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REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVTOE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "The Coming World's Fair; Shall it be Made a Blessing or a Curse?" Text: "They traded in thy fairs."?Ezekielxxvii. 12. Fairs may be for the sale of goods or for the exhibition of goods on a small scale or a large scale, for county or city, for one nation or for all nations. My text brings us to the f airs of ancient Tvre. a city that is now extinct. Part of the city was on an island, and part on the mainland. Alexander, the conquerer,' was much embarrassed when he found so much of th<? city was on ?n island, for 1m had no ships. But his military genius was not to be balked. Having marched his army to the beach, he ordered them to tear up the city on the mainland and throw it into the water and build a causeway two hundred feet wide to the island. So they took that part of the city which was on the mainland and with it built a causeway of timber and brick and stone, on which his army marched to the capture of that part of the city which was on the island, as though a hostile army should put Brooklyn into the East River, and over it march to the capture of New York. That Tyrian causeway of ruins which Alexander's army built, is still there, . and by alluvial deposits has permanently united the island to the mainland, so that it is no longer an island but a promontory. The sand, the greatest of all undertakers for burying cities, having covered up for the 4 most part Baalbec and Palmyra and Thebes and Memphis and Carthage and Babylon and Lnxor and Jericho, the sand, so small and yet so mighty, is now gradually giving rites of sepulture to what was left of Tyre. But, oh, what a magnificent city it once was! Mistress of the sea! Queen of international commerce? All nations casting their crowns at her feet! Where we have in our sailing vessels benches of wood, she has benches of ivory. Where we have for our masts of ships sails of coarse canvas, she had sails of richest embroidery. The chapter from which my text is taken after enumerating the richest countries in all tho world says of Tyre: "They traded in thy fairs." Look in upon a world's fair at Tyre. Ezekiel leads us through one department and it is a horse fair. Under fed and overdriven for ages, the horses of to-day irive vou no idea of the splendid animals which, rearing and plunging and snorting and neighing, were brought down over the plank or the ships and led into the world's fair at Tyre until Ezekiel, who was a minister of religion and not supposed to know much about horses, cried out in admiration: "They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses." Here in another department of that world's fair at Tyre, led ou by Ezekiel the prophet, we &nd everything all ablaze with precious stones, Like petrified snow are the corals; like fragments of fallen sky are the sapphires; and here is agate a-blush with all colors. What is that aroma we inhale? It is from chests of cedar which we open, and find ihem filled with all styles of fabric. But the aromatics increase as we pass down this lane a( enchantment, and here are cassia and frankincense and balm. Led on by Szekiel the prophet, we come to anagricultural fair with a display af wheat from Minnith anp Pannag, rich as that of our modern Dakota or Michigan. And here is a mineralagical fair, with specimens of iron and silver f and tin and lead and gold. But halt, for aere is purple, Tyrian purple, all tints and ihades, deep almost unto the black and right almost unto the blue; waiting for kings and queens to order it made into robes 5or coronation day; purple not like that which is now made from the Orchilla weed, bat the extinct purple, the lost purple, which ihe ancients knew how to make out of the gassaropod mollusks of the Mediterranean. Oh, look at those casks of wine from Helbon! See those snow banks of wool from the back I if sheep that once pastured in Gilead. Oh, I tke bewildering riches and variety of that world's fair at Tyre! But the world has copied these Bible mentioned fairs in all succeeding ages, and it has bad its JLouis tne oixia iair m Dagobert, and Henry the First fair on 3t. Bartholomew's Day, and Hungarian !airs at Pesth, and Easter fairs at teipsic, and the Scotch fairs at Perth Jbnght was the day when I was at one rf them), and afterward came the Lonlon world's fair, and the New York world's fair, and the Vienna world's lair, and the Parisian world's fair, and 1 has been decided that, in commemoration of the discovery of America in L492, there shall be held in this couniry in 1892 a world's fair that shall eclipse til preceding national expositions. I say, 3od speed the movement! Surely the event mmmemorated is worthy of all the architecaire and music and pyrotechnics and elojuentand stupendous planning and monetary expenditure and congressional appropriations which the most sanguine Christian patriot has ever dreamed of. Was any voy*ge that the world ever heard of crowned with such an arrival as that of Columbus ind his men? After they had been encouraged !or the last few days by flight of land birds and Joating branches of red berries, and while ?? ? * nnVkin cftldlrinflf I lAUUIHUUS WJ15 uunu lu UUD utuiu ovuujui^ aw sea chart, Martin Pinzon, standing on leek and looking to the southwest, cried: "Land! Laud! Land P' And "Gloria in Sxcelsis" was sung in raining tears on all the diree riiips of expedition. Most approoriate and patriotic and Christian will be a commemorative world's fair in 1892. Leaving to others the discussion as So the site of such exposition?and I wonler not that some five or six of our cities are struggling to have it, for it will give to any aty to which it is as signed an impulse of prosperity for a hundred years?I say, leaving to others the selection of the particular ioaUity to be thus honored, I want to say come things from the point of Christian patriotism which "Hght to be said, and the sarlier the bettor, that we get thousands of Deople talking in the right direction, and &at will make healthful public opinion. I t>eg you to consider prayerfully what I feel *fled uDon of God as an American citizen Wia ?u> ttpreatun ui h^ulcuumic? u?roi. My first suggestion is that it is not wise, as certainly it is not Christian, to continue 2us wide and persistent attempt of American cities to Delittle and 'deprecate other 3ties. It has been going on for years, but sow the spirit seems to culminate in this discission as to where the World's Fair shall be aeld, a style of discussion which has a tenden=y to injure the success of the fair as a great moral and patriotic enterprise, after the locality .has been decided upon. 1 There s such a thing as healthful rivalry between cities, but you will bear me out in aying that there can be no good to come from the uncanny things said about each other by New York and Chicago, by Chicago and St.Louis, by St. Paul and Minneapolis, by Tacoma and Seattle, and all through the States by almost every two proximate cities. All cities, like individuals, have their virtues and their vices. All our American cities should be out- exultation. What ttt-?i. Wk.f "wnrcnes: >tuuo uuuuu uuiau^. ? uav *sylums of mercy: What academies of music! What mighty rue a in law and medicine and art and scholarship! What schools and colleges and universities! Wnat women radiant and gracious, and an improvement on all the generations of women since Eve! What philanthropists who do not feel satisfied with their own charities until they get into the hundreds of thousands nd the millions! What "God's acres" for the dead, gardens ot beauty and palaces of marble for those who sleep the last sleep! Ifow stop your slander of American cities. Do you say they are the centres of crime and political corruption ? Please admit the fact that they are centers of intelligence and generosity and the mightiest paJrons of architecture and sculpture nud painting and music and reservoirs of religious influence for &il the continent. It will be well me cuuuu-y <usu*icis to cease talking gainst the cities, and it will be well for the city of one locality to stop talking against the cities of other localities. New York will not get the World's Fair by depreciating fJhicago, and Chicago will not get the World's Fair by bombarding New York. , Another suggestion concerning the coming exposition: let not the materialistic ana monetary idea overpower the moral and religious. During that exposition, the first time m all their lives, there will be thousands of people from other lands who will see a country without a state religion. Let us, by an increased harmony among all denominations of religion, impress other nationalities, as they come here that year, with the superior advantage of having all denominations equal in the sight of government. All the rulers and chief men of Europe belong ? to the state religion, whatever it may ' * . ;"v ' f v ** be. Although our last two Presidents have ! been Presbyterians, the previous one was an Episcopalian: and the two previous Metho- j dists; and going further back in that line of ; Presidents, we find Martin Van Buren, a j Dutch Reformed; and John Quincy Adams j a Unitarian; and a man's religion in this country is neither hindrance nor advantage in the matter of political elevation. All Europe needs that. All the world needs that. . A. man's religion is sometning between nimself and his God, and it must not directly or j indirectly be interfered with. Furthermore, during that exposition, Christian civilization will confront bar- | barism. We shall as a nation have a 1 greater opportunity to make an evange- \ nzing impression upon foreign nation- 1 alities, than would otherwise be afforded us in a quarter of a century. Let the Churches of the city where the exposition is held be open every day, and prayers be offered and sermons preached and doxologies sung. In the less than three years between this and that world's convocation, let us get a baptism of the Holy Ghost, so that the six months ot that world's fair shall be fifty Pentecosts in one, and instead of three thousand converted, as in the former Pentecost, hundreds of thousands will bo converted. You must remember that the Pentecost mentioned in the Bible occurred when there was no printing-press, no books, no Christian pamphlets, no religious newspapers, and yet the influence was tremendous. How many nationalities were touched? The account says: "Parthians and Medes and Elamites," that is, people from the eastern countries; "Phrygia and Pamphylia," that is, the western countries: "Cvrene and strangers of Rome, Cretes and Arabians," that is, the southern countries; but they were all moved by the mighty spectacle. Instead of the sixteen or eighteen tribes of people reported at that Pentecost, all the cnier nations of Europe and Asia, North and South America, J will be represented at our world's fair in 1892, and a Pentecost here and then would mean the salvation of the round world. But, you say, we may have at that fair the : people of all lands and all the machinery for | gospelization, the religious printing presses > and the churches, but all that would not i make a Pentecost; we must have God. Well, j you can have Him. Has He not been gra- | ciously waiting ? and nothing stands in the ' way but our own unbelief and indolence and j sin. May God break down the barriers! The i grandest opportunity for the evangel ization OL Oil uatiuito diuld wwjuo Christ died on the cross will be the world's exposition of 1892. God may take us out of the harvest field before that, but let it be known throuehout Christendom that that year, between May/ and November, will be the mountain , of "Christian advantage, the Alpine and Himalayan height of opportunity overtopping all others for salvation. Instead of the , slow process of having to send the I Gospel to other land by our own Ameri- i can missionaries, who have difficult toil in acquiring the foreign language and then must contend with foreign prejudices, what a grand thing to have able and influential foreigners converted during their visit in America and then have them return to their native lands with the glorious tidings! Ob, for an overwhelming work of grace for the year 1892, that work beginning in the autumn of 1839' Another opportunity, if our public men see it, and It is the duty of pulpit and printing press to help them to see it, will be the calling at that time and place of a legal peace congress for all nations. The convention of representatives from the Governments of North and South America, now at Washington, is only a type of what we may have on a vast and a world wide scale at the international exposition of 1892. By one stroke the gorgon of war might be slain and buried so deeD that neither urumpet ot Human dispute or of arch-angel's blowing could resurrect it. "When the last r?apoieon caueu bucu a, uuu^i c? ul uauu>u many did not respond, and those that did respond gathered wondering what trap that wily destroyer of the French Republic and the builder of a French monarchy might spring on them. But what if the most popular government on earth?I mean the United States Government?should practically say to all nations: On the American continent, in 1892, we will hold a world's fair, and all nations will send to it specimens of their products, their manufactures and their arts, and we invite all the Governments of Europe, Asia and Africa to send representatives to a peace convention that shall be held at the same time and place, and that shall establish an international arbitration commission to whom shall be referred all controversies between nation and nation, their decision to be final, and so all nations would be relieved from the expense of standing armies and naval equipment, war having been made an everlasting impossibility. All the nations of the earth worth con- | sideration would come to it mighty men of England and Germany and France and Russia and all the other great nationalities, Bismarck who worships the Lord of Hosts, and Gladstone who worships the God of Peace, and Boulanger who worships himself. Th? fnrt is that the nations are sick of drink ing out of chalices made out of human skulls j and filled with blood. The United States Government is the only government in the whole world that could successfully call such a Congress. Suppose France should call it, Germany would not come; or Germany should call it, France would not come; or Russia should call it, Turkey would not come; or England should call it, nations long jealous of her overshadowing power in Europe would not come. America, in favor with all nationalities, standing out independent and alone, is the spot and 1892 will be the time. May it please the President of the United States, may it please the Secretary of State, mav it dIkisa t.n* Cabinet mav it nlftasa the Senate and House of Representatives, may it i please the printing presses and the churches and the people who lift up and put down our American rulers! To them I make this timely and solemn and Christian appeal. Do you not think people die fast enough without this wholesale butchery of war? Do you not think that we can trust to pneumonias and consumptions aud apoplexies and palsies and yellow fevers and Asiatic choleras the work of killing them fast enough? Do you not think that the greedy, wide open jaws of the grave ought to be satisfied 11 ruiea Dy natural causes with hundreds of thousands of corpses a year? Do you not think we can do something better with men than to dash their life out against casements or blow them Into fragments by torpedoes or send them out into the world, where they need all their faculties, footless, armless, eyeless? Do you not think that women might be appointed to an easier place than the edge or a grave trench to wring their pale hands and weep out their eyesight in widowhood and childlessness? Why, the last glory has gone out of war. There was a time when it demanded that quality which we all admire?namely, cour? age?for a man had to stand at the hilt of his sword when the point pierced the foe and while he was slaying another the other might slay him; or it was bayonet charge.. But now it is cool and deliberate murder, and clear out at sea a bombshell can be hurled miles away into a city, or while thou.sands of private soldiers, who hayo no inter? est in the contest, for they were con scripted, are Josing tneir lives, tneir General may sit smoking one of the best Havana cigars after a dinner of auail on toast. It may be well enough for graduating students of colleges on commencement day to orate about the poetry of war, but do not talk about the poetry of war to the men of the Federal or Confederate armies who were at the front, or to some of us who, as members of the Christian commission, saw the ghastly hospitals at Antietam and Hagerstown. An! you may worship the Lord of Hosts, I worship the "God of Peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that great Shepherd of the sheep." War is an accursed monster and it was born in the lowest cavern of perdition, and I pray that it may speedily descend to the place from which it. arose, its last sword and shield and musket rattling on the bottom of the red hot marl of heil. Let there bo called a peace convention for 1892, with delegates sent by all the decent Governments of Christendom, and while they are in session, if you should some night go out and look into the sky above the exposition build- ' ings, you may find that the old gallery of crystal, tnat was tanen aown alter me rjctnlehem anthem of eighteen centuries ago was sung out, is rebuilt again in the clouas, and j the same angelic singers are returned with the same librettos of light to chant "Glory to ] God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men." Again, I suggest in regard to the World's j Fair that, while appropriate places are prepared for all foreign exhibits, we make no room for the importation of foreign vices. ( America has enough of its own, and we need no installments of that kind. A world's fair < will bring all kinds of people, good and bad. ( . The good we must prepare to welcome, the bad we must prepare to shun. The attempt will again be made in 1892, as in 1876, to break up our American Sabbaths. That attempt was made at the Philadelphia Centennial, but was defeated. The American Sabbath is the best kept Sabbath on earth. We do not want it broken down, and substituted in the place thereof the Brussels Sabbath, the Vienna Sabbath, the St. Petersburg Sabbath or any of the foreign Sabbaths, which are no Sabbaths at all. I think the Lord is more than generous in asking only fifty-two days out of the 365 for His service. You let the Sabbath go and with it will go your Bible, and after that your liberties, and your children or your grandchildren will be here in America under a despotism as bad as in those lands where they turn the Lord's day into wassail and frolic. Among those who come tnere wui De, as at other expositions, lordly people who will bring their vices with them. Among the Dukes and Duchesses aud Princes and Princesses of other lands are some of the best men and women of all the earth. Remember Earl of Kintore, Lord Cairns and Lord Shaftsbury. But there is a snobbery and flunkeyism in American, society that runs after a grandee, a Duke, a Lord or a Prince, though he may be a walking lazaretto and his breath a plague. It makes the fortune of some of our queens of society to dance one cotillion witn one of these princely lepers. Some people cannot get their hat off quick enough when they see such a foreign Lord approaching, and they do not care for the mire into which the^ drop their knees as tney uow wj n ui smp. uv splendor of pedigree or any pomp and paraphernalia of circumstance make him attractive. There is onlv one set of Ten Commandments that 1 ever heard of, and no class of men or women in all the world are excused from obedience to those laws written by finger of lightning on the granite surface of Mount Sinai. Surely we have enough American vices without making any drafts upon European vice for 1892. By this sermon I would have the nation made aware of its opportunity and get ready to improve it, and of some perils and get ready to combat them. I rejoice to believe that the advantages will overtop everything in that world's fair. What an introduction to each other of communities, of states, of republics, of empires, of zones, of hemispheres! What doors of information will be swung wide open for the boys and girls now on the threshhold! What national and international education! What crowning of industry with sheaves of grain, ana what imperial robing of her with embroidered fabrics! What scientific apparatus! What telescopes for the infinitude above and microscopes for the infinitude beneath, and instruments to put nature to the torture until she tells her last secret! What a display of the munificence of the God who has grown enough wheat to make a loaf of good bread large enough for the human race, and enough cotton to stocking every foot, and enough timber to shelter every head, making it manifest that it is not God's fault, but either man's oppression or indolence or dissipation if there be any without supply. Under the arches of the chief building of that exposition let capital and labor, too long estranged, at last be married, each taking the hand of each in pledge of eternal fidelity, while representations of all nations stand round rejoicing at the nuptials, and saying: "What (rod hath joined together let not man put asunder.' Tnen snail tti9 tnrenoay 01 the needle-woman no longer be heard: Work, work, work! nil me Drain ue&ms iu swim; Work, work, work! Till the eyes are heavy and dim. Seam and gusset and band. Band and gusset and seam. Till over the buttons I fell asleep, ind sew them on In a dream. O, Christian America! Make ready forth# grandest exposition ever seen under the sun! ave Bibles enough bound. Have churches enough established. Have scientific halls enough endowed. Have printing presses enough set up. Have revivals of religion enough in full blast. I believe you will. "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord!" Through the harsh voices of our day A low, sweet prelude finds Its way; Through clouds of doubt and creeds of fear A light is breaking calm and clear. That song of love, now low and far, Ere long shall swell from star to star; That light, the breaking day which tips The golden solrert An-?ilypse! Death by the Guillotine. A correspondent, writing from France, says: Two recent executions have given rise to a considerable amount of discussion as to the moral cffect of the "guillotine'r on the criminal classes. It is quite possible that President Carnot's severity in according few reprieves has had a deterrent effect on the cutthroats, who had learned to expect so much from the mis placed clemency 01 tne last x-rusiueui. This would seem to be borne out by the observations of the Abbe Faure, chaplain of La Roquette prison, who has just communicated a report on his ministration.' to the Government. The Abbe bplieves that no other punishment which may be substituted for execution by the guillotine will have so fear-producing an effect as the terrible instrument of justice at tht service of the public headsman. In his report the Abbe draws a realistic picture of the suspense in which the | doomed murderer lives from day to day. until he hears either his summons to tht scaffold or the news of a reprieve. Nearly all the murderers seek consolation more or less in religion, according to the degree of education which they have received, and none of them give up the hope of a reprieve untH the last moment. Thp rnndemned criminals rarely or never sleep when they know that their time is | approaching, or if they do it is only to j doze off into a horrible dream, from which they jump up all livid with fear and dread. Sleeping or waking the 'guillotine," the lunette, the headsman and his assistants are forever present to their imaginations. Out of eleven persons whom the Abbe attended during his six years of office only three were really asleep when their summons came. The Ransre of the Turkey. In a discussion as to the northern range of the wild turkey, it is asserted that in the old times they were not met with north of Hampden County in Massachusetts. Against this writer the New York Sun has the testimony of the late Geo. John A. Dix,who was born in New Hampshire, and as a boy recollected seeing many flocks of that bird there. He told a story of a certain man in his town known as Turkey Bill. He was a noted trapper of wild turkeys. These he captured in a small log house, fitted with a door, sprung by the hunter in concealment. On a certain occasion Turkey Bill, having located a flock of twenty birds, set his trap. He scattered a trail of corn leading to its entrance. The turkeys approached. One entered, then a second, and so on until nineteen of them were in the structure. The twentieth lingered, loth to enter. Turkey Bill patiently waited for him to join the others. He was sure of nineteen, but he wanted them all. Soon the nineteenth bird emerged from the trap, then the eighteenth, and so on until but one remained within. Then Turkey Bill sprang the door. He was at one time sure oi nineteen, but in his greed he overreached himself, and in the end secured but one. Gen. Dix was disposed to apply the moral of this story to the methods ol certain contemporaneous statesmen. The latest dispatches from China indicato that the Chinese propose to retaliate in kind on our Chinese exclusion policy. The Melican man. must 70 allee samee Chinaman. A Nebaaska. justice has discharged 1 man accused of stealing an umbrella an a rainy day, on the ground that he kcted in self-defense. IlELIGIOUS READING*" THE WINNING SIDJ5. Workman of God, O lose not heart, But learn what God is like: And in the darkest battli-fleld Thou shalt know where to strike. Thrice blest is ho to whom is given The instincts that can tell That God is on the field when He Is most invisible. Blest too is he who can divine Where real li^ht doth lie, And dares to take the side that seems Wrong to man's blindfold eye. Then learn to scorn the praise of men, And learn to lovo witu God; For Jesus won the world through shame. And beckons thee His road. For right is right, and God is God, And right the day must win; To doubt would be di-loyalty, To falter would be sin. ?Frederick W. Fabtr TnEIIt LIGHT DID NOT SHINE. "A professor of religion, say you? But I have known her these two years, and she never once mentioned the subject in my presence." So said a lady a day or two sinca who was herself a professor. It brought to mind tha words of Jesus to his discf-Dle"--. "Let your lijjht shine." Hero are two "profosstd followers of Christ, neighbors for two years, and conversiug often with each ether, without either discovering that the other was a professed Christian. And what was the reason? Their light did not shine. Instead of putting it upon a candlostick, it had boen hid und^r a bushel. How many pleasant and profitable hours would those two years have afforded, had those two individuals spoken often to each other of God's mercies! How much more brightly would have glowed the flame of Christian love in their hearts! How much more strungth might they have acquired to resist; the adversary I Their light did not shine. What opportunities for doing good passed away in those two years! How many happy influences might they have exertod upon those around them which were not improved! Whit an opportunity was there for the powors of darkness to work! How many tares tha enemy must have sowed during that long night of two years. Their light did not shino. Ho who purchased them with his own precious blood commanded them to let it shine. It was a duty they owed to Him, their Saviour and Redeemer, to let it shine. It was a duty, for the neglect of which they will have to give an account in t ie day of judgment. In contact with one another for two whole yea-s, and not know that each other were professors of religion I How little did they feel for temporal and eternal welfare of each other's souls,?WaJcAman. HAD AN ETE ON ITIM. "That young Brown has become a Christian, has he?' So said one business man to another. "Yes, I heard so." Well, I'll have my eye on him to see if he holds out I want a trusty man in my store. They are hard to find. If this is the real thing with him he will bo just the man I vrant. l'vo kept my eye on him ever since I heard of it. I'm watching him closely." So young ?* it? an/1 Aiif s\P 4ho of,rvro on/? iin DIUOII Weill/ 111 UI1U uuu ui tiiu OVU1V MHV4 M{/ | and down uho street. Ho mixed with his associates, and all the time Mr. Todd had an eye on bim. He watched how the young man bore the sneer of being "one of the saints;" if he stood up manfully for his new Master and was not ajfraid toshow his colors. Although Mr. Todd took rides, went to church, or did what be'pleased on Sunday, ho was very glad to seo that Brown rested on the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Though J the Wednesday evening bell never [ drew the merchant to the prayermaeting, ho watched to see if Brown passed by. Sometimes ho said: "Whero areyou goinz, Brown?" and always recived the prompt answer: "To prayer-meeting." Brown's father and his teacher were both .questioned as to how the lad wa? getting on. For a year or more Todd's eyes were on Brown. Then he said to himself: "He'll do. Ho is a real Christian. I can trust him. I can afford to pay him. He shall have a good place in my store." Thus, young Christian, others watch to see if you are true; if you'll do for places of trust The world has its cold, calculating oye on you, to see if your religion is real, or if you are just just ready to turn back. The Master's loving eye is on you also. Ho sees not the missteps alone, but also the earnest wish to phase him. He, too, has plac?s of trust. The work is pleasant and the pay good. These places may be for you when, through his strength, you have proved vourself true. Fix your eye on him and he will koep you in ? r>? bU'SVtuJ. | GOSPET. ASSURANCE. Forty-two times the Qreak words traus- ! lated know aro found in the first epistle of John, showing the earnest desire of the Holy Ghost to lead tho believer out of the cold a nd dark region of doubt and dread into the liberty of tho children of Go<L "Behold" (know or see) "what manner of love tho Father hath bestowed upon u=\ that wo should be callod the sons of God; therefore, the world knowcth us not, because it knew Him not Beloved, now are wo the sons of Go J; and it doth not yet app?ar what we shall be; but wo know that when He shall I appear we shall bo like him, for we shall see [ Him as He is. And every man that hath I this nope in aim puntietti' nunself, even as j He is pure." With such an assurance and such a hopo, it is not strange that the wor Is joy and rejoice shino like bright and beautiful stars in ! the four gospel*, in tli9 acts of the apostles, iD tho various epistles, and even in the I book of Revelation. Ho doe< not wi<h His I children lo bo gloomy, but happy, happy as tho day is Ions, happy in tin ui^ht of afflic' tion, hearing His word, "Casting all your care upon Him, for Ho caroth for you." It is obvious, then,that the clvlling mist of uncertainty, which hangs about many professed Christians in these days, does not nriso from t'ie Word of God. It comes rather from fals3 teaching, that has accustomed them to look into their own hearts in a vain search for something that deserves heaven instead of lo king simply and singly to Christ as all our salvation and all our desire. They have been taught that it is presumption to believo they are saved without any righteousness of their own, and without any ecclesiastical ordinances; and consequently as they have no real joy in their thoughts of God and eternity, and the heart craves happiness, they answer the description given of religion at tho close of tho ??An mf A1 t-nnncot inn wKan mon chtill )\n "lovers of pleasures more thau lovors of God; having a form of Godliness, but denying the power thereof." s But let us as intelligent believers turn away from this formality and worldliness and discontent and catch the happy strain of true Christian experience as found in i Peter i,8, "Whom having not seen, yet believing, yo rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory; receiving the end of your faith, oven the salvation of your souls." Dr. Mtinro Gibson, preaching in St. John's Wood Church recently, from tho text. "Take heed how yo hear," remarked that now-a-rlays people read ten times moro than they listened. Even Christian people sometimes exercis' d no particular care as to what they read or avoided. There were young ladies in London who would not associate with vulgar people, but who would neverlh less take some sensational novel to their private rooms, and allow its author to pour wh t he liked of his worthier or injurious stuff int > their minds, and allow him to talk to them for hours at a time. Let them avoid as a plague uli those books and pap -rs which minister to the depraved taste and pander to the baser passions. TEMPERANCE SERMONS IS STREET CA.RS. Boer-loving Chicago is being effectually lectured on temperance by the Temperance Education Society, a new organization with a novel mode of proceeding. Striking but accurate statements and statistics concerning the liquor traffic are printed on large cards and posted up in the street cars. Everv car in the city is to have a placard and the saloon-keepers' rides shall become a burden. The following is a sample of these announcements: "Chicago's annual beer bill, 128,800,000. This would build the great waterway and six hundred miles of sewer." These | i placards will be frequently changed for I others of a similar character. ' TEMPERANCE. KEVEB GIVE UPl Oh, mortal, impatient, Why give up so easy? The world was not made in a day. Quit morning and sighing, And still keep on trying; The prize you may lose through delay You had the bright sunlight To comfort and cheer you, With scarcely a thorn for your feet. Now clouds make it dreary, You quickly grow weary, And talk of ill-luck and defeat. I fear that temptation And evil companions Have lai you your pledge to ignore. You fret and you grumble, You trip and you stumble, And fail to keep pace any more. Look up, my poor brother, And put your foot forward, And let your soul out in endeavor. If right seed you're sowing, In knowledge you're growing, And will keep on growing forever. Ah! now we see through it? You give us the reason Why happiness comes not your way. No wonder you grumble, No wonder you stumble; You drink of the wine-cup each day. Spend not your time idly With evil companions; Oft wanting for dollar and dime. The happiest mortal Thftt flAAVan'e nnrffll Is he who hath best spent his time. ?Mrs. If. A. Kidder, in National Advocate. STUNTED BY LIQUOR. "When dog fanciers," says Dr. James Ross, "wish to produce a small pet dog the animal is given a certain amount of gin daily from birth until the period of growth is past, this proceeding is effectual in producing a dq? much smaller than the parents or the other dogs of the same litter." Dr. Ross was told i by a medical man that he had kept a prematurely-born child alive for the first three weeks by feeding it whisky toddy. Seven years later the child was a puny little idiot. THE DRINKING HABIT DISREPUTABLE. In view of the immense amount of liquor oonsumed in the United States, it is difficult to believe that the temperance cause is making much progress, but it is a fact that excess in drinking was never so disreputable as it is to-day. Self-respecting men shun the society of the immoderate drinker more than ever before. They don't like to be seen in his company. A young man who is known to drinlc even moderately is distrusted by his employers, and his standing in society suffers a decline. Society frowns more and more upon the drinking habit, and tippling as a fashionable accomplishment is on the decline. Liquor is not openly presented to guests at private houses as it was twenty-five years ago. An invitation from your entertainer to "take suthin'" is apt to be communicated by a whisper and a wink, and he leads you to some secluded cupboard. He is ashamed to mention whisky in the presence of the ladies and children. There is much talk outside of clubs about, the dissipa- . tion indulged in there, but it is greatly exag1 gerated. Excesses are frowned upon in all reputable clubs. When drunkenness becomes thorougly unpopular, it will be confined to the dissolute alone.?Texas Siftinas. Clt>EU A CAUSE OP TYPHOID FEVEH. A physician of Havre, Dr. Olivier, charges cider with being one of the agents for the transmission of typhoid fever. He found the bacilli of that disease ip the water of a pond i into which drained the water of a farm where he had a number of typhoid fever i cases, and he discovered that the water of the pond was used on the farm in the manufacture of cider. This led him to investigate whether the fermentation of cider killed the bacilli or not or attenuated their vitality. Tho result of his experiments was to convince him that the alcoholic fermentation of apple juice in no way modified the vitality and properties of this bacilli. This fact is of much importance, for during the past two years typhoid fever has been prevalent in an epidemic form all over Normandy, in a popu- ' lation of peasants who drink almost no water, and who make cider their beverage al- ! most exclusively of all other. It is a very prevalent idea among these same peasants that pond water is the best with wnioh to maker cider, and there is hardly .one of them who does not use that kind of water in preference to all others. As the process of fermentation does not destroy the typhoid fever germs it contains it is easy to understand now the cider contributes to the propagation of the disease uninn. in inn iikitisii a km*. Lord Wolseley, speaking on the' drink question in the British Army, at the Crawford Rooms the other day, expressed his conviction tliat the only way to secure an emcient army is to have good and moral soldiers, and the I only way to obtain good and moral soldiers is to get them to abstain from intoxicating drink He further averred that his own experience of au abstaining raiment was that the soldiers performed their work better than others, enjoyed better general health, and did not expose themsol ves to punishment for offences. According to one account his remarks were to the following effect: "After congratulating the Rev. J. G. Gregson upon the success of his advocacy of temperance principles amongst our army in India, ho said the amount of crime in the army in India corresponded with the quantity of liquor consumed ; if we wished to have soldiers who were moral j and good, that wish could only be accomp[ lislied by regulations onforcing abstinence from all alcoholic liquors. "We usod to edu- ; cato our soldiers to drink by serving round | to them spirits with their rations, but that regulation has beeu abolished: he was glad to tell them that since its abolition drunkenness and its concomitant crime bad become yearly less amongst the rank and file of the British Army." TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. ' Nearly every Catholic priest in San Francisco is a total abstainer. A deaf and dumb temperance league has ; been organized in Liverpool, England. In one year the poh'ce of St. Petersburg ar- 1 rested 47,000 persons for drunkenness and a hundred died from inebriety. j At Monmouth, 111., the city authorities 1 have begun suits against six unlicensed sa- ! loon-keepers to recover a penalty of $20,000 ' apioce. j A native newspaper of India makes this pertinent remark: "Our liquor traffic begins '/ by hanging a sign over the door, and ends by ( hancincr a man on a cihbet." Athol (Mass.) Y. W. C. T. U. has rented an a entire block on a business street and begun to i "take boarders," to aid her financially and give her a larger field of influence. r . The Boston Herald says there were 121 less 1 arrests for drunkenness in that city this year * on "Labor Day" than l;ist year. The law * closed the saloons this year, while they were % wide open last year. " ' A judge in a Chicago court is reported by j, the Union Si'jnal as saying: ' Of all the , boys in the reform school at Pontiac, III., Q and in the various reformatories about the j, city, ninety-five per cent, are the children of parents who died through drink or became y criminals through the same cause." a It is mentioned in Robert's life of Hannah More, that in 1783 that lady sat next to Dr. v Johnson at a dinner party at the Bishop of il Chester's house. She says: "I urged him to r take a little wine. He replied: 'I can't drink a little, child, therefore I never touch it. Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would ho difficult.' " The Roman Archbishop of Chicago, has addressed the following petition to the City d Council. It was signed by his Vicar General n and by every Catholic priest in that city: F "We, the undersigned, respectfully ask that f( you pass as soon as possible, an ordinance s< closing all saloons Sundays, and also an pi ordinance against licensing a saloon within si -00 foet of any church or school of the city.' * si Tho Japanese Temperance Society of Ha- SJ waii, fifteen months old, numbers 1700 out of the 8000 Japanese residents. As President of T this society, Consul-General Ando, of Hono- 1E lulu, recently sent to tho W. C. T. U. bead al quarters a gift of money, for the "Temperance Temple of America," that in his estima- *11 tion "will soon be the centre of the world's ?( reformation." ? The Alliance Record tells of a good oro- q hibition experiment in Tyrnoe County, Ire- _ land. Under the rule of a temperance agent for certain district, covering more than sixty j,. miles, the leases for the public houses were not renewed. In twelve months the police barracks were closed and the policemen removed, while the poor rates came down from tl Is. 4d. and Is. 0d. in the pound, in the different town lands, to 5d., (kl and 8d. 11 . SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB OCTOBER 27. Lesson Text: "Sin, Forgiveness and Peace," Ps. xxxiL, 1-11?Golden Text: Rom. v., 1?Commentary. Our lesson to-day is one of the seven penitential psalms, the others being the 6th, 51st, 38th, 102d, 130th and 143d; this and the 51st are supposed to have been written by David after that dark chapter in his life, and if we should judge by the contents of each we might suppose the latter to have been written first. In the title this is called "A Psalm of David;" and in II Sam. xxiii., 1, 2, he is called the sweet psalmist of Israel, and it is written that "the Spirit of the Lord spake by him, and Eis word was in his tongue;" therefore we ought to come to these words of the Spirit through David, firmly believing (Rom. xv., 4), and relying on the same Spirit to give us the comfort and instruction here for us. The word "maschil," also in the title, and used here for the first time, signifies "to act wisely," and surely David acted wisely when he confessed and received forgiveness. 1, 2. "Transgression forgiven, * ^ * sin covered, * * * iniquity not imputed." Transgression signifies the going beyond bounds or doing that which we should not do; sin is coming short of the mark, or leaving undone^ that which wo ought to have done; j iniquity sigmnes anytnmg auitonea or perverse, and seems to refer to the natural heart, which is all wrong since the fall and manifests its perverseness in sin and transgression; so that here we have the whole matter of ! wrong and wrong doing disposed of and for- j ever settled in God's appointed way. See if j we can understand that way. The Holy Spirit, referring to these very words tells us in Rom. iv., 5-8, that this doing away with sin, and consequent imputation of righteousness, is apart from any works on our part, but is entirely of grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, and is freely granted to every believer. The words "In whose spirit there is no guile," indicate that to enjoy these blessings there must be on our part the absence of all deceit (for that is the word) and a sincere confession of, and turning away from, the sin or transgression. Coming thus, with true penitence and humility, and trusting only in the merits and work of the Lord Jesus Christ, who was made sin for us, and who bare our sins in His own body on the cross (II Cor. v., 31; I Pet. ii, 24), we may be as sure as we are that God lives that fie, for Christ's sake, has blotted out all that was against us, and will remember it no more (Isa. xiiii., 25; Eph. iv., 82); that being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Cnrist. (Gulden text.) 3, 4. "When I kept silence." Now, that Ls sometimes a good thing to do, and David more than once practiced it wisely (Ps. xxxviii., 13; xxxix., 1, 2), but when, as in this case, there was sin to be confessed, it was no time to keep silent, and he here tells us of his sufferings on account of his sinful silence as a warning to us. "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." 5. "I acknowledged, * * ? Thou forgavest." Some one has said that sin uncont'essed, like a gathering wound, swells and torments, but tne lance gives relief; sincere confession is the lance which brings the peace of forgiveness. 0. "For this shall every one that is godly pray unto Thee." Every sinner rejoicing in the forgiveness of sins is an encouragement to others to come and obtain the like blessing; every Christian who has had the joy of salvation (which they had for a time lost by transgression) restored to him is an encouragement to other blackslidors to return. 7. "Thou art my hiding place." Notice the word "thou," three times in this verse; it is God Himself who is our hiding place, 'preserver and deliverer. David had been hiding from God, like Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden (Gen. iii.. 8,10), but now, hia sin forgiven, he hides in God from the adversary, who no doubt roared against him; this is a sure and safe hiding place, but all others will be swept away (Isa., xxviii., 17). 8. "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go." Evidently the Lord is now speaking in reply to David, for no one can instruct and teach like Him, and no one is capable but Him. He has not promised that we shall have no trouble, that we shall never pass through fire or water; on the contrary He has told us that "In the world we shall have tribulation," and that "all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution" (John xvi., 83; II Tim. iii., 1"); but tie Das promised to ue witu us m one trouble, and thus lead us, while He preserves us from being in any way injured by it. The word here translated "instruct" signifies to make successful or prosperous,, as in Josh, i., 7, 8; I Kings ii., 3, where it is go translated; but the more common Old Testament word loi' instruction signifies chastisement; it therefore becomes us. if we sincerely desire to be led by Him, to believe that He does lead us, and in what seems ofttimes to be the most adverse circumstances, we should hear Him say: "I am the Lord thy God who teacheth tliee to profit, who leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go" (Isa. xlviii., 17). "I will guide thee with Mine eye." Notice the marginal reading, which seems equal to saying: "I will tell you how to go and then watch you to see thai; you keep in the right way," or as it is plainly stated in Isa. xxx., 21: "Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying: This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand and when ye turn to the left." With such great and precious promises how quiet we should be. 0. "Be ye not as tho horse or as the mule." It is manifest in evary-day life that the bigsest mule is not always the one in the traces, j ami that a horse often knows more than his driver. Balaam's ass saw more than its master, and opened its mouth to some purpose; but the rule prevails that horses and mules have not the wisdom of men and must be restrained and guided by bit and bridle. Now, when men and women, and particularly ( Christians, need to be restrained by the bit : and bridle of circumstances, which are God's 1 providences, instead ot meekly and trustingly following their Shepherd, "it is anything | but creditable to them, and does no honor to . Lhat beautiful name by which they are called. 10. "Many sorrows shall be to the wicked, ' but he that trusted in the Lord, mercy shall f compass him about.'' Sorrows touch the i righteous as well as the wicked, but the sorrows of the righteous are blessings in dis- ' juise, for the loving hand of the Lord is in t ivery one of them, and no matter what they j ook like they are all goodness and mercy, so . that the believer may truly say in all his 1 ioiTows: "Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing." ? II Cor. vi.. 10.) The sorrows of the wicked, j m the other liand, are only the foretaste of greater sorrows in the future, when "The vicked shall be turned into heil, and all the lations that forget God." . (Ps. is., 17.) f 11. "Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice ye s ighteous." Not circumstances nor feelings, lot things around us or within us, not what c ve do nor what is done for us, but the Lord i limself, and the Lord alone, is to be our sal- ( ation, our joy, our strength, and that at all imes. I "Shout for joy, all ye that are upright in teart." We may be glad and rejoice in a \ er? quiet way. hut here is authority to makf . ur joy known; the inhabitant of Zion is ex- ; orted to cry out and shout because the Holy i me or Israel is m tne miasi iisa- *" ? i ?"?u i ,-hen the Lord reigns supreme and alone in . uy heart it will be hard to suppress a real Hallelujah!" As it is only those who come t without guile who cau receive forgiveness, so v i is only the upright or sincere who can truly je.i.oioe in the Lord.?Ltsson Helper. " t t A HINDU'S PATHETIC STATEMENT. I A native Hindu says: '"The Hindus of In- g ia are a proverbially sober race. Alcohol is ot oven known among their higher classes. 3 or instance, I am a grown-up person of n >rty-one, and up to this time I nave not fc Den" other kinds of liquors excepting beer, ort wiue. and brandy, and these also I have ' either at Englishmen's tables or as pre- * ribed by doctors trained under the English ^stem. My parents, who are the other sido I' sixty, have perhaps seen none of them, his sober race the Englishmen are fast deloralizing by spreading the drink curse far id wide. My feelings amount to almost a gony when I contemplate this. But we are ? jlpless: We have no hand over our laws, y msequently we cannot control the evil. 1 ative public opinion has pronounced itself c ith unmistakable unanimity against the a overnment policy, but no heed is paid to it the consideration that seems to be paralount with the Government is 'revenue.' " * i not this pathetic? t Fresh air, with physical exercise, is j, ie elixir that lays the Brown-Sequard l jmedy on the shelf, a ' - . _ * ?_ "( POPULAR SCIENCE. 1 M. BischoSsheim has presented to the | mineralogical museum in Paris a valua- I ble collection of diamonds. | Scales so delicate that they register/J the weight of an eyelash or a man's sigyjmd nature have been perfected. A bicycle which can be made quadricycle and can be used by either s man or woman, has been invented by an English genius. The International Chemical Congress -, passed a resolution to the effect that not -; more than 3 per cent, of lead should be ; ' permitted in the alloy used for "tin." ning," not more than 5 per cent, in the alloy for tin vessels. From experiments made in Richmond,'. *^ Ya., with electric heaters, it seems prob- J able that a passenger coach can be kept .v warm at an expense of two cents an hour, the current being supplied by a dy- ' name on the locomotive or tender. ? Soot falls down a chimney before a storm because the air at that time con-. ;ji tains more moisture. Soot is hygroscopic?that iii, absorbs the moisture.from the air, and, becoming heavier, der j taches itself from the sides of the chim- ney. While strolhng through the Paris Ex- f hibition the other morning, Hr. Edison accidently hit upon a tool th&t he calculates will save him something like $6000 a year. It is u chisel worked by hydraulie pressure, and will enable him tore- v , j.. v:- i :_Ui l uuup una uiuui uy ci^utccu muius. A simple pattern of an incandescent, lamp has lately been introduced in . France, consisting of two horizontal rods of copper, placed about four milimeters apart. A thin, pointed rod of carbon,' placed vertically, rests' on the copper . rods and forms a bridge between them, That is a wonderful machine whicb&c.;; Francis Gal ton has invented for meanN^ ing the time which elapses between seeing or hearing anything and the maB^H ing of a certain specified movement. According to experiments npde this 4 time averages about one-fifth of a second. ^ Numerous observations made in Franco g show that on meeting an insulated j talic or carbon conductor the solar rajf-V" communicate to it a positive chaige; that the amplitude of this chaige in-.' 4 creases with the intensity of the rqjs,' and decreases with the hvgrometric state of the air. :A "Pita," the supposed remedy for hy- ,:i drophobia discovered in Spain, sewna to ^ be a name given to the flower-stalk of. v the aloe, a plant common in some parts / of Spain. The story goes that its virtues were discovered accidentally by a mania , a fit of hydrophobia falling upon an aloe .Vplant and unconsciously biting the steauyf Where gas is used, the safety of health simply depends on securing full, free and perfect ventilation. The necessity for this precaution is highly apparent, when we think of the impurities whidli gas ; sends forth into the atmosphere,and when we reflect on the evil which is wrought ' to health when these impurities are in haled. Some ingenious man has just patented a new kind of umbrella, the material of which is as waterproof as ?ilk or alpaca, .' < and at the same time quite transparent . With this umbrella one will be easily able to avoid in future those collisions with lamp-posts and other umbrella-canriers which are at present so frequent and?gt> inconvenient. Professor Bergmann some time agt/? performed another uncommon surgical feat in Berlin. Two cases came to him simultaneously for operation; one required amputation of the hip joint, the * other excision of diseased bone tissue from the humerus. The Professor did the amputation first, and used a. part of the femur he had cut off to fill up the space left by the removal of the dead bone in the other patient's arm. Perfect iiniAn tnnlr rtlo/to v uutvu vvwa ^/iuvvi It has been recommended thai refuse cocoanut fibre, which is very plentiful where the fruit is grown, be used aa a backing for the armor of war vessels. Compressed plates miy be made of it, which, on being penetrated so as 'to admit water, would quickly swell aiid close the orifice, preventing the sinking of the vessel. In recent experiments, bullet holes nearly an inch in diameter were made in half-inch plates of this material protected by boards, when a jet of water shot through, but ceased to flow in le? than one minute. How the Pope Lires. A correspondent from the Eternal City jives the following interesting account )f the daily life of Pope Leo: 'Every morning before addressings limself to the direction of the affaire of. :his planet the Pope offers the sacrifice oi:he mass and then attends a second mass, it which his chaplain is the celebrant. With, a mind thus attuned to divine thing* H ;he Pope then begins his working; day. Mm i single glass of coffee, tea or ices to break his fast. After going hrough his papers he begins to receive H ibout 9. From that hour till 1 in the H ifternoon the throng of visitors never ilackens. ' "Secretaries, ambassadors, car^Wftlin^B rom the congregation, distkiguishcd bH trangers, bishops fropj^-afaf' have audi- H :nce in turn. Thefe are 1200 bishops H n the Catholic C&urch, and with all of |fl hem the Pope, is in more or less constant MB jersonal relations. Hi 'After four or five hours spent in this vay he returns to his papers and his )ooks until 3, when he dines. His meal s frugal; little soup, two courses of meat, HH vith vegetables, and dessert of fruit, with >ne glass of strong wine, suffice his wants. H| Lfter dinner he goes out for a drive or a valk in the gardens of the Vatican. In he evening he resumes his papers, and it night, between 9 and 10, all the mem)ers in the papel household assemble for he rosary, after which they retire to rest. J..* 1/..A. nftn,. +Vi?f >>rtiir tVio rardinal JUU XUUg aibV/1 tuuu ... tate secretary, Rampolia, or the undem^H tate secretary, Mocenni, is often sum-^H aoned to the papal apartments, where, BS >y the light of the midnight lamp, Leo Bfl vatches and thinks and prays for the wel are of the church. An Intelligent PaplL SB A railroad conductor wanting to teach , new brakeman his duties told him to 89 [o to the other end of the car and when H| le, the conductor, called out the names ^Bj if the stations along the route that'he j^H hould say the same at that end df i&he at. When they came to the first station he conductor called out "Ma-wash-in-ea!" which is a small town between In- flH lianapolis and Elkhart, Ind., and the >rakeman yelled out with all the ffdghk lis lungs would permit him: ' 'TWisane it this end!"?Chieaao Herald. H