Show tUKHENT TOPICS IX LLIIOIE J Shame to Ilulrli lUHIam Afii can KODH Tlie Irhicci Visit IniK > rlant UIsrOTeries Baljjr Ious Utrraiarr Japanese lu England Dr Jarrar Ac I liionlrdjmcnts etc IIKOIE November ISth 1SS3 i Special correspondence of the DisntJT mvsThie little town of unchain la Devonshire 1 jig land has never had a verb prominent promi-nent place in English h hitori In I fact there r thousands uf people who never saw lirixham and l seem t be tolerably Inj py Vet I was nt this town 31 j eats ao that William of Orange and hU wife Mary landed when they came over from Holland t take possession of i the throne of Great lirltain I ast i week a statue was unveiled at lirlx I ham to commemorate the event I and the little fishing village was thrown into prominence as i has not been since hiSS The scene was truly I impressive Amid salvos of j artillery and bands of music and cheering of the crowds the canvass was drawn aside revealing a beautiful statue of illlam and I Mao cut from a block of Sicilian marble of a light grey color The statue itself is of heroic slzu and I I stands on a pedestal about ten feet I I in height I represents the Prince aJdreesing lie assembled multitude I who creeled his arrival At this dIstance oC lime it seems i impossible 1 to fully comprehend the Importance of this event t was j i nothing less than the final victor j llIU ln tii of Protestantism lu England id 1 this expedition had suffered the fate of that I under the unliajy Monmouth mouth a few years before we can ely i > erceive the hUtorj of Kng I land ould have been erydilFere Much has been written concerning the destruction of the Spanish Ar1 lad but comparatirelv little con cerning the landing oM illlam I I i at lirlxhani Kutliuslasm in African al air ha again been aroused from aI1 aru frm the recent letter received from Stanley So late as August 2th both Emln Pasha Pa-sha and ftanley were In snfetj The great problem of Central African colonization seems to 0 in a fairway fair-way to b solved Hut on the other hand comes the sad news that Dr Peters the famous German traveler lias bet n murdered It was Dr Pe era who j re formed 1 treaties be i tw txii the Germ in Government and I the chiefs of the I last African nnc and I his death will I i in German I j > gristly lamented Africa 1 now I the theatre of grea ehange and this iespecially true in regard t I Egypt The 1rince of nn in his recent hit there must have no I I tce a Ya t dI1nn al h I 1 I time of his last visit fourteen lao I l-ao C lira is I fast assuming ttie dii iieuranco of a European town j tWI 1 i Irofu Eel the ruins near Cair t ose mementoes of ancient grealuess are cared for and ellorts arc put forth to preserve them from I runner demolition h l > the liarl irim of the natIves and soldiery Tub I especially true of that oldest nnd most beautiful of I gyptian obelisk < that stands among the preen fields on the brinks of the Nile not far from Cairo I 11 tho gravestone of a great ancient city which has ran bed and led unlj this relic liehlnd That city was Ot the Iteth she mesh of Scripture thefamous On which I memorable to all liiblo readers as the reMchnre nf the nn laC nf 1 1 111 I plural who daughter Aseinth Joseph marl The Gleek called I It Heliopolis the cit of the sun because be-cause there the worship of the sun I had its chief centre and its most i sacred shrine I wa > the seat of the lot ancient university in the world to which youthful tuJuris came from all parts of the world t learn the wisdom which the priests of On alone could teach Thales I JVUOXUS Pythagoras and Plato nil riuaied mere nun pcrnnis loses too It was the birthplace of l frt O of Egypt where were written g1t wher writen on apyrus lee the original chap ll of lie oldest hook in the world generally known a the hook of he Dead giving a most striking account of the conilicU and tri umphs of life after death a whole copy or I chapter of which every Kgyplian rich or i > oor wiOied to have buried with him for Ins cofilu i and portions of which r found inscribed I in-scribed i on every inumni case and on the walls of every tomb In I I front of one of the pritieljnl temples uf the sun in this prilcpal tellle I stood along with a comianlon ct long since destroyed the solitary obelisk I rhtr oLllk which the traveler now beholds It is said to have been I constructed I morethan two thousand be years il t Ihh I torn Christ and has outlateil the shock of annies nnd rlmni nf l nastier and ctaiicts wlienTlt orijb l ni ly stood forty centuries 11 0 Miat a le I on for huuianitv Igrt now under the domin Iou of llritahim thel unknown and l MtwIly IJrltlsh Primiess who strive to d ill hiron lie lrlt niouidering I destals of iir pt lie names of her proudest kings r Jut nov the Antluarlan Societies of Europe especIally these who di Inrage lie Mosaic era have ecu thrown niton flutter of excitement i bj the results of Prof ccitmelt tm Sacefi uls irf 8r explorations I ex-plorations The olllng of the long mysterious line of moulds on the I Cltini b1k of the I Xle mnm nl called TelelAmarm n may well have startled them for these result throw into shade nnythlng tl Jet ull Ils co veretl concerning J jptnn and Jgplm ald Rabjlouish literature fttrange as it may appear it I now reasonable nlpr Tnabl to believe l list vie are now able to handle the very letters that were T r written by the princes and governors wtw i 10ernon of Canaan Babylon ami IVxi when as jet Joshua was unborn and to tr the course of cute rC events which led to the mis sion of Moses and the oS nld exodus tle of Israel out of 3gpt coous About two years ago 1rofessor Abut Jtr 1 lrC tr Sajce while supcriiiteiidiug the dIsInter mcnt of theMs ruins discovered a large number of clay tablets about the size of roof tiles but lot abut lor than half an inch thick these C tablets arty covered with characters in the cert wih ehnmctcn have been found I consist letters decrees and dispatehes from the various kings of IJabylon and Canaan t the monarchs of Egypt Somo of three it has been clearly bl errI i shown were written to nltel previous toj I3TO that is to say at or before the time when Moses lived Thus we see lhat the hines nf ltmi and Assj ria carried ou a corresjiond u eco in their own lan uae with the kIngs of Egypt The Uabylon i hslm llylon a language it thus appear was the common medium of diplomacy and educated society even as a Latin was in the middle ages or as French Is at the present time l Hitherto the received notion has been that the realm of knowledge was very narrow and circumscribed I in the days of Moses Hut suddenly I the veil has been drawn aside Wu find the ancient world much worl mich like cur own The governments goerment and educated were informed nfone of much that was posting on in the countries around them Well Wel may Professor Sayce bid us consider what an important bearing such disrus cues as these must have upon the criticism tile Old l t Testament I I The new Life of the Emperor Frederick I tlie most popular book that has lately been Issued from Lk German press The author Heir Frltag has made a valuable Ier bution t German history One of the most pleasing chapters of the work ie tint which describes the domestic life of the late lat Emperor and the enobling influence of his wife the Princess Royal of hi I land The following extract folowIng otme may not be out of place During their i young wedded life she had devoted her energy sometimes I her patience 1h to instill into the soul 1 of her hus band the interest she had at heart ant It was his beautiful belief hc she ha taught him t feel and t I bcalillesof recognize truth and to enjoy the Lillll of life Just now as Karnnm the nw n Uarnm great American showman i getting I i ready t sweep nil the spare cash of the Londoners Into his pocket the j greatest exposition lie worth hiss ever teen Is being quietly closed at 0111 c I Paris More than twenty million I tickets have been sold best lea the I hundreds of thousands who by means of friends favors saw the exhibition without n ticket This I act alonu goes far lo prove that Paris Is Mill the worlds centre of attraction Of nil nrcton the wonder that hnvo been stored on the Champs de Ian the marvelous tower I den lined t 0 the sole survivor To add to Its attractions a large hotel will be established the first platform plat-form No diminution of Interest In thin riiercltii f tructure io nnuu entlv shbtvn till stream of visitors I at all hour of the day forming along a-long proeewion In ono of thus rooms at the top of the tower Is now to lie seen a phonograph lie Il of Mr IMison which already speaks I fortythree Iniiyiajrc t I One of the mOl striking illustrations illustra-tions of the manner in which intelligent i in-telligent heathens look upon the preiwsterous claims of socalled Christianity lm jut been shown by Mr John T len au Influential Jaianee who a leIr days ago dhl England Mr Joe Is a young man of thirty and the i sou of Yokol tho enlightcucJ Janauesc statesman who led the I I movement in favor of annulling j I foreigner and breaking down the oldJealous exclusivenet and the I ironbound feudalism list fettered all progress Voiol became a believer liever in the lUble through reading a copy in the Chincelanguage He inaugurated the movement for sending young men to Amerlet for education in western ideas In SCO one year after the revolution which put an end to the old order orer of fut Yokel fell by the hand of anassassin who hated his liberal view in I I I 1 and religion HI son toe after fiulhing a eoiirvjf study In lie foremost university of Japan has traveled extensively In Euroj niid America To a cores I lundeut of flic Jinttiait hitrld who was tent IntervIew him Mr Ie Sid What we need In Japan I lot this sect or hint we want our church polity and sstern of thcolog to develop In Japan We wish the missionaries tomake distinction between thb facts of Christianity I and their theories auoui It so mai our > eople shall not 0 confuseil I We want lie religion of Clfritand I the church lolhy that teaches the I authoril of God not of man We Imve Inch Confucianism and Ituddh i i ism and whatever truth there Is I i in these systems must be allowed to remain fruth I truth and will I ever remain 5 A truth tttight bus b-us wIll never contradlet a truth taught l > i Confucius but will harmonize har-monize with I During the last five yucca a great change has come over the educated mind of Japan Formerl Chri tianilj was looked upon with injifllrcncc as some thing lineath notice but I lately thoUgh the cducxtnl min are unable un-able to accept lie CretdS ill clfl loll of the ehurches vet tiny see tliere is a lower in real Christianity t list is I I capable of making nun better We want t lull h libraries but I i no uo ntUII us amy but the best books Man of the books sent out hy lie missionary societIes are won than useless They contain Ideas concerning Christ which prejudice all thinking fIle against Chris I lanity Along tide vHhls terrible irmlgnmcnt of socalled Christian it Jiy n former heathen come the equally damaging acknowledgment acknowledg-ment of Dr Jatrar the eloquent Archdeacon of Vestmini > lcr who says In the domains of science and liibhcal criticism numberless priest t and eel whole generations i of prieU and religious Irit nlli rlgious teachers i have maintained ansi enforced views which are entirely false Scarcely I single truth of capital I Imjortaiiice in science has ever teen gleforhfe enunciatedwitliout against f the having furv of tostrug theological theol-ogical dogmatists In ever f instance the prusts have been nomiuiotisly i def < le TIns world moved r Gallileo said it did in spite of the Inquisition Thousands Ile pulpits I fulminatexl anathemas azamst the curly Kculo 1101 jet Ir r tlitrlv years had ehalseil hIm njeetlon of i I the UIJ truths tint geolou taught would have lieu reRardeel o < the mark of an Idiot Are not the testimonies tes-timonies of these len one a leading thinker the leader of Grent of liberal lirltain llioillit the other In I I Jajian worthy of confide ration Or it it irassible that the socalleel Christian rn so farsunk 111 the ruts and grooves of sectarian ism lint the vrill continue in their ther former cmirse WIll his sects seek la reform their doctrines I or must ocallcd heathens do it for them J II WAIU |