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1^ . ffl TMIAGE'S SERMON. THE ORCHARD ON THE HILL. Text: "Alia wnen rney wore come u? we place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the malefactors, o^e on * the right hand, and the other on the left/'? Luke xxiii. 3o. Just outside of Jerusalem is a swell of ground, toward which a crowd are ascending; for it is the day of execution. What a mighty assemblage: Some for curiosity to hear what the malefactors will say, and to see how they will act. The three persons to be executed are already there. Some of the spectators are vile of lip and bloated of cheek. Some look up with revenge, hardly able to keep their hands oft' the sufferers. Some tear their own hair in a Irenzy of grief. Some ' ?> ..1 k..,nl, ??? ,'nfn gcauam sueui uuauw. uuum uican vuu uncontrollable weeping. Some clap their hands in delight that the offenders are to be punished at last. 1 he soldiers, with drawn swords, drive back the mob, which press on so hard There is fear that the proceedings may be interrupted- Let the German Legion, now stationed at Jerusalem, on horseback, da-h alon? the line, and force back the su:ging multitude. "Back with you!" is the cry; "Have you nevor seen a mau die before P' Three crosses in a row. An upright pie:e and two transverse pieces?one on the top, on which the hands are nailed, and one at the middle, on which the victim sat. Three trees just planted, yet bearing fruit?the one at the right bearing poison, and the one at the left bitter aloes; the one iu the middle, apples of love. Norway pine, and tropical orange, and Lebanon cedar, would not make so strange a grovo as this orchard on the hill Stand, and give a look at tne three crosses. Just look at the one on the light. Its victim dies scoffing. Mnra t-rfimpnrimis than his Dhvsical antruish I is his scoru and hatred of Him on the middle cross. This one on the right twists half around on the spikes to hiss at the One on the middle. If the scoffer could get one hand loose, and He were within reach, he would imite the middle sufferer in the face. He hates Him with a perfect hatred. I think he wishes he were down on the ground, that he might spear Him. He envies the mechanics who, with tb.jir nails, have nailed Him fast. Amid the settling darkness, aud louder than th? crash of the rocks, I hear him jeer out these words: "Ah! ah! you poor wretch, I knew you were an impostor! iou pretended to be a God, and yet you let these armed legions master you." It was in some such hate that Voltaire, in his death hour, because he thought he saw Christ in his bedroom, got ( op on his elbow and cried out: "Crush that ! wretch!" ( What had the middle cross done to arouse , ap this right-haud cross? Nothing. Oh, the enmity or the natural heart against Christ! The world likes a sentimental ChiTst or a ph lanthropic Christ: but a Christ who somes to snaccn men iroui insir sins, awaj with Him! On this right-hand cross, toaight, I see typified the unbelief of the world. Men say-. "Back with Him from the heart I will no* let Him take my sins. If He will die, let Him die for Himself, not for me." There has always been a war between 1 this right-hand cross and the middle cross, and wh?rever there is tan unbelieving heart, there the fight goes on. O, if, when that dying malefactor perished, the faithlessness "of man had perisned, then that tree whieh yields poison would have budded and blossomed with life for all the world Look up into that disturbed . countenance of the sufferer, and see what a ghastly thing it is to reject Christ. Behold in that awful face, in that pitiful look, in ! that unblessed death hour, the stings of the sinner's departure. What a plunge into darkness! Standing high uron the cross on the top of the hill, so that all the world may , look at him, he says: 4'Here I go out ( Of a miserable life into a wretched ( eternity! One! Two! Three! Listen Co the crash of the fall, all ye a.^ei 1 So Hobbes, dying atter he had se venty years jp which to prepare for eternity, said: ' Were I master of all the world, I would give it all to live one day longer." Sir Francis Newport, hovering over the brink, cried i out: "Wretch that I^m, whither shaillfly from this breastf What will become or me; O, that I were to lie upon the fire that never is quenched, a tbousaud years, to purchase i the favor of God and be "reconciled to Him again! O, eternity! O, eternity! Who can discover the abyss of eternity? Who can paraphrase upon these words: For ever and for ever That right-hand cross, thousands have perished on it, yea, in worse agonies. For what is physical pain comSred with remorse, at the last, at life bad been wasted, and only a fleeting moment stands between the soul and its everlasting overthrow? 0 God, let me die anywhere rather than at the foot of that righthand cross. Let not one drop of that blood fall upon my cheek. Rend not my ear with | that cry. 1"see it now as never before?the i loathsomeness and horror of my unbelief. ( That dying malefactor was not so much to blame as L Christianity was not, established, and perhaps not until that day had that man j heard the Christ. But after Christ has stood 1 almost nineteen centuries, working tha won- ] ders of His grace, you reject Him. That | right-hand cross, with its long team, over- \ shadows all the earth. It is planted in the i I ,.t 4.L- ^.'11 fima uoaib ui IUO ia.O. ?? ucu nm IUJ uiuo wuto < that the Spirit of God shall, with its axe, i hew down that right-hand cross, until it shall i fall at the foot of that middie cross, and un- ; belief, the railing malefactor of the world, shall perish from all our hearts. Away from me! thou spirit of unbelief! 1 hate thee! With this sword of God I thrust thee back and thrust thee through. Down to hell; down, most accursed monster of the earth, and talk to the millions thou bast already * damned. Talk no longer to these sons of Goa> 1 these heirs of heaven. "If thou be the Son of God." Was there any "if' about it2 Tell me, thou star tnat in robe of light did run to point out His birth* pla e. Tell me, thou s-a that didst put thy hand over thy lip wbea ' He bid thee be stilL Tell ire, ye [ dead who got u*> to see Him die. Tell me, thou sun in mid heaven, who for Him diust i puil down over thy face the veil of darkness. Tell me, ye lepers who were cleansed, ye ' dead who were raise 1, is He the Son of God? Aye, aye! responds the uuiverse. The flowers breathe it; the stars chime it; the redeemed celebrate it; the augeLs rise up on their thrones to announce it. And yet on that miserable malefactor's "if'' how many ball be wrecked for all eternity. That little u is xne insect wuicn nas enougn venom in its sting to cause the death of the soul No if about it. I know it EcceDeus! I feel it thoroughly?through every nius le of the body, and through every fa . ulty of my mind; tad through every energy of my souL Living, I will preach it: dying, I will pillow my bead upon it-; cons .lations. Jesus the God! Away, then, from this right-hand cross. The red berries of the forest are aj.t to be poisonous, and around this tree of carnage grow the red, poisonous berries of which many have tasted anl died. I can see no use for this rigb'-han 1 cross, except it be used as n. Javer with which to upturn tbo unbelief of the world. Here from the right-hand cross I go to the le.'t. l ass clear to tho other side. ? That victim als > twists himself upon the nails to look at the centre cross?yet not to scoff. It is to worship. H3, too, would like to get his hand ljose, not to smite, but to deliver the suderer of the middle cross. He cries to the railer cursing on the other side: "S.lence! between us is innocence in agony. We suffer for our crimes. Silence!'' Uathei around this left hand cross. O! ye people, be not afraid. Bitter herbs are sometimes a tonic for the body, and the bitter aloes that crow on this cree shall eive itrencth and life to thy soul. This left-baud cross is a repeating cross. As men who have been nearly drowned t 11 us that in one moment, while they were uDder the water, their whole life passed before them, so 1 suppose that in one moment the dying malefactor thought over all his past life. Of that night when he went into an unguarded door and took the silver, the gold, the jewels, and as the sleeper stirred, he put a knife through his heart. Of that day when, in the lonely pass, he met the wayfarer, and, regardless of the cries, anil prayers, and tears, and struselo# of hi3 victim, be flung the mangled corps* into the dust of the highway, or heaped upon it the stones. He says: "uh! I am a guilty wretch. I de ervo this. There is no need oS my cursing. That will not stop the pain. There is no need of blaspheming Christ, for He has done me no wrong; and yet I cannot die so. The tortures of my body are outdone by the tortures of my soul. The past is a scene of misdoing. The present a crucifixion. The future an everlasting undoing. Come back, th ju hiding mid-day san! Kiss my cheek with one bright ray of comfort. What! no help from above?no help from beneath.' Then I must turn to my companion in sorrow, the One on the middle cross. I have heard that He knows how to help a man when he is in trouble I have heard that He can cure the wounded. I have heard how He can pardon the sinner. Surely. : i in all Mis wanuermgs trp and down the earth J He never saw one more in need of His for- ^ givene.-s. * Ble-sed one! 1 turn to Thee! Wilt Thou t look for the moment away from Thine own 0 pang.? to pity tne< Lord, it is not to have my J Lauds relieved or my feet taken from the 1 torture. lean stand all this; bat Oh! my J1 sius! my Bios! my sins! they pierce me p through and through. They tell me I must '' die for ever. They will push me out into the " darkness unless Thou wilt help. I confess it T all. Hear the cry of the dying thief. Lord, remember me when Thou coinest into Thy , kiugdom. I ask no great thiugs. I seek for ' no throne in heaven?no chariot to take me to the skies; but just ? think of me when this day's horrors <"? have passed. Th^nk of me a little?of me, l the one now hanging at Thy side; when the shout of heavenly welcome takes Thae { back into glory, Thou wilt not forget me, '' wilt Thou? Lord, remember me when Thou : comest into Thy kingdom?ouly just remem- ' ber me. _ Likewise must we repent. You say: "I * have stolen nothmg." I reply: We have all " been guilty of the mightiest felony of the r; universe, for we have robbed God?robbed Him of our time, robbed Him of our talents, robbed mm or our services, suppose you send a man "West as an agent of your jv firm, and every month you pay him his salary, and" at the end of ten years you find out that be has been serving another ? firm, but taking your salary; would you not ? at once condemn him as dishonest? God sent 11 us into this world to serve Him. He has a given us wages al! the time. One half of us 0 have been serving another master. "When a 11 man is convicted of treason, he is brought ,a out; a regiment surround him, and the com- l/j mand is given: "Attention, company! Tata t! auu: rire:" .nna tne man iam with a hun- ^ dred bullets through his heart. There come li times in a man's history when the Lord calls d up the trooD of his iniquities, and at God's " command they pour into him a concentrated v volley of torture. You say: "I don't feel V mvself to be a sinner." That may be. 1 Walk along by the clitt's and you I see sunlight and flowers at the mouth " of the cave, and a chandelier of sta'actito t( near the opening of the cave: but ta'.e a cj torch and go in, and before you Lave gone si far you sea the flashing eye of a wild beast, T or hear the hiss of a serpent So the world si seems in the sunlight of worldliness; but as I al wave the tor^hof God's Iruth, and go down into the deep cavern of the heart?alas! for J the bristling horrors and the rattling faugs. d Have you ever noticed the climax in this p passago of scripture: "The heart is deceitful." g .That seems enough. But the passage goes on g and says: "The heart is de/eitful above all fi things!" Will you not say that is enough? T But tne passage goes on further and says: n '"The heart is deceitful above all things and a desperately wicked." If we could see the a true coalition of the upardoned before a God what wringing of bands b there would be ? what a thousand a voicedshiiek of supplication and. despair? i But you are a sinner?a sinner. I speak not q to the person who sits next to you, but to g you. You are a sinner. All the transgres- n sions of a life-time have been gathered up o: into an avalancha, At any moment it may h slip from the cliffs and crush you forever. ? : May the Lord Almighty, bv His grace, help b us to repent of our sins while repentance it h possible. .a The left hand cross was a believing cross. e There was no guess-work iu that prayer; no "if in that supplication. The left-hand cross flung itself at the foot of the middle cross, expecting mercy. Faith is only just opening the hand to take what C hrist offers us. The work is all done, the bridge is built q strong enough for all of us to walk over. Tap not at the door of God's mercy with the tip P of your fingers: but as a warrior, witn I ei gauntleted fists, heats at the castle gate, so, v with all the aroused energies of our sonls, ^ let us pound at the gate of heaven. That a gate is locked. You go to it with a bunch of keys. You try philosophy; that will not open it. You try good works; that will not g open it. A large door generally has a pen UOIWUS X Udtvt? IUU Ll U33 CWIU. JUC&CT IUO I . foot of it in the socket of the lock, and by 't the two arms of lha cross I turn the lock and ti the door opens. fii This leff-kand cross was a pardoning cross. P1 The crosses were only two or three yards tr apart. It did not take long for Christ to c; hear. Christ might have turned away, and said: How darest thou speak to Me? Iam the Lord of Heaven and Earth. I have tc seen your violence. When you struck g( down that man in tha darkness, I ?aw you. ., You are getting a just reward?die in darkness?die forever. But Jesus said not so; but tt rather: "This day shalt thou be with Me in T Paradise;" as much as to say: "I s<e you n, there; don't worry. I will not only bear my cross, but help you with yours." Forthwith the left-hand cross becomes the 8' abode of contentment. The pillow of the pi malefactor soaked in blood, becomes like the crimson upholstery of a King1 couch. When , the body bacame still, and tbe surgeons feeling the pulse said one to another: "He it is dead," the last mark of pain had tt crone from his face. Peace had smoothed his forehead; Peace closed his eyes; Peace closed his lips. Now you see why there are two transverse nieces on the as Cross, for it has be.omea ladder intj the ii< skies. That dying; head is easy which has r? under it the promise: "This day shalt thou be with Me in Paradise." Ye whose lips have _ been filled with blasphemy, ye whose hands "i for many years have wrought unrighteousness, ye who have companioned with the un- u dean, ye who have sealed every height of transgression, and fathomed every depth, P and passed every extreme o: iniquity?mercy! 'f mercy! M "The dying thief rejoiced to see f< That fountain in his day; tl And there may I, as vile as he, Wash all my sins away." I have shown you the right-hand eros ^ and ^ the left-hand cross, jnow come totnem:aaie j jcross. We stood at the one ani found it i r( vielded poison. We stood at the other ar^1 I fi found it yielded bitter aloes. Come now to ! u the middle cross, and shake down apples of love. Unrover your head. You never saw so tender a scene as this. You may have n seen father, or mother, or companion, or Jc child die, but never so affecting a scene as t this. The railing thief lo>ked from one way , and saw only the rizht side of Christ's face. " The penitent thief looked from the other way F and saw the left side of Christ's face. But o where you sit to-day, in full blaze of Gospel e. light, you see Christ's full face. . It was a suffering cros-\ If the weapons j1 of tor:ure had gone only through the l'atty portions of the body, the torture would not t! have been so great; but they went through 0 the hands, and feet, and temples; the most ^ sensitive portions. It was not only the sp?ar . that went into His s de, but the sins of all the race?a thousand spears?plunge after t< plunge, deeper and deeper, until the silence g and composure that before characterized ^ Him gave way in a groan, through which * rumbled the sorrows of time and the woes of nt'ncki Unmnn A Karl rl/-VT\A "?fo WAPfif fi] OVOlUlbT* jumuou "Bio u?a uvuo no ttvtiow, and hell had hurled its sharpest javelin, and devils had vented their hottest rage when, with every nerve in His body in torture, and every fibre of His heart in excruciation. He 0 cried out: "My God, my God, why hast Thou tl forsaken Mel" f< r It was a vicarious cross?the right-hand ? cross suffered for itself: the left-hand cross , for it.-elf; but the middle cross for you. When a King was dying, a young man cried: ti "Pour my blood in'o his voins, that he die p not." The veins of the young man were tapped, and the blood transferred; so that ? the King lived, but tha vouns man died. ' CUrlst saw the race j>enshing. He cried; h "Pour my blood into their veins, that they r die not." n My hand is free now, because Christ's was crushed My brow is painless now, because Christ's was torn. My soul escapes, because U Christ's was bound. I ga:n heaven, because Christ for me endured tho horrors of hell When the Swiss were many years ago contpnHinrr nrrnincf. fhait* nriomioc flv.c oom flmia enemies star ding iu solid phalanx,and knew 1< not how to break their ranks; hut one of their [j heroes rushed out in front of his regiment ? and shouted: ' Make way for lit>erty!" The wtapons of the enemy were plunged ii to his c heart, but while the}- were slaying him o* c course their ranks were broken, and through t that gap in the ranks the Swiss marched to a victory. Christ saw all the powers of darkness assailing men. He cried out: "Aike way for the redemption of the world." All J the weapons of infernal wrath struck Him, 1: but as they struck Him dur race marched lj out free. To this middle cross, my dying hearers, r look, that your souls may live. I showed you j1 cno right-hand cross in order that you might I see what an awful thing it is to be unbeliev- d ing. I showed you the left-hand cross that s you might see what it is to repent. Now I ^ show you the middle cross that you may see . what Christ has done to save your souL 1( Poets have sung its praise, and sculptors p have attempted to commemorate it in mar- i ble, and martyrs have clung to it in the fire, j, and Christians dying quietly in their beds i have leaied their head! against it. This hour may all our souls embrace it with an ec- ? stacy of affection. Lay hold of that cross, U n sinner. Everything else will fail you. Without a j j ?. trong grip "of that you perish. Put your land on that and you are safe, though a vorl 1 swing from beneath your feet Oh I hat I might engrave on your souls inefTa';?bly the three crosses, and that if in your caking moments you will not heed, thon hat in your dream this coming night you night see on the hill back of Jerusalem the hree spectacles?the right-hand cross, showng unbelief dying without Christ?the leftnnrl fifinwirifr wnof. if. ia tn Ka nor^Anorl rhile the central cross pours upon your soul he sunburst of heaven ns it says; "By all hese wounds I plead for thy heart. I have jved theo with an everlasting love. Rivers annotquench it. The floods cannot drown ;!" And while you look the right-hand ross will fade out of sight, and then the ;ft will be gone; nothing will remain ut the middle cross, and even that in our dream will begin to change until it be* imes a throne, and the worn face of Calvay win D3?ome radiant with gladness; and istead of the mad mob at the foot of the ross will be a multitude kne3ling. Aniyou nd I will be among them. But no! we will ot wait for such a dream. In this our most roused mood we throw down at the foot of tiat middle cross sin, sorrow, life, death, very thing. We are slaves; Christ gives deliverance to he captive. We are thirsty; Christ is the iver of salvation to slake our thirst. P"e are hungry; Jesus says, "I am th? read of life*" We are Condemned to ie; Christsays: "Save that man from go lg down to cne pic; i am cne ransom.- we re tossed on a set of troubles; Jesus cornea ver it, saying: "It is I, bo not afraid." We re in darkness; Jesus says: "I am the bright nd the moraine: star." We are sick; Jesua i tha balm of Gilead. We are dead; hear 10 shrouds rend and the grave hillocks hears s he cries: "1 am the ressurrection and the fe: he that believeth in Me, though he,were ead.yet shall he live." We want justification. Being justified by faith, we have peace i itb God through our Lord Jesus Christ." want to exercise faith; "Believe in the ,ord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." want to get from under condemnation; There is now, therefore, no condemnation ? them wko are in Christ Jesus." The ro5s?he carried it The flames of hell?ho itiered them. The shame?he endured it; ho crown?he won it. Heights of heaven ing it, and worlds of light to worlds of light 11 round the heavens cry: "Glory, gloryl" Let us go forth and gather the trophies for esjs. From Golconda mines we gather the iamonds, from Ceylon banks we gather the earls, from all lands and kingdoms we ather precious stones, and we bring the littering burdens and put then\doWn at the ?ot- rvf .Toons ftnH ?dv "All the^fi ara Thine. 'hou art worthy." We go forth a^ain for lore trophies, and into ono sheaf we gather 11 the sceptres of the Cjesarj, and the Alexnders, and the C/ars, and the Sultans, of 11 royalties and dominions, and then we ring the sheaf of sceptres and put it down t the feet of Jesus, and sav: "Thou art [ing of kings, and these Thou hast conuea?d." And then we go forth ajjain to ather more trophies, and we bid th? adeemed of all ages, the sons and daughter! f the Lord Almighty, to come, ana the osts of heaven bring crown, and palm, and ?eptre, and here by these bleeding feet and y this riven side, and by this wounded earl, cry: "Blessing, and honor, and glory, ud power unto the Lamb forever and forver!" POPULAR SCIENCE Careful observations by Schroder, in ermany, show that one part of sulhuric acid in 54.000 parts of air will mse a serious damage to plants in a ery short time. Coniferous trees are lore sensitive than deciduous. Fruit ees are very sensitive. In a British Association paper, Mr. "W. [. Preece has recorded an experiment by hich he localized a fragment of a needle i his daughter's hand. A fine magnezed needle was suspended by a delicate L?er over the hand, and on cutting at the oint indicuted by this needle the oublesome bit of steel was found and strncted. It is rery unsafe to paper -a room, is >o often done, over another puper. ometimes several layers are placed on le walls. Tnese layers, together with le paste, become breeders of disease, he only proper way, when the paper eeds renewing, is to remove the old aper entirely and clean the wall. For eeping-rooms it is better to have no aner at all. A new use for the tobacco plant has een discovered. Its stems and waste, is claimed, are equal to linen rags in le manufacture of paper. Tobacco aste costs less than $10 a ton, linen tgs $70 to $80. There is no expense in sorting the former and very little shrink;e, as against a loss of one-third of igs. The yearly tobacco waste is esmated by the census reports at from 000,000 to 4,000,000 pounds. While ,the subject of earthquakes is ndcr discussion it might not be inapropriate to mention that one notable :ature in connection with the New ladrid earthquake was its effects on >rcst trees. Gigantic oaks that, from leir exterior, appeared to be solid, were iscovered, upon being cut for sawmill urposed, to be much impaired and inlred internally, and as a rule presented >tten hearts of splintered bodies. This ict was noted and has been commented pon. The world's blind are computed to nmhfir about 1.000.000. about onesicrht 134 person to every 1,400 inhabitants. 1 Austria, one person in every 1,785 is lind; in Sweden, one in every 1,418; in ranee, one in every 1,191; in Prussia, ne in every 1.111; in England, one in irery 1,037. The. proportion is greatest l Egypt, where, in Cairo, there is one lind person to every twenty inhabiints; while in New Zealand it falls to ne in every 3,550 inhabitants. Germany as the greatest number of institutes for ae blind, thirty-five; England has six. en; France, thirteen; Austria-Hunary, ten; Italy, nine; Belgium, six; .ustralia, two; while America, Asia and -frica together are said to possess only ix. It is well understood that Great Britin and other parts of Northern Europe we much to the warming influence of " " '-"If flfwnrtw* TKa AvfAnf nf o ?k f. LIC OtivaiUi l ag OAkuuw vuv v*L-ct has been given in the calculations of )r. James Croll, who has found that the mount of heat conveyed northward in he Atlantic by this stream is equivalent D 77,475),550,000,000,000,000 footour.ds of energy a clay, which is equal 0 all the heat received by 1,500,9:35 ijuare miles at the equator, and more eat than is conveyed by all the air curcnts. The heat of the Arctic seas and orth Atluntic would be diminished that luch by the stoppage or division of the reat ocean river. Choosing Tender Fowls. If a turkey, for instance, is young, the ;ys will be black and smooth, the eyes [vely and the feet flexible. If old, the yes will be sunken and the feet dry. In hoosing hens, see that their legs and ombs are limber, which means that bey are young. If the legs and combs re rough una stiff, they are old, but my be good enough for pie or soup. A oung goose will have a yellow bill and imber feet. An old gooa? will have both ill and feet red and dry. Ducks, if oung, will be limbrr footed; if fat, lard and thick on the lower part of the >ody. The same rule applies to wild 1 V* /mi r?K nvA Vtn. IUUK.3, Wliuac 1CVU, uiuu^ii, uiv ivu, KTI* ides being smaller than those of tame lucks. Game can be ju9t a9 ea-ily sheeted, if you know how, which most >eople don't. Partridges, for instance, f young, will have black bills and yellow egs; if old, white bills and bluo legs. Ul old fowls, inde-.d, both domesticated .nd wild, may likewise be told by their lard, rough or dry feet.?Philadelphia VtlOS. ? RELIGIOUS READINGS. I Disguised Blessings. I know that trial works tor ends Too high for sense to trace, That oft in dark attire He sends Some embassy of grace. May none depart till I have gained The blessings wh'ch it bears, And learned, though late, I entertained An angel una wares. So shall I blesj the hour that seat Tlio mercy of the rod, And build an altar by the tent Where I have met with God. ?James D. Burns, 1858. Thanking <Jod for Tltorna. My God, I have never thanked thee for my thorn. I have thanked thee a thousand times for my roses, but not once for my thorn. I have been looking forward to a world where I shall get compensation for my cross, but I have never thought of my cross as itself a present glory. Thou divine Love, whose human path has been perfected through suffering?, teach me the glory of my cross, teach me the value of my thorn. Show me that I have climbed to thee the path of pain. Show mo that my tears have ' ? i i aL _ 4 macte my rainDow. neveai 10 me maw my strength was the product of that houi when I wrestled until the breaking of the day. Then shall I know that my thorn wa9 blessed by thee, then shall I know that my cross was a gift from thee, and I shall raise a monument to the hour of my sorrow, and tho words which I shall write upon it will be these: "It was good, for me to have been ufflicted." ?Rev. Qeo. Matheson. A Uolilen Thread. A golden thread of unity ties together all the experiences and possessions of a redeemed man from the first moment of the change that delivers him from the kingdom of darkness right way on through the endless pulsations of an unbroken eternity. Grace is glory in the bud, glory is grace in the flower; and all which we hope for in the future is but the evolving of that which is planted in ? - if wa Iawo Kim if mflV UUl liCUl L9 A* TVV .??.J have to fight with much antagonism to itself both without and within. The tender green is prophet of the full ear* We do not get one gift here on earth and another perfectly different there in heaven. It is the measure, not the kind, which varies. That which here, as a spark of grace, lies often almost hid among green and smoky wood, there flames out triumphant as all-brightening glory. The inheritance is a hop% but the earnest of the inheritance is a present possession.?Alexander McLaren, D. D. Wot Wemry. It is one thing to put the hand to the plough; it is another thing to work in ?V>o fniTAw oil ffio rlrnr thrniiflrh till the ??"? ? ?J O night comes. In the early day the ploughman rises refreshed from sleep, the dew is on tho grass, the birds arc singing their cheerful songs, the fresh breeze of the morning is blowing. But as the clay passes tho sun grows hotter, tho bird-songs are hushed, the dew har long ago dried from the grass, the wearii ness of continued exertion creeps over the frame, and it is nothing but toil to run th<j long furrows back and forth across the field. But it is only by this patient continuance that tho work is done, the ground cultivated. It is in spiritual husbandry as it is in the natural. It is not enough to begin a good work. "We must not be weary in well-dcing. It is a great deal easier to begin, however, than it is to carry the work on to completion. Ana yet it is the patient, continuous toil that finally brings the reward. Here is a work in a Sabbath-school class, for example. It is easy, under the stimulus of some appeal or in the first flush of the desire to serve Christ, to take up such work. But it is a much harder matter to carry it on week by week, whether there is indifference among the scholars, or an apparent absence of results, or other difficulties arise. But it ia the faithful, not the fitful teacher who gathers the reward. But for the faithfulness much of the work already done would have gone for nothing. We say then to all Sabbath-school teachers?"Be not weary in well-doing.'' It is a noblo work in which to engage. You will never be able to tell, thii side of eternity, how much your work has done. Wiint is true nere 13 true 01 an iorras of church work. There is need in then: all of unwearying, patient laborChristian endeavor of every sort calls for continuance of effort. Men may well bo weary of labor on the farm or in the mine if it bring them no return. Any one is entirely justified in quitting any department of labor which does not yield a support. But in Christian labor the work must be done whether the fruit is apparent or not. God's time of reckoning is not always here on caith. It is the duty of the Christian worker to toil on, whether he sees fruit from his labor or not. The pioneer missionary Morrison was something like thirty year3 in China before he could baptize the first convert to Christianity. What if lie had wearied in well-doing beforo those long years were done??American Messenger. I looked to Jesus and He looked 0:1 me, and we were one forever.? C. E". Spurcreon. Th3 encouragement of drunkenness for the sake of profit on the sale of drink, is certainly one of the most criminal methods of assassination for money ever ndop:ed by the bravos of any ag.i or country. Tho Providence Star says: "Tho experience of the past three months in 1 Rhode Island has proved that a prohibitory law can be better enforced than a license law." TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT: Drinking in Kansas. It is about time that this lying about drinking in Kansas should comc to an end. There is les3 drinking in Kansas, and the people are more temperate, than in any other State of the American Union. A tempcrance millennium has not been established, it is true; but, on the other hand, nine-tenths of the drinking and drunkenness of former years has been abolished. Further, the temperance sentiment is steadily growing in this State, growing steadily and firmly. Tens of thousands of men now go to bed every night sober and self-respecting who went to bed every night four or five years ago | soaked with liquor. Thousands of women and children hungry and in rags five ; years ago are now comfortably clad and sit down every day at the tables provided with all the necessities of life. Four-fifths of the people of this State, knowing that what we assert is true, have resolved that they will not return to the old order of things. The open saloon in Kansas has gone, and gone to stay.?Atrhi*on Champion. Tho Fool and His Money. The workingman who puts his money into the saloon keeper's till is a fooL He mortgages his property and the well being of himself and family, beyond redemption. Ho puts himself under a power that uses him to step upon; to grow fat upon by devouring him; and that takes the manhood out of him. We need say nothing against the saloon keeper; we need to indulge in no tirade against rum; nor to preach against the drinking of intoxicating liquor on moral grounds; nor to say a word about prohibition or license; it is enough to point to the spectacle of the workingman's delivering himself over to a degrading life, where the brute is developed in him and his ennobling qualities are suppressed. It is the degradation of the man that is so conspicuous; he throws himself away, and for nothing. After his hard day's labor he goes to the saloon and in nn hour he has nothing to show for that labor?nothing but stupidity, or a drunken fight, or a crime committed. . The workingman who can make no better showing than this for the expenditure of his day's wages is a fool?yes, worse than a fool, for the wo;kingman hds responsibilities for his conduct that the fool has not. iae worAiugnmn m:iy us win oay iu his fellows: 1'Let's work hard every day for ten years and sec how rich we c*n make the saloon keeper on the corner; we will then make him a boodle alderman, S3 that he may become richer." Yet this is what is done in many cities in this country, though the workingmen may not plan it beforehand. What worse could a workingraan do with his earnings than to spend them for drink? He might better throw them into the river or bury them in the ground, for then there would be no tyrant ruling over him. Wages well cared for will return a vast amount of happiness to the workingman. Is it better to own a home, or to be in the clutches of the saloon keeper? Is it better to have money laid away for a rainy day, or to be sunk in wretchedness and poverty? The saloon receives you in welcome when you have money and kicks you out when it is gone. It takes you a man and makes you a beast. It consumes your energies and thrives, while you depart a beggar. It is useless to quote the figures of the nation's annual liquor bill; to this workmen contribute millions, that they may ^ nnt?J ira f Vi om onl troa nf rrtmfnrfQ nnrl I never get near enough to a luxury to know what it h like. They part with millions that might be invested in homes, in the education of children and in securities. What many a workman suffers from today is a want of savings. With these he might elevate himself; ho might be a lender instead of a borrower; lie might become an employer, as well as employed; he would buy cheaper for cash than he does now for credit; he would be happy in tcmperance.in a good home,; in having promising children, in the respect that he would rcceive from the public, in the confidence that he would have in his manhood. Above all, ho would not be making a fool of himself by dumping hi3 wages into a 6aloon.? Work and Wayes. The Enemy of Worklnsmcn. At the recent National Convention of the Knights of Labor at Richmond, Va., their olHcial head, Mr. Powderly, cautioned the delegates "to avoid the use of intoxicating beverages, and administered to the newly-elected officials, chosen to serve the organization the ensuing year, the pledge of total abstinence." Power- j ful as that organization ha9 become nu-! merically, with rcpieientatives among tho laboring men of the country, it would be a great gain to the cause of temperance, as well as to the industr'al interests < of the nation, if the pledge of abstinence could be taken, not only by its officers, but by all its members. Laboring men and their families have no greater enemy than strong drink. If the boycott is ever to be commended, it would be as applied to the saloon.?National Ternr,trance Advocate. The Mississippi Woman's Christian Tcmperance Union held their convection lately in the Hall of Representatives at Jackson. A large number of delegates and visitors were in attendance, and reports from all over the State showed great advance in the te nperance work during the last year. A newly-formed church among the Zulus ^as the following among its regu- ! lations: "No member shall be permitted to drink the white man's grog or native beer, nor touch it to his lips." - - " _ - - -. : APACHE HOMES. DOMESTIC LIFE OP THE CRUELEST OF INDIAN TRIBES. Circular Dwellings of Brush?Inte I rior Arrangements?Keeping Warm?Utensils in Common Use?Water Jugs. : They live in circular brush huts, u-ieaJi, about five feet high, and from six to eight feet in diameter. To make one a hollow space is excavated with sharp sticks and their hands, and the earth is banked up around the circumference, until they have a bowl-shaped depression about a foot and a half deep. Around the edge of this bushes and branches of trees arc stuck, bent over and fastened together to form a round top. In winter it is thatched with grass, tule or soap weed, so that it will shed rain. An opening is left on one side, which serves as sa outlet for smoke, as well as a doorway. The fire is made just inside the ODenin?. For a bed thev break up the ground, let it dry, pick out the stones and then spread down dry grass. Seeds, moat, buckskins, extra clothing, &c., are hung outside on upright polej. Formerly only a few huts were usua'ly found together, and they were occupied by members of one family, as these people had to scatter over the country in small parties and move frequently in order to obtain a sufficient supply of food; but in seasons of plenty villages of about one hundred souls would be formed, when the huts of each family were always built iu a group by themselves. A very small fire tuffices them, and they never waste wood by building large ones, even in winter, or when wood is very abundant. When cold, one warms himself by squatting down and wrapping hts blanket around him and the lire. To kindle a tire, they resorted to the firedrill before the introduction of the flint nnA mnfMiAa hiif. iiqiiaIIv nrft ouu atoci uuu utduv/uvtf) w served coals in the ashei to avoid the labor of drilling. 0 oh me-te-kwa-tc, "Make the fire blazy,"is the common expression still used, even when the fire is to b3 kindled by means of a match. A slow torch, made of dead wrod, was carried in traveling. It enabled them to make tire or smoke signals, by means of which they could communicate with their friends at pleasure, as well as to kindle a fire at their next stopping p'ace. For a di'ill, they use a pie:e of the stem of the o-oh kad-je, or "fire-stick bush," about two feet long and half an inch thick. They dip one end in the sand,then pressing it in a shallow depression made in a piece of dry soft wood, such as the stalk of the yucca, which is laid on the ground and held by the foot, whirl it between the hands. In a few seconds the friction produces a small quantity of very fine charcoal, which, when rolled out on some dry grass or bark-fiber, and given a light puif or two, bursts into a flame. Basket-ware and vessels of pottery are in common use. Their manufacture is confined to the women, who own all such property. Unglazed earthen vessels, of various sizes, for domestic purposes, such as pots, a-mat, to cook in, with a capacity of from two to three gallons, large shallow bowls to hold food, J ?wifK rrlnVmlnr hn^ips nnrl ttllll YVttl/Ul jugo mm giwu.... ? narrow necks, a-mat, ha-thi-wa and sowah, the largest holding as much as four gallons, are made out of red clay. Some of them are decorated with one or two horizontal bands and zigzag lines painted in darker or lighter-colored clay. They all have convex bottom", and are thin and very brittle. None of them have feet, but those used for cooking purposes arc supported over the fire on three stones, o-kuth-ku-mi. The molding is done entirely by hand, in the lap or on the ground, yet the vessels are quite symmetrical in shnpe. The c!ay of which they are formed is dried, ground on a met.itc and then worked into a dough with saliva, and wat.r which has been rendered mucilaginous by boiling cactus in it. The bottom of the vessel is formed of a lump of the dough, which - * AL- 1 is pressed into snape Wiin me uauus, and the rest is built up of rolls, each one of which adds about one inch to its height, and is allowed to dry a little before another is added. Cne hand on the inside and the other on the outside press and smooth the clay to give the vessel its proper contour and thickness. Saliva is used freely on the hands to facilitate the work. After a vessel is completely formed it is thoroughly dried in the sun or near the fire, and th n burnt by itself in an open fire. Strong, light, globular jugs,to carry wtiter in,are made by covering loosely-woven basket work with pitch or red clay. These have two small loops or handles on the largest part of the body for the attachment of a string or band, by which the jug is carried on the back suspended from the head. They vary in size from mere toys to those having a capacity of four gallons, and every womau, and every girl down to the oge of three or four years, possesses one or more of them. They arc one of the most important aitides of their manufacture, as, during certain seasons of the year, water is very scarce in their country, and often has "to be carried long distances. The strength and lightness of the jugs recommend them to other Indians, who frequently procure them in trade.?American Antiquarian. A Negro Family Turning White. 11 * 1 1 ' 4 Pnlloffo r\f ID a CliniCai leL'iurc m tliU VUitvgw v Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Henry JReynolds called attention to the peculiar case of a colorcd boy in tbe city whose skin is gradually turning white. Such cases are rare, the doctor said, but this case was especially peculiar in that, while the father and mother of the boy were botft negroes, the mother and six of the twelve children were also spotted. One of the remaining children had white hair over a fart of his scalp, while the other five were all black. The changes in all the spotted members of the family began while they were st'll young. The disease which causes this change was known as vitiligo.and was probably due co an impaired function of the nerves that presided over the nutrition of the part, which produced an imperfect supply or distribution of the pigment or coloring matter of the skin. The family ii ?C.Uirnna Neic?. nic ail uiuwi ni<juuvu>??M v Frightened to Death. Never frighten children. A mm in Trenton, whose fourteen-year-old boy got to staying out too late nights, put a black mask on his facc, hid in a dark alley, and jumped out at his son with a fearful yell as the boy passed by. But it happened that a policeman was strolling along at the same time, and as he caught Bight of the masked figure he shrieked with terror, lan four miles at the top of his speed and dropped dead, while the boy, hastilly calling togc her a mob of his fellows, pursued his father down the alley, with I ricks and language, both hard. And yet, in spite of these terrible lesson-, there arc grown people who foolishly delight in frightening children. Still, the same person isn't liablo to scare the same boy oftener than ?nee io a century.? Brooklyn Eng'e, WORDS OF WISDOM. Labor is the girdle of manliness. ' At every stage of life he reaches, man finds himself but a novice. Much of our waking experience is out a aream in me aayugnt. Study the grace of silence when provoked. Resolve to defer reply to another An open mind, an open band, and an open heart will find everywhere an open The best way to gain a good reputa tion is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. The charities that soothe and heal, and bless, lie scattered at tho feet of men like flowers. A man that studieth revenue keencth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. The real things arc inside. The real world is the inside world. God is not up, nor down, but in the midst. To be thoroughiy good-natured, and yet avoid being imposed upon, shows great strength of character. Tcach self-denial and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer. It is a certain sign of an ill-heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can hare no gratification in that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in one's self, and an impatience of seeing it in another. ; There are few louls who are so vigorously organized as to be able to main tain themselves in the calm of a strong resolve; all honest consciences are capable of the generosity of a day, but almost all succumb the next morning under the effort of the sacrifice. .The Era of Millionaires. Millionaires are as thick as hops. There are hundreds of- them in New York of whom the general public never . "^jjajj heard. There arc half a hundred, worth from two to five millions each, of whom the general public know nothing, and at least a score whose individual wealth may be reasonably estimated anywhere from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000, concerning whom the ordinary citizen is absolute.y ignorant. Yet they are men of : ^ affairs, men whose transactions affect commercial relations tbat belt tnegiooe; whose business conduct has something to do with every industry in which mechanics, oil, light, and fuel are factors. It used to be said throughout New England, "the young men go to New York to seek a fortune." Now it is said "the men of the country, from the golden shores of California and the snow-clad hills of the Sierra Nevada range, from the cattle kings of the great middle ' lands to the coal barons and the petroleum princes of the Middle States, go to New York to spend their fortunes." And they do extraordinary things. On the one hand we find a man presenting a near relative with a ie3idence and fixtutes that cost in (ash $750,000. We hear of a man's laying upon the pillow of his sister's new-born baby $100,000 in United States bonds as a birthday gift, and again a coal-oil Johnny rolling, like a scroll together, tangible evidence of $1,000,000, in heavy interest-bearing bonds, and tossing them into the lap of a female friend. We are told of a modest millionaire calling on his pastor on a bright New Year's morning and handing him a check drawn to bearer for the princely sum of $100,000 to be distributed according to the clergyman's idea among the poor and needy. In this '*,1 great city where One family's wealth aggregates $:i00,000,000; where a man, struck with a quick flash from eternity, dies, is buriea, and leaves to be distributed among his sorrowing heirs the extraordinary accumulation of $250,000,000; in this city, where men, who have lived here less than five years, are known j by their associates and by them alone, for the general public hasn't h'therto I intn ttioi'r- /?nnKrIanr>A trt ll? UUCU la tVV>U 1U W bUVii vvuuvtvuvvj ?w worth, man after man, $2d,000,00p, ^40,000,000, $50,000,000, is it 6trange that public interest is awakened and general cariosity excitcd to know, first, how these men got these almost fabulous amounts of money, and second, what they do with it??Ne/s York World. "Anthropometry." The plan of accurately measuring human faculty indicates the physical and mental adaptation of each individual and offers a knowledge?f the person's capacity, which, if early in life, should direct intelligent parents or advisers to a more judicious selection of vocation than that often made. It also provides a means for marking the stages of individual growth, for the detection of abnormalities of development in time to chcck them, and for laying the -foundation foi a rational education of the senses and tho muscles. These are among the practical advantages which aie expected to give anthropometry great value. Mr. Francis Galton, whoso work in this new fold attracted much attention at the London Health Exhibition a couple of years ago, is now experimenting upon instruments . ' ' for determining the exact size of the brain and the delicacy of the senses. When these are completed, the demand may be supplied, which has already arisen in many large cities, for laboratories for furnishing individuals, from time to time, with accurate charts of their condition and powers. It is believed that in all stages of life the indications of such charts must be of real service.?Arlcamaw Traveler. ? Traits of the Turks. n T onr WnllnfB in t.hnVmirM of V.1CUUU1 jUO U it uxuvv, ...v a lecture on the Turks, said that jealousy of each other is a distinctive characteristic of the Turk. He may be relied upon to keep his word, but the difficulty is to induce him to make a promise. When he does his word is as good as a bond. He is not artistic in any sense. He speaks in idioms or parables. His libraries consist entirely of books of commentaries on the Koran. The tendency of his literature is to reflection, which runs from reflection into frenzy. The faith of the Turks has undergone no change. They still believe that "God is God and Mohammed is His Prophet." The General saw many drunken men iD Constantinople, but never one drunken Turk. The love of the Turk is for children and all dumb animals, and it is impossible not to see the respect which they have for women. The cultivated Turks, old and young, are habitually courteous among themselves and with strangers. They arc nl?o the devoutest of people. Thev are poor mariners, but courageoui soldiers, and it will not do at this late day to deny or underestimate their mili tary valor. Tne total number of negro Methodists in the United States is 1,196,000, as follows : Methodist Episcopal Zion,400,000; African Methodist Episcopal, 391,000: Methodist Episcopal, 22.">,000; Colored Methodists, 155,000; all others combined, 35,00?. - - -