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The Yale Expositor. J. A. Mc.vzies, rub)!ther. TALE, MICH People who are really busy are sel dom aware of the fact. In tailing chances do not forget that the weight of accident a also gen erally against you. If every man lhad the courage of hia convictions there would be no end of strife in the -world. People who do good for the sake of praise ought not to grumble if that is all the return they receive. Every man dreams away down in his heart that the law does not apply to him, and sometimes ho is rudely awak ened. Aa long as individual members of the sexes persist in humbugging each other, just bo long will the millcnium be postponed. The navy, says a Washington dis patch, is to bo put on a war footing. Presumably they are going to try to get it to float. The tougher a man i3 the more apt he Is to show by his conduct that be believes that careles3 charity will atone for a vast amount of reckless sin. One of the superstitions that will survive until the end of time is that the man who does not smile when ad dressing a female acquaintance is a croftsgraincd bear. Teople generally are now putting football on the same plane as prize fighting. In a prize-fight it is hardly possible for more than two people to be killed during the game, v.hile in a football scrap half a dozen or more may perish. We may all live to see it prohibited. The New York Journal collected opinions from a number of prominent people on Thanksgiving day, as to why they were thankful and what for. Among others Mr. Frederic R. Cou dert informed the questioning report er that he was thankful that "he was a lawyer and not a journalist." Postmaster Smith of Norton, Iowa, used to burn campaign documents in stead of delivering them, and now Postmaster Smltb of Horton is In a peck of trouble. When Horton people are as eager for educational documents as they were last fall it was too bad to deprive them of them. Only Mr. Smith knows what they missed, and he wishes now that ho didn't. Th features of the proceedings of the National Orange recently at Wash ington, were the submission of the re port of the executive committee and the calling of the members in a body on President Cleveland. The executive committee reported a total of over $31, 000 loaned on real estate securities de posited with the fiscal agency. The re port says agriculture is suffering from disproportionate burdens, which, if long continued, may cause such disas trous results aa have overtaken the agricultural class ia other countries. The report is a strong plea for farmers' rights. The civilizing effects of clean streets on the tenement-house districts in New York city are distinctly marked. Fresh er paints on the stores, clean windows, and other tokens of a change for the better, attest the value of the object lesson of streets no longer a dlsgrm e to the municipality. Observers also note that tenement-house entrances are not tracked with street mud. Even the children seem to look more tidy. The moral influence of ways fit for the foot to walk upon and for the eye to rest upon Is undoubted. It is just as true that good roads in country dis tricts have done a service in promot ing order and cleanliness. Expenditures on account of the navy last year amounted to f2C.2C2.155, of which $6,974,433 was paid for the con struction of new ships, the other prin cipal item of expenditure being f 15, 49f.8C2 fcr maintenance of the estab lishment, of which $7,091,90S was re quired by the ships in commission. The cruiser New York was the most expen sive vessel to run, costing $412,807 for the twelve months. The Columbia and Minneapolis consumed $300,000 each; but when the big battle ships have been a year in operation they promise to ex ceed these figures. Over $11,000,000 worth of stores have been kept on hand with a great saving over the old system of indiscriminate purchases, corrected by Secretary Whitney. The naval dint ing factory has to be considerably en larged, owing to the growing demands upon it, all clothing being now made there for the navy, the revenue cutter service, and the naval militia. The esti mated value of real estate improve ments and machinery in the navy yards is placed at $60,000,000. During the year ucar'y $5,000,000 was paid for labor. It was said of certain connections of a famous Englishman that they in flicted rather than bestowed their bounties. The manner of giving to there in need is sometimes quite as im portant as the gift itself. The winter, with Its call for discriminating charily, J3 at hand. In no case let that charity be an Infliction. A Genoese princesa has eloped with an artist, takiug with her $60,000 worth of Jewels, all of which indicates that the artist Is something more of a real ist than an Impressionist. . , , ftiiAiAAAAAAAAAA Dr. Talmage's Sermons ROYALTY IN DISGUISE... Washington. Dec. 13, 1896. In this sermon from a bible sceno never used in sermoaic discourse, Dr. Talmage draws eom startling lessons, and tears qrt tA9 nasque of deceit. The text is I Kings 14:6: "Why feignest thou thyself to bo another?" In the palace of wicked Jero boam there is a sick child, a very sick child. Medicines have failed; skill is exhausted. Young Abijah, the prince, has lived long enough to become very popular, and yet he must die unless pome supernatural aid be afforded. Death eome3 up the broad stairs of the palace and swings back the door of the sick room of royalty, and stands look ing at the dying prince with the dart uplifted. Wicked Jeroboam knows that he has no right to ask anything of the Lord In the way of kindness. Ho knows that his prayers would not he an swered, and so he sends hi3 wife on the delicate and tender mission to the prophet of the Lord in Shiloh. Put ting aside her royal attire, she puts on the garb of a peasant woman, and starts on the road. Instead of carry ing gold and gems, as she might have carried from the palace, she carries only those gifts which seem to indicate that sho bc!ong3 to the peasantry a few loaej of bread and a few crackne'.s and a cruse of honey. Yonder she goes, hooded aud veiled, the greatest lady in all the kingdom, yet passing unob served. No ono that meets her on the highway has any idea that she is the first lady in all the land. She is a queen in disguise. The fact i3 that Peter the Great, working in the dry doclis of Saaruam, the sailor's hat and the shipwright's axe gave him no more thorough disguise than the garb of the peasant woman gave to the queen of Tirzah, I3ut the prophet of the Lord saw the deceit. Although his physical eyesight had failed, he was divinely il lumined, and at ono glance looked through the imposition, and he cried out: "Come in, thou wife of Jero boam. Why feignest thou thyself to be another? I have evil tidings for thee. Get thee back to thy hou3e, and when thy feet touch the gate of the eity, the child shall die." She had a right to ask for the recovery of her son; she had no right to practice Rn Impo sition. Broken-hearted now, the start ed on the way, the tears falling on the dust of the road all the way from Shiloh to Tirzah. Broken-hearted now, Ehe is not careful any more to hide her queenly gait and manner. True to the prophecy, the moment her feet touch the gate of the city, the child dies. As she goes in, the soul of the child goes out. The cry in the palace is joined by the lamentation of a nation, and as they carry good Abijah to his grave, the air is filled with the voice of eulogy for the departed youth, and the groan of an afflicted kingdom. The story of the text impresses me with the fact that royalty sometimes passes in disguise. The frock, the veil, the hood of the peasant woman hid the queenly character of this woman of Tirzah. Nobody suspected that she was a queen or a princess as she passed by, but ehe was Just as much a queen as though she stood in the palace, her robes Incrusted with diamonds. And so all around about us there are prin cesses and queens whom the world does not recognize. They sit on no throne of royalty, they ride in no char lot they elicit no huzza, they make no p.ense, but by the grace of God they are princesses and they are queens. Sometimes in their poverty, sometimes in their self-denial, sometimes in their hard struggles of Christian service God knows they are queens; the world docs not recognize them. Royalty passing in dis-guise. Kings without the croan, conquerors without the palm, empresses without the jewel. You saw her yesterday on the ctrcet. You saw nothing important in her appearance, but she is regnant over a vast realm of virtue and goodness a rerna vr.?'.er man jeroooam ever looked at. Yea went down into the house of destitution and want and suf fering. You saw the story of trial written on the wasted hand of the mother, on the pale cheeks of the chil dren, on the empty bread-tray, on the firele.ss hearth, on the broken chair. You would not have given a dollar for all the furniture in the house. Hut by the grace of God sho is a princess. The overseers of the poor come there and diccurs the caee and say, "It's a pau per." They do not realize that God has burnished for her a crown, and that after ehe has got through the fatiguing Journey from Tirzah to Shiloh and from Shiloh back to Tirzah, there will bo a throne of royalty on which eho shall rest forever. Glory veiled. Af fluence hidden. Eternal raptures husivul tip. A queen in mask. A prlncc23 in disguise. VaV. tl:er.- vras a grander disusing. The favo.llo of a great hov.se looked ov.f oi' the wfr.dov of his palace rnd ho f.u' that the peo;!? vero carrying heavy buruens, an I that some of iheai vvfrc hobbling on crutches, ,md ho ,aw rome of thorn lyinj? at the g-te exhibit their s.r.c, and then he hvoi ihrlr lari.entr.tln. ar.d he mid: ' I will juit pvit oa the r!athi!3 cf tho;e poor people unci 1 will ro Co and hcp what th'ir octo.-.o :irc. and I wll". sympathize with thcrn. r.nu I will I e one of them, and I will li'Ip them." Well, tho day came fcr hlr.i-to ctart. The lor.lu of the land Cf. me tr ser bin (rr. All who could ting joii.ed in the parting song, which rhook the hills and woke up the shep herds. The first few nlghU he has beer. sleeping with the hostlers and the camel-drivers, for no one knew there was a king In town. He went among the doctors of the law, astounding them; for without any doctor's gown ho knew more law than the doctors, i He fished with the fishermen. Ho smote with his own hammer In the carpenter's shop. Uo ate raw corn out of the field. Ho friwl fish on the banks of the Gen uerar&i. He was howled at by crazy yooplt lo the tombs. Ho was splashed of thi lurf of the sea. A pilgrim with out atv pillow. A sick man without and tfitdlcament. A mourner with no symrntbitlc bosom in which ho could poui iitj tears. Disguise complete. I fcnotr iat occasionally his divine roy alty flashed out, as when in the storm on Galilee, as in the red wine at the wedding banquet, as when he freed the shackled demoniac of Gadara, as when he turned a whole school of fish into the net of the discouraged boatmen, as when he throbbed life into the shr'veled arm of the paralytic; but for the most part he was in disguise. No ono saw the king's jewels in his sandal. No one saw the royal robe in his plain coat. No one knew that that shelterless Christ owned all the mansions . in which the hicrarchs of heaven had their hab itation. None knew that that hun gered Christ owned all the olive groves, and all the harvests which fciiook their gold on tho hills of Pal estine. No ono knew that he who said "I thirst" poured tho Euphrates out of his own chalice. No one knew that the ocean lay in the palm of his hand like a dewdrop in the vase of a lily. No one knew that the stars, and moons, and suns, and galaxies, and constellations that marched on ago after age, were, as compared with hl3 lifetime, the sparkle of a firefly on a summer night. No one knew that tho sun in mid-heaven was only the shad ow of his throne. No one knew that 1 his crown of universal dominion was covered up with a bunch of thorns. Omnipotence sheathed in a human body. Omniscience hidden in a hu man eye. Infinite love beating in a human heart. Everlasting harmonies subdued into a human voice. Royalty en masque. Grandeurs of heaven in earthly disguise. My subject also impresses me with how precise and accurate and particu lar are God's providences. Just at the moment that woman entered the city, the child died. Just as it was prophe sied, so it turned out, so it always turns out. The event occurs, the death takes place, the nation is born, the despotism is overthrown at the ap pointed time. God drives the universe with a stiff rein. Events do not Just happen so. Things do not go slip shod. In all the book of God's provi dences there is not one "if." God's providences are never caught in disha bille. To God there are no surprises, no disappointments and no accidents. The most insignificant event flung out in the ages is the connecting link be tween two great chains the chain of eternity past and the chain of eternity to come. I am no fatalist, but I should be completely wretched if I did not feel that all the affairs of my life are in God's hand, and all that pertains to mo and mine, just as certainly as all the affairs of this woman of the text, as this child of the text, as this king of the text, were in God's hand. You may ask me a hundred questions I cannot answer, but I shall until the day of my death believe that I am under the unerring care of God; and tho heavens may fall, and tho world may burn, and the Judgment may thunder, and eternal ages may roll, but not a hair shall fall from my head, not a shadow shall drop on ray path, not a sorrow shall transfix my heart without being divinely ar rangedarranged by a loving, sympa thetic Father. He bottles our tears, he catches our sorrows, and to the orphan he will be a Father, and to the widow he will bo a husband, and to the out cast he will be a home, and to the most miserable wretch that this day crawls up out of the ditch of his abom ination crying for mercy, he will be an all-pardoning God. The rocks shall turn gray with age, and the forests shall be unmoored In the last hurri cane, and the sun shall shut its fiery eyelid, and the stars shall drop like blasted figs, and the continents shall go down like anchors In the deep, and the ocean shall heave its last groan and lash itself with expiring agony, and the world shall wrap Itself .in a winding sheet of flame and leap on the funeral pyre of the Judgment day; but God's love shall not die. It will kindle its suns after all other lights have gone out. It will be a billowy sea after tho last ocean has wept It self away. It will warm itself by the fire of a consuming world. It wPl ting while the archangel's trumpet it pealing forth and tho air is filled wltk the crash of broken sepulchres and the rush of the wings of the rising dead. Oh, may God comfort all this people with thi3 Christian sentiment. Seven Wine Men'a Saying. Tho sayings of the Seven Wise Men are the famous mottoes inscribed in the temple of Apollo at Delphi; Solon of Athens "Know thyself." Chllo of Sparta "Consider the end." Thales of Miletus "Suretyship is the pre cursor of ruin." Was of Triene "Most men are bad." Cleobulus of LIndus '"Avoid excess." Pittacus of Mitylene "Know thy opportunity." Periander of Corinth "Nothing is Impossible to Industry." lXalillxhrd Age of the Ilarth. According to geological computation, the minimum age of the earth since the formation of the primitive soils is 21, 000,000 years-C.700,000 years for the primordial formations, 0,400,000 years for the primary age, 2,000.000 years for tho secondary age, and 460,000 years for the tertiary age, and 100.000 slneo t.ji-i appearance of msn upon the globe HISTORY OP A WEEK. THE NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS UP TO DATE. Political Ilellglona, (Social and Criminal Doing of I lie Whole World Cart roily Condensed for Our JleaUerr Tbs) Ac cident Iter old The New York Salvation Army is about to apply to the board of police commissioners for the privilege of vis iting the prisoners in the various po lice stations for the purpose of en deavoring to convert them. Cornelius Vanderbilt is so rapidly triumphing over hi3 recent attack of paralysis that during the last few days he has been able to lift his right hand to a level with his head. He walks for an hour and a half every day and gets along without the aid of a cane or crutch and can go up and down stairs unaided. I Mrs. Catherine Corbett, aged 70, and her daughter Mary, aged 40, were found dead in their home in Indianap olis Sunday. Doth were lying on the floor, and as the odor of gas was strong in the house it is supposed they j were asphyxiated. Samuel Dros.' dry-goods house at Lincoln, Neb., burned; loss $23,000; in surance $10,000. Ed Wright, a prominent merchant of Scotia, Neb., committed suicide by Ehooting. He leaves a widow and three children. O. L. Partridge, cx-socretary of the Alpena, Mich., Loan and Building as sociation, was found guilty of embez zlement of $20,000. While crossing a field near Ireton, Iowa, Mrs. B. Schmedhaus, an aged German woman, was attacked by a vicious bull and probably fatally in jured. The Paris Gaulois alleges that tho Royal Niger company (British) Is en croaching upon the French sphere of influence on the Niger in tho direction of Dahomey. There is talk of a meeting between Queen Victoria, Emperor William and President Faure at Dlnard in the spring. An explosion occurred on Saturday . afternoon in the Moablt quarter of Ber lin In the house of tho scientist, George Isaac, who was experimenting with the manufacture of acetyllne gas. Isaac and three assistants were blown to atoms. Richard Rowe, brother of the Monte zuma (Iowa) county treasurer, who went to Mexico with the county's funds, was sentenced by Judge Ryaa to three years in the penitentiary for complicity In the looting of the county treasury. A new trial was denied. The London Chronicle's Berlin cor respondent says it is reported that the minister of foreign affairs, Baron Mar schall von Biebersteln, is seriously ill. The Sunday issue of the Social Sachsischen Arbeiter Zeitung of Dres den has been confiscated and the ed itor arrested for leze majesty. A Berlin dispatch to the London Dally New3 says It is rumored that the government will submit a bill to the reichstag for a new artillery which will involve a great expenditure, Prussia's share footing up $43,750,000. Hon. Sydney Fisher, Canadian min ister of agriculture, is in Washington, where he will likely stay for a couple of weeks. Mr. Fisher will discuss the question of abolition of internal cattle quarantine with the United States gov ernment. Robbers entered the barroom of the Hotel Le Grand, 33 to 43 Wells street, Chicago, early Sunday morning, and one of them killed William Jahns, the bartender. They escaped. It 13 evident that Roscoe D. Dix, auditor-general-elect of Michigan, pro poses to make sweeping changes In the force of clerks In that oClce. He com menced operations by notifying twenty-eight of them that there would be no work for them after January. The American Society of Irrigation Engineers has adopted resolutions op posing the idea of goernment action in the building of irrigation reservoirs and canals, but advocating a govern ment commission to look over tho arid territory and make suggestions for the aid of the states in the work. The permanent headquarters were estab lished in Denver. Chairman Hanna returned home Sunday, coming direct from Philadel phia. He declined to say anything about the gossip concerning the cab inet appointments of President-Elect McKlnley. Fred H. Holmes, for nineteen years postmaster at Canton, Mass., was yes terday arrested on a charge of embez zling $1,110 of the funds of the post office department. Ex-Senator W. C. Gear of Upper San dusky, Ohio, who has been on trial here for a week for alleged bribery in' tho passage of a bill, was acquitted by a jnry. Herr Ernst Engel, the German sta tistician, is dead. He was born at Dresden in 1821, became director of the bureau of statistica in I860, and retired in 18S2. Samuel Carpenter, an lS-year-old Ithaca, Mich., youth, is dead from ex cessive cigarette smoking. Frank L. Benedict, agent of the Mil waukee load at Fairfax, Iowa, shot and killed an unknown man about 20 years of age. Shortly after the evening pas senger train left Benedict started to go home and was held up by several men. Shots were exchanged with ihe above result. At Delevan, 111., fire destroyed Phil lips' hall, the oldest brick building in the place. Loss, $10,000; Insurance, $3,000. William J. 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