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? REV. DR. TAIJAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON. abject : "Concerning the Bigots." Text: " Then said they unto him, say nnw Shibboleth: and he suid Stbboleth; for I fio could not frame to pronounce it ri'jht. Then they took him and slew him at the pas gages of Jordan."?Judges xii, 6. Do you notice the difference of pronuncia* tion between shibboleth and sibboleth.' A very small and unimportant diiference. you say. And yet that difference was the diiference between life aud death for a great many people. The Lord's px>ple, Gilead and Ephraim, got into a groat fight, and Ephraim was worsted, and on the retreat came to the fords of the river Jordan to cross. Order was given that all Euphraimites coming there should be slain. But how could it be found out who were Ephraimites? They were detected by their pronunciation. Shibboleth was a word that stood for river. The Ephraimitos had a brogue of their own, aud when they tried to say shibboleth always left out the sound of the "h." When it was asked that they say ahibboleth they said sibltoleth, and were slain. 'Then said they unto him. Say now Shibboleth ; and he said Sibboleth, for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him and slew him at the passage of Jordan.1' A very small difference, you say, between nnrl Knhraim and vet how much in- I I tolerance about that small difference. The1 Lord's tribe in our time?by which I m >an the different denominations of Christians? sometimes magnify a very small difference, and the only difference between scores of denomination's to day* is the difference between shibboleth and sihboleth. The church of Go I is divide! into a great number of denominations. Tinia would fail toe to tell of the Calvinists, and the Arminlans, and the Sabbatarians, and t!ie Baxterlans, and the Dlinkers, and the Shakers, and the Quaker.--, and the Metho lists, and the gaptists, and the Episcopalians, and the IJLUtneraiis, nna me i^onxrcguui'iimisis, iwu p the Presbyterians, and the Spiritualists, and a score of other denoniinntions of religionists, some of them founded by very good men, some of them founded by very egotistic men, ' and some of them founded by' very bad men. But as I demand for myself liberty of conscience, I must give that same liberty to avery other man, remem'>;rin:* that he no more differs from me than I dilFer from him. I advocate the largest liberty in all religious belief and form of worship. In art. in politics, in morals, and in religion let there De no gag law, no moving of the previous question, no persecution, no intoleran -e. " You know that the air and the water keep pure by constant circulation, and I think there is a tendency in religious discussion to purification and moral health. Between the Fourth and the Sixteenth centuries the church proposed to make people think aright by prohibiting discussion and by strong censorship -of the press, and by rack, and gibbet, and hot lead down the throat, tried to make people ortho.lox; but it was discovered that you cannot change a man's belief by twisting I -off his head, and that you cannot make a man see things differently by putting an awl through his eyes. There is something in a man's [conscience which will hurl off tko mountain that you throw upon it, and, unhinged of the fire, out of the name will make redwings on which the martyr will mount to glory. In that time of which I speak, between the Fourth and Sixteenth centuries, people went from the house of God into the most appalling iniouity, and right along by consecrated ; altars there were tides of drunkenness and licentiousness such as the world never heard of, and the very sewers of perdition broke i loose and flooded the church. After a while the printing press was freed, and it broke the ?hnpfelp9 nf the human mind. Then there I I came a large number of bad books, but where there was one man hostile to the Christian religion there were twenty men -ready to advocate it; so I have not any nervousness in regard to this battle going on between truth and error. The truth will conquer just as certainly as that God is stronger than the devil. Let error run if you onlv let truth run along ' with it. Ursred on by skeptic's shout and transcendentalisms spur, let it run. God's angels of wrath aro in hot pursuit, and quicker than eagle's beak catches out a hawk's heart God s vengeance will tear it to i pieces. i j>roposo t his morning to speaK to you or see- | tarianisin?its origin, its evils and its cursos. i There are those who would make us think that this monster, with horns and hoofs, is religion. I shall chase it to its hiding* place, and drag it out of the caverns of darkness and rip oft" his hide. But I want to make a distinction between bigotry md the lawful fondues-i for peculiar religious beliefs and forms of worship. I have no admiration for a nothingarian. In a world of such tremendous vicissitude and temptation, aiul with a soul that must after a while stand before a throne of insufferable brightness, in a day when the rocking of the mount tins and the flaming of the heavens and the upheaval of the sea shall be among the lenst of the excitements, to give account for every thought, word, action, preference and dislike?that man is mad who lias no religious preference. But our early education, our physical temperament, our mental constitution will very much decide our form of worship. A style of psalmody that miy please me may displease you. Some would like to have a minister in gown, ana oanas, auu surpm.tr, | and others prefer to have a minister in plain citizen's apparel. Some are most impressed when a little child is presented at the altar and sprinkled with the waters of a holy beue diction "in the name of tho Father, and of 1 the Son, and of the Holy Uhost;''and others are more impressed wiieu the penitent comes up out of the river, his garments dripping with the waters of a baptism which signifies the washing awav of sin. Let either have his own way. One man likes no noise in prayer, not a word, not a whisper. Another man just as good prefers by gesticulation and exclamation to express his devotional aspirations. One is just as good as the other. "Every man fully persuaded in his owu mind." George Whitefield was going over a Quaker rather roughly for some of his religious sentiments, and the Quaker said: "George, I am i as thou art: I am for bringing all men to the j nope OI sue mci viui c, u tnuu mituv. j quarrel with me about my broad brim, I will not quarrel with thee about thy black gown. George, give me thy hand." I. In tracing out the religion of sectarianism, or bigotry, I find that a great deal of it j comes from wrong education in the home : circle. There are parents who do not think ' it wrong to caricature and jeer the peculiar : forms of religion in the world and denounce 1 other sects and other denominations. It is j very often the case that that kind of educa- ! tion acts justs opposite to what was expected, | and the children grow up anu, aner a wano go and see for themselves; aiul looking in! those churches, and finding that the people j are good there, and they love God and ! his commandments, by natural reaction tin-/ j go and join those very churches. I could l mention the names of prominent ministers of | the gospel who spent their whole lives bum- : baraing other denominations, an I who lived j to see their children preach th? Gnsp'l in 1 those very denominations. l?ut it is often the ! case that bigotry starts in a household ami that the subject of it never recovers. There arc tens of thousands of bigots !0 years old. I think sectarianism and bigotry also ri^e from too groat prominence of any ona denomination in a community. All the other denominations are wrong, and his denomination is right l>e<-uu.se his denomination is the most wealthy, or the most popular, or the most influential, and it is "on/' church, and "our" religious orgauization.an I "our" choir, ' and "our' minister, and the man tosses his head and wants other d-iiominations to know their places. It i> a great deal letter in any : community when the great denominations of Christians are about e ;ual in p >wer, in irch- j ing side by side for the world's conquest. ! Mere outside prosperity,mare worldly power, is no evid -m-e that the church is acceptable to God. Better a barn with Christ in the manger than a cathedral with magnificent , harmonies rolling through the long drawn aisies ana an iiu^-i n"m ..c. if there is no Christ in the chaucel ami 110 Christ in tho robes. Bigotry is often the child of ignorance. ! You seldom find a innn with large intellect who is a bigot. It is the mnn who 'hinks he knows a great deal I ait does not. That man is almost always a bigot. The whole tendency of education and civilization is to bring a man out of that kind of state of mind and heart. There was in the far east a great obelisk. and ono side of the obelisk was white, ' another side of the obelisk was gre >n, another ride of the obelisk wa3 blue, and travelers went and looked at that obelisk, but they did not walk around it. One man looked at oua i -v" . j - * I side, another at another side, and they cam? home, each one looking at only one side. And they happened to meet, the story says, and thov got into a rank quarrel about the color of that obelisk. One man said it was white, another man said it was groen, another man said it was blue, an 1 when they were in the very heat of the controversy a more intelligent traveler came and said: "Gentlemen. I have seen that obelisk, and you are all right and you are all wrong: Why didn't you walk all around the obelisk?" Look out for the man who sees only one side of a religious truth. Look out for the man who never walks around about these great theories of God and eternity and the dead. He will be a bigot inevitably?the man who only sees one side. There is no man more to bo pitied than he who has in his head just one idea?no more, no less. More light, less sectarianism. There is nothing that will so soon kill bigotry as sunshine ?God's sunshine. II. So I have set before you what I consider to be the causes of bigotry. I have set before yon the origin of this gre.it evil. What are some of the baleful effects? First of all it cripples investigation. You are wrong, and I am right, and that ends it. No taste for exploration, no spirit of investigation. From the glorious realm of God's truth, over which an archangel might fly from eternitv to eternity and not reach the ' i- * - if ?l ?A A;** ? linut, cdo man snuu> iiimsou out wu w, ? blind mole under a corn shock. It stops all investigation. "While each denomination of Christians is to present all the truths of the Bible, it seems to me that God has given to each denomination an especial mission to give particular emphasis to some one doctrine; and so the Calvinistic churches must present the sovereignty of God, and the Arminian chureb must present man's free agency, ani the Episcopal churches must present the importance or order and solemn ceremony, and the Baptist churches must present the" necessity A?,i:,,nn.v,o or>.) thn ( Vvn<rr?<yntir>n?l nhuron I must present the responsibility of the individual member, and the Methodist church must show what holy enthusiasm and hearty congregational singing can accomplish. While each denomination of Christians must set forth all the doctrines of the Bible. I feel it is especially incumbent upon each denomination to put particular emphasis upon some one doctrine. j Another great damage done by the secta- | rianism and bigotry of tho church is that it disgusts people with the Christian religion. Now, mj' friends, the Church of God was never intended for a war barrack. People, are afraid of a riot. You go down tho street and you see an excitement, and missiles fly-; ing through the air, and you hear the shock > of firearms. Do you, the peaceful and industrious citizen, go through that, street? 'Oh, i:o:" you will say. "I'll go around the block." Mow, men come and look upon this narrow nntli to Imavtiti. and SOIllCtimOS See the ecclesiastical bri.kbats flying every whither, and they say: "Well, I guess I'll take the broa-l road; if it is so rough, and there is so much sharp sho >t;ng on the narrow road, I guess I'll try tin broa i road." Francis I. so hated the Lutherans that he said if he thought there was one drop of Lutheran blood in his veins he would puncture them and let that drop out. Just as long as there is so tint h hostility between denomination and denomination, or between one protessed Christian and another, or between one church and another, just so long men will be disgusted with the Christian religion and say: "If that is ivligion, I want none of 11. Again, bigotry and sectarianism do groat damage in the l'act that tiiey hinder the triumph of the Gospel. Oh, how much wasted ammunition, how many men of splendid intellect have given their whole life to controversial disputes, when, if tliey hid given their 1 fa to fromethiug practical, they might h ive been vastly use til! Suppose this morning, while I sjwak, there wero a common enemy coming up the bay through the Narrows, and all the forts aroaud New York began to fire into each other?you would cry out, "National suicide! Why don't those forts blaze away in one direction, and that against tlm .in.Mm-f" A >lii V<>f I SOUlf'tillUS I see in the church of tho Lord Jesus Christ a strange thing going on?church against church, minister against minister, denomination against denomination, firing away into their own fort, or tho fort which ought to be on the same sid<?, instead of concentrating their energy and giving ono mighty and . everlasting volley against tho navies of darkness riding up through the bay! I go out sometimes in thesummer, and I flud two beehives, and these two hives are in a quarrel. I come near enough, not to be stung, but I come just near enough to hear tho controversy, and one beehive savs : '"That field of clover is tho sweetest," and another behive s?ys: "That field of clover is the sw oetest." I comc in between thorn, and I say: "Stop this quarrel: if you like tiiat field of clover l>est. go there; if you like that field of clover best, go there; but let me tell you that that hive which gets tho most honey is tho best hive." So I come out between the churches of tho Lord Jesus Christ. One denomination of Christians says : " That field of Christian doctrine is best," and another says : " This field of Christian doctrine is best." Well, I say : " Go where you get the most honey." That is the best church which gets tho most honey or Christian grace for the heart, and the most honey of Christian usefulness for the life. Besides that, if you want to build up any denomination, you will never build it up by trying to pull some other down. Intolerance never put anything down. How much has intolerance accomplished, for instance, against the Methodist Church? For long years her ministry were forbidden the pulpits of Great Britain. Why was it that so many of them preached in tho fields? Simp'y because they could not get into the churches. And the name of the church was given in derision and as a sarcasm. The critics of the church said: "They have no order, th"y have 110 met od in) their worship;"' and the critics, therefore, in irony called them i am told that in Astor library. New York, kept as curiosities, there are 707 books anu pamphlets against Methodism. Did intolerance stop that church? No; it is either first or second amid the denominations of Christendom, her missionary stations in all parts of tho world, her men iiot only importaut in religious trusts, but important' also in secular trusts Church marching on, and the more intolerance against it, the faster it marches. Whit did intolerance accomplish against the Baptist Church? It'laughing scorn and tira-le could have destroyed the church it would not to-day have a disoiple left. The Baptists were hurled out of Boston in the olden times. Those who sympathized with thern were con fin* l.and when a petition was offered asking leniency iu their behalf all men who signed it were indicted. Has intolerance stopped the Baptist Church1 The last statistics in regard to it showed about oO.WK) churches and about 3,5U0.U0d communicants. Intolerance never put down anything. In England a law was made aguinst the Jew England thrust hick the Jew and thrust down the Jew, and de-dared that no Jew should hold an o'licial position. What came of it ? Were the Jews destroyed ' Was their religion overthrown { No. Who became prime minister of England years ago? Who wast'ie next to the tlirone? Who was higher than the throrfe be -ause he was j counselor and adviser? The descendant 01 a | Jew. Wh.it wore we celebrating iu all our churches as well as synagogues a few years ago/ The one hundredth birthday anniver sary of Monfefior,?, the great Jewish philanthropist. Intolerance never yet put down anything. Iir. But now, mv friends, having shown you tiio origin of bigotry or s ctarianism, and having shown you the damage it does, I want briefly to show you how we are to war against thus terrible evil, ami I think we ought to begin our war by realizing our weakness and our imperfections. If we make so many mistakes in the common affairs of life, is it not possible that we may make mistakes iuregard to our religious affairs? Shall we take a man by the throat, or by the collar, because he cannot see religious truths just as we do? In the light of eternity it will be found out, I think, there was something wrong in all our cree Is, and something right in all our creels. But since we may make mistakes in regard to things of tl e world, do I not let us be egotistic, and so puffel up as to I have an idea that we cannot make any mis- . take in regard to religious theories. Anl then I think we will do a great deal to over- J throw the sectarianism from our hearts, and the sectarianism from the world, by chiefly enlarging upon those things in whicti wa agree rather than those on which wo differ. Now, here is a great Gospel platform. A man comes up on this side the platform and says: "I don't believe in baby sprinkling." Shall I shove him off? Here is a man coming up on this side the platform, and he says: "I don't believe in the perseverance of the saints." Shall I shove him oil"? No. I will say: "Do you believe in the Lord Jesus as your Savior? Do you trust Him for time and for eternity?" He says: "Yes." "Do you take Christ for t'me and for eternity?" "Yes." I say: "C>me on, brothers; one in time and one in eternity; brother now, * h/* rind fnn a rinj. DTUwner iuievvr. WO \*w. ivw ? pel platform so large that all who receive' Christ may stand on it! I think we may overthrow the severe sectarianism ami bigotry in onr hearts, and in 4.1 1 1. i tnu UllUiXII UIM?, ?|> icauz<lii^ ViiUK Uit vuw nominations of Christians have yielded noble institutions and noble men. There is nothing that so stirs my soul as this thought. One denomination yielded a Robert Hall and an Adoniram Judson; another yielded a Latimer and a Melville; another yielded John ' "Wesley and the blessed Summerfield, while , our own denomination yielded John Knox J and the Alexanders?men of whom the world , was not worthy. Now. I say, if we are honest and fair-minded men, when we come up In the presence of such churches and such de- " nominations, although they maybe different , from our own, we oujht to admire them and we ought to love and honor them. Churches which can produce such men, and such largehearted charity, and such magnificent mar tyrdom, ought to win our affcction?at any rate, our resjKjet. So come on, ye 400,000 Episcopalians 111 this country, ana ye suj.uuu . Fresbyterians, ami ye 2,:i"?0,i500 Baptists, and ye nearly 3.750.00) Methodists?come on, j shoulder to shoulder we will march for the world's conquest: for all nations are to be saved, and God demands that you and I help 1 do it. Forward, the whole line. Moreover, we may also overthrow the feeling of severe sectarianism by joining other denominations in Christian work. I like when the springtime comes and the anniversary occasions begin and all denominations come up on the same platform. That over- ] throws sectarianism. In the Young Men's m tlio Rlllla PrtAlofv in I \^U( latlUil !W.TVVlf?ViVU, J'* UIU U1W .-n^ivvj, ?<i the Tract society, in the Foreign Missionary society, shoulder to shouller all denominations. JPerhnps 1 might mor.i forcibly illustrate this tiul-h hy calling your attention to an incident which ton!; pin 13 fourteen or fifteen years ago. One Monday morning at about 2 o'clock, while ln>r !*) i passengers were sound asleep in her berths dreaming of home, the steamer Atlantic crashed into Mars Head. Five hundred souls in ton minutes landed in eternity! Oh, what a scene! Agonized men and women running lip and down the gangways and clutching for the rigging, and the plunge of the helpless st viiner, and the clapping of the hanus of the mcrcilos sei over the drowning and the dead, threw two continents into terror. But see this bravo quart'.Tmnster pushing out with the life-line until he gets to the ro k; and see thes^ fishermen gathering up the shinwrojlcol and talc- 1 iii(* them into tin canine and wrapping i them in the flannels snug ami warm; and see ] that minister of the Gospel with three oth?r ( men getting into a lifeboat and pushing out . for the wreck, pulling away a?ross the surf and pulling away until they save one more 1 man, and then getting back with him to the ] shore. Can those men ever forget that night? j And can they ever forget their companion ship in peril, companionship in struggle, com panionsliip in awful catastrophe and roscue? Never! Never; In whatever part of the earth tlwy meet they will ha friends when they mention the story of that awful night when the Atlantic struck Mai's Head. Well, my friend, our world has gone into a ] worse shipwreck. Sin drove it on the rocks. 1 The old ship has lurched and tossed in the . tempests of six thousand years. Out with the lifeline! I do not care what denomination ( carries it. Out with the lifeboat! I do not I care what denomination rows it. Side by j side in the memory of common hardships,and common trials, and common prayers, and common tears, let us be brothers forever. ' We must be. We must be. One army of the living God To whoec command we bow : Tart of the host have cro sed the flood I J And part arc cro.-sin? now And I expert to see tho day when all denominations of Christian* shall join hands , around the cross of ( hrist and recite the creed: "I believe in Goiltlu Father Almighty, ' Maker of heaven and oarth, and in Jesus Christ, and in the communion of s u'nts, and in the life everlasting." May God i ispire us j al! with the largest hearted Christian charity! FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. ] 1 A church organ constructed entirely * of paper is on exhibition at Milan. A Florida woman has made a bed quilt containing 16,000 pieces less than the size of a man's thumb-nail. Texas has 180 countics, and is as large j as Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, ^ Wisconsin aud Michigan combined. ^ The first city in America to employ gas i in lighting the streets was Baltimore, i The street lamps were first lighted in } 1810. 1 A trnmnnt hns hpr?n invented for tele- 1 phoning at sea, bv which conversations are said to be carried on miles apart with no wire. Coining with a die was first invented in 1017, "and first ured in England in 1620, the year the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. Malimoud, the Mohammedan Sultan of Ghizna about A. D. 1000, invaded India twelve times and laid the foundation of the Mojul empire. Among the early Romans commanders of armies were called "imperitores," but when Ca?sar became Emperor, the commanders were called dukes or lieutenants of provinces. , There are cities in Asia the date of t whose origin is not actually known, but ( it is known that they are older than ? Home or any other city in Europe. Jeru- i salein and Hebron in Palestine and Da- t mascus in Syria are all many centuries older than Iiome. "The Middle Ages" is a name applied to the period between the fall of the 1 Roman Empire in the Fifth Century and 1 the invention of printing in the Fifteenth. I Or, as timeclbv some historians, from th?i I invasion of France by Clovis in 486 tl 1 that of Naples by Charles VIII. in 1495. 1 It comprised ab#ut ten centuris, and is ( often called "The DarK Ages." In a recent letter to a daily paper, a correspondent states that he has made 1 twenty-six trips or fifty-two tours across 1 across the Atlantic, and has in every in- j stance except tne msi, suucrvu wry mui.u from seasickness. On this last trip, he had with him a rubber bag, twelve inches long and 4 inches wide, the mouth of which was closed by an iron clamp. This he tilled with small pieces of ice, and applied to the spine at the base of the brain for half or three-quarters of an hour every morning. It had a most soothing effect, and he enjoyed ' every hour and every meal. I 1 1 An Obliging Author. Paul Duplessis was a regular contrib- ^ utor of serial novels to the Patrie. One 1 evening as he strolled into his favorite I cafe in the Hue des Martyrs he was greeted by his friend Yernct, who had been anxiously expecting him. "My i uncle." he said, "is reading your last 1 novel with feverish excitement. Vester- I day you left the Countess in a most crit-,| ieal situation; she fell into a trap laid ! for her by those who sought to take hei J life. Tell me, does she die?" ' Yes," was the reply. Vernet struek the table with his fist, sighing: 4,Just my luck." ' Why, what can it matter to you?" in<1111red i)unle>sis. "My uncle has laid me u wager that I she would come to grief, and I, thinking ' you would want her again before the end | of the story, laid odds to the contrary." j "Is it a heavy bet?" "Two hundred francs." "Diantrc!" said the author, and, pul- ' linir out his watch, added: "Nine ' o'clock; there is just time to run down to | the printer's; I'll take a cab and rescue , the Countess." ] "Will you, though?" V'eruet exclaimed, , quite overcome. Duplcssis grasped his hand and s.iid, ' solemnly: "I promise you to save tier i life.''?La Famille. WOMAN'S WORLD, f PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR FEMININE READERS. Eloquent Silence. A. lover once poni.-reJ an amorous plea For many a day. Resolved that the tale of his passion slxould be Tnlrl in a n?nt wn V The tenderest terms of tlie language he sought, Ajid conned them till all were arranged as they ought. "I'm perfectly certain what I'll say" he thought, "Oh, what will she say?" Vet, strangely enough, when he knelt by har side, It chanced to befall rhat none of the eloquent speeches he tried Would come at his call His cowardly tongue could say little, at be3t, But his brave eyes said much?and a kiss said the rest, While she only hid her fair face in his breast, Saying nothing at all! ?2'iil-Bits. An Energetic Girl. ( Everybody has seen the hams that tiang in front of the butcher shops and grocery stores. Ileat and col l affect ' ;hem not, nor arc they injured by intense iumidity. They look like the genuine , sugar-cured article, but they are only ihamhams, stuffed with sawdust. . "Who m&lces them all'" a West side jutcher was asked. "Many are supplied, like prize pack- , iges, to their partrons by large ham-bag manufacturing houses," he replied. "Some are home made. In this neighVina.*ovr>r mn?t nf them are sought from an energetic young woman. Her father used to be a butcher, and was well liked. About two years ago he died suddenly. The girl, his ouly child, was left practically penniless. As she wouldn't find any other work, she set lbout making dummy hams. She had I made several for lier father. Knowing tier circumstances, the dealers around her encouraged the girl by taking the hams. Her trade spread, and it has become so large now that she has two young girls to help her. She makes a good living, and is laying a little money by, I guess."? New York Sun. How 3?argarcr Drew the Line. Our pantry is next to our kitchen, where Margaret received the visits of tier Mickey. One evening I weut down j to the pantry for something, and while j there was an involuntary eavesdropper j an poor Margaret. She had confided to I me only a few days before that, shortly ! after Lent, we would have to look out I for a new girl, and we consequently re- j ceived Mickey with more good will than j before he had declared his intention*, although we were sorry to think we ! would lose .Margaret, un tne evening | in question Mickey was in the kitchen, where Margaret was finishing up her work. After the rumble of a gridiron falling to the floor had subsided, I heard the following dialogue: "Xo, Mickey. No, you cannot." "Ah, Maggie, dear, gi' me one kis3 from those sweet lips." "Mickey," replied Margaret, in astern ; roice, "you must own the bowl before !' jrou claim the sugar." I recommend Margaret's views to the serious considera;ion of young ladies who are unable to iecide what is the proper conduct for engaged couples without writing to the lewspapers.?St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Live Stock Reporter. A New York letter in the Philadelphia frcss says: a siriKing ngure ou me i, :horoughfare is Miss Middic Morgan, | :all, angular, dressed in women's clothes, yet with a man's laste as to cut aud ma- j :erial, and wearing a smile as kindly as aer figure looks severe. She never fails i i :o wrest from all strangers the tribute of j :he inquiry: "Who is she?" The an-I ( ?wer is as surprising as well could be ; imagined, for she was once the master i or mistress) of the King's stud in Italy, |, md is now the best posted authority ou ; ive stock in America. She is not only i interesting, she is remarkable. Those J1 ivho arc so fortunate as to know her j ipart from her business speak of her as ; jotli brilliant, clinrming anu leminine w i i i degree, a nd In her vocation?the most;* iifficult, in some- places, for a woman to } jndertakc?she exacts admiration as well ! is respect. Whenever I hear the empty 1 icad argue that lovely woman would lot be respected if she entered politics, , rade, or certain of the professions, I al- j vays think of Miss Morgan going day j ifter day, year in anil year out, up to the j ;attle pens by the river and out upou the j itock farms and making the wisest men ! n that line forget her sex in the admira- j ;ion of her geniusFlowers. ia tbe Hat. Tt. is the custom in the Tyrol for a man, | vhen he is engaged to be married, to ' ,vear a bouquet in liis hat. The damsel jives him, every day or two, a fresh j jouquct, picked from the flower pots in icr window. Should she prove tickle. 1 ind jilt the swain, the other young men J >f the villug'i assemble under her window ; ind throw down the flower pots. A stranger wonders, on seeing so many j nen with bouquets stuck in their hats, ivliy they did not marry, especially as not 1 i few of them are what we call "old bachelors." The explanation is that the [ rillage commune- will not allow any per- | son to marry, unless he can show that he ! ias laid by a sum of money sufficient to support a family. A lady traveling through Tyrol in a itell wagon?a cnx*s between a diligence ind an omnibus?overheard the driver talking to a man at his side on the box, ind complaining of his occupation. He had worked hard for many years, lie said, to get money enough to many; ! L>ut the sum was far below what it must j !>e before the commune woulil give him I permission to marry the woman to whom ! lie was engaged. It increased so slowly I that he did not know if he should ever ; get the coveted permission. The lady's heart softened toward the } poor fellow, and she gave him a large j ]K?ir loiir, or drink money, as the fee is ! cut led. Sometimes a dozen or more of engaged ! jroung men and women, despairing of j ever getting money enough to secure the commune's permission, go on a i pilgrimage to Rome, begging their way Dn foot. When there they are married, i -i __ *1.,.;.. ruhim t-.i llu> nntivn villnnro Dill Ull inwii n........ 0_ they arc fined as a punishment for breaking*tlio law.? Youth's Compunin. A Lady's Adventure. Clara Belle, the New York correspondent, tells this story: A genuine adventure was enjoyed by a lady whom I know. It proved that the babies of enormous wealth could tell strange stories if they could talk. My friend went in pursuit - 1 1 ii-i : ? .i .. of ;i cooK. cne cnaseu iin?niiiiu;u il? u lair in K;ist Sixteenth street, where, in a towering rear tenement house, dwelt uncounted families. She had passed through a paved court, in which a dripping hydrant had formed a hideous.pool, and about the slimy e.lges played dirty, miserable children, grimy, unkempt little hoodlums; bat in ths arms of oue of the biggest and filthiest, a girl of 8 dozen years, was a sickly child of as many months that attracted her attention. It was an angel-fair little creature, ' ? 11 v ?i _ ana tne paie goiu uair anuuu iu mat u?- i mal court, so carefully had it been kept. The tiny fingers that lay listlessly on the I grimy old rag of a petticoat were unsullied, and altogether the baby was an exotic among weeds. The lady wondered as she picked her way through the offensive place uud climbed the stairs to a murky little room on the fourth floor. The hunted cook had gone to see a p'ace, so her sister said. As the visitor stood talking of the cook's probable return, she saw on a bed a magnificent cashmere embroidered cloak, a little cap of rich lace and a pile of lawn and flannel baby petticoats. The incongruity of this outfit with the squalid room struck her as forcibly as the pale flower ot a cuiici in the court-yard below. "She's sliure to be home by foive, mum," said the sister, and the lady agreed to return at that hour. Going out, she asked the child nurse in the yard who the baby was that she carried. "It's mc little brother?fwat are yc giving me?" returned the hoodlum, and the lady fled, frightened at the impudent remarks of the gang. Nevertheless at 5 she ventured to return, and as she went up stairs she overtook a much dressed ;ind very much flushed young woman , bearing the blon le baby on her hip. ' The poor thing's face was smeared with j dirt, and it* little hands bore evidence it had been creeping on the green and reeking dhcks oi tne courcvaru. xutu | the cook's sister'3 room bounced the girl, : and while the lady talked to the prospec- | tive servunt the child was hastily cleaned j and put into the rich clothes that still j covered the bed. In the shadow of the ' inner apartment this operation was per- 1 formed, while scrap? of conversation ' about the presence of Tim Kelly and Andy McGce at Jones's Wood informed j the lady that the nurse girl had been to a picnic. My friend hurried awuy, and getting into her coupe, bade the driver never, lose sight of the girl and baby when they should come out. In a few minutes ' the chase began, up avenue A to Twentythird street, behind a cross-town car to Madison avenue in the rear of a stage, : till the girl climbed out at Thirty-seventh street and ran along a couple of blocks to a stately mansion and disappeared in to 1110 UaSCIIlCllt. A I1U CAt'llCU IUV4j- nvut) up the steps, and when her summons was answered by the portly butler, she asked to sec the mistress at once. The wife and mother soon heard the story. It wss a fine situation when that nurse I girl was called up and asked about her afternoon. She had been in Central park all the time?let her tell it?had had the j baby in the donkey carts and watching the scups, and then rode down in the Broadway cars. No words could express the thanks bestowed on the informer. But for the discovery they were going to take the faithless creature to Europe. ' Time and time again when this delicate child was supposed to be taking the air of the parks it had been stripped of its fine clothes in order to keep them fresh, ' dressed in dirty thin rags instead of warm flannels, and left to contract disease in the foetid courtyard of sicken- I ing tenement building. i FVielii/in Votoq. Ecru and stripes are popular in cotton 1 dress materials. Fancy shoes in great variety arc made for seashore wear. ! Among the newer dress trimmings are metal embroideries. Silk is worn more at present than for several seasons past. It is said that polonaises and redingotes are to prevail in" the immediate future, j Simplicity and daintiness is the charm j of a toilet. Ladies should remember this. "Wide sash ribbons take the place of drapery on many of the light summer toilets. Jerseys seem to l>e restored to all their old-time favor. They are not so plain as I formerly. Narrow mohair braid will decorate the basques, panels, wristbands and collars of autumn costumes. Silver belts and girdles were never worn in such large numbers in this country as at the present time. Tea-gowns have become universal and arc made in all the fabrics,, from lawn batiste to satin and velvet. Epaulets appear on many of the- imported dresses. New York dressmakers . are using a V of emb.oidery. C'ottongownsof butcher-blue are made ! ...:?i. .i-oittrnnti: havinir straos of ! Willi Willie " WWVVV...WJ, O - L I the blue crossing the white. , Black should be worn three months | for a dear friend, and one year for a J parent. For a husband or wife there is , no set time named. Gray is the favorite color for tailor- j made L'owns. These dresses are relieved ; in thn maioritv of cases- by a red hat or j bonnet or red parasoL Dresses of cheeked material are now so rlraped that all the checks fall diagonally. This arrangement is particularly becoming to tall figures. While ia mourning, jewelry should I not be worn, with, the exception of the j watch, which may be, providing a black j silk guard is worn instead of a chain. Masculine- fashions are- adapted; by ladies in walking and other dresses- for outdoor wear,, and many Indies find these fashions more becoming than any other. Plain dress skirts are the order of the j day. To hang well they should have a foundation skirt. In fact, their good appearance may be said to depend entirely upon this. Flannel, serge, faced cloth and cheviot are employed in the making of misses' riding habits, and they look pretty and with braid or ! appropriate ?iiv.. _ uiaelunc stitching. Fancy cream canvas is a popular dress material. It is made up with full bodices, crossing over vests of moss green velvet, which is also used for collars and cuffs and upon the skirt. It is predicted that long velvet redingotes, with satin skirts, will be extensively worn this coming fall. Indeed, many velvets are now worn, notwithstanding the torrid weather. An odd shade hat was of coarse straw worked all over with white wool. The crown was very pointed, and the sole decoration was a wreath of corn flowers. I which were carried across the sharply cut brim. Misses are wearing dresses of pure white book muslin, with row upon row of quite narrow white silk ribbon. The bodices are trimmed with rosottes of the siime. and loops arc carried round the neck and waist. For traveling purposes* especially au j ocean voyage, there is nothing surpasses the camel's hair inbQjge, dark fawn, butternut anil dun brown shades, and the navy blue sergi, cheviots and flannels, and traveling costumes arc mostly of these materials. TEMPERANCE. The Tempcrance Banner. Wave high the temperance banner And let the people see The banner gaily floating 'Gainst wrong and slavery. Tell out the shameful story Of what strong drink has done? Tell, tell the shameful story To all beneath the sun. The young, the brave, the valiant, "VV ill 'list in noble fight Against this foe so treacherous, And battle for the right. Shrink not, pause not, nor tremble; The enemy is by, 4113 ucnu U1 1 UC1UI 9Vt IUIT Are seen by every eye. ? Youth's Temperance Baniur. Alcohol and Hnaltti. We are glad to note that the various books on hygiene recently prepared for use in schools and in homes give no uncertain testimony as to the evils arising even from the moderate use of alcohol. We quote as follows from a book on "The Principles of Hygiene," recently published by Ivison & Co., NT Y.: "It can be said of alcoholic liquors, that there is nothing in them so desirable as to make it worth while to use them unless it can be shown that cne aiconoi is neeaea. w nen wo cuuio w study the relation of alcohol to food, first of all we are impressed by the fact that it is not found in nature, a3 are such foods as are essential for the maintenance of life and health. No analysis of foods ever finds it present in them as an article to be taken inte the human system. 11 it had any such food value as was once claimed for it, this omission would have been a most surprising one. When we turn to the physiology of digestion, and of the appropriation of foods in the system, we find nothing whatever to indicate that it was ever intended to be used by mankind as a food. Every advance in chemistry, and the knowledge of the relations of food to human force and vitality, has been an advance away from the re ,-ognition of alcohoL Such authorities as Liebig, Moleschott, Pet* tenkofer, Voit, Konig, Benr-ke, Meinert, Payen, Frankland, Playfair, Lewes, Smith, Parks, Prescott, Nichols and At water gave it no place in any standard daily rations. "Before chemistry assigned alcohol its proper place, experience had classed it among the toxics. Persons affected by it were not said to be fed overmuch, but to be intoxi cated. Toxic is the lirees wora ior puisuu. "VVe can turn to no book to-day, in chemistry or hygiene, and find it treated among the articles of food. If we have regard to the convenient division of nitrogenized or flesh-forming foods we soon find that it has no nitrogen, and therefore cannot be arrayed in this class. If we look for it among the heat-producing foods, we find that it does not respond to the laws of animal combustion, either by producing force or increasing heat. Notwithstanding the sensation of heat produced by its contact with the digestive track, or from other causes, the thermometer and other tests show that it produces a slight reduction of temperature. "In common with opium, chloral, hasheesh and some other stimulants, narcotics or ner-1 vines, alcohol has some temporary action where there has been a breach of natural law by which the system has been thrown into an abnormal condition. By such momentary effect these steal their way into recognition so as to have been called deceptive foods. They create a habit which is interpreted by the willing subject into a demand. "As a rule, the serious fact in reference to aiconoi is inac it inierier?j mtu uuur tion. It not onJy lacks food value of its own, but it detracts from the value of real foods. It so affects the organs which have to do with the assimilation and distribution of food that they are incapacitated for or are disturbed in the performance of their functions. "In addition to this it has been shown that so-called moderate drinkers eventually have impairment of the vital acts ot digestion, and that the' stomach, the liver, the intestines and the kidneys register effects which are prejudicial to health and long life. "Experience has preceded science in crossing it from daily rations. This is more s'gniBcant because the tables of food intended for soldiers, for sailors, for those institutions anu for those invalids have been studied out by the very highest authotities, and have been tested, by the most exact experience. It has been whiie in search after the best methods for getting the most intense force and power of endurance out 01 men in nauumu service by sea and by land that this evil spirit has been cast out. All other considerations have been thrust aside, and on this material basis alcohol has been retired from service. Where continuous power is desired for efficient use it lias no place. In training for athletic sports or manual contests it is rigidly excluded from the dietary even of those who have been accustomed to its use. It utterly fails to be a nutrient or to answer the purposes for which foods are intended. In view of its appalling effects upon society,even if it were a food it would need to be proven to be a necessary food. It accomplishes so mucb injury to human health and life that it ought to be prohibited from use. Even rye would be prohibited from use if no rye could be had which had not ergot in it, and if the disease known as ergotism came to be prevalent rviAnJa no ic /Ifrom alcohoL" ?Independent^ AfraitT or the Rum Oligarchy. A Phoenixville cotemporary aptly remarks: "The great papers of Philadelphia are wideawake to the enormity of the crime of coloring noodles and other eatables with chrome yellow, but they fail to catch on to the dance of death going on by the coloring and other deadly ingredients of the rum sold in their midst. And how strange that is." It might seem "strange," esteemed editor, but do you not realize what miserable cowards these metropolitan brethren, are. They make pretensions of being the educators of the public morals, but dare not strike at the root of the evil polluting the morals. They are absolutely afraid of the rum oligarchy. Not a Philadelphia editor has the- courage to court the consequences of opposing the liquor traffic. Tney ignore the great est issue of the day to deal with a few ignorant German bakers using a substitute for eggs. Chrome yellow carries off some little innocent once a month, perhaps,, but the close of each day marks a ao/eu of funerals bearing to their final resting places wrecks of what was once sturdy manhood?victims of dram shops that are permitted to confront the public at almost svery corner. Stenstones to disaster; foundations to helL?Ixt'sf Ofoue (jPe)in.) Indapendeni It Docs- Prohibit. One of the strongest arguments the liquor men claim against prohibition is that it does not prohibit. This- is claimed here in Tennes see, "wtiere it has. never been tried, nua we fail to understand how such a claim can be established. They point to other states where it has been tried aud say it is not successful there, but these people who inaugurated it say it is successful. and they are certainly the most re,!"i,u <?> anil whv? 1IUU1C nibu^roov.v </ > f Si uiply becausa their sole object is- the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of whiskey, and they are satisfied. If prohibition did not prohibit they would be the first one'! to condemn it. They wouLi want to try something else. iiut they wake no complaint: ou the contrary. they say prohibition is a success. They do uot ask for anything bett.-r. The prohibition laws fill ail the requirements, and, consequently, it is a success, and the tenq>eraace people do not ask for, nor want, anything more efficient. This is an argument that completely and totally demolishes the statement which liquor men make to the effect that prohibition dees not prohibit.?Chattanooga. Gbmmerciul. W. C. T. U. Xates. Thirteen cities and 2T5 towns and villages of Massachusetts are und?c Prohibition this year. Mrs. James Denliolnu Roodebloeni. Capj Town, has consented to.iw>t as the wovtd's \v. C. T. U. Vice-President for Africa Mrs. Mary Clement Lewvitt writta that al the American missions in Burinab have incorporated total abstinence in their work. Recent statistics.show that th? drink bill of Great Britain w, in 1SSI>, ?14, '582.974 less than in 1875. Wbato in 1370 it averaged ?'4 !k, in 1880 the av??ago was 7s. 3d. pir heal of the populatiim. Mayor 1-Vx.diek, of Fitchburg, Mass.,after a trial of one year of no license in that city, is able to furnish these statistics: Arrest for dnu\koiraess decreased 45 per cent.; occujjnnts of jails lessened 33 per cent.; ex jonss; for Dejwii tment of Poor reduced from . Jlii.OOJ to $13,000; applications for aid re iluced from 401 to29:>; arrosts tor vioiawas of the liquor law?3 under license, umler nc license Sr. ' ' . , r' ' RELIGIOUS BEADING. A Sons of Best. 0 weary hancU that all the day We set to labor hard and long; Now softly fall the shadows gray; The bells are rung for even song. An hour ago the golden sun Sank slowly down into the west; Poor, weary hands, your toil is don?, 'Tis time for rest!?'tis time for rest! ? O weary feet that many a mile < Have trudged along a stony way, At last ye reach the trysting stile; No longer fear to go astray. The gentle bending, rustling trees Rock the young birds within the nest, Ana soitiy sings xno quiec ureeze: " 'Tis time for rest?'tis time for rest." ?, 0 weary eyes from which the tears Fell many a time like thunder rain; 0 weary hearts that through the years Beat with such bitter, restless pain, To-night forget the stormy strife, Ana know what Heaven shall send is beat; ?, Lay down the tangled web of life, 'Tis time for rest?'tis time for rest. ?[Chambers' Magazine. . .J ,v^? The Winnowing: Fan. Persecution has ever winnowed the Church. Through much tribulation men have ever ,j entered the kingdom of God. Prosperity tempts the lovers of ease and luxury; adversity scatters the fair-weather friends, and tests the courage of those who remain. If we had more persecution, we should doubtless have a purer Church and a more effective ministry. Preaching for a salary of forty stripes save one, ministers would not devote their time to the discussion of the "artistic and aesthetic," or "the objective and the subjective;" they would pr?ach Christ Jesus in a language which the common people could understand. Bonds and afflictions, stripes and imprisonments, would clear the Church .. of time-servers ana place-seekers, and many men would either stop preaching or preach much better than they preach now. They would wait till they had a message from on High, and instead of listening to a human call would go on under a Divine commission. "How shall they preach except they be sent?' The quickening power of persecution and reproach would arouse the manhood which lies dormant in many a soul, and many * a preacher who drones bis message to a - M drowsy congregation, if quickened by the spur of persecution, woula become a voice orying in the wilderness, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord."?{Christian, Boston. -? ' ->M Preaching: Honesty. We do not think that there has been any t x ? hesitation on the part of Othodox ministers about teaching, in the general way, that men ought to be honest. The fact that religion must include morality is asserted bv them v strongly and frequently. The great lack has been a careful and minute application of this truth to the affairs of every day. Men must not only be told that they ought to be honest; they must also be told what honesty is. A close and faithful application of the moral law to the business of life needs often to be made. It is in this, if in anything, that the modern pulpit has failed. . The thing that is needed is that the com' L .11 ,, ?1 1J mana, "inou saajt uuu suuuu translated into the terms of modern commercial life. It ought to be shown, to begin 7 vS with, that cheating is stealing; that every transaction in which by deceit or concealment or misrepresentation a man obtains money or other valuables that he could not have obtained if he had told the truth, is a direct infraction of the eighth commandment; r " that he who gains an advantage by telling a lie or by hiding in truth in a commercial transaction, is just as really a thief, in the sight of God's law, as he who picks his neighbor's pocket. Then, it ought to be shown with equal distinctness that the commandment forbids all violations of the law of trust He who appropriates to his own uses property entrusted to nim for safe keeping is a thief. He who risks in private speculation the property which has been placed in his hands for specific purposes is a thief. The boy who spends the money of his Sunday-school class, or of his ball-club, for his own purposes, breaks the eighth commandment. He may intend to replace the money thus taken; he may think he knows just where he will be able to obtain it; but this gives him no right to take it. Every penny of it ought to be sacredly { kept, that he may give at any moment any exact account of hi$ stewardship. nf +V10 Rihlfl law oucn aigcmui appiutuviw v* vuv ?... of honesty to the affairs of every day are always needed, and if the pulpit has failed at all, it has probably failed just here. It is not only true that we have not made enough of honesty, it is also true that we have not made it so plain as we ought to have done, what honesty requires aud forbids. Specific: and elementary teaching from the pulpit on this point would be timely and serviceable.? [Sunday Afternoon. ^_______ Harmony With God. For some unknown cause, in distant ages past, the harmony of heaven was for a time disturbed A portion of the angels came into disagreement with God. They rose up in re- ? bellion against him, for which cause they were cast out, aud thus harmony was restored. . ^ All sinners are at disagreement with God. rru~-~^ iwfu-APn fchpm and their I xuciau uuuaiuivuj wv? .. ? _ | Maker, and there never can be so long as they are sinners. Were they to be admitted I to heaven, its harmony would at once be de- ? stroyed. There could "be no friendship be| tween them and God. There would be noth ing on which they could be agreed. They j would have no heart to join in the songs of that blessed world. Were they to attempt It, they would be rendered discordant. They would be out of harmony with all things* There is an indispensable necessity that they should be excluded. And nowhere can sinners be happy, so long as they are sinners, and cherish the spirit of rebellion. "There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt." And yet there is a possibility that Sinners may be prepared for heaven and become citi* A - j Am, zens of tbat nappy worm. u-uu, m u? munite wisdom and goodness, Las provided a way, Honorable to himself, and suited to the needs of sinners. At an infinite cost satisfaction has been made to justice, so that on gracious terms rebels may be pardoned and justified. And not only so, but provision has been made whereby they may be sanctified. A fountain has been opened for sin and for uncloanness. The Holy Spirit sheds abroad the love of God in the heart and works in it that perfect hoiinessy without which no man shall see- the Lord. This has already beea done in innumerable instances. Already there is a great multitude, which no man can number, before the throne of God, in per feet harmony with him, all of whom were once in a state of rebellion. The millions- of the saints and. all the holy angels and God are all of one accord, and "perfect love and friendship reign," and will reign to all eternity.?CClericus in Jf. Y. Observes ?innams, the great Sweedish botanist, observing the beautiful order which reigns among flowers, proposed the use o? a floral eiDCk, to oe-eomposeit of plants, which open and close thgir blossoms at particular horn's; as for instance the dandelion, '.which opens its1., of eiv >ti thn mnrninir. the hawkweed at seven, the succory at eight,, the celandine at nine, and so oil; the closing of the flowersbeing marked with an equal regularity so as to indicate the progress of tUu af ternoon, and the evening, Would it not be a lovely thing if thus with flowers of grac* and blossoms of virtu? ?*> bedecked every passing hour,, fulfilling all the duties of eacih season ancKbonor? ing Hint who maketh tUe outgoings, of themorning and the evening to rejoic^j; Thus. with uudeviating regularity to obey the influence of tbe Sun of Righteousness, ajid givo each following momenisfcs due, were-to begin r the lif?> of heaven bem<gjfch the stars.?{Spur i ______ Beer ajwl Brandjt. *1 Commenting up??a the folly of trying to lessen drunkennesi by encouraging tlu> consumption of the milder intoxicants, Dr. Felix Oswald says: "We cannot fight rum with lager-lwer. All poison hu.Vut=> are progressives and we have seen that the beer vice is always apt to eventuate \u a brandy vice, or elss to equalize the diil'eretk-e by a progressive enlargement of the dose. Commcu brandy contains 50 per cent of alcohol, lager-beer about 10; so , if A drinks one glass of brandy and B live gl'iKos of beer, they have outraged their 3J^toras by the same amount of poisonk and will incur the same i>enalty. Total aljstinence i is the safe plan, nay, tho only safe plan, for ?i?nh i a ptvluorid to a harml1*?! | I UUi>UlL3 V/VM4k*VV * V ?? ' " I dose."