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I SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. The Senate. 84th Day.?Mr. Call introduced a joint osolution to appropriate $10,000 for an inestigation of tne cause nod best methods of uring and preventing yellow fever by Dr. I aul Giblir and other competent persons.... Ir. Sawyer reported back the House bill to 1 crease the maximum of internaonal money orders from $30 to 100, and it was passed.... be Military Academy Appropriation bill as takqn up, amended and passed.... he Fension Appropriation bill was passed 1 k ~ annvAnnofinn r\9 I. II tut. UUO auiouuiucuw?v|/itn?ivu vt, 1,003 for rent of pension agencies....The late passed the District of Columbia Apipriation bill with amendments and ed for a conference with the House. .Mr. Krve reportod back the House bill the establishment of a lightship, with fog ials, at Sandy Hook, N. J., at a cost not eeding fOU.UOO, with an amendment maka similar provision for Great Round >al, near Nantucket, Mass., and requiring construction of the ships to be let to the est responsible bidders and that the ships Duiit in American shipyards. The amendit was agreed to, the bill passed and a ference with the House asked.... i Senate then proceeded to the considtionof the bill to declare unlawful trusts : combinations in restraint of trade and [taction, but reached no conclusion. An jndment offered by Mr. Hoar was agreed Mr. Piatt offered an amendment, mak- j the law apply whether the principal the trust resides in the United States in a foreign country. The bill, as >nded, was ordered printed as well as peodmz nmendm?nt8 It was voted to | for a conference with the House on the Is bill and the Senate substitute....Mr. | e reported the Consular and Diplomatic )ropriation bill, and gave notice that he lid call it up at an early date. It conis the appropriations for Samoa. th Day.?The Senate spent the entire upon a discussion of the question whether present Envoys Extraordinary and isters Plenipotentiary to the Court St. James, Germany and Rus- J and to the French Republic should aised to thj rank of Ambassadors or uot, and after devoting live Hours to me discussion it was not able to reach a decision.... Mr. Regan introduced an amendment to the Sherman Anti-Trust bill. It is in the nature of a substitute An amendment reported by the Senate Committee on Appropriations was agreed to, inserting an item of $3000 for i Consul-General at Apia, Samoan Islands ....On motion of Mr. Blair the Army Nurses1 Pension bill was taken up by the 3enate, amended and passed. It allows a pension of $25 a month to all women nurse9 luring the late war. 36th Day.?The Senate resumed considsration of the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill, trie question being on Mr. Gibson's amendment to make the title of the ministers to France, Germany, Great Britain and Russia "ambassadors," and it was ^nally adopted by a vote of 26 to 24....It eras decided to discus* Samoan affairs with open doors, and Mr. Sherman made a long speech on the controversy....Mr. Manderson e ported a proposed amendment to the Suniry Civil bill appropriating $40,000 for the >reparation of a site and the erection of a jedestal for an equestrian statue of General Sheridan in the city of Washington. 37th Day.?The Senate resumed consideration of the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bills, the Question being the amendments affecting tne Samoan Islands. At the conclusion of Mr. Reazan's speech on that subject the Senate went~into executive tession on the British extradition treaty.The Bxecutlve session lasted until 6 o'clock. The House. 88th Day.?Secretary Endicott sent to the House a report from Lieutenant-Colonel Gillespie, Corps of Engineers, of the results of a survey ior a ship channel between Jersey Citv and Ellis Island, New York Harbor, ana for a ship channel between the deep water of the Hudson River and Ellis Island.... The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was considered. An amendment was adopted, providing that the name of every person whose portrait is printed on Government jecorities shall be pnnte.i under the portrait The appropriation for repairs of lighthouses was increased from >300,000 to $33d,000, and Mr. Randall offered an amendment appropriating 1150,000 for the purpose of investigating the extent to which the arid region ?n be redeemed by irrigation. 37th Day.?The Speaker laid before the House the Mills Tariff bill with the Senate substitute therefor, together with the re a nest ot tbe senate ior a conrerence. iur. Reed moved to concur in the Senate substitute. Mr. McMillin raised tbe point of order tbat tbe substitute must first be considered in Committee of the Whole, and Mr. Milis the point that it must be referred to tb9 Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. Reed advocated the immediate consideration of the Senate measure. Mr. Mills and Mr. McMillin submitted the points of order which they had held in reserve; and the Speaker decided that unier tbe rules the bill must be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, so the bill, with the Senate amendment went to tbe Committee on Ways and Means.... The Ford immigration report was recommitted, and tbe committee was given leave to report at any time.... Representative Hemphill, reported favorably a bill proposing to secure 2500 acres along the line of Rock Creek to be used as a public park. Tbe bill appropriates $1,500,000 Mr. McCreary reported tbe Edmunds resolution, declaring the sense of the Government of the United States in respect of tbe connection of European Governments with inter-oceanic canals at tbe Isthmus of Darien, in Central America. 88th Day.?The senate roncurrent resolu fcion was agreed to providing for the .oint meeting of the two houses of Congress on Wednesday, February 13, for the purpose of counting the electoral vote....Tne House considered the Sundry Civil bill. The pending amendment appropriating $250,000 for investigating the best method of irrigating the aria region was agreed to....Mr. McComas offered an amendment which was agreed to appropriating f50,000 for the education of children of school age in Alaska, without reference to race... .Mr. Springer introduced his Omnibus bill providing for an enabling act for the admission of rhj Territories of Arizona, Idaho and Wyoming as States of the Union Mr. Stone introduced a resolution providing that Congress shall attend the Constitutional Celebration in New York city. 39nr Day.?The Housa in Committee of the Whole discussed the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. The appropriation of #500..00 was made for the new library building. The House finally passed the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill Mr. Clardy reported favorably a b.ll for the establishment in the ricinity. of the wreck of the steamer Oregon, it the entrance to New York harbor, of a ightsbip with a steam fog signal at a cost lot to exceed $60,000....Mr. Cothran reported favorably a resolution authorizing ;he President of the United States to take luch measures as in his judgment may be lecessary to promptly obtain indemnity !rom the Venezuelan Government for the njuries, losses and damages suffered by the Venezuelan Steam Transportation Company >f New York... Mr. Morrow introduced a oint resolution requesting the President to Insist on the restoration or atrairs on toe oa- | noan Islands as they existed at the time of I he convention between representatives of I Sermany, Great Britain and the United States, and to take necessary steps to proect American rights there. <0eh Day.?The Oklahoma bill wa3 brought o the attention of the House by Mr. Springer, of Illinois, with a motion to go ato Committee of the Whole for its onsideration. The motion was agreed to. Ir. Dockery, of Missouri, being assigned to iceside over the committee. FRATKIOIDAL JOKE. John Newcomb Killed by flit Brother for a White Cap. When John Newcomb, who lived in ?ueen Anne's County, M'JL, reached his lome on a recent night and rapped at th( I oor, Casper, his brother, who was in thi ^Houve, inquired who was th ire. John reM"1 am a White Cap, and have come after PM Casper, not recognizing his brother's voice, ^Hrocnred his shot gun, and returning to tha H|oor said to the supposed White Cap: Hb "If you don't come in and tell who you art (Swill shoot you." H He then partially opened the door, and put ^ >at>arrel out of the opening, when it was and a struggle ensued for its possesM thu-io^ the struggle Caspar Neweorab Balled the trigger ana the weapon was dis^Kxarged, the load entering John Newcomb'i SKtre^aad causing death to follow in law TEMPERANCE. Saloon-Keepers' Song;. We set our traps, and whisky is our bait; So come on, boys, and meet your deadly fate. We take your money: in exchango we give A mournful home and fewer hours to live. If want should shade your homes, and drink the cause, i Point-, tn t,h? shameless meu who make the laws. But high license som? do aver and say Heals up the wounds and mends the murky way: We do not count the graves of those who fell; ^he more we pay, the more we have to sell. License for lawful crime should teach you all Whence comes the wrong when men are seen to fall. But "Liberty," that sacred theme of ours, Urings restless thought and many sleepless hours: Ah! when we cannot murder youth and age Liberty takes wings and flies away in rage. ? Wallace Alygatt, in the Pione<rr. From the Internal Revenue Report. The annual report of the Commissioner of Int?rnal Revenue, portions of which were given to the press some weeks ago. has just iome iu completed iorm from the Public | Printer. It contains some interesting facts, many of which would probably sui prise the average reader not especially familiar with the mysteries of whisky and tolacco manipulation. The opponent of the use of intoxicants will be interested to know, for instance, that the amount of spirits manufactured in the United States last year was only a little over half of that manufactured in the year 18S1. He will not be particularly happy, however, to know that the total was considerably over 71,000,000 gallons, or considerably more than a gallon apiece for every man. woman and child in the United States. Under this head of "spirits" are included grape brandy, 1 1 ?I"'-1-" urlit'oL-v ruin. UUU1UUU " IIIOA. 7 , Ijw ~ , gin, high wines, pure, neutral or cologne spirits and a miscellaneous column which carries 13,000,000 gallons. The largest quantity of any of these varieties is the pure neutral or cologne spirits, of which there were o0,0o0,000 gallons made last year, 'lhis is a pure alcohol so abso.utely neutral and colorless and tasteless that it wili take any sort of flavor and can be made by the expert mixer into any kind of flavor he may want. He cnn by judicious coloring and mixing and flavoring make gin, or brandy, or rye wnisky, or bourbon whisky, or rum out of it. So the production of neutral or cologne spirits has steadily increased in th9 past decade, while that of high wines has just as steadily decrease i. Ten years ago the amount of high wines made was about double that of the neutral or cologne spirits. In the last year the amount of neutral spirits was nearly thirty times as .much as the amount of high wines. New England is the great rum-producing field of the United States. Nearly all the rum distilleries of the United States are located in Massachusetts. The amount of rum produced iuthe United States was nearly 2,OOu,OUO gallons and in its manufacture '-io,000,000 gallons of molasses were used. It is largely exported, about half of that of last year having been shipped from the ports of Boston and New York. Cultured Boston sends it out mostly to the natives or Arnca, w here it counteracts largely the labors of the missionaries sent thither from this country. The shipments from the port of Boston to Elmina, Africa, last year, were 304,000 gallons: to Grand Bassan, Africa, 136,000 gallons; besides some shipments to Central America, Liverpool, England; Constantinople and Alexandria, Egypt. The average Kentuckian will be saddened to know that the taste for bourbon whisky abroad seems to be lessening. Last year there were only shipped abroad about 100,000 gallons of this article, against considerable over 200,000 gallons in the preceding year. The large bulk of spirits shipped abroad goes in the shape of alcohol and neutral spirits, which can be utilized in most any form desired after reaching its destination. The average tobacco chewer and smoker will perhaps be interested in some of the disclosures ot a little table which covers cnly a couple of pages in the voluminous report, and which shows that of the tobacco worked up into chewing and smoking material last [ year there were used 8,000,1)00 pounds of scraps, 4,500,000 pounds of stems, and over 9,000,000 pounds of "other materials," whatever these mysterious articles may be. This may not be a very pleasant thought to bring to the attention of the average smoking or chewing individual as bo is about indulging in his lavorite pastime, but if he finds it unpleasant he must blame the awful Commissioner of Internal Revenue for making the facts public. The report shows that there are nearly half a million dealers in manufactured tobacco, and that 160.587 persons paid special taxes as retail liquor dealers last year.?New York Granhic A Daily Occurrence. A millionniro?? hr?WnP3 flAVA Aiuvug U1VUV* u uaus.wMM.. ? - - __ _ ? in recent years become conspicuous. How their wealth is accumulated by impoverishing: the poor is well illustrated by the Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript, which in a late paragraph, headed "Meat or Beer," says: "On a recent cold morning the very smallest size of a small boy went into a market and asked for five cents' worth of salt pork. It was portioned out, and then the child showed two cents more, and said it was for a soup-bone. The bone was produced, and as the raarketman handed it to the child, who was barefooted. though snow and ice were on tho ground, he observed that he held in one hand a large pail, and inquired what be was to get in it. 'Beer,' said the small boy. To fill that pail with beer would cost fifteen conts,which was double the sum appropriated for the family's food that day. This happens daily, and, of course, the father doesn't work." 1 here is. of c ourse, great need of temperance missionary labor in such a family; but the State, also, in the interest of economy, morality, and the general public welfare,should interpose its rightful authority and close out the Drewery and beer-vender.?National Advocate. Barnnm's Startling Proposition. P. T. Barnum, the great show man, has made the following startling proposition: " I will undertake to give bonds for the fulfillment of a contract that if the city of Philadelphia will stop selling liquor, and give me as much as was expended for her liquor last year, to run the city next year; 1 will pay all the city expenses; no one shall give taxes; there shall be no insurance on property; a good dress suit shall be given to every poor man, woman, boy and girl; all the educational expenses shall be paid; a barrel of flour shall be given to every needv and worthy person, and I shall clear a half million or a million dollars by the operation." Temperance News and Notes. The man who did not break his bottle inteuds to break his pledge. Man is about toe only animal who "draws in his horns" through his mouth. Is it right to build churches to save men, and license shops that destroy them.' A "Prayer Alliance"' for the extinction of the saloon has been organized in Erie County, Penn. The Harverian Society of Great Britain estimate-? that fourteen per cont. of mortality among adults in the United Kingdom is due to alcohol. Experiment?A laboring man tries to support a latnily and a saloon at the same time. Kesult?The saloon gets the support, and the family gets?left. Alcohol is not only unattractive, but violently repulsive to the uncoriupted s.-nse of taste, and that repugnanco is not limited to the instincts ot the human race. I-ast New Year's Day a couple of men in Seattle, Washington Territory, tiled bonds of each, binding themselves not to drink intoxicating liquors during lfcSlt. This kind of swearing off is s.rious. What good has the liquor-seller clone'" j asked a public speaker. "Can anybody think of one whom the liquor business hits benefitedThe silence was broken by some one crying out: "The grave digger." States making the largest actual decrease in liquor dealers during the past year are in the order named: Pennsylvania, Uhio, New York, Missouri, Minnesota, Kansas. Louisiana and Iowa, though this actual decrease is by no means equivalent to the proportionate decrease as compared with tLe total number of dealers, nor is it always accompanied by a decreased production of intoxicants. The great African traveler. Dr. Livingstone, leaves this valuable testimony: "J have acted on the principle of total "abstinance from all alcoholic liquors during more than twenty years. My individual opinion is that the most severe labors or privations may be undergone without alcoholic stimulations, because those of us who have endured the fciost bad nothing else than water, and Dot tiwa^s enough of that," M ' r CUiij..V-y RELIGIOUS BEADING. Tis Easy to Labor. 'Tis easy to labor with hope as our guide, To beckon us onward and brighten the way; To strengthen the heart till all foes are defied, And strengthen the arm till all work is as play. Tis easy to conquer when friends us surround, Ever swoet words of comfort to spealc in our ear; To keep doubt away that else darkly had frowned, And keep from our vision the phantoms of fear. But what when the sweet star of Hope that did guide Is hidden by clouds that it may not dispart? And what if the comforting friends at thy side Stand silent or croak with the doubt in thy heart? Oh! give me the heart that through silence of friend May walk in the light, or with darkness may cope; Oh! give me the heart, which, if need, to the end May even fight on in the hope of a hope. Yes, bravely strike forward, though left In the dark, Still keeping tho course that it held through the light; Yea, strike and koep striking, lit but by the spark Which its brave, ceaseless strokes bring out of the night. ?Courier Journal. Building. Be careful how you build. Let nothing go to form your character that will not make it better and stronger. Let each brick be an honest one, and let it be laid carefully, with an earnest purpose to make of yourself a good, noblo man or woman. If already poor material has entered into your character, seek divine help to remove it. Get out every bad piece, every worthless habit. You jannot afford to have only an ordinary, much less a weak, charactcr. While building see that you build of first-class material. You can build but one character in a lifetime, and it is to be yours for eternity; so make it tho verv best possible. But no character can be ouilt of the best material unless we go to the Bible l'or it, nor built in the best way unless under tho direction of Jesus, the Master ouilder. Gathering your material irom me Word of God, laying eveiy portion with the trowel of prayer and under tne direction of Jesus, the great Master, your character will be one that will stand all trials, pas; all tests, and remain through eternity well worth the lifetime it took to ouild it.?Forward. Duty of Giving. The Comruitteo on Systematic Beneficence, appointed by the Presbyterian General Assembly, sends the following to The Church <11 Home and Abroad: "The old-time method of a collection, picking up what is carolessly dropped in the box, will no longer serve the purpose. A dollar means much less to the giver today than it once did, and on the other hand it is worth more to send the Gospel. The people arc to give dollars where uow thoy give pennies. God has given us the ability. It involves, in many cases, less self-denial to give a dollar than a generation ago it did to give a penny. Tne duty of giving is the great duty, because it is the great need of the Church. It is not something that, if wo are very good, we may properly expect will be done. It is duty. Every man ought to give. It is an appeal to the conscience, not the heart. Love to the Lord will mako it easy and delightful; but every Christian is bound to ask and answer the question, How much ought I to give? What is my duty? Ho who goes to fhf? Word cf God'will Und that every man's duty is at least one-tenth, and more "as God prospers him. A Mother of 3Ien. Years ago a family of four?a father, a mother and two sons?dwelt in a small houso situated in the roughest locality of the rocky town of Ashford, Conn. Tho family was very poor; a few acres of stony land, a dozen sheep and one cow supported them. The sheep clothed them, ana the cow gave milk and did the work of a horse in ploughing and harrowing; corn bread, milk and Dean-porridge were their fare. The father being laid aside by ill health, the burden of supporting the family rested on the mother; she did her work in the house and helped the boys do then work on the farm. Once, in the dead of winter, one of the boys required a new suit of clothes; there was neither money nor wool on hand. The mother sheared the halfgrown fleece from a sheep, and in one week the suit was on the boy. The shorn sheep was protected from the cold by a garment made of braided straw. The family lived four miles from the "meeting house," yet every Sunday the mother and ner two sons walked to church. One of these sons became the pastor of a church in Franklin, Connecticut, to which he preached for sixty-one years; two generations wentfoith from that church to make the world better. The other son also became a minister, and then one of the most successful of college presidents; hundreds of young men I wow? mrmlHaH hv him That heroic Christian woman's name was Deborah Nott; she was the mother of the Rev. Samuel Nott, D. D., and of Eliphalet Nott, D. D. LL. D., president of Union college.?j.V. Y. Observer. Lend a Hand. There is a sublime order in human life as well as in the universe which surrounds and sustains it; an order which comprehends all needs, co-ordinates all action, and provides for all growth. The chemical relations of matter are but imperfect types of the delicacy, the multiplicity, and the inclusiveness of moral relations. All things which men touch through any sense, by any thought, in any act, distil some moral quality and react either for good or ill. We are played upon by influences too many for our comprehension, too delicate for our observation, too far-reaching for our foresight. When we seem to be sacrificing things most precious to us we are often receiving them Dack in some finer and imperishable form: when we seem to be working solely for others we are often serving ourselves in the highest and noblest way. Doing for others, bearing the burdens of omens uiuemujuig uuireives wiui ine struggles and labors of others, help mightily in the working out of our own lives. It is wise to drop resolutely our difficulties at times, to turn aside abruptly from the questions which we are trying to answer; it reinvigorutes the soul and gives the mind a new grip on the perplexing problems. Mathematicians carrying on extended calculations sometimes find themselves forced to clear their minds of figures and betake themselves to some other occupation or amusement; wheD the mind has recovered its tone the tangles of the problem are swiftly straightened out. Every life needs a large and noble diversion from its perplexities and cares; needs a catholic sympathy with others to preserve it from selfishuc&s; a steady and hearty co-operation with othei-s to give its own work breadth nnd solidity. No sane man lives for himself; sooner or later a life wholly self-centered loses its soundness and becomes distorted and diseased. The two elements of self-development and care for the interests of others must be kept in equipoise if harmony, symmetry and largeness of character are to be | sccured and maintained. Not to be ministered unto, l ut to minister, I was the aim of the divinest lifo ever lived "mongmeu.?Christian Union. Barnum's Startling Proposition. IJ. T. Barnum, the great show man, has made tho following startling proposition: ' J will undertake to give IjOi.us for il:o lulfillment of a contract tt-at i' toe city of Philadelphia will stop seilmg liquor, and give mo as much as was expended for her liquor last year, to run the city next year; 1 will pay all the city expenses; no one shall give taxes; there shall be no insurance on property; a good dress suit shall be given to every poor man, woman, boy and girl; all the educational ox peases shall h-3 pud; a barrel of flour shall be given to every needy and worthy person, and I shall clear a half million cr a million do.lars by the operation." it)Bjxdsuoo jstqojBtty ire jo uoxirauoj eqj O) I'BtuaXuoo eq oj snides JJ089J v qons jo jjb pwjjtiqM 'p^wtajA 0xjx "Biiuq uoops u( pj?q Aiv siJuiQwai ^aiqojsuv )aoaa 'aicu v sy - .... . j ,,\k. ' BEV. DR. TALMAGE. / THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SEUSION. > ^5 Subject: "Slanders Against Religion Answered." Text: "And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was '? ?' 0.11W Ann?i<? /111/i rut Anon as I had eaten it mu belly was bitter. And He said unto me: Thou must prophesy again before many peoDlei, and nations, and tongues, and kings.*?Rev. x., 10-11. Domitian, the Roman Emperor, had in bis realm a troublesome evangelist who would keep preaching, and so he exiled him to a barren island, as now the Russians exile convicts to Siberia, or as sometimes the English Government used to send prisoners to Australia. The island I speak of is now called Patmos, and is so barren and unproductive that i-is inhabitants live by fishing. But one day the evangelist of whom 1 speak, sitting at the mouth of a cavern on the hill-side, and perhaps half asleep under the drone of the sea, has a supernatural dream, and before him pass as in panorama, time and eternity. Among the strange things that he saw was an angel with a little book in his hand, and in hi* dream the evangelist asked for this little book, and the angel gave it to him, and told him to eat it np. As in a dream things are sometimes incongruous, the evangelist took the little boOk and ate it up The angel told him beforehand that it would be very sweet in the mouth, but afterward he would be troubled with indigestion. True enough, the evangelist devours the book, and it becomes to him a sweetness during the mastication, bnt afterward a physical Ditterness. Who the angel was and what the book was no one can telL The commentators do not agree, and I shall take no responsibility of interpretation, but will tell you that it suggests to me the little book of creeds which skeptics take and chew up and find a very luscious morsel to their witticism, but after a while it Is to them a great distress. The angel of the church hands out this little book of evangelism, and the antagonists of the Christum Church take it and eat it up, and it makes them smile at first, but afterward it is to them a dire dyspepsia. All intelligent people have creeds?that is, favorite theories which they have adopted. Political creeds?that is theories about tariff, about finance, about civil service, about government Social croeda?that is, theories about manners and cwioms and good neighborhood. ^Esthetical creeds?that is theories about tapestry, about bric-a-brac, about styles of ornamentation. Religious creeds? that is, theories about the Deity, about the soul, about the great future The only being who has no creed about anything is the idiot. This scoffing against creeds is always a sign of profound ignorance on the part of the scoffer, for he has himself a hundred creeds in regard to other things. In our time the beliefs of evangelistic churches are under a fusilade of caricature and misrepresentation. Hen set up what they call orthodox faith, and thev rake it with the musketry of their denunciation. They falsify what the Christian churches believe. They take evangelical doctrines and set them in a harsh ar.u repulsive way, and put them out of the association with other truths. They are like & ? ?ad anatomist, who, desirintr to tell what a i&iua is, dissects a hu man body and hangs up in one place the heart, and in another place the two lungs, and in another place an ankle bone, and says that Is a man. They are only fragments of a man wrenched out of their God-appointed places. Evangelical religion is a healthy, symetrical, well-jointed, roseate, bounding life, and the scalpel and the dissecting knife of the In* Udel or the atheist cannot tell you what it Is. Evangelical religion is as different from what It is represented to be by these enemies as the scarecrow which a farmer puts in the cornfield to keep off the ravens is different from the farmer himself. For instance, these enemies of evangelism say that the Presbyterian Church believes that God is a savage Sovereign, and that He made some men just to damn them, and that there are infants in hell a span long. These old slanders come down from generation to generation. The Presbyterian Church believes no such thing. The Presbyterian Church believes that God is a loving and just Sovereign, and that we are free agents. "No, no; that cannot be," say these men who have chewed up the creed and have the consequent embittered stomach. "That is impossible; if God is a Sovereign, we can't be free agents." Why, my friends, we admit this in every other direction. I, Dd Witt Talmage, am a free citizen of Brooklyn. I go when I please and I come when Iplease, but I have at least four sovereigns. The Church court of our denomination; that is my ecclesiastical sovereign. The mayor of this city; he is my municipal sovereign. The i Governor of_Nevr_ York; he is my_State sovereign. The Jrresident or toe United States; he is my national sovereign Four sovereigns have I, and j'rt in every faculty of body, mind and soul I iim a free man. So, you see, it is possible that the two doctrines go side by siae, and there is a common-sense way of presenting it, and there is a way that is repulsive. If you have the two doctrines in a worldly direction, why not in a religious direction 1 If I choose to-morrow morning to walk into the Mercantile Library and improve my mind, or to go through the conservatory of my friend at Jamaica, who has flowers from all lands growing under the arches of glass, and who has an aquarium all asquirm with trout and gold fish, and there are trees bearing oranges and banamas?if I want to go there, I could. I am free to go. If I want to go over to Hoboken and leap into a furnace of an oil factory, if I want to jump from tbe Rlatform of the Philadelphia express train, ! I want to leap from the Brooklyn Bridge, I nay. But suppose I should go to-morrow and leap into the furnace at Hoboken. who would be to blame ? That is all tlwre is about sovereignity and free agency. God rules and reigns, and He has conservatories and He has blast furnaces. If you want to walk in tbe gardens, walk there If you wane to Jeap in tne rurnaces, you may. Suppose now a man had a charmed key with which he could open all the iails, and he should open Raymond Street Jail and the New York Tombs and all the prisons on the continent, in three weeks wnat kind of a country would this be? all the inmates turned out of those prisons and penitentiaries. Suppose all tne reprobates, the bad spirits, tne outrageous spirits, should be turned into the New Jerusalem. Why, the I next morning the gates of pearl would be found off hinge, the linchpin would be gone out of the char.ot wheels, the "house of many mansions" would be burglarized. Assault and battery, arson, libertinism and assassination would reside in the capital of the slcies. Angels of God would be insulted on the streets. Heaven would be a dead failure if there were no great lock-up. If all people without regard to their character when they leave this world ro right into glory?X wonder if in the temDle of the sties Charles Guiteau and John Wilkes Booth occupy the same pew! Your common sense demands two destinies! And then as to the Presbyterian Church believing there are infants in perdition, if you will brin? me a Presbyterian of good morals and sound mind who will say that he believes there evur wiw n hahy ir tbe lost world, of ever will be, I will make him a deed to the house I live in and he can take possession to-morrow. So the Episcopalian Church is misrepresented by the enemies of evangelism. They say that church substitutes forms and ceremonies for heart religon. and it is all a matter for liturgy and genuflexion. False again. All Episcopalians will tell you that the forms and creeps of their church are worse than nothing unless the heart go with them So also the Baptist Church has been misrepresented. The enemies of evangelism say the Baptist Church believes that unless a man is immersed he will never cet into heaven. False again. All the Baptists, nrmmnniAn Vlft UIU3D U'JiaUJUlllUU UI1U u^/uu t ? ? lieve that if a man accept the Lord Jesus Christ bo will tx? saved, wbatber bo be baptized by one drop of water on the forehead, or be plunged into the Ohio or Susquehanna, although immersion is the only gate by which one enters their earthly communion. The enemies of evangelism also misrepresent the Methodist Church. They say the Methodist Church believe* tbat a man can convert himself, and that conversion in that church is a temporary emotion, and that all a man has to do is bo kneel down at the altar and feel bad and then the minister pats him on the back and says: "It is all right," and that is all there is of it False again. The Methodist Church believes that the Holy Qhost alone can convert a heart, and in tbat church convention ii an earthquake of conviction and a sunburst oI pardon. And as to mere "temporary emotion," 1 wish we all had qigrfl of the ''temporar? emotion" which luted Bishop Janes and Matthew Sim peon for a half century, keeping them on fire (or God nntil their holy enthusiasm consumed their bodiesi 80 all the evangelical denominations are misrepresented. And then these enemies of evangelism go on and hold np the great doc* trines of Christian churches as absurd, dry and inexplicable technicalities. "There is your doctrine of the Trinity," they say. T<Absurd beyond all bounds. The idea that Were Is a God in three persons. Impossible.; If it is one God He can't be three,and if there are three, there can't be ona" At the same time all of us?they with us?acknowledge trinities All omnn^ ti? Tv(nl*v in ntm make-up?body, mind, soul Body with which we move, mind with which we think, soul with which we love. Three, vet one man. Trinity in the air?: light, heat,. moisture?yet one atmosphere. Trinity in the court room?three juc&es on the bench, but one court Trinities all around about us, in earthly government and in nature Of course, all the illustrations are defective, for the reason that the natural cannot fully illustrate the spiritual But suppose an ignorant man should come up to the chemist and say: "I deny what you say about the water and about the air; they are not made of different parts. The air is one; I breathe it every day. The water is one; I drink it every day. You can't deceive me about the elements that go to make up the air and the water." The chemist would say: "You come up Into my laboratory and I will demonstrate this whole thing to you." The ignorant man goes into the chemist's laboratory and sees for himself. He learns that the water is one and the air is one, but they are made up of different parts. So he** ia a nan who says: "I can't understand the doctrine of ' the Trinity." God says: "You come up here Into the laboratory after your death, and you will see?you will see it explained, you will see it demonstrated." Tne ignorant man cannot understand the chemistry of the water and the air until he goes into the la boratory, and we will never understand tne Trinity until we go into heaven. The ignorance of the man who cannot understand the chemistry of the air and water, does not change tne fact in regard to the composition of air and water. Because we cannot understand the Trinity, does that change the fact? "And there is your absurd doctrine about justification by faith," say these antagonists who have chewed up the little book of evangelism, and have the consequent embittered stomach?"justification by faith; you can't explain it" I can explain it It is simply this: When a man takes the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour from sin, God lets the offender off. Just as you have a difference with some one; he has injured you, ho apologizes, or he makes reparation, you say: "Now, that's all right, that's all right" Justification bv faith is thin; A man takes Jesus Christ as his Saviour, and God says to the man: "Now, it was all wrong before, but it is all right now; it is all right" That was what made Martin Luther what he was. Justification by faith, it is going to conquer all nations. ' There is your absurd doctrine about regeneration," these antagonists of evangelism say. What is regeneration ? Why, regeneration is reconstruction. Anybody can understand that Have you not seen people whn ara oil moHa ntroF nrroin Kr trtma wonderful influence ? In otber words, they are just as different now from what they used to be as possible. The old Constellation, man-of-war, lay down here at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Famine came to Ireland. The old Constellation was fitted up, and though it had been carrying gunpowder and oullete it took bread to Ireland. You remember the enthusiasm as the old Constellation went out of our harbor, and with what joy it'was greeted by the famishing nation on the other side the sea. That is regeneration. A man loaded up with sin and death loaded up with life. Befitted. Tour observation has been very small indeed if you have not seen changes in character as radical as that A man came into this church one night, and he was intoxicated, and at an utterance of the pulpit he said in a subdued tone: "That's a lie." An officer of the church tapped him on the shoulder and said: "You must be silent, or ycu must go out" The next night that stranger came and be was converted to God. He was in the liquor business. He resigned the business. The next day he sent back the samples that had jnst been sent to him. He began to love that which he hated. I baptized him by immersion in the baptistry under this platform. A 1a?/*a oftlorr woi Viim if XV KU|(U .^m?l J ?? VI1UWU mm Ji. he would return to bis former business. He decliiie.1 it. He would rather suffer with Jesus Christ than be prospered in the world. He wrote home a letter to his Christian mother. The Christian mother wrote back congratulating him, and said: "If in the change of your business you have lack of means, come home; you are always welcome home." He told of his conversion to a diosolute companion. The dissolute compinion said: "W ell. if you have become a Christ an. you ha I I etter go over and talk to that dying zirl. She is dying with quick consumption iii that nouse." 'lhe new convert went there. All the surroundings were dissolute. He told the dying girl that Jesus would save her. "Oh," said she, "that can't be, that can't be! What makes you think aof" "I have it here in a book in my pocket," he replied. He pulled out a New Testament She said: "Show it to me; if I can be saved, show it to me in that book." He said: "I have neglected this book as you have neglected it for many years, ana I don't know where to find it, but T know it is somewhere between the lids." Then he began to turn over the leaves, and strange and beautiful to say, his eye struck upon this passage: "Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more." She said: "It isn't Dossible that is there!" "Yes," he said, "that is there." He held it up Deiore ner u^iug evea, uim auu zkuu; "Oh, yes, I see it for myaelf; 1 accept the promise: 'Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more.'*' In a few hoars her spirit sped away to the Lord -that gave it, and the new convert preached the funeral ermon. The man who a few davs before had been a blasphemer and a drunkard and a hater of all that was good, he preached the sermotu That is regeneration, that is regeneration! If there are any dry husks of technicality in that, where are they? All made over again by the power of the grace of God. A few years ago a ship captain came in here and sat yonder under tne gallery. He came iu with a contempt for tne Church of God and with an especial dislike for Talmage. When an opportunity was given he arose for prayer, and as he was mora than six feet high, when he arose for_prayer no one aoaDtea that ne arose! mac Dour ne Decame a Christian. He went out and told the ship owners and the ship commanders what a great change had been wrought in him, and scores and scores have been brought to God thr.ough his instrumentality. A little while after his conversion he waa on ship off Cape Hatteras in a thick and prolonged fog, and they were at their wits' ends ana knew not what to do, the ship drifting about hither and thither, and they lost their bearings; and the converted sea captain went to his room and asked God for the salvation of bis ship, and God revealed it to him while he was on his knees that at a certain hour, only a little way off, the fog would lift; and the converted sea captain come out on the deck and told bow God beard his prayers. He said: "It is all right, boys, very soon now the fog will lift," mentioning the hour. A man who stood there laughed aloud in derision at the idea that God would answer prayer; but at just the hour when God had assured the captain the fog would lift therd came a flash of lightning through the fog. and the man who had jeered and laughed was stunned and fell to the deck. The fog lifted. Youder was Capo Hatteras lighthouse. The ship was put on the right course, and sailed on to the harbor of safety. "When in seaport the captain spends most of his time in evangelical work. He kneels down by one who has been helpless in the bed for many months, and the nert day she walks forth in the streets well. He kneels beside one who has long been decrepit, and he resigns the crutches. He kneels beside one who had not seen enough to be able to read for ten years, and she reads the Bible that day. Consumptions go away, and those who had diseases that were appalling to behold come up to rapid convalescence and to complete health. I am not telling you anything second-handed. I have had the story from the lips of the patients in this very bouse, those who were brought to health of body while at the same time brought to God. No seoond-hand story this. 1 have heard the testimony from men and women who have been cured. You may ca,'J it faith-cure, or you may call it the power of God coming down in answer to prayer; I do not care wuac you call it; it is a fact. The scoffing sea captain, his4ieart full of hatred for Christianity, now becomes a follower of the meek and lowly Jesus, giving all the time to evangelical labors, or all the time he can spare from other occupations. That is regeneration, that is regeneration. Man all made over again. " There is your abaurd doctrine of vicarioui sacrifice," say these men who hive chewed up the little book of creeds and have the consequent embittered itpmacti "Vicari , Lv. ons sacrifice ! Let every man suffer for him elf. Why do I want Christ to suffer for me I I'll suffer for myself and carry my own bardens." They scoff at the idea of vicarious sacrifice, while they admire it everywhere else except in Christ. People see its beauty when a mother suffers for her child. People see its beauty when a patriot suffers ior his country. People see its beauty when 4 man denies himself for a friend. They can see the beauty of vicarious sacrifice in every one but Christ. A young lady in one of the literary institutions was a teacher. She was very reticent and retired in her habits, and she formed no companionships in the new position she occupied, and her dress was very plainsometimes tt was very shabby. After a while she was discharged from the place for that reason, but no reason was given. In answer to the letter discharging her from the position, she said: "Well, if I have failed to please, I suppose it is my own j fault" She went here and there for employment, and found none, and in desperation and in dementia she ended her life by suicide Investigation was made and it was found that out of her small means she bad supported her father, eighty years of age, and was paying the way for her brother in Yale College w?*y wj too ministry. it was found that she had no blanket on the bed that winter, and she had no fire on the very coldest day of all the season. People found it out, and there was a large gathering at the funeral, the largest ever at any funeral in that place, and the very people who bad scoffed came and looked upon the pale face of the martyr, and all honor was done her; but it was too late. Vicarious sacrifice. All are thrilled with such instances as that. Bat many are not moved by the fact that Christ paid His poverty for our riches, His self-abnegation for our enthronement, and knelt on the sharp edges of humiliation that we might climb over His lacerated shoulder into peace and heaven. Be it ours to admire and adore these doctrines at which others jeer. Oh the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable is His wisdom, and His ways are past finding outl Oh the height, tbe depth, the length, the breadth, the infinity, the immensity, the eternity of that lovet Let our earnest prayers go out in behalf of all those who scoff at these doctrines of grace. When the London plague was raging in the year 1665, there was a hotel near ihu chief burial-place that excited much comment England was in fright and bereavement The dead carts went through the streets day and nieht and the cry: "Bring out your dead!'' was answered by tbe bringing out of the forms of the loved ones, and they were put twenty or thirty in a cart, and the wagon? went on to the cemetery; and these dead were not buried in graves, but in great trenches, in great pits- in one pit eleven hundred and fourteen burials I Tne cartj would come up with their great burden of twenty or thirty to' the mouth of the pit, and the front of tbe CATC waa UlMXi aau mo utmu auuii iukj tug pn,. All the churches in London were open for prayer day and night, and England waa in great anguish. At that very time at a hotel, at a wayside inn near this chief burial-places, there was a group of hardened men, who sat day after day and night after night blaspheming God and imitating the grief-struck who went by to the burial-plaoe. These men sat there day after day and night after night, and they scoffed at men, and they scoffed at women, and they scoffed at God. But after a while one of them was struok with the plague, and in two weeks all of the group were down in the trench from the margin of which they had uttered their ribaldry. My friends, a greater plague is abroad in the world. Millions have died of it. Millions are smitten with it now. Plague of sin, plague of sorrow, plague of wretchedness, plague of woe. And consecrated women and men from all Christendom are going out trying to stay the plague and alleviate the anguish, and tnere is a group of men la this country base enough to sit and deride the work. They a:off at the Bible, and they scoff at evangelism, and they scoff at Jesus Christ, and they scoff at God. If these words shall reach them, either while they are sitting here to-day, or throngh the printingpress, let me tell them to remember the faro of that group in the wayside inn while the plague spreads its two Dlacit wings over cue doomed city of London. Oh, instead of being scoffers let us be disciples! ''Blessed is the man that walketh not in tho counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor Bitted in the seat of the scornful." Levi P. Morton's place at Rhinebeck, on the Hudson, was originally purchased from the Indians in 1686 by Gerrit Aartsen, Arrie Eoosa, and Jan Elting. In 1702 it was sold to Hendrick Heermance, the son-in-law of Aartsen, who left it to his son-in-law, Jacobu3 Kip. It remained in the Kip family until 1814, when it was sold to Maturin Livingston. It passed through several other hands, until it was purchased by William Kelley, of New .York, who added 1,000 acres to it, spent a fortune on it, and whose heirs ,at his death sold it at a sacrifice to Mr. 'Morton. Mr. Morton has also spent a [fortune in improving it, and it will be, ( when completed, one of the costliest !in the United States. What a sad thing it is that those who admire other people's work, or appreciate their heroism, are so often silent about it until the work and the struggle are over. The praise is such a grim mockery when it is uttered above the folded hands and the placid brows, as "numb as Dante's own." The great need of the day is more marble monument in life and less after it. Twenty years ago there were ninetytwo lightning-rod factories in the United States. To-day there are but three, and those doing a trifling busi-f ness. The lightning-rod wa* the biggest humbug of the nineteenth centurv. ? S. S. MontaNo, County Auditor of Los Angeles, Cal., joined the Salvation Army, and shook dulcet tinklings from a 1 1 1^ a tamoourme, juso ueuauat) u? was sauguine that Cleveland would be the next President. From recent archadogical discoveries it appears that the Romans, at tlid height of their civilization and splendor, had no system of street lighting. No trace of anything of the kind has been discovered. The St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald says it has a reporter on its staff who has j been shot twice, stabbed once, cut with j a razor, and hit with a bludgeon, ami yet is always on deck for business. A Nebraska man has just di??d from the bite of a mule, says the Cartilage (]\Io.) Democrat. It adds: This is the first actual proof we have that the mule's bite is as deadly as his sting. Experimenters at Manhattan, Kan., have discovered that the use of salt on wheat fields will greatly increase the yield. It is also announced that salt will kill potato bugs. Canada's trade with England* has fallen off about $4,000,000 during the last ten months, while the aggregate trade of the country has slightly inoceasecL , / 'tJln * ? ?> POPULAR SCIENCE ~ ^ The movement of glaciers in summer if' four times that made in winter. Bars of wrought iron will expand or , contract 151200th of their length for each degree of heat. One ton of coal is capable of yielding an amount of force equivalent to that of six and two-thirds mon. The tooth with which young cobra?' cut their way through the egg is shed a* soon as it has served its purpose. There is no material, according to the best fire insurance authorities, that can be used for construction equal to brick. .. y >. The new electrolytic treatment of copper solutions in Spaiu results in seventyeight per cent, pure electrolytic copper.. It is a startling fact that from one-third to one-half of all persons born Into the world die before reaching the age of five years. '% In testing forty-two boys between nine ' . and sixteen yean of age for color-blindness not one made an error in matchinz the colors. (JU , The preservation of rails ia u#e is due to the formation of magnetic oxide produced by the compression of the rust oat the metal. .. , . i?c. As the moon revolves around (he earth, it also makes just one revolution on "iter- '-1 axis, thus keeping the same side always^* toward the earth. A French subterranean river has been* ^ explored for a mile or more by M. Martel, ? who derives from his investigations a . theory of the origin of canons. Dr. Kruss, a chemist of Munich,, has a succeeded in decomposing cobalt and.; .1 nickel, both of which have hitherto been , supposed to be elementary substances, it'Choose such a place for emptying '*" carboys, or any other containers of acid; *' as will suffer the least injury should ^he vessel be broken, or any of the' aci<Tl}e spiUed. Professor Avrton estimates that the power wasted at Niagara Falls exceeds. . , that which could be produced by .to* :*..> anuual consumption of 150,U0U,00utonS:\. of coal. ... ? The microscope often reveals impuri- -1 ties in diamonds, Darticles of organic*!* matter and bubbles of gas being common. Quartz, chlorite, pyrite, hematite ,J; \ and topaz have also been seen. The scientist Leuwenhock says that he bad oftea compared the size of the 4 thread spun by a full grown spider . $ a hair from bis beard, and estimates umblJlu it would require more than lOti spider, ? . threads to equal the diameter 01 tho ? , hair. " ujtr., The latest things in torpedo boats in J France is the Gymnotsy a submarine **?' craft propelled by electricity. She can ** " be driven under water at a fair rate of speed, and in her latest trial made a - run*' of 1700 feet when submerged to a depth * of twenty-live ieet. A half hour is the ,*' longest time she has thus far remained ; *L under water. There is strong evidence that wood subjected for a certain length of tlme'.to V.'J the heat of steam pipes may eventually reach a state of carbonization, when^ t 4 with the addition of moisture, expostfre to a draught of air or under thointht-' ence of friction caused by expansion and contraction of the pipes, it may break into dame. It is said the largest gun in the British Navy is capable of throwing a projectile weighing 17,000 pounds at a velocity of over a mile in four seconds, the momentum being equal to that of 517,213 tons of metal falling one foot It re quires 370 pounds of powder to fire this , shot at this velocity, so any one versed in the prices of steel and saltpetre can calculate the cost of every shot that these . guns will throw. It will be found to be about $1000. England's Ancient Wild Cattle. The ancient wild cattle of England, known as the Chillingbam race, having been supposed to have contributed to some extent to the blood of the existing Shorthorn breed. These cattle are white, but have red ears, and it is exceedingly curious to see these peculiar marks appearing in America to this day upon the common native cattle in some parts of the Southern States. If this i* % not an example of atavism or the reappearance of ancient peculiarities inherited, and if it does not point to or suggest some connection between this ancient race and the present stock,what*, > is it? But an interesting circumstance in regard to this ancient breed is a cross rcpflntlv m?rlp n. wild rnwand A pure Shorthorn bull of a white color. The produce of this cross is a half-breed steer that was exhibited at the recent Smithtield (England) Fat Cattle Show by the Earl of Tankemlle, tfye proprietor of the cattle and of Chillingham Fark, where they have been kept for more than 900 years. The result of the cross has been another ateer and three heifers, upon which another cross has . been made with a view to infuse the new ^ blood in the Shorthorn stock.? New Fork Times. A Man With Two Hearts. ' The Mercer County (N. J.) Medical Society devoted the better part of its session on a recent afternoon to the examination of Win, Eing, the colored man who is said to have two hearts. He is about forty-five years of age. Tha examination proved that he has a divided heart, such as is found in the lower animal kingdom. The heart beats are perceptible on both sides, excepting that the sound is less perceptible on the right than oa the left. He claims to be able to drop his ribs like a set of double-action window blinds, but this was done, it was lw his rnntrnl of the oblicue. transverse and rectus muscles. He claims that he can change the locality of his double heart, but this was pronounced a piece of jugglery, ttie result of long practice. lie caused his hearts, pulse and temple to cease beating for a period of sixty seconds, and the physicians pronounced it a successful ellort. King was in the county jail for being drunk and disorderly. He announces that his mother discovered his double heart when he was six months old.? Cincinnati Enquirer. I'ps and Downs in One Man's Life* It is wonderful what changes of fortune come to an energetic man iu >.'ew York city. One day, some time ago, I met an acquaintance who had a large store, where he did a paying business. A. few months later I met him again. He asked for a small loan to buy his breakfast. He had indorsed notes for a friend who had failed, and had become bankrupt, ^till later I casually rau against him when tie had just finished a contract for building water works for a country town, and was reveling in wealth. When I next saw him his finances had again run down to nil, and he was in desperate straits for money. But his lucky star rose again, and I heard of him building a railway for some capitalists. The last time I saw him he had just finished a block of apartment houses uptown and had a large bank account. -New Tvrk Star, i