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'"Tho Oinoinnati Sohool Board hag decided that tho Lord's Prayer is^eOQ tariau.1* ' Tho prediotiou of tho Iron Ago that our iron produotion would soon ronoh tho uuprccodontod figuro ot .200.000 tons o wcok has boon moro than voriflod already. Exporimeuts of tho nrmy "with "emorgonoy rations'? indicate to tho Chicago Tiuios-Horald that tho con densed food tablots would bo n good thing to feod to tho ouomy. Alarmed by tho growing frcquonoy and boldness of train robberies, tho officials of tho Ohioago and Northwest* orn B?ilw?y havo abandoned tho pay ear and will pay their cmployos by cheeks. If a man or woman should lose l\isor her lariiyx he or she neod not grievo but may aotually rejoice, for Professor Stuart, of tho "University of Sydney, Now South Wal os, has invontod au artifloial artiolo, tho mechanism of which can mako tho voico soprano, tenor, contralto or baso at will. ' Tho oxporimouts which havo boon undertaken in Dotroit, upon Long Island, and in various plaoos in pro viding gardon patohos for tho poor upon which potatoes and othor vege tables may bo raised, havo provod en couragingly successful, announces tho Now York Tribune This mothod of affording reiiot to thoso in neod soems to bo practical and effective. Tho cost is small in proportion to tho bono lits seourod. Tho oharitablo and be nevolent in our cities may woll try such experiments upon a rnuoh larger scale. They will probably bo gratified by tho outcome Something quito romarkablo came into tho rodomption division of tho Treasury at Washington a abort timo ugo. It was a thin plato of silver about two fcotlong.into thosurfaoo of whioh a$10 silvor certifloato hadboon prossod in snob a manner ns to incorporate its Bubstanoo actually with that of tho modal. It was a brand now bill, and in tho procoss had boon squcozod out to about twioo its original sizo. A statement accompanied it to tho ofToot that a workman in a silverware faotory had droppod tho bill acoidontally upon the plato of silvor as tho later was passing through a rolling machino. This oxplanGtion hoing satisfnotory a fror1' $10 cortifleato was returned to tho loser. Anothor sohool innovation, origin ating in Buffalo, in uso in some of tho sohools in that oity, and to bo intro duced in tho sohools m Oolorndo, is a systom of color study. Advocaoy of it proceods upon the belief that igno rance of color lies at tho foundation of tho gouorally deplored laok of appro oiation of art. Tho women aro natur ally tho activo advocates of tho intro duction of tho stady into tho publio schools, as a knowledge of color ontors largely into intorior house decoration and artistic costuming. Thoy baso thoir request for tho addition of tho study to tho sohool ourrioulum, how ever, on tho highor ground that oolor istic training is eminently praotical and closely rolntod to ort and industry. 'Tho Atlanta Constitution says: Of tho forty-four Stato Governors in tho Amonoan Union, thirty-nino aro avowed believers in religion, twonty niuo areas Christians, most of thom aro rogular attendants at worship, and a vast majority aro contributors to tho exponso of religious work. In an inves tigation of tho subjoot responses woro obtained from forty-threo of tho Stato Governors and thrco of tho Territorial Executives. Of tho Stato Govornors one, Mr. Culborson, of Texas, declined to defino his sentiments, and no ono would speak for him, and anothor, Governor Evans, of South Carolina, failed to respond in any tvay. But thoso of tho other States spoko freely and frankly, and it ia asoortaiuod that among thom thoro aro ton Presby terians, flvo Congregationalists, fivo Episcopalians, four Methodists, thrco Unitarians, ono Christian and sixtoon unconnected with ohuroh organiza tions. Of tho sixteen Govornors of States and Territories unattached to denominational organizations, twolvo attond religious sorvicos rogularly or intermittently, and all except ono, a freo thinker, bcliovo in tho Ohriatian religion and its plan of salvation. Ton of thom havo denominational prefer ence* and oven thoso without such pro dileotion ontortain a kindly fooling for tho work, and an approoiation of ile bonoiloial rosults. Sootionalism cuts no figuro in tho roligious proforenco of the Govornors, oxcopt that most o? tho Congregationalists aro Now Eng landers and a majority of tho Presby terians Southerners. But eaoh of tho religious bodies bas representation lu every section. Wies Willard, Prosldont of tho W, O? T, U.,'thinks that bioyoliug tond? to deoronso tho drink habit. Tho Paris Figuro pointodly dopro* oatoB what it calls England's ultima. tum habit, and eayo that this -weakness mny interrupt peaoo. Somo villain hns started in tho Now Orleans Picayune tho roport that foathor bods nnd pillows woro tho fa vorito resorts of tho dondly miorobo. Says tho Ohiongo Tribuno: Tho Cu ban insurgents sro burning tho sugar and tobacco plantations. It will tnko Cuba a hundred yoars to recover from tho ofloots of this horoio robolliou. One of Connecticut's State Sonntors is orodited with being a member of moro secret ordors than any other man in tho State. Ho prints a list of thom on tho baok of his visiting cards, undor tho bonding: "Somo reasons why I nm out nights." There aro niuo organizations of Odd Follows, six of Masons, ono of Knights of Pythias, ono of Forostors, ono of United "Workmen, ono of Pod Mon, ono of Good Follows, four political and twolvo which cannot bo elassiiiod. Tho Washington Star says: "It isn't ovory organization that can boast of Buch cxcollont financial manage ment as tho National Woman's Chris tian Union. Women aro proverbially good housokoopcrs, and in somo do? partmonts of publio flnnuoo thoy aro successful economists. But whon there Cornea snob a finnnoinl showing as that j which has just boon made by tho j Tronsuror of tho great whito ribbon sooioty tho malo world may woll stand aghast. Tho total annual roooipts woro $23,938 and tho expenditures $18,059, leaving a balanco of $1979, a very neat profit indood for tho year. According to tho Atlanta Journal, Edward Atkinson, who has boon visit ing tito Exposition boro, told tho direc tors tho other day that thc peanut, in digouous to tho South, would some timo in tho futuro booomo na groat a < stnplo as cottonseed ; that tho oil of tUo peanut had boon of great oom- , meroial value in tho Oriontnl Nations, ?tid wou\d bo in tho Unitod States. Ho roviowed tho difiloultios attoudiug tho introduction of cottonseed oil as a Btaplo of food, and illustrated tho straugo prejudice oxisting against it by tho following : "Whon cottonseed oil was undor tho baso of popular pre judice and tho law as well, a Chicago lardmakor shippod somo lard 'ndultor atod' with cottonseed oil to Europe. It was pronounced oxcollont lard. It was likod so woll that he reooivod a 1 great order for 10,000 tiorcos. But at, this junoturo he could got no oil, and was forced to ship tho puro lard. Tho con8ignoo pronounced it 'off sample,'. wouldn't havo it, and tho unfortunate Chicago man lost n'largo sum of monoy, r It has boen a trying year for British supromaoy on laud and soa, deolnros the Ohiongo Tribuno. Ono nftor tho othor Englnnd's roprosontntivos of nthlotios and sports have gone down before tho viotorious Americans, and now they Ho in a heap BO donso, pro miscuous, and dispirited that it is hard to toll which wai. tile worst whipped. Lord Dunravon'sbad tompor and back down in tho races for Amorioa's Cup aro frosh in memory. T'io little half rater Spruce HI. mn do a gallant fight for tho spooial cup, but had to sur render it to tho American Etholwynn. A roproaontativo toam of English criokotors carno over and woro speedily gathered in at England's own gamo by tho Philadelphia boys, Thou carno England's choson team of athlotos and failed to oarry off a single item in tho progrnmrno of sports, and now tho an cient Uuivorfiity of Cnmbridgo scuds ber athletes to oontond for tho supro maoy in brawn with tho athlotos of Ynlo, and thoy aro allowod to tako but thrco out of tho oloven itoms 'on tho programme Mcauwhilo tho Now York Contrai railroad fiyors havo brokontho world's record provious bold by tho British for locomotivo epeod, and Amorionn coramoroial and war vessels havo sot tho standard of spood for British vessels to roaoh. What does all this moan? Aro tho British youth deteriorating in physioal strongth? Is British engineering skill on tho de clino? And is this to bo followod by tho intollcotual supromaoy of tho Americans also? In a recent nrtiolo in tho London Quoon Wnltor Bosnnt, no moan judgo of litorary ovents, no? knowlcdgod not only that tho Ameri can oditors woro making bettor maga zines than tho English, but tbot tho Amerioan magnzinos woro displaoing tho English in their own homo morkot. Will tho Amorioan book bo tho next victor? That old insulting quostion, "Who roads an Amorioan book?" may yot bo satisfactorily onsworod in Eng land itfjolf. MUSTERING FORCES TJH98ILVKR MOVKMICNT GAINING GROUND RAPIDLY. FOr ti NntlonalConvontlon--Organlztmj In Tonnossoo-Tho Hillanco of Powo la tho U. S. Sonate-Journal of Coin} morco In a Stow, un i ot,' Thoro is( strong reason to belie*1 > that tho next dumocrotio national con volition will split on tho silvor quof tion. Tho south will aocopt tho usual straddling platform only if a reoofl nizod ?ilvor man hoads tho tick while tho oast will aocopt it only if a goldman heads it. Tho opon silvor rovolt in Alabama, and tho crushed but still living silvor insurrection in Kentucky, aro straws that show tko feeling in tho south. With most of its formor loaders mu/./.lod or con verted by fat government oflloos that would bo forfeited by silver advocacy, tho southoru ututos are silent. But thoy will spenk ? in tho eonvoutio i. Thero is a movojnent on foot innot g tho goldbug democrats to provout o Spenk or Crisp 'from obtaining tl o d?mocratie nomination for spookex. They havo been very much disturbed by tho bold froo silver 1 speech mado by Judgo Crisp to tho Georgia legij laturo, and thoy say that to givo hi pi tho caucus nomination for Bpoakcr would bo to destroy tho fruits of tho viotorioB thoy havo won at snob a sac rifico. It is said that in order to mako tho humiliation os bitter na pos sible tho gold mon will try to best Judge Crisp with a man from his own stato-Judgo Turnor. Noithor Judgo Crisp nor his friends hoed bo alarmed. Ile will bo triumphantly nominated against all tho Wall stroot and admin istration combinations that can bo placed in tho field. Of couiso tho nomination is on empty honor,as Hood will be tho next spoaker of tho bouso. ?% Silver Sion In tho Soneto. A Washington special says : Tho sil vor mon aro beginning to realizo tho strength of their position in tho son ate, and it soems likoly that thoy moan to uso it to tho utmost in compelling legislation favorable, to thoir ideas. Noithor of tho great parties can organ ize tho sonato without tho aid of the silver mon, and the price of such (lid will undoubtedly bo high-amounting, probably, to a pledgo to introduoo ijnd voto on a silvor bill. It ia not likely that tho republicans will pay tho prjoe, while tho democrats, probably, will bo glad to do it. Whothor a silvor pill would poss tho senate is hard to flay, but tho ohanoos aro that it would do so by a very CIOBO voto. Of courso, tho1 bill would uover get past oithor the house or tho president, but it would bo a platform on whioh tho silvor wast oould combino with tho silvor Botyth.' *?* For a National .Convention. \ At n mooting of tho oxooutivo com mittee of tho Amorioan Bimotallio I/onguo in Washington a fow days ago tho following resolution was unani mously adopted : "That wo aooopt tho invitation of tho national silvor committee of (Mo rugo and that in accordance with its rooommondations, tho 'president ot tho Amorican Bimetallic League bo author ed and directed to unite with tho na tional silver committee of Chioago and tho National Bimotallio Union in call ing a oonforonoo of thoso who boliovo that tho sottlomont of tho question of | onrrency reform, by tho free and un ro?trioted coinago of gold and silvor at j tho oxisting ratio by tho UnitodStates, independently', cannot bo effected through any oxisting party, and who aro willing now to unito in organizing and supporting a party formod for tho j purposo of carrying this causo to suc ociss, to moot at Washington, D. G., January 22, 189G, to appoint commit tocs and arraugo fora national conven tion; tho invitations to snob couforonco to bo loft in tho discretion of tho pres idents ot said organizations, ooch or- j ganization to bo ontitlod to an equal roprosontatton thoroin, tho total num ber not to excood twonty-llvo for such organization." *** Tennessee SH vu ri tes Organizing. About sixty leading demooratio ad vocates of tho froo coinago of silver of tho stato of Tonnessoo mot at Nashvillo with a viow to organization. Senator Bato was mado chairman and among thoso present woro Congressman J. D. Hiohnrdson, lt. lt. Cox and J. C. Mo Donrmont and ox-Congvossman En loo, Piorco and Young. It was decided to organizo thoroughly insido tho demo oratio party, with a viow to controlling next year's convontion. Tho resolution oites that rcoont elec tions and events in tho United States havo rovoalod tho gravity of tho polit ical situation for oertainty with rospoot to national and probably with rospoot to state affairs,and that tho gold stand ard influonooB whioh aro endeavoring to oontrol tho demooratio party will load to tho dofoat of tho party if suc cessful in controlling tho convontion. Among tho first and most important prinoiplos of tho demooratio party io tho freo and unlimited coinago of gold and silvor nt a ratio of 10 to 1, and in dependently of tho action of othor na tions of tho world. It is stated that tho organizod hostility to this prinoi plo whioh has aggressively arrayod it self against and sought to ongraft it self upon tho demooratio party, bria mado an issuo whioh ought not to bo longer ignored. Tho resolution thon provides for a commitloo of fivo to pre pare an address to tho people and to effect tho organization. - Messrs. J.M. Head, J. J. Vertroes, Casey Young, W. L, Legerwood aud A, T. MoNoll woro appointed on this oommittoo. 'jMion followed a uumbor of livoly spooehos. Ina Stow. Tho continued Operation? of tho Dingle gold standard scout to bo wor rying tho odvoontoB of that system no littlo. Froquontly wo road a patholio artiolo in ?omo rcooguizod onetorn fluauoial organ and wonder whothor tho ohio oditor has not diaoovorod that ho and his brothron who find iutrineio valuo in a pioco of yellow motnl havo bitten off moro than they can oh ow. Horo, for instance, is Tho Now York Journal of Oommorco, whoso oditor is ono of tho blindest advoontos of tho singlo gold standard. That organ in in a troinondous stow over tho ronowod shipment of gold. It is roferrod to ns "this extraordinary movemont," it is described as almost n crisis, and tho editor lins no hesitation whatover in saying that it is a very "gravo stato of affairs. " Ho it is, but tho oxport of gold is not nearly such a serious matter as tho shrinkage of values and fall in pricos oniiHcd by tho singlo gold standard. For every dollar of gold that goes out ito owner gots something in return, but tho iinmouso sums, representing tho difference botweon values and prices now and three yours ngo, havo , boon absolutoly lost to tho people Wo woro told two years ngo by such mon ns tho editor of tho Journal of Oommorco thnt there wns and would bo no Bcramblo for gold, and yet hero is tho soramblo going on right under thoir noses. They onll it "a vory grave state of affairs," and yet do not scorn to realize what it nil moans. They had ono oxplauation of it Inst week, nu other this week and thoy will havo still anotbtv next wook. Bo far as Tho Journal of Oommorco is concerned, it perceives thal tho is suo of bonds is no remedy, and it fails to seo thnt congress will doviso nny nd equato romedy. Consequently it hope lessly bents about tho bush, pats tho banks on tho back with ono hand and jabs thom in tho ribs with tho other, nnd is altogether in a condition thnt calls for cracked ico and a bolus. If both gold and silvor woro tho money of final payment-if wo hod something else besides reokloss inca pacity iu tho mnnngomont of tho treas ury, tho law would novor have boon violated-nnd wo would not bo export ing gold when, according to all oxpo rionco, wo ought to bo importing it. Nobody would bo burt by all this if silvor supplemented gold as thomonoy of Anal payment. In fnct, nobody, not ovon tho unonsy financial exports, would pay any attontion to it. Meanwhile it is tho duty of tho poo plo, in bohnlf of thoir own intorosts.to got togothor nnd continuo to fight tho leg?8latou by whioh silvor wns aoorotly demonetized. *** Judgo Crisp's .Speech. From tho Atlanta Constitution. In describing tho visible and physi cal effects of tho singlo gold standard, Judgo Crisp calls attention to tho fnot that tho laboring mon and producers "of this oountry have had it for twenty , years. Tho rosult is, as ho shows, that wngos havo gono down, farm lands havo gono down and prices havo gono down, whilo both dobts and taxes havo boeu increased. "Who is bonefittod?" nsks Judgo Crisp. "Not our morohants; not our railroads, for they have all gono into tho hands of receivers. Who is bono fittod? Nobody oxcopt those who havo fixoil incomes, This condition cortnin ly justifies mo in saying," continuos Judgo Crisp, "that tho oxporimont, tho ropublionn experiment of a singlo gold standard bas not workod to tho inter est of tho massos of tho plain pooplo of Goorgia, bowover it may havo affcotod othor localities." This statomont of results hardly noctis any argumont to bolster it up, Tho facts aro plain. Thoy aro con creto. Thoy stand out visiblo to tho uakod oyo and aro not hoing denied nny moro than tho ovonts of ordinary oxporienco that can bo seen and under stood oven by those whoso roasoniug faculties havo not boen sharpened by dovolopmont. Tho oouroo of ovonts han boon so plain that it does not neod argument to support it. It ?B only nocossary to romind pooplo of facts that aro com mon to tho oxporionco of all who tako any sort of intorest in curront oftairs. From 1850 up to 1873 wogos and pricos wore rising, and tho common pooplo-Ibo producers and tho wngo onrnors-woro prosperous.' That yoar thc republicans olandestinoly domouo tizod silvor, and from that day to this wages and pricos havo boon gradually falling. Tho declino was partially, but not wholly arrested by tho opera tions of tho Bland-Allison act, which added $21,000,000 a year to tho legel tondor ooin of Ibo oountry. Tho fall of wages has mot with muob moro Ho rions resistance than tho fall of prices. This has boon duo to tho powor and in fluence of tho labor unions. Sinoo 1873 tho history of labor in this ooun try may bo writtou by giving briof ac counts of tho numborloss and hopoloss strikes that havo takon plnoo, somo of thom dovelopuig into bloody riots. Tho great majority of theso strikes wcro inaugurated to provont tho ro duotiou of wages whioh tho singlo gold standard in ado inovitnblo. Want a Duty on Flour. Tho Danish millers havo potitionod tho govornmont to impos? an oxpori xftontal duty on importod flour and a commission, whioh was ohargod by tho rigadog with a revision of tho tariff, has tho question under consideration. Unitod States Consul Kirk, at Oopon hagen, who roports tho faot to tho Btato , doportmont, says ho oanuot forecast tho rosnlt. Tho movomont is ostensi bly dlrootod against Gorman oompoti tion, but ns rauohof the flour ontoring tho port is from Mw Unitod States, im portod through England or Gormany, tho American/millers will bo dirootly intoro?ted. J REV. DR. TALMAGE. TUM NOTKI> DIV INK'S SUNDAY, DISC?UKSK. Subjoot: ??David and Absalom." TEXT: "IS tho young mun Absalom safoV" -II Samuel xviii.. 29. j Tho heart ot David, tho fathor. was i wrapped up In ld? boy Absalom, Ho was u splendid boy, judged by tho rulo!) ot worldly orltlelsm. From tho orown ot his hoad to tho solo of his foot thora was not a singlo ' blomish. Tho Dildo says that ho had suoh a luxuriant shock of hair that when oneo a ] year it was shorn, what wimont off weighed i ovor three pound?. But notwithstanding nil j bis brllllanoS' ut nnpnaranno ho was a bad hoy, mid broke his father's heart. Ito was I plotting to got tho throne of Israel. Ho had < marshaled an anny to overthrow his father's ? government. Tho day of battle had oome. i The eon diet was begun. David, tho father, i sat Ix-lwoon tho gatos ot the ordnen walting for Ibo I Illings of tho eonlltot. Oh, how ? rapidly his heart beat with emotion. Tho two ?real questions woro to be doold od-tho safetv of his boy and tho continu ance of tho throne of Israel, After a while a servant, standing on tho tm of the house, looks ofl' and sees some one running. He is coming with great speed, and tho man on tho ton of tho house announces tho ooming of tho messenger, and the father watches ?nd waits, and as soon as th" mo*s;mgor from tho Hold of battle comos within balling distance tho father erics out. Ts lt a (pies tlon tn r?gftrd to tho establishment ot his throne? Does he say: "flavo the armies ot Israel been victorious? Am I tn continue In my imperial authority?' Have I overthrown my enomie.s?" Oh.no! There is ono ques tion that springs from his houri to tho Up, and springs from tho Hp into tho ear of tho heswentnd and bodustod messenger flying from tho battlefield-tho question, "Is tho young man Absalom safe?" Whon it was told to David, tho king, that, though his ar mies hail been victorious, bis son had been slain, tho fnther turned his back upon tho congratulations of tho nation and went up ibo Stairs of his palace, his hoart breaking ns ho went, wringing his hands sometimos and then again pressing thom against his tom?los as though ho would press thftm iii, orylng: "0 Absalom! my son! my son! Would to Ood I had died for thee. O Absalom! my son! my son!" My friends, tho question whloh David, tho king, asked in regard to his son ls tho ques tion that resounds to-day In tho hearts of hundreds of paronts. Yen, thero aro a groat multitude of young men who know thnt tho question of tho toxt ls npproprlato whon asked In regard to them. Thoy know tho temptations by which they aro surrounded. They .soo so many who stnrlod life with as good resolutions as thoy have who havo fallon in tho path, and they aro ready to henr mo auk the question of my toxt, "Io tho young man Absalom safe?" Tho fact is that this Ufo ls full of porll. Ho who undortakes lt without the grace of God aud a proper un derstanding of tho eonfllot Into whloh ho ls going must certainly bo defeated. Just look off upon sooloty to-day. Look at tho shlp wrook of mon for whom fair things wore promised and who started Ufo with every ad vantage. Look at those who havo dropped from high soolal position and from groat for tuno, disgraced for time, disgraced for otor nlty. All who saorlfloo their Integrity como to ovorthrow. Tako a dishonest dollar and bury it In tho center of tho oarlh, and koop all tho rocks of tho mountain on top of it: thor, oovor these rooks with all tho diamonds of Golconda, and all tho sllvor of Nevada, and all tho gold of California and Australia, and put on tho top of those all banking and moneyed Institutions, and thoy cannot koop down thnt ono dishonest dollar. That ono dis honest dollar In tho contor of tho earth will bogia to.beavoandrookand upturn itself un til lt comos to tho resurrection of damnation. "As tho partrldgo slttoth on eggs and hatchoth thom not, so ho tb ii gettoth rlohos nud.not by right shall leavo thom tn tho midst of his Says, and at his end *flfiti?l"bo 'K fool." Now, what aro tho safeguards of young mon? Tho first safeguard .of whloh I want to spoak is a love of homo. Thorp aro those who havo no Idea of tho pleasures that oon contrato nround that word "homo," Por Imps your early abode was shadowed with vloo or povorty. Harsh words and potnlnnco and scowling may have destroyed all tho -sanctity ot that spot. Love, kindness and self sacrifice, which have built tholr altars In so many abodes, wore strangers in your fathor's house. God pity yon, young man; you never had a home, but a multitude In this audionco can look back to a spot that thoy can never forgot. It may havo boon a lowly roof, but you cannot think of it now without a dash of emotion. You have soon nothing on earth that so stlrrod your soul. A stranger passing along that plaoo might soo nothing romarkablo about lt;bnt, oh! how much it means to you. Fresco on pallico wall docs not mean so much to you as those rough bown raftors. Parks and bowors and trees on fashionable watering plaoo or coun try seat do not moan no much lo you na that brook that run in front ot tho plnin farm house and singing unidor tho weeping wil lows. Tho barred gatoway swung opon by portor in full dress does not moan as muon to you as that swing gale, your slstor on ono sido of it and you on tho other, she gono flf toon years ago Into glory; that senna coming baok to you to-day, as you swopt backward and forward on tho gato, singing tho songs of your childhood. But there aro those boro who havo thoir socond dwelling plaoo. It ls your adopted home. That ls also sacrod fore vor. Thoro you established tho ll rsi family niter. There your children were born. In that room flapped tho wing of tho death angel. Undor that ron', when your work ls dono, you expect to lie down and die. Thoro is only ono word bi all tho lan guage that eau oonvey your Idea of that place, and that word ls "home." Now, let mo say that I never know a man who was faithful to his early and ado pt od 'nome who was givon over at tho samo time to any gross form of wickedness. If you (Ind moro enjoyment in tho ohib room, in tho literary society, in tho art salon, than you do in those unpretending home pleas ures, you aro on the road to ruin. Though you may bo cut off from your early asso ciates, and though you may be separated from all your Kindred, young maa, is thoro not u room somewhere that you can cati your own? Though lt bo tho fourth story of a third-class boarding house, into that room gather books, pictures and a harp. Hang your mother's portrait ovor tho mimtel. Bid unholy mirth stunt baok from that threshold. Consecrate some spot in that room with tho knoe of prayer. Dy tho memory of othor days, a fathor's counsel, a mot hors lovo and a sister's confidence, call it homo. Anothor safoguard for thoso young mon is industrious habits. Thero aro a groat many pooplo trying to make tholr way through tho world with thoir wits Instead of by honest toil. Thoro is a young mab who comos from tho country to tho olty. Ho fails twloo boforo ho is os old as his fathor Was whon ho first saw tho spires of the groat town. Ho is soatod In his room at a rent of $2000 a yoar, walting for tho banks to de claro tholr dividonds and tho stocks to run up. After awhile ho gots impattont. Ho tries to improve his penmanship by making copy plates of othor ?norohanto* signatures. Never mind-all is right in business. After awhile ho has hts estate Now is tho timo for him to retiro to tho country, aintd tho flocks and tho bords, to oulturo tho domostio virtuos, Now tho young mon who woro his sohool matos in boyhood will como, and with thoir ox teams draw him logs, and with thoir bard hands will help to hoavo up tho castlo. That in no fancy sketch; it ls ovory-day lifo. J. should not wonder if there wore a rotten beam in that palace. 1 should not wondor it Ood should s.n I to him with dire sicknesses and pour into his cup a bitter draft that will thrill him with unbearable agony. I should not wonder If that man's children grow up to bo to him a disgrace and to make hts Ufo ashame. I should not wonder if-that man dtod a dishonorable doath and y/wti tumbled Into a dishonorable gravo and thou wont Into tho washing ci tooth. Tho way ol tho ungodly shall perish. 0 young man, you must havo industry of hoad or hand or foot, or perish.' Do not havo tho idoa that you can ?ot along in jtho world by goulus. Tho curso of this coun try to-day Is gonlusos-mon with largo self conceit and nothing oise. Tho man who proDOsos to mako his living bv ht? wits probablv has not any. I should rathor bo an ox, plain and plodding and useful, thnu to ho au nagle, high flvlnor" and good for . nothing but io pick out tho oyes of oarenRsos, Even tn tho Garden of Edon tt wa* not safe. Tor Adam tobo idle, HO God made Wm a , horticulturist, and If tho married pair had kept busy dressing tho vinos thoy would not havo been sauntering under tho treos.hank arlngafter fruit that ruined thom and tholr posterity! Proof positiv? of the fact thar when eeoplo donotnitond to tholr bustnoss thoy get Into mlsohinf. "Go to the ant, thou duggan!? consldor her ways and bo wiso, whtnh. having no overseer or guide, orovid ath horfood lu tho summer and gnthoroth her moat tn tho hnrvost." Satan ls a roaring lion, and you can nevor destroy him by gua or pistol or sword. The weapons with which you aro to boat him bnok aro pen and typo and hammer and ad/, and saw and pickax and vard?tlok and the woapon of honost toll. Work. work, or die. Another safeguard that! want fo prosont to young men is a high ideal of life. Some times soldiers going tuto'battle shoot into the ground Instead of Into the hearts ot tholr enemlos. They aro apt to take aim too low, and lt ls very often that tho cantala, going Into oontllot with his men. will erv out, "Now, mon, nln\ high'." Tho fact ts that in Ufo a groat many mon tako no aim at all, The artist plans out hts entire thought boforo he put* it noon canvas, botoro ho lakes up the crayon or the ehlsel. An architect thinks out tho entire building before the workmon begin. Althoughovervthlng may scorn tobo unorganized, that arohltoet lins in hts mind ovory Corinthian column, rivery Gothto arch, every Byzantine capital. A pont thinks out tho entire plot of his poem boforo ho boglns to chime the cantos of tinkling rhythms. And yet thorn are ii great rannv men who start tho important struoturo of Ufo without knowing whether it is going to bo a rudo Tartar's hut or a St. Mark's oa- < thedral, and hogln to write ont tho in tricate poem of their lifo without know ing whether tt ls to bo a Homer's "O.lvssov" or n rhymostor's botoh. Out ot 1000. 909 havo no lifo plot. Booted and spurred and caparisoned, they haston along, and I run nut and suv. "Hollo, man! Whlthornway?" "Nowhors!" they say. Oh. young man. mako every day's duty a filling up of the gront Ufo plot. Alas, that thoro should bo on this soa of lifo so many shlp3 that soom bound for no portl Thoy aro swopt ovory whlthor by wind and wavo, up by tho mountains and down by tho valloys. Thoy sall with no chart. Thoy gazo on no star. Thoy long for no harbor. Oh. young man. have a high Ideal and press to lt, and it will bo a mighty safeguard. Thoro novor woro grander opportunities oponing.beforo young mon than aro opening now. Young mon of tho strong arm and of tho stout heart and of tho bounding stop, ? marshal you to-day for n groat aohtovomont. Another natoguard ls a rospoot for tho Sabbath. Toll me how a young man spends his Sabbath, and I will toll you what aro his prospoots in business, and I will toll you what aro his prospoots for tito eternal world. God has thrust into our busy lifo a snored day whon wo aro to look after our souls. Is it oxorbltant, after giving six days to tho , feeding and clothing of those ?norlshabto bodies, that God should demand ono day for the foodiug and olothtng ot tho immortal soul? Thoro is anothor safoguard that I want to prosont. I havo savod lt until tho last be ean se I want it to bo tho moro em ph nt te. Tho groat safoguard for every young man is . tho GhrlBllan rollglon. Nothing can tako tho placo of it. You may have graoefulii033 onough to put to blush Lord Chesterfield,' you mny havo foreign languages^ dropping from your tongue, you mray'alioussTaws dad' lltoraturo, you may hayo a pon ot Ur&?.-. qualco" polislraml power, you may hfcvoti?' ' much business tact that you can got tho largest salary in a banking house, you may bo as sharp as Ilorod and as strong os Samson, and with o3 long locks ns those which hung Absalom, and yot yon havo-no . safoty against temptation. Some of you look forward to life with great despondency. 1 know it. I seo it in your faoos from time' to time. You say, "All tho oooupations and professions are full, and thoro's no ohanoo for mo." Oh, young man, ohoor upi I will toll you how you oan mako your fortuno. Beek first tho kingdom ot God and His righteousness, and all other things will bo added. I know you do not want to be mean in thi3 mattor. You will n;,t drink the brimming oup of lifo and thou flour tho dregs on God's altar. To a gener ous Saviour you will not not Uko that; you havo not tho heart to not liko that. That is not manly. That is not houorablo. That is not brave. Your groat want is a now hoort, and in tho mimo of tho Lord Jesus Ohrlst I toll you so to-day, and tho blossod Spirit prosses through tho solomnltlos of this hour to put the cup ot life to your thirsty Hps. Oh, thrust it not back. Moroy prcsouts it blooding moroy, long au (Yoting moroy. Do snlae all othor friendships, provo rooroam to all othor bargains, but d03ptso God's love for your dying soul-do not do that. Thoro oomos a crisis in a mari's life, and thotroublo is ho doos not know it ls tho' crisis. I got a lotter in which a man says to mo: "I start out now to preaoh tito gospol of righteousness and tomponinoe to tho pooplo, Do you remombor mo.' I am tho man who nppoarod nt tho dose of thosorvlco whon you woro worshiping in tho olxupol aftor you came from Philadelphia. ??c- you tooiombor at the e lose of the se rv ice a man coming up to you all a-troniblo with oonvlctlon, and crying out for moroy, and tolling you ho had . a very bad buslnoss. and ho "thought ho would chango it? That was tho turning point In my history. , I gave up my bad bus? In03.3, I gavo my heart to God, lynd tho do sire to servo nim has grown upon mo all tltoso yours, until now woo ls unto mo if I proaoh not tho gospel." That Sunday night was tho turning point of that young man's history. This very Sab bath hour will be tho turning point in tho history of 100 young nx^n in this houso. God help us! 1 onoe stood on nu anniver i-ary platform with a olorgynviu who told this marvelous story. Ho said: "Thirty years ago two young mon started out to attond Park Theatre, Now York, to soo a play whloh made religion ridiculous and hypocritical. Thoy ha l boon brought up in Christian familias. Thoy started for tho thoatro to soo that vilo play, and tholr early convictions oafno baoK uoon thom. Thoy folt it was not right to go, but still thoy wont. Thoy carno to tho door of tho thoatro. Ono of tho young mon stoppod and startod for homo, but roturnod and oamo ttp"v to tho door, but no had not tho courage to, go in, Ho again startod for homo and wont homo. Tho othor young man went in. Ho wont from ono degree of tomptatlou to anothor. Caught In" tho whirl of frivolity mid sin, ho sank lower and' lowor. Ho lost his business position. Ho lost his morals. Ho lost his soul. Ho diod a dreadful doath, not ono star of morey shining on it. I stand boforo you to-day," said that minister, "to thnnk God that for twonty yearn I have been permitted to preaoh thu gospol. I am the othor young man." . . Oh, you soo that waa tho turning point tho ono wont baok, tho othor wont on, Tho < great roaring world of business Ufo will soon break in upon you, young mon. Will tho wild wavo dash out tho impressions of this day as an ocean billow dashes luttow out of tho sand on tho bench? You need something bottor than this world oan glvo you, 1 boat on your heart, and it sounds hollow. You want Homothing groat and grand and glori ous to lill it, and hero ls the religion that can do it, God savo youl I'htlndolplitii's JttiRv Tolophonos, It Is estimated that 140,000 conversations, moro or less, tako plaou dally over th? tele phones ia Philadelphia,