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II REV. DR. TALMAGK JHE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Object: " Aromatics at Christ's I Tomb." Texts: "Bringing the spices which they ad prepared.-'?Luke xxiv., 1; "The trunlet shall sound,"?I Corinthians sv., 52. Enchanting work have I before me this fester mornini* for. iniitntincr these women Ie text, who brought aromatics to the :>leum of Christ, I am going to unroll incense and balm and attar of roses nnd mon from the East Indies, and odors Arabia, and, when we can inhale no of the perfume, then we will talk veet sounds and hear from the that shall wake the dead. Havon other Easters described the i scene, 1 need only in four or five ices say: Christ was lying flat on His lifeless, amidst sculptured rocks, rocks Him, rocks under llim, and a door of all bounded by the flowers and fountains *ph's country seat. Then a bright hull, having descended from heaven, quick ashing as a falling meteor, picks up the of rock and puts it aside as though it a chair and sits on it. Then Christ un> Himself of His mortuary apparel and the turban from His head and folds deliberately and lays it down in one and then puts the shroud in another and comes out and finds that the soldiers lad been on guard are lying around, and in a dead swocn, their swords bent seless. The illustrious prisoner of the is discharged and five hundred people im at once. An especial congress of iastics called, pay a bribe to the resuscisoldiers to say that there was no resurn and that while they were overcome of er the Christians had played resurrects and stolen the corpse." The Marys the tomb with aromatics. y did not these vromeu of the text thons and nettles, for these would thoroughly have expressed the piercing vs of themselves and their Lord? Why ley not bring- some national ensign, is that of the Roman eagle, typical of est? No, they bring aromatics suge to me of the fact that the Gospel i sweeten and deodorize the world. world has so much of action and lualodor that Christ ? i.. ?? .'i. r r i.:.. i KOing 10 rou over it waves 01 iruuiviuceusc nu sprinkle it nil over with sweet smelling lyrrn. Thousands of years before this Soloton had said that Christ was a lily and saiah had declared that under the Gospel the esert would bloom like the rose, but the orld was slow to take the floral hint. And "tow the women of the text brine hands 11 and arms full of redolence and pernaps unittingly confirm and emphasize the lesson of eodorization. When Clirist's Gospel has onquered the earth the last offense to the lfactorics will have left the world; sweet, ure air will have blown through every home, nd churches will be freed from the curso ol' 1 ventilation and the world will bccome two reat gardens, the empurpled and emblazoned nd emparadised hemispheres. Sin is a buzard, holiness a dove. Sin is nightshade, oliness ista flower. If you are trying > reform the worid open " the indows of that tenement houso and our through It a draught of God's pure atlosphere and set a geranium or a heliotrope e the window sill; cleanse the air and you fill help cleanse the soul. How dare this tjrld so often insult that feature of the nman face which God has made the most rominent feature in human physiognomy? ro prove how He Himself loves aromatics" I ring the fact that there are millions of owers on prairies and in mountain fastesses the fragrance of which no human eing over breathes, and He must have rown them there for His own regalement, nd for the compliment the world paid oy giving mui a bepuicuer in ^P>seph's garden He will yet make the Hrhole earth a garden Yes, He expressed lis delight with fragrance in the first ^Look of the Bible, when He said: "The Hord smefled a sweet savor;'" and He filled Ke air of the ancient tabernacle and temple *th sweet incense; and there are small Hottles of perfume in heaven described Hi Revelation as golden vials full of odors. Hpreach an ambrosial gospel which will yet ^Ktirpate from the world all foulness ami ^fcmcidity and the last uoisomeness and the Hist mephitic gas. Glad ain I that though world had chiefly spikes for the Saviour's Bet and thorns for the Saviour's brow, the Kiagi put frankincense upon His cradle and Hhe Marys brought frankincense for His ^ Notice also that Christ's mausoleum was Hpened by concussion. It was a great earthHuake that puts Its twisted key into the inHolvcd and labyrinthine lock of that tomb. Concussion! That is the power that opens all Hhe tombs that are opened at all. Tomb of Houl and tomb of nations. Concussion between Hlngland and the thirteen colonies, and forth Homes free government in America. CoucusHlon between France and Germany, and forth Homes republicanism for Franco. ConcusKion among the rocks on Mount Sinai, and Hn two of them was left a perfect law for all Hges. Concussion among "the rocks around Hlalvary and the crucifixion was mads the Hnore ovenvhelming. Concussion between Hhe United States and Mexico, and a vast Hrea of country becomes ours. Concussion Between England and France, and most of ^ghis continent .west of the Mississippi becomes Dae property or tue American union, tonHussionoetween iceberg and iceberg, between Bowlder and bow lder, and a thousand concessions put this world into shape for man's Residence. Concussion between David and His enemies, and out came the psalms which H&herwisc woulfl never have beeu written. H-'oncussion between God'-s will and man's Hrill, and, ours overthrown, we are new Hroatures in Christ Jesus. Concussion of misHortune and trial for many of the good, Hnd out comes their especial consecration. H)o not therefore be frightened when you see he great upheavals, the great agitations, the ^rreat earthquakes, whether among the rocks Hr among the ijatjons or liypYicUvd ex^Hnencc. Out of them God will bring best ^Jesuits and most magnificent consequences. Hlear the crash all round the Lord's Sarcophagus and see the glorious re^uimation of its dead inhabitant. Coijcus^Eon! If ever a generrl European war, whica Hie world has been expecting for the last Hwenty years, should come, a concussion so ^vide and a concussion so tremendous would Hot leave a throne in Europe standing as it ^ ow is. The nations of th<> earth arc ^ red of having their Kings born to ^Biem, and they would after a while Hlect their Kings, and there would be an Htaii&n Republic aud a German Republic and Russian Republic and an Austrian nepuoc, and out of the cracks and crevices and basins of that concussion would come resurection for all Europe. Stagnation is dcathul; concussion is Messianic. Notice also what the angel did with the tone after he had rolled it away from the louth of the Saviour's mausoleum. The book lys he rolled away the stone from the door nd sat upon it. All of us ministers have reached a sermon about the angel's rolling way the stone, but we did not remark pon the sublime fact that ho sat upon Why? Certainly not because he as tired. The angels are a faticuesss race, and that one could have shouldered very rock around that tomb and earned it way and not been besweated. He sat upon I think, to show you and to show me that re may make overy earthly obstacle a throne (triumph. The young men who get their lucation easy seldom amount to much, "hose who had to struggle for it come ?? nt/-.n 'Phorr> is no piul of the- storv in studying by pine-knot lights and reading while the mules of the towpatli were i-esting bid of going hungry and patched and barefoot and submitting to all kinds of privation |o get scholastic advantages. But the day of rraduation camo and they took the diplomas with a hand nervous from night [tudy and pale from lack of food, and put their academic degrees p the pocket of a threadbare coat. Then parting for another career of hardship they Entered a profession or a business where they found plenty of disheartnn nt and no help. Set saying: "I will succeed: God help me, tor no one else will," they went on and up until the world was comix-lied to acknowledge and admire them. I The fact was that the obstacle between pheir discouraging start and their complete success was a rock of fifty tons, but by resolution, nerved and musculariml and re-enforced by Almighty C4od, they threw their arms around the obstacle and with the strength of a supernatural wrestler rolled jack the stone, and, having become more han conquerors, they sat upon it. ilen and women are good and STeat and useful just in proportion as thoy had to overcome obstacles. You count npon your fingers of your one hand ul the great singers, great orators, groat poets, great patriots and great Christians who never had a struggle. That angel that made a throne of the bowlder at Christ's tomb went back to heaven, aud I warraut that, having been bora in heaven aiid always had an easy time, he now speaks <>f that wrestle with* the rock as the most interesting chapter in all his angelic lifetime. () men nnrt women with rthstoelns in t.ho wn.v. I tell yon that those obstacles are only thrones that you may after a while sit on. * Is the obstacle in your way sickness? . Conquer it by accomplishing more for God during your invalidism than many accomplish who have never known an ailment. Are you persecuted? By your uprightness and courage compel the world to acknowledge your moral heroism. Is it poverty? Conquer it by being happy in the companionship of the Lord and Master, who in all His life owned but sixty-two ccnts, and that He got from a fish's mouth and immediately paid it all out in taxes to the Roman assessor, and who would have been bnricd in a pottor's field had not Joseph of Arimathea contributed a place, for He who had not where to lay His head during His life had a borrowed pillow for the last slumber. There is no throne that you are sure to keep except that which you make out of vanquished obstacles. An ungrateful Republic at tho ballot box denied Horace Greeloy tho highest place at the National Capital, but could not keep him from rising fjom the steps of a New "York printing office on which ho sat one chilly morning waiting for the boss printer to come that he might get a job, until he mounted the highest throne o? American journalism. He rolled back the stone and sat upon it. A poor orphan boy, picking up chips at Richmond, Va., accosted by a passing sea Captain and invited to wme on board his vesseLdrons the chips and starts right away and is tossed from port to port and, homeless and friendless, wanders one day along Tremont street, Boston, and sees Park Street Church open and, speaking of it afterward on a great occasion and using sailors' vernacular, as was usual with him, he says: "I put in, I up helm, unfurled sail and made for the gallery and scud under bare poles to the corner pew. Then I hove to and came to anchor. "The old man, Dr. Griffin, was just naming his text. Pretty soon he unfurled the mainsail, raised the topsail, ran up the pennants to free breeze and I tell you the old gospel ship never sailed more prosperously, lhe salt spray flew in every direction, but more especially did it run down my cheeks. Satan had to strike sail, his "guns were dismounted or spiked, his various crafts by which he led sinners captive were all beached and the captain of the Lords's hosts rode forth, conquering and to conquer." Before that sailor boy was poverty, but he conquered it; and orphanage, but he "conquered it; and ignorance, but lie conquered it; and the scoff of the world, but lie conquered it; and he rose till every sailors' betliel in the world blessed him and great anniversary platforms invited liim, and Daniel Webster and Charles Dickens and ! Frederika Bremer, and jwets, and orators, and senators sat electrified at his feet, and his gospelizing influence will go 011 until the last jack tar is converted and the sea shall give up its dead. All the obstacles of his life seemed gathered into one great bowlder, but .t,uwaru 1. i;iyjur, uie nunu-reuumitu suuors' preacher, rolled back the stone and sat upon it. Yet do not make the mistake that many do of sitting on it before it is rolled away. It is bound to go if you only tug away at it. If not before, then I think about 12 o'clock noon of resurrection day you will see something worth seeing. The * general impression is that the resurrection will take place in the morning. The ascent to the skies will hardly occur immediately. It will take some hours to form the procession skyward and we will all want to take a look at this world before we leave it forever and soe the surroundings of the couch where our bodies have long been sleeping. On that Easter morning the marble, whether it lay flat upon your grave or stood up in monument, will have to be jostled and shaken and rolled aside by the angel of resurrection, and while waiting for your kindred to gather and the procession to i'orm your resurrected body may sit in holv triumph upon that chiseled stone which marked the place of your protracted slumber. On that day what a fragile thing will bo Aberdeen granite and column of basalt auU the mortar which mil rauie out of the wall of vaults that have been sealed a thousand years, and the Taj, built for a queen in India, a sepulcher two hundred and seventy-five feet high, and made of jasper and cornelian and turquois and lapis-lazuli and amethyst and onyx and sapphire and diamond, and which shall that clay rain into glittering dust ou groves of banyan and bamboo and palm. And all under what power? Ponderous cowbars wielded by giants? No. Thunderbolt cleaviug asunder the granite? No. Battering ram swung against the wails of cemeteries? No. Dynamite drilled under the foundations of cenotaph aud abbey? No. It will be done by music. Nothing but music, sweet but all penetrating music. The trumpet shall soimd! You say that is figurative; how do you know? 1'ut, whether literal or figurative, it means music anyhow. The trumpet, that stirring, incisive, might)' instrument, with a natural compass from G below the staff to E above, blown above Sinai when the law was given, blown around Jericho when the walls tumbled, blown when Gideon discomfited the Midianiles, blown when the ancient Israelites were gathered for worship, to bo blown for the raising of the dead in the last great Easter. The mother, who. when the child must bo awakened, kisses its eyes awake, does well. But the trumpet, which when the dead are to be aroused kisses the ear awake, does better. Be not surprised if the dead are to be awakened by music. Why, that is thu way now we raise the dead. Take the statistics, if you can, of the millions of souls that have l>eon raised from the death of sin by hymns, by psalms, by solos, by anthems, by flutes, by violins, by organs, by trumpets. Under God what hosts have been resurrected by Ira D. Sankey, by Thomas Hastings, by William D. Bradbury, by Lowell Mason, by motherly lullabies," by church doxologies, by oratorios. If we raise the dead now by music, be not surprised that on the last day the dead are to be raised by music. The truiiipet shall soimd! And that instrument shall have plenty of work to do on the day mentioned. It will have to sound through all the pyramids, which are only names for sepulchers, and liberate the buried kings. And through hypogcan graves which were built y* moupds ami thQ. bypogesn graves which were dug iu rack's, and through the nine hundred winding miles of catacombs under and around the Roman Campagna, where over seven million human beings sleep. And through all the crystal sarcophagi of Atlantic nnil Pacific and Mediteraneau and Cas pian nnd Black Sea deeps. And over all the battle fields of continents, until all the fallen troops of the English and French and Italian and German and Russian and Persian and American and the world's battle fields answer the call. Marathon, come up! Agincourt, come up! Blenheim, come up! Acre, come up! Hohenlinden, come up! Sedan, come up! Gettysburg, come up! Near Sharpsburg during our Civil War, when I was with some others under the auspices of the Christian commission, looking after the wounded. Federal and Confederate, one moonlight night I was where. I could look down upon the tents of the sleeping army. Oh, wnat an imposing spectacle! iiut my subject calls us to look down upon a mightier host of soldiers slumbering their last sleep in the bivouac of the dust: the seven hundred and fifty thousand slain in the Crimean war, the eight hundred thouvrmfl in in our American war. the fifteen million slain in the wars of Sesostris, the twenty-five million slain in Jewish wars, the thirty-two million slain in wars of Ghengis Khan, the eighty million slain in the wars of the Crusaders, the one hundred and eighty million slain in the Roman wars. Aye, according to Dr. Dick, the dead in war, if each one occupied four feet of ^Tound, would make enough graves to rcach tour hundred and forty-two limes around the earth. The most of people are dead. The world is a house of two rooms, a basement, and a room above ground. The basement has two to one, three to one, four to 0110 more occupants than the superstructure. Sickness and war and death have been stacking their harvests for nearly six thousand years. Where arc those who saw the Pilgrim Fathers embark, or the Declaration of Independence signed, or Franklin lasso the lightning, or Warren Hastings tried, or Queen Elizabeth in her triumphal march to Kenihvorth, or William, Prince of Orange, 1-Hid, or Gustavus Adolphus crowned, or Jc- j rome, of Prague, burned at the stake, or Tatnerland found his empire? Gone! Gone! But the trumpet shall sound. Music to raise the dead. Oh, how much the world needs it. You take a torch and I will take a torch aud we will go through some of the aisles of the Roman catacombs and see the expectant epitaphs on the walls aud right over where the departed sleep. You know that these catacombs are fifty or sixty feet underground, and if one loses the guide or his torch is extinguished, he never finds the way out. So let us stay close together and with our torches, as we wander along a small part of these 000 miles of underground passages, see the inscriptions as they were really chiseled there on both sides the way. On your side you read by the light of your torch: "Here rests a handmaid of God who out of all her riches now possesses but this one house. Thou wilt remain in eternal repose of happiness. A. D. 3S0." On my side I read by the light of the torch: "Aurelia, our sweetest daughter; she lived fifteen years and four months, A. D. 325." On your side you read: "Here hath been laid a sweet spirit, guileless, wise and beautiful. Buried in peace. A. D. 368." On my side I read: "You well deserving one, lie in peace. You will rise. A temporary rest is granted you. Planous, her husband, made this." On your side you read: "Nicephorus, a sweet soul, in the place of refreshment." On my side I read: "In Christ, Alexander is not dead. but Jives beyond the stars, and his dead body rests in this tomb." On your side you read: "Here, happy, you lind rest bowed down with years." "Irene sleeps in God." "Valeria sleeps in peace." "Arethusa sleeps in God." "Navira i? peace, a sweet soul who iived sixteen yeors, a soul sweet as honey; this epitaph was made by her parents." But let ixs come out from these catacombs and extinguish our torches, for upon all these longings and expectations of all nations the morning of resurrection dawns. The trumpet shall sound! And the sooner 1 it sounds the better. Oh, how we would i like to get our loved ones back again! If we arc ready to meet our Lord, our sins all pardoned, what a good thing if this t moment we could hear the resounding i and reverberating blast! Would you not like i to see your father again, your mother again, i your daughter again, your boy again and all < your departed kindred again? Roll on sweet | day of resurrection and reunion. Under Jthe hoofs of the white steeds that draw thy chariot we strew Easter flowers. "Would it not be grand if we could all rise to | gether? You know that the Bible says i Ave shall not all sleep, but we shall | all bo changed. "What if we shoidd be among the favored ones who never have to see death, < and that while in the full life of cur body we < should hear that trumpet sound and these i mortal bodies take on immortality. Oh, how i I would hasten to two places before the close J of such a day?peaceful Greenwood 1 aiul the village cemetery back of S0111- ] erville. And I would cry aloud: "The j hour has come, the trumpet has sounded, < the resurrection is here. Father and mother, you were the best of all the group, now lead the way!'' The earth silks out of sight. Clouds under foot. Other'worlds only milestones on the King's highway. We rise! We rise! We rise! to be forever with the Lord and forever with each other. May we all have part in that first resurrection. In this dark worM of sin and pain ? We only meet to part again; l)ut when we reach the heavenly shore We there shall meet to part no more. The hope that we shall see that day Should phase our present orrlrfs away. TEMPERANCE. LOOK NOT T7P0N TOE WINE. Look not upon the wine when it Is red within the cup! Stay not for pleasure when she fills Her tempting beaker up . Though clear its depths and rich its glow, A spell of madness lurks below. J car 'ficr?1n?cnnf. rm flu* lin 1 And merry on the brain; ! They say it stirs the sluggish blood And dulls the tooth of pain. Ayej but within its glowing deeps I ' A stinging serpent, unseen, sleeps. Its rosy lights will turn to fi.ro, < Its coolness change to thirst; I And by its mirth, within the brain 1 A sleepless worm is nursed. I There's not a bubble at the brim That does not carry food for him. < ( Then dash the brimming cup aside, And spill its purple wine; i Take not its madness to thy lip, Let not its curse be thine. ] 'Tis red and rich, but grief and woe j Are hid those rosy depths below. , ?N. F. TVillis. , 1 RESULTS OF PROHIBITION* I.N* KANSAS. 1 Governor Martin, of Kansas, in his last 1 message to the Legislature, says: ''Fully ninetenths of the drinking and drunkenness prev- 1 nlent in Kansas eight years ago have oeen 1 abolished, and I affirm with earnestness and emphasis that this State is to-day the most f temperate, orderly, sober community of peo pie in the civilized world. The abolition of J the saloons has not only promoted the per- ] sonaJ happiness and general prosperity of our ] citizens, but it has enormously diminished crime, filled thousands of homes, where vice and -want and wretchedness once prevailed, with peace, plenty and contentment, and has materially increased the trade and business of those engaged in the sale of Useful and wholesome articles of merchandise. Notwithstanding the fact that the population of the State is steadily increasing, the number of criminals confined in our penitentiary is steadily decreasing. Many of our jails arc empty, and all show a marked falling off in the number of prisoners confined. The dockets or our courts-arc no longer burdened with long lists of criminal cases. In the capital district, containing a population of nearly 00,000, not a single criminal case was on the docket when the present term began. The business of the police courts of our larger cities has dwindled to one-fourth of its former proportions, while in cities of the second and third class the occupation of police authorities is practically gone." SAVE THE BOTS. The walls of a saloon are generally lined with pictures of Yankee Sullivan" Tom Hyer, John Morrissev, John L. Sullivan, T?l-n Kilvnin mid nthpr rmfilistic lioinhlfts and as often decorated with pictures that no boy would be willing to point out to his sister. Almost all the riots that this country has been cursed with have been bred and nursed in the saloons. A barroom is no place for boys. It is the most frequented gate way to the lane that leads to hell. The good people of America ought to arise, as ?ne mapj and try to save the boys from this Dliehting curse. The worst boy that treads this soil is too good to be allowed to fall into any of these trapdoors to the pit. Save him, if possible, for his own sake; for his mother's sake; for the sake of his country; and, if not for these reasons, for his Redeemer's sake, so that his bloocl-bought soul may live hereafter with Him who redeemed it. Save the boys! Let all the voting population of America rcspoud "Amen.?The Voice. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. More than 200 young women at Lynn,! Mass., are loyal white ribboners. A great headlight for the prohibition train?the Light of Ages on Intoxication. Mrs. Emily Pitt Stevens, State lecturer of California, lias undertaken tlio task of raising $10,000 for the general work and the expenses of the next Isational Convention of the W. C. T. U. The white ribbon badge is no respecter of race or color. A branch W. C. T. U., composed entirely of Mexican women, has been organized at Socono, New Mexico. This is supposed to be the first organization of the kind ever formed among this people. Miss Kate Field advocates the use of Cali* \fn PNarlns A Wnfmnrn who was formerly at the head of the Viticultural Commission of California, and is therefore eminently qualified to judge, states his opinion that not more than one gallon of wiuo or whisky out of a hundred in Sacramento or any other city is pure, and that retailers keep the poorest wines made, "which are the vilest decoctions imaginable." The report of the New York Committee of Minors makes this appalling statement: "Careful investigation shows that at least 150,000 children, many of tonderest years, are in the habit of daily visiting the saloons of the city. It is a fact well known to yoiu* committee that fn a largo number of drinking-places bartenders are in the habit of giving the little ones candies and pencils as inducements to patronize then' places." Ought not the following calculations mnko us ashamed of ourselves? With tho money spent on drink in Great Britaiu there could bo maintained 000,000 missionaries at ?250 a year, 500,000 schoolmasters at ?100, 5000 churches at ?2000, 5000 schools at ?800. It would give to tho world 200,000,000 shilling Bibles, 500,000,000 tracts at four shillings a hundred, would givo 100,000 widows ?20 a year, and 200,000 poor families ?10 a year, which do we value most?our glasses or our Bibl6o??Belfast Witness. \ ..>-. (& '<.?r ' ': > '. ': s T / RELIGIOUS READING. GOOD FOR EVIL. When on a fragrant sandal tree The woodman's axo descend--, And she who bloomed so beauteouTy Beneath the weapon bends, E en on the edge that wrought her death, Dying she breathes her sweetest breath, As if to token in her fall, Peace to her foes and lovo to alL How hardly man this lesson learns: To smile and bless the hand that spurns, To see the blow, to feel the pain, And render only love again! One had it, but He came from Heaven, Reviled, rejected an:l betrayed, . No curse He breathed, no plaint he made, But when in death's dark pang He sighed, Prayed for His murderers, and died. It is said that Mr. Spurgeon is in the habft of testing the abilities of the more promising of the students of his col 'ege by obliging them to go up into the pulpit with a sealed envelope in their hands containing the text of their address. On one of th > occasions a RtiiHont rvi rrmninn' thn nnnpr frmnrl this sub ject set: "Apply the story cf Zacchoeus to your own personal qualifications and call." And he delivered himself in the following way: "My brethren, the subj ct on which- I have to address you today is a comparison between Zacchasus and my own qualifications. Well, the first thing that we read about Zacchoeus was that he was small of stature, and I never felt so small as I do now. In the second place we read that he climbed up into a tree, which is ver}* much my position now. Thirdly, wo read that Zaechoem 'made hasta to come iown,' in which I joyfully follow his example." WHAT MUST I DO TO BE LOST? What must I do to be lost? "Neglect so jreat salvation." It is not necessary to do mything. We are lost already. Jesus offers to save us; but if we reject His offer tre remain as we were. "How shall we es3ape if we neglect so great solvation?'' Escape is impossible if we neglect tin only means of safety. If a deadly serpent bites Fou, and you refuse tho only remedy, you lie. If you are drowning, and will not seize he life-buoy thrown to you, you sink. Negectisruin. Jesus alone can save the soul. Neither is there salvation in any other. 0 sinner, your damnation is sure if you neglect Jesus. If he that despised Moses' law died without mercy, "of how much sorer punishment snail he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the Son of Gcd? Dost thou think God ivill uot execute His threatening^, or that thou canst escape His piercing eye, or that the rocks will cover thee? Vain hopes. There is no escape but to come to Jesus, and simple neglcct is ce-tain perdition. "Bee iuse [ called, but ye refused then shall they :all, but I will not answer; they shall seek :ne, but shall not find me." O sinner, escape this awful threatening! Jesus now stands svith open arms. He entrears you to bo saved. Come with all your sins and sorrows I Dome just as you are! Come at once! He fvill in no wise ca^t out. Come to Jesus. THE nOMELESS SIN'GER. On a cold, dark night, when the wind was blowing hard. Conrad, a worthy citizen of a little town in Germany, sat playing his flute, ivhile Ursula, his wife, was preparing supper. They heard a sweet voice singing outside. Tears filled the good man's eyes, as lie said: "What a fine, sweet voice! What a pity it should be spoiled by being tried in such tfeather!" _ "T fViinb- ic vrvipo nf n rliilrl T^flt lis Dpen the door and see,'' said bis wife, who bad lost a little boy not long before, and tvhose heart was open to take pity on the little wanderer. Conrad opened the door, and saw a ragged :hild, who, said "Charity, good sir, for Christ's sake!" "Come in, my little one," said he; "you shall rest with me for the night." The boy said, "Thank God!" and entered. He was given some supper, and then he told Lhem that he was the son of a poor miner and ivanted to be a priest. He wandered about md sang, and Jived on the money people gave aim. His kind friends would not let him talk much, but sent him to bed. When he tvas asleep, they looked in upon him, and tvere so pleased with his pleasant face that they determined to keep him, if he was ivilling. In the morning they found he was only too ;lad to remain. They sent him to school, and afterwards lie entered a monastery. There he found the Bible, from which he learned the way of life. He became the great preacher and reformer, T T rliM PrtnroH mirl T^I* XUUI till JJUlilCl . JJIUIV uiu W sula tlrnk of what they were doing whin they cared for this "least of these n1y brethron." ANSWERED rRATER. Rev. J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China inland mission, told the following at the recent conference at Northfield: "I have had all sorts of experiences in all sorts of circumstances, and when I have come to God and pleaded His own promises in His own Word, I have never been disnpp inted. I have been in circumstances of great difficulty, and have been led to ask Him for remarkable help. I was nearly wrecked when I was going out to China for the first time. Our vessel was becalmed, and gradually drifting upon the coast of New Guinea. We could see t lie savages on the shore. They had kindled a fire, and were evidently expecting' a good suppu that night. When I was a medical student some of the other students used to jeer at me because I was going among the heathen, and they would talk about 'cold missionary.' Well, it did lcok that night as if somebody was going to have a piece of hot missionary" The captain taid to me, 'We can't do anything else but let down the long boat.' They had tried to run the head of the vessel ar? und from the shore, but in vain. We had been becalmed for several weeks, with never a breeze, or any sign of one. In a few minutes we would do among the coral reefs. We would be at the marey of those savages, and they didn't look a3 if they had much mercy. ' 'Well,' I said, "'there is one thing we haven't done yet. Let the Christians on board pray about it.' There was a black man on board, a steward, who was a very sweet Christian man, and the captain was a Christian, nnd myself. I proposed that we should retire to our cabins, nnd in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ask our Father and His Father for a breeze immediately. The} agreed. I went to my cabin, and told the Lord that I was just on my way to China: that He had sent me* and that I couldn't, get there if I was shipwie ked and killed: and the i I was going on to ask Him for a breeze, but I felt so confident about it that I couldn't ask Him. So I went up on deck. There was the second officer, the chief mate?a very godless man. I went up to him and said, 'If I were you I would let down the mainsail.' Said he: 'What do you want me to let down the mainsail for?' I said: 'We have been praying for a breeze, and it is coming directly, an<T the sooner we are ready for it the better.' With an oath bo said he would rather see a breeze than hear of one. As he was speaking I instinctively looked up, and noticed that one of the sails was quivering with the comiug breeze. Said I: 'Don t you see the corners of the' royals are already ishntinpr? Mv dear fellow, there is a cood breeze coming, and wo had hotter bo ready for it.' Of course the mate went to w< rk, and soon the sailors were tramping over the deck. Before the sails were set the wind was down upon us. The captain came up to see what was the matter. He saw t hat our prayers had been answered, and we didn't forget lo praise God for si signal a deliverance from the perils to which we w ore exposed. We have boon penniless in the interior of China, but we simply turn to this l ook and draw a check, and it is always honored.' DRUNKENNESS MADE A CRIME. The Minnesota House fell in very gracefully with Senator Sherffer's proposition to make drunkenness a crime. There was no discussion and the roll call resulted in G1 yeas and 3 nays. The Governor's signature will make the measure a law. The penalties proscribed, are for the first offense, a fine of not less HO nor more than ?-10, or imprisonment for not less than ten days nor more than forty days: for the second offense, a fine of not less than $20 nor more than $50, or imprisonment for not less thirty (lavs nor more than sixty; for the third and later offenses, imprisonment for not less than sixty nor more than ninety clays. A Comanche Indiau clergyman is reported as saying: "What wc need is the Bible taught in a* plain manner, instead of the whiskyflask,-' ... ... .... 'i ryzf --" " ; - - ,,v - GALLIC SUICIDES, ECCENTRIC WAYS OF QUITTING THE WORLD IN FRANCE. Interesting Dednctions From Statistics?Age for Self-Murder?Predisposing Causes?Suicides From the Column Vcndome. I wonder if there is any country in the world -where suicide is accomplished with the same calm resolution tbat it is in France, and also in such eccentric ways and for such odd reasons. For instance, I have heard lately of a man who killed himself because he had stolen a pair of socks, and was oppressed by remorse for the flioff Hnfl rrnnlrl irnonnnn n n>nrn VAAWV. V/U& II VU1U XlUUglUV/ lUUt U IX1\Jlb practical way of proving his repentance would have been for him to have saved up his earnings to pay for the purloined articles. In another instance a man hung himself because one of his comrades owed him ten cents and he would not pay him, and he was in consequence tired of life. A male patient suffering' from a very painful disorder in one of the Paris hospitals, contrived to secrete a sharp knife under his bedclothes, and literally committed hari-kari. Not long ago a husband and wife, finding themselves in the last stages of consumption and perceiving that their four children were all threatened with the same malady, hired a horse and carriage, the mother and children occupying the vehicle while the husband drove. He made straight for a deep and rapid river near his home and drove the horse headlong into it, so that the whole party were drowned. The unhappy parents left behind them a declaration, which both had signed, setting forth the reasons which had impelled them to the desperate deed. A dissipated workman in Paris possessed a tame rabbit of which he was very fond, and which he had trained to execute a number of amusing tricks. People often tried to buy the little animal, but he always refused to part with it. Finally he was offered S60 for it, and the largeness of the sum overcame his fond ness for his pet; so he let it go. He soon wasted the money in debauchery and riotous living, and then he hung himself, declaring in writing, before he committed the deed, that life was not worth the living'since he no longer had his rabbit. I can better understand the action of a wretchedly poor old woman who shared her scanty meals and her miserable garret with a favorite dog. The animal died, and his mistress spent her last savings for a pan of charcoal, for, as she piteously said, she had no one on earth to love or to love her, now that she had lost her dog. So she shut herself herself up and lighted her charcoal, and was found dead in her bed the next day. The official statistics of the suicides in France during the past year are extremely curious to examine. The cases amount to S000 for the whole Republic. Of these the department in which Paris is situated comes in for nearly a fifth, though in proportion to its population it ought to furnish only one-fifteenth. But the life of the great city, and its trials, its miseries, its decentions. are fertile in m-ovidinc causes for despair and self-murder. It would naturally be supposed that the gloomy months of winter, with their cold, gray weather and short days, would be those in which unhappy people would the most readily quit the earth. Such is not the case. December is the month in which suicides are least frequent, and July is that which furnishes the greatest number. Suicide is far less common among very old or very young persons than with those of middle age. Between forty and sixty is the period when life seems to become most burdensome. Very few young people kill themselves, and very few old ones. As to the causes of suicide, insanity, whether incipient or declared, furnishes the largest contingent*. Impatience of physical pain, the suffering caused by agonizing and incurablc illness, comes next. Drunkenness also supplier a large number of cases. But poverty and disappointed love comes lowest on the list of predisposing causes. The rope and the river are the most popular of all means of self slaughter. The pistol comes next, and then asphyxiation by charcoal. Comparatively few persons have recourse to knives or to poison. Some few leap from an elevated noint. like the Arc de Triomphe or the towers of Notre Dame. Instances are known of persons who have thrown themselves on the' railway track in front of a passing train. People have been known to drink themselves purposely to death, swallowing alcohol in such great quantities as to produce congestion of the brain. And last year one unhappy creature, a woman, deliberated starved herself to death. ~ The most dramatic case of suicide of which I have ever heard was one of which I was by chance the witness some years ago. On a fine afternoon in winter I was walking on the Rue de la Paix at the end nearest the Palace Vendome. I was attracted by the aspeci of the vast dark Column Vendome rising against the pale gold of the sky, and with the last rayes of sunset lingering upon the statue at its summit. Suddenly I beheld a mass of white, fluttering drapery falling rapidly down the front of the great dusky shaft. It struck upor. the huge laurel wreath surrounding the column where its base comcs in contact with the pedestal, and was thrown by the violence of the shock clear over the railings to the pavement. Those white draperies were the skirts of a woman. She had climbed to the summit of the column with a camp stool hidden underneath her cloak, and while the guide was explaining the principal points of view to some other persons she profited by the moment that his attention was distractcd, placed her camp stool | just beside the railings, mounted it, and threw herself over. In her pocket was found a card requesting that her body might be sent to a certain house in a highly respectable street. A' very singular case of suicide, remarkable for the deliberation with which it was resolved upon, took place hitehTin the French provinces. A man who had committed a theft of some magnitude found himself on the point of being arrested. He called his wife and children together, told them what lie had done, and consulted with them as to the best method of disposing of the affair. They unanimously agreed that he ought to kill ? !/ : 1 ?1 v,? I nun sen. l nu cuijirn iiutjunrsucu, uuu uu deliberately completed all liis preparations, which included goingsome distance in search of a priest, to whom he made his last confession. Then he came back home, got his gun, and went out into the woods and shot himself. A very sad instance was that of the young Viscount X , who was playing with his firstborn child, a spirited active boy of some eight, months old, at the open window of 1 v ''''" " his suite of apartments, which was situa? ted on the fourth floor. The baby, in the gayety and excitement of the sport, made a sudden spring, escaped from his father's clasp, and fell headlong to the pavement of the court. The wretched parent gave one glance at the lifeless little form lying on the cruel stones below, and then turned from the window, took a loaded pistol from its case, and blew his Drains out.?rhiUMelphia lciegrapn. Admiral Kimberly Under Fire. A correspondent of the New York Sun tells this story of Admiral Kimberly, the commander of the United States naval forces -at Samoa: Admiral Kimberly was in 1862 Lieutenant Kimberly and the executive officei of the Hartford, in which Admiral Farragut ran the enemy's batteries at Grand Gulf, on the Mississippi River, under a terrible fire, which disabled part of his fleet. Lieutenant Eaton, of the Signal Corps of the army, had just before this been ordered aboard the Hartford, thai comunication between the fleet and armj might be carried on, when, as Tvas the result, the Hartford should place the enemy's stronghold between the land and the naval forces. Eaton's professional zeal and skill were only equaled by his sense of humor, and within a few years 1 have' heard him relate how, when the ship drew up under fire and her Own batteries got to work, Lieutenant Kimberly on the gun deck fought the ship, while Admiral Farragut walked one side of the quarterdeck and the Captain of the ship the other, and poor Eaton made himself as small as possible at the extreme nfnrn nn/1 tttici VlA/l "fVl CI ttq * ttoro ami" "RtH otciu UUU itmugu iuv ii ui nviv u iv/1 jl/ui the Captain, one of the old school, looking down on the gun deck as he finished one of his quarterdeck perambulations, saw, to his horror, that a sailor, one ol the fighting gun's crews, panic-stricker for the moment, had deserted his gun, and was leaning helplessly against the mast. "Mr. Kimberly! Mr. Kimberly!" exclaimed the Captain in a high pitched voice which penetrated above the roar ol the artillery, 1 'pray, what is that persor doing there?" And he pointed aterrible finger at the sailor. No sooner did Kimberly's eyes lighi on the object of the Captain's inquiry than he sprang furiously on the man, seized him by the collar and rushed hin: with a violent shake to his proper positior at the gun. Then, turning and facing the quarterdeck, he touched his cap with all possible ceremony and reported: "Sir, the person you alluded to has returned to his duty." "The whole .affair," said Lieuentanl Eaton, "seemed so perfectly ludicrous, under the circumstances, that I unconsciously laughed aloud, but was at once recalled to propriety by the martinet Captain, who now turned on me. " 'Pray, who are you, sir? Don't you know you ought not to be here?' " 'Sir,' I replied, 'I have been of thai same opinion for the past fifteen minutes, and, if you will kindly point out any place to which I can retire, I shall be only too happy.' * "I don't know what would have become of me, under the indignation of the Captain, had not Admiral Fnrragut himself at that instant laughed aloud on the quarterdeck, and the Captain, paying deference to this moral support from so exalted a station, left me to myself." The Navy's Novel Ram. In the Naval bill, which was approved March 2, 1889, provision was made for the construction of one ram for harbor defence of the latest improved type, to be of the highest practicable speed. For this /vf ?^100 DHH TTOC puipuav; on vj/iiativii isa jww made. The dimensions of the ship, as planned by the board of officers, are as follows: Length, 205 feet; breadth, 30 feet; breadth over sponsons, 36 feet; dejitli, 18 feet; light draught, 11 feet, fighting draught, 13 feet;, displacement 1500 tons. .? .' 'r ... An idea of this new craft may best be conveyed by her appearance, which is cigar-shaped, and when in the water the exposed surface i? what is familiarly kuown as "turtle-back." The body of the craft is entirely of iron, with a double skin, divided into compartmeuts by nine watertight bulkheads. The sheathing of oak is carried about three feet below the line and entirely over the top of the vessel. This oak affords a backing for plate armor three inches thick from the apex of the sponson to two feet above the load line, and thence decreasing to one and one-half inches at the crown of the deck. A novel and valuable feature of the snout +V./J wm ic flint tVio nnPT ivlierfi the \jx wwv iiuu ? main force of the blow will be felt in lamming, is removable, so that a new one can be easily substituted in case it be twisted off by the collision. Another novel feature of the ram is her pilot house, which, being the only exposed point likely to be injured by shot, is rendered impregnable by being built up of concentric rings of crucible steel twenty inches in thickness. To give the ram handiness she will be fitted with twin screws 14? feet in diameter. The vessel will be able to reverse instantly and go astern as fast as she can go ahead. The calculated speed of the ram is thir teen knots, but a speed of fourteen knots is thought entirely practicable.?Pittebur$ Dispatch. . r; _ Washington's Nearest Living Relative. The nearest living relative of Genera) George Washington is Captain Georgt Washington Ball, of Alexandria. Ya. This gentleman is a grandnephew of the first President, and has an interesting family. Captain Ball's wife was Mary Randolph, t grandniece of John Randolph, ol Koanoke, and a cousin of President Harrison. They have three daughters?Mary Randolph, Laudon and Nannie Fairfax?and two sons, Mason Ball, Paymaster, and Randolph Hall, SuTgeon United States Navy. Miss Landon Ball is the beauty oi the family, and both the gentlemen in their naval uniforms make a fine appearance. The father, Captain George W. Ball, owns a great many heirlooms, both of the Washington and Ball families, including tables, portraits, etc. It will be remembered that Washington's mother was Mary Ball.? iV. Y. JSun. A Hot Salt Water Well. A hot water artesian well, at Alma, Mich., is interesting. A well has just been sunk at the Sanitarium in that city,and hot saline water was struck at a depth of 2876 feet below the surface. The water had a temperature of 156 degrees when brought to the surface. The well has 220 feet of 5-inch pipe, and inside this is 560 feet of 6-inch and 1580 feet of 4-inch pipe, the latter ending in the solid rock. The well i has cost $10,000, and will be continued in the hopes of striking gas or oilScientific American, f ;V: A BOGUS KING-.'' t i Si#*.* < How a Califoriilan Governs One of tfii# j. Aleutian Islands. .1 ! A "Washington special says: A very pretty little story, which promises to develop an in-j teresting trial, comes to Washington froni Alaska. It is to the effect that about thre? years ago a man named McPherson sailed from San Francisco, and eventually landed on. one of the Aleutian Islands, off thecoasS of Alaska. -Mr. McPherson's entire outfit consisted, of} a suit of clothes, an American flag, together! with, a paper purporting to have been signe? bv Attorney-General Garland, appointing "hinf United States Commissioner. As soon! as ho landed on the Island he raised the Ameri4 can flag with a great deal of ceremony, tools command of 600 natives and compelled thaiint to address him as King McPhsrson. Eaca 8eak>n he exacted heavy tribute. 4 r Things went along very smoothly until at few months ago. when reports states that h? bad some difficulty with three of his subjects; and, fearing that there might be a mutiny,, he determined to dispose of all these who did! not bow to his authority. f -He arrested three recalcitrant Aleuts, tried! them by court martial, and sentenced thorn. to be hanged. He carried out the sentence.! Somehow or other, a report of McPherson'ai role reached the Treasury Department, a. special agent was sent to his island to invests-1 gate the matter. The agent recently reported the facts.toj Secretary Windom substantially as they are) given above. Now it is said that a revenue! cutter will be sent to the island for the ptlr-j pose of arresting McPherson. It is the hw tention of the authorities to bring him to Saa? "Vaucisco and try him for murder. A WIFE MIJEDEBEB'S END: John H. Swift Hanged at Hartford? His Sister's Unavailing Efforts. John H. Swift has been hanged at Hartford, Conn., for the murder of his wife. Th? execution was a very quiet one, and the condemned man died quietly. The dead man's crime was committed on July 7, 1887, when he shot his wife, who had refused to live with him on account of his dissolute habits. Pub lie attention has been attracted to Swift s case by the gallant fight made for his life by his sister, a young school teacher. Through her efforts a resolution wiis passed by tne Legislature commuting the sentence .to life imprisoment, but Governor Bulkeley vetoed it. Undaunted, the brave girl again went to work and succeeded in having the resolution passed over the Governor's veto by the Senate. In the House she failed, however, and sentence was carried out. PROMINENT PEOPLE, The Empress of Austria is insane. The Queen of Greece writes poetry. General Boclanger is in bad health. Ex-King Milan has gone to Palestine. Neal Dow, the reformer, is eighty-four: > Robert Browning, the poet, is seventy* six. i President Harrison is a little deaf in om ear. . -i John Bright had Jewish blood in hit veins. Mrs. Cleveland shuns publicity in New York. The Princess of Wales is no longer a beautiful woman. The Prince of "Wales has expressed a wish to meet ParneU. Charles Pratt, the Brooklyn oil man, is worth $6,000,000. John Bright was an inveterate smoker and a remarkably fine billiard player. Bismarck is a regular reader of many ol the leading American newspapers. Karageorgvttch, pretender to the Servian throne, has come into a fortune. The Czar will be represented at the Paris Exposition by his second son, George. Evangelist Barnes, of Kentucky, has ' settled on.an island off the coast of Florida. John Jacob Astor, Jr., of New York city, is the weathiest bachelor in the country. Admiral Kimberly, commander of our Asiatic Squadron, is a clever water color artist. Kaiser Wilhelm is devoting much time and attention to the state of the German navy. Captain Howard Patterson, of New York, will become Admiral of the Haytian Navy. The King of Corea begins his work at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and closes at about 3 o'clock in the morning. The wealthiest colored man in the South is a New Orleans sugar planter named Marie. He has an income of $40,000 a year. a >HAn a. rr !/ V\1 /vl TllC nl/1 o&.xaiva yuaz ,u uuuuicu mui uu viv* complaint, insomnia, and has gone to his home at Beaver, Penn?, to recuperate. Senator Vance is improving rapidly at his home, in Buncombe County, N. C., and his remaining eye is stronger than it has been for years. The widow of the late President Barrios, of Guatemala, is one of the handsomest young widows in New York. She is worth 17,000,000. - . ... John McKeon, the Pennsylvania oil king, is said to have an income of nearly ?25,000 a month. Nevertheless he is at work by 8 o'clock every morning. . Mrs. Stonewall Jackson is described as a" "modest, black-eved and dark-haired little woman, rather inclined to portliness, and decidedly averse to notoriety." The Dukedom of Buckingham has become extinct with the death of the late Duke. The ancient Earldom of Temple, however, goes to his nephew, Mr. Gore Langton. Robert Garrett, the Baltimore millionaire, Is greatly unproved. He will probably ? m Jiinof/^hnn^ nn thfi estate UJ UWliOUU W V uuv w Mw.. - of Winans, whose guest he will be. "Jack". Logan, the son of General John A. Loeart, has an utter abhorrence qf politics and political life. He Is managi?ig a stone quarry and coal mines at Youngstown, Ohio, for his father-in-law, Mr. Andrews. It is a curious fact that no paper has ever been able to publish a portrait of Boston's foremost preacher, Phillips Brooks. No photograph of him is obtainable for publication, and won't be if Dr. Brooks can help it.. Joaquin Miller is now a prominent citizen of Oakland, Cal. Recently he gave that city fifteen acres of land for a public park. The appreciative authorities propose to reward the poet for his generosity by building a pesthouse next door to his property. Edison has in his workshop at Orange, N. J., a mass of flowering shruhn and spreading palms, which show that while the inventor's mind may be practical and mathematical, it also has its sentimental side. There are few men who grow flowers in their workshops. , Mrs. Hapkison denies that any discrimination has been made at the White House against colored domestics. She 1 w/M.lr nf +1in Iflrin. CXpiUliia l II.I l l AIC ** Ui IX V/A IUV, dresses clitl not suit lier, and she replaced tliem by better workwomen. This change placed two white women in the service, but there has been no raid on the other colored servants. Most of them remain in their old places. Oxf. of the last of Mrs. Cleveland's graceful acts and kind deeds before leaving the White House was her donation to the Garfield Hospital of a largo collection of miscellaneous books, magazines and illustrated periodicals for the use of the patients of that institution and the brightening of the dreary hours of the sick and suffering. An American engineer who passed a year in Switzerland says that every inhabitant who owns u house in the country seeks to locate it in the best possible place to l>o struck by an avalanebA. It i their eye for the picturesque.