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Text: "Not slothful in business, fervent in
pirit, serving the Lord."?Romans xii, 5.
Industry, devoutness and Christian service
all recommended in that short text What,
do you really think they can ba conjoined.'
Oh. yes. There is no war between religion
na business, between bibles and ledgers, between
churches aud counting houses. On
the contrary, religion, accelerates business,
sharpens men's wits, sweeteus j
acerbity of disposition, fillips the slow blood
-of Dhlezmaties aud throws more velocity I
into alt The wheels of hard work. It gives
Abetter t alanciug to the judgment, it gives
strength to the wealth, it gives muscle to industry,
it gives consecrated fire to enthusiasm,
and in all the world and in all th.* ages
you cannot sh jw me a man whose honest
Business has been despoiled or hurt by his religion.
Anything that religion will
not help you 'do ought never to
be done. The industrial classes are
divided into three groups?producers, manufacturers,
traders. Producers, such as faraners
and miners. Maunt'acturers, su^h as
thosa who take the corn and turn it into
fool, or the silk or the flax and turn it into
clothing. Traders, those who profit by the
transfer or exchauge of that which is produced
or manufactured. Now, a business
man may belong to any one of these classes,
or to all of them. Whatever be your
^vocation?if you have to plm aud
calculate and bargain?if into your life there
come annoyances, vexations, exasperations,
disappointments, as well as gains, percentages
and dividends?if you are harassed with
multiplicity of occupation ; in other words,
if from Monday morning until Saturday
oighu, and from January to January you
are driven by relentless "duty aud obligation,
then you are a business man or a
business woman, and my subject this
morning is especially appropriated to your
case. There is an idea abroad that business
life is a sort of prison in which a man is incarcerated.
or it is a strife into which he goes
sometimes half armed. But I shall show you
tuis morning, n tioa will neip me, mat uumnes?
life is a glorious tdncation, and if 1 shall
be divinely ujded I will rub some of the
wrinkles from your brow and uustrap some
of the burdens from your back.
Do you know that the time is coming
w&en the religion of Jesus Christ is going to
take entire pos ession of the business world?
Two rivals in busines did each othor as much
barm as tbey could for many years. Thov
were in the same line of busines and on the
same street. Aft r a while one of them was
converted to God, and ho immediately asked
himself: "Now, how shall I treat my rival?
Well," he said to himsolf, "I will
treat him in this way: When a man comes to
my store and wants a style of goods tliat I
have not, I'll send him over to my rival." A
very hard thing to do. But the gra?e of
Cod will help a man do anything that is
right So the plan was carried out, and this
ri?al in business found customers coming
from the other store and asked about it, aud j
found that they were recommended by his |
old rival. So lie called on him, aud
said: "How's this? We warred against
each other for many years, and now I hear
you are sending me customers. Thoso who
cannot get certain styles of goods in your
store you are sending to mine." Then the
rival told him how he had been converted by
the grace of God, and he had lea ned the |
law of kindness and love and generosity, and
then they shook hands, and it was not many
weeks before the other man came into the
Kingdom of God, and for many years
they did business in quietu ie and
^ftmsneritv aud Christian kindness on
the .same street. And tliat principle is going
to submerge the whole earth, perhaps not in
your day uorniine.but it will come asecrtainly
a? there is a God in H aven, and the (Jospel
of Jesus Christ is to triumph over all
natious. If we do not seo it peihaps our
children will see it. But, taking things as they
are, I want to show you, in the first
place, that business life is a school
for Christian energy. God starts us in the
world with a certain amount of raw material
out of which wo are to hew our character."
Every faculty needs to be reset,
rounded, sharpened up. After our young
folks have graduated from s.-hools aud colleges
and universities they huve to have a
higher education, which they can only get
by the collisious and the raspings of every day
life. Knergy of character is wrought outouly
. in the fire. After business men have been in
the.-? adversities ten, twenty or thirty years,
they have an energy which cannot be measured
by weight* or ladders or plummets. It
can scale any height. It can plummet any
depth. It can thrash any obstacle. Now, oh
business man, you havo in this school of
active life gained a great deal of energy.
Why has God put vou in that school, and
why has this development gone on?
Merely that you may gain more dollars
and build large fortunes and sp?nd
your days higgling and chatting?
Ah, no. God intended you to bring atl that
energy into bis service, w bat would occur
in tbese cities if all the business talent were
brought into the Kingdom of God? Do you
not know tbat in many of our churches the
vast majority of work is being done by those
who have not had any especially opportunity,
while in all our churches there is a vast amount
of energy settling into comparative idleness.
The deepest streams do not seem to be turning
the mill wheel or hauling on factory bands.
Do you not know that GoJ demands the best
lamb out of every flock: the richest sheaf
out of every harvest: the best men of every
generation, and surely, in a cause in whicp
Locke and Mansfield and Newton were proud
to be engaged.you and I need not be asham?d
to invest our interest. Oh. for fewer idlers
and for more workers. Oh, that the immense,
the almost infinite business energy of
these cities might be consecrated to God.
i remark further that business life is a
school for Christian patience. During ona
day's engagement how many things t > perturb
and annoy and perplex. Bargains will
rub. Men will break their engagements.
Collecting agents will ccme back empty
handed. Tricksters in business will take ad
vantage of the hird timss when they do not J
pay in good times. Gocds put on the
wrong shelf. Cash book anl money J
drawer in a quarrel. People intending no
harm going shopping, having no idea of
making purchases, or after a while trying to
break the dozen. Goods ordered for an especial
e nergen?y and not coming, or c oming !
damaged in the transportation. More
counterfeit bills in the d awer. Anothr
ridiculous panic. Other men's notes
to pay. Annoyance after annoyance,
and under the pressure hundreds
and thousands of men go down. They become
cross and cranky and pugnacious, and
after a while peoplo" leave their store and
their name becomes a positive detestation.
On the other hand, I could mention the
name - of a score of merchants, business men
in all departments, who have been brightened
up by the r rocess. They can look back
to the time * when they gave retort for
retort, sarcasm for sarcasm, wrong for
wrong, but not now. They remember when
they had to bite their lip. They remember
when they thought of the stinging answer
they would like to have sent. They remember
just how they could have overthrown
their antagonists in business. But they have
conquered themselves and when a man has
conquered himself ho has conquered the
greatest obsta les in human life. He
has suppressed all this. It has been a
school of patience to him. Christ camt
through all the annoyances of his life ana
said to him: "Let patieaco have her perfecl '
work; in patience possess your soul" Then J
are men here to 'lay who under all this perturbation
and annoyance of life have beeu
mellowed, have been ripened for more use- |
fulness and rirened for Heaven. It ha3 been
a. school for patience all these years. Archibald
Sloane wa3 one of the chief business men
of Philadelphia. When I resided in that city,
though he had b^en gone many years, the
story of his integity and of his kindness and
of his nobility of character was in the air.
He hallo tall his property. He had been
in a firm who had n jt done right, and to ,
meet their wron-4 Archibald Sloane had sacrificed
the la<-t dollar of his private fortune, |
payin? eve/ything that th9y owed. In 1
Philadelphia he nm in prosperity, and tae
story of his goodness, of his integrity, of his
kindnoss, was everywhere told. Once he
went to collect a debt, and ho came back
without the money. Some one said: "Did
m yo:i eet the money?" He replied: "No, I
didn't got it. I went to the man's house and
I saw thev were just packing up their goods,
and they were just about to move t'. Te -as,and
were going to start anew in life; and I saw
the wife, and I ?aw the children, and I made
up my mind if 1 seized their property I would
take the bread out the children's mouths,
and I could not do it, and I came away
without saying one word about it. "Ah,"
says some one, "that isn't business," and
I "have heard it before that "business is
business." After a while you and I will
come up before the throne of God in
judgment. How it Christ should say
to us: "Right is right and wrong is wrong.
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You did a thousand wrong things In your
life: you neglected a thousand dut:e3. Depart,
ye cursed! Business is business!"
There is an old hook that says something
like this: "With what judgment ye meto it
Thall be measured to you again." I would
rather take th3 opportunity, the chan:e of
Archibald Slcaue in the judgmonfc.
Mysubjcct al>o impresses mo with the fact
that business life is a school for the obtaining
of very important knowledge. Business men
for the most part do not rea 1 books. The
business men of America do not average one
book apicce a year. Yet they are nil intelligent
if they have succeeded?intelligent on
questions of" fman?e and jurisprudence and
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geozrapny mm i-iuiij uuM iuumiu. " .j ?. v.
compelled to intelligence bv the activities of
business life. Often some of thos? -who have
large labraries know nothing about them.
Their libraries are established in the same
way ns when in England a library was to be
established and a Secretary wroto to a bookseller:
"Send my master six feet of thoology
and about as much metaphysics and something
like a yard of old civil law." And yet,
though they as a class do not read many
books, they are compelled by their style
of life to intelligence. Misfortune is a
liarsh schoolmistress, and when a pupil
will not learn she striko? him with irrevocable
loss. You put $3,00) in business and it is
goue. You say "these $5,00.) are all wasted."
No, they were the tuition?expensive schooling?but
it is worth it. Traders in grains
are compelled to be intelligent in regard to
foreign harvests. Traders in fruits
are compelled to be intelligent in
regard to the prospects of tropical
fruits. Manufacturers of American goods
are compelled to be intelligent in regard to
the tariff on importo 1 articles. The question
that I want to pre ent to you this morning
is. have you applied your intelligence in the
Christian direction? Trading with foreign
lands, are you n >t interested in foreign missions?
Understanding how in business there
is so much fraud and - chicanery
and double dealing, are you advocating
the Gospel of Jesus Christ to eradicate
all wrong and irradiate all
darkness and correct all mistakes and up
lift all wretcheduess! Understanding as you
do all the intricacies of business, do you understand
that there is something for the soul
which will last after all bills of exchange
and invoices and rent rolls shall have crumbled
up aud be.'u consumed in the fires of a
judgment day. Wise for time, are you
wise, my brother, for eternity? "What
sliall it profit a man if he gain the whole
world and then lose his soul'"'
I go further and remark to you that business
life is a school for integrity. It requires
more business grace n w than it did in the
time when there were no stock gamblers and
woolen was woolen and silk was silk and
men were men. There n n*er was a time
when there were so many temptations to
s'oundrelism as there are t^-day. There
are so many men doing business on a wrong
scale in all department; that if a
tnr.n starts cut and stake; a straight path for
hinvsolf it is callel verdancy, it is ascribed
to lack of tact, business ta?t. You
know bettor thin I do how true all this is,
and how you. the Christian man, trying to
live faithful to God an 1 do justice to your
soul anl the snuls of others, you know how
many obstacles you have to run against In
the City of >ew York a young man
was soiling goods and after hs had
sold a silk dres? to a lady he
said: "Madame, I feel bound to tell you
that there is a fracture in that silk." "Why,"
she said, "'then I don't want it." She departed
without the goods. The head man
of the firm came ani said: "What was that
customer wanting/" l,Well," tho other replied.
''she bought this dress, but I felt bound
to tell her tlnre was a fractur j in the silk,
so she went off without it." The
business man then went into his
counting room ana wrote a letter to me
younj: man's father intbe country: "Come to
town quickly ami take your boy." The old
farmer came down to the city in great agitation,
wondering what his boy had been
doing, and ho went into the store, and the
head man of the firm recited all the circumstances
and said: "Your son will
never make a merchant." Tho old farmer
said: "Is that all? 13 that all my
boy has been doing, pointing out the imperfections
in the goods? Well, I always was
proud of John aid I am prouder now than
e>er. John get your bat and come home."
And I tell young men it is always safe to do
right and it is never safe to do wrong. God
will never let a young man like that suffer.
Oh, how hard sometimes it is to take the
straight path when so many are divergent.
And yet there are those. I beli sve they
are in the majority. I believe there is a
higher style of commercial ethics than ever
before, aud I believe thoy are in the majority,
the men who can say: "I never misstate
the value of goods, I never covered up
the imperfection in a fabric. In all of my
money there is not a dishoue t farthing. God
help me." If you do not know such men I
am sorry for your acquaintances. I know
many such. They are as hon.'St as tha day
they sold their fiist yard of cloth, or
their fir.->t firkin of butter. So it will be all
the way thrcu^h. The school of life has developed
them. They can i-ay their prayers
without being haunted by the chink of dishonest
dollars. They can read thoir bible
without thinking of the time when with a lie
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Houao. They can think of death without
having their teeth c hatter at the thought
of a judgment|*vhere defraudors and jockeys
aud tricksters aud charlatans shall be doubly
damned. They can read without flinching:
"As a partridge setteth on eggs and hatchetn
them not, so rii hes get by fraud, a man shall
leave them in the midst of his days, and at
the end he shall be a fool." Are you Ming
developed upward by the school of
business life, or are you being
developed downward; I was reading
yesterday in an oil book of a scene that oocurred
in New York City. Mr. N was
in a group of gentlemen, aud he said: "I? I
had $5,000 I rou'd r'oub'o 1 ho money in a
abort time la business, but 1 don e Know
where I shall get the $5,(DO." There was a
Georgia planter standing by, and he said:
"You want $5,000 do you?" "Yes." '"What
security, can you give for it?" "Well," ha
said, "the word of an honost man."
"I'll take that as security," said
the Georgia planter. So he gave
him a check for $5,0)0. Time passed on and
the Georgia planter was in business trouble.
His fortunes had failed and he must raise
$5,000, and he said to himself: "Now, I will
go to that man in Nsw York whom I helped
and I think he will help me." He came to
New York. He told the man his perplexity.
He said: "1 loaned you $5,0)0
and now I wish you would loan
me $5,003." "Well," said tin other
"what security will you give me?" He replied:
"The word of an honest man." "I can't
let you have it on that ground." He did not
let him have it. Business life, how it develops
some men up aud how it develops
others down. What vast multitudes are
ground to powder, when God intended all
Clie hardships, all tue annoyances, an
vexations and all the activities an oppartunlty
for developing the soul for usefulness
and for Heaven.
Now, if these things be 3D, it seems to me
that we ought to enlarge our sy.apathies toward
business men. It is a shame that in our
pulpits we do not ofteuer s>eak of their
trials, their misfortunes and their hardships.
The fact is, the men who toil with the
hand are not always sympathetic with
those who toil with the brain. The
man who raises tha corn and the
wheat is apt to think that the gram merchant
gets his money easily. Does he? I aiu
sorry to see that the list is often jealous of
the brain. Plato and Aristotle were so opposed
to commerce that they pronounced it
the curse of the nations, and they advised
that no city ever be built nearer the ssaboard
than ten miles. Bnt you and 1 have learned
that there are no more faithful or
more consecrated men than those to be
fonnd in business life, and that they lift a
burden heavier than the carrying of a hod
up the ladder on the wall, and that they get
out into exposures sharper than the northeast
wind aud tWt they climb heights greater
than the Alp3 or the Himalaya, aud God is
going to meet them at the last an I say to
them: "Well done, good and faithful servants;
you have boon faithful over
a few things, I will make thee ruler
over many things; enter into the
joy of the Lord.'' If what I am saying is
true, then I enjoin upon you to quit all fretfulness
about business matters. Is there not
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rather have than all the worlily success of
801343 m9n you know? Bssidi that, if busine^
life be a school, ought you not ba thankful to
God for the whip of discipline' The more
notes you have to pay, the larger the obligations
you have to meet ; the greater the uncertainties
of business life, the better for you
if by the grace or God you conquer. How do
1 know it? I know it by the principle the
hotter the fire the better the retiuing. Who
are they before the throne? There is a
vast multitude of business men who were
in perplexities iust like yours. We are
very apt to put a hal j around the departed,
but I tell you there are men in glory now
who had the same battles to fi ;ht in business
Hi# that you ar<j fighting, and they
triumphed in the grace of God. They werb
cheated out of everything but their coffins.
They w.ro sued. They were ejected from
the premises. They were throttled by con
stables, with whole pack3 of writs. Taey
had to confess judgment Upon tha most sacred
family relic the auctioneer's mallet came
down?going, going, gone! And yet they
are triumphant before the throne of Uod.
And do you think the Lord has no regard for
you? He knows every item of your worldly
business better than you know it yourself,
and having delivered them. He will deliver
you. I had a very good friend in business
who wa3 always unfortunate. He
8?emed to have fine business faculty.
| He was or excellent; cnaracter, ana one 01
I tbe noblest man I ever knew. But just as
I you sometimes obsarve in life in regard to
some one else: everything he put hi3 hand to
was a failure. Atter a while, under the
ftress and burden he died. When I heard ol
his death the first words I uttered were:
"Good! he has got rid of the sheriff."
Aud there are those multitudes before the
throne. When the question comes up in
regard to them the angels standing on the
I sea of glass answer: " Thesi are they who
came out of great tribulation and had. their
robes washed and made white in the blood
of the Lamb."
If what I have been saying i3 true, then
you ought to cultivate business grace. You.
want to offer such a prayer as Mr. Ashley
offered just before the great charge at the
battle oi EdgehilL In the presence of hia
troops he knelt down and said: "Lord God,
Thou knowest how busy I am going to b3
to-day. If I forget thee, do not Thou forget
me." What a prayer that would be for yon
to start out with every morning of your business
life: "Lord I will be very busy to-day,
If I forgat Thee, forget not Thou
me." Commercial ethics, business honor,
laws of trade are good enough in their place,
but there will ome a time wheu the world
will slip away from you. It will be a time
when it will seam as if all the devils of darkness
were after your soul. Uuder that
influence how many have gona down?
Some forged, some maltreated their friends,
some cursed their enemies, some had their
name born amid scandals and their
name was pronounced with detestation.
They were ruined by business
life. You could count up a great many
of them. Others have gone through
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ail UQScaonan. jiibu uumo uau nuw imon
store. They said: "Well, if there ever was
a Christian trader that is one." Integrity
kept the books. Integrity waited on the customers.
A light from the throne of God
flashed iuto his sho v window. Wrath never
stamped that floor, nor did sly dishonesty
ever cover up the imperfections of goods.
Love to God,love t ;mea were the controlling
principles of that man. After a while, one
morning the shatters are not let down from
the store window. The bolt3 are not removed
from the door. People pUssing say: "What
is the matter!"' Business acquaintances
stop and say: "Why is this store closed/"
They co:ne up closer and they
read a card on the door saying: "Closed on
account of th> death of one of the firm."
That day ii* is talked all through business circles
how that a good man is gone. Boards
of trade pass resolution* of sympathy, and
churches pray: "Holp Lord, for the "Godly
man. ceaseth." He has made his last
bargain. He has suffered his last loss. Ha
has ached with his last fatigue. Hi
Christian industries will bleis his children
now that he is gone; and bequests to the
Kingdom of God will gather many sons into
glory. Everlasting rewards for earthly
discipline. "There the wicked cease from
troubling and the weary aro at rest."
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
The Buffalo Bug.
The name of all others that rhymes best with
rug
Is the name of a mite, called the Buffalo
D..?t
U Ufti
It's a hairy, horny, and horrible thing,
Though, thanks to kind nature, it cannot
sting.
It can run like p. fox, or creap like a snail,
Whilst its appetite never was know to fail.
Your carpets, your mats, your coats and
your hats,
'Twill quickly devour them just like the
rats,
Slip into a cranny and hide like a thief;
And, as true as 1 live, it is my belief
The creature is only a witch in disguise,
Who delights in taking some folks by surprise,
' Who delights in making mischief and
trouble,
Then eluding one's grasp like a blown bubble?
It's a waste of your time, your strength and
your skill,
The Buffalo Bug to hunt and to kilL
'Twill make its appearance, some unlucky
day,
When you are sure you have chased the
whole herd away;
'Twill haunt.you and daunt you until you
will cry:
"I wish, in my heart, I could lie down and
die!"
?Good Hnusekp.erjinn.
Sauerkraut.
Emilia Custer writing in Good, Housekeeping
about German cooking says:
Next in order cornea a recipe for sauerkraut.
I can see somo of the readers
smile, and hear them say: ''Oh, ofcour,?e,
I thought that was coming! "Whoever
caa think of German cooking without
being reminded of sauerkraut? Who
wants to eat the nasty stuff?" Now, I
cannot see that sauerkraut is more nasty
than anything else that has to undergo a
chemical change before it is considered
ready for use. Beer nnd wine have to
be fermented, and the odor that emanates
from them during this process is not
alway3 an agreeable one. Tainted meat,
as long as it comes under the head of
game, is eaten and relished by many,
then why be disgusted with sauerkraut,
which is merely cabbage which has become
sour (not putrid)? The popular
idea that it is put into casks and stamped
down with the feet has about as much
truth in it as the one that bakers knead
the dough with their xeet. 1 have never I
seen it done myself, nor do I know of
any one that has seen it. Of course,
when it is prepared at home that objection
cannot be urged. However, the
following recipes are given for the benefit
of those who are cosmopolitan enough
to eat it and like it:
Trim off the coarse outer leaves of as
many heads of cabbags as you wish to
use; quarter them and take out the stalks,
then shave each piece very tine onacolda'aw
cutter; when you have cut up one
head of cabbage lay it in a large stoue
pot or wooden tub, sprinkle about as
much salt over this layer as you would
use in boiling it?no more, if anything
a little less, as, if it gets too much salt,
the cabbage will probably not turn sour
?and pound each layer down with a
potato-masher until the water comes.
Proceed in like manner with each successive
layer, and then cover with a cloth,
board, ai.d heavy stone The sauerkraut
should be looked after once a week, the
scum carefully removed, and if the water
ovn linil n little a-lit. and wfttfir.
and when cold pour over it.
This is onu method, and the simplest
and best. The other is more of what
some would call "an incongruous mixture.'1
The cabbage is cut the same as above,
then, instead of putting salt between the
layers, green grapes, small lady anples.
wholo peppers and caraway seeds are
put in, merely sprinkling the cask or tub
with salt.
There are various ways of cooking
suuerkraut. One way is to cook a nice
piece of fresh pork in it, and this, with
mashed potatoes, makes a very good
plain dinner.
Useful Hints.
Crackers that have been softened bj
exposure will become crisp and fresh
again by being heated in au oven a few
minutes.
Cover house plants with newspapars
before sweeping; also, give them a little
ammonia once a week in the water you
put on them.
To prevent children losing their mi
tens or gloves sew on each one a long
ribbon, and fasten the ribbon to the inSide
the coat -rleevej
"re ligious_ readingT
Compensation.
The,' there may be shades of sadness,
There are golden gleams of gladness;
There is joy amid tha sighing,
Laughter ringing through the crying,
Love to love with smites replying,
Every day.
You may have your little crosses,
You may meet with little losses;
Never mind?each cross will lighten,
Grief in all your losses brighten,
If your hold on God shall tighten
Every day.
Our Pattern of Faltli.
Faith is a life of assuretAonfidence of
an unseen hope, and surely never -was
there an unseen life which wasso entirely
dom nated by that unseen hope as his life,
who "for the joy that was set before him
endureth the cross, despising the shame."
This Jisus, in absoluteness of his dependence
upon the Father, in tho completeness
of his trust in him, in the sub-,
mission of his will to that supremo command,
in the unbroken communion which
he held with God, in the vividness with
which the uuscen ever burned before him
and dwarfed and extinguished all the
lights of the present, and in the respect
"which ho had unto the recompsnse of
reward," nerving him for all pain and
shame, has set before us all the example
of a life of faith, and is our pattern, as
in everything, in this too.
How blessed it is to feel when we reach
out our hands and grope in the darkness
for the unseen hand, when we try to bow
our wills to that divine will; when we
try to look beyond the mists of "that
dim s-pot which men call earth," and to
discern the land that is very far off: and
when we try to nerve ourselves for duty
nnrl snr?rifirr> hv hrirrhh visons of a future
hope, that on this pnth of faith too,
when He "putteth forth his sheep He
gocth before them," and has bade us do
nothing which lie him3clf has not; done.
"I will put my trust in Him," he says
first, and then He turn? to us, and commands,
believe in God, believe also in
Mo."?Rev. Alexander Alaclaren, D. D.
The Story of "Come to Jetns."
The Open Air Mis-ion is one of London's
most active and ubiquitous institutions
for carrying the gospel to the
masses. During the summer months the
gospel is preached on Sunday evenings
from a thousand different standpoints.
Much of the success of the mission h
due, under God, to the indefatigable labors
of the faithful secretary, Mr. Gavin
ICirkham. At his request the Ecv. Newman
Hall, a prince among out-door
iironrlinra rrtppnflt? nfl fl TPSSPfl th(> TlllS
sionaries, giving some of bis own expjricncc
in the work. These were interesting
throughout, and especially so in Air.
Hall's recital of the origin of Lis wellknown
tract, "Come to Jesus." He was
settled in Hull at the time ho wrote it.
But here is the story in his own words:
"I remember when I was in Hull that;
every year, after the London missionary
society anniversary, a very worthy citizen?a
Scotchman he was?used to dino
all those who took part in it, and after
the dinner the hospitable 6cot set out.
the table with long pipes and whisky
toddy. Now I am not going to say s.
word about this?all was done with the
utmost decorum?but I was a T. T. and
didn't like the smell of the tobacco
smoke. So I whispered to a neighbor
like-minded, 'Lot's go out to the slums
for hilf an hour and preach;' and we
were there in five minutes. Of course
we borrowed a chair?and I got on it
without thinking very much about a
text, but all round were children and
the fathers and mothers of them, and I
said,
'COME TO JEISOS,'
and sang it, too. Now these wcie somo
of my heads? What is meant by coming?
"Why ought we to come? Am I worthy
to come? How am I to come? Who are
to come? And when I got down I said
to myself, 'That's a strange sort of a
sermon; but I'll preach it fiom the pulpit
next Sunday.' And I did. There
were thirty heads in it; but I did not
go at it by first, second, etc. Just then
I had rhcumatic fever, and it brought
me to a skeleton?I was getting better
and then relapsed?so I went home to
Maidstone for a change of air. As I
lay there tied to the bed I began to think
about ray serinon and its thirty heads. I
thought now if 1 fold paper so and so,
and so and so, that would give just 04
pages, and if I take two pages for every
head, with a title page, a hymn or so,
that would just do. So I began to write
my book, hoping it might suit, liko
'The Sinner's Friend,' written by my
father. I took one day to each head. I
wrote out the fint, and counting the
lines found it was just twice the right
length; so it had to be rewritten,
pruned, and all the big words taken
out. And so I went on day by day, and
by the time the book was firmhed my
health was reinstated. Well, I got it
printed down there, and put a publishers'
name on it; you know you must do
that?and I ventured to order 2,000?1
thought I might sell one and give the
other away; but what do you think the
publishers wrote to inj? We want
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80 the sale went on, so that n >w I believe
three millions of it have bscD
printed, and it has been translated into
a hundred hinguages and more I believe.
Now have I not good reasons to
thank God for open air preaching?"
The Cause of His Longevity.
A representative of the Pall Mall Oazttta
recently interviewed the eminent
chemist, II. Chevreul, who had just completed
his one hundredth year. "He attributes,"
says the Gazette, 'his extreme
longevity to his simple and regular system
of living, and to moderation in his
habits, liarly in youth he contracted a
great repugnance for wine and liquor of
all kinds, and has never allowed a drop
to cross his lips?a point for the teetotalers.
He has never smoked, either?one
for non-smokers." '
g- ; 'y TEMPERANCE
DEPARTMENT.
Little by Little.
"Little by little," the tempter said,
As a dark and cunning snare he spread
For the young and unwary feet
"Little by little, and day by day,
I will tempt the careless soul away
Until the ruin is complete."
Little by little, sure and slow,
We fashion our future of bliss or woe
i!uS the present passes away.
Our feet are climbing the stairway brieht
Up to the regions of endless light,
Or gliding downward into the night,
"Little oy little, day by day."
?Youth's Temperance Banner,
How I "Would Paint a Bar-Room.
If I had the adorning of a bnr-room,
Bays tho Rev. T. M. Griffith, it should be
done in this wise:
On one side I would paint "Death on
the Pale Horse," his arm wielding the
thunderbolt, the fiery hoofs of his flying
iteed treading down everything fair and
lovely; the Garden of Eden before him,
ft blackened waste behind him.
On the other side I would draw the
picture of a "wretched" hovel, once a
happy home; the roof broken in, the
windows stuffed with rags; in the doorway
a weeping wife, with 'ragged children
clinging to her skirts, pitcously beseeching
her for bread. In the distance
thould be seen tho once happy husband
t.nd father, now a reeling drunkard, ot !
his way from the village tavern to thi
hut he calls his home.
Back of the bar, in full view of thi
bloated creaturcs that stand with th?
cup to their lips, I would paint "a com
pany of demons," in the death dance ol
fiendish hilarity, around a fire kindled
with the flames of alcohol, and over it ]
would write in lurid letters: "Moderaf*
drinking lights the flame and burns tc
the Id west hell."
Opposite the bar should be a "lonclj
und dishonored grave;" a lightning
blasted tree should stretch its leafless
branches over it, and on some withered
bough should perch the melancholf owl
hoot' ng to the wintry moon. At the foot
of the grave should kneel the angel of
mercy, with hands and eyes upraised to
the pitying heavens; and at the head of
the grave should be the angel of justice,
carving, with stern, relentless hand, upon
the iiomb?tone these fearful words of
doom: '"No drunkard shall inherit the
kingdom of God."
In the intervening spaces I would
have? here a grinning skeleton and thert
u broken heart, a shattered hourglass, s
f tranded boat, a torch extinguished in
Klnnl-nnca r\t-flnrlrnAM while from ovei
the door-way and from the ceiling should
look down all kinds of woeful human
laces?pnlc, imploring, wrathful, deadly,
despairing. .
The walU of the room should be shroudnd
in sackcloth, and the floor covered J
with ashes, and the bar wreathed in
weepiing willow and gloomy cypress,
whili* all the vessels that held the damning
fluid should be black?black as the
gatcii of doom.
Then I would call the rumseller, if he
would, to take his place behind tho bar:
and though a few besotted wrctches,
hardened in crime, might stagger up to
Ihe bar and drink defiance to thc!r fate,
yet I should hope that the young,the
pride of mothers nnd the light of homes,
might turn away as though they had
caught a giimpso of the infernal world.
The Drink Habit as the Enemy of
the Sunday-School.
Rev. TV. T. Sabine, D. D.. is writing
a series of able and valuable articles in
the Episcopal Recorder, of Philadelphia,
upon ' The Drink Habit an Enemy of
tne uuurcn, lrom one 01 wmcn wc latte
the following concerning the drink habit
and the Sunday-school:
"The drinking usages prevalent among
us impair and, to a great extent, destroy
the influence of the Sunday-school.
Thousands of children leaving the Sunday-school
return to homes where
these usages prevail in varied stages
of development. In bo far as
they determine the home iufluence their
effect is to dissipate and destroy the effort
and instruction of the faithful teacher.
The Sunday-school teacher has uo
more subtle and influential foe than the
bottle in the home, vitiating in the degree
of its use the moral atmosphere of
the household, and impairing and perverting
parental character and example.
"As the result of an investigation instituted
some years ago, it was ascer
taineci that, or iu,3bi inmates ot prisons
and penitentiaries in England, Scotland,
and Wales, not fewer than 6,572 had
previously received instruction in Sunday
sichools, and upon pursuing the inquiry,
it was almost uniformly found
that, the use of intoxicating liquor was
the cause, directly or indirectly, of so
many Sabbath-school scholars becoming
criminals.
News and Notes.
The British Museum Library has 400
temperance publications.
A home cursed with a drinking father
is almost a hell upon earth.?Prohibition
Banner.
Tho Duke of Westminister has consented
to accept the oflico of President of
the London Temperance Hospital, as th<
successor of the late Samuel Morley.
The Toronto Muil,the'leading conservative
paper of Canada, liai lately declared
itself unqualifiedly in favor of the
prohibition of the liquor traffic.
Tlie Christian I untrue'or says; "A
saloon can no more be run without using
.... tlrnn o flftiirinrr.mil] Wlthmifc
uf UUJJ I
wheat or a saw-mill without logs. The
only questioc is: "Whose boys?your boys
or mine; our boys or our neighbors'?"
"The extensive hop region of Central
New York,'"says the .!nmc>town Journal,
"wi I produce scarcely any hops this
year;" but diugs are plenty, ami the
brewers will doubtless produce their full
quota of beer. ? TKtVnrw.
The complete prohibition of the liquor
tralic would be a great hygienic as well
as moral measure. It would save thousands
of peoplefrom di-eae and untimely
graves. From a health stand point, it
would be one of tho test thiugs that
could happen.
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| "Soldaderas"
I There is one useful regulation in the
Mexican aimy which is unknown to the
United States; to each regiment is attached
a certain number of soldadera3?
women who live in the barracks and accompany
the soldiers on march, or even
into battle. These women must not be
confounded with the ordinary camp followers,
for they arc regularly enrolled,
being paid by the Government. Theit
duties are to wash and mend clothe3, attend
to the sick, and while in action to
help the surgeons take care of the
wounded and give water to the thirsty.
Every soldadera must be a respectable,
married woman, and be attached to the
regiment to wnich her husband belongs.
It is the duty of the superior officers to
see that thess women are treated with
proper respect.
During Maximilian's usurpation, when
Juarez, his Cabinet Ministers and a few
I /oifrKful q/1 Virt rA nt a lhn/3 Kaan fn
AUIblltUl (tuugiguio 11UVI l/LUU 1>V
fly from the capital, the fugitives one
day halted in a clearing at the edge of a
forest. President Juarez was reclining
on a fallen log and his Ministers seated
on the grass before him. The Captain
of his meager bodyguard had first sent
off the four soldaderas to forage for dini
ner, because provisions were scarce, and
then, posting his men in proper posiI
tions, he stood as sentinel at a proper
distance from the statesmen who were in
| the act of holding council. One of the
j Ministers?the poet-politician, Don Guil[
lermo Prieto?was in the act of expre?,
sing his opinion relative to a certain
I measure which had been proposed when
the solemn conclave was interrupted by
shouts of laughter, mingled with deeptoned
oaths expressed in very good
French and exceedingly ba l Spanish.
All started to their feet, and the captain
of the guard, summoning his men,
hastily entered the forest whence the
sounds proceeded. There were some
moments of painful suspense, and then
the four Roldaderas appeared carrying?
head and heels?a French spy or messeuger,
whose arms and legs they had
securely pinioned with their bosas?long
cotton scarfs which are worn by all the
wnmiin nf the lnwflr classes here. Thev
laid their prisoner before the President;
then the elder soldadera said respectfully:
"Excellency, this man, not knowing
we were soldaderas (these women
wear no uniform*, but supposing us to
be aldeanas, approached and asked us so
many questions about you and your
honorable ministers that we at once suspected
him to be a spy, especially as he
speaks just like the wicked men who
have invaded our country; so instead of
foraging for your dinner we just caught
the man and brought him to you, because
he may have in his pockets papers
that your Excellency would rather have
than a fat turkey or even a young pig."
The surmises of the soldaderas proved
correct. The French bearer of dispatches,
who traveled alone in order to
avoid suspicion, was en route to a neighboring
fortress, bearing to its commandant
the intelligence that Eenito Juarez,
accompanied by a few adherents and
"an insignificant body guard," was trying
to make his way to Paso del Norte.
The order read: "Be on the qui vive for
the rebels; if you capture them shoot all
immediately."?Chicago Herald.
An Ominons Co 112 h.
In the smoking salon of a "West-bound
sleeping car was a man of about thirtyfive
years?a wealthy, active-looking
mau of a lively spirit and a ready tongue.
Story-telling was the order of the hour,
and the traveler in question did more
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tnan nis snare, ana wna su :u uispmy ui
vivacity and humor that his fellow passengers
instinctively sut him down in
their mental note-books as one of the
jolliest and happiest men they had had
the pleasure of meeting for many a day.
Suddenly, and in the midst of one of
his liveliest stories, he was compelled by
coughing to pause in his recital. He did
not at once resume, and when his cxp?ctant
listeners looked at him more
closely to discover the cause of the delay
they saw that he was as pale as a sheet
and trembling violently. In his eyes
was a wild expression, and his lips
twitched nervously.
''He is ill?bring a glass of water,"
someone cried.
But the story-teller waved a negative
gesture with his hand, and made a visible
effort to control himself and speak.
"It?it is nothing," ho said, after a
few moments. "It is nothing, gentlemen,
but that cough. Did you hear it? It was
not much, was it? And yet to me it
means a good deal. Boys, six years ago
I had three brothers and two sisters.
Now I nave neither brother nor sister. I
am the last of a family of six children.
One by one they took consumption and
quickly fell be:ore the destroyer. First
Emma, then Clarence, next George and
Harry within two months of each other,
and finally Kate, my favorite sister.
Within three years they all died. And
now?it is my turn, ic nas ueen a
peculiarity of the work of that terrible
disease in our family that in every case
it first made its presence manifest by a
peculiar cough. It was so with all of
them. It seems that at least it is so with
me.
"Boys, that cough which came to me
a few moments ago was the first warning.
Oh, I know its dread sound only
too well. With'n nine months at the
furthest I, too,shall be called awjy. But
why care? Death must come some time.
We are all in the same boat, and?let me
sec, where was I? I will finish my story.
Oh, yes, I have it."
The story was finished. The teller
seemed to throw into it all of his old-time
spirit. "With an almost reckless abandon
he gave a richness to the dialect of
the anecdote and a delicious emphasis to
every telling word. His face, too, was
wreathed in smiles as he reached the end
of the ludicrous tale. But not a laugh
was heard. Among all of his listeners,
thejre was not a dry eye.?not one who
could for his life have to'd what the
story was about. "What was a bit of com
edy in the presence of a tragedy in real
life like that??Chicago Ilernld.
Grim Wit.
A couple of London garroters were sentenced
to the gallows. One was a
I Frenchman, the other a Prussian. The
fatal platform was crcctcd a few metres
above the level of the Thames. The
I Frpnrhm-in's turn came first. He pre
sented his neck, the noose was placed
I around it. add two seconds later he wa?
, launched into S| ace. But, unexpected
; luck! the rope snapped. The bandit
dropped into the water and swam for his
life. The crowd applauded. ThePrus|
sian had looked on meanwhile with perfect
composure; then, turning to the executioner,
he said: "I say, find me a better
quality of rope?I can't swim."
What Made Him Proud.
He didn't jump off the Brooklyn Bridge,
Aud he swam not the rapids cool.
He balanced him not on a fearful ridge,
He wasn't so big a fool.
But he is as proud as a row of pins,
In his feeling3 there's none to compare;
For bis squash was bigger than Neighbor
, Winn's
! And be took th9 first pi ize at the fair,
i ?GoodaWa Sun,
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THE MORGUE. .|||
WHERE NEW YORK'S UJfKNOWH 1
DEAD ARE RECEIVED. 1
Routine of the Day's Worlc?Iioolcr 1
in^r for Relatives and Friends? 1
Coronets and Doctor.?Pho- I
to^raphing a Corpse. 1
The day's business at the Morgue be- I
gins at 7 o'clock in the morning, when I
assistant Joe Fogarty comes on duty. j
Within half an hour Keeper A. N. Whifc? j
appears, and both remain until 7 o'clock 1
in the evening, when the establishment 1
is left in caro of the night watchman, |
Capt. Donovan, until.timc for Fogarty to J
appear again. The earliest business in j
the day is the reception of the bodies of J
Bucn persons as nave aica in Jtielievue I
Hospital in the early morning hours. I
Th.se that have died during the night I
Capt. Donovan receives, but there are on I
an average three to be sent down to the I
dead house each day as soon as its I
keepers take charge. The hospital at- I
tendants wash and prepare the bodies so 1
as to make them presentable. By the I
time they have been put iuto pine coffins j
a call from a pol'ce station for the city 1
hearse may possibly bo heard. These I
calls, however, are rather less than might j
readily be supposed, hardly averaging J
more than one a day. That is explained
by the facts that the victims of sanguin- J
ary affrays of the night have generally been
disposed of in some way hours be- ]
fore this time : that the businesses in- 1
volving likely changes of fatal accidents
have not yet got fairly to work, and that . 4
it is rather too early in the day to find
bodies floating in the river. About 9 Bj
o'clock the various hospitals, other than
Believue, telephone for the city hearse
to come and gather in their friendless ]
dead, who, however, will hardly aver- ? -j
age more than one per diem from all. i
It may seem a little strange that Belle- rqi&k
vue's mortality should be so greatly in
excess of all the others combined, but
the explanation is not di'Ticult.
In the first place, of those who die in A
the other hospitals there are compara- , j
tively few who have not surviving friends
to care for their remains otherwise than , v|
by sending them to the city's dead
house and Potter's Field. In the second
place, it has been conclusively demon- H
strated that it is tho established prac4-lnrt
wr\?wcm flMn/VAAtifl it* -
yJL JUUUg OUi^tUUS ILL uiw aiuuuiuuvi I
service of several of the hospitals, whes i
they are summoned to cases that they see
are lkely to result fatally, to rush them
off to Bellevue Hospital, instead of taking
them to the institutions they represent,
with a view of keeping down the
apparent mortality of the latter, and
this, it is gravely to be feared, is not in- J
frequently done to the great and evea j
fatal harm of the unfortunate patients.
Every hour in the day persons come U
the Morgue in mingled fear and hope 01
identifying among the numerous bodies I
beneath the long row of loose coffin lid* 3
some nrssing friend or loved one. Where
identifications occur the proper entries
are made, and the coffins, having been
closed, are sent away to undertakers foi j
care and private burial. Dead bodies are . liable
to be brought in from all sorts ot * '-3jM
places by the police'and by citizens at all J
hours of the day and night. The coroners
have to be notified of cases in which
inquests are deemed necessary, and the
bodies prepared for post-mortem examinations
and cared for afterward. It ii
also trequentiy a part 01 t&e Keeper s cmties
to see that autopsies are allowed ta
physicians on requests of friends, and ta
give such aid as may be necessary to fa*
cilitate such opecations. Autopsies &ty J
also made upon the bodies of those wh? - ,m
die in Bellevue Hospital, if the physi*
cians deem the cases of sufficient acien- J
tifie interest to warrant the trouble. Ac* ,j
cording to the division of the hospital in
which the death occurs, the right of autopsy
belongs to one or another of tht
mcdi :al colleges. If in the first division.
it goe3 to the College of Physicians ana
Surgeons; if in the second, to the University
College; if in the third, to Belle*
vue Hospital Mcdical College, and if in
the fourth, it is deemed to belong to outside
practitioners, though as a general *
thing the Post-Graduate College seemi
to have the preference. If the case ii
one that is of any particnlar interest t?
students, the organs, or parts that art
deemed desirable for purposes of Iecturi
illuetration, are dissected out and carried
off by the doctor who makes the autopsy,
after which the body is closed up,
and eitfcer delivered to irienas or Dunea
at the city's charge. :
Sometimes photographs hare to b<
taken of dead persons who cannot be
kept, but who, it is hoped, may be idetttified
if their counterfeit presentments
are held for the inspection of visitor*.
Such an incident occurred a short timi ?
ago in the presence of the reporter whe
was finding out about the things he ii
now telling. In tho narrow area betwee*
the Morgue and the high brick street
wall, Bob, the helper, under Keepei
White's direction,set two children's coffins
upon end against the wall at the end
of the area; put two more little coSini
across them, and over all threw a dingy
sheet. Then, unrolling a bundle of dirt] |
muslin that had been lying upon a tabli
near, he brought to view the object to b?
photographed. It was a man's head,
Some unknown man, well clad, but with
out a cent in his pockets, had laid hit
neck upon a rail of the New Haven Rail
road track, and the wheels of a passing
train had guillotined him. A brick under
the base of the skull held the head in
a natural posture on the sheet. Ther?
was no distortion of the features?merely
the placid calm of sleep. Mr. O. G. Vv.Jg
Mason, the photographer, who has >
studio in the hospital building, in consideration
of his taking tho Morgue pic- t?
tures, came and placed his camera in po?
sition, remarking as he did so that, not* .. .Jj
withstanding the thousands of dead
folks' pictures he had taken neie, tnu
was the first time he had ever been
called upon to photograph a dctached
head.?New York Sun.
Catch in? a Sea Gall Asleep.
A great many attempts have been
made in tbe last few years to produce a
practical working electric boat. Varioui
experiments have gained more or less success,
and probably we shall soon see ships
move by the new power.
A small clcctric launch made a trip of
fifty miles on the English Channel a
short time ago. A queer incident which
occurred on "the voyage illustrate? how
quietiy she moved. The pilot saw a sea
gull flo:itinir asleep on the surface of the
sea. The boat was run close to the bird J
and one of those on board caught it in I
his hand and brought it alive to land. J
A motion which is so quiet and noise- M
less that it is possible to catch sea gulls V
asleep would enable a torpedo boat to 1
steal up to an enemy's fleet, and in the
case of a passenger ship would be fai it
more agreeable than the constant throbbing
of a steam engine.? Golden Avgosy.
Glass flooring continues to grow in
favor for public building. lis first cost
is greater than wood flooring, but its
greater durability renders it far cheayet
ia the end. .. ,
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