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TEE PAMELL INQUIRY.
A Leading Witness Against the
Home Rule Leader Confesses.
Admitting the London "Times" j
Letters Were Forgeries.
After a searching examination of sixty
days, the Parnell inquiry in London has resulted
in the most sensational developments, j
The Parnell Commission, as it is called, was j
instituted to examine into allegations of the
London Times that Mr. Parnoll had written
letters sympathizing with criminal efforts?
, murder and the use of dynamite?to further 1
the cause of Irish Home Rule. The Times
published what purported to bo letters of
Mr. Parnell favoring criminal action in behalf
of Ireland's liberation from English
domination. The Irish Home Rule leader
asserted that these letters were forgeries and
demanded an investigation. A Special Com- j
mission was appointed to take testimony,and ;
the trial began over two months ago.
The most important witness upon whom
the 'lime* relied was one Richsrd Pigott, who
had furnished the paper with the alleged Parnell
letters,and who swore before the Commission
that they were genuine: Upon cross
examination, Dowerer, ngon, went iu )jio? i
completely when confronted with a letter I
which he bad written to Archbishop Walsh, j
offering for pay to prove that the Parnell |
letters were fraudulent. In further cross- j
examination Pigott involved himself in a
complete network of lies, and the case of the i
Times seemed knocked all to pieces. To put '
a cliocher upon tbe matter Tigott made a
confession that the letters were forgeries, and j
then disappeared. A London dispatch gives '
these further particulars:
Richard Pigott, the principal Times wit- |
ness in the Parnell case, has made a startling j
confession. He declares the Parnell letters,
published by the London Times, absolute
forgeries.
The announcement of this sensational da- j
velopment was made at the morning session ;
of the Parnell Commission.
Sir Charles Russell, counsel for Parnell,
arose shortly after the opening of the court
and stated that on Saturday last at the j
house of Henry Labouchere, editor of Lon- i
don Truth, Pigott signed a confession. This j
confession stated in so many words that tbe
alleged Parnell letters printed by tbe Times,
and on which tbe Times based its charges
azainst tbe Irish members, were forgeries.
Mr. George Augustus Sala was also present
when the confession was made.
Pigott had, without invitation, called on i
Mr. Labouchere and offered to confess. Mr.
Labouchere declined to listen with- j
out witnesses, whereupon Mr. Sala ;
was summoned, and Pigott confessed
that he was the forger. He admitted |
that he forged all the letters ascribed to i
?? ^ ;**. /VLTA11?. !
Messrs. .tgan, rarusn, aiiu yiwuj.
He also admitted that ha perjured himself >
before the Commission.
The statement of Sir Charles Russell was i
corroborated by the witnesses.
Having made this extraordinary statement !
to the court, Sir Charles Russell applied for a j
warrant for the arrest of Pigott. The Presiding
Justice said that within an hour a war- {
rant would be ready.
Mr. Shannon, a Dublin solicitor, who as- !
.sisted the Times in constructing its case, was
then called to the witness box. Mr. Shan- |
oon testified that on Sunday night Pigott j
-came to him and gave him a written state
merit denying the statement he had made on !
Saturday to Mr. Labouchere that he had j
forged all the letters. The first batch Pigott !
declared he believed to be genuine. Tiia sec- I
ond batch, including two of the Parnell let- j
ters, was forged by himself and Casey. The j
third batch, which includes those of Davitt j
and O'Kelly, were similar!}- forged.
Pigott added, in his statement to Shannon, j
that he now- having stated the truth and 1
confessed before the world, the Ti.nes
should deal lenientlv with him.
Sir Charles Russell, Mr. Parnell's counsel, |
-cross examined Mr. Shannon, who stated in
answer to a question that he took no steps to ;
prevent Pigott from escaping, but that he :
fully expected to see him appear in court.
It was very evident to all present that "the
Times had met its Waterloo, and that the j
case was in a state of complete collapse.
The following cablegram has been received
in Chicago from Michael Davitt by Alexander
Sullivan: t
"Pigott has bolted. It is the general be- '
lief here that the Times and the Government
have paid him to clear out.'1
Abandoning the Case.
When the Parnell Commission resumed its
fitting on the morn ng after the above disclosures,
Attorney-General Webster an- j
nounced that Pigott lmd written to Mr. .
;Shannon from Paris. The letter was read in !
court. It contained the *ame confession that j
Sir Charles Russell read the previous day. i
Pigott acknowledged t>at be forged "the !
fac-simile printed by the Timet and theother
letters. He admitted that he fabricated the
letters which he said ho found in a bug, and
describes the process by which he did it. He
used genu ne letters of Parnell's and Egan's, ,
copying closely several words of general !
character, and tracing the actual writing by I
ho'ding the letters up ajrainst a window and
following line for line. The second batch of
Parnell's litters he imitated from fac-simi e.
In conclusion, Pigott says that Mr. Labouchere's
account of the interview between
Pigott and himself is mainly correct.
After Pigott's letter had been read Attorney
Genera! Webster said: ,
"Nobody will attach any weight to Pigott's
evidence. It is now our auty to ask
leave to withdraw from considering the genuineness
of the letters. Ih-i publishers of I
the Times desire to express their regret for
the publication of them, and will a little later
give fuller mani:estations of regret over the '
|matter.,; l
Mr. Parnell took tbo witness stand and de- j
nied the genuineness of th-j letters alleged to j
have been signed by himself and addressed to
Ejjan. He had dictated to Mr. Cimpbell a
letter regarding his desire to have au inter- '
view with Figott. This letter was evidently |
the one from which imitations were made. ;
After Mr. Parnell's testimony the Com- ;
mission adjourned.
The London Times has withdrawn its ad- '
vertisement of the pamphlets "Parnellism
jind Crime*' and "0 Donn9ll versus Walters."
Applicants for the pamphlets are informed
that they are "out of print."
GOLD AND SILVER,
The Precious Metal Mined in This
Country l^urinj* 1888.
^ The Director of the Mint reports to Congress
that the gold production in the United
States in was 1,<?I4,927 fine ounces, of
the value of $-33,17"),CO).
Ihe silver product was 45,78 >,63} fine |
ounces, of the commercial value of ahout i
, $4;i.OO ?,003 and of the co n n ' value of $5'J,Slf5.0J0.
,
f The average price of silver durin? the year
: wa< about 'J4 cents per onnce. At this price !
^_the bullion value of the silver contained in
"the silver dollar was 72.<*. cents. The Government
purchised standard ounces of
silver during the year, costing $34,491,310. j
The total amount of silver purchased for the '
coinage of the silver dollar since March 1,
IIH? "evil Jvauutuu UUUUW,
costing $2Ki,0l'1,440?an average pr.ce of
"W.T ceuts per standard ounce.
The coinage o" the mints during the calendar
year was: Gold. ?31..'{si>,?>0$; silver
dollars, subs tliarv silver, $1,034,773:
minor, Total, gi?,31S,015. j
The import of gold buliion and c>in was
$11,0:>1,J?41 an I the export $.>4,0r.,,?>67?a loss
I by export of $.'3,5*7,72 i. The import of silver
was $31, M) 2,0 an 1 the export $:2!?,$J5,- '
[SSi?a loss by export of ?8,3'#, 1 IK).
The metallic sto.-k of thi I 'nited States,
January 1, lss'f, is estimattd Co have been:
Gold. $701,O il,975; silver, $403,.",16,756. Total,
11,1)5,5^,7^1.
'1 he est mated consumption of gold and
lilver in the industries in tho United State?
during 18S3 was: Gold, $14,OJO,OJO; silver,
S3.2iO.OJO.
A NEW FEENCH CABINET. |
!
t Carnot Announces the
>s of the Next Ministry.
; Carnot, of France, has signed e ;
>inting the following Cabinet: j
I, Premier and Minister of Com- 1
ans, Minister of the Interior.
er, Mi rioter of Finance,
not, Ministerof Justice,
res. Minister of Education.
Minister of Agriculture.
3uyot, Minister of Public Worki
ivc.net, Minis er of War.
Jaures. Minister of Marine.
arcel, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Empty vessels make most sound.
Do not ride a free horse to death.
Debt is the worst kind of poverty.
Cleave the log according to the grain.
There is a peace more destructive than
war.
Children and fools should not handle
edge tools.
We are not shaped and fashioned by
what we love.
Waste not time, for time is the stall
life is made of.
Children and fools should not see a
work that is half done.
One is never more on trial than in the
moment of excessive good fortune.
Find out your work, and stand to it;
the night cometh when no man can work.
I ife is no idle dream, but a solemn
reality based on and encompassed by
eternity.
Work of whatever kind, if rightly
rende.ed, is the best teacher of knowledge
and trainer of virtue.
There is a small chance of truth at the
goal where there is not a childlike simplicity
at the starting-post.
The soul in deep sorrow recoils from
tfAr/lj no tlio rIplirfitA
diuiuao llV/Ui ?? Wl v? U j vt?v V?V?>VM?V
Qowcr from a cold night breeze.
Our value in life is not in being conspicuous.
but in being faithful to the
work given us and the trust imposed on
us.
It is no great matter to live lovingly
with good natured, humble and meek
persons; but he who can do so with the
forward, wilful, ignoraut, peevish and
perverse, hath true charity.
Tricks of Ticket Takers.
There was a man talking the other day
about the tricks practiced by ticket sellers
and ticket takers who were in collusion
to "go suooks." Their idea is to
get the collected tickets back to the
ticket seller so that they can be sold twice
and accountcd for but once, the extra
money making up the "snooks." To
do this undetected the tricks are employed.
Out at Cheltenham Beach once,
said, the man, one of ticket sellers had
by the side of his big tin box a huge cotton
umbrella. Every once in awhile ho
would slip a ticket or two into the capacious
maw of the umbrella, dropping
the rest in the box where they belonged.
This worked successfu l/, and
at lunch time the tickets were slipped
t-.\ tVin ;r>L-pf co'lpr who was in
L'itfV l?vr nuw tivtkvw ww.
with the deal, and resold to the pro.it of
both. Late in the afternoon it began to
rain. One of the managers had occasion
to run outside of the gate. He saw the
umbrella by the ticket taker's side and
grabbed it, saying: "I'll return you this
in a moment.' As be opened it a shower
of tickets fell to the ground, and the
trick was thus accidentally exposed. It
is perhaps unnecessary to state that the
ticket taker was at once relieved from
duty. Years ago, out at the West Side
Driving Park, a certain gate keeper used
to take a sandw ch in to a certa n ticket
seller at frequent intervals. This man's
appetite was apparently so enormous
that he attracted attention. One day the
ticket seller was waylaid and four tickets
were found, (arefu'ly placed between
the slices of ham and bread, iroiuedays
later a suspected ticket taker was
searched for tickets held out. Nothing
was found in hi*clothes, ana uc was at
last requested to pull o!t the heavy boots
he always wore. lie did so, reluctautly,
and a shower of tickets fell to the
ground. There are, truly, tr.cks in all
trades. ? ChkcijO II raid.
Wonderful Memories lor B tsiness.
Phil Armour, the great Chicago porkpacker,
is said to have remarked that a
goo.l memory is ucces ary to one who
wishes to succeed. This is, porhips, a
trifle strong, and yet there is 110 lack of
evideuce to support the statement. Armour
himself is an example of what a
good memory can do. He is as wonderful
in h's time a3 Cardinal Mczzofanti
was in his. lie is said to carry the
smallest detail of his immense business
in his head. He cau remember the date
of small as well as large busiuess transactions.
He knows the names of pretty
nearly all 01 nis army ux cui^iujca.
After the building of theaddit ou to his
great e-tablishment in Chicago he astonished
a circle of friends by rattling
offhand the number of bricks, carloads
of sand, feet of timber, ctc., that were
used in the (onstructiou. Aimour's gift
is a uatural one. He has never cultivated
it, but the demands of his business
have unqua^tionably kept His
powers of memory in active training.
"Old Ilulch," as the imperturbable
Chicago wheat manipulator is called, is
another mau gi:ted with an extraordinary
memory./He needs no books to
curry his transactions in, although of
course, he uses them. With him. too,
retoativene=s is a natural ?ift. He renjembers
everything that he wants to
r/?rrw>mi.or Kiit- cnvs fmnklv lie doesn't
know how lie does it. lie also possesses
the gift of not remembering th;ugs he
floes not wish to rc;nember. Rut then
that gift is not rare. ? Kansas City
Tims.
We Hire Gi.OOO l'oets.
According to the best statistics at
hand there are at present ?;5,oCO | oets in
the country -one to every 1000 inhabitants!
In other words, one-tenth of
one per cent of the people of thi I nited
States are poets! Some parts of Indiana
are literally overrun by poets! A congress
of bards is annually held in that
State. A college of poetry will diminish
the number of singers, for every poet
will have to have a diploma. There
could be a State Board of l'oetry, and
every man caught writing poetry without
a diploma could lte proecuted to
the full extent of the law. The e could
be a peuitentiary for unlcensed poets
and a poetical reform school for young
oHenders. The number of poets in the
country might rapidly diminish from
(j.'jOOO to scarcely more than ! ",< 0 ).
One work of the proposed school of
x til 4.~ inn aIi I, ..1. !
poetry Will IU icauu I'victs uuuis ui
method. They will be taught to avo d
litter and to keep their manuscript in a
precise and exact way. They will learn
regular hour3 of work. They will be
taught a system of double eutry bookkeeping
by which they may iccoid their
ideas on one page and their emotions on
another.?New Yor.': Jin1 J.
31 rs. Hetty Green's 31 i I lions.
Mrs. Hetty Green, the e.-centnc old
lady sometimes r^'erred lo as the W itch
of Wall street," has real estate, stocks,
bor.as and diamonds reputed tc be worth
$10,000,000. Mrs. Green dresses with
uncommon plainnes?, has au aversion
for society, and weighs lsOpouud-'. 8he
has diamonds valued at * J..0,000, but
larelv wears any of them, and regards
them simply as so much valuable property.
"Buy till I tell you to stop," is the
pertinent order Airs, (ireen usually gives
to her broker when she is after any particular
railroad stock. In this way she
has often boomed a certain stock, and
when the profit suited her she would
give the order to half a dozen other
brokers: "Sell till I tell you to stop."?
Philadelphia limes.
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SEIIMON.
SiiDJect: "Dark Sayings on a Harp."
Text: "twillopen vvi dark sayings on
a harp."?Psalm of David, xlix., 4.
The world is full of the inexplicable,
the impassable, the unfathomable, the insurmountable.
We cannot go three steps
in any direction without coming up
against a hard wall ot' mystery, riddles,
paradoxes, profundities, labyrinths,
problems that we cinnot solve,
hieroglyphics that we cannot decipher, anagrams
we cannot spell out, sphinxes that will
not speak. For that reason David in my
text proposed to take up some of these somber
and dark things and try to set them to sweet
music: "1 will open my dark sayings on a
harp."
So I look ofT upon society and find people
in unhappy conjunction of circumstances and
they do riot know what it means and they
have a right to ask: why is this? and why
is that? and I think 1 will be doing a
good work by trying to explain some of
these strange things and make you more
content with your lot. and I shall only be
answering questions that have often been
asked me, or that we have all asked oarselves,
while I try to set these mysteries
to music and open my dark sayings on a
harp.
InfAPrncalinn tho first: W hv does God
take out of this world those who are useful
and whom cannot spare and leave alive
and in g< od health so many who ar? only a
nuisance or a positive injury to the world*
I thought I would begin with the very
toughest of all the seeming inscrutables.
Many of the most useful men and women
die at thirty or forty years of age, while you
often find useless "people alive at sixty and
seventy and eighty. John Careless wrote to
Bradford, who was soon to be put to death,
saying: ' Why doth God suffer rae and such
other caterpillars to live that can do
nothing but consume the alms of the church,
and take away so many worthy workmen
in the Lord's vineyard*" Similar questions
are often asked. Here are two men. The
one is a noblt, character and a Christian
man; be chooses for lifetime companion
one who has been tenderly
reared, and she is worth}- of him and he is
worthy of her; as merchant, or farmer, or
professional man, or mechanic, or artist, he
toils to educate and rear his children; he is
succeeding, but he has not yet established for
his family a full competency; he seems
absolutely indispensable to that household,
but one day before he has paid off the mortgage
on his hou-e he is comii.g home through
a strong northeast wind and a chill strikes
through him and four days of pneumonia
end his enrthly career and the wife and
children go into a struggle for shelter
and food. His next door neighbor is a man
who, though strong and well, lets his wife
support him; he is round at the grocery
store or tome general loafing place in
the evenings while bis wife sews;
his boys are imitating his example
and lounge and swagger and
swear; all the us9 that man is in that house
is to rave because the coffee is cold when he
comes to a late breakfast, or to say cutt ng
things about his wife's looks when he furnishes
nothing for her wardrobe. The best thing
that could happen to that family would
be that man's funeral; but he declines to die:
he livts on and on and on. So we have all
noticed that many of the u?eful are early cut
off while the parasites of society have great
vital tenacity.
I take up this dark saying on my harp and
givo three or four thrums on the string in
the way of surmising and hopeful guess.
Perhaps the useful man was taken out of the
world, teca se he and his family were so
constructed that they could not have endured
some great prosperity that might have
been just ahead and they altogether
might have gone down in the
vortex of worldliness which every year swallows
up ten thousand households. And eo he
went while he was humble uud consecrated,
and they were by the severities of ii.'o kept
close to Christ an:l fitted for usefulness linrft
and high seats in heaven; and when they meet
at last before the Throne, they will acknowledge
that though the furnace was hot, it
purified them, and prepared them for an
eternal career of glory and reward for which
no other kind of life could have fitte 1 them.
On the the other hund, the u>ol<ss man
lived on to fifty or sixty, or seventy
years, because all the onse l:e ever can
have he must have in tlrs world, and
you ought not, therefore, begrude him
his earthly longevity. In all tha ages
there ha3 not a single loafer ever
entered heaven. There is no place for
him there to hang around. Not in the
temples, for they are full of the most
vigorous, alert and rapturous worship.
Not on the river bank, for that 13
the place where the conquerors recline.
Not in the gates, because there are
multitudts entering, and we are told
that at each of the twelve gates, there is an
angel, and that celestial guard would not
allow the place to be bioc-ked up with
idlers. If the good and useful go
earlv, rejoice for them that they
have so soon got through with
human life, which at best is a strusgle. And
if the use < ss and the bad stay, rejoice that
they may be out in the world's fresh air a
good many years before their final incarceration.
Interrogation the second: Why do so many
good people have so much trouble; sickness,
bankruptcy, persecution,the three black vultures
sometimes putting their fierce beaks
into one set cf janged nerves? 1 think
now of a good friend I once bad. He
was a consecrated Christian man, nn elder in
the church and as polished a Christian gentleman
as ever walked Broadway. First his
general neaicn gave ouc ana ne nouoiea
around on a cane, an old man at forty.
After a while paralysis struck him. Having
by poor health been compelled suJ
denly to quit business, he lost what property
he had. Thvn his b-autiful daughter died.
Then a son became hopelessly demented.
Another son. sp'endid of mind and
commanding of presence, resolved that he
would take care of his father's household,
but under the swoop of yellow fever
at Fernandina, F.a., he suddenly expired.
So you know tood men and women
who have had enough troubles, you think, to
crush fifty people. No worldly philosophy
could take such a trouble and set it to music,
or play it on violin or flute or dulcimer or
sackbut, but I dare to open that dark saying
on a gospel harp.
You wonder that very consecrated people
have trouble? Did you ever know any very
consecrated man or woman who had not had
great trouble? Never. It was through their
troubles sanctified that they were made
very good. If you find anywhere in this
city a man who ha3 now and always
lias had perfect health, and never lost
a child, ana ha3 always been popular, and
never had business struggle or misfortune,
who is distinguished for goodness, pull your
wire for a telegraph niesseneer boy and send
me word and I will drop everythine and
go right away to look at him. There
never has been a man like that, and
never will bo. Who are those arrogant,
self-conceited creatures who move
about without sympathy for others anrl who
think more of a St. Bernard dog, or an Alderney
cow, or a Southdown shrep, or a
Berkshire pie than of a man? Th?v ppv?t
bad any trouble, or the troub:e was nevei
sanctified. Who are tli03e men who listen
with moist eye as you te'l them of sufTerinfj
and who have a pathos iu their voice and
a kindness in their manner and an ex>
cuse or an alleviation for those gone astray:
Tliey are the men who have graduated at the
Royal Academy of Trouble and they hav?
4i.. i
IrllU U.U UJIIil WflllCH III ?TilU\iCT Ull I/UUIA WVTUcountenances.
My! mvl What heartaches
they had! What tears they have wept! What
injustice they have suffered. The mightiesl
influence for purification and salvation
is trouble. No diamond fit for a crown until
it is cut. No wheat fit for bread till it is
ground. There are only three thines thai
can break off a cha:n?a hammer, a file or i
fire, and trouble is all thre9 of them The
greatest writers, orators and reformersgct
much of their force from trouble. Whal
rave to Washington Irving thai
exquisite tenderness and pathos which will
make his books favor'tes while the Knglisl:
language continues to be written and spoken:
An early h"artbreak that he never oncj
mentioned; and whin, thirty years aftei
the death of Matilda Hoffman, who wai
to have bern his bride, ber fathet
picked un a piece of embroidery anc
said: "That is a piece of poor Matilda"!
workmanship." Washington Irving sanb
from hilarity into silenca and walked away.
Out of that lifetime grief the great author
dipred his nen's mightiest re-enforcement.
"Calvin's Institutes of Religion." than
which a more wonderful book was never
written by human hand, was begun by th?
author at twenty-five years of age, t>ecaus?
of the persecution by Francis. King ol
France. Faraday toiled for all time on s
salary of 80 pounds a year and candle*, A?
-/ .y'f ' * *** ' - " i'*
. . " -I
every brick of the wall of Bibylon was
stamped with the letter N, standing for Nebuchadnezzar,
so every part of the temple
of Christian achievement is stamped with
the letter T. standing for trouble.
When in olden time a man was to be honored
with knighthood, he was struck with
the flat of the sword. But those who have
come to the honor of knighthood in the
kingdom ot God were first struck not with
the flat of the sword but with the keen
edge of the crimeter. To build his magnificence
of character, Paul could not
have spared one lash, one prison, one stoning,
one anathema, one poisonous viper from
the hand, one shipwreck. What is true of
individuals is true of nations. The horrors of
the American revolution gave this country
this side of the Mississippi River to independence.
and the conflict between Eneland
and France gave the most of this
country west of the Mississippi to the United
State'. France owned it. but Napoleon,
fearing that England would take it, practically
made a present to the United States?
for he received only 11"),000,000?of Louisiana.
Missouri. Arkansas, Kansas. Nebraska.
Iowa. Minnesota. Colorado, Dakota,
Montana. Wyoming and the Indian Territory.
Out cA the fire of the American revolution
came this country east of the Mississppi.
out of the European war csme that west
of the Mississippi River. The British Empire
rose to its present overtowering grandeur
through gunpowder jjlot, and Guy
n-?.1 \nptKnmnfftn in
r tt?Yhta 3 t?i|i3|fll j , auu ...
surrection, and "Walter Raliegh's beheading,
and Bacon's bribery, and Cromwell's dissolution
of parliament, and the battles of Edge
Hill, and Grantham, and Newberry, and
Marston Moor, and Naseby, and Dunbar,
and Sedgemoor, and execution of Charles
th* First, and .London plague, and
Iondon fire, and Londo* insurrection,
and Ryehouse plot, and the vicissitudes
of centuries. So the earth itself, before
it could become appropriate and beautiful
residence for the human family had,
according to geology, to be washed by universal
deluge, and scorched and made incandescent
by universal fires, and pounded
by sledge-hammer of icebprgs, and wrenched
by earthquakes that split continents, and
shaken by volcanoes that tossed mountains,
and passed through the catastrophes of
thousands of years before Paradise became
possible and the groves could shake out their
green banners and the first garden pour
its carnage of color between the Gihon
and the Hiddeke!. Trouble a good
thing for the rocks, a good thing for
nation?, as well as a good thing for individuals.
So when you push against me
with a sharp interrogation point, Why do
the good suffer? I open tbe dark saying on
a harp and. thouzh I can neither t>lav an
organ, or cornet, or hautboy, or bugle, or
clarionet, I have taken some lessons on the
gospel harp, and if you would like to hear
me I will play you these: "All things work
toiether for good to those who love God."
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to
be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless afterward
it yieldeth all possible fruits of
righteousness unto them which are exercised
thereby." "Weepng may endure
for a night but joy cometh in
the morning." What a sweet thing is a
harp, and I wonder not that in Wales, the
country of my ancestors, the harp has become
tbe national instrument, and that they
have festivals'where great prices are offered
in the competition between harp an 1 harp;
or that weird Sebastian Erard was
most of h's time bent over this chorded
and vibrating triangle, and was not
satisfied until he had given it a compass
of six octaves from E to E with all the
eomi-tones, or that when King Saul was demented
the son of Jesse came before him
and putting his fingers among the charmed
strings of the harp played the devil out of
the crazed monarch, or that in heaven there
shall be harpers harping with their harps.
So you will not blame me for opening the
dark saying on the gospel bam.
Yotir htrps, ye trembling saints.
Down from tbe willows take;
Lond to the praiee of love divine
urn every siriDi{ nwaxe:
Interrogation third: Why did a good God
let sin and trouble come into the world when
Ho might have kept them out? My reply is,
Ho hau a good reason. He had reasons that
He has never given us. He had re asons which
He could no more make us understand
in our finite state than the fatli r
starting out on some great and
elaborate enterprise could make the twovear-old
child in its armed chair comprehend
it. Cne was to demonstrate what
grandeur of character may he achieved on
earth by conquering evil. Had there been
no evil to conquer and no trouble to console,
then this universe would never have
known an Abraham or a Moses or a Joshua
or an Kzekiel or a Paul or a Christ or a
Washington or a John Milton or a John
Howard, and a million victories which have
been gained by the consecrated spirits of all
ages would never have been gained. Had !
there been no batt'e there would have I
V^oan na Vliio.fanfVie aF flii nnflioma I
of heaven would never Have been sunj. j
Heaven could never have been a thousandth !
part of the heaven that it is. I will not say J
that I am glad that sin nnd sorrow did i
enter, but I do say that I am glad that j
after God has given all His reasons to an
assembled universe Ho will bo more
honored than if sin and sorrow had never
entered, and that the unfa'.len celestials will
be outdone and will put down their trumpets
to listen and it will be in heaven wht-n tho-e
who have conquered sin and sorrow shall
enter, as it would bo in a small sinsinji
school on earth if Thnlberg anri
(Jottschalk and Wagner and Beethoven aud
Rheinherger and Schumann should all at
on e enter. Tne immortals that have been
chanting ten thousand years before tho
throne will say, as they c!o3e their librettos:
"Oh, if we cou'd only sin:; like that:"
But God will say to tho?o who have never
fallen and consequently have not been redeemed:
"You must le silent now; you
have not the qualification for this anthem,'5
so they sit witu closed lip* and f.ilde 1 hands
and sinners saved by grace take up the
harmony, for the Bible says "no man could
learn that song but the hundred and forty and
four thousand which were redeemed from
the earth.
A great prima donna, who can now do
enything with her voice, told me that when
she first started in music her teacher in
Berlin told her she could be a good singer,
but a certain note she could never roach.
"And then." she said. "I went to work and
studied and practiced for years until I did
reach it." But the song of the
sinner redeemed, the Bible says,
the exalted harmonists who have
never sinned could not reach and never will
reach. Would you like to hear me in a very
poor way play a snatch of that tune? I can
give you only one bar of the music on this
gospel harp: "Uuto Him that hath loved us
and washed us from our sins in His own
blood and hath made us kings and
priests unto (ioi and the Lamb, to
Him be glory and dominion forever
and ever, Amert." But before leaving this
interrogatory, Why God let sin come into
the world? let me say that great battles seem
to be nothing but sutrering and outrage at
the time of their occurrence, yet after they
have been a long while past we can see that
it was better for them to have been fought,
namely, Salami's, Inkerman, Tou'.ouse, Arbella,
Agincourt, Trafalgar, Blenheim,
Lexington. Sedan. So now
that the great battles against sin and suferine
are going on we can see mostly that
which is deplorable. But twenty thousand
years from now, standing in glory, we shall
appreciate that heaven is better ofT thin if
the battle of this world's sin and suffering
had never been projected.
Rnf. nnw T oAtnA nonrAP hnniA find nilfc ft I
dork saying on the gospel harp, a style of
question that is asked a million times a year.
Interrogation the fourth: Why do I have
it so hard while others have it so easy? or,
why do I have so much difficulty in g^ttinsr
a livelihood whilo others go around
with a lull portemonnaie? or, why
must I wear these plain c'othes while
others have to push hard to ect their wardrobes
closed, so crowded nre they with brilliant
attire? or, why should I have to work so
bard while others have three hundred and
sixty-five holidays every year? They are all
practically one question. I answer them j
hv saying, it is bcnuso the Lord has
His favorites and He puts extra discipline
unon you, and extra trial, because
he Ins for youex'ra g!or>. extra enthronement
and extra felicities. That h no
guess of mine, but n divine say-so: '"Whom
the Lord loveth He chastem>th." "Well,"
savs some one, "I would rather have a little
le;s in heaven and a little more here. Discount
my heavenly robe ten per cent, and let me
now put it on, a fur lined overcoat; put me
in a less gorgeous room of the hou3e of many
mansions and let mo have a house here in
a better ne'ghborhood." No. no; God is not
goin>* to rob heaven, which is going to be
your res:dence for nine hundred quadrillion
of years, to fix up your earthly abode,
which you will occupy at most for less than
a century, and where you may perhaps
stay only ten years longer, or onlv
one year, or perhaps a month
more. TT6w you had batter cheerfully let
God have His way, for, you see, He has been
taken care of folks for near seven thousand
years, and knows bow to do it. and can see
what; is best for you better than you can
yourself. Don't think you are too insignificant
to be divinely cared for. It was said
that Diana, the goddess, could not be present
to keep her temple at Ephesus from burning
because she was attending upon the birth
of him who was to be Alexander the Great
Hut I tell you that your God and my God is
so great in small "thinsrs as well as large
things that He could attend the cradle of a
babe and at the same time the burning of a
world.
And God will make it all right with you,
and there is one son? that you will sing
every hour your first ten years in heaven,
and the refrain of that sone will be: "I ara
so glad God did not let me have it my own
wav." Your case will be all fixed up in
heaven and there will be sucli a reversal
of conditions that we can hardlv
find each other for some time. Some of us
who have lived in first rate houses here and
in first rate neighborhoods will be found, because
of our lukewarmne83 of earthly
service, living on one of the back streets of
the celestial city, and clear down at the end
of it at No. SOS, or 909, or 150.3, while
gome who had unattractive earthly
abodes, and a cramped one at
that, will, in the heavenly city, be in a
; house fronting the Koyal plaza, right by the
! imperial fountain, or on the heights overI
lookine the River of Life, the chariots of
salvation halting at your door while those
visit you who are more than conquerors,
and those who are Kings and Queens
unto God forever. You, my brother, and
you, my sister, who have it so bard here
will have it so fine and grand there that
you will hardly know yourself and will feel
disposed to dispute your own identity, and
the first time I see you there I will cry out:
"Didn't I tell you so when you sat down
there in the Brooklyn Tabernacle and looked
incredulous because you thought it too
good to be true'" And you will
answer: "You were right, the half
was not told me!" 80 this morning I open
your dark sayinsr of despondency and complaint
on my gospel ham and give you just
one 1 ar of mu-ic, for I do not pretend to be
much of a player. "The Lamb which is in
I the midst of the throne shall lead them to
living fountains of water and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes." But
I must confess I am a little perplexed
bow some of you good Christians are going
' to get throu h tho gate, because there will
| bo so many there to greet you and they will
all want to shake hands at once and will all
j want the first kiss. They will have heard
I that rou are comin?. and they will all press
I around to welcome you and will want you to
i say whether you know them after being so
long parted.
Amid the tussle and romp of reunion I tell
you whose hand of welcome you had better
first clasp and whose cheek is entitled to the
first kiss. It is the hand and the cheek
of Him without whom you would
never have got there at all, the
Lord Jesus, the darling of the skies, as He
crusi out: "I have loved thee with an everlasting
love and the fires could not burn it
and the floois could not drown it." Then
vou, my dear people, having no more usa
for my poor harp on which I used
to open your dark sayings and whose
chords sometimes snapped, despoiling
tiie symphony, you wi'l take down your
own harps from the willows that prow by
t ne eternal water courses and play together
lhos3 celestial airs, some of the names of
which are entitled: "The King in Hi*
Beauty," "The Land That Was Far Off,"
"Jerusalem, the Golden," "Home Again,"
'The Grand March of God," "The
Life Everlasting." And as the last
dark curtain of mystery is forever gifted
it will be as though all the oratories
that were ever heard ha.1 been rolled
r,nn nr>/4 ?*Tct*Qia1 in Vffnttf" '' Tonli.
tha'.'i Daughter" and Beethoven's ''Overture
in C" and Ritter's flrst sonata in D minor
and the "Ov ation" and the "Messiah" had
lieon blown from the lips of one tiumpetor
beer: invoked by the sweep of one bow or
had been 'dropped from the vibrating chords
of ofae harp.
But here I must slow up lest in trying tc
solV'3 mysteries I add to the mystery that we
havu already wonderod at; namely: Why
prea ehcrs should keep on after all tho hear|
ers aro tired? So I gather up into on9
great armful all the whys, and hows,
and wherefores of your life and mine,
which we have not had time or the
ability to answer, and write on them the
words "adjourned to eternity." I rejoice
thai; w? do not understand all things now,
for if we did, what would we learn in
heaven? If we knew it all down I ere in the
freshman and sophomore class, what would
be the use of our going up to stand amid
the juniors aud the seniors? If we could
put down one leg of the compass and
with the other sweep a circle clear around
all the insrrutables, if we could lift our little
steelyards and w eigh the throne of the Omnipotent.
if we could with our seven day
clock measure eternity, what would be left
for heavenly revelation? So I move that we
cheerfully adjaurn what is now beyon
I oar romfr.-h 'iision, and as
Kn'ln thn historian.
A!?*san>loi* the Gr-afc, hiving obtained
tho polil casket in wh ch Darim liad kept his
rarti perfume. mod that aromatic casket
thereafter to keep his favorite copy of Homer
in, ?nd called the hook, therefore, the "edition
of the casket," and at night he put the
casket and his sword under his pillow,
so 1 put this day into the perfum 'I casket of
your richest affections and hopes this promise,
worth more than anything Homer ever
wrote or sword ever conquered: "What I
do 1;hou knowest not now but thou shalt
know hereafter," and that I call the "edition
celestial/'
Two monster Russian guns have
been sent to Sel a>toool for the purpose
of being j laced in tha new ironclad
Sinope, and although some of the
details must be inaccurate, th9 official
description is too interesting to be ignored.
They are 12-inch jieccs,
weighing 50 tons, and throwing pro
jec :iles of nearly half a ton. 'ina !
powder charge is 270 pounds, and the [
initial velocity 3,000 meters, w hile the
distance of the cannon's ranges is said
to be 20 versts, or over 13 miles. As a
consequence the fire of the guns can
only be directed by the map, the ol>
ject fired at being out of sight. Two
men, however, suffice for each gun,
as they are worked by hydraulic maJhinerv.
Clari:kceH. Clakk, of Philadelphia,
has a sel; of Motley's "Dutch Eepublic"
that he has "extended" from nine to
twenty-nine volumes by the insertion
of 2,500 engravings, autographs, etc.
The work is said to have cost him
$50,000, in which statement there is
not necessarily much exaggeration, as
there arij few hobbies more expensive
(or more delightful) than that of "extra
illustrating."
A bilI'j "to amend ttis penal code ao 1
that combinations of workiDgmen foi
legitimate purposes cannot be punished
under the conspiracy clauses" has been 1
introduced into the New York State ,
Assembly. The bill provides that "no J
act shall be deemed unlawful because
* 1 i - 1- _ 1 1 t
done or agreea to ue uone uy a uum* |
ber of persons which would not have
been deemed unlawful if done 01 |
agreed to be done by a single person.' e
Says a Comanche Indian clergyman: jj
"What -we need is tie Bible taught in 11
a plain manner instead of the whisky- j
flask. We want the Government to h
educate our children to be good and 1
useful cnizens of this country instead ;
of drunkards. Let the Government
a
appropriate more money for teachers
of a pood moral character and less for I
sealp-kn:'.ves and guns." u
? o
The r.iisin crop of California the t
past year reached 904,000 boxes of q
twenty pounds each.
?s?yggI 1
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TEMPERANCE. "
Amen Sallie.
Qood Farmer Bluff and his cherry wife
Set out tor town one day
And left, with wise injunctions,
Their little ones at play.
There was Sallie, who was twelve at least,
And Johnnie?nino or more.
With the household pet and baby,
Sweet May, aged lour.
The farm-house caught on fire that day,
Just how no one could tell,
The children quenched the flames alone
By working bravo and well.
And when the farmer came at eve,
They crowJed close and high,
And Johnnie hnckpd by Snllie.
Told what they did, and why.
But little May, somehow.
Had nothing much to say
Until her father, smiling, asked:
"'What did you do to day!"
There wasn't much that I tould do,"
She said, with down-cast eye,
"For Jotinnie bringed the wattr here
And Sallie made it fly.
5o I dot up in tie toroer.
Wis my hands all folded tight,
An' I hol.'ed 'Amen, Sullie,'
L'es as loud, wiv all mv mieht"
To workers in the temperance cause
There'9 nothing to explain,
For think this story over
Aud the application's plain,
If you can't be a second Gough,
Nor work as FinL-U has done.
Do what you can, with earuestnsst,
'Till right and victory's won.
R? number that oM couplet,
tor here you'll find it's true,
That "Satan finds some miscnief still
For idle hands to do,"
And "when your guns are loaded."
While you "guard the faith with zeal,"
Say "Auien. Sallie," so the world
Arouud shall hear and feel.
?Libbic J. Sherman, in Waterloo Observer
Coffee Houses.
:tt is a principal in algebra that you cannot
eliminate a quantity from an equation without
putting something exactly ecpia'l in its
puiue; mis is aisu a principal iu uuiuau
nature. The neglect of it has led to the failure
of many attempted reforms, and will lead
to the failure of many more.
We are glad to see that our enterprising
religious contemporary, tho New York Observer,
recognizes this principle, anci advocates
the establishment of something to take
the place of the saloon as a social center, aa
well as the abolition, so far as that is possible,
of the saloon itself.
The saloon, in metropolitan life?or in any
city or even village life, for that matter?is
more than a place where men pander to depraved
appetites. It satisfies not only thirst
for liquor, but thirst for human companionship.
It is the poor man's club. If we are
to abo'.iah the saloon, we must put something
in place of it If a substitute can bo found
that will offer all the social attractions of the
saloon and all its creature comforts, without
tne iutoxicating liquor, then the chance of
abolishing the saloon is largely increased.
The only thing that ever has succeeded in
ralr-nrr tho nlopo r\f tViA snlnrm sn far ia the
coffee nouae or cocoa room. In Liverpool
there are now sixty-one of the these coffee
houses paying an average yearly dividend of
ten per cent, on the capital invested, and in
the who.'e of England there are more than
two hundred.
Such houses have, to a small extent, been
established in this country; but tbey have
generally be n run, not as a business, but as
a philanthropic enterprise or charity. They
are not likely to succeed on a charitable
basis. Men are shy of charitable or avowedly
philanthropic institutions of this kind. They
prefer to feel that they are giving value received
for that they get Furthermore, there
are apt to be too many restrictions in a char*
itable coffee house. In many of them men
cannot smoke,or talk above a whisper. They
cannot play games other than checkers.
Such places are not attractive,and will never
supplant the saloons, Coffee houses, without
pandering at all to really vicious tastes,
should be made as attractive as possible, with
as few restrictions as possible. Says the
Observer:
"i'he rum power is being weakened every
day by the attacks made on it from the
ground of politics, of morals, and of religion.
Attack it from the social side and the lina of
oircumvallation is complete. Let something
be devised which shall take the place of the
fialoon as a resort for the masses, making up
for ail that it lacks of the features of the
saloon in honest comfort,good cheer and real
homelikeno-s, and the most difficult point
yet remaining in the problem of the drink
evil is solved/'
CJnr contemporary is right. It is the social
feature of the saloon that constitutes its
main strength to-day. Let that be supplanted
and its power is more than half gone.
?New York Mail and Express.
Hereditary Alcoholism.
The c..b>u .1 iicicuitaiy aicot.ui.aui are interestingly
ceser.bej by Dr. T. D. Crothers,
in the J ojmtar Science Monthly. In persons
of sound mind, but infected with an alcoholic
taint, Dr. Crothers has observed some
singular instances in which, at times of excitement,
and without any usj of intoxicants,
evtry symptom of intoxication is exhibited.
An unfortunate treasurer of a
large manufactory upon being accused of
fa sifying his books, suddenly appeared to
l.e intoxicated, both looking and walking
like one wl.o had drunk large quantities of
spirits. The next day he recovered, and
then made a full and satisfactory explanation.
His father hud teen a sai.or and a
free drinker. Hardly less astonishing is the
sudden, sympathetic drunkenness of persons
who have formerly been addicted to excessivo
use of intoxicants. A prominent
military man dining with so.ne old comrades,
who became intoxicated, iu Idenly,
though he had drunk nothing but coffee, became
as lii.ariou* us the rest, made a foolish
speech, and. at length, had to be taken
home in a state of stupidity. Of temperance
lecturers who be ame intoxicated while engaged
in describing the effects of alcohol,
Dr. Crothers gives some curious instance*
A Suggestion by Dr. Talmage.
Rov. T. De Witt Talmage says in the Ob
server: The startling announcement was
made by the retiring chaplain, that the Bmghamton
Asvlum for Inebriates'was a fai'ure,
only three out or eighty-two patients being
permanently cured of the drunkenness for
which they were there treated. We hope
our information is fa'se. But there is another
style of treatment we suggest as worth trying.
We seek for it thorough investigation.
One summer, in a religious meeting held in
Fourth Ward. New York, we heard men say
that they had been drunkards, but had been,
by the grace of God, not only pardonei, but
also entirely cured of the thirst for strong
driuk. We telieve them. The time will come
when religion will do many things that we
will not no'v let it do. If there are cases,
and we are ready to point them out, where
conversion has not only set the heart right,
but revolutionized the body, why not declare
a maw era? What inebriate asylums cannot
do, the Lord is ready to accompl sh. Give
our religion elbow room, and it will reclaim
intemperance, purify libertinism, enlptv ,
;'ails, ami make poverty a curiosity to look
at The age of miracles will coma lacli wher
the Church of God will allow it.
W. C. T. U. Notes.
Sin Francisco ha3 thirteen W. C. T.
Onions.
The W. C. T. U. of Nashville, Teuc.,maintains
several night schools.
Ttia nnmnop of \V. d. T. TTnions in Georgia !
las nearly doubled during the last year.
There are forty Y. \V. C. H. Unions in
Sbrtliein California claiming an aggregate
nembership of 1000.
It is said tbat in France from 1SH0 to l^SO,
here was an increase of -10,000 idiots, largey
due to the use of wine.
The Dominion (Canada) W. C. T. U. is
ilanning to hold its annual convention at
iloutreal in May or June. Miss Willari is
xpected to be present.
"Down with the white-livered clergy and
ho Sunday-schoo's" was the complimentary
notto poited on the wall at areceut brewers'
ueeting in Sandusky, Ohia
Bv order of the Board of Education. Dr.
lichardson's Temperance Lesson Book will
lereafter be usod in the public schools of
Jrii:ct> Edward Islanl.
A largo Loyal Temperance Legion was reently
organized at Tucson, Arizona. The
?rst and most influential ladies of the city
re at work for its success.
Rochester, N. Y., has eight local W. C. T.
,'nions organized by wards, one society of
oloro I women and two young women's
inions. These are all unitei in a central
rganization.
From the London Lancet we learn that
oany children of poor parents in Vienna freluentlr
receive by way of breakfast nothing
nore than a glass of spirits, often appearing
n th* ?C300i room drank.
RELIGIOUS EfiADING. '- sk
We Should Hear the Angels Singing, ^
If we only sought to brighten
Every pathway dark with care,
If we only tried to brighten
All the burdens others bear,
We should bear the angels singing
All around us, night and day;
We should feel that they were'winging
At our side their upward way!
If we only strove to cherish ' ' m
Every pure and only thought, . . Saj
Till within our hearts should p. rish
All that is with evil fraught,
We should hear the angles ringing
AH around us, night and day;
We should feel that they were winging
At our side their upward way I
If it were our aim to ponder
On the good that we might win,
Soon our feat wou'd eiase to wander
In forbidden paths of sin;
We should hear the angels sing'ng
All i.round us, night and day;
We should feel that they were winging
At our side their upward way I
If we onlv did our duty.
Thinking not what it might cost
Then the earth would wear new beauty ;
Fair as that in Eden lost;
We should hear the angels singing
All around us, night and daj;
We should feel that they were wingin V
At our side their upward way.
Unseen Protection.
"A lady was wakened up one morning by
a strange noise of pecking at the window,'
and when she got up she saw a butterfly flying
backwards and forwards inside the window
in a great fright, because outside there
was a sparrow pecking at the glass, wanting
to reach the butterfly. The butterfly did ii<w
see the gla-'s, but it saw the sparrow, and ^
evidently ex fee ted every moment to be
caught. Neither did the sparrow see the J
glass, though it saw the butterfly, which &!
because of the thin sheet of glass, was ac- U
tually as safe as if it bad been miles away
from the sparrow." It is when we forget
our J rotectcr that our hearts fail us. Elisna's ' ;
servant was in great fear when he
awoke in the morning and saw the city of
Dot ban encompassed witn norses auu
chariots and a great host, but when his eves
were opened at the prayer of the Prophet, his
fears vanished, for ne beheld the mountains
full of horses and chariots of fire. 'Thou
wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is >;Jjj
staved on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee."
"The Lord shall preserve thy going out and M
thy coming in from this time forth and even
forevermore."
'Though now unsoen by outward sense, ,
Faith sees him always near; . ,
A guide, a glory, a defence;
Then, what hiave you to fear?"
?Waymarte for Pilgrims.
'
A Fifty Thousand Dollar Mission. . ;'Si
Mr. Arthur L. Shumway, a well-known
American newspaper correspondent, writing m
in the Christian Union in answer to the
criticisms on missionaries which have recently
appeared in the Atlantic Monthly,
says: How shall I separate from a large
number of similarly conspicuous proof* of ?Jj
the worth of missionaries, some single reminiscence
that will serve to vindicate my
own respect for the class of people belittled by
Mr. House?
One day as I was walking the streets of . V
Canton, China, with Mr. Charles Seymour,
our American Consul General in that city.
we met and passed a quiet, modest-mannered
man cn his way into the city. Said Mr.
Seymour:
'"'Do you see that man yonder?" pointing in
the direction <>f the receding stranger.
I assented, and he continued:
"That is Dr. Kerr. He is in charge of the :-i|
great missionary hospital ycnder. The hospital
was fcunded in 1837, and has already
treated three-quarters of a million cases, X
believe. I consider that he is the peer of any
in nmrlH To mv
UVlllg OUI &CVU in uuv J , - ^
personal knowledge he undertakes, almost
daily, cases which our most distinguished
surgeons at home do not dard attempt, even
in Philadelphia, the medical capital of ,3
our country. I suppose that humble ,v
mm might just as well as not
be enjoying an income of from $50,000 to ^
$75,000 a year, instead cf his present small
salary, if he was only practising in the city
of New York on his own account. And! "r
suppose he knowns it, too."
And when he afterward passed through
the hospital, inspected the photographs of
operations already performed, and viewed
the array of deformities to be treated that
afternoon, I could not doubt that what be
had said was literally true.
Our Best for C hrlsf. i
Mary had rcceivcd richest blessings at the
lmnri of her Lord. Her heart overflowod
with love for Him, and nothing in all the
wcrld was too dear or too costly to bestow
upon Him. So she brought an alabaster bo*
of very preci< us < intment, broke the box
and poured the ointment on His head. She
brought the best gift she had. So we ought
all to bring our best things to Christ. He
gave the b st Fe had for us. He gave
His life; His heart was broken, and 'Hi*
precious bloo 1 was poured out for up. From
His throne of glory He lavishes now the best
gifts of His love upon us.
We owe to Him, therefore, the best of
everything we have. We should give Him
the best of our affections. He ought to have
the warmest place in our hearts. Bring all
the gems and jewels or your love and put
them in the crown of Jesus.
We ought to bring to Him the best of our
lives. Too many give Him only the wasted
remains. Thev f-pend (he vigor of their
youth, the strength of their manhood, the
best of their life s energies in tho world, in
business, in selfishness, in 9in; and when ihey
are old, seek to I ring a poor, worthless offering
to ChrKt. They give the best to the
world ai:d the faded leaves to Ch. ist. Surely
it is not such an offering that Jesus deserves.
We ought to consecrate our childh od to
Him; to spend our youth in His service; to - c.
lay our manhood and womanhood 0:1 his altar.
Gi e Him the arm when it is strongest,
the foot wh?n it is swiftest the brain when
it is clearest, the heart when it is warmest,
the tongue when it is most eloquent.
We ought to give to Him our best services.
There ara too many prcfe si<~g Christians
who have time for everything but the work
of the Lord. It's a fair qu stion to put to
fach professing Christian. What are y u
fircto IVhnft is thft nnn thine of vour life
which enkindles your warmest "thought,
which inspires your loftiest enthus'nsm,
which impels ycur best en -'eavor.-. Is it the
glorv of God, or is it your busnes', your
wordly ambition? Bring Christ no more the
mere waste and fragmentary services of
your lives. Make not your Christian life any
longer a secondary thing. Bring not to the
altar of your Redeemer anv more a cold,
dead, heartless service. Put Christ flist.
Do your best work, sing your sweetest song,
speak ycur t?nd rest word, perform your
h liest ministry for Him.
Wo shoul I bring our best gifts to Jesus.
Is it Lot true too often that we keep our best
l'or oUi"s?!ves. and give Him tho tilings that
we shall miss the least from ou own stories?
When our cuns run over we give Him the
drops that fall from the brim. When we
have eaten and are full, we sweep up the
crumbs for Him. Let us bring our dearest
things and lay them on His altar, nothing is
too good or too costly to be bestowed on such
a Saviour. Nothing is wasted which is given
to Christ. No deed is in vain which is dono
for Him. No life is lost which is poured out
upon His altar. He accepts the smallest
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needs 01 iove as uone uj uumx.-u.
lowly service, every self-denial, every b?autiful
deed of love done to a suffering oiw is
an alabaster box of ointment broken open to
anoint Christ's head and feet He will
gather up the perfume and keep it sweet and
sacred forever for a -memorial of you.?
WVsf/n inster Tmiwwv.
Sick oT His "Business."
A leuorter of u Chicago paper says: 1
walked into the bar of one of tue i,ig hotelr
of this c.ty the other day an l found the new
pr. pnetor s.tting at one end of the bar
' Where is your nog bowl?" 1 asked
"haven't any tiiis year,' i:e replied. "D<
you know,' he continued, "that a man u
this business geta mighty tick of it. I don'l
know why, sometimes, 1 remain in it. Ee
cause, 1 suppose, lam not tit tor anything
el^e. But l find a growing repugnance to it
It is bad enough to have to serve this s-turt
c*t to men when they come in and ask yoi
fir it. But to keep it m a bowl, to make it
seductive in its appearance, thereby creating
au appetite often?for there are men who
cau't look at the stuff without taking it?
that is something which I have concluded
not to do any more.'