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THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- I
DAY SERMON.
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Subject: "Satan On His Travels." c
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.