined roved to in of the period A.D. 925-965â€"t at isacentury later than Al- fred. They belong to the reigns of Athel- stan (A. D. 923). Edred (A. D. 948), EdWy (A. D. 955), and Edgar. the first king of all England(A. D. 959). One example-of Atheistan has the legend “ Elelstan re to Bri.” Another specimen has the legend " Eadgar re Anglor.” and another of the lame monarch has the legend very distinct, “ Eadgar re.” The coins were, of course, much 'éorroded. The route planned was rather erratic. It asked that the message he sent by a cir- cuit which would take in the entire tele graphic field of the world, touching at the most remote points, but never leaving the land line or the cable ; that is never being transferred by post or messenger from one point to another. Starting at San Francisco, the route ran across the continent to New York by Vancouver and Montreal. From New York it followed the world’s northern telegraphic boundaries through England, Norway, Sweden, Russia and Siberia Going south, it touched at Nagasaki in Japan, Hong Kong in China, Singapore, Java and Sumatra, crossed Australia and landed in New Zoaland. Returning to Singapore. il crossed to Bombay, made it detour to Cey- lon, then on to Aden, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, leaving the line at Zanzibar to call at Seychelles and Mauritius, mounted the West African coast to St. Louis in Sen- egal, crossed the South Atlantic toéPernam- bueo, traversed South America Ira 7 once Ayres to Valparaiso, and then wen't" north through Mexico to New York. In a few days, true to his promise, Mr. Preece had the answer ready. The telegram could be sent. It Would require about fifty-six hours, and would cost about 90 francs ($18) per word. H. Preece, with the request that he would any whether it could be sent round the world by a. certain route, and if so what it would cost per word. When the writer of this article went a. few days later to look after the progress of. the telegram, Mr. Preece shook his head. “ The whole foreign Department are at it," he said, “and they are tearing their hair and pro- testing. but you shall have it soon.” One day last April a telegram was put into the hands of the courteous chief engi- neer of the British Postal Service, Mr. W. Sending a Message Round the World The enquiry has brought out the fact that the farn‘ers of Ontario are dropping wheat raising, and are turning their at- tention to lines that will yield them u. i better return. (lot of 95 replies, 34 are to the effect that the acreage of Winter wheat l is from 5 to 75 per cent. less than that of llast year, and in only five instances are increases reported. Out of the same num- ber there were ‘29 instances of decreases in the spring when; actcage, and only two of increase. The increases in winter wheat are in the counties of Brant, Durham, Simcoe, Peel and North Ontario. The acreage in spring wheat is reported to have increased in Hastings and some parts of Grenville. Thedecreases inthe acreages ofspring wheat range fromflt) to lOOper cent. In the vicinity of Burlington, county of Halton, the farmers are reported to have dropped cultivation of spring wheat entirely. though last year there was afair quantity grown there. A collation of the data goesrto indicntc that the yield per acre of both Winter and spring wheat will be considerably in excess of that of last year’s crop. The average yield of winter wheat is estimated at 2:3 ‘25- 39, as against 19 last year. and of spring wheat, 163, as against lilj,z last year. Out of 95 districts covered by the replies, winter wheat was grown in 78 of them,and spring wheat in 43 of them. The general run of the replies estimate the yield of winter wheat from 20 to ‘25 bushels per acre, but in several instances superabun- dant yields are reported. Several points ‘ in the county of Grey report a yield of 3 bushels per acre. Several points in the county of Simc0e a thirty bushel per acre yield, and at one point 35 bushels per acre is expected. Around Hespeler, in Waterloo county, the yield is put down to ‘25 to 30 bushels per acre. Haldimand is stated to have an acreage 5 per cent. greater than that of last year, a. yield of 30 bushels per acre. In the district around Tavistock there will also be a large yield, estimated at 28 bushels per acre. The crop in (hem ville is reported much better than that of last year. The acreage is about the same and the yield of winter wheat is estimated at?.'» bushels, as against 10 bushels last year, and of spring at 20 bushels, as against 8 last year. How ‘nuch an acre will our wheat; fields yield 2’ is the question which most readily comes to the tongue of the business men. Other intetests have developed largely in late years, notably dairying, but wheat raising is still one of our basic industries, and a large or short, yield has an important. bearing upon the trade of the provnuqa. It Will be Conslderullly In l-lxeees of'l‘lm! or Lust Year. Recently communications were sent. out. to the members of the Dominion Milleru’ AaSOciution in Ontario, making inquiries regarding the winter wheat crop now being harvested, the prospect of the spring wheat, crop, and the area. sown with winter and spring wheat. Replies have been received from 95 representnive millers, situated in all parts of the province, and they contain ; facts which will interest. not, only the mill- ing trade, but the whole business public. clined the round dances, was taken down to supper by the major himself, and yield- ed to his entreaties that, after supperl would join the cotilion. I was then dl‘lVO-l) rapidly home and Went to bed with the proud consciousness that I had‘scored a distinct triumph among the men, while giv- ing the women aslinle occasion for jealousy as possible. Found Saxon Coins. ONTARIO’S WHEAT CROP. (TUBE cox'rmunn.) TAE SEE DORSELS AS ITHERS SEE US Listen to two or three questions: Are ;you as happy as you used to be when you believed in the "truth of the Christian re- ligion 2 Would you like to have your child- ren travel on in the road in which you are now traveling? You had a. relative who professed to be a Christian, and was thor- oughly consistent, living sud dying in the faith of the Gospel. Would you not like to live the same quiet life, and die the same peaceful death? I received aletter sent me by one who has rejected the Christian religion. It says, “ I am old enough to know that the joys and pleasures Some of you in coming to God, will have 'to run against sceptical notions. It is use- less for people to say sharp and cutting things to those who reject the Christian religion. I cannot say such things. By what process of temptation, or trial, or be- trayal, you have come to your present state I know not. There are two gates to your nature: the gate of the head and the gate of the heart. The gate of your head is locked with bolts and bars that an arch- : angel could not break, but the gate of your heart swings easily on its hinges. If I assaulted your body with weapons, you would meet me with weapons, and it would be sword-stroke for swordstroke, and wound for wound, and blood for blood. But if I come and knock at the door of your house, you open it, and give me the best‘ seat in your parlor. lfl should come at you to-day with an argument, you would answer me with an argument; if with sar- casm, you would answer me with sarcasm; blow for blow, stroke for stroke; but when I come and knock at the door of your heart you open it and say, “Come in, my brother, and tell me all you know about Christ and heaven.” ship ! I may be addressing some who have cut loose from churches, and Bibles, and Sun- days,and who have at present no intention of becoming Christians themselves, but just to see what is going on ; and yet you may find yourself escaping. before you hour the end, as “with the skin of your teeth." I do not expect to waste this hour. I have seen boats go off from Cape May or Long Branch, and drop their nets, and #ter' a. while come ashore, pulling in the nets without having caught a single fish. It was not a good day. or they had not the right kind of a net. But we expect no such excursion to-day. The water is full of fish : the wind is in the right direction ; the Gos- pel net is strong. 0, thou who didst help 1 Simon and Andrew to fish, show us to-day how to cast the net on the right side of the ,L.“ n 15 other words; Hwefiall admit. that it. is more difficult. for some men to accept the Gospel than for others. There was no horse he dared not ride-â€" no tree he could not. climb. His boyhood was a long series of predicament : his mem- hood was reckless ; his midlife very way- ward. But. now he is converted, and you go over to the store and say, “ Arkwright. joined the church yesterday.” Your friends say, " It is not possible 1 You must be joking !” You say, “No ; I tell you the truth. He joined the church.” Then they reply, “There is hope for any of us if old Ark- wright, has become a. Christian I” Here is another one who started in life with an uncontrollable spirit. He kept the nursery in an uproar. His mother round him walking on the edge‘of the house- rog‘f to see if he could balance himself. aux-hour in church, perfectly quiet, looking neither to the right nor to the left, but straight into the eyes of the minister, us though he understood the whole discussion about the eternal decrees. He never upset thinge, nor lost them. He floated into the kingdom of God so gradually that it is uncertain just when the matter was decid- ed. It. is as easy for some people to look to the Cross as for you to look to this pulpit. Mild, gentle, tractable. loving, you expect. them to become Christians. You go over to the store and sav, “ (:‘rmndon joined the church yesterday.” Your business com- rades say, “That is just what; might have been expected ; he always was of that turn of mind." In'youth, this person whom I describe was always good. He never broke things. He never lauzhed when it was improper to laugh. At. seven he could sit. "'1’" .-_.~ â€"vv u v." .v uuv , an“ 7 r 1 want. to show you. if God will help, than some men make narrow escape for their souls, and are saved as “with the skin of their teeth.” V n.”â€" â€"â€"â€"~-v- J v“ Jul-l «u op into itâ€"ynu are saved. 30 some men are pursued by temptation unul they are partially consumed, but after all get yo!!â€" “saved 11.3 by fire.” But I like the figure of Job ulittle better than that of Paul, be- cause the pulpit has not worn it out ; and Paul expresses the same idea. by a. differ- ent figure when he says that some. people are “saved as by fire.” A vessel at sea. is in flames. You go to the stern of the ves- sel. The boats have shoved off. The flames advance ;you can endure the heat no longer on your face. You slide down on the side of the vessel and hold on with your fingers, until the forked tongue of the fire begins to lick the back of your hand, and you feel that you must fall, when one of the lifeboms comes back uni the passengers say that they have room for one more. The boat swings under yewâ€"you .1.-- L... A" ,, A very narrow escape, you say for Job’s body and soul ; but. there are thousands of men who make just as narrow escape Ior their soul. There was a. time when the partition between them and min was no thicker than a. toobh’s enamel, but. as Job finnllv escaped, so have they. Thank God ! thank God ! There has been some difi'erences of opin- ion nhout this passage. St. Jerome and Schultena, and Doctors Good, and Pool, and Barnes, have all tried their forceps on Job‘s teeth. You deny my interpretation. and any, “ \Vhat did Job know about the enamel of his teeth ‘3" He knew every- thing about it. Dental surgery is almost as old as the earth. The mummies of Egypt, thousands of years old, are found to-iluy with gold-filling in their teeth. Ovid, and Horace, and Solomon, and Moses wrote about these important factors of the body. To other provoking complaints Job, i I think, has u'lded an exasperatiug tooth- ache, and, putting his hand against the in- flumed hoe, he says, “ I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.” Job had it hard. \tht. with boils, and bereavements, and bankruptcy, and a. fool of a. wife. he wished he was dead ; and I do not blame him. His flesh was gone, and his bones were dry. His teeth wasted away until nothing but the enamel seemed left. He cries out. “ I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.” Another Great [mum From the Book of Job and Pram tin Incident In line un- m' the Prophetâ€"other Expressions: of "Ir Idea. BROOKLYN, July 29m, 189Lâ€"Rev. Dr 'I‘ulmage has selected as the subject, of his sermon for to-day. through the press; “ Narrow Escapes," the text. being taken‘ from Job 19 : 2!), “ I am escaped with the skin of my LeeLh." REV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE SUB. JECT OF “ NARROW ESCAPES.” THE SKIN OF HIS TEETH. There are men who have been capsized of evil passions, and capsized mid-oceans, and The ship “Emma," bound from Gotten- hurg to Harwich. was sailing on, when the man on the look-out saw something that he pronounced a vessel bottom up. There was something on it that looked like a sca~ gull, butwas afterward found to be a wav- ing handkerchief. In the small boat the crew pushed out to the wreck, and found that it was u. capsized vessel, and that three men had been working their way our through the bottom of the ship. When 1the vessel capsized they had no means of escape. The captain took his penknife and dug away through the plank until his knife broke. Then an old nail was found, with which they attempted to scrape their way out of the darkness, each one working until his hand was well nigh paralyzed, and he ‘ sank back faint and sick. After long and ‘ tedious work, the light broke through the bottom of the ship. A handkerchief was bolstered. Help came. They were taken on board the vessel and saved. Did ever men come so near a watery grave without dropping into it? How narrowly they escapedâ€"escaped only “with the skin of their teeth." If, with all the influences favorable for a right life, men make so many mistakes, how much harder it is when, for instance, some appetite thrusts its iron grapple into the roots of the tongue. and pulls a man down with hands of destruction. If, under such circumstances, he break away, there will be no sport in the undertaking, no holiday enjoyment. but a struggle in which the wrestlers move from side to side, and bend, and twist, and watch for an oppor- tunity to get in a heavier stroke, until, with one final eflort, in which the muscles are distended and the veins stand out, and the blood start,s the swarthy habit falls under the knees, of the victorâ€"escaped at last, as with the skin of his teeth. . There is a large class of persons in mid- life who have still in them appetites that were aroused in early manhood, at a time when they prided themselves on being a “little fast," “high livers,” “free and easy," “hail fellows well met." They are now paying in compound interest for troubles collected twenty years ago. Some of you are trying to escape, and you willâ€" yet very narrowly, “as with the skin of your teeth.” God and your own soul only know what the struggle is. Omnipotent grace has pulled out many a soul that was deeper in the mire than you are. Theylme the beach of heavenâ€"the multitude whom God has rescued from the thrall of suicidal habits. If you this day turn your back on the wrong, and start anew, God will help you. Oh, the weakness of human help! Men will sympathize for a while and then ‘ turn you off. Ii you beg for their pardon they will give it, and say they will try you again; but falling away again under the powerof temptation,they castyouotfiorever. But God forgives seventy times seven: yea, seven hundred times ; yea. though this be the ten thousandth time He is more earnest, more sympathetic, more helpful this last time than when you took your first mis- step. Again : There may be some of you who, in the attempt after a. Christian life. will have to run against powerful passions and appetites. Perhaps 'in. 1; a difipasition to anger that you have to contend againm - and perhaps,when in a. very serious mood, you hear of something that makes you feel that ‘ you must swear or die. I know of a Christ- ian man who wasonce so exasperated that he said to a mean customer. “ I cannot swear at you myselr, for I am a member of the Church; but if you go down stairs my partner in business will swear at you." Ail your good resolutions heretofore have been torn to tatters by explosionq of temper. Now there is no harm in getting mad if you only get mad at sin. You need to bridle and saddle those hot-breathed passions, and with them ride down injustice and wrong There are a thousand things in the world that we ought to be mad at. There is no harm in getting red hot- if you only bring to the forge that which needs hammering. A man who has no power of righteous in- dignation is an imbecile. But be sure it is a righteous indignation, and not a. petu- lancy that blurs, and unravels, and de- 3 pletes the soul. ‘ To-day I invite you inck into the good old fashioned religion of your fathersâ€"Lo the God whom they worshipped, to the Bible they read, to the promises on which they leaned, to the cross on which they hung theireternalexpectations. You have not been happy :1. day since you swung off; you will not. be happy :1 minute until you swing back. Do you not feel that the Bible, take it all in all, is about the best book that the world has ever seen ? Do you know any book that has as much in it 3 Do you not think, upon the whole, that its influence has been beneficent? I come to you with both hands extended towards you. In one hand I have the Bible, and in the other I have nothing. This Bible in one hand. I will surrender forever just as soon as in my other hand you can put a book that is better. up, wipe the wine from their lips, go out, and take up their sin: where they left off. To serve the devil in their regular work ; to serve God a. sort of play-spell. With a Sunday sponge they expect to wipe ofi from their busxnes: slate all the past week’s in- consistencies. You have no more right to take such a man’s life as a specimen of re- ligion than you have to take the twisted irons and split timbers that lie on the beach at Coney Island as a. specimen of an American ship. It is time that we draw a line between religion and the frailties of those who profess it Let me also ask whether your trouble has not been that you confounded Christianity with the inconsistent. character of some who profess it. You are a lafiycr. In your profession there are mean and dishonest men. Is that anything against the law‘.’ You are a doctor. There are unskilled and contemptible men in your profession. Is that anything against medicine? You are a merchant? There are thieves and de- ‘ ‘ frauders in your business. Is that anyw thing against merchandise? Behold. then, the unfairness of charging upon Christian- i ity the wickedness ofits disciples. We ad- I mit some of the charges against those who I profess religion. Some of the most gigantic I swindles of the present day have been car- I ried on by members of the Church. There l are men in the churches who would not he i trusted [or five dollats without good coila- I terhl security. Thev leave their business dishonesties in the vestibule of the church as they go in and sit at the communion. Having concluded the sacrament, they get l lam not willingly out of the Church or out of the faith. My state of uncertainty is oueoi unrest. Sometimes I doubt my immortality, and look upon the death-bed as the closing scene, after which there is nothing. What shall I do that I have not done?" Ah ! scepticism in a dark and dole- ful land. Let me say that this Bible is either true or false. If it be false, We are as well nfi'as you ; if it be true then which of us is safer 1' of life are evanescent. and to realize the fact that it must be comfortable in old age to believe in something relative to the future, and to have a faith in some system that proposes to save. I am free to con- fess that I would be happier if I could exercise the simple and beaunful faith that m possessed by many whom I know. Wifeâ€"“Well, 1 wouldn't Worry, They pay so little when they accept that it does not nutter much.” “yup. 7..“ luau w IV“. 9.0;. “yang. ‘j-E’Vhat a great risk I ran ! Almost. lost. butaaved ! J ust. got. through, and no more ! Escaped by the skin of my teeth.’ Oh, find your peace in (30d. Make one strong pull for heaven. No half-way work will do it. There sometimes comesa time on ship-board when everything must be sacrificed to save the passengers. The car- go is nothing, the rigging nothing. The captain puts the trumpet to his lip and shouts. “ Cutaway the mast !” Some of you have been tossed and driven. and you have, in your chart to keep the world, well-nigh lost your soul. Until you have decided this matter, let everything else go. Over- ‘board with all those other anxieties and burdens ! You will have to drop the sails of your pride, and cut away the mast! With one earnest cry for help, put your cause into the hand of Him who helped. Paul out of the breakers of Melits, and who, above the aim“ blast of the wrathiest tempest that ever blackened the sky or shook the ocean, can hear the faintest im- ploration for mercy. I shall conclude, feeling that some of you, who have con- sidered your case hopeless, will take heart again, and that with a blood-red earnest ness, such as you have never experienwd before, you will start for the good land of the Gospelâ€"at last to look back. laying. Struggling Poet (gloomily)â€"“All verges have been Bent hack.” This world is a poor portion for your soul, oh, business nun? Au Eastern king had grown: upon hls tomb two fingers, re- presented as sounding upon each otherwith a. snap. and under them the motto, “ All is notworth that.”Apicious('wliushangedhim- self because his steward informed hiu. that he had only twenty thousand pounda ster- ling left. All of this world’s riches mske but ssmelliuhcritanoe for a. soul. Robespierre attempted to win the spplaflseoithe world: but when he was dying a. woman came rushing through the crowd, crying to him. “ Murderer of my kindred. descend to hell, covered with the curses of every mother in France 1" Many who have expected the plaudits of the world have died under its Anathema. Marauatha. s __-- __-... Try this God, ye who have had the blood- hounds after you, and who have thought that God had forgotten you. Try Him, and see if He will not help. Try Him and see if He will not pardon. Try Him, and see if He will not save. The flowers of spring have no bloom so sweet as the flowering of Christ's affections. The sun hath no warmth compared With the glow of His heart. The waters have no refreshment like the foun- tain that will slake the thirst of thy soul. At the moment the reindeer stands with his lip and nostril thrust into the cool mountain torrent, the hunter may be coming through the thicker. Without cracking a stick under his foot, he comes close by the stag, aims his gun, draws the trigger, and the poor thing roars in its death agony and falls backward, its antlers crashing on the rocks ; but the panting heart that drinks from the water-brooks of God’s promise shall never be fatally woundei, and shall never die. l I findin the community a. large class of i men who have been cheated, so lied about, )8) outrageously wronged that they have lost faith in everything. In the world where ‘everything seems so topsy-turvy, they do 1 not see now there can be any God. They ‘ are confounded and frenzied, and inland:- ropic. Elaborate argument to pi‘OVc to them the truth of Christianity, or the rig“, ‘ anything else, touches them naWilGW; 1‘8? mo, oil such men : I preach to you no rounded periods and ornamental discourse ; but I put my hand on your shoulder. and invite you into the peace of the Gospel. Here is a rod; on which you may stand firm, though the waves dash against it harder titan the Atlantic. pitching its surf clear above Eddystone Lighthouse. Do not charge upon God all these troubles of the world. As longas the world stuck to God. God stuck to the world :but the earth secednd from His government, and hence all these outrages and all three woes. God is good. For many hundreds of years He has been coaxing the world to come back to Him : but the more He has coaxed the more violent have men been in their resistance, and they have stepped back, and stepped back; until they have dropped into ruin. rn - or retailers, or importers; but in heaven, Christian heroes. No fugots were hen. about their feet; no inqxxisxtion demanded from them recantatmn: no soldier aimed a. spikeat their heart; but they had mental tortures, compared with which all physic- al consummg in as the breath of a spring meramg: s There are others who, i.. attempting to come to God, must run mtween a greet many business perplexitier. If; man goes over to business at 10 o'clnrrh in the morn- ing and comes away at 3 t’clock in the afternoon, he has some tiu~ for religion; but how shall you find tin. {or religious s contemplation when you an driven from r sunrise until sunset, and hax . been for five ) years going behind in bus neon, and Are r frequently dunned by crediwrs whom you 3 cannot pay, and when, from Mogdny morn- ? : ing until Saturday night you are dodging ‘, bills that you cannot most? You walk I day by dayin uncertainties that have kept I your brain on fire for the past three young l Some, with less business troixhles than you; 1 have gone crazy. The clerk huh heard 9 : noise in the hack-counting room, 31:31am!“ in, and found the chief man of the firm a raving maniac ;or the wife he shesrdthe hang of a. pistol in the back parlor, and gone' in, stumbling over the dead body of her husbandâ€"a suicide. There are in this house today three hundred men pursued, harass- ‘ ed, troddeu down, and scalped of business perplexities, and which way to turn next they do not know. Now, God will not be ' hard on you. He knows what obstac'es are in the way of your being 3 Christina, and your first ell'ort in the right direction He will crown with success. Do not let ‘ Satan, with cotton-bales and kegs, and hogshcads, au-l counters, and stocks of pmsaleable goods, block up your way to heaven. Gather up all your energies. ‘ Tighten the girdlesn‘.>out your loins. Take an agonizing look into the face of God, and then say, “ Here goes one grand eflort for life eternal,”and then bound away for heaven. escaping “ as with the skin of your teeth.” In the last day it will be found thnt Hugh Lstimer. and John Knox, and Huss- ani Ridley were not the greatest martyrs. but Christian men who went up incorrupt from the contaminations and perplexxties of Wall Street, \Vater Street, Pearl Street Broad Street, State Street, Third Street, Lombard Street and the Bourse. On earth they are called brokers, or stock-jobbers, I r? (PU Na they area thousand m. 1 away from hay shore of help. They L. ‘3 {or years been ‘trying to dig their wa- «ut. They hue been digging aWay, and {Ring away, but they can never be del‘ ed unless now they will hoist some 720.! of dintrua. However weak and fee? - Lmflybe Christ will see in. and bear dam. p00 me helpless craft, and take them on 1rd ; and it will be known on earth and n. maven 'how nar- rowly they escaped"â€"“rs~aped as with the skin of their teeth. .mm' 1. nun. mus. w. mauum . ”rumours. One Comfort. "LS my