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THE DAILY EXAMINER :

THE DAILY EXAMINER.

FEBRUABY 2 ° |

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

1895

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It has been remarked that wher the grits were In power ‘we had leis of raw material, the rawest of the raw, and it stayed raw |

As cool evilence of the increase | ter is superhuman, His teaching is super- of domestic and interprovincial trade in| human and His work is superhuman Canada it is worthy of remark that Last Sunday we deveted ourselves to the is78 the postal revenue was $2,110, 0 | study of the character of Christ and we 893 it was $4,543,798 more thao! saw that it was so esentially different to all louble ! other charaeters either in history or in y j j > ° > -2 . , _-. — e have the Review of Reviews {for fiction, that it was impossible to classify February It contains many re ths] Him with the rest of mankind. His ebild articles, including one on “Canada’s Prat | jood was absolutely pure He combined rie Commonwealth, a Study of Civil Go-- | spotless innocence with the mo-t master erpment in Man:toba | ful strength; perfect humility with the i } ‘ . . } s t : , yretensions, an i wiltiai — \\ re in receipt of acopy of the | most amazing pre’ k ; aseinns- . , r : } » was an entire lack of any coer’ Canadian Almanac for 1895 It is to be | there was an ‘nati welt } } | to | ness of sin Phis was altogethel rf hope! that copies have also bee fFent to; : : j oi n real 2 v any other of the children of men © , the grtorgan. She statistics it ¢& > - : . + there wes an oO } lerfy} f } life or in tdea And vet there V 7 showing the wonderfal progress of Canada t wH character. All men . : ; - rhat we call character. 4 > the N mal Polic ugLt to be read, | SeUce Of # ay j ioe un eth Nat onal Pol > = and women have som spec ial character

marked. Jearned and inwardly digest 1 by

oo qtecier end a ~ — another patient and so forth Moses was leep in the dark with Mr. Laur.e: ae cats a ven, Solom in the wisest, —S'r Richard Cartwright, according ¢ | Job the most patient What does that a report Of Lis epee h at ingersoll, €X"| pean? It means that those qualities pre- press i the belief that in the next L, beral | dominated over the rest f the character ai istry he woul i hold tt ! » it in their respe tive p ssessors. But the held in the last The Gazette remarks | pred ymminence of any Sspectai quality wa that this will not be cheering a - mark of imperfection The perfection of these who may have business with the) jan’s constitution 1s to have its qualities Mest important of the Government in equipoise; each in its proper place, each partments should Mr. Laurier wio - | coming to the front when required; but coming election | none overshadowing the rest. Read the —Dr. Nesbit. of Ontario, sald the | history of Christ as you find it in the Gos sourse of a recent *peech: “1 gri at pels and you will see that one ofthe most consolation stake that th Grits hay s | wonderful things about it is this absence the census. Well, we will admit we wourd of any special characteristic. All H:s in- sooner have an increase of 5,000, than | telleetual and moral faculties are In_ per- 500,000, but our reform fricuts arc so busy | feet equilibrium. Each was in its proper hugging the ceu= that they forg t that | place, each asserted itself when necessary, any progress we have made > n 1545, if ust to the extent required, and not a jot not due to difference of populal must | beyond. He was the bravest of men,when be due to d-fference of policy e Puis isa bravery was required; the meekest when | good point, neatly take! meekness wa-+ demanded; the most in lig- —_The following figures ure reproduced ; nant when the occasion demanded = indig- Ly the Halifax Merald nation: the most merciful when mercy TOTAL BRITIRH TRADE was deserved. But there was 10 ‘ re ad special quality to d stinguish Him; no 1379 £612,000,00" particular attribute which dominated the 18935 681,826,448 | pest of His human nature.”

Increase in 15 years, 12 per cent

TOTAL CANADIAN TRADE.

1879 veces eee$153,405,6-2 SUBS... .«0 jecowconions 247,633,620 Increase in 15 years, 62 per cent.

—Ilu view of the noize and fuss reces:tly ‘ unemployed * of Mon-

made about the t rineer was

treal, the fact that the city engin not able after a iate storm, to g than six hundred men in al! th eity to shovel snow on the been the subject of much comment. It speaks volumes As the Empire remarks é* the more that is known about the Mon.t- real ‘agitation,’ the plainer it is seen that it was engaged in for effect.”

—The Cons rvatives propo-e this country for the country’s people, and will not see them handicapped inthe race for life. We believe that our farmers and workingmen, with a square tariff and a equare chance, can beat the world, and let the fight come when it may, we will raise the slogan for Canadian stability, and the farmers on the farm and then sons in the factory will fight shoulder to shoulder to give the Canadian markets to the Canadian farmer and Canadian homes to Canadian workmen

—-The experience of the Nor’Wester bas been similar to that of Tue Examixer. No one can be found to show in what way the people will be b-wefiied—tleir fore'gn and domestic trade expanded, the prices of things they have to sell raised, the prices of things they have to buy lowered—ly going back to the conditions that existed before the National P licy was inaug‘rated Our morning and evening organs of the opposition are very fond of asking ques tions, but very slow alout answering ques- tions.

—The morning and evening Grit organs tell us a great deal alout the “ a-tici- pated defeat” of the Canadian Govern- ment; but never a word about the $10, 690,000.00 per month reported as Leing sunk by the Unite! States Government. It is stated that between the first of Septem- ber and the middle of January, the deticit ef the United S:ates was $45,000,000 00. The deficie for the fi-cal year ending lu-t June was a trifle over $70,000,600. There seems to be a very rea! necessity in the Great Republic for tariff re-adju-tment.

—The Canadian bank statement for De cember shows that the money deposits of the Canadian people have touched “iigh- water mark.” They are larger than they ever were. Saya the Monetary Times: “Taking the deposits as they are at pre- gent, viz., of $192,000,000 in banks, or $267 600,000, which is the sam of a)) the deposita in chartered banks and savings banks eombined (including the Govern- ment savings banks), we have a very striking evidence of tue fact that the savings of the people, a3 a whole, in spite of all draw backs, are -teadily augmenting.”

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—A gentleman from tis Province, who ateewdi d the Lib>rel, e nons ration recently held at Montreal, writes to acorresponuent in this city:

“There is no doubt that Laurier treated his eubject very well; but it seemed to me that he could more easily find defects in his opponents’ policy than remedy them. All the arguments he brought forward in favor of free trade and a tariff for revenue ouly was drawn from comparison between Great Britain and other countries—of eourse aseuming that whatever was true cf the old country was true of Canada also. This i- where ‘he seemed to me to be mo-t defective in his line of reasoning.”

—The ple of Cas endish and its neighborhood have sustained a great lose in the death of John M. Robertson, Ex=q Mr. Robertson was a resident of the Jocal- ity for sixty-six year-, having come from his native city of Glasgow when he was but twelve years of age. For many years he was a commissioner of small debts, and he wae for his neighbors a guide, coun-ell- or and friend, giving ardvice, adjusting differences, making wills, ete. Althougha strong and out-poken Con-ervative, and a believer in the National Pulicy @* a means of defence against the hostile commerciai p liey of the United States and of welding io sether the scattered Provinces of Canara into a un ted and prosperous nation, he commanded the sincere respect and friend- ship of those who entertained a different opinion, an! died at peace with God and mao. At his funeral there was a very large number of friends and neighbors who came to pay to his mortal remains the lyst tribute of respect.

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Lord Ros b ry has quite a programme mapped cut forthe coming session. — It does not inelade eight divisions like Mr Laurier’s prop yaal-, but it is quadruple in its cw 1 xnon, Welsh disestablishn e.t, control of the liquor traffic, payment of members, one-man-one-vote, compose the 1s‘. Home Rule and the abolition of the House of Lords are laid to rest for tlhe present. There is a strong feeling that the other matters will meet the same fate.

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AND AGNOSTICISM

CHRISTIAN: TY

Lectures Delivered by the Rev. James

Simpson, at St, Peter's Cathedral, Charlottetown, P E. I

VY. Cneist’s Divinity Provep by Hts | [ EACHING Our endeavour in this course of lectures is to prove that “Chiristis a revelation of i the D.vine” and this because His charac-

} } another humble | istic one s orave, another ‘

Before leaving this subject let me call your attention to another argument from the character of Christ It has been pornt- ed out bv a recent writer (John Fulton) that the most difficult of all falsehoods is the simulation ot character. Even when its purpose is innocent, as in dramatic art nothing short of genius suffices to ensure success. The player struts and frets on- little hour upen the stage, and yet, though thousands of well educated and laborious people study hard to represent the various characters in the few brief scenes of a play pot one in a thousand of them all at'ain to excellence. One false ring in the voice, the least « xaggeration of di+plsy, a momentary lapse of memory, dispels the illusions he is Striving to produce, and so with-every aid that art can furnish, the actor fails to sustain a character for the brief hour of his engagement. When an actor does suc- ceed the world raves at his genius, Fame and fortune are his own, because the task of simulating character ia recognized to be one of the most difficult that a man cao undertake.

It is very clear that the difficulty must increase or diminish with the complexity or the simplicity of the character which is assumed. Anactor might easily succeed a- [Joratio who would make a sorry failure as the wise made Hamlet. I think we may safely say that during the last 300 yeur= not five people bave been able to simuleie the character of Hamlet with any degree of perfection, and all this though a higher genius thai the actors had ‘already conceiy- ed the character, predisposed its situa- tion-, and composed the very words the actor was tospeak. Thus, perfectly to simulate a great human character demands the loftiest eff rts of two men of genius: one to create it and the other to asstine it in the action of a few brief scenes.

What should we think of a person who should attempt, not for an hour upon the stage, not in the presence of a limited or syinpuhetic audience, but for years together wunpier every circumstance that friendship could create or malignity devise—in the familiarity of daily imsereourse and in the very honr atid article of death—what should we think of a person who should undertake both to improvise and to simulate, not only the mightiest and most majestic of human characters, but a character which tranacends the utmost reach of human imagination, the character of the Eternal Son of God? Yet, according to the his- torical gospels Jesus did conceive that character--bore it for a lifetime - never failed nor faltered in it—lived it through, and died in it, with its celestial glories radiant on His crown of thorns 7. Ze pretend that a few uneducated and deluded fichermen could have constructe! such a character is sheer absurdity; and only to stimulate that c.aracter snecessfully wuuld have sufficed to prove that Jesus be more than man. To suetain it faultle-s!y would have surpassed the power of an archangel ruined. To have borne it falsely through a life of perfect in- nocence, with nothing to be gained by it but the reward of infamous and enormous guilt. would have been to present the isa- porsible spectacle of principled mendacity as the motive of spotless holiness, and of

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consummate wisdom acting for « whole liftime with consummate folly, Yet that is the character which the Christ tained, and no where in the action or utter- ance of that transcendent drama has the worl] to this day found one flaw, but it js still forced, agaiust its will, to repeat the verdict of the unhappy Pilate: “I tind no fault at all in this man and from this avain, we claim that Christ was some- thing more thaw human, and therefore divine.” To-wight we take up the argument from the unique teaching of Christ; and we shall attempt to show that it was so fundamentally different to all human teaching—so infinitely superior to it in every respect—so inconceivable in its originality by any mere man that it muct in consequence be superhumau—that of a truth “ never man spake as this man.” And here again it will be necessary for us to appeal to the account ot the life of our Lord as we find it in the four gospels; but let us understand that we ip no way insist On the inspiration of these accounts, We simply say, here are four histories of a person called Christ—it is acknow- ledged on all sides that (omitting the miracuiona poi.ts) these histories are in the main antlentic—that they are written by four dfterent pecsons acting independently of each other; aud so we claim for them just so much, and for the purposes in hand no more than we claim for any other histories,— that ifth y do not contradict one another, they may be considered to give a fairly accurate ac- count of the persons and events deseribed There can be surely no objection to this mode of procedure. Let us, then, examine the teaching of Christ as it is related to us in the gospels :

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{. The first feature of this teaching

| which we allege is proof of the Divinity of

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l the Teacher, is the avowed purpose and

aim of His mission. To establisha world- | wide king’om in the minds and hearts of | mankind, not only while He was- among | them in the flesh, but so long as the world | lasted. He foretold His death; but in | spite of this death, He will still be King | of this Kingdom, the Living Ruler.ot His | Church through all time, the ever-present Head of His Svciety through “aH the svcling centuries. : ” i it thus that men lay their plans? Did any other man ever dream of such an under- taking ? Alexander, Cvezar, Napoleon | have been great conquerors, but in the wildest flights of their ambition did they

tru telas ateacher. But let any enquirer consider that. dilemma in the fight of His unparalleled moral teaching and His peer- less life and character, and then-sar which is the more reasonable conelusion : that such aman, such a teacher, such a -eub- lime and royal personage was after all a mad dreamer, or that His claims were fou ided on truth, that He was all He de- clared Himself to be, that we are here in the presence of a superhuman character, @ superhuman life and superhuman wisdom, and that this man of Nazareth is indeed the Christ the Son of the Living God.

III. The third feature of the teaching of Christ, which we allege in proof of His Divinity, is that it‘satisties al! the bigher aspirations of the human mind, and at the

ever boast that their kingdoms should never fail, that they themselves would

govern themselves for all ages If any living man should hold | such language to-day would he be listened lto? Would he not be laughed to scorn? Yet Jesus Christ was listened to, men | beard him, followed him, obeyed him, | vave up all forhim. More wonderful still, | myriads who never saw him or heard His | voice have died for him. This is what so | impressed the Emperor Napoleon. “Alex- ander, Caesar, Charlemagne and myself.” he said, “have founded great empires; but upon what did these creations depend ? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His Km- pire upon leve, and to this day millions would die for Him. * [think I under stand something of human nature, an 2 tell you all these were men, and I am a man. None else is like Him; Jesus Christ was more -than man. Christ alone succeeds in so raising the mind of man to- wards the unseen that it becomes insens- ible to the barriers of time and space. Across a chasm of 1800 years Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficu}t to satisfy. He asks for the human heart. He will have it en- tirely to himself—He demands it uncon- ditionally, and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful unaccountable; it is altogether beyond the man’s creative

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powers. Time, the great destroyer, 1s powerless to extinguish this sacred flame; time can neither exhaust its strength, ner | put a limit to its range. This an” | he adds, which proves to me quite . con- vineingly the divinity of Jesus Christ.” See, too, how intimately connecied with

| His own person was to be this new king- dom Jesus was to set up. He was to be not only its King and Head, but its Heart also; He was to draw all men unto Him; | He was the light to lighten the world; His | blood-shedding was for the remission of | sins; to Him belonged the forgiveness of sins, they keya of heaven and hell and Par- And as He puts Himself forward world,

a lise. as the Saviour of the so also He advances the equally astound | ing claim to the Judge of i quick and dead. Yes, the judgment and | the final destiny of every individual soul of all the generations of men, and of all races and peoples tribes of mankind, is to be in the lands of this man Je-us of Nazareth, a village carpenter, an illiterate Galilean, What, then, isHe? Who is ile? Whence came He? Is He a madman, or is He in- deed the Christ, the son of the living God? That is the inevitable dilemma

Il..The next feature of the teaching of Chri-t which we allege is proof of His divinity, is the astounding claims put forth by this Jesusof Nazareth. “If the Lord was not more than man, he was less than a good man. Either He was God, or He must cease to be our pattern Man, the Great Exemplar of our race. My reason for saying this is that Jesus makes claims which would have been arrogant and b!as- phemous as coming from a mere man. Read the lives of the great teachers of maia- kind as they emerge upon the page of his- tery; Gavtama, for examp'e, ihe founder of Buddhism, and Soerater, the great moral teacher and philosopher of -Greece, Neither of them makes any claim to sin- lessness or moral perfection. On the con- trary they bewail their ignorance, their #in- fulness, their manifuld imperfections, and what is true of Gautama and Soerate: is true ofall other great teacher*, Pagan, Jewish or Christian. © TLey acknowledge their kinship with other men not only in race, but in the moral imperfections which characterize the race,and ina need of salvation from a source higher than man. Nut ge Jesus of Nazareth. Hoa claims a uniqne distinction, an unapproachab!- superiority over every other member of the human family. His teaching abounds in lofty self-a-sertion?, which are utterly incompatible with His beiug simply an ordinary man; and never once does He suggest that Himself needs redemption:

Let us take a few instancea,, © rms His pre-existence; Before.A m was, [ am.” The expression “I remark- able and significant; it means wah, the great nawe which God had ¥ealed as His eculiar designation © Moscs on Mount Horeb. Here Jesus

asserts His right to appropriate it, He does not. say “Before Abraham was, 1 wets,” but TI an” that ia “I am the self- existent One independent of time, with whom is no past or future but one vast pre- sent.” He associates Himself with the eternal glory of the heavenly father in past eternity. “Father gloriff Thou Me with | Thine own self with the glory whichT had with Thee before the workl was.” He claims co-equal honor with the Almighty. “All men shon'd honor the Son even ax the Father ;’—co-equai knowledge. ‘No man knoweth the Son but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father save the Sen;” co-eqnual power: —“All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.” He speaks with an author'ty as absolute as that which promulgated the moral law an Snai. “Ir was said tothem of old time, but I say unto you “Ail other prophets and teachers sent from God used in their higi- est utterances the formula, Thun saith the Lord,” but this man says “verily, verily | -ay unto you” thus impilicity placing Himself on a line of equality, not with oses, not with Abraham

hut with the Lord God Himself.” And what was the most prominent sabject of His teaching? Was it justice, or benev- olence, or meekness, or purity, or patience, or chastity? No; His chief subject was Himself, and when He sent out His dis- ciples it was that they should preach Christ. Hear His words; “I ani the Way, the Truth and the Life”; “I am the Bread of Life”; “I am the Good Shepherd’; “1 an the Door’; “I am the True Vine”; “I aim the Resurrection and the Life”; “With- out Me ye can do nothing’; “No man cometh unto the Father but by Me”; “He that believeth in Me hath eternal life.”

Notwithstanding all this self-assertion, which in any other great teacher would excite contempt ar ridjcule, or indignation, Jesus still occupies the highest place in the esteem and admiration of mankind, even when these, His claims are not ac- knowledged, and still stands out a peerless | model of meekness and humility. Chan- ning, the great Unitarian, declares that the charge of an extravagant, self-deluding enthusiasm isthe last to be fastened on Jesus, And yet if these claims of His to divine honor and power and worsh: be not just, how can He be vindicated from the charge of blasphemous presumption or self-Jeluding enthusiasm.

The dilemma is inevitable; either He is what He professed to be, the Christ, the Son of God, or else He is aman, who can no longer be followed as an exemplar or

_| point of elevation is prodigious,

same time appeals to nene that are de- grading. What are the subjects on which the spirit of man most intensely requires satisfaction? They are four in number, (1) To know whence we came; (2) To ol- tain freedom from-the sense of guilt-wnder which man & conscience Jabore; BF To have before us a perfect ideal of moral rectitude; (4) To obtain a more definite as- aurance than our natural light affords us as to the destiny that awaits us beyond the grave, Whether Christianity satisfies man’s highest-aspiratious on these points is not a question of theory, but of fact.

1. Man intensely desires to understand the relation which exists between him and the Author of the universe. This question man has very imperfectly succeeded in solving for himeelf, as is testified by the universal voice of history. But. the sol- ution of Christ is clear and definite. It tells him that there is a sovereign creator of all things, to whom man stands in the relation not only of a creature bat of a child. He is a personal moral Being, the Controller of Providence, holy, just, ben- eficent, and unalterably good. Contrast

the account which the New Testa- ment gives of God with those of other religions which have

dominated mankind, and the difference in The God | of the philosopher was @ being who satis- ified not one of the aspirations. of the

human spirit. He was, for the most part,

an impersonal God, incapable of evoking | either trust or love. The popular deities | were tainted with the worst imperfections ; of haman nature. The God of the Ciris- tian is the merciful Father cf our Lord | Jesus Christ. He is what Christis. It is | impossible, therefore, that He who pro- i pounded views of the divine character more elevated than any others which can be found in the ancient or modern world, can have been the prey of enthiusiasin, ereaulity or fanaticism.

2nd, Man’s conscience labors under a

' sense of guilt, and earnestly desires free- dem from its burden. Of this fact the

universal prevalence of the rite of sacrifice

in come form or other is a sufficient proof.

No race of men who have Lelieved in the

being of a God have beeen without some

means of expiating guilt. It may be ob

jected that there are individual instances

ia which this feeling does not exist-at all,

or only imperfectly. I reply that such

cases no more avail to prove that a sense

‘of guilt is unreal in human nature than the cases of those persons who are born

| blind or deaf preve that these faculties. de ! not belong toit. And not only is this so, but the holiest and best of men have al-

| ways felt deeply conscious thet they hace not lived up to that law which conscience

provounces to be right; and the d eper

. has been their sense of this in proportion to the degree of their huliness In what

' position tien, does this feeling of -in piace j man with God? What eff-ct bas. it .on . their respective relations ? How are we to be delivered from ?

it= consequences 7 While these are questions of th profound- est interest, which have leen felt tu be so by every portion of the human race except a few of the most degrad “| sa age-, we have no data which cau enable us. to re- tura a precise and definite answer to them. But Christianity professes authoritatively to solve the question. It informa us that Jesus Christ has completely re tored the union between heaven and earth; tlat: the seace of guilt need exist no longer; an-l that whenever repentance is real tile’ .con- sequences of sin are done away. stn con- nection with this I ask you thoughtfully to consider the following point, as. proving that its solution of this problem has. been feltto be an adequate one. | Wherever Christianity has prevailed it bas abolished the old worjd- wide institution of sacrifices: It has subverted them by aunouncing that’ man can approach God acceptably through the perfect man Jesus Christ, Before this idea all the expiations and sacrificial rites of the ancient world have perished.

3rdly. W th the third of these subject« we need not further occupy our attention, as we have produced ample ¢vidence that the character of Jesus fully satisfies the cravings of the human spirit affera great moral ideal, and it does it with matchless pertection.

4thly. Christianity returns a definite answer to the question what 1s mah’s des- tiny beyond the grave? I assume that no one can dispute that the light that man possesses on this subject independently of a revelation, is very un- certain nor have the discoveries of modern science in any way tended to dissipate the The ntmo-t that our natural light can do is to affurd us a hepe that death will not terminate our existence. Yet who will venture to affirm that some definite information on this point is not in the highest degree desirable. The question whether we shall perish by the stroke of death, or if not, whether our condition hereafter will be effected by: our conduct here, is one which no amount of uabeliev- ing philosophy pronouncing it insoluble, will prevent man from putting to himself

with the profoundeet interest. Man ae

a gloom.

gling with the uncertainties and the unsa

isfying character Of preserit things, cannot help asking himself the question, do my hopes and my fears terminate with this shadow of existecce, which we cal] life? I know nothing more mysterious than tle darkness of our natural light on a subject

of such profound practical interest. Yet it is a fact. Surely if there be a God, He will -aftord us tome

information fur our guidance? Cliri-tianity affirms that it can solve this question on grounds of the highest certainty—the express authority of its founder Chriss, It affirms that the existence of man will not be determinated by death, and that his condition hereafter will be dependent ou his condition here. It even goes beyond thie, and asserts as an historical fact that in one care the universal law of death has been reversed ; that Jesus Clirist has risen from the dead, and that His renewed life is a pledge of the resurrection of al! man- kind, If this answer is true, it is clear that it is one that fully satisties the highest aspirations of the spirit of man. Contrast the Christian doctrine of ‘mmortality with | that propounded in the fizutions literature of the ancient world and mark its supe- | rior elevation. Homer makes his efeate-t hero say in Hades, * I had rather. be the meant slave of earth, than king among the shades,” (Contrast al-o the words of the dying Socrates, who while expressing his hopes for the future, declares hig inabi- lity to affirm anything respecting it’ with certainty. Contrast, them, [ say, with the language of the Galilean fisherman: “In

whom though now ye see Him not, yet be-

and full of glory.” This, then, is briefly | tie arguinent from the teaching of Chris- tianity. It,bas been necessary to condense it very much to get it within the lim ts of a single lecture, yet I think I have said | enough to show that such a Teacher, with such a plan, putting forth such astounding claim-, and satisfying the highest aspir- ations of mankind, is something more than human—is indeed Divine—a revelation from God Almighty. We ask you, then, to take the ieaching of Christ, read it, study it, learn to know something of its beauty and meaning, and you caanot but admire, reverence, love it. Are we asking too much? Listen, then, to the testimony of Mr. Rathbone Greig, whose ‘Creed of Christendom” is said to be one of the keenest attacks ever made upon Chris tianity: “It is difficult,” he says, “without exhausting superlatives, even to unexpres- sive and wearisome satiety, todo justice to our intense love, reverence and admiration for the character and teaching of Jesus. We regard Him not as the perfection of the intellectual or philosophical mind, but as the perfection of the spiritual character, as surpassing all men at ail times in the closeness and depths of His communion with the Father. In reading His sayings we feel that we are holding converse with

tie wisest, purest, noblest Being that ever clothed thought in the

poor language of humanity. “There he stops. But can we stop there ? Nay; Jesus is either more than all this, or He is none of these; for in His teachings He claimed again and again to be more than man. We, too, admire, reverence, love the teaching of the Christ; but we do more. See! he stands in our midst, and pointing to those who in every age have turned their backs on Him, and gone back from following Him. He says to you and to me to-day, “Will ye also go away 7 We shall we answer? Surely we must be constrained to say, “Lord, to whom shali we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life, for thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. TT

COVEHEAD NOTES.

Mr. Michael McCormack, of Stanhope, we understand, inten Is erecting a lobster factory on the north sl gre near Stanhope Brook or Long Pond, He expects when the lobster season is over to do a good business canning cele. Mr. McCormack is @ very euterprising man, and we wish him suecess, Mr. John Wisner has the cantract of buj'ding his boats, He is en gaged at t em already,

Mr. Frank Auld intends erecting a new houze in the com’: g -pr.ng. It is reported he is going totake unto himself a fair partner in the near future. We wish him success,

Da id Douglas, Esq., has improved very mneh under the skilful treatment of Dr. Morris. We are glad to see him around arain So soon,

Mr. John McAulay is preparing to erect anew house and barn this coming sum- mer, which will show his place off to advantage no doubt.

1 wonder if the Grits are going to put their men in the field this tame. If they are they had better hustle, for we ure turning Tory every day.

Caicaco.

come In Olden Times

People overlooked the importance of per manently beneficial effects and were satis- fied with transient action ; but now that it is generally known that Syrup of Figs, will permanently cure habitual constipation, well-informed people will not buy other laxatives, which act for atime, but finally injure the system. “

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The Toronto Globe thinks that it is not dfficult for Mr. Laurier to show where the revenue is to be got after he has abolished the taxes he condemns. Then why dc@3 not Mr. Laurier show it? He has tr el to do s@ iy a sentence which be began thre months ago in Winnipeg and has not fin- ished yet.

_ + abo ——-- Warning to Women.

Ladies who appreciate the high quality of Priestley’s dress goods shonid make it @ point to see that Priestley’s name is stamped on every five vards. Instances are not unknown where Priestley’s trade mark “The Varnished Board” has been sed the secend time with inferior goods wrapped @apon it. :

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In OF named White has be a sentenced to teh n the penitentiary for an act of incendiaryiem, ‘

How discouraging to find that the cloth you have chosen for a suit of clothes dces not turn out as you expected, Such is neveruhe case with the “Tyke” Serges, but you’ must be sure to get it with the re gistered trade mark “Tyke” stamped on the back of eviry 2} yards.

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A census ot the unemployed working men in Brooklyn} us the number at 50,- 000.

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Salt rheum w°th its intense itching, dry, hot skin is cared by Hood’s Sarsa purilla, because it purifies the b!eod,

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ad SPECiat NOTICES Advertisements under this heading enarged for at the rate of fiv: cents p . line. .

The usual Saturday rush at Carter's Bookstore. Our news counter is filled . ih the latest mavazines and newsenaners;: every thing up to date, Bargains in books, etc S-e our bargain table.

First-class butter fer I16¢ per Ib at Ja Kelly & Co’s.

White twilled sheeting, 2 yards wide, only 20 cents a yard at J B Ma-donald & Co. jan3l 4i

A few men’s ulsters, good quality, will be closed out at cost.-J B Macdonald & Co. jan3l 4i

A few sleigh robes at $4.50 to clear at J B Macdonald & €>. jan3I 4i cnn SS

VALENTINES

Comic & Otherwise.

A LARGE STOCK,

Wholesale and Retail,

ae AT

CARTER’S BOOKSTORE

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lieving, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable

SATURDAY,

FEBRUARY 2, 1895.

Union Assurance Co., Ltd.

Charlottetown, January 30, 1895.

CAPITAL & ASSETS, $27,000,000.00.

E. R. BROW,

Let Us Understand Fach (ther Right Here.

Every price mark in this house is plain enough for a child to understand; plain enough even for Price Cutters to notice.

When you see some so-calied low price goods advert.sed, always remember that PATON & CO., the One Price Men’s price is generaliy one better than the one advertised.

Take SHEETINGS! Every person in town knows that the buyer who bought on the beginning of the week at the Une, Two and Three Price Stores, paid 15 per cent. more than tle person who bouglit yesterday or to-day. .

Now that does not happen at the ONE- PRICE STORE. We have our Sheetinvs marked in plain figures, the ame to- lav as they were marked a week ago, and they are 15 per cent. cheapcr than the Price Cutters.

PATON & CO.. The One-Price Reliaye Men,

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Commercial PUBLIC NOTICE.

A meeting of the Conservative Electors of Lot 29 will be held in the Crapaud Hall on TUESDAY, February 5th, at 2 o’clock p. m. for the purpose of selecting

date to contest the East Riding cf Prince

A large and representative mseting of the three Polls, Crapaud, DeSable and West- moreland, is requested. D. McLEOD, Secretary Lib. Con. Association.

Agent for P. E. Island. Crapaud, Jan. 22, 1895—dy & wy

1,000° « 300

WHEN YOU WANT Books, Stationery, School Books, Maps,

Or Anything in the Book Line,

—GO TO—

HASZARD & MOORE

The Men to Give You Bargains.

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It is so Good

that we can afford to positively guarantee it to you,

It is so Cheap

that you ean afford to have one in your pantry.

QUEEN CITY FLOUR, Price $3.75 per barrel.

SANDERSON & CC.,

Newson Block, Victoria Row.

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QUEEN,” has been giving sp as the best Family Flour on

Charlottetown, January 17, 1895—tu

Market Square,

CHEAP FLOUR

J. B. MACDONALD & CO. |

WILL

50 Overcoats and Ulsters at cost.

8 Wolf Fur Coats at $12.50, 1,000 yards Flannelette at 4 cents per yard. Grey Cotton, 34 inches wide, 3 cents. Heavy All-wool Grey Flannel, 14 cents.

OFFER THIS WEEK