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D., preached at tho tabernacle, this city, on “To Much Ado About Small Things.” His text was: “Ye Blind Guides, AVhich Strains at a Gnat, and Swallow a Camel.” Mathews 23:24. Tho eloquent preacher said: A proverb is compact wisdom, knowledge in chunks, a library in a sentence, tho electric ity of many clouds discharged in one bolt, a river put through a mill race. When Christ quotes the proverb of the text, He means to set forth the ludicrous behavior of those who make a great bluster about small sins and have no appreciation of great ones. In my text a small insect and a large quad ruped arc brought into comparison—a gnat and a camel. You have in museum or on the des ert seen tire latter, a groat awkward, sprawling creature, with back two stories high, and stom ach having a collection of reservoirs for desert travel, an animal forbidden to the Jews as food, and in many literatures entitled “tlie ship of tlie desert.” Tho gnat spoken of in the text is in the grub form. It is born in pool or pond, after a few weeks becomes a chrysalis, and then after a few days becomes the<nat as we recognize it. But the insect spoken of in tho text is in its very smallest shape, and it yet inhabits the water—for my text is a misprint and ought to read “strain out a gnat.” My text shows you the prince of inconsisten cies. A man after long observation has formed the suspicion that in a cup of water tie is about to drink, there is a grub or the grand parent of a gnat. He goes and gets a sieve or strainer, lie takes tho water and pours it through tlie sieve in the broad light. He says, “I would rather do anything almost than drink this water until this larva bo extir pated.” This water is brought under inqui sition. The experiment is successful. Tho water rushes through tiio sieve and leaves against the side of tlie sieve tho grub or gnat. Then tlie man carefully removes tlie insect and drinks the water in placidity. But going out one day, and hungry, he devours a “ship of the desert,” tlie camel, which the Jews were forbidden to cat. The gastronomer lias no compunctions of conscience. Ho suffers from no indigestion. He puts tlie lower jaw under the camel’s forefoot, and ins upper jaw over tho hump of tho camel’s back, and gives one swallow and tlie dromedary disappears forever. He strained out a gnat, he swallowed a camel. AVliilc Christ's audience were yet smiling at the appositeness and wit of His illustration— for smile they did in church, unless they were too stupid to understand tho hyperbole— Christ practically said to them, “That is you.” Punctilious about small things; reckless about affairs of groat mngnitude. No subject ever withered under a surgeon’s knifo more bit terly than did the Pharisees under Christ’s scalpel of truth. As an anatomist will take a human body to pieces and put them under a microscope for examination, so Christ finds his way to the heart of tho dead Pharisee and cuts it out and puts it under tlio glass of in spection for all generations to examine. Those Pharisees thought that Christ would flatter them and compliment them, and how they must have writhed under tho red hot words as he said : "Ye fools, ye whited sepulchres, ye blind guides, wliich strainout a gnat and swallow a camel.” There are in our day a great many gnats strained out and a great many camels swallow ed, and it is tlie object of this sermon to sketch a few persons who arc extensively engaged in that business. First: 1 remark, that all tllose ministers of the Gospel are photographed in tho text who are very scrupulous about tho conventionali ties of religion, but put no particular stress upon matters of vast importance. Church services ought to be grave and solemn. There is no room for frivolity in religious convoca tion. But there are illustrations and there are hyperboles like that of Christ in tlie text that will irradiate with smiles any intelligent audi tory. There are men like those blind guides of the text who advocate only those things in religious service which draw tlie cor ners of tho mouth down and denounce all those thing's which have a tendency to draw the coiners of the mouth up, and these men will go into installations and to presbyteries, and to conferences and to associations, their pockets full of fine sieves to strain out the gnats, while in their own churches at home every Sunday, tliere are fifty people sound asleep. They make their churches a great dor mitory, and their somniferous sermons are a cradle, and tlie drawled-out hymns a lullaby, while some wakefnl soal in a pew with her fan keeps the Hies off unconscious per sons approximate. Now, I say it is worse to sleep in church than to smile in church, for the latter implies at least attention,\sliile tlie former implies tlie indifference ofrtho hearers and tho stupidity of the speaker. In old age, or from physical infirmity, or from long watching witli the sick, drowsiness will sometimes overpower one; but when a minister of the Gospel looks off upon an audience and finds healthy and intelligent st rug gling with drowsiness, it is time for him to give out the doxology or pronounce the bene diction, Tho great fault of church services today is not too much vivacity, but too much somnoler.ee. The one is an irritating gnat that may be easily strained out: the other is a great, sprawling and sleepy-eyed camel of the dry desert. In all our Sabbath schools, in all our Bible classes, in all our pulpits we need to brighten up our religi ous message with such Christ-Jike vivacity as we find in the text. I take down from my library tlie biographies of ministers and writers of past ages, inspired and uninspired, who have done tlie most to bring souls to Jesus Christ, and I find that without a single exception they consecrated their wit and their humor so Christ. Elijah used it when lie advised tlio Baalites, as they could not make their god respond; telling them to call louder, as their god might be sound asleep or gone a hunting. Job used it when he said to his self-conceited comforters, “Wisdom will die with you.” Christ not only used it in tlie text, but when He ironically ct.inplimented the putrefied Pharisees, saying, “The whole need not a physician,” and when by one word Ho described the cunning of Herod, saying, “Go ye and tell that fox.” MatthewjHehry’s commentaries from the first page to the last coruscated witli humor as summer clouds witli heat lightning. John Bunyan’s writings arc as full of humor as they are of saving truth, and there is not an aged man here who has ever read “Pilgrim’s Progress” who does not remember that while reading it he smiled as often as he wept. Chrysostom, George Her bert, lioliert South, John Wesley, George White.;eid, Jeremy Taylor, Rowland Hill, Nettleton, George G. Finney, and all tlie men of tlie past who greatly advanced tho king dom of God consecrated their wit and their humor to the cause of Christ. So it has been in all the ages, and I say to these young the ological students, who cluster in these ser vices Sabbath by Sabbath, sharpen your wits as keen as scymetars, and then take them into this holy war. It is a verv short bridge between a smile and a tear, a suspension bridge from eye to lip, and it is soon crossed over, and asmilo is some times just as sa< red as a tear. There is as much religion, and I think a little more, in a spring morning than in a starless midnight. Religious work without any humor or wit in it is a banquet with a side of beef, and that raw, and >i > condiments, and no dessert suc ceeding. I’ci.pie will not sit down at sucfi a banquet. By all means, remove ail frivolity and all batncs and all lightness and all vul garity—strain them out through the sieve of holy discrimination; but, on the other hand, beware of that monster which overshadows the Christian church today, conventionality, coming up from the great Sahara desert of eccle-iusticism, having on its back a hump of sanctimoiii'ua gloom, and vehemently resin e Oh, how particular a great many people are about tlie infinitesimals, v.ldle they are quite reck: s about the magnitudes. What did Christ say ? Did He not excoriate the people in ills tim*' who wi re so careful to wash t«oir hands before a meal, but did not wash their hearts? It is a bad tiling to have unclean hands ; it is a worse tiling to have an unclean heart. How many people there are in our time who are very anxious that after their death they shall be buried with their feet to- ward the cast, and not at all anxious that dur ing their whole life they should face in tlio right direction so that they siiall conic up in the resurrection of tlie just,, which ever way they are buried. How many there are chiefly anxious that a minister of the gospel shall come in the lino of apostolic succession, not caring so much whether he come from Apostle Paul or Apostle J udas. They have away of measuring a gnat until it is larger than a camel. Again, my subject photographs all those who arc abhorrent of small sins while they arc reckless in regard to magnificent thefts. You will find many a merchant who, while he is so careful that he would not take a yard of cloth or a spool of cotton from the counter without paying for it, and who if a bank cashier should make a mistake and send in a roll of bills live dollars too much would dis patch a messenger in hot haste to return the surplus, yet who will go into a stock company in which after a while gets control of the stock and then waters the stock and makes one hun dred thousand dollars appear like tw o hundred thousand dollers. Ho only stole one hundred thousand dollars by the operation. Many of the men of fortune made their wealth in that way. One of those men, engaged in such un righteous acts, that evening, tho evening of the very day he watered the stock, will find a wharf-rat stealing a newspaper from tho base ment doorway, and will go out sand catch the urchin by tho collar, and twist the collar so tightly the noor fellow cannot say that it was thirst for knowledge that led him to the dishonest act, but grip the collar tighter and tighter, saying, “I have been looking for you a long while; you stole my paper four or five times, haven’t you? you miserable wretch.” and then the old stock gambler, with a voice they can hear three blocks, will cry out, “Po lice! police!” That same man, tlie evening of tlie day in wliich lie watered the stock, will kneel with his fam ily in prayers and thank God for the pros perity of tho day, thou kiss his children good night with an air wliich SOOms to say, “I hope you will all grow’ up f o be as good as yonr father.” Prisons for sins insectile in size', but palaces for crimes dromodarian- No mercy for sins animalcule in proportion, but great leniency for mastodon iniquity. A poor boy slyly takes from the basket of a market woman a choke pear—saving some one else from tlie cholera—and you smother him in the horrible atmosphere of Raymond Street jail or New York tombs, while his cousin, who has been skillful enough to steal fifty thousand dollars from the sity, you will make him a candidate for tho New York Legislature. There is a great deal of uneasiness and ner vousness now among some people in our time who have gotten unrighteous fortunes, a great deal of nervousness about dynamite. 1 tell thorn that God will put under their unright eous fortunes something more explosive than dynamite, the earthquake of His omnipotent indignation. It is time that we learn in Amer ica that sin is not excusable in proportion as it declares large dividends, and has outriders in equipage. .Many a man is riding to perdition, postilion ahead and lackey behind. To steal one copy of a newspaper is a gnat; to steal many thousands of dollars is a camel. There is many a fruit dealer who would not consent to steal a basket of peaches from a neiglt bor’s stall, but who would not scruple to de press tho fruit market; and as long as I can remember we have heard every summer the peach crop of Maryland is a failure, and by the time the crop comes in the misrepresentation makes a difference of millions of dollars. A man who would not steal one peach basket steals fifty thousand peach baskets. Go down in the summer time into tho mercantile library, in the reading rooms, and see tho newspaper roportajof the crops from all parts of the country, and their phraseology is very much tlie same, and the same men wrote them, methodically and infa mously carrying out tho huge lying about the grain crop from year to year and lor a score of years. After a while there will be a “corner” in the wheat market and men who bad a con tempt for a petty theft will burglarize the wheat bin of a nation and commit larceny up on the American corn-crib. And some of the men will sit in churches and in reformatory in stitutions trying to strain out tho small gnats of scoundrelism, while in their grain elevators and thoir storehouses they aro fattening huge camels which they expect after a while to swallow. Society has .to be entirely recon structed on this subject. AVo are to find that a sin is inexcusable in proportion as it is great. I know in our time tho tendency is to charge religious frauds upon good men. They say, “Oh, what a class of frauds you have in tlio church of God in this when an elder of a church, or a deacon, or a minister of the gospel, or a superintendent of a Sabbath school turns out a defaulter, what display heads there are in many of tlio newspapers. Great primer type. Five line pica. “Anoth er Saint Absconded,” “Clerical Scoundrel ism,” Religion ata discount,” “Shame on the Churches,” while there are a thousand scoun drels outside the church to where tliere is one inside tlie church, and the misbehavior of those who never see the inside ot a church is so great it is enough to tempt a man to become a Christian to got out of their company. But in all circles, religious and irreligious, the ten dency is to excuse sin in proportion as it is mammoth. Even John Milton in his “Para dise Lost,” while ho condemns Satan, gives such a grand description of him you have liard work to suppress your admiration. Oh, this straining out of small sins like gnats, and this gulping down great iniquities like camels. This subject does not give the picture of one or two persons, but is a gallery in which thous ands of people may see their iikencss. For in stance, all those people who, while they would not rob their neighbor of a farthing, appropri ate the money and the treasure of the public. A man hasa house to soli, and he tells his cus tomer it is worth twenty thousand dollars. Next day the assessor comes around, the own er says it is worth fifteen thousand dollars. The government of the United States took off the tax from personal income, among other reasons because so few people would tell the truth, and many a man with an income of hundreds of dollars a day, made statements which seemed to imply ho was about to be handed over to the overseer of the poor. Care ful to paj their passage from Liverjiool to New Y ork, yet smuggling in their Saratoga trunk ten silk dresses from Paris and n half dozen watches from Geneva, Switzerland, ti Hing the customhouse officer on tho wharf, “There is nothing in that trunk but wearing apparel,” and putting a five dollar gold-piece in ins hand to punctuate the statement. Described in the text arc all those who aro particular never to break the Jaw of grammar, and who want all their language an elegant specimen of syntax, straining out all the inac curacies of speech with a fine sieve of literary criticism, while through their conversation go slander and innuendo, and profanity and false hood larger than a whole caravan of camels, when they might bolter fracture every law of the language and shock intellectual taste, and belter Jet every verb seek in vain for its nominative, and every noun for its govern ment, md every tire position lose its way in the lenience, and adjectives and participles mid pronouns got into a grand riot worthy of tlie fourth ward on election day, than to commit a moral inaccuracy. Better swallow a tliou saii'l gnats than one camel. Such persons are also described in tho text who are very much alarmed alaiut the small faults of others, and have no alarm about their own great transgressions. There are in every community and in every church watch dogs who feel called upon to keep their eyes on others and growl. They are full of suspicions. They wonder if that man is not dishonest, if that man is not unclean, if there is not something wrong about tho other mau. They are always the first to hear ot something wrong. Vul tures arc always tho first to smell carrion. They are self-appointed detectives. I lay this down as a rule without any exception, that those people who have the most faults them selves are. most merciless in their watching of others. From scalp of head to sole of foot I they are full of jealousies and hypercriticisms. I They spend their life in hunting for musk-rats | and inu.l-turtles instead of hunting for nocky mountain eagles, always for souu/dug mean in oad of something gland. Ti.’y look at] their neighbors’ imperfections through a micro- ] scope, and look at tin ir own imperfections through a telescope upside down. Twenty faults of their own do not hurt them so much as one fault of somebody else. Their neighbors’ imperfeetions are like gnats, and they strain them out; their own irnperfcction.s are like camels, and they swallow them. But lest some might think they escape the scrutiny of Ute text, I have Ui tell you that we all come under the divine satire when we make the questions of time more prominent than the quest ous of eti rnity. Come now, Jet us all go into the confessional. Are not all tempted to make the question, Where shall I live now? greater than the question, Where siiall 1 live forever? How shall 1 get more dollars here? greater than tho question, How shall I lay up treasures in heaven? the question, How shall I pay my debts to man ? greater than tho ques tion, How shall I meet my obligations to God? tho question, How shall I gam the world? greater than tho question, What if I lose my soul? tho question, Why did God let sin come into tho world? greater than tho question. How shall I got it extirpated from my nature? Tlio question, >v bat shall I do with the twenty, or forty, or seventy years of my sublunar existence? greater than the question, What shall I do with the millions of cycles of my post-terres trial existence? Time, "how small it is! Eternity, how vast it is! The former more in significant in comparison with tho latter than a gnat is insignificant when compared with a Ci K? el ’ We dod S ed tho text - Wc said “l hat doesn’t mean me, and that doesn’t mean mo,” and with a ruinous benevolence wo aro giving tho whole sermon away. But let us] all surrender to the charge. What an ado about things here. What poor preparation for a great eternity. As though a minnow were larger than a behemoth, as though a swallow took wider circuit than an albatross, as though a nettle were taller than a Lebanon cedar, ns though a gnat were greater than a camel, as though a minute wore longer than a century, as though time were higher, deeper, broader than eternity. So the text wliich flashed with lightning of wit as Christ uttered it, is followed by tho crushing thunder of awful catastrophe to those who make tho questions of time greater than tlie questions of the future, the oncoming, overshadowing future. O, eternity 1 eternity! eternity! VOWS HE WAS FROZEN TO DEATH. Captain Zoby's Wonderful Ride in the Hurd Winter of ’39 and 'lO. From flic New York Sun. “Whenever cold weather begins to ap proach,” says Ca*taia K- L. Zeby', of Union town, “I can't help tliinkingof the remarkable winter of ’39 and ’4O, when I was frozen to death—frozen square, plumb to death, sir! Nobody was over frozen any deader than I was, but I had tho luck to bo called back to life. And that coming back over the boundary makes mo ache yet to think of it! I didn’t mind tho dying. That was rather a pleasure. But the coming to life! If I over freeze to death again I’ll leave word some way that tho man who resuscitates me doos so at his peril. “That was a great winter, that winter of ’39 and'4o. And tho fall of '39 wasn't so com mon, cither. Neither was tlie spring of ’4O. I’ll tell you why. Tho first snow of tlio sea son fell on October 3, ’39. Tho last snow camo down on May 111 in '4O. Between these two dates there wasn’t less than six feet of snow or. the level all tho time,’and where the wind had good chance at it twenty feet wasn't any thing uncommon, AV e had sleighing for over eight months, and the thermometer fcr live months was at no time higher than twenty above zero, while the most of the time it sported fifteen degrees and twenty degrees below. This memorable fall, winter and spring I am sneaking of may not have been so memorable in thianarLuf tho country. It was in Now England where 1 encountered them, and especially in Maine, where I then lived. If they were as memorable as that hereabout, maybe some of you will recollect them. In February, 1840, I had mi interest in some lumber way up in tho Piscataquis region, and I had to go up tliere and see how things were getting along. It was a long journey, but tho sleighing was like glass, and I had one of tho best horses that ever stood inside the thills. On my second day out tho thermometer stood at 20’ below, and was inclined to go lower. I knew 1 would reach one of those queer little villiages common to the Maine backwoods early in tho evening. There I intended to stay all night, ami drive on next morning to tho house of the agent of tho lumber property, twelve miles further along, I reached the vil lage, and found that there was no tavern there. Accommodations were offered me at a private house, but I was informed that I could not ob tain a drop of water for my horse in the entire settlement. There had been no rain since whiter set in, and tliere wasn’t a well nor a spring anywhere in the legion in which there was a drop of Water. Tho nearest water was in the Piscataquis river, two miles away, to which tlio few stock in tlio village were driven every day to drink, and enough water was brought back in buckets to keep tlio wants of the villagers supplied. “This, of course, upset my plans. My horse was badly in need of water, and I couldn’t think of lotting liitn go all night without a drink. So I ate supper in tlie village and started on, intending to water my horse at tho river and proceed to the agent’s the same night. It was a starlight night, but the. air was tillciFwitli that peculiar frozen mist fre quently noticeable on very cold nights. As wc neared the river this haze became denser, until finally it was with difficulty I could see anything ahead of me. It was like passing through a stonn of scaly ice. Suddenly, as 1 was thinking that we must be almost on the margin of tho river, there camo a cracking sound, a loud splash of water, and tho next second my hor.se was floundering about in water, which also covered the sleigh, tlrtj robes and myself up to iny waist. In that thick bank of icy mist tlie horse liad plunged into tho river below where we had boon told to cross, and had broken through the thin ice that had formed since tlio ice had been cut away that evening for tlie purpose of allowing tlio village cattle to drink. The water splashed about by the horse soon drenched the rest of me, and in less time than I can tell it I was coated with a rapidly thick ening armor of ice. I guess my noble licast mnstjiavo floundered at least a minute in that bole before ho knew exactly what had hap pened. When the situation did come to him lie became quiet, threw his fore feet up, ami lodged them both in the ice witli a coueerted blow like n trip hammer. The ice was thick, but beneath that blow an immense cake was broken off and «as carried down in under tho edgbof tho ice below. The horse swam on, dragging the sleigh with it through the rapid ly freezing slush. Once more ho pounded tho ice ahead of him with his powerful fore feet, and again the ice yielded. Duringall thistime I was shouting for help. I might, at tho first break, have turned and leaped back to shore, but had not collected myself in time. It was now too late, and even if it had not boon, I was so stiffened by tho casing of ice that I couldn’t have moved to save myself from death. Tho horse kept on, and, strange as tho story seems, broke a channel for lift/ feet across that river, and drew the sleigh out safely on tho other side. And he didn’t tarry when he got there, but started at the toji of his K|>eed toward our destination. He soon struck the road and away we went. J knew that although one danger was escaped, a greater was before us, and I urged tho horse on with my voice. Aly robes anil clothing had frozen so solid that if 1 had been encased in iron I could not have been more motionless. My horse was a jet black, but his icy coat ing made him stand out, even in that frozen mist, like a spectre horse. I could not move even my hands. We were not yet half way to the agent’s house when I found inysoit grow ing drowsy. 1 could no«ioiiger use my voice. The clatter of the horse’s hoofs and the cracking ot the runners on tho ice sounded to me like thunder claps and wford hideous cries. 1 knew that I was freez ing, but 1 labored hard to rouse my will ami tight with it against my fate. The stars looked like great coals of fire, although before they could bo seen but dimly through the peculiar haze. The trees, with tlrnir branches covered with snow, took on the shapes of gigantic ghosts. Still I preserved all my powersof rea- Mrtilng. Finally 1 felt myo If growing delic iously warm. A languor such ax Do Quincy might have descrilied, with attemling visions of loveliness, took possession of inc. I heard tho most delightful music. Still I made one mental effort to shake off this fatal spell, and that was all. “I don't know how far I was from the agent’s house when 1 froze to death, but the next thing 1 remembered I was suffering such tor tures as a victim of tho rack might feel. He never felt worse. Suddenly, at my feet, tho pricking of a million needles as-aulted my lle.sli. Torturing me at that spot a moment, until 1 writhed in agony, it da hed quickly up my leg, stopped an instant, as if gloating in my misery, and then crawled with that awful pain slowly upward, until it seeimxl that tiny jots of the fiercest flame were being clown into,. Iny body, lic.a t, and brain. Th<- intern.ity of this agony was not constant. Ifith .d Is on I would have died again in u short time. It came in waves, so to speak. Each wave was a little less furious than its predecessor, until at last the storm was passed, and 1 found my self a weak, speechless, limp, and helpless mortal, lying on a robe before the fireplace of my friend, the agent. H<> had brought mo back to life, but, ns true as I toll you, I did , not feel it in my heart to thank him. “When I was strong enough to hear it, ho I told me that ho was awakened in the night by the peculiar and loud neighing of a horse. He looked out of the window and saw a sight that startled him—a ghost ly horse and sleigh and . driver in the road before his door. Ho recov . ored himself and went down. Then ho discov | cred that the driver was dead. Ho quickly carried the driver into the house, laid him oir tlio floor before tho fireplace and recognized ' »>o. Knowing that even if I was not beyond i all aid. nothing could be done for mo until tlio ; robe and clothing were t hawed, he made the tire blaze and hurried to the rescue of the faithful i and intelligent horse that had reasoned with : itself that it must stop at the first, house it camo to on that terrible night, and that life and death depended on it. By the time the horse was cared for I was in shape to be re suscitated in case any such thing could be done. I was stripped and rubbed briskly with snow and snow water for more than an hour before I gave any evidence that I might be caked back. Then another hour was spent in tho same treatment, when a spoonful of brandy was poured down my throat. After that the circulation was started, and my agony began. That suffering lasted for an hour,' and -well, I oan say this; Freeze to death if you want. A oil'll like it. But don't let anybody fetch jou to again.” A SENSATION SroiLED. A World Correspondent’s Story Proves to be a Hoax. Nkw A’ohk, December 9.—The AVorld cor respondent, at Halifax, sent the following to that paper last night: Intense excitement prevails among imperial nnlitary Oflicers tonight, over what appears to boa deliberate attempt to blow up a gun cot ton tank at George’s island. Double guards are patrolling the fortificat ions and orders have been given to watch tho wharves for men at tempting to land, and to search all vessels in the harbor. It lias been snowing all night so that it. is impossible to see more than a few yards ahead. In the center of Halifax harbor stands George's island, it is one of the most Strongly fortified places in tho world. H com mands tho city ami sweeps the entrance to tho harbor and northwest arm; it is sure destruc tion to .any war ship attempting to enter Hal ifax, being armed with eighty and one hun dred ton guns, and upon it is stored tho largest portion of tho enormous supplies of torpedoes, gun cotton, powder, shells, and other muni tions of war, of which Halifax is depot for North America. The island is about an acre in extent. On its northeast shore is sunk a largo tank, in which several tons of gun cotton are stored, enough to blow all Halifax to pieces. No one is allowed upon or in the vi cinity of tlie island upon any pretense, except when on duty. In tho midst of the snow storm, at 10 o’clock tonight, the daughter of the sergeant in charge thought she heard men talking. She went, to the door of her quarters, and standing upon the gun cotton tank, she heard three men talking. She called to them, but they took no notice of her. Then she raised an alarm. Some sol diers wore called out and rushed toward the tank. Tho soldiers were some little distance away, and hearing them .coming, two of the men jumped into the boat, whereupon tlio third shoutod Out: “Don’t, leave mo in tho lurch after doing your dirty work.” He made a spring for the boat, got in, and the boat got several yards from the shore be fore the soldiers reached the tank. A moment biter the bout was hidden by the falling snow. Tho soldiers being roused out of bed, did not have their rifles with them, and consequently could iml capture the intruders. An alarm was immediately raised, and tho informal ion conveyed to General Lord Alex ander Russell mid staff. General Rusnell ordered all tho wharves to bo guarded, all ves sels searched, ami double guards on duty to patrol tho island all night. Special guards wore also stationed at tho gun cotton tank. It is believed that the object of tho mon was to bore an auger holo through the cover and at tach a fuse. If lids liad been accomplished, not only George’s island, with its magnificent fortifications, but all ships in the harbor and two-thirds of Halifax harbor, must have been destroyed. It would have been tho most tre mendous and terrible explosion of modurn times, while tho loss of life would have been appalling. Hai.ilax, N. S., December 9.—Military authorities hero say that the story circulated here lust night of the attempt to explode a gun cotton tank at George's island was a hoax. II is said that two men in n boat in tho harbor last night, during a thick snow storm, who probably got out of their course, ran close to George’s island, and were hailed by a sentry, and warned to keep off. This has probably given rise to the report that an attempt had been made to explode tho gun cotton tank. ♦ - A Mistaken Orator. 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