Ask , .. that your joy may be - full.—John xvi Men repioach us for asking too} W! much ; the divine complaint is that we do not ask enough. ‘ nts oe eat and heaven, too,” said way of criticism upon pe tnordinsta Acquisitiveness of, an. Some one says that there are two sides to é ; : ; , ; 4 “Th uti ne the inside.” 6 eternal em- phasis of religion is upon the in- wardness of things. Our fault commonly is that we are satisfied with externals. Real friendship is sivaye an inward pos- session in terms of soul. “Purchase not thy. ‘tend by zits, Jest when thou ceasest to giv cease to love.” As if iene coal really be wor 4 champagne at. $5 ® bottle or at the price of elabor- ait Ene I hs it half a fortune BUYING FRIENDS. Yet I doubt if he could count upon their coming to his funeral, unless they were assured of a wine sup. per. Friendship can neither b eajoled nor bribed. at Mite, save oe we has paid for it an inward p: Pleasure ie ae its outside and inside. e possesses a multitude of aie and is not Pecan be - e ae shell which had @ | hi amused by any of them. He has gotten the inwardness “ot pleasure pleasure-loving age is not thai seeks pleasure, but that it concerns itself_wit er multitude of er ora maltiplieity of sensations. He who cannot find material a hap- im. piness in his own garden in some for heaven, with the bounties a which it stands. ‘The Bible fair. |choice book or in a little group of ly yearns over our poverty of ask- [frends will never find it by going ing. abroad for it. Goodness also has its outside and its inside. is the shell of goodness; mi i soul. But, by an inveterate prac- tice, most’ people are still chiefly concerned with the EXTERNALS OF GOODNESS. Pharisaism is by no means an anci- ent spirit. It is as modern as this mornin, n still broaden their phylacteries seveed of their souls. ly weigh what he is, whether on a at or in the scales of eternity. Not Bi, is the real s amused at the evident dis- gust of one of the squirrels in the io had seized eagerly the n flung ‘im. ut after satitying ‘himself that a5 shell wa: urne! S| angrily away. To Teck chagrin mul- titudes come at length. ‘The cry of 1¥ | Heclesiastes is a specimen ory of n | fortunate pletely deceived by her symptoms, | ¢ disappointed manhood. N: can really feed his life on externals. We need to be sure that the shell includes the kernel of joy, else ‘all is vanity and vexation of spirit. orge Clarke Peck, D. THE S.S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN. 17. The Beginnings of the Christian Church. Acts 2. 22-47. Golden Acts 2. 42. Ye men of Israel — Pater” ‘i meth a speaking in his ad- dress to the assembled multitude at Pente just. quoted pirit to the phenome- non of the gift of tongues which) had so astonished and puzzled his hearers. Jesus of Nazareth—Thus was he known to the people generally. Had a company of disciples he would perhaps have used the at ‘Master’ ferring ae eer 23. ing aateviee up — Su A eaey sacrificed, Peter would ave his Heneare piatnctt under- stand that it w he determin- ate counsel aaa" foreknowlecase of God that Jesus had suffered by the hand of lawless Rake By the ex- pression ‘‘lawles: is meant men who in iat they were doing} 4 were eapeedine their legal rights and prerogatives 24. Whom God raised up—This is he climax and turning point o! xod had re- actions of those who ie ate against the Christ. For David saith—The refer- aa is to Psa. 16. 8f., which reads: I have set Jehovah always before Because he is at my right hand, 1 shall not be ne my bats is aad and my. ejoicet My Pa ce shall dwell in satety, For ies ae not leave my soul t Neither Sprit gu “bulfer thy holy e to see corruption, The quoted verses constitute one ‘uture e Davidie the psalm is uncertain. The idea itself might vel! be found. in a psalm of David, but the mode in which the author works out the idea seems to ugge est a later period. 26. Dwvell—Or, “tabernacle,” that is, dwell temporarily as a sojour- ner. 27. Hades—The Hebrew Sheol, tts mystical realm of departed Thy. Holy One—Peter here ap- plies to Christ words which in pps original psalm baie the w of the psalm itself, as the om a of the capitals it the Old Testa- nt quotation is intended to in- d “holy” as used y” a ie the falmniet himself is justified by Peter him- self in verse 29, where-he points out death, and an expression of confi- denee in Jehovah that this prayer will be granted. Concerning this joint Prefessor Bartlet, in his Dacieke nner sn on ent Bible Serics, sa; of the Old Titaments was quite gommuon among the Jews; and is- TY | pao deed the New Testament writings contrast most favorably i is re- spect with Sonia nore anes, 80 r as known The idea ly- ing behind ihe erat} Bere even in such a case as the presen is usually profound, admitting of suggestive restatement in terms of our own more rigorous literary me- th Thus, on the assumption that the psalm was Davidic and Messianic—things taken for grant- d by Jewish opinion at the Peter was justified by the “Semitic generations, see verse 30), in using the psalm to prove, (1) that David’s true scion, the Mes aa could not be holden of death, and 2) that Jesus, whom death had not been ae to hold, was indeed pecrene ind all this lies, both n the ae pee in Peter’s mind, argument of verse 29 is continued, it being pointed out that avid could not be the object of certain peaatile utterances of the psalm But he saith—This second quota- tion i sa. here the original verse quoted reads: Jehovah saith unto my lord, Sit at my right Ou Until I make Series thy 87. Pricked in their ak ae science-stricken : name of Jesus Christ— Thus making a public confession « heliof ii thes divinity “aud Messin of Jesus, which “was to those whom le addroaied, this promise was This marked “generation—Re- ion, 41. There seer added unto them— The word omitted in ne original, that this number the moembershi added to were Everybody. Koos has a nose Before going in he politics a phy- sician should feel the public pulse. Only. blind beggars are allowed the streets of Eston busybody to Maavias Over 305,000,0C9 passengers were at on tne railways of India act Thore are over 19,009,090 anpais tors ia the savings banks o many, ing quite small, the fact that certain things men- Mrs. Mat ter: ‘Have you tioned in the psalm were not true|Mr. Pater’s son since he got home| Vs eabed upon to inguire into the of the writer: trom college?” Daughter: ‘es, osthe Got riberive) ba exentes Pe 31, Spake of the resurrection ti ma; saw him last Sea 2 nee sage By See TG ie onebts The applitation’ of. thal Met © “Haw hel ioiprover much , , ; salmiat’s words to the rosurrec-|Daughter: “‘Awfully, Ho's got ae eciehed wih ie puiderce of the tion of Jesus from the dead is hard- | moustache.” aed eae ae ee ons val Vide ly arranted by the original mean-| Mistress: “Your cold’s very bad,|elve Uhtiptdcet angiaste cate wa ing of the psalm, which is primar-|Jane. Are you doing anythin, for r i Siva. dav ily a prayer for preservation from|itt” Jane: ys your ts'sa. hel teverde harley Lawincbe valk: chemist have giv’ me some eee iated sornbbire. of Queen Anne.” “This,’’ remarked Mr. Cane, ‘‘is my photograph with my two French odles.. You recognize me, eh?’ “TL think so,’’ said Miss Softe. “Yor are the ‘one with the hat on, are you nob?’ -|cer was published, a sue w ferring to the collective guilt of the authorship of | 2ati dier "| recorded of a French soldier ‘at the ic There 270 active volcanoes in the, { world, many of them, however, Le- rand A seen, OM POVERTY i ASKING BURIED ‘loll ROMANCES & The Inwardness of Things Is Held Above the Externals, [SOME TRUE LIFE” STORIES. Instances of Miraculous Escapes From Being ST reame iar ply Buried. When the will of Herbert Spen- | ° as peu voked by one of its provisions. The aged ae had directed that, in a coffin wit :| Hd, ‘and easily opened from the in- | ea ‘still more startling clause had last testament of weird material of which gruesome ean ieaudes But ian Only one of many similar cases. STIMULANTS FOR A CORPSE. One that has recently greatly ex- cited the public mind woman. residin ife the undertaker for her c doctor in attendance upon the un- n com- and certified her death, She is by no means the only per- son living in England who has been aie to be dead. © lives in Holland Road, capes ae wa Be a death certificate, miraculous escape toa lad “acrtitied: be screwed down, when her daugh- ter, who could not tanere her de: placed brandy to her lips. The cof- nm figure sat up, ae ne alive to- lay to show her friends her own death certificate. he well-known instance of the mily vault, was v poses of plun- LIFE SAVED BY MICE. mewhere in England is a cer- tain Trooper Holmes, who, accord- ing to evidence in the possession of the “RETURNED TO bo is that of a! jy een cast into their Eravet alive ma ein the tomb and be stifled ty the superincumben ire A TRAGIO NOTE. Unimpeachable pace exists for the stor: ry of a ing afterwards re- ived. When ‘the coffin was opened been torn to shreds and the fingers ly | Of both hands eaten off ect, sport was iaeeet es closely for Jone. continuaace. | 1 pursuit of the iting, ut when the buffalo turned hun- ie chage Was groat- heightened. The author oe “The Father of St. Kilda,”’ Mr. R. ©. be Hl, tells in the pages of kis beak how he engaged in one of these |™! double-headed SCE in the on t pony, with the scalp of his Jatest enemy. flying behind him, utterly demoralized my steady-go ing, faithful nag, and he ran i all my efforts, pitched me headlong against a great. granite ashes block, eae himself fled madly over he pra Beneache the shadow of this boul a half-conscious state was roused ai fa large herd oe buffalo coming Me gallop over the crest of above me and making straight 5 my direction, followed by ievgecss and hatless half-breed: an bull, but alas! im As the buffalo turned upen me I Tose al not so as to kill Premature Burial, was ite es rinciple—upen which all|is alive. Gri really depends— cannot| the Afghan War o! vas be-| leave to destruction ‘Bis Holy|ing brought down te Deolali, en e| One! with whom he is in special route for “England, when he appear covenant elation? ed to relinquish hold on life. There 32. Whereof—Or, hom. were difficult y of an 33. By the right eh of God ex-| immediate spienmenh Meas Hove alted—Exalted by God’s power to| was lai mortuary. be a d Saviour. here it remained for three days. David ascended not—The i On the third day the surgeons wen to perform a post mortem examina- y raised the tarpaulin be- field mice. , with whic is infested, scurry from beneath the covering. But preciad teen the means of aving that soldier's erat of their little balties ie had a reanimating effect upon his. aoe important still, however, they had nibb calves, so the Society for the Prevention of| he after m ead’’ yel it and:trai ror + other for life and sate A bullet Be the flint-lock gun of one of! ,. the savages hit the boulder and sent a splinter from it into my and, leaving a wound of which still carry the t: Scarcely knowing I was hit, I ran on until my bree! gone, and I felt that in a few mo- ments I Should drop and be tonsed mpled by my infuriated foe. pile ite was chasing ies rather than close behind -him. as he swished his tail round, and drew the trigger with my last ounce of strength. I had won, nd my aay wounded enemy aecceat At least it had not ended as many d rid- slowly when found, was nursed back to convalescence, t forth {bravely to rejoin his reninent at| Meerut. A well-known cha in Guern- Sepatead Lacie: wieate woldior, Sha had been cast into and redeemed | from. the grave. Alter a sanguin-| attle in the Crimes he was, seed up with s more to be| thrown into the ues Giend where e dead were to li the hurial_ party a movement i orts at reviy bona wi aM { ie ether Ear t he! inks to Battle of Borny, near “ | revived in the mortua ig, the delay of the bur sey riving. BATTLEFIELD MYSTERIES. ot Tong 850, ib may rem ed, a fussian Pole committed! wiidldedie © Reeth Pranseeic, Some t reviously he had been placed in his coffin as dead, but he sore’ when being ser ne nD: ate. horror of that Ce at preyed on bis mind shee mele mie: and eventually ten ne own life. ight years back the police found = child Diapers dead 46 Regea Par! ¥ an re moved to arylebone Mortua placed in a coffin to When hee coroner Z-occurred at C: the deputy coroner an rwards Charles Lawrence stalk- ed out of ‘his ‘coffin, and went to or] Ab i AL SR TS ee to prove a case rson ving been buried ate ates are “obvious difficultios “a the vy, and so distressing a subject is. mitogenic avoided by re latives. Still, there is ixdubitable| He was breathing | j care an’ y 5 | self ing effort, and then falling dead AS his vie- tims. 6 was found that her shroud had | Andre apon pierced the breast | qi was almost i CAUGHT IN THE ICE. ae ne Ee perienee in Brite The fur- eer — on oe steamer whart at Quebec, leaning back on a packing-box. moment he pokes dea at the first sheet of ice had skimmed the broad St. See then he said, ‘That ice there is about as thick as it was the time cot eae got saght oe ee first trip nortl peste fellow OF ite name of Ww on and myself had been trading with Tadinne: in Brit- broke camp at was ten miles big lake lying between. tad: batdce dick lodge as oman SLaieaniaet girl who was, in rea- 5 oa ted to the ground. She, like Spen-| lity, not dea a trance. She oe of ti e ay eae cer, fearod that she would be buri-| &&ve a seni groan and expir-| provisions were used up and we ed alive. She had reason. A kins-|¢0) end ‘her father, who bad inte: |had already sent our pelts out woman of hers, a famous heiress, |Cently struck the blow, died soon there didn’t seem to-be any reason Wak declared to be dead, placed in| after wards, raving.—London An-| hy we shouldn't paddle the six her coffin, and made ready for buri- | °¥°rs miles across, Our outfit was light, al. The hearse was at the door, the Sats eee nd we figured we could reach the funeral guests all assembled, when| UNTER BY A BUFFALO. {other side before dark. ct See eat — “Three or four Indians, who took at the body. Narrow Escape of a Hunter From | were coming skins, saw us i WonndedMeast an we were belting out, an and a elle) to us something about the i ourana ive The time has gone by for huntin the mother of twenty-two children. | buffalo on the plaine, ee et ha listened to This sort of story may read like the| lasted, the es ‘We got along well until cbout the middle of the afternoon, when the wind whirled around into the north, and it got cold within ten oO snow, too, first in little ae aes thicker an ve, couldn't se nt |@ canoe’s lengtl ahead of u “There was only one thing to do, and that was to spread out the pianist into a kind Ot awning, and up to sleep and wait for the a when we could see our way. “Damson woke me at daylight, and I looked out. The fall of snow had been light. We were about a fhiadeat yattie tiem dhe suoreend I could see that storm had not thick*enough to h thin enough for a boat to push ‘Damson,’ raid T, looking sober, Sareea SL way Ae ee shouldn't get strong. enough to wal on, or else melt ¢' 80 we could nadie: Thefe uct ahyihing tate but a half a ean of beans, and this cance is. leakin “The hours went by. e ate nearly all our ions, and slept | over the next ee pre aes anxious, and cold an ; | keep out of the water gradually rising in the cance, raw morning the ice was still too oie break through “and yet “What are you going to says I. : etn going to build an iceraft,’ dhe Jashe aces $e it and pul with your toe: will hold you ail right, f us.’ hall I send the raft back to saat said CEES: already Rata of that,” said he. his ball of cord we used for gee ae the skins. I'll tie this on the raft here. a any- thing hazpens to you I may be able to pull you out, and if you get there all right z can haul the raft back “phe raft would just barely hold me up sig ee ved aenuheeee pushing my Ww shore, spread out on my womach on the raft; but a di SENTENCE SERMONS. Tithe he pulled the raft back to atid at andar 4 e cance, am or a moment I Bao Se ae ouldn’t see what he was doin; Giving gradgingly is sowing spar- ing! ly. a few The cynic is one neh has found stolen fruits not so sweet. To praise a good sation is to par- ‘ticipate in its repetition He cannot defend the truth who is afraid of any trath akes adversity to shee. spietlie ; ny real pro Hg wheres nothing to ee Mea does worse than nothing. tting sore at the world ‘aming yourself in ie micas not know what forgive- ness is who-is too lazy: to resent a wrong. Trying to se even 1 with an enemy i ww him. The wor: fot all fai iw who can never never try ‘Phe man who has nothing but re- ee puts his headlig..t on the pesaueh thas: > fix up for thie benett of the ange any a man thirks be is a saint ‘because he hag dreams of heaven very The man who talks to please him- self soon hag an. audience well pleased with itself. me resolution to do the right thing is worth a bushel: a resolu- tions not to wron, Wf your faith does not justify it- by its fruits there’s little use worrying over. its roots. “5 no usc preaching ‘agains the sins of people in a way that pro- yo was a church that went down except it had first fail ed to get down and serve men. More aches than help come from the honey the preacher puts-into his sermon on Saturday night t will not, make you Godlike to| 4° eall others godless. It B} it is the cord tied o «Haul away ! a aad he, when he had spread himself out on the raft, y! easy!” ast aged to San him 2 shore. felt anything b ter than ae solid ground under ‘eet. t hadn’t been for Rady 3 lawenultyy fees have been starvation, drowning. or d at freezing for both of us. a SENTENCE SERMONS, leads; greed driv in the heart never stays Chasity always goes farther than! sent. goed nature ought to be natural! Wi > the g ood. Aate ot fire are not intended for roasting purposes, | po ey on the lips does not cure hat ied he heart: | eau any think bay are hey are only glaring prove too much for t The saddest slavery is That ot Het ing 1 ruled by our pleasures. uu have no right to set up your tia a nother man’t faith, If you qoutes We farsighted you must learn to live on the heights. ‘ool is known by offering his ioesiebwen after the a cannot punters sam Beall by polishing the brass on the harness. The secret of suc eae lies some- where between wishing and willing. It’s a sad day when his interests determine his princi- in the man religion at ples. Religion has no home who does not show his home. the ice had all gone’ out, and we} by this: simple proceeding | of green paint, ane “Tanting Poite with green QUEER SENTENCES IMPOSED BY THE BENCH. times Deerced by the Pre- siding UNG “To make tte HANDING OUT JUSTIGE/TROUBLES OF DIPLOMATS — Freakish Punishments are Some- pa vate CHILDISH SQUADBLES/1 THAT ALARM NATIONS: : Times When Foreign Ministers Should be Very Diserect in \ Their Languags. Es, are sometimes accus- it ilbert wrote, found aabinee of al tion of justice. aw, unfortunately, ed people, ears of an individual with sufici- ent good sense or strength of mind to decree a fit and appropriate pun- For instance, at Ge small boys were charged with steal ing fro guilty, going to send you to prison. lay-school every y for next fifty-two Sundays, aed I make yeur parents responsible for sentence being duly cattle aay similar case occurred at Bloomi- haar Tilinois, a few-mon oie ago, nine, was the son of a shamefully, te *magistrat ings in order to see that the -chas- sdeienk was duly carried out. At Denver, Oolorado, when a tipsy man is brought into the poliees | station, he is propped up againe the wall and at once photographed. Next, morning, WHEN HE IS SOBER, he is shown the ‘picture, and they say-it is quite surprising how many Eiclive “cuceathayscbee rasta io ar distinetly A kenness, which . was efficacious, at Chester, Connecticut. Her hus- band came home, night after night, the worse for liquor. At last the poor lady, losing al! patience, burnt Riecslgthes aud ay arother suit until he had AeA the pl Coast, found, to their surprise, that they were not thrown off. On the | contrary, they were given aaa commodation. To horror, when they reached Nebraska, they | s were forced to alli ere seized by grim-faced farmers, who} t set them to work at once in the wand then jou hear of pun- shments, which are purely freak- wig Tesnow, the child en who was canght at eee, $ 3 5 Aas the a of the paddles. ‘Then | Grictowald about a year ago, was tried on three counts—two o! two yore. imprisonment into the barg: ain ! aoe Tealian swindler, Lupo Salva- ore by cae fees no three eee charges, and receiv- eda THREE YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT meach. He is operas vive 189 years in an Italian Prion: railway Sree the North- DaKine; took an odd ale of, punishing a ceaneber tho refuse to leave a palbnae en he} am: ugh he dge neha 8. He failed to recover, the Ein copnanyiert sail © if it ‘0 be reserve *eK punishime: Se onthe Gat the bar S| petrators into serious trouble con- da pot The hoy, errands for a grocer, ae Sone Who the soe was very atest of queer punishm nts. se fro: sad N w 6 own i faba that chorus girls stout. Heh 's, until Noean of his ay becoming very s knocked off late s each can. show reduc- oirdupois varying in indi- s fr ton io twenty} ¢ pounds. Pearson's Weekly, half a females eter PRESERVING FLOUR. ts | with Much interest has been ce own of late by the Army and Navy auth- ner in a new metlied oF Prot: jour by means of compression. With hydraulic pressure apparatus the flour is squdezed into of soe and ex Se ncute ‘are re- have shown that the Prosi destroys all forms of lar- thus preserving the flour! insects, while from mould s equally secure d flour occupy the sam as ie oné hundred pound of four in the} & x. | ordinary state, ne space pat ee ARTIFICIAL EYELASHES. A Frenchman has sie a operation is especially painful. hair from the subject’s head threaded into a very fine Toei? and a neat row of stitches is then made on the border of the oyelid. The loops thus made are seperated scissors, leavin, row of lashes, which are pressed with an iron. A similar operation, some. what less painful, is performed on the brows, and the transformation is comp! in whose hands rests the administra- interferes sadly with the desires of just-mind- » but now and then one neva, two om a store, and were found Said the magistrate: ‘I am not decree that you shall Bent eae the n this case ac offender, a boy of well-to-do people, and it es ene on the face of it that his mother had spoilt him le- creed that the mother should take her boy into his private ro administer corporal punishment. He himself watched the proceed u number of tramps ikely t - likely to sur- in ids class | | subject ey, should sds locked the carri- Ms y. « ares to direct a Tone dirgible ed of bringing about wars, but there are instansss in which jour- nalists have aver war and stea- died Foreign Ministers who had lost — oe heads. Some Peniaal were charged ate anaes in New furi- mob bro! Panuen the prisoners inister for reign reef the Marquis di Rudini, had j been anpoitied to the office, aa being ew to the delicate business. of earls the nals of State, he steer- ed wildly. He ordered the Italian Apheeadee at Washington to and immediate reparation, ped We tlitedten Oe unless prompt m taken, the Italian Fleet ard wee affair, and ’ hurried to the Ministry. He point-~ | ed out that the thiest nee only ra provoke war, but. thai Italian warships could not Seis go to New Orleans, as the sippi did not adm: it ships of vein uy; ‘The sreraing braced Minister’s nerv MAD SINISTER? 'S MENACE. most notable of ‘issis- Minister, peal others had b a etl and had gone nite the i ierds roo) lady was playing sith the 1 n stands to the credit of a lady living| spi self-control. ed up a billig across his knee, e. reat Britain seizes Ta thorize Baa to say ein aii have een—I'e you to say and add that Lord Dery wall have pay for Oiatvering © tyes: I swear that he it!’ the infuriated he had the good sense to thank the journalist.—Pearson’s Wee! NO FRONTIERS Now. Duke of Argyll “Speaks on Possible Aerial Invasion. The Duke of Argyll had some trenchant things to say of the gen- ed Kingdom at the annual dinner ae { d Vat ue ae Hotel, London, a few, ys nt th ak it is remarkable,” his ere ® “how litt sea and very casual Tee been the oattitude of the British public in regard planes and dirgible balloons as having any frontiers at all. We could all be overlooked and sp: ie dk “phe | aks thing that could Re © public in Lng? a sense Wi its pose if that someone, nech- man or a German, oe over the Bank cf balloon to hang nk England, Tho excitement it would would be: wonderful, and it the people of “England that we could not, always have England (o ourselves.” Sir H am Maxin is by no means scepti the possibili- ties of a German aerial invasion “T should say there is no doubt: about, ae ie said, could be to-day of from to 00 Sa Se Sr slightly larger than the Wright machine, which ate of fifty jmiles an hour, carry a load cf hat a ton, and remain in the: air) five a pobinebs would cost, it ri shuty well’ made—and they must be for military Phepds oh ~ 4 h, and ch tw sendy ame quire 5,000 machines, costing Soveea, en and a half millions sterling.”” — The population cf Aust LS e gary is nearly 50,6 than half of ‘this ca hee are AG strians. It’s usually the man who opent his Beth widest who ace ie mos mii ae *