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STEADILY IMPROVES DR. TALMAGE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Argues That the World Grows Better Day By Day- Many Opportunities. For Improvement. ' WASUJISUTON, D. C.-In thia discourse Dr. Talr.iagc recites some great ovortta and ehows that the world in advancing in thc right direction; text, .Joel ii, 30, "I will show wonder? ia the heavens und in the earth.." Dr. Cumming-great and good man would have told UK thc exact tinto of the fulfillment ox this prophecy. As I stepped into hin wluriy in London on my arrival from Pari* just after the French had sur renden d at Sedan the ROO?! doctor enid to tro: "lt hi just what I had told you about France. People Itiughrtl ut rae because I talked about the seven horns and the vials, but. 1 foresaw all this from the book ol' Daniel und tho book nf Revelation." Not taking any such responsibility in the in terpretation of the passage, I simply as sert that there are in it suggestions of many things In our tir.ie. . O'.ir <-yo9 dilate and our heart quickens in its pulsations ay wc read 01 evento in the third century, thc sixth century, the ??ifi'ith century, Hie fourteenth century, but there \v?re moro far-reaching events rrowded intoShc niiicicetiih century than iut<> any other, and the lasr twenty years cell p?e any preceding twenty. We read in de l'ni?y newspapers of events announced in one paragraph and without any special .?mphapis-events which a Herodotus, a Josephus, a Xenophon, a Cihhou, would have" taken whole chapters or whole vol ume-? to elaborate. Looking out upon oar time, wu must cry out in the wurrin of the text. "Wonders in the heavens jud in the earth." 1 propase to show you that the tima in which we live is wonderful for disaster and wonderful for blessing, for t'neve murrt lie lifihts and ?hades in this picture as in ?ll others. Need I argue that our lime is wonderful for disaster? Our world has bad a rough time since by the hand of Ood it was bowled out into space, lt is au epileptic earth-convulsion after convul sion; frosts pounding it with -ledge hani iner ?>f icebergs and lires melting it with fnrnaevH seven times herded. It is n won drr me it. has lasted .-o long. Meteor? th i.-:.;.ig hy on this side and grazing it and me!rota shooting hy in the other side and grabing it. none o' them slowing up for tail ty. Wh ile (bets and navies and argo gos i cs r.nd flotillas of worlds sweeping all about tis. Oar earth like a Ilching smack oft the banks of N.cwfoi?,idiai:d, wi.ii'e the "Mli.'-tie and the St. Pani and the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse rush hy. Brides that, oar world has hy sin been damaged in its internal machinery, and ever and anon the furnaces have hurst, and thc walking bcami of thc mountains have brohea, and the islands ht ve shipped a tsea. and thc great hulk of the world has been jarred with accidents that, ever and ann;? threatened immediate demolition. Hut it ?ems to us as it* the inst hundred years were especially characterized bv dis as;rr-vo'canie, oceanic, epidemic. ? say vol? anic because an earthquake is only a volcano hushed up. When Stromboli and Cotoon::i and Vesuvius sion breathing, let the foitndatinus of the earth beware 1 Sev en thousand earthquakes in two centuries recorded in the ca'.a'.oquc of thc British as sociation! -Trajan, thc emperor, goes to ancient Antioch, and amid the sp eudora of his reception is met by an; carfchemake, iliac "nearly destroys the emperor's life. Ltisbon, fair and beautiful, r.t 1 o'clock on !he 1st of November, 1755, in six min ?' . n0,900 have perished, and Voltaire ..V ' i D? them, "For that region it was .t.t st judgment; nothing wanting but. a ti...anet!" Eurone and America fooling thc throb-1S30 chimneys in Boston partly or. folly destroyed! 1 But tho disasters of other times have Ind their counterpart in later times. In 1812 Carneas was caught in the irriu of an earthquake, in 1PS2 in Chile lOO.O'Ji) square mik s of land by volcanic force upheaved io iour and seven feet of permanent ele vation, in 1$rA .lapait felt the geological n(?o:i; : Naples shaken in 1S.V7, Mexico in l??S; Mendoza, thc caoital of the Argentine -Republic, in 18(11; Manila terrorized in IHf.l: the Hawaiian Islands hy such force .uplifted and let down bi 1871; Nevada ehuken in 1871, Antioch in 1872; Califor nia in 1S72, San Salvador in.- 1S73. whi'e 18;'v3 what subterranean excitement! Is chin, an island of the Mediterranean, a ?beautiful Italian watering place, vineyard elad, surrounded by all natural charm and fiistorieal reminiscence; yonder Capri, Hie [summer resort of the Ronan emperor--; yonder Naples, the paradise ot art-this jilean (if ul is.nr.d suddenly toppled into the trough of thc earth. 8000 merrymakers .perishing, and some of them KO far down beneath thc reach of human obsequies that ;it nay be said of many n one ot them, ns ?it v :.s mid of Moues, 'Thc Lord buried jliiin." Italy, all l?uro-.io weeping, all Chris 'tendom weeping where lhere were hearts tc sympathise and Christians to pray. But . while thc nali'Mis. were measuring that 'ma.-.iiitudc of disaster. -nca*uring it t ot rtvilh golden rod like that with wYch thc ?incl measured heaven, hut with the black rule of r'eath, Java, of (In indian archi pelago, the iront fertiie i. land ot all the .carib, ts raught in the grip of tue earth ?make, and mountain aitir mountain sors ,dowii, ?ind city after eily until that island, which produces the best beverage of all the world, produced the idiusiiie?t catas trophe. One hundred thousand people dying, drud! C?omiiig nearer hollie, on .'August 31. ISSU, the great earthquake .-which prostrated one-half of Charleston. IR C. i Rut look at tho disasters cyclonic. At ?the mouth of tho (langes arc three islands, ?.the Hat tin h, the Suiukcp and the Dakin [fihabosppre. In the midnight of October, :1877, on nil those Ihre? islands thc cry 'was. "T ic waters!" A cyclone arose anti rol'ed the M I our lho.-o three islands, ;and of a population o? 319,000, 215,000 were ?drowned. (July those ?lived who had .climbed to the top of the highest trees! .Did you ever see a cyclone? No"? Then jl pray Cod you muy never see one. I caw to. cyclone on the ocean, and it swept us : ?00 mi ey back from our course, and for j .thirty-six hours during the cyclone and [after it we exported every moment to go to the bottom. They lo'd in before wc re hired nt il o'clock that Hie barometer had iallcn, but at Jl o'clock at night wc were awakened willi thc sho?k 'if the waves. AU thc belita ont! Crash went all the "life boats. Waters rushing through the tky liehis down into Hie cabin and down on the fnrupeei until they hissed and smoked in tho doings. Seven hundred people praying, sh "jeldag. Our great chip poised a moment o:i the lon o* a mountain of phosphorescent (ire and (hen plunged down, down, down until it scorned as it she never vvntiid itg-dn he righted. Ah, yon never want lo f ee a cyclone at sea! But T was in Minnesota, where lhere was o Mi of those cyclones on laud that swept tho city o? Rochester from ita foun? dations and took dwelling houses, barns, men, women, children, horses, cattle and tossed them into indiscriminate ruin and lifted a rail train and dashed it ?own, a mightier hand than that of engineer on the airbrake. Cyclone in Kansas, cyclone in Missouri, cyclone in Wisconsin, cyclone in Illinois, cyclone in Iowa! Satan, prince of the power of the air, never made such cyclonic disturbances ns he has in our day. And am I not right in saying that one ot thc characteristics of the time ia which we live is disaster .cyclonic? But look at the disasters oceanic. Shall I call tho roll of the dead shipping? Yu monsters of thu deep, answer w-.ien I call vour names. The Ville de lb?vre, tliu Schiller, thc City of Boston, the Mai ville, tho President, the Cimbria, tho Orogou, the Mohegan. But why should I go on calling thc roll when noue of them an swers, and thc roll is as iong as the white scroll of the Atlantic su.-f at Cane Hat teras breakers? If thc oceanic cables could report all the scattered life and all the bleached bones that they rub against in thc ocean, what a message of pathos and tragedy for both beaches! In one storm eighty fishermen perished ott thc coast of Newfoundland and whole ilccts of them oil the coast of England. God help thc noor fellows ct saa aud give high scats in heaven to thc Crace Darlings ami ida Lewises and the lifeboat men hovering nrouud Goodwin sands and the Skerries! Tho sea, owning three-fourths of thc earth, proposes to capture tho other fourth, and is bombarding the laud all around the carib. The moving ol the hotels at l?ri?h ton Beach backward 100 yards from where they once stood, a type of what is going on all around the world and on every coast. The Dead Sea rolls to-day where ancient cities stood. So I rejoice day by day. Work for nil to do, and we may turn thc crank of thc Christian machinery this way or that, foi* we are free agents. But there is the track laid so long ago no one remembers it-laid by thc hand of the Almighty Cod in sock ets that no terrestrial or satanic pressura can ever affect. And along tho tracie the car of the world's redemption will roll nnd roll lo thc Grand Central depot of the millen nium. I have no anxiety about tha track. I am only afraid that for our indolence and unfaithfulness God will discharge t.s and get some otljcr stoker and some other engineer. Thc train is going through with us or without, us. Tliere is a house in London where Peter thc Croat, cf Russin lived awhile when bc was moving through the land incognito and in workman's dress, that he miejit learn ship carpentry, by which ho could supply the needs of bis people. A stran ger was visiting at that hou?e, "What's in that box?" The owner paid: ''1 don'i know. That hore was there wheu I poi the hoiue, and it was lhere when ir.y fat'.ier got it. We havn't had any curiosity t-> look at. it. I guess there's nothing in it." "Well," said the stranger, "i'd give voa ?2 for it," "Well, done." The ;C'J was paid, and the cornent* of that box wove sold to the Czar ot Russia for ?1.10.090. In it thc lathing machine or Peter the Great, his private letters and documents of values beyond all monetary consideration. And here are Hie events that seem very insig nificant nnd unimportant, but Ikey ?ncav3 treasures ol Divine Providence and eterni ties of meaning which after awhile Cjd will demonstrate before the ages as being of stupendous value. When Titans play . they pilch mountains, but who . !'. ,. ' 1 ?..tic natural for;:os we . i?.i m;?- ; about? Whose bani valve of the volca* ? . den'y planted on : ; * * ..too .. . .'. .. . .. continents oui vet ? 1 < .. i !.. ... peace with Him. Through the Lord Jcsiu ? "irist this Cod is mine and Ile is yours. ? t"ic earth quake that shook Palest) . tho cruci fixion against all the down i\?.-.;ings of the centuries. This God on our side, we may challenge all thc centuries cf time a.ul ail thc cyc.es of eternity. ?ho?c of you who arc in midlife may wc"1 thank God that you have S' m so many wondrous things, bur there, r.rc peop.Q alive to-day who may iive to tee the shim mering veil between the material aud the spiritual -vorld liflei!. Magnetism, a word with which wc cover up our ignorance, will yet be nn explored realm. Elect ri'.*i ty. the fiery courser ot thc sky, that Benjamin Franklin lassoed and Morse and Bell and Edison hr.vc brought under complete control, has greater wonders to reveal. Whether herc or departed this ??fe, we will see these things. 1. docs no. make m jell difference winne we stand, but. the higher -he standpoint thu larger the pros pect. We will sea them fr-.mi heaven ii we do no; see them from carin. Years ago I was at l'ire is'and, Long Island, and I went np in t ic cuno a Lora which they telegraph to New York lbs approach of vesse's hours befo..* the. como into port. There is an opening in I'm val', and the operator puts hi. tcleLao >i llirorgh that opening and looks rut and t-.cn ves sels f:tr out tit sea. While I was talking with him he went un and looked cat. lie reid. "We are. expecting lin Arizona to night." I eaid: "Is it possible yon know all those vessels? Do you Imo v.- them as you kno-/ a man's face?" II? said: "Yes. f never make a mistake. Before 1 sro Un hulls I olten knov,- them by the masts. I know them all-I have watchc 1 them so lon?;." Oh, what a j-isnd thing it is to have ships telegraphed and heralded lc-.ig bcioro they come to pori, that friends may conic down to the wharf and welcome their loue. abtent ones! So to-day we taks our stand in the wa.ch tower, and through thc g.ass of inspiration wc look off and sse a who c fleet of snips coming in. That is thc shin of peace, flag \\ ?th omi star of Bethlehem ?oating above tho topgallants. That is t ie ship of the church, mark of salt water high upon the smokestack, showing she has had rough weather, but thc Captain of Salvation commands her, and all ia weil with her. The ship of heaven, mightiest craft ever launched, million? of passengers waiting for millions more, prophets and apostles and martyrs in thc cabin, con querora at thc foot of thc mast, while from the rigging hands arc waving thU way as if they knew us, and wc wave back ??rain, for they are ours. They went out iron our own households. O '.rs! J-ai?. ha.l! Put off tho black and put on the white, Stun tolling thc funeral bell and ring thc wedding anthem. Shut up the hearse uno taite thc chariot. Now the ship eames mound Ibo creal headland. Soon she will F trike thc whan aud we will go aboard her. Tears fol snips going o:u. Lavgliicr for ships cou: im; in. Now E'IO touches the wharf Throw ont the planks. Block not up thal gangway with c-inbrr.cing long lr. it friends tor yo.t will have eternity of rasr.iio'' Stand back and give nay until o?h:r ?nid ions come aboard her. Farewell to uki Farewell to struggle! Knrcwvll to sick ?ess! l'orewell to death! "Blessed ow rd who enter in through tho gai/s ?ai: thc city." ICoryr?pht, 1901, I/. li?c.p'-ob. 1 THE GRE^T DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Tlie lilond of Hit? XMlon-Mo?t KTCIM In tit? linn nf .-llcoliol in Not I> an to Prlmttlvn Appetite - Th? Power of IlAtl Influence. President Dar M Starr Jordan. oF tbe Toland Stanford University, bas pub lished iti the Po pulu r Seinnei Monthly a. series of article* ?nt.itled "Tho Blood of tlic Nf><ion: A Stndv of tho Docav of Traces Through tho Survival of the Unfit." That class of philosopher* who arc en deavoring to establish th" theory that, drunkenness and its attending vices and miseries are clearly a ?->aH of Ihr? progress of th? human ra*** will (ind little rom fort in Dr. Jordan's artiste. Conceding tn those gentlemen a r?rl:i?n amount, of truth which it wonlfl he ejrtremc'y difficult to move in behalf of their theories, Dr. .Tor da?? ?nys: "Tho effect of alcoholic drink on race procrees should h<? considered in this con nection. Authoril'ca do not nerpr. ns to thc fina' result of alcohol in ru? ti selec tion. Doubtless, in i hu 'one run. the drunkard will ba eliminated, and ncrhaps. certain authors arr? righr in regarding- this as a pain to tba rtce. On thc other 'nnd thorp j? croat forefs in Dr. A ?ros H. War ner's remark, that'of all emetics eanTonn is thc most expensive. Thc noonie of j Southern Ku rone are relatively temperate. Thpv ha?'e nsed wprte for centuries, and it. i? tho'icht by A?ehdartl Reid and others that tho oau=p of thor temperance is to be found ?n Ihis ld ora "OK. All those t.rollablc appetites tho lone cxnorier onlv tho?e w?fch nej ahililv of resistant is. therefore, in final temperance rase" nnlv nm one usc of alcoholic hcv fith vitiated or unenn aave hpen d cst roved in :e with wine, leaving 1 rmnl tastes and normal j -. Tho free nae of wino t [this view, a cause of . while intemperance those race? v.-hieh have not loni known alt-oho'. nnd have not bc- ? come by select io?i resistant to it. The , savage races whuilwlinve never known al coho' tire ever. lptt? rr ''esl rn ve tl h?' it. "Tn all thi? t.her mont of trn'h. nores th? evil r-fF, tem of lon^-cont'?! (resistant, and are noon must ho a ceri a in e'e he vicv, however, ig i't on tho nervous sya _ lyeil poisoning, even if t'^e poison be on'v in medrante amount". ! Tho temperate Italian, with his daily semi, saturation, is no more normal man than the Seo*"h farmer with his ocen^mnal RT-iT-pp^. Th? lierre 'J'?t?,vbancc which wire effects is an evi'. whether carrier! to ex cess in re-m'nritv or irregularity. Wc know too little of its final result on thc rr>o" to eivo certainly +0 our snecn'ftlion?. Tt. ie moreover t.rno that most ox?ese in (ho v" of n'oohol is not rb.c. to nrimilivc anncLiie. Tt is dri?>'- wilt"'? canece apr>e tito. anil not anurtito which *"oks for drink. Tn a eivn number nf drunl.-a.rds hut. a vcr?' few ho-omp euch throne'? in boi-n nimpt.ite. Tt s inflnonce of hid cx amnlo, lack of puirw. fa'ec idea of man liness, o- some d?font in o1>nr.ic(pr or m:s fortune in enviro*?ire-?t which lr^s to the first slc??s 'in d?-i'nkcnncss. Tho ta^tc on'-1 established tokos caro of i I ap* f. Tn . ear'.'*- times, when the nature of alcohol iras unknown and tifwl abstinence was un dreamed of. it wa? tu? strone thc hei?'er Olie. thc er.prcrct'C.. the an-ietV of 'the strenuous life.' ivlm carried all things to pvees?, Tho wa*?ai' how'. 1 he humper of a'o. the fiador? of wine, al' f'wso were the attribute of the strone. We cannot pay ? * 't tuneo ?rho san1: in s'enho'isvn thei-o'i" . istriteJlbaRU' vLv^jiLthe ftte-i \V1 > ; LI say tb st as tho' Tint?n races ! tcmnerafr?. thev did not also bccoiu 'io-i!. and wak? In other wo'-ds. considering; the influence of n'cohol u'one. unchecked by au educated conscience, wo must ad mit that, it is thc strone and vigorous, not the wonk end pervert "d. that arc de stroyed hy it. At. tho heel, wo can only say that a'eoho'ic selection is a cnn?>?lex forpp. wh'ch make? fo- tcnip"rauee - ;i nt a'l. al a fearful cost of lit"" which without nicohol!'! temptation would be well worth p,.caCrv;nr." Dr. Jordan, it ie to be presumed, would not carp to he underworld as indorsing the idea that thc winr-drinkinc countries of Europe havp hep" ?pa do le"? nora te hy their wine-drinking. ITo ?"s nrobahly much too wei' aeouiiintod with the current, history of Franco and tho other so-called "Wine countries'' to he in ignorance of the true stale of affairs lhere.-New Voice. Pnnspri; ot Alcoholism. Tt is needless to enter i??io details as to the confienuenecs entailed hy overindul Rence in thc ?i=o of alcohol. Jfost of us are familiar with cas?s of ruined lives and wret"hed h otu es HS the resu't. of the fatal habit, and in these days of high-pressure living if. is becoming more and moro com mon. Mental worry, overwork, ill-health,' Avant of sufficient nourishment and e?oth inr? lend lo swell the number of chronic alc;>ho'.i.sts, and Ibo habit sn easily ac quired is extremely difficult to relinquish. | The real danger t ? the race, however, lies in the fact that the great majority ni inebriates need no incentive to acquire ihe habit: they aro born with tho tendency, and it is to this cause chiefly thal, we must, ascribe the increase in the number of deaths from chronic alcoholism during tne last twenty-three yoni?. A reference to the table of statistics shows that in l.S7? twenty-seven persons in ?.?Ql\O?!) died as the result of chronic alcoholism: in 1S03 tliff?ti iiiiiiraa had m<o.' Hun doubjed livm se.vc.s. i.io nuiuiicr men ueivg rcturncu aa sixtv-tivc per l.OOO.O'-M of population. The following quotations point to the conclusions arrived at. by some of the most eminent men nf the day: "Heredity as a causation is estimated to bc present in nearly sixty par cent, of all esses of chronic a'cobohsm." "There are not a iew human beings BO saturated with the taint o? alcoholic he redity that they could ns soon "turn back a flowing river from tho sea' as arrest the m a re li of an attack of alcoholism." Much that has been said respecting in sanity applies equally to inebriety, l?olh belong to the groin* of diseases nf the ner vous system, showing a marked tendency lo degeneration, nnd bolh are liable to be transmitted hereditarily. - Westminster ltcview. Forhld T>r?nUln? Kin pl ore s. Thc laws ol several of the Slates add prescript io .is ot intemp?rance to tho rues ot i lie railroad companies. For example. Miciiiutn forbids the employment o? n drinking ma:i in any responsible capacity connected with the operating of a rai. road, ami even iNew York pro? ?des for the piinishiiifut of any rniiioad corporation tba: retains in it - service as engineer, nra mau. conduccor, switchman, train-dis* paiehsr or telegrapher, ur iii any capacity where by his neg'eec o.' duly ll sa fey and scci'rity of die, person or proper, y t.iay be inineri'ed, any niau of kuonn in ttnipcrnlc Ita'jits. 'i hese rules and laws j have been adopted, .l?t. because of any agitation or pressure hioughv to hear upon toe railroad cumpauitj. bnc because }ta>4 oi experience have dcmonsliatcd their necessity. NEGRO SUPERSTITION* Some of Thom Ar? ?usl I.Ike the One? Held hy Their Whit? Urethren. Many of the uegro superstitions In Kentucky are quilo Interesting. An old philosopher told me with great gravity: "If you want peppora to grow, you muni git mad. My old "oman an' mo had a spat, an' I went ri 3ht out an* planted my poppers, an' they carno right up." Still another Baying ls that peppera, to prosper, must Iv? planted hy a red-headed or by a high-temper od person. The negro also ray:; that ono never socs a Jailbird on Friday, for the bird visits his satanic majesty to "paok kindling" on that day. The three signs in which the ne groes place implicit trust are the well known ones of tho ground hog appear ing above ground on the 2d of Febru ary; that a hoe. must not be carried I brough a house or a death will fol low, and that potatoes must be plant ed in the dark of the moon, ns well an all vegetables that ripen in the ground, and that, corn inutd be planted In the light of the muon. Feed gunpowder to dogs and it will make them fierce. A negro will not burn the wood of a tree that has boen struck by lightning, for fear that his house will burn or bo struck by lightning. Ii a bird files into a house it brings luck. If a craw fish or a turtle catches your toes lt will hold on till it thunders. When a child I was told by a black nurse that if a bat alights on one's head it will stay there till lt thunders. This was eo terrifying that, overt now I have an unnecessary fear of hoing clutched by a bat. To muka soap. ?Ur it with a sassafras stick In the dark of tho moon. His Royal IliKhnnitft. A good story is told of England's heir apparent, who recently made tho grand imperial tour. He was riding on a London "hus incog, not many months ago, and, being of an inquiring turn of mind, asked tho driver, beside whom ho sat, his reason for exclaiming, whenever he whipped up one of the horses. "Come up, your royal high ness, will you?" "Why do you call him royal highness?" asked the duke. "Well, sir," he replied civilly, " 'cause ' he's so 'orly and lazy, and good for I nothing! Sec?" 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