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rannp I DR TUIUHTC SERMON. W THE VICTORY. Text: "And the streets of the city shall bo full of boys and girls playing in the streets B thereof."?Zechariah, viiL, 5. B Glimpse of our cities redeemed. Now, Loys M fccd girls playing in the streets are exposed n to so mucn peril that multitudes of them end B in ruin: but in the glorious time spoken of In my text the cities are to be so completely purified and evangelized that lads an 1 girls will be just as sale in the public thoroughfares as tbey are in their own nursery. To arouse the people to the work before them I preacb this sermon about the dark shadows of the city. The surgeon puts in the probo to the very bottom of the wound beiore he puts ou the healing salve. There is no use in our underrating the enemy. No "wise general does that We want to count all the foes of darkness aud admit that they are courageous, and admit they are miphty, and then come to the other truth, that the Lord Gcd of Joshua is mightier than them all, and that Ho will make the sun aud moon of this Chri-tian dispensation stand still until the last ovil is extirj a!ecL Printing presses and pulpits now are chiefly busy in describing: the condition of the present time; but will it '- not be healtnful this morning for all Christian worke.-s aud all men and women who are ' trying to make the world better?and there are thousands of them here?if we look forward to the time when our cities shall bo completely revolutionized by the Gospel of the Bon of God and all sin and all sorrow and all suTering shall forever be done away, "and the streets of the city shall bo full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof:" Every man has a y ride in the city of his nativity, or of his present residence, if it be a J ci$y .distinguished for dignity and prowess. I Cisnr boasted of his natve Home, and Virgil of Mautua, and Lycurgus of Sparta, and Demosthenes of Athens, and Archimeies of Syracuse, and 1'aul of Tarsus. 1 should be ? mat^o Aliomrtfnr?T i VWJ >UapiVlUU3 VI <* junuo vu??* ? * - . should think there was in him a baseliearted- | ness if he hud no joy in the city of his birth, or the city of his adoption, no exhilaration at its moral progress or its commercial achievement. I have notiied that a man never * thinks well of a place where he lias not behaved well. Sum tout did not like New Yoik. and Prof. Webster did nob like Boston, an.l the people who take a f ree ride in the city van never like the city tha b furnishes the vehicle! When I hud Argos a nd Rhodes and Smyrna all claiming the birthplace of Horner I conclude that Homer behaved well. . They liked him and he liked them. We { ought never to war on laudable city pride, or try to build ourselves up by trying to pull others down. 1 hope Boston will contiuueto point to its Faneuil Hall anditsCcmraonsand ? its surerior educational advantages. 1 hope that Philadelphia will continue to point to its Independence Hall and its miut and its Girard College. It is always a bad sign when ^ people have no pride of city. Now, New York is a beautiful city, a lovely city. It lies on both sides the rivor. The East River is the main arterv of this great throbbing j life. In our time, or in the time of our children, there will be two or three or fo.ir | bridges across the East River. More and J more we will be one, so that when I si eak of New York I mean everything from Spuyten Duvyil Creek to Gowatius, aud I mean more than 2,<X)0,00() pofU Nation, and what blesses that part of the city that is on the other side the river will bless this; what curses that will curse this. Sin is gigantic, and when it comes to the Hudson or the East River it steps across it as easily as you step across the figure in a carpet. God's blessing has two wings, and one wing it puts "over that part of our city on the other side Wr of the river, and the other wing of b'essing I it puts over us. In its infan y,the great iriej tropolis was let down on the bank of the HudI son. It was as feeble as Moses in the ark of ; j _bullrusbes by the Nile, ami,like Miriam there our fathers came and watchcd it The rovaJ , ! spirit of American coinmer. e cair.e down to j l battle, and she lifted it in her arms, and it < 1 grew instrength,and foreign shipping brought > ' gold and silver to its feet, and it stret bed it- , i 6elfupintoagreatmetropolis,lookinzuptothe ! I mountains and off upon the sea.the mightiest > i energy in our American civilization. Cities al- ! < ways feel the imprest of those who founded j < them. Romulus left his impress upon Rome, | s The Pilgrim Fathers will never release their | < grit'frotn >'ewEngland. Will amPennleft his ] i spiiit of fair dealing and honesty in Phila- ; ( delphia, and any day on its streets you may < ee.; h's manners, you may see his morals, you i | may see his hat and his wile's baf, and his j ; ine^tiug house. So the Hollanders who I founded New York city in which we live, j 1 put their impress upon the city and it will he J ? felt for all following generations. What , < southern epidemic in which our physicians < ' have not thrown themselves in sacrifice; t ( What foreign land struck with famine and our ships have not put out with breadstuffs? What national struggle and our citizens have not poured their blood into the tieiv hes? What street of Dama-cus or BayJ reut or Madias has not resounded with the * step of our missionaries? What art gallery and our paiuters have not hung in it their % pi tures? Wl:at department of science or literature in which our scholars have not . made their contributions? I need not speak of our common schools in which the childr n ' of the cord wainer ami the mechanic and the 1 glassblower sit side by siile with the favored j ' children of fortune; or of the insane asy- j lums or these islands where thos? who cut 1 themselves among the tombs are j clothed and in their right mind. Or ! of the retreats for the deaf and the | L dimb and the lame and the blind and ^ the widows and the orphans and the outcasts, j' T^tusthonk God for the citv of our resi- ! dance. It is a goo'lly city. Tliere are a ' thousand evils to In) cured, there are a j tin us md wrongs to be righted. I-etusthank God for wh :t has been achieved, and look forward to a gloriou< futures vLet us toil with the sun'ight in our fa- e. We are no6 fighting at a niiserab'e Bull Run defeat, but in a contest which will bo a complete victory. I We are not follow'ng I he rider on the black | hcive down to doom and darkno sandde ith; | we,are fo'lowing tho leader on the white hoi?e. the mocn under his feot and the stars of heaven for his tiaro. Hail conqueror, ha 1! Just as in a cold winter when we throw our arms about us to koet> our thumbs form frve ing, it is pleasant to think of tho springtime that is soon coming, and just ns en a ! cold winter night we look u;> and see the | northern lights, the windows of Heaven illumined for some great victory, just so from j the darkness and tho suffering and the sin of ; our cities, we look np to the glorious light j V that is coming. The morning light, tha morn- j ing without cl< u>ls. And I sav to all of you j who are toilinc in Sunday-s hools, and all | these who are doing reformatory work in i penitentiaries, and all those who are preach- ! ? incr the Gosnel in almshouses, and all those j who are in any way trying to improve the condition of the people temporally and spiritually?I say to them, the last forti-ess , of sin wiil ba < aptured and will bo cleansed , ? and will be illuminated. The victory of . Christ in this nty is going to be so positive that there will not bo a man on earth, nor an , angel in Hravcn, nor a dovil in hell that will?>, " dispute it. How do I know? I know be- j cause this Bible declares it. You say you do I not believe the Bible. Then thave not time this morning to argue about its authenticity. | We will tell about it ?ome other day. But supposing that the vast majority of you do , believe in the Bible, it is high time to believe _ in the complete salvatioa of all the cities. Does it no! declare that tho nations are to I e sav?.l? Well, if nations are to be ?aved. would not that include the c ties? Does not the larger include the less? Shall England be saved aud not Loudon? Shall the United States .be sared and not New York? The kingdoms of this world are going to become the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ There is a great difference whether you and I are toiling on toward a defeat, or toiling on toward a victory. Now. in the glorious time spoken of in my text, and which will come just as certainly as you are there and I am here, in that time there will be larger financial prosperities . in all the cities People have a morbid idea about the millennium, as though when it come? we will do nothing but give ourselves up to psalm singing, and all society being purified, thare will be no ?:j? -""J ? K?e{?apa will Ka ntirlRa/l U llil II by tuiu, OS cut UUOIUCW " *14 W yu>l44WU| there will be no enterprise. My friends, there is no founda tion in common sense nor in the Bible for such an absurd anticipation. Where now one fortune is made there will be n hundred fortunes made. You know that confidence between man and man is the foundation of all successful business. Now, when all dishonesty is gone, and all double dealing is gone, and all unfairness is gone, there will be complete confidence between man and man. Does not that imply larger business, richer opulence, grander architecture, finer equipped, grander and more magnificent prosperities? You know that business is injured by the infamous stock gamblers and by the godless speculators. You know that tjia^rorst foe of business in Brooklyn and,2few York and in every city, is crime, individual and official crimi. Now, when God shall purify the ' commercial code, when God shall thunder i clown tho last fraudulent establishment, when | Gt;d shall put the keys of business in the ! hands of the honest men, what will all that imply? The purification of business and j moro business and grander business. 11 is a logical sequence. When that day comes?aud I a n not talking about some guesswork. I am not d?alin*r in an abstraction, but in something posititive and as true as that there is a God and that He ever presented us the Bitfe? in that time in our cities all grievous taxation will le gone. Now business men ave taxed for everything?city tax, county tax. State tax. United States tax, license tax, manufacturing tax?taxes, taxes, taxes. A business man mnst make a small fortune to pay his taxes. We have to pay the board of all tho villians in our penitentiaries. We hare to support the orphans of tiling it ine omcer.s 0111101aw vromu turnout of tho prisons some of the ton cant offenders and the ten dollar desperadoas and petty criminals and put in their places some of those monsters of iniquity who ride through tho street with their mettled span going so swiftly that honest men nave to leap to get out of tho way of being run over. Oh, what damnable schemes even profossors of religion are sometime; engaged in, until the Lord puts tin finger of retribution in tho collar of the robe of hynro jrisy aud rips it clean to the bottom. "Oh, my frienrls, all these wrongs are goieg to be rigliteJ. The Bible declares tr, must either give up my Bible or I must believe the;e statement?. The cities are going to be filled with a regenerated population. I do not know how soon that day will come. Somet'iing will denen Ihpon you and upon 1 me And upon all Christian people. God is ] ready in answer to prayer to cut short the work in ri<*ht30usness. Are we alert? ? Are we doing all our duty? Are we much on our knees before ' God supplicating divine help? Three ' hundred and sixty bell9 chimea in music when a prince was married, but when Right- 1 jotisness and Peace shall kiss each other in all the earth ten thousand times tjn thousand thnsa who plunged into their graves through bea-tly indulgence. We have to support all the machinery of city government which is vast and-and expensive just in proportion as the criminal proclivities are vast and extensive. Who pays for tlio station houses? Who pays for the criminal courts? Tho taxpayers. "And I say to you Republicans au'i you Demo- rats who are sometimes fattening'on the public spoils while you are doini nothing for tho public welfare, that if you do not les-en taxes, and do not let the people up all over this laud, we will after a while form a party anti-excessive taxation, anti-ram, anti-monopolv, anti-abomination, and you who are living luxurious now at the public crib shall not have as much as tire wage* of a street sweeper. Now in that time, that time which is coming in all our cities, tbe time of prosperity spoken of in my toxt, we will not have to support criminals, for there will hr? no criminals. nr>d virtilft will take the pla.'e of vice. No more large sums of money voted for city improvements, which moneys often before they reach the improvements go down into the pockets of those who voted them. No more empaneling of juries to try ar-on and murder and theft and slander and blackmail. Crimtnal courts abolished Police stations abolished. Aimhouses abolished. Oh, what prosperity that will make for all the cities and for all the land and for all the world. In that time spoken of in my text the church s of Jesus Christ will be e ccrting a mightier influence for God. Now churches are some-' times envious of each other and denominations collide with each other, and even ministers of religion sometimes forget their bond of brotherhood. In the time of which I speak th 're will b) just as much difference of opinion as thero is now,but no acerbity.no bvp rcriticism, no etdusiveness. Why, the churches of our cities could not hold onefourth of the population. The ehurjho3 that are biilt, onlv a few of the n are fully occupied, and th*; average audience in A-iieriea to day is less than four hundred. But in the glorious time of which I sneak thero will be vaster churches aud they will all be thronged with worshipers. Oh, what enthusiastic songs they will sing! Oh, what earnest prayers they will offer! Oh, what sermons they will pr??a?h! In our cities now for the most part v hat is called a fashionable church is a place to which people come al ter very careful attention to toilet, and they sit down for a while in a pew where thjy want plenty of room, nobody beside them, and then if they have any time left from the thinking of the store, or the study of the the apparel of tho person seated before them they listen to a sermon warranted to his no man's sins, or to music the tune of which nobody knows, and then, after an hour and a , half of yawning, they go home refreshed! We all feel better after we have had a good J sleep! Why, the music in many of the churches is a mockery. I have not a culti- ! vated ear nor a cultivated voice, but no man . ran do my sincing for me any more than he can do tny praying for me. I like artistic music. 1 tliiuk the dollr.r or five dollars that I pay to hear some queen of son?: is a good , investment: but when on the Sabbath we are j n^semblcd in rc-ligious convocation and the hymn is given ojt, and the anjjels of God step from their throne to cat?h th3 music on , their wings, do not l*t u> drive them back | l?v iodifference. I have been in churches ( where vast sums of monoy were paid for the ( music, and it was exquis'te, and it was ar- ( Listic to the very last point, and yet for all , relieious purposes I would rather have the ( outbreaking song of a backwoods Methodist ( rnmjj-mectinr. Let one of those artistic ;on:st!;at. I have sometime; heard sung in liurch arrive in heaven, aud how mean it would look beside one of the great , ioxolo<rie< of the redeemed. AVhv, if >ne of those operatic a'rs that sometimes ;oes iip from a church should get three hours' ; start ife would be overtaken and passed by ' ibe hosanna of Sunday-school children. I <now a (hurch where the choir did all the ' iinzing save one man, who in perseverance >f the saints went right on until a committee , waited on him aud told him he bothered the :hoir! I ( Let those refuse to sing , Who nevor knew our Gorl! But children of the Heavenly King , Sbo ild speak His joys abroad. ' j The bill of Zion yields A thousand sacred sweets Before wer -ach the heavenly fields, Or walk the golden streets. Napoleon's army srot stnck in the Alps and thoy came to him.and they said: "Your Majssty, we Pannot go any further. We cannot get the ammunition wagons over thft rooks." Hesa:d: "Send me the band mas ler." The leader of th<j music came and Napoleon took the portfolio and rolled over the leaves, and after awhile he came to an especially grand march. "Now," he said, "let them play that." With full band they struck into the mu^i^ and over the rocks went the immunition wagons. Oh, that the church | >f Gorl all over America and all over Z'hri-itenaom understood the power of | nusic. When all our churches shall . irise and rally for this holy service, j ,ve will march light on from triumph | .o triumuph. There is no such successful I *ayof prea'hina th3 gospel as singing the ' j 'Spcl "Praise ye trie Lord; let everything ;hat hath breath praise His name." In the jood time coming spoken of in my text, in he church and the world hosanna will meet ! losanna and halleluiah hallelujah. Then, | n that time I am speaking of, all the haunts I >f iniquity will le broken up, all city ini'iui- j ? ...mi l.._: U..j n|,.l.VU^ V/*.. i , rie* Will UtJ Uillll"U'.-U illll tli/wuoiiuu. AUU i iay, by the power of education It will not < >e done in that way. You say, l>y hu nan- i arian effort. It will notbs done in that i vay. I will tell you how it will be douo. i (Jv the p >wer of thj gospel of the Son >f God. Mr. Es hler, of England, said i hat in teu years this whole world i >ould be made a paradise if the people would j i ,'ollow out his idea. He said that all that was ' i required was the natural forces of wind aud unshine aud wave rightly developed and rightly applied, and in ten years this whole jarth would be an Eden, and in a boo!* of j ;roat genius, which went from edition to } litiou, he set? forth the idea, in which he < says* "Fellow-man, I promise to show the means >f creating a paradise \*ithin ten years, I when everything desirable for human life will be had by every man in superabundance, without labor and without pay. when the whole face of natuie shall be changed into , the most beautiful farm, and man may live ( in- the most magnificent palaces in all imaginable refinements or luxury, and 1 in the most delightful garden, where i he may accomplish in one year more ( than hitherto could be done in tnousands of years, and may level a continent. sink valleys, create lakes, drain lake3 1 and swamps auu intarsect Uua everywhere I with beau-iful canals and roads for trans- , porting heavy loads of many thousaud tons, and rdr traveling a tho isa id miles in twentvfour hours. Froin the houses to "be built wllfr be afforded the mostbmutiful view3 fancied, i from the roof turret i may be s;en gardens , as far as the eye can see, full of fruits and flowers arranged in the most beautiful order, with walks, colonnades, a juedu -ts, canals, ponds, amphitheatres terraces, fountains, | sculptured works, gondola?, pla os of public amusement to tire the eye and fancy. All this to be done by urging water, the wind and the sunshine to their full tie /elon*?eut." And then in his book ho gives us the plates of the machinery showing how it is all to be done;and he says tfcey want'a stock company, aud it will be twenty dollar-! a share, and there will be one or two linndivd th>u?and | raised by which they can establi ^h a sneeimea community. And then all the world seeing the specimen community, will soj it is practicable and there will be over two million? of dollars furnished, and in ten years the whole earth will be turned ict) a paradise. And I must say it is not as preposterous as many plain I have heard. But I shall take no stock in that company, and I do not believe any human machinery will ever effect any such result. It wants omnipotent machinery organized by the Lord Almighty, a machinery of pardon and peace and d'viue grace and salvation. That is the only machinery that will di it. Aivhimode3 burned up a floet of ships as it advanced to take a city. History says he lift id a great sunglass, and he converged the rays of the sun, on that fleet of ships. Now the sails are wing? of fire and the masts fall and the ships sink. Oh, my friends, this world is to be saved by ths power of tho Gospel, and we are to lift a great sunglass,conTerging the rays of the Sua of Right?ousness on the sins and the abominatious and the follies of the world, and first they will bla^e and then they will expire. Do you think in that day there will be any carousal along the street? Do you think in that day there will be any kicking ofT from marble steps of shivering mendicants? Do you think in tbat day there will beany inebriates staggering past? No.no. No wine cellars, no lager beer saloons, no distil'eries where they make three X's, no bloodshot eye. no bloated cheok, no fist poun ied foreheai. Tin grandchildren of tVat woman who goes down the street with a curse, stoned by the boys that follow her, will be the honest merchant? arid the reformer-! and the "philanthropists and me unnsEin js sixty years irom now. in inan day of which my text spea'f.wl at municipal governments! Now I know tharo is a great difference between municipal governments. But iu many of the cities you just go down and look a-ound the City Hall, and then just' look into the rooms where the politicians reign and see to what a sensual, be-otted, loathsome accursed crew city politics for the most part ha; been abandoned, and see them standing all day lone around some of our City Halls, picking their teeth and waiting for some crumb3 of emolument to fall at their feet. Who are those drunken women taken to the police station and then of couse thrust into tho prison? What will bo done with the grogshops that made them drunk? Nothing. Look into that pri on, and see bore a woman who has stolon a pair of shoes, there a boy -who stole a dollar, there a girl who snatched a purse. All the crimes less than twenty or thirty dollars. But what will bo done with the gambler who last night took the young mau's ?T>00? Nothing. What will thoy do with that man who broke through and destroyed the purity of a Christian home with an "adroitness and a perfidy that beats tha strategy of hell, flinging a shrieking soul into bottomless pedition? Nothing. What will they do with those men who iudu-e.l a young man to take sums of money from his employer, which young man came to an officer of this church and frantically asked what ha must do? Nothing. No mercy for small criminals. If a man steals $10 send him to the Raymond Street Jail. If a man steals $200,000 let him got to Canada We punish people because they do not steal enough! How is it with the trials in the court rooms of this country? What are they doing with these Coney Island gamblers? Where is the genius in the American court room that can a'rest, try and condemn such scoundrels? Before tho trial is over, in some way, somehow, nobody knows exa-tly, but one of the jurors has had given tohima pairof goldspectaclesthrough which he sees things in a different light. Punish the small criminals by all means, but I have sometimes thought it might ba a good bells win strike tne luouee. un, is t jis noc % causa worth working in? Hiw are you jngaged in it, my brother ? How are you angaged in it my sister ? Are you disheartaned. You are. Sometimes the forces sf iniquity seem so mighty, you are in ie~<pair, and whil9 you are toiling in t!iis sphere or that sphere somebody com93 and addresses to you s->m9 disheartening words. Take good heart this morning, take the promises of the gospel, take the utterance of tho text, take a thousand pro.-nisaj for the g" jd cheer of your soul. Oh, says someone to you, all you do for Christ won't amount to anything. All your work [s of uo avail." I suppose when Mosas stretched out his hand over the Red Sea and the people knew that he expoctad to sea it part?I suppose they said: "That is a very foolish, that is a very weak thins to io. What has the stretching out of the hand of Mose? over th9 sea got to do with the partinc of that great body of water? It can't be ione In that way." But Mosas kept stretching his hand over the Red Sea, and after a while the wind began to blow from tin east md it kept blowing until the water gathered ap into glittering walls on either side, and the way was clear. Tha billows reared as [Jod pulled back on their bits. Wheal into line, oh Israel! March! March! Path of pearl, flying spray lifted into a rainbow arch for the con luerors to march under. Shout ye iroops on the beach. Answer ye tivops on the ?ea. and whgn tin last line or the Israelites eaches the baach, the cymbals clap, and the ] shields clang and the watera rush upon the jursuers, and the swift-fingered winds on the 1 ivhite keys of the foam play the grand march i )f Israel delivered and the awful dirge of , Egyptian overthrow. So go forth, oh, mv jrother, go forth and stretch out your hand i )f faith and prayer o'er the Red Sea, the joiling sea of municipal crime and suffering. "Oh," says some one, "it won't imount to anything." You keen right on, ceep stretching out your hand of faith md prayer over the Red Sea of municipal c,ifPoi-?i?or nnfj A whila G-.id's winds of help will blow and the path J ivill b? cleared for the great army of Christ- ^ an reformers, and ths path will ba strewn with the troasures of Christian bene.leoace, 1 ind we will be greeted to the other beach by , the clapping of all Heaven's cymbals, while those who pursued us and thosa who 1 ierided us and thosa who moked , it us will go down under th9 soa, and all that is left of them will be cast high and dry ( upon the beach, the splintered wheel of a Roman chariot, or thrust out from tha foam Df the breathless nostrils of a riderless < rharger. "Blessed be the Lord God of Is- , rael from everlasting to everlasting, and let 1 the whole earth be filled with his glory. < on and Amen 1 ^ Regarding M. Pasteur's treatment ? for hydrophobia Dr. Charles R. Drys- | lale, senior physician to the London \ Metropolitan Free Hospital, writes as , follows to the London Z'imes from ] Paris: j Having felt some uncertainty as to the effi- , cacy of M. Pasteur'a process for combating that fatal disease hydrophobia, I came hero some clays ago to study tho quostion and the ' evidence on tho spot I hasten to say that all my doubts as to the validity of this groatest of modern discoveries have been dispelled, and i for tho following reasons: M. Grancher, who i has made a careful analysis of the casos treat- j ed up to the 10th oi Juno at tho Rue Vauquelin, informed mo that of nin ty-six patients bitten by doga (the dineaso of which was certified 1 eicner by tho inoculation of othor animali t after thoir death with tho brain or spinal cord ? proving fatal, or by tho fact that somo animal j bitten by tho dog had succumbed to hydrophobia), of these uinctv-six cases only one died subsequently to tho curative inoculations. 1 Ill's gives a death rato of only 1.04 per cent i Again, W-l patients had been bitten by doga, < the madness of which was certiflod to by the ( veterinary practitioner of tho commune, and out of theflo there were three death*, which 1 (jives a diath-rato of 0.4G per cent. Taking 1 theso two categories together, tho death-rate 1 >as only 0.75 per cent, whereas from a very J accurate scries of statistics collected by M. Leblanc, veterinary practitioner of the city of raris, it results that, as a ru e, 1(? per cent of ( Buch cases may bo expected to succumb to hydrophobia. Tho valuo, then, as M. Grancher ' says, of tho curativo process of M. l'asteur 1 may bo represented as twenty-throo times as ! great as that of all other treatment*. I may | add that, with the excoption of tho prick with ( (ho fiuo-pointed injection syringe, paticnia have no other annoyance to complain of, a? ' there are absolutely no symptoms, and ton puncturos on ton successive days are sufficient ro mo tho question is, therefore, judged, and &1I who are in dangor should submit to this Little oporatioa 1 TELIGIOUS READING. I Grant in Jerusalem. "No ovation for me In thii cly where my Savlovi km cruclQed."?General Gran . Speak not to me of banquets, of rich viands and red wine, In this old sacred city where was slain the Son div.'ne; No homage to me offer?to nie,a sinful man Sere where my Savior suffered and wrought out i he wondrous plan. Oh, what is human power on fields of morta strife? Or what the caua* secured alone by sacrifice of life? The conflicts of the aces are o'erjhadowed by the hour When here the Son of God nssailed alone Death's tyrant power. I have fought a hundred battles midst sulphurous clouds and flame, When death shots smote the air, as smites the tempest's sleet and rain; But never such a conflct has the sun e'er blushed to seo, As that in yonder garden, where my Saviou fought for me. "A name?" Ah, yes, I know. I've heard the ringing, wild "hurrahs," When out from the battle clouds emerged the glorious stripes and stars; But here I see another erowd?I see the Vic. tim pale; I The brutal cry, ''Away with him!" borne on the evening gale. I've seen the seried columns pressing up the i dizzy height, j Stern on through volleying thunders and death-hail's thicktst flight; 'Twas not a time for weeping, nor e'en a thought of lois; Now on yon bill, through tears, I see him sink beneath the cross. 1 I heard the shout of triumph of the milli ons on mat aay When the last death-shot had echoed and the ! clouds had rolled away; But here I bow In anguish, as I hear that piercing cry, "It is finished!" Ah, my Saviour then bows his head to die I Then not to me a ainner, yet a sinner saved by grace, By whose stripe3 I thus am healed, shall be honors in this place; Oh, here be no name honored on soil which he has trod But that above all others?the Glorious Son of God. Rev. Mark Traflon, D. D., in Zion's Herald. The Staying Quality. Says the Christian Intelligencer, ' A prime essential to success is the stayirfg quality; that trait of character which bolds on to that which is right anil righteous with a firm, unyielding grip; that, habit of life which looks not forward with misgiving nor backward with regret, which St. Paul cultivated, and which adopts for its motto his celebrated saying: 'This one thing I do; forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which i?re before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesu?.' Many who, in the beginning of their religious career, gave promise of great usefulness, have disappointed the fond expectations they awakened by shamefully lapsing into a state of religious apathy and unconcern, thereby winning the merited reproach, 4Yc did run well who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?' Believers shonld never forget that they entered for life into the service of God, as all profess to do when, by public confession of allegiance to God, and by solemn vows of Dyalty to Christ and of fidelity to His Church, they are enrolled among God's people." When We Look to Jeiua. When we look to Jesus we find in Him never failing sources of comfort and encouragement. We find Him far mora anxious about the state of the churcb ? k-han we are. We find Him more willing j c than we have ever been or can be to re- ' vivc His cause, to quicken and enlighten * His people, to save the lost. Wo find t Him watching every effort that wo make e for His church, and blessing and reward- c ing it. We find Him prepared to come 1 to the aid of His servants the moment > they require His help. We find Him, ' above all, patient?patient with the per- ? perse, the froward, the impatient, the weary and dispondent worker, the unsuccessful in their own eyes, the tempted n and burdened ones. 0 ever blessed and ! u Jivinelv-paticnt Saviour, Thou dost com- j t Port us in our sorrow and failure, and, i p imid the scorn and neglect of men, we j b look up to Thee, and lay our burden on ( & rhee! Thou weary worker, in whatever i b< Eield of toil, be encouraged as thou dost ! s I * f 1 1 1 J I T1 lurn thine eyes away irozn my uurusns ? md thy trials, and behold est Jesus, thy c loving and all-powerful S.iviour, stoop- o ng down to take thy load of carc and & weariness from off thee as He says to i; ilice, "Come unto jne and -I will give ^ :hee rest."?The King's Messenger. 8 The old Pnritan customs in the family f ivere very rigorous ; but, oh, the sweet- I less and the beauty of tho households of o ;ho old Puritans 1 Men do not draw pic- a :urcs of these things. They do not draw t rictures of tho singing of hymns, of tho h eading, with tearful eyes, sweet pass- c iges of Scripture; and of children listen- a ng spell-bound around the knees of t heir parents, the very air perfumed with n vender that bred imagination in poetic h ninds. The freshness of God upon the f Sabbath Day among tho Puritans, men a lo not paint. The Puritan Sunday had o i great many features in it that were ude pad hard ; but in the reaction we ire going as far the other way.?II, W. Beechev. The Catholic girls of Philadelphia have \ jrgauized a large temperance souety, called the "Cathedral Girls1' T. A. B. * Society." The Catholic women, young c md old, are arousing to the fact of the * *reat wcrk which needs to be done, and ' ire working bravely to advance this meat reform. t J The editor of the Iowa Prohibitionist is I threatened with death if he does not let t up on the saloonkeepers. t TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT. Temperance Boy. I'm a temperance boy of the cold-water army: I drink neither spirits nor wine; You may laugh if you please, but it never can harm me "While water, pure water, is mine. The cold-water boys aro not easily daunted; We know very well what ve've done. "We've enlisted lor life, and our stantard is planted; We're uot to be dashed by your fun. Tho pledge that we've taken will spoil your vocation; "iNo license : no license !" we cry; We'll ring it aloud throughout every nation, Determined to conquer or die. ? Youth's Temperance Banner. (Salvation Army and Temperance. In a very interesting article upon "The Salvation Army," which is commented upon as one of the most remarkable movements of the nineteenth century," the Irish Temperance League Journal says: "It lias, scattered all over the world, in the United Kingdom, in our Indian Empire, in Canada, Australia, and South Africa, in the United States }f America, in France, Switzerland and Sweden, 1,522 army corps, with 3,602 effcotivo officers. It holds over 28,000 meetings weekly, and during the past year its officers addressed about a million and a half of their fellow creatures on themes commanding human interest." Of its relations to temperance the article says: "Viewed from the temperancs standpoint alone, this is a remarkably successful movement. Every officer and every ucmber of the army has abandoned both alcohol and tobacco. From the General to his humblest soldier all are abstainers. Every meeting, therefore, of the army is a temperance gathering, and every convert added to the society is another vote, so to speak, in favor of i sober nation. "When we remember low few Christian churches have ab lolutcly broken away from the alcohol conspiracy, and how many noble Christian men and women there are in the [and who think an abstinence pledge jomething beyond the ordinary amount )f self-denial demanded?a sort of 'counsel of perfection,' indeed?we begin to ealize how much moral force there must je behind this movement. Here wc lind ;housands of men and women who have, nany of them,lived lives of intense selfshness and of both physical aud moral legradation, willing and able, at thebidiing of this moral impulse, to give up ;heir smoking, drinking, swearing, gamilin^: and immoral lives, and to live soberly and righteously. Surely this is U 11 i.1 e 1 I result wen wormy ui me bucuhuu ui ill Christians, of all political economists, ind of all social reformers." rr j ( Orinkinjr In tne Eighteenth Century The passion for gin drinking appears ( 0 have infected the masses of the popu- 1 ation. and it has spread with the rapid- ( tv ttnd violence of epidemic. Smail as j s tbc place which this fact occupie? in ^ Snglith history, it was probably, if we ] lonsider all the consequences that have 1 lowed from it, the most momentous in '' hat of the eighteenth century?incom;at ably more so than any event in the :urely political or military annals of the j :ouoitiry. The fatal passion for drink < vas at once and irrevocably in the na- 1 ior;. The grand jury of Middlesex, in ! 1 powerful presentment, declared that , nuoh the greater part of the poverty, 1 3 ... a t- _ _ .11 - - - e T 3 1 no muraers, tne roDuenes 01 j-oimua riif;'ht be traced to this sing'e cause. Re- ' ailers of gin were accustomed to hang . >ut painted boards announcing that their j' :u8tomers could bo made drunk for a * jenny, and dead drunk for two pence, i J tnd should have straw for nothing, and | { ellars strewn with straw were accord-"! f ugly provided, into which those who j i lad become insensible were dragged, | * ind where tney remained until they had | ? lufficiently recovered to renew their ' { irgic9. The evil acquired such fright- j e ul dimen-ions that even the uureforrang parliament of*Walpole perceived the | [ lecessity of taking strong measures to ' { trrest it.?North American licoieu. j i Driving Boys From Homo. Mothers who arc disturbed by the | oise and untidiness of boys at home I , lust be careful le>t by their reproaches j c Ley drive children from it in search of i ' lcasure elsewhere. "There are those 1j anisters all finger-marks again," said | < Irs. Curry, as she made haste with a j c oft linen cloth to polish down th.3 t hining oak again. "George,"she said, B rith a Hushed face, as she gave the r loth a dccided wrench out of the basin ^ f suds, "if you go up those stairs gain before bedtime, you shall be punned." "I ehould like to know where j. am to go," said George; "I cannot t tay in the kitchen I am so much in tho t ray; and I cannot go into the parlor for ^ ear I'll muss that up; and now you say can't go up to my own room. I know J f a grand place where I can go," he g dded to himself; "boys are never told g hey are in the way there, and we can iave lots of fun. I'll go down to Nil's c orncr. I can smoke a cigar as well as I c t ny boy, if it did make me awful sick he first time. They shall not laugh at le again about it." And so the careful r .ousekeeper virtually droves her son 1 rom the door to haug about the steps e nrl <jifc nndor the bioad. inviting portico 0 f the village grog-shop.?National Bui'.tin. c Temperance Notes, ^ Nothing is too sacred to be profaned c vhen men arc under the influence o( r vine. The man who manufactures liquor c Iocs a bad thing; the man who gets ~ Irunk does a bad thing; the man who ^ akes n dram docs a bad thing. It is all t >acL Ninety-five saloons surround the very t ommercial and political centres of Bos- I on, the Court House, City Hall, Boston ^ duseum, city prison and police station. ^ Is the supply never exists long without he demand, such figure* as the above i ell their own tale. I "agricultural TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. Managing a Cross Ball. A bull may be b'indfold d so that he can seo to feed, but is u-<able to pursue or attack persons,-in this manner: A piece of thin sole leather is cut into proper form and fitted with two straps, one to go around the horns and the other to fasten under the throat. This shield is cut long enough to reach the middle of the face and be curved enougli to permit the animal to see the grouud. This may bs worn at all times, as it will not interfere with his usefulness in any respect. A savage bull is effectively tamed by removing the horns near to the skull. It is not a serious operation; the horns are simply sawed eff and the stump covered with a pitch plaster until they heal. They are to be cut close to the head.?New York Times. Stones for the Farm. Stones of small size are well-known to have economical uses to the soil. Hence it is only when they are too large to be turned by the plow that they are really an impediment to the soil. Upon this ubject tho New England Farmer says: Stores have thnir nsos iinrl a rpfi<snn>ihl<> quantity of them is ft decide advantage to the soil. They gradually disintegrate, and wear down and form a top dressing of fresh soil which contains valuable elements of fertility.Excepting pure quartz, which is silica a'one,every rock conta:ns more or loss of lime, potash, magffesia, J alumina, soda, phosphoric acid, sulphuric acid, and iron, and all these are plant food that is essential to the growth of crops. To pick up sipall stones that will ; easily puss through the harrow and will not interfere with the seed drill or culti- ' vator is a waste of labor and injury to , the soil. And if a farmer seeking a farm is wise he would rather choose a soil that inclines to gravelly loam with an abun- ' dance of stones than one that is quite 1 free from it. For stones preserve moist- ] ure. absorb heat, and contribute con- 1 siderably to the lasting fertility of the ] land. i The Brnsliy Roadside. i The greely a\e should spare the road- 1 side trees, and along the hot and dusty ' expanse of suburban and country roads J there should be planted the spreading elms and lcal'y maples, the hemlocks, ' willows and white pine3. In many places the Liurel along the roadsides i might well be encouraged, instead of 1 ruthlessly cut down, grubbed up and 1 burned, with a sort of vicious enmity, < as the formers do now. All over our < hill country this glorious bush grows 1 profusely, and mako? many a forest walk and drive a rare delight. Nature ba9 i some rights, and an improvement associa- \ tion on Arbor Day ought to bear that in t mind. ( A country road should not be like a ( park drive, unless in the streets of some i quiet unpicturesque meadow village, 1 whore the park style seems to fit. In the open country, whether valley or j mountain, there is nothing more pleasing j to the eye than the brushy roadside. , where birchei, poplars, sumacs and ( elders and the rest grow as the Lord lets t them, and the walls and fences arc t clambered over by clematis and wood- t bine and wild "rape, and the daisies Hid buttercups, hardhacks and verva'ns, [joldenrods, meadowsweets and wild ? roses in their several turns make all de- | lightful with color.?Springfield lie- J nublican. a The Feeding of Swine. Those who do not believe in feeding swine fully up to the power of digestion, , luring the mild weather of autumn, would do well to try the experiment and jatfsfy themselves of its ecouomy. Even if the swine are to be fed through the J winter for the spring market thore is no t ess economy in this plan. It will take j ^ icarly as long again to put the same j imouut of fat on a hog in cold winter j weather as it will when the weather is ;. raild. If the hogs are to bo killed aboutj # rhanksgiving time the strong feeding j should have been commenced an soou as j ;lie middle of September, or a3 soon us j s ;he corn is fairly hard, since it will take | ? ibout sixty days to comfortably finish ! * iwine after they fairly commence thriv- v ng on grain. In fact for early killing j v ;he hogs should have had new corn as , n loon as it got fairly out of the milk,stalks j v vith the corn, and be inured gradually ' s ;o it, so that full feeding may commence !1 is soon as the corn may get fairly hard. |11 It is a mistuken idea that new* corn is i v lot fit to feed to hogs, and yet many j v persons are impressed with this idea, j hey perhaps know not why. All there n s about it is that corn while grce i must 1 a je fed carefully at fir t. until the animals I jet used to it. Then they will not eat c mfficient to cause colic and other gaseous d listurbances. The profit iu feeding all j 1 inimals consists in the returns in licsh d or the food consumed. In very cold : v veather animals can scarcely eat enough e o more than hold iheir own and supply e laily waste. The fatter th.-y arc the le s p iaily waste, sinoc the cushion of fat acts j e 19 as a uoa-conaucior 01 coici. inc lean u mimal succumb* mast quickly to severe c vcather. Ileuce the economy in getting fi mimals in the best possible condition for , f vinter.? Chicago llerald. Farm and Garden Notes. A sunflower only three and a half feet g ugh, with 5,61G square inches exposed i _ > the air, gives off every twelve hours ^ wenty to thirty onnces avoirdupois of, * vater in perspiration. j Only a knowledge of bees, faithful at- | \\ ention to the apiary, and a thorough and ' j, imely preparation for the honey flow, j i warming and wintering will make a jj uccejsful bee keeper. j p Some Ohio furmers claim that they p :an make more money by ploughing un- j A ler clover and raising wheat than by cut- , ti ing, curing and feeding the clover, to J c tithcr dairy or stock beef. i ti Professor Sanborn, of the Missouri Ag- ri {cultural College, has demonstrated to ! v lis entire satisfaction that corn->talks S nough are wasted in that State to winter 11 11 its stock, if properly saved and j ^ ured. | j1 Ilunius is partially decayed organic j. natter. "When organic matter reaches a j icrtain period of decay it forms a dark- | . irlored mass, and decomposition pro* j eeds slowly. This dark matter is hu- i aus. I [II Whenever fowls can run at large with- 1 n mt detriment to the garden they should j t] )C allowed to do so by all means. Nine- ^ enths of the trouble and disease among s] loultry arc the result of keeping fowls 0 oo clo?e. Plow the heavy land and leave it in ti he rough condition so that the frost can li >enctrate and render it fine. There is 4 10 better agency for pulverizing tough t! oils than frost. It will also at the same li imo destroy the cutworm. ii S:j;all fruit eulture wiil always be d nost. successful on the intensive plan, ?laut only a small area at a time, and e . . - ' . ; ' ?- .. "... - 'j give fbat the best culture powfble. Better raise 300 bushels on one acre than that amount on five or six. If your hogs begin to cough look out for malignant lung trouble. If they mope ana lie about their beds intestinal difficulties may be suspected. Plenty of pure air. pure water, and varied food will scare away malignant diseases. Save the com fodder before it is injured by the frost. When cut before frost it is grc;n and nutritious, full ot starch and su^ar. Frost tends to change these to wooay fiber. This portion of the*corn crop is often equal to the grain. Irregularity in the amount of food given the cow will cause her sometimes to gradually dry up. So will worrying, fast driving, or excitement of any kind. '5* -< An animal giving milk is very sensitive to bad treatment or surrounding influences. " c'., .&? Butter takes nothing from the soil that affects its fertilization as does crops of cereals. It is alm(\st wholly carbon, which is derived by the plants from the air. Butter, though sometimes hi^h in price, is really produced from the cheapest ele:nent known. It will surprise old poultry growers to learn that the common hawk is regarded as a valuable bird. He destroys 100 field mice for every chicken, and if there be a fair amount of shrubbery around tho henyard very few chickens will be lost from his deumlations. When a tree is to be transplanted never leave more branches than are wanted for mains, four or five at most; never grow a mass of unnecessary limbs to be crowding, which must be cut out afterward, much to the injury of the tree; remove them from the head'at first. It pays to burn the garden over after the grass, weeds, etc*., are fully dried. By so doing many seeds will be destroyed and a clean appearance will be given. , fire will perform great service against tiie weeas n ireeiy usea in tne iau, ana will save labor in the spring. Farmers who have kept a strict account with their stock suy that a pound Mm 3f poultry can be made for less than a pound of pork, yet the laboring man svho has to buy both feels that he cannot afford to buy poultry very often, as it costs more than other meats. Corn stalks have much leas sweetness in them before they blossom or tassel, as It is usually called. Analysis shows this, ind a cow given her choice of the two confirms the verdict of medical Science. rhe stalks improve until the ears arc tally formed and begin to harden. No particular variety of fruit will suit ill sections. Choice is a local question, varying on each side of a creek, between ;wo seasons, or two different and equally jorrect methods of treatment. Hence .hoi' c cnn only be made of those varie;ies that have been tried and tested. Good tillage is the strongest weapon vith which the farmer can fight hard :imes and gain success. Imperfect cul* ;ure, on the other hand, will scarcely enible him to gain a living from the rich- ';^3l jdt soil, and the soil will deteriorate rapdly in quality from such treatment resides. When wheat is sown on very dry soil he condition may be greatly improved jy thoroughly harrowing the field, which will bring the seed in close contact with ;arth reduced to the finest tilth, fitted to eceive and condense atmospheric vapor antil the requisite moisture for germinaion is obtained. It has been repeatedly shown that the iraount of butter that can be obtained rom milk.byanyof the ordinary processes is no guide to the amount of fat hat may be in the milk. Hence to asume that a poor butter cow may not be t good cheese cow, or that she necesarily gives poor milk, is a gross error. The best time to apply ashes to grass and is early in spring. The quantity hould vary with the needs of the soil,' ,nd this can be determined only by ex>cricnce, some soils requiring much less han others according to their composiion; but the usual amount is twenty to ifty bushels per acre. Occasionally auch larger applications have been found iseful. It is bC3t to try different ouanitics in different parts of the same field, nd measure the result on the crops. Manure-water is easily mnda A unken hogshead in the barnyard) covrcd with a lot of white oak saplings, our or five inches through, will fill up fiili the first rain and be strong enough l-Sj o make crops laugh over an acre or v..J lore of land if mixed with plenty of rater The application should not be tronger than one-fourth manure-water :> three parts water. Nitrate of soda iay be very effectively applied in this - -^1 ray, say on j pound to ten gallons of rntcr, or three pounds to the barrel. The days of the cabbage worm are umbered, it would seem. They have, ccording to Professor Forbes, of the llinois Department of Agriculture, been * * * ? ?i- jhZ learly les> aounaant iu maDy sections ^ uring the past season than previously. "his difference is due apparently to a estructiVe disease of the worm, which ras first reported on in 1382. Hopes are ntertained by some of our wide-awake nomologists that the disease miy be xopagated and extended artificially,and llorts .ire being directed toward such a esirablc end. It is, to say the least, eno^iraging to the gardener sorrfttiraes to _ ijj nd disease and blight that work in hi? avor. From Bobolink to KIco Bird. "Bang!"' it is the first gun of the seaon. There is a rattle of "shot among the eeds. "Bang! Bang! Bang!" The eadly drops of leaden rain goes hissing brough the perfumed air, and there is a ulF of drab-colored feathers and boboink. Ah! he is bobolink no more,nothig now but a greedy little rico bird. i? ami nffrinrhtened fnmilv fiv for fe, and among the elder bushes they sit anting unfil they think all danger is ast, and then Mr. Hob says "chack!" Irs. Bob answers "chuck!"' Shall they ry it again? All the little ones in a , horus cry "chack?" and the party return a the fc.ist. "Bang." Poor Bub! Hp ;els?tries to fly?a stinging pain?hi* ring is broken, and down among the olden grain he flutters. Scattered around re his little family, their plumage all jrn, and the little black eyes are growig fllmy. A rough grasp, and Bob's ead is torn from his quivering little _ ody and boboling is no more. "Ileah's yo'nice, tat rice birds!" It i Charleston market. Six plump little odies on a strand of bear grass. "Ileah's o' nice fut rice birds.'' It is the bobonk family, victims to their own gorlandi/ing and epicurism. "Ilfing out liat sign, *iiice birds ou toast,' " says lie restauranteur. The indolent waiter liufiles around and bring? out a picce f pasteboard with the legend put on ,ith a marking pot. A drummer comes, ugging two valises up the street, and a ittlo negro trots along with two more. 'Hey, old man, rice birds?" "First of lie season," answers the caterer, nndtho ttlc wanderers are straightway embodied i the big wauderer, and the big wanerer pays $1 for the privilege, calls for eer, und the romance of the bobolink i& nded.? Atlanta Constitution. '