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I? RV M Til M A ft If At *-i ? A/ 111 A lil THE BROOKLYN DIVINES SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "From Dungeon to Palace." (Preached at the Hamptons, Long Island.) Text: The time of my departure is at Jiand.?II. Timothy iv., 0. The way out of this world is so blocked up with coffin and hears-1, and undertaker's jspade and screwdriver, that the Christian can hardly think as he ought of the most cheerful passage in all his history. We hang black instead of white over the place where the good man gets his last victory. We stand weeping over a heap of chains which the treed soul has shaken olf, and we say: ''Poor inan! What a pity it was he h id to come to this!" Come to what/ By the time the people have assembled at the obsequies the man has been three days so happy that all the joy of earth accumulated would be wretchedness beside it, and he might better weep over you because you havo to stay, than you we -p over him beboo +s\ cm t>. 1<5 ft frtrtllTlfltA thing that a good man does not have to wait to see his own obsequies, they would be so discordant with his own experience. If the Israelites should go back to Egypt and mourn over the brick kilns they once left,they would not be any more silly "than that Christian who should forsake heaven and come down and mourn because he had to leave this world. Our ideas of the Christian's death .are morbid and sickly. We look upon it as a j dark hole, in which a man stumbles when his ! breath gives out. This whole subject is odor- i ous with varnish and disinfectants, instead of j being sweet with mignonette. Paul, in my . text, takes that great clod of a word, ''death," j and throws it away, and speaks of his 4-de- j parture'?a beautiful, bright, suggestive | word, descriptive of every Christian's re- J lease. Now, departure implies a starting place J And a place of destination. When Paul left this world what was the starting point? It was a seen* of great physical distress, it was ' .the Tullianum, the lower dungeon of the j Mamertine prison. The top dungeon was i 'bad enough, it having no means of ingress or i egress but through an opening in the top. ' Through that the prisoner was lowered, and I through that came all the food and air and j light received. It was a terrible place, that | Hipper dungeon; but the Tullianum was the lower dungeon, and tint was still | a rt?>lv IfcrHfc i] fr.hrt ! only air coming through the roof, and- that roof the floor of the upper dungeon. That was Paul's last earthly residence. It was a dungeon just six feet and a naif high. It was .a doleful place. It had the chill of long -centuries of dampness. It was filthy with the Jong incarceration of miserable wretches. It was there that Paul spent his last days oil earth, and it is there that I see him to-day, in the fee ul dungeon, shivering, blue with ithe cold, waiting for that old overcoat which | ihe had sent for up to Troas, and which they I had not yet sent down, notwithstanding he hai written for it If some skilful surgeon should go into that | .dungeon where Paul is incarcerated, we might j .find out what are the prospects of Paul's living through the rough imprisonment. In the I first place, he is an old man, only two years i short of seventy. At that very time when he most needr% the warmth and the sunlight, and .the fresh air. he is shut out from the sun. Wliat are those scars on his ankles ? Why, (those were gotten when he was fast, his feet in the stocks. Every time he turned, the flesh on his ankles started. What are those scars on his back/ You know he ; was whipped five times, each time getting thirty-nine strokes?195 bruises on the Kor?lr lr>r%nnt t.homH hv .Tpwq wifh rods of elinwood, each ono of the 11)5 strokes bringing the blood. Look at Paul's face and look at his arms. W here did he get those bruises- I think it was when ha was struggling ashore amidst the shivered timbers of ' the shipwreck. I see a gash in Paul's side. Where did he get that? I think be got that in the tussel with highwaymen, for he had been in peril of robbers and he had money of his own. He was a mechanic as well as an apostle, and I think the tents he made were as good as his sermons. "lhere was a wanness about Paul's looks. | What makes that? I think a part of that | came from the fact that ha was for twenty-four hours on a plank in the Mediterranean sea, suffering terribly, before he was rescued; for he says positively: "I was a night and a day in the deep." Oh, worn out, emaciated old man! surely you must bo melancholy, Jib constitution could endure this and be i cheerful. But I press my way through the prison until I come up close to where he is, and by the faint light that streams through the opening I see on his face a supernatural joy, and I bow before him, and I say: *'Aged man, how can you keep cheerful amidst all this gloom?" His voice startles * the darkness of the place as he cries out: "I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand." Hark! what is that shuttling of feet in the upper dungeon? Why, Paul has an Invitation to a banquet, and he is going to dine to day with the king. Those shuffling feet are the feet of the executioners. They come, and they cry down through the hole of the dungeron: "Hurry up, old man. Come now; get yourself ready." Why, Paul was ready. He had nothing to pack up. He had no baggage to take. He had been ready a good while. I see him rising up, and straighteniug out his stiffened limbs, and pushing back his white hair from his creviced forehead, and I see him looking up through the hole in the wf of the dungeon into the face of his execution, and hear him say: "I am now ready to be offered, at the time of my departure is at hand." Then they lift him out of the dungeon, and they start with him to the place of execution. They say: "Hurry along, old man, or you will fool the weight of our spear. Hurry along." "How far is it," says Paul, "we have to travel?" "Three miles." Three ? wnxr fr\y an nl 1 uuius 13 a ^wu ??i*j ivi . man to travel after he has beer, f whipped and crippled with mal- j treatment. But they soon set to the place of execution?Acquae Talvia?and he is fastened' to the pillar of martyrdom. It Joes not take any strength to tie him fast. He makes no resistance. 0 Paul! why not strike for your life.' You have a great many friends here. With that withered band just launch the thunderbolt of the peo- 'j pie upon those infamous soldiers. No! Paul was not "going to interfere with his own coronation. He was too glad to go. I s?e him looking up into the face of his executioner, and, as tne grim official draws the sword, Paul calmly says: "I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand." But I put my hand over my eyes. I want not to see that last struggle. One sharp, keen stroke, and Paul does go to the banquet and Paul does dine with the King. What a transition it was! From the malaria of Rome to the finest climate in all the universe?the zone of eternal beauty and health. His ashes were put in the catacombs* of Rome, but in one moment the air of heaven bathed from his s6ul the last ache. From shipwreck, Vpm dungeon, from the biting pain of the ^o-wood rods, from the sharp sword of headsman, he goes into the most brilliant Assemblage of heaven, a king among kings, multitudes of the sainthood rushing out and Stretching forth hands of welcome; for I do really think that as on the right hand of God is Christ, so on the right hand of Christ is Paul, the second great in heaven. He changed kings likewise. Before the hour of death and up to the last moment he was under Nero, the thick necked, tho cruel eyed, tho filthy lipped; the sculptured features of that mm bringing down to us to this very day the horrible possibilities of his nature?seated as he J was amidst pictured marbles of Egypt, under a roof adorned with mother of I pearl, in a dining room, which by ma- | chtnery was kept whirling day and night i with most bewitching magnificence; nis horses standing in stalls of solid gold, and the grounds around his palace lighted at night by its victims, who had been dauled with tar and pitch and then Sit fire to il- ' lumine the darkness. That was Paul's king. But the njxt moment he goes into tho .realm of Him whose reign is love, and whose courts are paved with love, anl whose throne is set on pillars or love, and whose scepter is adorned with jewels of Jove, and whose pilace is lighted with love, and whose lifetime is an eternity of love. When Paul was leaving so much on cms side the pillar of martyrdom to jgain so much on the other side, do you wonder at the cheerful valedictory of the -text: "The time of my departure is at liandf' Now, why cannot all the old people of ihi3 congregation have the same noly glea * 1 f as that aged man had? Char lea I., when j he was combing his head, found a gray hair, and he sent it to the queen as a I great joke; but old age is really no joke i at all. For the last forty years you have j been dreading that which ought to have j being an exhilaration. You say you must fear the struggle at the moment the soul i and body part. But millions have en! dured that moment, and why not we as well? Thev got through with it, and so can we. Besides this, all medical men agree in saying that there is probably no j si ruggle at all at the last moment?not so much pain as the prick of a pin, the seeming signs of distress being altogether involuntary. : But you say: "It is the uncertainty of the ; future." Now, child of God, do not play the j infidel. After God has filled the Bible till it can hold no more with the stories of the good things ahead, better not talk about uncertainties. But you say: "I cannot bear to think of j parting from "friends here." It' you are old [ vou have more friend* in heaven than I here. Just take the census. Take some J large sheet of paper and begin to record | the names of those who have emigrated i to the other shore; the companions of your school days, your early business associates, the friends of mid life and those who I more recently went awuy. Can it be that J they have been gone so long you do not | care any more about them and you do not want their society! Uh, 110! There have been days when you have fe't that you I miiU nnt. onHnria it nnnthpr mnm&nk A WAV i from their b!e>se.l companionship. They have gone. You say you would not like | j to bring them back to this world of trouble, even if you had the power. It would not do to trust you. God would not Give you resurrection power. Before to-morrow morning you would be rattling at the gates of the cemetery, crying to the departed: "Come back to the cradle where you slept! Come back to the hall where you used to play! Come back to the table where you used to sit!" and there would be a great burglary in heaven. No, no! God will not trust you with resurrection power, but he tonpromises the matter and says : You caunot bring tbem where you are." They are more lovely now than ever. Were they beautiful here, they are more beautiful there. Besides that, it is more healthy there for you than here, aged man: better climate there than the?e hot summers and cold j winters and late springs; better hearing; j batter eye-sight: more tonic in the air; | more perfume in the bloom: more sweet- | uess in the song. Do you not feel, aged man, sometimes, as though you would like to get your arm and foot free? Do you not feel as though you would like to throw away spectacles and "canes and crutches? Would you not like to feel the spring and elasticity jind mirth of an eternal boy nocKi! vvnen tne point at wmcn you stare from tlxis world is old age, and the point to which you go is eternal juvenescence, aged man, clap your hands at the anticipation, and say, in perfect rapture of soul: "The time ot n*>- departure is at hand." I remark, again, all those ought to feel this joy of the text who have a holy curiosity to know what is beyond this earthly terminus. And who has not any curiosity about it? Paul, I suppose, had the most satisfactory view of heaven, and he says: "It doth not yet appear what we shall be." It is like looking through a broken telescope: "Now we see through a glass darkly."' Can you tell me anything about that heavenly" place ? You ask me a thousand questions about it that I cannot answer. I ask you a thousand questions about it that you cannot answer. And do you wonder that Paul was so glad when martyrdom gave him a chance to go over ami make discoveries in that blessed country/ I hope some day, by the grace of God, to go over and see for myself; but not now. No well man, no prospered man, I think, wauts to go now. But the time will come, I think, when I shall go over. I want to see what they do there, and I want to see how they do it. I do not want to be looking through the gate> ajar forever. I want them to swing open. There are 10,000 things I want explained?about you, about myself, about the government of .this world, about God, about everything. We start in a plain path of what we know, and in a minut-3 come up against a high wall of what we do not know. I wonder how it looks over there. Somebody tells me it is like a paved city?paved with gold; and another man lelis me it is like a fountain, and it is like a tree, and it is like a tri umphal procession, and tho next man I meet tells me it is all figurative. I really want to know, after the body is resurrected, what liiey wear and what they eat; and I have an immeasurable curiosity to know what it is, and how it is, ana where it is. Columbus risked his life to fitid this continent, and shall wo shudder to go out on a voyage of discovery which shall reveal a vaster and more different country ? John Franklin risked his life to find a passage between icebergs, and shall we dread to find a passage to eternal summer? Men in Switzerland travel up the heights of the Matterhorn with alpenstock and guides and rockets and ropes, and getting half way up. stumble and fall down in a terrible massacre. They just want to say they bad been on the tops of those high peaks. And shall we fear to go out for the ascent of the eternal hills, which start a thousand miles beyond where stop the highest peaks of the "Alps, and when in that ascent there is no peril? A man doomed to die stepped on the scaffold and said in joy: ''Now. in ten minutes I will know the great secret." One minute after the vital Functions ceased the little child that died last night in Montague street knew more than Jonathan Edwards, or St. Paul himself, before he died. Friends, the exit from this world, or death, if you please to call it, to the Christian is glorjous explanation. It is demonstration. It is illumination. it is sunDurst. it is the opening of all the windows. It is shutting up the catechism of doubt and the unrolling of all the scrolls of positive and accurate information. Instead of standing at the foot of the lad ler and looking up, it hi standing at the top of the ladder and looking down. It is the last mystery taken out of botany, and geology, i and astronomy, and theology. Oh, will it not be grand to have all questions answered? The perpetually rejurring interrogation point changed for the mark of exclamation. All riddles solved. Who will fear to go out on that discovery when all the questions are to be decided which we have been discussing all our lives? Who shall not clap his hands in the anticipation of that blessed country.ititbeno better than through holy curiosity, crying: "The time of my departure is at hand!" I remark,again, we ought to have the joy of the text, because, leaving this world,we move into the best society of the universe. You see a great crowd of people in some street, and you say: "Who is passing there? What General, what Prince is coins* ud there?" Well. I i see a great throng in"heaven. I say: "Who is the focus of all that admiration? Who ( is the centre of that glittering company!" It is Jesus, the champion of all worlds, the favorite of all ages. Do you know what is the first question the soul will ask when it comes through the gate of hsaveii? I think the first question will be: "Where is Jesus, the Saviour that pardoned my sin; that carried my sorrows; that fought my battles; that won my victoriesO radiant One! how 1 would like to see Thee! Thou of the manger, but without its humiliation, Thou of the cross, but without its pangs; Thou of the grave, but without its darkuass. The Bible intimates that we will talk with Jesus in heaven just as a brother talks with a brother. Is'ow, what will you ask him rirst? 1 do not kuow. I can thiuk vhat I would ask Paul first, if I saw him in heaven. I think I would like to hear him describe the storm that came upon the ship when there were 275 souls on the vtssel, Paul being the only man on board cool enough to describs the storm. There is a fascination about a ship and the | sea that I shall never get over, un<i I think i T would like to hear him talk about that | first. But when I meet my Lord Jesus i Christ, of what shall I first delight to hear I Him s^peak? Now I thinlc what it is. 11 shall first want to hear the tragedy of hia : last hours; and then Luke's account of the I crucifixion, and Mark's acouut of the i crucifixion, and John's account of the cru-! ciiixion will be nothing, while from the I | living lips of Christ the story shall be told j I of the gloom that fell, and tha devils that | arose, and the fact that upon his endurance ' depended the resuceof a race; and there was j darkness in the sky,and there was darkness in j the soul,and the pain became more sharp, and the burdens bccame more heavy,until the mob began to swim away from the aying vision of Christ, and the cursing of the mob came to his ear more faintly, and his hands were fastened to the horizontal piece of the cross, and his feet were fastened to the perpendicular piece of the cross, and his head fell forward in a swoon as he i uttered the last moan and cried: "It is finished!" All Heaven will stop to listen until the story is done, and every harp will lie put down, and every lip closed, and all eyes fixed upon the divine narrator, until the story is done; and then, at tl?o fun of fVia fiio atoi*****! will rouse up; finger on string of harp, and lips to the mouth of trumpet, there shall roll forth the oratorio of the Messiah: "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing, and riche3. and honor, and glory, and power, world without end!" What he endured, oh, who can tell. To save our souls from death and hell When there was between Paul cnl that magnificent personage only the thinness of the sharp edge of the sword of the executioner, do you wonder that ho wanted to go? Oh, my Lord Jesus, let one wave of that glory roll over this auditory! Hark! I hear the wedding bells of heaven ringing now. The marriage of the Lamb has corae, and the bride hath made herself ready. POPULAR SCIENCE. A new sword-handle has been conefmr?f-or1 Vw n T.pir\cir> nrr>fp;?rtr nn it. is ? I - . claimed, anatomical principles. The de- | signer asserts that, being planned with reference to the hand's mechanism, it can be held with absolute security. It is not necessary to have different metals to obtain a current of electricity. Iron in nitric acid and iron in sulphuric acid, the two fluids being separated by a porous pnrtitiou, will give a current, one plate wasting away while the other is thickened. The threatened extinction of edelweiss and other Alpine flowers, a short time ago, led to the founding of gardens and enclosures for the cultivation and protection of these plants. At one of these mountain stations, at a height of about 7,500 feet, plants of the Pyrenees, the Himalayas and the Caucasus are cultivu- : ted, as well as those of the Alps. According to Professor Woodward, of 1 Washington, in about 5,200 years the j rock over which the falls flow at Niagara will be all worn away. The area of the rock worn away at Horseshoe Falls between the years 184'2 and 1875 was 18,500 square feet, equal to 0.425 acre; between 1375 and 18SC, CO. 000 square j fjet. or 1.37 acre. The main length of 1 the contour of the falls is 2,300 feet. The time required to recede one mile, if the rate is 2.4 feet per year, i3 2,200 years. Jt appears from a memoir sent by Dr. Jammes to the Academic des Sciences that, uulike other animals, monkeys readily acquire the habit of taking morphia. When monkeys live with opium smokers, and become accustomed to a indicated atmosphere, they acquire a taste for the poison. One monkey, for instance, would wait until his master had laid aside his pipe, and would then take it up and smoke what remained. If not allowed to do so for several days it would fall into a state of depression and stupor, which disappeared as soon as the stimulant was supplied. The metric system, according to a statement recently prepared by Mr. Jame3 Jackson, of the Geographical Society of Paris, is obligatory by law throughout Europe except in Russia and Turkey, and in eight of the South Ameri- i can States, the total population of these countries being 241,973,011. It i3 optional by law in the United States, the Dominion of Canada, Great Britain and Ireland and Persia, with a total p >pulation of 97,639,823. In six coun- < tries, including English India and Russia, with a population of 333,2GG,386, it is often used without having legal value.. An interesting phenomenon has for 1 some time past been observed on j < the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea. ! j The Kara Bobhas is an estuary nearly separated from the main body of the sea 1. by a bank through which "there is an j inlet. The evaporation from this gulf is ' 1 so great that a current continually sets in from the Caspian, and, as there is no i return current, the water of the gulf becomes more and more saliferous, and a deposit of salt is in course of formation. ] The natural result of this would appear to be that in time this gulf will be cut olF fi oni the Caspian, and being thus dried up, will become an extensive salt bed. At a recent meeting of the Physiological Society of Berlin it was stated that when the bee has tilled the cell either 1 with pure houey or a mixture of pollen- i dough and honey, and has completed the lt.l n /lr/\n fn*rrr\ ir* nniA aKf?lino/l f rATTl IIU, ? U1 VI iViiUlW UV/1U VI/bUlUV/M livtu I the poison-bag connected with the sting , is added to the honey by perforating the lid with the sting. Numerous experi- 1 merits show that this formic acid pre- < serves honey* and every other solution from fermentation. If this be well establ'shed it will show that the sting and the poison apparatus of the bee has a further purpose than that of a defensive or offensive weapon. Another interest- ' intf fact suggests itself in connection with this. Bo far as is known most of ( the insects that have stinging apparatus similar to that of the bee are collectors and storers of honey. 1 A Canyon by Moonlight. Even more enchanting was the canyon ( as seen by moonlight. Then all the varied features and colorincs of the dav were toned in strange, unuatural monochromatic lights and shades. Each line of ' clilfsand bossy crags seemed transmuted 1 ' alternately to cbouy and ivory."' A ( mysterious silvery gauze floated around ] the tips of the brown, gloomy forests; and the still reaches of water flowed, ink { iu the shadow, crystal in the light; or, ^ where agitated, changed iu the moon- < beams to troubled drifts of snow. Great , unreclaimed regions, too, were left, of , vague and solemn darkness. Hearing the panther's yell and the rapid back of 1 the coyote?echoed by the gorge into 1 maniacal shriek and laughter?aud startled by the sepulchral call of the owl's "who? who-e? who? who?" one need make little ctTort of the imagination to feel he 1 had here reached the regiou of Dante's i pen and Dore's pencil; and tha*: by Ai:3.vcring that sentinel challenge satis- j factorily aud advancing a few pacts he ( might meet unearthly sights, or plunge beneath the quiet waters of oblivion.? 1 Overland. ' 1 Lent Her Coinage. Iu the year 1123 Donienico Michieli, ' the Doge of Venice, undercook a crusade ' in Syria aud Palestine, roated the Sara- i cens and entered Jciusale n u 112-1. There j the I)oge found himself gtcaOy embar- ( r.issed tor wan* of mosey, .is the expected supplies ha I not arr vec, and the Vene- j tiau troops (mercenaries for the most part) clamored for immediate payment 1 under the threat of wholesale deseition. Then Domenieo Michieli ordered a large number of pieces of leather to be stamped 1 with the pommel of his sword, on which ! his name and coat of aims were engraved, adding the number of gold coins each i v/:is intended to represent. And behold, the money lenders in Jerusalem had such respect for the Do^cand his honesty, and so great f.ilth in the credit of the City of Venice, that they advanced the required amount on the security of those pieces of leather, which then passed into currency under the name of ".Michieletti." They were afterward redeemed in Venice on presentation, an I at a later period added to the coat of arms of tho Venetian no^ I bility.? II Corrhrre, | RELIGIOUS READING. Leave It AIL With Him. Whichever way the wind doth blow, Some heart is glad to have it so; Then blow it east, or blow it west, The wind that blows, that win 1 is best. "My little craft sails not alone; A thousand fleets from every zona Are out upon a thousand seas; What blows for one a favoring breaze Might dash another with a shock Of doom upon some hidden rock. "And so I do not dare to pray For wiuds to waft me on my way, But leave it to a higher will To stay or speed me, trusting still, "That all is well, and surs ihat He Who launched my bark will sail with me Through stoim and calm, aud will not fail, Whatever breezss may prevail, To land uie, evory peril past, Within 1:1? sheltered haven at last. Auau, iTuatsmiver wina aoia oiow, My heart is glad to have it so, And blow it eaufc, or blow it west, The wind thatblow3, that wind is best." ?[Selected. Inll lei Objection*. Infidelity doe? not judge Christianity by any infidel standard of right or wrong, forinfdelity has no standard except some fragment or other of Christianity which it ha3 picked up. Hence infidels judge sectarianism as it ; exists, often grossly exaggerating some of its faults and defects,by the standard laid down in the Word of God, which presents Christianity as it should be, instead of Sectarianism as it is. We shall gain nothing by denying these facts, or by claiming that infidels are wholly wrong in their assertions and accusations. Christians have a right to learn something from their enemies, and they have an opportunity to do it, when they conic to meet the infidels of . this age. Their fiercest assaults are made upon things which Christians ought to forsake, abhor and denounce, and it is the part of wisdom for Christian men to turn with purpose of heart to the Lord, and pray that they may no longer be stumbling blocks to the wicked, but that they may be fitted to j become members of that "glorious ( church, not ha ving spot or wrinkle or ^ any such thing," which shall meet the approval of the Lord, and dwell in His presence for evermore.?[Armory, Eos* ton. A. tit eat n?cil. We are compelled to believe by the , stern array of facts and figures that at j the end of thin boasted century of mis- | Bions, while not 3,000,000 converts, nominal and real, have been won to ( Christianity in pagandom, heathen and Mohammedan ire 200,000,000 more than they were at the beginning of the cen tury. That the votaries of these faiths increase seventy times faster than the j followers of C'irist. The church is out- | stripped on i;j own methods. They evince in these modern days a propagandises and aggressiveness far superior. The necessity in the foreign field cannot be overtaken on the present line of , church work. At home ths multiplied massing of antagonistic forces, the increased zeal, activity, and audacity may well inspire profoundest thought. The decay of reverence for the holy Sabbath, the lower ethical standard ot church membership in many quarters, the inculcation of false doctrines from the sacred pulpit, the diffusion cf revolutionary theories, the general unrest and threatened volcanic upheaval, the prevailing godlessaess among individuals and nations are potent and alarming. At home and abroad the chui-ch i-s put on the defensive. She scarcely holds her own. She does not beat down and back these advancing hosts of anti-christ, and sweep forward With general and decisive triumph. Put there is no room for discouragement. The church has within call adequate reserved forces. The promised Third Person in the adorable Godhead is more than sufficient. Wben out stands beside Calvary and beholds the person of the Atoner, and the purport of the act when one looks u, on the cloven tongues of fire on the Pentecostal morning and witnesses the marvellous displays of Divine uowor with the assumed perpetuity of Calvary and Pentecost, to doubt is to dishonor hira who V?i?v* ipKa /"?omt if 1Q rviiilfittr ?u\l 1UU1 '? UU VUIUU ^ ?V *O ^Ul| 1/J4J [o minify the cross and ignore the Holy Ghost. The blood of Christ has not [est its cfficuy, the Pentecostal rjift was not eternally exceptional in in its spiritual aspects, standing jut single aud alone, evidence )f what our God could do. but would not repeat. The need requires the niraculous to-day: Pentccostsall along the line, remarkable manifestations of Divine power, overwhelming outpourings of the Holy Spirit upon entire cominunities, making efficient old agencies li d imoroving new ones, sending con " '1 Viction "O in-: uiuicnu Uuiuivmixig, irousing a spirit of inquiry, creating a jpi ritual hungering and thirsting, the ?odle;s restrained, saints chcered. Is this too hard for oar God? Is it not within the Divine bond? Is not the church promised victory on these present lines? Do not the symbolic blood ind oil suffice? Human faith determines md mes.sures Divine workings. The chu ch must believe thnt nation* can and 9ha'.l be born in a day. God will honor this expectant prayer.? N. Y. Observer. What Canadian Doctors Think. In r sponso to the inquiry addressed to them recently by tfie Canada Citizen, "Is total abstinence, in your opinion, compatible with the fullest degreo of physical h -aitlw" Eighty-two out of !?1 physician* of Toronto answered in the affirmative. Of the HI there were 57 who emphatically denounced all moderate drinking as bad; .">4 whose opinions on that point were very diversified, though only about 10 distinctly favoie.l habitual drinking in quantities usually deemed moderate. Again of the !>1 there were 75 who agreed in tne opinion that the total abstainer had a better clianre than the moderate drinker for recovery from disease or accident; and 81 of the !)1 agreed that total abstinence would be a great public benefit. The nuxlerationists were in a small minority. Aa a whole the answers show gratifying progress in the sphere of medical temperance opinion. ?National Advoculo. BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Something Surprising?The Trials of a Landlord?It Might Have Been Worse?Came to Grief, Etc., Etc. Daughter?"There is only one thing more astonishing than the readiness with which jNred gave up tobacco wheu we became engaged." Mother?"What is that astonishing thin#?" "The rapidity with which he took it up again as soon as we were married."? Si/tings. The Trials of a Landlord. Summer Tourist (to landlord)?"Do you allow dogs in your botel?" Landlord?"Yes, sir, bring all the dogs you want to." Summer Tourist?"I'll have to go somewhere else. I can't stand dogs." Another Summer Tourist?"Do you allow dogs in your hotel?" "Landlord?"No, sir, won't have a dog about the place." Tourist?"I'm sorry. My wife has a dog that she thinks more of than she does of me."- New York Sun. It Slight Have B^en Worse. A Philadclphian, who was the father of very cross twins, was enjoying a brief rest about midnight, when he was aroused by a vigorous pounding upon the door and the jangling of the bell. "What's the matter?" he yelled, as he stuck his head out of the window and saw a policeman. "Your house is on lire," was the reply. "Oh, is that all?'" I thought from the noise- you have been making that both , babies had the colic agaiu.?Philadelphia Chronicle. Came to Grief. First Omaha Man?"What's the |' matter; not out of business again, arc j i you?*' I i Second Omaha Man?"Yes. my last j venture busted the first week." "That's queer. I thought you started a little factory to darn stockings for ! j young men, old bachelors and others < with no women folks to look after them, i That ought to pay." i "Pay! I got more orders than I could j fill; hired a whole lot of nice girls who , knew how to darn stockings, aud they i did their work beautifully?but then the < enterprise busted." < "Why, what happened?" 1 "Girls all left." "Dissatisfied?" < "No, the whole crowd of customers ! < hunted 'cm up Sunday and married ? them."?Omaha World. < A Great Improvement. , A Dakota young' lady was visiting a j friend in the East who had visited her ' < in Dakota last summer. ! i "You don't know how I miss our ! ( lovely Dakota moonlight," said the terri- ( torial maiden. j 1 ' Don't you think the moon is as nice 1 here as at your home?" asked her friend. 11 "Oh, it isn't half so lovely. You ought j t to see it?it's perfectly elegant and makes i 3 it almost as light as day." j t "I did see it last summer, and it didn't i 1 seem to me to be any brighter than it is j 1 here." c "Oh. well, last summer of course it t wasn't, but you ought to see it this summer since the boom struck our place! It ? is tifty per cent, brighter."?Dakota Bell. \ 1 Excused With Energy. "Say! you!" he called, as he stood on 1 the PostotRce steps. 1 A very solid man halted in his tracks 1 until the other came up. It "Calling to me?" he queried. j 1 "Vm sir Dn von noting mv hair? It's < a sort of grizzly gray, which makes me i 1 look ten years older than I really am/' \ i "What have I got to do with your j 1 hair, sir?" demanded the other. 11 ''I happened to stand beside you in ! 1 the Postotfine, and no" j i "Supposing you did stand beside ine ; i in the Postottice!" | j "I saw that you were a man of about j j sixty years old, but as you had " j \ "Suppose I am sixty!" j f "But as you had clved your hair you i i din't look a day over forty-five. What r I want is the name of the dye you use. f You will excuse me, but " He was excused. lie kuew he was by ^ the way the other raised his cane and ! c jumped at him and offered to mop the j s street with him for two cents.?Detroit ! r Free Preu. j j i r A Logical View. | ? " Tompkinson," said a somewhat 11 rapid traveling mau 'to a friend, whose j < tastes and habits were much like his ; c ? " I , OWIl, ' 1U1 VClJf uiutu nvuicui | v "I wouldn't cultivate it, my dear fel- j I low. But what's the trouble." t " Debt3. I'm overwhelmed with them. 11 I can't turn a corner without running j c into a creditor. There's the hatter, and I s the tailor, and the gents' furnisher, and j s the florist, and the livery man?in fact I j s don't see but one way out the difficulty." j a "What is that : " 'i "I've a good notion to commit suicide." "And add the undertaker to the list! My dear fellow, at least be reasonable."? Merchant Traveler. ^ All He Was Worth. Some few days ajjo a placard appeared i * in the window of n large hardware store 11 on Washington street, not far from the j8 Globe office, which bore upon its snow- jcwhite surface, in black letters, the | legend, "Boy wanted." In answer to I f this call for help a veritable street Arab j went into the store, and going to the 1 junior member of the firm said : " I came in to sec about the job.'' "Well, said the proprietor, looking:1 the little ragamuffin over from head to j ] foot, "you know we don't pay very | * much here, and besides that, if you came i' to work in a nice store like this you ! would have to dress better." J "Oh, yes, I know that," responded |! the gamin, "but how much do yer i' pay per week ?" "Two dollars a week,'' returned the j proprietor. < # ;. " I couldn't think of workin' for that," I . said the gamin, "for I cau make more:, every week now." " Well," said the ^proprietor, "I do'" not think you could, but when I first went to work I got only $1.50 a week." j The Arab sized the speaker up from head to foot, and then giving his head a ] 1? ""'1 ii.^rrinop to the (inor hr> snirl 1 W53 UI1W >.<'o'"0 1 ] . "Well! perhaps that was all you was < vortli.?Bobto)i Globe. j' 1 The Indian anil the Quicksilver. j Captain John, au old Indian who lives 1 on the Rancho Chico and is a well- i known figure about our streets, was the \ centre of an amused crowd of citizens on i Broadway to-day. Some one, for a joke, : had dropped some quicksilver on the < stoue pavQraeot in front of the post - office and waited developments. Captain John and Old Daniel, the one-eyed Indian, soon hove in sight, and the glittering but seductive quicksilver caught fhpir ftttonfmn .TnVin mnrta a rrrah for it with his thumb and finger, and he was astonished when he found he couldn't pick it up. He was determined to have that quicksilver anyway, so he unwound the bandanna handkerchief from his neck, and, spreading it down, got a chip and scraped the quicksilver into it. A look ot triumph shot from his eagle eye as he gathered up the four corners and emptied it into his pocket, but it was replaced by one of terror and disgust when the metal ran through his pocket and trickled down his leg to the sidewalk. Looking at the metal for a moment, as it lay on the ground, in a puzzled sort of way, he launched a vicious kick at it, and uttered ejaculations that were foreign to his childish nature: "Me get eben: white man mabeso too smart." He turned on his fteel and left the quicksilver for some other untutored son of the forest to experiment with.?Chico / n..i \ n..j jh/uerj/rise. Could Hold up Their Heads. There was an odd incident at one of the seashore places last week. A couple of ladies, who do not live in Boston, and whose unpretentious way of life had perhaps led them to fear that they might be looked down upon by Boston people, had taken board at a hotel much patronized by Bostonians of an excellent sort. Walking about the corridor of the house on the first evening after their arrival, and observing with an interest natural in new-comers the people about them, they happened to observe two ladie3 standing in the corridor not fat away. It struck the younger of the two new-comers, who is a little short-sighted, that these two ladies whom she saw in the corridor were quite shabby in appearance. She turned to her companion and whispered: "Well, I gues3 we can hold up our heads with this sort of people." The elder seized her handkerchief in a vain attempt to smother a hearty laugh. They had been looking at their own reflection in a big mirror. ?Boston Transcript. Gambling at Monte Carlo. Before play commcnces, which it does it 1J or 12 o'clock, according to the season, solemn processions may be seen on their way to the salon. First come two ittendants in livery, carrying between them a money chest, and close behind narch the croupiers who arc to begin work, and of whom there are seven to jach table. Four of these sit facing jach other on either side of the roulette )oard in the centre, and one at each end. rhe seventh, the chef-de-partie, as he is jailed, perches himself on a high stool jlose behind one of the pairs of croupiers it the centre, keeps a lookout allaround, ind is appealed to in ense of any dispute. ' Je domine" are the words in which lie ;xpresses his position. Each of the croupiers, the chef-dc-partie ;xcepted, is armed with a long handled -* i- ? 1 ? "<1K(3, WHICH, US Ik litis 3U 1IIUV.U nuiu nu lo, is strengthened at the foot by a plate >f brass. The bank notes are placefl in io.ves, the money counted out, and the ouis and live-franc pieces _ arranged in ong rows standing on their edge3, so hat they look like gold and silver makes. Each of the four croupiers at he centre has snakes of both colors to ook after, Those at the ends of the ta)les have nothing to do with rakiHg in >r paying out the money lost or won; heir business is to put stakes on, or rako ,viuning3 off, for those who, unable to iccure seats at the table, are crowding iround outside; to get changc for them ts required, and to keep order. And now is the time to begin; the ake of the croupiers facing each other it the centre are laid across the table lead to head, their long, thin haudlcs ippearing beyond the elbows of the lien about to wield them with so much (kill. The croupiers at the top and jottom lay their instruments close in rront of them at right angles to the ength of the table, which is long enough :o accommodate about twenty players ieside the croupiers, ana cigm snorter iikcs unshod with brass are placed ready ror the use of the players. All is now i >repared for the attack, the garrison is 1 perfectly supplied with the sinews of ' var. The table and men together form orm one machine, a machine that plays vithuut committing a mistake, never nade reckless by disaster, never rendered j oolish by success. Open tbe doors then, and let all who vlll approach and do battle. Daily the ihallcnge is acccptcd, the chairs are ei/.ed at once, the forces are ready to re- ; lew the assault. Many of the players >roduced pocketbooks or sheets of paper ulcd in every conceivable way; these ' ire the believers in the systems of maringa'.es. Others are content to use the \ :ards and pins supplied by the attenlants; others again neither know nor < :arc what color or number last came up, >ut "play haphazard as the fancy takes '?/>?? whon tliosn who mean to nlav i lave put on their stakes, the croupier in harge of the roulette board, who has cveral times uttered the warning: "Mes~ inns, jaites toi jeux," gives the ball a pin in one direction, the revolving disk , twist in the other and the battle begins u earnest.? Cosmopolitan A Horse that was a Setter. A man who had a horse who would sit lown whenever he was touchod in the lank. He would just squat down on his lindquarters like a dog. Tha man tried o break him of it, but he couldn't, and lobodv would buy him. One day a portsman came along and made his acjuaintance, and they took a ride together .0 hunt partridges. When they found a :ovey the man touched his heels to his lorse's flanks and he sat down. "What makes your horse do that?" said the portsman. "Why," he's a setter," said he man. "He sets birds just like a dog." 5o the sportsman thought he was a most j .vonderful horse,and lie swapped for him { ind gave $50 to boot,and he got on him, tnd after awhile they came to a creek j hat was pretty deep, and as the sports- * nan held up his legs to keep them out of 1 lie water his heels touched the horse in j he flank and down he sat in the water. < When he got him up and outbid all 1 Gripping wet he was a3 mad as a wet icn, and said: "Well, sir, what mado 1 his horse do that way in the water?" "I ' forgot to tell you," said the man, "that le sets fish just as well as he does birds." , .HCttt'Ctt* v/noi-nwnv.L ? ( Antiquity of Ropes. Before the beginning of the historical icriod,- considerable skill in rope making , lad been acquired, so that it must be i classed among the oldest of the arts. 1 The existing relics of the ancient Egyp- j tiuns include sculptures showing the process of manufacture practiced more . than 4,000 years ago, while the oldest records of that people represent well- , made ropes of great strength. Fbx and , the fibres of the date tree were employed I for these ropes, but gnisses and the hides I of animals wore probably tho first ! materials used. ' \ ' v., temperance! The Littlo Temperance Soldier. I am a little soldier, Tho' but a few years old: I mean to fight for temperance, And bo both brave and bold; I know how strong the foo is, How many he has slain, Yet still I'll be a soldier, And light with might and main. I've heard of other soldiers. Much younger too, than L Who overcome the drunkard, Then why should I not try? I know that God will help me, For 'tis a holy cause; And all who don't keep sober, Are tramp'ling on Ins laws* I now can do but littlo, Yet though I'm not a man, I'll try to do for temperauco The greatest good 1 can. If God will give me courage, In all I do or say, Then I, with my companions, Will win the glorious day. Come, then, my fellow soldieral And march along with me; Though long and fierce the battle, We shall victorious be. And soon the temp'rance army, With bannors afl unfurled, Will go through every country And conquer all the world! ?Youth''a Temperance Banner. Cost and Cruelty of Liquor Traffic. The Hon. William Windom, speaking at the Fourth of July celebration at Woodstock, Conn., said: "It is estimated upon the best attainable authority that this tyrant's revels cost annually more than $700,000,000; that 500,000 victims, rendered worse than useless, are staggering along in his triumphal procession to dishonored graves; and that his army of immediate retainers?the makers and venders of "liquid fire"?numbers 500,000 more. "Estimating that this million of makers, venders and victims, if engaged in some legitimate business, couid have earned $1.50" per day, we have a loss in productive power " ' of $450,000,000 per annum, which, added to the $700,000,000 wasted for strong drinks, makes a total of $1,250,000,000. Add to this taxation?estimated at $100,000,000?for the support of jails, criminal prosecutions, penitentiaries, almshouses, pauperism, ana all the unnumbered burdens imposed upon the country by this tyrant, and you have $1,350,000,000 as the annual cost of his reign. How does this compare with the administration of -> King George, or with the tax on the historic tea, that a century ago was put to steep in Boston Harbor? "Let it be borne in mind that this burden rests most heavily upon the poor, who are least able to bear it. it is doubtless true that a large portion of it is borne by the rich and prosperous, but if only one-half of it falls upon the wage-workers of the nation, there is an Anti-Poverty Society, with possibilities beyond the wildest dreams of Mr. George and Dr. McGlynn. Mr. Powderly, in a recent speech said: 'In one Pennsylvania county, in a single year, $17,000,000 was spent for liquor, and it was estimated that $1',000,000 of the amount came from workiug'.oen.' The savings that could be made through an Anti-Saloon Anti-Poverty Society, would in ten years Duy nail tne farms in the United States, and in fifteen-years more furnish a fund large enough to pur- . chase every railroad in the country, and pay for them more than their actual cost "N&t less than 60,000 victims go annually to the drunkard's grave. Pestilence and war combined do not, in this country, equal its destructive energy. I repeat what I have had occasion to say elsewhere, that the waste of human life wrought every five years by our *200,000 saloons, is equal to the destruction of life bv both armies, numbering millions of tirmed men, during the entire War of the Rebellion. In their hands strong drink is a weapon so fatal that the 500,000 drunkardmakera are able to accomplish more in the ame period than four times their number :ould with shot and shell, fire and sword, and ' ill the appliances of modern warfare. The cruelty of war is not measured by the number jf those who fall in battle,but bv the unutterible woe and bitter anguish of broken hearts md desolated homes. Most emphatically is it true, that the mere destruction of 80,000 lives every year affords no measure of the relentless cruelty of the liquor power in its oar against society. To realize this you must go to the dishonored homes, question the broken hearts, and the voiceless misery in wan and haggard faces, hear helpless chil iren cry for fooc!, see tliem stricken down Dy drunken and infuriated fathers, and someSimes even by besotted mothers, witness the debauchery and ruin of youth, and the utter degradation, ignorance, poverty and misery which everywhere and always accompany , the victims of the saloon. Do you say that all these are the incidents of the business, not the motives for it ? Certainly. Let us do these men no injustice. Human misery is not their motive. They only want to gel money, and knowing that these things follow as effect followscause, they are not deterred. Doubtless thoy would prefer to get money ? without these disagreeable consequences or their acts. A like plea may be made for the burglar and highwayman. Their captive also is money, not murder." Strong Words for Tempcrance. In the Journal of United Labor, over his own name, Mastor Workman T. V. Powderty, in speaking of the liquor traffic, says: " Among the letters that came to me to-day [ find one which takes mo to task for my wonls on the temperance question, spoken some ten or twelve days ago in Boston and Lynn. My friend makes the candid admission in starting out that in the main I am right, that even tho rumseller will not deny the justice of my position Having said as much he should have stopped. Even then he i-i ] ?*i.i? r T LUlU ILMJ XiC r*. x jvxmso iuai a ?.*>?* right I know that ill refusing to even touch a (h op of strong drink I was and am right, lit refusing to treat another to that which I :l(i not believe to be good lor myself to drink L know I am right. In refusing to associate with men who get drunk I know I am right. In not allowing rumsellers togain admittance nto the Order of the Knights of Labor I mow 1 am right. In advising our assemblies not to hu e halls or meeting-rooms over lrinking places I know I am right. I have lone this from the day my voice was first lean I in the council halls of our order. My Tositioa on the question of temperance & right I am determined to maintain and will , lot alter it one jot or tittle. If ' in the main' I am right, why should I alter my course' " Ten years ago I was hissed because I adrised men to let strong drink alone. They threatened to rotten egg me. I have continued to advise men to be temperate, and though I have had no experience that would qualify me to render an opinion on the rricacy of a rotten egg as an ally to the rumieller, yet I would prefer to have my exterior lecoratod from summit to base with" the rank st kind of rotten eggs rather than allow one h op of liquid villainy to pass my lips or have he end of my nose illuminated by the blosoru that follows a planting of the seeds of lativd, envy, malice and damnation, all of vhifh are represented in a solitary glass of fin." National W. C. T. U. Bulletin. Dr. Newman, pastor of the Metropolitan hurch, at Washington D. C., recently organzed a Youth's Temperance Society in his congregation. The members of the W. C. T. U. and other philanthropic women of Duluth, Minn, are ibout to establish a "Home for needy women md children." By an amendment recently adopted, the tfaine law makes the holding of a United States tax receipt prima facie evidence of iquor selling. Mrs. Laura Berry, ft prominent member ot lie Des Moines (Iowa) vV. C. T. U., 1 ns renoved to Chicago, to take a position en tho staff of the Lever. The recent World's Grand Lodge of Good reiuclars endorsed the petition of the "World's IV. C. T. U., which calls for the universal outlawing of the drink and opium, trade; also idoped tlie white cross movement's a method 3f work. Tbo W. C. T. U. of Cleveland ha* been iaJ 1 -- <L. r< J that r>itv t<V HUM uy iin; vuhiiiiuii wi....... ... ? lame two In lies who shall act,-,as janitor and natron at th?j Central Police. Station. This: action ought to extend to evtuj city and Large. !a\vn in the United States. Miss M. Louise Graves* of SprTng.Teid, Ma^s.. ar.d Miss Poole, d&aighter of Librarian VV. F. Poole, of Chicago*, and both graduates Wcllesley College, ^i?d the twenty-fifth of June as missionaries* to Japan. They are both earnest while ribbon wonxwj^and have gone forth tlioyorghly lurnishpd with aH the plans and literature from tW W. C. T. U. now being se well establish the visit of Mrs, tevritfc