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i" mum semi NON-CHURCHGOERS, [Preached at the JIamptons, Long Island.} Text: "Other sheep I have, which are not f this fold."?John x.,.16... There is no monopoly in religion. The (trace of God is not a little property that we may fence off and have all to ourselves. It is not a king's park, at which we look through a barred gateway, wishing that we might go in and-sea the deer and the statuary. and pluck th3 flowers and the fruits in *ht\ rnvftl conservatory. No: it is the Fa titer's orchard and everywhere there are bare that we may let down and gates we may swing open. In my boyhood,next to the country schoolhouse, there was an orchard of apples,owned by a very lame man, who, although there j were apples in the place perpetually decaying by scores and scores o? bushels, never . would allow any of us to touch the fruit One day, in the sinfulness of a nature inherited from our first parents, who were mined by the same temptation,some of us invaded that orchard, but soon retreated,for the man came after tis at a speed reckless of making his lameness worse, aud cried out: ' Boys, drop those apples, or I'll set the dog on you!" Well, my friends, there are Christian men who have the church under severe guard. There is fruit in this orchard for the whole world, but they have a rough and unsympathetic way of aecosting outsiders, as though they had "no business here, though the Lord wants them all t> come and take the largest and the ripest fiuit on the premises. Have you an idea that because you wore baptized at thirteen months of age, and he;-ause you have all your life been under hallowed influences, that therefore, you have a right to one whole side of the Lord's table, spreading rourself out and talcing up the entire room.' I tell you no. Yoi will have to haul in your elbows, for I shall to-day place on either side of you those whom you never expected would sit there; for, as Christ said to the Jews long ago, so he says to you and me: "Other sheep T L?..n ?..U?nk nftf Af tKi.- fnlil " A UttYC, WUJVU CMWV V4 WU4. 4V4-. MacDonald, the Scotchman, has four or five dozen head of sheep. Some of them are browsing on the heather, some of them are lying down under the trees, some of them re in his yard; they are scattered arouud in eight or ten different places. Cameron, his neighbor, conies over, and says: "I see you have thirty sheop; 1 have just counted them." "jS'o," says MacDonald, "I have a great many more sheet) than that. t?ome are here, and some aro elsewhere. They aro scattered all arouud about I have 4,000 or 5,OOJ in my flocks. Other sheep I have,which are not in (his fold." So Christ says to us: Here is a knot of Christians and there is a knot of Christians, but they make up a small part of the flock. Here is the Episcopal fold, the Methodist fold, the Lutheran fold, the Congregational fold, the Presbyterian fold, the .Baptist and the Pcdo Baptist fold?the only difference between these last two being the mode of aheeo-washing: and so thev are scattered a!l over, and we come with our statistics, and ?ay there are so many thousand of tho Lord's sheep; but Christ responds: ''No, no; you havo not seen more than one out of a thousand of my flock. They are scattered all over the earth, and 'other sheep I have, which are not of this fold.'" Christ in n?y text was prophesying the conversion of the Gentiles with as much confidence as though they were already converted, and he is to-day, in the words of my text, prophesying the coming of a great multitude of outsiders that you never supposed would come in, saying to you aud saying to me: "Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold." 1. In the first place, I remark that the Heavenly Shepherd will find many of bis cheep amid tho uon-churchgoors. There are congregations where they are all Christians, and they seem to be completely finished, and they remind one of the skeleton leaves which, by chemical preparation, have had all the greenness ana verdure taken oif of them, and are left cold and white and delicate, nothing wanting but a glass case to put over them. The minist?r of Christ has nothing to do with such Christians but to come once a week, and with ostrich feather dust off tin accumulation of the last six days, leaving them bright and crystalline as before. Cut the other kind of a church is an armory with perpetual sound of drum and fife, gathering recruits for the Lord of Hosts. We say to every applicant: "Do you want to be cu God's side, the safe side and the happy side ? If so, come to the armory and get equipped. Here is a bath in which to get cleansed. Here is a helmet for your brow. Here is a breast plate for your breast Here is a sword for your right arm, and yonder is the battlefield. Quit yourselves like men." There are some here who say: "I stopped going to church ten or twenty years ago." My brother, is it not strange that you should be the first man I should talk to today? I know all your case; I know it very well. You hxve not Leen accustomed to come into ? religious assembly, but I have a surprising announcement to make to you. You are going to become one of the lord's sheep. " Oh!" you say: "it is impossible; you don't know how far I ara from anything of that kind." I know all about it I have wandered up and down the world and I understand your (ase. I have a still more startling announcempnt to make in regard to you. You are not only going to become one of the Lord's sheep, but you will become one today. You will go from this service to talk with some one about your soul People of God, pray for that man. ' "Other sheep I i have, which ore not of this fold." When the Atlautic went to pieces on Mars Rock and the people clambered up on the bea~h, why did not that heroic minister of the gospe), of whom we have all read, sit down and take caro of those men on the beach, wrapping them in flanne's, kindling tires lor thein, seeing that they got plenty of food* Ah! ho Knew that there were others who would do that! He says: "Yonder are men ancl women fife dng in the rigging of that wreck. Boys, launch the boat!" And now I see the oar blades bend under the strong pull; but baforo they reach the rigErin? a woman is frozen and tlpad She was washed o!f, poor thin:?! But he says: "There is a man to save," aurl ha crie3 oat: "Hold on five minutes logger and I will save you. Steady! Steady! Give me vour haud. 1 -eap into "the lifeboat. Thank Hod, he 'is save 1." So there are those h<?re to-day who are safe 0:1 the shore of God's mercy, but I see there are some who are freezing in the rigging of sin, and surroun lei by peril jus storms. Pull away, my lads! Let us reach them. Alas, one is washed off and gone! Ihere is on? more t > be save! Let 11s push out for that | one. "Clutch the rope, O dying man! Clutch it with a de.'ith-gi ij>. Steady, now, on the slippery paces. Stoady! There! Saved! Saved!" Just as I thought. For Christ has declared that there are some still in the breake-s who shall come ashore. "Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold." Christ commands his ministers to be fishenuon, and when I go fishing L do not want to go among other churches, but into the wide world; not sitting along a small creek where eight or ten other persons are sitting with hook and line, but, like the fishermen of We.vfojnd.'and, sailing oJf au I dropping net away _ontside, foity or fifty miles from shore.*" Yes, there are nou-churchgoers here who will come io. Noxt Sabbath they will 1 again be in the raligiom service. They are thi> mome it being swept into Christian associations. Their voices will bo heard in public prayer. They will die in peace, their bad surrounded by Christian sympathies, and b3 carr'o \ out by devout men to be b iried, and on th ir graves bo chiseled the words; "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." And on resurrection day you will get up with the dear children you have aiready buried, and with your Christian parents who have already won the And nil t.hnt-. irrnnd and frlorious his fc'v-v begins now. "Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold." 2. I remark azain: The heavenly shepherd Is gfling to find a great many of his sheep anions those who aro positive rejectors of Chris! imity. I do not know how you came to reject Christianity. It may have boen through bearing Theodore Parker preach, or through reading Renan's "Life of Jesus," or through the infidel talk of some young man in your store. It may have been through the trickery of some professvl Christian man who uiNtruested you with religion. I do not ask you how you became so; but you frankly t-?ll me that vou do reiect it. You do not believe thut Christ is a divine being,although you admit that he was a good man. You do not believe that the Bible was inspired by God, although you think that there are some very fine things in it. You believe that the scriptural description of Eden was only an allegory. There are fifty things that I believe that you do not believe. And yet you are an accommodating man Everybody that knows you says that of you If I should ask you to do a kindness for me or if any one el?e should ask of you a kind ness. yon would do it. Now, I have a kind ness to ask of you to-day. It is something that will cost 7011 nothing and will give m great delight. I want you by experiment ( try the power of Christ's religion. If I shoul rome to you and you were verv sick, and do tors bad given you ud and said thero was r chance for you, and I should tal;e out a littl bottle and say: "Here is a medicineth.it wi cure you: it has cure I fifty people and it wi cure you." you would say: "I have no conf denceinit" I wnild.sav: "Won'tyou-tal it to oblige me?" "Well," you would say, " it's any accommodation to you I'll take it, My friend,will you be just as acconimodatin in matters of religion? There are some of you who have foim out that-this world cannot satisfy your sou You are like tho man who told me after tl servi-e wa?over: "I have triod this worl an 1 found it an insufficient portion. Te me of something better." You have con to that. You are sick for th* need of divii J medicament;, in ow, i come ana ten you < a physician who will cure you, who he cured hundred* and hundreds who were sic as you are. "Oh," you say, "I have no coi fidence iu him!" Bufc will you try him? Ai commodate me in this matter; oblige me i th's mattar; just try him. I am very cei tain ho will cure you. You reply: "I hav no special confidence in him; but if you ai me as a matter of accommodation, introdui him." So I introduce him?Christ, tl physician who has cured more blind ey? and healed more ghastly, wounds, and bout up more broken hearts, than all the docto since the time of ^Esculapius. Tbe Divine Phvsician is here. Are y< not ready to try him? Will you not, as pure matter of "experiment, state your ca before him now? Holding nothing ba< from Him. If you cannot pray, if you i not know how to pray any other way, sa "Oh, Lord Jesus Christ, this is a scran; thing for mo to do! I know nothing aboi the formula of religion. These Christis people have been talkiug so long about wti thou caust do for me, I am ready to do wha ever Thou commandost mo to do. I am reac to take whatever Thou commandest me 1 take. If there be any power in religion, i these people say, let me have the advantaj of it." Will you try that experiment? I do not i this point of my discourse say that there anytling in religion; but I simply say try ?try it. Do not take my counsel, or tl counsel of any clergyman, if you despi: clergymen. Perhaps we maybe talkiug pr fessionally; perhaps we may be prejudice in the matter; perhaps we may be hypocritic in our utterances; perhaps our advice i3 m worth taking. Than take tho counsel of son very respectable layman?as John Milto tho poet; as William Wilberforce, the state man: as Isaac Newton, the astronomer;! Robert Boyle, the philosopher; as Locke, tl metaphysician. Thdy never proached < pretended to preach; and yet putting dowi one his telescope, and another his pnrli mentarv scroll, and another his electriciau wire, they all declare tho adaptiveness < Christ's religion to the wants and troubli of tho world. If you will not take tl recommendation of ministers of tl gospel, then take the recommendation < highly respectable laj'men. Oh, men, skept cal and stmck through with unrest, woui you not like to have some of the peace whi< broods over our souls to-day? I know a about your doubts. I havo bocn throug them all. I have gono through all the cu riculum. I havo donbted whother there is whofchpr f!hrisfc is (iod. Ihavedoubte whether the Bible was true. I have doubtc I the immortality of the soul. I have doubts my own existence. I have doubted ever thins, and yet, out of that hot desert < doubt, I have come into the broad, luxurian sunshiny land of gospel hope, and poa:e, an comfort: so I have confidence in preaching 1 you, and a-s'cin^ you to come in. Ilowev* often you may nave spoken against the Bibli or however inu:h you may have caricature religion, step ashore from that rocking an tumultuous sea. If you go away adheriug t your infidelities, you will not sleep one win to night. You do not want your children 1 come up with your skepticism. You caunc afford to die in that midnight darkness, ca you? If you do not believe in anything else you believe in love?a father's love, a motl er's !ove, a wife's love, a child's love. The let me tell you that God loves you m">re tha they do. Oh! you must come in. You wi come in. The great heart of Christ achos 1 have you come in, and Jesus this very mi ment?whether you sit or stand?looks inl your eyes and says: "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." | 3. Ajain, I romark, that the Heavenl Shepherd is going to find a great many shea among, those , who have been flung of evi habit. It makes me feel mad to see Christia people give up a prodigal as lost. Thei are those who talk as though the gra< of God were a chain of forty or lift links, and after th*y had run out thei was nothing to touch a very bad ca-e. they were hunting and got off thetra k( the deer, they would look longer among tb banks aud the bushes for the lost game tha they have be?n looking for that lost sou People tell as that if a man has delirium tn ! irpn< f-.wirp that he cannot be reclaimed: the after a woman has fallen from her int?grit sho cannot be restored. The Bible has di tinctlv intimated that the Lord Almighty ready to pardon 4'.K) times: that is seven! times seven. There are men before the throi of Gcd wh> have wallowed in every kir of siu: but, saved by the graco of Jesus, ar washed in his blood, they staud there rad ant now. There are those who plunged i the very lowest he 1 of abomination, who f< tho tenth timj have been lifted ui>; an finally, by the Gra?e of Gcd, they stand Heaven gloriously rescued by the grace pron ised to the chief ot' sinners. I want to tell yc that Liod loves to take hold of a very bad cas When the church casts you off, and when tl club room casts you off, and when sociel custsyou off, an i when business associat cast you off, and when father casts you oi and when your mother casts you off, ar when everybody casts you off. your first ci for helD will send the eternal God clean dovi into th9 ditch olt your suffering and shamt The Good Templars cannot save you, althoug bhey are a grand institutioa The Sons o Temperance cannot save you, although the are mighty for good. Si-cning tho temperanc pledge cannot save you, although I believe i it Nothing but the grace of the eternal Go can save you, and that will'if you will throi yourself on it. A man said to me: ,lUnle? God helps me I cannot be delivered. I hav tried everything, sir; but now I havo got int the habit of prayer, and when I come to i drinking saloon I pray that God will take m sa'ely past, and I pray until I am past. H does help me." for ever3r man givea t strong drink there are scores of traps set I anil nn onn hit t.hp rvpi-vwWa nrflinnt Go can see that man through. Oh! They tal about the catacombs of Naples, aud the cata ooinls of Rome, and the catacombs of Egyp ?the burial places under the city whare th du-t of a great multitude lie?but I toll yo New York has its catacombs, Nashville ha its catacombs, aid New Orleans its cata rombs, and Boston its catacombs, and Phila ielphia its catacombs, aud every town an sity neighborhood its catacombs. They ar thi underground restaurants, full of dea men's bones and all umleanuess. Youn man, you know it. God help you! Ther is no need of going into the ai gallery to see in sUilliul sculpture tho wonderful representation of a man aud hi sons wound around with serpents. Ther are families represented in thisau lience tha are wrapped in the marlyrdotn of l'ang an s ale and veno n?a living Lao; con of ghasi liness and horror. What are you to dc Do not put your trust in bromido of pota< uum, or in Jamaica cinder, or anytliine els >at apothecaries can mix. Put your trus only in tho eternal God, and he will sea yo through. Some of you do not have tempti tion every day. It is a periodic teaiptacio that come? every six weeks, or overy thre months, when it seem." as if the powers c darkness kindle around about your tongu the fires of the pit. It is well ouou^h at sue a time, as some of you do, to seek media counsel; but your first and most importuna! cry must be to God. If tUo fiends wi drag you to the slaughter, make thei do it on your knees. O God! no tbat the paroxysm oi thirst is coinin again upon that man, help him. Fling bac into the pit of hell the fiend that assaults h soul this moment. Oh! my heart aches ( see men go on in this fearful struggle witl out Christ. There are here those whoso banc so tremble from dissipation tbat they co hardly hold a book; and yet 1 have to tc you that they will yet preach the gospel, ac on communion days cariy around the cons crated bread, acceptable to everybody* fc cause of their holy life and their consecrate behavior. The Lord is going to save yoi Your home has got to be rebuilt. Your phy ical health has cot to ba restored. Voi worldly business has got to be reconstructs The church of God is going to rejoici ov< your discipleship. "Other sheep 1 have whit are not of this fold." While I have hope for all proligals, the are some people for. whom I am not so hop I f ii I T tYtAon f wltA Via I'A /iliuVA a.ui. Jl, iucou i>uvoo ttuv uaig uyou uuuiv goers all their lives, who have maintained ol ward morality, but who, Dotwith^tandii twenty, thirty, forty years of Christian a vantages have never yielded their hearts Christ. They are gospel hardened. Am ????? te mon has no more effect upon them than the ;o shining of the moon on the city pavement, d As Christ says: "The publicans aud harloti > will go iuto the kingdom of God befor? 10 them." They have resisted all the importule nities of divine mercy, and have gone, dur11 ing these thirty years, through mo>t power11 ful earthquakes of religious feeling, and l- they are farther away from God than ;a ever. After a . while they..- will 1h ? if down sick, und some day it will be told 1 they are dead. No hope: But I turn to out g siders with a hope that thrills through mj body and eoul. Other sheep I have, which an id not of this fold." You are not gospel hard j. ened. You have not heard many sermoni ie during the last few years. As you cami Id into a religious meeting to-day everything ill was novel, and all the services are auggestive ie of your early days. How sweet the opening ,e hymn sounded in your ears, and how blessed of it is in this place! Everything suggestive is of Heaven. You do not weep, but the shower k is not far off. You sigh, and you have nol ticed that there is always a sigh in the wind > before the rain falls. 1 here are those here ? * ii WJ xi I n who would give anyimng ? moy couiu nuu relief in tears. They say: "Oh, ray wasted e life! Oh, the bitter past! Oh, the graves ik over which I have stumbled I Whither shall ce I fly? Alas for the future! Everything is H dark?so dark, so dark! God help met God ?. pity roe !" Thank the Lord for tnat last utid terance. You have begun to pray, and when rs a roan begins to petition, that sets all hraven flying his way, and God steps in and beats 3u back the hounds of temptation into the kena nel, and around about the poor wounded soul < se l puts the covert of his pardoning mercy. | :k Hark! I hear something fall. What was do that! It is the bars of the fence around tlh ' y: sheepfold. The shepherd lets them down, j ;e and the hunted sheap of the mountain bound at in; some of thsm, th -ir fleece torn with tho 1 m brambles; some of them, their feet lame wit! at the dogs; but bounding in. Thank God! ' t- "Other sheep I have which ara not of thi.s I ly fold." to j | as i POPULAR SCIENCE. at ] M. Estrado, .a French engineer, s , I* building a forty-ton locomotive, which it ( se expected to attain a speed of seventy o- eight miles an hour. The driving-wheeh ' :d are to be eiiiht feet in diameter. 1 al at The strongest wood in the United ! 10 States, according to Professor Sargent, i ^ is the nutmeg hickory of the Arkansas \ ^ regions, and the weakest the West Inie dian birch. The most clastic is the tara>r arack, the white or shell-bark hickcry 1 a> standing far below it. The least elastic 1 and the lowest specific gravity, upon , which in general dep nds value as fuel, ! bs is attained by the blue-wood of Texas. ie An ingenious astronomical theory is 1 J? that of Mr. Monck at Dublin, who sug- 1 ;i- gests that as shooting stars arc known to 1 Id be dark bodies rendered luminous for a ;h short time by rushing through our at^ i mospherc, new stars are dark orfaintlyr. luminous bodies whi :h acquire a short- , a j lived brilliancy by rushing through some <i ! of the gaseous massci visible, pernaps, i as n( bulue, which exist in spacc. I j. I have been asked the question: <;Does >f friction increase with speid, or det. crease?" Both. Where the speed ii ^ slow, increasing it may decrease the Jr friction per turn; but where the speed is 9, fast, it may ba found that increasing d speed increases the friction per turn atao. There are two sides to almost every ques- ( ? tion, and particularly so in this case. :o The more viscom the lubricant, the >t greater pressure can be curried upon the n bearing.? Grmsliaw. j. Many think that by cutting the hair n short they increase its growth. Eut this n is doubtful. \Von:en rarely become bald; 11 yet they never cut their hair as do men. 1 ? May not their immunity from a shining i ;0 pate be partly due to the fact that they >, do not patronize the barb?r, nor wear ^ tight head-gear? If in early life our ? young men would look alter their scalps, ft even while they do riot appear to need i n attention, it might save them the trouble { e of looking after them in sorrow at a Inter period, when it will not do much . ? good. If they do not. the time will ' If come when we shall have a race of humau i >f beings without hair. 1 l? The first storm ever followed day by t - i An*? frAm fV\A Ponifio fa irnmno Vina hnnn r I. ""J ^ ? r- -j e- described to the Koyal Meteorological ?t Society of London, by Mr. Harry liar- c y ries. It originated as a typhoon near i j1* the Philippine Islands on September 27, t ;y passing over Japan and the Aleutian Isl- j ie ands, entering the United States on Octo'd ber 10. Crossing the Itocky Mountains, , J? it proceeded through the Northern 1 in Stages and Canada to Labrador and t >r Davis Strait. Encountering two other . d, disturbances in its parage of the Atlun- ^ iD tic, it reached the trench coast on Octobor 27, causing extenshe destruction, I e> and on November 1, in the Ealtic, it r ie quietly disappeared, after accomplishing ^ -y 10,000 miles in thirty-six days. . ^ rl he Lewistou (Me.) Journal says that , id a curious natural phenomenon that puzry zles everybody of more or less preten- 1 ^ sions to scientific attainments has oc- L b curred in the town of Dublois, in "Wash- f ,f ington C ounty?just when, nobody y knows. A large body of earth, ch'eHy 8 !0 sand, by some action of nature, was re- I ? move I from the side of a drv sandy hill, d w j called the Pinco Field. leaving an op?n j, v | channel or hole extending into the hill o about ?00 feet, being 30 feet deep at the c c head and perhaps ?o or 80 feet wide, as i: * near as could be judged without meaa0 uring After the >and in its course left , o the base of the hi 1 (and here the than- ? nel was contracted and quite narrow) it ^ ? extended a long distance into a piece of c ^ woods, spreading over a wide space, H >t burying the underbrush and leaving the q e trees standing intact. u S 3 ri k- Use and Abuse of Tej. J d It is not a little curious, says the : 11 e Lancet that the diseases arising from the a d wrong use of tea should be mot within 1 ? greater frequency in countries foreign to <3 * its growth. The diseases due to this n Lt cause are well known to doctors, but the , is public seem to be strange'iy indifferent I * ? to the teachings of their medical advis- J f( j ers in these matters. Recently in France I a t_ M. Eloy has reminded medital men how j n >< vast is the number of diseases owing an j " 5- allegiance to the dominion of queen tea. a " America and Fngland a?e the two counu tries that arc atHicted most with the t k. maladies arising from its excessive con- q u sumption. Individuals may suffer in a variety of ways. It is customary to " speak of acute, subacute and chronic b jj "theism," a form thit has no connection c U with theological matters. Thu pre- f( 5e domrpancc of nervous symptoms is a characteristic of thiiun. General ex- * " citement of the functions of the nervous tl g system may be observed, or tnc weaK:k ncss ni:iy be noted more especially In the is- brain as distinguished from the spinal cord. Perversion of the seme of hear- a jj ingis not at all an uncommon symptom, t! >n patients hearing voices that have no real ^ ill objective existence. The irritability id that overtakes women so frequently may ^ sometimes be clearly traced to an cxces- \ ^ sive indulgence in afternoon tea. No IL doubt the tannin which tea that has been * s- standing contains does a great amount ^ '? of mischief; but theism belongs, rather, i to that clas3 of diseases in which mor- f ,'h phinism, caffeism and vanillism a e ^ found. The habit of tea-drinking is one re that grows on its victims like the similar 8 ones of opium or alcohol. Taken in lt~ strict moderation and with duj precauxz tions in the mode of preparation, tea is, n d- like alcohol, a valuable stimulant: in its o abuse there is also a certain analogy.? n a~ j Science c ?? ?? RELIGIOUS HEADING , Mystery of Chastisement. "We glory in tribulation also."?Rom. H: i. j Within this leaf, to every eye So little worth, doth bidden lie , . Most rare and subtile fragranc}-. t Wou'dst thou its secret strength unbind ? j Crush it, and tbou shalt perfume tind j Sweet as Arabia's spicy wind. In this dull stone, so poor, and bare ^ Of shape or lustre, patient care j Will find for tbeea je wel rare. But first must skillful hands essay, a With file and fl.nt, to clear away The lilm which hides its fire l'rom day, a This leaf? thisstoue? II is thy heart; I It must be crushed by pain and smart," c It must be clcansed by sorrow's art. Ere it will yield a fragrance sweet, Ere it will shine a jewel meet _ To lay before thy cU>ar JliOrd's feet. ?Hymns of the Ages. What Yoit ('in I to. f Every follower of Christ can ilo a great c ileal of good if he only tries. It is :iot f that his talent is small, but that he does t not use it, stands in the way of ones use 1 Fulness. The Rev. Spender Compton tolls a of an experience at ?ea that well sets c forth the good that one can do with a 1 little means, if its possessor only is will- I ing and quick-witted enough to make use i of them. There was a cry on deck of f "Man overboard!" Mr. Compton was in s liia cabin. He felt that he would be i useless on deck, but thinking of what he t could do, he seized upon the idea ol holding his lamp close to the window, so ? that its light would shine out upon the c sea. In a moment he heard the cry, "It's J ill right!" That timely light had shown t the sailors where to cast the knotted rope s so that it reached the man struggling' in i the water. It was merely a little lamp, < but what if he had not used it? Sliine i four light, and many may yet glorify < emir PofVifir Tcliir-li 1a in TTr>nvr>n A f ,V,?l ? steadily shining little tamp is better than s m unused electric light with a J'ortyfoot reflector. I The Ministry of thu f>iscipleililj?. There is a vast deal of Christian work to be done in the world. Every new success opens a wider field of opportunity. At home aud nbrcad, in domestic, social, civil and ruligio.is life, there are n myriad oftwrongs to be righted, of ignorances to be instructed, of obiquities to be straitened, a mass of crudcncss and ilarkness to be swept a way, and a world of light and order to be organized out of chaos. The trouble is to find workers. The , i s current faith is that the church is organ- j ized to convert the world, and set the wrong right, which is true enough after j a fashion, but in the judgment of nuilti- ^ tudc.e, the responsibility of the church : -sts upon the ministry. They arc not only ^ to originate and plan, but they arc to do ^ ;li3 work of bring ng the Gospe; into j trnnsforming relations with the want, j ind love, and sin of the world. The 3 iveragc parish goes about its own busi- j. less, and holds tho pulpit rcsponsi- j >le for success or 'failure in religious s vork. All of which is a great mistake, a Phe world will never be converted by j, he preachers. Leviathan is not so taken, ! riiis false expectation which quiets tho , :onscicnces of thousands of idlers, roots a n ft misunderstanding ol' the fundamen- i, nl idea of Christianity. Judaism, with [, ts set order of priesthood, went to the [, vail when our Lord came. The ]>i iest- j liood of all believers is the central law of ^ he new kingdom. The day when rcli- | ;ton was a matter of ritual has gone by. ] Hie Holy of Holies now is in tho markct>lace, the shop, the home. The priestly obes are workincrinen's varments, rhe annointing for the ministry is the 11 ntclligcnce to perceive, and the capacity ^ o improve opportunities of usefulness. * rhe best worship is offered, not on the ^ ended knee, but with the swift feet, and P lip lmcv lmnrl XY>1- flip srvlihirlp of cnn. r ecrated hours and the sacredness of set 8 ilaces, but the all-clay and every-day en- a leavor to further truth and righteousness, s 3 the sacrificc acceptable to Him who ^ arae "not to be ministered unto but tt> * uinistcr. And so the disciple need not go abroad " o find and do his work; it comos to lim where he stands. Neither is he to ^ ount himself to have failed becauw immediate and large results are not noted. T rhe individual is only ono atom iri the n ;reat aggregate of the common force, j1 "he power and oflice of the single drop a the ocean is not easy to ascertain, but 11 the same it lias an office and power, ^he impact and influence of the single ? lisciple upon life may seem infiuitusilally small, but it is none the less real. t is vastly important that men should eel the value of individual faithfulness, ^ nd see to it that their thread in the 6 rcat fabric lacks nothing in substance ^ nd color. ^ "All at it, and always at itthat is lie condition on which the kingdom of j( fod is to come. The age needs a new irth of the sense of individual rcsponsi- ? lility. The old "host of ccclisiasti t 0 ism still haunts the church. Too much clianco is placed upon organization. Ivery man and woman to the front, is ^ he watchword for the hour. Let all the ^ iscipleship recognize their priesthood, nd discharge the duties of the'office, j, nd the world's worship will spcodily be ^ be foremost and blessed fact of the D u rorld's history. ? Oolden little. j Mrs. E. jr. Tuttle, fin earnest W. C. T. a J. woman, has been doing some much v teeded temperance work in Jamaica. < >he reports 1,100 licensed saloons on the c sland, and both men and women drink t reely. Out of a population of 010,000 I here are but 434 members of temperance c [Qcieties. r You say let men drink who want to, nd take the conse.]mnces. But some ne else takes the consequences?the 1 lan drinku and the woman takes the 9 onsequences. i' rEHPERANCE DEPARTMENT. to Physician Should Recommend Beer. Of all the villainous mixtures which, nan takes into his stomach, lager (layng) beer is the most injurious. . The ager beer sold in our large cities is not >eer at all, but a chemical mixture of eater, alcohol, soap, aloes, and cannabis ndica of a low grade. The brer-drinker 3 always subject to Bright's di: ?a e,with .nd without dropsy, and the chronic iccr-drinkcr is a moit pitiable object, nd made up of bloat and a^ne rosacea. *o conscientious physician should recommend beer.?Medical Summaru. ' England's Drink BHI. ' Once a year the London Times makes oom for a detailed statement of Engand's drink bill. Thnt statement has ust appeared. It shows a reduction rom 1884, for last year, but not; a reluction of a character to encouragc the riends of temperance. For many years he statement has been made by Mr. nYilliam Hoyle, F. 3. S., but this time oiother member of the Statistic al So:iety, Mr. Dawson Burns, D. D., signs lis name to the report. The British cxjenditure upon drink in 1835 was $t516,143,800, a decrease of about $15,000,000 rom the preceding year. But Mr. Burns -ays: "In regard to the causcs of dimi mtion we must, I fear, look to tne con- , inued?and in some quarters increasing -depression of trade, rather than to the jrowth of thrift and temperance in the :ountry. "With the removal of this dejression we should most probably find he drink bill become heavier and ita equences become darker." Thij is a easonable inference from the statistics )f preceding years."* The state of trade n England always reflects itself in the irink bill. Mr. Burns gives the footing rom 1860 to 1885 inclusive, and they how this very plainly. In that quarter of a century the drink rill has mounted from $425,00;),000 to J610,000,000. Mr. Burn3 says: '-The rears of commercial prosperity brought vith them a vastly augmented expendiure upon strong drink, and even when hat pro3p3rity began to decline, the j ipecial impetus that had been given to Irinking habits resisted for a time, and riclded but slowly to the stress of diminshing resources." That is to say that >eoplc began, by economi/.ing in other lirections, and only cut down the drink ixpenditure when they were comj el!ed 0 do io, even then continuing to coniurae largely. Of course the increase jctween 1860 and 1885 is partly ac:ounted for by growth of population, >ut Mr. Burns holds that, allowing for his, the increase in the drink bill shows 1 decline rather than progress in tem)erance. "It is clear," he says, "that he amount of the National drink-bill s still enormous, being equal to the Nation's expendituie for bread, butter ind checse; is not far short of the rents >aid for farms and houses in the United kingdom; is three times the amount r pent for ten, sugar, coffee and cocoa, ^ ,nd is six times the amount of expendi- * urc on linen and cotton goods." Taking ^ he families of the United Kingdom at a ix millions, the gross expenditure for e rink in 1885 gives an average expendiurc per family of $102.50; or, reckon- c ig five persons to a family, $20.50 per s .ead. Of course, if those who do not ^ ,rink at all are subtracted, the average ^ i very much greater, rising in fact to [ 170 per family of five persons.? Neio j Tork Tribune. . n B Everybody's War. g The liquor traffic might do for othei * ands?it will not do for ours; it might ^ lo for earlier centuries?it will not do 0 or the last quarter of the nineteenth, t There is war abo.it it in America, the h iledge of total abstinence is its muster oil: the gospel hymns are its ra'lying ^ oags, the badge of blue its uniform. We t im o lr weapons straight at the bra'n, p traight at the heart. Our ballets are c c allots, our sabre strokes are home- j( hrusts of pathos, our bomb shells are 8 tatistics and arguments. We find our t larching orders in two rer3cs of this 0 {ible in which law and gosple are bound ^ p together. Cns declares: "Woe unto dm that justifieth the wicked for a rewrd;" the other says: "It is good ieithcr to eat meat nor drink wine nor j] nything whereby thy brother stumb- a sth." o In this vast and daily enlarging army, ?l lie mild, soft-voiced ones, who are afraid f guns and gunpowder, may march side f< ij side with tho gallant and strong. I g eem to hear their gentle footsteps as 8 hey gather to fight against ruin in the jj amc of patriotism, philanthropy, ?nd S( tod. It is woman, after all, who liaa t< iven the costliest hostages to fortune, d >ut into the battle of life they have sent heir best beloved with fearful odds gainst them; with snares that have been jgalized and set a'.ong our streets. Beond the arms that held them long, their s? iovs have gone forever. There is not ^ ne man but who iu some woman's life is j*, dear and sacred thing; and I appeal to ei ou, by the pain and danger they have ared, who are the best beloved of your jc omes, to represent by your ballot, their fr irayers, their tears, their hopes. But b esides being a war of the mothers and laughter*, the sisters and wives, this is , war between religion and the rum shop. Q) t is an irrepressible conflict, for the e: ,ngel must triumph or else the dragon -1 vill. And so, whoever is not eulisted in ^ his war, the seventy thousand churches [r if our land with their eight million mora* 1 >ers, corporations founded on the avowed ' irinciple of self-sacrifice for others' good, >ught to come forward and place their tames on the total abstinence muster 4 oil.?Frances E. WiUard. it The total membership of the Sons of .'emperance of North America, is over ' k 8,000, the net gain of the year 1885 be- J n1 12 7,803. |bl LEE'S SURRENDER. I RECEPTION OF THE NEWS BY A CONFEDERATE DIVISION. 01 lo ta The Fateful Dispatch Received by General Echols?Officers and ^ Men Discussiug the tG Situation. It w Wc had reached Christiansburg late in 18 the evening on the l(jtli of April, says J*3 General Dulce, in the Southern Bivouac. Ji! The commaud had halted for the night, T. and the troops were about to go into camp, bat the column -was still closing *? up, and the larger part of it was on the road. I remember that General Echols '? and I were dismounted and standing upon the turnpike surrounded by the ?* soldiers. "We were talking about some m ardinary matter to which I had called his Pl attention. Just then Lieutenant Clay ^ galloped up and asked where he could find the General. General Echols indicated his presence, and Clay approached and silently handed him a dispatch, eg General Echols opened and read it. I 1" instantly perceived that it contained mo- ?i mentous and disastrous news. His face th became.intensely flushed, and then grew ca ieathly p ile. lie quietly requested me t'< to follow him out of the throng. I did eg so, aud when wc were a few paces away se be read me the dispatch, which was from w General Loraax, and in those words: w. ' General Lee surrendered this morning w it or ne ir Appomattox Court House. I Pc im trying with my own division and the ^ remnants of Fitz Lee's and llosser's divi- si: sions to arrange to make a junction with ro jrou." th Although prepared to hear of disaster, of [ had not expected anything so dreadful &S is this, and the announcement almost th ;tunned me. I can never forget the fc'el- th ing of utter dismay and despair with m' tvhich I heurd it, or the impression it proiuced upon the troops when the infor- 01 nation reached them. ha Gen. Echols had not intended to im- eg mediately divulge it. After a brief con- nn ferencc we agreed that the news should nv be concealed, if possible, from the m m th intil the next day, and communicated an ;hat night only to the brigade and regi- eg nental commanders. We hoped that m' 1 ii 1. . J-..! J HA ~. 1 jorae pianroigm ue uc^iscu huiuj wvuiu jnable us to hold the troops together un w< ;il we could learn what policy would be be pursued by Mr. Davis, and whether it ivould be our duty to endeavor to join 3en. Johnston. But to conceal such a 'act when even one man was aware of it of .vas impossible. Before we had con- de :luded our brief conversation, wc knew lit 'rom the hum and stir in the anxious, sp lark-browed crowds nearest us, the rest- m: ess oscillation of the long column as the vhisper flew along it, the cxcitement ^ vhich soon grew almost to a tumult, that yc the terrible tidings had gotten abroad. gt rhat night no mau slept. Strangely as 0f he declaration may now sound, there wa3 pe lot one of the six or seven thousand then qT jathered at Christiansburg who had cn- ?r ertained the slightest thought that such ? in ovpnt rmild hannrn. and doubtleS3 . hat feeling pervaded the ranks of the lc< Confederacy. co We knew that Richmond had fallen. i7c knew that the heroic nrmy which lad so long dtfen led Richmond was in w etreat. \V*e knew that it would be an nmadic, that its operations could no ?u onger be conducted upon the methods b0 vh:ch support regular warfare, and that i.ery thing necessary to maintain its effisiency was lost. We could hazard no sei onjectcrre as to what would be done; ct, that the army of Northern Virginia vith Lee at its head would ever sur- ne ender had never entered our minds, tb rherefore, the indescribable consterna- bo ion and'amazement which .'pread like a co onflagration through the ranks when ou he thing was told, can scarcely be imgined by one who has not had similar lit xperience. en To all who read this?save tho;e who toj h:vrcdthe sentiment?it may seem in- ov redible that the Southern people and | oldiery can have really felt the blow so in; ^? T ? 111 n?*/vk ol.'Anflno fA ?m. M kUC'fl.y. 1 yyj 11 a-5iv ouwix w nil im gino the impression that would be pro- ho luced upon them by the conviction that sti his country had been suddenly subju- an fated by some foreign power, and it was co bout to be overrun and perma- Ti icntly occupied by its a:miej and ste ;overned by its agents. The South Co ixpccted in defeat to be reduced to usi ust such a condition. General Lcc fri nd his army had been so identified in i ur minds with the Confederate cause 0f hat to lose them was like taking the pj( teart from the body. ^ during all that night officers and men 80] ?cre congregated in groups and crowds iiscussing the news, and it was curious gft] o observe how the training and disci- cjc line of veteran soldiers were manifested an ven amid aH this deep feeling and ex itement. There was not ono act of vio- Sg( Jnce, not a harsh or insulting word poken; the officers were treated with t^( he same respect which they bad previ- m? usly received, and although many of ml he infantry who lived in that purt of jjb *?<???* nfF tKinh ninrht without i i g <uia vtvuw f ?O "" iare and returned to their homes, none . ho remained were insubordinate or , *iled to obey orders with alacrity. Great fires, larger and more numerous ^ ban ordinary camp-fires, were lighted oq nd kept burning. Every group had its Qr rators, who, succeeding each other, poke continuously. The men rushed :om one crowd to another, hundreds .. 1 jmetimes collccting about a peculiarly ;rvid speaker. Every conceivable suaj- . estion was offered. !?ome advocated a j. uerrtlla warfare; some propos dmarchlg to the trans-Mississippi, and thcnce an( > Mexico. The more practical and lea- j jnable, of cour.-e proposed that an effort > join General Johnston should immedi- ... i.tely be made. Many, doubtless, lought of surrender, but I do not re? lumber to have heard it mentioned. "" a ! A "Game" Flavor. Iis1 The flesh of animals used for food is lid to be high in the flrs? stage of al iratioa which occurs when it is left to pr< *elf. Pasteur does not believe that this Of fact is produced by the intervention of "P iefernunts of the air, though th:s is a I ie case with the putrefaction which fol- rot ?ws. He thinks that it merely results ISI om the action of what are callod solu- to le or natural ferments in the serum of jus .c meat, and that there is a chemical ovi sciprocal reaction of the liquids and mo >lids which arc withdrawn from the srmal action of vital nutrition. This cplanation is adapted to satisfy those picures who have a taste for high game, id not for microbes. Yet it is certain lat this condition passes into true puefaction without any abrupt transition, id we know that immediately after eath the microbe?, which penetrate rerywherc, take possession of the auial tisscs and be^in their work of deruction. When flesh is high, it is icrefore probable that it is in the first age of putrefaction. ? Troufttart. A boy describing a kitten said: "A ittcn is rem irkable for rushing like iad at nothing whatever, and stopping et'oro it gets theri."' ' HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. Stale Bread. We must tell, for the lessons of eco? ny it teaches, how we used up thrw >aves of bread which were unfit for the ible by their not being allowed to jriM uite enough before putting them intg is oven. We put them away for q day ? allow them to become somewhat stale, len we commenced operations. First, c made a bread pudding with plenty of isins in it and cinnamon for flavoring; ten we had milt ' toast for tea,- with iked sweet potatoes and beefsteak, he day after for an entree at dinner, we id slices of bread dipped into egg and it d a delicate brown in butter. Then ie pieces that were left dried and used r the dresing for a large chicken, and tere being still a little more to dispose , a Cup of finely rolled crumbs were ixed with cocoanut and made into a idding. So nothing was wasted.? ulticator. ' rreserviujf Eiffgs. The sure and simple method of keeping ;gs sound by smearing the shells witn lsecd oil has long been practiced. The > I forms a sort of film over the shell, ereby preventing the two immediate uses of decomposition?the evaporajn from and penetration of air into the ;g. A recent experiment in point derves notice. A dozen new-laid eggs ere rubbed over with linseed oil applied + ith the tip of the finger; another dozen ere coated in the like manner with >ppy oil; two more eggs were left in eir natural state. The whole twentyk were then laid clore together in three ws, in dry sand, upon a shelf, where ey were left undisturbed. At the end three months they were weighed, and fain at the end of fix months, when ey were opened. The two e^g* left in - vL, eir natural state at the end of three onths had lost eleven per cent, of their eight, and at the end of six months ghteen per cent., and were found to bo ilf empty and the contents rotten. The * gs coated with poppy oil in thre? ~ onths lost three per cent, and in six onths four and one-half per cent, of cir weight. The eggs were still full .> * d devoid of unpleasant smell. The ;gs rubbed over with linseed oil in three onths lost two per cent., and in six onths three per cent, only of their sight, and when opened were found to I full, with the smell of fresh eggs. a??vi]fcof Gooseberry Sauce.?Parboil one pint green gooseberries until they arc tcnt enough to niasli; beat them with tie sugar and one egg. * Thisfcaucei* ecially adapted for serving with boiled ackerel. Cheese and Egg Sandwiches.?Grate e cheese, aodto.cach cupful-add the Iks cf three hard boiled eggs, minced le; rub to a paste with a teaspoonfnf butter, season to taste with salt and ippcr and spead between buttered bread U cracker*. These are nice made of aham bread. B::ef's Tongue.?Wash a large perstly fresh tongue in three waters; tnen ver well with boiling water, a little It, and cook about twelve minutes to e pound. Strip off the skin. Dish ien you have trimmed away the root^ ^ /a] rv Donr?e% fifvovn U puui UIU IV/llVlTiUg oauvvi k/vtmu p of the liquor in which tongue wa? lied, set over fire and stir in two table- ' / oonfuls butter cut up in flour, pepper taste, add the juice of one lemon and i* rve. How to Cook Summer Squash:?Sumar squaah may be ccoked in this manr: Cut the squash in quarters, remove 3 seeds and skin, cover with salted iling water, and boil until done. When oked mash the squash and odd one nee of butter for each small one. listen with gravy or broth, and put in tie pans or dishes; cover with breadjmb3, place tiny bits of butter on the p and bake a delicate brown in a brisk en. Snowballs.?One cup of small hom -t 4.? Jy tnree cups 01 waier, uue tuj/ ui lk, half teaspoonful of salt. Boil the miuy in the salted water for one hour, rring often. Add the milk, beat smooth d cook ten minute3 longer. Set to ol in small cups wet with cold water, irn them out when cold ou saucer#, jw with sugar And cover with cream. ok the hominy the day or night before ing it, and leave the cup3 in the regerafor. Tomato Catsup.?Take half a bushel tomatoes, wash them and cut them in ices; put them in a preserving kettle th one quart of water and boil until ft; then pass through a sieve and add If a pint of vinegar, one tumblerful of t, four red peppers, one ounce of whole >ves, one ounce of whole black pepper d two ounce3 of whole allspice. The ices should be put in muslin bags mitpIv tied Put the whole on the fire d reduce one-half. When cold bottle 3 catsup and cover the corks with :lted beeswax. The b3gs of spicea ist, of course, be removed before botcrm " ? One Bullet Kills Tiro Deor. [n the year 1842 Hezeklah Northwest, furmcr living in Orwell Township, adfordCo., Pcan., s'a ted two deer what is known as the Sugar Loaf in well Township. He killed both deer th one bullet. After killing the flret e the same bullet went twice around 3 hill and killed the other deer. Some y doubt this, but it is true. Now, I II tell you how it was done. Hezeih had only one bullet when he started, i after killing the first deer-he stopped i dressed and found the bullet, which >. 1 - - -1 ? - ? - ~ ; A All Via frtl* lonu 'ci up again; mm lucu uv .v.eed the other deer twice around the I and killed it.?Forest and Stream. Cost of Running a Bi? Hotel. i'ou have no idea what it costs to run hotel like this. There is a big help t, rent, supplies for tabl^ gas bill, it and many minor things, Deaide3 the aeral wear and tear. Our expenses at :3ent will foot up nearly $1,200 a day. course in summer there is no heatiDg of the house by steam, and that knocks >ig item off, but, taking all the year ind, our expenses will average fully id per day. It costs almost as much run the house empty as full. Now * think how much money has to pass ?r this counter every day to keep things vinq.?Hotel Clerk, in Globe Democrat. An Instrumental Terror. They sat at the open window, And gazed out over the sea; And the srene was full of quiet, And tranquil as could be; When a strange unearthly groaning Like a voice of fate was heard, And the leaflets erst so quiet By its frightful sounds were stirred. And the maiden shrieked ia terror, ' 'Tis the fierce and dread cyclone; I caa hear its dreadful mutter, " Aud its weird, wild, woeful tone!" But the youth, though pale, was fearless; And ha said: "Oh, bear thy pain; 'TU the village band who practice 'When the robins nest again!'" ?Mh*wcU Herald, '