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I’ernups he had' 'houghn, the fool, that, in the darkneu, I wdmd not, ven- ture to follow him. He liule knew Etienne Gerutd. W ith a. gprin" I was on the plat.- form, wuh mother I was through the door- way, and then, heuing him in the corner, I hurled myself down upon the top of him. He fought like a wild cut, but he never had 3 chance with his shorter Weapon. I think that I must have transfixed him with that first mad lunge, for, though he struck and atruck.his blows haul no power In them. Ind presently hrs dagger tinkled down upon the floor. When I was sure that he we: dead, I rose up sud passed out into the mnnullght. I climbed up on to the heath Again, and wondered Across it “nearly out ‘Oi my mind as a. man could be. “'ith the blood sxuging in my ears, and my nuked sword still clutched in my hand. I walked uinxiessiy on nntil,lonking round me,l found that I haul come as far as the glnde of the Abbot's Beech, and saw in the distance that gnarled stump which must ever be mounted with the most terrible moment of my life. I sat down nyonafullen trunk with my sword across my knees and my head between my hands, and I tried to think about what had happened and what would happen in the future. 11: ,I: A- The Euriperor had committed himself to my core. she Emperor Was dead. Those were the two thoughts which clnnged in my head, until I had no room for any other ones. He had come with me and he wee dead. I had d me what he had ordered when liming. I hnd revenged him when dead. But what of all that? The world would look upon me as responsible. They might even look upon me as the assassin. What could I prove? What witnesses had I 2 Might I not have been the accomplice of these wretches! Yes, yes, I was eternal- ly diahononre -â€"the lowest, most despic- nble creature in ell France. This then was the end of my fine military ambitionsâ€"of the hopes of my mother. I laughed bitter- ly at the thought. An~l whet was I to do now? Who I to go into Fontuinebleau, to wake up tin palace. and to inform them that the great Emperor had been murdered within a pace of me! I could not do itâ€"no. I could not do it! There was but one course tor an honourable gentlemen whom E ate had plnced in so cruel a position. I would fell upon my dishonoured sword. end so shore, sinceI could not aVert,the Erngeror’e fate. I rose with my nerves strung to this last piteous deed, and as I did so, my eyes fell upon something which struck the brenth from my lips. The Emperor was standing beiore me! He was not more than ten yards ofi',with the moon shining straight upon his cold, pale face. He wore his grey overcoat, but the hood was turned buck, and the front open, so that I could see the green coat of the ('uides, and the white breaches. His hands were clasped behind hm back, and his chin sunk forward upon his breast, in the way that was usual with him. i A, ,.e “You have kllled one. I see,” said he, jerkmg his head towards the beech. “Yes, sire.” “And the other escaped ‘2” “No, site, 1 killed bun also.” , “What-1” he cried. “Do I understand that. you ‘ have killed. them both 1’” He ‘pproacned me as he spoke. with a smile which set. his teeth gleummg in the moon- light. . .. . . u ‘ ,,AI “Line body lies there, sire,” I answered. “The other in in the tool-house at. the qua: ry .” "“ e11, " Qaid he. in his hardest. and most. abrupt. voice, “what. ucconnb do you give of yoggsel‘i “” 1 ~, ,:!,_-- , - , V I believe thus, if he had stood in silence for another minute, my brain would have given way. But. those sharp military accents were exactly what. I needed to bring me to my self. Living or dead, here was the Emperor standing before me and ukmg me questions. I sprang to the 38.1- ute. w - _ _ “Then the Brothers of Ajzsccio “0' no more,” he cried, and after a. pause, u if speaking to himself: “The shadow bu owed me for ever." Then be bent. forward and laid his hand upon my shoulder. “You have done â€"very vwell, my young friend.”said he. “You have lived up to yogr reputation? a He was flesh and blood, than, this Emperor. I could feel the little, plump polm than rested upon me. And yet I could not get. over what. I had eeen wish my own eyes, and so I stared at him in such bewilderment than he broke once more into one of‘his smiles. “No, no, Monsieur Gerard,” said he, "I am not. a ghost, and you have not seen me killed. You will come here, and all will be clear to you.” 'lhe bodies were still lying upon the ground, and two men were standing beside them. As we tpproached I saw from the mbms thatnhey wereRoustem and Must sin, the two Mnmeluke servants The Emperor pnuud when he came to the grey figure upon the ground, and turning back the hood which shrouded the features,‘ he showed a {see which wu very difierent from his own. He turned as he spoke, and led the way towards Life groan beech atpmp. “ Hora has a. faithful servunt who has given up his life for his muter,’ ’asid no. “ Monsieur de Goudin resembles me in figflo uni {n_mumer, as you must. admit.” - Wnnbudelitium of joy came upon me when these few words made everything clear to me. He smiled again as he new the delight. which urged me to throw my turnaround him and to embnce him, but he moved e step away, as if he had divined my impulse. “ You are unhurt 2" he asked. “'1 3m unhnrt, lire. But. in mother minim 1 should in my despairâ€"” “ Tut, tut, !” he inmrrufited. “You did very well. He should himsalf have been more on his guard. I saw everything which w‘ d.,l “ You saw it, site 2" “ You did not has: me follow you through the wood than? I hardly loot sight. of you from the moment slut you left your qwâ€" munsilpoorDoG-oudinioll. Them- STORIES OF ADVENTURE. V 3L H--NO 42 “Given the word to the 10th Hussars,l sire,” I cried. “Patrols could have swept ' the woods from end to end; and brought these two rascals to your feet." ‘ ‘ He smiled but he shook his head. "I had very excellent reasons why I did not wish them taken alive." said he. “You can understand that an aseassin’s tongue might be as dangerous a weapon as an assassin’s dagger. I will not disguise from”! you that I Wished to avoid scandal at all cost. That was why I ordered you to take no pistols with you. That also is why my ; Mamelukes will remme all traces of the l affairs and nothing more will be heard 3 about it. I thought of all possible plans, :and I am convinced that I selected the i best one. Had .(sent more than one guard l with De Goudin into the woods, then the 3! brothers would not have appeared. They ' would not change their plans or miss their , chance for the "sake _of a single - man. .ltk He whiz peredKau order to his Mamelukoa, who saluted in silence and remained where they were standin". For my part, I follow- ed the Emperor with my pelisse bursting with pride. My word, I have always car- ried myself as a husser should, but Laealle himself never' struttcd and swung his (lolmun an I did that night ! Who should clink his spurs and clatter his sabre if it Were not I~~â€"-I, Etienne Gaunt-the confi- dant of the Eniperor,the chosen swordsman of the light cavalry, the man who slew the would be assuming of Napoleon? But he noticed my hearing and turned upon me like a blight. .. “Is that the way to carry yourself on a svrcret mission 3” he hissed, with that, cold glare in his eyes. “13 it. thus that. you will make ynur comrades believe that. nothing remarkable has occurred 2 Have done with this nouurnse, monsieur. or you will find yourself transferred to the suppers, where you would have harder work and duller plumage.” . . . -. vp That was the way with the Emperor. If ever he thought that anyone might have a claim upon him, he took the first opportun- ity to show him the gulf that lay between. I saluted end wss silent, but I must confess to you that it hurt me after nllthnt had passed between us. He led on to the pelace,, where we passed through the side door and up into his own cabinet. There were a couple of grensdiers, at the staircase, and their eyes, started out from under their fur caps, I promise you, when they saw s young lieutenant of husssrs going up to the Emperor’s room at midnight. I stood by the door, as I had done in the afternoon, while he flung himself down in an arm- chair, and remained silent so long that it seemed to me that he had forgotten all about me. I Vintured at last upon nslight cough to remind him. was Colonel Lasalie’s accidental preaence~ at the moment whenI received the sum- ; mons which led to my choosing one of his ‘hussara for the mission. I selected you, Monsxeur Gerard, because I wanted a man who could handle a sword. and who Wnuld not pry more deeply into the affair than I desired. I trust that, in this respect. you will justify my choice as well as you have done in your bruvery and skill.” . ten-fair, Emperor was in front of you and the real one behind. You will now escort. me__hack to the palace.” ‘- ‘1 . 0t whnb consequence in it, that, anything i should be concenled from man! Nothing in hidden from God ;ha is present in our minds and comes into the midst. of our thoughts. Comes, do I any 2â€"“ if he were ever shunt. tâ€"Senoot. “Ah, Mousiéur Gerard,” said be, “you are Very curiuun, no doubt, as to the mean- ing of all this 2’" “ Imn quite content, site, if it. is your pleasure not to tell me,” I answered. “To, to, to,” Hold he Impatiently. “These are only Words. The moment that. you were outside that. door you would begin making inquiries about, who: it means. In two days your brother ofiicera would know about in, In three days it. would be all over Foutainebleuu, and it, would be in Paris on the fourth. Now, if I tell you enough to appease your curiosityfiher'e is some reasou‘ able hope that. you may be one to keep the matter to yourself.” He did not. findershand me, this Emperor, and yet! I could»onl;{_bowf aqd be silent. “ A few words wxil make it. clear to you," said be, speaking very swiftly and pacing up and down the room. " They were Cornicans. these two men. I had known Lhcm in my youth. We had belonged to the same societyâ€"Brothers of Ajaccio, as we called ourselves. It. was founded in the old Psoli days, you ”understand, and we had some strict rules of our own which were not. infringed with impunity." A very grim look came over his lace as he spoke,und it. seemed to me that. all that, was French had gone out of him, and that. in was the pure Corsican, the man of strong pas- sions and of strange revenges, who stood before me. His memory haul gonebuuk to those early days of his,and for five minute! wrapped xn thought, he paced up and down the room with hu quick little tiger steps. Then with an impatient wave of his hands he came back to his palace and 20 me. ”TAG rules at such a society,” he contin- ued, “are all very well for .1 private citizen. In the old days- there was no more loyal brother than I. But circumstances change, and it would be neither for my welfare nor for that of France that I should now submit myself to them. They wanted to hold me to it, and so brought their fate upon their own heads. These were the two chxefs of the order and they had come from Comes. to summon me to meet them at the spot which they named. I knew what such a summons meant No man had ever returned from obeying me. On the other hand if I did not go, 1 was sure that disaster Would follow. I am a. hrnt her my golf, you re- member, nnul I know their ways.” “You perceive uiy dilemmi, Monsieur Gerard,” said be. “How would you have acted yourself, under such circumstances 1’” Againvthc‘re czsme that. harHening of his moufiLAh and cold glitper of his eyes. “You cannot do that,"aaid the Emperor, smiling. “You were a lieutenant at. that. “me. You will permit me, Captain, to wish you a very good-night.” “Sire,” I answered, “you may rely upon in H “As long as I live," said he, “von never open your lips upon this subject." “1 dismiss it entirely from my mind, sire I will efl‘nce it from my recollection as if it had never been. I will promise you to go out of your cabinet at. this moment exactly as I w;xs.when I entered it at. four‘o‘clock.” (To 3: CONTINUED.) Hamilton now proposes to Len-see put of the mountain. Typhoid fever is reported to be on the increase in Chuthsm. Ont. The Queen’s Hotel property at, Montreal was sold by the Sherld‘ to Mr. William Hanson, acting on behalf of some of the creditors, for $21,000. Mayor Stewart of Hamilton, is expected home trom Florence at. the end of next. month. Orders have been issued to have rthe Saulb Ste. Marie Canal kept, open on Sun- days until the end of the season. Over four hundred of Winnipeg’s citizens amended the farewell recepbicn 25L Govern- ment. House given by Sir John and Lady Schultz. Lord Duflerin has acceded to the request. for his portrait, for the National Gallery at; Montreal, accompanying it. with a very complimentary letter. A sharper who gave his name as Fred ““1301: of Montreal was arrested at. London after he had buucoed Mn James Blukie, a. White Oak farmer, our. of $50. The (7. P. R. is opening new atstions, putting on night operators and employing additional train crew: to handle the big wheat crop in Manitoba and the North- West. Two of the women employees of the \V. C. McDonald tobacco works at blunlredl who ware injured in the recent tire hove entered actions for dyrmges against Mr. Munonald. The services of Rev. Prof. B. Wax-field: D. 1)., of Princeton University, have been secured by Knox College, Toronto, for a course 01 lectures on the general subject of systematic theology during the month of October. THE NEWS IN A‘ NUTSHELL Forty-four cents a bushel is the price buyers have fixed for Manitoba wheat at pomts where the eighteen cone rate to Fort: William afloat exiaxs. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. l-tere.tin:ltemn About Our Own Con-Irv. Great Britain. the United states. um! All Par" or the Globo. Condonud ud Anon-led for Buy Rea-ling. CANADA. The Montreal Company contemplates holding a grand fair .in Montreal next year, covering between May ‘24 and Gumbel-'12. The exposition will be called the British Empire Exposition and International Dispiay of All Nations. An agimbioh is being worked up amongst, the Germans of the Northwest Territories to have the use of the Ger- man language allowad in the schools. Mr. Peter Glueaen oi Rosthem has written The Toronto City Council at. a special meeting held on Thursday Afternoon by a vote 0! 13 to s decided to engage Mr. Mausergh, the enuueub water works ex- pert, or London, Eng” to come to Toronto to report. on the best. system of waner sup- ply for the city. A memorial service to line Rev. Robert. SLeWurb and his wife, who were murdered recently in Cnina, was held on Sunday evening In St. George's church, ULLuWn, when bhé Rev. G. 0. Troop, of Montreal, declared that Robert. She“ an is as nearly a martyr as Stephen, who prayed for his murderers, and as much deserve! to wear the martyr’a crown. a strong letter in support. of the move- ment. G REAT BRITAIN. Mr. Sims Reeves is reported to have married again at. the age oi 73. The"BriLi:sh Association for the Advance- ment. of Science has decided to meet in 'l‘oronLo in 1897. Geoffrey Perkins, an American, who represented himvelf L0 be as lawyer and juurnulisb, was sentenced in London on Tuesday be ten yeers’ penal servitude on the charge of lavylng und collecting black- mail. order. The news thud, an American sugar planner has obtained the exclusive fight, to land a submarme cable in Haw-ah is the occasion of much discussion in London among the advocates of a. British cable Lo the island. Forty thousand pounds’ worth ofjewels belong! mg to Mrs. Languy Were Lain-u from the Union Bank, London, on a forged The highest. speed ever attuinedupou the wuber is credued no the newliussiun torpedo boat, Sokol (Russian for hawk). just. launched in Eugauud, which Went, onirby-fivo miles u.u hour on her trial trip. AL man raw an Adauuu liuer would cross the ocean in three or four days. Diseuaumg the revival of the rumour than Italy may he Induced to sell a. snmll territory no the Pupe, a. Path correspondent telegraphs to London that the project {or the Pope’s ransom by the Catholic world is no secret. in the Cabinets of Europe. lillhe prompt deninl of the Dominion Government that ('Iunniiinn tilled cheese 'wereplmed on the English marker has had the desired eti‘ecn. The editor of the North British Agriculturisb admins mud regrets the grave error made in using the word Canadian instead of American, and promises an editorial explanaLion, .nud the publication of evidence showing the purity of the Gnnudinn producb. UNITED STATES. Mrs. Vnndnrbilb, denies that. Misc Vim- derbilnis engaged to the Duke of Marl- borough. A Wabash, Ind., jury has decided that; kissing a. woman ugaiusc her will does not. constitute“) assault. There are twenty-four cremnerieg in Maine that. do nothing but. manufacture butter the year round. A true bill has been returned against. Mrs. Mack at Buffalo for ubtoting coumer- feit. American stamps. Steps are being taken to hold an Occi- dental and Oriental Fair 11) TdcomaJVnsh. in the summer of 1900. A man in Gilsum, N. H.. while cleaning out a. raceway recently found a. gold ring which his wife hai lost. seven years n 01,, WAD SOME POWER THE GIFT”; 011v; US,’1’AE SEEOORSELS AS ITIIERS SEE US.” About 1,000 Grnmm-xr school gruduatos OMERHI E. of Brookl) n are unable to find places in the Hig h )schoolu, no crowded are thou buildmga. A herd of 7,000 horses was bought, on u Washington much the other day by the Portland Horse Meat Cunning Company at, $3 a head. ONT. THURSDAY. SEPT 26, 1895. Boston 13 said to have spent, $75, 000 to entertain the Knights Templar, etud bho knights left. behingd $1, 000, 000 in the any of baked beans. A movement. has been projected at, Viuccuuea looking to the cstubhahmenb of a univulsiby at Lincoln City, Ind., on the sit-e where Liuclon spent his boyhood. The record of attendance at tne Public schools of the United Smtes during the Intiyear g§vea a total of 15,530,268 pupils, -7._, J V," n, ,, , _ _ a figure larger than that of any obher nntion. The battle-field of Chickamauga, in Tennessee, where, thirty-two years ago. L'uirLy Lhouauull dead and wounded lay, was on Thursday dedicated as a. pleasure park. The Kansas City Board of Educumion has promulgated an order iorluddiug the smoking of cigarettes by pupils during school hours (on penalty of expulsion) and instructing teachers to rigidly enforce the rule. The Cotton Staten Exhibition at ALlnntw Georgia, opened on Wednesday with much ceremon . l'rcsidenb Cleveland unarmed the mac inery Mn not; time by touching the electrical connection at his residence, “Urey Gables." Daniel Spruker of Fonda, N. Y., is the only president, the Mohawk [liver Natiouul Bank has ever had. Ho.- nas held the otficc for forty years, and athough he is 9',‘ years old, goes to the bank daily an d attends to business. General Greely who has been inter- viewed 011 the proposed balloon polar expe- dition of Mr. A11drce,dnea not believe bile plan is feasible oi likely to be successful. En gineer Melville is of a. like opinion and 1egards M1. Andree’ a scheme as foolish. GENERAL. Fifty houses and the Dominican Monas- Lery an yFriesnch, Cariutliia, Austria, were burned. A second Chinese loan guaranteed by ance and Russia. will be undertaken in November. There are indication: that the powers may be invited to interfere in the affairs of Beiyvxum and the Congo Free State. A lot. of rifles and military stores intend- ed for the Cuban insurgents have been discovered on the British Island of Andros. Two guqboufa have been ordered to Kucheug, China, to enforce punishment. of the motel-s who attacked the missionaries there . In the Province of Volhynia, Russia, during one week towards the close of Aub- ust there were 5,849 cases of cholera, with 2.!34 deaths. A Spanish warship was sunk in collision near Havana. Admiral Parejo, Captain Banez, three other otlicers and 30 of the crew were drowned. A St. I’ezersbun; despacch says that, from a good source it is learned the Forte nus accepzcd the demand of the powers with regurd to reforms in Armenia. It. is reported bhubu rebellion has broken out on the border of the Province of F0- Kien. A detachment. of 'mperial troops are advancing to give bubble to the insur- gents. Thu Brazilian Government has decided to present. toe British Minister at. Ilia- Janeiro with his passport. if England establishes a cable station on Trinidad island. During a. review of Lhe Sultan’s troops at Fez the soldiers made an attack upon Che tribesmeu who were among the upecnacors, killing nine and making prisoners of seven- ty. . The National Zeitung has authority {01' declaring that the rumours that; Prince Hoheulohe is about. to ruin: fi'om the post of imp rial Chaunzellor are ubnerly devoid of foundation ‘ . , A Paris iuVenmr named Turpin claims to have authority from the Portia to fortify the Dunluuelles, and to be able no make the straits impassable; to the united Beats of the World. After a. suspension of fifteen years Lhe meteorologxcal obsc'rvawry on the Brockeu, in the Hurtz umuntainu. "where winches hold Lhcir SabbuLh on May day night), is so be re-esunblished this full. .A Spanish court-martial in Huvuua has condemned the captain of an American vessel to eight. and Liiu firemen to net} yeura’ imprisonmcnn an hard labour for landing cartridges in Cuba for Lin: insur- ucnm. - The uprising among the natives in' Morocco is apreuding und assuming n. much more serious impact. _'l'hrce great t’rmes have made a cd'xnbined attack upon me stronghold of n'chief who is one (if the principal adhemnbs of the Sultan, and routed n is forces. Unpmiu M xurice Vurlrmnt. a member of a. Freud» mansion on me prpur meui, whu has remrnul to France, poeucu‘alcd into Ermn's province 0! Equatoria, and exploded Lh‘c wmurlslmd h-Lsiwwu the Welle, the rivemtlnwug iuLp Luke L‘chud, and the. Lrilmmrius nf Ln;- Whiu’e Nzic. The mauioeuvcrs of the French army in nhe V (.15 'Igtacl.0dtll on '1!) zr rmiay with a graiid ruview at; Mizucourt, Which was nm"e remit! kziiilehy'rthcu.1iv (A. of tin: luiiusiun Gencr .il Drauomirofl .mxi Prince. Loimnoh, the Russian Minister of l‘oreign Aimiis. The Russian oliicimls weie XuCUlei with immense enthusiasm. Alt/noi- ”h vhe moze humhiv anion" Hum.- couuu he i in Line in Ismcrr- of ini.ssinimrii.n m, Ku- Cheng have been [\uni‘i‘tt i, Lite unimun efforts of the Briiwii Consul have 1mm uuewaiiiug to in lune the: rmthoriuieu union] wish the \ iceroy of the. province and other high officials who are uiu ged [0 have been responsibie for the rioiis. . Mrs. McUueâ€"Bidziy, shop that kissin' at. th’ froubldnreyun.’ Sscnd Paddy Modes of? about. hi:. businer‘s. Biddy (innocentlyâ€"Au: did ye heixr'nny kissin’, mother? i' 1. ff; '- " Mrs. McUueâ€"Pfi‘e‘ard whims sounded 'nlS much loike a. kiss as wan pig 3 squeal is like another. ' - :5 -' â€""Puddy (lgallnntly)-â€"Sure, mum, it way. only me u-spittin’ on me hands t' get ready fur mo long walk home. Love at a-Cottage. A DAY WITH STEPHEN. Stephen Gazing: Into llegven‘suphtn : Looking at Christâ€"Stephen Slouetl~i Stephen hr Ills Dying flourâ€"Stephen Asleepâ€"A l'lrluresqun Sermon. New YORK, Sept. 15.â€"-In his sermon for to-day Rev. Dr. Talmage has chosen a1 theme as picturesque as it is spiritually l inspiring. He groups his discourse into; “Five Pictures.” The text selected was. “Behold, I see the heavens opened”â€"Acts vii, 56 60. Stephen had been preaching a rousing sermon. and the people could not stand it. 1 They resolved to do as men sometimes‘ i would like to do in this day, if they dared, with some plain preacher of righteousness -~-kill him. â€"'I,‘he only Way to silence this man was to knock the breath out of him. So they rushed Stephen out of the gates of the city, and with curse and whoop and bellow they brought him to the cliii', as was the custom when they wanted to take away the life by stoning. Having brought him to the edge of the cliff, they pushed him oil‘. After he had fallen they came and looked down, and seeing that he was not yet dead they began to drop stones upon him, stone after stone. Amid this horrible rain of missiles Stephen clembers up on his knees and folds his hands, while the blood drips from his temples, and then, rising up, he makes two prayers, one for himself and one for his murderers, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit,” that was for himself. “Lord lay not this am to their charge," that wasior his murderers. Then, irom pain and loss of blood he swooned away and fell asleep. REV. DR. TALMAGE PRESENTS FIVE LIVING PICTURES. I Want, to show you' to-day five pictures â€"Schhen gazing into heaven, Stephen looking at Chrisb, Stephen stoned, Stephen in his d) iug prayer, Stephen asleep. First look at, Stephen gazing into heaven Before you take a leap you want. to know where you are going to land. Before you climb a ladder you wan: to know to what point the ladder reaches. And it was right that Stephen, within a few moments of heuven,should be gazing int-cit. We would all do well to be found in the same posture. There is enough in heaven to keep us gazing. A man of large wealth may have statuary in the hall, and paintings in the sitting room and works of art. in all parts of the house, but he has the chief pictures in the art. gallery, and there hour after hour you walk with catalogue and glass and ever increasing admiration. Well, heaven is the gallery where God has gathered the chief treasures of his realm. The whole universe is his palace. In the lower room where we stop there are many udornments, Lessellated floor of amethyst, and on the winding cloud stairs are stretch- ell ant canvases on which commingle azure and purple and saffron and gold. But heaven is the gallery in which the chief glories are gathered. There are the bright- est robes. There are the richest crowns. There are the hightest exhilarations. St. John, says of it.4 “The kings of the earth shall bring their honor and glory into it.” And I see the procession forming, and in the line come all empires, and the stars spring np into an arch for the hosts to march under. They keep step to the sound ofearthqtunke and the pitch of the ovelanche from the mountains, and the ting they been: is the flame of 'a consuming world, and all heaven turns out with harps und trumpets and myriad voiced soulmnstion of angelic dominions to Welcome them in, and so the kings of the earth bring their honor and glory into it. llo you wondor that good people often stand, like Stephen, looking into heaven? We have many friends there. There is not a. man here so isolated in life but there is some‘ one in heaven with whom he once shook hands. A8 a man gets older, the number of his celtstial acquaint- ances vary rapidly multiplies. We have not had one glimpse of them Since the night we kissed them good-by and they went away, but still We 'umud gazing at hcuv‘eu. As when some of our friends go Across the sea. we stand on the dock or on the steam tug and watch them, and after awhile the hulk of the vessel disappears, and then there manly-u. patch of nail on the sky, ‘and soon that is gone, and they are all out of sight, and yet we stand look- ing in the same direction, so when our ”minds go away from us into the future World we keep'lookiug down through the Nzuri‘own and guzmg and gazing as though we expected that. khey would come out aid stand on some cloud and give usone glimpse of their lxlibsful' and truushgured faces. ‘ Whilc‘yuu long tojom theircompanion- ship, and the years and the days go with such radium that they break your heart, and lllc vipers of pan; and sorrow and beâ€" relwnrmutkecp gnnwing At your VlLillB, and you'will swunl like, Stephen, gazing into heaven. You wonder If nlxey have clmngmi miner you aaw them last. You wpmier if they Wuu'ul rucngnizu your face, now, so ulnmgml luv: it been wijit trouble. You wmnlcr i‘, amid the myriad delights Limy law , thuy mre am much for yUL' as they u-‘ml Lu when they :vnvc you a helping humi and put their sixouldvm under your burdens. You Wonder If they look any nhivr, mxd somemm-a in ”‘8 evening rule, when thelwuss is all quiet” on wonder if you would call Lhem by Lheir first, name if nhey Would not unsv’ver, and perhips aomelimes you go make the experiment, and when no one. (rt-‘Gnd 'nnd yourself are bhere you diuinc’nly cull their names and. listen and Sir. gazing into heaven. .1558: on now and see Stephen looking upon Christ. My text says Lhut he saw ch: 3 San 0‘! Man an. the right hand of God. Just: how Christ, lacked in this world, just how ‘ in; looks in heaven, we cnnunt. say. The! paimers of the di-fi'erent- ages hme tried to ’ unaginc the features of Chi-island put. them ‘ upun canvas, but we.will have Lo wait untiN with our own eyes we see him and with} our own cars we can hear him. And you: them is a. way of seeing him and hearing him now. I have to tell you that, unless you see imd hear Christ, on earth, you will never see and hear him in heaven. Look ! There he is ! Behold the Lamb of God I Can you not see him? Then pray to God to take the eagles oil your eyes. Look that Way -try to look that way. His voice comes down to you this dayâ€"women down to the blindeat, to the desfest soul, Buying, “Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth and be ye saved, for] am God, and there is none else. ” Proclamation of universal emancipa- tion for all slaves. Tell me, ye who know most of the world's history, what other king: ever asked the abandoned and the for- lorn, and the wretched, and the outcast to come and sit beside him? 0h, wonderful invitation ! You can take it to-duy and stand at the head of the darkest alley in if you live to three score years and ten you will see none so fair. Behold him. ye aged ones, for he only can shine through the dimneza of your failing eyesight. Behold him, earth. Behold him, heaven. “'hata moment when all the nations of the saved shall gather around Christ, all faces that way, all thrones that way, gazing on Jesus ! His worth it all the nations knew Sure the whole earth would lovu him too. I pass on now and look at Stephen stoned. ; The world has always wanted to get rid of igood men. Their very life is an assault .‘ upon wickedness. Out with Stephen j through the gates of the city. Down With !him over the precipicea. Let every man Eeome up and drop a stone upon his head. f But these men did not so much kill Stephen ‘ as they lulled themselves. Every stone ‘ rebounded upon them. While these mur- ‘derers are transfixed by the scorn of all ‘ good men Stephen lives in the admiration ; of all Christendom. Stephen stoned, bun ,Stephen alive. So all good men munt be ‘ pelt-ed. “All who will liVe godly in Christ. Jesus .musc autfer persecution." It, is no , eulogy of a man to say that everybody likes } him. Show me anyone who is doing all his iduby to state or church, and I will show i you Homes of men who utterly ubhor him. . L. L- n-....,. all this city and any : “Come! Clothes for your rage, salve for your sores, a. throne for your eternal reigning," A Christ that talks like that and acts like that and par- dona like thatâ€"do you wonder that Stephen atom} looking at him? I hope to spend eternity doing the same thing. 1 must see him; I must look upon that face once clouded with my sin, but now radiant with my pardon. I want to touch that hand that knocuetl oil my shuckles., 1 want to hear the voice that pronounced my de- liverance. Behold him, little children, for If all men speak well of you,it in because you‘arc either a. laggurd or a. dolt. If a steamer makes rapid progress through the waves, the water will boil and foam all around it. Brave soldiers of Jesus Christ will heur the carbine: click. When I aeea man with a voice and money and influence all on the right side, and some caricature him, and some sneer at him, and some denounce him, and men who pretend to be actuated by right motives conspire to crip- ple him, to cut him out, to destroy him, I say, “Stephen stoned.” ,,Â¥__L .4-_-I uw'v, v-~r..-._-___ss When I see a man in some great moral or religious reform battle against grog- shops, exposing wickedness in high places, by active means trying to purify the church and better the world’s estate, and I find that the newspapers anathematize him, and men, even good men, oppose him and denounce him, because, though he does good, he does not do it in their way, I say, “Stephen stoned.” But you notice, my friends, that while they assaulted Stephen they did not succeed really in killing him. You may assault a good man, but you can- not kill him. On the day of his death, Stephen spoke before a few people in the sanhedrin;the Sabbathmorningheaddresses all Christendom. Paul the apostle stood on Mars hill addressing a handful of philosophers who knew not so much about science as a modern school girL To-day he tulks to all the millions of Christendom about the wonders of justification and the glories of resurrection. John Wolsey was howled down by the mob to whom they preached, and they threw bricks at him and they denounced him, and they jostled him and they spat upon him, and yet to- day, in all lands, he is admitted to be the great father of Methodism. Booth’s bullet vacated the presidential chair, but from that spot of coagulated blood on the floor in the box of Ford’s theater there sprang Win :h: soul have to mwel through long dem rts before it. reaches the good land? it we should lose our pathway, will there be a. cashle on \\ hose gale we may ask Lhe way to the city? 0h, Lhifi mysxerious spiru ‘ wiL'nin us? It, has two wings, but. it is in a cage now. It is locked {ML to keep it, but. let. .Lhc door of Lhiu cage open in xhe least. and the soul is oil". Eagle’s wing could not I catch it. The liohmings are not, swift enough to come up with is. When the i soul leaves the ‘oody, it takes 50 worlds at. 1 a bound._ And have I no anxiety about it? Have you no anxiety about it? ,A‘ ,l,: up the new life of a. nation. St/éphei stoned, but Suephgn 3113:}. uvvuvu‘ -_. N _ 1,7,-7 Pass on now and see Stephenin his dying prayer. ,His first thought was not how the stones hurt his head nor whst would become of his body. His first thought Was about his spzrit. “Lord Jesus,receive my‘spirit.” The murderer standing on the trapdoor, the black cap being drawn over his head before the execution, may grimace about the future, but you and I have no shame in confessing some anxiety about where we are going to come out. You are not all body. Therois within you a soul. 1 see it gleam from your eyes to-day and I see it irradiating your countenance. Sometimes lam ubushed before an audience, not be- cause I come under your physical eyesight, but because I realize the truth that I stand before so manv immortal spirits. The pro- bability is that your body will at last find a sepulcher in some of the cemeteries that surround this city. There is no doubt but that your obsequiea will be decent and respectful, and you will be able to pillow your head under the maple, or the Norway spruce, or the cypress, or the blouoming fir, but this spirit uncut which Stephen pmyed. what direction will that take 2 What guide will escort it? What gate Will open to receiveit ‘? \Vhat cloud will be cleft for its pathway 1' After it hue got beyond the light of our sun will there be torches lighted for it the rest of th-- way" I do; not care Whal’: you do with my body when my soul is gone or whether you be- lieve in cremation or inhumatiou. I shall sleep just as well in a. wrapping: of sackcloth as in smtin lined with eagle’s down. But. my soulâ€"before I close this discourse I wxll find out where it. will 15nd. Thmk God for bheintjmation of my tan, flat when we die Joana aka: ,ns. (HAS. \V. RICHARDS Publisher 41' Proprietor. That answers all questions io' me. What though there were massive l-ars between here and the City of Light, Jesus could remove them. (v hat though there were great Saharan of darkness, Jesus could iilume them. What though I get weary on the way, Christ could lift me on his omni- potent shoulder. What though there were chs sms to cross, his hand «muld transport me. Then let Stephen’s prayer be my dying litany, “Lord Jesus receive my spirit.” It may be in that hour we will be too feeble to say a long prayer. It may be in that hour we will not be able to say the Lord’s Prayer, for it has seven petitions. Perhaps we may be too feeble even to say the infant prayer our mothers taught us, which John Quincy Adams, 70 years of age, said every night when he put his head upon his pillow : Now I lay me down to sleep. l I pray the Lnrd my soul to Keep. I We may be too feeble to employ either of ithese familiar forms, but this prayer of 3 Stephen is so short, is so concise,ilso earn- est, is so comprehensive, We surely will be able to say that. “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” Oh, if that prayer is answered, ' how sWeet will it he to die ! This world is clever enough to us. Perhaps it has treated I us a great deal better than we deserve to be treated, but if on the dying pillow there i shall break the light of that better world we shall have no umore regret than nbon: leaving a small, dark, dump house for one large, beautiful and capscious. That dying minister in Pniladelphiq some years ago beautifully depicted in when in the In; moment, he threw up his hmda sud cried out : “I move into the light 2" Pass on now, and I will show you one more picture, and that is Stephen asleep. With a pathos and simplicity peculiar to the Scriptures the text says of Stephen, “He fell asleep.” “Uh,” you ssy,“whnt 3 place that was to sleep ! A hard rock under him,stones falling down upon him,the blood streaming, the mob howling. tht spines it was to sleep !” And yet my text takes that symbol of slumber to describe his de- parture, so sweet was it, so contented wns it, so peaceful was it. Stephen hsd lived n Very laborious life. His chief work hed been to care for the poor. How my loaves of breed he had distributed, how many bare feet he had sandaledflmw m cots of sickness and distress he had blessed with ministries of kindness and love, I do not know. Yet from the way he lived,a.nd the way he preached, and the way he died, I know he was a lsborious Christian. But that is allover now. He hsd pressed the cup to the lust fainting lip. He hes taken the last insult from his enemies. The lost stone' to whose crushing Weight he is susceptible has been hurled. Stephen is deed ! The disciples come ! They take him up l They wash away the blood from the wounds. They straighten out the bruised limbs. They brush back the tangled hair from the brow, and then they pus around to look upon the calm countensnee of him who had lived for the poor and died for the truth. Stephen asleep! . u 1 I have seen the sea driven with the hur- ricane till the tangled foam caught in the rigging, and wave rising above wave seem- ed as if about to storm the heavens, and then I have seen the temptest dro , and the waves crouch and everything me smooth and burnished an tbougha campin place for the glories of heaven. So have seen a man, coming down at last to an in- finite calm, in which there we. a hush of heaven’s lullaby. Stephen asleep. in ‘2, I saw such '9. one. He fought all his days against. poverty and against shuns. They trnduced his name. They rattled ut the door knob while be was dying with dune for debts he could not pny; yet the peace of God brouded over his pillow and while the world faded, heaven dawned and ,the deepening twilight of earth's night was only the opening twilight of heovon‘l morn. Not a sigh. Not a tear. Not n atruggle. Hush! Stephen asleep. ”W L___ ‘4 -__ ‘00” , I have not the faculty as many have to tell the Weather. I can never tell by the setting sun whether there will be a drought or not. I cannot tell by the blowing of the wind whether it will be fair weather or foul on the marrow. But I can prophesy, and I will prophesy, what weather it will be when you, the Christian, come todie. You may have it very rough now. It may be this week one annoyance. the next, another annoyance. It may be thisp‘r one bereavement, the next another bereave- ment. But at the last Christ will come in and darkness willgo out. And though there may be no hand to close your eyes and no breast on which to rest your dying head, and no candle to lift the night; the odors of God’s hanging garden will regale your soul and at your bedside will halt the chariots of the king. No more rents to pay, no more agony because flour has gone up, no more struggle with “ the world, the flesh and the devil,” but peaceâ€"dong, deep, everlasting peace. Stephen asleep ! Asleep in Jesus. blessed sleep. From which none ever wake to weep ; A calm and undisturbed repose, “‘ Uninjurcd by the last of foes. Asleep in Jesus, far from thee Thy kindred and thy craves may be. But there is still the blessed sleep. From which none ever wake to weep. You have seen enough for one day. No one can successfully examine more than five pictures in a day. Therefore we stop. having seen this cluster of divine Raphael- â€"Stephen gazing into the heavens, Stephen looking at Christ, Stephen stoned. Stephen in his dying prayer, Stephen asleep. Au exhibitinu of courage wax given by”: nfanu'ymau an the atormiug oi the Gemmuu Gate at. Plug-Yang. Here the thick stone walls proved impervious to Japanese uho; and shell, and after two ruitleas a‘isaults it, was deculed no Hy some other method. Lieutenant. Mémun voi. umccrvd to Open the gate single-lxtnded. ,3 but, Private Hurmia nepped our. and fluid a he would follow along and help. 30mg.“ men then nu: for a corner of the gnu-Way, " while their comrades diverted the attention { of the Chinese defenders by keeping up a. hotfusiiaule. Mimura and Harada clunbered quickly' up the face of the wail by pinning“ their hands and feet in the chinks MM tlrelstoncu. They succeeded in ' the top wmhoun being seen by [he who wrx‘e busy blazing away at; body of the enemy. and then jumped dun and rushed for the inside of the gem. They had to cut. their way thro‘gh a herded"- (Jhinnmeu as soon as they had g0bb¢nifllid¢fi the Down ; but, they finally bout. them 05,} and chrew the bolts of the heavy gain. that wele at. once shoved in by the stacking force outside. Bot-h Lieutenant Minna; , amd Print. M were promoted ‘ next dsy. ’ o _, Two Brave Men