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I* / REV. DR. TALMAGE. IE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SEIIMON. Subject: "Oar Own Generation." IText: "David, after he had served his n generation by the will of Cod, fell on .p.v? Acts xiii., iiti. 'hat is a text which has for a long time in running through my mind, but not unnow has it been fully revealed to me. mons have a time to be born as well as a le to die, a cradle as well as a grave, vid. cowboy and stone-slinger and tighter I czar and dramatist ana blank verse iter and prophet,did his best for the people bis time und then went and laid down on southern hill of Jerusalem in that sound rober which nothiu? but an archangelic st can startle. "David, after he had red his own generation by the will of God, on sleep." 6 was his own generation that he had red; that is, the people living at the time lived. And have you ever thought that responsibilities are chiefly with the pie now walking abreast of us/ There about four generations to a century now, in o den time life was longer ana there i, perhaps, only one generation to a ceny. Taking these facts into the calculation, uke a rough guess and say that there have n at least one hundred and eighty -- -? ? With i generations ??l tn? uumau muuj, .. ?? reference to them we have no responsibility. We cannot teach them, we cannot correct their mistakes, we cannot soothe their sorrows, we cannot heal their wounds. Their 6epulchers are deaf and dumb to anything we might say to them. The last regiment of that great army has passed out of sight. We might halloo as loud as we could, not one of thorn would avert his head to see what wo wanted. 1 admit that I am in sympathy with the child whose father had suddenly died and who in her little evening prayer wanted to continue to pray for her father, although he bad gone into heaven and no more needed her prayers, and looking up into her mother'8 face said: "O, mother, I cannot leave him all out. Let me say, 'Thank Gcd that I had a good father once, -and so I can keep him in my pray* era.'"' But the one hundred and eighty generations have passed off. Passed up. Passed down. Gone forever. Then there are generations to come after our earthly existence has ceased, perhaps a hundred and eighty generations more, perhaps a thousand generations more. We shall not soe them, we shall not hear any of their voices, we will take no part in th ir convocations, their elections, their revolutions, their catastrophes, their triumphs. We will in no wise affect the one hundred and eighty generations gone, or the or.e hundred and eighty generations to come, except as from the galleries of heaven the fnrmsr venerations look down and rejoice at [ our victories, or as we may by our behavior ?tart influences, good or bad, that shall roll -oa through the advancing ages. But our business is,like David,to serve our own generation, the people now living, those whose lungs now breathe and whose hearts now beat. And mark you, it is not a silent procession, but moving. It is a "forced march 'at twenty- j four miles a day, each hour being a mile. Goingwithth tteelerity.it has got to be a quick service on our part, or no service at alL We not only cannot teach the -one hundred and eighty generations past and will not see the one hundred generations to come, but this generation now on the stasje will soon be off and we ourselves will be off with them. The fact is that you and I will havo to start very i soon for our work or it will be ironical and sarcastic for any one after our exit to say of us, as it was said of David, "after he had j served his own generation by the will of God, ' he fell on sleep." Well, now, let us look around earnestly, : prayerfully and in a common sense way and see what we can do for our own generation. ! First of all let us see to it that, as far as we -can, they have enouzh to eat The human is Srt rv-inetitntad tliftt three times a daV I the body needs food as much as a lamp needs oil, as much as a locomotive needs fuel. To meet this want God has girdled the earth with apple orchards, | orange groves, wheat fields and ocean3 full j -of fish and prairies full of cattle. And not- j withstanding this, I will undertake to say i that the vast majority of the human family ' are suffering either for lack of food or the right kind of food. Our civilization is all . askew on this subject and God only can set it right. Many of the greatest estates of to-day have been built out of the blood and bones of unrequited toil. In olden times, for the building of forts and towers, the inhabitants -of Ispahan had to contribute '0,000 human j skulls, and Bagda l fo.ooo human skulle, and that number of people were slain so as to . "furnish the skulls. But the>e two contribu- ! tions added together made only 160,000 : skulls, while into the tower of the world's wealth and pomp aad magnificence have "been wrought the skeletons of uncounted numbers of the half fed populations of the i -earth, millions of skulls. Don't sit down at your table with five or ' six courses of abundant supply and think aiothing of that family In the next street who would take any one of those five courses be- j "tween soup and almond nuts and feel they ! were in heaven. The lack of the right kind of food is tho cause of much of the drunk- I enne&s. After drinking what many of our ' gTO?ers call coffee, sweetened with what many call sugar, and eating what many of i ourlutchers call meat, and chewing what many of our bakers call bread, many of tli3 laboring classes feel so miserable they are j tempted to put into their nasty pipes what the tobacconist ca'ls tobacco, or , go intc the drinking saloons for what the rum sellers call beer. Good coffee would do much in driving out bal rum. Adulteration of food has got to be an evil against which j all the health officers and all the doctors and i all the min sters and all the reformers and j all the C iristians n?el to set them selves in battle array, now can we serve our generation with enough to eat ? By sitting down in embroidered slippers and loung- I ins back in an arm-chair, our mouth puck- I ?red up around a Havana of the best brand, ?nd through clouds of luxuriant smoke read- | ing about political economy and the philosophy ot strikes? No! No! By finding out who in Brooklyn has been living on gristle and sending them a tenderloin beefsteak. Seek out some family who through sickness or conjunction of misfortune have uot enough to eat and do for them what Christ did for the hungry multitudfs of Asia Minor, multiply- \ ing the loaves and the fishes. Let us quit ; the surfeiting of ourselves until we cannot choke down another crui lb of cake and be- i gin the supp'y of others' necessities. We often see on a small scale a recklessness about the welfare of others which a great j warrior expressed on a large scale, when his officers were dissuiding him from a cortain . campaign, saying: "it would cost two hundred thousand lives," replying with a diabol- \ ism that can never be forgotten: "What are two hundred thousand lives to me?" So far from helping appease the world's hunger, there are those whom Isaiah de- j scribes as grinding the fare* of the poor. You have seen a farmer or a mechanic put a scythe or an ax on a grindstone, while some | one was turning it round and round, and i the man holding the ax bore on it harder j an:l harder while the water droppsd from ! the grindstone, and the edge of the ax lrom 1 being round and dull, got keener and keener, I ana vH6 niBvIl ?nn; in 1*3 i buc a* f;uow.u.u^ uuu sharp and with edge so keen he must cau- j tiously run his linger along lest while ex- ' aminir.g the implement ho cut his hand to the bone. So I have se-n men who were j put against the grindstone of hardship, and while 0113 turned the crank another would prea the unfurlu.-nt-j harder down and harder down until ha was gr >und away thin- , ner an i thinner, his comforts thinner, hM j prospects thinuor and his face thinner, j And Isaiah shrinks out: "What mean ye j that yo grin i the fa^es of the poor-" it :s an awfu thing to l?a hungry. It is an easy : thing for us to b.! in good humor with all the world when we have no lack. But let hun- j ger take full possession of us and we would j all turn into barbarians and cannibals and fiends. I am glad to know that the time is coming, j God hasten it, when every fnrnily in the j round world will sit down at a full table, and j it will l>o only a question between lamb j and vension, or between partridge and j quail on toast, and out of spoons made ; out of Nevada silver or California gold the i pastries will drop on tongues thrilling with J thankfulness because thpy have full enough. I I have no idea God is going to let the human | race stay in its present predicament. If the world winds up as it now is it will be an awful failure of a world. The barren places will lie irrigated. The pomologisK helped of God, will urge on the fruits. The botanists, inspired of the Lord, will holp on the gardens. The raisers of stoc'c will send enough animals fit for human food to the market*, and the last earthquake that rends the world | tjiH opset a banqueting table at which are seated the entire human race. Meanwhile, suppose that some of the energy we are expanding in useless and umvailing talk about the broad question should be expended in merciful alleviations. I have read that the battle field on which ! moro troops met than on any other in the I world's history was the battle field of Loip sic, 160,000 mdn under Napoleon, 250,0(j0 I men under Schwarzeberg. No, no. The | greatest and most terrific battle is now ba1 nig fought all the world over. It is the i struggle for food. The ground tone of the : finest passage in one of the great musical | masterpieces, the artist says, was suggested . to him by the cry of the hungry populace of I Vienna as the King rode through and they I shouted: "Bread. Give us bread!" And all | through the great harmonies of mu| sical academy and cathedral I hear the J pathos, the ground tone, the tragedy of un| counted multitudes, who with streaming eye3 j and wan cheeks and broken hearts in behalf i of themselves and their families, are pleading ! for bread. | Let us take another look around to see how we may serve our generation. ; Let us sop as far as possible that they ; have enough to wear. God looks on , the human race and knows just how i many inhabitants the world has. The j statistics of the world's population are I carefully taken in civilized lands, and every ' few years officers of govornm?nt go through j the land and count how many people there ! are in the United States or England and great : accuracy is reached. But when people tell us j how many inhabitants there are in Asia or J Africa, at best it must be a wild guess. Yet j Gol knows the exact number of people on t our Dlnnet and he has ma le enough apparel j for ea.'h, and if there be fifteen hundred milj lion, fifteen thousand, fifteen hundred and i fifteen people, then there i--j enou^ii apparel for fifteen hundred million, iVteen thousand, fifteen hundred nnd fifteen. Not slouch apI pare], not ragged apparel, not insufficient ; apparel, but appropriate apparel. At ; least two suits for every being on the | earth, a summer suit and a winter j suit A good pair of shoes for every living | mortal. A gcod coat, a good hat' or a good I bonnet and a good shawl, and a complete masculine or a feminine outfit of apparel. A j wardrobe for all nations adapted to all ] climes, and not a string or a button, or a pin j or a hook or an eye wanting. But, alas! ] where are the good clothes for three-fourths i of the human race? The other onej fourth have appropriated them. The fact | is, there needs to be and will be a redistriI bution. Not by anarchistic violence. If 1 outlawry bad its way, it would rend and l tear and diminish until instead of threoj fourths of the world not properly attired, I four-fourths would be in rags. I let you I know how the redistribution will take i place. By generosity on the part of 1 those who have a surplus and increased inj dustry on the part of those suffering from I deficit. Not all, but the large majority of cases of poverty in this country are a result of idleness or drunkenness, either on the part of the preseut sufferers or their ancestors. In most cases the rum ju?r is the maelstrom that ha3 swallowed down the livelihood of those who are in rags. But things will change, and by generosity on the part of the crowded wardrobes, and industry and sooriecy on tue part 01 ine empty wururobes thera will be enough for all to wear. God has done His part toward the dressing of the human race. He grows a surplus of wool on the sheep's back, and flocks roam the mountains and valleys with a burden of warmth intended for transference to human comfort, when the shuttles of the factories reaching all the way from the Chattahoochee to the Merrima^ j shall have spun and woven it And here come forth the Rocky Mountain goat and the cash mere and the beaver. Here are the merino shean, their origin traced back to the flocks of Abrahamic and Davidic times. In white letters of snowy fleece, God has be.n writing for a thousand years His wish that thare migut be warmth for all nations. While others are discussing the effect of high or low tariff or no tariff at all on wool, you and I had better see if in our wardrobes we have nothing that we can spare for the shivering, or pick out some poor lad of the street and take him down to a clothing store and fit him out for the winter. Don't think that God has forgotten to send ice and snow, because of this wonderfully mild January and February. We shall yet have deep snows and so much frost on the window pane that in the morning you cannot see through it: and whole flocks of blizzards, for God long ago declared that winter as well as summer shall not cease, and between this and the spring crocus we may all have reason to cry out with the psalmist: "Who can staindbe fore this cold?" ; Again, let U3 look around and see how we may serve our generation. What shortsighted mortals we wou'd be if we were anxious to clothe and fee 1 only the most insignificant part of a man, namely, his body, while we put forth no effort to clothe and feed and save his soul. Timo is < little piece broken off a great eternity j What are we doing for tin souls of this present generation? Let me say it is a generation worth saving. Most magnificent men and women are in it. We make a great ado about the improvements in navigation, and in locomotion, aud in art and machinery. We remark what woniers of telegraph, and telephone, and stethoscope. What improvement is electric light over a tallow candle! But all these improvements are insignificant compared with the improvement in the human race. In olden times, once in a while, a great and good man or woman would come up anil the world has made a great fuss about it ever since, but now they are so numerous we scarcely speak about them. We put a ha'o abaut the people of the past, bnt I thin'< if the tim?s demanded them it would be found we have now living in this year 18i9 fifty Martin Luthers, fifty George WaMiingtons, fifty Lady Huntlingtons, fifty Elizabeth Frys. During our civil war more SDlendid warriors in North and | South were develope I in four years than the whole world derelon?l in the r?-evious ?->vn* ty years. I challenge the four thousand years before the flood and the eighteen centuries after the flood, to show me the equal of charity on a large s'jale of George Peabody. This generation of men and women is more worth saving than any of the one hundred and eighty generations that have nasscd otF. But where shall we begin? With ourselves. That is the pillar from which we must start Prescott, the blind historian, tells us how Pizarro saved his army for the right when they were about deserting him. With his sword he made a long mark on the ground. He said: "My men, on the north side are desertion and death, on the south side is victory; cn tho north side Panama and poverty, on the south side Peru with all its riches. Choose for yourselves; for my part I go to the south." Stepping across tho line one by one. his troops followed and finally his whole army. Tho sword of Coil's truth draws the dividing line to-day. On one side of it are sin and ruin and death, on the other side are pardon and usefuluesa nnd happiness and heaven. You cross from the wrong side to the right side and your family will cross with you and your friends and your associates. The way you go they will go. If we are not saved, we will never stive any one else. How to get saved? He willing to accept Christ, and then accept Him instantaneously and forever. Get on the Rock first and then yon will be able to he'p others upon tba same Rook. Men and women have been saved quicker than I have been talking about it. What. without a prayer? \es. What, without time deliberately to think it over? Yes. What, without a tear? Yes, believe! That is all. Believe what? That Jesus died to save you from sin and death and hel>. Will you? l)o you? You have. Something makes nie think you have. New light has come into your countenances. Welcome! Welcome! Hail! Hail! Saved yourselves, how are you eoing to save others? Hy testimony. Tell it to your family. Toll it to your business associates. Tell it everywhere. We will successfully preach no more religion and will successfully tulk no more religion than we ourselves have. The most of that which you do to benefit the souls of this generation, you will effect through your own behavior. Go wrong, and that will induce others to go wrong. i.?o ri^ht, and that wi!l induce others to go ri^ht. When th9 great centennial exhibition was being held in Philadelphia, the question came up among the directors as to whether they could keep the exposition open on Sundays, when a director, who was a man of the world, from Nevada, arose and said, his voice trembling with emotion and tears running down his cheeks: "I feel like a returned prodigal. Twenty years ago I went West and into a region where wo had no Sabbath, but to-day old I memories come back to me, and I re| memlier what my glorified mother taught me about keeping Sunday, and I seem to hear her voice again and feel as I did when every evening 1 knelt by her side in prayer. Gentlemen, I vote for the observtv icn of the Christian Sabbath." And he carried everything by storm, and when the question was put, "Shall we open the exhibition Sabbath?" it was almost unanimous, "No," "No." What one man can do if he does right, boldly right, emphatically right. ' ,""T" "'j 1 > . i What if we could get this whole generation saved! These people who are living with us the same year and amid the same stupendous events and flying toward the future swifter than eagles to their prey. We cannot stop. They cannot stop. We think we can stop. We say, "Come now, my friend, let us stop and discuss this subject," but we do not stop. The year does not stop, the day does not stop, the hour does not stop. The vear is a great wheel and there is a band on that wheel that keep3 it revolving, and as that wheel turns, it turns three hundred and sixty-five smaller wheels,which are the days, and then each of these three hundred and sixty-five wheels turn twentyfour smaller wheels, which are the hours, and these twentv-four smaller wheels turn sixty smaller wheels, which are the minutes, and these sixty smaller wheels turn sixty more smaller wheels, which are the seconds, and tiiey keep rolling, rolling, rolling. mounting, mounting, mounting, and swifteuing, swiftening, swiftening. Oh, God! if our generation is going like that and we are going with them, waken us to the short but tremendous opportunity. I confess to you that my one wish is to serve this generation, not to antagonize it.not to damage it, not to rule it, but to serve it. I would like to do something toward helping unstrap its load, to stop its tear-, to balsam its wounds and to induce it to put foot on the upward road that has at its terminus, acc'amation rapturous and gates pearline, and garlands amaranthine and fountains rainbowed and dominions onthrntiorl nnrt pnrnnpfcod. fori Cannot fOHTet I that lullaby in the c'osing words of my text: "David, after he had served his own feneration by the will of God, fell on sleep." And what a lovely sleep it wasl Unfillal Absalom did not trouble it. Ambitious Adonijah did not worry it. Persecuting Saul did not harrow it Exile did not All it with nightmare. Since a red headed boy amid his father's flocks at night, he had not had such a good sleep. At seventy years of age he lay down to it. He has had many a troubled sleep, as in the o&verns of Adullara or in the palace at the time his enemies were attempting his capture. But this was a peaceful sleep, a calm sleep, a restful sleep, a glorious sleep. "After he served his generation by the will of God, he tell on sleep." Oh, wl.at a good thing is sleep after a nard day's workl It takes all the aching out of the head and all the weariness out of the limbs and all the smarting out of the eyes. From it we rise in the morning and it is a new world. And if we, like David, serve our generation, we will at life's close have most desirable and refreshing sleep. In it will vanish our last fatigue of body, our last worriment of mind, our last sorrow of soul. To tho Christian's body that was hot with raging fevers so that the attendants must by sheer force keep on the blankets, it will "be the cool sleep. To those who are thin blooded and shivering with agues, it will be the warm sleep. To those who, because of physical disorders, were terrified with night visions, it will be the dreamless sleep. To nurses and dolors and mothers who were wakened almost every hour of the night by those to whom they ministered, or over whom they watched, it will be the undisturbed sleep. To those who could not get to bed till late at night and must rise early in the morning an J before getting rested, it will be the long sleep. Away with all your gloomy talk about de parture from this world. u we nave serve? our generation It will not be putting out into the breakers, it will not be the fight with the King of Terrors; it will be going to sleep. A friend writing me from Illinois says that Rev. Dr. Wingate. President of Wake Forest College, North Carolina, after a most useful life, found his last day on earth his happiest day, and that in his last moments he seemed to be per* sonally talking with Christ, as friend with friend, saying: "Oh, how delightful it is. I knew You would be with me when the time came, and I knew it would be sweet, but I did not know it would be as sweet a3 it is." The fact was he had served his generation in the gospel ministry.and by the will of God he fell on sleep. When in Africa, Maiwara, the servant, looked into the tent of David Livingstone and found him on his knees, he stepped back, not wishing to disturb him in prayer, and some time after went in and found him in the same posture, and stepped back again, but after a vhile went fu and touched him, and io! the great traveler had finished his last journey and he had died in the grand est and mightiest posture a man ever takes?on his knoes. He fiad served his generation by unrolting the ~ " onrl Kw fha will r?f Rn.'i M'l Ull Ul U VUlli.ilic.-itb, auu wj w..w ..... fell on sleep. Grimshaw, the evangelist, when aslced liow he felt in his last moments, responded: "As happy as I can bo on eartlj ana as sure of glory as if I were in it. I have nothing to do but to step out of this bed into heaven." Having served his generation in successful evangelism by the will of God, he fell on sleep. In the museum of Greenwich Hospital, England, there is a fragment of a book that was found in the Arctic regions am d the relics of S r John Franklin, who had perished amid the snow and ice, and the leaf of that piece of a book was turned clown at tho words: "When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee." Having served his generation in the cause of science and discovery by the will of God, he fell on Bleep. Why will you keep us all so nervous talking about that which is only a dormitory and a pillowed slumber, canopied by angels' wings ? Sleep ! Transporting sleep ! And what a glorious awakening i You and I have sometimes been thoroughly bewildered alter a long and fatiguing journey; we have stopped at a friend's bouse for the night, and after hours ot' complete unconsciousness we have openpd our eyes, the high risen sun full in our faces, and, before we could fully col lect our faculties, have said: "Where am I, whose house is this, and whoso are these gardens?" And then it has flashed upon us in glad reality. And I should not wonder if, after we have served our generation and, by the will of God, have fallen on sleep, the deep sleep, the restful sleep, we should awake 111 blisstui uewiiaermens i and for a little while say: "Where am I? What palace is this? * Who hung this upholstery? What fountains are these tossing in the light? Why. this looks like heaven! It is. It is. Why, thera is a building grander than all the castles of earth heaved into a mountain of splendor, that must be the palace of Jesus. And, look there, those walks lined with a foliage more beautiful than anything 1 ever saw before, and bee those who are walking down those aisles of verdure. From what I have heard of them, those two arm in arm must be Moses and Joshua, him of Mount Sinai and him of the halting sun over A;alon. And those two walking arm in arm must be John and Paul, the one so gentle and the other so mighty. And those two with the robes as brilliant as though made out of the cooled off flames of martyrdom, must be John Huss and Hugh Latimer. But I must not look any longer at those gardens of beaoty, but examine this building , in which I have just awakened. I look ou< of the window this way and that and up and down, and I find it is a mansion of immense size in which I am stopping. All its windows of agate and its colonnades of porphyry and alabaster. Why I won uer u mis is iiui> i uu uuuse ui "many ijjansions" of which I used to read? It-*s, it is. There mu3t be many of my kindred and friends in tliis very mansion. Hark! whose are those voices, whose are thoso bounding feet? I open the do ir and see, and lo! they are coming through all the corridors and up and down a'l the stairs, our long absent kindred. "Why, there is father, there is mother, there are the children. AJ1 well again. All young again. All of us together again. And as we embrace each other with the cry: "Never more to parti never more to part!" the arches, the alcoves, the hallways echo and r-'-echo the words: "Never more to part. Never more to part" Then our glorified friends say: "Come out with us and see heaven." And. some of them bounding ahead of us and some of them skipping beside us, we start down the ivory stairway. And we meet, coming up, ono of the Kings of ancient Israel, somewhat small of stature, but having a countenance radiant with a fViniKniifl vir-i-nripe Ami as all are making Dbeisance to this grest one of heaven I cry out: "Who is he.!"and the answer comes: "This is the greatest of all the Kings of tsrael. It is David, who after he had served his generation by the will of God. fell on sleep." ~5v "Dick" .Roche, oi ?t. L.oui3, t>*:e 01 the best-known sporting characters oi the country, is the thirteenth child ol a family of thirteen children, and was born on the 13th of the month. "In spite of that handicap," said he, "I've had my share of good lnck, and to 1 think thirteen a lucky number/ Koche is reported to be worth over a quarter of a million. TEMPERANCE. Dash Down Tnnt Bowl. Dash down that bowl! Though the sparkling wine, Like a jewel fair, May brightly shine: Though tho brow it illumine, The nad heart cheer, Tis followed by grief, And the sigh and tear. Touch not one drop! Be no more a slave Of ! '>* cup that is friend Of the worm and the grp.vo; Break oil' tne yoke That etislaves thee now; Bear no more the brand That's stamped on thy brow. Gaze on thy hearth! See want and despair! The starving, the ragged, The wretched are there; "What hath despoiled thee, And made all so drear.' Look on the wine cup, Ihe answer is there. Break not her fond heart That bitterness feels, As alone with Uod In sadness she kneels; While the heart-broken prayer Rises up to the throne From the groaning, the wretched, For thee, erring one. Dash down that bowl! No longer drain That cup of hell, Of death and pain: Drink the crystal stream, 'Twill life impart, And true joy give To thee, sad of heart: ?John Fondey, Al. D., in the Pioneer. ociennnc xemperanceThe effects of the alcoholic habit vary enormously with the amount consumed and with the form in which it is taken, bat they are always bad. Alcohol should not be regarded either as a poison or a food. It is strictly a drug. It Lelongs to that class of substances which, like opium, Indian hemp and tobacco, produce effects which habit renders agreeable, but which are followed by constant increase in the craving for larger doses of the drug. This increasing dependence upon alcohol is one of the worst effects of its habitual use, and with most persons it is inseparable from its use even in small amounts. It is true that nearly all can digest without apparent damage a small quantity of alcohol, in sufficiently dilute form, if taken only occasionally. It is certain that the highest possible health may be enjoyed without the use of alcohol. This being so, its use, even occasionally and under the restrictions oK/ioc ctntaH i? Attended with riiik both physical and moraL But when alcohol is taken in larger amounts or in stronger forms or is used habitually, even in moderation, it does positivo harm, and this harm increases rapidly as the habit strengthens. In its lightest degree there is some irritation of the stomach and impairment of digestion, with slight disorders of circulation and secretion and intellection. Often enough these cause a false feeling of weakness which loads X) larger excess, and, of course, to great harm. Perfect bea'th can scarcely ever be enjoyed continuously by one who uses alcohol even in strict moderation. I make an i exception in favor of some elderly persons with slow and feeble digestions ana with weak circulation; for in them small quantities of dilute alcohol taken daily with their principal meal improve their health. When once we pass the lesser degrees of the use of alcohol the effects of its habitual employment are striking and disastrous. The mucous membrane of the stomach becomes the seat of chronic catarrh. The function of the liver becomes disordered and tho most important processes of nutrition are disturbed. The nervous system suffers, and mind and character alika deteriorate. It is not only the injury which comes directly from alcohol which we note in such cases; there are associated with it neglect of the proper hours of rest, and avoidance of exposure, which contribute to the sum of damage wrought upon the system. The alcohol habit, if at all excessive, causes organic diseases directly, and ruins body and mind.- its habitual use, even in very moderate amounts, renders health unstable and increases the liability to disease, and the danger of disease when it occurs. The true use of alcohol is in tbe treatment of disease. There, when | prescribed judiciously, it does great good and i is at times indispensable. But even there it | should never Le prescribed unnecessarily, nor without a clear recognition of the fact | that the tendency to the a'coholic habit is ' groat, and that this babit when formed is ; destructive.? Dr. William Pepper, in lit Chuutauguan. i Ominously Significant Facts. Commenting upon the magnitude of th< ''Criminal Problem" of this country, the New York Tribune invites public attention to some ominously significant facts and estimates lately given*in a sermon by Rev. F. H Wines, Secretary of tbe National Prison As sedation. It appears that the census of JS^C showed nearly tJU.OOO prisoners in the various prisons of the United States. To these are tc ce aaaea ii.l/JU jumuita ui i tuuj maiuries, virtually prisoners, making an aggregate prison population ten years ago of about 70,000 persons. Mr. Wines estimates that the next census will show ?5,000 to 60,000 prisoners, and 15,000 inmates of reformatories, or a total of 90,0W to 100,OtO men, women, and children, under legal restraint and in prison confinement. It is estimated that the cost of maintaining these prisons i* fully $15,000,000, and that the cost of the police departments is an added $15,000,000 annually; to which must still be added the < cost of all the judicial machinery, and of the i litigation requisite for the prosecution and < conviction of this enormous criminal class. It is safe to assume that seven-eighths of the crime of the country owes its origin directly * or indirectly to intoxicants. Waiving the moral aspect of the problem, does the legal- I ized liquor traffic, at a high or low rate of license, payl?National Temperance Advocate. Temperance News and Notes. Ohio spends $70,00:J,0J:J yearly for drink. There are no rounds of drink in the ladder of success. The Good Templars of Scotland have over 50,000 meetings annually. * ? A - J A.% A. 0?1 AA^ ^nmlli'no (lrfl it IS Oi /lniaceu l/UUb laiuiuco at w homeless ia London through intemperance. Is it right to take care of your owa boy and vote to license a place which will ruin your neighbor's boy? The temperance people of Minnesota and Colorado are making urgent demands upon their Legis'atures to submit Prohibition amendments. Gossip has it that fashionable New York milliners and dressmakers keep a stock of wines on hand to "relieve the fatigue" of their customers. In Mr. C. H. Mitchell's three boys' temper- 1 ance organizations in Brooklyn, N. Y., there is an aggregate of 22} members besides many who are on probation. It is declared that by his advocacy and personal influence Canon W'ilberfcr^e has been instrumental 111 obtaining over halt a million temperance pledges. Professor Ledoux concludes that when the mechanic or the sailor is crazed by drink, it matters little whether he bought a pint of pure forty per cent, alcohol brandy at ninety cents, or a quart of twenty-live per cent, flavored and diluted at fifty cents; it is the alcohol he cravod and that which produces j the effect. The temperance awakening in Denmark has called fcrth active enthusiasm. The last general meeting of the Denmark Temperance , society received reports from 403 local societies comprising a memtorship of 17, SW. The general meeting for ISS'.i will be held at Yei!e, the birthplace of the Danish temper- , ance movement In a recent address Mr. Moody declared his belief that strong drink had caused the I deluge. It was certain that wine had worked mischief after the llool, and he believed it ? was the cause of the wick dness of i the world before the flood. Strong drink c led to the destroction of Sodom and Go- \ morrah. and strong drink was destroying the c world to-day. "Stormy Jordan," a notorious Ottumwa : s (la.) saloonkeeper, ha? signed the pledge. 1 Jordan is a character whose novel methods as s a vendor of vine us wares have made famous i the entrance to his saloon, labeled "Road to 1 Hell" nnl "Ncse Paint." He has always 1 scorned and openly violated the prohibitory < law. but Governor Lnrrabee induced the J stubborn old man to sign a pledge never to 1 use or sell intoxicating liquors as a beverage I in Iowa. Jordan will leave the State. i .. RELIGIOUS HEADING. My Work for God. Let me not die before I've done for Thee My earthly work, whatever it may be. Call me not Lence vrith missions unfulfilled, Let me not leave my space of ground untilled! Impress this truth upon me?that not one Can do my porti 'n tnat I leave undone; For each one ic thy vineyard hath a spot To labor in for life, and weary not. Then give me strength all faithfully to toil; Converting barren earth to fruitful so L I long to be an instrument of Thine, To gather worshippers un o Thy shrine; To be the means on a human soul to save From the dark tarrors of a hopeless grave. Yet most I want a spirit of content To work where'er Thou'lt wish my labors spent, WTieiher at home or in a strarger clime, In days of joy, or sorrow's sterner time, , I want a spirit passive, to lie still, And by Thy power to do Thy holy will, Ar.d when the prayer unto my lips 'loth rise, "Before a uewnome doth my soul surpr se. Let me accomplish some gr.at wor.-c for Thee" Subdue it, Lord! let my petition be "O! ma e me useful in this world of Thine, In ways according to Ti y will, not mine," Let me not leave my space of ground untitled. Call me no? hence, with mission unfulfilled' Let me not die before I've done for Thee My earthly work, whatever it may be. "Now He Knows." This was remarked of a cortain man whose judden death had been'announced. His life tiad been prolonged to the age of threescore and ten years and beyond, during a large part of which time he had been an infidel. AJthough his house joined hard by the sanctuary for many years, he had seldom, if ever entered its doors on a Sabbath day. His neighbors in goodly numbers statedly assembled for the worship of the living God, but be persistently refused to join them. He was an unbeliever, and cared for none of these things. But now he knows whether there is a God to whom he is accountable for all the deeds done in the body. He knows whether there is a Heaven and a Hell, and whether the Lord Jesus Christ is the only Saviour. He knows whether the Bible is the inspired Word of God, and whether all its teachings are true. But alas! he knows too late to correct his mistakes. No man "AAJ krt MM JHA/IaI A fA Tmrvw? UTCU. UU UX1 UlUUOl TfUV UVOU to iv AUVTT iuv truth. Unbelief has its seat in the heart and not in the head. No man who has it in his heart to do the will of God will be loft in doubt as regards the great truths of the Bihle.?Golden Rule. The Gospel of Love. An eminent minister of the gospel was criticised because he did not preach the law of God, but only and always the love of Christ. It. was said that persons awakened by such preaching would not truly repent of Bin. But on the contrary, it was found that the more sinners realized the love of Christ in dying for them the deep.t and more intense was their hatred of sin. Sin was to them not simply the violation of law, but that abominable thing which nailed their Savirr to the accursed tree. It is well, of course, to present all the doctrines of the Bible in due i rder and prop rtion. The old pi UttLTiiCis wcic vCI jr ajaicuitti v;. xuuj y*crsented in their sermons, at least once a yeir, the "wholo body of divinity." Their theory was that t ho p ople must be indoctrinated in Drder to be saved. But the great truths of the evangelical system are so vita ly connected with each other that if one is received !t will bring in all the rest; if one is stimulated it will quicken all the r<:st. That is not always one-sided which seems so. There is a iiffarence between pulling the oar on one side of a boat and spurring on one side of a horse.?Interior. ?-?- \ Conquering. When G-od w; n's testimony He often selects His proudest foe.?. The cause of missions is no iv receiving the firesjof the enemies of Christianity. The battle rages on tverv side of tho citadel of truth, now on one side and. now on the other, but from them all God organizes victory. Truth compels honest natures t:> surrender, discomfits others and silences d ceivers. 'J his tiine it is tin honest nature who surrenders before the light that uianlino-s can no longer i\ sist. Thi notorious Paul Bert while in France was a vindictive infidel and denounced every form and shade of religion, and < s-pecially did i.e rage against all (i issionaries nd their efforts. But after he bad 1 ad official appointment toTonquin his hostilities ce ;sed; waen he be.antjundersta d he situation his violence changed first into tJcrauce and then into appreciation, and in his report of his administration of Tonquin, recently published, he says that he avails himseif of tho ho'p of these de% * -1-^. 1 -?'J XT 3 spiseai vomers ior ioss nuuiumij. .ae uuuiits their imsueiise influence over the people and their knowledge of them, by which, if not by their advice, be guided his actions saying that "without their assistance it was almost impossible for him to succeed, and he, had to acknowledge the great value of their services." It wou'.d be difficult to find a more surprising example of a complete turning upside down of a public man as publicly avowed; and the fact is an important testimony to the value of missionary work.? Preslyterian. Just ice and Mercy. The Presbyterian relates that at the village o "VV was the home of a man who was honost in l.i? dea'ing , but took 110 interest in religious things. His business was absorbing; and as the day of rest came he v as disinclined for public service, pre:erring ease and quiet nt homa and rather enjo ing than otherwise his reputation as an unbeliever. In the midst of external prosperity and ap^ ar0 t health a fatal disea e su tdenly appe red. One of bis first movement < was to send for the minister. ''Now, Mr. , if you can help me, I will be glad, l'cr I am uncertain astothefutu e; bi.t I don't want to bear about Jesus Christ.' The faithful o d servant of God qua'ledat Brst, but undertook the service upon the basis proposed. "Well,'' he said, "I will talk with you tonight upon the greatness of God." JC11S WUICIHUI nearer agrecu HJ IU, unu . listened attentively while the minister spoko | of the wonders of creation, the beauties of I nature, the telescope and microscope. The sick man was profoundly interested throughout the interview, aud urgel the minister to come on the following evening. As the good man entered tha chamber on the next evening, he said, "I will talk to you tonight about the goodn ss c f God." His heare listened attentively, and as the unnumbered mercies and blessings wt ro made to pass before him, his mind was moved, and he exclaimed, "It is all true.' And yet the name of Christ had not bean alluded to. At the next interview, the minister sai I, 'We will talk tonight of the justice of God.' Tue sick mm in his armcha r trembled with new and strange emotions as the awiuluess of thii attribute of Jehovah took poss.'ssior of hi-; mind; and as the s.ilful fisher (hew the net tighter, his conviction of sin had bicome a power with him hitherto unknown. At the crisis, when the face of the hearer indicated the alarm of lijs soul, as his sins stood m awtul array bet re mm, me minister arose to take his leave. "You are not going now, Mr. F , and le >ve me in this distress? can't you give mo some c nifcrt?" '"No," ?aid tho minister, kindly, "I cannot; you have yours If forbidden me doing so." "What do you mean, sir?'' said the dis "I mean that Ho whose name you will not j hear, and whoso love is so deep, is the only one in heaven or in earth who can comfort and save you." The veil dropped from the eyes of the blinded man, he listen d eagerly to the way of salvation through a crucified Redeemer, joyfully accepted the terms of salvation, and lived for seven months,testifying continually of God's great mercy in saving the chief ol sinners. Three Warnings. "Death in the cup," says the orator. 'Death in the cup," says the poet. "Death ' n the cup,:' says the scientist.and the latter's leclaration is the cue that carries most veight. He enforces his warning us follows, l.pped from the pages of an exchange: 'i lie great London fever of lTS'J took icarcely anybody but drunkards and tipilers. Dr. Carnwright. of Ke'.v Orleans, iays the yellow lever in 1SGO took aiMJO drinkng men before it touched a sober man. in ;he Uuited Kingdom of hngland, J.relaud and Scotland, one visit of cholera swept away ,ver 10,000 persons?uot halt' a dozen teetotalers in that number, in tbe city of Montreal, 300 teetotalers had the cholera,and Hit one of them died; wlide 1500 drinking men died o.'( the disease." V" ' '-z 'J-'."-' '.v .-> * Iahogany forests. WKH THE CARIB LUMBERMEN OF HONDURAS. An Account of Mahogany Catting and Transportation?A Skeleton-lined Forest TrailRude Implements. The leaf of the mahogany resembles the chestnut leaf of the United States, J but it is thicker, tougher, and of a more i lustrous green. The bark is smooth, \ even on gigantic specimens, and a trunk no more than fifty feet long is often six feet in diameter at the base. The finest variety grows on the hard, rocky! soil, and is of auch slow growth that the grand ones, still standing in isolated spots, far from rivers,-are estimated to be over 20C0 years old; by their sides are rotting trunks of stiil larger dimen- \ sions, and who can guess their age?; Along the Ulua most of the good sized. trunks have been cut, because the native wood-cutter is; very lazy, and if he can cut a tree and have it toppb over into a stream to be floated to market, he will not trouble himself with finpr thaf grows at a greater distance from the, stream. When the superintendent has decidcd upon the valley in which he will work he constructs shelters, where the stream ! reaches the ocean, for the necessary supplies, and builds rude dams at the same point to secure the cut logs as they float down. Constant communication and transportation of rations are maintained \ between this home station and the i branch establishments up the river by! means of canoes or ''pitpans" rowed I and paddled by native^. These boats in [ the beginning also carry up the heavy log chains, which cannot always be taken overland through thick virgin for- j ests where the oxen have to be forced through, not with the usual lash, but the cruel spike or prod. The branch stations . are huts with "cahoon" leaf roofs, with upiight poles to swing hammocks, and a ' few iron Dots for kitchen utensils. The cutting season commence! in ! August?the beginning of the dry season ' ?because at that period the wood seema I to be more compact in texture and less liable to split in falling, and gives the 1 drivors time to haul it to the river before the rnins make the roads impassable. The laborers are divided into gangs of from thirty to fifty each, and under the command of some trusted hand who assigns the dailr tasks, fininc and reward ing his men according to their work. Betides this, each gang has a hunter, who starts out very early to spy out tree9, and carries a horn or "conch," which he sounds from time to time to enable his gang to follow. He usually goes to some high point, or climbs some tall pine, and his accustomed eye quickly detccta ! the almost imperceptible reddish tinge, \ which many mahonany leaves together 1 present. One tree at a time issuthcient, ! and he quickly makes his way to it, marks it, and blows his horn for the cutters. When they are in sight he again searches as before. It is often the case that different hunters may be working in the same locality for rival firms, and ' after hours of toil one may reach his dis-j covered treasure only to find it in the I' hands of another party. Hunters pride j: themselves much on their skill, and many ,1 cover their tracks in true Apache style .: by strewing leaves and moss behind | them, by walking backward in soft.] ground, and i>y many other artifices well j j known by those skilled in wood craft to j deceive pursuers, and not seldom the J very means they take to elude, furnish ] their equally skillful trailers with all the 1 information they desire. The tree id usually cut at about ten or twelve feet from the ground, the men : 1 working on a rude platform, temporarily 1 built for the purpose. The trunk below , the cut then decays, and is lost. The ;1 cut is made so high from the ground, ' because at that point the tree is gencr-! < ally cylindrical, and below huge ribs 1 pass down to the ground, which are very j difficult to cut. The wretched axes which , ' the Carib cutters use would bring a smile 1 to the face of a Nevada chopper. They < are sharp but light; the handles about two feet long, to which the blade is fast- * ened with a rawhide throng. The men seat themselves taiior-fashion on the < platform and cut ince-santly, uutil dan- j ] gerously near the falling point, when all 1 retiie from the platform but one conl- I headed native, who finishes by gentle 1 -i.? t 1:1 J 1 *l . biruKCSj uulii narucu uy iuusu nanuiu^ the tree, at the instant it begins to in- j cline, when this last one jumps to the ground in an opposite direction. This true giant of the forest seems to gather but little speed in the fall, but the crash, . when he crushes through the surrounding timber, may be heard for miles. ! The tree is then stripped of its heavy limbs, -which furnish 'those beautifully- i grained varieties seeu in tbe handsomest; furniture, after which the trunk is sawed into sections ten feet long, and the bark hewn of! to make square timber. All the j men not engaged iu cutting have mean- ' while been building a road from the river through the center of the cutting district, from which main path many branch roads are built to the individual trees. Through the low country, where marshes must be filled in and small' creeks bridged, the road building be- j come9 by far the most arduous work, and in higher lands this labor is vexatious enough, when it is understood that cut-1 j ting away 100 yards of tough underbrush s is a good diiy's work. ! s Near the coast, and among the old j cutting?, carts are used to carry out the anuare timber: but in the inferior noth- ! ing but drags can be employed; and ] very often, when desirable to get out a 1 fine large log, the cha'ns are simply fastened to it, and it takes its chances while being hauled by e ght or ten oxen, to be marked and dumped ir.to the river. Trees are seldom cut more than ten or twelve miles from the river.owing to the immense labor of road building; and the logs are always hauled at n'ght, because of the intense damp heat of day. At about 5 r. sr. the drivers start the oxen for the logs, reaching about 10 i?. m., and instantly load up their drags to ieturn. The way is lighted by men carrying huge pine torches, and in many places they are stuck in the ground at the roadside. The flash and glare of the ( lorcnes, me yens 01 me anvcr?, lorcing along their unfortunate beasts, the crack- * ing of the lashes aiul clauking of the s chains make a weird picture. Helpless h animals are left on the roadside t^ die, wilt their throats out, to bleed them, d and it is (he rear guard's duty to bring along sufficient of the r meat to supply the camp, which by morning would be flyblown or devoured by prowiing t animals. The old road over wh eh we ii passed was well lined with the skeletons h of the poor oxen who were unable to a struggle along. It is nearly the middle s< of May before all the cut log} are h "truckcd"' to the river's bank, and as t different firms often use the same roads t the logs are branded with a hot iron, fc so 1 h it when they arrive at the home 1 station,, or mouth of the river, there can s be no dispute as to ownership. t Shoving the wood out into the stream : I occupies nearly a week, and this is done t just before the rainy season. The tor- } rents of water poured down from the' 2 tV ~ Z&&L r * clouds swell the river to double its nat^ural size, carrying everything down ^ stream with a rush. The natives follow in their "pitpans," loosening all log* tliiat may become wedged in between the rocks, and the proprietors rest as- ; sured that the mason's cutting will not be delayed in floating down to the ? 'boom," which is built across th$ river's mouth, for the laborers are anxious fot their pay and to get off to their own homes. The Belize mahogany cotters are mostly Africans and descendants of former slaves of that colony; but ip Honduras those employed are Caribs, who are far superior to the colored men || in activity and strength; they are more familiar with the country, are more in- - M telligent, and in consequence fewer high* salaried superintendents are necessary. A fair cutter receives from $10 to $1C per month; the captain of a gang of fifty men receives $45 per month, and a good hunter can cam as much as $100 per month. In former times hunteri were pa d regular salaries, but now, to induce them to do better work, they ar? paid so much for every tree secured.? New York Times. Long-Lived Triplets. Tn snpalrintr nf * .rATiint (*l?hMHnn ir Boston, of triplets who had reached the $ age of twenty-one, we stated that il was the first instance on record of trip* Jets reaching their majority. We wei? . ;.;jj in error, as it will be seen from the foilowing statements: E. C. Chase, of Lebanon, N. H., writes: "In April, 1843, in Lawrence, fM N. Y., triplet daughters were born tQ Mr. and Mrs. Liba Chase. Two are stilj living, and are Mrs. J. P. Hyde and Miss . ^ Carrie Chase, of Brattleborough, Vt. The third was tho wife of J. E. Dewey, of Lebanon, N. H., and was nearly twenty-live years at the time of 'her \ ? death." Mrs. Robert W. Carpenter, of Fox- \ borough, Mass., says: "Foxborough, the 'Gem of Norfolk County,'has, living in its precincts, two sons and a daugh* '.? ter, children of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Murphy at one birth; aged thirty-four years. They were bora in Foxborough, and have always lived here, and are usually in the best of health." Mr. J. N. Studley, of Amherst, N. v H., writes: "Hubbard, Polly and Liu- v coin Litchfled (triplets) were born ia ^ Scituata. Mass.. August 11. 1706. Hub bard died March 9, 1874, at the age ot 78 yeara 8 months. Polly died the day 5 j Hubbard was buried, March 12, 1874. Lincoln died May 9, 1878, at the age of 82 years 10 months. These triplets all left children and grandchildren, 'some of whom are now living and are honored citizens."?Boston Journal. . Happy Clam Diggers. The Maine clam digger isn't exactly a fisherman, a farmer or a sportsman, but his somewhat plebeian and commonplace occupation partakes of the characteristics of each calling. His "game,* when ~ he digs it, is fish. He i? surer of finding . ;-v&a it when he starts out a low tide than is the fisherman of finding a school of mackercl, the farmer of raising his crop , or the sportsman of bagging his game. - ' A c!am digger may only limit his prospective wealth by his capacity to dig, and that only means three times as much v.. money in a week as some newspaper men AAM /in?M T nn*A in inACA TTTAdllk /loriAoi f Ar? Uiiu cuiu. liicio 10 luuio ntanu ia the Scarboro clam fats, for instance,' than in many of'the National banks of the Commonwealth, and they eeem to have unlimited power of replacing all losses at the hands of the digger. This fishy agriculturist has no call to plow his ground and plant. Bis crop obligingly does it for him, and also accommodatingly leaves an air hole where he went in, so the clammer may know where to dig. An overseer of the poor in a Maine town was once waited upon by an able bodied man, who asked aid on the ground that he was unable to find employment md his family was starving. "You can J dig clams, feed your family and sell ' those left, can't you?" said the flinty hearted alms giver, and the applicant, knowing that he could, desisted from j further importunities.?Leiatiton {Me.) Journal. _v R. W. Fond of Llteratnre nnd Art* Washington, says "Gath," in the Cin;ianati Enquirer, stands above all our Presidents as the appreciator of men in the arts and literature. From alL^over . '-J, the world sculptors and paintars came to take h s form and face. He submitted, with the greatest trouble and annoyance, .0 their experiments. One fellow nearly killed the old man by pouring plaster into his nostrils, meantime holding his nouth closed, supposing that the great chieftain could breathe like a whale, :hrough the top of his head. When lohn Trumbull, Gilbert Stuart and others lad done something, Washington wrote hem letters of merit. He sent his friend lack Humphreys, the poet of Connecti:ut, to Spain as Minister. After old roel Barlow, who wrote the "Colum)iad," had insulted him for years, Washington politely answered his letter vhen he had something to communicate. 3e told John Adams not to be squeamish ibout public opinion, but to send his on John Quincy Adams upon a missioh. Washington was something of an archi:ect. At the recent exhibition of the S'ew York Society of Architects there vas an elevation ot Mount Vernon as it iow stands. When Washington projosed to change it after the l-fevolution* ?Ua n nvfnnairtnfl an/) >1 y IT ui, uc uicn buc .ubmitted them to his builder. *2S Antiquities From Guatemala. The South Kensington Museum at London has recently received a valuable :ollection of casts and originals from the indent ruins of Guatemala. P. M. Uaudsley, who has been for several year? mgaged in exploring the country re* erred to. was the donor. The portioD >f ihe collection that attracts the most ittention are five upright monoliths, tight feet ami ten feet high. The carvng back and front is that of a human ' iirure, while the sides are covered with 'picture writing " The slabs, which are )laced on a screen, have human figure? n relief shown in profile. There i? loticeable in all the huge headdress, the -erv receding forehead, the garmeuts ol abric and the far from savage type ol rms. The serpent-like form with the niman head seems to point to the worhip of the deified serpent. No attempt ias been made to decipher the hieroglyhies, though it is thought it can be one.?San Francisco Chronicle. "iX African Publishing House. A noteworthy event in the history o! he State was the recent dedication, with niposing ceremonies, of the publishing ouse of the Afrirau Methodist Church, t Nashville. Eleanora Winters preented the keys of the building, on be.alf of the young members of the church, o liishop Way man, who, in receiving hem, sad ho did so on behalf of 11 tishops, XJIIOO traveling ministers, 000 ocal preachers, and 400,000 members, cnttered all over this country from the eaters of the Atlantic to the shores ol 'acitic and from the lakes on the north o the Gulf on the south, and also ol iayti, the West Indies and Africa.? Memphis (Ttnn.) Appeal. ? '3J&Mj3