St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 8, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 September 1893 — Page 2

WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG. When al! the world is young, lad. And all the trees are green ; And every goose a swan, lad, And every hiss a queen, Then heigh ! for boot and horse, lad— Around the world, away ; Young love will have its run, lad And every dog his day. But when the world is old, lad, And all Ilie trees are brown. And all life's sports a e stale, lad, And all life’s wheels run down, Creep home and take your ilnce there, The spent ai d maimed ami ng; Ano God grant vou find one face there You loved when you were young. READ HIS CHARACTER If there was anybody in the world that Thomas Jaynes had unbounded respect for it was Thomas Jaynes. He looked upon himself and all his actions with as much satisfaction and self-complacency as other people looked upon him and them with suspicion and distrust. He thought he knew a good deal more than the ordinary run of men, and be never let slip an opportunity to air that knowledge, and the oftener to the discomfiture of his associates, the better he liked it —the sweeter the victory. When he was not endeavoring to prove what he knew about any given subject, he was trying to show what others, chiefly those present, did not know. This was his invariable custom in whatever assemblage he might find himself, by accident, or . throw himself unbidden, for he was ■BE- not a very welcome visitor any where, excepting at the home of his sweetheart, who was blind to his faults and adored him. He never lost an opportunity to I “call down” anyone, even his best I

friend, and his friends were con- ; stantly on the alert to “call him I down,” and whenever anyone succeeded in doing so, great was the rejoicing thereat. Jaynes, as will readily be understood, did not take his defeat with anything like grace. He did not like the taste of his own medicine. Jayne’s face always wore a smi'e, at least it looked like a smile, but in reality it was only the imprint of a sneer with which he was accustomed to regard a defeated foe, one who fell beneath the onslaught of his superior knowledge. Jaynes was never known voluntar ily to admit his own ignorance upon ' any topic, but he was very willing to point out the ignorance of somebody else upon subjects of which it was well known that he possessed, if anything, only the most superficial knowledge. He always conducted his arguments or imparted his information under heads and sub-divisions, i never going into detail. Either he 1 could not do the latter, or would not condescend to do so; probably the former. Such a disposition as that of Jaynes’ is an unfortunate one, and the unhappy possessor makes enemies faster than friends. Such, at least, was the case with Jaynes. His enemies were many, and they were continually trying to devise some means by which

ne might be compelled to eat humble pie, but with less—□ne occasion they came near succced*ng—perhaps they did — you shall judge. A small coterie of friends at a club to which they and Jaynes belonged were talking about Jaynes one day. when ore of tnem said, — •‘Apropos of Jaynes and his disagreeable know-it-all disposition, 1 know of a fellow who calls himself a graphologist. Since Jaynes is not here to tell you what a graphologist is, I will volunteer the information. I A graphologist reads character from handwriting It is getting to be quite the thing, you knovr. This fellow is pretty good at it, too, so I am told. He claims that no trait of the subject, or victim’s character can be hidden from the graphologist that knows his business. In fact, he claims to be able to make a deduction of character better from a spe imen of handwriting submitted to him than he could from an intimat' acquaintance with that person. A man cannot lie through his handwriting.” “What has all this to do with Jaynes?” in [Uired one of the party. “I am coming to that—to Jaynes, I mean. If we could get the professor of graphology to read Jaynes’ character from his handwriting 1 am pretty sure the result would not be flattering to Jaynes.” “Not, if the truth were told.” was

11 LUU UULU WVIU UHU, the general comment. “The truth cannot be concealed—at least, from Professor North. If we could only induce Jaynes to submit a specimen of his handwriting—” “That’s easy enough,” interrupted Fred Glynn. “Ask him to write to the professor, telling him what he, the processor, docs not know about graphology, and what he, Jaynes, does know. He won’t refuse.” “Jaynes wouldn’t fall into that trap, I fear, he must get him Interested in the sub/e t and prevail upon him to submit a specimen of his handwriting to the professor. From what I know of Jaynes, he will do so with the egotistic certainty of receiving a most flattering reply. Os course —if the professor knows anything about his busines —the reply won’t be flattering by any means. To make sure, we can se the professor in adhrih > him trx toll IfivnAQ

vancc and brio * nun to icu jaynes the whole truth about Jaynes.” “if the Professor tells half the truth about Jaynes we shall not need to bribe him. A more disagreeable fellow than Jaynes never lived—at j least he never reached old age.” “I think we can safely leave it to you. Johnson, to arrange matters with Jaynes. He takes more kindly to you because you listen to him more attentively than the rest of us do when he is talking.” “I .-hall be only too happy to take the fellow down a peg,” said Johnson. “I’ll see him to-night. I want to tell him something—”

I. “What?” cried the others aghast. “Tell him something?” “I mean I want to tell him there ic something that 1 wish to be informed about.” “Oh! He’ll give you the informa- . tion cheerfully.” Johnson presented himself to the omuls ient Jaynes that evening as a humble seeker after knowledge, and he intimated that he thought he had come to the right place for it. Jaynes took the compliment easily, as he took all things of that kind. In his lexicon there was no such word as , flattery; it was always praise, and well-merited praHe, too. “Have you ever heardof thesclence of graphology, Jaynes?” began John--1 son. 5 i “Have 1 ever heard of it?” scorn- ' fully, repeated Jaynes, who had a 1 faint impression that he had. ‘ Johnson realized that he had made ’ a mistake. 5 “1 mean,” he said, “have you ever ■ given the subject much thought?” “l)h, yes, I’ve looked into it some. Its a pretty accomplishment,” replied ’ Jaynes, who was trying to think what ! difference there was, if ;.ny, between graphology and cheirosoph, of which ’ he had also heard. He must proceed carefully les' he betray his ignorance; ‘ । he realized that the next best thing ' to knowing something was the abil- ’ tty to conceal the fact that he did ' not know it. ! “It is useful as well as ornamenj tai,” observed Johnson. “1 know a j man who makes a handsome living ' 1 by reading character in handwriting.” j : “Do you believe in it?” asked !Jaynes I “Oh, yes; do you?” I "Vn ”

I ' Johnson might have known as much. He probably did. “It’s all a Daud,"continued Jaynes. I “Those people pretend to be able to read character in the hand, but they only oc asionally stumble upon the truth.” “Why don't you test the ability, and then refute the claims of this man 1 alluded to. He claims he can read character from handwriting. Submit to him a specimen of your writing and await r suits.” “So it is character reading from hand writing, is it?” thought Jaynes, I considerably relieved at discovering this fact. “I may decide to do so,” he said aloud: “not that I believe in it. but I’ll do it simply to p ovc how far out of the way this fellow’s deductions are. Heading character in handwriting! Rah!” “Let us both send a specimen to the protestor.” suggested Johnson. ■ “Let us do it now. There is time . enough. 1 oelieve the professor rei quires a page of original composition, that is all. ” An idea suddenly occurred to Jaynes, and he hesitated to act on the suggustion of Johnson. “I shall write it in the morning,’' he said. “My hand is not very steady at night, and 1 want to give' Professor What’s-his-name a good test.” But he did not wrip’, -in,.

- rAV 1 yutffpet of graphology in what- < ever books were accessible to him in which the science was treated of. ( He obtained in this manner a pretty clear idea of the claims of graphol- : ogy and iie had more faith in it titan he admitted having on the evening i when he discussed the sub ect wish Johnson. In fact, be I ecame a convert to the thcon c.f character reading from handwriting, and was quite ready to believe that the professor ; might be ah.e to arrive at the truth ; through the medium of the written : chara ters. Then it occurred to him that possibly he was about to become the victim of a practical joke on tiie part of Johnson and whoever others there might be in the secret. He knew Johnson bore him no great love. “If thev think to trap me,” he mused, “they have reckoned without their host. I’ll circumvent them. I’ll send the professor a copy of the verses that Emma (bis sweetwheat) transcribed for me the other day. She being the most gent e and lovable person in the world, her handi writing will of course show the most lovable traits of chara ter that mortals possess, and then I’ll palm it of! on Johnson N Company as the delineation of my own character.” . । Then he inclosed the verses together with a note and the projier , fee in an envelope and sealed it Hut

he did not mail it to the professor as- i ter all. He thought better of it. He j came to the conclusion after a little thought that he was taking unwar- ’ rantable liberty with Miss Gordon's property, and that he was doing I something that was not square and above board, something that ; he would not care to tell her about and that hearing of it i she would not think favorable of. So he decided not to send the specimen of her writing to the graphologist. Instead he prepared a page of his j own, determined to test the ability , | of the professor at character reading. I He had a curiosity to learn what ! some stranger or disinterested person I really thought of him: he wanted to see himself as others saw him, in I I which determination he exhibited a] j greater amount of courage than most j .iof us possess. He sent the specimen .‘ of his hand to its destination that I

i day and eagerly awaited a reply. ’ A week later a reply came, two re- | ! plies, in fact. The first one he read was as follows: i "Despite the attempt of the writer of this : I studv to disguise his handwriting, he has j i failed to conceal his predominating characteristic egotism. He is self-assertive, fond ■ of displaying hW knowledge to the world, si >w to see good in others, boastful, ungen- ] I erous, and altogether lacking in the qualiI ties that serve to make men popular. Howi over good his intentions, his methods are to Ibo deplored. He must think less of himself ! and more of others, talk less, lot others talk ; more. By so doing he will make friends, of . I whom he now hak but few.” , Jaynes could scarcely believe his [ senses. The communication from the

. [ professor could not be int_ i him. But it contained son® !< ev ela^ s j tions that he could not helpj ut be . -1 lieve were quite true even if unweL ■ come. Was he not egotlstlc’J^ uu . - j popular? | So that is the kind of a f e ]] ow I i : am. Ao wonder nobody hkes me. i 11 The professor sized me uPgrettv well, 1 I and lam afraid he didnlf; the i whole truth either. Still! wonder if 1 i he disc >vered all that l !1 Ln v hand- ' writing? I wonder if didn’t ! i j have a hand in it? How||> r j shall' ' try to do better,” he saic^^^^j. gome I little thought. “I’ve fool.” I He did try, and 1 aiijpleased to learn that he is succeedi® “Now for the other ®tter,” said! Jaynes. “From the pressor, too.” Opening it, Jaynesjlftti much , wonder and surprise rey “This specimen shows t W WTritox- to be a most commonplace womaiS io intellectual tastes; selfish and mirro® Winded; careless and thoughtless in of deportment; vain, ignorant. lOniM’ dress. Altogether not a desirable cou®’ ft" “Hello,” cried Jay®^ ’Jvhen he finished reading the fw wibg paragraph. “I wonder ^>ll the pro- [ fessor intended this® aplimentary । delineation of chart® 2 ' tor? possible—” Then MF>wL^ d short. He began to wondeFoL se ’ lt the professor the yerT“ n . • Emma. He was ^ad ? I not. He had charJ 1 “whit became ! I “M< tUcr, ” heaßf^ on lUB 1 of thu. en voinno pleit UVSK week ago addressed to North? | ! Do you remember it?” £ “Why, yes. I maile<|l it. It was | sealed and stamped ready for mailing and I thought you had forgotten it. So I mailed it myself, thinking it'

might be something important 1 ' saw it lying on your dlx after you had gone out. Is it ail^ght?” ' “Ear from it,” groans Jaynes. “I only wish you hadn’t |:ailed P. I didn’t intend to send if. to the professor.” ■ “But this is notthetrue delineation of Emma’s character,” he sa d to himself. “I know it is rot. The pro- i fessor lied, and I’ll mala him eat his words.’’ He went to seethe professor immediately. Perhaps there was some mistake. The pro'essor might have sent the result of bis'examina- i tion or Mi s Gordon’s handwriting to some one other than Jaynes and Jayne> mid received a missive not in- l tended for him. Butwlatevcr hopes I Jaynes had in this diection were soon dissipat 'd. The pofessor had notm id“ any mistake He recol-j lected the re eiyt of th; two sped-I mens of writing from James “You know you desire! me to tell the whole truth,” he sab, “and I did ! so. 1 hope 1 haven’t givm offence." Jaynes cut the interview short. He ' did not compel the profesor to eat < his words. At the same Arne he refused to believe that tie professor had told the truth about Emma Gordon. His faith in her am his knowl- i edge of her beautiful laturc were ‘ too strong to be readily filled even ! by a character reading gn^wiogist. • 111 al? w<>lll d undnubtedlv nmke a

i ii<iv nuuiu uuuuuuivuxy *• difference.” He questioned her about it on his next visit to her. “Emma, were you ill when you sent me those verses of Heine, you know.” “Yes, 1 was quite ill. How did you guess it?” ••The writing looked so unfamiliar,” replied Jaynes, who suddenly recollected that lie had never seen any other specimen of h r handwriting. “No wonder it looked unfamiliar. It wasn't mv writing.” • Not yours!” exclaimed Javncs, with a warmth and cage ntss which Mis-Gurdon could nut, understand “Then you didn't copy the verses?” “No. as I .aid before, 1 was ill, and 1 asked a friend who chanced to be visiting me to copy them. 1 forgot to mention the fa L” A heavy weight seemed suddenly lifted from Jay tie's shoulders. “I presume you would have preferred that 1 had copied them mv- 1 -elf,” continued Miss Gordon, puzzled at sight of Jayne’s strange conduct i Her lover did not reply. He was using all his surplus breath in breathing cash r. “1 pity her lover or husband,” 1 e said to himself. his thoughts upon the friend who had obliged his sweetheart by copying those verses from Heine. Several years later, after his mar-

riage, he asked his wife about this friend. “Jennie is married,” replied his wife. “Foes she live happily; Wlth her husband?” inquired Jayne*. ••Yes, indeed. Tncy Me lovers still.” “She makes a good, neat housewife. does she? keeps everything—herself included —neat and clean?” ••She is a most excellent wife. I wish I were half as good.” •■lsn't jealous of her husband, is she?” “No, indeed. What a question. ” “Fond of dress?” “She never spends more than S4O a year on diess, so she tells me. I wish I could get along on three times that amount.” ! “What about her intellectual

I tastes?” I i “Well, she reads Herbert Spencer. ” i “That settles it,” thought Jaynes. 1 “That graphologist was a fraud. No, f he wasn't. He read my character ' aright. But he ceitainly did make a I failure of reading Jennie’s handwriti ting. Even the infalliable test of reading character from the hand- - writing availed little in this instance. , It is clear that a graphologist cannot read the character of a woman through her handwriting any more than tho-e who are intimately associated with the dear creatures can. 1 am willing to give that professor the benefit of the doubt, but 1 believe bo was ft fraud.” —Yankee Blade.

ORMOUS SNAKES. ‘.J Slxte^woxeß of Writhing, Hissing R ep . tiles Imported. Sixteen boxes filled with snakes ' Ron- uu from the steamship X.TV®’ A he White Star Line, at Ifhe v °l West Tenth Street - says Wern W ? W ° rRL The ^akes I FSh W. A. Conklin, an- ! ! f . There were 110 snakes । !nt nf ect, ? n> and was a choice i ~o f wri kghng, crawling, death- , dealing reptiles. u°- se than the cholera,” i ' a , ^ay-haired old salt, as he saw | )o , xes carried f rom the ship, there sno good luck ever came from Bd of D Vh andl m l? la d to get ria of them.” The sailors gave the boxes a wide berth, although Agent Jones, who ca ne over with the snakes, assured the men that the reptiles were quite harmless as long as they did not' escape from the boxes. Before leav-' ing Liverpool the snakes had been ! given a good substantial feed of ' pigeous, rabbits, and small cats, and they are not vet through digesting j the meal. Some of them, in fact’ will not want to eat again for two or three weeks. The snakes had been packed in long wooden boxes, fitted with glass tops j opening on hinges and fastened with j padlocks Through the glass doors j they could be seen coiled up on t,he . bottom of the cases as though dead । to the world. There were snakes of all kinds and ; from many distant countries. There I was the African cobra, or Naja haje, I and his equally dreaded Indian I brother, the Nija tripudians, with । coats varying in color from yellowish olive to b’ack. There was theOphiophagus elaps, one of the most deadly species of the snake family, which is । the favorite among snake charmers , on account of its great size. There were^ing-necked snakes from Africa and death adders from Australia, the ifaboia russelliof the Singhalese, copperheads, flatheads, pythons, and boa-constrictors, all of them harmless enough to look at in the boxes. The minute the boxes were lifted there was commotion among the serpent-. They wriggled and squirmed and twisted and turned about in their narrow quarters in a way that would have scared a drinking mat. to death, while even men who ue:e strictly temperate could not look upon the writhing mass without a crawly sensation. Eiery time a case was jolted in the removal i there would be a sudden raising of' heads and a hiss that sounded like I escaping steam, while the snakes with widely distended jaws darted their heads angrily at the sides of the cases as though striking imaginary toes. The snakes were packed rather closely in the boxes, and as soon .is the truck reached the animal-house a number of the reptiles were t ansferred to other boxes. Experienced snake handlers were employed for ^l.

long as they cannot see. The handler could feel the serpents wriggling under the blanket, and when he had nicked out some parti ular snake the part of the blanket covering him w mid bo raised, an 1 the snake hastilv grabbed by the neck with one hand and by the middie of the body with the other. In that position he was comparatively harmless, but it took a lot of nerve to lift a struggling python or cobra and drop him on a pile of straw in another box. After the newcomer had been made comfortable in less closely packed boxes, a pan of water wa- put into each of the boxes and the lids securely boltc i. STREET CAR ETIQUET. lie OTfn-d Her Hi- Seat and She I lnally Act. pted It. “Take this seat, madam,” said a young man, rising and politely raising his hat. The “madam.” says the Free ! Lance, was a lady of uncertain age, who, after boarding the car andcast- | ing a searching glance from one end of the seat to the other and then down the opposite side, had failed to find an interstice between the sitters sufficient to afford even so thin a person a- her-elf a re-ting place. j She had then seized a strap with * each hand and a determined look.and I was holding on firmly when the young

gentleman aforesaid vacated his seat for her. “Before I accept v< ur seat, young man,” remarked the woman, “I must : ask you what prompted you to offer it i to me ” The donor was not prepared for । ‘ such a query. He had been in the habit of relinquishing his seat to i standing ladies unqestionably. and : having the seat acc -pted in a simi ar un questioning manner. So he was iat a loss how to reply, and stammered: “W-w-why, madam, ” “Yes, 1 want to know why,” interrupted the lady in a severe tone. “Did you offer me that seat because you thought I was too old and feeble , to stand?” “Ch. no, indeed!” protested the i young man with unnecessarily forcible

protestations. “Because, if you did I shall insist upon refusing it. I'd have you know, sir, that I’m not an old woman. I’m quite young, in fact, and if you've got the impression that I’m old and feeble and that I can't stand in a street car for nine blocks 1 must disabuse your mind of that idea. Mas that your thought in offering me your seat? Now, confess! 1 want to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” The young man by thia time was very red in the face. He thought it was very hard to be subjected to such close examination of his motives in performing an act of kindness, by the

beneficiary of that kindness too, and befoie a carload of people who were listening with deep interest to the discussion of street cat etiquet, although the discussion was a one-sided one. “Now,” went on the catechizer without pausing for an answer, “if, l on the other hand, you tendered me your seat as a mark of deference and । homage to the sex to which I belong I shall be happy to accept it. Now" wnich was it?” I As she now seemed to have come to a full stop, the embarrassed young ■ man attempted to answer. “1 gave you my seat because 1 am going to get out.” And he did. As he jumped from the car without troubling the driver to stop the woman settled herself in the seat he had ; vacated and gazed patronizingly : around the cat — । The Grizzly in Winter. In most places the grizzly hibernate<, or, as old hunters say, “holes ; up during the cold season, precisely as does the black bear, but instead of a hollow tree or log for his winter i sleep he chooses a cavernous hole in I the ground. The hole is sometimes in a slight hillock in a river bottom, but more often on a hill-side, and may be either shallow or deep. In the mountains it is usually a natural eave in the rock, but among the footsn h ear usuall Y bas to take to , Some hollow or opening, fashioning it into a burrow with his big digging i claws. He is cunning in the selec- | tion, and is seldom discovered in his winter den. Once settled there he pa ses the winter months in lethargic sleep: yet, in all but the coldest weather, its slumber is usually light, and if disturbed will promptly leave its den. prepared for flight or fight, as the occasion may require. In exi t remc cold weather hibernating bears can scarcely be awakened from their torpor. In the far north the bear hi- ■ bernates half the year, while in the south only the shes with young and fat he-bears retire for sleep, and i these but for a few weeks, and only if the season is severe. When the bear first leaves its den the fur is in ! very tine order, but it speedily becomes thin and poor, and does not recover its condition until the fall. In a short time after abandoning its den its hunger becomes ravenous, and in the early spring it is more of a flesheater than at any other time.—Globe ; Democrat A bout Thermometers. The aperture in the tube of a thermometer is smaller than the finest hair. And though it appears to be] round, it is not, for if it were, the | mercury could not be easily seen. It ■ is, therefore, made flat, and then ' the glass magnifies it so that it seems to be quite large. To bring it out -till more distinctly, a maker of Boston recently conceived the idea of backing the tube with a thin film ol white sizing. This device is now generally .id-m d l>y the foreign ma-

mome t • r 3 Deca 11 in its contraction and expansion. It • is Indeed impossible to make a spirit 1 thermometer that will be as trust-J worthy as one in which mercury is used. It is a mercurial thermometer and the degree marks are all the same j distance apart, because the expansion j under all conditions is uniform. But j in a spirit thermometer the degrees] are wider apart at the top, because' the expansion increases at a great ratio after a certain temperature is reached. Though not so trustworthy, spirit thermomerers are necessary, as mercury freezes 40 degrees below zero. For Strangers Only.

“I stopped at a small town in AVest Virginia not long ago,” remarked the drummer, “and as I stood on the, platform at the station looking for somebody to tell me something about ■ the place a native passed along.” ••I- there a hotel in this town?” I inquired. “Thar ain’t,” he replied, quite to the point. “Isn’t there any place for strangers to stop at?” ••Well, yes,” he said, hesitatingly, “thai’s a b ardin’ house whar nobody but strangers stops. Anybody that know d anything about it wouldn't stop thar.” The drummer sighed. “t trinrl it ” he said, in conclusion.

• ’1 I lieu IL, lie 111 UUIILIU3IUU, “and the native was right.” Painfully Incorrect. “I see a mistake in your paper that 1 thought you might want to straighten up,” said the matt in the linen duster, who had to led up three flights of stairs to see the editor. ‘ Weil?” said the editor. “M’’y, its jist like this: You say that when the balloon went up a cheer arose from a thousand throats, and that 2,000 eyes were gazing at the intrepid aeronaut. Now, that there ain’t right, ’cause I know they was three one-eyed men in the party; and that only leaves only 1997 eyes to be a-gazin’ into space. 1 ’lowed you would like to know;” and the linen-dustercd man trotted downstairs.

Paper Hangers’ Paste. A good paper hangers’ paste is made of four pounds of fine wheaten Hour mixed with a small quantity of cold water, thoroughly stirred: two ounces of powdered alum are then added, and when dissolved a gallon of boiling water. When cool it may be thinned as desired with cold water and used. The bravest man on earth has been found in Indiana. He organized all ’ the church singers in town into one ' choir, i i Items of interest—the entries in ! your bank book.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. A Scholarly Exposition of the LessonThoughts Worthy of Calm Reflection— Half an Hour’s Study of the Scriptures— Time Well Spent. Paul at Rome. The lesson for Sunday, Sept. 10, may be found in Acts 28 :20-31. INTRODUCTORY. It is an ambassador in bonds that is speaking here. In bonds, but an ambassador still. Paul never allowed his fleshly ills to rise above his divine commission. In trials, in tribulations, in good report and ill, he was ever the purposeful minister of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hero he is bound with a chain; we can almost V? ? T - an ^ as ho stands forth to speak to his brethren. But the next moment it is out of sight, out of sound, oiit of mind; and Paul, the apostle of Jesus Christ, stands before us, ever zealous for the gospel, preaching the truth so loyally, lustily that everythin^ else is forgotten in its burning advocacy. Let us give the same priority to the message to-day. We have our bonds and imprisonments, physical, social, otherwise; but the word is not bound. Thank God for that. „ POINTS in the lesson. Decently and in order” was one of 1 aul s mottoes. Here he exemplifies it. I a ?l d calls “ the chief of the Jews together, and presents his caie He dees it at once. There is no confusion through con- — cealment^or abatement of the° truth. । Paul tells the whole story, briefly’- but frankly.^ He is where he is through the malice of his own people. Yet he cal’s them‘'men and brethren.” One knows not which to marvel at the more, Paul’s boldness or Paul's moekne ss. “For this case, therefore,” says Paul, have I called y<u.” He reports against himself. It takes an innocent man, conscious of the justness of his cause, to do that. “Here I am,” he says. “I am ready to stand and plead for myselt- A\ hat is there against me?” Did Luther, at Worms, get his inspiration here? lettered with a hope, “prisoner of hope.” indeed. “For the hope oi Israel I am bound with his chain.” We glance back at Haggai's prophecy: “The desire of all nations shall come.” That which is the “desire of all nations” was first of all the “hope of Israel.” It was what fettered Abraham, Joseph, I Moses—Christ. Captives of a hope are we all. held in something of bonds here, for the hope that we have. Be true to that expectation, Christ’s “henceforth expecting.” for Israel’s > sake, for the nation’s sake. I "The Jews departed.” There wa° I the great departure. There Paul and i the Jew parted company. They have i been apart ever since. Not of Paul ! but of the Jew is this separation. They are still reasoning among themselves. When will they finish the foolish dis- H putation? \\ hen will they return to their hope? Ged grant that the end ’ may soon come, the end of Hebrew doubt, the beginning of Hebrew faj*’ for then comes blessing for us all. q,Y ...— Y -AtruL

i the evangel. Bring in the fulinesS : the Gentiles. No man forbids. The ’ Gentiles are ready to listen to the things concerning the Lord Jesus ' Christ. Fill the world with the knowli edge of him. Then what? Israel! ! Israel! And God with us! HINTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. AVo have reached the last recorded I chapter in the life of the apostle Paul. , The account ends abruptly. Have you ever thought why? There was no in- । spired penman after Paul, as there was ! after Moses, to register his death,—an ! incidental proof of inspiration. But abruptly ended or not, we have altoi gether a full narrative of a wonderful i life. What do you think of Paul’ ■ Start a free inquiry. AV hat portion or

1 event of his life impresses you most? AV hat seems to you his greatest deed? his greatest word? Signalize this clos- ’ ing lesson on the life of Paul by some I stimulating reminiscences. < Ardens sed virens, burning but flour- ' ishing. Fit symbol for Paul's home career. I AVe were having the after-meeting, 1 and had come to the Question Drawer, i Here came the query, “Many are called, ' but few are chcsen; what does it : mean?” AVhat could the preacher say, l off-hand and briefly, than so much as i this: “This whole community was in- : vited here to church to-night; some i came, more did not. All the congre- > gation was invited to the inquiry meetini’-. You stayed: where are the rest. The bell in the steeple calls all who hear. It chooses and calls effectually

only these who heed. AVhy? How. I do hot know. It is after all an every i day mystery.” I An ambassador in bonds, every preacher of the gospel, every witness to the faith feels himself at times to be when he considers the weakness the flesh and its oft-times clamorous i weakness. Spurgeon speaks o' the i “minister's fainting fits.” which come ’ just before and just after public effort. I And yet it is said that Canning was accustomed to speaking his best when I rising in trepidation. Some cne addressing a jury once, half-overcome by i the trembling of the flesh, said: “Gen- , tiemen, I declare to heaven, that if I I had an enemy upon whose head I would ; invoke the most cruel torture, I could wish him no other fate than to stand ' ; where I stand now.” You have expeI rienced it. How overcome it? As Paul '; did his disabilities with the chain. He I sprang at once to his theme and forgot

I his chain. Have you not experienced this, too? ’ Next Lesson —“Personal Responsi- ‘ biiity.”—Rom. 14:12-23. • Titian ruled his family with a rod i of iron, hardly allowing them money for the necessaries of life. Only when • ' company was expected was a good dinner provided, so Mrs. Titian sometimes j invited friends solely for the purpose I of securing a comfortable meal. j ' Divinity is essentially the first of • the professions, because it is necessary : j for all at all times; law and physic are j only necessary for some at some times. I I speak of them, of course, not in their 1 abstract existence, but in their appli- ! cability to man.