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I VAULTS FULL OF MONEY, i '( Counting the Millions in the United States Sub-Treasury. Assistant Treasurer Ellis H. Roberts has begun his official duties at the United States Sub-Treasury in New York, and as required by law there is to be an official count of all the money turned over to his charge. I The count of the cash in the Treasury vaults was begun by fifteen exerts from Washington, under the direction of Assistant !uer j. ? . lueiine, ot mo l niteu states sury. The work started with the countif the paper raonev, gold and silver certifi? and United States Treasury notes, 'h aggregate about $25,000,000. Beside paper money there are $108,000,000 of and $32,000,000 silver to bo counted, in tion to United States bonds and other ritics. The work of counting this im?e sum of money will occupy from threo s to a month, when the Assistant surer will give his receipt for the amount e vaults. fEEE RAILROAD WRECK. eight Train Sinks Into a Fallen-in Coal 3Iine. emarkable freight week occurred on airo Short Line, two miles from BelleIll., the other morning. A freight train running toward Belleville. The track clear ahead, when suddenly, without varning, the road-bed began to sink, and ingineer and fireman felt themselves ly dropping below the surface of the unding country. They jumped for lives, and both escaped with a holm trail leading through the new territory. A fight ensued in which the cattle men were reinforced by a part}* of boomers from Cooke and Fanning Counties, Texas. One of the guards, two cattle men and one boomer, named Geiss, were killed in the melee. BITTEN BY A M0K23Y. APi'inccssGoinjf toParisto b? Treated by Pasteur.' ' Tl\e Paris Gavlois says that the Princess of Sagau. a noted leader of fashion, was bitten a short time ago by a pet monkey, which has since died from hydrophobia. The Princess, the paper says, is about to visit Paris for the purpose of putting herself under the care of M. Pasteur, the noted hydrophobia expert. THE LABOR WOELD. The iron trade is very inactive. A silk null is to be erected at Lynchburg, Va. A snoz factory is to built at Raleigh, N.C. Several silk mills arc to bo built in Pennsylvania. The tbree labor strikes in Buffalo, N. Y., are still ou. The hosiery manufacturers are crowded with work. Hungary, in fear of a labor shortage, has forbidden emigration. Iy Spartansburg County, S. C., there ar? eight cotton mills in operation. Tcskaloosa, Ala., expects soon to have a $100,000 boot and shoe factory. Ik Great Britain there Jire 203 tin-plat! mills, employing 100,000 hands. A GEN era i. strike of the street-railway employes in Minneapolis is threatened. Krupp, of Germany, is putting up a big mill to turn out more war material. The carmen of Vienna are organizing with a view to striking lor mgncr wages. I Organized labor is making preparation for the eighth hour strike next year. The Welsh tiu plate makers have abandoned their attempt to form a trust. New England shoemakers continue tc leave large cities for country places. Knoxville and Nashville, Tenn., are looming up as great manufacturing centers. T The paper-making industry throughout the Unitea States is profitable. There are llOO mills. The biggest printing plant in tae world is that presided over oy the United State? Public Printer ' Poor cotton, poor weather, high speed make the threads break often and make the weaver's life a bore. It is probable that Pennsylvania will appropriate $500,000 to introduce manual trainy. tug in public schools. ; A German* manufacturer now visiting America says America leads the world in the line ui 5uuu uiuiiiiu'ji y. ! As expert weaver can care for eight looms; he works in an aisle with four looms before him and four behind him. New Yors Stato is maintaining .3000 idla """ convicts, many of whom are upon the verge of insanity from lack of work. Work has been resumed in sixteen collieries at Wilkesbarre that had been idle for some time, setting to work 0000 people. No Massachusetts railroad will hire a man unless he signs a contract not to begin suit for damages in case ho is injured. The strike of the female feather-workers of New York city failed only after a struggle almost without parallel in the history of strikes. There is said to be one woman in the finishing department of the watch factory at Waltnam, Mass., able to do men's work for men's pay. Pittsburg's glass workers are all opposed to prohibition, as the bottle trade is one of the biggest and most lucrative branches of their industry. Kansas has been obliged to break a prison labor contract for the rather novel reason that she has not enough available room in the penitentiary to fill it. James (5. Batterson", the insurance millionaire, of Hartford. Conn., was originally a marble cutter, and is said to know more about marble cutting than any other man alive. ltl? l^CW 1 Ui K WillUU-IJttSe LLLUli.t:il5 prupuMJ to rebel against task work, which, they say, compels them to do six days' work in Ave. The watch-making industry seems to be growing all over the United States. > A new coal cutting machine is operated b> electricity and makes 250 blows a minute, and has "been practically tested in the coal mines' of Illinois. The coal operators have seen it used and say that it is a good thing. Fifty or sixty years ago the total number persons employed by the Manchester i : (England) Postoflice was twenty or thirty all f told. Now there are 1000, which being added I ! to the number employed in the outer districts. | make a total of nearly 2500?one-filth part of i whom are women. Nearly every west-bound train on thd. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad carries from five to a dozen emigrant cars filled, with emigrants for Dakota, a majority of 1 whom are Germans. The Dakota towns are rapidly filling up with strangers, and the liveliest land of a boom is looked for during the #0ming summer. "As a result of recent harbor improvements, Buenos Ayres now has a port sufficient for Its commerce with all tne rest of the world. I , - y . . - _ WORDS OF WISDOM. It is only the unlucky who think fortune blind. Children are the coupons on the bonds of marriage. White lies are the gentlemen ushers of the black ones. A paradox is often a truth serving its apprenticeship. .Rarely do we contradict those we love or those we despise. Scratch a pessimist, and, more often than not, you will rind an optimist turned sour. Many a man forgets his evil deeds so swiftly that he is honestly surprised when any one else recalls them. Man has a firmer grip oil the truths ho thinks he has found out for himself, than on those he has been taught. Many a many would blush for his wisest decisions if only he should reflect on the reasons which moved him to them. To see a clever man making a fool of himself is a sorry sight; audit is pitiful to discover that he can always give most excellent reasons for his folly. Some people keep a friend as children have a toy bank into which they drop little coins now and again; and some day they draw out the whole of their savings at once.?Century Magazine. The Seal Fisheries. * - x - r _rf The recent neavy capture 01 seais ?u Newfoundland will not, despite reports tc the contrary, make sealskin sacks any the less expensive next seasou. It is indeed difficult to disassociate the seal from the sack constructed from his outer covering, but only seals from certain localities may be used for this purpose, and seals caught off Newfoundland are not of that kind. It is the Alaskan seal and the Japanese seal whose fur is available for a feminine wrap. Yet the catch is one of moment. Foi there are most important uses to which these seals are to be put. Though the Arctic seal, as these are called, is covered with hair, long and coarse, and thick and bristly, yet scraping this off the skin itself becomes valuable for tanning purposes. For that it goes principally to Great Britain. Here it is used for the most part iu the manufacture of pocket books and ( tennis shoes. i Just below the skin lies a layer of fat ! known as the pelt. This might almost be ; cry rtl { + 4*/\V ??11 tlinf. I umuu uit* ovui ticvu, MVncath this is a thiii membrane and then the animal's bone and framework and digestive apparatus. These form but a small part of him. An excellent quality 1 of what is known as seal oil is extracted from the pelt, and the tallow-like substauce that remains has a value commercially. These Arctic seals whelp in the north ( in the latter part of February and drift down on the ice in the early spring. As ' the ice melts- in more temperate regions | the young seals drop off into the water, i and are then sufficiently grown tp take care of themselves. It is the object ol the sealers to capture the little animals known as ' 'white coats" while still on the i floating ice. This is on their first trip. ' Later on the larger animals, up to the 45C i pounds male, known as the hooded seal, I om lmntprl Tlif> "white coats." not OVC'l I four feet long and of fort}- to fifty pounds I weight, make little resistance, and are easily killed by a blow over the head. The seal fishery will be most profitable this year. One of the vessels just returned to port has a cargo of 27,01)0 seals. The market value of these is something over >'2 apiece. Allowing for the running expenses of the vessel, the proportional share of the catch to the vessel's officers and crew, yet the profit to the owners will be an exceedingly neat one.?JYi-w York Mail and Express. The Pumpkin Marquis. The correspondent of a China newspaper gives the following details of a sudden change of fortune in that country: Upon the accession of the present Manchu dynasty, the heir of the last Ming Emperor, who committed suicide on a coal hill in Pckiu, was made a 3Iarquis and known as Ming Marquis. During the reign of the last Emperor but one, the then holder of the title died with out sons anil witn 110 direct neir cu succeed to the Marquisate and estates. Reference to the family records showed that the right heir was an obscure personage, who had been completely lost sight of, and search was made for him everywhere by the officials of the banner under which the Marquis was enrolled. For a long time no trace could be found of the missing nobleman, but he was at length discovered standing with a barrow outside one of the gates of Pekin selling a specics of large pumpkin. He proved to be a man of the most rustic appearance and utterly uneducated. Ignorant of his birth, he was gaining a precarious livelihood as a costcrmonger. He was with difficult}* made to realize the sudden freak by which fortune had raised him to be one of the great nobles of the land. Hurried olr to the office of his banner, he was washed, shaved and combed, and his rags exchanged for costly garments suited to his new station in life. For some days he was polished up generally, and taught the etiquette and Manchu phrases necessary fur his presentation to the Emperor. His succession was allowed, and he went to his palace and took possession. Reports speak of him as an honest and kindhearted man, who has done his best to educate himself and fulfil the duties of his high position. He is now about fiftyfour years of age, and still retains his rustic appearance. The birth of sons lias secured the succession, so that the family is now in as strong a position as ever. It is his duty to offer sacrifice each autumn at the Ming tombs. Ilis palace is near one nf the gates of the Imperial city. He is popularly known us the Pumpkin M; i rijuis. ?London TVnm. The Ferocity of a Blue Crane. Monroe Adams, of the Cotton avenue rettauraut, saw a large bird sailing around about one hundred yards above him, on Town Creek, and shot it, breaking one of its wings. It fell to the ground and Monroe made a grab for the bird, and it made a thrust at him with a bill fully live or six inches long, striking him on the shoulder. He clubbed his gun and at it they went, sometimes the bird getting in a lick and sometimes Monroe. The bird was so much higher and longer and supple that it could come in on any side, but Monroe caught its long, snake-like neck, gave a hasty lick with his gun and he had won the battle. It proved to be a blue crane. It measured seven feet from tip of wing to tip of wing, and stood as high on its feet from point to beak. Monroe sold it to Captain P. "Williams, and ate some of it. He sajjrs turkey meat won't comparc with it.?Americus (Ga.) Rtcardgr, ^ :v-v . . .. ' A 5 KEY. DE. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: "Rounding Up the Century.' Text: "Amen; Alleluia." ? Revelations 3?X., 4. The Nineteenth century is departing. After it has taken a few more steps, if each year be a step, it will be gone into the eternities. In a short time we shall be in the last decade of this century, which l'sct n^kes the solemnest book outside the Bible the almanac, and the most suggestive and the most tremendous piece of machinery in all the earth the clock. The last decade of this century upon which we shall soon enter will be the grandest. * mightiest and most decisive decade in all the chronologies. I am glad it is not to come immediataly, for we need by a new baptism of the Holy Ghost to prepare for it That last ten years of the Nineteenth century, may we all live to see them! Does any one say that this division of time is arbitrary? Oh, no; in other ages the divisions of time may have been arbitrary, but our years date from Christ. Does any one say that the grouping of ten together is an arrangement arbitrary? Oh, no; next to the figure seven, ten is with God a favorite number. Abraham dwelt ten years in Caanan. Ten righteous men would have saved Sodom. In the ancient tabernacle were ten curtains, their pillars ten and their sockets ten. In the ancient temple were ten lavers and ten candlesticks and ten tables and a molten sea of ten cubits. And the commandments written on the granite of Mount Sinai were ten, and the kingdom of God was likened to ten virgins, and ten men should lay hold of him that was a Jew. and the reward of the greatly faithful is that they shall reizn over ten cities, and in the effort to take the census of the New Jerusalem the number ten swings around the thousands, crying " ten thousands times ten thousands." So I come to look toward the closing ten years of the Nineteenth century with an intensity of int aqyi liowll,- A uui ot x vau uaiiuj uwvi I have also noticed that the favorite time in many of the centuries for great events was the closing fragment of the century. Is America to be discovered, it mu3t be in thelast decade of the Fifteenth century, namely, 1492. IVas free constitutional government to be well established in America, the last years of the Eighteenth century must achieve it. Were three cities to be submerged by ona pitoh of scorLe, Herculaneum and Strabiai and Pompeii in the latter part of the First century must go under. Tno Fourth century closed with the most agitating ecclesiastical war of history, Urban the Sixth against Clement the Seventh. Alfred the Great closes the Ninth century and Edward Ironsides the Eleventh century with their resounding deeds. The Sixteenth century closed with the establishment of religious independence in the United Netherlands. Aye, almost ever}- century has had its peroration of overtowering achievements. As the closing years of the centuries seem a favorite time for <jreat scenes of emancipation or disaster, ana as the number ten seems a favorite number in the Scriptures, written by divine direction, and as we are soon to enter upon the last ten years of the Nineteenth century, what does the world propose? What does the church of Christ propose? What do reformers propose? I know not; but now in the presence of this consecrated assembly I propose that we make ready, get all our batteries planted and all our plans well laid in what remains of this decade, and then in the last decade of the Nineteenth century march up and take this round world for God. When I say we, I mean the five hundred million Christians now alive. But, as many of them will not have enough heart for the work let us copy Gideon, and as he had thirtytwo thousand men in his anny to fight the Midianites but many of them were not made of the right stuff and ho promulgated a military order saying; " Whosoever is fearful and afraid let him return and depart early from Gilead," and twenty-two thousand were afraid of getting hurt and went home and only ten thousand were left and God told them that even this reduced number was too large a number, for they might think they had triumphed independent of divine help, and so the number must be still further reduced and only those should be kept in the ranks who in passing the river should be so in haste for victory over their enemies, that though very thirsty, they would without stopping a second just scoop up the water in the palm of their right hand and scoop up the water in the palm of their left hand, and only three hundred men did that and those three hundred men with the battle shout: "The sword of the Lord and of Gideon," scattered the Midiatiites like leaves in an equinox, so out of the five hundred million nominal Christians of to-day let all unbelievers and cowards go home and get out of the way. And suppose we have only four hundred million left, suppose only two hundred million left, suppose only 0119 hundred million left, yea, suppose we onlj* have fifty million left, with them wc will undertake the divine crusade, and each one just scooping up a palm full of the river of God's mercy in one hand and a palm full of the river of God's strength in the other, let us with the cry, "The sword of the Lord and Gideon," the sword of the Lord and of John Knox, the sword of the Lord and of Matthew Simpson, the sword of the Lord and of Bishop Mcllvaine. the sword of the Lord and of Adoniram Judson, the sword of the Lord and of Martin Luther, go into the last decade of the Nineteenth century. Is it audacious for me to propose it ? Oh. no; a captive servant in the kitchen of Naaman told the commander-in-chief where he could get rid of the blotches of his awful leprosy ana his complexion became as fair as a babe's. And didn't Christ in order to take the ophthalmia out of the eyes of the bliud man use a mixture 01 spiiue ana uussnuu who showed Blucher a short cut for his army, so that instead of the regular road by which he would have come up too late, he came up in time to save Waterloo and Europe? Was it not an unknown lad, who perhaps could not write his own name? And so I, "who am less than the least of all saints," propose a short cut to victory and am wiling to oe the expectoration on some blind eve and tell some of the brigadier generals of the Lord of host how this leprosied world may in the final decade of the Nineteenth century have its flesh come again as the flesh of a little child. Is there anything in prophecy to hinder this speedy consummation? No. Some one begins to quote from Daniel about "time, times and a half time," and takes from Revelation the seven trumpets blowing them all at once in my ear. But with utmost reverence I tak^up all the prophecies and hold them toward heaven and say God never has and never will stop consecrated effort and holy determination and magnificent resolve, and that if the church of God will rise up to its full work it can make Daniel's time twenty years and his half time ten years. Neither" Isaiah, nor Ezekiel, nor Micah, nor Malachi, nor Jeremiah, nor any of the major or minor prophets will hinder us a second. Suppose the Bible had announced the millennium to begin the year 3SS9, that would bo no hindrance. In one sense God never changes His mind, beinc the same yesterday, to-day and for ever. But in another sense He does change His mind and times without number every day, and that is when His people pray. Didn't He change His mind abnut Nineveh? By God's command Jonah, at the top of his voice, while standing on the steps of the merchants' exchange and the palatial residences of that city, cried out: "Yet forty days and Nineveh snail be overthrown." Was it overthrown in forty days? No. The people gave up their sins and cried for mercy, and though Jonah got mad because his whole course of seniums had been spoiled and went into a disgraceful pouting, we have the record so sublime I cannot read it without feeling a nervous chill running through me. "God saw their works that they turned from their evil way and God repented of the evil that He had said He would do unto tbem, and He did it not." God is a father, ami some of us know what that means, and some time when we have promised chastisement and the child deserved it, the little darling has put her arms around our neck and expresses such sorrow and such promises of doing better that her tears landed on the lips of our kiss, and we held her a half hour after on our knee and would as soon think of slapping an angel in the face as of even striking her with the weight of our little finger. God is a father, and while He has promised this world scourgings, though they were to be for a thousand years or five thousand years, Ho would, if the world repented, substitute benediction and divine caress. God changed His mind about Sodom six times. He had determined on its destruction. Abraham asked Him if He would not spare it if fifty righteous people were found there; and, narrowing down the number, if forty-five people were found there; if forty people; if thirty people; If twenty people; ff ten people were found there. And each of the six tunes the Lord answered yes. Oh, why didn't Abraham go on just two steps further and say if five oe found there and if one be found there, for then for the sake of Lot, its one good citizen, I think Sodom would nave been spared. Eight times does the Bible say that God repented when He had promised punishments and withheld the stroke. "Was it a slip of Paul's pen when he spoke of God's cutting short the work in righteousness ? No, Paul's pen never slipped. There is nothing in the way of prophecy to hinder the crusade I have proposed for the last decade of the Nineteenth century. The whole trouble is that we put off ths completion of the world's redemption to such long and indefinite distances. The old proverb that "what is everybody's business is nobody's business," might be changed a little and be made truthfully to say what is the gospel business of all the ages is the gospel business of no age. We are so constituted we cannot get Up much enthusiasm about something five hundred years from now or a thousand years from now. "We are fighting at too long a range. That gun called the "Swamp Angel " was a nuisance. It shot six mil^ Due ic narcuy ever me anytmng. it aid its chief destructive work when it burst and killed those who were setting it off. Short range is the effective kind of work, whether it be for worldly or religious purpose. Some man with his eyes half shut drones out to me the Bible quotation: "A thousand years are as one day;" that is, ton centuries are not long for the Lord. But why do you not quote the previous sentence, which says that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years? That is, He could do the work of ten centuries in twenty-four hours. The mightiest obstacle to Christian work is the impression that the world's evangelization i3 away off. And we take the telescope and look on and on through centuries until we see two objects near each other, and we strain our vision and guess what they are, and we call great conventions to guess what they are, ana we get down our heaviest theological works amibalance our telescope on the lid and look and look and finally conclude that they are two beasts that we see, and the one has hair and the other has wool and we guess it must be the lion and the lamb lying down together. In that great cradle of postponement and somnolaice we rock the church as though it were an impatient child and say: "Hush, my dear, don't be impatient I Don't get excited by revivals! Don't cry! Your Father's coming! Don't get uneasy r He will be here in two or three or ten or twenty thousand years." And we act as though we thought that when Macauley's famous New Zealander in the far distance is seated on a broken arch of London bridge stretching the ruins of St. Paul's his grandchild might break in and jolt his pencil by asking him if he thought the millenium ever would appear. Men and women of tbe eternal God! Sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty! We may have it start in the decade that is soon to commence and it will be done if we can persuade the people between now and then to get ready for the work. What makes me think it can be done? First, because God is ready. He needs no long persuasion to do His work, for if He is not 'willing that any should perish, He is not willing that any of the people of the next decade shall perish; and tne whole Bible is a chime of bells ringing out "Come, come, come," and you need not go round the earth to fiud out how much He wants tho world to come, but just to walk around one stripped and bare and leafless tree with two branches, not arched, but horizontal. But He is waiting, as He said He would, for the co-operation of the church. When we are ready God is ready. And He certainly has all the weaponry ready to capture this world for the truth, all tho weapons of kindness or devastation. On the one hand the Gospel and sunshine and power to orchardize and gardenize the eartn, and fouutains swinging in rainbow, and Chatsworthian verdure and aromas poured out of the vials of heavens, while on tho other hand he has the weaponry of devastation, thunderbolt and conflagra tion and forces planetary, sour, lunar, stellar, or meteoric, that with loose rein thrown on the neck for a second would leave constellations and galaxies so many split and shivered wheels on the boulevards nf heaven. And that God is on our side, all on our side. Blessed be His glorious name! Blessed was the hour when through Jesus Christ my sinful soul made peace with Him! If you continue to ask me why I think that the world can be saved in the final decade of the Nineteenth ceuit ury, I reply because it is not a great undertaking, considering the number of workers that will go at it, if onco persuaded it can be done. Wo have sifted the five hundred million of workers down to four hundred million and three hundred million and two hundred million and one hundred million and to fifty million. I went to wdrk to cipher out how many souls that number could bring to God in ton years, if each one brought a soul every yeai', and if each soul so brought should bring another each succeeding year. I found out, aided by a professor in mathematics that we did not need anything like such a number of workers enlisted. You see it is simply a question of mathematics and in geometrical progression. Then I gave to the learned professor this problem: How many persons would it require to start with if each one Drougllfc U SUUl IULU l/UU lvlII?UUUl tavujvu. ?? ten years and each one brought another each succeeding year, in order to have fourteen hundred million people saved or tho population of tho earth at present? His answer was two million seven hundred and fifty-four thousand three hundred and seventy-five workers. So you see that when I siftea tho five hundred million nominal Christians of the earth down to fifty million and stopped there, I retained for this work forty-sevon million people too many. There it is in glorious mathematics, quoa erat demonstrandum. Do you tell me that God does not caro for matkematicsl Then you have never seen the Giant's Causeway where God shows His regard for tho hexagonal in whole ranges of roekj- columns with six sides and six angles. Then you have not studied the geometry of a bee's honeycomb with syc sides and six angles. Then you have not noticed what regard God haj for the square; the altar of tho ancient tabernacle four square, the breastplate four square, the court of the temple in Ezekiel's vision four square, the New Jerusalem laid out four square. Or you have not noticed his regard for the circle by making it his throng, " sitting on the circle of the earth," and fashioning sun and moon and stars in a circle and sending our planetary system arounu otner systems 111 a circie ana the whole universe sweeping around the throne of God in a circle. And as to His regard for mathematical numbers. He makes the fourth book in Hi* Bible the Book of Numbers, and numbers the hosts of Israel, and numbers the troops of Sennacherib, and numbers Solomon's liewers in tho forest, and numbers the spea'rsihen,and numbers the footmen, and numbers the converts at Pentecost, and numbers the chariots of God rolling down the steps of heaven. So I have a right to onlist mathematics for the demonstration of the easy possibility of bringing the whole world to God in the coming decade by simple process of solicitation, each one only having to bring one a year ; although I want to take in forty thousand and I know men now alive who, I think, by pen or voice, or both, directly or indirectly, will take hundreds of thousands each. So you see that that will discharge some of the 2,754,375 from the necessity of taking any. Another reason why I know it can be done is that we may divide the work up among the denominations. God does not ask any ono denomination to do the work or any dozen denominations. Tho work can be divided and is being divided up, not geographically, but according to the temperaments of the limnnti familv. We cannot sav toonedenomi uation, You take Persia, amf another," You take China, and another. You take Iudia, because there are all styles of temperaments in all nations. And some denominations arc especially adapted to work with people of sanguine temjieramont or plegmatic temperament or choleric temperament or bilious temperament or nervous temperament or lymphatic tomporament. The Episcopal Church will do its most effective work with those who by taste prefer the stately and ritualistic. The Methodist church will do its best work among tho emotional and demonstrative. The Presbyteriau church will do its best work among those who like strong doctrine and the statelv service softened by the emotional. So each denomination will"have certain kinds of people whom it will especially affect. So let the work be dividod up. There are the seven hundred and fifty thousand Christians of tho Presbyterian Church, North, and other hundreds of thousands in the Presbyterian Church, South, and all foreign Presbyterians, more ev ricially Scotch, English and Irish, making, guess, about two million Presbyterians; the Methodist Church is still larger; the Church of Hngland on both sides the sea still larger: and many other denominations as much, if not more, consecrated than any I have men " '. ,%?. -1.;- *; . ;;^fe ; ' - ; ;* . \V *- '" " * ' -" > " tioned. Divide up' fee world's evangelization among these denominations after they are persuaded it can be done before the Nineteenth century is dead, and the last Hottentot, the last Turk, the last Japanese, the last American, the last European, the last Asiatic, the last African will see the salvation of God before he sees the opening gate of the Twentieth century. Again, I feel the whole world can be saved in the time specified, because we have all maimer of machinery requisite. It is not as though we had to build the printing presses; they are all built and running day ana night, those printing religious papers (925 of those religious papers In this country), those printing religious tracts and those nrintnna rplimnna hnnlra A r?H tJhmi sands of printing presses now in the service of the devil could be brought and set to work in the service of God, Why was the printing press invented ? To turn out billheads and circulars of patent medicines and tell the news which in three weeks will be of no importance ? From the old-time Franklin printing press on up to the Lord Stanhope's press and the Washington press and the Victory press to Hoe's perfecting printing press that machine has been improving for its best work and its final work, namoly, the publication of the glad tidings of great joy which shall be to all people. "Vve have the presses, or can have them before the first of January when the new decade i? to begin, to pat a Bible in the hand of every son and daughter of Adam and Eve now living, and if such person cannot read we can have a colporteur, an evangelist or missionary to read it to him or her. But this bring?me to theadjoiningthought; namely, we have the money to do the work. I mean the fifty million of Christians have it. Aye, the two million seven hundred and fiftyfour thousand Christians have it; and the dam which i3 beginning to leak will soon break and there will be rushing floods of hundred and mill-ions and billions of dollars in holy contribution when you persuade the wealthy men of the kingdom of God that the speedy conversion of the world is a possibility and that Isaiah and Ezekiel and Daniel and St. John will not stand in the way of it but help it on. I have no sympathy with this bombardment of rich men. we would each one be worth five million dollars if we could, and by hard persuasion might perhaps be induced to take fifteen million. Almost every paper I take up tells of some wealthy man who has endowed a college or built a church or a hospital or a free library, and that thing is going to multiply until the treasury ot all our denominations and reformatory .organizations will be overwhelmed with munificence if we can persuade our men of wealth that the world's evangelization is possible and that they may live to sea it with their own eyes. I have always cherished the idea that when the world is converted we would be allowed to come out on the battlements of heaven and see the bannered procession and the bonfires of victory. But I would like to see the procession cloFor by and just be- permitted myself to throw on a fagot for a bigger bonfires. And if you persuade our men of wealth that there is a possibility for them to join on earth in the universal gle& of a redeemed planet, instead of laborious beseeching for funds and arguing and flattering in order to get a contribution for Christian objects our maa of wealth will stand in line as, at a postnffi.ee window or a railroad ticket office, but in this case waiting for their turn to make charitable deposit. The Gentiles are not long going to allow themselves to be eclipsed by Mr. Hirseh, the Jew, who has just given forty million dollars for schools in France, Germany and Russia. I rejoice that so much of tht> wealth of the world is coming into the possession of Christian men and women. And although the original church was very poor, and its members were fish dealers on the backs of Galilee, and had only such stock on hand as they could take in their own net, to-day in the bauds of Christian men and women there is enough money to print Bibles and build churches and support missionaries under God in ten years to cnxro fVio wnrlH Again, I think that the world's evangelization can be achieved in the time specified because we have already the theological institutions necessary for this work. Wo do not have to build them; they are built and they are filled with tens of thousands of young men and there will bo three sets of students who will graduate into the ministry before the close of this century, and once have them understand that instead of preaching thirty or forty years and taking into the king, dom of God a few hundred souls, right before them is the Sedan, is the Armageddon, and these young men, instead of entering tho ministry timid aud with apologetic air, will feel like David who came up just as the armies wero set in array and he left his carriage and shouted for the battle and cried: "Who is this uncircuincised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?" and with five gravel stones skillfully flung sent sprawling the bragging ten footer, his mouth into the dust and his heels into the air. My friends, what but such a consummation could bo a fit climax to this century? You notice a tendency iu history and all about us to a climax. The creation week rising from herbs to fish and from fish to bird ana from to bird to quadruped and from quadruped to immortal man. The NewTestament rising from quiet genealogical table in Matthew to apocalyptic doxology in Revelation. Now, what can be an aDDronriate climax to this century, which has heard the.puff of the first steamer and the throb of the first stethoscope and the click of the first telegraph and the clatter of the first sewing machine, and saw the flash of the first electric light and the revolution of the first steam plow, and the law of storms was written, and the American Bible society and American Tract society were born; and instead of an audience laughing down Dr. Carey for advocating foreign missions, as was done at Northampton in England in the last century, now all denominations vying with each other as to who shall go the furtherest and the soonest into the darkest of the New Hebrides; and three hundred thousand souls have been born to God in the South Sea Islands, and Micronesia and Melanesia and Malayan Polynesia have been set in the crown of Christ, and David Livingstone has unveiled Africa and the last bolted gate of barbaric nations has swung wide open to let the Gospel in. What, I ask, with a thousand interrogation points uplifted, can be a fit, an appropriate and sufficient climax except it be a world redeemed? Yes, I believe it can be done if we get prepared for it, because the whole air and the whole heaven is full of willing help. "Are they not ali ministering spin's sent forth?" We make an awful mistake if we calculate only on the forces we can see. The mightiest army is in the air. My brethern, so much of selfishness and pride and rivalry and bad motives of all kinds get into our work hero that we are hindered. But tha misrhtv souls that have cone up to the flying armies of the sky have left all imperfection behind; and theso souls are with us and without a fault and with perfect natures are on our side. You capnot make me believe thgt after tiling here for long years* for the redemption of the world until from exhaustion some of them fell into their graves they have ceased their interest in the stupendous conflict now racing, or that they are going to decline their help. Irenaais Prime! Honored on earth, but now glorified in heaven, have you forgotten the work toward which you gave for more than half a century your gracious life, your loving voice and your matchless pen? No! Then come down and help. Alexander Dull! Have you forgotten the millions of India for whose salvation you suffered in Hindoo jungle and thundered on missionary platform!-' So! Then come down and help. David Brainard! Have you forgotten the aborigines to whom you preached and for whom you prayed until you could preach and pray no more, lying down delirious amid the miasmas of the swamp? No! Then come down and help. Moncrieff and Freeman and Campbell! Xiave you nuviuiun U11U >_ 11.. i?pore? No I Then come down aud help. I rub out of my eyes the stupidity and unbelief, and I, the servant of these great Elishas in the Gospel, see the mountains all round about are full of horses of fire and chariots of fire; and they heatf this way. Hovered over are we by great clouds of witnesses and helpers! Clouds of apostles in the air led on by Paul! Clouds of martyrs in the air led on by Stephen! Clouds of prophets in the air led on by Isaiah! Clouds of patriarchs in the air led on by Abraham! Clouds of ancient warriors in the air led on by Joshua,and that Bible warrior at whoee prayers astronomy once halted over Ajalon and Gibeon seems now to lift onehand toward the descending sun of this century, and the other hand toward the moon of the last dacade, saving: " Stand thou still till the church of God gets the final victory!" Then let us take what remains of this decade to get ready for tho final decade of the Niheteenth century. You and I may not live to see that decade or may not live to see its close, but that shall not hinder me from declartng the magnificent possibility. I confess that the mistake of my life has been, not that I did not work hard?for t could not h8v? ?rked harder and 11 wd, as God knows and family know?but that tTiave not worked under the realization that tfee salvation of this world- was a nearby possibility. But whether we see it, the beginning or tae closing of that decade, ia of no importance, if only that decade can get the coronation, and then all decades shall kneel before th<w enthroned decade, and even the gray grown centuries will cast their crowns Defore it and it will be the most honored decade between the time when the morning stars sang together as the libretto of worlds was opened and the time when the mighty angel, robed in cloud and garlanded in rainbow, shall, with one foot on the sea and the other on the land, swear by Him that liveth forever and ever, that time shall be no longer. Alleluia! Amen! RELIGIOUS READING. THE BORDER-LAND. (Written ror ageu samts./ Ycu are nearins: the heavenly portals, As the weary days go by, Nearing the City of Refuge, bearing the home on high. Neaxing the many mansions Which the Saviour has prepared For Che dear ones he has ransomed, Who his l.fd on earth have shared. Cling close to the blossed Jesus, As the mortal weaker grows, He wil boar yoa safely over, Where the living water flows. There no night shall cast its shadow, There no tear shall dim the eye; There you'll rst, secure forever, With the Saviour always nigh. Is the journey long, my sister? Are you weary with the strife? Does your patience almost falter? Are you weary with this life? You shall praise the Lord more loudly, You shall shout the glad refrain With a clear, sweeter ruu^ic, In return for every pain. He doth sit as a refiner. You have read of it oft, I know, He shali find the true, pure metal, Though the process may seem slow. May your faith and love grow stronger, And your hope and ancnor prove, Holding fast, and never wavering, Which 110 power shall ever move. And when the message cometh, Bo it morn, or noon, or nicrht. May you ready be ami waiting,' And like victor claim your light. It shall be a crown of glory. It shall be a new name, too, It shall be a home with Jesus, It is pledged for such as you. When you roach the blessed mansion, Wh n you grasp the Saviour's hand, You'll forget the weary earth-life While you rest in Beulah land. TP, Am> BE DOING. "Up, and be doing," is tha word that comes from God to each of us. Leave some good work behind you that shall not be wholly lost when you have passed away. Do something worth living for, worth dying for; do something to show that you have a mind and a heart, and a soul within you. Is there no want, no suffering, no sorrow, that you can relieve? Is there no act of tardy justice, no deed of cheerful kindness, no long-forgotten duty that you can perform? Is there no "reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long outstanding debt, no courtesy, or love, or honor to those to whom it has long been due? If there be any such, I beseech you, in God's name, go and do itDean Stanley. SUNDAY TRAVELING. After John Adams had returned to his Mass .chus'tts home, from his presidential omce, lie ivas iraveung vy lurrcuge wnuu his homo, when Saturday evening overtook him, some ten miles awav. He tarried with tho clergyman of the village, who, in the morning, assured him that he would be justified, if he desired, to diive to his home, as his family were in sickne-s. But Adams insisted that ho would not be justified, as his example would be bad, and his explanation could not be given to the general public, and so he tarried for rest and worship until Monday morning, when he resumed his journey. Half this Christian world would, we fear, laugh at this act as one of superstition in the honorable expresident, but we see in it everything to admire. Indeed it was one of the noblest acts that can stand to the cre.iit of that honored name. Sunday traveling has become the custom of the age, even with Christian men. As a matter of pleasure, it certainly should be discouraged, and we are glad to know 1 hat the Anti-traveling Union of America, after a life of four years, has 0,000 members. We would like to see the union grow into 00,000 within the four years to come.?Herald of Go$i>el Liberty. HUMAN JCEGMEN'TS. Jesus never mentioned any of earth's jrreat men (so-called) with words of prais*. There had been great conquerors before his time, like Alexander the Great, but h? never alluded to them. There had been philosophers, like Plato and Aristotle and Socrates, but he never spoke of tlifcm. Rich men had received tue notice OI tueir ll-juuw mui. i.ui UK m-Yd mentioned them by name. None of tho-e of whom human history speaks most largely came in for a word of commendation from him or his apostles in later years. This should bid us pause, and make us stop to think whether our 1 uman judgment; are not totully faulty. Have we not put the seal of greatness wliere it does not belong? In what respect is the world better d day for the existence of the rich man like Crocus, of conquerors like Alexander, of philosophers like Plato, of authors like Cicero? What really valuable thing should wj lose had such men never existed? Gather all the conquerors of the w, rid together, aud say whether they have been as useful to the worl 1 as one Johu Bunyan or one Ji hn Wesley. Put all your philosophical books together, and declare whether they have accomplished as much for humanity as the epistle of Paul to the Galatians. Match Bismarck and Luther, and judge whether politician or p: eaclier has the best of it in the long 1 un. On the other hand, if you blot out Abraham Joseph, Moses. David the singer, Elijah, Isaiah, John the Baptist, Paul, from human iii-tory, you usner m blackness of darkness.?.1. F. Schauffler. PRAYER. "Of what avail are our prayers?'' howmany seriously ask who for a season prav, earn' stlv and sincerelv, it nny be, for some specific object, and with no apparent success. The fault is with themsehes. somehow or somewhre; for that Word which is true and faithful has declared that no prayer is offered in vain that conies from a devi.ut and earnest soul. An excellent living writer, Rev. Austin Phelp-, has thus spoken of nraver: "Prayer, has, and God has determined that it should have a positive ami an appreciable influence in directing the co-rse of a human life. It is, und God has purposed that it should be. a link of connection b.'tween human mind, by which, through his infinite condescension, we may ac ually move His will. It is, and God h is decreed that it should be, a power in the univer-e. as distinct. as real, as natural, and as uniform, as the power of gravitation, or of light, <>r of electricity. A man may use it. a* trustingly and as soberly as he would use either of them. It Ls truly the (lie'ste of g- od *cns\ that a man should exp ct to achieve som.'t ing bv praying, as it is that he should expect to achieve something by a telescope, or the mariner's compass, or ;In-electri telegraph." With such a view of prayer, what devout | jierson can In1 discouraged, when he ap- | proacnes me uirone <u vt..., 11v will hear awl answer prayer ami it must b<j unbelief, lack of faith, or the regard ins iniquity in the hearf, that prevents tho blo-sing. "It in Mr. IVckersteth. a devoted English clergyman, who died in 1SV), who says: "Every prayer of the Christian, ma te in faith, according the will of God, for that which God has promised, offered up in the name of Jesus Christ, and under tho influence of his spirit, whether for temporal or spiritual bles-ings, is, or will be, fully answered." Dr. Parson and other eminent divines express themselves in similar language. \V ho doubts that God hears and answers fervent, persistent prayer must have no faith in His word, cr in the sentiments advanced by Luther, the fathers and the church, and all gotxl men in every age of the world.?Hartford bcl. Herald. ??? ?%. TEMPERANCE. ^ THE PUBLICAN'S NET. ^ ' The publican stood by the tap-room door," ' Smoking his pipe of clay, ? With his apron wmie, ana ms 5ninrsieev??i tight, Tucked up to be out of the way; With a smile on his face and a courteous gyace He invited his customers in, To partake of his cheer, which consisted o& beer. Rum, whisky, brandy and gin. | A workman passed by with his tools on his* back, Who was kindly invited to stay i And taste the fine ale, both bitter and pale, As 'twould help him along on his way. , Then another bland smile, all tinselTd with. guile. Beamed forth on the publican's face; Said the workman: "I'll stop and just take a- , drop, Then run home at a double quick pace." *'i He entered; the gaslights were brilliant and' bright; The bowl, song and jest passed around; The place had a charm?'twas social and warm, While outside the snow lay on the ground. More drink was required?'twas brought as< desired, Till his senses and money was low; But when he had spent his very last cent, Was polit?4y requested to go. But alas! this was more than the workman' could do. He muttered, but sat m tne cnair: : Then the landlord was fetched who immediately stretched Out his hand, and seized the man by thei hair, Pull'd him off from his seat, placed him then, on his feet, While in vain he spluttered and swore; He was hauled down the stair, thrust into the air, And kicked from the publican's door. And this was "the thing" that a short time before Stood firm and erect as "a man," Who meant only to take, for fellowship sake^, A drop from the publican's canNow lying insane in the pelting rain, In the cold of a winters night. While the publican chaiTd, and his waiters laughed, In high glee at their victim's plight. Like the web of a spider,the "Publican's Net" Is open to catch whom it may; If you never go near, you'll have no cause fnr fpur But always keep clanger at bay. If temptation be strcrag, if your journey be long. Or if evil companions besot, If your courage should fail, then think on this tale? - Beware of the "Publican's Net." ; PROHIBITION FOR AFRICA. *rl Germany is reported to be about to propose an alliance with England and France for the suppression of the African rum .traffic. The curse of intemperance is rapidly spreading in; Africa, and if nothing is aono to check its Srowtli it will soon reduce the natives td epths of depredation hitherto unknown to them. The drink habit is fastening itself upon them faster than the Gospel can reclaim' tnerh. Missionaries with one voice declare, the spread of this evil to be the one great' obstacle in tlio way of the conversion of the natives of Africa to Christianity, and that it even threatens the regions already partially evangelized. Who is responsible for this state of things? The Christian nations. TJwi same nations from which missionaries have gone out to carry to the heathen in Africa the knowledge of salvation through Jesus Christ arc sending a river of damnation to the Dark Continent. America will be doubly guilty if she takes no action in this matter, for not only is she a participant in the Africa traffic, but she bears the stigma of liaving recently refused to enter into such an alliance as Germany now proposes, for the abolition of the rum traffic on the Congo. In a recent protest against the rum traffic, Kliama, an African cni'if, said: "I dread the white man's drink more than all the assegais of my enemies1" Surely the governments of civilized nations should hold themselves responsible for the protection of barbarous races from injury through the avarice of their citizens.?New York Witness. MAMMOTH PETITIONS. During the last session of Congress petfr tious for proposal of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prohibit "the manufacture, importation, exportation, transportation and sale of all alcoholic liquors as a beverage" were presented, aggregating forty-soven thousand individual signatures and more than ball a million representative signatures, the latt tr mainly of cnurches and temperance societies. The individual signa- . tures and part of the others were collected by the Department of L egislation and Petitions of tho W. C. T. U., which is making a specialty of this amendment work. Just before adjournment the Senate refused to consider the joiut resolution for proposal by a vote of tnircy-nnree to imrteeii. mtj[;nj|juamuu u?? been pending in Congress for fourteen years and was favorably reported by committees in the last two Congresses. Speaking of such* petitions presented during prior sessions* tha Senate Committee in its report of July 9; ISSd, says as follows: "Judging from tha petitions which have been presented to Congress during the last few years, many of which are representative of great bodies and communities whose individual signatures have not been obtained, it can hardly bo doubted that at least ton millions of tho Americaii people are desirous of national legislation for the destruction of poisonous, that is to say, of alcoholic drinks." . - ? A CYCLONE OF PROHIBITION. V "A cyclone of prohibition," says the Ne^r York World, has burst upon Kansas City, Kan., to its sudden and thorough cleansing. At the last election Joseph Fife was chosen County Prosecutor with the understanding that fie would suppress the notorious (lives defying the law. His vigorous action at once resulted in sending a dozen liquor dealers to prison for long terms, besides imposing on cach a tine of $100 for every glass of strong drink of the sale of which he had been convicted. One man was tried for selling twenty? three glasses of beer ana was found guilty on every count. He was accordingly sentenced to ]>ay ?2300 and to spend 090 days in jail. Thirty-five others were in prison a few days ago awaiting trial. Prosecutor Fife's unusual music receives hearty encores from the citizens and a grand clearing out of tho ie TMvmhrwaifvd . * jviiiia -f.'r Yen YEAilS OF LIKE LOST. The results of some investigations made in England with reference to the effects of tbo use of alcohol upon human life have just been made public. The observations made included over 1000 cases in all walks of life, aiid the report showed conclusively that with men over twenty-five years of age the immoderate use of alcoholic drink cut off at least ten years of their lives. That is, the abstainer will live at least ten years longer than the drinker. The report also showed that those who indulged m excesses were liable to diseases of the liver and kidneys, and that pneumonia, pleurisy and epilepsy were also ills to which drinkers; were unusually susceptible. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Melbourne, Australia, is to have a temperance hospital. * "r" s1as>i?W1 iV?fit .TnmmVrA .-v. u utijjc ? ? ginger is intoxicating. Of 268 arrests in Dane County, "Wis., in 18.S8, 205 were for caucus directly'chargeable to liquor. Tlio Queen of Madagascar has presented Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt with one hundred dollars as an expression of her interest in the temperance cause. A chain of "dry to mis" from Bristol, Tenn., to Roanoke City, Ya., a distance of 15<) miles, has just been completed by a prohibition triumph in Abington, Va. The Illiuois Central Railway Company has given notice that it will no longer ship liquors iuto the interior of Iowa from Dubuque, and that the goods will not be carried in disguise.; John G. Wliittier. in a recent letter, writesr "Hf tlw riivlit niwl Hntv nf I liaVQ never doubted, but we can only have it effectual when the people are made to see and feel its necessity." Doctor R. W. Richardson ha-s published a second lecture on l,Tho Storage of Life; or,. Health and Length of Days." tie says alcohol reduces by one-fourth a standard length of life otherwise easily attainable. The Commissioner General of the United States Exhibit at the World's Exposition, to be held at Paris this year, sqys that no bar or restaurant for the "salo of liquor will be allowed in the United States section. _ , Ilfew bruises. The engine and train went down a distance of ten feet and a terrific wreck followed. The cars, engine and freight were smashed and destroyed in the earth. As soon as the frightened trainmen could recover their wits, they learned that the train was over Marsh's coal mine, und that the mine had caved it. Along the track for a distance of 100 feet the road had sunk from eight to ten feet. Two brakemen, who went down with the wreck, were seriously hurt. * A DEADLY MELEE. Four Men Killed in a Fight Between Guards and Boomers. ' A dispatch from Fort Smith, Ark., says: The rush for Oklahoma is diminishing rapidly. Great destitution is sure to follow, and it is not unlikely that Governmental relief will be invoked to provide for sufferers. Word has been received of a conflict between parties of boomers, cattle men and Chickasaw police at the ford at Chisholm's cattle trad, iortv miles west of Oklahoma City. The cattle men were taking several hundred animals from Frank Colbert's ranch, in the Chickasaw Nation, to Kansas, but the mounted police guarding the southern border of Oklahoma refused to permit them to use the Chis