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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
?HK BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: "Jealousy."
Tjext: "Jealousy is the Rage of a Ifaru"?
Proverbs, vi, 34.
Some subjects a religious teacher touches
ne thousand times, now coming on them
from one direction, now from another. But
here is a Bible theme that for some reason is
left teetotally alone. This morning, asking
your prayers and in the strength of God, I
want to grapple it.
There is an old sin, haggard, furious, monftroua
and diabolical, that has for ages
walked and crawled the earth. It combines
all that is obnoxious in the races, human,
quadrupedal, ornithological, reptilian and
insectile, horned, tusked, hoofed, fanged, j
stinged; the eye of basilisk, the tooth of an
adder, the jaws of a crocodile, the crushing
folds of an anaconda, the slyness of a scorpion,
the tongue of a cobra, and the coil of
the worm that never dies. It is in every
community, in every church, in every legislative
hall, in every monetary institution, in
every drawing room levee, in every literary
and professional circle. It whispers, it
. fcians, it lies, it -debauches, it -blasphemes,
it damns. My text names it when it says:
"Jealousy is the rage of a man." It is grief
at the superiority of others; their superiority
in talent or wealth or beauty or elegance or
virtue or social or professional or political
recognition. It is the shadow of otaer peoee"s
success. It is the shiver in our pocket
>ok because it is not as fat as some one
else's pocket book. It is the twinge in our
tongue because it is not as eloquent as some
one else's tongue. It is the flutter in our
robes because thay are not as lustrous as '
some one else's robes. It is the earthquake i
under our house because it is not as many <
feet front and deep as our neighbor's house. !
It is the thunder of other people's popularity
soaring the milk of our kindness. It is the
father and mother both of one-half of thediscontent
and outrages and detractions and
bankruptcies ana crimes ana woes ox uie
human race
It was antediluvian as much as it is postdiluvian.
It put a rough stick in the hands
of the first boy that was ever born, and said
to him: "Now, Cain, when Abel is looking
the other way crush in his skull,for his sacrifice
has been accepted and Tours rejected."
And Cain picked up the stick as though just
to talk witn it, and while Abel was watching
some bird in the tree top, or gazing at
some waterfall, down came the blow of the
first assassination, which has had its echo in
all the fratricides, matricides, uxoricides,
homicides, Infanticides and regicides of all
ages and all nations. This passion of jealousy
so disturbed Caligula at the prominence of
tome of the men of his time that he cut a
much admired curl firom the brow of Cincinnati,
and took the embroidered collar from
the neck of Torquatus, and had Ptolomaeus
killed because of nis purple robe, which attracted
too much attention. After Columbus
had placed America as a gem in the Spanish
crown, jealousy set on the Spanish courtiers
to depreciate his achievement, and
aroused animosities till the great discoverer
had his heart broken. Urged on by this bad
passion, Dionysius flayed Plato because he
was wiser than himself, and Philoxenius because
his music was too popular. Jealousy
made Korah lie about Moses, and Succotb
depreciate Gideon.
Jealousy made the trouble between Jacob
and Emu. That hurled Joseph into the pit
That struck the twenty-three fatal wounds
into Julias Caesar. That banished Aristides.
That fired Antony against Cicero. Tiberius
exiled an architect because -mf the fame he
?Ot for a beautiful porch, and slew a poet for
nis fine tragedy. That set Saul in a rage
. against David. How graphically the Bible
puts it when it says: ''Saul eyed David." It
seems to take possession of both eyes and
makes them flash and burn like two port
holes of belL "Saul eyed David." That is
he looked at him as much as to say: "You
littie upscan.oow aara you attempt anytninz
great? I will grind you under my heel. 1
will exterminate you, I will, you miserable
homunculus. Crouch, crawl, slink into that
rat hole I will teach those women to sing
-some other song, instead of "Saul has slain
his thousands but David his tens of thousands."
When Voltaire beard that Frederick
the Great was forgetting him and putting his
literary admiration on Bacaulard d'Arnaud,
the old ihfidel leaped out of his bed and
-danced the floor in a maniacal raze, and
ordered his swiftest horses hooked up to carry
him to the Prussian palace.
That despicable passion of jealousy led
Napoleon the First to leave in his will a bequest
of 5000 francs to the ruffian who shot
. at Wellington when the victor at Waterloo
was passing through Paris. That stationed
tbo grouty elder brother at the back door of
ithe nomestead when the prodigal son returned,
and threw a chill on the family reunion
while that .elder brother complained,
ii irri i i I
saying: -- duo ever uearu 01 giving roasi
veal to such a profligate?" Ay, that passion
rose up and under "the darkest cloud that
ever shadowed the earth and amid the loudest
thunder that ever shook the mountaius,
and amid the wildest flash of lightning that
ever blinded or stunned the nations, hung up
on two pieces of rough lumber back of Jerusalem,
tne kindest, purest, lovingest nature
that heaven could delegate, and stopped not
until there was no power left in hammer or
bramble or javelin to hurt the dead Son of
<kxL
That passion of jealousy, livid, hungry,
unbalkea, rages on, and now pierces the
-earth like a fiery diameter and encircles it
like a fierv circumference. It wants both
. - hemispheres. It wants the heavens. It
would, if it could, capture the palace of God,
.and dethrone Jehovah, and chain the Almighty
in eternal exile, and after the demolition
of the universe would cry: "Satisfied
at last, here I am! Alone, the undisputed
and everlasting I, Me, Mine, Myself." That
nfl?inn IrAono oil T7iiwmv? Vo*iA?e
jealous of Germany, of England, of Russia,
and those jealous of each other, and all of
them jealous of America.
In our land this pes ion of jealousy keeps
all the political world aboil. There are at
least 500 people who are jealous of Governor
Hill, ana would like to be his successor;
about 5000 who are jealous of Grover Cleveland,
and would like to relieve him of the
cares of office, and after the nominations
of next summer have been mcde
a whole pandemonium of defamation,
scurrility, hatreJ, revenge, falsehood, pro~
fanjty and misrepresentation will be turned
upon this land. Tbe tariff, about the raising
or lowering or reformation of which many
of them care nothing except as to its effect
-on votes, will be discussed from a thousand
platforms, and tbe people of Louisiana will
be told that the tariff will be arranged to suit
American sugar, the people of Virginia will
be told that the tariff will be arranged to suit
American tobacco, and the people of Pennsylvania
will be to'd that tbe tariff will be
arranged to suit American iron, and the
people of Ohio that the tariff will be
arranged to suit American wool,
while Massachusetts and Connecticut
will be promised protection for manufactures,
and all the monetary interests, north,
south, east and west, will le tola in each
naiorhnnrh/wl fhof fKa fotoc nn<i foriff ?r411
be fixed to suit them, irrespective of anybody
else; and, the Presidential election
over, all will settle down a3 it was before.
If you tbink that all this discussion in public
places is from any desire of the welfare of
the dear people and not for political effect,
you are grievously mistaken.
Go into all occupations and professions,
and if you want to know how much jealousy
is yet to be extirpated, ask master
builders what they think of each other's
houses, and merchants what their opinion is
of merchants in the same line of business in
the same street, and ask doctors what they
think of doctors, and lawyers what they
think of lawyers, and ministers what they
tbink of ministers, and artists wbat they
think of artists. As long as men and
women in any department keop down and
have a hard struggle they will be faintly
praised, and the remark. will be: uOh.
yes: he is a good, clever sort of a fellow."
"She is rather, yes, somewhat quite?well.
I may say, tolerable nice kind of a woman."
But let him or her get a little too high, and
off goes the aspiring bead by social or commercial
decapitation.
Remember that envy dwells more on
small deficits of character than on irraat
forces, makes more of the fact that Domitian
amused himself by transfixing flies with
his penknife than of his great conquests; of
the fact that Hands! was a glutton than of
the fact that he erected imperishable oratorios;
more of Coleridge's opium habit than
of his writing "Chrtstabel" and "The Ancient
Mariner;" more of the fact that Addison
drank too much than of the fact that ho was
the author of the "Spectator;" more of a
man's peccadilloes than of hi3 mighty energies;
more of his defeats than of his victories.
Look at the sacred and heaven descended
- science of healing, and then see Dr. Mackenzie,
the English surgeon, who prolonged the
life of the Crown Prino# of Germany until he
became Emperor, and, I hope, mar yet cure
bim, 90 that he may for many years govern
that magnificent Germtn nation, than which
there is no grander. Yet so great are the
medical jealousies that Dr. Mackenzie dare
not walk the streets of Berlin. He is under
military guard. The medical students of
Germany can hardly keep their hands off of
him. The old doctors of Germany are writhing
with indignation. The fact is that in
aving Frederick's life Dr. Mackenzie saved
the peace of Europe. There was not an intelligent
man on either side the ocean that
did not fear for the result if the throne passed J
from wise and good old Emperor Wil'iam to
his inexperienced grandson. But when, under
the mpdieal treatment of Dr. Mackenzie,
the Crown Prince Frederick took the throne,
a wave of satisfaction and confidence rolled
over Christendom. What shall the world do
with the doctor who saved his life? "Oh,"
cried out the medical jealousies of Europe,
"destroy him, of course, destroy him."
What a brutal scene of jealousv we had in
this country when President Garfield lay dy-.
ing. There were faithful physicians that
sacrificed their other practice and sacrificed
their health for all time in fidelity to that
deathbed. Drs. Bliss and Hamilton and Agnew
went through anxieties and toils and
?aahM annro.
iatlKUW* 8UCU tU IiUUC UUU vjvu cuuiu uppi w
ciato. Nothing pleased many of the medical
profession. The doctors in charge did nothing
right We who did not see the case knew
better than those who agonized over it in the
-sick room for many weeks. I, who never had,
anything worse than a run-round on my
thumb, which seemed to me at the time was
worthy all the attention of the entire medical
fraternity, had my own ideas as to how the
President ought to be treated. And in pro.
portion as physicians and laymen were Ignorant
of the case they were sure the treatment
practiced was a mistake. And when in post
mortem the bullet dropped out of a different
part or cue ooay irom mat m wmuu ?u hm
supposed to have been lodged, about 30,000
people shouted: "I told vou so." "There, 1
Knew it all the time." There are some doctors
in all cities who would rather have the
patient die under the treatment of their own
schools than have them get well under soma
other pathy.
Yea; look at the clerical profession. I am
sorry to say that in matters of jealosy it is
no better than other professions. There are
now in all denominations a great many young
clergymen who have a faculty for superior
usefulness. But they are kept down ana kept
back and crippled" by old ministers who
look askance at these rising evangelists.
They are snubbed. They are jostled. They
are natronizioely advised. It is suggested
to them that they had better know their
place. If here and there one with more nerve
ana brain and consecration and divine force
go past the seniors who want to keep the chief
places, the young are advised in the words of
Scripture: "Tarry at Jericho till their beards
are grown." They are charged with sensationalism.
They are compared to rockets that
go up in a blaze and come down sticks, and
the brevity of their career is jubilantly prophesied.
If it be a denomination with bishops,
a bishop is implored to sit down heavily on
the man who will not be molded; or if
a denomination without bishops, some of the
older men with nothing more than their own
natural heaviness and theological avoirdupois
are advised to flatten out the innovator.
In conferences and presbyteries and associations
and conventions there is often seen the
most damnable jealousies. Such ecclesiastical
tyrant? would not admit that jealousy
had any possession of them, and they take
on a heavenlv air, and talk sweet oil and
sugar plums aiid balm of a thousand flowers,
and roll up their eyes with an air of unctuous
sanctity when they simply mean the destruction
of those over whom they pray and
snuffle. There are cases where ministers of
religion are derelict and criminal, and they
must be put out.
But in the majority of cases that I have
witnessed in ecclesiastical trials there is a
jealous attempt to keep men from surpassing
their theological fellows, and as at the presidental
elections in country places the people
have a barbecue?which is a roasted ox,
round which the people dance with knives,
cutting off a slice here, and pulling out a rib
there, and sawing a beefsteak yonder, and
having a high time?so most of the denominations
of Christians keep on band a barbecue
in which some minister is roasted, while
the church courts dance around with their
sharp knives of attack, and one takes a finger,
another a hand, another a foot, and it is
hard to tell whether the ecclesiastical plain
tiffs of this world or ids demons 01 ma
ether world most enioy it. Albert Barnes,
than whom no man has accomplished more
good in the last 1000 years, was decreed to
sit silent for a year in the pew of his own
church while some one else occupied his pulpit,
the pretended offense that he did not
believe in a limited atonement, but the real
offense tho fact that all the men who tried
him put together would not equal one Albert
Barnes.
Yes, amid all professions and business
and occupations and trades, and amid all
circles, needs to be beard what God says
in regard to envy and jealousy, which,
though not exactly the same, are twins:
"Envy is the rottenness of the bone."
"Where envy and strife is. there is confusion
and every evil work." "Jealousy is the rage
of a man." My hearers, if this evil passion
is in any of your souls, cry mightily unto
God for its expulsion. That which has downed
kings and emperors and apo3tles and reformers
and ministers of religion and thousands
of good men and women, is too mighty
for you to contend against unaided. The evil
has so many rcots, of such infinite convolu
t ion, mat notning out toe enginery 01 omnipotence
can pu 1 it out Tradition says that
when Moses lift d up his hand to pray it was
all encrusted with manna, nnd no sooner do
you pray than you are help?d. Away with
the accursed, stenchful, blackening, damning
crime of jealousy. Allow it to stay and it
will eat up and carry off all the religion you
can pack into your soul for the next half
century. It will do you more harm than it
does any one it leads you to assail It will
delude you with the idea that you can buill
yourself up by pulling somebody else down.
You will make more out of the success of
others than out of their misfortunes. Speak
well of everybody. Stab no man in the back.
Be a honey bee rather than a spider; be a
dove rather than a buzzard.
Surely this world is large enough for you
and all your rivals. God has given you a
v ork to do. Go ahead and do it. Mind
your own business. In all circles, in all businesses,
in all professions there is room for
straightforward successes. Jealousy entertained
will not only bedwarf your soul but
it will flatten your skull, bemean your eye,
put pinchedness of look about your nostril,
give a bad curl to the lip, and expel from
your face the divino image in which you
were created. When you hear a man or wo
man abused, drive in on the defendant's side.
Watch for excellences in others ratlnr than
than for defects, morning glories instead of
nightshade. If some ono is more beautiful
than you, thank God that you have not so
many perils of vanity to contend with. If
some one has more wealth than you, thank
God that you have not so great stewardship
to answer for. If some one is higher up in
social position, thank God that those who
are down need not fear a fall. If some one
gets higher office in Church or State than
you, thank God there are not so many to
wish for the hastening on of your obsequies.
The Dake of Dantzig, in luxurious apartments,
was visited by a plain friend, and to
keep his friends from jealousy the Duke said:
' You can have all I have if you will stand
twenty pa^e* off and let me sh">ot at you a
hundred times." "No. no." said his friend.
"Well," said the Duke, "to gain all my
honors I faced on the battle field more than
a thousand gunshots fired not more tha.i ten
pares off."
A minister of a small congreg ition comp'ained
to a minister of a large congregation
about the sparseness of his attendants. 'Ah,"
said the one of large audienc?, "my son, you
will fiud in the day of judgment that you
had auite enough people for whom to be held
accountable."
Substitute for jealousy an elevatinj emulation.
Seeing others good, let us try to be
better. Seeing others industrious." let us
work more hours. Seeing others benevolent,
let us resolve on giving larger percentage of
our means for charity. May God put congratulations
for others in our right hand
and cheers on our lipe for those who do brave
and useful things. Life Is short at
the longest: let it all be filled up
with helpfulness for others, work
and sympathy for each other's misfortunes.
and our arms be full of white mantles
to cover ud the mistakes and failures of
others. If* an evil report about some one
como to us, let us put on it most favorable
construction, as the Khone enters Lake Leman
foul and comes out crystalline. Do not build
so much on the transitory differences of this
world, for soon it will make no differences to
us whether we had 810,000,000 or ten' cents,
and the ashes into * which the tongue of
Demosthene3 dissolved are just like the ashes
into which the tongue of the veriest stammerer
went.
If you are assailed by jealousy make no
answer. Take it as a compliment, for people
are never jealous of a failure. Until your
work is done vou are invulnerable. R3mam- I
oer bow our Lord behaved under su?h sxasDerations.
Did they not try to catch him in
his word? Did they not call him the victim
of intoxicants? Did they not misinterpret
him from the winter of the year to the spring
of the year 33; that is, from his first infantile
cry to the last groan of his assassination':
Yet he answered not a word I But so far
from demolishing either his mission or hia
good name, after near nineteen centuries he
outranks everything under the skies, and is
second to none above them and the archangel
makes salaam at his footstool. Christ's
bloody antagonists thought they had finished
him when they wrote over the cross his accusation
in three languages, Hebrew and
Greek and Latin, not realizing that they were
by that act introducing him to all nations,
since Hebrew is the holiest language, and
Greek the wisest of tongues, and Latin the
widest spoken.
You are not the first man who had his
faults looked at through a microscope and
I his virtaifts through the wrone end of a tele
| scope. Pharaoh Bad the chief butler and
baker endunareonei and tradition say? that
all the butlerliad done was to allow a' fly in
tbe king's cup, and all the baker had dons
was to leave a gravel in the king's bread.
Tbe world has the habit of making a great
ado about what you do wrong and forgetting
to say anything about what you do right; but
tbe same God will take care of you who provided
for Merlin, the Christian martyr,
when hidden from his pursuers in a hay
mow in Paris, and a hen came and laid an
egg close by him every morning, thus keeping
him from starvation. Blessed ore they
that are persecuted, although persecution u
a severe cataplasm. Ointment may smart
the wound before healing it. What a soft
nillow to die on if whan we leave the world
we can feel that, though 1000 people may
have wronsjed us, we have wronged no one;
or, having made envious and jealous attack
on others, we Jfcave repented,of .the sift and
as far as possible made reparation. The
good resolution of Timothy Poland in hi!
quaint but exquisite hymn, entitled "Most
Any Day," we might well unanimously
adopt
We'll keep all right and good within,
Oar work will then be free from sin;
Upright we'll walk through thick and thin
Straight on onr way.
Deal jast with all; the prize well win
Most any day.
When He who made all things jast right
Shall call ns hence to realms of light.
Be it morn or noon or e'en or night.
We will obey;
We'll be prepared lo take oar flight
Most any day.
Our lamps we'll fill brim fall of oil
That's goad and pare, that woald not spoil.
And keep them burning all the while
To light oar way;
Oar work til done, we'll qalt the soil
Most and dav.
TEMPERANCE.
! The Christian's Wacht am Rheln.
What sounds are these like thunder peal,
With trampof feet and clash of steel?
TheRhine! TheRhine! The Christian's Rhine1
On, Freemen! on to guard the line!
O Day Divine, have thou no fear;
Thy faithful Watch is always nera
The shopman closes till and store:
The workman's tool is heard no more;
Sweet bells with music fill the air;
They call the land to praise and prayer.
0 Day Divine, have thou no fear;
Thy faithful Watch is always here.
What malcontents are these we meet,
Low discord growling through the street!
Freedom they ask, with beer and wine,
To desecrate the Day Divine.
0 Day Divine, have thou no fear;
Thy faithful Watch is always here.
Lookup! Lookup! A spirit band,
Our fathers sentinel the land.
This dav of rest is their bequest;
Its shield shall be the Christian's breast.
O Day Divine, have thou no fear;
Thy faithful watch is always here.
Bo long as Christian pulses beat;
So long as Christian freemen meet;
We lift our gauntlets to the sky,
And swear to guard the legacy.
O Day Divine,have thou no fear;
Thy faithful Watch is always hem
?Albany Argus.
The Good Templars.
Among the educational temperance agencies
of the present era the Good Templar organizations,
numerically the largest in the
world, hold a place of first importance. It is
said that since their introduction in Norway
the liquor consumption in that country has
been reduced from sixteen litres (five litres
to a gallon) to about three litres per head;
and that with the increased sobriety of Norway
there has been a marked diminution of
crime, recent statistics showing that the annual
convictions for crime are now only one
in every six hundred and forty-one of the
Eilation. As another illustration of the
fulness of Good Templar influence in a
rent direction, a late nuaiber of the
League Journal, of Glasgow, Scotland, mentions
that fermented wine has been banished,
and unfermented wine substituted for the
sacrament at Throckley Wesley an Chapel at
the instance of the Good Templar Lodge,
1 - - ? J ?-?* acA...
which has one nunarea laemuers, iui?y-uiio u*
whom are now communicants, and thirty are
Sunday-school teachers. Many other churches
in all countries wherein the Good Templar
organization has gained a foothold nave
doubtless been similarly helped by it to throw
off the alcoholic wine bondage. May the organization
be abundantly prospered in all
countries.?National Advocate.
The Saloon.
The saloon has few friends?none to be
proud of. There is nobody, whose presence
is not a menace to the community, who
would not like to see the saloon go, and go to
stay. It has been a law breaker. It has been
a place that has thrived either on the wickedness
or vice of humanity. It has not given
value received. It has been the rendezvous
of the criminal, the friend of no one but the
poor-house and the prison. If all this was
not enough to condemn it and to secure sentence
of punishment, then let it be remembered
that the saloon has not the decency of
conscious indecency. It thrust itself forward,
and, a law breaker itself, sought to dictate
legislation. The foe of good government, it
brought its stench and its ill-gotten pelf into
?m1 notnnllvmmmnnHn.1 all nnrtifis
to do obeisance to it. It forced the issue. In
its foolhardiness it left the choice between
its supremacy and extinction. If it had possessed
the modesty even of half common
sense, it might have lingered in Iowa for
some years yet. It was as impudent a3 vile,
and now it has gotten it in tbe neck, and
good enough for it. Even its victims are
glad to hear the door of tbe saloon go shut
with a vigorous bang. Those, too, who
served it in fear, laugh at his calamity. The
friends of the saloon?who are they anyhow?
?Iowa Home Journal.
W. C. T. U. Notes.
The International Temperance Congress
will be held next year in Norway.
The Queen of Amatonga, Southern Africa,
has forbidden the sale of liquor by her sub
JtX'US.
The sale of intoxicating liquors at county
fairs will hereafter be prohibited in New
York.
Sir Wi'frici Lawson says that the way
to get into the house of Lords is to go into a
brewery.
The Franz Bewery in Soux City, Iowa,
managed by John Arensdorf, at the time of
Rev. Haddock's murder, has become a butter
and egg depot.
The Brewers' Journal is authority for the
statement that the output of the breweries in
the United States fo* 1337 was 34,199,741 barrels,
a net increase over 1386 of 2,287,318
barrels. '
Tbe Supreme Court of Hawaii has rendered
a decision giving the King a veto power.
As he is strongly opposed to all reform
movements, all hope of legislation favorable
to temperance during his administration has
been dispelled.
"The Cup That Cheers."
An interesting token of the growth of the
temperance sentiment in Great Britain is furnished
by a correspondent of The St. James's
Gazette. He shows that during the past
forty-seven years the average annual consumption
of tea par capita of the entire
population has increased from less than a
pound and a quarter to nearly five poundj,
and of cocoa, from about an ounce and a
quarter 10 nearly nau a pounu, wane uw us<j
of coffee has fallen off slightly, from seventeen
ounces to thirteen ounce3. The total
consumption of these three leading nonalcoholic
drinks has thus increased nearly
three-fold: the exact figures are from 38.08
ounces to 99.04 ounces per capita annually.
This may not indicate a fully corresponding
decrease in the consumption of strong drink;
but it must mean a considerable decrease,
: and it proves that the people are learning to
appreciate the "cup that cheers but does not
inebriate."?New York Tribune.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
The ?! of OntUalom.
It isn't tha thing 70a do, dear,
It's the thing you've left undone,
Which gives you a bit of a heartache
At the sett Jig of the sun.
The tender word forgotten,
The letter you did not write,
The flower you might hive sent, dear,
Are your haunting ghosts tonight.
The stone you might have lifted
Out of a brother's way,
The bit of heartsome counsel
You were hurried too much to say;
The loving touch of the hand, dear,
The gentle and winsome tone,
That you had no time nor thought for,
With troubles enough of your own.
Thn little acts of kindness.
So easily out of mind;
These chances to be angels
Which every mortal finds,?
They come in night and silence,?
Each chill, reproachful wraitb,?
When hope is faint and flagging,
And a blight has dropped on faith.
For life is all too short, dear,
And sorrow is all too great,
To suffer our slow compassion,
That tarries until too late.
And it's not the thing you do dear,
It's the thing you leave.undone, .
Which gives you the bit of heartache
At the setting of the sun.
?[Margaret Sangster.
expectation.
We have "expectation" beyond this lifa
Do we not expect when we lie on the bed of
sickness that'He will send angels to carry
us to His bosom?when the pulse is faint ana
the heart beats heavily, that some angelic
messenger shall stand and look with loving
eyes upon us, and whisper, "Sister spirit,
come awayF As we approach the heavenly
gates we expect to hear the welcome invitation,
"Come, ye b!e sed." We are expecting
harps of gold and crowns of glory. We are
hoping soon to be amongst the multitude of
shining ones before the throne. We are
looking forward and longing for the time
when we shall be like our gloricus Lord, for
"we shall see Him as He is.'*
There is nothing so grand to me as the
singing of a multitude such as meet in Spur*
geon's Tabernacle. Think, then, what must
be the sound across the boundless plains of
heaven, when myriads of sinless voices, unbroken
by one sob or sigh of old earth's sorrows,
sing praises unto Him!?[From Memorials
of Eliza Fletcher.
~~
"Want."
A short word with a big meaning. Four
letters spell it, but the whole alphabet cannot
explain it. Etymology will give its origin,
but only experience its exposition. The "Imperial
Dictionary of the English Language''
tells us that) it is an Anglo-Saxon word, a
derivative from "wana," deficiency That it
is akin to "wane" and "wan." and that it
describes "the state of not having." This is
clear and conc se as far as it goes. There is
a waning of all possessions until there is a
wanting, and that lands the man into "the
state of not having." Admirable definition!
"Want" is the snort history of thousands.
Their life consists of ''not having." The
hands want wort,-the heart wants sympathy,
the body wants bread, the mind wants light,
the face wants a smile, the spirit wants
hope, the nerves want rest, the conscience
wants peace, the soul wants Christ.
While many of the wants of the poor an
beyond the power of " human supply, there
. are so many that can be met, that none need
say ''There Is nothing lean do." The deepest,
however, of all their -wants, is too deep
for any of us to supply. We can but turn to
God and plead with him out of His "all fullness*
to fill the void. The great multitudes
need a knowlrdge of sin; a sense of their
want of a Saviour's comprehension of God's
divinely simple plan of salvation. In a
word, they want Christ, and want a knowledge
of that deepest want. The weary heart
wants that rest he only gives, the anxious
mind wants that perfect peace which is the
first-born child of trust, Ihe homes want that
brightness which only the face of Infinite
Love bestows. With love in the face and
mercy in the hand, let us tell them of Him
who meats tbeeVety want of every soul
Then shall they join the song:
"Thou, O Christ, art all I want,
More than all in Thee I find."
?[Rev. A. G. Brown.
How to Xtfacb Ih KTon>Cliiirch-Qoera.
rri*" 4a nnrl /laflnlfA Tf. fa
JL Lit? UIJOVTCI 1-9 J/mtui wllu uwiauaw*
within reach. No algebraic formula neei
be used, nor need the alphabet be exhausted
in finding it. If the laboring classes will not
come to the eospel. the arosnel must be taken
to them, if tha masses will not wait on tre
ministry, the ministry must wait on tne
masses. The preachers will vainly wait in
church for them, if they do not wait on them
at their homes.
It would be an immense saving of the
church's men and machinery and mean*, if
the people would be accommodating and
come and hear and heed and be converted, aa
verily they ought to do. But a large portion
of tho population is obdurate, indifferent
and provokingly negligent of their duty
toward God. The natural mind is enmity
against Qod, and does not take to pure religion.
Yet the commission remains to,
nmach the cornel to every creature. The
commission ia not for the foreign field only,
for Christ says thatropontauce ar d remission
of sins were to bo preached in his name
among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
And then there is the command to go out
Into the highways and ho 1 pes to gather
guests for tho gospel feast The churches of
Christ como far snort of the obedience due to
these commands which they could render if
they would. As at present constituted many
of our churches are too much of i ho order of
religious clubs or societies for iho spiritual
welfare, enjoyment and culturo of their
members. Littlo complaint is heard if the
pew rents meet the expenses, if the audience
room is filled once or possibly twico on a
SiinHav If thnrA eneiiffh brethren at the
week-night prayer s rvice to take part, if
additions by letter and confession of faith
offset the losses by deaths and dismissals.
Zion does not travail for souls.
Intfrrfiilon.
If we love our heavenly Father, there is a
gentle constraint upon us to hunger for His
glory; and souls are His honor, and sin His
dishonor. Now, we may not be able to
preach, or to wri'e books, or to traverse distant
lands as missionaries, or to give money
to seDd otheis there. It may be little indeed,
that of ourselves, by our actions, we can do
for God's glory or the conversion of souls.
But intercession reaches everywhere.
Neither time nor place bounds it. Ignorance
cannot keep it out, nor superstition
silence it, nor sin refuse to stay within its
influence. Wherever grace can come,
prayer can reach. We hear of some
land where God's glory is endangered.
Or, again, we read with burning eyes
and heart of the spiritual destitution of the
slaves or aborigines in certain countries.
Or of the impenetrable provinces
of China and Japan, or of
cities of scandalous profligacy, or of
disedifying controversies and foolish
parties and silly questions. There is no saying
to what an extent God's glory is compromised
by any one of these things. We
may be the weakest and most obscure among
the churches' children: yot we can reach all
this by intercession, and reach it, too, with
efficacy and power. We may work for it
without interruption; cur ordinary actions
may goto it; we may do more than all the
em bassadors and legates that ever were, and
yet not for an hour be distracted from our
profession, or our trade. We shall never
Know till it meets us at the judgment, a
| goodly show, a beautiful vision, how much
glory we have thus gained for God, without
cost, without toil, almost without advertence,
yet with such infinite and eternal recompense.
?[Frederick William Faber. D. D.
The Rum Seller's Profits.
The National Bureau of Statistics shows
that on the $703,000,00) which annually
passe3 into the tills of the retailors of intoxicating
liquors in this country there is a profit
of one hundred and thirty-three and one
fourth per cent. If poor people had to pay 1
such a tax as that on bread, there wou'd be
a rebellion. But when a man tosses off a
glass ot whisky and pays five cents for the 1
drink, and saven or eight cents to the barkeeper
for the trouble of handing It to him,
he generally thinks the barkeeper an awfully
good fellow.?Springfield Union.
Utah has fifteen Loyal Temperance
Legions aggregating over four hundred members,
and live W. C. T. Unions with one
! hundred members. . _
4k
GOTHAM'S HORSES.
WHERE SHE RECRUITS 100,000
STEEDS EVERY YEAR.
Scenes Aroand Old Bull's Head Market?The
Demand for Street
Car Animals and How
They are Selected.
The Bull's Head of to-day is a very
business-like place even for New York,
although it is a trifle more quiet than it
used to be. The horse market now covers
about three square blocks, and it as quiet
and orderly a locality as one can lind.
Nevertheless, without noise or bustle,
some $15,000,000 worth of horse flesh is
bought and sold here every year. This
may not be so big a business as is done
by some of the markets of Paris, where
horses are sold for a more humane purpose
than to be subjected to a long line
of hard work and hard knocks, but it is,
all things considered, a pretty big business.
It is the common impression that
steam and electricity are lessening the
usefulness of the horses. This is a mistake.
The traffic in horses is now larger
than it ever has been, and is steadily increasing.
There are now in New York
city, working in one capacity and anrtfVmr
?V>o nnt alwara nnhlftp animal.
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man, 600,000 horses. This would give a
horse to every third person in
New York. The New York market
yearly demands and obtains
100,000 horses, and pretty nearly all of
these are sold around the Bull's Head.
No more auctions &re held. Formerly
all kinds of stock were taken at this
market. The best were sold to individual
dealers, and the refuse were sent to the
public market at Seventy-fourth street,
on the East side, and sold in open auction.
Now a strictly individual business
is done around the Bull's Head. Each
Sealer has his own customers, and each
has agents in the stock regions in the
West and South-who are able to till an
order for one or 1000 horses of any kind
pon the receipt of a two-line telegraph
dispatch. The business is now reduced
to a system. The greatest customers that
the Bull's Head dealers have are the surface
car companies. Probably half of
the horses that come to New York go direct
to the street car companies.
Few persons would believe that the
inimals that drag the street cars are
picked horses. But, sorry looking though
they may be, they are carefully selected
for this very work.
It may be that the Broadway and
Seventh Avenue Railroad Company finds
that it needs horses. It immediately
communicates with a dealer at the Bull's
Head and the dealer communicates with
his agent somewhat as follows:
To Colt, Peoria, III.:
Send one carload three-fourths?good.
Blank.
The agent understands this ; the
rAadftr mav not. Blank simply wants
& carload of three-fourth horses, and a
three-fourth horse is' a horse that is
neither big nor little, the only kind of
a horse that is of any use in the
street-car business.
It is a rough mill that car horses
tread, and they don't la3t long. When,
the car horse is bought he is usually
worth $175 or $180. On an average he
lasts fire years, and at the end of that
period some Long Island or Westchester
county farmer can have him for any sum
ranging from $5 to $30, and in his
prematurely old age he can drag a plow
or a harrow and become an equine philosopher.
Car horses come from Iowa, Illinois
and Indiana principally. Breeding stock
1 :? ? 4- a a artianrtfl 4 rt fVi a
19 ueI11J5 icuutou IV a gv/ivuug ?u
West, and the much-derided county fair
has had not a little to do with this.
But there are other sorts of horses
bought and sold around the Bull's
Head. You couldn't have seen such
horses there twenty years ago. There
are big, strong, mild-eyed Percherons
and equally big Clydesdales that accept
their surroundings with that easy,
good nature that sometimes characterizes
big men. There are
clean-limbed horsea from West Virginia
and the blue grass meadows of
Kentucky, and handsome animals from
Maine. There are some very handsome
beasts in the long row of stalls, some of
them fit to draw a King's chariot, if indeed,
it were not true that almost any
kind of a horse is not too good to drag
the Kings who are now posing nervously
before the world.. In the next stalls to
*v>/? v?inr PArr>hr?rous in the Bull's Head
may be seen some small, mischievous
ponies from the Indian Territory. Very
short of limb are these animals, but they
are deep of flank and chest, and could
carry a man 120 miles in a day without a
great deal of distress. They are all the
rage now. Most of them will command
fancy prices. They are wanted now for
another purpose than that of carrying
festive bucks on a hunt for scalps, ana
this summer they will figure in the more
dangerous game .of polo, and will be ridden
by a class of bucks different from the
dirtbcsmeared gentlemen who formerly
bestrode them, and fair ladies will applaud
their strength and quickness at .Newport.
The Percherons and Clydesdales,
bii? as they are, do not command as high
a price as a few of the ponies. They range
innricefrcm $800 to $1200 per team,
ana they are bought mainly by the big
brewers. They come, in the main, from
Michigan, where stock breeders have
crossed the breeds of big horses with
wonderful success. These equine Anacks
are easily led. When they go to work
drawing brewery wagons, they are said
to succumb to surrounding influences, to
learn to drink beer out of a bucket and
to aquire other bad habits. They never
become addicted to profanity, however.
They grow stout and lazy, but live to a
ripe old age.
Good horses come from West Virginia,
Kentucky aud Indiana, and a man with
irom nve iu cijjui nuumtu uvuwa ?u
Socket can get a good carriage or riding
orsc from any of these States sent direct
to the Bull's Head.
Honesty and business methods prevail
in this horse market now. There was a
time when an unsuspecting farmer would
buy a horse high stepping and proud of
mien at the Hull's Head and proudly
imagine he had secured a bargain until a
few days later the unfortunate horse
would lose color, droop and die. Then
the farmer would realize that the horse
had been "doctored."1 They don't
"doctor'' them any more. Henry Bergh
used to watch them too closely, and besides
it doesn't pay.
The Bull's Head market now deals in
nothing but fresh stock. No played-out
horses are sold here. In addition to ]
supplying New York city, it furnishes
the farmers of New York State, Connecticut,
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania,
with a large share of the horses they
use. In this line, however, it has rivals
in the street car companies. All their
cast-off horses are bought by farmers.
They are not of any use for heavy work,
but can be useful in a variety of ways
around a farm. Sometimes, although
rarely, they bring $50. The usual price
is $10?sometimes it is less.
And so the 100,000 horses that come to
New York every year are distributed.
Some fro to the farm, some draa: horse
' ' - a C? . v? wj <.
cars, some carry festive young men
through the intricacies of polo, some poll
brewery wagons, some propel carriages
and cabriolets and 8000 of them die
every year because they can do nothing
else.
The Orchid Craze.
The trade in orchids has reached
enormous proportions in England.
Larger sums have been paid for orchid
roots than were ever given for any specimen
of live stock. The most expensive
flowers are not always the finest. The
price of plants range in the order of their
scarcity. Some specimens that readily
brought 100 guineas ten years ago can
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person who is trying to get a large collection
will endeavor to obtain it.
Every portion of the tropics is now
being searched by orchid hunters sent
out by the London importers, who have
grown rich in the business of obtaining
rare specimens. One dealer has sixteen
collectors in various parts of tropical
South America, Africa, Asia and the islands
in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Their salaries and expenses amount to
over $100,000 a year. In their travels
aud explorations they employ many natives.
One ofom^consula in Venezuela
reports that the orchid trade is rendering
the country prosperous. A poor man
will often obtain more for an orchid
root procured from a swamp or fhe
branqh 9i . a tree than he received for
hard labor during a dozen years.
Collecting orchids is attended by many
dangers and great losses of property.
Several collectors in the jungles of India
have been devoured by tigers, bitten by
venomous serpents or drowned in bogs.
Quite a number have been overturned
while in canoes, and it is presuined that
several have been roasted and eaten by
cannibals in Polynesia. Many valuable
specimens are lost on account of lack of
facilities for transportation. One London
dealer lately received a notice from
Port Said, informing him that 10,000
orchid roots had been killed by exposure
to the sun on the Red Sea or by being
knocked about during a storm.
A collector on one of the Philippine
Islands got together 20,000 specimens,
which he spread out upon the beach to
dry, tut an unusually nigh tidal wave
swept them all into the sea. Another
collector in Peru had his roots in sacks
on the backs or mules, wnicn were confiscated
by a party of soldiers, who declared
that they had immediate use of
the animals. The soldiers laughed about
the orchids having any value.?Chicago
Tribune.
Walrus Hunting.
Walrus hunting is by no means a novelty
in marine adventures, says the San
Francisco fall, since it has been carried
on from tinre out of mind, but in the past
the beasts were slaughtered merely for
their tusks and blubber, their hides b6iog
thrown away as worthless. Modern ja
geauity, has discovered an important
use for walrus hide, and to-day that
which was once regarded as offal is
looked upon as the most useful part of
the animal. Emery wheels, so generally
in use, are, when constructed on the old
method, liable, when run at high speed,
to burst into fragments, endangering the
>lives of those who work around them,
and. consequently, experiments have
been made from time to time to devise
some substitute for the ordinary emery
wheel.
After various substances had been
tried, giving greater or less satisfaction,
it was ascertained that walrus hide was
the most suitable material for that purpose,
possessing, as it does, the qualities
of toughness, durability, and susceptibility?i.
e., it is string, does not
wear out, and readily receives aud retains
the emery powder. This is applied by
pressing it into the porus substance of
the hide, and of this the entire emery
wheel of to-day is made. As these wheels
are in great demand, the price of walrus
hide ha3 advanced to a corresponding
ratio, untu tney now sea ior cenia jjcr
pound, and as a single hide will weigh
from 500 to 1000 pounds, they are well
worth taking. Walrus hunting has,
therefore, become an important industry,
and although now in its infancy, will,
beyond doubt, beeome a rival of whaling
in the near future. Nor is the hide the
only valuable part of the walrus, as a tine
oil is obtained from the blubber, of equal
value with whale oil, aud with the great
diminution in the production of elephant
ivory, the tu3ks are daily enhancing in
value as an important article of commerce.
Coral.
The ladie9 of Russia and both sexes
among the oriental nations prefer coral
to many precious stones. The Russians
have a predilection for the round coral,
which is, however, the coarser variety;
while the Chinese will have none but the
pink. The nabobs of India decorate the
interior of their dwellings with large
picce9 of coral beautifully carved and
polished, for which they often pay enormous
prices. Coral ornaments are also
held in high esteem by the dusky beauties
of Africa, who find that they wonderfully
lighten up the effect produced by their
dark skins.
Like all fashions in gems, that of
wearing coral has had many up3 and
downs. The taste for it is almost universal,
and when it has been in disfavor
in one part of the world, it has generally
been the rage somewhere else. It is now
quite a long time since there has been
any pronounced taste for coral jewelry in
this country, and I therefore shouldn't
be surprised if before long it should become
quite fashionable again.?Jewelera'
Weekly. ?
Cooling by Magnetism.
It i? reported as an observed fact that
the heat usually produced by frTction is
absent whenever the bodies brought in
contact are magnetized. An explanation
of the cause has not yet been found. A
M ' ?-?' ? - *? i n a 1 n I
SirJKlDg RXfiUipiC 13 Ul-91'IIVCU 1U a taw
number of a scientific periodical:
A workman fastened two powerful
magnets to his lathe, to hold more securely
a piece of metal which he wished
to drill and turn. The presence of the
magnets kept the metal so cold that no
water was needed to keep the drill cool.
Such an observation as this may lead
to important discoveries. Not only may
it throw i.ome light upon the relations of
heat and magnetism, but it may be put
to practical use. The extra risk of fire
in mills and factories arises largely from
the difficulty of securing constant lubrication
of the machinery.
If magnetizing gudgeons or their bearings
will prevent heat from friction, then
this danger may be avo.ded. ? Youth''!
Companion.
A Puzzle.
Tiiure's one thins I don't understand:
It really seems to me so queer
That my mamma last night should say,
Be sure and always miud, my dear.n
And when I got that dreadful fall
This very morning, from a chair,
Should pick me up and cuddle me,
And pnt my cheeks, and smooth my hair.
And pres.^ her face down close to mine,
That I might hear her whisper, kind? !
The while she kissed my tears away?
"There,there! my darling; never mind!"
?Youth's Companion.
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POPULAR
SCIENCE.
Electricity has been found to travel
288,000 miles per second, under tvror
able circumstances.
Lake Huron is lower than the oldest
residents ever saw it. The water is two
feet below the lowest point of a year and
a half ago.
A late plan for treating sewage with
electricity has brought out the fact that
such schemes have been quite numerous,
one patent involving eight electrical
methods dating back to lf&8.
It is stated that recent observations on
the heights of various peaks of the
Andes show a considerable diminution
in their height as compared with wellauthenticated
measurements taken some
time ago. * A
frightened Mexican hare, has: been
observed to make three successive leaps,
of twelve, twelve and thirteen feet; and'
a medium-sized rabbit to jump^ seven.
feet. The ordinary progression of these
animals rarely exceeds four feet and two
feet respectively at any single leap.
Tigers have lately been reported from
two extremes of Siberia, Wladivoetock; t
upon the Japan Sea, and a point
to the north of the Caspian. * 'They nave
long been known in the Chinese forest*
near Wladivistock, but their appearance
in the region of the Caucasus is quite remarkable.
Two telegraph wires^each aboutsix
1am/? aka Tva Ui/i in Snoin at. ' : v
LLU1CO RIO W W 1N4VI ?U; V|IMI? Vpressly
for studying earth currents and
atmospheric electricity. The lines will
cross each other at the astronomical
observatory of San Fernando, one run- #
ning due east and west, the other doe . rT
north and south. ~
An African traveler says the intoxicating'
liquor now chiefly exported to
Africa from Bremen and Hamburg is a
poisonous distillation from the potato
and produced very cheaply. Chemists
state that there is more fusel oil in it than
in any other known spirit. The natives
give it the appropriate name of Death. $
Dr. Dallinger, says that with the aid ;
of the microscope he has certainly seen
objects which were between the one- /V- ?
two-hundred-thousandth and one-three- :
hundred-thousandth part of an inch.
This is worth recording, if onlv as a
proof of the marvelous perfection to
Which the modern microscope has at- /
tained.
Aluminum has not hitherto .been '^ *2
found in flowering plants, though known - -ry^
to exist in Lycopodiacese. Professor
Church has recently detected it iii the
lacquer resin of China, obtained fjrom
Rhus verniceflua, and in a small degree
in the gum of the cherry and of other
trees. As phosphate of alumina, a small "1
trace is found in the gluten of. wheat. - - a
It is proposed to preserve flsh allv?
by placing tnem in vessels partly filled
with water and hermetically scaled. It
is said that fish so confined have been
found alive after three weeks, without
either air or water having been changed, ^
while fish in an open jar died In fortyeight
hours. If the air in the vessel is '
compressed, the life of the fish is still > m
further prolonged.
An experiment is being made on tha
California coast to- test the utility of
ocean-ware force. At an opening Jn
some cliffs great fans are suspended, and ' ' ?}*
their movement at the ebb and flow of- ?
the waves is so geared as to work im- ,
mense pump? which are designed to fill
large reservoirs on elevations, these
being used to supply water power to :T-wjS
manufactories of various kinds. - , , 7
It has long been a Question with scientists
whether flying fish actually fly, Of
are only carriod forward through the air
by the impulse which they give to their
bodies while still in the water. Profes- r>s$
6or Mobins expresses an authoritative ;
opinion, and claims that they are totally
unable to fly, for the reason that the
muscles which move the pectoral fins are > ' -?>?
not sulficiently large to bear the weight ' J
of their bodies in the air. In bird^ the
average weight of the muscles which are :' ?
concerned in the movement of the wings.
is one-sixth that of the entire body; in
. D3Wj OUC'tLliriCCUtUj nunc <u *uw UJ*U^
fish it is only one-thirty-fifth. He affirms, r
therefore, that the impulse to the propul- \ r v
sion of the fish in the air is delivered
while they are still in the water.
The Medical Oath.
All sorts of people say all sort of things .vj
regarding the medical oath. It is a3 follows:
i"I
swear by Apollo, the Physician;
by JSsculapius, the Hygiera, ana all the
sods and goddesses, calling them to evidence
that I will fulfill religiously, according
to the be9t of my power and " JV
judgment, the solemn promise and the .. -'I
written bond which I now do jnake.
"I will honor in the same degree as my $
parents the master who has taught me
nni^oarnr frt nriminiatar tn
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all his necessities. I will consider his
children as ray own brothers, and will
teach them my profession, should they -; express
a wish to follow it, without remuneration
or written bond. I will admit
to my lessons, to my discourses, and
to all my methods of'teaching, my own
sons, and those of my* tutors, and those
who have been inscribed as pupils and
and have taken the medical oath, but no
one else.
"I will prescribe such a course of
regimen as may best be suited to the condition
of my patients according to the
best of my power and judgment, seeking "'i
to preserve them from anything that
might prove injurious. No inducement
shall ever lead me to administer poison,
nor will I ever be the author of such
advice; neither will I contribute to an
abortion. I will retain religiously the
purity and integrity both of my conduct
and of my art.
"Into whatever dwellings I go, I will
enter them with the sole view of succor- ^ ?
ing the sick, abstaining from all in jurious
views and corruption, especially from - ?
any immodest action toward women or
men, freemen or slaves. If during my
attendance, or even unprofessionally in
common life, I happen to see or hear of
any circumstances which should not be
revealed, I will consider them as a profound
secret and observe on the subject .. J
a religious silence.
"May I, if I religiously observe this
oath and do not break it, enjoy good
success in life and in the practice of my
art and obtain general esteem forever.
Should I transgress and become a perjurer
may the reverse be my lot."?New
Ti/rk Telegram.
A Dead Man's Bide in an Elevator.
In a certain building on Randolph
street there is an elevator which hasn't
been running for some time. It i9 in
good repair, but the owner gave oraera
for it to stop, and it remains as "idle as
a painted ship upon a painted ocean."
On one occasion a customer boarded it
on the top floor and died with the heart
disease before he got to the landingplace.
The elevator boy didn't notico
him until he had made several tiipa.
Then he reported it to the owner, who
gave orders to have the elevator closed.
The incident made such an impression
on the man's mind that he has never
been in an elevator sincc, and will walk
to the fifth or tenth story of a building
rather thaa ride.?Ch i:ago MaU.
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