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WW1 mi tGE'S SGBION. IMPORTANCE OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE HOME (Preached at Qrimiby, Canada.) Text: "Entreat me not to leave thee. or to return from following after thee; for whither thou firoest, I will co; and where thou lodgest, I willlodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do A. > i* U..4 OU Ml auu iuvtc auv, u au^uv uuv ucuw part thee and me."?Ruth i., 16 and 17. Famine in Judah. Upon fields distinguished for fertility the blight came, and at she door of princely abodes want knocked. Turning his back upon his house and his lands, Elimelech took his wife, Naomi and his two sons and started for the land of Moab in search of bread. Getting into Moab, his two sons married idolaters?Ruth the namo of one, Orpah the name of the other. Great calamities came upon that household. Elimelech died and his two sons, leaving Naomi, the wife, and the two daugh* ters-in-Jaw. Poor Naomi! in a strange land and her husband and two sons dead. She must go back to Judah. She cannot stand it k in a place where everything reminded herof her sorrow. Just as now, somotisnes you see persons moving from one house to anoth^ er, or fruin one city to another, and you cannot understand it until you find out that it is because there were associations with a cer.tain place that they could no longer bear. Naomi must itart for the land of Judah: but . how shall she get th?re? Between Moab aud the place whei-e she would like to go there are deserts; there ai-e wild beasts ranging the wilderness; there are savages going up and down, and there is the awful Dead Sea. Well, von sav. she came over the road once. she can do so again. Ah! when she came over the road before she had the strong arms of her husband aud her two sons to defend her; now th?y are all ?one. The hour of parting has come, and Naomi must be separated from her two daug hters-in la w. Ruth and Orpah. They were tenderly attached, these three mourners. They had bent over the same sick bid; they had moved in the tamo funeral procession; they had wept over the same grave. There the three mourners stand talking. Naomi thinks of the time when she loft Juidah, with a prince for her companion. Then they all think of the marriage festivals when Naomi's two sons were united to these women, who have now exchanged the wreath of the bride for the veil of the mourner. Naomi s*arts for the land of Judah, and Ruth and Orpah resolve to go a little way along with her. They have gone but a short distance when Naomi turns around and says to hat daughters-in-law: "Go back. There may be daya of brightness yet for you In your native land. 1 can't bear to take you away from your home and the homes of your kindred. 1 am old and troubled. Go not long with me. The Lord deal gently with you as ye have dealt with the dead and with ma." But they persisted in going, and so the three traveled on until after awhile Naomi torus around again and begs them to go back. Orpah takes the suggestion, and after a sad t parting gees away; but Roth, grand and florious Ruth, turns her back upon ber home, he says: "I can't bear to let that old mother go alone. It is my duty to go with her." And throwing her arms around weeping Naomi, she pours out her soul in the tenderness and pathos and Christian eloquence of my text: "Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest. I will go; and whither thou lodgs est, 1 will lodge; thy people shall be my peopie, and thy God my G(d; where thou diest r I will die, and there will I be buried; the W Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me." Five choices made Kuth in that text, and five choices must we all make, if we ever want to get to heaven. L In the first place, if we want to become Christians, we must, like Ruth in the text, choose the Christian's God. Beautiful Ruth looked up into the wrinkled face of Naomi and said: "Thy God shall be my God. * You see it was a change of gods. Naomi's God was Jehovah; Ruth's God was Chemosh, the divinity of the Uoabite3,whom she had worshiped under the symbol of a black star. Now 3he comes out from that black-starred divinity, and takes the Lord in whom' there is no darkness at all; the silver-starred divinity, to whom the metror pointed down in Bethlehem, the auushiny God, of whom the psalmist wrote: "The Lord God is a sun." And so, my friends, if we want to become Christians, we must change gods. This world is the Chemosh to most people. It is a black-starred god. It can heal n^wounda. It can wipe away no sorrows. It can pay no debts. It con save no undying souL It is a great cheat, so many thousand miles in diameter and so many thousand miles in circumference. If I should put this audience under oath, onehalf of them wpflld 3year that this world is aliar. It Is a bank which makes large advertisement of what it has in the vaults and of the dividends that it declares, and tells us >- that it we want happiness, all we have got to do is to come to that bank and apriy for It In the hour of need, we go to that bank to get happiness, and we find that the vaults are empty, and all reliabilities have absconded and we are swindled oat of everything. O thou black-starred Chemosh, how many are burning intense at tby shrine! Now, Ruth turned away from this god Chemosh, and she took Naomi's God. who was that/ The God that made the world and put you in it The God that fashioned the heaven and filled it with blissful inhabitants. The God whose lifetime study it has been to make you and all his creatures happy. The God who watched us in childhood, and led us through the gauntlet of infantile distresses, feeding us when we were hungry, pillowing as when we were somnolent, and sending his only Son to wash away our pollution with the tears and blood of his own eye and heart, and offering to be our everlasting rest, comfort, and ecstasy. A loving God. A sympathetic God. A great-hearted God, An all-encompassing God. A God who flings himself on this world in a very abandonment of ever1 1..' Me nl/x<?/ja fKn trail r\f Vita iastlllg SUOCUUU. Auo uvuug, uuu ?ou VTA. uw face. The sea, the aquarium of his palace. The stars, the dew-drops on his lawn. The God of Hannah's prayer and Esther's consecration, and Mary's broken heart, and Ruth's loving and bereft spirit Oh, choose ye between Chemosh and Jehovah: The one service is pain and disappointment; the other service is brightness and life. I have tried both. I chcse the service of Gcd because I was ashamed to do otherwise. I felt it would be imbecile for me to choose Chemosh above Jehovah. "Oh, happy day that fixed my choice Oh Thee, my Saviour, and my God! Well may this glowing heart rejoice, And tell its rapture all abroad "Oh, happy bond that seals my vows To Him who merits all my love! Let cheerful anthems fill His house, "While to His sacred throne I move. "High heaven, that heard the solemn vow, That vow renewed shall daily hear; Till in life's latest hour I bow, And bless in death a bond so dear.*1 II. Again, if we want to be Christians like Ruth in the text, we must tufce the Christian's path. *'Where thou goest I will go," cried out the beautiful Moabites3 to Naomi, the mother-in-law. Dangerous promise that There were deserts to be crossed. There were jackals that came down through the wilderness. There were bandits. There T-? 1 Was tUO i/CttU Oca. iiauuu ra/o. Avuvu, jvu must go back. You are too delicate to take this journey. You will give out in the first five miles. You cannot go. You have not the physical stamina or the moral courage to go with me." Ruth responds: "Mother. I am going anyhow. If I stay in this land I will be overborne of the idolaters; if I go along with you, I shall serve God. Give me that bundle. Let ma carry it. I am going with you, mother, anyhow." And if we waut to serve God we must do a3 Ruth did, crying out: "Where thou goest, I will go." Never mind the Dead Sea. Afoot or horseback. If there be rivers to ford, we must ford them. If there be mountains to scale, we must scale theai If there be ene mies to fight, we must fight them. It requires grit and pluck to get from Moab to Judah. Oh, now many Christian there are who can be diverted from the path by a quiver of the lip. indicative of scorn. They do not surrender to temptation, but they bend to it. And if in a company there be those who tell unclean stories, they will go so far as to tell something on the margin between the ouro and the impure. And if there be those whc swear in the room and use the rough word "damn," they will go so far as the word 'darn," and look over the fence wishing thej could go farther; but as to any determination, like Ruth's, to go the whole road of all that is right, they have not the grace to do it They have not in all their body as much courage as Ruth had in her little finger. Oh, my friends, let us start for heaven and go clear through! In the river that runs b> the gate of the city we shall wash off all oui t brulsea. When Dr. Chalmers printed 1 astronomical discourses, they were read the haylofts, in the fields, in thergarrets, ai in the palaces, because they advocated t idea that the stars were inhabited. 0 bearer! does not your soul thrill with t thought that there is another world beau fully inhabited? flay, more, that you by t grace of God may become one of its glorio citizens? III. Aga'n I remark, if we want to becor Christians, like Kuth in the text, we mu choose the Christian habitation. "Whe thou lodgest, will I lodge," cried Ruth Naomi, fche knew that wherever Naoc stopped, whether it were hovel or raansio there would be a Christian home, and si wanted to be in it. What do I mean by Christian home? I mean a home in which tl Bible is the chief book; a home in which tb family kueel in prayer; a home in whit father and mother are practical Chi-istians; home in which on Sabbath, from sunr;se sunset, there is profitable converse and chee ful song and suggestions of a better worl Whether the wail be frescoed or not, or on! a ceiling of unplaced rafters; whether ma ble lions are couchant at the front entranc or a plain latch is lifted by a tow-string, tb home is the ante-chamber of heaven A ma never gets over having lived in such a hom It holds you in an eternal grip. Thouf your parents may have been gone fori years, the tears of penitence and gladne that were wept at the family altar still gli ter m your memory, nay, ao you not, uu feel hot and warm on your hands, the tea which that mother shed thirty years ag when, one cold winter night, she came ai wrapped you up in the ted and prayed f your weltare hare and for your everlastii welfare before the throne ? O ye who are to set up your own home, s< that it be a Christian home! Let Jesus mal the wine at that wedding. A home withoi God is an awful place, there are so max perils to threaten it, and God himself is : oitterlvagainst it; but "the Lord encampel around about the inhabitation of the just. What a grand thing it is to have God star guard at that door, and tha Lord Jesus tt family physician; and the wings of angels 11 cauopy over the pillow, and the Lord of Glor a perpetual guest. Yousayitisimportautthi I Tv??fUaw Ka m Pltpiofion T cov f mo WHO OUU UlVI/UOt W (4 VU( MVIMU. A dMj ? you it is just as important that the hu: band and father be a Christian. Y< how many clever men there are who sa] "My wife does all the religion of my hous I am a worldly man; but 1 have confidence i her, and I think she will bring the whole fan ily up all right" It will not do, my brothei The ract that. you are not a Christian ha more influence on you.' family than the fac that your wife is a Christian. Your childre will say: "Father's a very good man; he i not a Christian, and if he can risk the f utun I can risk the future." O father and husbanc join your wife on the road to heaven, and a night gather your family at the altar. Do yo say: "Ican'tpray. I am a man of few wort and I don't think I could put half a doze sentences together in such a prayer." Yc can pray; you can. If your child were dow with scarlet fever, and the next hour were 1 decide it3 recovery or its death, you woul pray in sobs and groans and paroxysms ( earnestness. Ye3, you can pray. When tl eternal life of your household may depon upon your supplication, let your knees limtx and go down, but, if you still insist that yo cannot compose a prayer, then buy or dot row a prayer book of the Episcopal churcl and gather your family, and put your pray< book on a chair and kneel down before i and in the solemn and bushed presence < God gather up all your sorrows and tempt tions and sins, and cry out: "Good Lord, d liver us." IV. Again I remark: If we want to b come Christians, like Ruth in the text, w must choose Christian associations. "Th people shall be my people," cried out Ruth 1 Naomi. ''The folks you associate with want to associate with. They will come an see me, and I will go and see them. I war to move in the highest of all circles, the circ.' of God's elect; and therefore, mother, I ai going back with you to the land of Judah Do you who are seeking after God?and suppose there are many such in this pre ence?do you who. are seeking aft* God prefer Christian society t iffnrMlv arvfotv ) "No." vou sa^ "I prefer the world's mirth, and tf world's laughter, and the world's innuendc and the world's paraphernalia." Well, th is a free country, and you shall have tb right of choice; but let me tell you that th purest mirth, and the most untrammel? glee, and the greatest resilience of soul are ii side Christian compauionship, and not ou side of it. I have tried both styles of con panionship?the companionship of the worl and the companionship of Christ, and I knoby experience. 1 have been now so long i the sunsniny experience and society c Christian people, that when I am compel I e to go for a little while amid intense worldl society I feel depressed. It is like going 01 of a June garden into an icehouse. Me never know fully how to laugh until the become Christians. The world's laughte has a jerk of dissatisfaction at the end: be when a man is consecrated to God, and ne i all right for the world to come, then when b laughs, body, mind and soul crackle. Let group of ministers of th? gospel, gathere from all denominations of Christian 4, be tc gether in a dining hall, or in a social circli and you know they are proverbially jocuuc O, ye unconverted people! I know not hoi you can stand it down in that moping, bi ious, saturnine, worldly association. Com up into the sunlight of Christian soeietythose people for whom all things are workin right now,and will work right forever. I te you that the sweetest japonicas grow in tfa Lord's garden; that the largest grapes ar from the vineyards of Canaan; that the mo; sparkling floods break forth from the Roc of Ages. Do not too much pity this Ruth c my text. ior sue is going.eg oecome join owner of the great harvest fields of Boaz. ~ V. Once more: If we want to becom Christians, we must, like Ruth in the text choose the Christian's death and burial Sh exclaimed: 41 Where thou diest will I die, au< there will I be buried.'' I think we all, whei leaving this world, would like to be sui rounded by Christian influences. You woul not like to have your dying pillow surround? by caricaturists and punsters aud wiu bibbers. How would you like to hav John Leech come with his London pi< torials and Christopher North with hi loose fun, and Tom Hoed with his rhymin jokes, when you are dying? No! No! Nc Let me have a Christian nurse in my las sickness. Let me have a Christian physicia: to administer the medicine. Let it be i Christ au wifo, or parent, or child, tha watches the going out of the tides of m; mortal existence. Let Christian men com into the room and read of the illuminate valley and the extinguishment of grief, an drown the hoarse blasts of death with th strains of ''Mt. Pisgah" and "St Martin." In our last moment we will all be childrei Said Dr. Guthrie, the famous Scotch clergj man, when dyiug: "Sing me a bairn's hymn. Yes, we will all be children then. In tha hour the world will stand confounded aroun us. Our friends may cry over us; tears wi not help us. They may look sad; what w I want is radiation in the last moraentI thinking it will help them die. In ou last moment we want that bread wmc came down from Heaven. Who wi give it to us ? Oh, we want Chri: tian people in the room, so th? if our hope begins to struggle they may saj "Courage, brother! all is well! Courage! In that expiring moment I want to hear th old songs we used to sing in church an prayer meeting?. In that last moment 1 vtt to hear the voice of some Christian friar pleading that the sins and shortcomings c my life may be forgiven, and the door* c heaven may be opened before my entrance spirit. "Come sing to me of heaven, When Pm about to die: Sing sonzs of holy ecstasy, To wart my soul on high." 7e?. Christian people on either side of tl bed, and the Christian people at the foot of tl bed, and Christian people to close my eye: and Christian people to carry me out, an Christian people to look after those whom leave beaind, and Christian people to r mernbor me a little while after I am gom ; "Where thou diost, will I die, and there wi , I be buried." Sometimes an epitaph covers up more tho it expresses. Walking through Greanwoc Cemetery I have sometimes seen an inscrii tion which impressed me how hai 1 tl , sculptor and friends were trying to make 01 a good story in stone. I saw from the i: scription that the man or woman buried the] ha 1 died without hope. The inscriptiou to] i me the man was a member of Congress, or . bank President, or some prominent citize: I but said nothing about his soul's de , tiny. The body is nothing. The sou i Thn AnH hflro hv this inscriDtic I I see that this rnan Mas born in 1S00 and di( i in 1875. Seventy-five years on earth, and i Christian hope! Oh, if in all the ceineteri | of your city tlie graves of those who hai gone out of this world unprepared shou i sigh on the wind, who would have the tier' to drive through such a pla?e? If all tho I who have gone out of this world unprepar< could come hack to-day and float throuf ua the air,telling the story of their dUcomfltur in this audience would fall flat on its face, aa ad ing to be rescued from the avalanche of ho he rorih My hearers, do you wonder that this Rut ha of my text made the Christian's choice an tf. closed it with the ancient form of imprecatic he upon her own soul, if she ever forsook Naom us "The Lord do eo to me, and mora also, aught but death part thee and me." Tne were to live together. Come the jackal r come the bandits, roll on Dead Bea! Id ? hearers, would you not like to be with yot Christian friends forever? Have there n< j gone out persons from your household who: you would like to spend eternity with? The l 1 were mild, and loving, and gentle, and bea tiful, while here. You have no idea thattl i joys of heaven have made them wors Choose their Christ, and you may have the '? heaven. They went in washed throuj the blood of the Lamb, and you must ha^ ~ the same glorious aDiucion. >vun noj violence I put my bands on you to-da; to push you on toward the immediai .' choice of this only Saviour: Have him vc _ must, or perish world without end. Ele* ' " this moment as the one of contrition an : transport. Oh, give one intense, earnest, b lieving, loving gaze into the wounds openc ' for your eternal salvation! ru Some of you I confront for the first an : the last time until the judgment, and the ^ we shall meet. Will you be ready? t- ? w Bulgaria and the Bulgarians. ld The Bulgarians, though now regarde as the principal division of the Slavs i Turkey, we: e originally a Finnish trit living on the banks of the Volga. The ^ penetrated into the Danube country i it the seventh century, took possession c iy the territory now called by their nam< and estabi:shed there an independec n kingdom. They soon made friends wit id their Slavic neighbor?, adopting thei ie language and customs. After a Ion 18 struggle with the Byzantine Emperor J the Bulgarians submitted in 1018 to thei 0 power. The na'ion was governed b j- Dukes appointed by the Emperor unt st 1186, when it freed it-elf by a revolutior ' arid Held its independence ior uvu uul q dred years. In 1839 the Turks invade *. the country and in three years subdue r. it. From that time for nearly five hui f dred years the unhappy country we * ground under the heel of the Ottoma 13 oppressor, only regaining its autonom j, by the help of the European powers i U 1878. By the Berlin treaty Bulgaria ws created a self-governing, but tributar ^ principality, under the protection of th ,n Sultan of Turkey. It was allowed th u choice ?f its ruler, and in April, 187J n the Bulgarian Constituent Assembl 2 elected young Prince Alexander of Hess as sovoreign for life. The governmen ie of Bulgaria is administered by the Princ d aided by a council of seven minister! ,r The legislative authority is vested in ? National Assembly of two Chambin ^ The upper house has twelve members ?r four appointed by the Prince and eigl t, indirectly elected. The members of th " lower hou e, or Chamber of Deputies, ai ? elected by universal manhood suffrage t the rating of one member to every 10,00 y- of the population. Their term of offic 8 is four years. The Bulgarians are a peac< ? able, industrious, and not unintelligen j people, though ignorant and supersti d tious, as education is by no means gene it ral and centuries of oppression have al le most utterly destroyed the spirit of er " terprig2 in them. The great majority o I the people live by agriculture and th s- raising of stock. The principal exporl ?" are corn, wool, tallow, butter, cheese an ? ? > mt-- i. 1 U..t KA nils. , Qiaes. X116 UUUUIiI) 11U vulr HV 1U1 ? V [g railway. There aro 1,325 miles of tel< >, graph, built and managed by the goverr is ment. Civillization is at a low ebb uc 19 doubtedly, but great advances have bee ? made since the people became self-go^ !_ erning.?Inter-Ocean. t- ? l? Origin of Short-Horn Cattle, n This noble breed of bovines is of re ? mote origin. For some centuries previ ous to the conquest of England by th ,t first William, in the year 1066, the wai n like Scandinavians of Denmark ani 7 Sweden had made frequent predatory in ? cursions into Northumbria. The objec lg of these incursions was conquest, plundei .9 trade, and subjection of the Britons t a their rule and domination. Many of th d marauders settled in Northumbria, an< ? became incorporated with the natives b; ^ marriage ana succession of their fami n lies, and so remained until the invadin; I- forces were driven back to their ow: ^ shores under the power of the new con ~ queror. As a consequence of the Scan Q dinavian invasions commerce betweei ie them and the Northumbrians btcam frequent, and the cattle of the neighbor ? ing continent were more or less miro ,f duced on to British soil. So far as w< it can learn from, imperfect history an< tradition, those cattle were large in size short in the horn, rather coarse frames y the cows giving abundance of milk, and i -when fatted for slaughter,heavy weight a of beef of rather coarse quality. Thei colors were either pure white, or pal [J red and white more or less intermixe< e into roan, or brindled, sometimes red e no other colors prevailing. > It has been from that ancient stock 13 in all probability, that the grand treec of improved short-horns has descended it ?llaroer's. n - ^ Persian Moonlight. T The Pcsian moonlight seems capabli j of surrounding the most commonplac (j objects with a halo of beauty and o a blending things that are nothing in them selves into scenes of such transcendents u loveliness that the mere contemplatioi ? of them sends a thrill of pleasur X through the system. There is no city o d the same size in America but can boast o buildings infinitely superior to anything ? in Teheran. What trees there are in an< ^ about the city are nothing compared ti h what we are used to having about us 11 and, although the gates with their shor minars and gaudy colored bricks are cec J. tainly unique, they suffer greatly from i ? close investigation. Nevertheless, I hav< e happened in the vicinity of one of thes< A f. _ __ . 1 ' u gaies on a caim moonugm nigai, am l\ have been positively transfixed with as tonishment at the beauty of the seem rf presented. By repairing to the artiller; d square or to the short street between th< square and the palace front on a moon light night one can experience an en tirely new sense of nature's loveliness the soft, chastening light of the Persia: <ioon converts the gaudy gates, th m straggling trees and the background o i snow covered mountains into a pictur I that will photograph itself on one's mem ory forever.?Boston Herald. a. Don't. Don't get up on each occasion bellowing lik the bulls of Basham, and like a lou n calliope crack the canopy with sound. >d > Don't be of a mouth the owner like th le whale's that swallowed Jonan, ana wu it word-Niagara cataracts deluge all tb q- couutry round. re id Don't go off at every motion in a dynamil a explosion, without an introductory, ar Qf tecedwit, hem or cough. fj Don't on every single topic, grow profoun )n and philosophic, take your mouth fc .j ammunition and proceed to shoot it off. ? ?S. W. Foss, in Tid-Bits. w i? re ld Even as late as the reign of Henr VIII. in Engand all foreign artificer sd "were prohibited from working in th fh kingdom. s RELIGIOUS READING r- ??? h I Shall be Satisfied. d Not here, where all is chiinge, > Where pleasure* ne'er abide, ^ Where death has univers.il rang?, iy Can I be satisfied. fe Not hero, where dreams deceive, ir Where enemies deride, o* Where sins ray Saviour ever grieve, Can I betatisfied. u" There is a land more bleet, a Where love the pulse shall thrill, ir Where weary pilgrims find a rest, ;h And troubled hearts are stilled. [j Thither my soul would tend, f, In that bright world abide; * Where sin and death and sorrow end. Jj Shall I be satisfied, "d 9- A Br?Y? Soldier. ^ The name of Gen. Yon Ziethen wil id long be remembered in Prussia aa on ? of the bravest of those brave soldier who fought under Frederick the Grea in the Seven Tears' War. He was th' hero of many a desperate fight, while, b; d his keen foresight and untiring watch n fulness, many a hidden danger was dii ,e covered and averted. In moments o greatest peril, when a service of un wonted danger had to be performed, Voi 5, Ziethen was always resdy and coulc ^ always be relied on. >r But Gen. Von Ziethen was not only i g brave and faithful soldier in the scrvic 3, of his earthly king, he was something - - ? i v. " lar nigner ana noDier, Decauaa m [ he wa? a Christian?& true and valian ij soldier of Jesus Christ. t- Many a time, when a service of pecu ^ liar difficulty or danger was allotted U him, would he be seen retiring to som 13 quiet spot, and tliere the face that neve n blanchcd before a foe would be bow?< J in lowly supplication to the King o ? kings,, and Yon Ziethen would conn y forth and take his place at the head o e his hussars, with that look of calm am 6 quiet confldoncu which his soldier ' loved to see. y ,e His wonderful personal courage, a t well as his great kindness of heart ant 0 consideration for others, won the heart ^ of both friend and foe. He was ea pecially beloved by his own soldiers i, among whom he was known by the pe name of "Father Ziethen," and althougl ;? the free-thinking tendencies pf Frederic! the Great are well known, and Yob 0 Ziethen wm never ashamed to show hii 6 colors as a Christian, yet there was n< one in whose company the king had [. greater pleasure, and his place at th< i- dinner table, unless royal visitors weri I* present, was always by Frederick's side lf Bishop Eylert relates that, on one occa e jion, Yon Ziethen had declined ai :s invitation to dine at the royal table oi j the plea that he was going to take th< Lord's Supper on that day, and desirec i- to bo undisturbed. Boon after He wa i- again invited to Sans-souti, and, in thi a course of conversation tt.e king, referrinj to Yon Zlethen's absence on the forme occasion, made a profaue jest about thi Lords Supper, which was hailed with i burst of laughter by the assembled guests ?- Not no, however, with old Yon Zeithen who rose from - his seat, and, bowing ,e deeply to the king, addressed him In i 4 clear, firm voice as follows: i- "l our Majesty knows that, in battle * I never feared danger, imd, whenever i ? was necessary, I was ready to risk m; e life for you and the Fatherland. I an i still inspired by the s ume sentiments 1 and :1 necessary, and you command it ~y I shall lay down my grey head at you a feet But there is One above us who i greater than you and I?greater thai " all men?that is Jesus Christ, the Bar a iour and Redeemer of the world, wh< e . died for me, and bought me with the costly price of His ow;a blood. I can ? not allow that Blessed One to be mockec and dishonored, for cn Him rest m] faith, my comfort, and ay hope in lift , and f.n death. Strong i:a this confidence, a % 1 1. " your Dravo army iiaa xuuyuu auu wu p quersd, and if your Majesty underminei I this faith you undermiao the well-being , of your kingdom." When the brave old soldier ceased t< J speak there was a solemn silence. Noi one of the company had the courage t< reply. The king himself was deeply anc visibly moved. He rose from his seat, seized the general's hand, and, laying 3 the other hand on his shoulder, he said ? "Happy Ziethen ! would to God ] could believe as you do 1 I have everj ,1 respect for your faith. Hold it fast a This shall not occur again I" ? Soon afterwards the king left the table f and asked Yon Zeithcn to accompany y him to his cabinct. What was the na^ ture of their private interview is un 5 known, but one thing is certain, thai | from that time forward the king treated - him with peculiar attention and tendera ness, and seemed to delight more thar ? ever in his company. After his death, 1 the king, when discontented with the - lax morality which prevailed in the s army, was heard to exclaim: "My old j[ Zeithen was right! Give me again the . army that I had in the Seven Years' - War 1" ; "Whosoever therefore shall confess g Me before men, him wf.ll I confess alsc f before My Father which is in Ileaven. e But whosoever shall deny Me before l* men, him will I also deny before Mj Father which is in Heaven" (Matthew e x. 82, 33). "Be thou faithful un^c fl 1 n -1 T ?!ll _! il .1 - acaiq, anu 1 win give iuuu a wiuwu uj life" (Revelation ii. 10). e ? h Sixty thousand persons attended the 6 fete held in Crystal Palace, London, le ccntly. The custom of holding this fete i? * twenty-five years old. Fifteen thousand children, all members of the Bands oj j flope of England, took part In the choral t concerts. Mr. Shurley, founder of the Bands of Hope, was present and contemplated "with great satisfaction the growth of his work. In 1863 there were y but 1,500 singers where there are now g 15,000, and his bands number 1,552,00C abstainers in Great Britain alone. . TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT. Horror of Intoxication. The stage of drunkenness, if not the brother of death?of sleep?approaches toward man atoningly, and cau unfortunately still surpass itself and lose on the already blunted'senses yet more of sensibility. The relations of the outward world and the consciousness of the same become weaker and weaker. The higher grade of drunkenness is delirium joined with insanity that makes rcan more dangerous to himself than others. Specch becomes an incomprehensible babbling, bjcause the heavy drinker has as little power over his tongue as he has over his limbs. His face presents a burning glow; his whole appearance, especially the conj vulsive protrusion of the eyes, with their staring expression, indicate the unnaturally exalted condition in which he ? finds himself. B Why Neat Dow Became a Teetotaler. j I asked General Dow how loDg he had . been identified with the temperance _ movement. He said over forty years? { ever since 1840. "How did you come to go into it?" j "I will tell you," he said. <kMy wife I had a brother. He was employed in the postoffico in Portland. Ho was a most a efficient official, and on account of his B ability Tvas greatly valued. But he was _ a hard drinker, and evprv nr?w and then j would go off on a 9pree for a week at a t time. He had a large family of interesting children dependent upon him. I knew tl.at, however good an officer ho } was when sober, his drinking habits would soon, cause him to lose his place. I found out that there waa only one place , in Portland where he could go to drink. ^ Borne of his friends told me that if I could get that rum seller to refuse to Bell f liquor to him he would not get drunk. ^ I went to this rum seller and told him the story. I explained to him how it 8 was necessary for the salvation of this ioan and his family that he should stop f giving him liquor. He replied: "It is ray business to sell rum. I, too, have a 8 family dependent upon me. I cannot refuse to sell to any one that comes along, ' tmd I do not want any advice from you its to how I shall conduct my business. 1 1 'Then," said General Dow, "I turned on : liim, and replied: So you support your 1 i'amily by destroying other families. Well, so help me God, I intend to live long enough to put your traffic down." From that momsnt General Dow has devoted the greater part of the energies of his life to putting what he calls the grog lihopa down.?T. G. Crawford, in New York World. Alcotiol Consumption In France. The attention of the French Legislature wait, a short time ago, drawn to the largely increased consumption of alcohol i n Frsnoe, and the advisability of devising measures for restricting that connumption. The Chambers, previous to adopting any decision in the matter, requested the Academy of Medicine to examine the subject, and offer whatever iiuggestions or observations it might ithink it useful to make. In consequcnce, ii report has been drawn up which, if it ij to be relied upon, is calculated to exiMtfi alarm fnr tlie fntnre nf Aft , lording to this report it appears that t within the last forty years the consurapf tion of spirits in that country has just i doubled. Wine is much less drunk than , it used to be. The production of brandy , has sensibly diminished; but liquors r of all kinds, distilled from grain, s beetroot and potatoes, have taken x its place; and eren that popular stimu. lant, absinthe, as well as rum and kirsch, ) are manufactured with alcohols that j have not been rectified. The evil, there. fore, to which the academy has directed I it? attention assumes a double character; f since not only is an excess of alcohol j consumed, but there is a marked depreciation in its quality, Tho academy, . moreover, dwells upon the detrimental , elect produced on the French character, j which is being influenced by the pernicious quality of the spirits consumed, j Frenchmen, we are told?especially (. Parisians?are rapidly losing that lightj he irteel gayety which used to distinguish . thrm. and are displaying the qualities that follow in the wake of drunkenness. ' This change in character is, above all, [ perhaps, attributable to the constant | drinking of absinthe, the disastrous effects of which are known to every one. ?London Standard. M;rs. Cleveland's Views on Temper* i ance. Mrs. A. M. Crow, of Littleton, "W. Va,, recently wrote to Mrs. Cleveland, asking her advice as to joining the Good TemI plurs and signing the temperance pledge. I She received the following response: Exicutiv* Mansion, Washington. Mrs. Crow: 1 The subject to which you refer and ask my advice is one in which your own conscience must dictate the wisest course for yourself to I pursue. You hare better opportunities for [ knowing how you can do most good; and it seems to me that should be the standard by J which we women should settle all our great questions in life. It rarely occurs that a i woman needs for herself the restraining in i fluence of a temperance pledge. But if by , placing ourselves under the obligations of such an organization, we can better help our fathers, brothers, lovers and friends, I think 1 there should be no hesitation in the matter. r ; 1 know something of the Good Templars and ' that they do much good work. It is quite f certain you can do no harm by casting your , lot on the side of temperance, and you may do much good. I do not consider it a small matter by any means, and I am glad you s asked me the question. It is encourging to know of every sister who wants to adds her strength to the cause which, happily, some 1 day, will rid our land of ruined men and broken families. Very truly yours, E Frances Cleveland. [ August 11,18S6. In <i number of towns In Ontario, Can, ada, the active supporters of the Scott , temperance act had their homes burned j r by sco:ct enemies, and License C'ommis-1 I si.oner Graham, of Smith's Falls, perished ' in his burning house. WOMAN'S WORLD.' j PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR FEMININE READERS. Samplers. . A New York correspondent writes of the revival of an old fashion: Among the newest of the old fashions which have lately come in vogue, are samplers, those indicators of intense industry, which were so tedious to work, and amounted so little when completed. They are not framed and hung up, as in "ye olden time." How well I remember my mother's and grandmother's, though it is years since 1 saw them. The age was always worked in, as well as the date, and I recall, when just learning to read, spelling out the fact that my grand- j mother was "aged eight years" at the j time she completed this dreadful noedle work, which," strange to say, was no^the j death of her, for she lived to a gr$en4old age. I am afraid I shall be^<&rof:th$ j fashion, as I think our fajniiy' 'sBm|lersV ( were destroyed or lost long ago^ut , those of you who^-have tljem or can pro- ? cure them,^bring"tjiem forih* from their j hiding place in thVold chest in the gar: j ret, down intone" drawing-rpom, for , they are considered one of the^ most j aristocratic things to possess. It is sup- ] posed to show that your mothers or'grand- j mothers had dainty fingers, and did dainty , work, and proves, if they could work | "samplers," that they were not drudges. ( They &re a positive proof of early culti- , vation, and as such are consequently ( given a place. They may be used on the j corner of a picture, an easel, or as a tidy, j or, prettier still, made up to hang on the \ wall as a banner, with small brass rings ( at the top, which attach them to a brass | rod. , Banker Drexel's Daughters. Of the three daughters of F.A.Drexel, ! who have just left fo'r Europe, a writer , in the Philadelphia Prut says: j They will be gone a year, and in that i time they will visit all the chief educa- 1 tional institutions abroad, with the view i of gaining additional knowledge to be i used in the carrying out of the great 1 educational charity that they have begun < at Torresdale, and which is now only the 1 nucleus of what it is to become. All ' their affairs have been put in order, and i their immense charities?of which, in- i deed, the community knows really little 1 ?will go on as heretofore. The very i day before they sailed they drew a check j for an immense sum in thousands for a i single charitable purpose. They have i now very nearly $4,000,000 each. Start- i ling as it may seem, they give away e almost the whole of tte income from this immense fortune, aside from their own living expenses, in charity. Some one expressed surprise tnac tney couia manage to dispose of so much. The reply was that they could find use for much more iu the same channel if they had it. They hare a regular roll of pensioners, on which there are some 850 names. Beside their institutional and t local charities they are constantly giving to the poor ia all parts of the country? < indeed, in all parts of the world. Their own expenses are extremely small. They % lire ana dress plainly. Their only luxury is high-bred horses, for they are excellent horsewomen, aa all the ladies of the 1 Drexel family are, and among them they have a very good stable. They have * been well trained in the ways of business, rhey are thoroughly up in bookkeeping, j and themselves keep a watchful eye on their immense estate. ( A Visit to a Persian Bride. The seat of honor was given to me, the T bride sitting on my right, her elder aunt (her uncle had two wives) on my left. I Persians think a great deal of appearance and outward show, and all the ladies 1 were decked in their gaudies*, attire, and were blooming in all the fictitious glo- , rics of painted womanhood 1 Fair hair and eyes are not admired by them, but a fair skin and florid complexion are greatly sought after, and call forth the tribute of general admiration. Even when nature has distributed her gifts to < them with no niggard hand they will fur- i ni9h up the complexion with quantities of rouge and powder until they look like t full-blown roses. Many an old woman t of hideous forbidding aspect, whose appearance would be invaluable in mclo- t I drama, is made up in the bad semblance , | of a young woman; the furrows Time with his ruthless fingers has traced are filled in with powder, not artistically , j faced as the European belle?many of l whose charms might not bear close over| hauling?often sets off her loveliness ; with artfully arranged aids to beauty, 1 but laid on in thick layers. Although 1 I the bride was very young, having at the I most seen sixteen summers, rouge, alas, 1 was no stranger even to her pretty face! < Her hair, which was jet black and very i long, was plaited into a number of tiny tails, the ends of which peeped forth j from under the chagat of folded white { linen she wore on her head. Nothing can j exceed the ugliness or unbecomingness ! of this head gear; it is merely a square j piece of muslin or cotton folded corner- t wise, and tightly fastened with a pin or j tiny brooch under the chin, with two ends banging down the back, and the remaining two falling over the breast. ' Over this again is worn the house veil, ] whiVh envfilonea the whole fisrure: it is a large square or rounded piece' of muslin 3 or gay-patterned chintz, and is not fastened on but simply kept in its place by a the arms. Her voluminous skirt was of * white and pink striped satin, hand- i somely trimmed with gold lace, and t reached only half way to the knee; the legs were bare. Often as many as twenty r yards of silk or satin are employed for c these skirts, which are gathered into a a band at the waist, and are wore over four ^ or five petticoats very much stiffened.The more a skirt stands out the more fashionable it is. The bodice is a loose sort of jacket of silk or velvet trimmed with gold lace, the sleeves are long, and ter- 3 minate in a pointed cuff that turns back, reaching nearly to the elbow. This is I worn over a calico or linen shirt. Although all dresses agree in their leading 1 features, and the fashions never change t in the East as they do in the West, yet they differ to a great extent in detail, j and afford a scope for the peculiar taste i or fancy of the wearer. The contrast between the indoor dress and walking S attire is very striking.?London Society. s In Borrowed Plumage. ( There is a curious DroKerago dumucm v carried on in a suite of well-furnished rooms in a prominent office building on t Walnut street. There is no sign out and a nc display made, but there is a frequent j coming and goingof well-dressed ladies, and every indication of a flourishing I business. A brisk little man, with an j off-hand manner and a profusion of $ jewelry, is the manager of the establishment. His assistants are all women, < for the place is the agency of a New t York house which makes a business of t hiring out costly dresses for summer, $ seaside or mountain wear, and even to parties who are making a trip to Europe, t Equally as common a thing is the rent- $ ing from evening to evening of ballroom t costumes for ladies who can't afford to i buy expensive dresses for one or two 3cautions. They can hire a ballroom iress, shoes, stockings and lace shawL which would cost $200, for from $5 to $25 a night. If they are knows they are not required to leave a deposit* otherwise the price of the ontflt is left with the costumer to be returned whea the dress comes back. One costamer ia the city, who does a very large business n a quiet way for the fashionable people, has in his possession $25,000 worth >f dresses, robes shawls and other female laery which has come to him in various ways. Many rich people, he says, sell ;beir ballroom dresses at tne ena ox ? leason. They will not use them a second leason, and get back a part of the cost n this way. These dresses are hired oat \o less particular people, who are thus lpon special occasions able to appear in Inery as elaborate and rich as that of the nost elegant ladies. "How do you manage it?" the dapper ittle broker was asked. uVerv easily. We have in New York lundreas of dresses' which are practijajly "Sew.1^ Some. of them are entirely lew.V^Mady ctfitomer who wants to ipend.two^nionths at the seaside comes n and|teljS*u3 what she'wants. ' Perhaps t^is fourjflne dresses. Ordinary walking iud lounging dresses'she has. We don't lireliuSh. It would not "pay. - Wetaktj t^rmelsure, afid if we can fit her, even jy "altering the dresses we havo on hand,] tre ffx her up with one or two elaborate jallroom outfits, a dinner dress, and so )n, as she may desire.'^* If she should ittempt'to. purchase such an outfit as we :onld furbish her it' *ou!d cost her not ess than $1,500. We charge her $500: 3he don't wear the dresses often, enough :o do them serious injury, and at the end >f two months she has had her full o? inery, and would not wear them a sec>nd season if she owned them, while we. lave our $d00 and our outfit, damaged probably $290 worth. She has saved $1,000; we have had a profit of $260.*] Ain't that all right? Now here is another instance which actually occurred in Philadelphia not very long ago. A lady who ias a very fair fortune was about to take i trip to Europe. She proposed to travel jn the continent, to do it in good style; but as cheaply as possible. But the cost )f a wardrobe of fine dresses, which she thought necessary, made her hesitate, rhe outfit she desired would cost her, in addition to the every day dresses needed} ibout $6,000. The upshot of the matter (vastest we furnished her the outfit^, lew, made to her order, charged her |3,200 for the use of them for fourteen iveeks, and got the dresses back almost ts good as new. Since then those dresses letted us more than they cost, and we told them to a customer recently for $000. -Philadelphia Becord. , Fashion Notes. Stripes are in favor this falL Jet trimmings continue to find favor. ;Ribbon is used in profusion on toilets. Buckles on shoes are in cut steel and >ronze. tVia U?aa? nnveltv in etamine hat ihenille figure#. Fancy plumage appears with other ' lutumn millinery. Coarse straw braided with horsehair iff nade up into bonnets. Orange and gray are an e flee tire and xequent combination. Amber beads are employed for edging >anels of the same tint Platinum and gold form a fashionable combination in jewelry. White corduroy makes a pretty rest to vear with stuff costumes. The trimming of high hats is at the >ack and drops over the crown. Lace gloves have long wrists, with mttons instead of mousquetaire. Crepe fans powdered oyer with span* jles are effective for evening wear. Hats of fine Leghorn or Tuscan straw ire lined with braids of rushes, reeds 01 itifcw of a different color. Collars with plastrons, epaulets and :uffs to correspond are made of cut beadi n jet, amber, garnet and opaL Black stockings are worn by children ls soon as they are short-coated. Thej ihould, of course, be of black silk. Panels, collars, and cuffs of velvet an lsed for camel's-hair costumes, thi > gathered plastron being twilled silk. The grace of the guimpe dress is giving t much popularity, ana girls as old ai lfteen are w earing them this season. Beads are much used for trimming, tome of them are quite large. For even' ng dresses they are used rope fashion, lpon sleeves from shoulder to elbow. Solid colors and plain wearings act ;he rule in hosiery, although there is a Jecided tendency among manufacturer! :o break the spell so long held by black. The kilt skirts of to-day are more com* Portable than formerly, because the plaitf ire quite wide and but little turned in, ;hus rendering the costume less weighty. The lighter materials when used a< cilt skirts are frequently trimmed with leveral rows of ribbon, but there is a new ace-worked braid which is very effective. Ribbon enters largely into the decora* ;ion of wash dresses, both for old and roung, bows and straps of velvet ribbon *- ? -5-a1?. fs\y rrirla onri >eing CiLCU31VCiJ UJCU 4Vt vr*vtv* mmv roung ladies. Beaded trimmings and appliques, now 10 popular, are to be elaborated beyond my imagination, and most exquisite vorks of art will be some of the combina* ions of color in the fall garnitures. Although bridal robes are now made lot only in tinted fabrics, but in positive :olors as well, still white is most favored, nd a new tone of so called painter's phite has been brought out for brides. Some Profitable Silver Mines. The Ontario Company, Utah, report# 5450,000 in dividends. The Idahoan mine, Idaho, has divided 560,000 among its owners. In Arizona, the Silver King Company ias declared six dividends, amounting 0 $150,000. Dividend-paying mines in the country taid to the owners daring the past six nonths $4,351,107. Nevada's six months' profit was $237,!00, an increase of $155,820 over the ame period last vear. In New Mexico, the Peacock Miuing Company paid its first dividend of five :ents per share, amounting to $10,000. In Dakota three mines have paid fouirecn dividends, aggregating $395,000, as gainst $35,000 for the corresponding >criod of 1885. On July 15, the Montana, formerly the Drum Lummondmine, owned by London >arties, paid an * -interim dividend" of 5207,600. The Colorado mines declared an ag^rejate of thirty-four dividends, amounting o $1,007,616. The amount reported for he corresponding period last year waa ^698,550. In Montana eight mines have yielded wenty-eight dividends, aggregating 51,016,750. The amount reported for he corresponding period last year waa 5510,000.?Omaha World.