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Wanted. "Wanted?in places of folly and sin, Courage, these wayward souls to win, Voices, to tell them of Jesus' love, Faith, that points to the rest above r Wanted?yes, in the homes of the poor, Christian love, to open the door; Gentle hearts to soothe the pain, That to the needy comes oft and again. Wanted?in the business hours of rtian,* The "golden rule" in each trade to plan, , In all that we say, whatever we do, That the love of God may shine all through. ( Wanted?grace to bear each loss, ' Trials, to burn the gold from the dross; win, w lxjw in oueuience miiu To the rule of Christ, as a little child. Wanted?wisdom, peaceable, pure? ! To know the soul's deep sin and cure? 1 Perfect trust in a loving God, . Walking the path our Saviour trod. ; Wanted?to be kept from evil here, < To live in His love without a fear? c Nothing to know but His will Divine, And that 1 am His, and He is mine! s ?Nashville Banner. e \ RELIGIOUS READING. 5 I a The Secret of Power. t The vital force of the church is the ? power of the Spirit of God?his presence f is the true inspiration, his outpouring is j the true revival. There is no remedy a but a baptism of the Spirit for the * worldliness, the deadness, the indiffer- c cnce we see around us, and the recovery a of that faith and fervor we may have o lost ourselves. "To renew evangelistic J* efforts on a great scale," say some, "is T our immediate duty." "Kay," I rejoin, n "first bring our own hearts and the t hearts of our fellow-believers into more f perfect sympathy with the things of the ? kingdom and get them more largely filled with the Spirit and love of Christ." Let g a wide spread waiting on the Holy Ghost r for a great deepening of our spiritual <3 life precede all further enterprise, and ^ when the hearts of believers are filled ij witli joy and overflow they will win more li to the Saviour in one month thus quick- ? oned, than they would do in years work- rj ing under conditions of enfeebled power. a It is a spiritual revival in the truest sense t we greatly need, inaugurating a new era * of consecration to Jesus, and communion * with the Unseen, and raising the average ^ of Christian character to a saintliness and n purity never reached before.?Ilex. John J Baird, Edinburgh. P P The Eleventh Hour. V "It is true," said a merchant to a clergyman, "I am not satisfied with my ii present condition. I am not of a settled 11 mind in religion, as you express it. Still ^ I am not utterly hopeless. I may yet ^ enter the vineyard, even at the eleventh a hour.*" - a "Ah! your allusion is to the Saviour's ? parable of the laborers who wrought one ]( hour at the end of the day. Uut you c have over-looked the fact that these men P accepted the first oiler." "Is that so?" a "Certainlv. Thev said to the lord of a the vineyard, 'No man hath hired us.' ti They welcomed his first oiler immediate- J3 lj-n b "True; I had not thought of that be- b fore. But the thief on the cross, even 5 while dying, was saved." P "Yes; but is it likely that lie even ^ had ever rejected an oiler of salvation as a preached by Christ and His Apostles? ti He had been a robber by profession. In a the resorts and haunts to which he had * been accustomed the Gospel may never t< have been preached. Is there not some a: reason to believe that he, too, accepted the first offer?" "Why, you seem desirous to quench q my hist spark of hope." S "Why should I not? Such hope is of D; illusion. You have really no promise on " .-if. soinc future time "N^iw the _ accepted time! Begin now." ti "How shall I begin?" fj "Jus:; as the poor leper did when he Jjj met Jesus by the way, and committed tl his body to the Great Physician in order tx to be healed. So commit your soul to c< Him as a present Saviour. Then serve Him from love; the next, even the most tl common duty of life -that you have to ?perform, do it as service unto llim. * Will you accept the first oiler? Your m eyes are open to see your peril. Beware t of delay?beware!" bi "You are right. May God help me! w I fear 1 have been living in a kind of de- fc 0 w lusion on this subject." tl i.? tl "Jesus of Nazareth Paiaetli By." v: A beggar, and hopelessly blind at ^ that! How sad a case! He cannot go to any celebrated physician, and it were si useless if he could. He has heard of one, is (invalids are quick to learn such facts) ? who cures the blind. But he hits never j been to Jericho.?Will he ever come? ir shall I know it if he come, and knowing tl it can I gain an audience? Painful and ^ oft repeated questions, suspending his hopes on the frail thread of remote con- bi tingencies. le But one day, there is a crowd rushing a along trampling over and by the poor q blind man. "Hearing the multitude lie t* asked what it meant." The answer m thrills him by the double fact so briefly a] told. It is Jesus, and lie is "passing by." It is the moment of the man's life. n, Jesus alone can Help him, was then at pi Jericho for the first and last time, and was even then leaving. "What a thread ^ for a blind man to find and follow! He calls, is opposed,, calls louder, is heard, ai Jesus stops; speaks to him; does for ^ him all he asks; he sees the Lord P1 of g ory and follows him in the way q with gazing, feasting, adoring eyes. it Oh! many blind sinners sit by the way- pi side of the world. Once in their life " Jesus comes near, nearer, nearest, but is * "nassimr bv." How much for them n I hangs on 1 hut fact at that precise time? tl You were in a crowd, or in some deep b sorrow, or with his disciples, or alone u with the Iloly Spirit, when he was "pass- * ing." And you knew he was going by. g Did you call, and did he stop and answer p you? u There is a critical point for every sin- a ful beggar when Jesus goes out once at t, Jericho's gate. The Christian looks "V 'back to it, and so docs the lost sinner. C It may seem a trivial thing at the time to ? let him pass by. But opposition should v not nrevent our calling after him. For c they who call arc answered. And Oh! n the wonder of the mercy, Jesus of Naza- a reth will stop, and help, when poor blind }' sinners call after him!?Boston lievieiA. r ? i The Baptist Total Abstinence associa- B tion, of England, numbers in its ranks f 1,171 ministers, 2,688 church officers ? and 212 students, making a total *"" < 5,061, having an increase of 355 overlap * year. [ ?? I A correspondent of the New York \ World, writing of his efforts on a recent 1 Sunday evening to obtain liquor in Port- ; land, Me., says: "In still another place j our liquor was brought on sealed up in ; egg shells, the meat having been blown ' oufc." ' ( V DffEiAG?sIiil S x. L rHE NEWSPAPER PRESS AN " ALLY OF THE PULPIT. t' 1 P Text: "Behold a flying roll."?Zacliariah, 1 a The winged sheet of the text had a proph- y, >cy written on it. The flying roll of to-day t s the newspaper. You can no more ignore a t in calculating the forces that affect society a ;han you can ignore the noonday sun or the 11 ^.tlavtic ocean. It is high time that I preach t, t sermon appreciative of what the new.spa- c >er press has accomplishbd and is accomplish- p ng. No man living or dead has been, or is n o indebted to the newspaper press as myself tl )ecause it has given me perpetual audience ii n every city, town and neighborhDod of Christendom, and I publicly, in the presence t >f God and this audience,expressmy thanks to f ditors, publishers, compositors and type- p etters, and I give fair notice that I shall in s ,T-r>T--o- -ru-k-ci'KIa irov t-r-u- or>1n.rire thfi fie!d. fl yy, J v. . o- , vhether by stenographic report on the Sab- \ >ath, or galley-proof on Monday, or previous t' lictatiou. I long ago said to "the officers of v his church, "Whoever else are crowded, do s lot crowd the reporters." Every intelligent t tnd honest representative of tha press who e akes his place iu church amounts to ten or a ifteen other churches built on to this.Ninety- c ive per cent, of the newspapars are my I riends, and do me justice ana more than g ustice, and the other five of the one hundred I s ire such notorious liars that nobody believes v hem. In self-defence, and sixteen years fi go, I employed an official stenographer a if my own because of the 1< ppalling misrepresentations of myself f nd church. But things have so miracu- o audy changed that it is just as appalling in p he marvellous opportunity opened and for c rhich I am grateful to God every day. The v iewspaner is the great educator of the cen- tl ury. It is book, pulpit, platform and h orura all in one. xnere is not au iumuc&u? u eligious, scientific, commercial, agricultural, o nanufacturing, mechanical?but is within ii ts grasp. All our churches, schools, art e ;allerios, asylums and great enterprises? eformatory, religious or secular?feel the c luaking of the printing press. The first is ewspaper arose in Italy, while b renice was at war with Solyman d a Dalmatia. The paper was pub- ti ished for the purpose of giving military t< nd commercial information to the Vene- t< ians. The newspaper arose in Englandin 15S8. a 'he first paper was called the Mercury, ti nd then there came the Weekly Dispatch, n he English Discoverer, the Secret Owl, the si ierachtus Ridens and so on, and so on. In p 'ranco the newspaper was first seen in 1631, a nd was published by a physician for the r. onitti on^ omuMmBTit nf his Datients. The p ewspaper grew in tnwer until Napoleon I j n rrote with nis own hand articles for it, end d 1 1S29 there were in the city of ; U 'aris 106 journals. Tin newspaper ! a ress, however, has had its chief sway in this I 0 ind. In 1753 there wa3 but thirty-seven J fj Jurnals on all the continent. Now there are I d 3,000 strong newspapers rolling out copies I i the year by the billions and billions. I j d ave no difficulty in accounting for the d orld's advance. Four centuries ago, in si Germany, attorneys in court fought with w tieir fists as to who should have the first case, i a nd the judge decided for the strongest fist j si nd the stoutest arm, and if the judges's de- [ E ision was disputed then he himself fought j la *ith lx>th the attorneys. Some of the c >rds and the wealthiest men of that day se ould not read the titles to their own tx ropertv. Why the change? Books, you d ly. No, sir; people do not read books. c< b is exceptional when men read books. Take a: ny promiscuous audience in tnis land, or in , st nv land, and how mp.ny treatises on consti- | G itional laws have they read? how many j tl ooks of science, how many books in regard ' ti ) navigation, in regard to geology, in regard j xi y botany, in regard to anv intricate subject? fi low much have they heard of Bayle, of < li 'enonhon. of Herodotus, of Percival? The j c< eople of the United State? do not average a' ?adine one book a year to the individual y [ow, then, do I account for the change c nd the fact tha1; people are able to rr ilk on all questions of science and a: rt. nn'l intelligence is everywhere ! a 3 the lijrht, and men are intelligent on all I -n ibiects? How do you account for it? Next i b ) the Bible, the newspaper, swift-winged > p d everywhere present. Flying over the n mce, shoved under the door, put on the work lr ench, tossed into the country room, hawked w irough the cars. All read it, white, black, st erman, French, Italian, English, American, it wiss, well, sick, Monday morning, Saturday y ight, before breakfast, after tea, Sunday, ? eek day. I declare that the newspaper d rinting press is to be the mighty agent by h hich the gospel is to be preached, crime e c- y rpated, oppression dethroned, the world iised, heaven rejoiced, God glorified. To c< le clanking of the printing: press, hi 3 the sheets fly out, 1 near u le voice of the Lord God Almighty saying m > the dead nations of the earth: "Lazarus", ir Dme forth!" and to the retreating sniges of si arkness: "Let there be light!" How many rr f the newspapers of city and town during it le past ten years have hal mighty pleas in bi rhalf of the Christian religion and have 01 iven 5,ome of the most effective interpreta- fr ons of God's providence among the nations! a< here are on.y two kinds of newspapers, al he good, the very good?the bad, the very ci ad. When a newspaper starts it may for a m bile have no especial reputation either tl >r virtue or infamy; but in a little cj hile people decide for themselves, and it ley say, '{it is good." and it is good: and "it a ; bad," and it is bad. The one newspaper is y le embodiment of news, it is the ally of ir irtue, it is the foe of crime, it is the delecta- c< on of elevated taste, it is the mightiest U srencv for saving the world. The othev is ci brigand amonz moral forces, it is the be- 01 imer of reputation, it is the foe of all that jj. good, it is the mightiest agent of earth n" >r battling the cause of God and driving jr ack Christianity, if it could be driven back. he one influence is an angel of light, the other j ifluence is a fiend of darkness,and between lat archangel and that furv is to be fought t( le battle that is to decide the destiny of the w uman race. The Armaegedde of nations is ^ 3t to be fought with swords n( at with steel pens, not with bult but with type. not with a] mncn but with lightning-perfecting press, c| nd the Sumnters and the Moult ties, and the ^ ibraltars of that conflict are to be the edi>rial and reportorial rooms of our great ewspap >r establishments. Men of the press nd men interested in its prosperity, upon ou come down the most tremendous respon- w bilities of the earth. Men in all departments ^ eed to be good, and most of all, men of the ^ res*. Oh, how great the change from the ai me when Peter ShoefTer invented cast-metal w .'pe, and because two books were alike t-iev ^ ere pronounced to be the work of the devil 0j -l ooks were printed on strips of bamboo, ad the Common Council of the city of New 'ork solemnly voted the offer of fort/ SJ ounds to any printer who xj'ould come r.ad n ve there, and the Speaker of the House of ^ ommons indignantly denounced the print- p. ig press b?caus>-? it had dared to notice their roceedings?or to this time in which we _ ve, when the printing press is wielding such S1 vast pow r for pood or for evil. The tele- ^ raph and thfj printing pre-s go down into ^ 19 harvest field and the telegraph says to ? 19 printing press, "I'll rake while you ind," and the telegraph puts its & on teeth down at one erl iq harvest field and they are drawn $ [ear across and then the information is a i ? ? _ -i i .. atnerea up 111 Mieavus, uuu unw pnui'.ug |j ress puts one sheaf on the breakfast table f( 1 the shape of morning news, and puts 0, nother sheaf on the tea table in the shape of ^ vening news, and that man who neither c, ikes nor reads a newspaper is a curiosity. n Vhat a vast change from the time when a Cardinal Woolsey publicly decked that ^ ither the printing pres3 must, go down or the a 'hurch of Gci must go down. To this time ^ rhen the pulpit and the printing press are in sj ombinatior. and while a minister of religion nay on the Sabbath preach only to a bout 500 people, through the fol- n swing week through the secu- f. ir and religious press tie may irearh to millions and millions and millions. r, Jut let me say to the men of that profession, p nd those who are in any wise allied to it, 1 tl vould like to know how many words of syin- 1? >athy you have received during the last u welve months for your important work. ^ fot ten. How many sermons in tne course t <7 vnur lifo havo vmi finnrrl of Tirftcfcipfll r\ islpfulness for the men and women engaged c n that {.articular profession? Not one. How n any words of deuunciation and misappre- ^ tension and hypercriticism and abuse have s rou heard? Ten thousand. If you are a 0 ypesetter and you get the type m c the wrong font, then the foreman blows jpou up. If you are a foreman j ind cannot surmount the unsurmountable r and get the forms up at the right time, then f you are denounced by the publisher. If you o ire are a publisher and you mismanage, then c the owners cry out: ''Wberqi are my divilends?" If you are an editor and in your t :olumn announce an unpopular sentiment i hin +Viaiico rtrl rvnno ora flnTlC ftt VOtl. I . u-iv/u yvii vuuuouuu puuo mi v / .< Ire you a reporter, theu you must under ^ tand the most indistinct speaker and must- Q< >e able to write by gaslighc after midnight J* is well as in the full noonday . un. Are you a proofreader, hen comes down on you the wrath of ypesetter and editor and owner and pub- 111 isher if you do not properly arrange the ^ eriods and the semicolons and the exclama" fc ion points and the asterisks. Plenty of u, buse but no sympathy. I have for many g( ears stood in positions where I have seen a he whole process going on, and I know all ^ bout the annoyances and the maltreatments nd the sufferings, and I propose this mornog to declare them, praying Almighty God ^ hat a word of helpfulness may come to jf nany who need the help, while I hope to imross the minds of those outside _ the | ga ewspaper profession with certain tacts 0j hat will make them more lenient and kind ^ a your treatment of those inside of it. m In the first place, one of the great trials of f0 he newspaper profession comes from the .j0 act that more of the shams of the world iass before it than before any other profes- ar ion. Every day through the newspaper of- } ^ ce go all the weaknesses of the world. The gj, anities that wane to be puffed, the revenges ; w' hat want to b3 wreaked, the mistakes that ^ cant to be corrected, the men who want to be ^ et right who never were right, the meanness hat wants to get its Wares announced in the ^ iditorial column to save the expense of the dvertising column, the crack-brained phil- ^h sophers who go through with stories as 0E Dng as their hair and as gloomy as their fin- an ;er nails in mourning because bereft of , oan. and all the long procession of bores 7? rho come to stay five minutes and stay an i" our. It is a wonder to me that the editors J?* nd reporters of ohe land have any faith jft either in G^d, man or woman. Beore no class of people on earth do so many P? f the shams and the weaknesses of the world JJ? ass. TVhen I find some of them sceptial I do not wonder at it I ronder they believe in any- rj hing. If the editor or reporter had not in r? is early home, or has not in his present o;r.e some model of earnestness of character, . r unless he throws himself upon the upholdig grace of God, he will make temporal and verlasting shipwreck. Another trial of th9 newspaper profession omes from inadequate compensation. There 1T} : great rejoicing ever and anon in this land, , e?auso the price of newspapers has gone own, from five cents to four, from four 1 3 three, from three to two, from two aD 3 one. There are men who would like W( 3 have th9 price go down to half co cent. I never rejoice at such a se< ime because it means hardship, penury, do- TT lestic privation, starvation. You may not ;e where it strikes, but it strikes.. No news- Pr aper in the land can afford to be published De t less than five cents a sheet. Through the a.n ivalries of newspapers it'is necessary that j?1( rices come down. but oh, what suffering it . leans, what hardship, what trial. Since the S1C ays of Hazlett and Sheridan and John Mil- r?< m and the wail of Grub at London, liter- ?~ ry toil has never been appreciated. ne liver Goldsmith, entertaining his 'iends, has to sit in the win* -i _ fchi ow, oecause mere is oniy one cnair. i ? linnseus has to sell his splendid work for one no ucat. De Foe, the author of 218 volumes ies penniless. The learned Johnson bad s^. jch shabby clothes that he could not dine W1 rith gentlemen, so he sat behind the screen I? ad dined while the gentlemen on the other ** de the screen were applauding his works. lutler, after throwing the world into fits of mghter with "Hudibras" died for lack of a rust So it has always been. Manual toil ferns to have a grudge against literary ? ] >il, and it practically says: "You come owu here and shove a plane and break Dbblestoncs and pound the shoe last, nd get an hone =4 living like the rest of us in- *a :ead of sitting there idly scribbling!" But 110 -od knows there is no harder toil on earth SP lan literary toil. It is not a question of hard mes: it is characteristic of all tirres. The tbl orld has no appreciation of the immense s"j nancial, physical, intellectual exhaustion of oH terary toil, and so the world begrudges five ^ ?nts and says: "Cnn't you make it four?" J18 ni then begrudges four and says: "Can't 1._ -i. i.i in ?1u j?? tn OU IIlUKtJ 10 fcLLTtJU? H.I1U mo uuicv i;nts for a newspaper and says: "Can't ycu (l [ lake :t two?' and grind and grind and grind, nd in that mill are ground up the bodies he nd the minds and the souls of men and I s 'omen. The world dip3 its chalice into the or lood and says: "Aha! the tvicd of news- po apers has gone down." While there are va len in the newspaper profession who have bu lade their fortunes, I tell you men and tei 'omen of America that to the most it is a da ;ruggle for bread. Lot me say to all such rei 1 the presence of an unappreciative world, Oi ou had better when you go home at night, lot rorn and nervous and exhausted, kneel ha own and commend your case to God who tlx as promised to be your God and the God of w< nur ohildren after vou. th. Another trial of the newspaper profession in )mes in the diseased appetite abroad for un- fin salthy intelligence. We cry out against ca le murders and the scandals to which the ge ewspapers give prominence. Why do so gr lany of the newspapers give prominence to pi ich things? Because the public taste do- stc tands them. I go into a foreign city and of ito a meat market, and I find that the Bi utchers have hung up on the most conspicu- sp< as hooks, meat that is tainted, while the fe; esh and the savory meat is carelessly tossed th side. What am I to conclude? I unmistak- bo sly conclude that the people of that m< ty love tainted meat. If there is so gei iuch iniquitous literature abroad in ta1 10 shape or book and newspaper, it is be- po luse the public taste is so corrupt it demands pe . Now. you are an honest citizen, you are wi trood citizen, vou are an intelligent citizen, thi ou are a man of family, a newspaper comes tbi lto your house, you open it; there pre tl-vee th< jlumns of splendid written editorials, next Nc j it there is a mean, contemptible divorce sir i?e. Which do you read the more thor- m? jghly? Here are the splendidly written ed- ne orials evolving some beautiful moral senti- G1 lent, or some theory of science. You dip coi tto it and say, "That is splendidly written; pa rnt is well done, that editorial.1' "thi ben you turn to the divorce case and read foi all, from the long primer type at the top lea > the nonpareil at the bottom, and ask your rai ifo if she has read it It is only a case of bu sinand and supply. Newspaper men are rh ot fook;. They know what you want and Gc ley ffive it to you. it tne cnurcn 01 uoa, ad if honorable men of the world, would de- I f iue to read the depraved books and ' epraved newspapers tney would not be Ai ublished, for the simple reason that they ould not pay, for iniquity gets poorer and I'n Dorer and poorer and cannot afford to support terature. It is the honest men, the hard crking men, the pure men of the world that Ai ipport the literature. If ?i convention could ' ) called now and made up of all the editors Ot ad reporters of the United States, and it ' ere plainly put them, which kind of a paper Tt leysnould prefer to publish, and which style ? news to send forth,I think they would unan- Y< nously declare: "We would rather send out ' evating literature than bad literature." I Iy ILU5 iiUU m ivi uwuiMVMvv. ewspaper, but I say it that you may lay a LvicJed responsibility between those who rint and those who read. Another great temptation to tha newspa- c:0 er profession comes in the allurements that gc irround it. Every occupation, trade, pro;ssion has its especial temptations. It is so (.1 'ith the clerical profession, with the medical , ^ +1*/* 1^-rn 1 nrnfpssion. with ruievuuu, ?uuu uiiv ie artistic profession, with every trade, to very profession, every business. The newsaper profession is no exception. You know ^ lere are great drafts on the nervous forces, nd the brain is taxed. The blundering potical speech must bo made to read well )r the sake of th> party, and thj litor and reporter must make it read well .*, lough in the speech every sentence was a atastrophe to the Euglish language. The m ewspaper man.must correctly report an in- ac udible speech, the speech of a man who gE ainks it is vulgar to speak loud, although the udiencethe night before sat with hand be- . ind the ear in vain struggling to catch a ! w Th? inn ma] ist must be ex- ! Or OVUWUWt j osed at the fire, ho must write in the fetid rc lleyway, he must go into courtrooms ine-tenths of which are stench- . ill with rum and tobacco, he must o into heated assemblers and into audience te uoms all uuventilated and where all the pre- m arations are for asphyxia, and added to all ec iiere must be hasty mastication and irreguir habits. U nder this awful strain of the ervous system, how many hundreds have one to strong drink for relief God only nows. They must take something to keep tfl ut the wet, and something to keep out the th hill, and something to start the mind in the tb aorning after the scant sleep of the night. 'hat is what made Horace Greeley such a ? tout temperance man. He told me in my ea wn house, "I have seen so many of my T omrades and literary friends and news- re aper associates go down under strong drink s? hardly dare look at it," and so he went reaching temperance all over the land. And 6 3t me say to all men in that profession, God loos not want you to do anything that you annot do without artificial stimulus. There B1 s no half way ground for you between teeotalism and dissipation. I have so many lj terary friends, I had so many literary iemls "who have been destroyed by strong rink?and fome of them are now on the jwn grade?that to-day I take the ord=? of another and cit aloud: J Look not upon the wine when it isred,wiien movoth itself aright in the cap, for at the st it biteth like a. serpent, and it stingeth tft an adder." Another temptation of the newspaper prossion is in the fact 1 hot no one seems to care ir their soul. They feel it. They are looked xm as professional in, almost all assemblajs. It is not expected that a man reporting sermon should be convertod to God by that rmon, or an editor discussing a religious am of news in his editorial column should 7 that observation and discussion himself be ved. Oh, you say it is all professional, you tell me that the men of the newspaper ess are not saved in multitudes, and all T {4* IB r\Q +Ka /*hllTV>Vl *OU, UUUU X DttJ XV XO l/UO lUUli; Ut tuu VUU4VU God; it is because you do not expect them come into the kingdom. And then I reember how one night in this church, in the urth seat from the platform, there sat a urnalist. He had been sent to caricature e services. He came early. He looked ound and he saw that the shape of the aiding was not the usual shape of lurches, and he caricatured that After a hlle the organ began its solemn roll and at was fun to him, and he caricatured that fter a while the pastor appeared on the atform and he caricatured him. Thea the usic went on and that was still more funny, fter a while the text was announced and at was irresistible. And be was writing t until the service was about half through, id he said his hand began to tremble, and hardly knew why it trembled, and he said himself: "don't be a coward; don't be af:ted by anything in this chwch; you me here professionally." He rallied his *ength and he concentred his energies and wrote on until he could write no more, and t put his pencil in his pocket, put his head iwn on the seat in front and began to pray, id when at the close of the service we ked all those who desired to be commended God in prayer to arise, he was the first one at arose. Coming into the side room he Id us the whole story, and before the evenr1/\n,1n?*A<4 kintal f A? f.Vtft T ^ WW ptWl/ UO uouicu ouunuawi vu vuv v? w le, and ever since, though ill in the newspaper profession, er since on Sabbath afternoons he is preachg the gospel of Jesus Christ in a hall hired his own expense. And the day will come lien the men of the newspaper profession ill come into the kingdom of God by scores id by hundreds and by thousands. The >rld will not be converted until they are averted. They feel the sadness that none sms to care for their souls. Many of them jre brought up by fine ancestry, and when ey left the parental roof, whoever regarded disregarded,they went forth with a father's nerliction and a mother's prayer, d oft times when they think of those good 1 times the tears fill the eye, and they go wn in this great roaring metropolis home.1 T 4-yx amtt aC fham mov VioflT* <t\.) auu x aaj (aj auj vi uuoii? ?? uv uwm 3 to-day and any to whom these words all come, God is your friend. He has a art large enough to take in all your annoyces and all your misfortunes and all your stresses. Sometimes utterly disgusted with b world, its shams and its trials, you know t which way to turn; but this day you iy have the mercy, the pardon, the mpathv, the help of Almighty God if you 11 ask for them. Hear it. Hear it. Some ars ago, at the foot of Canal street. New ork, a body was found floating. As it was ing brought to the morgue, they noticed by e contour of the forehead that the man had infaHoAfnal r*Qr-?nnifrv Thftr fnnnd in cau luuouvwvuMt vi*J/V?V4WJ ? w? 5 pocket a reporter's pad, a lead pencil and ahotogi aph of someone who long ago had ircd him well. He had entered th9 newsper profession, things had gone wrong wih m, his health . had failed, he had ken to artificial stimulants to keep up, and hal gone down, down, down until one mmer day, hot and weary and hunsry and k and in despair, he flung "himself from 0 dock. Death, as it often does, had toothed out all the wrinkles, and smoothed ' all the care from his face, and it was it had been seven years before when he d left the country home never to rern. The heartless world looked through ~ flifl mnronia nrtH cm'H D ** lilUU ?T VI VUU MUM bUV wvt.w. t is only an outcast;" Dut God said: rhat i3 a gigantic nature that perished cause the world gave him no chance." ;ay to all men in the newspaper profession, iu any wise allied to it, take God for your rtion not only bacause o? the personal ad.ntage religion will be to your own soul, it because we want you more mightily inrested in high christian endeavor. This y lift your hand in oath of allegiance to ligion and philantrophy and patriotism. i the plains of judgment when you )k off upon tho multitudes whom you ,ve influenced, may it be found at many through your work >re induced to start ou the high pathway at leads to the renown of heaven. Better that day to have been an editor, and with iger of type influenced the world and influced it wrong, that you had been a dunoned exile by the light of a window iron ated on scraps of New Testament leaf eked up from the hearth, spelled out the >rv of Him who came to takeaway the sins the world. In eternity Dives is the beggar, it we will all soon be through with writing, saking and publishing, and in all our pro>sions and occupations we will all soon be rough. What then? Our life is a ok. Our years are the chapters, our jnths are the paragraphs, our days are the itences, our imitation of others is the quoL* n??A 4>UA DIOn ma.IK, uur uuuuw aic iuc lu^iu^wuivu I ints, our desire of display a dash, death a riod, eternity the peroration. And where 11 we spend it? Have you heard the news, a tremendous news, news more thrilling in anything that has come us in 3 journals for the past six weeks! >t the sinking of the Oregon, but the iking of a world, not the misfortune of a in, but the overthrow of a race. Terrific ws. But have you heard the good news? ad news from the throne of God. The ariers of Heaven leaping from the palace te to carry the news, the glorious news it there is pardon for all guilt and comrt for all trouble. Set it up in double ided columns, and direct it to the whole 3e. A Scotch poet, insane on everything t relieion. wrote this beautiful but strange ythrnT >d hath pardoned all my sin, rhat's the news, that's the news, eel the witness deep within, rhat's the news, that's the news, H since he took my sins away, knd taught me how to watch and pray, a happy now from day to day, rhat's the news, that's the news. 1 ^ eViMilrl COV i 1 I I1U W 1JL aujuuo ouvutu WV.J 'What's the news? what's the news?" i. tell hirn you've bsgun to pray, That's the news, that's th9 news. lat you have joined th 3 conquering band, i^nd now with joy at God's command ju're marching to the better land, rhat's the news, that's the news. The Outlook Was Good. Miss Joy?"Madame, Mr. Foster hag me to take me out for a drive; may I ?, madame?" Madame?"You know, Miss Joy, the e rules of Vassar do not allow it, un 93 you are engaged?are you engaged Mr. Foster?" Miss Joy (doubtfully)?"N no, it if you -will, lot me go I shall be by e time we get back."?Life. It lias been lately asserted in Bcienic circles that tlie idea that mamals bad passed through a period of [uatic growth, as shown by the existice of the. whale, should be exactly re(rsecL That is, the anatomy of the ba'e has been found to show that at le time it was a four-footed beast. It itains evidon o of having had at one cne a hairy covering, while it also re? I ins sets of rudimentary teeth chara<* ristic of a land animal rather than * arine one. These tuetli vanish at an irly period of the whale's life, often i ren before it is born. According to Dr. E. Parmly Brown, ie Sandwich Islander formerly had te soundest teeth of any people on .e globe, but their teeth have now bein to decay rapidly, an effect, it ap,rs, of eating large quantities of salt, his substance and sugar Dr. Brown gards as leading factors in the deruction of human teeth at the presit time. A MATHEMATICIAN who had a little Dare time recently weighed the earth, ad found it tipped the scales at exacfcr 5,855,000,000,000,000 tons. TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT No More Rum For Met PI used to take a social glass Of brandy, wine, or beer, An'l thought it was the very thing My intellect to clear; But soon my wife and I began To fight and disagrej, And in a sober mood 1 said, "No more rum for me!" " Ca I saw how Fred and Jim and Jake, to And others I had known, rpj Were by this cruel enemy Completely overthrown; And, lest I should be drawn to depths in Of sin and misery, th I crushed the appetite and said, to "No more rum for me!" 0E I knew that rum and other drinks, w. That some considered prime, w: Would craze a man, compelling him ga To do some heinous crime; And as from jails and scaffold I r Determined to keep free, in I spurned the proffered glass, and said, F' "No more rum for me!" The gilded palaces, arrayed To catch the foolish lly, For me no longer have a charm? u I coldly pass them by; Art/1 ac f Ka Af ffAnln fit: tW UUt lUI/UlC VL l/UVOO OUIU3 Who enter I foresee, sq I shudder at their fate, and say, co "No more rum for me!" ^ Lest I should disappoint my friends he And tarnish my good name; an Lest I become insensible hs To honor and to shame; _ Lest I should fall as low as some ,' Degraded ones I see, d Emphatically I declare, sa "No more rum for me 1" th 'Tis thus I kept my health and strength, ? And walk in wisdom's ways, be Enjoying peace of mind, and well vii Assured of length of days; w) And those who would improve their tims, ,*e And wise and happy be, J. Must break from bondage and exclaim, Vl< "No more rum for me!" 6CJ -Josephine Pollard, in National Advocate, No One to Defend the Saloon. One of the most promising signs of the wl march of temperance reform is the dearth an nf rtafnndera fr?r thp sAlnnn. Not manv Qe - J years ago respectable men pretended to claim that the saloon had a decent mis- ag sion. Now it is generally conceded that ou there is no other side to the argument P.e nc against the liquor traffic. One man will gj. attempt to apologize for the saloon be- ce cause the drug stores sell in violation ol m: the law, and another may say "you can't stop the sale anyway," but we have met no man in a long while who attempted tw to champion the saloon per se. Good w< people may differ as to methods, but few 1?* will deny that the saloon is the conspicu- rej dus curse of modern society, or that the suppression of the sale of liquor as a bev- an erage is a consummation aevouuy tq ue w wished. Social habits formed in its unhealthy atmosphere are sapping the vitalitv of the young, the middle-aged and n the old. Fast in their embrace they hold pa with slimy talons armies of men whom nature fitted for positions of usefulness er and honor, instead of for the degrad- wj ing career to which they are doomed by wi a remorseless destroyer. It is high time en to press a relentless warfare against ^ this baleful influeace, and it is gratify- jjV ing to notice the rising indignation hs against it. Verily the saloon-keeper is lo welcome to all the glory he can find in the little cheap success he reaps here and there. We know he is violating ot the statutes; we know he feels almost m sure of a triumph over law and the op- ^ position of good citizenship, but his w - ' ci doom is none the less sure. . We believe ^ the prohibition movement now in pro- at gress will wipe him out of existence, but w suppose it does not? The handwriting ^ on the wall plainly denotes the destruc- ^ii tion of his damning resort. The people th are more and more in dead earnest in ^ this matter. It is manifest to all that cc w the saloon is a deadly enemy to society ^ and the home. It has lately become fe apparent that the saloon-keeper is an bi Ishmaelite whose hand is against every man who would in the least curb his jt it- i,:1: . AT puwci, XIO Uguta Aiigu UUCUdG 1U Xic- ?? braska and low license in other States as in bitterly as he has prohibition in Iowa. ^ He declares the mete3 and bounds of his 111 DI kingdom shall not be prescribed. His business must thrive though bodies and <3i souls are destroyed and though his path R is strewn with wrecked hopes and broken ^ hearts. He has ruled with an iron hind Q( in the past, but the scourge of eternal df justice will soon cut short his ignoble th career. ?Spirit Lake Beacon. ar " fa The Wine Business. The Los Angeles (Cal.) Weekly Censor, in an article on the wine business in Cali- gi fornia, says: th iiT_ xT-:~ t.'u __ t H "in urns ouiiu txicri; is iiu cauusc lur ,, raising any demoralizing product. In Southern California there is a greater variety of industries than in any other ar part of the world, and a greater facility . of acquiring a healthy competence with lfc a moderate exertion. The best answer w to the cash argument of the wine interest 8a is the outcome of it in France and other ar wine countries. France has had the best w wine market in the world and the best su chances to profit by the business. But, a after one thousand years1 experience and labor, it drinks the whole product of its immense vineyards, imports largely of t;in, rum, beer, potato-whisky, cider, w Italian. Hungarian. Srmnish and Portu- at gucse wine?far more than it exports? ^ and then after all this utter waste of land a and labor it has to spend $120,000,000 to $150,000,000 a year in the purchase of ~ bread, which could have b?en raised on ? the land Wiisted in grapes for wine. "Any impartial arithmetician can see , that its wine business is sure to reduce France to the pauperized, beggared condition of all the older wine-producing * peoples who still remain on the map of the world. As long as their wine busi- , ne*s lasts, every year will be worse financialiy." a *1 Temperance Notes. c.\ For drunkenness, drink cold water; for I* health, rise early; to be happy, be honest; u to please all, mind your own business.? <j( Thornton. fu Sir Henry Allsop has taken pains to inform the world through the London Times ^ that he has definitely retired from the a brewing business. J(V The Baptist Total Abstinence association, of England, numbers in its ranks g 1,171 ministers, 2,688 church officers in and 212 students, making a total of 5,061, having an increase of 355 over last year. ^ WOMAN'S WORLD. LRASANT READING FOR FEMI NINE READERS. Corean Laundry Women. There are two stout sticks used by >rean washerwomen to beat clothes, 'ashing is an important industry in >rea, where it takes many yards of cotn to make a suit of clothes for a man. ae washing is done as in Japan, in France id other countries, by women who wade to the water of rivers or creeks up to ieir knees. After' drenching the articles be washed, they beat them on the rocks i shore with their sticks. In Japan, here the same processes are followed by asherwomen, these sticks or clubs, it is id,are sometimes used by the women to 4-V.orr. in oacArfinrr annromo/?r I OlOU tutui XU UCJOV/1 VA-Ug IUV14 V/?**UVJ the family councils.?Clothier and !imisher. Old^Fashioned Beds. Two hundred years and more ago the ids in England were bag3 filled with raw or leaves, but not upholstered or uared with modern neatness. The bag ?uld be opened and the litter remade lily. There were few bedrooms in the >uses of ancient England. The master id mistress of the Anglo-Saxon house id a chamber or shed built against the all that inclosed the mansion and its spendencies; their daughters had the me. Young men and guests slept in e great hall, which was the only noticeV? /\M O A An 4 A!>1 AO AH IU 1 UULLL ILL bUC lAUUOCj V/JLX lUk/lWO VI inches. "Woolen coverlids were proded for warmth; poles or hooks on aich they could hang their clothes procted from the wall; perches were proied for their hawks. Attendants and rvants slept on the floor. In Bloomer Costume. There is at least one woman in Maine 10 wears the "bloomer" costume, says 4 i-- /I*- "V 1-i.l. CI 1 . Allgusxa, (die.; icuer. ouu uvea iu me i ighboring city of Hallowell, and her me is Emmeline Prescott. She is a II, spare maiden, about fifty years of e, of modest appearance, and courte.3 in her speech. Her occupation is ddling knick-knacks, which she car!S with her in a black leathern bag. ie has been on the road a quarter of a ntury, and has traveled thousands of iles on foot. Although her figure is failiarto everybody in these parts, still it ivays attracts attention on account of J r rig, which she has worn for over renty years. It is made of drab-colored )olen stuff, and consists of a short, 3se sack; a plain, full skirt that iches to the knee, and tight-fitting I ,nts that come down to the ankle. Her i ggery gives full liberty to her limbs, id she wears it, she says, not only for j mfcrt, but because she believes that if ery woman discarded petticoats and af?<?liner dresses, and put on suits like i OO O ' i I ts, it would be better for their health. | er hair is cut short like a man's, atfd is ! rted on one side. The only thing j out her to distinguish her sex is her :ad covering in summer, which is genally a plain sailor hat of straw. In inter she sports a fur cap, tied down ith a red worsted comforter, which is itwined around her neck, with the ends inging down her back. Every house:eper knows Emmeline, and generally lys some little trinket of her. Rumor is it that she was once, disappointed in ve. She is a strong Adventist. "Mary." The Chicago News has this little essay l the name of Mary, showing the re' J i- _ J ll. . aricaoie associations connecieu. wuu u: More women have been named Mary ian any other name which has blest or irsed the feminine sex. It stands as te typical name of the holiest and most )ject of women?for the virgin and the anton. And in every' language of Asia id Europe, as well as that of Egypt, lis name appears almost without vanaan. It has been an equal favorite with ie aristocrats of France and the I Purins of New England, aud it equally be>mes literature or kitchen. It is stately hen we speak of Mary Wortley Mongue. it is simplicity itself when we rer to Mary O'Brien, who brings in our eakfast rolls. At one time it may ing up a picture of a divine painted ,ce, hanging in the rich gloom of an I alian gallery, and at another of a red-1 leeked dairymaid, with her bared feet the daisied grass. Two of England's re queens have borne it, and the most emorable woman that Scotland ever oduced has made it immortal. The proudest women of France have gnified it, and the worst women of ussia have disgraced it. There are as any Marys smiling at the circling suns at make the brief summer by the >rthern sea as loll through the luxurious lys by the Mediterranean. The name^ iat Catholic missionaries gave to the st converted Indian maiden was Mary, id perhaps the first daughter of every mily for all time will stand in immiint danger of bearing the name, for it the first to be considered in naming rl Vi?iViipa arul whfin rfiieeted is alwavs lought of with lingering tenderness, ow many lovers have loved itl How Ley have associated it with purity and mtleness, with womanliness and candor id trust! "What a fateful name it is! Its ;arer seems predestined to sorrow, yet is gladsome, too. "My mother's name as Mary." What a pleasant thing to y! "My little daughter Mary." Could lything be prettier? ''My sister Mary, ho is dead." What a wealth or tender iggestions! "Mary, my wife." What picture of home comfort! Fa cts about Dressmakers. A number of quiet, neat-looking girls ere busy sewing upon some new goods a fashionable up-town modiste's, says 1 te New York Mail and Express, when 1 reporter canea. i ne ncaa oi me cs-1 tolishment was dressed in black with! lc utmost simplicity, when contrasted j rikingly with the brilliant dresses scatred around her. ' I have come," said the reporter, "to , now something of the manner in which omen learn the dressmaking trade. Are j icre any schools where the business is | ,ught?" "I never heard of a?y. When anyone ! wires to learn the business she goes to j dressmaker and enters herself like an jprentice at any otner traae. "Most women who learn dressmaking :pect to work at it for a living, I sup>se?" The modiste smiled as she answered: [t is suoh a bother to learn it that I m't think anyone would go into it for ~ -i- i-x uJ; i .n. uccasionany, it lsirue, luuiea learu order to understand better the fitting their own dresses, but, as a rule, essmakers' apprentices expect to gain livelihood by their trade." "How long does it take them to arn?" "Well that depends on the student, enerally a girl should master the trade one season. A good dressmaker iould have a quick eye for form and >lor. She should be something of an list in addition to having mere metanical skill, Mo3t women know some-' ^ , ,^gw thing about sewing, and have little difficulty in hemming and stitching, but when it comes to fitting, trimming, and finishing dresses, where real taste and judgment are required, the novice often finds a rocky road. Each dressmaker has a peculiar way of finishing a dress, at yfianh tftilnr has nf makintr a coat." "What can a dressmaker earn after she has learned the trade?" "It depends upon her skill and ability. If she is smart she can get $2.50 a day, otherwise she may not get more than |1.50. That is after she has taken lessons for one season. Foreladies, who superintend the work, receive an average of $25 a week. They are women of Long experience in the trade. So far as dressmaking at home is concerned, the paper patterns manufactured by a number of houses in this city have greatly simplified matters. You see that chart on the wall?" "Yes," he replied, "but I don't understand it." "I don't expect you to," said the lady, "but any woman, with the aid of that diagram and paper patterns, can be her own dressmaker, although she may never have taken a Ie3Son in her life. Of course, anybody who intends to make dressmaking a business must have the aid of an experienced teacher. As with many other trades, apprentices get no mv while thev are learning." s'/VSm "Is your business one that men ever take up?" "Oh, yes, there are male dressmakers in this city?" "Do they make more money than women?" "From $3 to $6 a week more. Men are ' better than women at making waists, ; - "a which are in some particulars like the X-$ coat you wear, but I never saw oiie who could drape a skirt properly." Fashion Notes. Canvas cloth has fronts of woolen lace to correspond. White woolen material has stripes of r|3 colored plush. Buttons are growing with the other 7-^9 extremes of fashion. Blue and brown is a favorite combination for street costumes. Camels' hair serge with plush stripes i#, ^ shown in all the leading colors. A wide sash of watered ribbon makes the finish of a stylish lace costume. New trimmings for costumes have a combination of beads, braid and che- *' . Fine seersucker, in pale blue, pink or --aIb ecru, is embroidered with edelweiss in Copper braid is used on outer garment* >'(|| in place of either silver or bullion as being newer. Mikado parasols have the points turned . m upward and are made of striped or eat broidered silk. Cheviots with fine line checks in mod? colors are made up in walking suits with ,;jj jacket to correspond. Soft beiges have figured borders of contrasting or harmonizing tints. They are also plain and with bourette stripes. Persian silk with overshot threads that give a crinkled effect are shown ia / ' JjS all dark and evening colors. Some have .Jj1 stripes of different colors. White handkerchiefs are bordered $?SJ18 ?'Al* J in KIllA VY 1 til ilUUU'ClilUi UlVA^l V*UIOIVD AAA l/iUV| white or red. Handkerchiefs for mourning have the daisies in black. ' Lace costumes which were so popular ' j last season are to be worn very generally this summer, and some French models are particularly attractive and pretty. "Stylish and ugly" are the term* which no longer apply to the dressing of the young lady of the period. This sea- / son's fashions are both graceful and el?- > '\ :.VJ| gant. ' English styles in outer garments comprise S9me large checks in cheviots. These jackets are made as simply as possible, fastened with large bronze or ivory buttons. Nuns' veiling is in great variety; it has crinkled stripes, or has a bourette or frise surface, the loops being exceedingly fine. The plain sorts are finer than tnose of last season. Beaded grenadine forms a part of almost all the dress wraps of the season to come. These are not only beaded witk iets. but with bronze, plomb and cash mere beads. ^9 Lace gloves in all the pale evening tints are among the new fancies. The edges are bordered with beads or flounces, and in black the effect is striking whea worn over a white hand and arm. A new style of plastron is made of plaited jetted net. It ends In a point at the waist, fastened with loops of black satin ribbon. It is edged with arrowhead beads and is finished with a turn* down Byron collar of jetted net. Moire silk enters largely into the manufacture of many elegant costumes, and not alone those of black. For moss gree#, medium blues, light browns and greys are found in the richest moires, and these form the trimming or whole underdresses of woolen costumes in shades codrespoiAling. ? A Washington Crank. A Washington letter to the Picayune says: One of the particular cranks imvading the Senate lobby is a man from Chicago who wants to revolutionize the whole system of spelling and of learning letters. He proposes to teach children to pronounce the consonant letters of the alphabet as they sound in the words ?that is, he would call w, "we;" 8, "se;" h, "he;" f, "fe," and so on, and would, for example, spell "we," "e," uke," "week." He wants Congress to appropriate a sum of money at the rate of $1,000 a week, to give his project a fair trial. I went over to Senator Palmer's the other evening, and this man was there putting the Senator through a * 4 course of his new and improved a, b, c's. How eagerly the man talked; how hurv,o rvaa tn s?v all nnssible in the i1cu j c little time allowed him; how piteouuly he entreated the attention of the ladies; how he hung on to the Senator! It waa the old story of the claimant. Oh, yoa can have no notion of the good and bad leeches that come here hoping to bleed the government, to make money from. Congress and grow fat on Congressmen. The Summer Programme. The time is at hand When all in the land Reflect on a summer vacation; When snow won't abide, Thev hunt ud a guide For seaside resort information. Clorinda has now, To circle her brow, A charmingly clever new bonnet; Quite stylish and neat, And dashingly sweet, With feathers and birds upon it. She'll stroll on the sand, And hear the brass band, Through August, July and September; > And flirt will she then, / Witk a score of young men, / Not one of whose names she'll remember' / Tid-Bit* / ' * -*1- .... - . - .1 , , ^