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THE ASHBDRN ADVANCE.
H. D. SMITH, EDITOR.
PBAISE Foil GREECE.
REV. DR. TALMAGE ON A SUBJECT OF
WORLDWIDE INTEREST.
Be Shows Wliat Wo Owe the Greeks—A
Debt In Language, Art, Heroism ami
Medicine—The Best Way to Pay the
Debt.
WASHINGTON, March 28.—As T)r. Tal-
mage’s sermons arc published on both sides
the ocean, this discourse on a subject of
worldwide interest will attract universal
attention. His text was Romans 1, 14, “I
am debtor both to the Greeks ahd to tho
barbarians.”
At this time, when that behemoth of
abominations, Mohammedanism, after
having gorged itself on the carcasses of
100,000 Armenians, is trying to put its
pows upon one of the fairest of all na¬
tions, that of the Greeks, I preach this
sermon of sympathy and protest, for ev¬
ery intelligent person on this side pf tho
sea, as well as the other side, like' Paul,
who wrote the text, is debtor to the Greeks.
The present crisis is emphasized bV tbo
guns be of unlimbered tho allied against powers the of Europe, Hellene®, [ready and
to
I am asked to speak out. Paul, gjlLh a
master intellect of the ages, sat inq bril¬
liant Corinth, the great Acro-Corinthus
fortress frowning from tho height of 1,680
feet, and in the house of Gains, where he
was a guest, a big pile of money near him,
which he was taking to Jerusalem foi the
poor. wlhicb
In this letter tcv the Romans,
Chrysostom admired so much that ho had
cally it rend to him “I, twice 1he a apostle, week, Paul practi¬ bank¬
says: am
rupt. 1 owe what I cannot pay, but 1 will
pay as large a percentage ns I can. It is
an obligation for what Greek literatihre
and Greek sculpture and Greek architec¬
ture and Greek prowess have done for iiio.
I will pay all I can in installments Greeks!.” of evan¬
gelism. I am insolvent to the
Hellas, Greece, as the call inhabitants it, is insignificant call it, jor .in
as wo
size, about a third as large as the state af
New York, but what it lacks in breadth it
makes up in height, with its mountains
Cyleuo and Eta and Taygetus and Tyn I-
phrestus, each over 7,000 feet in elcvatioii,
and its Parnassus, over 8.0U0. Just the
country for mighty men to bo born in, for
in all lands the most of the intcllectua 1
and moral giants were not born on tint
plain, but had mountains. for cradle That the valley be-j
tween two country, nq
part of which is more than 40 miles from
the sea, has made its impress upon the
world as no other nation, and it today
holds a first mortgage of obligation upon I
all civilized people. While we must leave!
to statesmanship and diplomacy the settle¬
ment of tho intricate questions whiisli now
involve all Europe and indirectly all na¬
tions, it is time for all churches, all schools,
all universities, all arts, all literature, to
sound out in the most emphatic way the
declaration, “I am debtor to the Greeks.”
The Greek Language.
In the first place, we owe to their lan¬
guage our New Testament. All of it was
first written in Greek, except the book of
Matthew, and that, written in the Ara¬
maean language, was soon put into Greek
by our Saviour’s brother James. To the
Greek language wo owe the best sermon
ever preached, tlio best letters ever writ¬
ten, tho best visions ever kindled. All the
parables in Greek. All tho miracles in
Greek. Tho sermon on the mount in
Greek. The story of Bethlehem and Gol¬
gotha and Olivet and Jordan banks and
Galilean beaches and Pauline embarka¬
tion and Pentecostal tongues and seven
trumpets that sounded over Patinos have
come to the world in liquid, symmetrical,
picturesque, philosophic, unrivaled Greek,
instead of the gibberish languago in which
many of the nations of the earth at that
time jabbered. Who can forget it, and who
can exaggerate its thrilling importance,
that Christ and heaven were introduced to
us in tho language of the Greeks, tile lan¬
guage in which Homer had sung und
Sophocles dramatized and Plato dialogued
and Socrates discoursed and Lycurgus leg¬
islated and Demosthenes thundered his
oration on “Tho Crown?” Everlasting
thanks to God that the waters of life were
not handed to the world in the unwashed
cup of corrupt languages from which na¬
tions had been drinking, but in the clean,
bright, golden lipped, emerald handled
chalice of the Hellenes. Learned Curtins
wrote a whole volume about the Greek
verb. Philologists century after century
have been measuring the symmetry of that
language, laden with elegy and philippic,
drama and comedy, “Odyssey” and “II-
lad,” but the grandest thing that, Greek
language ever accomplished was to give to
the world the benediction, the comfort, the
irradiation, the salvation, of the gospel of
the Son of God. For that we are debtors
to the Greeks
And while speaking of our philological
obligation let me call your attention to
the fuct that many of tlio intellectual and
moral and theological leaders of tho ages
got much of their discipline and effective-
ness from Greek literature. It is popular
to scoff at the dead languages, but 50 per
cent of the world's intellectuality would
have been taken off if through learned in-
stitutions our young men had not, under
competent professors, been drilled in Greek
masterpieces, Hesiod's "Weeks and Days,”
or the eulogium by Simonides of the slain
in war, or Pindar’s "Odes of Victory,” or
“The Recollections of Socrates,” or “The
Art of Words,” by Corax, or Xenophon’s
“ A nahaaic ’’
History and the Greeks.
From tho Greeks the world learned how
to make history. Had thei'c been no He¬
rodotus and Thucydides there would have
been no Macaulay or Bancroft. Had thero
been no Sophocles in tragedy thero would
have been no Shakespeare. Had thero been
no Homer there would have been no Mil-
ton. The modern wits, who are now or
have been put on the divine mission of
making the world laugh at the right time,
can be traced back to Aristophanes, the
Athenian, and many of tlio jocosities that
are now taken as new had their sugges¬
tions 2,300 years ago in the '54 comedies
of that master of merriment. Grecian
mythology has been the richest mine from
■which orators and essayists have drawn
their illustrations and painters the themes
for their canvas, and, although now an ex¬
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Unlisted mine, Grecian mythology has done
a work that nothing else could have ac¬
complished. Boreas, representing tho
north wind; Sisyphus, rolling (he stone
up the hill, only to have the same thing to
do over again; Tantalus, with fruits above
him that he could not roach; Achilles,
with his arrows; learns, with his waxen
wings, flying too near tho sun; tho Cen¬
taurs, half man and half beast; Orpheus,
vvitli his lyre; Atlas, with the world on
his hack—all these and more havo helped
literature, from tho graduate's speech on
commencement day to Rufus Choate's eu-
logiuin ou Daniel Webster at Dartmouth.
Tragedy and comedy were burn in tluj fes¬
tivals of Dionysius at Athens. The lyric
mid elegiac and epic poetry of Greece 500
years before Christ lias its echoes in tho
Tennysons, Longfellows and Bryants of
1,S00 and 1,900 years after Christ. There
is not an effective pulpit or editorial chair
or professor’s room or cultured parlor or
intelligent farmhouse today in America or
Europe that could not appropriately em¬
ploy Paul’s ejaculation and say "I am
debtor to tho Greeks.”
Tho fact is this—Paul had got much of
his oratorical power of expression from
the Greeks. That he had studied their lit¬
erature was evident when, standing in tho
presence of an audience of Greek scholars
on Mars hill, which overlooks Athens, he
dared to quoto from one of their own
Greek poets, either Cleanthus or Aratus,
declaring, “As certain also of your own
poets have said,‘For we are also his off¬
spring. ) J > And bo made accurate quota-
tier., Cleanthus, ono of the poets, having
written :
For we thine offspring are. All things that
creep
Are but the echo of tlio voice divine.
And Aratus, ono of their own poets, had
written:
Doth care perplex? Is lowering danger nigh?
We are his offspring, and to Jovo we lly.
It wits rather a risky thing for Paul to
attempt to quote extemporaneously from a
poem in a language foreign to his and be¬
fore Greek scholars, but Paul did it with¬
out stammering and then acknowledged
before the most distinguished audience on
the planet his indebtedness to tlio Greeks,
crying out in his oration, “As one of your
own poets has said.”
Grecian Architecture.
Furthermore, all tlio civilized world,
liko Paul, is indebted to the Greeks for
architecture. The world before the time of
the Greeks had built monoliths, obelisks,
c’.'t unlecbs,sphinxes and pyramids, but they
re mostly monumental to tlie dead
whom they failed to memorialize, Wc aro
not certain even of the names of those in
whose commemoration the pyramids were
built. But Greek architecture did most for
the living. Ignoring Egyptian precedents
and borrowing nothing from other na¬
tions, Greek architecture carved its own
columns, set its own pediments, adjusted
its owu entablatures, rounded its own
moldings and carried out as never before
the three qualities of right building, called
by an old author “lirmifeis, utilitas, vcuu-
stas’—namely, firmness, usefulness, beau¬
ty. Although the Parthenon on tho Acrop¬
olis of Athens is only a wreck of the
storms and earthquakes and bombard¬
ments of many centuries, and although
Lord Elgin took from one side of that
.building, at an expense of $250,000, two
shiploads of sculpture, oho shipload going
down in tlio Mediterranean and tho other
Shipload now to bo found in the British
tuuseum, the Parthenon, though in com¬
parative ruins, has been an inspiration to
all architects for centuries past and will
be an inspiration all tlio time from now
until the world itself is a temple of ruin.
Oh, that Parthenon! One never gets over
having onco seen it. But what must it
havo been when it stood as its architects,
Ikitnos and Kallikrates, built it out of
Pentelican marble, white as Mont Blanc
at noonday and as overwhelming. Height
above height. Overtopping tlio august and
majestic pile and rising from its roof was
a statue of Pallas Promachus in bronze,
so tall and flashing that sailors far out at
sea beheld tlio plume of her helmet. With¬
out Hie aid’ of tho eternal God it never
could have been planned, and without the
aid of God tho chisels and trowels never
could have constructed it. There is not a
fine church building in all the world, or u
properly constructed courthouse, ora beau¬
tiful art gallery, or an appropriate audi¬
torium, or a tasteful home, which, bex«.use
of that Parthenon, whether its style or
some other style be adopted, is not direct¬
ly or indirectly a debtor to tho Greeks.
But there is another art in my mind—
the most fascinating, elevating and in¬
spiring of all arts and tlio nearest to tho
divine—for which all the world owes a
that will . bo
, , . t0 t,le ,« Hellenes ,, ,, never
} ,a ] lk I mean sculpture. At least wijears
JL ‘ for<! C ’ hnst the Greeks perpetuated the
human face and form in terra cotta and
marble. AY hat a blessing to the human
fnmilythat men and women, mightily uao-
ful - who couW hvc onl >’ ": lthlu a centl ' r y
be perpetuated for five . or ten
way or six
eentrn-ics! How I wish that some sculptor
contemporaneous with Christ could have
P ut lns matchless form m marble! But
f ‘ ,r e ver / exquisite statue of
. k" h,:T of J obn Kno ?’ ,u ” ,m
’ Wellington,
F(mn ’ of Thomas Chalmers, of
of Li,fa y e tte > of ;l,1 Y of tll(! «"»* statesmen
or emancipators . or conquerors who adorn
y° lir P arks or b }\ ib '- of your acad-
<'mies, you are debtors to the Greeks. they
covered the Acropolis, they glori ici e
temples, they adorned the cemeteries with
statues, some in cellar, some m lvorj,
B omo m sllwr ln gold, some in size
- colossal.
dmnnutive 1 and some m size
ihanks t0 PWd ‘ a8 ‘ wh “ "’ 0 '.' ke( 1 in sto ” u;
to Clearchus, , who worked in bronze; , to
Dontas, who worked in gold, and to all
ancient chisels of coiMnerooration. Do you
not realize that for any of the wonders
of sculpCure we are *";btors to the Greeks?
The Art of Healing;.
Yea, for the science of medicine, ti e
great art of healing, we must thank the
Greeks. There is the immortal Greek doc¬
for tor, Hippocrates, disease who first and opened health t tip conn: door
to go out
in. Ho first se' fortli the importance of
cleanliness and deep, making th ait ient
before treatment to lie washed find take
slumber on the hide of a sacrifidid beast
He first di overed the importun e of tlior
ough prognosis and diagnosis. He forinu
latcd t io famous oath of Hippocratt -
which is taken by physicians of our day
He emancipated medicine from supc-rsti
tion, empiiicism and priestcraft. He was
the father of all the infirmaries, hospitals
and medical colleges of the last 23 cen¬
turies. Ancient medicament and surgery
had before that been anatomical and phys¬
iological assault and battery, and long
after the time of Hippocrates, the Greek
doctor, where his theories were not known,*
lho IJible speaks of fatal medical treat¬
ment when it says, “In Ids disease ho
sought not to the Lord, but to the phy¬
sicians, and Asa slept with bis fathers."
And wo read in the Now Testament of the
poor woman who had boon treated by in¬
competent doctors, who asked large foes,
whero it says, "She had suffered many
things of many physicians and had spent
all that she. had and was nothing better,
but rather grew worse." For our glorious
science of medicincand surgery—more sub¬
lime than astronomy, for wo have more to
do with disease than with the stars; moro
beautiful than botany, for bloom ol' health
In the cheek of wife and child is worth
more to ns than all the rosesuf the garden
—for this grandest of all sciences, the sci-
enoe of healing, every pillow of recovered
invalid, every ward of American and Ku-
ropean hospital, may well cry out: "Thank
God for old I)r. Hippocrates. I, like Paul,
am indebted to the Greeks.”
Furthermore, all the world is obligated
to Hellas more than it can ever pay for its
heroics in the cause of liberty a no right.
United Europe today had not better think
that the Greeks will not light. There may
be fallings back and vacillations and tem¬
porary defeat, but if Greece is right- all
Europe onnnot put her down. The other
nations, before they open tbe portholes of
their men-of-war against that small king¬
dom, had better read of the battle of Mara¬
thon, where 10,DUO Athenians, led on by
Miltiades, triumphed over 100,000 of their
enemies. At that time, in Greek council of
war, live generals were for beginning tho
battle and live vvero against it. Callimach¬
us presided at the council of war, had tlio
deciding vote, and Miltiades addressed
him, saying: Callimachus,
"It now rests with yon,
either to enslave Athens, or, by insuring
her freedom, to win yourself an immor¬
tality of fame, for never since tho Athe¬
nians were u people were they in such dan¬
ger as they are in at this moment. If they
bow the knee to these Medcs, they aro to
be given up to Hippias, and you know
wliat they will then have to suffer, blit if
Athens comes victorious out of tills con¬
test she has it in her power to become tho
first city of Greece. Your vote is to decide
whether we arc to join battle or not. If we
do not bring on a battle presently, some
factious intrigue will disunite tho Athe-
niaus, and the city will bo betrayed to the
Modes, but if we fight before there is any¬
thing rotten in the state of Athens 1 be¬
lieve that, provided the gods will givo fair
field and no favor, wo are able to get the
best of it in the engagement.”
Greek Heroes.
That won the voto of Callimachus, and
soon the battle opened, and in full run the
men of Miltiades fell upon the Persian
hosts, shouting: “On, sons of Greece!
Strike for tho freedom of your country!
Strike for the freedom of your children
and your wives, for the shrines of your fa¬
thers’ gods and for the sepulchers of your
sires!” While only 192 Greeks fell 6,400
Persians lay dead upon the field, and many
of tiio Asiatic hosts who took to the war
vessels in the harbor were consumed in
tho shipping. Persian oppression was re¬
buked, Grecian liberty was achieved, tho
cause of civilization was advanced, and (ho
western world and all nations have felt the
heroics. Had there been no Miltiades
there might havo been uo Washington.
Also at Thermopylae iiOO Greeks, along
a road only wide enough for a wheel track
between a mountain and a marsh, dieti
rather than surrender. Had there been no
Thermopylio there might have been no
Bunker Hill. Tho echo of Athenian and
•Spartan heroics was heard at tho gates of
Lucknow, and Sevastopol, und Bannock¬
burn, and Lexington, and Gettysburg.
English Magna Charta, and Declaration of
American Independence, and tho song of
Itobcrt Burns, entitled “A Man’s a Man
For a’ That,” were only the long contin¬
ued reverberation of what was said and
done 20 centuries before in that little king¬
dom that tile powers of Europe aro now
imposing upon. Greece having again und
again shown that 10 men in the right aro
stronger than 100 men in tho wrong, the
heroics of Leonidas and Aristides and T’he-
mistocles will not cease their mission un¬
til the last man on earth is as free as God
made him. There is not on either side of
tho Atlantic today a republic that cannot
truthfully employ the words of the text
and say, “I am debtor to the Greeks.”
Debt to the Greeks.
But now comes the practical question,
How cun wo pay that debt or a part of it?
For we cannot pay moro than 10 per cent
of that debt in which • Paul acknowledged
himself a bankrupt. By praying Almighty
God that he will help Greece in its present
war with Mohammedanism und the con¬
certed empires of Europe. I know her
queen, a noble, Christian woman, her fueo
the throne of all beneficence und loveli¬
ness, iier lito an example of noble wife¬
hood and motherhood. God help those pal¬
aces in theso days of awful exigency! Our
American senate did well the other day,
when, in that capitol building which owes
to Greece its columnar impressiveness,
they passed a hearty resolution of sympa¬
thy for that nation. Would that ail who
have potent words that can be heard in
Europe would utter them now, when they
are so much needed! Let us repeat to them
in English what they centuries ago de¬
clared to tho world in Greek, “Blessed are
those who are persecuted for righteous¬
ness’ sake, for theirs is tho kingdom ol
heaven.”
Another way of partly paying our debt
to tho Greeks is by higher appreciation of
tho learning und seif sacrifice of tho mon
who in our own land stand for all that the
ancient Greoksstood. Whilehereund there
one comes to public approval and reward
the roost of them live in privation or on
salary disgracefully small. The scholars,
the archaeologists, the artists, tho literati
—most of them livo up three or four
flights of stairs and by small windows that
do not let in the full sunlight. You pass
them every day in your streets without
any recognition. Grub sireet, where many
of the mighty men of the past suffered, is
long enough to reach around the world.
No need of wasting our sympathy upon
the unappreciated thinker and workers of
the past, though Lintneu sold his works
for » single ducat, though Noah Webster's
spelling book .yielded him more than his
dictionary, though Correggio, the great
printer, receiving for long continued
work payment of #1111, died from overjoy;
though when Goldsmith's friends visited
him they were obliged to sit in the win¬
dow, as lie had but one chair; though
Samuel Jloyse, the great poet, starved to
death; though the author of "lludibraa"
died ‘hi a garret, though “l’aradiso Post”
brought its author only $25 cash down,
with promise of $50 more if the sale war¬
ranted it, so that $75 was all that was
paid for what i« considered 1 ho greatest
poem ever written, lletter turn our atten¬
tion to the fuct that there are at tins mo¬
ment hundreds of authors, painters, sculp¬
tors, architects, brain workers, without
bread and without fuel and without com
potent apparel. As far as you can iriTord it-,
buy their sculpture, read their books, pur¬
chase their pictures, encourage their pen,
tlu-ir pencil, their chisel, their engraver's
knife, their architect's compass. The world
calls them "hookworms’’or "l)r. Dryas¬
dust," but if there had been no book¬
worms or dry doctors of law and science
and theology there would have been no
Apocalyptic angel. They are the Greeks of
our ’country and time, and your obliga¬
tion to them is infinite.
Way t» Pay tlic Debt.
But tliero is a hotter way to pay them,
and that is by their personal salvation,
which will never come to them through
books or through learned presentation, be-
cmise in literature null intellectual realms
they are masters. They can outargue, out-
quote, outdogmntizu you. Not through tlio
gate of tlic head, but through the gate of
t lie heart, you may capture them. When
men of learning and might are brought to
God, they arc brought by tho simplest
story of wliat religion can do for a soul.
They havo lost children. Oh, tell them
how Christ comforted you when you lost
your bright boy or blue eyed girl! They
have found life a struggle. Oh, tell them
how Christ lias helped you all tho way
through! They arc in bewilderment. Oh,
tell thorn with how many hands of joy
heaven beckons you upward! “When
Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of
war,” but when a warm hearted Christian
meets a man who needs pardon and sym¬
pathy and comfort ami eternal life then
conics victory. If you can, by some inci¬
dent of self sacrifice, bring to such schol¬
arly men and women wliat Christ bus done
for their eternal rescue, you may bring
them in. Where Demosthenio eloquence
and Homeric imagery would fail a kindly
heart throb may succeed. A gentleman of
this city sends me the statement of what
occurred a few days ago among the mines
of British Columbia. It seems that Frank
Conson and Join Smith were down in the
narrow shaft of a mine. They had loaded
an iron bucket with coal, and Jim Hems
worth, standing above ground, 1 -J ps haul¬
ing the bucket up by windlass, “when the
windlass broke, and the loaded bucket was
descending upon the two miners. Then
Jim Hemsworth, seeing what must be cer¬
tain death t,o the miners beneath, threw
himself against the cogs of the whirling
windlass, and though his llesh was torn
and his bones were broken he stopped tlic
whirling windlass and arrested the de¬
scending bucket and saved the lives of tho
two miners beneath. The superintendent
of tho mine flew to the rescue and blocked
the machinery. When Jim Hemsworth’s
bleeding and broken body was put on a
litter and carried homeward and some one
exclaimed, “Jim, this is awful!” he re¬
plied, “Oh, what’s tlio difference so long
as I saved tho
What an illustration it was of suffering
for others, and what a text from which to
illustrate the behavior of our Christ, limp¬
ing and lacerated and broken and torn
and crushed in tho work of stopping the
descending ruin that would have destroy¬
ed our souls! Try such a scene of vicarious
suffering as this on that man capable of
overthrowing all your arguments for the
truth, and he will sit down and weep.
Draw your illustrations from the classics,
and it is to him an old story, but Leydeu
jars and electric butteries and telescopes
and Greek drama will all surrender to the
story of Jim Hemsworth’s ( ( Oh, what’s
the difference so long as I saved the hoys?"
Then, if your illustration of Christ’s
seif sacrifice, drawn from some $cene of
today, and your story of what Christ has
done for you do not quite fetch him into
the right way, just say to him, “Profess¬
or—doctor—judge, why was it that Paul
declared lie was a debtor to tho Greeks?”
And ask your learned friend to take his
Greek Testament and translate for you, in
his own way, from Greek into English,
tiie splendid peroration of Paul’s sermon
on Mars bill, under tho power of which
the scholarly Dionysius surrendered—
namely, “The times of this ignorance God
winked at, but now commaiideth all men
everywhere to repent, because he hath ap¬
pointed a day in the which he will judge
the world in righteousness, by that man
whom lie hath ordained, whereof ho hath
given assurance unto all men in that he
hath raised him from tho dead.” By tho
time lio has got through the translation
from Hie Greek I think you will see his
lip tremble, and there will come a pallor
on his face like the pallor on the sky at
daybreak. By tlio eternal salvation of that
scholar, that great thinker, that splendid
man, you will have done something 1 6 help
pay your indebtedness to Hie Greeks, And
now to God the Father, God the Son and
God the Holy Ghost be honor and glory
and dominion and victory and song, world
without end. Amen.
Hypnotism at a Fire,
The professional hypnotist who has been
in the city for several days had an oppor¬
tunity the other night ot demonstrating
his power beyond contradiction and in a
manner that caused physicians to look
amazed and interested. Just about tho
close of a performance at the opera house
last night, the fire alarm was sounded, and
a lauy and a gentleman atton ling had left
their babe at the house which was burn¬
ing. When the father discovered the house
on fire, he seemed to havo lost his reason
arid frantically ran to the place and kicked
through a large window light, cutting his
shoo in Director four places and getting an
umy gash in his foot. He then made a
dive tiirough the window, regardless of
glass or sash, and ran into the burning
loon., from where it took four mon to carry
ilnqand assurances by them that his only
babe was safe in a house just across the
street were unheeded by him.
They than carried him by force, which
required the combined strength of four
strong men, to where tlio child was; but
lie evidenced symptoms of convulsions and
was placed upon a bed, and it seemed that
scarcely enough men could get to him to
hold liiin there. In the struggle the bed¬
stead was torn down. A prominent physi¬
cian began preparation of a medicine to bo
administered. Meanwhile a boy had gone
for tho hypnotist, who gentleman came up, request¬
ing those holding tho to release
him, remarking, “He is only sleepy.”
Then, gently placing his bunds on his
head, he said: "You are almost asleep.
You are going to sleep. Now, when 1
count three, you will sleep.” The man
ceased his struggling and slept. Ho was
allowed to remain quiet for only a few
minutes, when the hypnotist began to talk
to him. assuring him that ho would soon
awake and would know nothing about
what had happened, which lie did at the
operator’s command anil in amazement
asked how lie came to lie there and what
had soiled his clothes. Tlio babe was
brought to him, and tho hypnotist quietly
slipped out of tho crowd and departed.
Skepticism in regard to hypnotic power is
a buck issue here, and the most learned
men fire Hie ones most interested and puz¬
zled.— Fulestinc (Tex.) Letter in Galveston
News.
A Now ltimU Canvasser.
Hero is a picture of the Roman book
canvasser. Tho snow white Mauritanian
steeds, with the heaving Hanks, tlio pop •
eil cars, .tho crimson nostrils, are rob. J
up. From the chariot descended tho mas¬
ter, who, giving his Bowing toga an extra
graceful fold, entered a house on the Via
Aurelia. Presently a Scythian slave fol¬
lowed his lord, bearing in bis sturdy arms
a precious fassiouius, fully illustrated, up
to date and superbly bound in Persian
cloth. It was a l’liny in IB volumes, a sub¬
scription book. Sueli were tho methods of
the canvasser in tlio palmy days of Home.
If wo are to credit a recent florid descrip¬
tion in a loading literary review, tho Re¬
man method is tlic way of a certain kind
of book agent of today. lie rides in his
own coupe, drawn by what tho French
call a stepparc. The princely canvasser
never would debase his calling by carrying
tlio hook lie offers himself. His servant in
liv ory totes it;. Thu book lie works for costs
from $1,000 to $2,600 a copy. It Is a vol
nine which common people may not buy
It is only offered to “shahs, maharajahs,
emperors, kings, presidents.” Hero afe In¬
deed the heroics of tho subscription book
business.
Satisfactory Proof.
In County Sligo, among the hills,
thero is a small lake renowned iii
that region for its fabulous depth. The
professor happened to be in that part
of Ireland last summer, and started out
one fine day for a ramble among the
mountains, accompanied by a native
guide. As they climbed, Pat asked him
If he would like to see this lake, “for
t’s no bottom at all, sorr.”
“But how do you know that, Pat?”
inked the professor.
“Well, sorr, I’ll tell ye; me own
Jousin was shefwin’ the pond to a gen¬
tleman one day, sorr, and lie looked in¬
credulous like, just as you do, and me
cousin couldn’t stand it for him to
doubt his worrd, sorr, and so he said,
Begoirra, I’ll prove the truth of me
worrds,’ -and off with his clothes and
in lie jumped.”
The professor’s face wore an,amused
ind quizzical expression.
"Yes, sorr, in he jumped, and didn’t
come up at all, at all.”
“But,” said the professor, "1 don’t
see that your cousin proved his point
by recklessly drowning himself.”
“Sure, sorr, it wasn’t drowned at all
he was; the next day comes a cable
from him in Australia, askin’ to send on
his clothes.”—Hamer's Bazar.
Bear Meat.
The fact that bears bring from $20
to $50 each in the San Francisco meat
market and that there is a lively de¬
mand for all that are sent here has
moved many men who live in the foot¬
hills of all the mountain ranges to scour
the hills for them and ship them hence.
Cubs are taken alive, kept in pits and
fed until they attain several hundred
pounds in weight, when they are mar¬
ketable. The carcasses usually,displayed
by butchers during the holiday season
are of domesticated bears, as the wild
bears at that season of the year are hi¬
bernating. A stall fed bear designed for
the market is treated in about the same
way as a hog. He will eat the same food
a hog will eat and about the same quan¬
tity, and his flesh tastes very much like
pork, except for a gamy flavor which
it possesses. Aside from this the bear’s
blubber makes the finest lard, his hind¬
quarters furnish superior hams and his
ribs yield the best of bacon.—San Fran¬
cisco Chronicle.
A Brick Roadway's Vagaries.
A street in Terre Haute was paved
with brick five years ago, the joints
being grouted up. The work was done
partly during the winter, being finished
in early spring. The foundation con¬
sisted of broken stone 7 inches thick,
above which was a layer of sand 2
inches thick. At the end of July, with
the thermometer standing at, about 100
degrees, a section of the pavement rose
like an arch from its foundation, and,
though water was turned on it, and
openings made to let out any possible
accurntila ion of gas beneath, it main¬
tained its .position unaffected, Men
were put to work to repair the pave¬
ment, but hardly had they removed
the swollen section when, with a loud
report, another section of the pavement
rone in a similar manner to a height of
7 (j 8 inches.
VOL. V. NO. M4.
SAEiiA’I11 SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB
Al’ItIL 4.
Lesson Text: "I’eter Working Mira,
tiles,” Acts lx., 32-43—Golden
Text : Ails lx„ 34—
Commentary.
32. “Audit came to pass ns Peter passed
throughout al! qmiriers, lie came down also
to last tho saints which dwelt at Lydda.” The
we heard of P. 1 r lie was with John
breaching tho word of the Lord as they ro-
turned from Samaria to Jerusalem, having
witnessed (he great work of the Lord
through Philip ia Samaria (chapter viit.,
25). In .lerusalc n the number of disciples
multipllo I greatly, ami a great company of
(he priests holicvv.l (chapter Vi., 7). In all
Hie land the churches hail r st, and were be¬
ing built up, and were multiplying, walking
in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of
the Holy Ghost (chapter ix., 31). Peter
seems he saints to he here itinerating and there. a little and helping
i Notice this name
“salnis.” We are not called to bo saints,
latt we are called saints (Horn. 1., 7, omitting
the italics; also I Cor. 1., 2) by virtue of our
oneness with Christ. Every believer is a
saint.
•88. “And there ho found a certain man
named .Enas, which had kept his bed eight
year-am i was -Elms sick of the palsy.” ortho We would
infer that was one saints to
whom I’elei came, mi l finding him in this
helpless ooii.liiion lie had compassion upon
b in. Po-sjbiy /Enas and others liail been
praviug that the Lord would send some ono
that way through whom health might come,
remembering Math, xvilb, 10. How very
sinner suggestive is the of condition tlio utter of helplessness paralytic of who tho
this
had been eight years in bod.
84. "And I’eter said unto him, ASiias,
Jesus Christ mnketh thee whole. Arise and
make Peter ill,y bod. Aud he arose immediately.”
healing was greatly body used of well the Lord in
the of tho as ns of the
soul, tine chapters iii., 6, 7; healed v., 15, 10. by It
would seem that some were even
the shn low of lVtcr falling upon them.
85. “And all that dwelt at Lydda and
Karon saw Him. and turned to tho Lord."
God saw that this showing forth of His
power through Peter would bo tiio means ot
many turning to Him. IIo does not heal all
who aro siek, but to tills day He does, both who
with and without He medicine, whether heal best many for
are siek. knows it is us
to abide here or be with Him at homo, and
whether, abiding here, It is best for us to be
sick or well. Tlio great thing is to glorify
(lod that people may turn to Him (Phil, i.,
20: John xvii., 4).
8l>. “Now, There was at Joppa by a eertnin
disciple named called Tabiiha, Boreas. which This interpre¬
tation is woman was
full ot good works and alms deeds which
she did. ” She was a missed Christian when indeed, one
of the kind that is she goes
away. All who truly receivo Christ are
saved (John i., 12). Disciples are those who
live upon IIis word and follow Him fully at
any cost (Luke xvl,, 20, 27). Those who are
both of these and also full of good works
and kindness to the poor must come speed-
ally near to the heart of Christ, for He, be¬
ing full of tbo Hpir t, went about doing good
and healing “Ami the oppressed.
37. it eiime to pass in those days that
she was sick and hied, whom, when they had
washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.”
Her workdays over, she is absent from her
body and present wilh the Lord; she has de¬
parted to ho with Christ, which is far better
(I’hil. L, 21, 23; 11 Cor. v., 8); she has truly
experienced a great gain. Wo are not told
if tier sickness was long nor if she suffered
much, but she has gone from them, and nil
they have of her is the body in which she
lived and wrought among them. No, they
have also her good works and blessed mem¬
38. “They sent unto him two men, desir¬
ing him that lie would not delay to come and fo
them.” Lydda was not far from Joppa, there,
the disciples, hearing that Peter was
sent thus urgently for him, for they longed
to have Dorcas with them once more. ThlH
is the natural longing of the heart to keep
our loved ones with us even though we know
that their departure Is their gain.
89. “All the widows stood by him weeping
and shewing the coats and garments which
Dorcas made while she was with them.”
Fondly remembered by what she had “Blessed done,
they make us think of tho words:
are the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth. Yen, snlth the Spirit, that tlioy
may rest Irom their labors, and their works
to follow them”(itev. opened her xiv., 13). and when she
40. “fcjlie eyes,
saw Polar she sat up.” Many miracles ol
healing had been wrought resurrection through Peter,
Init this is Ills first ease of from
ttie dead. Alone witli the deed body, he
poured out ins soul to God, doubtless plead¬
ing the promises of God, the commission io
Math, x., H, the assurance of John xiv., 12,
and wilbal asking In complete submission to
the will of God (John xiv., 13, 14; 1 John v..
14, 15). He must have received somo assur-
ance that Ids request was granted, for he
turned to the body and said, “Tabitha,
arise.” And She sat up, looking upon him.
41. Arid lie gave her Ids hand and lifted
her up, and when he had called the saints
and widows presented her alive.” There arc
three resurrections of the dead In the Old
Testament, three in the life of Christ, and
this is the first of three alter his ascension
(A“is xiv., 19, 20; xx., 12). We have uo
record of any utterances of those who had
been dead and had been brought back to this
world. Paul says it was not paradise possible (II for Oor. him
to utter wl at he heard in
xlb, 4), doubtless when ho was stoned tc
death at Lystrn. throughout all
42. “And it was known
Joppa, aud many believed in the Lord.” Tho
resurrection of Lazarus led to many believ¬
ing on Jesus (John xii., 11), and hero Is an-
oth reuse in which the Lord saw that u res¬
urrection would be tlio means ol leading
many to Him. It does not seem ns If Dorcas
would have been sent from paradise Hho back have to
earth without her consent. may
been informed of the results that would fol¬
low, and lor the sake of winning these souls
to Christ for Christ’s sake she doubtless came
back cheerfully lor His p ensure. We do not
know of any results from the resurrection ol
the many who rose when Chrlst'did (Math, foi
xxvii,, 62, 63), but there was n reason
their resurrection, aud no doubt the result
which God inteuded. 1 think they went with
Christ to glory, while the nine previously re¬
ferred to probably died again. he tarried
43. “And it came to pass that
many days io Jopna wilh one Simon, a tan¬
ner.” An l here we will find him in our nexl
lesson. Preaching the gospel, healing the
sick, raising flic dead or ju-t tarrying with
Hiioon, he Is about his Master’s businessanr,
doing hs occasion serves him, knowing that
Go'l is with him (1 Sam. x., 7).—Lessor
Helper.
a happy thought.
Assistant Editor: ‘‘There’s nothing to
fill the seventh column, sir.”
Editor: “Tell the tcreman to set a lot
of type at random, aud we 11 call it a
Scotch dialect story.”