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THX BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. .Subject: "Does Religion Prolong J \ Life ?" * 7^- Text : " With long life will I satisfy | Aim."?Psalms xci., 16. > Through the mistake of its friends religion has been chiefly associated with sick beds and graveyards. Ihe whole subject to many i people is odorous with chlorine and carbolic f acid. There are people who cannot pro ' nounce the word religion without hearing in I it the clipping chisel of the tombstone cutI ter. It is high time that this thing were changed and that religion, instead of being x represented as a hearse to carry out tne aeaa, should be represented as a chariot in which the living are to triumph. Religion, so far from subtracting from one's vitality, is a glorious addition. It is sanative, curative, hygienic. It is good for the eyes, good for the ears, good for the pleen, good for the digestion, good for the ! nerves, good for the muscles. When David, in another part of the Psalms, prays that religion may be dominant he does not speak of it as a mild sickness, or an emaciation, or an attack of moral and spiritual cramp; he speaks of it as "the saving health of all nations;" while God. in the text, promises longevity to the pious, saying; " n ith long life will I satisfy him." Tbefactis that men and women die too soon. It is high time that religion joined the hand of medical science iu attempting to improve human longevity. Adam lived nine nundred and thirty years. Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty- nine years. As late i in the history of the world as Vespasian, there were at one time in his empire fortyfive people one hundred and thirty-five years old. So far down as the Sixteenth century, Peter Zartan died at one hundred and eightyfive years of age. I da uOt say that religion $ will ever take the race back to ante-diluvian longevity, but I do say the length of human life will be greatly improved It is said in Isaiah: ''The child shall die a hundred years old" f-'ow, if according to Scripture the child is to be a hundred years old, may not the men and women reach to three hundred and four hundred and five hundred? The fact is that we are mere dwarfs and skeletons compared with some of * the generations that are to coma Take the African race. They have been under bondage for centuries. Give them a chance and they develop a Frederick Douglass or a Toussaint L'Ouverture. And if the white race shall be brought from under the serfdom of sin, what shall be the body? What shall be ^ the soul? Religion has only just touched our world. Give it'full power for a few centuries, and who can tell what will be the strength of man and the beauty of woman and the -longevity of all. My design is to show that practical religion is the friend of long life. I prove it, first, from the fact that it makes the care of our health a positive Christian duty. Whether we shall keep early or late hours, whether we shall take food digestible or indigestible, whether there shall be thorough or incomplete mastication, are questions very often deferred to the realms of whimsicality; but the Christian man lifts this whole Soblem of health into the accountable and e divine. He says: "God has given me . this body, and Ke has called it the temple of the Holy Ghost, and to deface its altars or mar its walls or crumble its pillars is a God defying sacrilege." He sees God 8 caligraphy in every pageanatomical and physiological. He says: "God has given me a wonderful body for noble purposes." That arm with thirty-two curious bones wielded by forty-six curious muscles, and all under the brain's telegraphy; S50 pounds of blood rushing through the heart every hour, the heart in twenty-four hours beating 100-, 000 times, during the twenty-four hours overcoming resistances amounting to 234.003,000 pounds of weight, during the same time the lungs taking in fifty-seven hogs.heada of air, and all this mechanism not more mighty than delicate and easily disturbed and demolished The Christian man says to himself: "If I hurt my nerves, if 1 hurt my brain, if I hurt any of my physical faculties I insult God and call for dire retribution." Why did God tell the Levites not to offer to him in sacrifice animals imperfect and diseased/ He meant . to tall us in all the ages that we are to offer to God our very best physical condition, and a man who through irregular or gluttonous ating ruins his health is not offering to God audi a sacrifice. Why did Paul write for his cloak, at Troas? Why should such a great as Faul be anxious about a thing so insignificant as an overcoat? It was because ~ be knew that with pneumonia and rheuma* QKm oe woiua not uo worm uoil as iuucu wj God and the church as with respiration easy and foot free. An intelligent Christian man would consider it an absurdity to kneel down at night and pray and ask God's protection while at the same time he kept the windows of his bed room tight shut against fresh air. He would just as soon think of going out on the bridge between New York and Brooklyn, I leaping off and then praying to God to keep him from getting hurt Just as long as you defer this whole subject of physical health to the realm of whimsicality or to the pastry r cook or to the batcher or to the baker or to the apothecary or to the clothier, you are not acting like a Christian. Take care of all your physical forces?nervous, muscular, Done, brain cellular tissue?for all you must be brought to judgment. , Smoking your nervous system into fidgets, burning out the coating of your stomach with wine logwooded ana strychnined, walkto - ing with thin shoes to make your feet look delicate, pinched at the waist until you are ' well nigh cut in two, and neither part worth anything, groaning about sich headache ana palpitation of the heart, which you think came from God, when they came from youi own folly. What right has any man or woman to deface the temple of the Holy Ghost? What is the ear? Why, it is the whispering gallery of the human soul. What is the eye? It is the observatory God constructed, its telescope sweeping the heavens. What is the hand? An instrument so wonderful that when the Earl of Bridgewater bequeathed in ?111 Of 4 A AAA fMAnficac Ia Krv WTMffxm ATI mm win fiv,vw xui ucavisog wv ww ????v?? the wisdom, power and goodness of God, Sir Charles Bel], the great English anatomist and surgeon, found his greatest illustration in the construction of the human hand, devoting his whole book to that subject. So wonderful are these bodies that God names his own attributes after different parts of them- * His omniscience?it is God's eye. His omnipresence?it is God's ear. His omnipotence?it is God's arm. The upholstery of the midnight heavens?it is the work Of God's fingers. His life giving power?it is the breaoh of the Almighty. His dominion?"the government shall be upon his shoulder." A body so divinely honored and *o divinely constructed, let us be careful not to abuse it. When it becomes a Christian duty to take care of our health, is not the whole tendency toward longevity? If I toss ray watch about recklessly and drop it on ihe pavement and wind it up any time of day or night I happen to think of it, and often let it run down, while you are careful with your watch and never abuse it and wind it up just at the > same hour every night and put in a place where it will not suffer from the violent changes of atmosphere, which watch will last the longer? Common sens3 answers. Now the human body is God's watch. You see the hands of the watch, you see the face of the watch, but the beating of the heart is the ticking of the watch. Oh, be careful and do not let it run down! Again, I remark that practical religion is a friend of longevity in the fact that it is a protest against dissipations which injure and destroy the health. Bad men and women lire a very short life. Their sins kill them. I know hundreds of good old men, but I do sot know half a dozen bad old men. Why? They do not get old. Lord Byron died at Missolonghi at thirty-six years of age, himself his own Mazeppa, his unbridled passions -the horse that dashed with him into the desert. Edgar A. Poe died at Baltimore at thirty-eight years of age. The black raven that alighted on the bust above his chamber door was delirium tremens? Only this and nothing more. Napoleon Bonaparte live 1 only just beyond midlife, then died at St. Helena, and one of his doctors said that his disease was induced by excessive snuffing. The hero of Austerlitz, the man who by one step of his foot in the center of Europe shook the earth, killed by a snuff box. Ohf how many people we have known who have not lived out half their days because of their d ssipations and indulgences! Now practical religion is a protest against all dissipation of any kind. "But," you say, ''professors of religion w? have fallen, professors of religion have got drank, professors of religion have misappro?riatei trust funds, professors of religtyn ave absconded." Yes; but they threw away their religion before they did their morality. II a man on a White Star line steamat bound : -v, Vv,s ' k< ' for Liverpool in mid-Atlantic jumps overboard and is drowned, is that anything a?a;nst the White Star line's capacity to take the man across the ocean' And if a man jumps over the gunwale of his religion and goes down never to rise, is that any reason for vour believing that religion has no capacity to take the man clear through? In the one case if he had kept to the steamer his body would have been saved; in the other case, if he bad kept to his religion his morals would have been saved. There are aged people who would have been dead twenty-five years ago but for the defenses and the equipoise of religion. You have no more natural resistance than hundreds of reople who lie in the cemeteries today. slain by their own vices. The doctors made their case as kind and pleasant as they could, and it was called congestion of tha k""1" oAmafKmcf olea Ktif. fKn mnlrAfl nnfl the blueflies that seemed to crawl over the pillow in the sight of the delirious patient showed what was the matter with him. You, the aged Christian man, walked along by that unhappy one until you came to the go'den pillar of a Christian life. That is all the difference between you. Oh, If this religion is a protest against all forms of dissipation. theD it is an illustrious friend of longevity. "With long life will I satisfy him." Again, religion is a friend of longevity in the lact that it takes the worry out of our temporalities. It is not work that kills men, it is worry. When a man becomes a genuine Christian he makes over to God not only his affections but his family, his business, his reputation, his body, his mind, his soul? everything. Industrious he will be, but never worrying, becau'ie God is managing his affairs. How can he worrv about business when in answer to his prayers God tells him when to buy and when to se 1; and if he gain that is best, and if he lose that is best? Suppose you had a supernatural neighbor who*came in and said: ''Sir, 1 want you to call on me in every exigency; I an your fast friend; I could fall back on ?20,000,000; lean foresee a panic ten years; I hold the controlling stock in thirty of the best monetary institutions of New York; whenever you are in trouble call on me and I will help you, you can have my money and you can have my influence; here is my hand in pledge for it" How much would you worry about business? Why, you would say: "I'll do the best I can, and "then I'll depend on my friend's generosity for the rest." Now more than that is promised to every Christian business man. God says to him: "I own New York and London and St. Petersburg and Pekin, and Australia and California are mine; I can foresee a pan.'c a million years; I have all the resources of the universe, and I am your fast friend; when you get in business trouble or any other trouble, call on me and I will help; here is my hand" in pledge of omnipotent deliverance." How much should that man worry? Not much. What lion will dare to put his paw on that Daniel? Is there not rest in this? Is there not an eternal vacation in this? "Oh," you say. "here is a man who asked God for a blessing in a certain enterprise, and he lost Ave thousand dollars in it. Explain that." I will. Yonder is a factory, and one wheel is going north and the other wheel is going south, and one wheel plays laterally and the other plays vertically. I 50 to the manufacturer and I say: "0 manufacturer, your machinery is a contradiction. Way do vou not make all the wheels go one way?" "Well," he says, "I made them to go in apposite directions on purpose, and they produce the right result. You go downstairs and examine the carpets we are turning out in this establishment and you will sea." I go down on the other lloor and I see the carpets, and I am obliged to confess that though the wheels in that factory go in opposite directions they turn out a beautiful result; and while I am standing there looking at the exquisite fabric an old Scripture passage comes into my mind: ''All things work together for good to them who love God." Is there not rest in that? Is there not tonic in that? Is there not longevity in chat? Suppose & man is all the time worried about his reputation. One man says he lies, another says he is stupid, another says he is dishonest, and half a dozen printing establishments attack him. and ne is in a great state of excitement and worry and fume, and cannot sleep; but religion comes to him and says: "Man, God i3 on your side; he will take care of your reputation; if God be for you, who can be against you?" How much should that man worry about his reputation? Not much. If that broker who some years ago in Wall street, after he had lost money, sat down and wrote a farewell letter to his wife before he blew his brains out?if instead of taking out of his pocket a piscoi ne naa tasen out a won reau New Testament there would have been one less suicide. Oh, nervous and feverish people of the world, try this almighty sedative. You will live twenty-five years longer under its soothing power. It is not chloral that you want, or morphine that you want; it is the Gospel of Jesus Christ "With long life will I satisfy him." Again, practical religion is a friend of longevity in the fact that it removes all corroding care about a future existence. Every man wants to know what is to become of him. If you get on board of a rail train you want to know at what depot it is going to stop; if you get on board a ship you want to know into what harbor it is going to run, and if you shall tell me you have no interest in what is to be your future destiny, I would in as polite a way as I knew how tell you I did not believe you. Before I had this matter settled with reference to my future existence the question almost worried me into ruined health. The anxieties men have upon this subject put together would make a martyrdom. This is a state of awful unheal thiness. There are people who fret themselves to death for fear of dying. I want to take the strain off your nerves and the depression off your soul, and I make two or three experiments. Experiment first: When you go out of this world it does not make any difference whether you have been good or bad, or whether you believed truth ' or error, you will go straight to elory. ''Impossible," you say; ''my common sense as well as my religion teaches that the bad and the good cannot live together forever. You give me no comfort in that experiment." Experiment the second: When you leave this world you will go into an intermediate state where you can get converted and prepared for heaven. "Impossible," you say; "as the tree falleth so it must lie, and I cannot postpone to an intermediate state reformation which ought to have been effected in this state." Experiment the third: There is no future world; when a man dies that is the last of him. Do not worry about what you are to do in another state of being; you will not do anyihing. "Impossible," you say; "there is something that tells me slnofh im ?r?f. fho nnnonHir hilt thA nrftf ace; there is something that tells me that on this side of the grave I only get started, and that I shall go on forever; mv power to think says 'forever,' my affections say 'forever,' my capacity to enjoy or suffer, 'forever.' " Well, you defeat me In my three experiments. I have only one more to make, and if you defeat me in that I am exhausted. A mighty One on a knoll back of Jerusalem one day?the skies filled with forked lightnings and the earth filled with volcanic disturbances?turned Hi3 pale and agonized face toward the hmvens and said: "I take the sins and sorrows of the ages into my own heart. I am the expiation, Witness earth and heaven anl hell, I am the expiation." And the hammer struck him, and the spears punctured hitn, an l heaven thundered: ''The wages of sin is death!" "The soul that sinneth it shall die!" "I will by no means clear the guilty?1' Then there wa3 silence for half an hour, and the lightnings were drawn back into the scabbard of the sky, and the earth ceased to quiver, and all the colors of the sky began to shift themselves into a rainbow woven out of the fallen tears of Jesus, and thore was red as of the blood shedding, and thpre was blue as of the bruising, and there was green cs of tho heavenly foliage, and there was orange as of the day dawn. And along the line of the blue I saw the words: "I was bruised for the'r iniquities." And alon* the Una of the red I saw the words: ' The b'.ood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin." And aloivg the line of the green I saw the words: ''Tiie leaves of the tree of life for the he-ilinj of all nations-"' And along the "line of t!ie orange I saw the words: " The day spring from on high hath visited us." And then I saw the storm was over, and ihe rainbow ro3e higher and higher, until it jeamei retreating to another heaven, and planting one column of its colors on one side the eternal hill and planting the other column of its colors on the other side of the eternal hill, it rose upward and upward, "and behold there was a rainbow about the throne." Accept that sacrifice and quit worrying. Take tne tonic, the inspiration, the longevity of this truth. Religion is sunshine, that is health. Religion is fresh air and pure water, they are healthy. Religion is warmth, that is healthy. Ask all the doctors and they will tell you that a quiet conscience and pleasant anticipations are hygienio. I offer you perfect peace now and hereafter. -V-** " ' - - - , - - ' - _ . >;. ' ' * ;*'. '* /" "vrT' What do yon want in the future world? Tell me, and you shall have it Orchards? There are the trees with twelve manner of fruits, yelding fruit every month. Water scenery? There is the River of Life, from under the throne of God, clear as crystal, and the sea of glass mingled with fire. Do you. want music? There is the oratorio of the Creation led on by Adam, and the oratorio of the Red Sea le<i on by Moses, and the oratorio of the Messiah led on by St. Paul, while the archangel with swinging baton controls the one hundred and forty-four thousand who make up the orcha?: ra. Do you want reunion? There are your dead children waiting to kiss you, waiting to embrace you, waiting to twist garlands in your hair. You have been accustomed to open the door on this side of the sepulchre. I open the door on the other side of the sepulchre. You have been accustomed to walk in I Via nPACD An fVio f/%n nf fho orro tro T'ol^AW Jou the under side of tiie grave; the bottom as fallen out, and the Ion?: ropes with which the pall bearer let down your dead let them clear through into heaven. Glory be to Ged for this robust, healthy religion. It will have a tendency to make you live long in this worid, and in the world to come you will have eternal life. "With long life will I satisfy him." TEMPERANCE Watch the Boys. They laid him down with happy smilea In his tiny, curtained bed, They gently smoothed the pillow fair Where reposed his little head, And loving words from every one Gave greeting of joy to the first-born son. They watched around him day by day, Till the little limbs grew strong; They taught in simple, childlike words Of the ways of right and wrong, And loving hearts kept record sure Of each baby action so sweet and pure. They laid him down, with faces grave, In his coffin, cold and dread; No loving hand to spread the pall O'er the strangely silent dead,; No word of hope?in speechless awe They gazed on the face they should see no more. Far, far from home, in foreign soil, He was hid from mortal eye; No record of his life on earth, But 'tis written up on high? The story of a drunkard's shame, His wasted life and his blighted fame. ?Marietta. A. CasselU 'A German Medical View. At the recent Seventh Congress of Internal Medicine, held at Weisbaden, Germany, in connection with a discussion upon the use of alcoholic liquors in medicine, Dr. Binz, of Boon, acting as chairman, is reported as saying: "In order to define our position as physicians in our relation to the temperance and prohibition societies, I would express myself thus: All that I have said pertains to the sick. The healthy man has no need of alcohol, and if be indulges in ardent spirits ho does this solely for his own pleasure and his own risk I place alongside of the whisky nuisance the beer nuisance. The habit of taking alcoholic stimulants apart from meals is a public evil from a sanitary, economic, and intellectual point of view. The inveterate beer-drinker Is as much undf/y the dominion of alcohol as the brand/, ot whisky-drinker, and the greater sinner ot the two." Marshall Parting with the Bottle. A Congressional abstinence society was formed and Marshall swore off drinking. He made a speech before the Society which is perhaps the most eloquent temperance effort ever delivered in the Congressional halls, though the sentence containing it is as long as one of Senator Evarts' longest. It ran: "I would not exchange the physical sensations, the mere sense of animal being, which belong to a man who totally reframs from all that can intoxicate his brain or derange his nervous structure, the elasticity with which he bounds from the couch in the morning, the sweet repose it yields him at night, the feeling with which be drinks in, through hs clear eyes, the beauty and tbe grandeur of surrounding nature; I say, sir, I will not exchange my conscious being as a strictly temperate man, the sense of renovated youth, the glad play with which my pulses now beat a healthful music, the bounding vivacity with which the life blood courses its exulting way through every fiber of my frame, the communion high which my healthful ear and eye now hold with all the gorgeous universe of God, the splendors of the morning, tbe softness of the evening sky, the bloom, the beauty, the verdure of the earth, the music of the air and of tbe waters; with all the grand associations of external nature reopened to the five avenues of sense;no, sir, though poverty dog me,though scorn pointed its slow finger at me as I passed, though want and destitution and every element of earthly misery, save only crime, met my waking eye from dav to day; not for tne brightest and noblest wreath that ever encircled a statesman's brow; not if some angel commissioned by heaven, or some demon sent fresh from hell to test the resisting strength of virtuous resolution, should tenjpt me DacK, witn au tne weaitn and all thehonors which a world can bestow; not for all that time and earth can give, would I cast from me this precious pledge of a liberated mind, this talisman agamst temptation, and plunge again into tne dangers and horrors which once beset my path. So help me heaven, as I would spurn beneath my very feet all the gifts the universe could offer, and live and die as 1 am{ poor, but sober." Notwithstanding this speech, however, Marshall broke his pledge, and there is a mnn still living at Washington who took care of bim during some of his after-attacks of delirium tremens. It is said that his first drinking was caused by a disappointment in love, ana it may have been that he would have been a sober man had this not occurred. ?New York Sun. Coffee Rooms. It is said that many of the liquor dealers in Philadelphia who have been refused licenses by tne excise court have determined to continue their places as milk and luncheon shops. It would certainly seem as though the closing up of fourteen or fifteen hundred beer and "free lunch" resorts in one city ought to leave some openings for a trade like that now proposed. It is natural to suppose that at least a few of the men who have been in the custom of quenching their thirst or satisfying their hunger in the saloons will now turn for the same purpose to the more convenient eating-houses. The saloons, however, hold out certain inducements to wayfaring men that the ordinary milk and luncheon shops do not possesa The former furnish not only food and drink, but they furnish the refreshment of rest. The saloon nnfiwnrs to its natron man v of the purposes of a club-house, a place of rendezvous, o'f social entertainment. He must patronize the bar to- a greater or less extent, but aftei that the privileges of the place are open to him; be may read the papers or play cards, or tell stories with his boon companions. The restaurants do not offer these privileges to their patrons. As soon as the latter have completed the particular business on which they came, they are expected to make way for others. The restaurant does not hold itself out as a place for anything else than the furnishing of food and drink, and for this reason it aces not; take the p1 ace of the saloon. This leads us to the consideration of the question whether some substitute can not be found for the saloon which will include such harmless and proper accompaniments as the saloon may possess without its dangerous and degrading ones. In England this question has been answered very satisfactorily in the establisement of coffee-houses, places that combine the features of a restaurant with those of an unpretentious but inviting clubroom. It will be remembered that an attempt was made about two years ago to introduce a coffee-house system in New York, modeled after the English plan. A com mittee of prominent citizens was appointed to take the subject under consideration. After carefully looking over the ground they came to the conclusion that the scheme was not a practicable ono, and was therefore dropped. In spite of this, however, we believo that coffee houses are needed in our I large cities to-day as much as they are in England, and that in this way lies one of the I most practical and effective agencies for the overthrow of the saloon power. In a city like New York, where there is always a large floating population, where many are forced to live amid the cheerless and forbidding ' surroundings of the tenements and lodging | houses, some provision must be made for | meeting the social needs oI the people. The saloon meets them to some extent, and herein lies a large part of its power for evil. Statistics show that the coffee houses of England have had a decided effect in decreasing drunkenness and crime. We are confident that like results would follow their introduction here. In the establishment of an American coffee house system there is an opportunity far a large and noble philanthropic effort?New York Obftrver. RELIGIOUS READING. Hii Care. God holds tke key of all unknown, And I am glad; If other hands should hold the key, Or If he trusted it to me, I might be sad. What if tomorrow's cares were here Without its rest? I had rather he unlock the day, * And as the doors swing open say, "My will is best." The very dimness of my sight Make? me secure, For groping in my misty way, I feel his hand?I hear him say, "My help is sure." I cannot read his future plan, But this I know, I have the smiline of his face. And all the refuge of his grace, While here below. Enough; this covers all my want, And so I rest: For what I cannot he can see, And in his care I soon shall be, Forever blest. VopUd/i Conversion on the lord'i Oajr. More than a hundred years have passed since ayoung man in England, who belonged to a pious family, but was himself, far from God, was to find God by strange means. He had been the child of many prayers, but to all the entreaties of his pious mother and others he answered by inwardly resolving not to become a Christian. When he and his mother were on a visit to Ireland, on the Lord's day, they went to a place where a good man was going to preach. He was very earnest in his sermon, and put the auestion to the unsaved present, whether ley would give themselves to Christ or remain ' rebels? Every time the young man said in his own heart, 'I will not yield, I ' will not yield." His heart was hardened against God's grace, and at the close of the sermon it seemed to be harder than ever it had been. When the sermon was finished, the minister gave out a hymn. It begins: "Come, ye sinnerc, poor and needy, Weak and Wounded; sick and sore." The congregation, stirred by the earnest sermon, sung the hymn with their whole heart. And what a sermon could not do, the singing of the hymn did. It broke the hard, unyielding heart. He found God and gave himself to him. He lived to be an honored preacher of the gospel He was Augustus Toplady, the author of the great hymn? "Rock of Ages, cleft for me. Let me hide myself in thee." ?[Exchange, Trouble In Israel. National sin had brought national punishment and threatened national ruin. Elijah, directed by Jehovah's spirit, had rebuked both king and kingdom, by lockingthe heavers with the hand of prayer. For three years and six months no drop of rain or dew had fallen. Those three years were mostly spent in a bootless search for the weird Tishbite, whom the Lord had hidden. At last he meets the haughty, angry Ahab in the dusty highway. "Art thou he that troubloth Terpfll 7" Bnnrfcpri fh? lrlnc in & paroxysm of rage. All unmindful of his sin in leading Israel to worship Baal and Ashterotb, which had brought this great calamity upon the land, he was cursing the prophet who had the courage to speak out in reproof. With placid dignity the prophet repliea: "I have not troubled Israel; but thou and thy father's house, in tbat ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baal," (L Kings 18: 17, 18). Who was the cause of the trouble, the faithful prophet of righteousness, or the unfaithful, wicked, adolatrous monarch. But history repeats itself. There are still sinners in Zicn. These disturb the peace of the church. Ar.d if any one, be he bishop, pastor, or editor, says a reproving word, straightway he is accused of "troubling Israel" and "hammering the erring brethren," and so creating discord I Strange casuistry this! It would be much better to repent of the sins which disturb the peace of tho church, than to 6cold and curse the prophets who speak earnest words of truth on the situation.?[Evangelical Messenger. Any One bat XeiQi. This sentiment was involved in the choice of those Jews who, when asked by Pilate; "Shnll I crucify your king?1' replied "We have no king but Caesar." Tne boast of their Talmud was, "Israel has no king but God." Their submission to Caesar was forced. Fain would they have broken his hated yoke. Yet, so muca greater was tneir natreaoi Jesus that they could answer Pilate as they did. Meaning a lie, they spoke a truth. For, casting off allegiance to God by rejecting his Son, and acknowledging Caesar as their king, they had chosen an earthly rather than the heavenly ruler, and temporal in preference to eternal blessings. With so sensual a choice, Caesar was a fit king for them. Pilate's question had brought Jesus and Caesar into direct competition. Knowing their hatred towards his emperor, the wily Roman may have intended to force upon them this humiliating choice. Be this as it may, their answer expresses their purpose to submit to any humiliation, rather than to own Jesus as their king. Any one but Jesus?this was the language of their hearts. This spirit was again shown when Pilate proposed to release, at their choice, either the notorious criminal, Barabbas,or the faultless Jesus. Pilate did not think it possible they could make choice of so black a criminal But he had not calculated the depth of their hate towards the Christ, for no sooner had he pointed to the latter and asked if he should release him, than they cried out, "Not this man, but Barabbas." Barabbas or Jesus as a companion? Caesar or Christ as king? These were the two choices that were given these people, to test their spirit; and when they proniptly decided for Barabbas and Caesar, they showed that they were determined to choose any one but Jesus. This choice may seem shocking; and yet it is paralleled by the moral disposition which now denies or withholds allegiance from the Christ. This may be seen by reflecting upon some of Christ's requirements and the way multitudes treat them. He calls upon all to repent and trust in him for salvation; but Satan tempts them to stand upon their personal merit and they adopt the pleasing suggestion. Or, though they may not realize the fact, they turn away from Jesus, and choose the leadership of Satan. Any one but Jesus. Jesus also offers himself to these as their hope; Aut the world steps forward as his competuV. A choice they must make: Jesus or the world?which shall it be? A hope whose anchor is cast in the sea of this life, or that hope whose anchor is cast within the veil, whither, as a forerunner, Jesus entered for us? These rival hopes have contended for their choico and with what result? Aiasi the world has been chosen and the Son of God stands before them as the rejected rival. Any one but Jtsus. In a word, Jesus has come to every one and claimed His allegiance. The founder of a spiritual kingdom and their rightful sovereign, He has claimed the loyalty of all hearts. Or He comes to all now, as He did to those who first rejected Him. His claim to allegiance now and then Is the same. Then It was to acknowledge His kingly right to reign supremely over souls. Now it is exactly the same, Inen His claim to allegiance was reJ'ected with the declaration, "We have no :ing but Caesar." And how many now are treating His claim in the same way? To an earthly Cajsar, rather than to the heavenly Christ, is their allegiance paid. And this constant choice of submission to 6ome other authority than to that of King Jesus car. mean only this?anyone but Jesus. 0, tbat (iod by His Spirit would make all the rejecters of His Son to see the enormity of their sin.? CPteligious Herald. The Only Proper Attitude. The quadrennial address of the Bishops delivered at the M. E.Conference in New York, dealt with the liquor traffic as follows: "The liquor traffic is so pernicious in its bearings, so inimical to the interests of honest trade, so repugnant to the moral sense, so injurious to the peace and order of society, so hurtful to the home, to the church, and to the body politic, and so utterly antagonistic to all that is precious in life, that the only proper attitude toward it for Christians is that of relentless hostility. It can never be legalized without sin. No temporary device for regulating it can become a substitute for prohibition. License, high or low, is vicious in principle, and powerless as a remedy." An Indian, who is "in love with American firewater," has been arrested forty times at Porjt Huron, Michigan, for drunkenness, L _ .. :v.-".?,-r ....... ... ? QUAINT SANTA FE, j OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN AN OLD MEXICAN TOWN. Old Adobe Structures Erected Before America's Discovery?The Remarkable Santa Fe TrailSpanish Chiefly Spoken. An Atlanta Constitution correspondent sends the following graphic pen picture of Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico: When old St. Augustine, down in Florida, was but a barren stretch of sand and Mdendez was a child, Santa Fe was a town of considerable importance, although the face of a white man had never been seen by any of the inhabitants. There are now standing Bome of the adobe structu.es. that were erected here long before Christopher Columbus was born, and, if the stories of the old priests are to be believed, the church of San Miguel was built before Ferdinand and Isabella ascended the Spanish throne.' When the Spaniards came here, in 1582, they found a town of four or five hundred inhabitants, which was then, to all appearances, sereial centuries old. Its altitude?G862 feet? assured an equable climate the year through, and the Indians who built the town had cultivated the plateau on which the city now s ands, and made it fertile as well as beautiful. As a rule, the North American Indians were nomads, but the Zuni, Moqui and Pueblo tribes were more domestic in their habits, and they built the first villages on the North American continent. It is supposed that the Zunis built Santa Fe and gave it the name Pueblo, meaning "a settlement." Frpm this the residents were called Pueblo3, after a while taking this name to distinguish themselves from the main body of Zunis, who had moved northward and founded the towns of Moqui, Trinidad and Pueblo?the two latter in Colorado. Between these Indian villages were well beaten bridle paths, the unerring instinct of the Indians having led them to find the shortest and easiest route through the Rocky Mountains, between Raton and Trinidad. When the Spaniards came here, in 1582, they were greatly astonished to find a large adobe structure?used by the Zunis for a council chamber?and they straightway proceeded to turn it into a church, calling it San Miguel. This is the building which still stands, and which is believed to be the oldest structure in the United 8tates. In 1880 the Indians came to the conclusion that the Spaniards, who had changcd the name of their city and had seized their council chamber and turned it into a church, were a sort of nuisance, and they rose in rebellion against further innovations. Finally, they masacred every Spaniard whom they could lay hands upon, burned the church saints in the plaza, forbade the use of the Spanish language, put aside the wives to whom they had been married by Catholic ritea and washed themselves in the river to purify themselves from the baptism of dwelling are such as one finds in At- ; lanta's Peachtree street homes?beautl- ' ful pictures and statuary, imported carpets and rugs, rare bric-a-brac and pot- \ tyies?everything that money can buy. Of course, all this makes the change ' from the outside atmosphere of squalor the more marked. Judge Thornton's ! home is but the type of hundreds of others owned by wealthy Spaniards, ' Mexicans or Americans, who have settled here because of this incomparable ; climate. Reference has been made to the old ' church of San MigueL Here ia to be seen the bell cast in 1550, brought to 1 Mexico by Cortez and transported hither | by Indian slaves from the City of Mexico after Montezuma's power was no more. Three of the altar pieces are over seven 1 hundred years old and were painted in ' Barcelona and sent hither through the officers of the church in Mexico. From the door of San Miguel starts the path to ; Trinidad, hundreds of miles away; the trail which so astonished the Spaniards, away back in 1582 and which, as late as 1848, astounded the civil engineers who surveyed it and gave it the name it has since borne?the Santa Fe trail. Antiquarians tell us that the Santa Fe trail is one of the most remarkable pieces of engineering of primeval origin. It ; runs in the most direct possible line to Trinidad and thence to Pueblo, near Denver. Through the mountains the grades have been chosen with such skill that, notwithstanding the fact that more than two hundred surveys have been made by competent engineer's to find a better route, no one has yet been able to find an easier grade through the liocky Mountains than was located by these nomads hundreds and hundreds of years ago. The line is so direct that ' 'the old Santa Fe trail" has been followed closely in the build ing of tne Atcnison, xopesa ana saota Fe railroad, from Kansas City to the far West. Colonel A. B. Steele, an archrologist of repute, says of the Santa Fe trail: "When you see the old road from the car windows you may reflect that you are looking upon the unused paths of prehistoric wanderers. The roads that lead to Meccn, the sand-drifted highways of the Sahara, the very footsteps of Christ, are not more ancient." The old trail is plainly visible, since it was the only route for years to the Pacific coast and soon became a broad well-worn road, with stage houses at intervals and civilization wherever such a thing was possible. The Governor's palace, a long adobe structure, a couple of hundred or more years old, contains the territorial offices and many choice relics, and, in addition to this, there are two free museums and curiosity shops by the score. The city surrounds a piazza (pronounced plat-za) a large square fenced in and covered with grass and trees. There is no architectural beauty except in the oapitol, a - * ' new building of brick (ind gra ttite, m| yet rather bare looking. The territorial legislature is composed principally of men whose parents are Mexican, and the; almost universal language is Spanish, all' of which tends to make one forget he is still in the United States. The Climate of Siberia. From George Kennan's account of the "Plains and Prisons of Western Siberia? in the Century we quote the following; "It is hardly necessary to say that a country which has an area of five and al half million square miles, and which extends in latitude as far as from the southern extremity of Greenland to thei island of Cuba, must present great diversities of climate, topography, and vegetation, and cannot be everywhere a barren arctic waste. A mere glance at a map is sufficient to show that a considerable part of western Siberia lies further south than Nice, Venice, or Milan, and that the southern boundary of the Siberian province of Semirechinsk is nearer thei equator than Naples. In a country* wbich thus stretches from the latitude; of Italy to the latitude of central Green-' land one would naturally expect to find,' and as a matter of fact one does find, many varieties of climate and scenery.' In some parts of the province of Yakutsk the mean temperature of the month of January is more than 50 degrees Hbelow! zero, Fahr., while in the province of Semipalatinsklhemeantemperatureof the month of July is 72 degrees above; and suchxaaximum temperatures as 95 and! 100 degrees in the shade are comparatively common. On the Tannyr peninsula, east of the Gulf of Ob, the permanently frozen ground thaws out in summer (p a depth of only a few inches, and supports but a scanty vegetation of berry bushes and moss, while in the southern part of western Siberia watermelons and canta; loupes are a profitable crop, tobacco is grown upon thousands of plantations, and the peasants harvest annually morethan 50,000,000 bushels of grain. Thefact which I desire esp9cially to impress upon the mind of the reader is that Sibe* fia is not everywhere uniform and homogenerous. The northern part of the country differs from the southern part quite as much as the Hudson Bay Territory differs from Kentucky; and it is asgreat a mistake to attribute the cold and barrenness of the Lena delta to the whole of Siberia as it would be to attribute the cold and barrenness of King William Land to the whole of North America.' "To the traveler who crosses the Urals for the first time in June nothing is more surprising than the fervent heat of Siberian sunshine and the extra* ordinary beauty and profusion of Siberian flowers. Although we had been partly prepared, by our yoyage up the Kama, for the experience which awaited us on the other side of the mountains, we were fairly astonished upon the threshold of western Siberia by the scenery, the weather, and the flora. In the fertile, blooming country presented to us as we rode swiftly eastward into the province of Tobolsk, there was absolutely nothing even remotely to sucpest an arctic region. If we had the church. Ia 1G02 the Spaniards re- j captured the town, and since that time they have had things pretty much their i own way. To-day the city has a population of 6500, of whom 5500 are Mexicans, ' many of whom do not understand a word ' of English. It is the only city of its i size in this country without a steam en 1 giue in its limits. There are but few frame buildings?everything is adobe. i The aaobe house, or "doby," as it is 1 called, is familiar to all Western tourists, ! but it is seen at its very best here. The I wealthiest people live ia structures i which, from the outside, seem scarcely < habitable, but withiu are cosy aud, ia | many instances, luxurious. Judge Thornton, a wealthy mine owner, has a i "doby" house near the plaza, or public quare. In the center of the building is . a square court yard, filled with magnificent flowers, with a fountain iu the ceater. The doors of each apnrtmeot in [ the house open on the wide veranda which runs around the court-yard, and the effect is very charming. The walls J of the building are nearly three feet in thickness, giving opportunity for deep, , cushioned window seats. These thick walls keep out cold in wiater aad heat ! ip the summer, aud there are, therefore, but two fire-places iu the whole house? 1 for nsfi in the event of extraordinary 1 severe weather. The decorations of the , been blindfolded aod^transportcd to it suddenly in the middle of a sunny afternoon, we could never have guessed to what part of the world we had been , taken. The sky was as clear and blue and the air as soft as the sky and air of California; the trees were all in full leaf; birds were singing over the flowery tncadows and in the clumps of birche3 by the roadside; there wtre a drowsy hum of bees tad a faint fagrance of Sowers and verdure in the air; and the- 1 sunshine was as warm and bright as that i j f a June afternoon in the most favored : part of the globe." Romance of the Humble Cotton Seed. The " Cotton-Seed Romance " is thua ' told by the Atlanta Constitution: Was there ever a history, this side of Cinderella, of the uprising of humanity like that of the cotton-seed ?" For seventy Fears despised as a nuisance, and burned ;>r dumped as garbage; then discovered to be the very food for which the soil was hungering, and reluctantly admitted to the rank of ugly utilities. Shortly ifterward found to be nutritious food for, beast as well as soil, and thereupon treated with something like respect. Oncei admitted to the circle of farm husband"' ries, found to hold thirty-five gallons ofl pure <5il to the ton, worth, in its crude' state, fourteen dollars to the ton, or forty million dollars for the whole crop of seed. But then a system was devised for refining this oil up to a value of one dollar a gallon, and the frugal Italians placed a cask of it at the root of every dive tree, and then defied the Boreal breath of the Alps. And then experiencd showed that the ton of cotton-seed wai a better fertilizer and a better stock when robbed of its thirty-five gallons of oil than before. And that the hulls of the 3eed made the best of fuel for feeding the oil-mill engine. And that the ashes of the hulls scooped from the engine's drift had the highest commeicial valu^ as potash. And that the "refuse" of the : whole made the best and purest soapstock to carry to the toilet the perfumes 1 of Lubin or Colgate. About this time we began to spell cotton-seed with capi- 1 tal letters. And how it traveled abroad , in its various dresses I As meal-cakes it i whitened the meadows of England with! < woolly fieece3, and fattened the Britishj cattle under the oaks; it sputtered on < the stoves of the Dutch in lieu of lard;' [ it glistened in the cafes of Paris as olive oils, under seals and signatures it coulq not even pronounce to save its life, and . from under the dikes in Holland it went : forth to parade in all the bravery of butter and butterine. In our own country i it renewed the wasting strength of the J Southern fields, and clad them with j whiteness that would shame the fleeces of England, or yellow that would pale ] the fleeces of Argonauts. It knocked! ; the Western hog into spots, and poured ' the Western lard out of the frying-pan into the Are. Ana aooui mis iime tougress jumped on to cotton-seed with both feet, and proposed to check its further career by a prohibitory tax. > Ghonlish Practice of Egyptians. A disclosure exceedingly uncomfortable for the relatives and friends of the English soldiers killed in Egypt has been made by the captain of the Austrian vessel Dub, -which arrived at Aberdeen, Scotland, the other day, loaded with bones for fertilizing purposes. The captain said he had got his load from Alexandria, and that the bones all came from Cairo. He thought they were the bones of giraffes, antelopes, etc., but he was obliged personally to watch the loading of his ship and reject complete human skeletons that were brought to him. The natives were very indignant at his refusal to accept the bones of Christians, and said it was their custom to dig on battle fields and pull the bodies out of shallow trenches. It has been found that in spite of the captain's precautions the cargo of the Dub contains the bones of many English soldiers, the natives having resorted to the simple method of pulling tite skeletons to pieces, and presenting them minus heads and hands, when they found complete frameworks to be unaccepted.?New Torlt Bun. ^SHRgP "v:;i-v^^k ' ''; Sr ??. r? i A WOMAN'S CRIME. She Confesses to Murdering Her Hnsband and Children. \, . _. *, ~ ^JL; The Deed Committed to Obtain a Small Sum of Insurance Money, Mrs. Sarah J. Whittling, forty years old, was committed to prison by Coroner Ashbridge, at Philadelphia, after ahe had confessed to deliberately murdering her husband and two children for less than #400, for which their lives were insured. The Whiteling family consisted, besides the wife, of John Wbiteiing, the husband, aged thirty-eight years; Bertha, aged nine yean, and Willie, aged two years and nine months. The husband died March 20, and Dr. O. W. Smith, who attended him, gave certificate of death due to inflammation of the bowels. On April 24 Bertha died, and Dr. Smith certified that her death was due to gastric fever. May 26 Willie died, and Dr. Dietrich, who was called in after Dr. Smith had abandoned the case, said death was caused by congestion of the bowels. John Whiteling's life was insured Cor $145 in the John Hancock Company. Be was also a member of Hefd No. 2 Benevolent Order of Buffalo*, which pays a death benefit of f 35 to the widow. This money was collected by Mrs. Whiteling immediately after her husband's death. She insured Bertha in the Hancock Company for $122. and WiUi? was insured in the Prudential Insurance Insurance Company for $17, and in the Hancock Company for $30. The amount of money received on the death of husband and children was $399. The fact of the three deaths at interval*-of only one month was brought to the notice oC Coroner Ashbridge, and after examining the records in the Health Office he vras satisfied, the case was one his office should investigate. He communicated with Chief of Detectives Wood, and Detective Oyer was detailed to assist the Coroner. The bodies had all been baried in one grave in Mechanics' Cemetery. The Coroner ordered them to be ezhojned for examination. Professor Leff man -made an analysis of the parts given to him by the Coroner and reported to Coroner Ashbriifge that he found arsenio enough in tbe bodies to cause death. Mrs. Whiteling was taken in custody and locked up in the Central station. She was closely watched to prevent her from committing suicide. She spent most of tbe day in praying and suffered so from nervous prostration that fc physician had to be oallea in. The Coroner charged ber with killing her husband and' children and told her to send for him when she was ready to make confession. Finally she made a full clear confenion to the Coroner and was committed to Movamensing prison. In her confession Mrs. Whiteling says: "My only reason for poisoning the children was that Bertha, might not grow up to be a sinful and wicked girl, as she had at various times stolen pennies and once a pocketbook from her teacher at school at Hancock and Thompson streets. Bertha acknowledged taking the pocketbook. She told many bad stories. She was very sinful for one so young, and I did not want her te grow up and become a great sinner. My little boy was sinless, and I poisoned him because he was in the way. 1 could not go out to work, for there was no one to-take care of him, and he was a burden to me. Without him I could get along. Nowl _ know my children are angels in heaven and I want to meet them there when I die." OVEBBPH BY OBIOKETS, . They Invade Algeria tn a Compact Mass Twelve Mile* Long. ^ Late-reports from Algeria say that crickets are advancing in a compact mass over twelve miles long by six in breadth. A panic prevailed in the province of Constantine. Tb? Valley of Guelma been de- . vastated by the crickets. The inaects resemble but are not identical with either locusts-or grasshoppers. Last year a warm* of grasshoppers ravaged Algeria. This year the crickets have taken their placet. They spring like grasshoppers, but have a more rapid and sustained flight They form clouds, which shut out the light of the sun. When they alight on the ground they destroy every trace of vegetation. They sometimes Call exhausted on the ground in such numbers asjto cover it with a layer of dead bodies, from wnfrk. jpestilential exhalations arise. The railway trtnxhave been stopped by the . insects between CoriStsntine and Batna. THE LABOR WOULD, EiaHTKKN rolling miles have shut down, within a week. v A union of photographer workmen ha* been organized. . The bill to establish a Department of Labor has passed both Houses of Congress. Pawtcckxt (R. L) mill operatives have a co-operative store paying a large dividend. The Montreal, Canada, building trades nave aemanaea an lnuww w. t? cent. in wagea Th? Carpenters' Union claims a gain of (4,000,000 a year from the advance in wages in eighty cities. The Adelaide Silk Mil] at Allentown, ^ Penn., employs 916 hands and pays out every month $10,030 in wages. Whe* the new industrial establishments building in Anniston, Ala., are completed, 10,000 more men will be at work. One ton of pig Iron is made for every nine persons in the United States and one ton of rolled iron for every twenty-five. A horse-shoe manufacturing company will erect machinery at Anniston, Ala., that will turn out thirty horse-shoes every minute. There are twenty mica quarries in Grafton, Canaan, Orange ana Groton, N. H.', that in the last-named town giving employ* ment to seventy men. The iron and steel production during the past five months is reported at Pittsburg a? 110,000 tons, against 500,000 tons daring the same period last year. There are more than forty distinctive trades represented in the Building Trades' section of the Central Labor Union, with a constituency of over 05,OX). Pittsburg iron manufacturers have been' asked to bid on 400 iron mail catchers to be, supplied to the Post Office Department for the year commencing July 1. There are 2493 more members of Typo-, graphical Union in London, England, than' there are in the New York Union. The former claim 6493 and the latter 4000. Our Consul at Malaga, Spain, ordered a stove from America, which at first was not looked on with favor by tno natives, uuu now they like it, and there is a great ory for Btoves. i Alexander Rostovt is the name of a la-' boring in Bridgeport, Conn., who can speak Russian, his native tongue, and German. Hungarian, Hebrew, Latin, English and Italian. A Wonderful step in advance is about being made by which Bessemer steel can be made in a blast furnace. The company has i capital of $1,000,000. It will make Bessemer pig as cheap as ordinary pig-iron. The Dutch workman works twelve, thirteen and fourteen hours a day, and he does lot turn out half of what an English worknan does in that time. A poor diet and iittle sleep lead to a state or low nervous mergy. The workmen on the great Eiffel tower in Paris have struck, on the ground that th? ligher they go, the greater the danger iv There are 300 of them, earning on an averige 80 cents a day. If their wages are tq ise with the tower, it will not go very much ,'urther. Applying the torch, as the expression ia * generally used, is an act not conducive to inlustrial or any other honest interest, but tha^^M| istial reault "was reversed recently at ridere, N. J., when Minnie McCracker^fl|HH )lied the torch which pet in operatioi^^^^^^H -en furnace, which had been idi^^HH|BBB rears. Mr. James a :ago, quietly stepped i man diced his ear off member away. The body^^bimnhm farmer