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your doorsill ;/»u made shoes out of it for your Ilanz. You must open his coffin, cake off the shoes made of bread from this child’s feet and bum them in fire, which purifies all.” Accompanied by the grave digger and by the mother, the priest went to the cemetery. With four blows of the spade the coffin war. uncovered. They opened it. Ilanz was lying within just as bia mother lmd placed him, but his face bore an expression of gmef. The holy priest tender\ly took off the shoes made of bread from tho feet of the dead baby and him self burned them in the flame of a wax taper while ho recited a prayer. When the night came on Ilanz ap¬ peared before his mother for the last time, but joyous, rosy, contented, with two Jittle olierul;:; v/iih whom ho had already made friends; he wore a wreath of dia¬ monds and his wings were made of light. “Oh. my mother! what happiness, wliat felicity, and how beautiful. They are the gardens of paradise! There we play forever, and the good God never scolds us. ’ ’ Tho next day the mother saw her boy again, but in heaven, for she died before evening, with her head bent over th« empty cradle.—Translated by Anne C. Milford Barton from tho French of The ophile Gautier for Home Journal. A Young Ventriloquist. A little Boston boy who was taken to the entertainment of a ventriloquist some time ago, and who was a close observer of the performer’s modus operandi, ac¬ companied his parents last week to hit father’s native town, and among the places visited during their rural sojourn was the country cemetery, where sleep the progenitors of his paternal parent. The latter pointed out to the child a cer¬ tain mound, saying: “There, dear, is the grave of your grandfather.” The little fellow gazed curiously at the place of sepulture for a moment, and then, seized by a sudden idea, stooi>ed down.mnd rap¬ ping on tho tombstone, said: “Grandpa, are you down there?” following it up with a self supplied “Yes” in as deep and guttural a tone as his little throat could make vocal, i i Does you want to come up?” he resumed in his natural pitch of voice, and again dropping to the lower tone answered his own query with a bass and hollow “No.” The parents, greatly shocked, cut riiort further ventriloquial efforts on the part of the too precocious child.—Boston Budget. t acts About London. About twenty-eight miles of new streets are laid out t •ch year; about 9,000 houses are erected yearly; about 500,000 bouses are already erected; about 10,000 strang¬ ers enter the city each day; about 125 persons are added daily to the popula¬ tion; about 120,000 foreigners live in the city; about 129,000 paupers and beggars infest the city; about 10,000 police keep order; about 2,000 clergymen hold forth every Sunday; about 3,000 horse's die every week: and, it is said, about 700,000 cats enliven the moonlight nights.—Pub¬ lic Opinion. The Colored Twine. A colored woman called her twins Truth and Falsehood. When asked why she did so she answered: “Well, sail, Truf never needs no quietin'. He jes’ lavs down whar yo’ put him an’goes right ter sleep. <lat dar Fauwfliud’a aliens a-.ti.rt in' up jes’ when vo’ tho’t VO’ hail * g, ,t him ter cr deep. weep. ’'-Tim ini rqxicii. Epoch. Fair for All. The Now York World suggests that all governments agree tv> go lirck to tho old wooden rnen-of-war, which would be as fair for one as tne other. Why not abolish all navies, which would also 1 oas fair for one as the other.—Detroit Free Frees. JUDGMENT AND MERCY. EXPLANATORY NOTES BY REV. GEO. P. HAYS, D. D •i LL. D. Leason VIII of the International Series (Fourth Quarter) for Nov. 20—Text of the Lesson, Matt, xi, 20-30; Golden Text, Matt, xi, 28. 'Some lessons are so familiar and so easy and so precious to the heart of the Christian world as to make them exceedingly hard to ^explain. This lesson is one of these. Verses 22-20, and especially 28,20 and 30, have come to be like proverbs in the mind of the church; and 26 to 30 ought to be in the memory of every Christian. Of course, a landlord will expect larger rent from the tenant of his largo and fruitful farm than from the tenant of the little cabin, with only its potato patch in addition. So also, of course, increased op¬ portunities increase responsibilities. This is simply the common sense of business and daily life applied to religion. Mighty works.—With these verses before us our curiosity is excited to ask wbat mighty works were done in Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum. As to Chorazin there is no record whatsoever of any works done there, The same is true of Bethsaida. As is stated in John xxi, 25, all Christ’s miracles are not reported in the New Testament. Of Chorazin scarcely anything is known. Beth¬ saida was possibly the birthplace of Peter, Andrew and Philip, Capernaum was the home of Christ, and at the time of the public ministry the residence of Peter. Many things are recorded as having been (lone or spoken in Capernaum. Of Capernaum, however, this is to be noted, that it is not once men tioned in the Old Testament, nor anywhere outside of the four Gospels in the New Testa¬ ment Degrees of punishment.—Verses 22 and 24 explicitly teach the doctrine of comparative punishment. God’s system of penalties is not like a prison wall or furnace of fire, where every one suffers precisely the same. Accord¬ ing to each one’s desert, so will be the severity of each one’s suffering. The Revised Version translates the word hell of v. 23 by the word hades. Two Greek words are translated in the Authorized Version of the New Testa¬ ment by the English word hell. In the Re¬ vised Version the distinction between these two Greek words is maintained by translat¬ ing the one of them hades. This word, like tho sheol of the Old Testament, means the condition of the dead, without necessarily in¬ volving the idea of suffering. Christ entered into hades by his becoming dead, but did not enter into hell. Hades, as here applied to Capernaum, means its disappearance from the face of the earth as buried people disap¬ pear. Tyre and Sidon and Sodom had not as much light and opportunity as Chorazin and Bethsaida and Capernaum, but they had enough to leave them without excuse. The enormousness of the punishment of Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum is shown in the fact that their locality’ is a matter of dispute among traveler of the present day. But the sites of Tyre and Sidon are known and inhab¬ ited towns still exist in both places. This doctrine of the resulting obligations arising from providential mercies underlies verse 25. Wisdom often works itself out into an egotism which destroys the simple Gospel. Verse 26 is tho only’ explanation which we .. _ are able to give of the unrevealed reasons for God’s distinguishing providences. A deaf and dumb boy was once asked why he was so afflicted while his questioner had both speech and hearing. Going to the blackboard, he wrote as his answer this twenty-sixth verse. Happy is the Christian, old or young "presence who is able to rest content in the of God’s mysterious dealings, in the faith in volved in that verse. God manifested.—God manifest in the flesh to the highest and clearest revelation God hasmode. The indwelling of the Saviour, 88 “ nla,ter ot «perien<*, to the beet inter prefcer of the description of Christ aud of God given in the word. The external revela tion and the internal experience are thus mutuallv explanatory. A blind man has great difficulty in understanding much about the science of optics. So unconverted per sons mav study the Bible, but they caunot understand it as those do whose inward ex perience answers to and explains the mean ing of God's threatenings and promises. What is rest?— That is really work that works out only into disappointment and fail heavy r ^-^activesideofsufforin^and laden is its passive side. Lifting when we are well is not necessarily very painful, especially if the burden is not disproportion- dislocated ately heavy; but if we have a shoulder and a broken arm and an inflamed m"de muscle, any lifting is torture. We were to work in harmony with God. When then we come to resist Mm, we are wrenching and twisting ourselves. To do God’s will was the work for which man was made. When there fore Christ says, “I will give you rest,” he does not mean that thereafter you shall have nothing whatevertodo. Spiritual inactivity, which is neither good nor bad, is an impossi bility to any human being. What we need therefore is not idleness, but work which shall not be weariness. Christ’s rest.—So Christ’s exhortation, “learn of me,” is in the line of this perfect adaptation of the worker to his work. The yoke he bore was the will of his Father, and in his meekness and his lowliness of heart it was his meat to do this will and to finish the work which he was sent to do. That yoke was easy to him and that burden light to him. It goes therefore to the heart of the question of our likeness to Christ when he says to us, “my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” He does not merely mean the yoke and the burden which he will give to hi* people and require them to take; he includes t order, however, to find these easy it is neees sary that we should take on his nature, his love for God and his hatred for sin. This burden will be heavy to tho unrenewed heart, but it will be light to the unregenerate nature. In him, therefore, alone can that adaptation to the task we have to do be se cured which will make these tasks easy of performance. REMEMBER. 1. Willfulness, not lack of evidence, is the cause of unbelief. 2. The day of judgment will come. 3. Many who are exalted will be brought low. 4. God reveals spiritual truth to those ready to receive it. 5. We know God through Christ. 6. In Christ is rest. H1NTS FOR PRIMARY CLASSES. BY ALICE W. KNOX. Verses 28-30 are enough for the little folks. The lesson can be divided into three parts: 1. An invitation. 2. From whom? 3. To whom? An invitation implies something pleasant. A group of children living in a crowded part of a great city, where every tenement was full to overflowing, were invited by their teachers and friends to go into the wide, beautiful eountry^r a couple of weeks. This Invitation was so charming that not one re *used it, but every one gladly accepted it. A little poor girl living in the great city of Paris had been very ill; a nice young peasant girl from the country near by in¬ vited her to come and stay a while at her lit tie cottage. She was delighted, and went to enjoy tho trees, the flowers and the ani¬ mals. Although she had only black bread, milk, berries and broth to eat she gained bealtb > strength and happiness by accepting kb * s k * nd invitation, There are many kinds of invitations, but the greatest, the best and most wonderful of ab is this one in 0ur lesson. It says, come to me. Write it on the board, or prepare be¬ forehand little notes or cards with the invi tation printed on them, and give to the chil¬ dren. Who gives this wonderful invitation, and what makes it wonderful? Is it from some loving friend to go to the sea shore in the hot suinmer weather? Is it from some kind ac quaintance to visit her in the beautiful coun tr F ; M ho says, Come to me? To whom is tt given! Every one must say, am I invited! Iwanttogo. AadyinPans *“??* to ‘J™ hundred working women about this invitation. She said, You will 1 am not good enou S h go > 1 ain mck “ <**• But be wbo invites F ou wil1 make vou - good lf >’ ou wiU let him - Peo P le invited to kings ’ bouses mllst 1)0 finel F Messed, as they were at ^ ueen Victoria’s dinner. Perhaps you say I have no suitable clothes to wear, This Kmg ’ who s& y s 001116 nie > ^ clothe y° u wbb robes righteousness that will make you fit to enter in among the royal guests. After tne a ,* ,“‘5^ ■*? My*jaiTOsbc^«r^y . u lo*mg rf „ ad ; lv r ** * nto “J* hel J f *^’ WaS ^ lt wle toi J 011 and for ev ,ry . 7m q acce P “^11 t f glad tl^7’she ^' ' ,t§ eept >’ ou ««<* the invitation. be "°" ld Z^^I Thi* Z wa* ie “y fiZZ - - kbi * poor old woman had ^ mgs and when she heard the wonderful > accepted ^ How station she immediately man y who hear it today will accept it ?-«un dav kebool Vv orld Railrondlng In Florida. Ben Rex is a native cowboy living tb • e miles from Auburndale. He bio ■ some sweet milk in bottles to Wednesday, and Ben was a pleasing type of the cracker as a milkman. Holding a bottle in one hand and an old fashioned cowbell swinging loose on a rawhide belt in the other, Ben let the “town folks” know what a kind of a boy he is. Ben Rex has learned a great many little things since the South Florida railroad was comp i e tecl through these seated £ ine hms thm) rg ag0 He Wils Wednesday indstone in fvont of Patterson’s store. morning, when with kwmk hng e) es he 1 elated how, .,oon aft© Hie railroad came, he stole a ude pait of kb e way home. He said: “I got on the car step and the train lit out. There is a big crook in the road about a mile from town, and I ’lowed they would check up goin’ round that and I could jump off easy enough, Instead o’ that they got faster and faster. A little furder on there's a trussel and I was certain they would sorter stop, they kept gittin’ faster and faster, I had a pickle dish in one hand and says I, I must go home to my wife and children, shore. I steadys myself and jumps square out from that car. I didn’t know much for two hours. I got up 100 feet from where I first lit. I was all tore up. It was a rainin’ some white sand and oak leaves when I left there. I lost my pickle dish and it never has been found yit. I will always be bow legged, and I’ve got a mind ter sue the railroad for it. —Savannah News. Henry Ward Beecher's Sayings. The Literary’ News offered prizes for the best approved quotations from the writings of Henry Ward Beecher. enty-three lists were sent in, and the fol¬ lowing six selections received the highest number of votes, viz: Of all the battles there are none like the unrecorded battles of the soul. Flowers are the sweetest tilings God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. If a man is fit to go higher, he will show it by being faithful where he is. Books outlive empires. They fly with out wings, walk without feet; houses of supply are they that without money or price feed men suffering from soul ger, loaves that increase as they are broken, and after feeding thousands are ready for thousands more. He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find flaw when he may have forgotten the cause. God did not make men perfect. He made them pilgrims after perfection. A Good Old Age. Long lived heredity is not simply a physical tendency to live. It is also a tendency to the habits of life, conduct and thought that preserve constitutional vigor, and hold in check or eradicate whatever might hamper nature’s recup; J ative power. This suggests the practical lesson '■g would enforce. By the voluntary cuB§ h^B ration of good habits those who reached, say the age of 80, in sowi ^H health, may hope to live to a gcxxi - happy old age.—Youth's Companion