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IQil’ v^ —A^ * ( IIAPTER XVll.—(Continued.) Lady Hilda laid her face upon her mothers; she touched the pale brow with her warm, loving lips. “Mother,” she whispered, “I begin to remember you. I love you, and have nothing to forgive.” I here was a strange likeness between the two faces—one wearing the pallor of death, the other rich in youth's best beauty. ' “Mother,” whispered Lady Hilda. ‘‘let r me send for my husband to see you.” I “No, my dear child,” said her mother, j starting, “that cannot be. I have not come to drag you down to my level, Hilda -—to bring shame and disgrace upon you—to humble the pride of those who claim you now. Keep my secret as 1 have kept it. I only came to see you once more— ; to hear you call me mother, to kiss your face, and touch with my hand the golden i curls I remembered and loved so well. 1 shall be buried where you can come at* ' times to see my grave, but the story of i < my life must not be told. Hilda, swear i to me that you will never reveal what 1 you now know.” j
Standing^ by her mother's deathbed, Lady Hilda Bayneham made a vow to keep her secret faithfully and truly, and never to reveal one word of what had passed. “You are very beautiful," said Magdalen Hurst, fondly, as her hand lingered on the golden curls; “tell me, are you very happy, darling?-does Lord Bayneham love you very much?" Hilda told the simple story of her ho e —told it with sweet, shy blushes that gladdened the weary woman who gazed upon them. “Has he never asked who your parents were?” she said. “His mother did," replied Hilda; “but all that seems to be forgotten now.” “Let it be so,” said Magdalen Hurst; “no good could come of telling the story, only bitter shame ami sorrow to you. 1 gave you that ring, Hilda, on the day I left you. I meant to keep my word, and . never see you again, but I could not. My heart seemed to burn with the thought of you. M hen I reached England, after that long absence, I took no rest until 1 had discovered all about Lady Hutton's ward. I heard that Lady Hutton was and/that you were married to Lord ^^neha^i. I had but little money; I I week yom London to your hoins_li£ia^.. No #^!y with a lovelyfae^wn^Wß^ heart gave one bound, then a ^/olemn silence fell over me. It was you,
my little Hilda, no longer a child whom I could clasp in my arms, but grown a beautiful, stately lady. When you camo near I saw your face was like what mum was when the world called me fair. I longed for one word. You gave me a flower; see, all these months I have kept it. Your sweet eyes smiled on me. your voice pierced my heart, and I wonder now that the joy did not kill me. 1 have seen you since. I could not leave tae place where you lived. I took this room, and two months since 1 fell ill here. I have waited impatiently for death, knowing that when my last hour came I should ask for you. and you would come. _ “How you have loved me, mother. said Lady Hilda. “Why did you not send for me before?” “It is better so, darling,” said Magdalen “You might have betrayed the secret if you had known it. Before the sun sets I shall have gone to rest, and no one but you will ever know who sleeps in the nameless grave provided for me. I should like to tell you now of your father. Let me rest my head upon you an bile. For the last time Lady Hilda pillowed the drooping head upon her arm. “I loved him,” said Magdalen, “all my
life; I love him now. All is clear at the hour of death; I understand him at last. I thought he was a hero. Hilda—a grand, xoble, brave gentleman; be was simply n handsome, good-natured man. 1 worshiped him, and he knew it. If he had married some one with sense enough to have seen his faults, and have helped him to mend them, life might have been different to him. He married me for my beauty, Hilda, and I think he loved me. My poor father and mother were proud of my good match. Lady Hutton tried ~ everything in her power to persuade me to break it off. She told me that I
should be wretched, and I have boon rightly punished, for my answer was that 1 would sooner be miserable with Stephen Hurst than happy with any one else. •‘I need not tell you the story of my married life,” she continued; “I need not dwell upon your father's sin. He broke the laws, and met with his punishment. The tragedy of my life began after he left England. His sentence was transportation for ten years. At first he sfemed heart-broken, and wrote continually, begging me to join him. I had no money and no friends. Heaven keep you, my child, from ever feeling a grief like mine when Lady Hutton offered me money to go to my husband, if I would leave you with her. I left you. He knows what it cost
me. You were three years old then, and , ‘ lovely as a fairy. I went that lon'g, lonely ■ journey with unpacking heart. True, I 1 was going to my%usband; but I had left ; my child. Hilda, at times I used to go j crazy with grief; night brought you back to me in my dreams. “At last I reached the place where my husband was. Many suns have risen and set since then, but the old pain comes back to me as strong and sharp as ever. I I had left you for him, but he was not pleased to see me. He had written, press- j ing me to come, but the very sight of my ) pale face seemed to vex him. His first I question was not of my child or my jour- j ney, but what I had done to lose all my beauty. Did I think he should care to show such a wretched, pining, miserable creature as his wife?
“I answered him not a word. Hilda; the lite-blood seemed leaving my heart It was for this I had loft you. Yet even then, ungrateful, unkind, and unloving as he was, he was still my hero ami my king. It took many years of neglect to lessen my love. ‘I need not trouble you, my darling, with the history of those ten years. To mo they were one long martyrdom. Sureb heaven has kept count of all 1 suffered. “The time came when Stephen Hurst j was once more a free man; that is eight years since. He was even then handsome, and lull of high spirits. " ‘Maggie,’ he said to me one day, ‘Mag. gie.pou must try and work your wayback to England. I am going off to the diggings. You cannot accompany me.’ “I implored him to let me go. I promls^to work and help him, but all in vain. “ T cannot be hampered with a woman,’ ho said, roughly. ‘Go back to Eng- / land. My plans are made. I shall make I I my^fortuno at the diggings, ami then go home to spend it. If 1 fail, then I must die there. In either case you would be equally in the way." “Then he bade mo good bye, Hilda, and left me alone in that strange land. He took leave of mo carelessly ami lightly, I as though he should return in an hour. : I remember his handsome face with its careless smile. ’"Good-bye, Maggie,’ he said, lightly; ‘wo have not had tiie best of luck. I think our marriage was a mistake, after all; no good has come of it. Get back to Eng land as soon as you can, and make your i self comfortable.’
"Hilda, ip my passionate sorrow I prayed to die. What had I done that such heavy woe should fall upon me? I had but n few shillings. I was alone in a strange land; you, my child, wore b >t to me, and my husband had deserted me. 1 did what other women do. I fell upon my face, ami cried out for death to release me from all sorrow, and lay nn^to ri -t ” Magdalen Hurst paused, ns though the sorrow so vividly remembered were fr< h upon her, and tor some few minute, was । unable to continue her life's history. (IIAPTER Will M hen Magdalen Hurst had sufficiently recovered from the painful romembrai of her past life, sho spoke again “I lived through it, Hilda." she s .» death had no mercy for me. It took the young, the loved, ami happy, but passed me by. “For nearly six years I worked ami saved, so that I might once more return to England. Then came a letter from mv husband—a cruel left. r. but it had im power to hurt mo, for I was hmg p ;ist pain. He told me his fortune was made, that he had been wonderfully successful in the diggings, and now ho was going hmne. to spend his mom-;. . and ~- one , I wnnimd tn big solicitorii money, Hilda 1 never answered I s leter.
“I paid f<>r my journey L-me ■’ ’ v little store of savings. 1 u> ut «!;rem London, thinking I might gnin s me o. formation as to Lady Hutton. lln re i heard of her death, and your man me I could not rest until 1 had seen y a.; '•> 1 resolved to find my way to i.n.e. —to look once more upon your face, and then 1 was indifferent as to what might come. "There was some more sorrow m st re for me. I was walking down one of those grand side streets in Lonuon, where. they ; told me, the nobles of the land dwell. 1 saw my husband, looking young. Land some, and dressed as lu used to be v leu I saw him first nt Bryumar. He uas talking and laughing witn three - r gentlemen. Hilda, my w>. ■ ’ Lea v. out to him. I forgot bis cruelty, his insertion- he was my lover. I saw a • longer the side streets of London 1 was i in Brynmar woods, and he, with love in I his eyes and on his lips, was by my si m. Hardly knowing what 1 did. 1 cried, 'Stepheti! do you not know me: "I forgot that my face had lost i'beauty -that I was poor, ill dress, d faded.
"lie turned when 1 uttered hi' name. a white, savage look came over his face when his eyes fell upon me. He bowed to his friends, ami walk- 1 hastily away to one of the large, grand mansions near. I followed him, not for money. Hilda not because he was rich and prosperous - but for love of the handsome face that had once smiled into mine; for love of him who had once loved me. “I followed him up the broad flight of steps; the hall door opened, and I stood upon the threshold. “ ‘Stephen,’ I said, ‘speak to mo onlyone word, and I will never trouble you a crain.’
"I'„r an answer, he '’ailed with a low! voice, and a man servant came at his | • summons. “ ‘John,’ said he to him, ‘look at this j woman, that you may remember her. i She is an impostor who annoys me. If ; i she comes here again shut the door in her I face, or call a policeman to eject her.’ “His eyes glistened as he spoke; there j was a hard, cold, cruel look upon his face, . । that hurt me even more than his words. । He neither spoke nor looked at me, and i I have never seen him since. I turned ! ! with trembling steps from my- husband’s 3 magnificent home. I do not remember [j I how time passed. I asked a servant who t came from the house the name of its .11 master.
luusiei. "‘Mr. Fulton,’ he replied; and then I knew that Stephen Hurst had changed his name. “My husband judged me rightly, Hilda, i He knew I should never claim through law or justice what he did not give me from love. I could have taken revenge; I could have covered his name with ini famy; I might have stricken the smiles I from his handsome face, and have held i him up to scorn and shame; I might have । done these things had I not loved him! ; Even then I would have laid down my ; life to serve and save him.” I The faint voice grew still weaker, and Lady Hilda, caressing the white, beautiful face, prayed her to rest. “I have little more to say, my darling,” replied Magdalen Hurst. “I must give
y : — — you one warning-. Your father would like to discover you now. He knows you were adopted by a wealthy lady. Ho knows Lady Hutton was my friend. If he should hear that you were her ward, and see Jour face, so like mine in its youth, ho will claim you ns his child. Avoid all chances ol meeting him if you can. 1 have heard that a new and strange gift of loresight comes to the dying. It has come to me, and 1 see trouble for you, my darling, from his hand.” “1 must bear it, mother, patiently, as you have done,” said Lady Hilda. Then there fell upon them a deep and solemn ’ silence. Heath was drawing near; his 1 awful shadow east an ashen pallor on tho face of Magdalen Hurst, ami dimmed the light of her cy es. "Hilda, darling," she whispered, "if there should come to you, as there has come to me, a wonder why I should have suflerod I, so young, so innocent, so unconscious of all wrong promise mo to
remember that all those things which puzzle us here will be set right in another world. 1 shall soon know why my life has been so sad and sorrowful'” As the shadow jell more deeply and darkly, the golden head of the young girl lay near where her mother's hand could touch the loved face. Lady Hilda was not frightened, she had seen death once before, and knew its power. All fear, nil thought, was lost in the one great knowledge that she was with her own mother nt hist. ; Hour after hour pn fl. nod the shadow I deep.-Ued; then- wm more Words, for Magdalen Hurst's strength had failed her. I'ntil sight and hearing wore closed for this world, her eyes were fixed upon the face nt her child, and she listened to I eiery word that toil from those pure | young lips. But when the . rim pr. sem e ' stood by her, she made one gren: effort. 11 ever you should meet him, Hilda," - she murmured, -toll him I forgave him. ' and fined him and blessed him I d..-d” ' And then the m - eg. w- ir.. I hi art was nt rest. D.aih left strung.- !> um on the white face; the <lo*. | bps w .re a smile ns „f one who had fo-md fence i
Warm tears f.i; i r .,, n ; ? jj, ~. ~ „ ns she crossed the white hands over tho i | quiet breast, and smooth, d the long veil i of golden hair from the whit- br .w “* lood bye. smoker ' - ’d. -s tig ■ her warm lips on the c>!d d. vl fa .• ' i ! I You .... ’st i; . . • ■ ’ and brntid in d-i ■ y..., nvil ■ ' until I join y .ii," Mrs. Paine . ,-m. r, - ■ c „ j si*’k n<Hiinh bid ccihhml *’l mu nt fur dj, “ * *Tn I? ' ! Hihhl, HI 3 ...M, j ■ • , ng -, and I am h- r . I Mr . I’atm „ ..’.tj, jn ; that, but she wondered why l air Htlda j shmidor-d when straug.. han S H gap to “Let some <me come and »tw mth < m J ■ she said; "I Will arrange JI tio- ^v i ‘ ments L t the funeral take ph,. „ n I ; Tuesday, and i-t her bnri< I m tho | I rhunh vnrd nt < »ulsi. !s You, -t. > to It. | presume " Mrs. l‘ IU! . uas , io-pumt i;j p.-r j ro . “Sho hn* Miffs for mnr i nth : • her name. What HmU ; ray wh-u ) n »k | wronged mats*®®, MB ta^** 4 **-***** t ; might. -Her m--- .w v M ■ ’d- II ' ’ *
Lady Hilda knew it Wom i m-t I- -i i ble for her to r. turn V- . .< . • if < ■:' : ■ ■ ' • mH’ Ml-- . -- ' • ; 1 ■ ’ knonh vnl* * hi nsui w J [ dead ah.no. In th- '-me «• t C- * Paine. | -Let the fumra! tW- I’ - -a! -aL , -1 will see y : ..g.- . «h« n it • - : ’ -w r. ‘ L ae .me in » dr. am. she left ■ • < ot- j tago where her dead mother lay. went through the pa.k w.t . ia; I steps, i to h.n ■ left tl. r r - bi ■r. -d I her own apartment m.notimd. When sho I St d there, w ith f ■ -! no dn . .'•• i fee’i:, ’ of unreality. there - owe her 1 mind strange, 'd< . .worcs -d, and ha I w ■■ • r un - F't. ■ <1 1 • ” 1 sin- of the fatl r 'h; .1 be ■- - .up n the children, evt n to the third and t -urtb ' generation.” A (Ufiotis Collection. A well known Leeds bann-Ti. -.--'Sos an immense number id diflerent bunk notes issued at various lim -s by banks that have come to grievous smash ami ■ which have involved thousands of । persons in tluur ruins. Not alone are bank notes Included in this euri-ms collection of relies of broken banks, which i must start a world of painful reflections in a commercial community, but
also bonds relating to eel'brib'd undermkings whb h bavo pna 1 sources I of immense loss to .'peeuLttors. these 1 including "script” of the South Sea i bubble, of many of the -schemes of I Hudson, the railway king, and of tho j Tichborne bond enterprise. So far as tho bank notes are concerned, it is astonishing to see what a large number I of establishments they refer to, and ! the whole collection represents the I names of schemes which have drained the Investing public of hundreds of , millions sterling. The collector relates ; that on several occasions visitors who have seen the collection have, on com-
ing to some particular note, burst into tears, for they have been directly connected with the ruin wrought by the I crash indicated by that same note.-— Cornhill Magazine. Cycling Watch. A proposed novelty is a cycling watch with a good-sized dial fixed to the handle bar. The rider is thus enabled to regulate his pace without constantly dragging out his own tirfiepiece from the depth of his breast pocket. Benjamin Harrison was a close stu- • dent, and had all the advantages of a ’ liberal education.
: WHE Yr GOES SOAR! NG I » GREAT TUMULT ON THE PHI CACO BOARD OF TRADE. All the Brokers Wild with Fxcitement and Fiuhtio. r . . “tf'wjuly Options I rice Goes to 81> Cents While ‘»3O - 000 -00 J B UK helsA r eß„, lfc:ht ;-‘ >O, Tulv^h r< ! Smimhed. July wheat nhot up to 8” cents Thursday in the ( hieago Board of Trade -\ s it 11 '‘-’-and hambs of velb ng brokers were stretched to bring t back to earth. It was a long and fxcitHi- I l -Ut just before the close of dm session the furor quieted, the price H u t tered awhile and then dropped to ?s . (>r the eloS “‘« —'
* • mi? J?''*' th f Wh ” nt Was Buh,K an'l tommg down, the Chicago B. (nr d of Trade < xpeneneed the greatest day in jt« history. T^e re tuny have been as touch ex citemcnvui previous occasions, when big cornera/ ere run, but at no time w a» th. re such a^amoitnt of business trans a. t..,i and wh«u the closing gong sounded the brokent J^ropiwd their nrms, nnd were rind to^ikape to their offices. Over 250<>oo,ooo bushels of wheat, it was .-sti mated, were traded in. Margins were ' railed for and put up with astonishing
j swtftimss. The marble steps leading t-> i the banks which do a margin bnsim-s ; were blackened with the footprints of I messenger boys, who carried cheeks and I notices to nnd from the banks. At h-.ist . Sl.imni.ouo in margins wa . deposited 1 )ur imr the great s-airl J. |,» r s. hwartz an I erstwhile plunger, was (down out of the market like a bit of ehnff. Tho tremendous b.,om went nn Ev. rv- ! body was. buying, and most „f n n farmers. The failure of s hoar • was an Incident; the feature was the farra.-r
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It was a great day. All told a conservative estimate of the business transacted j amounted to n quarter of a billion bush- | els. This is the liveliest market the board | has experienced since Ispl, win n "dthm two months wheat rose from ' ( >Li.> a bushel. The presen: rise has 1..-. a, mi■ der «hu-e last April. In l ebruary at 32 cents, May 13 it was at '■l en^F Thursday it was nearly IS 1 cents o', e^that price. Excitement in New York. In New York the excitement at the opening of the wheat market 1 hursday exceeded anything seen in tho present advance. It was a wild tumult of buying with almost a total disregard of price, so that July opened from S 3 to S.P.j cents at the same moment. This represents: a rise of 3 to 31'2 cents from the official close of Wednesda"y. After jumping up to 83% cents, prices lost a cent, and then swung back again, advancing to 81’, cents Transactions went tar above any
day vet amounting to L 5.000,000 bushels before noon. Most of this great business was done during the first hour. Jhe excitement nt the opening was intensihod by the reported covering of a big ( hieago short. The bulls are killing the crop o f as fast as possible. In the districts west where wheat has escaped the ravages o chinch bugs, flies and army worms and the blight of frost, the bulls are talking drouth and the bears seem too far gone *o set up any opposition. Timothy McCarthy, aged 22 years, of Logansport, Ind., committed suicide. He attended a game of baseball in the afternoon and seemed in good spirits. His mind was deranged by a sunstroke four years ago and he was confined at Long Cliff insane hospital fur a time.
MEETING IN MEMPHIS, v Opponents of thT^ee Colna E e of Silver Hold a Convention. An audience of 3,000 persons was in attendance at the big Auditorium in Memphis, lenn., when W. J. Crawford, chairmnn of the committee of arrangements, < ailed the sound money and better banking facilities" convention to order. Delegates from all the Southern States were present to the number of about GOO and represented all ranks, from the politician to the .armor. In a short speech, which was unmistakable in its indorsement of the gold standard, Mr. Crawford welcomed the delegates to Memphis, and declared the convention ready for business. Ex Congressman R. H. Clark, of A] n . on ma. in a speech indorsing the policy of the administration in maintaining the 1 red it ot the country, nominated for pernrnuent chairman Congressman Thomas 1 ■ ’ atchings, of Mississippi, who was unanimously elected. Mr. Catchings, in
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- a.-, . pt.m.-. indorsed I’n sident Cleveland and Se. ret ary ( arlisle. and also took occasion to prophesy that the present silver • raze would soon be stored away in the I war, h.m.s s m (bain. F la-> nI() ' nK wish ' I :| t - that were formulated there a ew years ngo for a government loan on th '- l ,; bi' ts of the country. After the apj -mtm. i.t ..f a eommittee on resolu- !■: s. . f r ., m , ;I( . h the Sla tes repre- i ' • ' o '■ t -y Carlisle was s’orted । 1 - > th. stage by Congressman Josiah l’at- <
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. v ! u in iiem- i'!y mlopted. i < . •„ J . : i I’ tt- r«>n, in re- ; if . . -. m i-ie a ' eh, in > ; j, \ lt , aJ. ! te t! • people of the ; <. ’ I*:. ■! ? ■I r» k . fr in ev»*ry tie ’ • - ;1 . • n.iLvrto 1 :.1 th* hi in the mat- i .. .. -• .•,. - . I).■ -j'-.ke of the com- I ■ ■ 1 ! • ,vL : ru St > s and the South i I betwe.il the latter section and the j > •. . . • L : .S, Imlhimi, M. higtn and | i ■ u- d a-k. I what was t> be gained ; : • r . . . ~. f C.,w ; - . .... Nevada. | w a. ,g .d Nvbra Alt. Ke-..!utions Lav.- t' .;igr.-"man l’at- i • , . ],b -1 in pamphlet ' rm, t therwi’h that of Secretary Car- | ... j i, t . di'trib god throughout the ; S nth bv a committee of .me from each of j x,• ■. , . y,■ -, s <ya t '. lit d.-.-gations 7 " v -
J a k Frost struck New York below the grape belt. The “new woman's bild ■" probably will have a postscript added to each chapter. Advices from the Northwest indicate that tho Russian thistle has not been injured by the frost. Having safely passed the crises of a dog show and a eat show, wili New lock now tackle a rat show? As we understand it, Champion Corbett is now anxious to fight somebody over in
Europe—and to one else. That Ohio editor who wants to take 500 hens on subscription account evidently wants to break into our set. Admiral Meade probably knows now that an ounce of silence is worth more than several pounds of apology. It is announced that “Kate Field will pay a visit to Hawaii.” Col. Kohlsaat will also pay for the same visit. A close reading of the Cuban war nows reveals the fact that the results depend entirely upon who controls the cable. A New York paper says that “the cat now rules the day.” Then wo hope Thomas will be content to work a twelve-hour
turn and let us sleep at night. Tho French Government has decided to ask Parliament for a special credit to erect a monument to the soldiers who fell during the last war between France and Germany. Minnie Robinson, who sued the United States Mutual Accident Company at St. Louis, Mo., for insurance on her fiance’s life was given a verdict, the court deciding' she had an insurable interest in his life. Guy C. Manley, until recently agent of the Big Four Railroad at Milton, Ind., committed suicide by shooting. He lost his position with the company and despondency over this is supposed to havs bee® the cause of liis deed.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSON. Reflections of an Elevating Character —Wholesome Food for ThoughtStudying the Scriptural Lesson In telligeutly and Profitably. Lesson for June 2 Golden Text.-“ The Lord is risen inI- Luke 24; 34. ^"bject, "The Resurrection of Jesus” -Mark 10: Ls. "He is risen; he is me here; behold the place where they laid him. Amen, we will do it. Just look at the place and then leave it. lie is not n the grave. He is risen, risen for our redemption and uplift. Presently, at the right hand of God he will be dispensing the power of his resurrection. Preach it. live it. "I he power of hks resurrection," what is it in the Christian life? It signifies a life hid with Christ in God. If ye then be risen with Christ seek those things which are above, where Christ mtteth on the right hand of God.” There io sits today, a conqueror henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his f >otstooi. It is the otlice of the Holy Spirit to reveal this Christ, a Christ in this aspect. to us. Not the Christ of the pilgrimage and humiliation, but the Christ of God's right hand, the < 'hrist that liveth and was dead, and behold he is alive forevermore. Only by the Spirit do we apprehend the living Christ. Hence Alford has called the Acts of the Apostles the • ,ospel of the Risen Jesus," for it was at 1 , nt-- -ost that, under the Spirit's tutelage, this revelation and dispensation began. And it goes right on "till he come." The command to be tilled with the Spirit is just as authoritative as the command to be baptized. A working church, a church that expects results, can certainly
not afiord to overlook the injunction. Know the Spirit of the risen Christ. But how bo tilled with the Spirit. Some one has said "empty yourself and the Spirit " ill come in to til! the vacuum.” Another has answered, “Rather let in the Spirit for emptying." We know not hew to make self-surrender save by the Holy s Spirit s operations. Then Christ in us. “The first fruits of them that slept.” How fitting was Pentecost for the bei stowa! of tho Spirit and the imagination | ot the new dispensation I Symbolically it sm-h, the day of ingathering, harvest i home day. 1 hat was indeed a rich barj Vest for the church when Jesus, having । method h;s work, conqm red the grave by ,a- "nd::• to the right hand of God. "shed , 'Fth tiiis which ye now see and hear.” | It was tho gift of gifts that was there bej ■"•vid. Practically it was an acceptable i ,I:, y- 1 he p< ople had come to the sacred I• ny from all parts of the world. They । thought it was for things old. but the ! grt it householder meant to bring forth । to day things new, ami to send Israel forth I with the tidings throughout the length 1 !,r *. And this is i what it all meant: “The Lord is nsen in--1 r -prevA‘"‘*and the common < s"d‘lr‘ nT ''^' surprise us if he " ir , .., om'.' answer our prayers is t m>t wholly to our disparagement. ILs i blessings will alway s be a glad surprise. I The gift of the spirit was such. But it
was a. cepted, ami its meaning was appreh»nde«L “This Jesus hath God raised up.” There was no tarrying or debating. No querying, what is this? or what shall ne d«> with this? »r what will tho world think of this? Straightway the disciples y i. hied themselves to the new dispensation. and began to speak as the Spirit from on high gave them utterance. And ail men in Jerusalem and the parts about knew that something marvelous had taken place on earth and something more marbms in heaven. Christ had taken his >,.at. "Know assuredly.” said I’eter, "that God hath made ’hat same Jesus whom ye have crucified, both Lord and ! Christ.” And that dispensation was to abide. Not : the physical outward signs of rushing j wind ami flaming tongue, but utterance. I witness. The abiding power of the Holy i Spirit is power to witness the risen Christ; the abiding gift of tin Holy Spirit ! is the gift of utterance in his name. Ihe i word translated “utterance” here is the verb, to declare a mighty and solemn mesi sage’. The unction for such service is I from on high. There is no mistaking it. I’eter. Raul and Barnabas were to have ! it in large measure, with miraculous atl tending signs. Luther, Wesley, Spurgeon were to have the same with signs suited to their day and g< n< ration. Such utter- ■ e is always with a nameless something tb-t i- the den.on'tration of the Spirit and of power. There is a general guidance and influence of the spirit of which the church becomes increasingly the heir, ' but tie re is. above and beyond all spiritual ! ci’nd'v a direct and immediate endow- * ment w'hieh we may well crave, and I whieh. when men observ ' it, leads tnem to -ay o' « is -aid by I’- ter ot old, Ihw is that. What but God! Dr. Alexander Maclaren makes pregnant comment on John xiv., 1-1-1, when he
calls it, "The words of the ascended Lord.” ' Christ is now at the right hand of God. He is there in power. And this is the Christ whom the Holy Ghost t-akes and reveals to us. Not the Christ of the manger and the tomb. He is told of in the Gospels. Here in the Acts and epistles, and in Christian e? perienee is revealed bv the Spirit, the r sen and ascended and 'omnipotent Christ. Trust him; declare him. X . x t I esson "The Walk to Emmaus.” - Luke 24: 13 32. Higher Levels. "Whene'er a noble deed is wrought.
Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. Tho tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts tis unawares < tut of all meaner cares.” •—Longfellow. Half the Power. "Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts Given to redeem the human mind from error. There were no need of arsenals nor forts.’* —Longfellow.