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I KEY. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINITS SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "The Tempest." The text was, Mark t>., 36-39, describing Christ stilling the tempest. Tiberias, Galilee, Gennesaret?three names tor the same lake. No other gem ever had so beautiful a setting. It lay in a scene of great I luxuriance; me surruunaiiig uius mgu, terraced, sloped, groved, so many hanging gardens of beauty the waters rumbling down between rocks of gray and red limestone, flashing front the hills and bounding into the sea. On the shore were castles, armed towers, Roman baths, everything attractive; all styles of vegetation in shorter space than in almost any other space in all the world, from the palm-treo of the tropics to the trees of rigorous climate. It seemed as if the Lord had launched one wave of beauty on all the scene, and it hung 'and swung from rock and hill and oleander. Roman gentlemen in pleasure boats sailing the lake, and the countrymen in fish-smacks coming down to drop their nets pass each other with nod and shout and laughter, or swinging idly at their moorings. On, what a ' wonderful, what an enchauting lake! It seems as if we shall have a quiet night JTot a leaf winked in the air; not a ripple wrinkled the face of Gennesaret: but there seems to be a little excitement up the beach, I And we hasten to see what it is, and we nnd it an embarkation. From the western shore a flotilla pushing out; not a squadron of deadly armament, nor 4t clipper with valuable merchandise, nor piratic vessels ready to destroy everything they could seize; but a flotilla, bearing messengei-s of life, and light, and peace. Christ is in the front boat. Many of His disciples are following in smaller boats. Jesus, weary with much speaking to large multitudes", is put into somnolence by the rocking of the waves. If there was any motion at .all the ship was easily righted; if the wind passed from starboard to larboard, or from larboard to starboard, the .boat would rock, and by the gentleness of the motion putting the Master asleep. And they extemporized a pillow made out of a fisherman's coat. I think no sooner is Christ prostrate, and His head touches the pillow, than He is sound asleep. The breezes of the lake run their fingers through the locks of the worn sleeper, and tho boat rises and falls like ? sleeping child on the bosom of a sleeping mother. Calm night, starry night, beautiful night Run up all the sails, ply all the oars, and let the large boat and the smaller boats glide over the gentle Gennesaret. But the sailors ay there is g^ing to be a change of weather. And even the passenger's can hear the moaning of the storm, as it comes on with great stride, and all the terrors of hurricane and darkness. The large boat trembles like a 4eer at bay among the clangor of the hounds; great patches of foam are flung into the air.; the sails of the vessel loosen, and flapped by the wind crack like pistols: the smaller boats, like petrels, poise on the cliff of the waves and then plunge. Overboard go cargo, tackling, and masts, and the drenched disciples, rush into the back part of the boat,-and lay hold of Christ, and say unto him: "Master, carest Thou not that we perish f' That great personage lifts His liAor. frnm t.Ha nillow nf fchA fiohftrman'f? pnAt. I walks to the front of the vessel, and looks out into the storm. All around Him are the smaller boats, driven in the tempest, and through it comes the cry of drowning men. By the flash of the lightning I see tho calm brow of Christ as the spray dropped from his beard. He has one word for the sky and another for the waves. Looking upward He cries: "Peace!" Looking downward He says: "Be still." The waves fall flat on their faces, the foam melts, the extinguished stars re-light their torches. The tempest falls dead, and Christ stand with His right foot on the neck of the storm. And while the sailors are bailing out the boats, and while they are trying to un tangle the cordage, the disciples stand in amazement, now looking into the calm sea, then into the calm sky, then into the calm Saviour's countenance, and they cry out: " What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?" The subject in the first place impresses me with the fact that it is very important to have Christ in the ship; for all those boats would have gone to the botton of Gennesaret if Christ had not been present. Oh, what a lesson for you aud for me to learn! We must " always have Christ in the ship. Whatever voyage we undertake, into whatever enterprise we start, let us always have Christ in the ship. Many of you in these days of revived commerce are starting out in new financial enterprises. I bid you good cheer. Do all you can do. Do it on "as high plane as possible. You have no right to be a stoker in the ship if you can be an admiral of the navy. You have 110 right to be a colonel of a regimont if you can command a brigade; you nave no right to be engineer of a boat on the North River, or near the coast, if you can take the ocean steamer from New York to Liverpool. All you can do with utmost tension of body, mind, and soul, you are bound to do; but on! have Christ in every enterprise, Christ in ?verv vovae?. Christ in everv shiD. I There are men here who asked God to help them at the start of great enterprises. He has been with tbem in the past; no trouble can overthrow them; the storms might come down from the top of Mount Hermon, and lash Gennesaret into foam and into agony, but it could not hurt them. But here is another man who starts out in worldly enterprise, and he depends upon the uncertainties of this life. He has no God to < ( be*T? him. After ? '< *?? c and tosses oft the masts of the ship; he puts out his lifeboat and the long-boat, the sheriff and the auctioneer try to help him off; they can't help him off; he must go down; no Christ in the ship. Here are young men just starting ont in life. Your life will be made up of sunshine and shadow. There may be iL it arctic blasts, or tropical tornadoes; I know not what is D if ore you, but I know if you have Christ with you all shall be well. You may seem to get along without the religion of Christ while everything goes smoothly, but after a while, when soirow hovers over the soul, when the waves of trial dasH clear over the hurricane deck, and tta decks are crowded with piratical disasters; ( oh, what would you do then without Christ 1 in the ship? Young man, take God for your portion, God for your guide, God for your help; then all is well; all is well for time; All shall b9 well forever. Blessed is that man who puts in the Lord his trust. He shall never be confounded. But my subject also impresses me with the fact that when people start to follow Christ they must not expect smooth sailing. These disciples got into the small boats,and I have no doubt they said: "What a beautiful dav this is! What a smooth sea! What ^ i Us-v,.. .1 In urigUL ituia vj. urugiiciui is sailing this boat! and as for the waves under the keel of the boat, why they only make the motion of our little boat the moi'e delightful.*' But when the winds swept down, an l*the sea was tossed into wrath, then they found that following Christ was not smooth'sailing. So you have found it; so I have found it. Did you ever notice the end of the life of the apostles of Jesus Christ? You would say if ever men ought co nave naa a smootn Me, a smooth departure, then those men, the disciples of Jesus Christ, ought to have had such a departure and such a life. St. James lost his head. St. Philip was hung on a pillar. St. Matthew had liis life dashed out with a halbert. St. Mark was dragged to death through the streets. St. James the Less was beaten to death with a fuller's club. St. Thomas was struck through with a spear. They did not find following Christ smooth sailing. Oh, how they were all tossed in the tempest! John Huss in the fire, Hugh McKail in the hour of martyrdom, the Albigeuses, the Waldenses, tho ' Scotch Covenanters?did they find it smooth sailing? But why go to history when I can com9 into this audience to-day and find a score of Illustrations of the truth of this subject. That young man in the store trying to serve God, wk!lo I.Jo omnlAvor ttf. 1 IhrkHnnifv Hm young men in the same store, antagonistic to the Curistian religion, teasing him, tormenting him about his religion, trying to get him ? mad. They succeed in getting him mad, saying: "You're a pretty ChrUtian," Does this young man find it smooth sailing when he tries to follow Christ? Here is a Christian girL Her father despises the Christian religion; her mother despises the Christian religion; her brothers and sisters scoff at the Christian religion; she can hardly find a quiet place in which to say her prayers. Did she find it smooth sailing when she tried to follow Jesus Christ/ Oh, no! all who would live the life of the Christian religion must suffer persecution ; if you do not find it in one way, you will get it in another way. The question was asked: "Who are those nearest the throneT' and the answer came [back: "These are they who come ui> out of &icx*u i/iiuuiauvu, gicau 1IUUU1?, oo vuv original has it; great Hailing, great pounding ?'"and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb." Oh, do not be disheartened! Oh, child of God! take courage! You are in glorious companionship. God will see you through all these trials, and He will deliver you. My subject also impresses me with the fact that good people sometimes get very much frightened. In the tone of the voice of these disciples as I they rushed into the back part of the boat, 1 find they are frightened almost to death. They say: "Master, carest thou not that we perish!""They had no reason to be frightened, for Christ was in the boat. I suppose if we had been there we would have been just as affrightened. Perhaps more. In all ages very goixi people get very much affrightened. It is often so in our day, and men say: Why, look at the bad lectures; look at the Spiritualistic societies; look at the various errors going over the Church of God; we are going to founder; the Church is going to perish; sue is going down." un, now many good people are affrightened by the iniquity in our day, and think the Church of Jesus Christ is going to be overthrown, and just as much affrightened as were the disciples of my text. Don't worry, don't fret, as though iniquity were going to triumph over righteousness A lion goes into a cavern to sleep. Ho lies down, with his shaggy mane covering the paws. Meanwhile the spiders spin a web across the mouth of the cavern, and say: "We have captured him." Gossamer thread after gossamer thread is spun until the whole front of the cavern is covered with the spiders' web, and the spiders sav : "The lion is done; the lion is fast." After awhile tho lion has got through sleeping; he rouses himself, he shakes his mane, he walks out into thesunlight; he does not even know the spiders' web is spun, and with his voice he shakes the mountain. So men come spinning their sophistries and skepticism about Jesus Christ: He seems to be sleeping. They say: "We have captured the Lord; He will never come forth again upon the nation; Christ is captured forever. His religion will never make any conquest among men." But alter a while the Lion of the Tribe of Judah will rouse Himself and come forth to shake mightily the nations. "What is the spider's web to the aroused lion if Give truth and error a fair grapple, and truth will come off victor. But there are a great many good people who get affrightened in other respects; they are affrightened in our day about revivals. They say: "Oh! this is a strong religious gale; we are afraid the Church of (iod is trointr to be upset, and there are going to be a great; many people brought inti the church that are gouig to be of no use to it;" and they are affrightened whenever they see a revival taking hold of the churches. As though a ship captain with five thousand bushels of wheat for a cargo should say, some dav. comine udoii deck: "Throw over board all cargo;1' and the sailors should say: "Why, captain, what do you mean if Throw over all the cargo? "Oh," says the captain, "we have a peck of chaff that has got into this five thousand bushels of wheat, and the only way to get rid of the chaff is to throw all the wheat overboard," Now, that is a great deal wiser than the talk of a great many Christians who want to throw overboard all the thousands and tens of thousands of souls who are the subjects of revivals. Throw all overboard bacause they are brought into the kingdom of God through great revivals, because there is a peck of chaff, a pint of chaff! I say, let them stay until the Last Day; the Lord will divide the chaff from the wheat. Do not be afraid of a great revival. Oh, that these gales from heaven might sweep through all our churches! Oh, for such days as Richard Baxter saw in Kiddorminster and Robert MeCheyne saw in Dundee! Oh, for such days as Jonathan Edwards saw in Northampton! I have often heard my father tell of the fact that in the early' part of this century a revival broke out at Somerville, N. J., and some people were very much agitated about it. They said: "Oh, you are going to bring too mauy people into the church at once;" and they sent down to New Brunswick to get John Livingston to stop tha revival. Well, there was no better soul in all the world than John Livingston. He went and looked at the revival; they wanted him to stop it. He stood in the pulpit on the Sabbath. and looked over the solemn auditory, and he said: "This, brethren, is in reality the work of God; beware how you try to stop it." And he was an old man, leaning heavily on his staff?a very old man. And he lifted that staff, aud took hold of the end of that staff, and began to let it fall very slowly through, between the finger and the thumb, and ne said: "Oh, thou impenitent, thou art falling now?falling away from life, falling away from peace and heaven, falling as certainly as that cane is falliug through my hand?fall- , ing certainly, though perhaps railing slowlv." And the cane kept on falling through John Livingston's hand. The religious emoiu the audience was overpowering, and men saw a type of their doom, as the cane kept falling "and falling, until the knob of the cane struck Mr. Livingston's hand, and he clasped it stoutly and said: "But the grace ol God can stop you, as I stopped that cane;" and then there was gladness all through the house at the fact of pardon and peace and salvation. "Well," said the people after the service, "I guess you had better send Livingston home; he is making the revival worse." Oh, for the gales from heaven, and Christ on board the ship! The danger of the Church oI God is not in revivals. Again my subject impresses me with the fact that Jesus was God and man in the same being. Here He is in the back part of tho boat. Oh, how tired He looks; what sad dreams he must have! Look at his countenance; He must be thinking of the cross to come. Look at Him, He is a man?bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh. Tired, He falls asleep; He is a man. But then I find Christ < at the prow of the boat; I hear him say: "Peace, be still;" and I see the storm kneeling at His feet, and the tempests folding their wings in His presence; He is a God. If I have sorrow and trouble, and want sympathy, I go and kneel down at the back part of the boat, and say: 4 lO, Christ! weary one of Gennesaret, sympathize with all my sorrows, man of Namreth, man of the cross." A man, a man. But if I want to conquer my spiritual foes, if I want to get the victory over sin, death and hell, I come to the front of the boat and I kneel down, and I say: "0, Lord Jesus Christ, Thou who dost hush the tempest, hush all my grief, hush all my temptation, hush all my sin." A man, a man; a God, a God. I learn once more from this subject that Christ can hush a tempast. It did seem as if everything must go to ruin. The disciples had given up the idea of managing the ship; the crew were entirely demoralized: vet Christ rises, and He nuts His foot on the storm, and it crouches at His feet. Oh, yes! Christ can hush the tempest. You have had tronble. Perhaps it was the little child taken awaj' from you?the sweetest child of the household, the one .v ho asked the most curious questions, and stood around you with the greatest fondness, and the spada cut down through your bleeding heart. Perhaps It was an only son, and your heart has ever since been like the desolated castle, the owls of the night hooting among the falling arches and the crumbling stairways. Perhaps it was an aged mother. You always went to her with your troubles. She was in your home to welcome your children into life, and when they died she was there to pity you; that old hand will do you 110 more kinduess; that white lock of hair you put away in the locket didn't look as it usually did when she brushed it away from her wrinkled brow in the home circle or in the country church. Or your property gone, you said: "I have so much bank stock, I nave so many Government securities, I have so many houses, I have so many farms''?all gone, all gone. Why, sir, all the storms that ever trampled their thunders, all the shipwrecks have not been worse than this to you. Yet you have not been completely overthrown. Why ? Christ hushed the tempest. Your little one .'as taken away. Christ says: '*1 have that ilitie one in my keeping. I can care for him as well as you can, better than you can, 0 bereaved mother !" Hushing the tempest. When your property went away God said: "There are treasures"in heaven, in banks that never break." Jesus hushing the tempest. There is one storm into which we will all have to run. The moment when we let go of this life, and try to take hold of the next, we will want all the grace possible, i*onder 1 see a Christian soul rocking on the surges of death; all the powers of darkness seem to let out against the soul?the swirling wave, the thunder of the sky, the shriek of the wind, all seem to unite together; but that soul is not troubled; there is no sighing, there are no tears; plenty of tears in the room at the departure, but he weeps no tears; calm, satisfied, peaceful; all is well. By the flash of the storm you see the harbor just ahead, and you are making for that harbor. All shall be well, Jesus hushing the tempest. " Into the harbor of heaven now we glide; We're home at last, home at last. Softly we drift on its bright, allv'ry tide, We're home at last. , Glory to God! all <m dangers are o'er, We stand secure on the glorified shore; Glory to God! we will shout evermore, We're home at last." IWEKAJNOJi. Life in the Glad Saloon. Talk not of woe in the shining cup, Prate not of hapless men, Here's brandy red?fill your glasses up, Then drink and fill again. Quaff the nectar sweet, Where choice spirits meet, Beneath the blazing dome, Where polished mirrors gleam Like the sun's meridian beam, We'll drink to the hearts at home. Drink till the dawn and sleep till the noon, Hail! the sleepless night and the gay saloon Hark! to the merry click and clink Of the glasses' crystal rim. Where full to the glossy brink They flash to the goblot's brim? With vintage divine, With golden wine, And every drop is red, Red with the blood of manly hearts, Victims from offices, shops, and marts Who rest with the countless dead, Oh! the palace of wine is a sacred boon And the glory of life is a glad saloon. Come! drink of the vintage sweet Of the grape?the corn and rye, In the bar-room gay we meet? And the sun of mirth beams high, Where flashes bright The electric light, Though the giddy brain may reel, Reel! with the flow of heated gin The fumes of rum and the dregs of sin, Whero crime sets its loathsome seal? , Dimming the sunlight and clouding the moon; Yet there's nothing so bright as a glided saloon. Who cares for the preacher's ire? Or the famished widow's wail? For the drunken, tottering sire, Or the shivering orphan pale? Who cares for the tear On the drunkard's bier? Or the wife or mother's sighs? Or grave in the potter's field, alone, Unmarked with a cross, or mound, or stone, Where the poor inebriate lies? March on to the same eternal tune, A pauper's grave and a bright saloon. ?Charles J. Beattie, in Inter-Ocean. A Temperance Talk to Young Men. I should have been in my grave twenty or thirty years ago if I had not quit drinking intoxicating liquors, as x aid, in ichy. i naa contracted the habit; had built up a blind, unnatural appetite for strong; drinks, and liked the taste of every kind of liquor?though I suspect I liked the effects still better. I began to grow careless and " slothful in business," and put off till next week what I ought to have done 15-day. Fortunately I discovered that the habit was destroying ray health and my worldly prospects, and by a most determined will-power I conquered the powerful appetita which I had acquired for intoxicants and broke it forever. I knew that habit was second nature, and that the unnatural appetite for strong drinks was stronger than nature itself, for every glass of liquor drank increased the desire for another glass, and so on ad libitum, and therefore to have conquered such a fearful habit was the saving or my life, and all that was worth living for. When I found mvself secure from falling back into the whirlpool of intoxicants, I felt as a shipwrecked person must feel when his life is barely saved by the lifeboat, when many of his fellow passengers were still struggling in the waves. Being saved himself, he is excitedly anxious to save others, 1 felt so overjoyed at being snatched from a habit which was surely dragging me down to misery and death, that I found my greatest pleasure consisted in circulating tne temperance pledge, giving temperance lectures free of cnargo all over the country, and using every effort in my nnwAP to enlighten nnblic sentiment in re faril to the fearful delusion of strong drink, particularly urged young men and young women, as I now do, to start right in life to avoid the greatest evil i:i the land, because it is the parent of nearly every other evil known, and is sure to utterly destroy ninetenths of those who form the drinking habit. I begged them not to touch a single drop, because like opium, morphine and other narcotics the drinking of liquor, calls for more, more, and more to produce the same effect that a little produced at first, and thus an artificial and unnatural appetite was created that proved irresistible in a great majority of cases. I showed the youth of this country that their health, happiness, and success iu life, as well as of their posterity, depended upon whether they started life's journey on whisky, beer, and other brain-muddlers, or on cold water, nature's beverage, which 'gives the clear brain, the firm hand, the strong resolution, and the noble ambition to succeed in life financially and morally. I am glad to know that I have started thousands of young persons on the right track, and that their example will save hundreds of thousands of their posterity and fellow beings. It is one of the greatest pleasures of the evening of my life that I can look back and see the multitude of young married men, who were ruining themselves and families by this social, delusive, and absolutely fatal habit of dramdrinking, whom I have been able to convince that they were on the wrong track, and to induce them to switch off and take the temperance track for life. 'Many a wife and son and daughter have clasped me by the hand, and, with streaming eyes, have thanked me for having saved them from misery and degradation, and saving their father and husband. Young married men in Bridgeport who were my tenants, I have induced to abandon the use of liquor and tobacco on condition that I would build and sell them a house on credit, to be paid for by instalments. Numbers of such men with growing families have in a few years owned the houses they lived in, clear from debt, they having saved the money by cutting off their rum and tobacco expenses, and earned more money by their renewed energy, strength and ambition. There is, not one redeeming quality in the liquor drinking habit. It does no possible good, and it inflicts all manner of evil on its victim, his family and friends. It is the most degrading, poverty breeding, and utterly destructive infatuation that ever paralyzed the hopes, comforts and characters of the people of this otherwise blessed America. P. T. BA^NUM. "The Saloon Has No Rights." The time has not come when a just and wholesome law will bo permitted to remain as a dead letter; but th3 time is fast approaching when tho insolence and lawlessness of the saloon will be effectually suppressed. A sentiment in that direction is rapidly developing, and nothing has done more to quicken it than the saloon itself. Its disregard for law, its arrogance, its lobbying in legislative halls, and dictating to conventions and caucuses have done more than all else to create a sentiment against it that will control it or suppn s i it all ogether. It should consider tnat it has no claim on the public at all. It is no part of legitimate industry; it has no pla'-e in commercial prosperity. It exists in opposition to all principles of industrial and commercial interests. The people have tiie highest right recognizable to suppress it entirely?the right of self protection. For the saloon to t ilk of its rights is foolish. It has none. It exists only by sufferance, and there is nothing 011 which it can bas? a claim for protection. It is an industry that weakens everything it touches, one that adds nothing to individual or national prosperity, but is a heavy burden upon both. The revenue it yields is too insignificant, compared to the tax it makes necessary, to speak of.?Chicago Current. The Saloon and the Dangerous Classes. The Toledo Blade, commenting upon the baleful influence of the saloon, says: "The saloon is an evil in numberless ways; but especially is it an evil in that it makes itself a focus, a rallying-point, for these dangerous classes of society. Not only of the passively dangerous, the ignorant and unlearned, but the actively dangerous?the men who turn of their own freo choice to vice and crime rather than to honest labor and a j pure life. It brings these men together, it affords them a common meeting-point, it enI courages their combination to compass evil ! and wrong-doing that would be impossible or j impracticable to but one alono, or two or three. The saloon, we repeat, is especially an evil in that it is a club room for the vicious ! and criminal c lasses, a primary school wherein the foolish, the ignorant, become inoculated with the warped views of life held by the criminal classes, and in the end become recruits for this army of vice which i3 a menace to the peace and prosperity ol: the nation." RELIGIOUS READING. Home of the Bleiised. Those eternal bowers Man hath never trod. Those unfading flowers Round the throne of God: Who may hope to gain them After weary flglil? Who at length attain them, Clad in robes of white? He who gladly barters All On earthly ground, He who l.ke the martyrs Says I will be crowned; He whose one oblation Is a l.fe of love; Ciinging to the nation Of the ble3t above. ?St. John Damas<5ene. Wo Fear, Wo Hone, Robert Owen once visited a gentle nan who was a believer. In walking out, they came to the gentleman's family grave; Owen, addressing him, said: "There is one advantage I have over Christians?I am not afraid to die. Most Christians are afraid to die, but if some of my business was settle.*^, ?' should be perfectly willing to die at any moment." "Well," said his companion, "you say you have no fear in death; have you any hope in death?" After a solemn pause hereplied, "iSoi "lhen," | replied the gentleman, pointing to an i ox standing near, "you are on a level I with that brute; he has fed till ho i9 satisfied, and stands in the shad: whisking off the flies, aud has reither hope nor fear."?[Old Testament Anecdotes. The Funeral Procession of Jacob. This must have been a very grand funeral procession?and that for three hundred miles?such as the world baa seldom seen. There were not only the family of Israel?and not only the officers of the court, "the servants of Pharaoh"?but "the elders of Egypt," or the grandees cf the empire. There were also chariots and horsemen, so that with the attendants taken with them by so many high person , the camp was very great, as the text itself states. The terms would seem to suggest that the party was strong in a military point of i view. There is a tradition among the I Jews that Joseph contemplated the pos- I gibility of an attack from the family of Esau, which also claimed the Cave of ^ Machpelah, and that it actually came to j a name uctwcea tuu iwu paivius, iu which Joseph was victorious, Even in , the present age, so rich a caravan could not pass through those countries with- | out an armed escort, sufficiently strong to protect it against the predatory attacks of the desert Arabs. The objcct of the sacred historian is, however, simply to indicate the grandeur and magnificence of Jacob's obsequies, 1 jvhich, indeed, seem to b? without a parallel in history.?[Kitto's Bible Illustrations. Von 11 if Men. A Christian worker addressing a Chicago Young Men's Christian Association, concerning the breadth and importance of their work, remarked: "There are two thousand telegraph operators in the country; most of whom are young men; seventy-five thousand printers, the majority of whom are young men; and in the course of mv inauiries m various dircctioni I have found that , tr i r% nanf a f llin ttaii n rr man I ovui \*\jky vouv vi tub juuu^ uivu had any church connection whatever. The great majority of crimes committed in the city are committed by the young men; of the thirty-eight thousand persons arrested last year, a great majority was made up of young men. The average J age of the convicts of tha Joliet State Prison is twenty-five years." Some of these young men have been trained by godless parents; some of them have been trained in a godless way by parents professing godliness. Many of i them have never feen much of that I religion which the Apostle describes as I pure and undefiled. Some of them may | have been disgusted with a spurious article, with the religion of those men whom the same Apostle James declares have not the faith of Christ, tho Lord of glory, for if there came into tho assembly a rich man with a gold ring and j goodly apparel, they say to him, "Sit thou here in a good place," whilo to a poor man is said, "Irtand there, or sit under my footstool." Many of these young men have no faith in religion which does not affect the lives and business, and private character of the men who profess it. And so they are drifting off into skepticism and unbelief. The work of the Church is not done. A new generation is springing up around us. Every day persons are needing instruction, guidance nnd salvation. And especially for the salvotLn of the young should unceasing effort be put forth. How shall we meet the young men of this day in the presence of the Judge of all the earth, if we allow them to drift on in <lar ness to petition, when by faithfulness and diligence we might have turned their feet into the way of God's testimonies'?[Christian, Boston. Cold prayers are like arrows without heads.swords without edges, birds without wings; they pierce not, they cut not, they fly not up to heaven. Those prayers that have no heavenly fire in them always freeze before they reach as high . as heaven; but fervent prayer is very I prevalent with flod.?[Spurgeon. Temperance Notes. At a recent local-option election, Harrisonburg, Va., went "dry"' by ~44 majority. The casting vote of tho Speaker defeated Prohibition in the Newfoundland Legislature. The Chicago Tribune says: "Abandoned breweries are being converted inco canning factories in Kansas. The Austin Prohibitionist prints a list of 172 Texas newspapers, 128 of which are for, and 43 against, prohibition. Representative Crain, of Texas, says the Prohibition vote in his State will be much stronger than some people suppose. The Sumter (S. C.) Temperance Worker asks; "Shall the State hold a vested interest, in drunkeoizing its citizenship?" * I BUDGET OF FUf [ o i humorous sketches from v various sources. o a A Doubtful Compliment?A Palpable t Hit?Stood High?Heart Troubles r ?Romeo and Juliet ? Pol- t ished by Travel, Etc. a a Author (to friend)?"And you like my ^ stories?" Friend?"Yes." Author?"Which do you like best?" Friend?"The shortest one."?ArJcantaw Traveler. A Palpable Hit. ^ Miss Fair?"Now, Mr. Mundog3ky, as you are a painter and an admirer of the _ beautiful you must admire my friend ? Miss Rose Mundogsky?"Ah! but we painters j admire only the real beauties in nature, a and I am told that your friend paints those charms we are told to admire." ^ Miss F?"It is a gross slander, I assure you. I lave known her for years, and g she no more paints than?you do."?Judije. gi Stood High. "How about this young man that comes so often to see you, Millie?" said the old gentleman to his daughter. "Why, he's very nice and entertaining, J! papa. I'd like to have you meet him." "Very likely. But what is his position? ai Does he stand high in society?" & "Oh, yes indeed, papa." He is six feet ? two."?Merchant Traveler. a Heart Troubles. Two young ladies were sitting together Q in a street car. One of them was very _ pale and thin and seemed to be suffering. At the next corner the invalid got up and tt left the car. A gentleman who had been sitting opposite said to the remaining lady: "Excuse me. I am a physician. I per- a] ceive you friend is an invalid." ''Yes," was the reply; 'she has a heart u trouble." s "Probably an aneurism." J "No, a West Point cadet."?Si/tings. tj Romeo and Juliet. ' e: He (languishing)?1 'I have been hoping ^ that you would in time come to regard it me as your company." tl She (bashfully)?Company 1 "What 0; do you mean by that?" xs He (courageously)?"Well, as your a beau." ai She (blushingly)?"Oh! That's what ai company means!" w He (smilingly)?"Yes. And if you u ma a a rnnr rnmnn r> tt T fiKnilH m like to consider you as my misery." ol She (wonderingly)?"Yourmisery?" C( He (triumphantly)?"Yes, because, -w you know, misery loves company." i? She (demurely)?"I see. We'll admit jc then that you are company and I misery, C( tut don't you think misery a very disa- jg greeable name for a girl, and that it sc ought to be changed?say to company." p( Then he popped.?Boston Courier. m a< Polished by Travel. d A Washington correspondent tells of a m young man who has afforded no little d amusement to society there. His father tl died some time ago, leaving him a for- tl tunc. The youngster, with a great H flourish, went to England, and upon his c< return recently, an acquaintance asked: d "Did you visit the Tower?" d "No." uj "Did vou see Westminister?" ai "No." ti "Didn't you see Parliament in ses- tl iion?" it "No." in "Well, what in the world did you do d< f.broad?" " p< "I brought back six brand new over- pi coats of the latest fashion," was the g< young man's summing up of the result of f< his trip.?Clothier and Fumishier. w si: She ivas Equal to Him. fa Hostetter McGinnis?"Miss Esmerelda, th Hove you"? th Miss Esmerelda?"But it's all a mis- m 1-ake about my being rich. I am a poor P* Ijirl, Mr. McGinnis." 0 "You didn't let me finish my sentence. .1' was going to say I loved you not"? "That's all right, Mr. McGinnis. I was only testing your affections. I have fr1 ifortune of $100,000 in my own name." bs "Why do you interrupt me? I was so saying I love you not on account of your- b( money, but for yourself alone." us "I'm glad to hear it. That was all a tv joke about the $100,000," replied Es- th nieralda. F< McGinnis looked as if he was not feel- P< Ing well.?Texas Siftings. si' p? Mr. Evarts Got a Reply. pc At New York city, in the fall of 186-' a case was tried before Judge Sutherland, in which the law firm of Evarts, South- nc mayd & Choate appeared for the defence. ?? Mr. Evarts made the concluding argu- ^ mcnt, and the fame of the great coun- 7" selor secured for him a considerable audience of lawyers from neighboring courts, ai in addition to many persons who had more or less interest in the proceedings. }u Mr. Evarts had been speaking for some Ln hours and was evidently nearing his per- . c oration. He began to sum up his arguments, and asked impressively what an- s ' swer could be made to them. Again he ? placed the points in lucid array, and again asked u similar question. Then a P? third time he restated his case with vivid * eloquence, and once more, in louder tones, wound up with: P1 "What is their answer?" He paused. You could have heard a 311 pin drop. Suddenly the door of the "" court room opened, and a peddler, sticking liis head and a feather duster into "{ the opening, cried out: ae "Brooms!" In a moment the room was ringing 8F with uncontrollable laughter in which 9* everybody joined?even the judge on the " bench and the orator himself. Mr. Evarts, co liowever, kept on his feet, and was the ! first to recover composure. With his c.a hand raised to command attention, as the roar subsided, ho said solemnly: tf1 "That was not, indeed, the reply which *1{ I expected. But you may rest assured that when you do get their answer you ?5,1 n/iii-illv frivolous and ineon Will 1111VI V-VJ ......J sequent.?American MayaHiue. de ar A Green Recruit. cn Adjutant General E. B. Gray, of Madi- dc son, Wis., favored the members of Han- se - ? fi. son) Post, G. A. H., W1U1 a little taiK reccntly. In the course of his remarks he l)r referred to the general ignorance of the co first recruits in all matters pcrtainining to su the army and navy, and stated that the r0 North had very few real soldiers the first eE two years of the war. As an illustration of this point he related the following incident: or "Soon after the first call for troops was *u issued, "he said, "a member of one of the 1?. newly organized regiments which had di just been quartered at Washington was ar strolling about the city one day when he f? stumbled into the navy yard. His curi- n' osity was very much excited at what he 0 aw there, he having been raised in as aland town. At last he came across >ne of these great anchors that are used n a man-of-war. One of the flukes was ticking in the ground, while the other tuck some twelve or fourteen feet in the ir, and the shank extended out o one side about fifteen feet. The ecruit was very much interested in his strange piece of machinery. He exmined it on all sides, tried to move it, nd occasionally stared all around the 3 x X ? A. fx ?l.t_ aru, as 11 trying 10 connect n wun some ther object. After a while the yard fficer came around and told him he rould hare to leave the yards. " 'Oh, but gosh blame it, I ain't ready a go yit!' said the recruit. 4 'Can't help it sir,' replied the officer; the yards closcat five o'clock, andeveryody has to get out then.' u 'But I want to stay here, and I'm not oing out. My name's Peterson, and I elong to the Seventieth New York." "'Makes no difference; you must go. Jut what on earth do you want to hang round here for?' " 'Why, I've been waiting here for an our to see the chap that handles this osh-blamed pick, and I'm going to stay ere till he comes if I have to wait all immer.""?Chicago Herald. How Thermometers Are Made. If thermometers were all of uniform iliber and graded accurately there rould, of course, be no difference in leir records. But the fact is that many re imperfectly made and carelessly raded, and these, of course, will give idely differing results. The first point 1 the construction of the mercurial therlometer is to see that the tube is of uni>rm caliber throughout its whole in;rior. To ascertain this a short column f mercury is put into the tube and loved up and down, to see if its length ;mains the same through all parts of the ibe. If a tube whose caliber is not uni)rm is used slight differences are made l its graduation to allow for it. A scale f equal parts is etched upon the tube, ad from observations of the inequalities f the column of mercury moved in it a ible giving the temperatures correaonding to these divisions is formed. A ulb is now blown on the tube, and while le open end of the latter is dipped into lercurv heat is applied to the bulb to spand the air in it. The heat is then rithdrawn, and, the air within contractlg, a portion of the mercury rises in 10 fnKo mid r??rfW fillsfho hiilh To the ?*****?' * ?w pen end of the tube a funnel containing lercury is fitted, the bulb placed over flame until it boils, thus expelling all ir and moisture from the instrument, id, on cooling, the tube instantly fills 'ith mercury. The bulb is now placed i some hot fluid causing the mercury ithin it to expand and flow over the top f the tube, and when this overflow haa ;ased the open end of the tube is heated ith a blow-pipe flame. To graduate the istrument, the bulb is placed in melting :e, and, when the top of the mercury >lumn has fallen as low as it will, note taken of its position referred to the :ale on the tube. This is the freezing oint: It is marked as zero on the therlometers of Kelsius and Reaumur, and i 32? on the Fahrenheit system. 'To etcrmine the boiling point, the instrulent is placed in a metallic vessel with ouble walls, between which circulates le steam from boiling water. Between le freezing and boiling point of water 30 equal degrees are marked in the mtigrade graduation of Celsius, 180 egrees on the Fahrenheit plan, and 80 egress on the Reaumur. On many therlometers all three of these graduations e indicated on the frame to which the ibe is attached. Some weeks after a lcrmometer has been made and graded may be noticed that when the bnlb is amersed in pounded ice the mercery 5 s not quite descend to the freezing )int. This is owing to a gradual exmsion of the mercury which usually Des on for nearly two years, when it is >und that the zero has risen nearly a hole dcpTee. It is then necessrry to ide down the scale to which the tube is stened, so that it will read accurately te movements of the mercury. After lis change, the accuracy of the thermoeter is assured, as there is no further exmsion of the mercury column.? Intercom, Bread Making-. A barrel of good flour should make om 270 to 285 fire cent loaves. Many ikers blend four brands, as two Minneta springs and two Indiana winters, ifore they get the right alloy. Others le only one grade of spring and to of winter wheat. These make ic best brands of fancy bread, srmerly yeast was made of malt, )tatoes and hops, and this is cxtenvely used. Fancy bread bakers use a itent yellow compressed yea9t. It is >pularly supposed that bakers use alum :tensively in order to whiten their ead. That is not the fact. There is > necessity for the use of alum, and it is )t used in the trade. There are about renty large steam bakeries in New York, hich give employment to several indred men. One of these, a noted roadway establishment, makes a ecialty of Vienna bread, and does an lmense business. Vienna bread is made air tight ovens, of the best grade of >ur, and milk is used instead of water mixing the dough. In baking, the jam settles baak on the bread instead escaping. This makes the outer crust in and tender, and gives the bread a cuiiany ncn mstc imu picusuut uiuma. hat is known to the trade as "steam" ead is another recent invention. It is ade of the very finest of flour and baked air tight pans, which inclose it on all les. It is thus baked in its own steam, id possesses a flavor peculiarly its own. ae very large bakery in New York is ivoted solely to the production of rated bread. It is a steam factory, and e bread so made is extremely light and ongy. The invention is an English ic, but has been in use here for years, hen the dough has reached a certain nsistency, it is run into an air tight linder and strongly impregnated with rbonic acid gas. This creates the Witness and sponginess -without deleting in the slightest from its putrijus qualities.?Milling World. Humble Pic. To "eat humble pie," is to knock ua?r, to be submissive. This expression ose from the fact that the limbics, or trails, and other unprime parts of a :er, were anciently made into a dish for rvauts, while their masters feasted oil i e haunch. Dr. Brewer says of this exnednn " 'Tn p.it humble Die,' is to I me down from a position you have asmed, to be obliged to take a 'lower om.' 'Umblcs' are the heart, liver and itrails of the deer, the huntsman's perlisites. "When the lord and his house)ld dined the venison pastry was served i the dais, but the umbles were made to a pic for the huntsman and his felws. N. B. ?Pie and patty were both minutivos of pastry. Pa9try and patty e limited to venison, veal and some w other moats; pie is of far wider sigficance, including fruit, mince, etc.? lobe-Bemocrat. m 1 THE GOLD FEYER. , A TALK WITH A CALIFORNIA , ARGONAUT. The First Piece of Gold Fonndl Now Kept at the National Museum?Early Scenes in the Gold Fields. The original canse of the great California gold fever?the first fever germ? u at me mcionai Museum, it is securely sealed in a little glass bottle, and there is no longer any danger of contagion. It is a little flattened piece of gold about the size of a gold dollar. It is the piece found by Marshall, while digging a millrace the year before the fever set in. It was sent direct to the Smithsonian in August, 1848. The following is a copy of the letter that accompanies it: San Francisco, August 23,1848. This paper contains the first piece of gold ever discovered in the northern part of upper California. It was found in February, 1848, by James W. Marshall, in the race of Captain A. Sutter's sawmill, about fortyfive miles from .Sutter's Fork, on the south branch of the American Fork. It was beaten out with a hammer by Mr. Marshall to test its malleability. It is presented to the National Institute, "Washington, D. C. J. L. Folsom. J. L. Folsom was a captain in the United States service. There are many pieces of gold in California claimed to be the first found, but none of them - have the facts in favor of their claim. The discovery of this piece of gold by Marshall led to the Bearch of more, and it was found. It was the seed that up to 1880 had produced $1,200,000,000 in gold. Prior to this discovery, Indians and a few missionary priests had been collecting some gold in other parts of the State,but thi3 was the very first piece found in the gold belt, and it led to the great rush to California in '49. Dr. R. M. Dawes, the dentist of West "Washington, was one of the forty-niners who started out from Washington. He was talking over the matter with a Star reporter for a little while last eventng. "A party of us," he said, "tooka sailing vessel at Baltimore in March, and wa were seven months and fourteen days making the trip to San Francisco. There were my brother and ex-Senator Sargent, then a local reporter in Washington, one or two other Washington boys and myself, and there were quite a number of others from Baltimore to make up the party. That was the way Sargent first went to the State he afterward repre sented in the Senate. "We had a pretty / hard voyage. The Captain of the vessel treated us so badly that when we got to Rio de Janeiro we complained to the Consul and had him removed. This caused a delay of fourteen days. Then at Valparaiso we had to unload a steam engine and other cargo, which caused a delay of twenty days more. It was a very weary voyage before we got to San Francisco. Sargent did not go all the way with us. He got oil at Valparaiso, and from there sailed to San Francisco in another vessel. I remember that he studied Spanish all the way from Baltimore to Rio de Janeiro. "When we- arrived at San Francisco several of our party who were caroenters' stopped there. They got $16 a day for working at their trade there, and thought it better than taking the chances in the mines. There were six in my party who went into prospecting. Every thing was fever and excitement there then. All sorts of sensational reports of big finds were circulated, but there was not a3 much outlawry as many people suppose. In San Francisco there was considerable gambling. It was not much of -a-eity^^ then. All the buildings were frame, and" the gambling-houses were like the frame barracks they put up for soldiers. Tho gaming-rooms were in front and the bar in the rear. Gamblers would pay $50 a night for each table. They never counted the money, but just stacked it up on the table, and measured it in that way. The gamblers were the only men who wore white shirts. "There were no courts. If a man committed an offense in the diggings he was tried by twelve men selected for the occasion, and their decisions were prompt and just. For that reason there were few crimes committed. Our gold was left in camp without any one to guard it and it was never stolen. I would sometimes leave a day's diggings in a pan out in the sun to dry. No one ever disturbed it. For serious crimes the jury of twelve would hang a man; for petty larceny they would horse-whip him and give him twenty-four hours to get out of camp. If a man sunk a pit and threw a pick or shovel in it he could go on prospecting, and if he returned any time within ten days he would find his claim to the diggings respected. "When our party landed," he continued, "we went to Sacramento, where we got three yoke of oxen and a wagon that had come overland, and started for the diggings, well stocked with provisions. We went first to South Fork, then to North Fork or Feather River. There was so much mud that we had to abandon our cattle and wagon and carry our packs on our backs. We did pretty well, but I was sick and had to keep out of the trenches and give up miningfora while. When we dissolved partnership at North Fork a sack of flour fell to my share and I sold it for $200. I then bought a boat and gun and shot quuil and jack rabbits and sold them in San Francisco. Quail brought $7 and $S per dozen dead, and $12 alive; and jack rabbits $7 and $3 each. The second time I went back to | San Francisco the cholera was raging Miprr> MV>n wore dronDiner dead like sheep. "I went to the diggings again, and we came across a big rock near Middle Fork standing high out of the water, which whirled in a swift eddy around it. We knew if there was any gold in that locality it would be right in this eddy. So we filled bags with sand and made a I dam to turn the water aside so that we ! could get at it. The very first dip of my pan brought up $'218 worth of gold. After working there a week we divided up, and cach got $900 as his share There were six of us."?Washington Star. A King Among Pineapples. Mr. Joseph Hahn, of "Washington 6trect, has got the "boss" pineapple of the season; iu fact it is a mass meeting ; of seven pineapples. From the base of ! one exceedingly big apple grow six little 1 * 1 ? -5 1 IlL- nn ones mat are as souua anu neuniij- ua ?? onion patch. The whole conglomeration measures three feet around the base, is two feet long and weighs twenty-two pounds. It grew in the West Indies, and did not cause a revolution. Mr. ! Hahn is goingto keep it for a month and then take up an offer of $10 for it.?Xeio York Herald. W. II. Parkinson, of Mineral Point, Wis., while sowing oats found a gold i ring on the point of one of the seeder1 teeth. The ring was lost about thirty j years ago by a young lady in passing ' over the farm. j