. Christian herald and signs of our times. welve million gallons aday. He, therefore notified the officialsthat there was no way of fulfilling theengagement, but by laying another pipe,which it would take a year to lay. In themeantime only ten or twelve million gal-lons a day could be furnished. He regrettedthe error which was one of calculation, butit was evident that the company could notdo what it had undertaken. There was,he said, no deficiency in the source of sup-ply, which was practically inexhaustible,but the avenue of conveyance was not suf-ficiently capacious. Whether the city willbe
. Christian herald and signs of our times. welve million gallons aday. He, therefore notified the officialsthat there was no way of fulfilling theengagement, but by laying another pipe,which it would take a year to lay. In themeantime only ten or twelve million gal-lons a day could be furnished. He regrettedthe error which was one of calculation, butit was evident that the company could notdo what it had undertaken. There was,he said, no deficiency in the source of sup-ply, which was practically inexhaustible,but the avenue of conveyance was not suf-ficiently capacious. Whether the city willbe content to wait a year while the com-pany lays a new main, or whether it willobtain a supply from some other source,remains to be decided. It is vexatious thatthe difficulty should have arisen. Thecity ought not to lack pure water when somuch is accessible. There is no questionas to the responsibility. It is so with thesupply of grace and power that the churchand individual Christians need for theirlife and work in the world. The Apostle. JlDGE RICHAKD H. ANDREW D. WHITE. JlSTlCE DAVID J THE VENEZUELAN COMMISSION. MR. DANIEL C. OILMAN. MR. FREDERIC R. CODERT. )aniel C. Gilman, President of Johns mation and he is convinced that in time iopkins Univ ersity. He was Professor ofhysical and Political Geography at Yalentil 1875, when he resigned to become therst President of Johns Hopkins. Thefth Commissioner is Mr. Frederic R.^oudert, who was one of the counsel te-ore the Behring Sea Commission. Mr. the treasure will be found. No systematicsearch has yet been made for it, the colon-ists having been too busy planting coffeetrees to hunt for the treasure. The leadersays that the enterprise will be an assuredsuccess from the produce of the coffeeplantations, even if no treasure is ever declares, as the prophets had declared be-fore him, that it is not the Spirit of theLord that is straitened. affections. But ye(11. are stiaitened in your12 ] -oudert is a leader of
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