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REV. DR. TALMAGK. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "Preaching, Teaching and Exhortation." Text: Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering; or he that teacheth, on teaching ; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation ?Romans, xii., 7-8. Before the world is converted the style of .religious discourse will have to be converted. You might as well go into the modern Sedan Or Gettysburg with bows and arrows instead Of rifles and bombshells and sparks of artillery, as to expect to conquer this world for God by the old styles of exhortation and ser-monolgy. Jonathan Edwards preached the sermons most adapted to the age in which he lived, but if those sermons were preached now *they would divide an audience into two classes, those sound asleep and those wanting to go home. Bnt there is a religious discourse of the future?who will preach it I have no idea; in what part of the earth it will be born I have ao idea; in which denominations of Christians It will be delivered I cannot guess. That discourse or exhortation may be born in the country meeting-house on the banks of the St Lawrence, or the Oregon, or the Ohio, or >the Tombigbee, or the Alabama. The person who shall delivw it may this moment be In a cradle under the shadow of the Sierra Nevadas, or in a New England farm-house, or amid the rice-fields of Southern Savannas. Or this moment there may be some young man in some of our theological seminaries, in the junior or middle or senior class, shaping that weapon of power. Or there may be coming some new baptism of the Holy Ghost on the churches, so that some of us who now stand in the watch-towers of Zion, waking to a realization of our present inefficiency, may ' preach it ourselves. That coming disburse may not be fifty years off. And let us pray God that its arrival may be hastened, while I ; announce to you what I think will be the chief characteristics of that discourse or exhortation when it does arrive, and I want to make the remarks of the morning appropriate and suggestive to all classes of Christian workers First of all I remark, that that future religious discourse will be full of a living Christ in contradistinction to didactic technicalities. A discourse may be full of Christ sthough hardly mentioning His name, and a sermon may be empty of C hrist while every entence is repititious of His titles. The world wants a living Christ, not a Christ standing at the head of a formal system of theology, but a Christ who means pardon and sympathy, and condolence, and brotherhood, and life, and heaven. A poor man's Christ. A rich man's Christ. An overworked man's Christ An invalid's Christ. A farmer's Christ A merchant's Christ. An artisan's Christ An every man's Christ. Asymmetrical and fine-worded system of theology is well enough for theological .cla89e^bnt it has no more business in a pulpit ;than have the technical phrases of an anatomist or a psychologist or a physician in the sick room of a patient. The world wants belp, immediate and world-uplifting, and it will come through a discourse iu which oka 11 wollr riorhf; Hnwm int/it.hA immor tal soul and ta?T everlasting possession of it, \ Ailing it as full of light as is this noonday Armament. That sermon or exhortation of the future will not deal with man in the threads-bare illustrations cf Jesus Christ. In that coming address there will be instances of vicarious suffering taken right out of every<l*y life, for there is not a day somebody is not dying for others. As the physician saving his diphtheritic patient by sacrificing his own life; as the ship captain going down with his vessel while he is getting nis passengers into the life-boat; as the tireman eonsumLne in the burninsr fcu\idiiic while he is taking a child out of a fourth-story window; as in summer the strong swimmer at East Hampton, or Long Branch, or Cape May, or Lake George, binwelf perished trying to rescue the drowning; as the newspaper bov one summer, sup porting his mother fox some years, his invalid mother, when offered by a gentleman fifty cents to get some especial paper, and he got it, and Pushed up in his anxiety to deliver it, ?nd was crushed under the wheels of the train, and lay on the grass with only strength - ?noueh tosav: "Oh. what will become of mv poor sick mother now?" Vicarious suffering. The world is full of it. An engineer said to me on a locomotive in Dakota: "We men seem to be coming to better appreciation than we used to. Did you see that account the other day of an engineer who, to save his passengers, stuck to his place, and when he was found dead in the locomotive, which was upside down, he was found still smiling, his hand on the air-brake?" And as the engineer said it to me, he put his hand on the air-brake to illustrate his meaning, and I looked at him and thought: "You would be just as much of a hero in the same crisis." Oh, in that religious discourse of the future there will be living illustrations taken out from evary-dav life of vicarious sufferingillustrations that will bring to mind ihe ghastlier sacrifice of Him who in the high places of the field, on the cross, fought our battle*, and wept our griefs, and endured our struggle, and died our death. A f+Arman a/*nlr>tnr mnHft nn imurn rtf Christ, and he askeiJ his little child two years old who it was, and she said: ''That must be - some great man." The sculptor was displeased with the criticism, so he got another block of marble, and chiseled away on it two or three years, and then he brought in his little child four or five years of age, and he said to her: ' Who do you think that iaf she said: ''That must be the One who took little children in his arras and Messed tnem." Ulien the sculptor was satisfied. Oh. any friends, what the world wants is not a cold Christ, not an intellectual Christ, not a severely magisterial Christ, but a loving Christ, spreading out His arms of sympathy to press the whole world to His loving heart. But, I remark again, that the religious discourse of the future will be short. Condensation is demanded by the age in which we live. No more need of lone introductions and long applications, and so many divisions to a discourse that it may be said to be hydra-headed. In other days men got ail their information from the pulpit. There were few books and there were no newspapers, and there was lit"tle travel from place to place, and people would sit and listen two and a half hours to a religious discourse, and "seventeenthly" would find them fresh and chipper. In those days there was enough time for a man to take an hour to warm himself up to the subject and an hour to cool off, But what was a necessity then is a superfluity now. Congregations are full of knowledge from books, from newspapers, from rapid and continuous intercommunication, and long disquisitions of what they know already will not be abided. If a religious teacher cannot compress what he wishes to say to the people in the space of forty-five minntes, better adjourn it to some other day. The trouble is we preach audiences into a Christian frame, and then we preach them ! r\t if Wo f/M*rrr?f fVinf OVUfV AllflitilP hflS i bo much capacity otattention, and when that | is exhausted be is restless. That accident on the Long Island Railroad some years ago came from the fact that the brakes were out of order, and when they wanted to stop the train they could not stop, and hence the casualty was terrific. In all religious discourse we want locomotive power and propulsion. We want at the same time stout Drakes to let down at the right instant. It is a dismal thing after a hearer has comprehended the whole subject, to hear a man say: "Now to recapitulate, and "a few words by way of application,1' and "once more," and "finally, and "now to conclude." Paul preached until midnight, and- Eutychus got sound asleep and fell out of a window and broke his neck. Some would say: "Good for him." 1 would rather be sympathetic like Paul and resuscitate him. That accident is often quoted now in religious circles as a warning against somnolence in church. It is just as much a warning to ministers against prolixity. Eutyfh'us was wrong in his somnolence, but Paul made a mistake when be kept on until midnight. He ought to have stopped at eleven o'clock, and there would have been no accident. If Paul might have gone on to loo great length, let all those of us who are now preaching the Gospel remember that there is a limit to religious discourse, or ought to be, and that in our time we have no apostolic power of miracles. Napoleon in an address of seven minutes thrilled his army,and thrilled Europe. Christ's Sermon on the Mount, the model sermon, was less than eighteen minutes long at ordinary mode of delivery. It is not electricity scattered all over the sky that strikes, but electricity gathered into a thunderbolt and hurled, and it is not religious truth scattered over, spread out over a vast reach of time, but reLigious truth projected in compact form that ^^^^^^ght upon the scuLaud sivm its iudif When the religions discourse of the future ' arrives in this land and in the Christian church, the discourse which is to arouse the world and startle the nations, and usher in the kingdom, it will be a brief discourse. Hear it all theological students, all ye just entering upon religious work, all ye men and women who in Sabbath-schools and other departments are toiling for Christ and the salvation of immortals: Brevity! Brevity! But I remark also that the religious discourse of the future of which I ?peak will be a popular discourse. There are those in these times who speak of a popular sermon as though there must be something wrong about it. As these critics are dull themselves the world gets the impression that a sermon is good in proportion as it is stupid. Christ was the most popular preacher the world ever saw, and considering the small number of the world's population, had the largest audieuce ever gathered. He never preached nnru'hara withAilf ninl'fnfT a orraat. concif irm People rushed out in the wilderness to hear him, reckless of their physical necessities. So treat was their anxiety to hear Christ that, taking no food with them, they would have fainted and starved had not Christ performed a miracle and fed them. Why did so many people take the truth at Christ's hands? Because they all understood it. He illustrated his subject by a hen and her chickens, by a bushel measure, by a handful of salt, by a bird's flight and by a lily's aroma. All the people knew what He meant and they flocked to Him. And when the religious discourse of the future appears, it will not be Princetonian, not Rocnesterian, not Andoverian, not Middletonian, but Olivetic? Elain, practical, unique, earnest?compreensive of all the woes, wants, sins, sorrows and necessities of an auditory. But when that exhortation or discourse does come tnere will be a thousand gleaming scimetars to charge on it. There are in so many theological seminaries professors telling young men how to preach, themselves not knowuig how; and I am told that if a young man in some of our theological semi- | naries says anything quaint or thrilling or unique, faculty and students fly at him and eat him rirrhf finrj cfcrAlcrhton Ml' Til Out. and smooth him down, and cEop him off, until he says everything just as everybody else says it. Oh, when the future religious discourse of the Christian church arrives, all the churches of Christ in our great cities will be thronged. I The world wants spiritual help. All who I have buried their dead want comfort All know themselves to be mortal and to be immortal and they want to hear about the great future. I tell you, my friends, if the people of our great cities who have had trouble only thought they could get practical and sympathetic help in the Christian church, there would not be a street in New York, or .Brooklyn, or Chicago, or Charleston, or Philadelphia, or Boston which would be passable on the Sabbath day if their were a church on it; for all the people would press to that asylum of mercy, that great house of comfort auu A mother with a dead babe in her arms came to the god Veda, and asked to have her child restored to life. The god Veda said to her: "You go and get a handful of mustard from a house in which there has been no sorrow, and in which there has been no death, and I will restore your child to life." So the mother went out, and she wont from house to house, and from home to home, looking for a place where there had been no sorrQjv and where there had been no death, but' shfe'found none. She went back to the god Veda and said: "My mission is a failure; you see I haven't brought the mustard 9eed; I can't find a place where there has been _ no sorrow ana no death." "Oh," says the god Veda, "understand your sorrows are no worse than the sorrows o? ethers; we all have our griefs, and all have our heart-breaks." Langh and the world langhs with yoa, Weep, and you weep alone; nrxA ulA oa?tK mnat KftrrAUT Ifa mirth But bu trouble enough of Its own. We hear a great deal of discussion novr all over the land about why people do not go to church. Some say it is because Christianity is dying out, and because people do not believe in the truth of God's word, and all that. They are false reasons. The reason is because our sermons and exhortations are not interesting, and practical, and helpful. Some one might as well tell the whole truth on this subject, and so I will tell it. The religious discourse of the future, the Gospel sermon to come forth and shake the nations and lift people out of darkness, will be a popular sermon, just for the simple reason tnat it will meet the woes and the wants and the anxie* ties of the people. . There are in all our denominations ecclesiastical mummies sitting around to frown upon the fresh young pulpits of America, to try to awe them down, to cry out: Tut! tut! tut! Sensational!" They stand to-day preaching in churches that hold a thousand people, and there are a hundred persons present, and if they cannot have the world saved in their way it seems as if they do not want it saved at all. I do not know but the old way of making ministers of the Gospel is better?a collegiate education and an apprenticeship under the care and home attention of some earnest, aged Christian minister, the young man getting the patriarch's spirit and assisting him in his religious service. Young lawyers study with old lawyers, young physicians with old physicians, and I believe it wonld be a great help if every young man studying for the Gospel ministry could put himself in the home, and heart, and sympathy, and under the benediction and perpetual presence of a Christian minister. But I remark again, the religious discourse of the future will be an awakening sermon. From alter rail to the front door step under that s?rmon an audience will get up and start * ' ? ?? nv.11 Ka ?r? if Mnonr* O CsfoA- I lur ueaveu. iucic wm uo iu m uuu; a. , cato passage. It will not be a lullaby; it will be a battle charge. Men will drop their j sins, for they will feel the hot breath of pur- | suing retribution on the back of their neck3. It will be sympathetic with all the physical distresses as well as the spiritual distresses ol the world. Christ not only preached but He healed paralysis, and He healed epileysy, and He healed the dumb and the blind and ten lepers. That religious discourse of the future will be an everyday sermon, going right down into every man's life, and it will teach hixu how to vote, how to bargain, how to plough, how to do any work he is called to, how to wield trowel and pen and pencil and yardstick and plane. And it will teach women how to preside over their households, and how to educate their children, and how to imitate Miriam anu r-smer ttuu vuuu uuu Eunice, the mother of Timothy, and Mary, the mother of Christ: and those women who on Northern and Southern battlefields, were mistaken by the wounded for angalaof mercy fresh from the throne of God. Yes, I have to tell you the religious disxmrsj of the future will be a reported sernon. If you have an idea that printing was | inventei simply to print secular books, and stenography and phonography were contrived merely to set forth secular ideas, you ire mistaken. The printing press is to be the great agency of Gospel proclamation. It is aigh time that good men instead of denouncing the press, employ it to scatter forth the 3ojpel of Jesus Christ. The vast majority i people in our cities do not come to church, j ind nothing but the printed sermon can j reach them anl call them to pardon, and : life, and peace, and heaven. ISo I cannot understand the nervousness of jome of my brethren-of the ministry. When W?CJ atw u HU"0|/ujrtii "?"?? ? lay: "Alas, there is a reporter." Eveiy idded reporter is ten thousand, fifty thousand, a hundred thousand immortal souls iddedtothe auditory. The time will come when all the village,to wn and city newspapers will reproduce the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and jermons preached on the Sabbath will reverberate all around the world, and, some by type and some by voice, ail nations will lie j avangelizod. The practical bearing of this is upon those who are engaged in Christian work, not only up >n theological students and young ministers, but upon all who preach the Gospel, and all who exhort in meeting, and that is all of you if you are doing your duty. Do you exhort in prayer meeting? Be short and be spirited. Do you teach in Bible class? Inough you have to study every night be interesting. Do you accost people on the subject of religion in their homos or in public places? Study adroitness and use common sense. The most graceful and most beautiful thing on earth is the religion of Jesus Christ, * -o ???lfwor/llv nrflQHnt; ih if. iq riafn ana 1L >UU anAnmui; .. .? inution." We must do our work rapidly, and we must do it effectively. Soon our time for work will be gone. A dying Christian took out his watch and gave it to a friend and said: "Take that j watch, 1 have no more use for it; time is | ended for me and eternity begins." Oh, my j friends, when our watch has ticked away for i us the last moment, and our clock has struck for us the last hour, may it be found we did our work well, that we did it in the very best way, and whether we preached the Gospel in pulpits or taught Sabbath classes, or administered to the sick as physicians, or bargained as merchants, or plead the law as attorneys or were busy aa artisans, or *s husbandman, or as mechanics, or were like Martha called to giro a meal ! zo a hungry Christ, or like Hannah to make a ; ?oat for a prophet, or like Deborah to rouae the courage of some timid Barak in the Lord's conflict, we did our work in such a way that it will stand the test of the Judgment. And in the long procession of the redeemed that march around the throne, may it be found there are many there brought to God through our instrumentality and in whose rescue we are exultant. But, O ye unsaved, wait not for that religious discourse of the future. It may come after your obsequies. It may come after the stone-cutter has chiseled your name on the slab, fifty years before. Do not wait for a great steamer of the Cunard or White Star ol'o vaii t\PP tlia wp<v*lr hnfc hail t.hn first craft, with however low a mast and however small a hulk, and however poor a ru lder, an 1 however wtak a captain. Better a disabled schooner that comes up in time tlian a fuil-riggea brig tnat comes up alter you have sunken. Instead of waiting for that religious discourse of the future?it may be forty, fifty years off?take this plain invitation of a man who. to have given you spiritual eyesight, would be glad to be called the spittle by the hand of Christ put oh the eyes of a blind man, and who would consider the highest compliment of this service, if at the close fire 1 hundred men should start from these doors, saying: ''Whether he be a sinner or no, I | know not. This one thing I know, whereas I Wijs blind now I see." s iv ift-.?r t-.Viftii shadows over the nlain. quicker than birds in their autumnal flight, hastier than eagles to their prey, hie you to a sympathetic Christ. The orchestras ol 1 he i ven" have already strung their instruments ! to celebrate your rescue. "And many were the voices around the throne: , Rejoice, for the Lord bringa back hla own." TEMPERANCE. 1 Only. Only a glass in the barroom. Only a single glass; Only a lack of courage, Only the answer "yes;" , Only an evil companion, I Slyly luring him on; , Only a "free-hearted Charlie," And the fatal work is dona Only a "little bit tipsy," ' Only blood-shot eyes, Only a Dleadine mother. Only a wife s surprise; Only an aching forehead, Only a bruised face, Only a broken promise, Only a deep disgrace. Only a cheerless shanty, Without fire or wood, nd little half-clad children Waiting and crying for food; Only curses for kisses, Only sorrow and woe, Only a drunken father, Only an angry blow. Only weeping children, Only a dying wife, Only another promise? Only a drunkard's life! O! The woe and anguish, What mortal tongue can tell! Only a glass in the barroom, Only a drunkord's helll ?Schuyler Sears, in Ohio Farmer. < lsiu xney inncrii 11 c In a letter from Erieville, N. Y., to the Pioneer, C.-I. Hitchfofck ?ys: .Some years ago there was a distillery on the farm joining my father's. There were a number of men who used to patronize it and carry away in jugs, and, very often, in their stomachs, the article distilled. Among the number were two that I remember very well, as they frequently came and worked for father on the farm. Last April I was reminded of those men, as the great grandson of one and the grandson of the other came to me to get work. They were poorly clad, and their \ boots but little better than none. I could not think of sending them out in the snow with such boots and furnished them with some, expecting they would be honest enough te work and pay for them. But I was disappointed. They both seemed devoid of any moral.,principle, and neither of them could read or write. Is it not probable that the influence exerted on those men by the use of the liquor made at that old distillery us still snown in ine ives and conduct of tnese young men ? I have pondered over it, and thought much about the man whto owned and ran the old still. The last time I remember seeing him he stood on the south side of his barn, with head drooped, and seemed very thoughtful. A friend of his had shot himself a short time before, and I have often thought that he was in a deep study about his future prospects, and pernap3 had forebodings of the influence he had exerted on those who had patronized his distillery. Is there not too limited a view taken of intemperance? Can it be otherwise than that the distiller, brewer, wholesale and retail dealer in intoxicating liquors, after they pass away from this state of existence, will know and realize the influence that their business has exerted and is still exerting on those who have dealt with them? | t'i'he suffering and privation endured by persons intimately connected with those who hoVvifnalK' neo infAviAatinap Hnnnp ia onntiorh tn cause the least thoughtful to wish the whole J business aunihilated, and when we carefully C investigate the subject and see the effects of ? it, not only on those who use it, but on gcner- r ations yet to follow, are we not, most of us, (3 too indifferent and too slack in our efforts to r endeavor to convince those who are engaged S in the manufacture and sale of it, that their own best interests in this life and the life to come require the entire abandonment of the business. C. I. Hitchcock. Erikvtjllk. N. Y. Disgracing the Flag. ' Amonz the sights which greeted our eyes on the Fourth," our great national holiday, J was one that ought to make every true Amer- j iean blush. j We were enjoying our Fourth in a delight- c fully quiet way, chatting and laughing c among our family, when suddenly, we neard t a great uproar somewhere near. We looked c down the road, and what a sight we beheld! ? A large wagon, drawn by a pair of horses. ? both horses and wagon profusely decoratea ? with tho''Stars and Stripes."' Our enthusi- a asm was instantly aroused, we felt like start- g ing a rousing cheer, when suddeuly our feel- T ings received a shock! It would be impossi- t ble to describe. our sensations when we dis- t covered that the wacon contained a large t keg, which must have been a keg of beerl j Alongside of the keg lay a yonug man, dead j drunk! Another young man was sitting beside j the keg and seemed to be trying to steady it, t although he looked as though some one ought ? to "steady" him. The driver did not seem in ( any better condition, and alongside the wag- v on walked three or four men, all of them v looking the worse from drink. Their con- (. versation was not very edifying, if we might E jndge by the few words which reached our v ears. I presume they had been out in the j country enjoying (.') the Fourth; but, alas! * what a sorry job they made of it. I could not help thinking what a disgrace j to the Stars and Stripes! What a shame that v our beloved and beautiful flag should j actually cover such things! Oh, the pity of j it! that we cannot save it from such humilia- j, tion! the pity of it, that every rum hole, ( ' High" and low, can decorate their fronts ? with our flag, which ought to be held sacred ?too sacred?for any such purpose. How can any man who loves his country allow it? ? If any other i>eople should offer our flag one- ~ tenth of the indignity which we heap upon it J ourselves, we would resent it at the point of tlsj sword. Why, then, will Americana ? I. f-W | C in.-n.mw; ouvu. "Iv..o u.sinvj v. ?-"c?i | t flag at home.' \V by will they allow the very J j ones who are protected by its starry folds to l trail it in the dust? Oh, men! Americans! r l)o not permit it. Rally around our dear : Hag, and save it from the polluting touch of } intemperance! Let it be an emblem of pro- ? tection from the curse of di-unkenness, as it is an emblem of refuge to thousands?yes, ^ millions?who claim its shelter from evils {" which do not dostroy ne4r so surely. Let it ? ba the crowning glory of our flag that it shall float over a nation of free men and 5 women?free in every sense of the word; but of all the evils we beg to be relieved of, j free us from the curse of rum!?Mrs. J. A j /Cyan, in Safe Ballot. No Wouuer They are Rich. 8 The National Bureau of Statistics shows that on the $700,000,000 which annually passes 1 into the tills of the retailers of intoxicat- i ing liquors in this country there is a profit <] of 1 per cent. If poor people had to pay ? such a tax as that on bread there would be a rebellion. But when a man tosses ofT a glass of whisky and pays five cents for the drink J and seven or eight cents to the barkeeper for the trouble of handing it to him he generally ; thinks the bartender an awfully good fellow. 1 ?Springfield Union. t I Rev. Dr. W. R. Huntington prescribes the 1 three T's?Toil, Thrift, and Temperance?aa 1 the best antidote for poverty, < .'V . - ??J?Mi? M ? "religious reading. "Glre Us This Day," Ufe brought her nothing men call good? None of its brightest or its beat? Bat sorrow broke her solitude. * _ .~u*. KfAaof XXJ1U Uil?U13LI UC1 UUHCUI 171 cuou , Y etT through it all her faith was strong, And strongest when most dark her lot; She knew that peace was hers ere long, Where sorrow dies and tears are not, So, with clasped hands and bended head, Her lips would say, "Give us this day Our daily bread." She climbed the weary hill of life, With feet unaided and unshod, Save by God's grace, and constant strife Attended every step she trod; , Yet, through the gloom that shadows made, A light about her feet was cast, And, lifting up her voice, she laid Her load where loads must come at last ! Hence those poor lips so scantly fed, i In faith could say, , "Give us this day Our daily bread." ?[The Quiver. i l I Grow in Grace. t Growth marks true grace. It is not stationary but progressive. Dead things do hot ] jrow. A painting does not. A hypocrite is Mily a picture of religion. A real Christian , has life, and so advances in piety, His love Increases, his humility deepens, his zeal multiplies and his good works abound. He I zrows "as the lily, his branches spread, his < Beauty is as the olive tree, his smell as Leba- : aon," and his fruit matures. Happy is he j who daily progresses in holy living!?[Presbyterian Observer. The Captive Birds. : "We have somewhere read of a t' aveller who stood one day beside the cages. f some ' birds that were exposed for sale, ruffled their j sunny plumage on the wires, and struggled to be free. A wayworn and sun-browned man, like one returned from foreign lands, looked wistfully and sadly on these captives till hAArQ ctfiin Vhq Tnrrmior rnnnH rm ' their owner, he asked the price of one, : paid it in strange gold, and, opening the mge, set the prisoner free; and thus he did with captive after captive till every bird was away soaring in the skies < ind singing on the wings of i liberty. The crowd stared, and stood 1 amazed; they thought him mad, till, to the I question of their curiosity, he replied: "I was ; Mice myself a captive; I know the sweets of : liberty." And so they who have experience i 3f guilt have felt the serpent's bite, the burn- ( ing poison in their veins; who on the one ( band have felt the sting of conscience, and on the other the peace of faith, the jovs of hope, the love, the light, the liberty, the life tnat < ire found in Jesus?they, not excepting | Heaven's highest angels, are the fittest to | preach a Saviour, to plead with man for God jr with God for man.?[Guthrie. The Church of the Future. In the nearer or more remote future the ' church will no longer be called a hospital for 1 jivalids or a sanctuary for scoundrels. I ( juppose that hereafter, now and then, a wolf j nay get Into the fold, but he will get in by j mving on sheep's clothing, and he will get in , >nly to have his disguise torn off, and be sent 1 jack to the herd where he belongs. The 1 :reed of the coming church will be somewhat < ixtended; the man who says, "I believe in , lie resurrection of the body, and the life 1 jverlasting" will also say, "I believe in hon- ? >st dealing and truthful speaking; I believe in ( : )i * * * 1 UvuiK mJ uriKuuvi oo aijoou, People all over the city and all over the land. 1 ire taking down their partition fences, ana ( >f course the gates must go with the fences. , :tisa beautiful way of saying, "We must k jet nearer together, we must live in a more * leighborly way, we must enjoy our good t hings more in common." Now this seems to g ne recently as both sympathetic and pro- ? )hetic. I think that the day is coming, and / loming soon, when the different dehomina- "f ions will begin to take down their fences and ( mswing their gates. The Methodist will take c lown his fence; the Baptist will take down , lis fence; the Presbyterian will take dwm { lis fence. One after another, these \ vhich kept us apart will disappear. X%9M ' rill be no bars to let down; there will 8 ><? tin siirlftv doc to flv at 119 t f we attempt to go in, and I thi ik there is 10 dog so surly as a church dog. Dear friends, . ve are going to live as neighbors, nay, we ' ire going to live as brothers, in the Church C ft the future. The Church of the future will a >e a tolerant Church. * * There was a ? ime when I thought my Congregational j riends were getting loose. Because they had io accepted formula to bind them together, I s hought that thev would naturally bring up ^ n 9ome place where they would not like to ( ind themselves. But now I take a far more a lopeful view of the case. I begin to think hat a Congregationalist is simply a Preaby- 0 erian who has left his catechism at home, 1 a * * n LI 111 iui gut?t*?u *> IJC1 D uc miu 1U uvimi. a i'erhaps I ought -to add before leaving this e art of my subject, in justice to myself, that cling with greater tenacity than ever to . Christ and his cross, that the great and glori- 1 ius truths v h-.'h make our Gospel?the mi- 1 aculous birtii of our Savior, his atoning e leath and triumphant resurrection?were g lever so much to me as they are now.?{Dr. Jhaw in Providence and Prophecy. a c What We Hfeed. The supreme demand, says Rev. Dr. C. H. i'arkhurst, is for men who can point the vorld to Jesus Christ, and can point with a i teady, stiff finger, for the reason that they i :now experimentally the saving power of a lesus Christ. It is very difficult even for the 'rotestant clergy to abandon utterly the idea .# c? *tvir>faii2r? nnH mnoAdft that their r irder is invested with no redemptive func- t ions, and that it is the very acme or Christian j reaching simply to lift the eyes of the peo- _ ile to the cross and to him that was crucified , hereon. "We cling with unconscious tenacity * o the idea that somehow we save i>eople. We 0 ire not thinking of ourselves simply as index i ingers, and that other things being equal, he E fill always be the greatest preacher (in the rue sense or greatest) who can Dest point men e o Christ for the reason that he best knows f vhere and what Christ is. Hence the might of n outlier, the colossus of tlie ueraian reiormaion?tore one whole book right out of the Jible and spat u]x>n it, and yet made Chrisendom richer, mightier, holier, just because 11 le had entered into the mystery of God in g Christ and could point the generation to 3 vhere he had himself gone before. Luther t ras a err eat iri&ex finger pointinz Germany 0 the" cross. He threw "away "the broken a augs and smashed the dirty pitchers out of t. rhich the generations had been trying to b Irink the bailed water of life, and conducted a hem to the very edge of the living fountain _ lowing fresh and limpid. That was what outlier did. And yet Luther, Martin Luther, u could have stood no more chance of receivner unanimous ordination at the hands of the b few York Presbytery, than he would of u >eing elected to the Papacy by the Roman . Catholic Cardinalate. And still this old here- 11 ic, with his ragged Bible?Book of James ( ipped clean out of it?did more to precipitate s he kingdom of heaven than our wliole synod fi ould do, conservatives and progressives all j, lulling together. That blind man whose eyes esus opened did not know much. He did a lot pass any kind of an examination. He c ould not see, and Jesus had opened his eyes so w hat he could see. TLit was all he knew. v >oor, little, miserable, shriveled creed, ledged all around with alternating exclamaion and interrogation marks! And yet that * nan, with only a thimbleful of ideas, and 3 :iehed out of the synagogue, with his opened o yes flushed with new born light looking up [j ;ratefully into the eyes of the Lord, has aU eady enticed more souls, probably, into the ? :ingdom of the Eve opener and the Soulsaver 11 han you and I have, laity and clergy all il ombined. The question is, who is the man (? hat knows the way to Jesus and can tell it) n ? U LI Temperance News and Notes. a The Danish temperance movement has now li in army of 35,000 total abstainers. Kansas has increased her population under n jroliibitiou from you.uuu to i,dw,uw. ^ Oat of a list of 162 newspapers printed In (] ?eias, 138 ara in favor of the prohibitory i intendment and only forty-four against it. . Kentucky whisky distillers have concluded Q :0t to make any more whisky until October. , There are now 39,000,000 gallons of whisky, 18,000,000 of which was produced last year, v n bond in the State. I; The London Medical Record says that ii leaths from apoplexy are more numerous in Bordeaux than in any other city in the world, The fact is attributed to the bibulous habits the Bordelais. . _ _ ^ ^ . i AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. Carrots. Not a few of our progressive farmers are adopting a practice common among English agriculturists and growing carrots as a field crop. They believe that there is no better root for cows and hnrspi shr>f?r> nnH nvpn FVrJ in rnnnef! tion with hay or grain carruts seem to increase the value of the latter. That is, the carrot itself not oaly contaiire much nutriment, but it appears to cause the other food to digest more perfectly, so that little or none is wasted. This is certainly the case with grain. As a substitute for hay carrots prevent constipation when much dry food is used. Like oil meal they brighten up the coats of animals, giving a sleek, glossy look. Carrots also improve the color and^quality of milk and butter. When cooked they are good for poultry, and fed either cooked or raw they are valuable for hogs. Care of Colta. At about the end or the sixth month the colt should be weaned. During the 3ummer and autumn months he should be allowed to bs at grass, which, if succulent and abundant, will b<j all that is required as food. "When taken up in the autumn a sufficient quantity of the best English hay, with two or three quarts of bruised oats, should be given daily. Twice during the week the colt should receive a few carrots cut up and given raw or steamed, which would render them more easily assimilated, and to thess a little bran should be mixed. Plenty of fresh, clean water should be accessible to tho animal. Protection from the weather at all times.should be provided, and during the cold season warm, well ventilated, sunny quarters are extremely important. The first year of the colt's life, especially the first Winter, is the most critical period of hi* existence. If through neglect he is allowed to get out of condition be will never quite recover from the effects. Consequently proper food, and an abundance of it, with care to cleanliness Df his person and his quarters are most essential. Grain never produces a large belly, sither upon the colt or the adult; certainly not unless fed out in the most extraordinary manner, which would prove destruction to the animal. More Corn for Fodder Needed. Fodder corn follows grass in rank as i feeding crop, either green for summer use or preserved *s ensilage, or dried and ;ured for the winter. It is one of the nost prolific and nutritious plants when t is DroDerlv srrowa and cultivated. It ias yielded from twenty-four to forty :ons of green, and five to qight tons of :ured fodder. It requires rich land and jood cultivation, however, to make this field, but on poor land, helped by artifi:ial fertilizers, a very profitable yield can ?e made. In such a case a poo/, sandy 'arm, which was badly run down, proiuced twenty-four tons of Evergreen Sweet Corn with six hundred pounds of ipecial corn manure to the acre; and ;welve tons per acre of Early Narragan lett sweet corn, it is quite possioie to *row both of these crops on the same p-ound, the same season, for the early :orn wilt be ready for cutting in fifty lays from planting, and the later kind jlanted in July will mature in Septem>er: thus giving thirty-six t^us of green odder, or eight of cured fodder per icre. It is this rapid growth which makes his crop so valuable. Fodder corn has acquired a poor repuation, by reason of the mistaken manner >f growing it, viz.: by broadcasting the eed at the rate of two or three bushels >er acre, by which the crop is so crowded hat it makes a white, watery, rank forge, quite devoid of nutriment, and ?rnrth hut little more than wood shaviners. }ows have been known to reject fodtTer hus grown, which is a convincing proof if their natural sagacity. When grown in rows, three feet apart, ,nd with four to six seeds dropped eighten inches apart, the fodder is entirely lifFerent. It is green in color, mature n its growth, full of sweetness; and a arge proportion of the stalks will have ars in what is known as the roasting tage, and as the fodder is cured, these nay be dried, if the proper precautions j ,re taken in the curing.?American Agri' ulturiit. A Chapter on Farm Economy. There is no trade or occupation in life n which true economy is as important as n farming. By economy we do not mean tinginess or denying one's self the comaon comforts of life. The farmer who ractises it cannot expect to command he esteem and respect of his fellow-men, lor retain it himself. Nor is it necessay in this connection to admonish the +V?imnArfTrton nonaQCiftr ailiiCIO VI lug kUUVV UUV4 UVWVWWtvj I if saving what they make, and of turn- ! ng into ready cash all kinds of products lot needed on the farm. But it is the little conomies to which we would now more articularly direct the attention of faraers. In the first place, an economical far- i ncr is necessarily a neat farmer. Hecaniot afford to allow weeds and briers to ;row up in his fence corners to rob the oil of its fertility and rot his fences, le canuot afford to allow his gates nd farm implements to go to rack for he want of a little repair; his farm uildings to do the same for the want of little seeing to, well knowing that much f the value of his property depends r"" "? "ft? Take any two farms of the same numier of acres lying in the same neigliborlood, and composed of the same characer of land, the one with its fencing were it not for the briers and weeds that upport it) about to tumble down, its elas inconveniently located, its buildogs in a state of dilapidation without ny approach or lawn to give an air of j omfort to the premises, and the other ! nth all these improvements .plainly in iew, and the difference in the market alue of the two wiin>e from twenty to hirty per cent, in favor of the latter, imply on account of its neatness. Anther essential point in economical farm ag is system. In no business is it more ecessary to success. Haphazard farmag may, it is true, earn a living, such as i is, for the time being, but can never ly up anything for a "rainy day." The lethodical man, however, always knows lis business, and can so arrange it as to ccomplish what he h?.s to do with much ;ss inconvenience, expense or labor than e who farms it in a desultory, slipshod lanner. There must be system in every hing pertaining to tnc :arm; system in loing everything in time; system in laviug a place for everything, and evcryhitig in its place; system in not putting fT anything until to-morrow that can be lone to-day; system in planing, in forking, in grain-growing, in stockireeding and feeding; in short, system n everything.?Baltimore Sun. Farm and Garden Notes* Weed the garden after rain, , ' ...v . .?v", ': -v. Sweet corn makes fine green fodder for the pigg. The demand for currents is reported as greater each year. Fruit put up for market in neat, attractive shape brings best prices. Young and growing animals are the most profitable for the farmer. The best breed is good care, good water, good feed and good bam. It is better to cultivate a few acres thoroughly than to skim over many. r'n.iraa nrnnlarl olioon oro TYl/VTA llfthlA t.rt ' be infested with ticks*than merinos. Hardy ferns are beautiful about the house in spots too shady to grow grass. If young howea suffer from cramps, give laxative food, such as bran mashes. Tomatoes planted among melons and squashes are reported as helping to keep off insects. If tomato vines are not trained or staked up, use brush to keep the tomatoes off the ground. A solution of saltpetre?an ounce to a gallon of water?is used by some in fighting the squash-borer. A successful radish grower recommends making the beds with nearly one-half j soft coal, ashes and soot as a preventive I of worms. English horticulturists recommend a solution of fir tree oil in water for the destruction of green fly on peach and nectarine trees. A grindstone conveniently placed ready for use leaves no excuse for working with a dull ax or other cutting instrument that never doe3 good work. Cucumber vines sometimes die as soon as they begin to bear, because injured by pulling or twisting off the fruit. Cut it off with knife or scissors. Better be late in seeding thap to plow when land is too wet, for that may injure its condition so that years will be required to effect a restoration. A cause of many failures, according to a poultry man, is the attempt to 1 keep a large number of fowls when the proper amount of care cannot be given. Grass should be cut, if possible, when it is dry. When help is plenty it ia better to do this work in the afternoon, atter tne neat 01 tne aay naa paruauy subsided. Coal ashes are not fit for the dust-box , until the cinders have been sifted out. A i hen cannot throw coal cinders on hex [ back. They are too heavy; besides, they hurt her feet. The struggle against weeds may be continued in autumn with more or less success as long as their seeds can be induced to sprout, ready for destruction by the harrow. A Vermont farmer plants a sunflower seed instead of a pole to each hill of beans. The sturdy stalk answered for a ' pole, and the seeds supply an excellent feed for poultry. The best labels for marking plants are made from zinc, and only a common lead pencil ia needed to mark them. The writing is at first faint, bat becomes distinct when exposed to the weather. Beans are rich in nitrogen, and are good food for*" aQj sort of animals. Hogs may be fattened on them. There is nothing better for sheep, and they are just the thing for cows in milk. Farm horses protected by thin blankets from flics in hot weather will keep in good condition much more easily than if exposed to the tonuent of innumerable bites during all the hours of the long, hot days. Calves must be kept thrifty from the first with no set-back, if they are to become fully developed early, and this is the only way to get satisfactory profits from raising them, whether for the dairy or the shombles. The onion crop must have nitrogen. Ashes have frequently been applied where the same plot was planted year after year, but they are lacking in nitrogen, and sooner or later the bottom will go out of the land. Near a good market where celery can be sold easily, it is a good crop to grow with onions. The constant tillage of the land in fall for banking celery leaves the land free from seeds and weeds, and in fine order for next year's work. The object of plowing corn in a dry season is not so much to kill the weeds as to form a mulch of dry dirt that will condense the moisture in the shape of dew, and that will conserve or save the moisture that comes up from the hidden reservoirs below. It is said that the relative cost of raising a pound of pork and a pound of chicken is as three to four, that is, if a J ~C oonta O T\Allnr1 nf puuuu VI XX VVCK OiA * chicken will co3t eight. But while the cost of production is so nearly alike, the price realized is about in the ratio of one to three, or, in other words, when pork sell at six cents a pound, chickens will bring eighteen cents a pound. Less "hog and hominy" and more roast chicken for us. The Wren's Requiem. A few months ago I was spending some time with friends in Southern Illinois. During my stay an incident occurred which astonished rae not a little. It was an early spring morning that I was awakened by a twittering outside my window. Looking out I saw two curious festoons hanging from the sill and apparently m motion. It was, in fact, two semi-circles, composed of twenty or thirty little wrens clinging together with foot and wiug. They clung there for about two minutes, twittering mournfully all the while; then suddenly, as if by common consent, they broke loose 1 o.r/j rtou- finmu- fJnin?r out shortly after O ward I found a dead wren directly under 1 the window from which the strange fes- 1 toon had hung. It looked as though the affectionate little creatures had been singing a dirge over their dead friend. Upon consulting one who has made nat- 1 ural history a life study I learned that this was called '"the wren's requiem." and is an established fact, though rarely seon. ? Chicago News. Ten Rules fi>r Bathers. 1. wnen suncrm? trum viuicui. ciuamcnt do not bathe. 2. When suffering from suddenly occurring or from continued illness, do not bathe. 3. After sleepless nights of excessive exercise do not bathe unless you tirst rest a few hours. 4. After meals* and especially after taking alcoholic liquors, do not bathe. * 5. Take your time on the way to the bathing houso or beach. 6. On arriving at the beach inquire about depth and currents of water. 7. Uutlross SlOWiy, wt lucu JJW uutv.1,ly into the water. & Jump in head first, or at least dip u/ider quickly, if you do not like to do the first. 9. Do not remain too long in the water, especially if not very robust. 10. After bathing, rub the body to stimulate circulation, and then dresj quickly; then take moderate exercise. - / -V- - " - , j FACTS FOR THE CUBIOUS. J Postoffices were first established far Paris in 1462; in England, 1681; izi Ger? many, 1640; Turkey, 1740. Fruit growers in the strawberry belt in Illinois,furnished the chewing gum to the girls who picked the bcrrie*. The first bank ever established was located at Venice, about 1150, and was known as "The Chamber of Loans. " A boy at San Diego, Cal., is so electric that by rubbing his hands over a box or a book and then waving his hand he can' lift the object from the table. Roman legion consisting of G',000 men, divided in ten cohorts, and every cohort into six centuries, with a vexillum, ftr standard cninrdod hw f?n man An old law is still extant in Virgina ^ which imposes a fine of fifty pounds of tobacco on a man who absents himself from church one month without a valid excuse. The title of Generalissimo is used by the Spanish and Italians. It has been used Dy the French, Cardinal Richelieu . . % being the first to take it. It is applied to a general in: chief who has under him. two or more grand division under generals. The English have never used it. Quick upon the heels of the report of the death in Brooklyn of Henry ChatfieW, caused by an orange seed lodging in an intestine, comes a report of like nature from Norwich, Ct. There Miss Marion Elsie Blackman, a teacher in the free academy, died a few days ago from the same cause. ; a l e j - :i u.. & 11. jjiaiicoo uau iuuuu a quau auu uci brood that had been housekeeping in the yard of A. A. Bruner at Chico,Cal., and made a prisioner of the female bird. A whistle brought the male, and a battle ensued. The cat could not stand the . smart flap of the wings in her eyes, or the constant pecking, and released her prey. Ordinary Williams ot Lumpkin, Ga., has in his possession two corncobs which are curiously formed. One of them exactly resembles the hand of a human being, the fingers beizfe about the size and shape of those of a human. The fingers look like those of a human when the hand is perfectly closed. There are six fingers on the cob. The long stem to the cob resembles the lower part of the arm. It came from his farm in Union county. The other came from the farm of Col. Boyd, and look* like the hoof of a cow. The total number of persons killed by wild animals and venomous snakes in the ten divisions of Bengal during the official year 1885-86 was the highest in the last five years, and amounted to 11,- * 823. As is usual, nine-tenth* of these deaths were caused by snakes. But of ^ 12,223 buffaloes, oxen, horses and ponies destroyed in this manner only 811 were . ^ killed by snakes. These annual return* ? j do not take account of sheep, goats, pigs and monkeys, the destruction of whicn is -5 very large. The hyena is credited with the destruction of 773 head of cattle. Be Kind to Tonr Horse. v Kindness with the family horse ifl of the utmost importance. Always cultivate an acquaintance, and be on social and friendly terms with him. If he is tired and worn out, it is astonishing how these little attentions will encourage and cheer him up. When not in use he should be given a reasonable amount of daily exercise. No animal will do well without exercise. It promotes a good action of the limbs, and assists difestion. The harness should be made to t. thus avoiding chafes and bruises. In cold weather the lips and tongue of the horse may be made very sore by contact with thfl frozen bit. The bit should al? ways be warmed before being placed in the horse's mouth. Flies are very annoying to horses, and the use of the net, or some preparation that will keep the flies away, is well repaid. Care in driving is of the greatest im- ^ va portance. How often do we see an animal driven until wet with perspiration, and dotted with foam, standing without blanket or protection of any kind from the cold northern winds. When in such condition he evidently . suffers intensely; besides the danger oi ^rmtrnofinor HiVmps, from which he will ?- 7 - never recover. If any law on our statute book should be more rigidly enforced than another, it is the one against fast driving. When in use, blankets should always be provided in cold weather, so that they will dry without chilling. Protect them from drafts when warm, and either rub down, or let them stand in a stable, where cold air can not strike them.?American Agriculturiit. Lightning-Rods on Churches. r The first lightning-conductor upon a church in England was not put up until 1762, ten years after Franklin's discovery. The spire of Saint Bride's Church in London was greatly injured by light ning in 1750, ana m I7t>4 a storm so wrecked its masonry that it had to be mainly rebuilt; yet for years after this the authorities refused to attach a lightning-rod ! The Protestant Cathedral of Saint Paul's in London was not protected until sixteen years after Franklin's dis* - - * - covery, and the tower of tne great rrotestant church at Hamburg not until a year '-/* later still. As late as 1783 it was declared in Germany,on excellent authority, that within a space of thirty-three years nearly four hundred towers had been damaged, and oue hundred and twenty bell-ringers killed. In Roman Catholic countries a similar prejudice was shown, and its cost at times was heavy. In Austria the church * ^ '* _r oi itosenoerg, in me mounwus ui vawuthia, was struck so frequently, and with such loss of life, that the peasants feared at last to attend service. Three times was the spire rebuilt, and it was not until 1778?twenty-six years after Franklin's discovery?that the authorities permitted a rod to be attached. Then all trouble ceased.?Popular Scicnce Monthly. A Sailor's (lame. The game of " fight the cocks" is worth a word of description to lands men. A chalk circle six feet in diameter is made on the deck, within which two contestants are seated, and tied hands and feet in such a manner as to bring each into nearly a globular form, leaving only the head free, the arms and legs being locked together by a stick bting passed under the knees and over the arms at the elbows. The pinioned competitors are then placed on their feet, face to face, and at a sriven signal begiu the contest of butting each other out of the circle with their heads. When one succecds in getting the other on his side of greater curvature, and can follow up his advantage with a real billy goat butt, he usually imparts to his antagonist a rotary momentum that carries him out - 3 :?i ;i _e of the ring, ana Oiteu agniuai me run ui the ship. This is the final blow of the contest, and is always followed by bursts of laughter. This is only one of the many robust and mirthful games in which the sailors with the "'tween deckers" take part,?Outing, ? ^ -