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ffimiim SffllOli. THE BATTLE CRY. Text: "Let God arise: let His enemies ba caueroa."?rsaim, ixvui., l. A procession was formed to carry the ark or sacred box, which, though only three feet nine inches in lengtb, and two feet three inches in breadth and depth, was the symbol of God's presonce. As the leaders of the procession lifted this ornamented and brilliant box by two golden poles run through four golden rings and started for Mount 2ion, all the people chanted the battle hymn of my text: '-Let God arise; let His enemies be scattered." The Cameroni&ns of Scotland, outraged by James the First, who forced upon them religious forms that were offensive and by the terrible persecution of Di-ummond.Da ziel and Turner, and by the oppressive laws of Charles the Fit st and Char.es the Second, were driven to proclaim war against tyrants, and went forth to tight for religious liberty, and the purpl - mountain of the heathen became red with carnage, and at Bothwell bridge and Aird's Moss and Drumclog the battle hymn and the battle shout of th )se glorious old Scotchmen was the text I have chosen; "Let Gcd arise, let His enemies be scattered." What a whirlwind of power was Oliver Cromwell, and how with his followers,called the "Ironsides,"' he went from victory to victory! Opposing armies melted as he looked at them. He dismissed Parliament as easily as a schoalmaster a school. He pointed his finger at Berkeley Castle and it was ta' en. He ordered Lord Hopton, the Ronopnl to dismount. and hp dismounted. See Cromwell marching on with his array, and hear the battle cry of "the Ironsides" loud as a storm and solemn as a death knell, standards reeling before it and cavalry horses going back on their haunches and armies flying at Marston Moor, at Wiuceby field, at Nastby, at Bridgewater and Dartmouth. "Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered!" So you see my text is not like a complimentary and tasst-led sword that you sometimes see hung up in a parlor, a sword that was never in battle ana only to be used on general training day, but more like some weapon carefully hung up in vour home, telling the story of Chapul tepee, Cerro Gordo and Cherubusco and Thatcher's Run and Malvern Hill; for my text hangs in the Scripture armory,telling of the holy wars of three thousand years in which it has been carried, but as keeu and mighty as wh:n David first unsheathed it. It seems to me what in the church of U od and in all styles of reformatory work we most need now is a battle cry. Vie raise our little standard and put on it the name of some man, who only a few yeart ago began to live and in a few years will cease to live. We go into contest against the armies of iniquity depending too much on human agencies. We use for a battle cry the name of some brave Christian reformer, but after a while that reformer dies or gets old or lose? his courage and then we take another battle cry, and this time perhaps we put on the name of some one who plays Arnold and sells out to the enemy. What we want for a lattle cry is the name of some leader who will never betray us and will never lurrender and will never die. All . espect have I for brave men aud women, but if we are going to get the victory all along the line we must put God first. We must take the hint of theGideonites who wiped out the Bedouin Arab-, commonly called Midionitcs. These Gideonites had a florious leader in Gideon, but what was the attl9 cry with which they flung their enemies into the worst defeat into which any army was every tumbled/ It was "thesword of the Lord and of Gideon." Put God first whoever you put second. If the army of the American revolution are t) free America, it must be "the sword of the Lord and of Washington." If the Germans want to win the day at fc'edau, it must be "the sword of the Lord and Von Moltke." Waterloo was won for the English because not only the armed men at the front, but the worshippers in the Cathedrals at the rear were <ryiug: "The sword of the Lord and Wellington." The Methodists have gone in triuaipn across nation after nation with the cry: "The sword of the Lord and of Wesley.,: The Presbyterians have gone from victory to victory with the cry: "The sword of the Lord and of John Knox. The Baptists have conquered millions after millions fur Christ with the cry: "The sword of the Lord and of Judson."' The American Episcopalians have won their mighty way with the cry: "The sword of the Lord and of Bishop Mcllvaine." The'vi.tory is to those who put God first But as we want a battle cry suited to all sects of religionists and to all laud?, I nominate as the battle cry of Christendom in the approaching Armageddon the words of my text, soundei before the ark as it was carried to Mount Zion: "Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered." As far as our finite mind can judge it seems about t me for God to rise. Does itnot seem to you that the abominations of this earth Viaa-a rnnn far enoue-h? Was there ever n. time v hen sin was so defiant.' Were there ever before so many fists lift*! toward God, telling Him to come on if He dare! Look at the blasphemy abroad? What towering profanities. Would it be possible for any one to calculate the numbers of times that the na v.e of Almighty God and of Jesus Christ are every day taken irreverently on the lira i So common has blasphemy become that the public mind and public ear have got used to it, and a blasphemer goes up and down this country in his lectures defying the plain law against blasphemy, and there is not a Mayor in America that has backbone nough to interfere with him save one, and that the Major of Toronto. Profane swearing is as much forbidden by the law as theft or arson or murder, yet who executes it? Profanity is worse than theft or arson or murder, for these crimes are attacks on humanity?that is an atta.k on God. This* country is pre-eminent for blaspheming. A man traveling in Russia was supposed to be a clergyman. "Why do you take me to be a clergyman!" said the man. "Oh," said the Russian, "all other Americans wear." The crime is multiplying in inten ity. God very often shows what Ho thinks of it, but for the most part the fatality is hushed up. A few summers a^o amoug the Adirondacks I met the funaral procession of ? man who, two days before, had fallen under a flash of lightning while boasting after a OUUUH) ui wort iu tuo ueius, uiai, 110 uuu cheated God out of one day anyhow, and the man who worked with him on the same Sabbath is still living, but a helpless invalid under the same flash. On the road from Marfate to Ramsgate, Englaud, you may nd a rough monument with th> inscription: "A boy was struck d.?ad here whilo in the act of swearing." Years ago in a Pitt burg prison two men were talking about tbe Bib'.e and Christianity, aud one of them, Thompson by name, applied to Jems Christ a very low and villainous epithet, and as be was uttering it he fell. A physician was called, but no help could be given. After r-day, lying with distended pupils and palsied tongne, he passed out of this world. In a cemetery in Sullivan county, in thi-i State, are eight headstones in a line and all nliko, and these are the facts: In 1*01 diphtheria raged in the village, au 1 a physician was remarkably successful in curing his patients. So confident did he become that bo boasted that no case of diphtheria could stand bofore him, and finally he delied Almighty God to produce a casa of diphtheria that he could not cure. His youngest child soon aft.*r took the disease and die l, and one child after another until all the eight had died of diphtheria. The blasphemer challenged Almighty God and God accepted the challenge. ?.. t l a tar /* vn nnd irire vou a tact that is proved by sco? es of witnesses. This last August of J 866, a man in Ohio got provoked at the continued drought and the ruin of his crops and in the presence of his neighbors he cursed God, saying that he would cut His heart out if he would come, calling Him a liar and a cowurd aud flashing a knite, and while he was speaking his lower jaw dropped, gmoko issued from mouth and nostrils and the heat of his body was so intense it drove back those who would come near. It was several days before he became sufficiently cool to remove to his room, aud his body has turned into stone. Hundreds of people have visited the scene and saw the blasphemer in awful process of expiring. Do not think that because Gol has been silent in your case, Oh profane swearer, that He is dead. Is there nothing now in the peculiar feeling of your tongue or nothing iu the numbness of your bram that indicates that God may come to avenge your blasphemies or is already avenging them.' But these cases I have noticed I believe are only a few cases where there are hundreds. Families keep them still to avoid the horrible conspicaity. Physicians suppress them through professional confidence. It is a very, very, very long roll that contains the names of those who died with blasphemies on their lips and scill the crime rolls on up through parlors, up through chandeliers with lights all ablaze, and the pictured corriders of club V " " " * i room3 and out through busy exchanges, | where oath m^ets oath, and down through all the haunts of sin, mingliug with the rattling dice and cracking billiard ball and the laughter of her who hath forgotten the covenant of her God, and around the city and arouail the continent and around the earth a seething, boiliug surge dings its hot spray into the face of a long-suffering God. And the ship captain damns his crew, aud the merchant damns his clerks, and tho master-builder damns his raeD, and the hack-driver damns | his horses, and the traveler damn) the stone | that bruises his foot or the mud that soils his shoe or the defective time-piece that gets I him too late to the railway trains I arraign j profane swearing and blasphemy, two names i for the same thing, as being one of thegigan! tic crimes of this land,and for its extirpation it does seem as if it were about time for God to rise. Then look a moment at the evil of drunkenness. Whether you live in Brooklyn, or New York, or Chicago, or Cincinnati, or Savannah, or Boston, or in any of the cities of this land, count up the saloons on that street as compared with the saloons five years ago, and see they are growing far out of proportion to the increase of the population. You people who are so precise and particular lest tnere should be some imprudence or rashness in attacking the rum traffic, will have your son pitched into your front door dead drunk or your daughter will come home with her children because her husband has by strong driuk been turned into a demoniac. The rum fiend has despoiled whole streets of good homes in all our cities. Fathers, brothers, sons on tin funeral pyre of strong drink. Fasten tighter the victims! Stir up the flames! Pile on tne corpses! More men,women and children for the sacrifice! Let us have whole generations on fire of evil habit; and at the sound of the cornet, harp, saekbut, psaltery and dulcimer let all the people fall down and worship King Alcohol, or you shall be cast into the fiery furnace under some political platform! I iudict this evil as the fratricide, the patricide, the matricide, the uxoricide, the regicide of the century. Yet under what innocent and delusive and mirthful names alcoholism deceives tha people! It is a "cordial." It is "bittern" It is an "eye-opener." It is an "appetizer." It is a "digester." It is an "invigorator." It is a "settler." It is a "nightcap." Why don't they put on the richt, IrV?p>1?! ''Plseftnee nf nfirditfon." "Con science stupefier," "Five drachms of heartache/' "Tears of orphanage,' "Blood of souls," "Scabs of aa eternal leprosy," "Venom of the worm that never dies'" Only on ^e in a while is there anything in the title of lhuors to even hint their atrocity as in the case of sour mash, that I see ad vertised all over. It is an honest came and any one can understand it. Sour-mash! That is, it make? a man's disposition sour and his associations sour and his prospects sour; and then it is good to mash his body aud mash his soul and mash his business and mash his family. Sour mash! One honest name at least for an inioocicant. But through lying labels of many of the apothecaries shops good peop'e who are only a little undertone in health, and wanting of some invigoration have unwittingly got on their tongue the fangs of thi3 cobra that stings to death so large a ratio of the human race. Others are ruined by th3 common and alldestructive habit of treating customers. And it is a treat on their coming to town and a treat while the bargaining progresses, and a treat when the purchase is made, and a treat as he leaves town. Others, to drown their troubles, submerge themselves with this worst trouble. Oh, tbe world is battered i ionrl nn/i Klocf 1.^ TlTl'fll fKlfl flPPAWtntf UUIIWVI W* ft* "" 13 evil. I), is more ani more entrenched and fortified. They have millions of dollars subscribed to marshal and advance the alcoholic forces. They nominate and elect and govern the vast majority of the office holders of this country. Ou their side they have enlisted lha mightiest political power of the centuries, and behiua them stand all the myrmidons of the nether world, satauic, aud appollyonic, and diabolic. It is beyond all human effort to throw this l;a-tile of de-anterx or capture this Gibraltar of rum jugs. And while I approve of all human agencies of reform I would utterlj' despair if we had nothing e's3. But what cheers me is that our best troops are yet to come. Our chief artillery is in reserve. Our greatest commander has not yet fully taken the field. If all hell is on their side, all hea%*en is on our side. Now "let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered." Then look at the impurities of these groat cities. Ever aud anon there are in the newspapers explosions of social life that make the story of Sodom quite respectable?for such things, Christ says, were more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah than for the Chorazins and Bethsaidas of greater light It is no unnsual thing in our cities to see men in high positions with two or three families, or refine:! ladies willing solemnly to marry the very swine of society if they be wealthy. Brooklyn, whose streets fifteen years ago were almost free from all sign of the social evil, now night by night rivaling upper Broadway in its flamboyant wickodne is. The Bible aflame with denunciation against an impure life, but threefourths of the American ministry uttering not one point-blauk word against this iniquity, lest some old libertine throw up his church pew. Machinery organized in all the citie3 of the United States and Canada by which to Dut yearly in tha grinding mill of this iniquity thousand* of tha unsuspecting of the country farm house3, one procuress confessing last week in the courts that she had supplied tha infernal market with 150 souls in six months. Oh for five hundred Pull Mall Gazettes in America to swing open the door of this lazar-house of social corruption! Exposure must come before extirpation. While the city van carries the scum of this sin from the prison to the police courts morning by morning, it is full time, if we do not want high American life to become like that of the court Louis XV,to put tha millionaire Lotharios and the Pompadours of your brown stoue palaces into a van of popular indignation and drive thorn out of respectable associations. What prospect of social purification can there ba a* loug as at summer watering places it is usual to see a young woman of excellent rearing stand and simper and giggle and roll up her eye3 sideways before ons of those first-class satyrs of fashionible life and on the ball-room floor join him in tha square dan^e, the maternal chaperon meanwhile beaming fro u the wall on the scene. Mat .-has are made in heaven, thoy say. Not su?h matches, for the brimstone indicates the opposite region. The evil is overshadowing all our cities. By some these immorals are peccadiloes, gallantries, eccentricities, and are relegated to the realm of jocularity, and few efforts are being made against it. God ble;s the ''White Cross" movement, as it is called, the excellent and ta'ented Miss Frances Willard, its ablest advocate on this side of the sea, an organization making a mighty assault on this evil. God forward the tracts on this subject distributed by the religious tract societies of the world God help parents in the great work they are doing in trying to start their children with pure principles; God help all legislators in their attempt to inhibit this crime. But is this all? Then it is only a question of time when the last vestige of purity and homo will vamsh out or si gat. numan arms, human pens, human voices, human talents are not sufficient. I begin to look up, I listen for artillery rumbling down the sapphire of tiuo oouievaras or neaven. x watctt to see it in the morning light thore be not the flash of | descending scimetars. Oh for God! Do?s it not seim time for his appearanco? Is it not time for all lands to cry out: "Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered!" I got a letter a few days ago asking me if I did not think that tlis earthipiarke in Charleston was the divine chastisement on | that city for its sins. That letter I auswer now br saying that if all our American cities got all the punishment they deserve for their horrible impurities, the earth would long ago have cracked open into crevices transcontinental and taken down all our cities, and Brooklyn and New York would have gone so far under that the tips of our church spiros would be five hundred feet bolow thesurfa-o. It is of the Lord's mercies that we have not been consumeiL Not only are the aflfairs of this world so a-twist and a-jangle that thero seems a no?d I of the Divine appearance,but there is auother ! reason. Have you not notice:! that in the ! historv of this plauet God turns a leaf about every two thousand years. G <1 turned a leaf and this world was iitted for human resideir-e. About two thousand more years passel along and God turned another leaf and it was the Deluge. About two thousand more years passed on aud it was the appearance of Christ. ! Almost two thousand more years have passed by and He will probably sorrn turn another ! leaf. What it shall be I cannot say. It may be the demolition of all those monstrosities | of turpitude and the establishment of j right-ionsnes3 in all the earth. He oaa do it and He will do it. I am as confident a? if it j were already accomplished. How easily he can do it my text sugge its. It doss not ask God to strike with his right hand or stamp with his foot, or hurl a thunderbolt of hi* ' power, but just to Bret up from the throne on which he sits. Oaly that will be ne.-e33ary. "Let God arise!'' It will bs m exertion of omnipotence. It will be no bending or bracing for a mighty lift It will be no sending down the sky of the white horse cavalry of heaven or rumbling war-chariots. He will only rise. Now He is sitting in the majesty and power of His reign. He is, from His throne, wat-jhing the mustering of all the force3of blasphemy, and drunkenness, and impurity and fraud, and Sabbath-breakicg, ana when they have done their worst and are most securely orgauized, He will bestir himself and say: "My enemies have defied me Ion? enough, and their cup of iniquity is full. I have given them all opportunity for repentance. This dispensation of patience is ended and the faith of the good shall be trie ! no loazer." And now God begins to rise, and what mountains give way uiiuer ms i i^uu luutauu what continents sink under hi.s left foot I Know not, but standing in the fullheight and radiance and grandeur of His nature, He looks this way and that, and how His enemies are scattered! Blasphemers, white and dumb, resl down to their doom, and those who have trafficked in that which destroyed the bodies and souls of men and families will fly with cut foot on the down grade of broken decanters, and the polluters of society thr ,t did their bad work with large fortunes and high social sphere will overtake in their desceut tha degraded rabble of underground city life as they tumble over the eternal precipices, and t!ie world shall ba left clear and clean for the friends of humanity and the worshippers of Almighty God. The last thorn plucked off, the world will be left a blooming rose on the bosom of that Christ who came to gardenize it This earth that stood snarling with its tigerish passion and thrusting out its raging claws shall lie down a lamb nt the feet of the Lamb of God who took away the sins of thj world. And now the best thing I can wish for you and the best thing I can wish for myself is, that we uiay be found His warm and undisguised and enthusiastic friends in that hour when God shall rise and His enemies shall be icattered. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. At Reading, Penn., a stalk of corn, bearing thirteen "well developed ears, was recently exhibited. Music 1ms been found to exert a very perceptible effect upon the respiration and circulation of animals as well as of human subjects. A Fresno (Cal.) horticulturist recently picked 1,149 pounds of apricots from a single tree, grown on land that five years ago was a desert. In California, snakes destroy gophers and ground squirrels, and the local papers express the opinion that some varic- | ties of snakos ought to be protected by law. It was once ct:s!omary in England for a person going abroad "to put out" n certain sum of money on condition of receiving good interest for it on his return home; if he never returned the deposit was forfeited. Fox Hunting: in England. Not'ces of the hunt are always published in the newspapers, and if one is staying at a country house, information I is gi\cn more definitely. When ways! and manners in any piacc are novel, an sorts of trifles bccomc interesting, and I can recall a feeling of intense interest on discovering in my room at Manor a little card on which was printed the time and place of the next meet. Such cards of notification arc sent about to every one of consequence, or any one who is likely to wish to ride. Every one who intends to ride must appcarkearly at the breakfast table, and the scene is a most interesting one; the pink coats are a charming variety, and make many ordinary-looking people picturesque for the time being. Only those whose station warrants them can wear pink; occasionally a well-to do farmer may be seen thus arrayed, but in every case there i9 a ta* of several pound? a year for I wearing it; besides this there are fees to I Irs.nnara onfl +llA nnd if finV TTIflTl'S country is too well ridden over, that is to say, if a farmer's crops suffer, it i3 always customary to make up a purse for him. Now aud then some one rebels against his ground being used,and as the laws of the hunting field arc entirely unwritten ones, it is difficult to decide io such a matter; but the voice of the people is always loud against anything which interferes with the fox. I knew of one case where the animal was hunted across a lawn and garden beds, and killed almost at the door of a rectory. The rector was not a hunting man himself, but it never occurred to him to object to this intrusion. Not only does the interest taken in the sport affect the result*, but the country itself makes a great difference.?Ilarptr'x Magazine. General McClellan's Charger. When General McClellan took command of the Union army in West Virginia, some of the gentlemen with whom lie ha I been connected on the Illinois Central ltailroad presented him with a very line charger, nntned "Dan Webster." Ho was dappled mahoganybay in color, with three white feet, and a star, a very heavy black inane and a long tail, sixteen hands high and weighing 1/286 pounds. He was of Sir Archy and Messenger blood, with an intelligent he.id, beautifully arched neck, muscular shoulders, a deep broad chest, and every point about him remarkable for strength and beauty. As a ] arade horse he had few equals, carrying his head as high a9 his rider's when mounted, and his throat latch and the tips of his forefoot almost on a perpendicular wh(n in re pOS6. Uli possesseu suiiju cunuus tuaiacteristics. For instaucc, lie would not stamp his feet or shake oH a fly, if there were a thousand on him, if his master were on his back reviewing a passing column. To his own species he paid no attention, passing among them without deigning them the slightest notice, even when turned loose in the same yard or field. He would stand anywhere lie wa9 left without constraint, and "tha boys" used to say that "JIandsome Dan" was as orave as a lion and as discreet as a jU(iS- ? Good Qualities of the Oyster. "It is all nonsense about a steady diet on oysters being in jurious to the system," said a wealthy Thirty-fourth street physician to a reporter the other day. "Many persons think so, however. It may be true that oysters do not produce the most plea ant results when cooked in a rich style and eaten just before going to bed. "When taken with wine late at night, of course, if there is any bad effect the next day the oysters arc blamed for it. Oysters have excellent medicinal qualities, are nutritious, and when plainly COOKta or CUlun raw mu >CIJ wholesome, especially so in c ases of indigestion, and that is something that can not be said of any other alimentary substance. During my experience I havo found in several cases where oysters have been taken daily they have done much toward curing the patient. Invalids have discovered in oysters the required aliment, besides being by far the most agreeable food to take. l?aw oysters, too, arc said to be good for hoarseness, although I have never tested their merits on that point. It is my belief that the oyster is the most healthful article of food known to man."?Jfiaio 1'ork Mail j and Express. | RELIGIOUS"READIN6. Hidden Sweetncm. We need no special graca to see The sweetness that around lies In homes where happy children be, In birds and brooks and summer skies; Even where sorrow folds her wings In dumb persistence by our hearth, Still we can feel whut blesstd things Make beautiful I ho earth, And thrill responsive to the sense Of every lovely influence. But ah! how faintly we are stirred By things divine, whose voices seem As ineffectually heard As voices in a dream! We praise Thee with our lip', and yet The while we cry, "How sweet Thou art I" It is as though a seal were set Upon our eyes and heart The sweetness that we might possess We see not, and we feel still less. Tnrrl imfn wlinm niir fin 1 desires Are known, and every hindering sin, Kindle auew the fervont fires That ought to glow our souls within; The sjrrow ful days are here tigain When Thou were in the lonesome wild. In prayer, in fasting, and in pain tor us unreconci'ed. Gives us now, O Christ, to see How wholly sweet Thy love can be. Mary Bradley. Tilt Great < nitle Book. The tourist in a foreign country findc a guide book well nigh indispensable. It must be written in a language he can understand, and the directions given in it must be plain and specific. If besides this it contains maps of the particular routes, with descriptions of various places and lriendly cautions as to the impositions that may be practiced upon an unwary traveller, it will be still morj valuable. The Bible is the great guide-book. In it the highway of holiness is so plainly marked out that assurance is given U3 that "the wayfaring man, though a fool, A. ii !_ II -*r it suuii not en: luureiu. juuuy ~~wunviij i wise men" claim abundant competeDCy to be the leaders of o:hers, and insist 011 our taking their morality or their philosophy as a substitute for Bible-teaching. But God's book aloni dispels our ignorance about man's duty and destiny, and gives us the clew by which to make our way through labyrinthine mazes of error to the land of perfec, light. As the pilgrim to 2!ion is pursuing his way thither he feels "he need of guidance in things temporal as well as things eternal, and the sacred pages abound in proverbs and in precepts and in incidents and examples which are just suited to his needs in all secular affairs. Rulers and subjects, buyers and sellers, parents and children, teachers and taught, are all amply as well as particularly instructed. There is not a foot of the way where one need go amiss. The Christian religion is not a mere Sundn, religion, and so the Christian's Bible is not a mere Sunday book, but a book adapted to every day of the week. Make it the man of your counsel, then, in the everyday CTUUIO Ul lUVi kJUlib VII UV JWUMVJj dertake no business, enter on no relationship, begin no day, end no day in any manner contrary to the revealed will of God. But tlio greatest mountains to be climbed and the deepest and darkust valleys to be threaded as we pass through the world are the moral crises we have to meet, the terrible temptations, the conflicts with the devil and his seed and with our own souls. Here the great guide book, if we will only give heed to it, will assist us to the full. There is no unforeseen emergency for which it has not provided aid, no poison for which it has not an ant'dotc, no darkness or shadow of death on which it cannot cast lights. Hence the wisdom and necessity of obeying the apostolic injunction, "Let the word of Chi ist dwell in you richly in all wisdom." Read j our Bible regularly and prayerfulNr ?msl tlirniirrh nnfl vnn will be astonished at the amount and variety of practical religious knowledge you will have acquired. When you have read it through once read it through again aud again, and so continue to do through your lifetime. At the same time read those sckct Scriptures which you have found most helpful to you over and over again with ever-growing faith. With every new look into your wellworn guide-book your path will be more brightly illumined and your steps firmer the higher you mount up the hill of God. I hear many mourning their lack of opportunities for education. Be it remembered, any and every one that can reud the Bible has within his reach the means for the best education, yes, the very best. The Bible read in the manner above recommended will furnish and polish the mind as no other book can, as all other books indeed will fail to do; nnd while it enlarges and improves the intellect, it will at the same lime enlarge and improve the heart. A Christian physician of my acquaintnnpp. 011 account of the demands of his profession, finds his opportunities for attending public worship much less frequent than he could desire; but he carries his New Testament iu his pocket just as regularly as he carries his case of medicines, and whenever opportunity offers lie does not fail to consult its pages. Thus lie holds on his way as one of Zion's pilgrims and grows stronger and stronger. Very different from the views of this pious physician are those of a ccrtain young man who said to me not long siiice, referring to his Bible, "I never have t.imc to read it." He could find plenty of time for foolish talking and jesting, but noni for talking with God. Do you treat your Bible and your God thus??Dr. Comalin in Madagatcar. If I, a saved, risen man, do the works of flesh, if I obey sin, I shall not escape the effects of my eviL doings; but my security is, that God has promised that sin shall not have dominion over mc, and he will make good his word, if not by glad consent 011 my part, then by sorrowful constraint. He will chasten mc and bring me back. When I put myself under the dominion of chastisement. This is God's method when his children depart from him?lie "will visit their iniquity with a rod, and their sin with scourges." God has said sin shall not. have dominion over me. He will rescue mc, tear me nwa} from it, though it be by the rending on the heart's fibres. The separation mnst 1 be accomplished. Happy for us when | wo voluntarily, nay gladly, acquiesce in j it. AUr.nf 1.1 nr>n v.ponle attended the ! ! 1 jovies of temperance camp-meetings just closcd in Missouri. Ex-Govcrnor St. . John, George W. J.ain, Sum Jones, and \ Mrs. Clara Hoffman were among the J speakers. A Michigan man, drunk, shot another j man and was put on trial. The Michigan | court held that the accused was too [ drunk at the time of the shooting to have any criminal intent, and the prisoner was discharged. ODD SALUTATIONS. EXCHANGE OP COURTESIES IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. Customs of the Greenlander?Japanese and Chinamen?Removing Articles of Dress?The Kiss and Its History. The Europeans, says a London paper, uncover their head3 and bend the body be fore a superior, but a Greenlander would laugh at this. The climate of their country no doubt deters them from performing the first part of our salutation, but wliy they should laugh at the latter part is quite a mystery. The islanders in the eastern seas, again, take the hand or the foot of a stranger and rub their face with :t in token of respect. The Laplander has a still more curious, and, to our mind, almost ridiculous method of salutation?viz., that of rubbing noses. There i* a custom prevalent among tho inhabitants of New Guinea which Kaf aVavis of mnnr onSpifa Wo rftfor U(, LU UUJ UI^U OblUllg TV v ? VAV4 to the salutation which is performed by placing leaves and boughs on the head of the persons saluted as symbols of peace and friendship. In one of the islands of the archipelago the natives saluted an old Dutch traveler in the following way: They took his left leg, pisied it over the right one and thence over his face. In the Philippine Islands the natives in saluting bend very low, place their hands on their cheeks and raise at the same time one foot in the air, with their knees bent. But what would a European think if a friend in saluting him should deprive him of his clothes and leave him half naked? This, however, is an extreme case, and is only practised by the natives of some districts in Africa. Taking off some of the dress as a mode of salutation is quite common. The Japanese take oil a slipper; the people of Aracan take off their sandals in the street and their stockings within doors. Bending and then turning the face is another of the Japanese methods of saluting. The turned face is a symbol of unworthiness. In the interior of Africa the chiefs salute each other by snapping their middle finger; but of all the salutations the most remarkable is the one described by Athenaus. This old writer states that the inhabitants of Carmena, used to salute their friends by draining blood from their own b)dies and presenting it as a beverage to be drunk. Tearing the hair was a Frankish salu+ nfi/\n on/? in fVlO llniTB rtf tllfi slave usually cut off part of his hair, which he presented to his mister or superior. The Dutch, who are considered great enters, salute each other in the morning with the words: "May you cat a hearty dinner/' Ano her of their salutations is: "How do you sail?" This latter salutation is no doubt a remnant of ane'ent times, when the Dutch were for the most part sailors and Jishermen. A Span:ard in saluting his friend a?k3 him: "How he stan is?"?a question very characteristic of the portly and leisurely gait of the Spanish people. A Frcnchmau, again, asks his companion: "How he carries himself?"?another of these questions that reveals the nature of the questioner and the questioned, because it is one essentially relating to a person accustomed to go about with a gay and incessant motion, which we indeed know is the style of a Frenchman. In China, again, the lower orders sa lute cacn other Dy asiiing wneuncr to- ; d .y's ricc be eaten. This is rather a low method of saluting a person, but it ii not characteristic of the Chincie nation as a whole, for they are polite to the extreme, going even the length of counting the number of their reverenccs and bows. Should they respcct a person they raise their hands joined and then lower them to the earth, bending the body. Supposing two men separated for years should meet, then they both fall on their knees and bend their faces to the earth, repeating the ceremony two or even three times. The compliments and expressions of goodwill ate abundant among the Chinese. "Very well; thanks to your abundant felicity," is a reply to one questioning another regarding his health. On returning thanks for a favor the Chinese say: "My thanks shall be immortal." But^the truth is,these antiquated people carry such matters almost to the border of absurdity; they have a ritual or acadcmy of ceremonies in which all the formalities arc carefully tabulated, such as the number of bows, expressions and genuflexions. But this is not all, for they enumerate the number of silent gestures to be used when an invitation is given to one to enter a house. These customs are not confined to the upper class, but also prevail among the lower orders. They have a tribunal before which all ambassadors must appear forty times before they enter the presence of royalty. England has also an expression quite alien to it. "We refer to the words "Your humble servant." This term came from France in the seventeenth ccutury, when Henrietta Maria, daughter of Henry IV., was married to Charles I., of England. Before that time the usual method was " God keep you,'" and among tlic vulgar, " How dost do ?" with a thump on the Bhoulder. To bite the ear was anciently an expression of endearment, and it is still so far retained by the French that to pull a man by the ear is a sure token of good will. A Frcnch salutation is a complex alTnir. The gentlemen and others of the male sex lay hands on the shoulders and touch the sides of each other's cheeks; but on being introduced to a lady they say to the father, brother, or friend, 41 Permittez moi," and salute each of hjr cheeks. The geat mirk of reverence in salutation is kissing. Could we write a history of kissing, practically illustrated, and interspersed with little "scenes" an:l "reminiscences," what a sale we should be able to command. All know that love is shown in a kiss, but, leaving the (nd of kissing, let us present to our readers a short account of it as a mere I salutation, and therefore shorn of much of its pristine interest. In a history written about the year '2130 B. C. we find it recorded that men saluted the sun, moon and 6tars by kissing the hand. And Lucian who lived 150 A. I)., says that the poor, when unible to offer sacrifices to the gods, adored I them by the simpler ceremony of kissing their hands. Among the Uomans persons were treated as atheists who did not kiss their hands on entering a temple. The earliest Christian bishops gave their hands to be kissed by the ministers serving at the allar, but that custom declined with paganism. Kissing the hands of a patron , by flatterers and suppliants was also very common. In tho days of ca-ly Rome it was by kissing the hands of a superior that an inferior showed his reverence, but as republican tendencies spread the habit died out. This custom, however, is, or has been, at least, practiced in every known country in respect to sovereigns aud supc riors, and it has erea been found to be i prevalent among the negroes of the New World. In uncivilized Mexico a thousand lords saluted Cortez by touching the earth -with their hands and thereafter kissing them. In ordinary practice, however, it is now considered to be too gross a familiarity to kiss the hands of those with whom we come in contact. But in affairs of State and solemnity at Court this practice is still retained; and at an appointment to office, or on a personal introduction to the sovereign, the favored individual is allowed to have the honor of kissing the royal hand. The Goose Bone In Kentucky. The goose bone may be called "Kentucky's weather prophet." In many farm-houses it will be found hanging in the hall, and old men who have had it for years say that the genuine bone never fails. 'Ihe real bone can only be obtained from a goose that was hatched out in the spring, the month of May is said to be the best. The goose must not be killed until Indian summer has passed away. Alter cooking remove the breast bone, scrape it clean and then wash it in warm water and let it dry for a day or two. B "When it has been thus prepared hold t it up to the sun, or in front of a lamp in a dark room is better, and the discolora- 8 tion may be easily deciphered; and to a one who knows the bone the reading io \ as plain as a book. A bone shown to a j reporter was taken from a goose hatched out in May. A row of dots found B around the keel of the bone indicates t the temperature, and the darker the i spots the colder will be the weather. ( Somo light, cloudy discolorations that spr6ad out over the keel of tho bone are indications of falling wbather, and the I darker these discolorations the more rain 1 or snow there will be. The marks dividing the bone indicate the three winter months, December commencing at the front. A careful reading of the bone indicates much more regular weather than was had last year, and not so severe. There will not be many days during which running water will freeze. The coldest weather will occur during the first half of January, and along between the 7th and the 12th there will be severe days of freezing. It will bo the * severest part of the whole soason. Near the point of the bone the discol- | oration is a little heavy, thus showing ^ that the first day of winter will give proof of the season's change. This will 1 be followed by rising temperature and i falling weather for Christmas. January ? will be ushered in cold, and the cold will strengthen as the days lengthen, the ' coldest days of winter falling "about the 1 8th of the month. This severe weather i will be brief, followed by rising temper- | ature and heavy thaws, and the last half of the month will sec many rains and snows. During February there will not 1 bi any very cold weather, but it will bo 1 a rather disagreeable month, with snow 1 and rain. A few cold days is all that , the month will contribute to winter. An early and decided thaw is among the promises of the bone. Tho February 1 thaw will overflow the mountain i streams, and disastrous floods may be looked for. Altogether, the winter will be what is known as an open season, a 1 good wheat year.?Christian at Work. I i Florida Cracker Names. A "sand scrub" in Florida is a sand bank or hill, where, on account of the poverty of the soil, the trees and shrubs t grow very low and "scrubby." These spots are sometimes of but a few acres in extent, and again they cover several 8 hundred acres. The immigrant is gen- c ally puz/.led to know what a "sand fi scrub" is. An Iowa man showed his ( knowledge of the Florida terms in the following manner: Landing at Lakeland, ^ several years ago, when that place was the terminus of the South Florida Railroad, he attempted to reach Bartow, fifteen miles distant, in the good old-fashioned, though very popular, way?on foot. He had just come from a place of firm footing, and ere he reached his destination he fully realized that Florida sand was a "hard road to travel." "Weary, and no doubt somewhat disgusted, his approached a cabin by the roadside and meekly asked the inmate, a woman, to dircct him on his way. The lady kindly told him to proceed in the direction he was going about a mile, when he would come to a "sand scrub" and there he should take the left-hand road and follow that till it passed a "bay head" on the one side and a big "permet:-r patch'' on the other, and go on till he came to a "gallberry fiat," where he would strike the main road leading out through a big "grass pond" into the "flat woods," where he would find a boy "boarding off" corn, and he could tell him better than she could. The Hawkeye bowed a [ gracefully, and with a far-away look c in his eye, ambled on his most raysteri- T I rtna wnv rnvnlvinrr in his nemlexed era- .. ""Jl *# o I -X u nium the meaning of nil this. Having gone, as be thought, about a mile, be ? began to look for something, he knew not what. Presently he met a small boy, whom he accosted; ' "Say, bub, arc you fl a sand scrub!" l'Xo," answered the youth. 4Tm a cracker." The boy soon a enlightened the traveler's bewildered un- n derstanding by directing his attention to a "sand-scrub" just ahead. Our friend ^ found his way to Bartow, and is now, | we believe, a resident of Polk county, and familiar with the terms that so perplexed him on his lirst Florida journey, e ?Meade (Fla.) Pioneer. a Effective Vaccination. As protection by ordinary vaccination is not secured until after the lap9e of thirteen or fourteen days?that is, a period at least equal to that required for smallpox to develop?it has been consid- . eredof no use afti'r symptoms of the dis- 11 ease have been already infected. But by a modiried method, a Kussian medical o student, M. Qubert, claimsto make such j f . . ? -IT?Tn I me vacciuuuim cuntiic. xii v.ijyowmcnts oa dogs ho ha? rapidly saturated the system with protective virus by sev- c eral successive daily inoculations with I calf lymph, by which means he has sue- 8 cccdcd in bringing the vaccination process to completion within four or fiva days. This result has enabled him to T arrest the development of smallpox in b twenty-seven persons in whom he was i( quite sure the disease was incubating, ^ while in twelve others the disease was modified to simple varioloid. r ? . r A Dwarf Pasha. o Abdurrhaman Pasha, who appears in the uniform of a Circassian general, is j the most famous dwarf in Europe. lie | ' is a bright-eyed, gray-bearded little 1 Turk, sixty years okl, and is considerably t less than three feet in height. The rank I of l'asha was bestowed upon him by the j j late Abdul Azi/, and he was for twenty years the Sultan's favorite jester. He > x afterwarrU^eld a place of honor in the i court p?/?hc Shah of Persia, later sojourneu at St. Petersburg, and during ( the past year has become a hero of the I boulevards of Paris. He is at presen* | . making a European tour. Abdurrhaman Pasha is a keen little man, and converses J with fluency and wit in the Turkish, Pcr^ I * sian, Russian aud French languages. ! TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT. 1 Dash It Down. You have read of tho suffering, - the want, the sin, and the vile ;% pollution that lurks herein; of the genius offered upon its goal, and the ruin of many a splendid soul; of tbe crimes committed without a name, by this lurid demon, to end in shame. How oft the feet of some wayward lass it has led to the yerge of hell, alas I If you wish to wear a god-like crown, be true to And dash it down. ?U or ham Mountaineer. A Problem for Statesmen. It is scarcely worth while to call tha Mention of the office-seeking demagogue o any real issue that encroaches on the lequestered domains of smothered conicience; but for the thinking man or nroman who earnestly desires correct in tarnation and safe guidance, we hare -?3 lome figures. They seem incredible as hey stand, but they tell only half of the iwful truth. The latest statistical ac:ount3 from Great Britain and Ireland ihow the following items of annual ex- >enditure by the people: For Liquors ?786,003,000 " Bread 70,000,000 " Butter and cheese 85,000,000 " Milk 80,000,000 "Sugar! 25,000,000 " Tea, coffee, cocoa 20,000,000 41 Woolen goods 46,000,000 '' Cotton and linen 20,000,000 " Rent on farms 60,000,00!) " Rent on houses 70,000,000 These startling figures plainly show that the annihilation of the liquor-traffic would do more for England and Ireland than all the Utopian schemes advocated in Parliament during the last two centuries, and for that matter since the foundation of the English Government. . ^ rhe abolition of the drink curse would jive Ireland Home Rule; it would feed ' the starving thousands that are wasting iway in squalor nnd want und2r tha shadow of the church-spires of that rum- ;||j cursed land; it would make the oppression of the voracious landlord vanish. like mist before the morning sun; and the mouthing reformers that now vie with the mocking wind in whistling worn-out campaign tunes, would cease to prey on the ignorance and credulity of the masses. ' To the intelligent and honest student herein lies a valuable lesson; to the conspiring, dodging demagogue, only a stumbling-block is presented-?New Repullic. The Pledge. Pledge of the first temperance associaion formed,in the United States, 1789: "We do hereby associated and mutuil!y agree that hereafter we will carry on >ur business without the use of distilled pirits, as an article of refreshment, lither for ourselves, or for those whom ve employ; and that instead, thereof, we vill serve our workmen with wholesome ood, and the common simple drinks of ^ >ur production." Signed by Ephrain iirby, Timothy Skinner, David Bush, ind nearly two hundred of the most repectable farmers in Litefleld county, 3onn. Pledge of 1808: "No man shall drinK rum, gin, wnisjty, ?r any distilled spirits, except by advice if a physician, also excepting wine at >rivate dinners, under penalty of twen-. y-five cents. No member shall be inoxicated under penalty of fifty cents." Pledge of a temperance society organzed at Bath, Maine, 1812: "We will be at all times sparing and . autious in the use of spirituous liquors ,t home, in social visits decline them as ar as possible, avoid them totally in reail stores, and, in general, set our faces gainst the intemperent use of them; onceiving, as we do, that, except in a ery few cases, as of medical use, spiritous liqucrs arc^the bane of morals, and a [rain of wealth, piety and happiness." Pledge of 1843: "Ifaolred, That the Constitution dopted April, 1803, be amende i by dopting the pledge of the total abstitence from all that can intoxicate." National W. C. T. U. pledge of to?'T Viomiw anlnmnlv riromise. God help- "S ag me, to abstain from all distilled, feraented and malt liquors, including wine nd cider, and to employ all proper leans to discourage the use of and trafic in the same." Result of Prohibition in Maine. John Bright said: "If the evils comag from the drink traffic were removed rom England it could no longer be recgnized as the same country." Precisely hat has happened in Maine; it cannot be ecognized because of the wonderful hange for the better all over the btatc. teforc the Maine Law there were obtruive evidences everywhere of unthrift, ^ ileness, and poverty; now there are norhere such indications. Even in Bangor, lad as it is, low as the moral and relig3us tone i?, the volume of the liquor raffic is far less than it was in the old um-time?and, even in that city, the ura-seller is on a level with the keeper f a gambling-house or brothel. After an experience of the results of irohibition of more than thirty years,the leople of Maine put it into the Constituion by a majority of 47,075?even Jangor giving a majority of about seven rnndred for the measure.?Neil Dow, in rndeven<lent. The Rev. Dr. Rodman, Rcctor of Jrace Episcopal Church, of Plainfieldf n'. J., is reported as saying in a recent niblic meeting that he was converted to >rohibition by the late meetings at Oceaa }rove, under the auspices of the National temperance Society. *