Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1894 — Page 12

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 25. 1894 -TWELVE TAGES.

AT BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

TALM.VGB rnF.AniKS OV CHRIST'S PHYSICAL BKAITV. In n Kg or Cliui Mr One "Who Could Compare with Him In Cornell--le LoTrd Home and Sobriety or ' tlrtinllne- Christ's Fare on BROOK YLX. April 22. .Mrs. rrentiss's hyr.n, "More Love to Thee, O Christ." was never more effectively rendered than this morning by the thousands of voices in the Brooklyn tabernacle, led on by organ and cornet, while hy new vocabulary and fresh imagery Dr. Talmage presented the gospel. The subject of the sermon was "Fairest of the Fair," the text chosen being Solomon's Fong v, 16, "He Is altogether lovely." The human race haj during1 centuries been improving. For awhile it deflected and degenerated, and from all I can read for ages the whole tendency whs toward barbarism. But under the ever widening and deepening influence o; Christianity the tendency is now in the 'upward direction. The physical appearand of the human race is 73 per cent. more attractive than in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From the pictures on canvas and the faces and forms in sculpture of those who were considered the grand looking men and the attractive women of 200 years aco I conclude the superiority of the men and women of our time. Sui h looking people of the past centuries a painting and sculpture have presented as fine specimens of beauty would be In our time considered deformity and repulsiveness complete. The fact that many men and women in antediluvian times were eight and ten feet high tended to make the human race obnoxious rather than winning. Such portable mountains of human flesh did nut add to th charms of the world. Put in no climate and In no ape did there ever appear any one who in physical attractiveness could be comTtfired to Him whom my text celebrates thousands of years In fore he put his infantile f.xtt on the hill back of Bethleham He was and is altogether lovely. The phvsical appearance of Christ is, for the mist part, an artistic guess. Some writer declare Him to have been a brunette, or dark complexioned. and other a blond, or light complexioned. St. John of I'amascus, writing 1,100 years and Si much nearer than ourselves to the tim of Christ, and hence with more likelihood of accurate tradition, represents Him with beard black and curly, eyebrows joined together and "yellow complexion and long fingers, like his mother." An author writing l.r.oo years ap. represents Christ as a blond: "His hair is th color of wine and golden at the root, straight and without luster, but from the level of the ears curling and plossy and divided down the center after th? fashion of the Nazarenes. His forehead is even and smooth. His face without blemish and enhanced by a tempered bloom; His countenance Ingenious and kind. Nose and mouth are in no wayfaulty. His beard Is full, of the Fame color as His hair and forked in form; His eyes blue and extremely brilliant." My opinion is, it was a Jewish face. His mother was a Jewess, and there Is no womanhood on earth more beautiful than Jewish womanhood. Alas, that He lived so long before the daguerrean and photographic art3 were born, or we might have known his exact features. I know that sculpture and painting were born long before Christ, and they might have transferred from olden times to our times the forehead, the nostril, the eye, the lips of our Lord. Phidias, the sculptor, put down his chisel of enchantment 50u years before Christ came. Why did not some one take up that chisel and give us the side face or full faoe of our Lord? Polygnotus. the painter, put down his pencil 4i'0 years before Christ. "Why did not some onj take it tip and give us at l-?ast the eye of our Lord, the eye, that sovereign of the face? Dionysius, the literary artist, who saw at ilellopolis, Egypt, the strange darkening of the heavens at the time of Christ's crucifixion near Jerusalem, and not knowing what it was, but describing it as a. peculiar eclipse of the sun, and saying, "Kitlier the Ieity suffers or sympathizes with some sufferer," that Dionysius might have put his pen to the work and drawn th jtortrlat of our Lord. But, no; the line arts were busy perpetuating the form and apioaranee of the world's favorites only, and not the form and appearance of the peasantry, among whom Christ appeared. A Soulful I'nce. It was not until the fifteenth century, cr until more, than fourteen hundred years after Christ, that talented painters attempted by pencil to give us th idea, of Christ's face. The pictures before that tinve were so offensive that the council at Constantinople forbade their exhibition. But Leonardo da Vinci In th fifteenth century presented Christ's face on two canvases, yet the one was a repulsive face and the other an effeminate face. lUphael's face of Christ is a. weak faxe. Albert I Hirer's face of Christ was a savage face. Titian's face of Christ Is an expressionless face. The mightiest artists, either with pencil or chisel, have made signal failure In attempting to give th forehead, the cheek, the eyes, the nostril, the mouth of our blessed Lord. But about His face I can tell you something positive and beyond controversy. I am sure It was a soulful face. The face Is only the curtain of the souL It was impossible that a disposition like Christ's should not have demonstrated Itself In his physiognomy. Kindness as an occasional Impulse may give no illumination to the features, but kindness as the lifelong, dominant habit will produce attractiveness of countenance as certainly ass the shinning of the sun produe- tlwers. Children are afraid of a scowling or hard vlsagd man. They cry out if he proposes to take them. It he try to caress them, he evokes a slap rather than n kis3. All mothers know how hard It is to get their children to go to a man or woman of forbidding appearance. But no sooner did Christ appear in the domestic group than there was an Infantile excitement, and the youngsters began to struggle to get out of their mothers' arms. They could not hold the children back. "Stand back with those children:" scolded some of the disciples. Perhaps the little ones may have been playln in the dirt, and their faces may not have been clean, or they may nrvt have been well clad, or the rtlscipls may have thought Christ's religion was a religion chiefly for big folks. But Christ made the Infantile excitement still livelier by his saying that h liked children better than grown people, declaring, "Except ye become as a IKtle child ye cannot enter Into the kingdom of God." Alas for those people who do not like children! They had better stay out of heaven, for the place is full of them. That, I think, is one reason why the vast majority of th human race die in infancy. Christ is so fond of children that he takes them to himself before the world has time to despoil and harden them, and so they are- now at the windows of the palace and on the doorsteps and playing on the green. Sometimes Matthew or Mark or Luke tells a story of Christ, and only one tells it, but Matthew, Mark and Luke all join In that picture of Christ girdled by children, and I know by what occurred at that time that Christ had a face full of geniality. Fare In Dody and Mind. Not only was Christ altogether lovely in his countenance, but lovely in his habits. I know, without being1 told, that the Lord, who made the rivers and lakes and oceans, was cleanly in his appear ance, lie disliked the disease of leprosy, t

not only because It was distressing:, but because it was not clean, and his curative words were: "I will. Be thou clean." He declared himself in favor of thorough washing ani opposed to superficial washing when he denounced the hypocrites for making clean only "the outside of the platter," and he applauds his disciples by saying, "Now are ye clean," and giving "directions to those who fasted, among other things, he says, "Wash thy face." and to a blind man whom he was doctoring, "tJo, wash in the pool of Slloam," and He himself actually washed the disciples' feet. I suppose not only to demonstrate his own humility, but probably their feet needed to be washed. The fact is the Lord waa a great friend of water. I know that from the fact that most of the world is water. But when I find Christ in such constant commendation of water I know He was personally neat, although He mingled much among very rough populations and took such long journeys on dusty highways. He wore Ills hair long, according to the custom of his land and time, but neither trouble nor old age had thinned or injured His locks, which were never worn shaggy or unkempt. Yea, all his habits of personal appearance were lovely. Sobriety waa also an established habit of His life. In addition to the water He drank the juice of the grai "When at a wedding party this beverage gave out. He made gallons on gallons of grape Juice, but it was unlike what the world makes in our time as health is different from disease and as calm pulses are different from the paroxysms of delirium tremens. There was no strychnine in that beverage or logwood or nux vomica. The tipplers and the sots who now quote the winemaking in Cana of Galilee as an excuse for the fiery and damning beverages of the nineteenth century forget that the wine at the New Testament wedding had two characteristics, the one that the Lord made it ar.d th other that it was made out of water. Buy all you can of that kind and drink it at least three times a day and send a barrel of it around to my cellar. You cannot make me believe that the blessed Christ who went up and down healing the sick would creatw for man that style of drink which is the cause of disease more than all other causes combined., or that He who calmed the maniacs into their right mind would ?reate that style of drink whih doest more than anything else to fill Insane asylums, or that He who was so helpful to the poor would make a style of drink that crowd the earth with pauperism, or that He who came to save the nations from sin would create a li"Uor that is the source of most of the crime that now stuffs the penitentiaries. A lovely sobriety was written all over his face, from the hair line of the forehead to the bottom of the bearded chin.

Clirint Itveil Homo. Domesticity was als." his habit. Though too poor to have a home of His own, He went out to spend the night at Bethany, two or three miles' walk from Jerusalem, and over a rough and hilly road that made it epual to six or seven ordinary 'miles, every morning and night going to and fro. i would rather walk from here t Central park or walk from Edinburgh to Arthur's Seat, or in London clear around Hyde park, than to walk that road jhat Christ walked twice a day from Jerusalem to Bethany. But He liked the quietude of home life, and II? was lovely in His domesticity. How He enjoyed handing over the resurrected boy to his mother and the resurrected girl to her f ither and reconstructing homesteads which disease or death was breaking up! As the song, "Home, Sweet Home," was written by a man who at that time had no home, I think the homelessness of Christ added to his appreciation of domesticity. Furthermore, He was lovely in His sympathies. Now, dropsy, is a most distressful complaint. It inflames and swells and tortures any limb or physical organ it touches. As soon a.s a case of that kind is submitted to Christ He, without any use of diaphoretics, commands its cure. And what an eye doctor He was for opening the long-closed gates of sight to the blue of the sky, and the yellow of the flower, and the emerald of the grass! What a Christ He was for cooling fevers without so much as a spoonful of febrifuge, and straightening crooked backs without any pang of surgery, and standing whole choirs of music along the silent galleries of a deaf ear, and giving healthful r.e rvons .system to cataleptic: Sympathy! lie did not give them stoical advice or philosophize' about the scii -me of grief. He sat down and cried with them. It is spoken of as the shortest verse in the bible, but to ni it is about the longest and grandest, "Jesus wept." Ah, many of us know the meaning of that! When we wer in great trouble, some one came in with voluble consolation and quoted the scripture in a sort of heartless way arnl did not help us at all. But afu-r awhile some one else came in, and without saying a word sat down and burst into a Hood of tears at the sight of ur woe, and somehow it helped us right away. "Jesus wept." You see, it was a deeply attached household, that of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. The father and mother were and the girls depended on their brother, l.azarus had said to them: "Now. Mary, now, Martha, stop your worrying. I vill take care of you. I will be to you both father and mother. My arm is strong. Girls, ou can depend on me." But now Iazarus was sick yea, Lazarus was dead. All broken up, the sisters sit disconsolate, and there is a knock at the door. "Come in," says Martha. "Come in." says Mary. Christ entered, and He Just broke down. It was too much for Him. He had been so often and so kindly entertained in that hoi le of sickness and death devastated it that He chocked up and sobbed aloud and the tears trickled down th-s sad face of th sympathetic Christ. "Jesus wept." "Why do you not try that mode of helping? You say, "I am a man of few words," or "I am a woman of few words." Why, you dear soul, words are not necessary. Imitate your Lord and go to those afflicted homes and cry with them. True S) input hy. John Murphy! Well, you did not know him. Once when I was in great bereavement he came to my house. Kind ministers of the gospel had come, and talked beautifully, and prayed with us. and did all they could to console. But John Murphy, one of the lst friends I ever had, a big-souh-d, glorious Irishman, came in ami looked into my face, put out his broad, strong hand and said not a word, but sat down and cried with us. I am not enough of a philosopher to say how it was or why it was, but somehow frm door to door and from ceiling to room was lilld with an allIervading comfort. "Jesus wept." I think that is what makes Christ such a popular Christ. There are so many who want symjathy. Miss Fiske, the famous Nestorian missionary, was in the chapjH-1 one day talking to the heathen, and she sat upon a mat while she talked, and felt the need of something to lean against, when she felt a woman's form at her back and heard a woman's voice saying, "Lean on me." She leaned a little, but did not want to be too cumboiFome, when the woman's voice said: "Lean hard. If you love me, lean hard." And that makes Christ so lovely. He wants all the sick and troubled and weary to lean against Him. and He says: "Lean hard. If you love Me, lean hard." Aye, He Is close by with His sympathetic help. Hedley Vicars, the famous soldier and Christian of the Crimean war, died because when he was wounded his regiment was too far off from the tent of supplies, lie was not mortally wounded, and If the surgeons could only have got at the bandages and the mediüines he would have recovered. So much of human sysmpathy and hopefulness comes too late, but Christ is always close by if we want Him and has all the medicines ready and has eternal life for all who ak for It. Sympathy! Aye, He was lovely In Ills doctrines. Self-sacrifice or the relief of the suffering of others by our own Buffering. He was the onlr physlciii that ever proposed to cure His patients by taking their disorders, ßclf-sacrinw! And what

did He not iye up for others? The best climate in the universe, the air of heaven, for the wintry weather of Palestine. a scepter of unlimited dominion for a prisoner's box in an earthly court-room, a. lashing tiara for a crown of stinging brambles, a palace for a. cattle-pen. a throne for 'a cross. Self-sacrifice! What is more lovely? Mothers dying for their children down with Bcarlet fever, railroad engineers going down through the open draw-bridge to save the train, firemen scorched to death trying to help some one down the ladder from the fourth story of the consuming house, all these put together only faint and insufficient similes by which to illustrate the grander, mightier, farther reaching selfacrifice of the "altogether lovely." Inspiration of Heroisms. Do you wonder that the story of His self-sacrifice has led hundreds rf thousands to die for Him? In one series of persecutions over two hundred thousand were put to death for Christ's sake. For Him Blandina was tied. to a post, and wild beabts were let out upon her, and when life continued after the attack of tooth and paw she was put in a net. and that net containing her was thrown to a will bull that tossed her wih its horns till life was extinct. All for Chirst! Huguenots dying for Christ! Albigenses dying for Christ! The Vaudois dying for Christ! Smithfield fires endured for Christ! The bones of martyrs, if distributed, would make a path of moidering life all around the earth. The loveliness of the Savior's sacrifice has inspired all the heroisms and all the

martyrdoms of subsequent centuries. Christ has had more men ar.d women die for Him than all the other inhabitants of all the ages have had die for them. Furthermore, he was lovely in His sermons. He knew when to begin, when to stop and Just what to say. The longest sermon he ever preached, so fai as the bible reports Him namely, the sermon on the mount, was about sixteen minutes in delivery at the ordinary rate of speech. His longest prayer reported, commonly called "The Lord's Prayer." was about half a minute. Time them by your watch, and you will find my estimate accurate, by which I do not mean to say that sermons ought to be only sixteen minutes long and prayers only a half a minute long. Christ had such infinite power of compression that He could put enough into His sixteen-minute sermon and His half minute prayer to kep all the following ages busy in thought and action. No one but a Christ could afford to pray or preach as short as that, but He meant to teach us compression. At Selma, Ala., the other day I w-as shown a cotton press by which cotton was put in such shape that it occupied in transportation only one car where three cars were formerly necessary, and one ship where three ships had been required, and I imagine that we all need to compress our sermons and our prayers into smaller spaces. Power of the Gopel. And his sermons were so lovely for sentiment and practicality and simplicity and illustration, the light of a candle, the srystal of the salt, the cluck of a hen for her chickens, the hypocrites' dolorous physiognomy, the moth in the clothes closet, the black wing of a raven, the snowbank of white lillies. our extrem- botheration about the splinter of Imperfection in some one else's character, the swine fed on the pearls, wolves dramatizing sheep and the peroration made up of a cyclone In width you hear the crash of a tumbling house unwisely constructed. No technicalities, no splitting of hairs between north and northwest side, no dogmatics, but a great Christly throb of helpfulness. I do not wonder at the record which says, "When He was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him." They had but one fault to find with his sermon it wa.s too short. God help all of us in Christian work to get down off our stilts and realize there is only one thing we have to do there is the great wound of the world's sin and sorrow, and here is the great healing plaster of the gospel. What you and I want to do it to put the plaster on tha wound. All sufficient is this gospel if it is only applied. A minister preaching to an audience of sailors concerning the ruin by sin and the rescue by the gopol accommodated himself to sailors' vernacular and said. "This plank bears." Many years after this preacher was called to see a dying sailor and asked him about his hoje and got the suggestive reply. "This plank bears." Yea, Christ was lovely in His chief life's work. There were a thousand things for Him to t. but His great work was to get our shipwrecked world out of the breakers. That lie came to do, and that He did. and He did it in three years, lie took thirty years to prepare for that three years' activity. From twelve to thirty years of ae we hear nothing about Him. That intervening eighteen years I think He was in India. But lie came back to Palestine and crowded everything into three years three winters, three springs, three summers, three autumns. Our life is short, but would God we might see how much we could do in three years! Concentration1 Intensification! Three years of kind words! Three years of living lor others! Three years of self-sucriilce! I .et us try it. Aye, Christ was lovely In His :mise. He had a right In that last hour to deal in anathematization. Never had any one been so meanly treated. Cradle of straw among goats and camels that was the world's reception of Him. Hocky cliff, with hammers pounding spikes through tortured nerves thnt was the world's farewell salutation. The slaughter of that scene sometimes hides the loveliness of the sufferer. Vnder the saturation of tears and blood we sometimes fail to see the sweetest face of earth and heaven. Altogether lovely! Can coldest criticism find an unkind word He ever spoke, or an unkln action that He ever performs!, or an unkind thought that He ever harbored? What a marvel it Is that all the nations of earth do not raise up in raptures of affection for Him! I must say it here and now. I lift my right hand In solemn attestation. I love Hint, and the grief of my life is that I do not love Him more. Is it an Impertinence for me to ask, do you, my hearer you my reaoY-r. love Him? Has He become a part of your nature? Have you committed your children on earth into Ills keeping as your children in heaven are already In His bosom? Has He done enough to win your confidence? Can you trust Him. living and dying and forever? Is your back or your face toward Him? Woul you like to have His hand to guide you? Ills miKht to protect you? His grace to comfort you? His sufferings to atone for you? His arms to welcome you? Ills love to encircle you? His heaven to crown you? The Conqueror' Throne. Oh, that we might all have something of the great German reformer's love for this Christ, which led him to sav: "If anv one knocks at the door of my breast and

says: 'Who lives there?' my reply Is: 'Jesus Christ lives here, not Martin Luther.' " Will it not be grand if when we get through this short and rugged road of life we can go right up into his presence and live with Him world without end? And if, entering the gate of that heavenly city, we should be so overwhelmed with our, unworthlnoss on the one side and the supernal splendor on the other side we get a little bewildered and should for a few moments be lost on the streets of gold and amonn the burnished temples and the spphire thrones, there would be plenty to show us the way and take us out of our Joyful bewilderment, and perhaps the woman of Nain would say, "Come, let me take you to the Christ who raised my only loy to life," ani Martha would say, "Come, let me take you to the Christ who brought up my brother Lazarus from. 'the tomb," and one of the disciples would say, "Come, and let- rne take you to the Christ who saved our sinking ship In the hurricane on Gennesaret," and Paul would say. "Come, and let me lead you to the Christ for whom I died on the road to Ostia," and whole groups of martyrs would say. "Come, let us show you the Christ for whom we rattle I th chain and waded the floods and dared the fires," and our own glorified kindred would flock around us. saying. "We have been waiting a good while for you. but before we talk over old times, and we tell you of what we have enjoyel sdnce we have been here, and you tell us what you have uffered since we parted, come, oome anc! let us show you the greatest sight in all the place, the most resplendaxit throne and upon It the mightiest conqueror, the exaltation of heaven, the thame of the immortals, the altogether great, the altogether good, the altogether fair, the altogether lovely!" Well, the delightful morn will come. When ray dear Lord will bring me home. And I shall see his face. Then with my Savior, Brother, Friend, A Nest eternity I shaJl spend. .Triumphant Ja Iii gTace, ,

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.

LESSOX V, JSECOVD Ql'AKTEH. INTETl--ATIOAl. ERIE5, APR I Li 20. Test of Ihe Lrnaon, ien. xlv, 1-1 .V Memory Vrrsra. .1-5 4ioldrn Tu, Lake X'll, .Vtnmtntntary by the H-v. I. 31. Menrnn. 1. "There stood no man wltn him, while Joseph made hirr..elf known to his brethren." The seven years of famine had begun, and not only all Egypt, but all . countries, t ame to Joseph to buy corn (xli, L, 57). Ten of Joseph's brethren, at once recognized by him, but not he by them, had come for corn, and nine had gone home with their sacks full and their money in their sacks, with instructions to bring their youngest brother when they came again, Simeon meantime being detained as hostage. They had now returned, bringing Benjamin, and the eleven had dined with Joseph, Doing r-eated at table according to their ages, much to their surprise, for as yet they knew him not. 2. "And he wept aloud, and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard." Our lesson begins and ends with weeping, but it is weeping for Joy. Consider the seven weepings of Joseph in chapters xil 2; xliii, CO; xlv, 2. 14; xlvi, 29; 1. l, 17. 3. "And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph. Doth my father yet live?" Is it any wonder that they were' troubled and louia not answer? How vividly would come to mind the events of twenty years before as they looked upon the face of him whose pitiful cries and tears they would not regard, and now he has already been returning them good for evil while at the same time leading them U. repentance. It must be all true, for who but Joseph couli know their ages so as to arrange them at table? 4. "And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. Ar.d they came near. And he said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold in Egypt." We can imagine them dumb with astonishment untir he calls them near to him and - repeats the astounding allusion to their guilt. It is all true, and after so long a Ume their sin has found them out (Num. xxxi. 23). 5. "Now therefore be not grieved nor angry with yourselves that ye sold me hither, for God did send me before you to preserve life." lie maketh the wrath of man to praise Him (Ps. lxxvi., 10), and Joseph had grace to see, not the hatred of his brethren, but the guiding hand of Grd. It is possible for us to see God in everything and believe and rejoice in Bom. viii. 28. 29. G. "For these two years hath the famine been in the land, and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest." As truly as there had been seven years of plenty, so surely would there be seven years of famine. Joseph simply believed God he had no other means of knowing. "Abraham lelieved God." Let our souls sav, "I - believe God" (Jas. ii, 23; Acts xxvtl, 23. 7. "And God sent me lefore you to preserve you a posterity in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance." How suggestive it all is of Jesus hated, sold, rejected, slnin, yet still alive, a great deliverer, the only deliverer, and ere long now He will say to the nation of Israel, "I am Jesus, your brother. whom ye crucified." They shall see Him and mourn bitterly and welcome Him (Zech. xii, 10; xiii, 1). Many individual Jews are now seeing and receiving Him by faith, but soon t will be all Israel. S. "So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God." Joseph gives God all the glory for making him a father to Pharaoh and ruler over all Egypt. He h3s nothing but forgiveness for his brethren and priases for God. Jesus told Pilate that he could have no power against Him except it were given him by G.mI (John xix, 11). We may all tielit ve that nothing can come to us without God. !). "Hasite ye and go up to my father and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Jcseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt. Come down unto me; tarry not." He thinks of his poor old father, wondering day by day if Benjamin will ever return to him, little dreaming that Benjamin will come all right and Joseph too. And he longs to have his father see and share his glory. See the longing of Jesus in John xvi', 24. 10. "And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flixks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast." Mark the repeated "near unto me" of verse 4 and this verse and think of Israel a people near unto Jehovah (Ps. cxlvii, 14), and of all who were once afar oft" made nigh by the blood of Jesus (Eph. il. 13). See even the flocks and herds included and think of all creation enjoying the great deliverance (Kom. viil, 21). 11. "And there will I nourish thee, for yet there are five years of famine, lest thou and thy household and all that thou hast come to ioverty." Assurance of continued and abundant supply for all. He who spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things (Rom. viil. 32)? Consider the daily rations and the day by day without fail of II Kings xxv, 30. and Ezra vi, 9, and let your heart rejoice. 12. "And behold your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it "is my mouth that speaketh unto you." When the disciples were troubled as Jesus Himself stood in their midst after the resurrection. He said. Handle Me and see that It Is I Myself (Luke xxlv, 3f-3D). Thomas was encouraged to feel the very wounds of Jesus (John xx, 27). And wlien Jesus shall be asked by the Jews about the wounds in His hands He will say that He received them in the house of His friends (Zech. xiii, 6). 13. "And ye shall tell my father of all my glory In Egypt and of all that ye have seen, and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither." They would have to say when they told all they could, "Father, we can't tell you the half of his glory" (I Kings x, 7). And when they did tell him Jacob conldn't believe it till he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to fetch him. "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you" is" the testimony of the apostle (I John I, 3; Acts lv, 20). 14. 13. "And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept. And Benjamin wept upon his neck. Moreover, he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them, and after that his brethren talked with him." What assurance of forgiveness! What tears of joy on the part of Joseph and of Benjamin! But did the others weep? The record does not say. Tears pent up sometimes come afterward. Joseph's heart is full as he gives of his bounty to his father and his brethren. What wondrous grace to these brethren, and yet how small when compared with the grace of our Lord Jesu.s Christ the grace by which we are saved, in which we stand and the full revelation of which we still wait for (Eph. il, 8; Rom. v. 2; I Pet. i, 13). Probably no other show In the Midway Plaisance attracted so much attention from all classes of World's Fair visitors as "Hagenbeck's." Many persons went again and again to see the wonderfully trained wild animals. By everyone it was admitted that nothing to equal the horse-back riding lions had ever been seen In this country, and they were only one feature of a performance where each act seemed only less marvelous than the last. Karl Hagenbeck Is unquestionably the king of animal trainers, and Prof. Magner Is the prince of horse tamers. The latter'B great work, the Standard Horse and Stock Book, we are offering our readers, in thirteen parts, issued weekly, at one dime per part. You can't afford to be without this book. 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SOAP It is not only the purest, sweetest and most refreshing of nursery soaps, but it contains delicate emollient properties, which purify and beautify the skin, and prevent skin blemishes occasioned by imperfect cleansing and use of impure soap. Bold throughout the world . Price, 25c. r OTT EH Dure amd (Jheh. Corp., Hole Props., Bottom ST " All About Bb Skin.' Ire. EUROPEAN ARMIES, Xtrrn) j.Tno Million of Soldlem Can Be Pot Into ActlUtj. It i rstimated by MaJ.-Gen. Tyrrel that whereas at the time of the Crimean war the aggregate strength of the armies of the great powers of Europe did not exceed three millions in round numbers, today it is more than twenty million's. Without including the final reserves, and only reckoning those men who have been thoroughly trained as soldiers and are liable for service beyond the frontiers, Russia has in round numbers 5,000.000 men; France and Germany, 4,000,000; Austria, 2,500,000; Italy, 2.000.000. And these numbers are being continually increased. Very lately France, by lengthening the duration of liability to service from a period of twenty to twenty-five years, made an enormous addition to her military strength, and the present German army bill contemplates a large inereave in the numbers of the German army. Cupt. Mollnrd'a Flfirnre. Capt. Mollard of the military school of St. Syr recently published a very interesting pamphlet on the armies of Europe and their relative growths sinoo 1S69. Europe, says Capt. Mollard, now devotes nearly five milliards of francs a year to her righting forces. In 1870 she could at the utmost bring 7,000,000 of soldiers Into active service. She now disposes of 12,500,000 and will soon have 22,000,000. The conclusion Capt. Mollard draws is that Prince Bismarck's policy of blood and iron and the seizure of Alsace-Lorraine have given rise to these monstrous facts, and that every nation might be led to disarm were restitution made by Genr.iuiy to France. He takes his military statistics, he says, from official sources only. Stnrtlinr Figures. The following figures are from Capt. Mallard's work which is entitled Puissance Militaire des Etats de l'Europe. In 18S7 the armies of Europe mobilized for war numbered: Franv 1,350,000 Germany 1.300,000 Russiav 1,100,000 Austro-JIungary 750,000 Italy 570.000 England , 450,000 Spain u... 450,000 Turkey 320.000 Switzerland) 150.000 Sweden and Norway 130,000 I It-lgium. 95,0u0 Portugal 70,000 Denmark 45.000 Holland 45.000 Montenegro 40,000 Greece , 35,000 Roumanla 33,000 Servia 25,0X) Total.. 6,058,000 The FiBorm a Yenr Ago. In 1S92 the actual effective after complete mobilization w France , Russia Germany Italy Austria-Hungary Turkey , England Spain Sweden and Norway Switzerland Roumania Belgium Holland ., Servia Portugal Bulgaria Greece Denmark - Montenegro - strength as: .. 2.500.0.-W) .. 2,451,000 .. 2.417.0OO .. 1.514.000 .. 1,050,000 .. 700.000 342.000 .. 300.000 . 270,000 212.000 .. 153,000 .. 12S.G90 .. 110.000 80.000 80,000 70,009 .. 70,000 61.000 55.000 Total 12,563,000 The Klicnri Today. Today, that is to say military laws come im when the new o full effect in France and Germany, be-: Germany - France rtus$' 3 Italy - Austro-JIungary Turkey Spain . England Sweden and Norway Switzerland Roumania Belgium - Bulgaria Holland - Greece the figures will 5,000.000 4,350,000 4.000,000 2.236,000 1.900,000 1.150,000 fcOO.OoO 602,000 338.000 489,000 2S0.000 258.000 200,000 1S5.000 ISO.000 1S0.000 154,000 91.000 Senda Portugal ... Denmark .. Montenegro 55.000 Total ....22.44S.000 In 1870, says Capt. Mollard, Europe devoted annually $600.000,000 for war. Today the amount haa increased to over two billion doUars. Your Coming. Tou came to my life as the morning To flowers it jeweled and kissed. When night stole away with her dreaming. Her tears in her pearly dew gleaming. She folded in mantles of mist. Tou found me enthralled by the winter Of sorrow. You touched me, and lo! Life thrilled through my being with gladness. Like a rill In Its rollicking madness, Or daffodils under the snow. Tou go, and It seems like the sunlight Has gone o'er the mountain's white crest; And the valley 1 somber and shrouded, The murmurous river all clouded. Flowing out to the sea of the West. But you leave a new hope Inspirations That all of my dreamlngs outrun; And I wait In the soft, dewy sweetness. In the joy of my being's completeness, As the sunflowers wait for the un. Life waits for, the dawn of the futur, And across the mystic beyond An echo In rising and falling, A voice o'er the chasm Is calling Your soul and my own hall respond. J. A, HOUSER. Indianapolis, April 20. A Monkey' Strategy. "While traveling through Europe several years ago," said Benjamin F. Sutton of Troy, N. T., "I came across a man who was exhibiting a cer forming mon-

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key. The beast was as dexterous a thief as could be imagined, and his master told mo that every day he stole enousrh food for his subsistence. He told me to watch him for a few minutes. I did so. and presently his keeier ld him to a spot close to where a date sell-r was sitting on the ground with his basket beside him. Here Lis master put him through a number cf tricks, and although I could see the m nkey was eyeing the fruit he did not make any demonstration, towird taking it. In the. midst of one of his feats he suddenly started up from the ground, and tittering a cry of pain or rape lixed his cyea full on the face of the date s. Her. Then, without moving the rest of his body, he stole as many dates as le ..uld hold in one of his 'hind hards.' The date seller, being thus stared out of on nn tenancy and having his attention diverted by his extraordinary movement, knew nothing of the theft until told of it by a bystander." St. Louis Globe-IVmocrat. A HmidLercIiief llnkkct. Those who have used them say thai handkerchief baskets are much more to be preferred than the fany tast-s of silk or plush or knitted wovl that have been so popular. To make a very convenient one take a common fruit basket, quart size, and pad it thinly with cotton inside and out. That in the bottom is scented heavily. With plain or flowered silk cover the basket. Cut the silk wide enough to lie )o--ely from the bottom inside over the edges to the bottom outside. Catch it loosely in place by stitches through the wood, lettinp it lie in folds all around the basket. A shirr string all around just under the wooden cdi?? around the basket on the out id c will gather it in the proper folds. This is concealed by a narrow ribbon band, with bows on the front corners. Overhand a square of the silk or some other goods neatly around the bottom to cover it and to catch the folds the;? in place. Cut a piece of pastel-.aid exactly the size of the bottom and pad it very thinly on one side with scented cotton, covering it plainly with the silk. This bottom piepi ne-ds only be laid in. and If it fits will hold the inivr side folds of siik nicely in place. Cut another piece of pastelmard exactly the size of the top, rounding the corners so it will lit on perfectly. Pad thi also slightly and cover on both sid-s neatly with silk. Fasten it on the brisket with two ribbon bows for straps, and a loop on the opposite or front side to lift it by. If desired, a big bow to match may be laid over the top. A pretty pt turned silkoline will do just as well as silk iyv this purpose. A. I. W. A LpsMin In nirbei. I have a little lesson In number, every day; And. if you like. I ll tell you The kind I have to say I call them play. There was a little pin-on. And when he sail "Cuo-coof Another little pigeon Close down beside him flew Then there were two. Two pretty ships w-re sailing As grandly as could be; And "Ship Ahoy:"' another Sailed out upon the seaThen there were- three. I bad a pretty rosebush, That grew lesile my door; Three ruses bloomed upon it. And soon there came one more. Then there were four. Four bees a-gathering honey The busiest things alive; And soon came another From out the crowded hive. Then there were live. These Inst were rather hard ones The roses and the bees; But my mamma says, "Numbers Get harder by degrees." Harder than these; St. Nicholas. 1 This Fair? Men manage the schools very absurdly in some respects. For instance, when teachers give scholars thtir monthly reports they are directed by board rules to say, "Have your father sipn this, if he is living; . otherwise your mother." How ridiculous that is when the mothers know ten times as much about what their children are doing in school as the fathers! Put the rule is natural enough. The father is the owner of the child. Yes, that is true. Legally, the father of any child can give it away or apprentice it or offer it for adoption without the mother's consent or even her knowledge. The society for the prevention of cruelty to chi'dren would probably prevent such a thKff, but the law is wrong just the same. The mother knows most about her children, does most for them, is best acquainted with them, but her leal rights ar less than his. Is that fair? N. Y. Kecorder. Unities and the Spring. Springtime is always charming. Pabyt hood in whatever form you meet it appeals to the senses in an irresistible fashion not to be set aside, and whatever pood there is in one develops beautifully undvr the pentie warmth of an April sun or an infant's smile. ..... Little lambs, kittens, puppies, baby blades of grass, little curly catkins, are all part and parcel cf that leautiful season in hfe and nature that we never fully appreciated until it has flown. How many mothrs have said; "If 1 could keep my baby a baby always!" The clinKinc dependence of that Kprlnptime is dispelled little by little ps summer comes on, and when autumn, with its sturdv. srlorious beauty, ha finally displaced the summer time of youth the mother realizes that her little one is a child no more, that there are other interests for it outside of "mother." and the preat love of her heart lonps again for the springtime, when the tender plant was too yountr to rely upon itself for aupht. Cherish the lables. Keep them young as long as possible; revel in the spring fubshlne. neither dreading: the future nor thinking of the past; Just be content with life as it is today, thankful for bripht days and storing: up for yourself a fund of strength and honest courape to meet the Ktorms when thy eventually come into your life. SU Louis ItepubUc

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