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I IMAGE'S SEBHO: Disadvantages of so.i people. Text: "All these things are against m ?Genesis, xlii, Sti. Father Jacob, you are wrong! You th your son Jcseph is dead, but he is Pri Minister of Egypt aud has the keys of great corn crib. You think that circumstan are all adverse, but they will turn out w In all your life you never icalea grco mistake than when you said: "All these thL are against me." A Rreat mnltitude of people are un seeming disadvantages, and I will to day, taw swivrimeiiii z?.uyiu-ou.\uLi tuuu ?. vau age, treat their cases; not as a nurse cou out eight or ten drops of a prescription, st them in a half glass of water, but as whei man has by mistake taken a large amount Opium, or Paris green,or belladonna, and i patient is walked rapidly round the room 8 shaken up aud pounde.l until be gets w awake. Many of you have taken a lai draught of the poison of discouragement a I come out by the order of the Divine Phj cian to rouse you out of that lethargy. "First, many people are under the disi vantage of an unfortunate name given th by parents who thought they were doinf good thing. Sometimes at tie baptism children while I have held up one hand prayer I have held up the other hand amazement that parents should have weig ed the babe with such a dissonant and rep ' iive nomenclature. I have not so much w dered that some children should cry out the christening font as that others with si smiling face should take a title that will the burden of their lifetime. It is outrage! to afflict children with an undesirable na because it happened to be possessed bj> parent,or a rich uucle from whom favors i J - <- f A expev tea, or soma pruuiiucun wui ui u wao may eDd his life in disgrace. It is excuse, because they are Scripture names, call a chili Jchoiatim or Tiglath-Piles At this very altar I baptized one bv 1 Dame of Bathslieba. Why, under all I circumambient heaven, any parent shoi want to give to a child the name of thatloi And infamous creature of Scripture time annot imagine. I have often felt at 1 baptismal altar,when names were anoounc to me, like saying, as did Rev. Dr. Richar of Morristown, jS. J., when a child v handed him for sprinkling and the na given: 4 'Had n't you better call it somethi else I" Impose not upon that babe a name sugg gestive of flippancy or meanness. There is excuse for such assault and battery on 1 cradle when our lauguage is opulent w names musical in sound and suggestive meaning such as John, meaning "the g cious giffc of God',' or Henry, meaning "1 chief of a household," or Alfred, meani "good counselor." or Joshua, meaning "G our salvation," or Nicholas, meaning tory of the people," or Ambrose, meani immortal," or Andrew, meaning "man! or Esther, meaning "a star," or Abigj meaning "my father's joy," or Anna, mei ing "grace," or Victoria, meaning "victor; or Rosalie, meaning "beautiful as a rosej'" Margaret, meaning "a pearl," or Ida, mei ing "Godlike." or Clara, meaning "illusi ous," or Amelia, meaning "busy," or Bjrt meaning "beautiful," and hundreds of otl names just as good.that are a help rather tl hindrance. But sometimes the great hindrance in 1 IS not in the given name but in the fain name. While legislatures are willing to 1 such incubus there are families that keep name wiiich mortgages all the generate with a great disadvantage. You say: wonder if he is any relation to so and s mentioning some fam;ly celebrated for cri or deception. It is a wonder to me that ell such families some spirited young m does not rise, saying to his brothers and ! ters: "If you want to keep this nuisance scandalization of a name, I wi;l keep it longer than until by quickest course of li lean slojgh off the gangrene." When 1 general assembly of the Presbyteriau chui of the United States met in tbis buildiDg 1876 two estimable men of the sweetest c position stopped at the same house, and < had the misnomer of being Mr. Sour and 1 other the misnomer of being Mr. Pickle. A your city directory has hundreds of names mere pronunciation of whi. h ha> been a li long obstacle. If you have started life un< name which either through ridiculous wiugrajjujr ui viuuua uao uwii encumbrance, resolve that the next gene tion shall not be so weighted. It is no bemeaning to change a name. Si of Tarsus became Paul the Apostle. Had sah ^the myrtle-' became Esther the "stai We have in America, and I suppose it is in all countries,names which ought to be at ished and can be and will be abolished l the reason that they are a libel an;l a sli der. But if for any reason you are si merged either by a given name or by a fa ily name that you must bear, God will h you to overcome the outrage by a life coe crated to the good and useful You in erase the curse from the name. You m somewhat change the significance. If o: it stood for meanness you can make it st8 for generosity. If once it stood lor pride > can make it stand for humility. If it once st( for fraud you can make it stand for hones If once it stood for wickedness you can m: it stand for purity. There have been mu tudes of instances where meu and won have magnificently conquered the disast of the namo inflicted upon them. Again, many people labor under the n fortune of incomplete physical o luipme We are by our Creator so economically bi that we cannot afford the obliteration of ? physical faculty. We want our two ej our two ears, our two hands, our two t< our eight finders and two thumbs. Yet I many people have but oue arm or but < eye or but one foot. The ordinary casi toes of life have been quadrupled, quintup] septupled, aye c entupled in our times by Civil War, and at the North and Sout great multitude that no man can num are fighting the battle of life with half le:-s than half the needed physical armame I do not wonder at the pathos of a sold during the war, who, when told tbat he m have his hand amputated, said: "Doct can't you save it?" When told that it \ Impossible, said, with tears rolling down cheoks: "Well, then, good-bye, old hand hate to part with you. You have done m good service for many years but it seems j must go. Good-bye?" A celebrated surgeon told me of a scene the clinical department of one of the X York hospitals wb -n a poor man with ? !?J .... ... Kaf.c YY UUU .UU iCp nu.1 UlUUgUU ill uci.v*v V*A<V v dents to be operated on, ami the stir^eju ^ pointing out this ami that to the students i nan riling the wounded le?. and was about proceed to amputation, thu poor man lei from the table aud hobbled to the door t said: "Gentlemen, I am sorry to di.-avpc you, but by the help of God I will die w my leg on." What a terrific loss is the 1 of our physical faculties! [TI19 way the t tie of Crecy was decided against the Frei was by the AVelshmen killing the Frei horses and that brought their riders to ground. And when you cripple this bo< "which is merely the animal on which soul rides, you may sometimes defeat soul]. Yet how many suffer from this ph ical taking off! Good cheer, my brothi God will make it up to you somehow. 1 grac.e, the sympathy of God will bo more fou than anything you have lost. If G allows part of your resourc es to be cut of! one place, He will add it on somewhere e As Augustus, the emperor, took off a 1 from February, making it the shortest mo: in the year, and added it to August, month named after h:mself, fo advanta fcaVon from one mrt of vour nature will added 011 to another part. But it is amaring how much of tho wor] work has been done by men of subtree physical organization. S. S. Preston, great orator of tho Southwest, went limp all his life, but there was no foot put do upon any platform of hi? day that resounc >o far as his club foot. Beethoven was fleaf that he could not hear the crash of Drohrstra rendering his oratorios. Thomas Carlisle, the dysoeptic martyr, i given the commission todrivecant out of world's literature. Rev. Thomas Stockt |>f Philadelphia, with one lung raised his flienres nearer heaven than most minisl can raise them with two lungs. In the ban the insurance companies, the commercial tablishments.the reformatory associations, churches, there are tens of thousands of r and women to day doubled up of rheumtii or stabbed by neuralgias or with only fr Bients of limbs, the re3t of which they lef Chattanooga or South Mountain or the V derness, and yet those people are worth in lo the world and more to the church i more to God than those "l us who have ne bo much as had a finger joint stiffened b felon. Put to full use ail the faculties t remain and c harge on all opposing circi stances with the determination of Johc Bohemia, who was totally blind, and ye a battle cried out: "I pray and beseech ; to lead me sb far into the fight that I z >1 strike one good blow with this sword M mine " Do not think so much of what faci [j, ties you have 1 ->st as of what faculties i main. You have enough left to make yoi self felt in throe worlds while you help t earth and balk hell and win heaven. Ar ^ from your discouragemeut, O men of < p!oted or crippled physical faculties, and s what, by the special help of God, you c accomplish. ie>n The skilled horsemen stood around I c?' -halus, unable to mount or manage him, . , wild was the steel. But Alexander notic inK that the sight of his own shadow seemed 'V? disturb the horse. So Alexander clutch p him bv the bridle and turned his h?ad awi |C?S from the shadow and toward the sun ai * th? horse's agitation wns gone ant! Alexan'l mounted him and rode off to the a^tonii Q?a ment of all who stood by. And what y der PeoP'e ue0(* is to havo your sight turn in awa7 from the shadows of your earthly L nvflr which von have so lone oondifred, a nts -vour turned toward" the sun, t' irs ?l?rious sun of gospel consolation and Chr , tian hope and spiritual triumph. * And then remember that all physical d the ?dvautages will after awhilo vanish. I d those whQ have been rheumatismed out of ide f?ot or cataracted out of an eye or by t perpetual roar of our citie? thundered out an ear, look forward to the day when tl ' : old tenemeut house of flesh will come doi ' and a better one shall b3 rebuilded. 1 . resurrection morning will provide you wi a better outfit. Either tho uustrung, wor r a out,blunted and crippled organs will be so 'of constructed that you will hardly know the or an entirely new set of eyes and ears an 1 f in wi'* k? eiven -vou- Jusfc what it mean? corruption putting on incorruption we lUj. not know, rave that it will be glory inefTab on_ no limping in hsaven, no straining of t at eyesight to see things a little way off; ich putting of the hand behind thi ear to don jj0 the capacity of the tympanum; but facult -)US perfect, all the keys of the instrument attur me for the sweep of the fingers of ecstasy. I . a until that day of resumption comos let ire bear each other's burdens and so fulfill 1 a? law of Christ. Uq Another form of disadvantage under whi to l many labor is lack of early education. The I will h? nn otoiisb for ignorance in the ne the generation. Frea schools anil illimitable o tne portunity of education will make isnoran a crime. I believe in compulsory educatic 3se and those pareuts who neglect to put th( 5 j children under educational advantages La jj0 but one right left, and that is the panite ;e(j tiary. But there are multitudes of men a jj- women in mid-life who had no opportunil ras *ree sc^??ls had not yet been establish3d,a me vast multitudes had little or no school UK all. They feel it when, as Christian me thsy come to spoak or pray in religious t .es. semblies or public occasions, patriotic or i |no litical or eJucational. They are s lent, I jjj0 cause they do not feel competent. Th ith owe notbing to English grammar in geography or belle3 lettres. They wou ra. not know a participle from a pronoun tjj0 they met it'many times a day. Many of t n_ most successful merchant? of America ai men in high political places cannot write i .jc_ accurate letter on any theme. They a jn~ completely dependent upon clerks and dep < tie < and stenographers to make things rig! I knew a literary man who in other years anl Washington make his fortune by writii 11 speeches for Congressmen or fixing them \ or tor the Cmrjresbionul Record afte?" th< an- were delivered. The millionaire illibdra; tri- of this country is beyond measurement. Ija Now, suppose a man finds himself in mi jjer life without education, what is he to do? i tan I the best he can. The most effective laynu in a former pastoral charge th jfe I ever heard speak on religio jjy themes could withiu five minutes ^ exhortation break all the laws of iSnglii , a J grammar and if ho left any law unfractur jds I no W0Ula complete lae wor*. ui nu^uui uevu iij tation iu the prayer with which he lollowi 0 i? it. But I would rather have him pray f j^Q me if I were sick or in trouble than at in | Christian man I know of, and in that ehun aa J all the people preferred him in exhortatii ,1S_ | and prayer to all others. Why? Because he w or bo thoroughly pious and had such power wi no I God ha was irresistible, and as he went on aw j his prayers, siuners repnted and sain tho shouted for joy, and the bereaved seemed ch ' 5e' ^ack their dead iu celestial compauio : jn i shin. And when he had stopped prayiu ljs. | ana as soon as I could wipe out of my ey )no I enough tears to see the closing hyn tjje i I ended the meeting fearful that some Ion n(j j winded, prayer meeting bore would pull tbe j down from the seventh heaven. Not a woi fe_ have I to say against accuracy of spee. h jer fine elocution or high mental culture. G or. all these you can. But I do say to those wl an weri brought up in the day of poor schoc ra. | houses and ignorant schoolmasters and 1 j opportunity, you may have so mm iuj ! of God in your soul aad so much ag. 1 heaven in your every-day life th r it 1 you will be mightier for good th) 50 many who went through all the eurriculu l0j. of Harvard or Yala or Oxford, vet nevi for graduated in the school of Christ When yt an. get up to the pate of heaven no one will a y?u whether you cau parse the first chapt llu_ of Genesis, but whether you have learm e]p | the fear of the Lord which is the beginuii ..i ! of wisdom: nor whether you know bow 'ay ! squaro the circle, but whetheryou havo liv< ! a squaro Life in a round world. Mount Zi, n(;9 j is higher than Mount Parnassus. incj j But what other multitudes there are unrl .qU | other disadvantages! H-^re is a Christif ^ j woman whose husband thiuks'raligion a shai t y and while the wil'o prays the children 01 ike wav husband swears "them another. ( j here is a Christian man who is trying to i ieJ I his best for God and the church and ins wi erg holds him back and pays on the way hoc from proyer-mecting where he gave tes jjj. mony for Christ: "What a fool you made nt" yourself! I hope hereafter you w I keep stilL" And when he would ! mv j benevolent and give fifty dollars, si .J: j criticizes him for not giving fifty cen! J I must do justice and publicly thank G< * ' j that I never proposed at home to give an j thing for auy cause of humanity or religic onf j but the other partner in the domestic fir i approved it And when it seemei beyoi S~' I my ability, and faith in Gorl was necessar ?no i she had three-fourths the iaith. But I kuc ?a i men who, when they contribute t> charit ble objects, are alraid that the wife will fii ?' it out. What a withering curse such [?" woman must be to a good man. Lier Then there are others un Jer the great d ;uf? advantage of poverty. Who ought to g ! thincrj rhearest? You sav those who ha T?3 | little means. But they pay more. You bi "l.3 : ccal by the ton. They buy it by the buc-k? ? * j You buy Hour by the barrel. " They buy _e a i by the pound. You eret apparel cheap t rou I cause you pay cash. They pay dear be< an . | they have to get trusted. And the Bible w in | right when it said: "The destruction of t ew ' poor is their poverty." 1 a j Theu there are thosa who made a mista ta" | in early life and that overshadows all the va? 1 days. "Do you not know that that man w llJa ' once in prison if" is whispered. Or' Do y i know that that man once attempted sui idc aP? I Or "Do you know that that man on lU(* j absconder;" Or "Do you know that tL 'i"? j man wa? once discharged for dishonest} | Perhaps there was only one wrong deed !o*9 ! the man's life and that one act haunts the su ,a^" j sequent half-century of his existence. 1-k Others have unfortunate predominen-e l?" j some mental faculty and their ra:-hn throws them into wild enterprises, or th trepidation makes theai decline great oppi the tunities, or there is a vein of molancholy the their disposition that defeats them, or tl ys- have an endowment of over mirth that gi' Jjs! the impression of insincerity. { tQ Others have a mighty obstacle in their p< . sonal appearance, for which they are not i '. sponsible. They forgot that God fashion m tneir features and their complexion and thi Jse- stature, the size of their nose and mouth a hands an l fe?t, and gave them thsir gait ai their general appearance; and they forg ttl0 that much of the world's best work and t church's best work has been done by home 1)3 people, and that Paul, tho apostle, is said have been hump-backod and his eyesig la s weakened by ophthalmia, while many of t finest in appearance have passed their tit p"0 before flattering looking-glasses, or in stud lu? ius- killing attitudes and in disolavim t "'l richness of ward robe not one ribbon led Vest or sa :k or glove or buttou or shoestrii so 0f which they have had brains enough to ca the for themselves. To Others had wrong proclivitios from t v?s start. They were born wi-ong, an 1 tb sticks to ona even after he is born agai on, They have a natural crankiness that is 'J au- yea 's old. It came over with their groi ?rs grandfathers from Scotland or Wales iks, France. It was born on the banks of t es- Thames, or the Ciyde, or the Tibar, or t t*10 Rhine, aud has survived all the plagues ai "en epidemics of many generations, and is livi fms to-day on the banks of the Hudson, or t 'a?" Androscoggin, or the Savannah, or the ] Plata. And when a man tries to stop tl 'evil ancestral proclivity he is like a man 01 or? rock in the rapids of Niagara holding witb ma pl-ipi from which the swift currents are tr ver ing to sweep him into the abyss beyond. >y a Oh, this world is an over-burdoued wor hat an over-worked world I It is an awful im- tired world. It is a dreadfully unfortunc l of word. Scientists are trying to fmd out t t at cause of these earthquakes in all lands, c yon Atlantic and trans-Atlantic. Some say th nay of ?nd soTiif say that. I have taken the di ill- a isis of what is the matter with the eai re- It has so many burdens on it and so mi ir- tires within it, it has a fit It cannot st? ho such a circumference and such a diamel iso Simoneiv Cjto; axior Stromboli or V< ie- vins will open aud then all will be at po ee for th .? natural world. But what about an moral woe? of tho world that have ro.ked nations, and for six thousand years. Scie tu- proposes nothing but knowledge, and nu so peoplo that know the most aro the most ecj comforted. t0 In the way of practical relief for all dis ecl vantages arid all woes, the only voice tha ny worth listening to on this subject is tha vc of Christiantv, which is the vol. eof Almic;l |Pr God. Whether I have mentioned tho par sii. ular disadvantages under which you laboi ou | not, I distinctly declare in the name or 2(1 j Rod that thare is a way out and a way 0tt for all of you. You caunot be any worse nri than that Christian youn^ woman who v [i0 in the Pemberton mills when the y fell so is. years ago, and from under tho fallen timb she was heard singing: 4'I am going ho is. to die no more." jet Take good courage from that Bible, all a who>e promises are for those in bad predi ;ho ment. There are better days for you oitl of on earth or in heaven. I put my hand uni iis your chiu an:l lift your face into the light the coming dawn. Have God on your s h0 and then you have for reserve troops all itb annies of heaven, the smallest company u. wh'ch is 20.000 chariots and the smallest re. talion 144,0:)0,the lightnings of heaven tb mt drawn sword. eej An ancient warrior saw an overpoweri by host come down upon his small company d( armed men, and mounting his horse, vv le. i handful of sand, he threw it into the a he' rrying: "Let their faces be covered w nc confusion." And both armies heard big roice, and history says it seemed as thoi ;ie? the dust thrown in the air had become mauy angels of suparnatural deliveran jul and the weak overcame the mighty and u9 immense host fell back and the small num th? marchel on. Have faith in God, and thoi all the allied forces of discouragement se ch to come against you in battle array, t re their laugh of defiance and contor xt resounds through all the valleys t ?...?faina vnu mav. bv faith in C ee and importunate prayer, pick up a band in of tho very du?t of your humiliation < }ir throw it into the air aud it shall bo.ome ve gels of victory over all the armies of ea >n- and hell. The faces of your adversaria, nd man and satanic, shall be covered with c y fusion,while you shall be not onlyconquei nd but more than conquerer through that gr at which has so often made the fallen helmel ,a an overthrown antagonist the footstool < is! Christian victor. )o- m ey WORDS OF WISDOM. or A friend should bear his friend's be firmities. Here, see, and say nothing, if you wo live in peace. u- He who receives a good turn shot it. never forget it; lie who does one shoi 1? never remember it. ip It is more from carelessness about tri ey than from intentional lying that then ;7 60 much falsehood in the world. A -V-..,.! ??V j d- X\. IllUli bJUUUlU IJl'VUT UO iiouaiiK'U Jo own lie has been in the wrong, whiet "J but saying in other words, that he wiser to-day than he was yesterday, of The living get credit for what tl sh might be quite as much as for what tl ^ are. Posterity iu;lges a man by the b 3Cj rather than the average of his atta or ment. ?y To divert at any time a troubleso ;h fancy, run to thy books. They prcsen ^ fix thee to drive them, and drive 1 th other out of thy thoughts. They alwi in receive thee with the same kindness, its Intercession is the very safety valve love. When we feel that we can rea ^ do nothing at all in return for some es markablc kindness and affection, hi m exceedingly glad we are that we n ? and can pray. "j . It is an old saying that charity beg or at home, but this is no reason it shoi et not go abroad; a man should live w the world as a citizen of the world; ' * may have a preference for the particu quarter or square, or even alley, in wli: of he lives, but he should have a generc at feeling for the welfare of the who'e. in ? Nature's Stupcnilons Task. xi Nature is engaged in the stupendc sk task of world making. That is to s: worlds are now. and ever have been, a jg ever will bo, making themselves, just to trees are making themselves in the f Bd e>ts and whales are ever making the -n solve? in the seas. As the barks "of tr 8r have to be annually rent and torn by in ternal expansion, so must the crusts 11, developing planets and satellites broken and shattered and upheaved mountain ranges, islands and continer fe in the midst of great oceans, whose <3 no placed waters submerge the older lan ti- The city of New York is being built land that has slowly risen about < hundred feet within a recent geologi l,e period, as shown by the island tufts :s. the Jersey Flat's, above the city of Nc ark, whose water-worn sides reveal doubtful history. Darwin says the we m em coast of .couth America has recen id been upli'.'te 1 in a similar manner, y. The western coast of the Scandinav Peninsula is now being tilted in suel manner as to cause the elevation of < a end. while the other is sinking benei the Nortli Atlantic. Within the sh is- period of two thousand years the Toat ^ marshes, in Italy, have been defied many feet, and again elevated to i )t. former level, so slowly as not to hi it been perceived by the inhabitants of t! ^ enlightened country. Hundreds of sii .jj! lar instances might be adduced tosh be the instability of the barely inhabita crust of our planet, which must be re ing upon a surging fluid globe with as ^0W VCr^ ^ftra^iar *3 ^1C hi-tory of i ou merous ancient cities in India and Et i/" ern and Southern Europe, whose luckl ico inhabitants have frequently been buri dead or alive, beneath the toppling wi in of their owa dwellings!?Cincinnati 1 !b- qui nr. of "When the Brains arc Out." Two remarkable and wonderful ca of recovery from bullet wounds hi iu lately taken place in London. In ( ley I ca*e, that of a girl who was shot by 1 'a I lover, the bullet is deeply imbedded the head, to deep to odmit of any nji |r" ation; yet the patient has been c ^ charged from the hospital convalesce ,ir The "other case was one of attemp nd suicide, the sufferer having shot him: in the head with a revolver. In t ;et caS(J( t00) t]ic kui|et is still in the bra ,1? and in such a position as to prevent to operation of extraction. In spite of t :ht the patient has been discharged fr 110 lio pital care, aud it is said that he s ne ,'n/>nnvonianf>n frnm til A pnn ,h3 quenccs of his rash act. A curious cc or cidencc in connection with the^e case is that both shots were lired on the sa m day, and that both eases were treated he the London Hospital. "The times h; ,at been,"'says Shakespears, "that, when in. brains were out, the man would di H The poet puts these words into the mo ^ of Macbeth, when that wicked Kings lje the ghost of the murdered Banquo rise he fore him. In the case just citcd, wch id a reality whicli no poet could equal ng romance. People walking about in J10 flesh with bullets in their brains arc < tainly far more wonderful things t] ia spectres. These marvelous recove; i a from what, a few years ago, would h y- meant certain death, must be credi Id to surgical skill and the modern a: 1 y Beptic method of treating wounds. ite h? Cabinet ministers in France hav handsomely-furnished house and $20, ' a year. S RELIGIOUS READING iny 1 ind Tlie Faithful Friend. ^ In a very humble cot, are In a rather quiet spot, the In the suds and in the soap, Worked a women full of hope, QCO my Working, singing, all alone, un- In a sort of undertone: "With a Saviour for a Friend, ad. ... L tjs He will keep me to trie end." ?5? Sometime" happening along, tic. I had heard the semi-song, ' or And I often used to smile, More in sympathy than guile, otf ?ut I never said a word ra3 In regard to what I heard, me As she sang about her Fr end, Who would keep her to tie one Not in sorrow, nor in glee, ca_ "Working all day long was she, her As her children, three or four, Played around her on 1 he floor 'i je But, in mono tone, the song the Sho was humming all day long: ' '"With a Saviour and a Friend, He will keep me to the end." Just a trifle lonely she, mg * r of Just as poor as poor could bo, ith But her spirits always rose Like the bubbles in her clothes; jjjg And, though widowed and alone, igh Cheered her with the monotone s0 Of a Saviour and a Friend, the Who would keep her to the end. I have seen her rub and scrub Qm On the wash-board in the tub, ind While the baby sopped in suds, nP' Rolled and tumbled in the duds, Or was paddling in the pools [ful With old scissors stuck in spools, She still humming of her Friend, Who would keep her to the end. k|j" Human hopes and human creeds -0r( Have their root in human needs, ace And I would not wish to strip From that washerwoman's lip Any ?ong that she can sing, Any hope that song may bring, For the woman has a Friend, Who will keep her to the end. ?Advance. in A Present Heaven. uj(j While strenuously denying the visibi ity of the universal church on earth, jld none the less earnestly contend for i' lid reality. It is the Spiritual City, and vi have already "come to Mount Zion, tt *. heavenly Jerusalem." Do we not mi 51S the tnith of the delineation when w transfer it all to the heavenly state, i t our popular hymns, teach us to do? < i9 else to some future condition of th world, wholly unlike the prcsenl iey Those hymns, indeed, have much 1 ^ answer for, in leading us with sent jn_ mental ecstasy to dwell on glories yi unattaincd, when we might understan and exult in out present blessedness, is no wonder that in the dark, storm jyg days of the twelfth century and tl tumults and distractions of the age, gentle spirit like that of Bernard, safel re. sheltered in the monastic cell, shoul dw seek his ideal as only possible outsic '&y this rouifh world: For thee, 0 dear, dear country, Mine eyes their vigils keep; For very love, beholding Thy happy name, they weep. Iar It is impossible not to sympathize i ' '? "I - !- 11..L T ....I ich tne patnos 01 me strain, uus x suum ^us that there are nobler lessons to bo lean even from these bright visions of tl Apocalypse. The city, not madti wil )U3 hands, is built among us here and no1? ay. It stands amid the world of men, in the ,nd J sin and sorrow; and the leaves of tl a3 tree of life beside the crystal river a for the healing of the nations. An ees again, the nations walk amid tho lig) in- thereof?not "the nations of the saved alono, as we have been nccustoraed i read; for I need hardly remind you ho its, the New Testament revision again hi lis- cleared away for us the delusive restri ^s# tion. "And the kings of the earth c )no bring their glory into it," and its gat cal front all points of the compass ac on &tand all day opeD, to testify that wil !W* Christ's true church thcro is a welcom always and for all, for every wander t!y 011 the earth's surface and from evei realm of thought. It is good for u 1U" my brethren, to dwell witn iaeais ana 1 1 o J )n0 be assured that in the life of the lowlie nth - Christian, and amid the unlovelicst su ort roundings 01 the poorest tabernacle, the shines the spiritual glory of the true cil the of God. ive hat I have been much self-accused for m aai- referring all to God as the lu6t end; th ow I do not cat, drink, sleep, journey, spej >3t and think for God; (hut practice was i iin. short and narrow, light so long an iu- broad.?Samuel Rutherford,. ist ess God>s presence is enough for toil an enough for rest. If ho journey with \ ^ by the day, he will abide by us wh( nightfall come?, and his companionsh: will be sufficient for direction on the rof and for solace and safety in the evenir SG3 lve camp.?Maclaren. )nc :icr "Ah," sighed an old, faithful cloc in which I had in my room, "what a bu ;?r" don is life! These weights wear ^ out. With much pleasure would I sa tc(j 'Tick?Tick,' and strike, as is my dut; >elf if I only ncai not carry these drcadf his heavy weights: I am not free from the ^ one single hour." So it sighed daily,ti jjj8 I, moved with pity to my dear old fait! om ful clock, took away its weights, wh< uf- its complaints stopped ; but it never ga^ ?e* me a sign of gratitude since; it w; 3 ja henceforth silent as the grave. So me would be with many of us if we we iQ without the burdens of life. No doul they are often heavy and wearisome, bi ic ? needful to our spiritual life. uth ices The Mother Superior of the convents ^ Springfield, Mas*., is greatly intercstc ' jn in gaining signatures to the Word's V\ the C. T. U. petition. She has nearly 1,0( -er- ameji of Catholics of that city. Tci: ^.an perance test-books arc to b2 used her rles i -r i., clVC 1U tLLU UUUVUUt Vi Wliwu DUO ill ted charge. nti-" * There are 12,000 saloons in New Tot Q a City, and 4,000 in Jersey City, Newai qqq andPaterson, making 16,0)0 8aIoom : eight of Trinity spire. TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.! t n Murmurs of Complaint. 1 *Oh my ! oh my 1" said tho pretty rye, 4iI feel bad enough to have a good cry. 1 thought I was meant to be used for food, Ho Aud was plauted and grown to do some good. But now, when I've done my best, just think! I'm converted into a nasty drink. If I had known about this last fall I really don't think I'd have grown at all" A stalk of corn bowe l it3 graceful head sai< And sighed: "I almost wish I were dead I the For the same disgraceful fate, I fear, cor Awaits my everyripeniug ear. 801, :Tis a burning shame to use us so. j. Aud force us for such a base purpose to f grow." km 113U u A murmur arose on the summer air, t]ie A murmur of sorrow and grief, and de- . . spair, J Among t';e hop-vine3 ss thay trembled, lr0 with fear: alo For they knew they were doomed to make ma alo ani beer; And they mourned that in all thiir beauty .. and pride They must be on the brewers' ani drunk- 4 ards' side. ma Then the grape-vines and apple-trees looked around, ^ W drc And shook from their topmost'leaves to the Ma ground rin As the farmer talked of the cider and wine prj He should make in the fall from each tree nnd vine. . z, Soi Let us pray and work for the h&ppy day coa When temperance folks can have their way jn{. All through our lanrl, from east to west ? (For temperance folks know what is be3t); P And by the time that we are all grown ?ier 'Twill be the best country that eyer was poc known. per ? Youth's Temperance Banner. How the Leak Was Mended. Uncle Timothy looked up from the i shoe whose sole he was vigorously ham- Sm mering, as he heard some one say: ?.an 'Uncle Timothy!" "Why, bless you, John, ef I'm not glad the to see you, man alive!" exclaimed Unclc anc Timothy, jumping up so suddenly that ^e. his last went one way, taking the shoe with it, his hammer went another, while thii his spectaclcs fell into the water pail | of close by. the There stood Uncle Timothy, grasping the arm of his favorite nephew, John, as jja{; :e as if it were a pump-handle, and the day hai ^ being hot, and Uncle Timothy being dry, ro the pump-handle was worked with emie Phasis. fish s? "Set down, John, nnd tell U3 how the vid ro folks are," said Uncle Timothy. "You tin; 13 have come to make me a visit, and have nio time enough to tell me all I want to ^ 13 know." wh " John was telling about "the folks," the ? when Uncle Timothy said: ?_f "What's that? Thunder, I do believe, ^ i rollin' down old Bear Mountain! We en(; d shall catch a rain now. There it is com- dip It in' down the mountain." the "Come it did, furiously. Soon the ie water began to drip from the ceiling. the a "Uncle Timothy, your roof is leak ng.'' bos ly "I know it, John; I know it. I will 1 a put the pail under that'ere." le "Why don't you havo the roof ^. mended?" 'Well, John, carpcnters, you know, do dia charge so! La! john, they'd make a in 1 forenoon's work of it stoppin' up that j 'ere hole, nnd I don't seem to have the gg^ extra chink. Fact is, John, it costs and suthin' to live in this world, and it keeps tori a fellow poundin' all the time." Here Uncle Timothy took up his work jQ and began to ring out a series of re- 0id .* sponses to thunder rolling at nine-pins tim ie overhead. In the course of his visit se7 re John noticed that every forenoon Uncle ^ Timothy would leave his shop, step m0! Across the yard to his house, bring out kce an immense yellow mug, and passing to ?im ^ a snloon in the neighborhood, bring home a mug full of beer. jg ^ "Ah!" thought John. "I see how it clet as , is that the roof is not mended." a D "Uncle Timothy," said John, after breakfast, "could I uorrow tnat mug i eari see in the closet:" ? "Oh! sartin, sartin.'' ftft< Uncle Timothy was not going to his I e' shop very early that day, and John PjC( Cl knew it, business at another part of the per ^ town calling him away. When he re- are 8' turned it was about 11 o'clock, aud li? to beer-gnawing visited him. j^c 3t 4lWhere is my mug?" said Uncle the r* Timothy, go'Dg to the closet. "Oh! s.u r,; John hai it. Well, I guess I'll let my Ne beer go this forenoon." The rain was dripping when he passed cov ^ from his house to the shop. John was sea . standing by the door. be at ? J nf i , '-A wet day, nephew," said Uncle u*t Timothy, "and there is not much hope qu" ^ given by the clouds." iuc Here ha looked up, and there on the dri shop roof, covering the leak, he saw his old yellow beer-mug! For a minute m(J( 13 Lucie J imoiuy gazeu. m silence. iiu-a nni >d he broke out: rcc ip "Thank ye, John; I'll take the hint." scr id It was tlie last day Uncle Timothy ^ ig owned a beer-mug. It was the last day tha that roof leaked, for it wa> soon mended is i with the beer money saved. eve :k ser A Trophy ol' Victory. ? r" One of the most treasured possessions Cen i13 of the late John B. Gough, was a small ide handkerchief, apparently worthless, but ^ made prccious by its touching story: It had been brought to him by a poor ma m woman, with words of the deepest grat- of! " itude. She had married with every ^* prospect of happiness, but her husband ? * }n gave way to drink, and misery and por- bo: re erty came upon them. One night she cen iS sat in their wretched and bare room, her *a'_ 1<; babe upon her knee, its father lying in a re drunken sleep on the floor. To hush the ^ restless child, she sang "The light of d* other days has faded," wetting her handkerchief with bitter tears. c Then her husband met Mr. Gough, jn, it listened to his kind words, summed up lan d his better resolution, and soon vice and tov T. mi>cry were changed into happiness and ml )fl comfort. The grateful wife took to their a- benefactor the very handkerchief which Voi e- she had once wet with her tears, saying at ?9 that he had wiped away those tears from *?] her eyes, she hoped forever. "These are tho trophies," said Mr. . k Gough, "that make men glad." For to? 'k this was a trophy of the noblest victory in that man can win?the victory over ?.? ., J o c evil, i "V "SARDINES." ~ thfil [E AMERICAN IMITATION OF odd A FRENCH DELICACY. P ?81 if the1 strike w Herrings Are Caught Along wbicl the Maine Coast and Turned perpc Into Sardines by Means up tb of a Patent Sauce. upon usuall 'It is a fact that can't be denied," 3 a New York wholesale grocer, "that busy! re are very few imported sardines, and ten ^ isequcntly very few sardines at all, war<3( I in the United States nowadays, and one consumer in a thousand does not for m, jw the difference, so nearly do the 0ther t that are sold for sardines approach rjc}j 0 genuine both in appearancc and w1jxC1] te Ninft-tenths of our sardines C03ie i?00 ? m Maine. There are in Eastport piant< ne over twenty places where they distrii nufacture sardines, and there are a ~jjC m :en others at Jonesport, Lubec, and japani ler towns. treate 'The herring of which sardines are de are never over four inches long, quj. "q i the catching of the fish keeps hun- jace e, ids of people busy along the coasts of ine and New Brunswick. The her- T^ere ergo in shoals like mackerel, and the co cc3 received for them is governed en- 0|^ tl| }ly by the condition of the fisheries. monei netimes the fish swarm along the jq-ew * ,sts, and hauls are made with unvary- utni2t : success. Then the fisherman can ex- reC0V( :t no more than $ 5 a hogshead for his same , ring. Again, his net may be but eXperj >rly patronized, and he has his rccom- f rom j ise in a higher price, frequently ob- sj ling $15 and $20 a hogshead. These prices are generally obtained early the spring. jt. L herring fishery is a simple thing. . all trftpnor brush are thrust into the dy bottom of the sea, arranged in a I l#ef?a ; running out probably one hundred ~jje t or more and then curving back to shore again. This is called a trap, i J 81 I inside of it a huge net is set. When ~?ore tide is going out the net is raised, ttl0US! I the fish that comes up with it are en out with scoop nets. Sometimes r i catch will be so large that the weight 13 the fish will break the bottom out of ^oult! big net, and the great heap of fish ^00tl 1 nearly all escape. Then, again, the a icrmen are able to carry in a bushel an^ ?! \ all the herring that are caught in a an7 ? il. Herring, like mackerel, will fol- P0!0! r a light on the water, and some fish- n0j len take advantage of this to fish for , ? m in a peculiar way. Two or three {r'.^r icrmen go in a boat. They are proed with torches made of cotton bat- m,erJ g; saturated with kerosene. Dark armecl hts are chosen, and the boats nro red along the shores, with a torch in 4 bow of each boat. It is soon known de^ec1 en a school of herring is reached, for 07er?( fish dash frantically after the wake capcl1. light made by the torch, and make water seethe and boil in their rush. e fishermen have short poles, on one I1?, I of which is a small scoop net. They f 7^ i the herring out of the water with ? e se as fast as the nets can be handled, of .a n L so intent are the fish on the light ex.18' ,t the net docs not disturb them in ?nme least. In this way boat load after ln^'J it load of future sardines are captured PresUl ? eVinrt tim* ameDI 'The way these herring are handled jnto c the factories is a sight well worth ng all the way to Maine to see. After ng captured the fish are taken immc- ?. tely to the factories. They are laid leaps on long tables. I have heard le of the native fishermen around here 1 ' z about their skill in skinning a cut.. If they could see some of the boys | i girls who work in these sardine fac- ?.115 ies clean these, herring they would er mention skinning a catfish again. ?1 5 fish are cleaned as soon as they come "rally I stood and watched a seven-year- 8i? girl go through the operation and L?est. ed her. She beheaded and gutted Pnnci enty-tive herring every minute for ten evclT mtes without a miss or a halt, and 8trclJ y told me that there were hundreds ?ni, re that could do the same thing and p it up all day. The dexterity is ! ply marvellous. The head of the fish ?n<rh ut off and the entrails are removed . h one stroke of the knife, but how it . v T nm nr>f oVllo trt KAV fish I LL/ilO x aut uvv uk/?v vw vwj. ?? iner has a box at his feet which holds ict ushel, and a constant stream of fish is ; ~eca,r ing from his hands into that box. j sry time it is filled the boy or girl has j 2,.?.'T ned ten cents. j. 'The herring arc thoroughly washed ' ;r being cleaned, and are then placcd ma(je )ickle for an hour. Taken from the janu>s' kle. they are laid on trays and placed ^at j i drying room heated to a high tem- phj]a, ature by steam. When dry "the fish 0fthe boiled in large shallow pans filled tjia h oil, the fish being thoroughly cooked nette(j :he oil. Girls and women then pack tjjree herring in the tin boxes in which y are placed in the market. The ce discovered by the enterprising ? w Yorker, which is a patented article, 1 poured into the boxes, which are cure35 ided over to men who solder on the eans TV> r/imnvn thp air which is ?. ?,r0 led in with the fish, and which must lutlc ' taken out to insure the preservation 8?me,, the sardines, the boxes are placed in struck ink of boiling water for half an hour. th?Ou; being removed they are placed on an e*tr"c lined plane. The air inside is then was ven to one corner; a workman punc- 80meJ as that corner with an awl; the hot JV1 escapes, and the awl hole is im- ?n diately covered with a drop of solder, ??.rjc 1 the box is air tight. The box then clulcl* eives its French label, bearing the in- ce? ,l! iption, a l'huillo d'olive." The 'huil e j live' is made from cotton seed in South ?D. ' J olina, and i?n't the best quality of ,t either, not by a good deal. There f'P an i class of these Maine sardine?, how- |en m r, known as prime, which are pre- au ved in the best cotion-sced oil. ?vcr' 'New York is the great wholesale ~C01 ter for these Yankee sardines. Some *rani a of the magnitude of the business y be obtained when I tell you that one tory alone in Lubec, and there arc Her prs that are doins as bis a business, cool v de nnd sold ncariv two million boxes large :ardines last year, to say nothing of half a trout and other brands of trans- any k med herring. The manufacturers or mater :kers make a clear profit of six cents a the ja c, the factory price being about eleven a win its a box. These same sardines are re- tion o led every day for forty cents a box, sorb c 1 you will pay half a dollar for a box jug p ou order sardines at your restaurant in with w York."?New York Sun. heavy ... . shady Some Customs of Canterbury. iome curious old customs still prevail tors, Canterbury, says a letter from Eng- every d to the 1'ictiyunc. For instance, the erier, a fine-looking old fellow in a litary coat all gold braid and lace, a Th< ;kcd hut, crusted with gilt and braid; days >ompous manner, a sing-song, ringing kind [ce, trudging down the streets bawling motiv the top of his voice 4'Oycz! oyez!" and cente lowing his oyezing up with a rigma- mont' e of announcements of auction sales, numb irt sittings and cases to come up and Main* lat not. And then last night, as I fives, scd in my feather bed, I heard a bell sters i 1 for 12 o'clock and the watchman few j ing down the street calling: ' lTwelvc as spi :lock; all's well." by th * ' ' - . Wealth In Waste. teculiar class of book hunters haunt rge junk shops in search of rare or books and the popular monthly sines. These genteel chilonieresf, T may be called such, occasionally valuable finds in old literaturer l costs them at the rate of 6 cents >und. Another class of buyers look e monthly parts of magazines, and completing the set dispose of them, y to the Cornhill second-hand stores. These buyers often tackle of old paper stuff that keeps them 'or a week or longer, and it is ofic case that their labir is unreid. The law of compensation seems a factor in the old junk business, any people get a good living from people's waste, and some even get ut of it. Even the old tin cans, i were formerly condemned as useind millions of which have been ;d in the creation of the Back bay ct of Boston, are now utilized, and etal sheet made from them can be ' ned, or tinned, or galvanized, or d in any way that the material. from tha original ore is treated. f the iron are made buttons, shoeids, show cards, telephones, electric and letter boxes, small ware, etc. are parties in Boston who make llection of old tin, tin cuttings and a cans a regular business, and make r out of it. The material is sent to Fork, where it is utilized. So the ition of tin-plate cuttings and the ;ry of the tin has grown out of the channel of scientific thought and iment that long ago took the raga the dunghill and converted them heets of paper.?Boston Herald. The Right to Shoot. 5 an ordinary affair in country life farmer to discharge a shotgun at .sscrs, and he seems to be unaware fact that he can bo convicted of r in case the shot proves fataL ame impression, although m a less o, prevails in the city. There are mas of shopkeepers who would not ie to shoot a person caught robbing till, and as for a housebreaker, there .rcely one man in a million who I cot think liimseu jusunea in ng down the scoundrel at sight, little reflection should conrince ae that he has no right to shoot in f the above cases. The law on this is sufficiently explicit. You are > shoot unless in peril of your life, ot then unless there is no chance of You may shoot a burglar or a rayman because you have a right to that the burglar or highwayman is [ and will snoot you, and because annot escape. But you hare no to shoot the thief whom you may ; in leaving your hall with your )at, nor the pickpocket whom you with his hand in your pocket. The pie upon which the law is founded ious. You have a moral and legal ' to defend your life or the life of a '-being, but you have no right to ?judge and executioner in the case lisdemeanor or felony. The courts for the purpose of punishing the s of housebreaking, felony, thievand fruit-stealing, and when you me to punish them you are rightly ible to the law. If it were not for * such provision, society would fall haos.?Philadelphia Call. The "Chestnut." ; writer of "One Thing and An? " in the Detroit Free Press, eays: ; received a number of letters about hing I wrote the other week on mts. One correspondent says that >e of the word "chestnut" as desigj an old joke is by no means new. nan is from Philadelphia and natclaipis the invention for his town, ysthat at one time, years ago, the nut Street Theatre was occupied pally by minstrel companies, aud Dne knows the stalencss of the minoke. So the phrase rose, when a old an old story, instead of saying, it to the marines," they said, "Telt in the Chestnut Street Theatre," i last the phrase became abbreviated single word "chestnut." A Bufrriter says that twenty years ago a ikeeper in that town had a bell i he used to ring when the boys le too noisy, and that this was n as the chestnut gong. A Newman writes that in the play, "The io8e?," in which Irving takes a leadirt, there is a character who tells er to ring the bell when a pun.is "The Two Hoses" is a play by i Albery. I see in the newspapers larry Wright, the baseball man of Jelphia, claims to be the inventor chestnut bell. He got Reach & Co., t town, to make them, and the firm I $2.3,000 from them during the first months of their tinkling existence. The Woolen Smoke Cure. nuch interest is expressed in the of felons, bruises, etc., effected by i of woolen smoke, that we give ord of a fresh case. Recently a child of five years old fell from high place upon his face, and threa upper teeth entirely !jh the upper lip. They had to b3 :tcd, but the agony of the wound jarful. His mother left him in one's care and went to do her ng on Monday. She was told of loke cure,and when she went back >nday evening applied it to the She took the precaution to put a fho jnvprtr*d flower pUU I 11C UWIV, AAA lat she might regulate the smoke, guarding his noise and mouth from ng it, applied it to the wounded d the violently concussed jaw. In inutcs the pain was much relieved, hour the child sc-emed as well as except that the mouth was sore, and lid only drink, not eat.?Boston crijit. How to Cool Water. e is a suggestion for keeping water without the use of ice: Procure a jug and cover it to a thickness of n inch with one or more layers of irid of coarse cloth, carpet or other ial. When filling the jug saturate cket with water. Keep the jug ia dy, sh::dy place, and the evaporaf the water iu the jacket will ab;nough heat to keep the water in the i?A tin nail, fitted LCOStttlllJ vwvi. .... ^ f a very line wire gauze lid and a saturated jacket, set in a raised, window-, furnishes a far better to keep milk pure and sweet than :cnths of the household refrigerawbich usually contain a little ol thing else but sweetuees* Modern Locomotives. 3 iron horse is so common nowathilt few note how rapidly his increases. There are 1,100 loco es operated by Massachusetts lines ring in Boston, and scarcely a h passes without an addition to the icr. The Albany and the Boston & i possess not far from 500 locomoThc latest locomotives are moncomparcd with those built only a ears ago, increased power as w> ll ;ed being the combination sought ,3 builders.? Boston Transcript,