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REV. DR. TALMAGE. SHU BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "Obscuration." Text: The sun shall be turned into darkness.? Acts ii., 20. Solar eclipse is here prophesied to take place about the time of the destruction of ancient Jerusalem. Joseph us, the historian, says that the prophecy was literally fulfilled, and that about that time there were strange appearances in the heavens. The sun was not destroyed, but for a little while hidden. Christianity is the rising sun of our time, and men have tried with the uprolling vapors of skepticism and the smoke of their blasphemy to turn the sun into darkness. Suppose tie archangels of malice ana horror should be let loose a little while aud be al I lowed to extinguish and destroy the sun in the natural heavens. They would take the oceans from other worlds and pour them on this luminary of the planetary system, and the waters go hissing down amid the ravines and the caverns, and there is explosion after explosion until there are only a few peaks of fire left in the sun, and these are cooling down and going out until the vast continents of flame are reduced to a small acreage of fin, andvihat whitens and cools off until there aroonly a few coals left, and these are whiteningiuid going out until there is not a spark lefyjn all the mountains of ashes and the valley * of ashes and the chasms of ashes. An extinguished sun. A dead sun. A buried sun. Le&ll worlds wail at the stupendous obsequies Of Qourse this withdrawal of the solar heat and light throws our earth into a universal chill, and the tropics become the temperate and the temperate becomes the Arctic, and there are frozen rivers and frozen lakes and frozen oceans. From Arctic and Antarctic regions the inhabitants gather in toward the center and find the equator as the poles. The elai-n fnnaeta npfl nilari lin into a PTft'lt bonfire. I and around them gather the sTiivering villages and cities. The wealth of the coal mines is hastily poured into the furnaces and stirred into rage of combustion, but soon the bonfires begin to lower and the furnaces begin to go out and the nations begin to die. Cotopaii, Vesuvius, Etna, Stromboli, Califorman geysers cease to smoke, and the ice of hail storms remains unmelted in their craters. All the flowers have breathed their last breath. Ships with sailors frozen at the mast and helmsmen frozen at the wheel, and passengers frozen in the cabin; all nations dying, first at the north and then at the south. Child frosted and dead in the cradle. Octogenarian frosted and dead at the hearth. Workmen with frozen hand on the hammer and frozen foot on the shuttle. Winter from sea to sea. All congealing winter. Perpetual winter. Globe of frigidity. Hemisphere shackled to hemisphere by chains of ic?. Universal Nova Zembla. corfk ort risiA crrinHinnr ?rrninct". nfchAl* I ice floes. The archangels of mafice and horror have done their work, and now they may take their thrones of glacier and look down upon th? ruin they have wrought. What the destruction of tbe sun in the natural heavens would be to our physical earth, the destruction of Christianity would be to the moral world. The sun turned into darkness. Infidelity in our time Is consuNred a great joke. There are people who retype to hear. Christianity caricatured, and to tear Christ assailed with ouibble ana .quirk and misrepresentation ana badinage and harlequinade. I propose this morning to take infidelity and atheism out of the realm of jocularity into one of tragedy,and show you wlat they propose, and what, if they are successful, they will accomplish. There are those in all our communities who would like to see the Christian religion overthrown, and who say the world would be better without it. I want toshowyou what is the end of this road, and what is the terminus of this crusade, and what this world will be when atheism i,.?, v, ,7 I_ uavo uiuui^ujuuioi AU, it uuoj can. I say, if they can. I reiterate it, if they can. In the first place, it will be the complete and unutterable degradation of womanhood. I will prove it by facts and arguments which no honest man will dispute. In all communities and cities and states and nations where the Christian religion has bean dominant, woman's condition has been ameliorated and improved, and she is deferred to and honored in a thousand things, and everv gentleman takes off his hat before her. If your associations have been good, you know that the name of wife, mother, daughter, suggest gracious surroundings. You know there are no better schools and saminaries in Brooklyn or in any city of this country than the schools and seminaries for young ladies. You know that while woman may suffer injustice in England and the United States, she has more of her rights in Christendom than she has anywhere else. Now, compare this with woman's condi Ition in lands where Christianity has made little or no advance?in China, id Barbary, in Borneo, in Tartary, in Egypt, in Hindostan. The Burmese sell their wives and daughters as so many sheep. The Hindoo Bible makes il disgracetul and an outrage for a woman to listen to music or look out of the window in the absence of her husband, and grros as a lawful ground for divorce a woman's beginning to eat before her husband hwa finafaed his meal. What mean those white bundles on the ponds and rivers in China in the morning) Infanticide following infanticide. Female children destroyed simply because they are female. Woman harnessed to a plow as an ox. Woman veiled and barricaded, and in all styles of cruel seclusion. Her birth a misfortune. Her life a torture. Her death a horror. The missionary of the cross to-day in beathen lands Dreaciies generally to two groups?a group of men who do at Itfiey please and sit where tney piease; i the other group?women hidden and care- j fully secluded in a side apartment, where the; j may hear the voice of the preacher bul may not bo seen. No refinement. No liberty. No hope for this life. No hope for the life to come. Ringed nose. Cramped foot. Disfigured face. Embruted soul Now compare those two conditions. How far toward this latter condition that 1 speak of would woman go if Christian influences were withdrawn and Christianity were destroyed? It is only a question of dynamics. If an object be lifted to a certain point and not fastened there, and the lifting power ba withdrawn, how long before that object will fall down to the point from which it started? It will fall down, and it will go still further than the point from which it starte L Christianity has lifted woman up from the very depths of degradation almost to the skie3. If that Iuicing power De wnnurawn sna iaus ciear back to the derth from which she was resurrected, not going any lower because there i3 no lower depth. And yet, notwithstanding the fact that the only salvation of woman from degradation and woe ia the Christian religion, and the only influence that has ever . lifted her in the social scale is Christianity? I have read that there are women who reject Christianity. I make no remark in regard to those persons. I make no remark in regard to them. In the silence of your own aoul make your observations. If infidelity triumph an.l Christianity be overthrown, it means the demoralization of society. The one idea in the B'ble tint atheists and infidels most hate, is the idea of ret* ributira Take away the idea of retribu- j tlon and punishment from society, and it will begin very so in to disintegrate; and j take away from the minds of men the fear ' -of hell, and there are a great many of them who would very soon turn this world into a hell. The majority of those who are indignant against the Bible because of the idea of punishment are men whose lives are bad or whose hearts are impure, and who hate the Bible because of the idea of future pun:sh Imenc lor tde same reason mat criminals nare the penitentiary. Oh, I have heard this brave talk about people fearing nothing of the consequences of sin in the next world, and I have made up my mind it is merely a coward's whistling to keep his courage up. I have 6een men flaunt their immoralities in the face of the community, and I have heard them defy the judgment day and scoff at the idea of any future consequence of their sin; but when they came to die they shrieked -until you could hear them for nearly two blocks, and in the summer night the neighbors got up to put the windows down because they could not endure the horror. I would" not want to see a rail train with five hundred Christian people on board go down through a drawbridge into a watery grave. I would not want to see five hundred Christian people go into such disaster, but I tell you plainly that I could more easily see that than I could for any protracted time -stand and see an infidel die. thouarh his nillow were of eider down and under a canopy of vermilion. I have never been able to brace up mv nerves for such a spectacle. There is something at such a time so indescribable in the countenance. I just looked in upon it for a minute or two, but the clutch of his fist was so diabolic, and the strength of voict ?" - * - ' V >v - .%. r^*&&sJL' was so unnatural, I could not eniure it "There is no hell, there is no hell, there is no hell!" the man bad said for sixty years; but that night when I looked in the dying room of my infidel neighbor, there was something on bis countenance which seemed to say: ''There is, there is, there is, there is." The mightiest restraints to-day against theft, against immorality, against libertinism, against crime of all sorts?the mightiest restraints are the retributions of eternity. Men know that they can escape the law, but down in the offender's soul there is the realization of the fact that they cannot escape God. He stands at the end of the road of profligacy, and he will not clear the guilty. Take all idea of retribution and punishment out of the hearts and minds of men, and it would not be long before Brooklyn and New York and Boston and Charleston and Chicago became Sodoms. The only restraints against the evil passions of the world to day are Bible restraints. Suppose now these generals of atheism and infidelity got the victory, and suppose they marshaled a great army made up of the majority of the world. They are in companies, in regimSnts. in brigades?the whole army. Forward, march! ye hosts of infidels and atheists, banners flying before, banners flying behind, banners inscribed with the words: "iNo uodi r>o unrisui r?o pumsument! No restraints! Down with the Bible! Do as you please!" The sun turned into darkness. Forward, march! ye great army of infidels and atheists! And first of all you will attack the churches. Away with those houses o? worship! They have been standing there so long and deluding the people with consolation in their bereavements and sorrows. All those churches ought to be extirpated; they have done so much to relieve the lost and bring home the wandering, and they have so long held up the idea of eternal rest after the paroxysm of this life is over. Turn the St. reters and St. Pauls and the temples and I tabernacles into club houses. Away with those churches! Foward, march! ye great army of infidels and atheists, and next of all they scatter the Sabbath-schools?the Sabbath schools filled with bright eyed, bright cheeked little ones, who are singing songs on Sunday afternoon, and getting instruction when they ought to be on the street corners playing marbles or swearing on the common. Away with them! Forward, march! ye great army of infidels aud atheists, and next of all they will attack Christian asylums?the institutions of mercy supported by Christian phi| lanthropies. Never mind the blind eyes and the deaf ears and the crippled limbs and the I weakened intellects. Let paralyzed old a?e pick up its own food, and orphans ngni tneir | own way, and the half reformed go back to their evil habits. Forward, march! ye great army of infidels and atheists, and with your battle axes hew down the cross and split up the manger of Bethlehem. I On, ye great array of infidels and atheists, and now they come to the graveyards and the cemeteries of the earth. Poll down the sculpture above Greenwood's gate, for it means the resurrection. Tear away at the entrance of Laurel Hill the figure of Old Mortality and the chiseL On, ye great array of infidels and atheists, into the graveyards and the cemeteries; and where you see "Asleep in Jesus," cut it away, and where you find a marble story of heaven, blast it, *? ?/1 wKflw t?aii fln/1 Ararn lif.f.lrt aPftVfl! "Suffer little children to come unto me," substitute the words "delusion" and "sham," and where you find an angel in marble,strik? off the wings,and when you come to a family vault, chisel on the door: "Dead once, dead forever." But on, ye great army of infidels and atheists, on! They will attempt to scale heaven. There are heights to be taken. Pile hill on hill and Pelion upon Ossa, and then they hoist the ladders against the walls of heaven. On and ou until they blow up the foun Jafcions of jasper and the gates of pearL They charge up the steep. Now they aim for the throne of him who liveth forever and ever. They would take down from their high place the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost. "Down with them!" they say. "Down with them from the throne!" they say. "Down forever! Down out of sight! He is not God. He has no right to sit there. Down with higa! Down with Christ!" A world without a head, a universe without a king. Orphan constellations. Fatherless galaxies. Anarchy supreme. A dethroned Jehovah. An assassinated God. Parricide, regicide, deicide. That is what they mean. That is what they will have, if they can, if they can, if they can. Civilization hurled back into semi-barbarism, and semi-barbarism driven back into Hottentot savagery. The wheel of progress turned the other way, and turned toward the dark ages. The clock of the centuries pffc back 2000 years. Go back, you Sandwich Islands,from yonr schools and from your colleges, and from your reformed condition, to what you were in 1S20, when the missionaries first came. Call home the 500 missionaries from India and overthrow their 2000 schools where they are trying to o.iucate the heathen, and scatter the 140,030 little children that they hate gathered out of barbarism into civilization. Obliterate all the work of Dr. Duf in India, of David Abeel in China, of Dr. King in Greece, of Judson in Burmah, of David -Brainard amid the American aborigines, and send home the three thousand missionaries of the cross who are toiling in foreign lands, toiling for Christ's sake, toiling themselves into the grave. Tell these three thousand men of God that they are of no use. Send home the medical missionaries who are doctoring the bodies as well as the souls of the nations. Go home, London missionary society. Go home, American board of foreign missions. Go home, ye Moravians, and relinquish back into darkness and squalor and filth and death the nations whom ye have begun to lift. Ob, my friends, there has never been such a nefarious plot on earth as that which infidelity and atheism have planned. We were shocked a few years ago because of the attemDt to blow ud the narliament houses in London; but if "infidelity and atheism succeed in their attempt they will dynamite a world- Let them nave their full way and ; thus world will be a habitation of three roomB ?a habitation with just three rooms; the one a madhouse, another a lazaretto, the other a pandemonium. These infidel bands of music have only just begun thtiir concert ?yea, they have only been stringing their instruments. I to-day put before you their whole programme from beginning unto close. 1 In the theatre the tragedy comes first and the farce afterward; but in this infidel drama of death the farce comes first and the tragedy afterward. And in the former atheists and infidels laugh and mock, but in the latter God himself will laugh and mock. He says so: "I will laugh at their calamity and mock when their fear cometh." From such a chasm of individual, national, world-wide ruin, stand back. Oh, young men, stand back from that chasm 1 You see the practical drift of my sermon. 1 want you to know where that road leads. Stand back from that chasm of ruin. The time is going to come lyou and I may not live to see it, but it will come, just as certainly as there ia n Clr\A if will />nmo\ wKan tho infl^olonnH the atheists who openly and out and out and above board preach and practice infidelity and atheism will be considered as crimiuals against society, as they are now criminals against God. Society will push out the leper, and the wref-ch with soul gangrened and ichorous and vermin covered and rotting apart with his beustiality, will be left to die in the ditch and be denied decent burial, and men will come with spades and cover up the carcase where it falls, that it poison not the air, and the only text in all the Bible appropriate for the funeral sermon will be Jeremiah xxii., 19: "He shall be buried with the burial of an ass." A thousand voices come up to me this morning, saying: "Do you really think infidelity will succeed? Has Christianity received its death blow? and will the Bible become obsolete?" Yes, when the smoke of the city chimney arrests and destroys the noonday sun. Josephus says about the time of the destruction of Jerusalem the sun was turned into darkness; but only the clouds .. J >- i! ,1 An.tV, Tfco roiieu UOUWlXJU luo auu auu mo kjm. a uu sua went right oa It is the same sun, the same luminary as when at the beginning it shot out like an electric spark from God's finger, and to-day it is warming the nations, and to-day it is gilding the sea, and to day it is filling the earth with light The same old sun, not at all worn out, through its light step; one hundred and ninety million miles a second, though its pulsations are four hundred and fifty trillion undulations in a second. Same sum, with beautiful white light made up of the violet and the indigo and the blue and the green and the red and the yellow and the orange?the seven beautirui colors now iust as wnen the solar spectrum first divided them. At the beginning God said: "Let there be light," and light was, and light is, and light sha'l b3. So Christianity i* rolling on. and it is going to warm all nations, and all nations are to bask in its light Men may shut the window blinds so they cannot see it, or they may smoke the pipe of speculation until they are shadowed under their own vaporing; but the Lord God is a sun! This white lielit oX the Gospel made up q? ? -js-. . I all the beautiful colors of earth and heaven, violet plucked from amid the spring grass, and the indigo of the southern jungles and the blue of the skies, and the green of the foliage, and the yellow of the autumnal woods, and the orange of the southern groves, and the red of the sunsets. All the beauties of earth and heaven brought out by this spiritual spectrum. Great Britain is going to take all Europe for God. The United States are going to take all America for God. Both of tnera together will take all Asia for God. All three of them will take Africa for God. " Who art thou, oh great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shall become a plain." The mouth of the Lord hatb spoken it. Hallelujah, amenl TEMPERANCE. Abstinence and Health. The Glasgow (Scotland) Reformer says: "A further illustration of the advantages of total abstinence over moderate drinking is furnished in the case of the returns from two of the principal Friendly Societies. The Rechabites (abstainers), from 20 to 70 years of age, suffer from 98 weeks of ill-health, as against ini.1 ??i ~ 4. , _ WeVKS urnuu^ rui ebin s IIIUII UUbMLlIl* ers); between 10 and 80 years, 123 weeks, as against 148 weeks among the Foresters. Considering that the members of these two societies may be regarded as pretty much alike in all other respects, it is perfectly clear that abstinence promotes health." The Relations of Poverty and Drink. The following from a paper on "The Relation of the Drink Habit to Poverty and Pauperism" was recently read at a meeting of the "Woman Visitors of the Associated Charities by the author, John Massey, General Secretary of the Associated Charities of "Wilmington, Del. "When we attempt to gather statistics upon the subject we are confronted with the unfortunate fact that in the United States there is less system in collecting the statistics of pauperism than in the older countries. If the 70,000,000 bushels of grain,the equivalent of which is yearly destroyed in this country in the manufacture of alcoholic beverage, were converted into bread at the usual rate of 15 four-pound loaves to the bushel, it would supply the 66,203 paupers-the number in the almshouses of the United States in 1880?with a four pound loaf of ui euu uli tre nines a uajr iui iuui c iuau iuui - i teen years. If the amount worse than wasted every year In this country in drink was used in erecting houses at $2000 each it would build more than twice as mauy houses as there were in Philadelphia in the census year, 18S0; to say nothing of the labor that would b > employed in their erection; from the felling of the timt?r to the finishing of the finest moulding; from the mining of the ore, until the - nails, bolts and screws were all in place; from the digging of the clay until the topmcst bricks were laid; from the burning of the lime to the final touches upon the beautiful white walk; from the preparation of the oil to the last coat of paint. And even when completed their rentals would be perpetually adding to the nation's wealth. \\ ith 850,000 additional houses erected in our country every year there would be little need of families to be wit-hnnf. hnmoe or TnAf?hnnir?s tn hfl without work. Recently Dr. Pentecost, of Brooklyn, after showing that the drink bill of that city was annually more than $10,000,000,presented the following table illustrating the enormity of the sum: 250,000 bis. of floor, at $8 $1,500,000 2-0,000 tons of coal, at $5 1,100,000 150.000 overcoats, at $5 750.000 200,000 dress suite, at $20 4,000,000 600,000 pairs shoes, at S3. 1,800,000 80o,0C0 yards cloth, at $1 * 800,000 600,000 pairs of socks, at 25 cents 150,000 <50 yards of flannel, at 50 cents 225,000 6110,000 bats and caps, at 50 centa 300,too 600,000 library books, at $2 1.000,000 20 school houses, at $^0,030 1,200,000 30 ch arches; at {50,000 1,500,000 1 Inebriate asylum ?00,000 100 homes for aged and Infirm, at 11000.. 100,000 1 free muBeum 1,000,c0C Total $16,125,000 This is a plain question of dollars and cents. I he wages paid m the United btate3 in Jotu for all mechanical and manufacturing industry was $947,953,793, and during the same period $783,81(5,495 was spent in drink. Grand Master Workman Powderly In a recent address said: "In one Pennsylvania county in a single year $17,000,000 was spent in liquor, and it was estimated that $11,000,0C0 of that amount came from working men." It is those of us who are attempting to grapple with the problem of pauperism that meet in the crowded courts and dismal alleys of our cities, the sad, sickening "facts" for which these "figures" stand. Similar or even stronger testimony comes from European countries. As early as 1843 the home secretary reported that there were no less than 2,000,000 paupers in Great Britain, being at the rate of one to ten of the population, and of this number he said, 1,500,000 werepauperized through drink. In the United Kingdom the traffic has been subjected at various periods to rigid Parliamentary investigation. A well-known poor law commissioner testified before one of these committees as follows: " For some months, as I investigated every new case that came before me, I found that in nine cases out of every ten, the main cause of pauperism was the ungovernable inclination for fermented Honors." In 1862 the Committee on Intemperance for the Lower House of Convention in the Providence of Canterbury, 6aid: "It appears indeed that at least seventyfive per cent, of the occupants of the workhousfes and a large portion of those receiving out-door pay, have become pensioners on the public directly through drunkenness, and the improvidence and absence of self-respect which this pestilent vice is known to engender and perpetuate." The Saloon-Keepers Arraigned. Alcohol, we have said, is a dangerous potion, to be handled with extreme care. From whatever cause hundreds of thousands have for it an insatiable craving; if access to it is free and easy, they will swallow it to their utter ruin and that of their families. Should we not expect in a Christian, civilized country, th&t, what with the dealer's conscience, aud the law's protective aegis, conditions would surround the traffic to avert, as far as prudence could, consequences too disastrous! Care is taken in the sale of other dangerous articles of commerce. There is a limit to the supply, and strict rules are prescribed for the salesmen. I will give the facts, known to you as well as to me, in the case of alcohol?the facts as ordinary occurrence shows them. Salr.on-keepers are everywhere, wherever the craving for alcohol exists, or wherever it may be created. The merchant llnds them next door to his store, the laborer across (he street from his workship during the day, near hi3 slmnty and tenoment-house in the evening. They track the crowd to places most sacred; with peculiar predilection they erect their stands n*nr the schools, churches, and cemeteries. The principle governing their trade? To make money. Little they reck the misery drink causes, if they are thereby enriched They deal it out to the tottering inebriate; to the youth surely entering on a life of sin and shame; to the workingruan whose family are enduring famine; to the woman, whose virtue dies as she lifts the poisoned cup to her lips. The saloonkeepers are aware that their customers ? *? ? - a. : iU.t win DO me nexit morning in priauu UCJIB, tuau wives and children are invoking cutsbs on the heads of those who rob them of their protectors, but what does it matter them? The glasses are still filled and the dollars rolled into the till. Late hours at night, all day Sunday, when all is elsewhere rest and 6i!eiice, they ply their business. There are attractions of all sorts to draw men to the saloon; there is excitement of all sorts to awaken or increase the appetite for drink. There are saloon-keepers' organizations, the leaders in which are the brewers and the distillers, for the purpose of continually widening out the drink traffic and breaking down what opposition may be made to it. tut are there not laws forbidding in this traffic at least things openly nefarious, and throwing some protection around the victims? There are some laws; the saloon keeper laughs at them. In America there is a class of men rebellious to all law, glorying in their rebellion, defying the people to curb their po-ver?the saloon keepers. And this shnmeJess rebellion against iaw is in oraer wj flood tbe land freely with alcohol, to make drunkards, rain families, fill jails and poorhouses. A newspaper, the organ of the liquor dealers, pointedly asked the other day why temperance speak 2rs attack men who are doing business just as others in the grocei-y or the clothing business. The reasons, I reply, are very plain. No other business entails woe and sin, as the liquor trade, and no other business is lawless in its methods, and defiant before the country, as the liquor trafHc. ? Bishov Ireland. Macy "Warner, who was hanged at Jefferson, Ind., for murder, made the following gallows speech: "If any of you ever take a glass of whisky, before you put it to your lips think of Macy Warner, and look into the bottom of your glass and see if you can't nee a rope there." ">T ' '' :^ y ?'_ * 7^ '? RELIGIOUS READING. "Ye Are My Wltneuei." Tell me, pilgrim, faint and weary, Traveling o'er this pathway dim, Are you shedding light around you Are you witnessing for Him? Do you try to tell the story Of the precious Saviour's lovet Are you hungering and thirsting Evermore your love to prove? Are you seeking out the lost ones "Whom the Master died to wi nf Are you showing them the fountain That can wash away their sin? Are you looking by the wayside For the weary ones who fall? Dovou take them to the Saviour, Who has promised rest for all? Do you love to read the Bible, Is it precious to your soul? Are its treasures growing richer As you travel toward the goal? uo you love totaiK or Jesus More than all the world beside! Does it bring a holy comfort With his people to abide? Have you made a consecration Of your time and earthly store? If your all is on the altar, Then the Master asks no more. Thus, 0 pilgrim, should we journey, Showing lorth the Master's praise, With our lamps all trimtned and burning, That the world may catch their rays. ?{Selected. Scrap* from Brnwnlow Xortb. All men by nature pursue something that is not God. Repentance is a change of mind that turns us to God. Nothing is too hard for God?not even my heart. It is a good sign when a man is glad that God sees him. The worse we are, the more need to cling to Jesus. Never wait tfll you are better. Go as you are. uoa sever maae a sinner: "ail enemy nam done this-'1 4 'Hear ye Christ," though a cloud hides Him that jou cannot s:e Him. There is no promise to unbelieving prayer. The smallest allowed sin is far more to be feared than the largest evil that we would lot If you are not sure whether a thing is Jrong or not, and do it, it is wrong in you. Every Slice of Itfs Important. Religion is good for nothing one day in the week, unless it is also good for all the seven days. Character, to amount to anything, must be shown alike in all things. There is no true manliness possible in one relation of life on the part of him who is not true and manly in every relation of lifa .No boy can be a good son to his parents unless he is a good pupil to his teacher, and a good play-fellow to his companions. No man can be a good friend, unle3s be is a good bus Dana ana a gooa iainer. no minister can ua a good pastor and a good preacher unless he is a gooi neighbor and a good man. Among the very many wise and timely words to boys j spoken by Mr. Thomas Hughes, none are more important than tho6e in which he has told of the teachings on this very subject by Dr. Thomas Arnold, his old teacher at Rugby. He says, "He certainly did teach us? thank God for it 1?that we could not cut our lives into slices, and say, 'In this slice your actions are indifferent and you needn't trouble your heads about them one way or anothor, but in this slice mind what you are about for they are important?a pretty muddle we should have been in bad he done so. He taught ns that in this wonderful world no boy or man can tell which of his actions is indifferent and which not: that by a thoughtless word or look we may lead astray a brother for whom Christ died! He taught us that life is a whole, made up of actions and thoughts and longings, great and small, mean and ignoble; therefore the only true wisdom for boy or man is to bring the whole life into obedience to Him whose world we live in, and who has purchased us with His blood." Or as Dr. Bushnell hafl said of the putting on of Christ as the gar mentof the needy soul: "xnere can do no choosing out here of shreds and patches from His divine beauty; you most take the whole suit, else you cannot put Him on. The garment is seamless and cannot be divided." It is this great truth?rather than the duty of sinle?sness?that our Lord teaches in his injunction, "Be ye therefore perfect''?complete, entire, not one-sided or partial in your Christian life and character?"even as your father which is in heaven is perfect."?[S. 8. Times. KI Dare Ton In My Heart." A Christian hero, while guarded as a prisoner awaitine trial for the crave offence of preaching the eospal, is writing a letter to beloved friends six hundred miles away. In this letter we find this remarkable assurance: "Being confident that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ, because I vtqttq waii in mr hAflfh " Phil 1 fl 7_ The "good work" he writes of Is that which God began in his own heart that hour when, lying on the ground near Damascus, he lifted his sightless eyeballs to heaven, and cried, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" It is the work begun in the heart when, in faith and penitence, it cries out: "Here, Lord, I give myself away, Tis all that I can do." Jrd Paul is sure both that the work is A)gun in their hearts and that it will be carried on in them until, at the resurrection, they are raised up in glory, openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment and made perfectly blessed in the enjoyment of God to all eternity. He is sure of this treasure, because he has them in his heart. In his holiest moods aud musings, in his prayers, "always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy," he finds those friends present And he is sure that God's Spirit would not so include them in his devotions, prayers and affectiorts, were not their names written in the Book of life. Here is a precious hint for all who labor for souls. Try to get those Sabbath-scholars, that child, that frien 1 imbedded in your holiest affections, so that in every prayer your spirits take hold of them and present them to God as objects of your warm spiritual; desires, and this will go very far towards working the encouraging conviction that God will surely hear your prayers. This encouraging assurance will put a new coal on the fire of your zeal, a new sinew in your resolution for tireless labor till the blessing come. A Christian woman once said to the writer, -'My brother is out of Christ. He is worldly and thoughtless, but I know that he will be brought to Christ." She in this utterance expressed the precise thought of Paul: "It is meet for me to think thus of my brother, because I have him in my heart." A ruling elder in a certain church had a wayward, wicked son, and his friends were amazed at the calm that seemed to pervade that man's heart respecting that son. But to one who questioned him upon the subject he said, "I feel the profoundest assurance that he will be saved. I am enabled by the spirit so to pray for him that I cannot be mistaken." The sather died, and the erring son came home, and nt his old father's grave ne gave nis oeart to aesusi Tell those for whom you labor to beware lest they so act as to seclude themselves from the warm, hopeful prayers of believers. Only think of the condition of a soul for whom no one hopefully prays! Tell them so to act as that their souls may nestle among the devout affections of praying: friends. And let U3 all ftrlve to get the souls of those for whom we labor so down into our heart of hearts as that we can say to ourselves, "I am sura the blessing will coma on them, because 1 have them in my heart[W. P. Breed. Chargeable to the Saloons. The aggregate annual cost of maintaining the criminal courts, the police, and the departments of charity ana correction of this city (New York) is about $8,800,000. It is estimated that from 70 to 75 per cent, of this sum is fairly chargeable to the saloons. Less than one-fourth in amount of this great burden imposed upon taxpayers is at present paid by the saloon-keepers in the way of license fees. But even if these fees were so increased as to cover the $8,000,000 outlay, it would still be very bad ?conomy,pecuniary, physical and moral, to perpetuate the business of legalized liquor-selling. The physical deterioration and suffering, the heart-ache, the ruined lives and homes no amount of money can compensate for,?National, i Temperance Advocate, 1 -r '/ . ' rv-'i, , : . v: |p t I A. ROYAL CRIPPLE. WHF A CROWN PRINCE HAS A SHORTENED ARM. A German Dootor Who Felt Insulted by Foreign Interference? An Arm That Was Fractnred Through Carelessness. There appears in the New York Medical Record, which has given the subject of the late Emperor William's and the present German Emperor's illness more than ordinary attention, an account of Crown Prince William and the causes to which are due hi3 crippled arm. It will go far, says the New York Herald, toward disabusing people of the belief that Prince William is afflicted with any disease of a scrofulous nature, reports to that effect haviDg recently been sent to English and American papers from Berlin." Dr. George F. Shrady, the editor of the Record, said, when called upon at hi3 residence: "Yes, we have a very interesting story, and I don't mind telling it to the UercUd. Its author doesn't wish to be known, but he is a physician who attended the gymnasium with the Crown Prince William, and his information is entirely trustworthy. "The present difficulty of the Crown Prince William dates from his birth, when a fracture of the left arm occurred which resulted in that member being about two inches shorter than the other. "Prior to the birth of her child Empress Victoria, the then Crown Princess, was seriously ill, and her mother, Queen Victoria, despatched from London two English obstetricians to attend to her. These physicians found themselves unable to cope with the difficulty that presented itself and then arrived the necessity for a consultation. * "A messenger was despatched for < Professor Martin, ihe elder, since dead, * ii i-*- ii. _ I WHO at tne lime was mgu 111 lug uircica i of the court and president of one of the universities. Pigued at the introduction of the Englishman in the case, to the exclusion of those of the Fatherland, the eminent scientist returned this answer: 'If I was not able to attend to the Crown Princess in the first place I am not able to do it now.' "Informed of this brusque reply of Professor Martin, Emperor William, at that time King of Prussia, issued an imperial edict ordering the obdurate physician to attend the Crown Princess. Such a summons had to be obeyed. Professor Martin went to the palace. He was conducted into the presence of the Crown Princess, where were the two English obstetricians. Saluting the Crown Prince, who was in the apartmept, the German physician silently gave his attention to tne royal mother, overcame the difficulty that had puzzled the London doctors, placed the new born infant in the arms of a nurse, I bowed stiffly to the two professional! gentlemen from England and retired j from the apartment without uttering a ! word. "Here was the spectacle of a proua, scientific man who would Dot unbend for royalty. He had performed his | duty, in taciturn manner it 'is true, but that was all. j "Professor Martin was dismissed from court. "When the little Prince was three or four days old it was discovered that his left arm was fractured a short distance from the shoulder. "Who broke it? Did the accident occur through the agency of Professor Martin, or while the bnbe was in the care of its English attendants? That question has never been answered, probably never will be. The doctor who broke the arm felt the snap of the infantile bone. From the nature of things he would keep the new3 to himself, fearing to have it known that to him belonged the blame. "The fracture of a newly born infant's arm is not an unusual occurrence, and is not regarded in the medical profession as serious or attended by great danger. In this case; however, when the bones knit the left arm of the Prince was Bhorter than the right, and it has ever since so remained. "It has been stated at different timc3 that Prince William's eyes were bad. Had this been the case he could never have passed through the gymnasium. When he graduated, the young Prince, though bright and possessed of a thorough education, yet stood No. 17 in his class. This shows the impartiality of the German professors in dealing with students of the royal blood. "From this story there can be no wonder at the deep rooted prejudice in the Prince's mind against what he naturally considers the interference of foreign, particularly English, doctors in the case of his father. Whenever he glances down at his shortened left arm there J must occur to him the thought that but for the meddling in his case it might have been as perfect as he is in every other particular." English Football Accidents. Serious accidents at football again na9t reflections unon that game as played in certain districts. We reported yesterday the death of a young man at Manchester from the violence of a collision between him and another player. The game was played on Saturday under the Kugby rules, and the victim suffered such injury to the spine that he died on Sunday morning. We reported in the same paragraph another collision between Coventry players at Rugby, resulting in a case pf "concussion of the brain and other serious injuries." In addition to these cases we have now to note that at Hexham a schoolmaster who took part in one of Saturday's matches is lying dangerously ill in consequence of injuries received in a manner which one shudders to read of in the local accounts of the game. He had got the ball and ho was ' seized by two of the Hexham Star players aud thrown into the air. He fell heavily on the back part of his bead and neck." He was taken away in a state of acute suffering. Paralysis of the lower part of his body resulted, and his condition is described as critical in the extreme. As thus played, football is not jo much a lively as a deadly game. ? J Tam sJstrt Diphtheria From Poultry. In Skiatos, one of the Grecian isles, there had been no case of diphtheria for over thirty years until the summer of 1834, when a child died of the disease, and in course of five months there were over one hundred cases with thirty-six deaths in a community of about four thousand. Careful investigations of the origin of the epidemic resulted in tracing it to a flock of infected turkeys received from Falonica, and which on examination showed unmistakable evidence of the diphtheria process.- Dr. Paulinis, the reporter (Bulletin Medical), concluded from this experience that the diphtheria ? of the ordinary barn-yard fowls was similar in its course and symptoms to the disease occurring in man, and that it could be carried from the one to the other, sometimes through the BD&dium of I the air.?Chicago Nr** 4 * ' ws Fur-Seals Almost Extinet The fur-Beal was once very abundant in many places. It is now found only on the Alaska coa9t, on two Russian islands in Behring sea, and at Lobos islands, belonging to Buenos Ayres and vigilantly guarded by that government. Hunting for seal-rookeries was, early in the present century, a favorite venture among New England seamen, and some of the most important discoveries were made by them. But they very quickly exterminated the valuable animals, though the first discoverers had large fortunes. From the South Shetland islands, off Cape Horn, 3,000,000 skins were taken in two years, aud that closed out the rookery. Kerguelenland in the Indian ocean, in- twenty years yielded a million skins, but the animals were then exterminated. Massafuero, near Juan Fernandez Island, yielded 50,000 skins per annum for several years, but was then abandoned, there being no seals left. South Ceorgia island, south of Cape Horn, yielded during a few years 1,200,000 skin, but this island is no InnrrAi* rioitnrl hv fur.Qoalpra The world's supply of seaiskin jackets now comes entirely from our own rookeries in Alaska and from those on two Russian islands, and an animal which seventy years ago was found by millions in many parts of the world has at lost been penned up in the Behring sea. The seal on the Alaskan islands have, in the eighteen years since the United States bought Alaska, repaid almost its entire cost. Russia received from the United States $7,200,000, and the company to which the government leased the sole right to take seal, with the restriction to kill only males and only a certain number each year, has paid the government in eighteen years $6,000,000. At the same time reports of government inspectors show that the seal are more numerous now than they were in 1870. The policy of rigidly preserving this fishery is, therefore, so justified that it is probable all govern ments having coasts on which tne furseal is likely to breed will be tempted to join the United States in a mutual agreement for their preservation.?Chicago Neuis. Men Slain Daring the Civil War. Official returns show that about 2,653,000 soldiers enlisted during the war, in response to the successive calls of President Lincoln, and that of this number 186,097 were colored troops. Reports show that the Northern and Southern armies met in over two thousand skirmishes and battles. In 148 of these conflicts the loss on the Federal side was over 500 men, and in at least ten battles over 10,000 men were reported lost on each side. The combined losses of the Federal and Confederate forces in killed, wounded and missing in the following engagements were: Shiloh, 24,000; Antietam, 18,000; Stone River, 22,000; Chickamauga, 33,uuu; Mcuieulan's Peninsula campaign, 50,000; Grant's Peninsula campaign, 140,000, and Sherman's campaign, 80,000. Official statistics show that of the 2,653,000 men enlisted there were killed in battle 44.238; died of wounds, 49,205; died of disease, 186,216; died of unknown causes, 24,184; total, 303,843. This includes only those whose death while in the army had been actually proved. To this number should be added, first, 26,000 men who are known to have died while in the hands of the enemy as prisoners of war, and many other3 in the same manner whose deaths are unrecorded; second, a fair percentage of the 205,704 men who are put down on the official reports as deserters, or missing in action, for those who participated in the war know that men frequently disappeared, who, it was certain, had not deserted, yet could not be otherwise officially accounted for; third, thousands who are buried in private cemeteries all over the North who died while at home on furlough. The dead are buried in seventy-three national cemeteries. The total Confederate loss will never be known, but the best estimates place it at about 220,000 men out of 1,000,000 men who served in the Southern armies. ?New York Newt, Gold and Silrer of Colorado. The precious and superior metal production of the State of Colorado to aate amounts to something over $300,000,000, or an amount equal to the earnings of 1200 men for twenty-five years, allowing $1000 per year for each man. As extensive mining in this State does not date back as far as twenty-five years, and if it is an undisputable fact that the average number of miners employed does not aggregate 12,000 men, it must be apparent that a great profit ha3 been made by those who advanced the money necessary to conduct the mining operations of this State. . This assertion is further demonstrated by the vast amount of money disbursed by Colorado mines in dividends during the last decade. The total amount of dividends and profits paid by the mines of this State during the last decade will fall little short of $50,000,000. This does not include the earnings from coal, iron and other mines. The production of the State may ?1- im qo -f/\1 lrvara finld. prupcnj ucuiTiuvu av*?v i>^. v.w.^ $83,000,000; silver, $180,000,000; lead, $32,000,000, and copper, $5,750,000; making a total of $300,750,000. The accuracy of these figures is quite satisfactorily substantiated by various United States mint and geological reports and statistics compiled by the last Census Bureau. These aggregates show most creditably for a new country like Colorndo, which only a score of years ago was regarded as comparatively valueless, and was separated from the outside world by nearly 700 miles of intervening and arid plains.?Denver Republican. Not Sncli a Hard Bargain. Not long since a party of young men went from Boston to a country town in Maine for a few day's fishing. They had a full outfit of "tackle" and "gear," and upon arrival at their destination stood in need of but one thing?bait. After consulting their local adviser they secured the services of an ancient resident, who started out to dig the needed worms. He was gone three or four hours, but to good purpose, for when ho returned he had a water bucket even full of a wriggling mass of earthworms. Now this was more than the boys had bargained for, and thoughts what such an unheard-of wealth of bait would cost began to trouble them. To end their susj ense they appointed one of their number spokesman, with plenary powers, but with instructions to make the best bargain possible. "How much do we owe you?" ho asked, approaching the venerable bait digger ana tauing otic nis wallet. "Well, I don't rightly know," rejoined the old man; "the ground is kinder solid and the worms is fur down, and its been hard on my back to dig 'em. Bat I've half a notion to go fishin' myself to-morrow, and if you'll give me half the bait we'll call it square."?Boston Herald Nightcape as articles of dress, except in antiquated farces and amateur theatricals, have gone out of fashion. = POPULAB SCIENCE. . A steel car-wheel is expected to ran jjg 50,000 miles, but very few of them ever. make that distance. A gun of 150 tons weight is now being . \ constructed at Essen, Germany, by vj Km pp. It is similar to the 120 ton gun, but is looger, and will have a much m greater range. The Engineer says there is no properly recorded instance of a locomotive ever ; attaining a greater speed than 80 mites an hour, and quotes Charles li. Martin as saying that higher speeds are mythical. ? If gelatine be suspended in ordinary > alcohol it will absorb the water; but as ?? it is insoluble in alcohol, that substance jg will remain behind, and thus nearly absolute alcohol may be obtained without" tof lllofirtn A Pittsburg mechanical engineer has . invented a novel movable dam, by the 1 use of which he claimsa boating stage of s-\ water may be obtained in shallow rivers . - ^ at all seasons of the year. The invention has been examined by old river-men and pronounced practicable. The inventor is 82 years old. Chronic poisoning by coffee has been studied by Gueiliot, of Reins, who finds it among well-to-do overfed individuals, while tea-poisoning occurs in hard* worked ana half-starved women. The symptoms of coffee-poisoning are want of appetite, sleeplessness, and nervous tremblings, with various indications of indigestion and torpor of liver. Experiments have proved that the ten- ... eile strength of a wet rope is only onethird that of the same rope wh^n'dry; and a rope saturated with grease or soap is weaker still, as the lubricant permits the fibres to slip with greater facility. y'% Hemp-rope contracts strongly on being wot >ind a rlrv roriH twentv.five feet lone will shorten to twenty-four on being i wet. . Oil of peppermint in vapor, diluted ^ even to one part in 100,000, wilL kill cockroaches in an hour, they dying- in convulsions. One drop of the oil placed under a bell-jar covering a cultivation of I cholera bacilli will kill both bacilli and spores in 48 hours. It is also regarded. as among the best surgical antiseptics, . C; and of great value in phthisis and diph* theria. The theory that the increased brittleness of human bones with ad van ring years is the result , of an increased per/tpn+arro nf innrtronin aolffl ia by the experiments of Mr. Mason. From determinations of the ash in bones of fifty subjects of different ages, ho has found .... . .~Jj that after reaching manhood no variation in thje quantity of ash takes place with increasing age. A comparison or the lengths of the first and - third fingers, has been many years in progress. Ancient Greek art '^fi, seems to have found the greater heauty in a longer fore-finger, but in the Apollo Belvidere there is no appreciable difference in the lengths of the two. Gorillas, orang-outangs and bushmen have a longer third finger, while among Europeans and Americans the longer finger is sometimes the first, sometimes the third, and sometimes both appear of qual length. Ten species of North American birds are named by Mr. E. M Hasbrouck as missing. Of these, two?the great auk ^ ' and the Labrador duck?are believed to have become extinct, while the following eight, through scarcity or diminutiveil ess, were "lost" with "the taking of the first specimens, and are now beings eagerly sought: The carbonatea warbler, blue mountain warbler, smallheaded warbler, Cuvier's kinglet, Town- > send's bunting, Brewster's linnet^ Bach man's warbler and the Cincinnati warbler. In Bome experiments with ozone as a mtrafirp on T"nerlioVi l?i)v an far "3 re>?> ? ??;? -?j, ? ^ advanced in consumption that her case appeared hopeless, has been treated with ?? inhalations of this gas, with results described as marvelous. After a month'* treatment the appetite was regained, the sleep calm and refreshing, ana there was jj* a very good prospect of recovery. The ozono was prepared by passing a stream . of oxygen through the current of an induction coil, and was administered withi atmospheric air in the proportion of one in five. The experimenter ha9 reached .* the conclusion that the ozone treatment is specially applicable to all germ diseases. Yalue of Intelligence In a Horse. in selecting a iamuy norse, tne nrst re* quisite is intelligence. If the animal be intelligent he is pretty sure to be safe, whereas even a gentle horse who is stupid is always a source of possible danger. He may be so lazy and lifeless that the most timid woman would not fear to drive him, and yet if he lacks mind, he will be pretty sure to kick the carriage into pieces or run away whenever any? thing breaks. On the other hand, it i{ almost-impossible to scare a really intel* ligent horse. He may be disconcerted! ' or alarmed, but he won't lose his heacU It is, however, astonishing how little interest in this all-important question of intellect the usual horse dealer takes. The reason probably is that he feels per fectly competent to manage any horse, no matter what the animal's character may be, and he regards him simply as a beast of burden, and not in the least as a companion or a friend. An acquaintance of mine sent a very shrewd jockey to Kentucky for the purpose of selecting a saddle-horse.' He brought back a handsome animal, thoroughly trained and perfectly satisfactory to his new owner. But anybody who had studied horses] eye9, would have seen at a glance thai the high-priced "saddler" was a fool,: aud so he turned out to be, for he was easily frigthened, and he finally ran away, and had to be sold in disgrace.? Boston Press. rrovided His Own Gallows. In " The Land of Tin," in the Antiquart/, it is related how in 1549, tho Mayor cf Bodmin, England, was cruelly and treacherously executed. When tha Cornish rebels had encamped in tho neighborhood the inhabitants of tho town obliged their Mayor to allow them the ncccssary provisions. Afler the defeat of the insurgents near Exeter, tho Provost-Marshal, tfir Anthony Kingston, was sent to Cornwall to bring the fugitives to justice. He at once communicated wilh the Mayor, and told him that he would be his guest. On the day fixed he arrived with a train of followers, and before dinner ho took tha Mayor aside to toil him that one of tha townspeople was to be executed, and defiired that a gallows might be prepared. The Mayor treated his guest with hospitality, and when dinner was ended the party proceeded to the gailows. The Provost took the Mayor by the arm and asked whether ha thought it waa strong enough. 4'Vcs, doubtless it i3,"' an3wercd tho Mayor. "Well, then." said the Provost, "get thee up speedily, for it is prepared for thee, as thou has been a busy rebel." No remonstrances were of any avail, and the poor Mayor was hanged without, further parley. J V: