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W y r REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. ?> ' I Subject: "Pulpit and Press Made Allies." Text: " The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light."? Luke xvi., & Sacred stupidity and solemn incompetency and sanctified laziness are fbere rebuked by Christ. He says worldings are wider awake for opportunities than are Christians. Men | of the world grab occasion? while Christian I people let the most valuable occasions drift by unimproved. That is the meaning of our Lord when he says: "The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light." A marked illustration of the truth of that / maxim is in the slowness of the Christian religion to take possession of the secular printing press. The opportunity is open, and has for some time been open, but the ecclesiastical courts and the churches and the ministers of religion are for the most part allowing the golden opportunity to pass unimproved. That the opportunity is open I declare from v. the fact that the secular newspapers are glad of any religious facts or statistics that you present them. Any animated and stirring article relating to religious themes they would gladly print Tbey thank you for any information in regard to churches. If a wrong has been done to any Christian church or Christian institution you cou.'d go into any newspaper of the land and have the real truth stated. Dedication services, ministerial ordinations and pastoral installation*, corner stone laying of a church, anniversary of a charitable society will have reasona- le space in any secular Journal, if it have previous notice given. If had some great injustice done me there is not an editorial or a reportorial room in the United States into which I could not go and get myself set right, and that is true of any well known Christian. Already the daily cecular press during the course of each week Eublishes as much religious information and igh moral sentiment as does the weekly religious presa. Why then does not our glorious Christianity embrace these magnificent ODDortunities? I have before me a subject of first and last importance, now SUtUl WO OCT- j cure the secular press as a mightier re-enforcement to religion and the pulpit TTie first thing toward this result is cessation of indiscriminate hostility against newspaperdom. Tou might as well denounce the legal profession because of the shysters, or the medical profession because of the quacks, or merchandise because of the swindling t argain makers, as to slam bang newspapers because there are recreant editors and unfair reporters and unclean columns. Guttenberg, the inventor of the art of printing, was about to destroy his types and extinguish the art because it was suggested to him that printing might be suborned into the service of the ' devil, but afterward he bethought hims?lf that the right use of the art might more than ' overcome the evil use of it, and so he spared the tyt>e and the intelligence of all following ages. But there are many to-day in the depressed mood of Guttenberg with uplifted hammer, wanting to pound to pieces the type, who have not reached his better mood in which he saw the art of printing to be the rising sun of the world's illumination. If instead of fighting newspapers we spend the same length of time and the same venemence in marshaling their help in religious direc?nn? wp would be as much wiser as the man who gets consent of the railroad superintendent to fasten a car to the end of a rail train, shows better sense than he whc * ^na his wheelbarrow up the track to meet and drive back the Chicago limited express The silliest thing that a man ever does is to fight a newspaper, for yon may have tne floor for utterance perhaps one day in the week, while tbe newspaper nas the floor every day of tbe week. Napoleon, though a mighty man, had many weaknesses, and one of the weakest . things he ever did was to threaten that if the English newspapers did not stop their ad- , verse criticism of himself he would with four , hundred thousand bayonets cross the channel for their chastisement j Don't flght newspapers. Attack provokes ] attack. Better wait till the excitement blows i over and then go in and tret justice, for get it you will if you have patience and common , sense and equipoise of disposition. It ought to be a mighty sedative that there is an j enormous amount of common sense in the , world, and you will eventually be taken for j what you are really worth, and you cannot , be puffed up end you cannot be written j down, and if you are the enemy of good so- , ciety that fact will come out, and if you are j the friend of good sooiety that fact will be \ established, I know what I am talking j bout, for I can draw on my own experience. ] All the responsible newspapers as far as I , know are my friends now. But many of , you remember the time when I was ] the most continuously and meanly at- 1 tacked man in this country. God gave j me grace not to answer back, and I kept , silence for ten years, and much grace is required, vv nat x saia was porv?i tou ami ( twisted into just the opposite of what I did , Bay. My person was maligned, and I was , presented as a gorgon, and I was maliciously ; described by persons who had never seen me ] as a monstrosity in body, mind and souL There were millions of people who believed that there was a large sofa in this pulpit, al- ; though we never had anything,but a chair, and that during the singing by the congregation I was accustomed to lie down on that ! I anfa and dangle my feet over the end. Lying New York correspondents for ten years , misrepresented our church services, but we waited, and people from every neighborhood of Christendom came here to find the magnitude ot the falsehoods concerning the church and concerning myselt. A reaction set in and now we have justice, full justice, more than justice and as much overpraise as ' once we had under appreciation, and no man 1 that ever lived was so much indebted to the newspaper press for opportunity to preach the Gospel as I am. Young men in the min- ' istry, young men in all professions and occupations, wait. You can afford to wait. Take rough misrepresentation as a Turkish towel to start up your languid circulation, or a system of massage or Swedish movement, whose pokes and pulls and twists and thrusts are salutary treatment. There is one person vou need to manage and that is yourself. Yeep your disposition sweet by communion with the Christ who answered not again, the society of genial people, and wait ill tUe Bunsmna w;cn your nat ou huu you will come out all right And don't join the crowd of people in our day who spend much of their time damning newspapers. Again, in this effort to secure the sccular press as a nvghtier re-enforcement of religion and the pulpit, let us make it the avenue of religious information. If you put the facta * of churches and denominations of Christians only into the columns of religious papers, which do not in this country have an average of more than ten thousand subscribers, what have you done as compared with whit Elo if you put these facts through the pap?rs which have hundreds of thouof readers? Every little denomination must have its little organ, supported at great expense,when, with one-half the outlay, a column or half a column of room might b rented in some semi-omnipotent secular pnb lication, and so the religious information would be sent round ana round the world The world moves so swiftly to-day that newi ? week old is stale Give us all the great church facts and all the revival tidings the next morning or the same evening. My advice, often given to friends who propose to tart a newsDaoer. is: "Don't! Don't! Em ploy the papers already started " The biggest financial hole ever dug in this American continent is the hole in which good people throw their money when they start a newspaper. It is almost as good and as quick a way of getting rid of money as buying stock in a gold mine in Colorado. Not more printing presses, but the right use of those already established. All their cylinders, all their gteam power, all their pens, all their types, all their editorial chairs and reportorial rooms are available ir you would engage them in behalf of civilization and Christianity. Again: If you would secure the securar press as a mightier re-enforcement of religion and the pulpit, extend widest and highest courtesies to the representatives of .journalism. Give them easy chairs and plenty of room when they come to report occasions. For the most part they are gentlemen of education and refinement, graduates of colleges, with families to support by their literary craft, many of them*weary with the push of a business that is precarious and fluctuating, sach one of them the avenue of information to thousands of readers, their impression of the services to be the impression adopted -by multitude?. They are connecting links between a sermon or a song Dr a prayer and this great population that tramp up and down the streets day by day and year by year with their sorrows ancomforted and their sins uuoardoned. 1^3Vikfct,,-' '-V ' " " < J S. . More than eight hundred thousand people in Brooklyn,ana less than seventy-five thousand in churches, so that our cities are not so much preached to by ministers of religion as by reports re. Put all journalists into our prayers and sermons. Of all the hundred thousand sermons preached to-day, there will not be three preached to journalists, and probably not one. Of all the prayers offered for classes of men innumerable the prayers offered for this most potential class will be so few and rare that they will be thought a preacher's idiosyncrasy. This world will never be brought to God until some revival of religion sweeps over the land and takes into the kingdom of God editors and reporters, compositors, pressmen and newsboys. And if you have not faith snough to pray for that and toil for that, you had better get out of our ranks ! and join the other side, for you are the unbelievers who make the wheels of the Lord's r>Vin?-inr Hfo<r hanvilv The Great final battle between truth and error, the" Armageddon, I think will not be fought with swords and shells and guns, but with pens, quill pens, steel pens, gold pens, fountain pens, and, before that, the pens must be converted. The most divinely honored weapon of the past has been the pen, and the most divinely honored weapon of the future will be the pen; prophet's pen and evangelist's pen and apostle's pen followed by editor's pen and reporter's pen and author's pen. God save the pen I The wing of the Apocalyptic angel will be the printed pa?e. The printing press will roll ahead of Christ's chariot to clear the way. "But." some one might ask, ' "would you make the Sunday newspapers also a re-enforcement?" Yes, I would. I have learned to take things as they are. I would like to see the much scoffed at old Puritan Sabbaths come back again. I do not think the modern Sunday will turn out any better men and women than were your grandfathers and grandmothers under the old-fashioned Sunday. To say nothing of other results, Sunday newspapers are killing editors, reporters, compositors and pressmen. Every man, woman and child is entitled to twenty-four hours of nothing to do. If the newspapers put on another set of hands thatdoe3 not I nnrf rennrfcorial room of I its cares and responsibilities. Our literary | men die fast enough without killing them . with Sunday work. But the Sunday news paper has come to stay. It will stay u goqd deal longer than any of us stay. What, then, shall we do? Implore all those who have anything to do with issuing it to fill it with moral or religious information; live sermons and facts elevating. Urge them that all divorce cases be dropped, and instead thereof have good advice as to how husbands and wives ought to live lovingly together. Put in small type the behavior of the swindling church member, and in large type the contribution of some Christian man toward an asylum for feebleminded children or a seaside sanitarium. Urge all managing editors to put meanness and impurity in type gsarl or agate, and charity and fidelity and hristian consistency in brevier or bourgeois. It we cannot drive out the Sunday newspaper let us have the Sunday newspaper converted. The fact is that the modern Sunday newspaper is a great improvement on the old Sunday newspaper. What a beastly thing was the Sunday newspaper thirty years agol It was enough to destroy a man s respectability to leave the tip end of it stickin e: out of his coat pocket What editorials! What advertisements I What pictures! The modern Sunday newspaper is as much an improvement on the old time Sunday newspaper as one hundred is more than twentyfive; in other words, about 75 per cent. Improvement. Who knows that by prayer and kindly consultation with our literary friends we may have it lifted into a positively religious sheet. Drinks! on Saturuav night and I only distributed, like the American Messenger, or the Missionary Journal, or the Sunda^f School Advocate, on Sabbath mornings! All things are possible with God, and my faith is up until nothing in the way of religious victory would surprise ma All the newspaper printing presses of the earth are going to be the Lord's, and telegraph and telephone and type will yet announce nations born in a day. The first book ever printed was the Bible by Faust and his son-in-law, Schoeffer, in 1460, and that consecration of type to the Holy Scriptures was a prophecy of the great mis lion of printing for the evangelization of all the nations. The father of the American printing press was a clergyman, Rev. Jesse Glover, and that was a prophecy of the religious usa that the Gospel ministry in this country were to make of the types. Again, we shall secure the secular press as a mightier re-enforcement of religion and the pulpit by making our religious utterances more interesting and spirited, and then the press will reproduce them. On the way to church some fifteen years ago, a journalist laid a thing that has kept mo ever since thinking. "Are you going to give us any points to-day P' "What do you mean?" 1 isked. He said: "I mean by that anything that will be striking enough to be remem bered." Then I said to myself: What right have we in our pulpits ana Sunday-schools to take the time of people if we have nothiDg to jay that is memorable? David did not have any difficulty in remembering Nathan's thrust: "Thou art the man;" nor Felix in remembering Paul's point blank utterance on righteousness, temperance and judgment to come: nor the English King siny difficulty in remembering what the court preacher said, when during the sermon against sin the preacher threw his handkerchief into the king's pew to indicate whom he meant The tendency of criticism in the theological seminaries is to file off from our young men all the sharp points and make them too smooth for any kind of execution. What we want, all of us, is more point, less humdrum. If we say the right thing in the right way the press will be glad to echo and re-echo it. Sabbath school teachers, reformers, young men and old men in the ministry, what we all want if we are to make the printing press an ally in Christian work is that which the reporter spoken of suggested ?points, sharp points, memorable points. But if the thing be dead when uttered by living voice, it will be a hundredfold mors lead when it is laid out in cold type. Now, as you all have something to do with the newspaper press either in issuing a paper or in reading it, either as producers or pa trons, either as sellers or purchasers or tne printed sheet, I propose on this Sabbath morning, June 17, 1888, a treaty to be signed between the church and the printing press, a treaty to be ratified by millions of good people if we rightly fashion it, a treaty promising that we will help each other in our work of trying to illumine and felicitate the world, we by voice, you by pen, we by speaking only that which is worth printing, you by printing only that which is fit co speak. You help us and we will help you. 8ide by side be these two potent agencies until the Judgment Day, when wo must both be scrutinized for our work, healthful or blasting. The two worst off men in that day wiil be the minister of religion and the editor if they wasted their opportunity. Both of us are the engineers of long express trains of influence, and we will run into a depot of light or tumble them off the embankment. What a useful life and what a glorious departure was that of the most famous of all American printers, Benjamin Franklin, whom infidels in the penury of their resources have often fraudulently claimed for their own, but the printer who moved that tha Philadelphia convention be opened witb prayer, the resolution lost because a majority thought prayer unnecessary, and who wrote at the time he was viciously attacked: "My rule is to go straight forward in doing what appears to mo to be right, leaving tne consequences to Providence, and who wrote this quaint epitaph showing his hope of resnrrantinn an anifanh tSdt T hundreds Of times read whileTivrng in Philadelphia: The Body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (Like the cover of aa old book, Its contents torn out. And stript of its lettering and gilding), Lies here food for worms. Yet the work Itself shall not be lost. For it will (as he believed) appear once more In a new And more beautiful edition, Corrected and Amended By The Author. . That Providence intends the profession of reporters to have a mighty share in the world's redemption is suggested by the fact that Paul and Christ took a reporter along with them, and he reported their addresses and reported their acts. Luke was a reEjrter, and he wrote not only the book of uke, but the Acts of the Apostles, and without that reporter's work we would have known nothing of the Pentecost, and nothing of Stephen's martyrdom, and nothing of Tabitha's resurrection, and nothing of the jailing and unjailing of Paul and Silas, and nothing of the shipwreck at Melita. Strike out the reporter's work from the Bible and you kill a large part of the New Testament. It makes me think that in the future of the kingdom of God the reporters arfe to bear a mighty part. About thirteen years ago a representative of an important newspaper took his seat in this church, one Sabbath night, about five pews from the front of this pulpit. He took out pencil and reporter's pad,resolved to cari'I / ' , *.' 7 vvyivr^', ' , .>y *'r/ cato.re the whole scene. When tbe music began he began,and with his pencil he derided that, and then derided the prayer, and then derided tbe reading Oi! the Scripture3,and then began to deride the sermon. But, he says, for some reason his hand began !to tremble, and he. rallying himself, sharpened his pencil and started again, but broke down again, and then put pencil and paper in his pocket and his head down on the front of the pew and began to pray. At the close of the service he came up and asked for the prayers of others and gave his heart to God; although still engaged in newspaper work, he is an evangelist, and hires a lall at his own expense and every Sabbatb afternoon preaches Jesus Christ to the peo pie. And tne men of that profession are go ing to come in a body throughout the coun try. I know hundreds of them, and a more genial or highly educated class of men it would be hard to find, and, though the tendency of their profession may be toward skepticism, an organized, common sens* Gospel invitation would fetch them to the front of all Christian endeavor. Men of the pencil and pen, in all departments, you need the help of the Christian religion. In the J ?*- ? WQtif f.ft o-flf. fhftl'r riAWQ. UOJ YY LIOU powpip ??Miiu ?wr vxw.. ? papers at three cents, and are hoping foi the time when they can get any ol them at one cent, and, as a conso quence, the attaches of the printing press are by the thousand ground under the cylinders you want God to take care of you and your families. Some of your best work is as muct unappreciated as was Milton's "Paradise Lost," for which the author received $25, and the immortal poem, ' Hohenlinden," of Thomas Campbell when he first offered it for publication, and in the column called "Notices to correspondent's" appeared the words: "To T. C.?The lines commencing 'On Linden when the sun was low' are not up to our standard. Poetry is not T. C.'s forte. O men of the pencil and pen, amid your unappreciated work you need encouragement and you can have it." Printers of all Chris.tendom, editors, reporters,compositors,pressmen, publishers ana readers of that which is printed, resolve that you will not write, set up, edit, issue or read anything that debases body, mind or soul In the name of God, by the laying on of the bands of faith and prayer, ordain the printing press for righteousness and liberty ana 'salvation. All of ns with some influence that will help in the right direction, let us put our hands to the work imploring God to hasten the consummation. A ship with hundreds of passengers approaching the South American coast, the man on the lookout neglected his work and in a few minntes the ship would have been dashed to ruin on the rocks. But a cricket on board the vessel, that had made no sound all the voyage, set up a shrill call at the smell of land, and the Captain, knowing that habit of the insect, the vessel was stopped in time to avoid an awful wreck. And so, insignificant means now may do wonders and the scratch of a pen may save the shipwreck of a soul. Are you all ready for the signing of the contract, the league, the solemn treaty proposed between journalism and evangelism? Aye, let it be a Christian marriage of th6 pulpit and the printing press. The ordination of the former on my head, the pen of the latter in my hand, it is appropriate that I publish the banns of such a marriage. Let them from this day be one in the magnificent work of the world's redemption. Let thrones and powers and kingdom* be Obedient, mighty God, to Thee-And over land and stream and main. Now wave the scepter o Thy reign. O, let that glorious anthem swell, J/et host to nost the tr omph tell, Till not one rebel heart remains, But over all the SWor reigns. TEMPERANCE The IVicked. Cruel Spider. I know a dingy corner, where a wicked spider clings; Where he spins his web round bottles, glaasm, jugs, and other things; And I listened in the shadow as ana day I passed along, Ana 1 beard the wicked spider, as ha snug his cruel song: " Will you take a little cider? Will yon. call while passing by?" Said the wii ked, crafty spider, to the bn?y little fiy: "Will you take a little lager? Sorely yon will not decline Just to take a drink for friendship; say, just dp a little wine." "He is coming for his cider I" said the wicked, oruel spider; "He is coming for his wine, and my cords shall round him twine; While he sits and sips his lager, I will wet my little dagger, And when he has drank his wine he will find that he is mine. Ha! the little fool is coming; I can bear him buzzing, humming. He who comes to visit me vainly straggles to be fire. * * * "You are welcome to my parlor, I am glad to see you come, Do not stay outside the entrance, please to make yourself at home; Will you take a little lager while I sharpen up my dagger? Will you take a drop of wine? then yoo fiurelv shall L-r mine: I will bind you, I will grind you, though you struggle, weep and pray. I will tie your hands behind you, you shall never get away; I will tight you. I will smite you, I will stab you, I will bite you, I will make you poor and needy, I will make you old ana seedy, I will make you bleared and bloated, and with rags and tatters coated, And your hat will look so shocking, that the boys will all be mocking. I will haunt you till you die, then I'll hang you up to dry." Oh, my toy, beware of cider, and of lager 1 and of wine, 1 Then the wicked, cruel spider ne'er shall get a child of mina ] Let us storm his ugly castle, let us tear his web away; 1 Let us drive away this spider; heaven in mercy speed the day! Testimony of the Doctoral Not long ago the Toledo Blade interviewed 1 ten of the princif al physicians of that notoriously beer guzzling city. This is some of the testimony: Dr. S. H. Bergen, of thirty-five years' practice, said: "It kills quicker than any other liquor. Pneumonia, pleurisy, fever, eta, have a first mortgage on the beei < drinker." Dr. 8. S. Thorne: "In regard to surgical operations every physician dreads to nave : anything to do with beer drinkers. It is j dangerous for a beer drinker to even cut his ] finger.'" Dr. M. H. Parmalee: "Beer is worse than whisky, the hops contained in the beer producing congestion of the liver, dyspepsia and kindred diseases. Habitual beer drinkers eeem to have no constitutional power to resist disease." Dr. W. T. Ridenour: "Beer drinkers are very liable to die of pneumonia, and when a ( confirmed beer drinker takes pneumonia he dies." , Dr. S. S. Lungren: "Every part of the body of a confirmed beer drinker becomes loaded down with morbid and poisonous matter, and every part will soon fall into ruin and decay. Dr. J. T. Woods: "Lager beer, if used at all, should be used as a medicine, as ipecac, quinine, rhubarb and strychnine." Dr. C. A. KirlcJey: "There is no more faithful source of Brigbt's disease than beer drinking. The evil effects are not confined to tbe consumers of the beverage, but are transmitted to their offspring." Dr. C. W. Chapman: "I regard beer as harmful aB ardent spirits, brandy and whisky, as it produces fatty degeneration of the heart, liver and kidneys." Dr. G. A. Cullaraore: "Beer drinking produces a morbid effect upon the heart, lungs, brain, stomach, liver and kidneys. The brain IS K6pl/ 111 K UJ'pClCilJlU ^VllUlViUUj TTU1VU |/| vents normal cerebration or the accurate use of the mental faculties." Is that so? If these physicians tell the truth, such facts are worth remembering. If not true, what interest have these medical gentlemen in trying to deceive the public? Their interests would lead them to favor beer drinking if it makes beer drinkers sick. That's so. Not the Samei California bus a pieacher, Rev. B. W. R Taylor, cf the Episcopal Church, who lately preached a serxr.on lavoring legislative discrimination as between wine, beer and tho stronger liquors, and declaring his belief that "Gad gave us the fruit of the vine for othei purposes besides eating them as grapes and making raisins." He adds; "The 'wine that maketh glad the heart of man,' is spoken oi in the same passage of Scripture as corn and oil, and referred to as gifts of God." But this wine, we venture to infer, could scarcely be the same as that,also referred to in tli< Scripture, which "biteth like a serpent and tingeth like an adder."?National Advoaate. ' * \y ' V^':. EELISIOUS READING. A. Worker1* Prayer. Lord, speak to me, that I may speak, In living echoes of Thy tone; As Thou hast sought, so let me reek Thy erring children, lost and lone. Oh lead me, Lord, that I may lead The wandering and the wavering feet; Oh, feed me, Lord, that I may feed The hungering ones with manna sweet. Ob, strengthen me, that while I stand Firm on the rock, and strong in Thee I may stretch out a loving hand To wrestlers with the troubled sea. Ob. teach me, Lord, that I may teach T ie precious things Thou dost impart; I nd wing my words, that they may reach 'iue hidden depths of many a heart. Oh, give Thine own sweet rest to me, That I may speak with soothing power J\ wora in season, an iruui xucc, To weary ones in needful hour. Oh, fill me with Thy fullness, Lord, Until my very heart o'erfiow In kindling thought and glowing word, Thy love to tell, Thy praise to show. Ob, use me, Lord, use even me, Just as Thou wilt, and when, and where, Until Thy blessed face I see Thy rest, Thy joy, Thy glory share. ?[Frances Ridley HavergaL The 9I|a?lon of the Church of Chriat. In a discussion of this topic in the Homiletic Review, Rev. J. R TwitchelJ, D.D., presents quite forcibly and opportunely the mission of the church in holding forth the word of life. Pastors and people are not to wait for the careless and unconcerned to come to them. They are to search for the lost sheep, unless this is done the lost will not be founa. Each member of the church is to be a witness and a light bearer. Here is a field for the Young Men's Christian Associations, and the societies of Christian Endeavor in which they may work individually and indefinitely. To leave this field for social entertainments and public exhibitions for popular favor will be a sad mistake. This holding forth the word of life by the churches naturally leads out to the evangelization of the world. History shows this will be accomplished only as the church does it. Human philosophy has given birth to no system of saving truth. '( To every local church and to every individual member is given a share in the commissioned agency by which the kingdoms of this world are to become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ1?[Hartford Rel. Herald, Ynnr Weapon*. "I think Til give up my music," exclaimed a young girl graduate; ''it's of no use." But she was persuaded to keep up her practising, and a few years later circumstances placed her in the centre of a worldly community, where, by her brilliant musical talent alone, shedrew and held numbers of young people under church and Sunday-school influence. "1 am so glad I did not lose the use of,my gift," she Baid to an old friend, "it is now one of the best weapons for the Lord's service." Every gift or grace,every accomplishment or talent, if held for this high service, can be used to advantage in the great warfare. And what interest, what zest it will put into your study or work to keep this in mind I Is it a tiresome lesson in mathematics, or a day of baking and brewing, or a monotonous practice of shorthand lessons, or patient effort in a drawing class? It mattera not which it is, they are weapons all for you to fashion and polish; in the campaign of life they are all to have part. "And I know," said pne of God's saints, "that it is my duty to keep these weapons clean and bright, though God's only use for them and me at present seems to be the doily drill."?[For ward. What Confront* Erang-ellnta. In an address before the Congregational ministry of Boston recently, Rev. Dr. Geo, F. Pentecost made some statements which deserve wide and serious consideration. The new evangelistic movement he considered as important in its effect on pastors as in sending out evangelists. Pastors should be evangelists. Dr. Pentecost defined his position as that of a hopeful pessimist. Evangelists roust look obstacles in the face; and the first difficulty is a great lack of clear, distinct presentations of the great doctrines of religion. There has been an unholy crusade against doctrinal preaching. We want a revival of righteousness; but- we cannot get righteousness till we get it through Christ That which binds man back to God Is the cross of Christ Another obstacle is a worldly church, that Is, a church which is worldly in its methods and life. A man cannot get spirituality until he breaks away from the old Adam life and gets the new Jesus lifa We have relied too much on worldly means. We begin in the spirit and go on in the flesh. We rely on such attractions as a new meeting-house or a fine choir, but people who join tha meetinghouse are barnacles ever after, and a choir Is a hindrance to spirituality right straight through. A worldly church grows more worldly every year. Oar churches are dying and dead by reason of resorting to one hundred and one catch-penny tricks to_ get money to pay parish expenses, jrairs and all seen things dry up both benevolence and spirituality. Ministers shot their mouths because afraid of driving off generous but irreligious pew-holders. I'd never appeal to unconverted men for money, but Pd take their free offerings. The world patronises the church, but this is not fellowship. Our wealthy church members are not active in spiritual work. (Of course, there are noble exceptions.) They pay so much money and then quit coming to the prayer meeting; or, if they come, have nothing to say. Their minds are all on business, and we take their money and let tfaem go. The rich Christian says: "Here's one hundred dollars to help on your meeting, but you must run it yourself." He is not found at the evangelistic services, nor are his employes. Why should thev go? We need a revival of church members. A man says, We must have some new converts right away, or our church will die; but we should rtmember that converts are not for the cburcb, but the church is for converts. The first question asked me continually is, "How many converts?" not, What is the state of religion? There is almost an insane idea to get in converts. I'm getting conservative in this matter. It is not so much converts as revived churches that are needed. The Spirit works through the church: but. if the church won't wore, (hen Ho has to work through outside agencies. Henc9 Wesley and Whitfield; hence the Salvation Army. There is a great indisposition to personal work. Pastors are to blame for this. They maks social visits and do not seek souls. They do not go in and out saving, "Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation." Dr. Pentecost gave an affecting incident of a business man's coming to Christ, whose pastor lor twelve years had talked everything else but religion wit!i him. Sculs are waiting for close personal talks. The church of Christ must humble itself before God.?[Chris. Watch. Atheism is an inhuman, bloody, ferocious system, equally hostile to eveiy useful restraint and to every virtuous affection; that, leaving nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness, it wages war with heaven and earth; its first object is to dethrone God, its next to destroy man. Sin is a bad thing, not alone that it dishonors Gcd; that is enough?but it debases the God in man. Not alone that it injures society; that is enough but a man loses his sensitiveness to virtue. Sin lies in ambush in the mind and heart, ready to spring upon the life in its dangerous moments. It must destroyed or it will destroy. A Canker at the Vitals. The battle between man and the saloon rages, and it is likely to increase in intensity till the end comes, because the saloon is an unnatural product in our civilization. Veterans in the contest of to-day have witnessed, alternately success and failure in all the organized movements of temperance people. But there will not be any permanent backward steps in the temperance reformall signs of the times point forward. Temperance seems to be the only great moral problem that looms above our social or political horizon. All else has assumed the quiet of an established order of things; and this order of things is almost being forbidden in the wild scramble for office, powej and patronage, hut thoughtful and good men should stop and consider that a canker is eating at the very vitals of the Governmeni --ChautauGuan. ' _ ' ' ' . ? >-. V ; LATER NEWS. Three workmen were killed in New York city by the caring in of a trench dag for gas mains. c apt am Linden, of Plnkerton's detective force, has arrested Express Agent Huber, of Snnburg, Penn., for stealing $29,600 from the Adams Express Company, August 20, 1886. The money was shipped from Phila-* delphia to Shamokin to pay the employes of the Mineral Mining Company. The money was found in Huber's house, behind the parlor mantle. Eleven thodSand dollars was missing, and what was left had not been taken from the original packages. The President has sent the following nominations to the Senate: John F. Phillips of Missouri, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri; James G. Jenkins of Wisconsin, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin; Edward Mallet of New York, to be an Indian Inspector. Emperor William has sent a peaceful message to President Carnot of France, declaring his intention to pursue the policy outlined by his father. "John Dillon, the Irish member of Parliament, was convicted of inciting tenants to resist landlords, and placed in Dubb'n prison to serve a six months' sentence. Detailed accounts of the gale which recently occurred on the coast of Iceland show that four hundred French fishermen were drowned, thirty vessels having been wrecked. BUMMABY OF 00MBES3. Senate Proceedings. 113th Day.?The Senate went into secret session and took up and ratified the longpending treaty previding for an adjustment of the Venezuelan claim*. 114th Dat.?The following bills were passed: The Senate bill to provide pneumatic gun carriages for the War Department (authorizing contracts wjth the Pneumatic Gun Carriage Company, and appropriating $160,000); the Senate bill appropriating $500,000 for an additional nre-proof building for the use of the National Museum (to be erected in the Smithsonian grounds, ju3t west of the Smithsonian Institution) House joint resolution authorizing the loan of tents and tent wuipaga for the veteran organization of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, at the Gettysburg reunion, 1-! i 1 w- ntwioeah ww oa piornou i?y jala . uamoj, ?uv> 115th Day.?Mr. Edmonds, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported back adversely the bill directing the President to make proclamation prohibiting the importation of certain products of foreign States ? The Senate took np the private pension bills on the calendar and passed all of them, ninety-two in number, including one giving 112 a month to each of the two daughters of Major Abner Morgan, of the Revolutionary Army, and one for a soldier of the War of 1812. House Proceedings. 139th Day.?Bills were placed on the calendar authorizing the United States to become a party to the Geodetic Association, and providing for a "World's Exposition at Washington in 1892, and for a permanent exposition of the three Americas The Army Appropriation bill was passed.... There was warm debate on the need of coast defences.... The Sundry Civil bill was reported, but no action was taken. 140th Day.?A bill was passed appropriating $50,000 for th? erection of a public building at BroimsvLiie, Texas.... A bill was passed appropriating $50,000 for the completion of tne public building at Wichita. Kan. ....On motion of Mr. Randall the House then went into Committee or the w hole on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. Mr. Lawlsr moved an amendment appropriating $50,000 for the repair of the Chicago Postoffice and Custom-house. After a long struggle, he finally received an 'allowance of $20,000 for the purpose....Mr. Towmbend, of Illinois, moved to suspend the rules and pass the joint resolution appropriating $2#,* 000 for the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg. The measure failed to pass.... A resolution was introduced, authorizing the loan of tents and tent equipage to the Society of the Army of the Potomac, at the Gettysburg Reunion. Time expired before a decisive vote was taken. 14 1st Day.? Mr. Townshend offered a resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to loan tents and equipage to the Society of the Army of the Potomac at the coming Gettysburg reunion,and it was pa?sed unanimously .I. .The House then considered the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill The pending paragraph was that relating to the Congressional Library building. Mr. Ryan bad read a resolution directing the Senate and House Committees on Public Grounds to invite plans for a library, coet not to exceed three millions, from five eiminent architects, and report at the next session. Meanwhile the work on the building la to De stopped, ana iut> uuiui Committee dissolved. It was finally adopted, and the provision in the bill appropriating 500,000 for the continuation of the work on the Library building was . stricken out. An amendment increasing the appropriation for salaries and commissions of registers and receivers of land offices from $500,000 to $524,000 was passed.... A bill was passed authorizing the appointment of an additional Associate Justice for the Territory of Dakota. 143d Day.?The House went into Committee of the Whole on the Sundry Civil Appropriation BilL Mr. McShane, of Nebraska, favored a reduction of the appropriation for special agents from $100,000 to $50,000. Various amendments to increase and decrease the appropriation were rejected, and the paragraph remained unchanged.... The evening session was devoted to the consideration of bridge bills. TEE LABOR WORLD. | The nail-makers are forming a syndicate. VrrMWRnns industrial enterprises are springing up throughout Louisiana. Georgia is rapidly coming to the front as a railroad building, mining and manufacturing State. I JThi Stove Founders' National Defense Association have just held a National Con* vention in Pittsburgh. Over fifty new unions have been organized during the past three months by the Brotherhood of Carpenter*. The National Convention of the Iron Holders' Union of North America was held at Anchor Hall, St Louis, June 11. Labor generally is well employed; organization is general, but is less combative and more conservative than for years past. The Clark's 0. N. T. Thread Company is erecting in Kearny, N. J., opposite Newark, the largest mill of the kind in the country. a new milling process saves $40 on every 100 barrels of four, by using more of the wheat than it was possible to utilize by the old process. According to an estimate In Bradstreet'i the whole number of strikes last year in tha United States was 858, involving 340,854 wage workers. Cotto.v factories, rice manufactories, creameries and shops of every character are being erected in tne South as fast as labor and material can be had. The Spiegel furnaces of the Lehigh Zinc Company at Bethlehem, Penn. .have been lighted after a year's idleness. This puts tha entire plant in operation. The Buffalo (N. Y.,) Boiler "Works is the largest in the United States. It has the largest tools for riveting the heaviest metals, one that strikes a 100-ton blow. The operatives in Rich & Woodbury's shoe factory, Gloucester, Mass., have struck for higher wages. The girls made from $2 to $2.50 per week, and the men less than $1.25 a day. As Chinese immigration is now prohibited the Chinese laundrymen of California have combined to advance the price of washing, no longer fearing competition from their countrymen. Another glass factory will be located at Findlay, Ohio. This makes eleven since natural gas was struck. The new place will employ one hundred men. A specialty of the firm will be lamp chimneys. New England shoe manufacturers are sending special agents to work up the South American trade, and South American countries are opening up promising fields for American commercial enterprise. A well-known London firm of refreshment contractors recently advertised for 4000 additional waiters, and 10,000 applications were received in response,. the whole of the candidates claiming to have bad experience. r < V & v - , - - KLEPTOMANIACS. PEOPLE WHO STEAL FROM NECESSITY OR CHOICE. An Agency Projected Which Will Protect Merchants From Their Depredations ? Respectable Women Shoplifters, Etc. "Why is it that so many persons prefer stealing to making an honest living?" asked a Washington Star reporter of a detective the other day. ''There are various reasons," replied the detective. "Some persons steal because they can't help it; others because they find it easier than working, while others steal simply because they have an opportunity. There are some persons who steal th.ousands of dollars' worth of property before they are caught Often they are ladies, the wives of respectable citizens, who would never for a moment be suspected of anything wrong. Some of them, as I said before, do it simply because they have an opportunity. Others commit these thefts because they like to dress well and fashionably, and are not allowed enough money for that purpose by their husbands. Such women always dress well, and usually have enough money to spend for ordinary wearing apparel, but not enough to IrAan nana with tjl# fflaVlinilfl Tll? ACCJI TTil>U ?uw a iwftM hwi - J usually confine their operations to three or four stores. They will do their shopping in such few stores that their purchases at each amounts to considerable in a year. They become acquainted with the proprietors and clerks of the stores, and are regarded so highly by them that .they are given full sway, and can go about the stores without ever being watched or suspected, and even if they acted suspiciously no notice would be taken of them. In this way they manage to secure considerable property. They are not always satisfied with robbing the stores, but will sometimes pick up a stray purse, carelessly placed on the counter by another customer, who is making some purchases, or who is being fitted to a cloak or trying on a bonnet Then when the purse is missed, complaint is made, but she, ol course, is not suspected. The only other persons about are the clerks, upon whom suspicion rests, and sometimes such clerks are closely watched and sometimes dison/1 rt# iiqnicinn h an era to them forever afterward. There is another class of persons," continued the detecttive, "who need considerable watching. Young men who are employed as clerks in the stores at salaries ranging from $3 to $10 per week. They are frequently from fifteen to twenty years old. After hours, when the time is their own, they frequently fall into bad company and bad habits soon follow. They have to pay board at home, and after that amount is taken out of their week's earnings they have but very little left With that small sum they cannot hire buggies, put up champagne and go about like others, and the consequence is they soon begin to knock down. "Tq avoid so much of this class of stealing," he said, "I think it would be a good plan for the merchants to organize a sort of protective agency or society, and have in their employ detectives who would watch the scores of clerks after business hours, and note the habits of each. Monthly reports of their conduct could be made and the merchants would then be able to know or at least have an idea of how the clerks conducted themselves while not attending to business. Take a case for instance where a clerk receiving a small salary worna visit saloons and other places where he would spend money freely, and spend more in a night or two than he actually earned in a week, his employer would certainly know that there was something wrong and could then take special notice of the particular individual. "Another class of persons who steal are porters. They usually open the store in the morning, and there is ample opportunity for them to wrap up bundles and secrete them in the celler or other convenient places, and when they start out to deliver goods they carry the plunder with them. Sometimes a^porter in a' dry goods house will cut a silk dress pattern and pin it to the lining of his coat, lie can then put his coat on and walk out of the store undiscovered. Then there are some persons who steal on account of poverty. Such persons, however, are few, and their thefts amount to but little. "A great amount of stealing done re' suits from the carelessness of persons in 1 -A- J? AAn^r?il1A^ fVi r% employing survtiuis, wumuuvu wv uvtective. "Householders frequently employ servants who come as perfect strangers, without any recommendation, unless it be the recommendation of some unknown person, which any person can ret from some one. They receive their pay and leave, and, if they ask it, will often be given a recommendation. Before such a servant has been gone any length of time a theft has been discovered and the police are called in to investigate the case. "There is another class of persons who steal for nothing else than to get money for the purchase of whisky. This class of persons traveL^bout in the guise of a tramp aDd go from door to door askiDg for something to eat. There ore very few persons who will refuse such hungrylooking individuals something to eat, and will either invite them in or tell them to wait at the door untill they return. In the former case they usually manage to pickup some trifling ornament which will get them a drink, and in the latter case they will step in and clean the hatrack, and when the charitable persons return they have disappeared. "Then there are persons who have dishonest sons. From time to time they miss pieces of silverware or clothing, and the servant is suspected. The unsuspected member of the family continues his systematic robberies untd'the matter is reported to the police, and an investigation follows. The officer soon learns the place frequented by the son, and when it is shown beyond a doubt that he and not the servant is the guilty party there is trouble in the family. Persons who rob their parents in this way usually do it because they have fallen into bad company or are addicted to the use of intoxicants, or some other bad habit, so that there is no doubt but that innocent persons are often suspected of theft and their reputation injured. A Petrified Tree. A portion of a petrified tree was discovered in a solid sandstone rock quarry at Zanesville, Ohio, the other day. The tree is about the thickness of a telegraph pole, has well defined bark and roots. It was found while blasting, or immediately after a Wast, fully sixty feet below the top of the hill, and was in solid rock. Over it is the earth formation, then a species of shale, then limestone strata, followed by a conglomeration of stone, then some forty feet of solid sandstone, near the bottom of which is the petrified tree.?Pittsburg Dispatch. Biamarck is said to weigh 20 7 pounds. * - 'i- ' ' " , ,'V ' ' WOBOS OF WISDOM, Sighs are poor things to fly with. Wit without wisdom is salt without. ' % meat. We may give advice, bat we can. not $ give conduct. The glib talker is apt to be the ahal- j lowest thinker. True justice does not consider set, it :\l grants rights to alL Equal chance to make the most ofl ^ life is the right of all. ' :AvfS Don't be vain of your powers but be not afraid to assert them. To put yourself in his place you must exchange identities with him. To yield obedience to the majority doe3 not necessitate changing honest opinion. Don't be ashamed to confess a mistake; if yon don't make it, you won't have to !', I confess. A Wise youth is safer than a simplo manhood?but still, experience is very helpfuL No man can be provident of his time who is not prudent in the choice of hit ... Q* company. To be conscious of another's feelings, one must first be subjected to the same experience. s-M . To thoroughly command yourlelf is more praiseworthy than to be at tha head of an army. \ He who does a base thing in zeal for a friend, barns the golden thread that tie* ^ their hearts together. The talent of success is nothing mors than doing what you can do well without a thought of fame. The college-bred man sometimes can't ^ get even plain baker's a year or two after he has graduated. Turkish Funeral Customs. When a Turk dies, the relatives t? forbidden to weep, but rather rejoice that a saint has reached Paradise; ao tears are quickly suppressed, no ma how hearts may ache. As soon as breath* f has quitted a body, the professional * dresser of the dead is sent for, and a most thorough system of cleansing car-, ried out. The body is then wrapped ia a winding-sheet, outside of which the ^IntliAa rtf nerson are filaded. Then, a very frail wicker or thin board coffin! is brought, and into this the body is laid, and sometimes even before it is fairly cold it is carried to the cemetery and buried.. The graves aretery shallow, ndt over two feet deep. A coin is put into the mouth of the dead person to Si Bay his passage across the 'Viver of Sath." The reason of the frail coffins' and the shallow grave is that the body' maj decay more quickly, as it is thought^ that the soul will go wandering around and not be able to enter the abode of the blest as long as any flesh remains on the ; bones. Men only are supposed to inherit Paradise, the women, having an inferior order of souls, are unworthy the exquisite joys prepared for all devout believers. The; women who have been unworthy in life will go to Bhaitan (or 8atan), and those who have been good will go to a pleasant: place where all their senses will be *2j& gratified; bat thi*< life is air^MflpH they can' look to forftsovrnrecompense. The fuperal procession generally consists of a priest, and a few nutle relatives and ' slaves, who go on a regular dog-trot, with, the corpse on their shoulders, so as to hasten the release of the sonl from its agony , of union with a dead carcass.. They believe that the body is dross and; , vileness, and only the worthless covering for the spirit within, that cannot die . ,v nor be defiled. So when a Turk dips, only his useless and valueless covering of clay falls off like a disused garment, and he himself is delivered from its dragging load. Kismet (it is fate) and hi? time has been written in the Qreat Book from : the beginning of time.?Demorest. ? ' * . .. - b 'V The Hardy Mexican Burros. : :f% Is Is a source of wonder how the peo- ^ Ele of towns like,Las Yigiles live. They ave no manufactures, they produce nothing to sell, and yet "they live and have their being" and are seemingly content. One or two Mexicans have burros to rent, and they derive some income from the tourists who visit the Las Vegas Vhot springs, the great health resort of 7 I New Mexico, which .is very near Las Vigiles. Nearly every family, howerer/.?& owns a burro for its own use. The 'q animal ia never fed; be Uvea on what he can pick up. He ia patient and docile,! f > and the far-away look of sadness in hiij-.-! eye would melt a heart of stone. HeWv ' has uncommon endurance and can carrj?&J? a load as great in bulk as his own body>; legs and all. When the Mexican needs ? firewood he monnts his bnrro and rides up into the mountains? over paths along ? precipices where it chills the blood to * look down into the abyss, for the burro is the surest-footed animal in the world, i -?; and his unshod hoofs will pick out a secure foothold almost anywhere?until he . finds some tree blown down by thei. ; storm. Here he cuts a great mass off ; fagots, which he ties on to the burro's back by the means of strong cords, and they returu homeward. An averagesized burro can carry wood enough to last a Mexican family a fortnight, and, when the master understands thoroughly the art of tying a "pack," the burro presents the oddest-looking l spectacle* imaginable, a9 he picks his way over the rocks and through the ravines.?Atlanta Comtitution. I Guatemala's Feathered Scavenger. * 1- _ i.1 The scavenger ot uuaiemaia is uis sopilote, or large black buzzard. Every; house has two or three of these birds, continually watching for kitchen waste .. and other refuse of the house, and though they are assisted somewhat by many strange dogs the people are much indebted to them. Sanitary precautions -j are disregarded, and these birds have constituted themselves into a street* cleaning department, removing all the filth and carrion which would otherwise rot and fester in the hot sun to breed disease. Swarms of them hover on the' outskirts of the towns, to prey upon dead . mules, horses, and other animals, which, are dragged there. A mule's bones will be picked clean in two days, but before the meal commences he must have a haut gout, for though the buzzard be a gourmand he is nevertheless a gourmet.? ^ Neu> York Times. ' . ??m Diamonds From the Sky. Meteoric stones that sometimes fall, to the earth are the objects of special study and thoro.i^h examination by scientific men. Tuey are all similar in their combination of material or substance. But occasionally new facts are developed. In one stone was found or- / ganic remains showing the former existence of animal life. In another that fell in Siberia September 4, 1886, weighing about four pounds, were found small diamonds. A small fragment of the stone was sent to Mr. George F. Kuntr, who is with Tiffany & Co., New York. He found minute diamonds that were real stones, because they would scratch sapphires, diamonds being the only substaoce that can produce a scratch on the. polished surface of a sapphire. >