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KEY. DIt. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject s “Christ the Village Lad.”
Text: “And the child grew, and waxed
strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the
grace of Ood was upon Him." —Luke H.,'40.
About Christ os a village lad I speak.
There is for the most part a silence more than
eighteen infancy and centuries manhood. long about What Christ kind of between boy
a
was He? Was Ho a genuine boy at all, or did
there settle upon Him from the start all the
intensities of martydom? little We have on this
and subject only and a there guessing, a few surmises,
here an unimportant ‘‘per¬
haps.” Concerning sides what have bounded whole that boy¬
hood on both we libraries of
books and whole galleries of canvas and
sculpture. But and pencil
pen and chisel have with
few lad. exceptions Yet by three passed conjoined by Christ the village
evidences I
think we can come to as accurate an idea of
wbat Christ was as a boy as we can of what
Christ was a* a man.
First, we have the brief Bible account.
Then we have tho prolonged account of what
Christ was at thirty years of ago. Now you
and have only to minify He that account somewhat
you find what was at ten years of
age. guine Temperaments temperament never change. A san¬
never becomes a phleg¬
matic temperament. A nervous tempera¬
ment never becomes a lymphatic tempera¬
ment. ambitions, Religion but it changes is the one’s affections and
same old tempera¬
ment acting in a different direction. As
Christ had no religious change. He was as a
lad what He was as a man, only on not so
largo a scale. When all tradition and all art
an if all history represent Him as a blonde
with golden hair I know Ho was iu boyhood
u blonde.
We have, beside, an uninspired book that
was for the first three or four centuries after
Christ's appearance received by many
ns longed inspired and which gives pro¬
account of Christ’s boy¬
hood. Some of it may be true, most of it may
lie li ne, none of it may bo true. It may lie
partly built on facts, or by the passage of tho
ages, some real facts may have been distorted.
But because a book is not divinely inspired
wo are not therefore to conclude that there
are “Conquest not true Mexico” things in it. Prescott’s
of was not inspired, hut
wq believe it although it may contain mis
takes. inspired, Mneaulay’x but “History of England” was
not wo believe it although it
may have been marred with many errors.
The so-called apocryphal Gospel in which the
boyhood lieve he of divinely Christ is inspired, dwelt upon I do not be¬
to and yet It may
present facts worthy of consideration. Because
it represents the boy Christ as performing
miracles some have overthrown that wholo
apocryphal that hook. But what right have you
to say Christ did not poforni miracles at
ton years of age as well as at thirty? Ho was
in boyhood ns certainly divine as in man¬
hood. Then while a lad Ho must have
hail the (lower to work miracles, whether
He ilid or not work thorn, When, hav
ing reached manhood, Christ turned
water into wine that was said to bo
tho beginning of miracles. But that may
mean that it was the beginning of that
series of manhood miracles. In a word, I
think that tho Now Testament is only
a small transcript of what Jesus did and said.
Indeed, the Bible declares positively that if all
Christ did and said were written tho world
would not contain the books. So wo are at
liberty to believe or reject those parts of the
apocryphal lx>y Christ with Gospel which say that when the
His mother passed a band of
thieves He told His mother that two or them,
Dumaclius and Titus by name, would be tho
two thieves who afterward would expire on
crosses beside Him. Was that more wonder¬
ful than soma of Chirst’s manhood pro¬
phesies that tho ? Or tho uninspired story
spring boy tho Christ made a fountain
from roots of a sycamore tree so
that His mother washed His coat in the stream
—was that more unbelievable than tho man¬
hood miracle that changed common water
into a marriage beverage? Or the uninspired
story that two sick children were recovered
by washed? bathing Was in tho water where Christ had
that more wonderful than the
manhood miracle by which tho woman twelve
years made a straight complete by invalid touching should have been
tho fringe of
Christ’s coat?
In other words, while! do not believe that
any of the so-called apocryphal Now Testa¬
ment is inspired, I believe much of it is truo:
just which ils I believo a thousand books,
just like ares Christ. divinely Justus inspired. Much of it was
certain as tho man
Christ was the most of tho time getting men
out of trouble, I think that the boy Christ
was the most of the time getting boys out of
trouble. 1 have declared to you this day a
boys’ Christ. And the world wants such
a one. He did not sit around moping
over what was to be, or what was. From
tho wav iu which natural objects enwreathed
themselves into His sermons after Ho had be¬
come a man i conclude there was not a rock
or a hill or a cavern or a tree for miles
around that Ho was not familiar with in
childhood. He had cautiously felt His way
down into the caves and had with lithe anil
agile limb gained a (siise on nnaiy a high
tree top. Ilis boyhood was passed among
grand scenery as most all the great
natures havo passed early life among
the mountains. They may live now on
the Hats, but they passed tho receptive
days of ladhood among the hills.
Among the mountains of New Hampshire,
or the mountains of Virginia, or tho moun¬
tains of Kentucky,or the mountains of Swit¬
zerland, or Italy, or Austria, or Scotland, or
mountains as high and rugged os they, many
of the world’s thrilling biographies began.
Our Lord s boyhood was passed in a neigh
liorhood twelve hundred loot abovo the level
of the sea and surrounded by mountains five
or six hundred feet still higher. Before it
could shine on tin- village where this boy
slept the sun lmd to climb far enough up to
look over hills that held their heads far aloft.
From yonder height His eye at one sweep took
in the mighty scoop of the valleys and with
another sweep took in tin* Mediterranean Sea,
nail you hear the grandeur of tho cliffs anil
the surge of the great waters in His match¬
less sermonology. One day 1 see that divine
brownod boy, the wind flurrying His hair over Hissun
looking forohoad, standing on n hill top
oiT upon Lake Tiburias, ou which at
one time according to profane history arc,
not four hundred, four thousand ships. Au¬
thors havo taken pains to say that Christ was
not affected by these surroundings, and that
Ho from within lived outward and independ¬
ent of circumstances. So fur from that be¬
ing true. Ho was the most sensitive
and Ixiing that e cor walked tho earth,
if a palo invalid's ■ weak
finger could not touch ”is robe without
strength going could out f rom Him, these mountains
und seas net have touched His eye with¬
out irradiating His entire nature with their
magnificence. I warrant that Ho had mounted
and reth, explored them all tho Herman fifteen hills around Naza¬
among with its crystal
coronet of perpetual snow, ami Carmel and
Talmr and Gilboa, and they nil hnd their
sublime echo in after time from tho Olivette
pulpit. And then it
was not uncultivated grandeur.
These hills carried in their arms or on their
backs gardens, groves, orchards, terraces,
vineyards, branching foliages cactus, did sycamores. These out
not have to wait for
the floods before their silence was broken, for
round through them them and and under over them and in circles
them were pelicans,
were ingales, thrushes, were larks, sparrows, were night¬
blackbirds, were patridges, were quails, bulbuls. were
wero were
Yonder the white flocks of sheep snowed
down over the pasture lands, And
yonder the brook rehearses to the peb¬
bles its adventures down the rocky shelving.
Yonder are the oriental homes, the housewife
with pitcher ou the shoulder entering the
door, and down tho lawn in front children
reveling among the flaming flora. And all
this spring and song and gross aud sunshine
and shadow woven into tbe most exquisite
nature mat over breathed or wept or sung or
suffered. Through studying the sky between
the hills Christ had noticed the weather
signs. and that a crimson sky that at night crimson meant sky
!ry weather next day,and weather a before
in the morning meant wet
-light. And how beautifully Ho made use of
t m after years as He drove down upon the
lestiferous Pharisee and Sadduoee by crying
>ut: “ When it is evening ye say it will be
air weather, for the foul sky weather is red, and to-day, in the for
morning it will be
rhe sky is red and lowering. O, ye hypo
entes, yocau discern tile face of the sky, but
eanyc not discern the signs of the times.”
3v day as every boy has done, He watched the
barnyard fowl atsightof over-swinging hawk
dock her chickens under Jerusalem, wing and Jerusalem in after !
• ears He said : “ would O, I have gath
low often
red thee as a hen gathereth night He her had chickens noticed
under her wing r By
His mother by the plain candle light which,
as ever and anon it was snuffed and thore
moved wick put down on the candlestick,
lieamed brightly through all the family
sitting room ns His mother was mending His
garments that had been rocks torn during bushes, the day’s and
wanderings among the or
years afterward it all camo out in the
simile of the greatest sermon ever preached:
■“Neither do men light a candle and put it
under a bushel but in a candlestick and it
giveth light to all who are in the house,
Let your light so shine.” Some time when
His mother in the autumn took out the clothes
that had been put away for the summer He
noticed how the moth miliar flew ont and the
coat dropped apart ruined and useless, and so
twenty years after He in enjoined: heaven where “Lay neither up for
•ourselves treasures
moth nor rust can corrupt.” His boyhood
all spont caroled among and birds bloomed and again flowers fifteen they
years after as He cries ont: “Behold the
fowls of the air.” “Consider the lilies.” A
great storm one day during Christ’s boyhood
blackened the heavens and angered the
rivers. carpenter's Perhaps shop standing in the door of the
Ho watched it gathering
louder and wilder until two cyclones, one
sweeping down from Mount Tabor and the
0 ™ r ™ Mount Carmol, met in the valley
or JSsdraelon and two houses are caught in the
fury and crash goes the one and triumphant
“ 10 other,and Ho noticed that one had
shifting eternal sand for a foundation and the other
iui rock for basis; and twenty
years after Ho built the whole scene into a
peroration of flood and whirlwind that seized
His audience and lifted them into the heights ofV
of sublimity with the two great arm,
thos and terroi, which sublime words I
render, asking you as far as possible to for
get that j ou ever heard them before: W ho
soever heareth these savings of Mine, and
doeth them, I will liken him unto a
wise man. which built his house
the mion a rock; and the rain descended, and
floods came, and the wluds blew ana
beat upon that house; and it foil not; for it
was founded upon a rook. And every one
that honreth these sayings of Mine, and doeth
J"' 1 "' 11 i' k ? U, ' d '! n f? a f 01S !i
man, which built his house upon the sand; j and
™ u descended, and t,lie floods came,
m V L j hf the aU< „,,H ^ Tf Lu ! C oL/ aIK * n £ i.„^ rea * ; at was ? 1 *S. fall
’
0. rimitos simplicity,
the treshnem lit HU (HimliloK and and
iu Ba^^t^taa’aass the streams and heard tho nightingale’s
call, and broken through the flowery hedge
and looked out of the embrasures of the for
tress, and drank from tho wells and chased
the butterflies, which travelers say have al
ways laudscape, been one and of talked tho flitting with the beauties of that
pie from Damascus and Egypt strange Sapphoris peo
anil
and Syria, who ill caravans or on
foot passed through His neighborhood,
tho dogs barking at their ap
preach at sundown. As afterward I He wasa
perfect perfect man, in the time of which of speak He
was foot, a sparkle boy, of with boy’s the spring rebound a boy’s
tne a eye, tne
of a boy’s lifo and just tne- opposite of thoso
juveniles elastic, old who sit around I morbid and Ho un
men at ten, warrant was
able to take His own part and to take tho part
of others. tliere In that wliat village of found Nazareth in ull 1 the am
certain was is
neighborhoods children, tho bully, of the who earth, that born terror strike, of
seems to
to punch, and to robust. bruise, to Tho overpower Christ who the after- less
muscular
ward in no limited terms denounced hypo
crite and Pharisee, I warrant, never let such
juvenile villain Impose upon less vigorous
childhood and yet go unscathed and undo
fended. At ten years Ho was in sympathy
with tho underlings a* Ho was at thirty and
thirty-three. uninspired information I want no further persuado inspired or
to me that
Ho was a splendid boy, a radiant boy, tho
AV hnt multitudes between ten and fifteen
years have found Him out as the one 6elp just
suited by His own personal experience to
a y noy.
But having shown you the divine lad in tho
shop. fields, 1 Joseph, must show you Him in the mechanic’s
His father, died very early,
Tempie immediately and after the famous trip to Hhn- thc
this ted not «dy to support
self but support Ills mother, and what that is
some of you know. Thoro is a royal race of
boys Ihoy ou earth now doing the have same purple thing,
robe adroop wear no from crown. their They shoulders. no The plam
chair on which thoy sit is as much unlike a
throne as anything you can imagine. But
God knows what they are dome and through
w-liat sacrifices they go, and through all
eternity God will keep paying them for their
filial behavior. They shall get full measure
of together reward, and the measure pressed They down, shaken
running over. huve tlielr
example in this boy Christ taking care of His
mother. He had been taught the car
iient^r s trade by His father. Tho boy
had done the plainer work at the shop
whilo His father had put on the finish
nig touches of the work. I ke boy also
cleared away the chips and blocks and
shavings. work He while hemal the father hold the joined different them.
nieces of
In our day wo have all kinds of mechanics
and the work is divided up among them
But to be a carpenter in Christ’s boyhood
days meant to make plows, yokes, houses, shovels,
wagons, tables, chairs, sofas, made. and al
most everything that the boy that had was learned the Fortunate trade,
was it
for, when the head of the family dies,
it is a grand thing himself to have the child
able to take care of mid help take
cm-o of others. Now that Joseph, His father,
is dead and the down responsibility this boy, of I family hear sup
P° rt comes on from
morning to night His hammer pounding, His
saw vacillating, standing His axe descending, amid the His gun
lets boring, and dust and
debris of the shop I find tho perspiration
gathering ou His temples and notice tho fa
tigueof His arm, and as He stops a moment to
rest I see Him panting, His hand on His side,
from the exhaustion. Now Ho goes forth
in the morning loaded with implements
of work heavier than any modern kit of
tools. Lifting, Under pulling.adjusting, the tropical cleaving, sun He swelters. splitting
all day long. At nightfall He goes home.
to the plain supper provided by His mother
and sits down too tired to talk. W ork!
workl work! You cannot tell Christ any
thing ankles now bruised about blistered hands or joints aching
rising in or the morning fingers tired or stiff when or
laid down. While os boy as He knew you
it all, He felt yet Ho a all.
it all, suffered it
The boy earponter! The boy wagon
maker! have The Thee boy houso when full builder I in O Pilate’s Christ,
wo seen grown
police court room, wo have seen Thee when full
grown Thou wort assassinated on Golgotha,
but, O Christ, let all the weary artisans and
mcchanicsof the earth see Thro while yet un
(let-sized and arms not yet muscularized and
with the undeveloped take Thy strength father's of juvenea
cenco trying livelihood to family. place in
gaining But, having the Christ for the the boy of
seen the
fields and tho boy in tho mechanic’s shop, I
show you a more marvelous scene, Christ
tho smooth-browed lad among the long
bearded, white-haired, high forheaded ecele
smstics of the Temple. Hundreds of thou
sands of strangers had come to Jerusalem to
keep hospital a great homos religious crowded festival. with After the
the tents spread were all around the visitors, city
wore to
sbelter immense throngs of strangers. It was
s two million S’rst.'H people have been known
at Jerusalem for that national feast. to gather You
must not ...... think of thoso
settled. The ancient historian regions Josephus us spars jlj
there in Galilee hundred say»
were two cities, tne
smallest of them containing fifteen thousand
people. No wonder that amid the crowds at
the time spoken of Jesus the boy was lost
His parents, knowing that He was mature
enough Himself, and agile .enough to take 'care oi
are on their way home without any
anxiety, with supposing that their boy is coming
some of tne groups. But after, a while
they suspect He is lost and with flushed cheek
and a terrorized look thc-y rush this way and
that, saying: He “Have you seen anything fair of
my complexion boy? is has twelve years of age, of
and blue eyos and auburn hair,
Have you seen Him since wo left the city?”
Back they go in hot haste, the in and out the pri
vate houses and among surrounding hills,
For three days they search and inquire, won
dering if He has been trampled undor foot of
some of the throngs or has ventured on the
cliffs or fallen off a precipice. Send through
all the streets and lanes of the city
ana dismal among all “A the surrounding child! hills A lost thatmost chi’*!!”
sound: lost
Andlo, after three days they discover Him in
the religionists great Temple, of all the Heated world. among The the walls mightest of
no
other building ever looked down on such a
scene. A child twelve years old surrounded
by septuagenarians, He asking His own qi usa¬
turns and answering theirs. Let me hatred nce
you to somo of these ecclesiastics. This isth#
great Rabbin Simeon 1 This is the venerable
Hillell This is the famous Shammai. Theseare
the SO ns of the distinguished Betirah. What
can this twelve year lad teaoh tham or what
questions can He ask worthy their cogitation?
Ah, the first timo in all their lives these re
ligiouists their have match. found their Though match and more He
than so young,
knew all roof about thoy held the famous that Temple wonderful under
whose most
discussion of all history. He knew
the meaning of every golden altar, of every
sacrifice, of every candlestick,
of every embroidered curtain, of every
crumb of shew bread, of every drop of
oil in that sacred edifice. He know all about
[tod. He knew all about man. He knew all
about about heaven, for Heeamefrom Ho made it. He knew
all this world, for it. He know
all worlds, for they were only the sparkling
morning heavenly dewdrops palace. Put. on these the lawn in front Bible words of His
seven
in „ of pnlnliasis . •* Roth hearing
I am not so much interested in the questions Re
they askod Ho H asked im as the in questions the questions not to asked in
them. get
formation from the doctors, for He knew it
already, but to humble them by showing
thorn the of height and depth and length Wni ilo ana the
breadth their own ignorance.
radiant boy thrusts the interrogation these self-conceited point, phil- they
osopbe ' tUe r S forefinger with of the right hand to the
put £,mple their thoughts
vigor, ns though and to start would look upward into
more then they
am { then they would wrinkle their brows and
[ben confess by their absolute incapacity silence or in positive the words inter
to answer
rogatory. With any one of a hundred ques
pfar have imlked then., disconcerted Mem,
2,* 1 j*#***<?««»*»* ftSfSK vv SS*? oul ks
} 1 Hci x has tlie right to ask .i them. Th e
‘
, Alasfor thestu
ft! without inquisitiveness 1
*? Ghnstuke to ask 0t questions. Answer
His your place U i sa to ,^* be bothered tiotjotli- with
T,'.?- “ J’ ou are not able to answer i
surieuder and confess your mcaimcity, as
1,0 imubt did Rabbin Simeon and
11,01 ^hamniai and tho sous of Botirah
'™ on 11,11 splendid boy, sitting or standing
d girdled a . garment the reaching from neck to
an at waist, put them to
1 * wit s end. fl'f It learned is no disgrace to say:
. ,S' V : doctors who
Lhrist . tnat . day in tho Tomple
“id not know or they would not have asked
,‘P* who questions. file only being in the
u ”'' never needs to say: “I do
?°A. fact Ji that 1 "i".. they Is did not know Almighty. sent Keppler l’he
?!,. Guvier {md Columbus and Hmnboldt and
to 1 ful< n .l the other a of ",‘lu the lr world s mightiest
/!?,“' . as into their life-long explorations,
D'leseope and microscope and stethoscojic
Rl >e 1 , ' a 1 'f Vi, a Ijattery t ' 10 1 and }^ es all a ] e -lie onl scientific ^, ap
asked • 1 a the door
at f - ot mystery. Behold this
Nazareuo lad asking questions, giving ever
ltts Bin. ^ g ,^" while l I r ty see the earnest old theologians interrogation, standing
around the boy Christ I am impressed as
mensQ systems hi. of theoloev Hnlf r J
t ^fLmed! to . Go/did t (i d fl^fi^di^ti^
what
years before the small star on which we live
, vas cl . eate(1 . i have liad mauv a sound sleep
under ser mons about the decrees of God and
the eternal generation of the Son and dis
courses i j showing fair who Melchisedok that if wasn’t, minister and
E V e begins a warning any
over a sermon on such a subject in my
presence I will put my head down on the pew
in front and go into the deepest slumber I can
,. each . Wicked waste of time, thistrying to
scale the luiscalablo and fathom tlieun
fathomable while tho nations want the bread
i ife and bo told how they can got rid of
their sins and their sorrows. Why should
you and I perplex ourselves about the decrees
of God? Mind your own business and God
W L !1 take care of His. In tho conduct of the
universe I think Ho will somehow
ma nago to get along without us. If
you want to love and serve God, and be good
and useful and g e t to heaven, I warrant
that nothing which occurred eight hundred
quintillion It is of years the decrees ago will of hinder God you a min
n tc. not that do us
any barm, You it is our own decrees of sin and
folly. need not go any further You back this In
history the than about Christ 185(1 years. died about see tkirty
is year 188».
three years of age. You subtract thirty-three
from 1889 and that makes it only
yeal . s ' That is as far back
lui rred you u ot . d to go. under Something eclipsed oc
CU on that day an
SU n that sets us nil forever free if with our
whole heart and lifo we accept the tremen
dons proffer. Do not let the Presbyterian
church or the Methodist Church or the
Lutheran Church or the Baotist Church or
(iny oi tll0 other evangelical churchoa
spend auy time in trying to fix up old
cre ods, nil of them imperfect, as everything
roan does is imperfect. I move a new creed
for aU t ; lc evangelical three churches articles of Chris- the
tendom, only need f If in I had
creed nnd no 0 any moro.
a q the consecrated people of all denomina
t ions of the earth on one great plain, and I
bad voice loud enough to put it to a vote that
creod 0 f three articles would be adopted with
a would unanimous vote and a quake thundering and tho aye that
make the earth heavens
ring with hosanna. This is the creed I pro
peso for all Christendom:
Article First—“God so loved tho world
that He gave His only begotten Son that
whosoever belioveth in Him should not per
ish but 1mvo everlasting life."
Article Second—“This is a faithful saying
and worthy of all acceptation that Christ
Jesus camo into this world to save sinners,
even tho chief.”
Article Third—“Worthy is tho Lamb that
was slain to receive blessing and riches and
honor end. Amen.” and glory and power, world without
and But patching you go and to tinkering splicing up your old creeds and
and interlining
annexing plaining and subtracting will and adding and ex
and vou lose time and make
yourself Let a target have for creeds earth and fashioned hell to shoot of
at. us not out
human logy, and ingonuitiesbutoutofscriptualphrase- all the of bombardment
0 blazing all guns
fron the port holes of infidelity
and perdition will not in a thousand
years knocked off the Church of God a splin
tor as big as a cambric needle. What is most
needed now is that we gather all our theolo
gies around the boy in the Tomple, the elabo
rations around tho simplicities, and the pro¬
fluidities ,-ian of around scholastic the clarieties, research the octogena
around the
un wrinkled cheek of twelve year iuven
oscence. “Except you become as a lit-
s&i&asyi httlecbJid cannot understand the
you oMSfaSu
HSU and
the sons of Betirah ever did was in the Temple, ruddy
to bend over the lad, who first made
of cheek by the breath of'the Judean hills
and on His way to the mechanic’s shim
where He was soon to stopped be the support enough
of His bereaved mother, venerable dialecticians long of
to grapple with the
the Orient “both hearing them and asking
• them exclaimed questions.” Some Deus! referring Behold to the Christ God.
have Ecce
Others have exclaimed Ecce homo! Behold
tho man. But to-day in conclusion of toy
subject I cry, Ecce adolescens 1 Behold the
Boy.' ... .~ —... ... .
THE LOST ARTS.
Buried Secrets of the Feats and Sci¬
ences of the Ancients.
Notwithstanding invention and the great advance
in manufactures of the
present century in most respects, thore
are many wonderful arts and sciences in
whioh the anoients have never been
equaled, and the secret of whioh has
long sinco letters perished. the Catholic priests
In the of
who first visited China,which were pub¬
lished in Franoe 200 years ago, they re¬
late that they were shown a glass, trans¬
parent and colorless, which was filled
with a liquid made by the Chinese, whioh
to the observers appeared to be us clear
ns water. This liquor was poured into
the glass; then, looking with through it, it
seemed to be filled fishes.
of This the fluid, \yas not but owing the to glass any itself. peculiarity The
to
Chinese confessed that they did not
make them, but that they were the
plunder of some foreign conquest, many
centuries before.
Wendell Phillips, in his lecture on
the “Lost Arts,” in speaking of malle¬
able glass, tails of a Roman, who in the
age of Tiberius, bad bringing been banished, wonderful and
returned to Rome, a
cup. This oup he dashed upon the
marble pavement and it was crushed,
but not broken, by the fall. Although
somewhat dented, with a hammer lie
easily brilliant, bent transparent, it into shape but again. not brittle. It was
He further states that the Homans
obtained their chemistry from the
Arabians, and that they brought it into
Spain eight centurious ago. In tho
books of that age there is a kind of glass
spoken of that if supported by one end
by its own weight, in u day’s time would
dwindle down to a line line, so that it
could be curved around one’s wrist like
a bracelet.
The art of luminous painting was
known to the Japanese 900 years ago,
and on extraot from one of their old
writers has been translated as follows:
“One Su Ngoh many years ago had a
pioture loft of an ox. Every day the ox
turned tho picture-frame sleep to graze, night. nnd re¬
to within it at This
picture onme into the possession of tho
Emporor Tai Tsungof the Sung dynasty
(A. D. 970-998), who showed it to his
courtiers, and asked them for an expla¬
nation, whioh none of them, however,
could give.
“At last a certain Buddhist priest
said that, tho Japanese found somo na¬
creous substance within tho flesh of a
certain kind of oyster they picked up
when the rocks wore bared at low tide,
and that they ground this into color ma¬
terial and then paiuted pictures witli it
which were invisible by day and lumin¬
ous Tho by night.” that during tho
secret simply was
day the figure of the ox was not visible
and it was therefore said that it left the
frame to go grazing.
In the year 1578 the twentieth of
Queen Elizabeth’s reign, one Mark Sea
liot, a blacksmith, made a look consist¬
ing of 11 pieces of iron, steel and brass,
with a hollow key to it, that altogether
wei ighed but one grain of gold, lie also
ma ue a gold chain composed of forty
three links, whioh ho fastened to the
look and key. In the presence of the
queen lie put the chain around tho neok
of a flea, which drew it with ease; after
whioh ho put the look and key, flea and
chain, into a pair of scales and they al¬
together weighed but one grain and a
Myrmocides, proficient an ancient carver, was
so that lie made in ivory microscope chariot mechanism with
an four
wheels and as many harnessed horses in
so sma 1 a compass that a fly might have
hidden them all under its wings.
The sumo artisan made a ship with all
her decks, masts, yards, rigging
nnd sails, which took up scarcely more
room than the chariot.
The silver sphere, “a most noble and
ingenious performance," which was pre¬
sented to Sultan Solymnn, the magnifi¬
cent, by bis imperini majesty, Eerdiuan
di, is mentioned by Paulina Jovius as
showing and keeping timo with the mo¬
tions of the celestial bodies in their var¬
ious configurations. It was carried to
Constantinople together by the twelve men and made thero
put by artist that it.
An ollicer named Cornelius Van Drab¬
ble once made an instrument like an
organ that, being set in the open air un¬
der a warm sun, would plays airs of it¬
self without tbe keys being touched, but
would not play in tbe shade. For this
reason it is supposed that it was inclosed
air rarified by tho sun that caused the
harmony. Whitehead,
made George ship, with an Englishman,
a all the things per¬
taining table. to "All it, to move os if it sailed upon
a hands were aloft, a woman
made good music ou a lute, aud a little
puppy cried iu the midship, all of
which variety,” quaintly says an old
author, “was very pleasant and divert¬
ing.” Proclns,
whose fame in mathematics
have equaled made that burning of Archimedes, glasses is said to
iu the region
of Anastasius Dicorus of such wonder¬
ful efficacy that at a great distance he
burned aud destroyed the Mysiun and
Thracian fleet of ships that had block¬
aded Byzantium.
Tho Damascus blades, as marvels of
perfect and steel, thoso have long been famous,
even used in tha crusades are
centuries as perfect to-day as they wero oight
One ago. exhibition
on in London could
bo put into a scabbard almost as crooked
as a corkscrew and bout every way with¬
out breaking. The point of" this sword
oould be made to touch the hilt.
The t article of traffic from Szechuan,
China, just now seems to be slave Noah’s girls. ark
They are very cheap. A great
was seen floating down the river the other
day, women looking out at all the windows.
They wero Blave girls a mandarin was ti h
tag "east.
A Lost Citj.
.
The rushing waters of the Potomac
city River, in the recent floods, destroyed a
teat never existed—Jackson City—
at the south entl of the long bridge, op¬
the posite Washington, D. C. The name of
town has been in the mouth of com¬
ers and goers at the bridge since the ad¬
ministration of Gen. Andrew Jaokson,
who laid the corner-stone of Jaokson
City with much formality, and with a
celebration that included all the military
and civjc organizations of the three Dis¬
trict oitios. George Washington Parke
CqsCis, Gen. Washington, of Arlington, the adopted the son of
delivered oration.
Tents were erected and the occasion was
the only gala day that Alexander’s Is¬
land, on which Jackson City was found¬
ed, built ever had. Years ago a hotel was
mar the bridge, and this was
the only approach to a town that Jack
son a roadside City ever inn. made. Lately It it was has for been awhile head¬
quarters of games forbidden in the Dis¬
trict. Long ngo the corner-stone was
dug the up and its contents carried off, and and
close of last week the rain came
the flood undermined and ruined Jackson
City.
Teeth Drawn by Electricity.
drawn People by can have their superfluous teeth
in means of electricity, The
process question is very simple, scarce
any ordinary apparatus two-cell being battery, required with beyond vibrator an
attachment. This attachment k a thin
strip is mndc of metal vibrate fastened at the ends, which
to a thousand or more
times per second by the electric current.
At each vibration the circuit is cut off
and renewed again, the effect beiug to
give a perfectly steady flow of the mys¬
terious fluid. The patient in the chair
is given a-handle to hold in each hand,
and the current is turned on gradually
until it becomes painful. Then he is told
to grasp the handles as strongly ns possi¬
ble, the electricity—having been switched
off for a moment-is turned on again
suddenly, h's forceps nnd simultaneously the dental surgeon applies tooth.
to the
The instant the molar is touched it, as
well as the parts surrounding, becomes
electrified and absolutely insensible to
pain. Whin it is withdrawn from the
socket, the subject of the operation feels
not the slightest disagreeable sensation.
A jerk and the tooth is out, the patient
drops less the electric handles and ihe pain¬
affair is over.
War on Saloonists.
The Indiana Grand Lodge of Kn’ghts
of Pfthias, recently in session at Indian¬
apolis, Ind., took a step which threatens
to lead to great demoralization. A reso¬
lution was introduced declaring that
saloon keepers should the not be eligible to
membciship discussion awakened in order. The deal ensuing bit¬
a great of
ter feeling, but the resolution was finally
adopted loon by a and two-thirds friends vole. immedi¬ The sa¬
keepers their
ately is appealed that to the Supremo onc-fourth Lodge. of the It
stated nearly
order in Indiana aro either identified
with or in favor of tho traftic, and if the
action of the state Grand Ledge is sus¬
tained, they will withdraw from the or¬
der.
Quito a Difference.
In the rod parlor of the While Houso
at Washington, D. C., a photographer
took a picture of four generations of the
Harrison family. The Rev. of the Dr. Scott
sat on the extreme right McKee group,
Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. came
next, and the famous Baby Benjamin gather¬
Harrison McKee completed the
ing. The latter did his best to make the
a flair a failure, and if it had not been
for what is known as “the instantaneous
process.” he would havo succeeded.
There is a difference of eighty-eight represented
years between the generations
in the picture. Dr. Scott is 88 and Baby
McKee only two years of age.
A Reported Miracle.
The celebrated Canon Wilberforcc, of
London, England, writes to a newspaper has been
that his belief in miracles
strengthened himself by by a miracle of anointing performed and
upon means
prayer. “My internal ailment,” he
writes, “was of such a nature that lead¬
ing surgeons declared it to be incurable
except at the cost of a severe operat on.
At last I sent for elders—men of God,
full of faith—by whom I was few prayed
pver and anointed, and in a weeks
the internal The ailment passed pains entirely to
away.” canon takes say
that he was healed by “the Lord’s bless
ing upon His own word.”
Wliy He Hates ’Em.
Miss Pyrte: “What makes you such a
confirmed woman-hater, Mr. Olebach?”
Mr. Olebnch: “Well, when I was a
young man a woman made a fool of me.”
Miss Pyrte: “And you never got over
it.”
The Patterson Mills Co., of Chester,
Pa., is looking out for a Southern loca¬
dles. tion for The a spinning capital mill introduced of 10,000 spin¬
into the
impetus city solccted will also will be $250,000, and industry great
be given to an
peculiarly adapted to the South.
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