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v ' \( . ' REV. DR. TALMAGE. 1 h t THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- I DAY SERMON. b Subject: "Satan On His Travels." c r h Text: "And the Lord said unto Satan: t Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered y the Lord, and said: From coing to anrl I fro in the earth, and from walking up and t down in if.''?Job i, 7. a In 1672 was printed the largest boo'-c ever ? published, namely, two huge volumes ot near five thousand passes in small type, the author s Joseph Caryl. It was a commentary on this .Book of Joo. ? nen ic xook a year tor rn~ > ' journey from England to India, the son o* j v the author of this commentary started j r for India, leaving his father writ- j '' ing on his book, and was gone i' for years, and when he came back to is England still found his father writing a on it. I never saw the commentary, but I do r not wonder at its size because there is no end a to the interest of the Book of Job. I am not ? surprised that Goethe, the unbeliever, took from this wonderful book the opening of bi ? drama "Faust," and the Mepnistopbeles of '< the great German was only the Satan of k Job. It seems that one day in heaven God n was on His throne and angels an$i mes- t sengers came to report their different J> missions. I suppose one angel said: "I was out " among the stars and I saw one of them burn d down." Another angel, I imagine, said: "I d was off on a stellar excursion and was pres- ? eat at the birth of a new world." Another J] an cel. I think, said: "I was journeying fivo hundred million miles in the wilderness of I q immensity and I saw a meteor run down a > " planet." Another angel: "'I was off and T helped at the inauguration of a new race of sl beings amid the mountains and valleys of ? that mighty world in the southeast part of " the heavens." But while these good and r great spirits were making their reports a a ghastly, grizzly, hideous monster from some a miry, sulphurous, filthy world, came into 7 the palace without * wiping his feet, a and God asked him where and how w he had been occupying himself, and this ? greatest scoundrel of the universe made re- J ply with blazing effontery, and instead of acknowledging any of the mischief he had 4 been doing said he had been an earthly p?- ? destrian and had lived a sort of circumam- ? bulatory, peripatetic life. And the Lord said unto Satan: "Whence comest thou;" " Then Satan answered the Lord, and said: s t.T-i ? ? ?.1 r? 4.1.~ 1 n rruiu gumg i/U auu irv m bur caivu auu j from walking up and down in it." This monster of my text has a great varie- n ty of names. You know that notorious | sc villains are apt to take a variety of names, i P Arraigned in Paris for burglary a man will " give one name, arrested in San Francisco for ? arson be will give another name, imprisoned in Montreal for burglary he will give another name. So this creature of my text has many | h names. He is called in sacred and proiane i 65 literature Abaddon, Apollyon. Ahrimanes, ? Zaniel, Asmodeus the revenging devil, j* Beelzebub the sovereign of devils. Lucifer j ? the brilliant devil, Diabolus the despairing I st devil, Mammon the monev devil, Pluto the " fiery devil, Bnal the military devil, Moresin ? the plaguing devil. He is called the father " of lies, and has for his children and grand- s; children and great-grandchildren aJl false- j1 hoods, deceptions, frauds, swindles, " slanders, back-bitmgs and subterfuges. All men of good sense, Y whether enlightened by the Bible or in heath- ir onHnm Iiottq nnfinoH fnof. fflAM ora Violafnl I IT and maleficent influences abroad tbat have a not their origin in the human race, and de- r< monologv is as certain as angelology. The 01 Bword of Paracelus was thought to have had 0 a demon in the hilt and there is now a demon in every sword hilt The ancients supposed " the air was filled with syiphs c' and satyrs and sirens and gnomes and " vampires and salamanders and undines and 01 hobgoblins. The Talmud says that Adam's 7* first wife was Lillis and tbat their children 151 were all devils. Two or three hundred years s* ago a demonographer gave the names of J11 ambassadors of evil which he thought " Satan sent to different countries: ' Mammon, ambassador to England: 3* Belphegor, ambassador to France; Martinet, 1 ambassador to Switzerland; Rimmon. am- ? bassador to Russia; Thannia, ambassador to ^ Spain: Hutjrin, ambassador to Italy, and ? that there was a Princess of devils by the S name of Proserpine. But what was "mere ^ cues3 work of mvtholo?v or suDerstition " has been made clear by divine revela- | P1 tion. We find that there is somewhere j K1 a monarch of all wickedness. Ho has a i 11 thron? of power, and courtiers and armies j and navies and machinery of evil vast as the ^ round world. He is the supervisor of all i sc mischief, and what he cannot do himself he j dolegates others to do. and as each one of our *e race is supposed to have a guardian good c: angel, I have no doubt that every human be- >v ing has a besieging malignant spirit nagzing his footsteps and trying to make him think, wronsr and act wrong, an especial cr devil, a devil of fraud or a devi! of avarice or a devil of uncleanness or a devil of poor health, and as in my text the spirits are rep- s* resented as reporting to the Lord so I have sr no doubt the evil spirits report to Satan, who is the enemy of the whole human race, and who has a celerity that makes flight around the world a matter of a cl second, and who marshals on his side tho tfc forces volcanic, atm -spheric, epidemic, geo- b! logic, oceanic and cvclonic. "And the Lord A said unto Satan: Whence comest thou? Then n( Satan answered the Lord and said: From i a goms; to and iro m tr.e eartu ana irom wane- * ing up and down in it." cl Satan began his attack on this world Ions cc before Adam and Eve were created. While I believe the Bible record that the world was fe fitted up for man's residence in one week. I | KC beibve also the geologic d record that the , Pj world was previously for hundreds of thou- ! r' sands of years going through jrreat ' a1 changes. The lumber for the house that was b< to be built in a week for our first parents ct may have been hauled to the spot a million ft years before. This Prince of "the Power of a' the Air has been trying for all that million lj years to d- molish "and use up this world, ni The record is on the ro-.-ks. Ho tried to drown of it with universal waters. Ha tried to burn ai it up with universal fires. Then : a< be tried to freeze it into ruin, and covered it ^ with universal glaciers. And for ages he kept this world,befora our first parents oecupied it, in paroxysms and convulsions, and ?' the remains of those struggles I have seen and you have seen in museums, or If with ei geologist s hammer you nave gone uowa et into the stone libraries of the mountains. " Yea, after the famous Bible wee'; tue bi world had been fitted into a Paradise for the ai home of our sinless ancestors. Satan comes into the Garden of Eden, not through the tl gate of foliage and upright in posture, but bi crawls in under the bushes a snake, and hav- cl ing despoiled our first parents goes to d work to ruin Paradise, and does y the work so thoroughly that one S who recently visitel the site of the ancient tl garden between tha rivers Tigris and s: Euphrates, says the place is a desert; not a h flower, and the cround so poor that nothing tl but some date trees grow there, and y tho miserable villagers from near by g' are not so well covered up with their rr. rags as Adam and Eve were covered up with j in their innocence. So you see the Father of c< lies for once told the truth when the Lord A said unto him: "Whence comest thou?' and or Satan answered the Lord and said: "From tl going to and fro in the earth, and from tl walking up and down in it." is in my text we have Satan on ins travels, (p and lam soing to tell you some of the routes T)| he is apt to take. On his journey down from ^ the palace where he reported himself in answer to the question: Whence cor.iest f, thou' the first ranze of mischief j( he may be expected to take is j the air. " It was not a witticism or a slip of j tt the pen when Paul, in his letter to tho | j Ephesians. called Satan the "Prince of the j " Power of the Air." I think it means that j w Satan works through conditions of the atmosphere. The West wind is full of angels, the East wind is full of devils. (] Satan spreads abroad his black wings and hurricanes and euroclydons and Caribbean p, whirl winds and equinoctials are hatched out. He takes the miavmns that float up from ' ^ swamps and hatches them into typhoid fevers. Ho takes the cold b'asts end hatches i n them in?o pneumonias and rheumatisms and j consumptions. Not only has he power in the j. upper air where hi^he:<t clou is float, but i power over tho lower air which wo breathe, v and as we breathe nineteen times a minuto and take in three hundred and fifty cubic feet of air' in every twenty-four hours ' and much of this air affects the arterial circulation, von see what opportunities the Prince of the Air has of fj contaminating and despoiling and demoralIizing a man. Through atmospheric influence t R I he clouds the disposition and rasps the nerves ! ^ I and covers the best of people with religious si S despondencv, as in the case of Edward ray- t! I son and William Cowper and that beloved a | apostle of Evangelism, James W. Alexander, c I His great delight is to have the air of t B churches vitiated and in that way dulls the e 1 preacher and stupifies the people and sees to s K,MJ.tv->.'r' ':$?**: t that the atmosphere of not more than one >ut or a hundred churches is tit to breatoe, tnri whole congregations Sabbath by Sabiath are asphyxiated. Yes, he is worthy of he title St. Paul gave him: "Prince of the 5ower of the Air." Another route he is apt to take is through lomestic life. There is no greater sport for lim than conjugal quarrel. It does not nake any difference how long the marriage ing has been on the finger of the right hand, ie will try to pull off the signet He says o the husband: "What a plain wife 'ou have compared with what she once was! )on'fc you see that the color has gone out of ler cheek and there are several wrinkles bout her temples and a sprinkling of frost >n her locks? Besides that, you have dvancerl in intelligence while she has stood till or gone back. How hard it is that you hould be chained to such dullness and mbecility'" Then he turns and says to the rife: "That man neglects you, you have a ight to be jealous, He likes his cigar and is club and anything and everything bettor ban you. Why not get a divorce? Marriage 5 only a civil contract, anyhow, nd not a divine alliance. Let me have that ing. It means nothing and you mizht s well give it to ma" The ring is handed ver to Satan and he tosses it up and down ike a plaything over the mouth of perdition nd says: "I will hand it back, only ;t me" have it a littie while." And he eeps tossing that ring with all its sacred lemories higher up and fnrther out. ossing and catching, tossing and catching it ntil one day vou clutch for it. saying: Give me ba?k my ring!" but lo, it has ropped into the yawning irulf and vou sudenly find who has been pitching ana catch]g the ring, and yon cry out: "From rnence comest thou?" and he answers: From going to and fro in the omestic life of the city and from HnTT-r? in it.* that. 15 I1.1L" 'here are thousands of marriage relations Srained almost to the breaking, and I comlend to all men and women who are restjss in the present marriage state that they Bsume the old time courtship, and take s much pains to make themselves agreeable s they did five, or ten, or twenty ears ago, before the wedding march nnouneed to the flushed and fluttering rowd that the bride and groom were coming, iccording to the statistics of Professor 'ikes, in one year in moral New Hampshire ^re were ~4l divorces: in temperate Maine, rs divorces: in good old Massachuetts, (?00 divorces, and in the New Jngland of ''steady habits," 2113. In one ounty of Illinois 830 divorce suits were eguu In one year, and in many places it eems as if a new arrangement bad been aade of the Commandments, and instead of ?n there were only nine, the seventh comlandment having been left out. When you ?e how many husbands and wives are arted by law, and know of so many who ould like to dissolve conjugal partnership, o you not come to tho conclusion that Satan ; engaged in mighty industries? Another route that Satan is apt to take in is active travels is the factories and other >tab'ishments where capital sits in the office j r counting room and a good many hands of iborers are busy among wheels and spin- | les and fabrics. On this visit he will first ep into the manufacturer's office and nding the owner and proprietor of le great esracuisnnieriL uu aiuuo muu i is correspondence aud his a"count books, lys to him: "You are not making as much toney as you ought. You furnish all the | rains. "U'f-re it not for your enterprise this I itabiisament would not be in extence. Theso men and women 1 your employ are of very comlon mold. Their appetite is coarser rid they do not need the luxuries you jquire. Their comfort and happiness are Every little importance. Put them down a the very verge of starvation and take all le profits into your own possession, and if ley do not like it tell them to go where they in do better." Having done his work in le counting room Satin steps right I lit among the workmen. Hj says: "You ork too many hours and you do your work | stterthanit needs to be done. You are >rving a bloated bondholder anyhow. He asnorieht to have any more* than you ave. Why should he ride and you walk? iTJiir ctinnlri ho hotro tanrlArlnin sfepak and ou salt pork? Capital is the enemy of labor, j efc labor be the swora foe of capital. >"hy don't you strike and bring him to j irms? Wait until he has a large order to ! 11 by contract and then he cannot help him- i If. Go all together, without a moment's j arning, and tell him you are going to stop. I I he has more resources than you know of and j ?rsists in goinp: on and petting new men, ive them a volley of brickbats or put a ! ttle dynamite in his oEHceiind blow him and j is factory all up with the sam? explosion." i ook out there on the night sky! Great fire : >mewhere. What is it? The night is cold j ad Satan has made a big bonfire of that | ictory to warm himself by. The i ipitalist has lost heavily and the | orkmen and tholr families are without j react ana doming. "lynence comesu muu, ! atan:" "From going to and fro among j nployers and employes, and from walking l> and down among them. Ha! ha! I was I 10 only one who made anything out of that rii:e. What a splendid Are and lots of noke. Ha! ha! I like smoke." Another route Satan is apt to take in his ;tive travels is throngh the mercantile esiblishments: He steps in and says to the erks. "How much salary do yon gee? Is iat all? Why, you can't live on that! You ive a right to enough for a livelihood, few quarters out of the money drawer will ;ver be missed, or here and there is remuunt of goods you could take home ithout being found out. Or you could lange those account books a little and you :uld make that figure eight a naught and j tat figur.3 five a three, and if you do not ] el exactly right about doing that you can | line day pay it back, which you can do | jrfectly easy. Don't feel like running the sk; Well then you can't go to the theater I id you can't go on that round with the I )ys and you will have to wear that plain . >at, whereas you could have your overcoat ir lined, and take board at a tip top place id walk amid plush and tapestries positive ' UrieilClll. ?* 11UO JUU UIU ! lindl will just go throush the different parts i ! this great commercial establishment id try every one from the wealthy firm twn to the errand boys " The result of lat Satanic visit is that one of the partners is drawn so much out of the concern that le whole business is crippled and a bright j id promising boy is sent home to his mother i disgrace and a young m m is in jail for nbezzlemsnt Three lives ruined and three ernities. Whence coraest thou, Satan? From going to and fro among mercantile auses, and from walking up and down nong them. I like to ruin splendid fellows ad blast parent's hopes.aud of all the liquors iat I ever tasted fill my glass with a re wing of agonizing tears. Come! let us lick together the rims of our glasses and rink to the overthrow of the fifty thousand ' ? 1 oung men i ruinea iasu yum* atan would rather have one young man tian twenty old ones. If he would win t'-.o -ptua?en;.rians and the octogenarians e could do but little harm with lem. But he says: "Give me a oung men, especially if he bo bright and fue-ous and social." He sees that young let: have for good or bad been the mightiest ifluence in this world. Hornando Cortos >n:;uered Mexico at thirty-two. Gustavus i .dolphus became immortal in history so I irly that ho died at thirty -eight. Kaphuel. | w most famous of painters, died at lirty-seven. William Pitt was Prime Minter of England at twenty four. Jesus Christ j >mpleteJ his earthly life at thirty-three, j ive years in a young man's life are of mora I mver for tjooti or evil than the last fifteen I r an old man's life. So Satan is especially | reedy for young men, and in going to and i o in the earth he has especial temptation | >r them. Another route that Satan on h:s .ictivo j avelsis apt to take is for the despoiling of ; 10 p-'opio's sou's: It does not pay him lerely to destroy the bod es of men and I omen. Those bodies would soon be one anyhow; but great treasures are lvolved in this Satanic excursion, in this route lie meets a man | ho is aroused bv something he has en in the Hib o and Satan says: "Now I ail settle all that; the Bible, 'is an imposiion; it has been deluding tl;e world for enturies: do not let it delude you. It has o more authority than tb? K?.r in of the fobammedan or the Sha'b r of tie lindoo. or the Zenda-Vesta of the 'ersian:'' Ha meets another man ,-ho is hastening towards th? kingdom f God and says: "Why all thi* precipita!on? Religion is ri^ht, but any time dthin the next ten yenrs will ba sooa nou^h for you. A man with a stout hest like yours and su:'h muscular evelopment need not be bothering himiseif ahout the next worlJ." But Satan ays nothing to him about the fact that the rofessor who gave his whole life to the tudy of health and could lift more pounds ban any American died at about forty. ,nd that another learned man who proved onclusively that if we observed all he laws of health we need never die, xpired before he got his book on that uoject published. Satan meets another man '' ' : ' ' ' 'V; v ' ' ' ?> ' who has pone through a long course of prorligacy and is beginning to pray Goa for forgiveness, and Satan says to the man: "You are too late: the Lord will not help such a wretch as you; you might as well brace up and fight your own way through." And so with a spite and an acateness and a velocity that have been gaining for six thousand years, he rancres up and down baffling, disappointing, defeating, afflicting, de stroying the human race. Through his own hand or delegated infernalism he has pursued and hurt us all, and cursed every heart and cursed every home and cursed every nation and cursed every continent. He has instigated every war. He has rejoiced in every pestilence. He has ?tarted every fzronn. He has pressed out every sigh. He has hurled every shipwreck. Lazarettos, insane asylums, commercial panics, places, destroying angels, continental earthquakes, and worldwide disasters are to him a perfect glee. Can you look upon the Communism and the Mormonism and the Mohammedanism and the wide sweep of drunkenness and fraud and libertinism, the Franco-German war andCrij mean war, the North and South United States : war and rivers of Wool flowing across oonj tinents of misery into oceans of wretchedness without realising the pow>r of the Evil j One, who reported to the Lord A'miehty, ana wnen nsKea: wnence cornea inour answered: "From troing to and fro in the earth and from going up and down in it" But. blessed bi God! I may substitute anthem for requiem and Hallelujah Chorus for the Dead March in Saul. The New Testament says: "The Son of God wns manifested that he" might destroy the works of the devil." It propbes:ed that an angel would come down from heaven with key and chain and incarcerate and shut up the old dragon. It says that Christ came to "destroy him that had the power of death?that is the devil." And from the way Christ drove th9 devil out of those possessed bv him until he was glad to hide under the bristles of the swine of Gadara, and from other violent ejectments wo know that there is in existence a power j a million-fold misrhtier than the diabolic. The old lion of death shall eo down under the stroke and roar of the "Lion of Judah's tribe." Yea, my text shows that Satan was compelled to report to the Almighiy and gi > e account of himself. When God said to him: j "Whence comest thou?" he was forced to ! answer. What means that scripture , which says that Christ shall bruise the ! serpent's head? If you have ever killed a l snake the passage ought to be plain to you. i You see this old serpent, the devil, has crawled across the nations, poisoning whole generations and leaving his trail on everything: but after a while it will be cornered, and hissing and writhing in rage and with crest lifted and forked tongue shot out it will make final attack on Christ, and ! Christ will advance upon it, and lifting his | omnipotent foot, that toot strong enough to | crush a world, lifting that foot right i over the head of the reptile, will put j aown his heel with a crushing power that shall leave the monster bleeding and mashed, never to hiss or bite or shake his old rattle again. ThaDk God he has already received a stunning blow. Hear you not the rumbling of the Christian printing presses and the whirling of the Gospel chariot wheel? As many souls have j been added to the Christian Church in the last eighty years as in the previous eighteen centuries aud that is a ratio of increase acclaniatory with gladness. The kigdom is coming, and I am so sure of it that I do not propose to fret and worry because it has not already come. I may jump to get on a boat that is going off, but! do not propose to jump for a boat that is coming in. The sharp attacks of infidelity and sin are a good sign that especial blessing is coming in showers over all the earth. Flie3 bite sharp ju*t before rain. If.we do not ree the full consummation our children will see it. in the time of the French Revolution a great procession of boys carried through the streets a banner with the inscription: "Tremble, tyrants; we shall grow up!" Though we may fail to do our duty there is a rising geueration being gospelized and coming by hundreds of thousands from our Sabbath-schools and Christian home9 who might properly have on their banners: ''Tremble, ye powers of darkness and sin; for we are growinz up!1' We may not amount to much in ourselves, but if we put ourselves in the rifirht Dlace we can do ereat i exploits. Two put under two only make | four: but placei beside two make twenty- | two. Yet what you and I most need it j power to drive back this Apollyon, this As- j modeus, this Ahrimanes from our hearts and { lives. And we can do it not by our own strength j butby divine power afforded, for here is a pas- ; sage emblazoned with encouragemet which j says: "Resist the devil and he will flee from j you." Remember it is no sin at all to be 1 tempted. The best and the mightiest have , been tempted. Milton describes a toad j squat at the ear of eve. The sin is in sur- j rendering. Do not feel so secure in yourself as to think you cannot be overthrown. | How do you account for the fact that there | are so many old men in Sing Sing and J Auburn and the other penitentiaries, serving j out their protracted sentencss for frauds j committed in mid-life or advanced ages, al- J though their early life had been good, and j nothing had been suspected of them until at fifty or sixty years of age the hind was j struck dumb at their forgery or embezzlement? The clock in the steeple of old Trinity Mia hours did not remind i the recreant Wall-streeter of the passage of time that would soon bring to hin> exposure and doom. The explanation is that Mephistopheles, Apollvon, batan got in ' his work at that time. The man was not j naturally bad. Ho was as good as any of , you are, hut Satan with whole battalions of | internals swooped upon him unawares. Look j out for the wiles of the devil, not only thosi of you who are young but the middle- I aged and the old. Outside of God you are \ not safe a moment. But yield not to dis- | heartenment. If we put our trust in God i our best days are yet to co ne?days of vie- ! tory, days of song, days of heaven, and . the best days of the cause of I righteousness in all the earth are yet j to come. As the tan thousand men of | Xenophon's army when they came to the top of Mount Theches and saw the waters on I which they were to sail to their homes, the . soldiers with clapping hands and waving j banners altogether shouted: "The sea: the | sea!" So we to-day in our march toward | our heavenly home come up to the top of the | mountain of holy anticipation and look off j upon oceans of light and oceans of glory and i oceans of joy; and thrilled as we have never ! been thrilled before we clap our hands and ' wave our gospel ensigns and cry one to another and shout up to the responding and reechoing heavens: "The sea: the sen!" Chonp Intoxicants. In ti e I nitvu BtiitvS Senate in the course j rv? <.1? lolmto ill wtltVll II ifitlivlatwl I alcohol speciahy for use in tho arts and manuf;.ctui (S was under consideration. Senator \ est, 01 Missouri, is reported assaying: "I h:r o seen, on a mi dline costing $2i, brandy and whisky niat rfn< tured after having been d? methylated. cqu-.l (.uantities of fine i r::is'!y cud of wocd alcohol and of pure alcohol. and afterwards the methyl or wood a'cohol. which is a. poison, taken out and then reduced 1 v water until no man, except an e?:port, coulu 'ell the difference between it and the bran;*y and whisky sold in tlio saloons at high r.riros." Asked: ''Would it make a man drunk.*' the Senator responded: ".Ah a mutter of course." Ti.e iuvention of ' a ohenp mnchine to cheapen intoxicants for i beverage use is a most unfortunate use of the i human inventive power.?.Xationul Advo- I cule. Temperance News and Notes. The Women's Uni>>u of the Church of Eng- i land Temperance Society now includes 115 branches. Eight employes of the Long Island Hail- ! road Company were recently discharged for | j drinking intoxicants while on duty. The i | general superintendent claims there was no I j excuse for this violation of the rules of the | | company, as coffee ami iced tea are provided ; for all who desire it. | In Gasconade county, Mo., the Iron Hill j Christian church was burned by the whisky I element, after first thoroughly saturating I the building with kerosene od. This because I ot the use made of the church for temper- j i ance meetings, and the active part taken iu i i these meetings by its members. The United States Circuit Court in Arkan- j j sas has rendered an opinion that cider is an j i alcoholic beverage obtained by the fermen| tation of tho juice of apples, and holds that it cannot lawtully be soid in a State whese i statutes prohibit the sale of alcoholic or any j spirituous, ardent, vinous, malt or fermented j liuuors, | At tho anniversary meeting of the Victor! ian Temperance Alliance, August 30, in Melbourne, Australia, $6500 was raised and other donations are coming in daily for the purpose of carrying on the work during the coming year. Tho chief of an Australian tribe delivered the following temperance lecture in one line: "One drink is too much; two are not half enough." n t' -r-" ' 1 ' " "r . ; ' " ' TV ' TEMPERANCE. Effective Temperance Work. The most effective temperance work is that which sets the people to thinking most deeply and strongly on the subject, and; the best way to accomplish this object is by the distribution of literature that brings the truth home to the people. One specific example of tbe evil effects of strong drink in a community is worth more at this day than a volume of generalizations on the subject. Unfortunately there are very few communities in this country where it is meessary to go outside for illustrations of tbe woes and miseries that follow strong drink; A Temperance Temple Projected by the W. C. T. U. One of the many plans of work elaborated by the National WOman's Christian Temperance Union in its recent Convention in th6 Metropolitan Opera House has to do with the building of a temple to temperance. The remarkable women of this remarkable organi zation are not one wit more ideal in their character than they are practical, and though they have been a thousand timasovei accused of tryiDg to force an ideal life upon mankind, it must be admitted that they are practical in their means and methods. It is so in the matter of this temple. Some of the women huve for many years longed that there might be some material monument to commemorate the society's work. But they did not see the way clear to pay for a monument, and so the desire remained a dream. Then some of the practical women took up the dream and began to make it a J reality. They have not got the temple built j * yet, but they have the ground, and they are j : getting the money to pay for the stone and ! : mortar. The structure will stand on L'ear- I " born street, Chicago, fronting the Post Otfico | J and the Custom House, and it's going to be J handsome even among Chicago's handsome j ( buildings. I ' The schemelwas first thought of in a practical way by Matilda B. Carse. one of the 1 foremost W. C. T. U. workers in Illinois. 1 She has been busy for five years thinking 1 o\ er the problem of getting the money. The J Central Union of Chicago took hold of the i pi an, and was incorporated, so that it might | 1 hold property. Then the National Union i ? took it up, and now the building of the Tem- i J perance Temple is under their direction, and I ' the national body will be the owner. There I 1 was difficulty about getting a sight which e would be central and yet within the society's means. Finally the right spot was found. But the only way by which the Bociety could get control of the land was on a perpetual lease without revaluation. This was fortun- 1 ate, for it was much better for their purpose j than to own it in lee simpie. ine renuu is i t $35,000 a year. The plot is considered one of t the most valuable in Chicago. Its nearness i B to the Tost Office and Custom House assures | t it the advantage of being in a central loca- t tion for many years. Besides, the lot fronts j. on three streets. t All these fccTT. and a great many more wera j f related at one of the business sessions of the j ? Metropolitan Opera Bouse. The telling of ^ them awoke tremendous interest, and a little i . wliih after Sister Carse liad told how the I dream was now evolving into a real thing j t there were seen in difl'erent parts of the big > opera bouse audience small boxes, so covered with paper and so shaped that thev presented I r both a picture and a model of the new tem- j : pie. These were mite boxes, and in the top i * of each was a slit through which coin could I be dropped. Twenty-five thousand of these ? little mite boxes have been made, and tbey I * are to be sent to the 10,000 local unions of j J the W. C. T. U. all over the land, so that J * stray pennies may be gathered for the temple | [ fund. Some of the boxes were filled during the J Convention. One came from one of the 1 tables where some of the newspaper people were sitting. An impulsive newspaper woman with a laughing face and a big heart, made her comrades?both men and i 8 women?chip in. She had been eating candy j t during the session, and she got up this con- j tribution for the temple as a penance for her 8 sweet tooth frivolity. The box bad $11.82 T in it in a iiffy from the newspaper group, j ana was the lirst one sent to the piatrorm* President Willard put it on the Crusade i Bible on her desk in full view of the Ccn- I * vention, and then smiled down on the news- t paper people with a wish that they would be J as well blessed with quiet as they were with I good intentions. I Besides the money that will come from | ? these boxes, it is estimated that each union | ? in the various towns and villages will con- ? tribute as a body. Then gifts from indi- . viduals are being made, and there are more ? to come. The temple will cost $500,000 to build. The 8 style of architecture chosen is the late gothic i ^ of France, at a poiut just lief ore it began to , 6 take on the modern features of the renais- j P sance. The architect who designed the building thinks that the style of the temple is pe- j ? culiarly adapted to the purpose for which it < 13 is intended. This style culminated in history I J at a point when feudal Europe was taking on 1 * forms more essentially modern; when the ? long and turbulent mediaeval period was t crystallizing into well-understood and stable f forms. "Any one, 'he says, "who is fami- q liar with the style in France will recall many p charming examples, as in the Palace of Jus- ; r tice at Rouen; the house at Jacques Cceur, j u at Bourges, and many other examples will i d at once occur to the art student. The pecu- j r liar charm of this style, in its best examples, j C is that it is typical of the life which first be- j gan to manifest itself in the exterior of the v tisMifnn on/1 in ^AnnimfitTa nliflfma wlllfh lrifli- > T uvuoco anu nt uucwi uvnvi vu?m .. . . cated that its occupant was not afraid to ]et e his neighbors know that he was a man of , b wealth and condition. The house, in other i t words, which previously confined its decora- I 1 tion mainly to the inside, now began to I s bloom outward like a flower." | a As designed, the building is intended to be I o two stories of dark stone, probably of red ' I granite. The other ten stories are to be con- fc structed of dark gray brick and terra cotta, s of such color as'will carry out in tone the | dignity which so large a building should ' g possess. The enrichment of the front is very j ? largely concentrated about tiie main en* | trance, where it is intended to carve the f coats-of-arms of all the various State or- i ganizations belonging to the National Union, I and the heraldic devices relating thereto. In r the large tympana above the outer and inner | 1 entrance through the main doorway the ; general coats-of-arms of the National Union, I and the {name of the building, are to be j wrought in glass mosaics, which will be i equally brilliant by night or day. j t Passing through this general hallway there j s is a large rotunda at the end, which opens in- | ( to tne iuemoriai nan proper, 10 uo nuunu u , t Willard Hall. This rotunda is to be decor- j a ated by a large fountain in the middle, in | j| the design of which the gush of water is to j bo the chief element, as in the case of the c fountains at Versailles. This central j feature is intended to be typical of the pur- j pose of the entire building. j Williard Hall, which is entered from this s central room, is intended to be so arranged 8 that memorial tablets and scriptural inscriptions, bronzes, and glass can be freely used; also statuary, so that in time the hall may become in every sense significant of the pur- ^ poses of the Woman's Christian Temperance r Union, of the triumphs of its heroes and the jj death of its martyrs. Outside of the building n two large fountains adorn the two corners on ^ the main front Whatever enrichment there c is upon the front is intended to be wrought t by hand, and various kinds of flowers are employed, which are to be emblematic of the j flowers adopted by the different State organ- ? izntions. * t The tower itself is so large and important * as to dominate the entire building, and also the entire city, and the temperance women ^ hope that the Madonna ana Child, which j forms the final, will indicate to all observers j f that the temple is not merely a commercial 1 structure, but has lor it? object something J higher; the protection of the home. 1 In this unique decoration of the finish of the top of the building, across the front, J; there are niches for eight colossal busts in t stone. These need not necessarily be chiselled out at present, for the women say 11 they can wait for a while in the temperance ? reform to decide who are tho eight greatest ? celebrities worthy to stand guardian over their cause. The building is to be entirely .fire proof. Its balls, staircases and wainscoting are to be ^ of white marble. It will, when entirely o occupied, counting the rental at a very low '3 figure, bring in a revenue of ?191,500 a year, I1 and in ten years, it is anticipated, it will bring in a rental of $250,000 at least. A strong effort is being made to have the corner stone laid on May 1 next Frances r Elizabeth Willard, Matilda B. Carse, Helen L. Hood and Esther Piigh are the principal 1 women directing the scheme. Among the trustees are Senator Colquitt, Senator Blair, Melville C. Stone, editor of the Chicago t News; Frederick Schumacher, of Akron, . Ohio, and Norman B. Ream, of Chicago? New York Sun. 1 It is recorded as a notable fact that a temperance society has been formed in St Petersburg? a city which consumes immense quantities of vodky, wine and beer. The society 1 was founded by shoemakers, and is in- i creasing at the rate of 150 new members a 1 week. . . i "religious heading. Befqre the Cross. Before the Cross of Christ in prayer; The soul may leave its load of care, / And, whatsoe'er its guilt may be, Secure a Saviour's pardon free. None may despair: His latest breath. In the strong; agony of death. niingiea wnn mercy's bwbuuj huo? "Forgive; they know not what they dol" Even for hands that caused to start The life-blood from his breaking heart, His soul with gracious r>ty moved? God's sign how fallen man was loved* And we, who, though not in the flesh, Have crucified the Lord afresh, Have press'd the thorns about His brow? Oh I dare we sue for mercy now? And is His voice, with accents sweet, Still pleading at the mercy-seat? Still Jives He there, to intercede For all who feel a Saviour's need! Yes, Ferapbs in the light above Record tbe triumphs of His love; Still He forgives, as none forgave, The soul that trusts His power to save! ?[Rowland Brown. Sin. If there is a disease in our modern theology and our modern philosophy of life more jonspicuous than another, it is Its indiffer;nce to sin. We lull it with anodynes. We jail it anything but sin. We form our schemes of social improvement and material progress without any conviction of this deep Dlague-spot of our nature. We hide it from mrselves until it breaks out in some scandal)us form and startles us with its intensity. We will drill men into morality; we will repress crime by education; we will empty our jails by philinthropic legislation; but trie sin that dwell>th in us is too stroDg for hum>in remedies; ioo rampant for the social reformer's prunng hook. Far truer is the novelist's sentinent, when he puts into the mouth of one of lis characters the awful but grand words, 'How gladly would I endure the tormenta >f hell if thereby I might escape from my in?"?[Dean of Peterborough. None to Mourn Their Loss. How diversified are the natures of manendi Some are attractive, others repulsive. generous soul draws about him the old and he young, the poor and the unfortunate, and hey all feel happy in his presence. A peron with a cold heart and sour looks, wins he affections of none. Young, timid chiliren are seen by the side of the tender and cind-hearted, en joying themselves, often imjrinting the kiss of affection on the furrowed Jrow. There is an invisible something that [raws them to the side of the good. iVherever the friendly person goes le is always sure to find congenial and sympathetic hearts, and .a io ViaTYivtr QTror-vrohpro hAOAllin bv his looks .u V.V.J tnd words be makes others happy. Even lumb animals know thoir friends andin varous ways manifest their pleasure when in he presence of such. Yet there are those rho do not try to cultivate genial affections, tnd do not seem to care whether they are oved or hated by others, and pass along rom day to day callous to all that makes ife really desirable, and when they pass off he stage of action have none to mourn their oss or to miss them from the social circle ind the family greetings.?[Hartford Religous Herald. The World for Christ. The world for ChristI Is this too much to ay, too much to desire, too much to expect, oo much for our prayers, too much for our wcuniary contributions, too much for peronal effort, too much for our faith? It so, vhere is our faith? Too weak, weak I Does t not humiliatingly constrain us to acknowldge that it is exceedingly defective, far beow the Bible standard? Can anything less han the world for Christ satisfy a Scripural faith, a heart in sympathy with Jesus nd "full of love divine?" Jesus died for the rorld, for it He is interceding in Heaven, ind He has organized a Church, the great ommission of which is to save the world, ind for this purpose He commanded it to 'go into all the world and preach the gospel o every creature," "to disciple all nations." ["his command of Jesue is imperative nd must be obeyed. The conse [uences attending its disobedience no lan;uage can describe. Long has it been disre;arded, long has the church slumbered over b and been recreant to duty in its observance. Jnbelief has controlled its action. Its faith ias been far too weak; the world, for Christ ras quite too much for it, it staggered under be thought, but it is gaining strength, and hows a power for aggressive movement not iefore seen for centuries, but still it is deective?it needs toning up to the Bible retirement. Then, the head and haart, the iraying, teaching, giving. will be ight; the pulpit and pew will speak with iterances, accompanied with acts that will [emonstrate to the world that it should and nust yield to all to the all conquering "hrist. Much remains to be done, very much, the cork to be accomplished is stupendous. The ast force to conquer is strong, wellquipped, and marshalled, and determined, iy all possible means in its power, to mainnin its ground and resist every nssault .'he battle will be earnest, wax warmer and | tronger, but. let no heart grow faint, nor ny discouraging feeling be entertained, for ur Immanuel's army will triumph. "The jamb shall overcome for he is King of :ings and Lord of lords." "All the earth J hall be filled with the glory of the Lord." The world for Christi Let this be the inspiring watchword all alon? every line of hought. enterjjrise And labor.. irp_ro.the pulut, peW; Sunday-school, "all the social meetngs of the church, and from every Christian lome let the grand refrain swell in exultant lotes, The world for Christ!?[Rev. R. W. Ulen in Christian Witness. Church Amusement. The church has gone into the amusement rasiness largely. In the days of primitive implicit}* it" was thought that the world and satun bad a monopoly in that line. This, lowever, is an "age of progress"' so-called, ind the church has entered the market ard 9 in competition with these great caterers. The discovery has been made that the hurch, in order to hold its young people to ts altars must provide for the natural cravng for amusements. It used to be held that esus ana flis worn iurmsneu ampie xeources to meet the loftiest aspirations of a aved soul. It was sung Tbou, 0 Christ, art all I want; More than all in Thee I find. That sort of sentiment is now thought not o be up to "the times." Sad as it may ap>ear, judging from the new order of thinps, tesus is not equal to the occasion. A little musement must be thrown in. In order to :eep the people from the theatre and op.>ra ur churches must be made into semi-theares and semi-operas. The holidays furnish occasion for the in;enious and progressive sons and daughters if Zion to make full proof of their new vocaio?. They prepare dramas, farces (very arcical), suppers, fairs and entertainments if every sort. They are spending their wretched strength for naught. So fnr from revnting attendance upon a full-grown heatre and opera by these efforts, they are rhetting the appetite of the paople tlierdor. The church theatre is a preparation for he world theatre. Satan is delighed with hese inventions. But this is serious busiess?dreadf ul business. It is eating out the ife of tho church?it is destroying our oung people, rendering them unfit for all rue spiritu'd exercises. We counsel every ollower of Jesus resolutely to discountennco these church amusements. Be kind ut lir.n. Loyalty to Jesus demands it. rivo your money liberally for every laudble church object, but stand aloof, positivey, evermore trom tho unholy festivals.? Guide to Holiness. Last year California boxed up 1,120,- I >00 pounds of raisins, branded the )oxc.s "London Layers," and sold the vhole weight in Chicago, New York, md New Orleans. They wouldn't have asted good had not this deception )een practiced. The late Prince Schwarzenburg left i fortune of $50,000,000. Of this amount ie bequeathed the magnificent sum oi ?400 to the poorsof Vienna. '. ' ?*. " CUEIOUS FACTS. One pound of seed will yield about 10,000 asparagus stalks. The Prussian blue dye was discovered by Die^bach at Berlin, in 1710. Printing in raised or embossed letters was begun at Paris by Hauy in 1786. Richard Ashe King, an English vicar,, has resigned his living to write novels.! More than 4000 persons perished by the hurricane which devastated Barbadoes, October 10,1780. Richard Cceur de Lion, like the animal from which his heart was named, died by arrow from an archer. The baton used by couduccors of con! certs is said to have, been introduced into England by Spohr in 1820. William H. Burnheiser, of Harrisburg, Penn., has lived in bed twenty-nine years in consequence of a spinal injury. George II., of England, died of rupture of the heart, which the periodicals of that day termed a visitation of God. The oldest and largest tree in the world is a chesnut near the foot of Mount Etna. The circumference of the main trunk is 213 feet. At the reformatory prison for women in Sherbune, Mass., a single chrysanthemum may be seen upon which there are 1463 buds. The plant is of the present season's growth. It is estimated that there are 3,000,000 men in America who get shaved three times a week. That means an expenditure of thirty cents a week, or $15.00 a year, for each man, or for 3,000,000, $15,600,000 annually. The ancient language of Asia Minor was Phrygian, or Semitic, of which ChaldeaD, Syriac, Hebrew, Phoenician and Arabic were dialects. Beyond tha rivers, towards the Indu, dialects of tha Sanscrit and Zena appear. The old style of tinger-rings, with a setting containing, a small compass, is now being brought into use by electrical engineers. Held rear a line-wire the movement of the compass shows at once whether a current is passing. An owl killed itself and a whole green nouse mil or cosuy piam.8 one nignu oy falling into the stovepipo, thus shutting olf the draft and causing the escape in the room of coal gas, which is fatal to vegetation as well as to animal life. The ox is truly a beast of burden, strong and enduring, but the ox of a Swiss paysan is not the same looking animal that we have. No wooden yoke bows its head and shoulders. It is harnessed very much like a horse, and actually appears a lively, high-stepping animal. A novel contest that will take place shortly in New York is a counting match between two rapid money changers. One has bet the other $200 that he can beat him counting,apiece by piece, $10,000 in silver coin in all denominations. The wager has been accepted, and the match will take place at Cooper Union. The pair of trousers which J. W. Briggance, of Gallatin, Tenn., wears on State occasions were made for Him by his mother in 1815. She gathered the cotton on her own farm, spun it into yarn, dved it and wove it. The trousers seem in as good condition as if they had been made only last year, and Mr. Brig* gance is proud of them. And now they say that Tom Hood first planned the phonograph, as witness this, from his "Comic Annual" for 1839: "In this century of inventions, when a selfacting drawing-paper has been discovered for copying visible objects, who knows but that a future Niepce, or T~4o/Tiiorro WorQr>hf>1 nr Pnr Till hot X/?SUV..V, ? > ? 1 may lind out some sort of Boswellish writing-paper to repeat whatever it hears?" New Japan. The young Mikado, Mutsuhito, the 123d Emperor of the nameless dynasty, was the first of the line to take the oath as a ruler. On the 12th of April, 1808, he made oath before gods and men that *'a deliberative assembly should be formed; all measures should be decided by public opinion, and that intellect and learning should be sought for throughout the world, in order to establish the foundations of the empire. This oath was reaffirmed October 12 1881, and this year 18'JO is fixed as the time for limiting the imperial prerogagative, forming two houses of parliament, and transforming the government into a constitutional monarchy. The Emperor's capital was changed from Kioto to Yeddo, which was renamed and called Tokio. Feudalism, or the holding of fiefs by the damio, came to an end in 1871, by imperial edict, and the whole of great Japan was again directly under the Mikado's rule. The titles of Kuze and daimo were also abolished, both being re-named simply (Koo-ai-o-koo), or noble families. The distinctions between the lower orders oi people were scattered to the winds, and even the despised outcasts were made citizens, protected by law. The degrees in rank among the Japanese are now as follows: First. The Emperor and the royal families. Second. The Kuasoku, the noble families. I TViIi-r! Tho thp. orpnt.rv Fourth. The Heimin, the citizens in general.?From "Grtat Japan: the Sunrise Kingdom, by Ida G. Hodnelt, in St. Nicholas for November. Is tlic North Getting Colder J The clearing of extensive forests maj explain the alleged improvement in the climate of Chili and Patagonia, where summer is said to linger half a month longer than a hundred years ago. But if the temperature of the Southern Hemisphere is increasing, it is at least equally certain that the North is getting colder. The Dunish Government has repeatedly considered the question of assisting the natives of Iceland to leave a clime which almost every other year threatens them with annihilation, and yet there is abundant evidence for Professor Lundborg's assertion that the island home of the Edda was once quite as habitable as any part of modern Sweden. Greenland, too, osce deserved its name, and there is no doubt that Labrador once contained five times it^ present population, though the chances are, that, before the end of another century, the country will have no permanent population at all. A year ago seventy Esquimaux made a descent on Mugford Harbor, and had to be shot dowu like so many wolves, to keep .them from ravaging the scanty provision-stores of the settlers; and now again reports of impending famine come from half-ado, eu villages of the dismal peninsula, j A thousand years ago the sixtieth degree of northern latitude appears t? have enjoyed a climate nearly corresponding to that of the fortieth degree south of the i Equator, and it would almost seem as if I the thermal conditions of our plauet I were now undergoing a change tending to equalize that difference.?Yankt<\ Blade. | SACCHARIN. 1 REMARKABLE QUALITIES OP A '1| CURIOUS PRODUCT. It la Derived from Coal Tar?/'f|gH nd Is the Sweetest Sabmnot . J Known?It's Uses in Medicine, etc. The curious product from coal tarJjS known as saccharin was introduced br, a French chemist two years ago, since wnen a iacioiy tor lis proaucuon was ? established in Westerhausen, near the ' I old historic town of Magdeburg, in Prussia. Saccharin has become so formidabl?j a rival of cane and beet root sugar for many manufacturing purposes, v^9 that the producers of theae look upon the new material with great disfavor. Late French papers state that the French ( sugar manufacturers have begun a cam- '"?] j paign against it, and the Society of [ Agriculturists have petitioned the Got- y.$etn | erument to forbid its manufacture, as /'3 ; being prejudicial to the beet root sugar trade, although experiments have shown that it is not noxious. It has been found that in its pure state " jja it is difficult of solution, but this defect.. ! is corrected by the addition of an aUca-4 /JaH i line bicarbonate that is added by small .'$?? I portions to the s&ccharin mixed in the j water. No heat is employed, as under '^J|j I the influence of heat soda will transform, '".ffigjl saccharin into aalicrlic arid. Nfiither jim j flies, bees nor other insects will touchi' | saccharin in any form, but phyaiciaas are already prescribing it for patients af-?ys|jjO I liicted with diseases which will not ed4;'''y|S : mlt of their taking sugar. A gentleman ;s. . to whom sugar was forbidden triedaac-i u , charin, using it alone to sweeten lemon- . j juice and stewed cranberries. He found. / that it would not mix, and experimented! ' with various things to remedy it, btitl was unsuccessful until he thought of 'glycerine; one dram of saccharin with. one pound of glycerine, heated to solution, makes a mixture closely resembling -gS honey, and one that readily dissolves in V'/aH water, milk, tea, coffee, wines and itfm Saccharin is used now in cake, candy and champagne. Its sweetening power ! is 300 times greater than .that of sugar, 'M j and it has neither the latter's nutritive ' -j nor injurious properties. It does not '''ijg ferment, and is in no way altered bj the '"'djM | action of yeast and other ferments.' In I addition to this, it has also antiseptic I properties which make it useful ih prej serving articles of food. It is a condi- ' : ment, or spice, and should never be HS tasted in its pure state. A distinguished American chemist, when asked for some information 're spectiDg the new material, said: '*Sac- -.jS ; charin is really in many waps a remark| able product. It la the sweetest sub- aJI j stance known. One part of it in 70,000 ! parts of water will give the water $ per- ^.|*g ! ceptibiy sweet taste equal to one part of $3 cane sugar in 250 parts of water, and a '$1 solution of one in 10,000 is intensely sweet. In appearance it is a white - ^ crystalline powder, soluble in 230 parta j of water at twenty-five degrees Centigrade, and is easily soluble in alcohol, and ether. Its scientific name is benzoyl sulphonic amide. "Curiously enough, saccharin is in no, Jai way related to the class of sugars (carbo- $9 hydrates), either cnemically or physio- '' logically. It is not only unfermentabie^ but it possesses an anti zymotic action; '-raM that is, it retards the ammoniacal fer- 32 mentations in certain secretions. It is indigestible, inert and non-poisonous ^ when taken into the stomach, and passes ")? out unchanged. These properties give -'f! it an important place in dietetics, pnar* * - $ macy aud therapeutics. When mixed' with the food of diabetic or obese patients it enables them to indulge in. sweetened dishes which ordinarily must '$? be denied them on account of the in- v;'S3 jurious effects of sugar under such conditions. "It is a harmless and effective sweet- ^ ening agent lor bitter medicines, and chemical combinations of it with several! alkaloids, such as quinine, strychninci . and morphine, have been employed witU I marked success. It is also given witlj '?s| j other remedial agents, or in pure solytiod :?*; as an anti-fermentative medicine inj >$Ij i various gastric and intestinal dis- ?' Sunffl orders. :K, TJT "Besides these medical uses, saccharin ' ",f. is largely employed in Prance as a sub- ;;; stitute for sugar in confectionery and $8 liquors. One part of it to 1000 or 2000 ' parts of glucose (grape sugar) makes aa equivalent to cane sugar for confeotion-1 , J? ers' use, and one part of saccharin tor "-'j bOOO parts of liquid is considered eufii-< j cient for making sweet liqueurs. Alto-j gether there is good reason for the concern felt by sugar producers on account of a substance, a teaspoonful of which will convert a barrel.of water i'4 into good syrup, and which does nof "i) decay, mould or ferment, and has no iniurious effect uuon the human svstem. ?J -J -J "The chief difficulty iu the way of its i use is the high cost of production; but / j improved processes will doubtless be ! devised which will bring its market . / [ value to a much lower ligure than it now commands."?Frank Leslie's. ?_ Salt Water as a Tonic. A woman at the General Hospital last week had a serious operation performed, and after it was all over she began to grow very weak from the shock. At 12 o'clock at night life was so low that the pulse was scarcely to be felt, and a rather unusual resort was made of injecting a quart of salt into her veins. This revived her almost instantly, but it was oaly for a time. Then a pint more was i ljected, and one of' the doctors drove jli rapidly to a milkman, and had him " fill some warm, clean bottles with fresh milk, for which the cows had just been miiked. The botties were put in warm water, and upon arrival at the hospital a pint of the warm milk was injected into the circulation, and shortly afterward another pint. This made three* pints of a saline'solution and two pints of milk. Still the patient did not permanently revive, and, as a last resort, a transfusion of a small quantity of human blood from the arm of one of the doctors was made. All the efforts of ' i the physicians were in vain, however, , and the woman died twenty-four houra after the operation.?New fork Tribune. A Champion or Cremation. The Rev. C. J. Street, M, A., an English clergyman, champions cremation. He claims that the present system of burial increases the chances of disease among succeeding generations, for the disease germs continue to live iu the air long after the body has ceased to exist. Exhalations of deadly character escape from opened and unopenedgraves. Soil from a graveyard sprinkled on a garden has been the meaus of creating disease. The 11.000 cemeteries of England and "Wales, he believed, were more or les3 responsible for the prevalence of virulent epidemics. In cremation the work is done in one hour, and the dangers that accompany the present system would be avoided. Besides that, the robbery^ of the dead and the possibility of being buried alive wou d be prevented,?iVcw York Witness.