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/ REY DR TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMOX. : : Subject: ' !)'& Gardens of Solomon." Itare: UImade me great icorks, Ibuilded me houses, I planted me vineyards, I mads sne gardens and orchards, and plantedtrees in them of all kinds of fruits; I made me pooh of water to water therewith the icuod that bringeth forth trees."?Ecclesiastes ii., 4-0. A spring morning and breakfast at Jerusalem. A king with robes snowy white in -i- chariot decked with gold, drawn by eight horse?, high mettled, and housings as brilliant as it scolloped out of that very sunrise, nnri lib a tha f/\*? p*>aa/1 ?. ? ? MMV wuv IT a uuo i.v/i J.VUVHOU by a regiment of archers on horseback, with hand on gilded bow and arrows with steel points flashing in the sun, clad from head to foot in Tyrian purple, and black hair sprinkled with gold dust, all dashing down the road, the horses at full run, the reins loose on their necks, and the crack of whips and the halloo of the reckless cavalcade putting the miles at deflanc9. Who is it, and what is it? King Solomon taking an outing before breakfast from Jerusalem to his gardens and parks and orchards and res? ervoirs, six miles down the road toward Hebron. What a contrast between that and myself on that very road one morning last December going afoot, for our plain vehicle turned back for photographic apparatus for gotten; we on the way to find what is called Solomon's pool, the ancient water works of Jerusalem, and the gardens of a king nearly three thousand years ago. We cross the aqueduct again and again, and here we are at the three great reservoirs, not ruins of reservoirs, but the reservoirs themselves, that Solomon built three millenniums ago for the purpose of catching the mountain streams and passing them to Jerusalem to slake the thirst of the city, and also to irrigate the most glorious range of gardens that ever oioomea witn ait colors or oreatnea with all redolence, for Solomon was the greatest horticulturist, the greatest botanist, the greatest ornithologist, the greatest capitalist and the greatest scientist of his century. Come over the piles of gray rock*, and here we are at the firs; of the three reservoirs, which are on three great levels, the bass of the top reservoir higher than tne top of the second, the base of the second reservoir higher than the top of the third, so arranged that the waters gathered from the several sources above stall descend from basin to basin, the sediment of water deposited in each of the three, so that by the time it gets down to the aqueduct which is to take it to Jerusalem it has had three filterings, and is as pure as when the clouds rained it. Wonderful specimens of masonry are these three reservoirs. The white cement fastening the blocks of stone together is now just as when the trowels three thousand years ago smoothed the layers. The highest reservoir 880 feet by 529, the second, 423 feet by 160, and the lowest reservoir, 5S6 feet bv 169,and deep enough and wide enough and mighty enough to float an ocean steamer. , On that December morning we saw the waters rolling down from reservoir to reservoir, ana can well understand how in 1/L.JO UCl^UUUiUWU tuo *(U?JC11CU gCU UCUO were one great blossom, and the orchard one great basket of fruit, and that Solomon in his palace, writing the Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes, may have neon drawing illustrations from what he had seen that very morning in the royal gardens when he alluded to melons, and mandrakes, and apricots, and grapes, and pomegranates, and figs, and spiken, and cinnamon, and calamus, and camphire, ?nd "apple trees among the trees of the wood," and the almond tree as flourishing, and to myrrh and frankincense, and represented Christ as "gone down into his gardens, and the beds of spices to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies," and to "eyes like fiih pools," and to the voice of the turtle dove as heard in the land. I think it was when Solomon was showing the Queen of Sheba through these gardens that the Bible says of her: "There remained no more spirit in her." She gave it up. But all this splendor did not make Solomon hannv. One (lav after c-ettinc back from his morning ride and before the horses had yet been cooled off and rubbed down by the royal equerry, Solomon wrote the memor able words following my text, like a dirge played after a grand march, "Behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit and there was no profit under the sun." In other words, ' "It don't pay!" Would God that we might all learn the lesson that this world cannot produce happiness 1 At Marseilles there is a castellated house on high ground, crowned with all that grove and garden can do, and the v hole place looks out upon as enchanting a landscape as the world holds, water and hill clasping hands in a perfect bewitchment of scenery, but the owner of that place is totally biind, and to him all this goes for nothing, illustrating the truth that whether one be physically or morally blind, brilliancy of surrounding cannot give satisfaction; but tradition says that when the "wise men of the east" were being guided by the star on the way to Bethlehem they for a little while lost sight of that star, and in despair and exhaustion came to a well to drink, when looking down into the well they saw the star reflected in the water and that cheered them, and tb?y resumed their journey; and I have the notion that though grandeur and pomp of surroundings may not afford peace at the : wen hi 'jou s consolation, ciose oy, you may find happiness, and the plainest cup of the well of salvation may hold the brightest star that ever shone from the heavens. Although these Solomonic gardens are in ruins, there are now growing there flowers x thai are to be found nowhere else in the Holy Land. How do I account for that? Solomon sent out his ships and robbed the gardens of the whole earth for flowers, aud planted these exotics here, and these particular Cowers are direct descendants of the _ foreign plants he imported. Mr. Meshullam. a Christian Israelite, on the very sight of thece royal gardens, has in our day, by putting in his own spade, demonstrated that the ground is only waiting for the rtelit call to yield just as much luxuriance ana splendor eighteen hundred years after Christ as it yielded Solomon one thousand years before Christ. So all Palestine is waiting to become the richest scene of horticulture, arboricul *ui ^ auu a^i ituuui c. Recent travelers in the Holy Land speak of the rocky and stony surface of nearly all Palestine as an impassable barrier to the future cultivation of the soil. But if they hart examined minutely tho rocks ?n<l stones of the Holy Land they would find that thev are being skeletonized and are being melted into the soil and, being for the most j part limestone, they are doing for that land what the American and English farmer does when, at great expense and fatigue, he draws his wagon load of lime and scatters it on the fields for their enrichment. The storms, the writers, the great midsummer heats of Palestine, by crumbling up and j "" dissolving t he rocks aro gradually preparing Pa lestine and Syria to yield a product like | unto the luxuriant Westchester farms of Kew York, ann Lancaster County farms of Pennsylvania, and Somerset County farms of Xew Jcrsev and the other magnificent farm fields of Minnesota and Wisconsin, and the opulent orchards of Maryland and California. Let the Turk be driven out an<l the American or Englishman or Scotchman go in and Mohammedanism withdraw its idolatry*and pure Christianity build its altars, and the irrigation of which Solomon's pools was only a suggestion will make all that land from l)an to Beersheba as fertile, and aromatic and resplendent as on the morning when the king rode out to his pleasure grounds in chariot so swift and followed by mounted riders so brilliant that it was for speed like a hurricane followed by a cyclone. As I look upon this great, aqueduct of Palestine, a wondrous specimen of ancient masonry, about seven ?eet high. t>vo fset i? J wide, sometimes tunneling the solil rock ?> and then rolling its waters through stoLeware ripes, an aqueJuct doing its work ten miles before it gets to those three reservoirs, and then gathering their wealth of refreshment and pouring it on to the mighty city of Jerusalem and filling the brazen sea of her vemple, and the bathrooms of her palaces, and the great pools of Siloam, and Hezekiah, and Bethesda, I find that our century has no . . monopoly of the world's wonders, and that the conceited age in which we live had better take in some of the sails of its pride when it remembers that it is hard work in later ages to get masonry that will last fifty years, to Bay nothing of the three thousand, and no modern machinery could lift blocks of stone like some of those standing high up in the walls of Baalbec, and the art of printing claimed for recent ages was practiced oy the Chinese fourteen hundred years ago, and that our midnight lightning express rail train was t foreseen by the prophet Nahum, when In the Bible he wrote, "The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad Trays, they shall seem like torches, they shall run like lightning," and our electric telegraph was foreseen by Job. when in the Bible he wrote, "Canst thou sena lightnings that they may go and say unto thee, 'Here we are?'" What is that talking by the lightnings but the electric telegraph? I ao not mow "but that the electric forces now being year by year more thoroughly harnessed may have been employed in ages extinct, and that the lightnings all up and down the sky have been running around like lost hounds to find their former master. Embalment was a more thorough art three thousand years ago than to-day. Dentistry, that we suppose one of the important arts discovered in recent centuries, is proven to be four thousand years old by the filled teeth of the mummies in the museums at Cairo, E^ypt, and artificial teeth on gold plates found byBelzoni in the tombs of departed nations. We have been taught that Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood so late as the seventeenth century. Oh, no! Solomon announces it in Eeclesiastes, where first having shown that he understood the spinal cord, silver colored as it is, and that it relaxes in old age?"the silver cord be loosed," goes on to compare the heart to a pitcher at a well, for the three canals of the heart do receive the blood like a pitcher, "or the pitcher bo broken at the fountain." What is that but the circulation of the blood, found out twenty-six hundred years before Harvey was born? After many centuries of exploration and calculation astronomy finds out that the world was round. Why. Isaiah knew it was round thousands of years before when in the Bible he said: "Tha Lord sitteth upou the circle of the earth." Scientists toiled on for centuries and found out refraction or that the rays of light when toucning tne earta were not straignc, ouc bent or curved. Whv, Job knew that when ages before in the Bible he wrote of tho light: "It is turned as clay to the seal." In the old cathedrals of England modern painters in the repair of windows are trying to make something as good as the window painting of four hundred years ago, and always failing by the unanimous >erdict of all who examine and compare. The color of modern painting fades in fifty years, while j the color of the old masters is as well preI served after five hundred years as after one year. I saw last winter on the walls of ex! hunied Pompeii paintings with color as fresh as though made the day before, though thay were buried eighteen hundred years ago. The making of Tyrian purple is an impossibility now. In our modern potteries wo are trying hard to make cups and pitchers and bowels as exquisitely as those exnumed from Herculaneum, and. our artificers are attempting to make jewelry for ear and neck and finger equal to that brought up froui the mausoleums of two thousand years before Christ. We have in our time glass in all shapes and all colors, but Pliny, more than eighteen hundred years ago, described a malleable glass which, if thrown upon the ground and dented, could UtJ pUUUUCvA suai^ui a^aiu UJ vuu uuiuu.vi vs* could be twisted around the wrists, and that confounds all the glass manufacturers of our own time. I tried in Damascus, Syria, to buy a Damascus blade, one of those swords that could ba bent double or tied in a knot i without breaking. I could not get one. i Why? The Nineteenth century cannot make j a Damascus blade. If we go on enlarging cur cities we may after a while get a city as i large as Babylon, which was five times the | size of London. Thesa aqueducts of Solomon that I visit today, finding them in good condition threa thousand years after construction, make ma think that the world may have forgotten i more than it now knows. The great honor of our age is not machinery, for the ancients j had some styles of it more wonderful; nor art, for the ancients had art more exquisite i ana durable; nor architecture, for Roman Coliseum and Grecian Acropolis surpass all modern architecture; nor cities, for some of the ancient cities were larger than ours in the sweep of their pom p. But our attempts must be in moral achievement and gospel victory. In that we have already surpassed tliom onrl in that, rlirwt.inn l?t th? ao-es nush cn. Let us brag less of worldly achievement and thank God for moral opportunity. More good men and good women is what the world wants. Toward moral elevation and spiritual attainment let the chief struggle be. The source of all that I will show you before sundown of this day on which we hare visited the pools of Solomon and the gardens of the king. "We are on this December afternoon on the way to the cradle of Him who called Himself greater than Solomon. TVe are coming upon the chief cradle of all the world, not lined with satin, but strewn with straw; not sheltered by a palace, but covered by a barn; not presided over by a princess, but hovered over by a peasant girl; yet a cradle the canopy of which is angelic wings, and the lullaby of which is the first Christmas carol ever sung, and from which all the events of the past and all the events of the future have and must take date as beins; B. C. or A. D.? before Christ or after Christ. All eternity past occupied in getting ready for this cradle, and all eternity to come to be employed in celebrating its consequences. I said to the tourist companies planning our oriental journey, "Put us in Bethlehem in December, the place and the month of our Lord's birth," and wo had our wish. I am the only man who has ever attempted to tell how Bethlehem looked at the season Jesus was born. Tourists and writers are there in February, or March, or April, when the valleys are an embroidered sheet of wild flowers, and anemones and ranunculus are flushed as though from attempting to climb the steeps, and lark and bulfinch are flooding the air with bird orchestra. But I was there in December, a winter ' i month, the barren beach between the two oceans ot redolence. I was tola x must not go there at that season, told so before I started, told so in Egypt; the books told me so; all travelers that I consulted about it told me so. But I was determined to see Bethlehem the same month in which Jesus arrived, and nothing could dissuade me. Was I not right in wanting to know how the Holy Land looked when Jesus came to it? He did not land amid flowers and song. "When the angels chanted on the famous birthnizht all the flelds of Palestine were silent. .Tha glowing skies were answered by gray rocks. As Bethlehem stood against a Bleak wintry sky I climbed up to it, as through a bleak wintry sky Jesus descended upon it. His way down was from warmth to chill, from bloom to barrenness, from everlasting June to sterile December. If I were going to Palestine as a botanist and to study the flora of the land I would go in March; but I went as a minister of Christ to Trtt-nc. T in TlnromKor T wanted to see how the worlu's front door looked when the hsaveuly Stranger entered it. The town of Bethlehem, to my surprise, is in the shape of a horseshoe, the houses extending clear onto the prongs of the horseshoe, tho whole sceno more rough and rude than can be imagined. Verily, Christ did not choose a sot't, genial place in which to be born. The gate through which our Lord entered this world was a gate of rock, a hard, cold gate, aud the gate through which Pie departed was a swin ^ gate of sharpened spears. vVe enter a gloomy church built by Constantino over tho place in which Jesus was boru. Fifteen lamps burning day and night and from century to century li^ht our way to th? root which all authorities, Christian and Jet* 1 and Mohammedan, agree upon as being the place of our Saviour's birth, and covered b? a marble slab, marked bv a silver star sent from Vienna, and tho words: "Here Jesui Christ was born of the Virjriti Mary." But standing there I thought, though this is the place of the nativity, how different the surroundings of the wintry night in which Jesus came! At that time it was a khan, or a cattle pen. I visited one of these khans, now standing and looking just as in Christ's time. We rode in under the arched entrance and dismounted. We found the building of stone, and around an open square, without roof. The building is more than two thousand years old. It is two stories high; in the center are camels, horses and mules. Caravans halt here for tho night or during ?-? <V4?^, PWVi Ui. A li>' V^U O^UUIO lO ilU^V enough to accommodate a whole herd of cattie, a flock of sheep or caravan of camels. The neighboring Bedou ins here And market for their hav: straw and m'jats. Off from tnis center mere are twelve rooms tor human habitation. The only light is from the doer. I went into one off these rooms and found a woman cooking the evening meal. There were six cows in the same room. On a little elevation there was some straw where the people sat and slept when they wished to i rest. It was in a room similar to that our Lord was born This was the cradle of a King, and yet what cradle ever held so much? Civilization! Liberty! Redemption! Your pardon and mine! Your peace and mine! Your heaven and mine! Cradle of a universe! Cradle of a God! The gardens of Solomon we visited this morning were only a typo of what all the world will be when this illustrious persoDagje now born shall have completed His mission. The horses of finest limb, and gayest champ of bit and sublimest arch of neck, that ever brought Solomon down to these adjoining gardens was but a poor type of the horse upon which this conqueror, born in the barn, shall ride, when according to apocalyptic vision all the "armies of heaven shall follow Him on white horses." The waters that rush down these hills into yonder three great reservoirs of rock, and then pour in marvelous aqueduct into Jerusalem till the brazen sea is full, and the baths are full, and Siloam is full, are only an imperfect type of the rivers of delight, which, as the result of this great one's coming, shall roll on for the slaking of the thirst of all nations. The palace or Lebanon cedar, from which the imperial cavalcade passed out in the early morning, and to which it returned with glowing cheek and gingling harness and lathered sides, is feeble of architecture compared wun xne nouse or many mansions into which this one born this winter month on these bleak heights shall conduct us when our sins are all pardoned, our battles all fought, our tears all wept, our work all done. Standing here at Bethlehem dc you not Bee that the most honored thing in all the earth is the cradle? To what else did loosened star ever point? To what else did heaven lower balconies of light filled with chanting immortals? The way the cradle rocks the world rocks. God bless the mothers all the world over! The cradles decide the destinies of nations. In ten thousand of them are this moment the hands that will yet give benediction of mercy o* hurl bolts or doom, the feet that will mount the steeps toward God or descend the blasted way, the lips that will pray or blaspheme. Oh, the cradle I It is more tremendous than the grave. Where are most of the leaders of the twentieth century soon to dawn upon us? Are they on thrones? No. In chariots? No. In pulpits? No. In forums? No. In senatorial nails? No. In counting houses? No. They are in the cradle. The most tremendous thing in the universe and next to God is to be a mother. Lord Shaftesbury said, "Give me a eeneration of Christian mothers, and I will change the whole phase of society in twelve months." Oh, the cradle 1 Forget not the one in which you were rocked. Though old and worn out that cradle may be standing in attic or barn, forget not the foot that swayed it the lips that sang ovar it, the tears that dropped upon it, the faith in God that made way for it The boy Walter Scott did well when he spent the "flrst five guinea piece he ever earned as a present to nis motner. Dishonor not the cradle, though it may, like the one my sermon celebrates, have been a cradle in a barn, for I think it was a Christian cradle. That was a great cradle in which Martin Luther lay, for from it came forth the reformation of the Sixteenth century. That was a great cradle in which Daniel O'Connell lay, for from it came forth an eloquence that will be inspiring while men have eyes to read or ears to bear. That was a great cradle in which "Washington lay, for from it came forth the happy deliverance of a nation. That was a great cradle in which John Howard lay, for from it came forth a mercy that will not cease until the last aungeon gets tne JBioie ana light and fresli air. Great cradles in which the John Wes leys and the John Knoxes and the John Masons lay, for from them came forth an all conquering evangelization. But the greatest cradle in which child ever slept, or woke, laughed or cried was the cradle over which Mary bent and to which the wise men brought frankincense and upon which the heavens dropped song. Had there been no manger, there had been no cross. Had there been no Bethlehem, there had been no Golgotha. Had there been no incarnation, there had been no ascension. Had there been no Btart, there had been no close. Standing in the chill khan of a Saviour's humiliation, and seeing what He did for us, I ask, What have we done for Him? "There is nothing I can do," says one. As Christmas was approaching in the village church a good woman said to a group of girls in lowly and straitened circumstances, "Let all now do something for Christ." After the day was over she asked the group to tell her what they had done. One said: "I could not do much, for we are very poor, but I had a beautiful flower I had carefully trained in our home, and I thought much of it, and I put that flower on the church altar." And another said, "I could not do much, for we are very poor, but I can sing a little, and so I went do n n to a poor sick woman in the lane, and sang as well as I could, to cheer her up, a Christmas song." "Well, Helen, what did you do?' She replied, "I could not do much, but I wanted to do something for Christ, and I could think of nothing else to do, and so I went into the church after the people who bad been adorning the altar had left, and I scrubbed down the altar back stairs." Beautiful! I warrant that the Christ of that Christmas Day gave her as much credit for that earnest act as He may have given to the robed official who on that day read for the people the prayers of a resounding service. Sonv 'thing for Christl Something for Christ! A plain man passing a rortres3 saw a Russian soldier on guard in a terribly cold night, and took off his coat and gave it to the sol* dier, saying, "I will soon be home and warm, and you will be out here all night." So the soldier wrapped himself in the borrowed coat. The plain man who loaned the coat to the soldier soon after was dying, and in his dream saw Christ and said to Him, "You have got my coat on." "Yes," said Christ; "this is the one yon lent Me on that cold night by the fortress. I was naked, and ye clothed Me." Something for Christ! By the memories of Bethlehem I adjure youl In the light of that star Lie the ages empeerled. That song from of as Has b wept orer the world. POPULAR SCIENCE. An electric bicycle, to run upon a wire, is one of the newest wheeling inventions. Dr. Sequard claims that his elixir has cured intermittent fever, neuralgia, rheumatism, insomnia and leprosy. The Academie de Sciences has submitted a new system of musical notation in which twenty-seven characters replace the 203 symbols now employed to represent the seven notes of the gamut in the seven keys. The Urania, of Berlin, is nr. institution containing well-appointed telc3copcs, microscopes and other instruments for public use. In its first year it has been visited by about 100, J00 persons, who have been benefited by about 1000 lectures. Dr: Regnard finds thnt decomposable substances resist putrefaction when under a pressure of GOO to 700 atmospheres. This corresponds to a depth of 3000 or iuuu jatnoms ai sea, anu indicates iniu corpses sunk in great depths may be indefinitely preserved. If a box six feet deep were filled with sea water and allowed to evaporate under the sun, there would be two inches of salt on the bottom. Taking the average depth of the ocean to be three miles, there would be a layer of pure salt 230 feet thick on the bed ol* the Atlantic. A machine for automatically blowing a fog whistle has just been pateuted. A vessel equipped with the machine may travel at any rate of speed and continue to blow one or three blasts of the whistle per minute while proceeding throigh fog. Many steamers use it?on the lakes, for instance. In a paper on "Liquid Crystals," n German chemist reports the discovery of some most curious organic liquids, which when examined in drops under the microscope bv polarized light, show definite axes of elasticity, just like crystals. This is pronounced one of the most remarkable of recent discoveries in molecular physics. Berlin Is just finding out that its new quarters are built in a flimsy manner, and that many of the new palaces are mere fire traps, while the city has no adequate fire-department. EELIGIO US_RE ADING. A HARVEST SERMON'. The woods are russet golden. On the hill The busy hum of insect life is still; The dreamy softness in the air grows chill. The swallows' nests are empty in the eaves; Her filmy web, dew gemmed, the spider weaves. Framed by Virginia creeper's blood-red leaves. The harvest fields of all their wealth are shorn, The last rich load in triumph home is borne, And cr'pnnoN crfithpr im flip fullnii rnrn. Not one of all those sheaves of gathered grain But feeds mankind, or.sown, lives on again; Not one amongst the gleaners toil In vain. No falling leaf from those great elms hard by, Drenched through by autumn mist, can aimless die, But feeds the nook where spring's first violets lie. Nor. sisters, is one fight for justice lost, Though thrashed and winnowed?to destruction tossed; God works alike by sunshine and by frost. Strive for the right! Do battle brave and true! Fear not and faint not! For the end in view, Leave it with Ilim. Dead effort* live anew! ?[Women's Penny Paper. THE CHRISTIAN'S JOY. Christ had set before Him the joy of bringing many souls to glory. It is nice to congratulate ourselves that we are candidates for glory, but we have got something to do before we get there. That is what we are here for. A friend on the hill tonight said he thought thejoy over his first convert was almost as great as that over his own conversion. I think it was more. There are three great joys. The first is the joy of our own salvation; the second is the joy of bringing some one else to Christ, which is greater, hecause it is double. You enjoy it, and he does, and joy that is communicated is double. The greatest joy is that of seeing one's children walking in the truth when one is in his old age. Do you know thnt you and I f/% Kn \vtMi tllo iov and glory as Christ ? Thank God, I believe it, but I can't realize it. Some one lias made the remark that everything that God pave to the Son He gave awav. The only thing the world gave Him that He didn't give away was that alabaster box that Mary hroke over Him, and if she had given Him the whole box He would have given that away.?[D. L. Moody. A CO>in.ETE SURRENDER. There is an oft-told but instructive story of a red Indian of the forest, who, burdened with a sense of sin, and a consciousness that be had offended the great Spirit, sought to become reconciled to God. To propitiate the favor of Heaven he offered bis desrest possessions. He laid down his ornaments which were bis pride, yet be found no relief to his burdened soul. He placed beside them his blanket, but found no conscious assurance that this gill was accepted and that he was approved of God. Next he laid down his gun, the choicest of all his possessions, inquiring if God would accept that and accept him. Still there was no peace, no consciousness of Divine approval, until at length he added to all the other gifts himself, and prayed that God would ' Take poor Indian too;" and then peace entered his heart, and he could feci that his offering was accepted, and that he was ac cepted with it. The great need of the burdened sou! is peace with God, and God will accept no divided allegiance. No man is important enough to' be accepted of the Lord until he is offered in his entirety. The offering must be a complete, a perfect, an undivided offering. To be accepted of the Lord a man must be wholly given up to Him. The surrender must be entire, absolute, eternal; and when all is yielded up then peace aud joy and rest come in to fill the soul. How many there are who think to please the Lord with divided hearts, who imagine that He will accept hem, and while they are going astray in evil ways; and how much of failure and disappointment and heart-break and ruin comes tlirough this mistaken idea. God would have us wholly His. Let us pray that He will detach tus from every earthly hindrance, and unite us to Himself in an everlasting covenant, bound with bonds of everlasting love. 0 man of earth, struggling in the darkness and longing for the light; wearied of earth and yet not finding rest in God, will you not from this time give yourself wholly to the Lord? Let the past days of doubt, of indecision and uncertainty suffice. For the future let the eve be single, that the whole body be full of light. You are not your own, you are bought with a price, the Mood of the Son of God. What can you render to the Lord for all bis benefits? You have thought, and prayed, and wept. "WUt drops 01 griei can nt-er repay Tbe debt of love I owe; Here Lord, I give myself away 'Tis all that I can do." ?[Common People. A BOLD FRONT. Never in the history of the church has there been a greater demand or a louder call for "a bold front" than at present. The perilous times have come: "Men arc lovers of thrirown selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, lovers of pleasun s more than of God. having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof." It is in view of these' Scriptural facts that we need more men who will make 110 compromise with sin, and will not turn coward* when the finger of scorn or the voice of wrath is raised. Some years ago a sailor at the close of a prayer meeting laid a blank card before his friend, requesting him to write few words on it, I ccause, as he said, "You will do it more plainly than 1 can. "Write these words, sir: 'I love Jesus; do you?'" After he had written them be said : "Now you must tell me what you are going to do with tbe card." He replied: "I am going to sea tomorrow, and I am nfraiil it i do not xaKe a siaini ai once I mav begin to be ashamed of my religion. and let myself be laughed out of it altogether. Now as soon as I go on board! shall walk straight to my l>unk ami nail lip ttils card upon it, that everyone may know that I am a Christian." Tlie >i?irit of boldness as manifested by the young sailor is.the present need on the part of individual members at large. Carry out your religious convictions to the letter, meet the enemy with ho'dness. let him understand where you stand and under what flag yon sail. A few weeks ago one of our American ships was pursued by a suspicions craft. The captain ran up the mast-head the American Hag. The enemy turned away, because lit; knew that the powers of this nation would bestirred. Likewise when your assailants meet you and the dart> of the enemy are thre: tened. raise your banner, unfurl it, stand under it, let your allegiance to (iod be known, anil the enemy will be made to feel that with you i* a holy unction, a Divine power, that cannot aud will not faii thee. Only be true to God when in the thickest or the light, when made the butt of ridicule, or when tempted to yield to wrong. Stand firm, lie a man, be a Christian man; say No; say to your associates with the calm earnestness of one who has looked into eternity, '-I cannot sin asiainst God." Put on the whole I armor, present a bold front, and in tiod's own time the guns of the enemy will be silenced, the sky will clear, the noise of the battle will cea^e, and all Heaven and earth will be made to ring with the shouts of a linivl triumphant victory that will be ours forever. Tnn supremo court or Minnesota has mado a decision for which it deserves tho thanks of -women. It is that photographs aro the property of the persons who s&t for them. This decision -was reached after a year's litigation growing out of suits against tobacconists and others -who have procured pictures of -well-known -women -without permission, and used them as tvado marks. General Butler and Gov. Bracket! are at the head of the movement in Boston for the erection of a memorial hall in SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 23. Lesson Text: "Jesus Crucified," Lnk? xxiii., 33-47?Golden Text: Isaiah liii., 10?Commentary. 33. "And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand and the other on the left." Our last lesson left Him in their haad3 to do their pleasure with Him; and after the scourging and mocking we see the cross laid brutally on that torn and bleeding back, and He goes forth bearing His csoss (John xix., 17.) While it is not said that He fainted under it, the fact that they turned Simon the Cyrenian about, and compelled him to bear it after Jesus (verse 26), looks as if He may have sunk beneath it. or, perhaps, stumbled through weakness or loss of blood. Then hear Him as He says to the women who follow, "Weep not for Me, but for yourselves and your cnildren" (verse 28). And see the two malefactors each bearing his cross. Thus follow to Calvary or Golgotha, the place of a skull (Matt, xxvii., 33). And now see the three crosses, each bearing its living, dying, agonizing burden; ou either side an evil doer suffering: justly, but in the midst the Holy Jesus suffering the just for the unjust. Gaze intently upon Him suffering there for you until you get a truly broken and contrite heart becausa of your sins. 34. "Then said Jesus, 'Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.' And they parted His raiment and cast lots." Can you see Him stripped of His raiment, laid down upon the cross, the nails driven through His 'quivering flesh, and then hear Him pray, "Father, forgive them." As you see and hear all this let your heart say, "Oh, i mv cmil spa trhnfc TTa cnflforpri fnr vnn nnH never cease to thank Him for it; see His compassion for His murderers, and in like manner pray for them that despitefii'iy use you. 35. "And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided Him, savin?. He saved others, let Him save Himself, if He be Christ, the chosen of God." Their cruelty knows no bounds; they have now done their worst; they have crucified Him, but they cannot cease; and as He hangs in greatest physical agony upon the cruel cross they deride Him. He could have saved Himself if He had wished. Not all tho power of men or devils could have harmed Him unless He had permitted it. 36. "And the soldiers also mocked Him, coming to Him and offering Him vinegar." The sufferings and death of Christ reveal the hearts of men?the true children of God, who in trial forsake Him; the professor onlv, who, being tempted, sells Him; those highest in religious things, who, being only hypocrites, bate reality; those highest in temporal power, who know nothing of eternal realities and care only to please people; the irreligious (as these soldiers), who care for none of these things, and the offscouring of the earth suffering just punishment for their crimes?all have their hearts revealed by the cross of Christ. 37. "And saying. If Thou be the King of the Jews save Thyself." They oould not understand a King who had no followers and seemed to have no power. They knew noth ing of the powers uns;en by mortal eyes; horses and chariots of fire were things they had never seen nor known about; legions of Roman soldiers they had seen, but legions of angels, never. 38. "And a superscription also was written, over Him, in letters of Greek and Latin and Hebrew, This Is the King of the Jews." The chief priests objected to this, and wished Pilate to write, "He said, I am King of the Jews" (John six, 21); but Pilate insisted on keeping it as he had written it. Thus to Jews ana Gentiles in all the languages of the Roman empire was proclaimed the fact that this crucified One was a king: and by the three languages we are reminded that He was King not only of the Jews, but of all nations (Zech. ix., 9; Ps. lxxxvi., 9). 39. And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on Him, saying: If Thou ba Christ save Thyself and us." Rulers, soldiers and malefactors all utter the same taunt, "Save thyself." When Satan spoke through Peter it was to the. same effect, "Pity thyself" (Matt, xvi., 22, margin); and in this oftrepeated cry we recognize the same adversary in each (Cor. iv., 11). 40. "But the other answering, rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?" Hardened, indeed, must have been the heart of this condemned man, who, knowing that he must very soon meet God in the spirit world, railed even to the last; but people are still known to go to their execution cursinz God to the last, so hardened may the heart or sinful man become. 41. "And we indeed justlv; for we receive the due reward of our deeas; but this man hath done nothing amiss." Anoiner testimony to the innocence of "This Man." We have heard it from Judas, from Pilate, from Pilate's wife, indirectly from Herod, and now from the thief on the cross. How he came to this knowledge we are not told, but we rejoice in his added testimony. 42. "And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom." . This is grand. Not only does he confess himself a justly punished wicked man, but he confesses that the man at his side is an innocent man suffering unjustly; that notwithstanding all that has been done to Him and said to Him He is really a king and has a I kingdom; and he humbly asks to be rememI bered in that kingdom. 43. "And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, to-day shalt thou be with Me In Paradise." What a trophy for Christ to display among the redeemod! What a redemption for this malefactor to obtain! He saves others; yes, even to the uttermost, but He saves not Himself. 44. "And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour." He was crucified at the third hour (Mark iv., 25), which would be about 9 o'clock. At the sixth hour or 12 o'clock this darkness set in, which continued till He died at 3 o'clock. The sun refused to shine longer upon such a scene; earth put on mourning. 45. "And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst." | I mi ..mlwl nf ho lv or flOSll. I JLIItJ veil vroo a otiuuv< w*. ? As in tabernacle and temple, the veil con- | cealed the glory of God; so during all His stay on earth the mortal body of Christ concealed within it the glory of "God. 40. "And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice. He said, Father, into Thy Uauds I commend My spirit: and having said thus He gave up the ghost." This is the last of His seven sayings on the cross. For the others in the order of utterance sse verses 34, 43; John six., 25, 27; Matt, xxvii., 40; John xix., 28, 30. They teli of forgiveness, Paradise, provision for our need while here and the infinite cost at which all has been purchased. The last confirms the fact of life apart from the body or conscious existence after death. 47. "Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man." \ et another testimony to the innocence of the Lord Jesus Christ in addition to those mentioned in verse 41. We hope the centurion truly belived on Him, but we are not told.? Lesson Helper. Some lakes are distinctly bine, others present various shade? of green, so 1 " 1 11 ? ,i;?_ mat in some cases uiej mo umun ui tiuguishable from their level, grass- ! covered banks; a few are almost black. Tbe Lake of Geneva is azure hued; the Lake of Costannce and the Lake of Lucerne are green; the color of the Mediterranean has been called indigo. The Lake of Biienz is greenish yellow, and ita neighbor, Lake Thun, is blue. A STttANOE story lias just been published in Germany on the strength of a letter from an eye witness, now dead, to the effect that General Abel Douay, ! who fell at the battle of Worth, was really rhot by an officer in a Turco regiment, -who was furious at Douay's order of retreat. Even tho caterpillar ha9 to hump himself if he wants to make any progross. WORDS OF WISDOM. To bear is to conquer our fate. A good liver is the" best preacher. Ill deeds arc doubled with an evil word. There is an utter of uncertainty about everything save uncertainty. Without adversity a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. The finest naturelike the truest mind, must be tempered in the hottest furnace. That cannot be a healthy condition in which a few prosper and the great mass. are drudges. Blame is safer than praise. In general every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. Let this be your constant maxim, that no man can be good enough to neglect the rules of prudence. Communities are blest in the proportion which money is diffused through tha whole range of population. . ; An apple tree puts to shame all the men and women that have attempted to dress since the world began. For every grain of wit there is a graia of folly. For everything you favo missed*, jou have gained something dse. Small kindnesses, small courteles, small considerations,habitually practced in our social intercourse, give a grc;ter charm lo the character than the di? lay of great talents and accomplishment . Trapping a Monster Elephant, Silent and almo3t motionless, mite hidden in the darkness, stood the hge form of an old bull elephant, on of whose tusks had been damaged lrliis youth and had become totally decayd. His head was bent forward in ordoito rest his one monster tusk upon the grou.d, his trunk loosely coiled between his feelegs, was also resting on the ground, ad bis great ragged ears flapped spasmdically in vain endeavors to shake off to myriads of mosquitoes that persistency hovered around his head. Suddenly to forest was lit up by a most vivid flash c lightning, followed an instant afterwai by a clashing peal of thunder. The eU phant raised his head with a startle* jerk, his huge limbs shaking wit fear. Almost before the rumbling echoes othe thunder had died away, the rail?, that had been threatening for so ma' '? hours, fell in torrents. Flashes ofligl ning succeeded each other so rapid; , that the attendant peals of thunder wei converted into one continuous roar, ar the violence of the wind soon increase . to a veritable tornado?a tropical hurri cane. Trees were blown down and uprooted on all sides. The terrified elephant remained for some time motionless with fear, but the tempest continued, the1 monster became suddenly panic-stricken, and charged madly through the dense forest, stumbling and falling over the trunks of uprooted trees in his endeavors to gain some opeu patch where there Would be no danger of being crushed by tho falling timber. Suddenly, in the midst of a mad rush, the elephant sank to the ground with a sharp squeal of pain. The poor brute had severed the vines that supported one of the traps that had been arranged the previous day, and a heavily weighted spear was plunged between his shoulders. For some moments he remained motionless, then the great body rolled slowly from side to side in vain endeavor to free himself from the spear, but the weapon was barbed and the points had penetrated too deeply to be shaken off. Here he remained, exhausted, until daybreak, his hide covered with patches of mud and deep red smears of blood.?Scribner. Fast Torpedo isoats.. Of course all builders strive for the greatest speed, and each year has seen a boat built which is faster than any before. The palm for the highest speed seems at present to lie between an English boat built for France in Thornycroft?the Coureur; and a German boat built for Italy by Schicau?the Nibbio. Each of these boats can run nearly twenty-seven knots an hour. A knot, you know, is a sea mile, which is one and one-seventh land mile3, so these boats can make about thirty miles an hour, or about the aver* age speed of a railroad passenger-train. Just think of a boat rushing through tha water as fast as a train of cars runs over the land! The next most important thing in a torpedo boat is quick turning; and for this purpose the larger Norraand, Schicau and Yarrow boats have two rudders, one in the usual place at the stern and one under the bow. Mr. Thornycroft has another device. He puts two curved rudders near the stern and the propeller is between them, so that when the rud UUld UiO IUIUWU U'^WIUV.1) luu itwvv. the propeller is driving astern is turned a little to one side and helps to push around the boat. The latest idea in torpedo boats is to have their launching tubes mounted on turn-table3 on deck instead of beiug fixed in the bow. With this improvement a boat will not have to steam straight at her enemy, stop, lauuch her torpedo and then turn and run away; but it can train its tube on the big ship as if the tube were a gun, aud lauuch the torpedo while rushing past at full speed. This would be less dangerous for the torpedo boat, for it would not afford the men on the ship a good aim at her.?St. Nicholas. A Volcano as au Incubator. The volcano of Bogoslor, on aa island of the Aleutian group, oil Alaska, which suddenly burst into activity last winter, and whose flaming summit could be seen fr\r civtv miles. wa3 vi?ited dtirini the summer by several officers of the United States revenue cutter Rush. The volcano is only 200 feet above the sea level. "When the crater was opened by the submarine earthquake it is thought volumes of water rushed in which caused the dense clouds of steam that had been arising ever since. From a figure at the base of the mountain rose a boiling sulphur fountain. The officers asceuded *o the crater, aud on looking ovor the edge the steam could be seen in endless quantities rising from unknown depths. Rumbling noises, like thuuder, were heard, and the air was impregnated with sulphur. One of the most curious facts dis4-hnt rtnnn n HQflH tVlA CU^Ult'U UU3 buuu v? vUW island as a natural iucubator for their young. Thousands of gulls flew away at tha approach of thn Rush and left behind them, along the sides of the volcano, eggs in all stages of development. The Rush brought an immense walrus hide. O , ? fifteen feet long, to be placed on exhibition at the world's fair. It will be first seut to the Smithsonian Institution to be prepared.? Chicago Herald. J \ WOMAN'S nmilfflON. ' Nearly Alway, Right la HAr Jadnnent le Retard to Commorti Things. An old gentleman over seventy, came into the city from his farm, without his overcoat The day turned chilly aad he was obliged t? forego his visit to the fr&ir. { To a friend who reotlonstrated with him fo^^ going away from ho/me thus unprepared, he said: "I thought it/was going to oewarm; my wife told i^e JCo take my overcoat, but I wouldn't. WogfeQ have more sense than men / A frajat admission. Wqtfhea's good sense is said to come from intyfition; may it not be that they are more ^Jmse observers of little things. One thing is certain, they are apt to strike the nail on thehead, in all the ordinary problems of life, more freauentlv th?n t-ha ???? */?? "According to Dr. Alice Bennett who recently read a paper on Brizht's disease bofore the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, Earsons subject to bilious attacks and sicfc eadaches, who have crawling sensations, like the flowing of water in the head, who are 'tired all the time' and hare unexplained attacks of sudden weakness, may well be suspected of dangerous tendencies in the diraotion of Bright's disease." The veteran newspaper correspondent, Jos Howard, of the New York Prest, in noting | this statement, suggests: "Possibly Alice is Incorrect in her diagnosis, bat why doesnt she give some idea of treatment? I know a man . vr i who has been tired all the time' for tea years. Night before last he took tvro doses of calomel and yesterday be wished hf hadn't." A proper answer is found in the followinz letter of Mrs. Davis, wife of Rev. Wm. J. Davis, of Basil, O., June 21st, 1800: "I do not hesitate to say that I owe my life to Warner's Safe Cure. I had a constant hemorrhage from my kidneys for more than five months. The physicians coold do nothing for mo. My husband spent hundreds of dollars and I was not relieved. I was under the care of the most eminent medical men in . the State. The hemorrhage ceased before I had taken one bottle of the Safe Cure. I can safely and do cheerfully recommend it to all who are sufferers of kidiiey troubles." A New Way of Raisin* Peas. While passing by the postoffice last , Jm Tuesday a reporter of the Enterprise ^m| overheard a prominent chicken and turkey raiser?who resides near Mount' Vernon Church, and who,for convenience ' ' sake, can be called 4,Uncle Billy" Sim- v mons?remark: "Last spring I planted a lot of English peas. One day chickens 9 got in the garden, scratched them up and ate them. I didn't have time just I then to send to town after more pea I seed to plant, so I decided to cut the ' chickens' craws open, take the seed out I and plant them. I did that. Then I sewed up the crawa with a common I needle and thread. I never hw a finer crop of English peas than I railed last G spring, and I think those chickens were I the best I ever tasted, for, be it known, I the chickens lwed and grew to be of I good size."?Sutter City (Cal.) Enter- I prise. rViCpM The amount of life insurance in Ger- I many, as reported by thirty-eight com- 1 oanies, was $942,500,000 at the close of ./I 1889; and the new insurance written that I year amounted to $86,625,000. I \ The hop crop of Lane County, Oregon, . J is)estimated at 700,000 pounds for the I /ejar 1890. I As extraordinary advance in the use of co- I oaTseems to have taken place of late years In I '.ni land. In the House of Commons, this lMt e." Ion, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, the I ha noellor of the Exchequer, called attention I ) it as a cause tor much of the falling off of I u le j of coffee. He attributed It inameas- I ui -e,3 the position a preparation of cocoa ; I k: lov as "Grateful and Comforting" had I ta ke In accord with this suggestion, it m47 b< , inresting to follow the course cocoa hw 1 te ke n England tince 1832, when the duty, ^ J w lie. had been standing at M. oer pound, M w tha Importation of nnder half a million pejun*, was reduced to 3d. per pound, and not.-:- -' , loii? fter we find the homujpathic doctrineof midline introduced into tne kingdom, and that Ue use of cocoa was specially advocated by ph sicians adopting that mode of practice. fc'oon after we find the first homceopatuio chemits established in England (the arm of ] F.pps & Co.) produced a special preparatloiwnlch only nfeded boiling water or milk o be at once ready for the table, and the superbr character ot this production has, no doubt done much, as the Chancellor of the Exch-auer said, to bring about the advance rnadel _____ T "Jj - Both^V method and results when gyrujBFigsis taken; it is pleasant and rWf hing to the taste, and acta entlj?E;omptly on the Kidneys, averBowels, cleanses the system efiHpally> dispels colds, headaches jliic^ fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced, I pleasing to" the taste ana acceptable t? the stomach, prompt in f* its acti|Pnand truly beneficial in its effects, ?) roared only from the most healthyftad agreeable substance^ its maiW'xcellent qualities commend iWi all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup oflFigs is for sale in 50o and $1 Ijottbs by all leading drug* gists. reliable druggist who may not[have it on hand will procure it jprf*nptly for any one who I wr-oVioa +r* trr it. Do not accept I VI iouvo v >a , I anyeubstf*^?* CAUFOpti nG SYRUP CO. F*JV tSAfJCiaCO, CAL lOVlSVILLl* XV HEW YORK, N.I. riiofT'si IEMULSSON! I Of Pure Cod j | Lfiver Oil and ! | ijkf ' hypophosphites i . \ Mil I of Lime and ! Soda | , is endorsed $|nd prescribed by leading I , physicluna becP1*?0 both the Cod T.lcer Oil ( and JIypopho.7Pflitea nr? tlio rocognlzed ( I agents in the crro of Consumption. It la ( j as palatable as' I I Scoff's Emulsion Ett ulJion. It I 1 is a tconderfuC Flettl Producer. It is the | Seat Remedy CONSUMPTION, r Scrofula, Broncki'H*, Wasting- Dii( eazes, Chronif Coaghs and Colds. j j Ask for Scott's q?olsl an and take no other.j Uliyr STUD Y. Bu*'ne?sKoran, Kf U m C Peaman?hlP> Arltlujutlo, Short-ami, atx, II thoroughly taujfrf. Si Circular! frsei Bryant's College,*** SW Hgffclo> & Jf. ?[. ^