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LESSons ‘Urawa from the History of Job, Piain Tak edie. the Pulpit

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‘‘Hast thou considered My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect aud upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth evil ?’--Job I, 8.

Tus is a very remarkable history. Re- markable forits completeness. It vivas an account of all the actors that are at work ; making history, Angelic, Satanic, human,

We have only half of history in the acts of the flesh and blood actors. To complete the view we want theacts of the ‘‘myriads of spiritual creatures” as well, who are as busily engaged as they. It is worthy of note that this book of Job, which is written |to illustrate the dealings of God’s provi- dence in human life, should give such prominence to the work of those invisible agen‘s, when we are thus taught to believe, are potent for good or evil in the lives and fortunes of men. Especially does it bring into view the activity of evil agency in the calamities of life. The chief of these | powers of evil is represented as going up |and down in the earth, keenly observing , all that was going on, marking not only the outward acts, but the motives and purposes }of men, so that an appeal is made to his | knowledge of the human race and of the ,cnaracter of each person in it. The ques- jt on in the text was asked of Satan to assign his true character to Jcb. Satan, | like many of his children, was not willing | that any thing should be said in favor of a good man without trying to detract from the value of the commendation. If you were ‘to ask who is the greatest man of the pre- ‘sent age, you would find some difficulty in getting an answer to your question. There | would be a very wide diversity of opinion. | The world would be divided into sections, and each section wou!d have its hero or j|heroes. The literary world would point |to some author,-the political world to some statesman, the commercial world to some successful millionaire. Each would have its own ideal of greatness '—~indeed there could be found to be nearly

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w8 | was a ‘* perfect man.” i reasons assigned by the Almighty for the

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judges. MEN ARE NATURALLY AMBITIOUS,

, and the question who shall be the greatest | was asked not only by rival emperors and ‘warriors but by the disciples who sur- rounded the greatest and most, lowly of men. But the question who is the greatest man of his age has never been answered satisfactorily but once. Then there couid be no possibility of appeal from the de- cision. The reason of the decision is also | given, and thus a more important question ;settled that is the standard acvording to | which men are to be estimated.

Job was the greatest man of his day, and the reason was not that he was the richest ‘or the most influential ; not that he was ‘the most famous or renowned, but that he Let us look at the

‘pre-eminence given to Job. Perfect—the |word has reference to the roundness or ' completeness of his character. The word, |in the original, means finished in a high and sacred sense. One who had made the ‘most of every means of self-improvement (and self-culture within his reach. I donot | think it refers exclusively to his moral and | religious character. We have those in the | last of the sentence—‘‘ upright,” ‘‘ feared | God,’ “ esehewed,” and certainly it would be very weak, after saying his relig- ‘fous character was perfect, to go on to say that he was honest or upright. am Besides, from the history we learn that there were other distinguishing | travts in Job’s character besides his honesty ‘and integrity. Job was a finished business ;man. He was eminently successful both | before and after his misfortunes. . And no | doubt his success was owing to his tact; ‘industry and ability. I do not think we ‘are justified in thinking that there was ‘anything miraculous in his success. It is ltrue that itis said that the Lord blessed him in all that he undertook, but in ex-

And restores actly the same sense as that in which God

-may be said to bless the labors of a good men now. It is a fault of many Bible students thatthey see too much cf the superhuman and en; érnatural in these Scriptural characters, and too little in those of our own times.. When they look back. to those instances, they are always sur- rounded by a haze of the supernatural, and. they seem to have nothing in common with the present. ‘‘All very well,” they say as they turn away with asigh from the study of some of these noble characters, ‘‘but things are 86 different now.” These histories are of little value. upless they present us with examples for our imitation, and they are only useful for examples, as

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ein the same conditions of human life (as ourselves. Job was blessed with

|r VIRTUES OF TEMPERANCE, FRUGALITY AND INDUSTRY,

M @SsIrs. B. Williams & Co, ‘and these are elemerts of success. He was

blessed with wisdom to plan, and ability to

Lumber and Coal Dealers, Pownal Wharf, | .xecute, and those are elements of success. Charlottetown, our agents, who will keepi i, own example would be a means constantly on hand a fall supply of Monld- of

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virtues have

like we

inculcating botisehold, and

BRRECIES, | to know that he guarded their char-

acters with a jeslons eye and that was

not forget th.’ around and about him was ‘an wnseen hedge guarding him from evil, | but that we have every reason to believe

N. B, | belorgs tu you and to me as much as to

ithose uf old. It was the blessing of God

uveess, and then we must!

that made Job rich, and made him porsessar \of thoe sterling qualities of character wiich ensured him sucecss, and these qualitics Were not forgotten by the Judge in suinming up the elements o fhis greatness —a perfect man, etc. Young men ours is an age when tere is held out before you exau pless of greet success for your emula tion. I think it is right it shotld te so. and therefore [ have pointed out this in the \character of Job. 1 cannot thivk that the imitation of honest industry will be kart- ful to any one. Far more likely that if yu yield to the temptation to an easy going listl:ssness that’ every manly virtue and every christiaw grace will ret and moulder in that foul atmesphere of unholy idleness. I do not, therefore, present the picture of this the foremdst man of his age as getting rich by any stidden or unusual methods bot as firmly relying on the same DIVINE PROVIDENCE

that watches your path and compelling success by energy and industry. Man inher- its the Lordships of the earth, Take it. Earth, air, and ocean are your heritage Use them. Develope their. resources. Make them a blessing to the race. Though immortal

YOU HAVE A MISSION ON EARTH.

See that it is well done. Whatever honest employment comes to hand do your best at it. You may not all have the same success as Job, but you may all make the world richer for your having lived:in it. Job was

AN INTELLIGENT MAN,

His speeches in reply to his three friend show this. These, of course, are not in- spired any more than those of his friends. They contain mistakes, which were after wards set right by the Almighty, and they show the character of Job’s mind, and prove him to be a man of intelligence and thought. In spite of.his honesty and un- bending integrity, I cannot think that Job would have been assigned the position of the greatest man of his age, if he had been a man whose devotion was due to his ignor- ance, or one who would desire to see every one else ignorant because he was so himself. Wilful ignorance is a sin. I know that there are some who condemn all knowledge as useless, unless it helps to feed and clothe their bodies, or represents so much money-making power. There is an ignorance that men can’t help. God forbid that I should condemn them for it. But there is also an ignerance that results from culpable neglect, and that is wrong. If he who starves his child’s body is guilty of culpable neglect, so also is he who dwaris and cripples the nobler nature. God has placed around you many means of acquiring knowledge, and if you spend all your time in idle amusement or light, un- profitable reading, you are culpable in the sight of Him who said also ‘‘that the soul be without knowledge it is not good.” God has opened

THREE BOOKS,

Nature, Providence and Revelation: and it is the duty of all to readin these. An up- right man! No true greatness of soul can ever stoop to do a dishonest thing—to do a mean ora shabby thing. Job did not owe his wealth and position to dishonorable tricks, or questionable business transac- tions, or mean and low petty scheming An vpright man—I would lke to put peculiar emphasis here; for this is the ery- ing sin and shame of ourage. They stoop to such dishonorable things. Stoop—get- down on hands and knees to crawl through the dirt to wealth)and “position or power. Would that this voice could reach the would be great—the

ASPIRANTS FOR PLACE AND POWER,

who wink at the giving of bribes, who let pass unchallenged the scandalous lies cir- culated for party purposes, who pander at the lowest passions and vices of the mob for the sake of votes, who neglect to do their duty in reference to the vices that are ruining our youth for fear of unpopu- larity, who will wade through the mire of petty meannesses and trickeries for place and power! Would that this voice from the text could reach them.

But to come to the secret of his whole character,—he was one that feared God and eschewed evil. “There was something more than tact in his business success, something more than love of knowledge in his intelligence, something more than olicy in his honesty, or merely sentiment in his uprightness. He feared God. He was aconstait worshipper. All truly great men are reverent. Atheism is a mark of littleness of soul. ‘‘The fool hath said in his heart there is no God—littleness, noth- ingness, DEATH. There never yet was a great Atheist. As well might you talk of a giant oak growing up withoet the light of the sun. Nothing but a bleached, puny and sickly growth can be found where the rays of the great vivifier do not penetrate. So nothing but puny sickliness of soul is found where the light of life does not shine. This is the distinguishing difference between God's great men and the world’s great men—that the higher nobility seek the approval of God; the base seek the praise of men. That word glory which has such a witching sound in the ears of some, is but another name for the echoes of thousands of voices shouting approval of something which pleases their fancy, daz- zles their imaginations, or falls in with their prevalent homors, And for that men will sell their sense of self-respect and their acceptance with God. ‘‘Well,” said Nabcleon, as he journeyed to- wards Paris after the campaigh, ‘‘A few more great events like those and I shal] indeed descend to posterity. But still it is little enongh. Ihave conquered it is true, Cairo, Paris, Milan, but were I to die to-morrow half a page of general history would be all that would be devoted to my ‘exploits after ten centuries.” He coveted ‘many pages, and he got them, but ob at what a cost of guilt to himself, and suffering to his fellow men. Half a page of general ‘history or less! A short-lived fame that will pass into oblivion one-fourth of a century after they aire gone, is @ more

powerful motive to mary than the fear of

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God. Half a page of general history! No. But, rather, that your names be written im the Lamb’s Book of life.

He feared God and received his task from im will aot. take its empty praise or sordid gold for his hire. This gives a nobility to his aims and purposes in life. Job was a successful business man, but bis righteous- ness did not depend on bis business pros- perity. He took a wider view than that. He could exclaim, with the most complete resignation, when all prosperity was gone, ‘The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord.”

So, true greatness of soul cannot con- fine itself to time. ‘* He aims too low who aims beneath the skies.” Short-sighted people are too apt to look on the church-going, praying people as a set of amiable dvlts, and ninnies, and old fogies. Ah! you are mistaken. They are the ones of the widest grasp and noblest and miost far-reaching purposes in life. ‘* We look not at: the things which are seen, but on the things which are un- seen and eternal.” The character presents the noblest sphere for your ambition. The man who fears God is infinitely superior in life and prospects to the worldling. Measure him by the low standard of time, and even then his superiority is manifest. Ask the question what is he worth? You may look on him as having nothing. Yet he possesseth all things. He has a goodly fortune in hand, for ‘‘ Now are we the sons of God.” God will take care of his children. ‘“‘The Lord God will give grace and glory, and no good thing will he withhold from them that walk up- rightly.” And it doth not yet appear what he shall be, but, if children, then heirs, begotten to a lively hope of an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away.” *‘On all the kings of earth with pity we look

down.

And claim in virtue of our birth, A never-fadipg crown.”

An Audacious Report. DANGKROUS AND PRECARIOUS CONDITION OF AN IMMENSE MAJORITY OF CITIZENS. The Pull Mall Gazette severely criticizes the report of the Skye crofters, and pro- nounces it ‘‘audacious,” inasmuch aa it ‘favors agrarian revolution, strikes at the chief features of our present social organiza- tion, and describes the condition in which the immense majority of citizens spend their lives as ‘dangerous and precarious,’ ”’ ‘The report,” it continues, ‘‘teaches the lesson that to expatriate the malcontents only increases the difficulty. The next generation of Irish and Scotch abroad will have acquired ascendancy over those at home, But the time is coming when the English abroad will alse acquire ascend- amey, over those at home. Only a time of danger and distress is needed to con- vinee the foes of Eng'and how vast a re- serve of English strength lies dormant in the new Englands which encircle the world.” THE CROFTERS AT HOME,

A correspondent of the London Times, who has been visiting the homes of the Scotch crofters on the Island of Skye, gives some interesting par.ieulars of the agrarian difficulties. It is on the mossy land in the centre of the island that the crofters, who form about nine-tenths of the population of the island- which amounts to 5.700 souls—have their settle- ments. They are scattered over it in town- ships, numbering from twenty to eighty families, or from oce hundred to four hun- dred persons. It is with these townships unquestionably, and with their ordinary inhabitants, that the inquirer into the crofter system in the Outer Hebrides has to Go. What the crofters would like would be to have the fertile belt of ‘machar’ land on the west coast divided into crofts and allotted te them; but the reply made tv them is that they could not afford to pay the high rent which that land com- mands in the market. The crofters evi- dently tind the cultivation of their lands a very discouraging, if not altogether a hope- less task. Nothing could well be more melancholy than the aspect of most of the croftsin South Uist. The aatural sluggish- ness of the soil is reflected in the despairing indolence of those who work it. The houses of the South Uist crofters are, for the most part, wretched hovels. They are generally built of rough stones, but in some cases the walls are either wholly or partly of turf.

RENTS.

It is the exception, rather than the rule, for these crofters to be punctual in the pay- ment of their rents. Rents vary with the quality of the land from £3 to £9 a year. But it is with the poorer crofters that there ice the greatest trouble. Those who are liable for the bighest rents are usually able tu pay thew. The crofters who are most generally in arrears are those who pay, or who ought to pay, the smallest rents. Some of that class in South Uist are at the present time behind with their rent to the extent of two and three years, and the ar- rears now amount to several thousands of pounds, which there is but little chance of the proprietor ever recovering The greatest difficulty, however, in the case of the crofters is that of overpopulation. That is undoubtedly the chief cause of the prevailing poverty. The crofters are by no means Malthusians in their domestic econo- my. They multiply at a marvellous rate, and as the surplus population never thinks of hiving off, a crofter township very soon ‘comes to resemble an overgrown rabbit 'warren. When a crofter’s son grows up ‘and merries, he simply eettle down ‘as a matter of course on his father’s ‘bit of land, building for himself a pew hut or putting up a pent house for him- ‘self at one end of his father’s cottage. The evils resulting from the overerowding of the crofter townships point to emigration as the

best solution of the difficulties of the case.

, The one influence which is likely to shake eventually to uprddt this prejudice te potsous

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island crofters agaiust emigration is that of education. As intelligence spreads among the people it may be hoped that their id-ae will be enlarged, and that the ambition of the younger members to better themselves will be qnick- ened

Some War Prices.

WHEAT $30 a BUSHEL AND TEA $15 a POUND.

M Quad gives the following reminiscen- ces of the Civil War in the States. In 1864 the Confederate Government revised the scale of prices to be paid by its pur- chasing egents, and for several months the following figures were closely adhered to: Wheat per bushel, €30; flour per barrel, $132; corn per. bushel, £24; meal per 100 poands, $23.70; sweet pota- toes per bushel, $12; hay per 100 pounds, $11; rice per pound, $1; coffee per pound, $8; tea per pound, $15; pig iron per ton, $278; bar iron per ton, $130; railrcad iron per ton, $425; beef per 100 pounds, $30; sugar, per pound, 36; molasses per gallon, $25; sheetings per yard, $2.08; sheetings per -yard, $1 71; gray cloth per yard, $12; army shoes per

pair, $15. The day before Richmond surrendered butter was $25 per pound. The day after it was 50

cents. When the first issue of the Confederate movey was scattered among the people it commanded e slight premium. It then sealed down as follows: June, 1861, 90c.; Dec. 1. 1861, 80¢.; Dec. 15, 1861, 75¢c.; Feb. 1, 1862, 60c.; Feb. 1, 1868, 20c, ; June, 1863, 8c ; Jan. 1864, 5e,; Nov. 1864, 4t4c.; Jan., 1865, 24c.; April 1, 1865, I4c. After that date it took from $800 to $1,000 in Confederate money to buy a one dollar greenback until the end came.

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Assets and Liabilities of Quebec.

The total liabilities of the province of Quebec on December 31st last were $22,- 683,384, and the total assets $11,424,182, Jeaving a net debt of $11,269,202, which will remain as a permanent charge on the revenues, and which will likely be the cut- side limit of the debt. In the liabilities the claim of the Dominion for $859,000 balance against Quebec on the settlement of the accounts of the old Province of Lower Canada is not included, the Treasurer tak- ing the ground that the claim is erroneous and unjust, and that it cannot be main- tained upon e feir and proper adjustment. But, on the other hand, the municipal! Joan fund is also omitted, although the province has a prospect of collecting that money, and the one aceount

fairly be offset against the other. This then iw the mea- eure of our liability, and it creates a fixed

fanpual charge on the revenues of about

$570,000. — Montreal Gazette.

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British and Foreign News. Grand Duke Louis 1V., of Hesse, left a widower by the death of Princess Alice, it is said wante to marry Princess Beatrice.

It is stated that the British Government will place $25,000,000 at the ditporal of a commission to assist Irieh peasanis to be coms proprietors.

The police force of England and Wales consists of 682 superintendents, 1,488 in- spectors, 3,482 sergeants and 28,381 con- stables. The total strength of the Scottish police force is 32 chief constables, 110 superintendents, 176 inspectors, 358 ser- geants and 3,257 constables.

A baby show is being organized by some Parisian medical men for the month of July, to be held in Paris. The honorary presidency of the show will be offered to Victor Hugo, who is an enthusiastic lover of children. The successful babies—that is to say, those who shall appear the fattest and most healthy—-are to be decor- ated with medals, or are to receive certifi- cates of merit.

There are 81,000 school teachers in France, of whom 48,043 receive less than $200 yearly salary. Salaries ranging from $200 to are paid to 22,355 teachers; from to $320 to 5,969 teachers; from $320 to $380 to 2,260; from $380 to $440 to 1,364: from $440 to $520 to 786, and only 579 teachers receive above $520. There are 10,058 that do not receive more than $130 a year.

Considerable controversy has taken place in England on the subject of docking The discussion is carried on with umabated vigour in the press and at the various meetings of veterinary clubs. Notwithstanding all the talk, they are as far off as ever as to any definite decision on the matter. The doctors differ. It is evi- dent that fashion and custom are most popular, and that those who advocate the humane course of non-docking are still pro- fessionally in a minority.

At the Blue Boar's Head inn, at Leicester, Eng., there is still shown the four-post bed on which Richard III. slept on the night of Aug. 21, 1485, his last on earth, for next day he was defeated and slain on Bosworth Field. In the reign of Elizabeth the house was kept by a man named Clarke, whose wife one day observed a gold coin fal] from the bed; this led to an investigation, when it was found that the double bottom con- cealed a large mass of gold, ly coined by Richard and partly of earlier date,

An analysis of more than a dogen sample. of mustard, gathered from local manunfac- turers who supply retail grocers with o large portion of what is consumed of this condiment in New York and vicinity, has resulted in unpleasant disclosures, The samples in question, says the Shipping List, all contained a very large tage of flour, some as much as 70 to 75 per cent. ; a number revealed from 6 to 20 per cent. of Terta Alba, but three contained a sub- stance used for coloring purposes, known as napthol yellow, a dangerously explosive compound as well as vivlent ‘ant

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