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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¬ ASH BURN. WORTH CO., GA.. FRIDAY. APRIL 2. 1897. 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.”