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SUMMARY jOF_ CONGRESS.
Senate Sessions.
Thirty-seventh Day.?A letter from the
secretory of the iuterior was read in reply to
the Dawes resolution calling for information
relating to the suspension of Henry Ward as
Iudian inspector. Referred to the committee
011 Indian nfl'airs Mr. Hawley presented
a bill looking; to the taxation
of lands granted to the Northern Pacific
Railway company and by that company
deeded to settlers, which lands, under a recent
decision of the supreme court of the
United States, are taxable. Mr. Van Wyck
claimed (hat ail tt?? lanu grant ranroaas in
the Wostweru guilty of the same offence.
The bill was referred to the committee on
public lands Mr. Conger reptrt?i
favorably from the committee
on postoflices and the Senate passed a
bill granting th<) frn cm? privilege to Mrs.
Julia D. Grant. wife of the late General
Grant. .. Mr. Morgan took the floor and resumed
his argument against the educational
bill, which was nending. At the conclusion
<>f his remarks tlie Senate went into executive
session.
Thirty-eighth Day.?Mr. Morrill, from
the committee on finance, reported favorably
the House bill providing that the treasurer of
the United States may with the consent of
x the secretary of the treasury, authorize the
assistant treasurer to act in the place and
discharge the duties of the treasurer, and
that in the necessary absence of either
the treasurer or assistant treasurer, the
treasurer may, with like consent de-iguate
a clerk of the treasury department to be acting
assistant treasurer The elu ational
bill was then taken up and Mr. Jacksou ad
dressed the Senate in favor of it. A discussion
which followed was participated in by
Messrs. Morrill, Blair, Pugh, Maxey, Coke
and Hawley,
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i HIKTX * K1?ITH DAI,?Jill, nuoi iuww
duced a bill providing for the erection of a
suitable monument in Washington to General
Ulysses 8. Grant. The bill appropriates
$150,000, and provides for a commission of
three Senators and three members of the
House to contract for the monument. At
the suggestion of Mr. Logan and by unauimous
consent, Mr. Hoar increased the amount
to $258,000, and the bill was referred to the
committee on the library....The education
bill was further discussed" and amended.
House Sessions.
Thirtt-ninth Day.?The day session of
the House was of an unimportant character.
Mr. Belmont, of New York, presented petitions
signed by over 1,247 art societies and
artists throughout the United States asking
for the enactment of a law to admit works of
art free of duty....At the evening session
seventy-one pension bids were passed.
Fortieth Day.?The Speaker laid before
the House the reply of the postmaster-general
in response to the resolution calling for
information as to whether the eight-hour law
is now applicable to letter carriers. The communication
stated that the eight-hour law
had not been deemed applicable to the lettercarriers....
The balance of the session was
devoted to iurtner aeoaie in com unmet) ui mo
whole on the Fitz John Porter bill. Mr.
Swinburne (N. Y.) and Mr. Woolford (Ky.)
spoke in favor of the bill, and Mr. Honk
(Tenn.) against.
Forty-first Day.?Bills introduced: By
Mr. Morrison?To reduce tariff rates. By
Mr. Felton, of California?To terminate certain
treaties with China and to prohibit
Chiueee emigration. By Mr. Henley, of
California?To abrogate all treaties between
the United States and China permitting
Chinese emigration in any form, and repealing
all acts of Congress permitting such
emigration, except diplmatic and consular
officers. By Mr. Pulitzer?Granting a pension
of $5,01)0 a year to the widow of the late
Oenpral Ham-ock Messrs. Woodford,
Ifegley and Fuller discussed the Fitz John
Porter bill.
Forty-second Day.?Mr. Laird submitted
a report recommending the passage of
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regiments of volunteers to fight the Indians,
upon the ground that such warfare could be
more eftectively waged by Western volunteers
than by the regular army....
Mr. James, of New York, from the committee
on coinage, weights and measures, reported
adversely Mr. Bland's bill for tha free
coinage of silver, and it was placed on the
House calendar. Mr. Bland obtained leave
to tile a minority report, and said that
the Ho us-3 would "be asked to consider the
bill at the earliest opportunity....
Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, spolce in favor of
the Fifrz John Poller bill, and Mr. Cutcheon,
of Michigan, sjwko earnestly against it. The
debate was resumed in evening session, and
was continued without result from the opening
at 7:ZQ until adjournment at 10:30.
Forty-thikd Day.?The House passed
the bill to protect homestead settlers within
railway limits. It provides that all such
settlers restricted to less than one hundred
and sixty acres, who make an additional
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entrv under the acts ot jnarcn auu duiy,ioii?,
shall be entitle:! to have the lands covered by
the additional entry patented, without anv
further cost of proof of settlement and cultivation
.... Mr. Laird (Neb.) spoke in favor
of and Mr. Kelley (Penn.) against the Fitz
* John Portor bill"....Mr. Jones, of Texas,
from the ??:nmittee on postoffices and
post roads, reported a bill granting
the franking privilege to Julia D.
Grant Mr. Warner, of Ohio, called up and
th? House passed the bill reducing from eight
to five cents the charge for money orders not
exceeding five dollars.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,
Christine Nilsson begins her American
tour October 15.
Liszt, the composer, has been twice
ennobled, but has never used the titles.
The queen of Saxony has made herself the
patron ot a five-year-old boy at Chemnitz,
who is a musical prodigy.
New Orleans has a colored girl with a
remarkable sweet soprano voice. She used
to sing in the choir 01 the colored church.
As many as twelve American ladies are
studying music this vrinter at the Paris con
servatoare. This is an unusually large number.
Motjegka has two new pia^s for next
season, one by Louis Brereton?a romantic
French drama?and the other by J. Phillippa
A vttiber of traveling juries have been
created by the Freuca government to visit
foreign lauds and cohort iuformation useful
to science, coramm-e at><1 navii^ition.
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK. 7
Beef catflo, pood to prime I w 8}{(d) 0
Calves, comSa to prime veali .ri <d> 8/3
Sheep ^4
Lambs 8 0 9
Er>gs?Live 4Vs <tt 4,1*
uressea, ci?y ?7s
Flour?Ex St.. good to fancy 3 60 (ct 4 25
West, good to choice. 4 00 (g) 5 45
Wheat?No. 2. Red lJQ';?(a 1>1
Rye?State 04 (d 65}-^
Barley?Four-rowed State... (? 85
Corn?Ungrad. West, mixed. 47 ? 50
Oats?White State 41 (? 413^
Mixed Western 37 (2)
Hay?topr. Timothy.. 91 (a) '.>5
Straw?No. 1, Rye SO (cb 85
Lard?City Steam 0 20 @ 0 40
Butter?State Creamery.... 34 w 35
Dairy 18 0) 22
West. I in. Creamery 20 (ab 23
Factory 12 (5 19
Cheese?State factory .. 7 @ lO1^
Skims ? 5;,!i@ 7
Western ..., 7 ($ 0J.<
Eggs? State and Penn (t$ 25
BUFFALO!.
Sheep?Good to Choice 4 25 @ 4 75
Lam ds?Western 4 25 @ (j 25
Steers?Western..... 4 00 (a) 5 00
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 ()0 Cd 4 15
Flour?Cy ground n. process 5 25 (3 0 50
Wheat?No. 1, Hard Duluth 93 @ 9
Corn?No. 2, Mixed New (ti 47
Oate? No. 2, Mixed Western 40 (d)
Barley?Two-rowed State ? ($ ?
bostoi?.
TP-*- rvtnfi^ ?nwl tnmil.f 11 trA 1 ft /\A
MXttl JLXJl. iridic navi icuiuij . , i L OV (Wlv W
Hogs?Live 4 }?(<b 4?y!
Northern Dressed.... :>}?
Pork?Ex. Prime, per bbl.,.10 50 @10 7")
Flour?Winter AY beat pat's.. 5 25 Q 5 50
Corn?High Mixed 50 (5 50J.?
Oats?Bxtra White 43 (5 44
Eye?State t>7 (6 ?
WATEKTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beet?Extra quality 5 75 (e$ 0 00
Sheep?Live weighc .. 3%(cb 5}-t
Lambs .. 4 }4(& 1S-%
Hogs?Northern, d. w 5>?(? ?
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour?Penn. ex family, good 4 25 (3 4 50
Wheat?No. 2, Red 90%@
Bye-?State @ 75
Corn?State Yellow 52 @ 53
Oats Mixed 40 @ 41
Butter?Creamery Extra Pa 20 @ 23
Ctoeeee?-Jf. Y. FmlCream... UXQ 14
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.
Neuralgia and Hairpins.
.Neuralgic heaciacnc in women is, suv?
j the Lancet, largely caused by irritation to
'< the nerves of the scalp coming from the
I small bundles of liair, which are pulled
J buck and held in place by hairpins.
I The injury done is lasting in its conse|
quences.
Lemons for "Biliousness."
The lemon treatment of biliousness is
j quite fashionable at present. Most pej
pie know the benefit of lemonade before
t breakfast, but few know that it is more
I than doubled by taking another at night
j also. The way to get the better of the
; bilious system without taking blue pills
j and other drugs is to take the juice of one.
j two or three lemons, as appetite craves,
; in as much iced water as makes it pleasant
to drink without sugar, before going to
bod. In the morning on rising, at least
half an hour before breakfast, take the
! juice of one lemon in a goblet of water,
j People must not irritate the stomach by
! eating lemons clear, but diluted properly,
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so t&at it does not lrntaic lucwava^nuu,
taken on an empty stomach, the improvement
is marked.
Hot Water as a Medicine.
In drinking hot water it should be
sipped, and not drunk so fast as to dis1
tend the stomach and make it feel unI
comfortable. From fifteen to thirty
I minutes may be consumed in drinking
i the hot water. A period of six months
; is generally required to washout the liver
J and intestines thoroughly. Not more
I than half a pint of hot water should be
! drunk with the meals. To make the
beverage palatable, or to medicate it,
j aromatic spirits of ammonia, clover blos!
soms, ginger, lemon juice, sage, salt or
sulphate of magnesia are sometimes
added. Where there is intense thirst or
i dryness, a pinch of chloride ol calcium or
| of irtrate of potash may be added to allay
the thirst and leave a moistened film
j over the parched and dry mucous surface.
"When there is diarrhoea, cinnamon,
ginger and pepper may b3 boiled
in the hot water, aud the quantity lessened.
For constipation, a teaspoonful
of sulphate of magnesia, or half a teaspoonful
of taraxacum, may be used in
hot water.
Inebriety has a deadly foe in this use
of hot water. All thirst and dry mucous
membrane disappear in a few days, and a
moist condition of the mucous membrane
and skin takes place. The relaxing influence
of heat inside the alimentary '
canal relieves spasm and colic of the
bowels, just as heat outside the abdomen
relieves. Hot water dilutes the ropy
secretions of the whole body, and renders
them less adhesive and tenacious. It
dissolves the abnormal crystalline sub,
stances that may be in the blood and
I urine. It washes out the stomacn anu
j loaves it fresh and clean for eating. It
promotes elimination everywhere. As we
are seventy-five per cent, water, to keep
from stagnation we need continual renewal.
The universal use of hot bever;
ages at meal time is based on a physioj
logical necessity. If hot water in due
{ quantity is taken between meals, there
! will be but little need of taking water at
! meals.?New 'fork Tribune.
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| Downfall of the Dnde King.
' Berry Wall has at last sunk to the level
! of common clay, and is being sued by liis
tailor, savs a recent New York letter to
the Boston Herald. Not so long ago Mr. I
Wall was regarded as the flower of .New I
York blooded life. He was surrounded
by a choiee coterie of underdone chappies,
and he was looked upon far and
near as the "king of the dudes." Mr.
I Wall enjoyed the distinction so much
i that he blew in his fortune as fast as he
! knew how, and let it be admitted that
j he knew how pretty well. It. only took !
| him a couple of years to get rid of somei
thing over $300,tfcO, and the youth who
can go at that gait, as a regular thing,
you wouldn't call so very, very slow.
It was the young man's pride that
| sportsmen called him 4'game," which
I they were quite willing to do as long as
I his money flowed into their pockets. ;
i Some of the larks of young Wall and his
immediate followers were extremely
amusing?to themselves. At the same
time they were expensive. For instance,
one night, after a long evening at
the Brunswick, eight or ten of them
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started lor Jerome rarK so us to uu mere
early in the morning to sec one of Wall's
horses put through his exercise. They
went up in a coupe and a hansom cab.
The coupe had four people inside and
two sitting outside on the roof. The
hansom had three inside and one on
the roof. Part way up Fifth avenue all
hands stopped and waited for one of the '
crowd to go into lii.s house and get an
! overcoat. He Nvus gone some time, and
! the people aboard the coupe, including
j the driver, went to sleep. Then it ooj
currcd to Mr. Wall and his friends in the
i hansom that it would be a crood scheme
I to play a joke on the other fellows. So
j they climbed out, and by all getting 1
! hold of one side of the coupe they sue- 1
j ceeded in tipping it over into the gutted 1
For a wonder, the horses did not run 1
away, but the damage to the coupe '
amounted close upon $;>00, and all the 1
occupants were bruised to a greater or '
less extent Wall, who had suggested
this pleasant little joke, footed the bill, '
! and the young men did not go to Jerome '
Park that morning. :
The young chap is now living, I believe,
on an income furnished him by his
mother, who is still rich.
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Why Hancock Died Poor.
I Surprise is expressed, asserts a New I
| York correspondent, that General Han- '
j cock did not leave a larger estate behind I
j him, but he was generous (o a fault, and '
: he had many calls upon his charity. It
j was the heavy cross of his life that his (
; twin brother, for thirty years resident of
j a distant Western city, had disappointed s
j his expectations, lost his ambition and 1
" lii-irwr /lixitli TTiu lirntlipr
I U1Jrv. niLvy a tit in^ uvuiu? .r.w>*wk
. was ft lawyer, one of the most brilliant in
I the Northwest, clearing from $15,000 to
! $20,000 a year by his practice, when he
I fell a victim to his love for good eom|
pany and good cheer, lie went down
from his high position like a rocket, and
for the last fifteen years has been entirely
supported by his brother, the general, i
1 Thr.ro ia n tmir?nin<T liftln hit; of I'omilllCe I
j conuectcrl with this sail story. The lawi
yer was in his prime, a magnificent look!
ing man, and became engaged to the
j beautiful daughter of a lady in whose
house he boarded. The engagement began
I twenty-two years ago. But the lady saw
j danger ahead, and she refused to marry her
I ardent and handsome wooer until he would
forswear the flowing bowl and show himself
a thoroughly reformed man. He still
! lives in the same house, and the lady is
there too and still unwedded. She is
true to her love, but is equally true to her
promise, and, while she tenderly cares
for the man she loves and mourns, she
knows that her life is wrecked, and that
there is no hope now on this side of the
grave. The world is full of such unnoticed
heroines.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Persons lightly dipped, not grained in
general honesty, are but. pale in goodness.
A compliment is usually accompanied
with a bow, as if to beg pardon for saying
it.
That virtue that needs anchoring,
mnkcs its possessor like a ship mooring
among breakers.
The lives of men depend more upon
what they are, and what they do, than
updn -what they have.
It is hard to satirize well a man of distinguished
vices as to praise well a man
of distinguished virtues.
What blockheads are those wise persons
who think it necessary that a child
should comprehend everything that it
reads.
Every really able man, if you talk sincerely
with him, considers his work,
however much admired, as far short of
what it should be, What is this better,
this flying ideal, but the perpetual promise
of the Creator?
The good man honestly discharges his
duty, and shuns ostentation; the vain
man considers every good deed lost that
is not publicly displayed. The one is intent
upon realities, the otliei upon semblances;
the one aims to be virtuous, the
other to appear so.
Human nature is so depraved as to hinder
us from respecting goodness in others,
though we ourselves want it. This is the
reason why we are so charmed with the
pretty prattle of children, and even the
expressions of pleasure or uneasiness in
some parts of the brute creation. They
are -without artifice or malice; and we
love truth too well to resist the charm of
sincerity.
Amber.
The present fashion of amber ornaments
calls to the remembrance the
liking for this precious fossil, which has
existed for thousands of years. There
is a peculiar charm about the golden
"gum stone." It carries one back to the
days when there were "forestsprimeval,"
where man had never trod. It shows us
that beyond the stormy Baltic there was
once a land of titanic woods. When the
land sank beneath the sea the gum or
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prehistoric-firs had power to resist the
ceaseless motion of the waves after the
wood of the trees had been decayed. Thus
it is that the amber is foxind at the bottom
of the sea, or on the sandy shore.
There is a difference of opinion as to the
value of amber. In America the clear
amber is considered the more
valuable, while in Europe
the cloudy sort commands the
highest prices. The greatest quantity of
amber is found in the Baltic sea, and it
is also of finer quality than that found in
other places; it possesses a magnetic
quality which causcs it to attract small
objects when it is rubbed. For ages it
has been considered in Arabia a talisman
against tho evil eye; and in northern
Italy, if worn about the throat, it is said
to be a preventive of the terrible goitre.
Many persons in other lands also believe I
that a string of amber beads worn close
about the throat will prevent the many
ills of which cold is the cause. "The extreme
warmth when in contact with the
skiu aud the circle of electricity so maintained,"
one authority says, "substantiates
this opinion." Amber is the favorite
incense of the Buddhists and Mohammedans.
When burned the fragrance is
that of the fir or pine. The German
word for amber ("Bernstein") burning
stone, has been derived from the readiness
with which it burns. All the
ancient writers speak of amber as a
precious gem. The earliest Etruscan
jewelry consisted of carved amber,
which was called lynx stone, as it was
supposed in some way to belong to the
lynx. On one occasion Nero had the entire
amphitheater adorned with amber.
All the weapons and other articles were
made of it. The use of amber for the
mouthpieces of pipes and cigar-holders
originated in the east, where the pipe,
like the calumet of the American Indians,
is a social institution. The pipe was
passed from one to another, and as amber
was supposed to be a prophlactic against
poison, ho fear of treachery existed, it
being impossible to convey poison by
this substance. It is doubtless owing to
its perfect cleanliness and non-absorptive
property that it is used more extensively
each year by smokers. It is said that an
Arab woman will never give up her amber
beads except for a sum of money far
in excess of their market value. She will
part with her children with scarcely a
[)ang, but to unstring her precious amber
necklace, unless for gain or through
fear of a castigation from her lord and
master if she does not comply with his
commands, is something unheard of.?
Xeto York Commercial.
A. Bashful President.
"President Cleveland is one of the
nost bashful men I ever saw in the prosMice
of ladies. The other day I called
lpon him with a lady friend. Our visit
,vas partially on business and partially to
>c social. When the President received
is he was very graceful nnd composed,
jut the moment he discovered that we in:ended
to delay and talk, oh, but how he
flushed! and how confused he became!
[ was sorry for him and we soon got
iway."
A very handsome widow, vivacious and
roung, from one of the best Southern
families, spoke the above to your correspondent,
says a Washington letter to the
Indianapolis Journal.
"At iirst the President didn't ask us
to sit down," continued the lady, "and
we began to get red behind the ears;
lmt finally he recovered, and he was as
courteous as a Frenchman. Anv one
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l UHIU UUVt OLV.II, l?tMV tMW A. . w. dent
wis all the time wishing we would
leave. lie doesn't seem to know what to
>ay to the ladies. Oh, but what u lover
tie would make!"
Every Time.
Every time I speak a kind word I am
mlding a brick to my temple of manhood.
Every time I tell the truth J. add to my
strength of charaetcr.
Every time I buy an article I am encouraging
the manufacturer or producer.
Every time I speak cross and impetuously
I'm weakening my nerve-power
and adding to the misery of some one.
Every time I pay a debt I am doing
right and helping to put money in circulation.
Every time I pay rent I am taking
that much away from a home of my own.
Every time I refuse to do a favor when
I can as well as not I prove that I am
growing mean.
Every time I refrain speaking in defence
of a friend I prove that I am not a
friend.
Every time I spend a dollar foolishly
I am opening a pauper's grave.
Every time I give to distant charities
to the neglect of those at home I am
guilty of giving only for vain glory.
Every time I borrow a newspaper I do
a very small act.?PomeroyDemocrat
|DR TUliBE'S SEBIOR
1.
COSTUME AMD MORALS.
Rev. Dr. Talmage chose for his sixth din
>1 At..
course in tne series upon wie jimijajjo i
Ring" the theme, "Costume and Morals."
The text was: "Moreover the Lord said, Because
the daughters of Zion are haughty and
walk with stretched-forth necks ana wanton
eyes, walking ani mincing as they go, and
making a tinkling with their feet, in that day
the Lord will take away the bravery of their
tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their
cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
the rings, and nose jewels, the changeable
suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the
wimples, and the crisping pins, the glasses,
and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the
veils.''?Isaiah iii., 16, 18, 19, 21, 22. The
pastor said:
This is a Jerusalem fashion plate. It puts
us back 2?50U years and -sets us down in an
ancient city. The processions of people are
moving up and down the streets. The season
is at the height of the fashion. While sensible
men and women pass along without attracting
our attention on those streets, my
text calls attention to the daughters of Jerusalem
who go leaning far forward,leaning veiy
far forward, so much forward that it is unnatnrAlvVtlinn*
nro?lmnr fliVHnrr
uiua iccrciiiig, nuuuiiut, "* "" "bi
or as my text says,'1Walk with stretched forth
necks and mincing as they go." In an
astounding style tney have arranged their
bonnets and their veils and their entire apparel,
and thoy are going through the streets
taking more of the pavement than thoy are |
entitled to, sweeping along with skirts which
my text describes as "round tires like the
moon." See! that is a princess. Look! that
is a Damascus sword-maker. Look!
that is a Syrian merchant. The
jingling of the chains, the flashing of the
headbands and theexibitionsof the universal
swagger attract the attention of the prophet
Isaiah and he brings his camera to bear upon
the scene and takes a picture for all ajes.
Where is that scene? Vanished. Where are
those gay streets? Vermin covered population
pass through them. Where are the hands,
the necks, the foreheads, the shoulders, the
plate that sported all that magnificence?
Ashes! Ashes! That we should all be dad
is proved by the opening of the first wardrobe
in Paradise with its apparel of dark
green. That we should all be beautifully
and gracefully appareled so far as our means
may allow is proved by the fact that
God never made a wave but He gilded it, or
a tree but He garlanded it with blossoms, or
a sky but He studded it with stars, or allowed
even the smoke of a furnace to ascend except
it be scrolled, and arched, and turreted, and
towered and domed, and pillared in outline
of indescribably gracefulness. When I see the
apple orchard m the springtime and the
autumnal pageantry of the forest, I como to
the conclusion that if nature ever does join
the church, while she may be a Quaker in
the silence of her worship, she will never be
a Quaker in the style of her dress. Why
the notches on a fern leaf? Why the
stamen in a water lily? Why when
the day departs does it leave the folding
doors wide open so long when they might w ,
quickly closed ? On a summer morning I have
seen an army of a million spears each
adorned with a diamond of the first water. I
mean the grass with the dew on it. When the
nrodical cot back his father not only put a
coat on liis back, but put jewelry on his
hand. Christ wore a beard. Paul, the bachelor
apostle, affected with no sentimentality, admired
the arrangement of a woman's hair
when he said, "If she wears long hair it is a
glory unto her." There shall as certainly be
Fashion in heaven as on earth, only a different
style of fashion. It will decide the
color of the dress, all the population io that
land wearing white. I say thess things as a
background to my sermon so that you may
know that I have no prim, precise, prudish
or cast-iron theories in regard to human appa'e';
that the fact is that the goddess of J
la hion has lifted a throne, and at the sounding
of the timbrels we are all expected to |
bow down and worship. There are thousands
of victims smoking on the altar in her
temple. Four people in the organ loft stand
while there drizzles down some cold music
that freezes on the ears of worshipers. 1 have
noticed that there are as many masculine |
victims as femenine. Men sometimes
make easy tirade against woman as
though she were the chief worshiper at the
shrine, and I have no doubt that in the more
conspicuous parts of the pews some have al- '
ready turned and looke{J at the more retired
parts of the pews, a prophecy of a generous
distribution of the sermon to others. But
what I say to day shall be as appropriate for 1
one end of the pew as for the other. Men ara
as much the disciples of fashion las are women,
althouugh they may sacrifice cn a different
part of the altar. It is the wine suppers of (
the clubhouse, or the yachting expeditions,
or the cigars. That is their fashion. Ono;hun- ,
dred million dollars' worth of. tobacco
smoked and chewed up by the men in Ameri
ca every year. That is their fash- j
ion. In England a man was left
$750,000 as a fortune. He went all through !
it He sent his agent to all parts of the
world to gather up the rarest luxuries for his j
palate and sometimes he had a dish that .
would cost $800 or $400. After a while he ,
got down to his last guinea, and with that he 1
bought a woodcock, had it well dressed and .
cooked, sat down and ate it, gave two hours (
to digestion, then walked out on Westminis- ,
ter bridge, leaped into the water and died, <
doing on a large scale what you have seen ]
people do on a small scale. Men are as'much ]
the victims of fashion as are women. It is not }
through any superiority of simplicity they do ,
not have the same attire. Such appendages ,
would be a blockade of all business. What (
would the long sashes and the trails three or (
our yards loug do on the stock market? But
there are men who sacrifice themselves in i
these directions, and some of them have boots ,
so tight they cannot walk in the paths of j
righteousness, and others buy anparel the y j
never pay for, or go through the str.ets greac
stripes of color, animated ckeckboards. I say (
these things because I want to show you that
I am impartial in the discussion, and that the t
sexes according to the language of the siirro- ]
gate's office shall "share and share alike.'' ]
If God will help me, I mean this morning to \
set b.fore you what are the evils of improper <
dress, and also of the excessive discipleship ]
of fashion. I state what the most of you j
know to l>e true when I declare that much \
of the womanly attire seen in society to-day ^
is the cause of the temporal and eternal dam- s
nation of a multitude of men. There is a ,
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snameiessness in wxmi ia canea mga me umu
calls for most potent protest. In some directions
there seems to be a strife to
see how near they can go to
the edge of indecency without falling
over. The tide of masculine dissoluteness
will never be stopped until much of the boldness
of womanly attire ceases and there be
complete reformation in many directions. I
am in full sympathy with that officer of the
law who in rhiiadelpliia last winter, or winter
before last, at a levee went up to a socalled
lady of sparse and incompetent apparel
and told her she must either leave tho house
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ur iiiiuiiiuii*? iioi>eu uiiiiiuumu?!,) . x\j in xugii i (
time for the good women and the sensible | j.
women to either protest in behalf of the dig- [
nity of their sex, and if the women of the t
household do not understand the terrible s
extreme to which this evil has gone, <
then let husbands implead their wives aud i
fathers prohibit their daughters. The evil is j
terrific aud overshadowing. I charge much t
of this evil upon the American st-ige. As I i
do not go to theaters I am obliged to take the c
evidence of actors and managers, men every- 1
where known for ther genius, su< h men as c
John Gilbert, Mr. A. M. Palmer, Mr. Daniel 1.
E. Bandmann, who have recently declared, 1;
and within ten days, that tiio evil of undress j
is blasting the theater: that institution which c
many consider a school of morals, the supe- i
rior of the church and the forerunner of the j
millennium. Mr. rainier says: I
"The bulk of the performances ou tne
stage is degrading and fiernicious. The managers
strive to come just us Bear the Hne as
possible without flagrantly breaking the law.
There never have been costumes worn on the
stage of this city, either in a theatre, hall
or dive, so improper a.s those that clothe some s
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oi I'iiurub iu icucin tuiuxu w?v*w t
tions."
And ho goes on to say, in regard to female c
performers: <
"It is not a question of whether they can r
sing, but just how little they will consent to t
wear" i
Mr. Bandmann, who has been twenty-nine y
years on the stage and appeared before all s
nationalities, says: \
"I unhesitatingly state that the tastes of s
the thefitre-goin'g people of America to-day s
is of a coarse and vulvar nature. The Hindoo s
would turn with disgust at such exhibitions
which are sought after and applauded on the
Btago of this country. Our shop windows are
full of and the walls covered with show
cards and posters which should be a disgrace p
to an enlightened country and an insult to
Cte eye of a cultured community."
Mr. Gilbert says: "Such exhibition is a
disastrous one to the morals of the community.
Are these proper pictures to put out for
the public to look at? to say nothing of the
propriety of females appearing in public in
dress like that It is shameful."
I am obliged to take the testimony of these
actors and managers and friends of the theatre?testimony
confirmed by the board fences
nnd the show windows presenting pictures
showing the way the play actresses dress, i
suppose those are accurate pictures. If they
are not they are swindles, getting people into
tVio t.hpat-.rfw with the promise of spectacular
nudity that they do not perform. If those pictures
are accurate they show the damnable costumes
of play actresses. If they are false
pictures then they swindle the public. Now,
my friends, all this familiarizes the public
mind to improper apparel. Your common
sense tells you that. All that depresses public
couscience as to what is allowable
and as to what is right. The parlor and the
drawing-room are to-day running a race
with the theatre and the opera bouffe, and
they are nearly neck and neck in the race,
and though the parlor and drawing-room
may be a little behind now, they are
catching up very fast, and the probability is
that by the time they pass the stand they
will be nearly even?the opera bouffe and the
parlor?that one-half of pandemonium will
clap their hands because the parlor is
ahead, and the other half of pandemonium
will dap their hands because opera bouffe is
ahend. I charge you in the name of God, oh,
Christ 'ai woman, neither by style of dress
nor adjustment of your apparel administer to
this awful evil. Show me the fashion plates
of any city from now back to the time of
Tstiiia X"V7. of "Prance, or Henry.VIIL of
England, "and I will tell you wnat were
the morals of that age, or that year.
There is no exception to the
rule. Modest apparel the sign of good society
Immodest apparel the sign of a contaminated
and depraved society. But my friends I
not only reprehend the boldness of fashionable
Indecency, against which pulpit and
platform fend printing press ought to burl
their red-hot anathemas, but I also reprehend
costliness of costume beyond cur means.
When I say that you cannot dictate to me
and I cmnot dictate to you, for I do not
know what your means ara. But th is dressing
beyond one's means is an evil illimitable
and ghastly. ArnoM attempted to 8^11 this
country in the time of the Revolution. What
for? To get money for his home wardrobe.
The attempt to keep showy werdrobe and
great establishment is taking many more
business men to ruin than all other causes
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fifteen years and see how many in this way
have bean led to the watering of stock, or as
bank president, to perjure them^elve? about
assets, and business men in various departments
conspicuous, going down in their attempt
to keep up great home establishments
and splendid wardrobe. Why should we go to
those cases when you and I know scores
of men and scores of women, who are at their
wits end from January to December in the
attempt to keep up as great establishments
as?their neighborsaud as splendid wardrobes.
Our politicians at Washington may theorize
until the expiration of their official terms
about the best way of bettering the finances
of the country; but I tell you plainly that
until we, the people of America, learn to put
on our heads and backs and hands and feet
no more than we can pay for, the evil
will go on. There are young
men in banlcs and stores on
limited salaries, in this attempt to keep up a
great wardrobe, almost dead in the effort to
provide the diamonds and the cashmeres and
the apparel far beyond their capacity to furnish
nnH t.hev have uothinp left exceDt that
which they spend for their cigars and their
wine suppers, and they die before their time,
and they want us ministers of the gospel to
come and preach about them, as though they
were the victims of early piety. High-toned
funerals they will have, with silver handles
at the side gloriously polished, and afterward
it will be found out that; even the undertaker
has been chealed out of his legitimate
expenses. Do not send for me to preach
such a man's funeral sermon, for 1 will blurt
out the whole truth and tell that he was
strangled to death by his wifeTB ribbons. It
is deplorable?this nation Is being dressed to
Vhwa wrtf ciipnw'flflfl fkof o -ruiVil
ilL'tlLLl, J.UU Qicuyuoui WCH uu vv u |/uv?iv
building in New York cost millions of dollars
more than it ought to have cost when you
find out that the man who gave out the contracts
paid $5,000 for his daughter's wedding
dress. I have been told that for years gone by
cashmeres of $1,000 worth have been no rarity
on Fulton street, or Broadway, New York.
I have had it from good authority that
there are S,000 women in these two cities who
exDend on personal array $2,000 a year each.
What are men to do in order to nrovide such
wardrobe beyond their means? There is only
one thing they can do. Steal! That is the
only respectable thing they can do! Tens of
thousands of business establishments during
the past twenty years have foundered on the
wardrobe. Temptation comes in about this
way: A man naturally thinks more of his
own family than of anybody else's family,
and when they spend the whole evening describing
the superior array of the family
across the street?people they cannot bear to
look at>?the father and the husband is put
back upon his pride of family and upon his
gallantry, ana while he does not actually
translate nis feelings into plain language he
^oes into extortion and issuing of false stock,
ind skilful penmauship in the signing of other
men's names at the foot of promissory notes,
until they all go down together?the husband
bo the penitentiary, the wife to the sewing
machine and the children to be taken
?are of by those who are called
bhe "poor relations." Oh, for some
Shakespeare to write the tragedy of
human clothes. Act the first of the tragedy:
Plain but beautiful home. Enter the newlynarried
couple. Enter all simplicity of manaer
and behavior. Enter as much happiness
is ever enters a home. Act the second: Discontent
with circumstances, and enter jealousy,
enter envy. Enter desire for display.
Aet the third: Enlargement of expenses.
Enter queenly dressmakers. Enter French
milliners. Enter all kinds of costly expenditures.
Act the fourth: Tip top of society.
Enter the Drinces and princesses of New
Vork and -Brooklyn life, Enter all magnificence
of plate and equipage. Act the fifth:
Winding up of the whole affair. Enter the
issignee. Enter the sheriff. Enter
the creditors. Enter humiliation,
Enter the wrath of God, and enter the contempt
of society, and enter Daath. Drop the
;ilken curtain on the stage. The farce is
;nded and the lights are out. Will you forgive
me if I put in tersest shape the truth
;hat there are thousands of man in America
,vho must forge, and lie, and perjure, and
.windle to pay for their wives' dresses ? I
vill sav it. whether vou forcive me or not.
Excessive discipleship of costume and
worship of the world are the foes of
Christian beneficence, and I tell
,*ou what you know before that the simple
'act is men and women put so much money
>n their houses and their stables and their
squipage and their dress that they have no
noney left for making of the world better,or
illeviatiug human suffering. The Christian
nan cracking the ba^k of his Palais Royal
;love enclosing his hand tight enough to put
i penny in the poor box. Women at the story
>f the Hottentots weeping copious tears into
625 pocket' handkerchiefs and putting two
ents under the dollar bills so far that no one
mows but that it was a S10 gold piece. One
inndred dollars for incense to the goddess of
nshion. Two cents for God. Is not the Lord
renerous to give us ninety cents out
>f every dollar? The tithing system anlounced
in the Bible and in force to-day just
is certainly as it ever was?the tithing sysem
which demands that while Grod gives "us
linety cents out of a dollar, the other ten
ents are to be given for Christian objects.
rVe do not like tliat. We want ninety-nine
:ents for ourselves and one cent for God. I
jelieve that is the reason a great many men
iave failed in busiuess. When they had their
jrospenty mey gavo uomiug to ur<xj
>r they did not give the truth.
Vfter a while God said: "That
nan has declined to let me have the tenth
>art of a dollar, while I gave him the ninety
ents. Now, I will take the whole dollar and
will give it to the man or woman who will
)0 honest with me." I declare to-day that
>ne of the greatest evils abroad is the fact
hat men and women have nothing to give to
Jod because they bestow ko much upon pcronal
adornment and sacrifice so many things
;o their own appetites.
I charge upon this evil also much of tlie
lestruction of public service. In many of the
Lurches people go just as they go to the
aces, to see which will come out ahead,
he opening parts of many services taken
n the discussion about wardrobe, wondering
/here that man got his cravat, and what
tore that woman patronizes. Men and
vomen dying, yet before three worlds
trutting like peacocks, all absorbed in them
eives, taking up tue nymn doox aua
inging:
"Arise my soul, and stretch thy wings,
Thy bottor portion trace,
Rise toward Heaven, thy native place."
I cry out in tho words of the Episcopal
raver book: "Good Lord, deliver us."
]tfore than that, this evil belitles
the intellect You know that in
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proportion as the subject Is great or small
upon which one perpetually dwells is decided
whether the intellect is enlarged or belittled.
Can you imagine anything more belittling
for a man than thinking on questions of costume
or of worldly preferment? I have seen
men on the street whose elaboration of apparel
implied two hours' preparation. After
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eral years, which one of McAllister's magnifying
glasses will be powerful enough to discover
his character with the naked eye?
Can you imagine anything more belittling
for a woman than to nave her mind
constantly on questions of costume? Why
they all end in idiocy. I have seen men at
summer watering places exhausted in this
discipleship of fashion until they were hollow
of ct est and meagre of limb and sallow of
cheek and had no animation except when they
flew across the room to pick up a lady's fansimpering
along the corridors the very compliments
they simpered twenty years ago.
But I have not touched the chief evil. It
keeps multitudes out of heaven. The first
thunder from Sinai declared: "Thou shalt
have no other gods before me," and
some of you will have to decide between
the goddess of this world and the Christian's
God. Heaven has a great many beautiful
seats, but not one ior a devotee 01 mils wui m.
That place is for those who thought more of
their souls than of their bodies. Why, if
some of you got there, with your extravagant
fondness for the world, you would be
putting a French roof on the house of many
mansions." and introducing the patterns of
Butterick's Delineator. Give up this world,
or give up heaven. What would you do standing
beside Lady Huntington, whose joy it was
to build chapels for the poor? or beside that
woman in Boston, who,in Faneuil Hall on New
Years Day fed 1,500 children of the street,and
then, as a sort of doxology, at the close gave
each one a pair of shoes? or beside these
modern Dorcases who have consecrated their
needle to the Lord, eternal rewards coming
tot every stitch they take? Oh, the stupendous
wretchedness of these devotees of the
world. Why, you will always find some one
who has brighter array, or more palatial residence,
or lavender kid gloves of tighter fit.
You buy this and wear it, and you
will be sorry you did not buy
something else and wear that. Then all
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tnese irets win onug crows iwu vu juui
temples before they should come, and when
?ou die you will ha/e a miserable time,
have seen those sons and daughters of the
world expire, and I never saw one die well.
Their apparel was all put away, ilever to be
seen again. There they lay on tne crumpled
pillow, all the trappings off, and just two
things bothered them. A wasted life and a
coming eternity. I tried to pacify them,
but they were so exhausted in the disciplaship
of the world that they could not appreciate
the Gospel. When I knelt by
their side to pray they mumbled in
their prayers,^expressing regrets, for the past,
saying: "Oh, God; oh, Go 1; oh, God!" The
two ghastliest deathbeds on earth are, first,
the man who die3 with delirium tremens.
Secondly, the woman who dies who has been
a disciple of fashion. Oh, my friends, in the
last great day we will have to give an account
for what wo wore as well as for the repentances
with which our souls have been exercised.
There we see coming up Beau Brummel
of the last century without his cloak, like
which all England got a cloak, and without
his cane, like which all England got a cane,and
without his snuff-box, like waich all England
got a snuff-box?he, the fop of the age,
particular about everything but his morals.
Aaron Burr, without those letters which he
showed with pride down to old age, proving
his early wicked gallantries. And Absalom
without his hair, and Marchioness Pompador
without her titles, and Mrs. Reynolds wno
was the bell of Wall street when that was the
centre of fashion, without her fripperies of
vesture. And then they will go away in
great haggardness to eternal expatriation,
while among the queens of heavenly society
will be Vashti, who wore a modest veil before
the bacchanals, and Hannah who annually
made a coat for Samuel at the temple, and
Grandmother Louis, the ancestress of
Timothy, who imitated her virtues and
Mnry, who gave Jesus Christ to the world,
and many of you,the wives and mothers and
sisters and daughters of the Christian church,
who will through great tribulations enter
into the kingdom of God. Christ declared
who would make up the royal family of
heaven when he said: "Whosoever doth the
will of God the same is my brother and sistar
and mother!"
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
Never Make Friends With the Drink.
YouH need your wits about you, boys,
On life's great battle-plain;
You'll need a sure and steady arm,
A clear and active brain;
For if you falter in your aim
There's always this to dread:
If you should fail to hit the mark.
You may get hit instead.
So never make friends with the drink, my
boys,
All that's worth having in life it destroys;
Death lurks behind its alluring joys;
So never make friends with the drink, my
boys.
?Youth1* Temperance Banner.
Horrible, Though True.
Miss Muloch says; "I have been
thinking how horrible it must b? to see
anybody one cared for drunk; the honest
eye dull and meaningless; the wise lips
jabbering foolishness; the whole face and
figure, instead of being what one likes to
look at, takes pleasure to see in the same
room even?growing ugly, irrational, disgusting?more
like a beast thnn a man.
Yet some women have to bear it, have
to speak kindly to their husbands, hide
their brutishness and keep them from
making worse fools of themselves than
they can help. I have seen it done, not
merely by workingmen's wives, but ladywives
in drawing-rooms. I think, if I
were married, and I saw my husband the
least overcome with wine, not 'drunk'
may be, but just excited, silly, otherwise
than his natural self, it would nearly
drive me wild. Less on my account than
his. See him sink?not for a crime, but
a contemptible, cowardly bit of sensualI*
aI 4- Ann mtr 1 aT*/i
ism?iruin inc aui^ui tvuuu ixij ivrt nuu
placed him, to have to take care of
him?ay, and I might pity hira;
but I think the full glory and passion of
my love would die out then and there
forever."
Temperance Notes.
.Tndrrfi f'nnlpv. l.itfi rhief iustice of tile
supreme court of Michigan, recently addressed
the Students' Temperance association
of the Michigan university at Ann
Arbor, and made an able, effective plea
for total abstinence.
xnc Western Christian Advocate of Cincinnati,
says: " The editor of this paper
has recently dedicated two churches in
towns where there is not a saloon, and in
neither of them did he see one rowdy,
while in both places all the money needed
to pay for the churches waa secured with
comparative ease.
Colonel Charles Goodnight, in the
seven camps on his crreat Palo Duro cattle
ranch that embraces large portions of
four counties in Texas, does not employ
a single drinking man.
* Mrs. F. Y. Douglas, the well-known
tempcrance lecturer, has returned to
America after a lecturing tour continuing
for two years in England and Scotland.
While in Durham, as the result of
her work, eight hundred pledges were
signed in one week, and in other places
five hundred in one week was the averago
number. She is at present residing at
No. 525 Quincy street, Brooklyn, and is
open to engagement.
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The Liplit that is Fclt? jjfjj
A tender child of summers three, ; ?
Staking the little bed at night,
Paused on the dark stairs timidly.
uOL, Mother, take my hand," said she, %
"And then the dark will ba all light
"We older children grope a ir .*nr
From dark behind to dark before; ft
And only when our hands we lay, ; ,
Dear Lord, in thine, the night is day,
And there is darkness nevermore.
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Reach downward to the sunless days
Wherein our guides are blind as we, vv -'{.i
And faith is small and hope delayB. k;
Take Thou the hands of prayer we raise, " v
And let us feel the light of thee.
-St. Nicholas.
RELIGIOUS READING.
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Working for Soul*.
We must put it down as a settled anA
unalterable fact, that nothing worth .
possessing is to be gained without effort,
and effort involving at times much pa- ^
ticnce and self-denial. Few things can be ; ]
of greater value to a man than knowledge;
but knowledge, whether it pertains to
mechanism, philosophy, science, history,
or general literature, demands patient >:
search and diligent toil. It is written over
the gateway to every kingdom un.- ' $
der heaven, " The palm is not won without
effort," and the kingdom which
comes irom ijoa ana 01 neaven is not an
exception. Men must strive to enter I
into it, and they must never cease striving,
if they would succeed in their mis- , JS
sion as members of it. The secret of sueccss
in Christian enterprises is work, work
in the line of the divine plan, with faith , p
in the word of promise.
It is the heaven appointed mission of /
the church to work for souls. And if I
there is a church anywhere, that is sub
limcly indifferent to the wants and
woes of the poor and despised and out- . ?
cast, her death-knell is already rang outy . ^
and she is nothing better than a garnished . .>*'
corpse. The verdict of Him who
judgeth righteously is, "Thou hast
name, that thou livest and art dead." J['~;
We need a revival of primitive Chris- 7
tianity in all our churches, and a return'
to the very first principles of religion.
The Son of Man came to seek and save >?"
lin 1r?ef onr\ fKa norlrr nfiM f/A/vlr im
UIAls iVOlj (UIU KMV VU1 IJ fcWIX UJkJT ,
the work where He laid it down. Burn- -1
ing with intense love for souls, thej went
everywhere preaching the Gospel, and
counted not their lives dear to them, if *> >
by laying them down they could bring
man to the knowledge of the truth. We '
need to go back to the Cross to get the
motive to work, and amid the darkness v,%;j
that shrouded Calvary we must learn the k&jvalue
of souls and the true nature of our .;
mission. Let us cultivate a love for the"'-jjw
work which lies so near heart #f our Y:?.
Lord, and which of all works is the most.
enduring and glorious.?Rci. W. V9'x$?'i
Garner.
Living on Old Manna*
The manna, supernaturally provided by
the Lord for the children of Israel, in the :
wilderness, has always been regarded as '
a type of the grace of God, which feeds "j;
and strengthens all true Christians. Our
Heavenly Father graciously supplies, in
this moral wilderness, bread from Heaven .
for all His children, which was typified
by the manna which fed the three millions
of Hebrews during their forty years r
sojourn on their way to Canaan. ' "3
The manna in the desert fell only in
daily portions, and it nccd^i to be gathercd
every day. If they gathered for more vigj
days than one it became putrid and worthless,
except on the Sabbath.
This was a most significant and
wonderful arrangement. God made itdb
that it was ephemeral in its preservation. *
It might have been made so as to keep a
week, a month, or a year. Indeed, a.,V*/;
portion of it was kept divinely preserved
in the ark. as a memorial thro*urh many '
generations. v^Jl
But God intended human agency to be
iuvolved in its reception each day. Ho
intended they should each day be re- 'f/M
minded of their dependence upon his ' :
parental hand. He desired to draw out
their hearts in gratitude and trust and -
love every day of their journey.
It is so with the spiritual manna.
Kept over, it rots, becomes stale,offensive ; *
and worthless. The whole notion of '?*y
living on old find past expeincnce, stands
justly rebuked by the forcible analogy of j
1 in Hnlirnw mnnn!)
It antagonizes all laws of tlie spiritual
economy to try to live on old gospel > A
manna. The Lord requires us to look to ^
Ilim day by day for our daily bread. Ha "7
wants to see us looking to the mercy seat
each morning, each noon, each evening,
and "pray without ceasing." It is His . ^
delight to hold constant communion with
our souls. He loves to bless His people.
The whole system of spiritual life demands
daily communion of the soul with
God. Christ said: uIamtho vine, and
ye are the branches." Sever the branch >
from the vine but a single day, and
I withering and death ensues. The living
branch in the vine keeps up perpetual
communion and action, and the life of V"
the branch depends upon the vine.
This reveals the secret of so much languishing
and spiritual death in the visible
church. Great multitudes are severed
from the vine, and arc trying to live on V
past experience. They are starving by . :$
trying to live on old manna. Neglecting
to gather each day what the wants of <"-?
cach day demand, they fall back on the
old stock. Alas, how many find their " '?
chief spiritual comfort in the recollection
of p:ist seasons of receiving and being v$j
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anything fresh or new daily from God. ijv
0, how much to be pitied and to be
blamed, those who live oh "forty years
ago," while the fields aro covered each
morning with fresh manna, and the heavens
each night drop down afresh their
' 'angels' food." . f
Only a little less foolish would be the
man who would trv to live on the food
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;i?0. What would be thought of a man
who would attempt to do up all his eating,
drinking and breathing in one day,
to last him forty years?
Oh, the richness and freshness of daily
communion with God! How different
the mere recollections of past blessings
from present blessings. Away with all
:tepen>len<:e upon old, sceond-hand blessings.
Any soul shut up to live over
again and again in dim memoiy of the
joys and consolations of the past, cannot
fail to languish and starve.
There is a wide waste of desolation in
thn Church of God, resulting from tho
laily neglect to gather spiritual mauna.
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It is generally thought and said tha^
the habit of treating is wholly and exclusively
American; but it is not. It is
hardly known in Great Britain, though ifc
is not uncommon in France, Germany
and other parts of the continent, especially
among students and young men
generally. The English abroad, particularly
in Australia, India, China, New
Zealand and South Africa, treat, though
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The custom is Anglo- Saxon rather than
American, and is believed to have prevailed
during the dark ages in England.
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