Weekly News. — 1892-03-10 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

GOD AND THE MASSES.  The Jewish people never reasoned themselves into a conviction that there is only one God, and there never yet was in this world a nation that did or could do so. Individuals here and there in the world's history have found, or thought that they had found, the truth that there was one supreme God, but the masses of inaekiiid never yet found that for themselves. For a nation, for the masses of mankind, there are but two thoughts about God—one is Paganism, the other is Atheism. One is the superstitious belief in many Gods, and the other is the utter denial, it may be merely practically, or it may be speculatively and intellectually, that there is any God. The one is the belief that sees God everywhere, the other is the darkness that sees Him nom here ; one or other of these is the fate of every human being who has no revelation. Superstition peoples the world with Gods, men see and hear a God in every rock and stream and tree; hi the sound of the wind, and in the roar of the waves, they hear the voice of many Gods. And they cower before them and entreat their mercy, and believe that in the manifold workings oh nature they have the capricious wills of their imaginary Gods. And with this superstition science is ever at war—it is ever teaching men Uat what they believe to be Gods are no Gods; it is ever resolving what seems will into force, and what seems force into law. The domain of what is known is ever intruding itselt further and further, day by day and age by age, into the region of the unknown. The mists of the early dawn of man's ignorance are melting away before the clear white light of science; and science breaks into fragments one after another—breaks into the minutest fragments, as with the wand of a magician—the idols of the heathen, and strewing their temples with them, asks the worshippers, not always angrily, sometimes very sadly and sorrowfully and calmly, Where are now your Gods? Iletween these two extremes, the superstition that sees God everywhere and the scientific desolation ;hat sees Him nowhere, there is no logical standing ground for man without revelation."—"Christ the Light of all Scripture." By the late W. C. Magee, D.D. (London: lsbister and Co.)  A prisoner, on being sentenced to penal servitude for the term of his natural life, was consoled by one of his friends in the court shouting out, "Be aisy, Toni, me jooil, we'll give ye a foine spree when ye've sarved yer time." Wickwire: "I tell you, Yabby, my boy, there is nothing like a baby to brighten up a man's home." Yabsley : "Yes; I have noticed that the gas seems to be at full height in your house at almost any hour of the night." "Your honour and gentlemen of the jury, I acknowledge the reference of counsel of the other side to my gray hair. My hair is gray, and it will continue to be gray as long as I live. The hair of that gentleman is black, and will continue to be black as long as he dyes." Manager A.; "I am absolutely overwhelmed with new pieces tired at me by people who think they write for the stage." Manager B.: "So am I, but they don't trouble me much." Manager A.: "Why? What do you do with them ? " Manager B.: "Well, when a new author comes to me with a piece, I receive him cordially in a cold room. As soon as ho begins to read his screed, I shiver and ring the b 11. The boy comes up, and I say: Tom, bring two or three more tragedies for the tire, it's getting low.' In five minutes I'm alone. See ? "  ”wing to toe prevalence OT influenza among Ez.cptian troops at Wady Haifa, the proposed ounceuvres have been stopped.  Another man, a waiter, has been arrested as an accomplice of Crampton for the, burglary and murder in the Rue St. Denis, Paris.  M. Lockmy intends to introduce in the French Chamber a resolution in favour of the reorganisation of the coast defences on new bases.  The imports into the United States during the past week amounted in value to 12,111,817d01., of which 2.944.121d01. were for dry mode.