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f . 5 AGRICULTURAL. ,4. TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. PASTURING CATTLE DYING OCT. In the farming of the future there wil! be no pasturing of cattle. At present it is cheaper to pasture cows where land is cheap, and on large farms, but it will not pay on small farms, where the verj utmost must be made from each acre. To use five acres for a purpose for which K& -*11 ?A?? J- d- - 1 At J A - I one wui suiucu in iu lust; iuk pruuuut 01 four. The soiling system will eventually change the present methods, and the preservation of green food in the silo is ! the first step in that direction.? Wieeontin Agriculturist. 8ECRETION OP WAX BY BEE9. In producing extracted honey with old combs, do not the bees secrete more jf; wax than they can use with profit ? In r ' other words, is not some of the wax wa3t?d? was a query propounded and answered recenntly in the American Bee v Journal. Professor Cook replied: "I do not think so. I believe this waste of wax imaginary. Bees secrete wax when they need it." A. B. Mason said: "My bees do not secrete wax unless they need it. The idea that bees have to make > wax, whether they want to or not, is a humbug, I believe." The editor said: | ?'As bees only produce wax when needed, c- the chance for waste is infinitesimally amall." CULTURE OF HOrS. w Hops require a rich, loamy soil. They are grown from root cuttings which are purchased of growers who thin out their C vines in the spring or of seedsmen who deal in them. The roots are planted in hills seven or eight feet apart each way, three or four cuttings being put in each r\ hill, and a pole driven into the giound for the plants to climb upon. The land should be well manured and kept culti& rated and free from weeds; if any fertilizer is used it should be rich in nitrogen and potash with a les3 amount of phosphoric acid. For an average yield of 800 pounds of hops the usual allowy ance of these various elements is 125 pounds of nitrogen, eighty-five pounds of potash, and fifty pounds of phosphoric acid, which will be furnished by 300 pounds of nitrate of soda, 200 pounds of chloride of potash, and 300 pounds of superphosphate of lime, allowing for the natural fertility of a fairly good soil, p^v This quantity should be given every year.?New fork Times. SI; NASTURTIUM. "What is brighter and more attractive j&. than a bed of trellis of nasturtiums? If you wish to grow the plants in a bed js?- it is necessary to get the Tom Thumb va[ rieties, that do net grow over a foot high. L It always seems to us, however, that the R- nasturtium's essential beauty lies in its ri climbing habits, and that the new hy' brid dwarf varieties are not as attractive as the vines. If the nasturtium seeds ^ > 0 nlonlpr? nmv in a ho* of sandv loam and set in a sunny window, and transf planted when the ground is settled, they I will begin to blossom early in the summet. If you wish abundance of blost soma you must pick off a great many of tne leaves and never allow any of the r flowers to go to seed. A very beautiful I'" variety of flowers can be obtained by EC, planting "scarlet," dark maroon and yellow nasturtiums together. They will not always remain exactly a3 they were planted, but the variety obtained in specimens blotched and stripped with the different shades is very attractive. ?> ... The leaves and some of the flowers of the nasturtium, mixed with a large proportion of lettuce, make a very acccptaJr: ble salad. If you wish to raise the seed vessels for pickles it is better to raise the regular vegetable garden vines for this purpose alone. The seods of the gr new ornamental varieties are not any better for picklos, and if the flowers are allowed to drop and the seed veesels mature it exhausts the vines so much that they do not give such an exuberant wealth of bloom as they do when the k flowers are picked off as soon as they f fado- ?New York Tribune. ENSILAGE FOR HOBSES. Ensilage is not considered wholesome food for horses on account of its aptness to ferment in the stomach, and this is dangerous in such a small stomach as |V' that of ahorse. Even gre n clover or rje should be carefully used for feeding horses fresh and unfermented, but not .wet. Cows may be safely fed on ensilage, and will eat one cubic foot per day. ? If any ensilage is fed at all to a horse it should be mixed one-half with dry hay cut fine aud without meal, whole grain ?; being fed at intervals. Two hundred cubic feet of space, with one-half for shrinkage, should be allowed in a silo for each animal to be fed, and for a small stock the silo should be one-third deeper L than it is wide. One seven by seven should be ten feet deep. This is necessary to enable the silage to be taken off from the top as it is wanted. ^ ^ One acre of small corn will make about 400 cubic feet of silage, equal to about eight tons. The corn should be planted as if for grain, in rows three feet apart, aDd with four grains at in(j.. tervals of eighteen inches in the row. ""I'Dis win give a large uuinuer ui curs, and when the grain is glazed the corn may be cut and shocked and partly dried for two or three weeks, when It is in better condition for the silo than if put away when newly cut. In a small silo it f is necessary to pack away the ensilage slowly, so that it has an opportunity to ieat up to 140 degrees, which destroys the germs of fermentation and mold, and thus keeps the ensilage from becoming | sour. This will require about three or four days in the filling. Care is to be taken to pack the ensilage firmly, especially about the walls, and to cover the top with hay for two or three feet. 8ALT AND ASHES FOR PIG9. Every experienced farmer knows thai pigs are fond of ashes. But we are in clined to think that comparatively few farmers make it a rule to furnish ashei regularly to their hogs. When pigs an running out in pasture, or have access t< the ground it may well be that ashes an not absolutely needed; but when the] are shut up and led onricn, concentrate* food, ashes are necessary for their health , What the pigs find in the ashes tha agrees with them is not known; som< [ think it is the charcoal, and others th i potash, and others the lime. For th present we know that ashes, whethe -wood or coal ashes, are beneficial in sum -way, and we should not neglect to fur sish a supply of thwa. k. We are indebted to Professor Ilenry, director of the Wisconsin experiment station, for some valuable experiments ; which demonstrate the value of salt and ashes, or salt and bone dust for pigs shut up and fed on rich, concentrated food. Three pigs about five months old were shut up October 28, and fed corn meal, 1 with an allowance of hard wood ashes, > for six weeks. After that the ashes were i discontinued. During the six weeks, i while the pigs had the ashes, they ate | ' twenty-eight and a half pounds of corn ! meal each per week. During the next ! . thirteen weeks, when no ashes were furnished thft nias ata onlv nineteen and i t ?- r_o' ~ * three-fourths pounds of corn meal each I > per week, and gained only two poundB ! i each per week. It is evident that as I soon as the ashes were omitted the pigs lost their appetite. Pigs of this size, six to seven months old, should have eaten more as they grow larger, but instead of this they ate leas. In fact, they ate little more than enough to sustain the vital function, and, of course, could gain but little. They were sick for want of something, and subsequent experiments seem to show what that something was. Four pigs, between four and Ave months old, and weighing about seventyfive pounds each, were divided into two pens. One pen had corn meal, water, salt and ashes. The other corn meal, water and salt, but no ashes. The experiment commenced September 30, and continued to December 23, or twelve weeks. The pig3 having ashes ate -3 - i. rsC Blguieeu UUU a I^CUUCCl piiuuua ui wiu meal each per week, and gained three and a third pounds each week. The pigs without ashes ate fourteen and a half pounds or corn each per week, and gained one and three-fourth pounds each per week. The. extra four pounds of corn per week that the ashes enabled the pig to cat produced one and a half pounds of increased growth. So much for a good appetite. It has been supposed that corn is deficient in nitrogen. But the ashes furnished no nitrogen. They were favorable to health, appetite and digestion, and enabled the pigs to cat, and digest, j and assimilate more corn, and to extract from the extra quantity of corn consumed one and a half pounds of pork ! from four pounds of com. We do not think there is any other grain in the world from which so much pork can be extracted. It is the extreme richness of the corn that clogs the stomach of young pigs. They need less concentrated food. There is nothing as good j as milk, and the next best diluent is green grass or clover, or even some weeds that pigs will devour with great relish. Roots like beets, or maDgels, or turnips are ako good and are relished by the pigs. But they are even moro deficient in digestible nitrogen than corn, and cannot take the place of skimmed milk. It is to be hoped that Professor Henry , will continue his remarkably interesting j experiments till he tcacheg us how to feed j corn so as to get out of it the large ; amount of nutriment it is known to con- j tain. Feeding ashes is good. Possibly a little bran or shorts fed with the corn meal will bo better. It is undoubtedly j largely a question of appetite and diges- j tion, or more likely a question of aasimi- j lation, digestion and appetite. If it is j found, as may well be the case, that some lcs3 rich food, containing more ash and nitrogen, is favorable to assimilation, ; farmers have a wi Je range of by-products , to select from. Bran, shorts, brewers* j grains, malt sprouts, corn refuse from starch and glucose factories, and oil cakes : of all kinds are by-products, which should ! be sold at a price which farmers can af ford to pay. If corn is too rich, some of I these by-products from which the rich- j ness has been extracted can be mixed ' with it. It ought not to be a difficult , matter to make rich food less rich. Tak- I ing oil and starch out of corn and other grain leaves a higher percentage of ash \ aud nitrogen in the refuse.?American ' Agriculturiit. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. On the farm ducks can be kept very j chcap. I Using the whitewash hot will help to kill the lice. Pea meal makes a good substitute for j cottonseed meal. Bees do not make honey, but gather it from the flowers. Stop the cracks in the hen house or they will stop the supply of eggs. Onions aro grown to the best advantage on rich, highly manured lands. The parent colony of bees is the colony from which a swarm has issued. Bar hives arc hive3 with bars across | the top to which the combs arc attached, j Pet the cow, but beware of petting j the bull. He is too rough in his sport, j The beginning of a pig's life is the j m.nst: imnnrtant. and the imuortauce con- i I tinucs. Prune tbc shade trees as well as the ! I fruit trees, so as to give them a beautiful j shade. Ground for sweet potatoes should bo j thoroughly prepared beforo being i planted. Plan to bring out the resources of the j farm It) the best advantage. Make every . part pay. Every apiarist should aim to keep his j place, his extractor and receptacles neat ( and clean. Don't ask advice from others. Get ! the facts and figures and act on your own j judgment. Keep the brood-mara doing light work. Exercise, if not too severe, will be beneficial to her. The practice is to confine the 9hecp and let loose the dogs. Why not reverse the practice? In striving to make more pounds of butter, aon't iorges to strive to mtus.e i better butter. The better way to start in the bee business is to begin in a small way and gradually grow iuto it. t A little salt will be found beneficial to | all classes of stock when stock is allowed r in the pasture on young grass. 3 Over-sulphuring injures the texture 5 and flavor of the fruit, as any unbiased } dried-fruit-testing palate will testify. * Until settled weather it is best to close \ the doors of the poultry house every night. Very little ventilation win ao. t A row or two of sunflowers planted ; along with the corn will be found profite able to use in making a good varietj of e feed, especially in the winter. r Save the egg shells, put them into the e oven and burn them brown; tht>n mash them up tine nnd mix with the feed. It is healthy and beneficial to the fowls. REV. DR. TALMAGE. |i i i THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN DAY SEItMON. , . Subject :"The Brilliancy of Religion." | !, Text: "The crystal cannot equal it."? | Job xxviii., 7. j . Many of the precious stones of the Bible have come to prompt recognition. But for . 1 the present I take up the less valuable crys- | tal. Job, in my text, compares saving wig- { dom with a specimen of topaz. An infidel : chemist or minoralogist would pronounce j ' the latter worth more than the former, but j jod mattes an intelligent comparison, iwuks ; , at religion and then looks at the crystal and ! I pronounces the former as of superior value I i to the latter, exclaiming, in the words of my i text, "The crystal cannot equal it.'' I Now, it is not a part of mv sermonic design to depreciate the crystal, whether it be 1 found in Cornish mine or Hartz mountain or j Mammoth Cave or tinkling among the pen- J i dants of the chandeliers of a palace. The i crystal is the star of the mountain; it is the ! i queen of the cave; it is the eardrop of the J hills, it finds its heaven in the diamond. I Among all the pages of natural history there J ' is no page more interesting to me than the page crystallographic. But I want to show you that Job was right when, taking religion in one hand and the crystal in the other, he declared that the former is of far more value and beauty than the latter, recommending it to all the people and to all the ages, declaring, "The crystal cannot equal it." In the first place, I remark that religion is superior to the crystal in exactness. That shapeless mass of crystal against which you accidentally dashed your foot is laid out wifVi mw? Arflnf.nAss than anv earthly citv. There are six styles of crystallization, and all of them divinely ordained. Every crystal has mathematical precision. God's geometry ( reaches through it, and it is a square, or it is < is a rectangle, or it is a rhomboid, or in some 1 way it hath a mathematical figure. Now, 1 religion beats that in the simple fact that 1 spiritual accuracy is more beautiful than l material accuracy. God's attributes ore 1 exact God's law exact. God's decrees exact \ God's management of the world exact?never I counting wrong, though He counts the grass < blades, and the stars, and the sands, and the 1 ' cvcles. His Drovidences never dealing with us j : perpendicularly when those providencesought to be obliaue, nor lateral when they ought to be vertical. Everything in our life arranged without any possibility of mistake. Each life a six sided prism. Born at the right time, dying at the right time. There are no "happen so's" in our theology. If I thought this was a slipshod universa I would go crazy. God is not an anarchist. Law, order, symmetry, precision, a perfect square, a perfect rectangle, a perfect rhomboid, a perfect circle. The edge of God's robe of government never frays out. There are no loose screws 1 in the world's machinery. It did not just ' happen that Napoleon was attacked with in- < digestion at Borodino so that he became in- < competent for the day. It did not just hap- < pen that John Thomas, the missionary, on a j heathen island, waiting for an outfit and orders for another missionary tour, received ] that outfit and those order? in a box that < floated ashore, while the ship ana the crew i that carried the box were never heard of. i The barking of F. W Robertson's dog, he 1 tells us, led to a line of events which brought him from the army into the Christian min- 1 istry, where he served God with world re- i nowned usefulness. It did not merely hap- 1 pen so. 1 believe in a particular providence. i I believe God's geometry may be seen in all l our life more beautifully than in crystallog- ? raphv. Job was right. "The crystal cannot t equal it." i Again I remark that religion is superior i to the crystal in transparency. We know i not when or by whom glass was first dis- J covered. Beads of it have been found in the t tomb of Alexander Severus. Vases of it are 1 brought up from the ruins of Herculaneum. \ There were female adornments made out e of it three thousand years ago?those adorn- I manta found now attached to the mum- c mies of Egypt. A great many commen- e tators believes that my text meaus glass. What would we do without the crystal? f The crystal in the window to keep out the v storm and let in the day: the crystal over s the watch defending its delicate machinery, t yet allowing us to see tha hour; tlia crystal r of the telescope, by which the astronomer i brings distant worlds so near he can inspect t them. Ob, the triumphs of the crystals t iu the celebrated windows of Eoueu and t Salisbury! c But there is nothing so transparent in a c crystal as in our holy religion. It is a trans- I; parent religion. You put it to your eye and fc you see man?his sin, his sou), his destiny, c You look at God and you see something of ' the grandeur of His character. It is a trans- c parent religion. Infidels tell us it is opaque? Do you know why they tell us it is opaque? t It is because they are blind. The natural t man receiveth not the things of God because t they are spiritually discerned. There is no c trouble with the crystal; the trouble is with * the eves which try to look through it. We ( pray "for wisdom, Lord, that our eyes might be opened. When the eye salve cures our blindness then we find that religion is transparent. ? It is a transparent Bible. All the mountains of the Biblecomeout?Sinai, the mountain of the law: Pisgah, the mountain of prospect; Olivet, tho mountain of instruction; Calvary, the mountain of sacrifice. All the rivers of the Bible come out?Hidekel, or the river of paradisaical beauty; Jordan, or the river of Jaoly chrism; Cherith, or the river of prophetic supply; Nile, or the river of palaces, and the pure river of life from under the throne, clear as crystal. While reading this Bible after our eyes have been touched by erace we find it all transparent, and the eartn rocks, now with crucifixion agony and now with judgment terror, and Christ appeal's in some of His two hundred and fifty-six titles, as far as I can count them ?the bread, the rock, the captain, the com- J raander, the conqueror, the star, and on and < beyond any capacity of mine to rehearse ' thera. Transparent religion! ? The providence that seemed dark before becomes pellucid. Now you find God is not ' trying to put you down. Now you under- I stand why you lost thai child, and why you < lost your property; it was to prepare you i for eternal treasure?. And why sickness 1 came, it being the precursor x>f immortal 1 juvenescence. And now you understand ] why they lied about you and tried to drive | you hither and thither. It was to put you in the glorious company of such men as ] Ignatius, who, when he went out to be de- ' stroyed by the lions, said: "I am the wheat, and the teeth of the wild beasts must first grind me before I can become pure bread for 1 Jesus Christ;" or the company of such men as Polycarp, who, when standing in the midst 1 of the amphitheatre waiting for the lions to come out of their cave and destroy him, and 1 the people in the galleries jeering and shout- ] ing: "Thelions for Polycarp," replied- "'Let i them come on,"and then stooped down to- ' ward the cave where the wild beasts wera ' + * rer\? r\tif " f.flf fVlQIVI f Vim A HT) i iuai tu^ 11/ ^cu VUK. uw VMf Ah. yes. it is persecution to put you in glo- < fious company, and while there are many things that you will have to postpone to the i Iuture world for explanation, I tell you that i it is the whole tendency of your religion to unravel and explain and interpret and il- ^ lumina and irradiate. Job was right. It is a i glorious transparency. "The crystal cannot < equal it." i I remark again that religion surpasses the I crystal in its beauty. That lump of crystal is put under the magnifying glass of the I crystallographer, and he sees in it indescrib- > able beauty?snowdrift and splinter of hoar 1 frost aud corals and wreaths and stars and ( crowns and castellations of conspicuous I beauty. The fact is that crystal is so beau- ] tiful that 1 can think of but one thing in all I the universe that is so beautiful, and that is 1 the religion of the Bible. No wonder this Bible represents that religion as the daybreak, as the apple blossoms, as the glitter of a king's banquet. It is the joy of the whole earth. i People talk too much about their cross and not enough about their crown. Do you know the Bible mentions a cross but twenty-seven times, while it ment'ons a crown eighty times? Ask that old man what he thinks of religion. He has bean a close observer. He has been culturing an Aesthetic taste. He has seen the sunrises of half a centnry. He has been an early riser. He has been an arltniror of cameos and corals and all kinds of beautiful things. Ask him what ho thinks of religion, and he will tell you, "It is the most beautiful thing I ever saw." "The crystal cannot equal it." Beautiful in its symmetry. When it presents God's character it doas not present Him as having love like a great protuberance on one side of His nature, but makes that love in harmony with His justice?a love that will accept all those who come to Him, and a justice that will by no means dear too guilty. Bsautiful religion in the senti - v .. . -vr <;. T;.-. . . .. ... ment it implants? Beautiful religion in the hope it kindles! Beautiful religion in the fact that it proposes to garland and enthrone and imparadise an immortal spirit. Solomon jays it is a lily, Paul says it is a crown, rhe Apocalypse says it is a fountain kissed jf the sun. Ezekiel says it is a foliaged :edar. Christ says it is a bridegroom come ;o fetch home a bride. While Job in the ;e2t takes up a whole vase of precious stones ?the topaz, and the sapphire, and the ;hrysoprasus?and he takes out of this beau;iful vase ju3t one crystal, and holds it up lutil it gleams in the warm light of the east>ra aky, and he exclaims, 'The crystal canlot equal it." Oh, it is not a stale religion, it is not a itupid religion, it is not a toothless hag, as lome seem to have represented it; it is not a kleg Merriles with shriveled arm come to scare the world. It is the fairest daughter af God, heiress of all His wealth. Her cheek bh9 morning sky; her voice the music of the JOUUQ wiqqj ner smp iuo uouu? ui vuu oca. Come and woo her. The Spirit and the bridA ?y come, and whosoever will, let him come. Do you agree with Solomon and say it is a lily? Then pluck it and wear it over your heart. Do you agree with Paul and say it ia Et crown? Then let this hour be your coronation . Do you agree with the Apocalyps? and say it is a springing fountain? Then come and slack the thirst of your soul. Do you relieve with Ezekiel and say it is a foliaged cedar? Then come under its shadow, Do you believe with Christ and say it is a bridegroom come to fetch home a bride) Then strike hands with your Lord the King while I pronounce you everlastingly one. Oi if you think with Job that it is a jewel, then put it on your hand like a ring, on your neci like a bead, on your forehead like a star, while looking into the mirror of God's Word you acknowledge "the crystal cannot equal it." Again, religion is superior to the crystal in its transformations. The diamond is only a crystallization of coal; Carbonate of lim? rises till it becomes calcite or aragonite. Red oxide of copper crystallizes into cubes and octohedrons. Those crystals which adorn Dur persons and our homes and our museums bave only been resurrected from forms thai svere far from lustrous. Scientists for ages bave been examining these wonderful trans* formations. But I tell you in the gospel of the Son of God there is a more wonderful transformation. Over souls by reason of sin slack as coal and hard as iron God by Hia jomforting grace stoops and says, ,lThey ihall be Mine in the day when I make up My jewels." "What," say you, "will God wear jewelry?" If He wanted He could make the stars ot heaven His belt and have the evening cloud for the sandals of His feet, but He loes not want that adornment. He will not save that jewelry. When God wants jewelry He comes down and digs it out of the iepths and darkness of sin. These souls are ill crystallizations of mercy. He puts them )n, and He wears them in the presence of the ioly universe. He wears them on the hand ;hat was nailed, over the heart that was jierced, on the temples that were stung. 'They shall be Mine," saith the Lord, "in ;he day when I make up'My jewels." Won lerfui transtormation" ine crystal cannot ;qual it." There she is, a waif of the street, but she shall be a sister of charity, rhere he is, a sot iu the ditch, but he shall ireach the gospel. Th9re, behind the bars >f a prison, but he shall reign with Christ Forever. When sin abounded grace shall nuch more abound. The carbon becomes the solitaire. "The crystal cannot equal it." Now, I have no liking for those people vho are always enlarging in Christian meetings about their early dissipation. Do lot go into the particulars, my brothers. Simply say you were sick, but make /lianlnw A# tTAtir lilnapj Thft nhiaf itock in trade of some minister* and Chris* ,ian workers seems to be their early crimes md dissipations. The number of pockets you kicked and the number of chickens you stole nake very poor prayer meeting rhetoric. 3esides that, it discourages other Christian people who never got drunk or stole anything. But it is pleasant to know that those who vere farthest down have been brought high>st up. Out of infernal serfdom into eternal iberty. Out of darkness into light. From :oal to the solitaire. "The crystal cannot qual it." But, my friends, the chief transforming (owerof the gospel will not seen in this vorld. and not until heaven breaks upon the ;oul. When that light falls upon the soul hen you will see the crystals. Oh, what a nagniflcent setting for these jewels of eternty! I sometimes hear people representing leaven in a way that is far from attractive ome. It seems almost a vulgar heaven as hey represent it. with great blotches of olor and bands of music making a deafening acket. John represents heaven as exquisitey beautiful. Three crystals. Iu one place 10 says, "Her lizht was like a precious stone, :lear as crystal. In another place he says, 'I saw a pure river from under the throne, lear as crystal." In another place he says, "Before the hrone there was a sea of glass clear as crysal." Three crystals! Jonn says crystal atnosphore. That means healtb. Balm of iternal June. What weather after the world's east wind! No rack of storm clouds. }ne breath of that air will cure the worst ;ubercle. Crystal light on all the leaves. Crystal light shimmering on the topaz of the :eniple3. Crystal light tossing in the plumes >f the equestrians of heaven on white norses. J 3ut "the crystal cannot equal it." John iavs crvstal river. That means joy. Deep j ?nd ever rolling. Not one drop of thi Thames or the Hudson or the Rhine to soil t. Not one tear of human sorrow to imbit- I ?r it. Crystal, the rain out of which it was nade. Crystal, the bed over which it shall roll ind ripple. Crystal, its infinite surface. Bi*: 'the crystal cannot equal it." John says :rystal ssa. That means multitudinously rast. Vast in rapture. Rapture vast as the ten, deep as the sea, strong as the sea, ever :banging as the sea. Billows of light. Bilows of beauty, blue with sklea that were lever clouded and gre9n with depths that vere never fathomed Arctics ana Antarc;ics and Mediterraneans and Atlantics and Pacifics in crystalline magnificence. Three . rystals?crystal light falling on a crystal iver; crystal river rolling into a crystal iea. But "the crystal cannot equal it." "Oh," says some one, putting his hand iver his eves, "can it be that I who have been in so much siu and trouble will ever :ome to those crystals?" Yea, it may be? it will be. Heaven we must have, whatever else we have or have not, and we come here to get it. "How much must I pay for it?" you say. You will pay for it just as much as the coal pays to become the diamond. In other words, nothing. The same Almighty power that makes the crystals in the mountains will-change your heart which is harder than stone, for the promise is, "I will take away your stony heart aud 1 will give you a heart of flesh." ... ? ...... ''Oh," says some one. "it is just the doctrine I want. God is to do everything, and t am to do nothing." My brother, it is not the doctrine 3*ou want. The coal makes no resistance. It hears the resurrection voice in the mountain, and it comes from crystallization, but your heart resists. The trouble tvith you, my brother, is the coal wants to stay coal. I do not want you to throw upen the door and let Christ iu. I only ask ?.x,. tuuu y uu swj; uuiuu^ il ctuu uai iui iu. v/u, my friends, wo will have to get rfd of our sins. What will wo do with our sins among the three crystals? The crystal atmosphere ivould di3Dlav our pollution. The crystal river would be befouled by our touch. The crystal sea would whelm us with its glistening surge. Transformation now or no transformation at all. Give sin a full chance in your heart and the transformation will be downward instead of upward. Instead of a crystal it will be a cinder. In the days of Carthage a Christian girl was condemned to die for her raith, and a boat was bedaubed with tar and pitch and filled with combustibles and set on fire, and the Christian girl was placed in the boat, and the wind was off shore and the boat floated away with its precious treasure. No one can doubt that boat landed at the shore of heaven. Sin wants to nut vou in a fiery boat and shove you off iu an opposito direction?off from poace, off from God, off from heaven, everlastingly off; and the port toward which you would sail would be a port of darkness, and the guns that would greet you would be the guns of despair, and the flags that would wave at your arrival would be the black flags of death. O, my brother, you must either kill sin or sin will kill you. It is no wild exaggeration when I say that any man or woman that wants to be saved may be saved. Trftmnnrlftus choice! A thousand people are choosing this moment between salvation and destruction, between light and darkness, between heaven and hell, between charred ruin and glorious crystallization. Some smokers have an Idea that "tobacco heartburn" can be oured by swallowing the white ashes from thi end of a cigar, Chemiata say that it la merely kith pure. __ 4 A RELIGIOUS READING. IK. If your lip.? Would keep from slips, Five things observe with care; Of whom you speak. To whom you speak, And how, and when and where. If you your ears Would save from jeers, These things keep meekly hid; Myself and I, And mine anil mv. Aud how I Jo or did. god's plowing. T was walking, once in the early spring, along the country road. Just over the stone fence yonder there was a broad field, smooth as a floor, and most exquisitely arrayed in the iresh spring greenness of its grass. II seemed to me mv eyes hail rarely fallen on a sight so lovely. But ripping right through that smooth "and pleasant greenness there was being dragged a plow^ and the fresh beauty of the fair sward was being turned under - from the sun and air, and only the ugly brown soil was being turned outward, and all the fair and radianl scene was being changed and scarred* ' Why?" I asked myself. I do not have tc wait long for an "answer. The ' 'chastisement" of the fair field was in order that the autumn might find it golden with the more precious harvest of the wheat. Well, God'a plowshare cuts, but never ror tne simpit sake of cutting; always for the sake of resuits of character?fairer, sweeter, nobler. There is benign design behind our chastisement. "'Wherefore lift up the hsnds which hang down, and the feeble knees."?[Way laua Iloyt. keep busy, If you expect God to choose you for a great work, be busy; he seldom selects idlers, when he wished a deliverer for Israel, he went into the wilderness for Closes, who was watching sheep; when he wanted a man to save his people from the Midianites, he .senl for Gideon, who was threshing wheat; when he wanted a man after his own heart to be king of Israel, he sent for David who was keeping sheep. Idlers do not suit; the Lord wishes those who are not only willing to work, but who are hard at it. Idlers are too often lazy, and that maj be the cause of their idleness, seldom have enough ambition to take care of themselves, let a'ore caring for the Lord's work. But idlers suit Satan exactly. He likes such S3 have no ambition, for they make the besl , slaves. The devil wants slaves for his work I hnf firtr? w?nN cnmpfliincr hotter. He wishes men and women who have ambition, who take an interest in their work; he wishes servants who arc anxious to rise, for he meara to promote them some day. From servants he adopts them into his family aud makes them his children.?[Forward. THE nifJHT KTND OF RELIGION. I do not want to be misunderstood. I am working for a revival of religion?a religion that converts people, renews them in the spirit of their mind, creates them anew in Christ Jesus, delivers from the bondage ol sin, injects new ideas, purer, better than the old, brings them out of the world, and separates them unto Christ; a religion that redeems a man from all sin and sets hiir on holy living?on self-denial, painstaking, circumspection and prayer?that imbues his spirit with love, seasons his conversation with crace. and makes him a witness for the truth as it is in Jesus an example, a model, an Israelite without guile or hypocrisy or wavering. In a word, let us in the name of the Lord have o revival of pure, undcfiled religion?a sit killing, sin-hating, sin-forsaking, debt-paying, God-serving, man-loving religion; a religion tbat makes the church liberal, that ifts up the fallen drunkard, seta him upright on his feet, makes and keeps hire iol>er?that crucifies the pride of life, the lust af the flesh?roots out the love of the world and tills the soul with the love of the Father; i consistent, steadfast, uncompromising religion, always abounding in the work of th Lord.?[Bishop Pierce. TlfK MEN THAT KKI.I. OtT. Dr. M. f). Hoge of Richmond, Va., tells o! two Christian inen who ''fell out." On( heard the other was talking against him, and he went to him and said: "Will you be kind enough to tell me my faults to my face, that I may profit by your Christian candor anij try to get rid of them?" "Yes, sir," replied the oilier, :'I will do it."' They went asld< and the former said: Before you commence telling what you tujnK wrong in inc. win you pjease uuvi down with me and let us pi ay over it, thai my eyes may be opened to see mv faults a; you will tell them? You lead in the prayer.' It was done and when the prayer was over, the man that had sought the iutervlew said: "Now proceed with what you have t< complain of in me." Bat the other replied "After praying over !t. it looks so little thai | it is not worth talking about. The truth is I feel now that in going around talkinf against you I have been serving the devi myself, and have need that you pray for m* and forgive me the wrong I hav6 don< you." The quarrel was settled from that hour; and there are several difficulties that mighl be settled the same way. Try it.? [Common People. "? ????. '? **/ ??? T?r\ V PT tl T V (T T?T*. There was an evil howr when once ! slipped the anchor of my faith; J. cut tin cable of my belief: 1 no longer moorcil sujr self hard by the coasts of revelation; I allowed ray vessel to drift before the wind 1 sa:d to reason, Re thou mv captain; 1 sail to my own brain, He thou my rudder; anc started on my tund voyage. Thank God il is all over now, but I will tell you its brie.' history. It was one hurried sailing over thf tempestuous ccean of free thought. I wenl on, and as I went the skies began to d irkon but to make up for that deficiency the water: were brilliantwith corrascations of brilliancy, I >aw ?parks fl ving upwards that pleased me *i.2. ,Vc and i mougut. u mis uc u<.-u muu^ut, ... ? . happy thing. 3ly thoughts seemed gems, aut I scattered stars with both ruv lifintls; bu anon, instead of these corrusealions of glorj I saw prim ticnds, tierce and horrible, star! up from the waters, and as I dashed on they gnashed their teeth and grinned upon me they seized the prow of ruy ship, and draggei me on. while I in part gloried at the rapulitj of my motion, but yet shuddered at th< terrific rate with which 1 passed the old land marks of my faith. As I hurried forwart with an awful speed.I began to doubt my ven existenee. I doubted if there were a world, ] doubted if there were such a thing as my self. 1 went to the very verge of the drearj realms of unbelief. I went to the very bottoq of the sea of infidelity. I doubted every thing. But here the devil foiled himself, foi the very extravagance of the doubt pro vet r..?? .i ^artr hnttim IIS aO.fUlUU.V. <IU9t nuni a. of that sea, there came a voice whirh said "And can this doubt bo true'."' At this ven thought I awoke. 1 started from that deatr dream, which, God knows, might bav< damned tuy soul and mined thi my body if I bad not awoke. When 1 arose faith took the helm: from that momen 1 doubted not. Fuith steered me back: faitl cried. "Away, away!"- least my anehoi on < alvary; 1 lifted my eye to God; and heri I am alive, and out of hell. Therefore speak what I do know. I have sailed tha perilous voyage; I have come safe to land Ask me again to be an intidel, no, I hav tried it; it was sweet at iiist, but bitter after wards. Now. lashed to fiod's (iospel mori tirmly than ever, standing as on a ivk o adamant,I defy the arguments of hell to movi me. for ,-I know in whom I have believed oud am per.-uaded that He is able to kee| that wlii. h I have committed unto Ilim."'? [Spurgeou. Senator Gorman* is a most methodi jal man. Ha rises at just 6 o'cloc] svery morning, sits just sixty minute it dinner, and never on any pretex permits an interruption of liia meals He takes a walk of a fixed leugtJ every day, bathos at the same lioui ?nd never uses tobacco or liquors. Tale about ability In women, amia bility makes up for a good many de fecta. . * *? SABBATH SCHOOL." INTERN A.TION ATj LESSON FOR MAY 10. Lesson Text: "Israel's Overthrow Foretold," Amos vlii, 1-14? oomen xcxt: juukc viil., 18?Commentary. 1. "Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me, and behold a basket of summer fruit." In our last lesson we heard Jehovah reminding Israel of the many ways in which He had sought to win them back to Himself. In uuupi/er v., t, a, it, 10, mey ara ro pea teeny entreated to seek Him and live. Then they are warned of the day of the Lord and Its terrors, yet they conspire against the i prophet Amos and refuse to hear his words (vfi., 10-13). Now, in a vision, the - nation is shown to the prophet i as a basket of ripe fruit, ready to be consumed; thay will not be warned and - therefore judgement must come. Observe i the title of God in this verse?it is not Je[ hovah Elohim (Righteous Creator), but Adonai Jehovah (the Possessor who is ! Righteous) and is used about twenty times in this prophecy. Lord or God in capitals it* always Jehovah; but Lord in small letters, 1 beginning with a capital L, is Adonai. He speaks to them through Amos as their owner ' or possessor (see Amos iii., 2) having a right ! to His own property; but He is also a righti cous possessor. This title i3 first found in * (Jen. xv., 2. 2. "Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more." Similar i words are found in chapter vii.. 8. and in Ezek. vii., 2, 3. Long and patiently He fortmars, and loving seeks in every way to win them back, bat there is a point where mercy stops and judgment must fall. 3. "Ana the songs of the temple shall be howling in that day, saith the Lord God; many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence." Inlsa. xiii., 6-9. and in many other places howling is associated with the Dav of the Lord, and the expression "in that day" found in this verse and in verses nine ana thirteen also signifies the Day of the Lordflsa, ii., 11, 12). The great Day of the Lord Is yet future, and is everywhere associated with judgments upon the ungodly and deliverance for the faithful remnant (see Isa. xxxiv., 8; xxxv., 4; lxiii., 4). But the approaching judgment in the 1 aays 01 Amos was a xoresoaaowing 01 caa Great Day yet future. The silent burial of the dead indicates the horrors of the siege 1 and of war, or it may be enlightened by such ; words as these: "Hold thy peace at the > presence of the Lord God; tor the day of tho 1 Lord Is at hand; for tho Lord hath prepared 1 a sacrifice, He hath bid His guests" (Zeph. 1 7>4. "Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to inake the poor of the land to fail. They were panting for the goods of the poor, that they might fail out of the land. They are described in f'rov. xxx., 14, as "a generation whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from i among men." > 5. "Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the Sab[ bath that we may set forth wheat?" They outwardly kept these days religiously, but all the time their hearts were longing for the business of the morrow. ! "Making theephah small, and the shekel great, ana fasifymg the balances by deceit." ; Not only were market days better to them \ than Sabbaths, but thoy were full of deceit ( even ifl business, giving their purchasers short weight and taking from them more thau was due. Not scrupling to cheat God out of His appointed worship, they found no diffioultv in cnsatinor their fellow man. 0. "That we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat." Compelling the needy to sell themselves as slaves and eat refuse corn. They sold the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes (chap, ii., 6). They had no heart for God or His commands or His poor. ?. "The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of I their works." "He will remember their iniquity and visit their sins."' ' The sin of JucJah I3 written with a pea of iron, and with the point of a diamond" (Hos. viii., IS; Jer. xvii.. 1). It mav be that a great portion j of the sufferings of" tho lost will be the ref membrance of their sins which might have ' been forgiven. I 8. 1 "Shall not the land tremble for this, i and everyone mourn that dwelleth therein? And it shall rise up wholly as a flood, and it shall be cast out and drowned by the flood I of Egypt." This shaking world would be great and sore, but nothing when compared with the groat shaking of heaven, earth, sea, i dry land and all nations in the day of the f Lord (Hag. ii., G-7; Heb. xii., 20). The t mourning also would be great, but see the * (Tranter mnnrninfr nf that dav which shall ' | precede Israel's national conversion (Zech. i ; xii., 10, to xiii., 1. ' 9. "And it shall come to pass in that day, sai*h the Lord God, that I will cause the sun ) ] to go down at noon, and I will darken the ; | earth in the clear day." Sun, moon and i stars, winds and clouds are all obedient to , I Him, and in that day there shall be signs in ' . the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; 1 ; the earth shall quake, the heavens shall trem; j ble, the sun and the moon shall be dark, and : ! the stars shall withdraw their shining; the j bun shall be turned into darkness ana the moon into blood before the great and the ' ! t?rrihl? rlav nf the Lord come (Luke xxi., 25; i Joel ii., 10, 31, Rev. vi., 12). 10. "And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your 3origs into laments tion." The mourning, lamentation, sackcloth, baldness and bitterness of this vera? ' all indicate the great judgment that would - overtake them because of their sin?. 11. "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, thp.t I will send a famine in the land; I not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, I | but of bearing the words of th9 Lord." MulI titudes in our day would not worry much L over that kind of a famine. It was just so in f Israel; "They mocked the messengers of God - and despised His words, and misued His t j prophets." "They despised the law of the ? Lord and have not keep^His commandments'1 > (II Chron. xxxvi., 1(>; Arnosii., 4). Broad foj the body was all they cared for, although , | they hacl been taught that "rnau doth not i ! live by bread alone, but by every word that i i ! oroceadeth out of the mouth of ths Lord doth j { man live," and that it was their life to set r their hearts unto His words (Daut. viii.. 3; ; xxxii., 4?), 47). 12. "And they shall wander from sea to sea, ; and from the north even to the east; they i shall run to and fro to seek the word of the r Lord, and shall not find it.'" Blessiugs lost > are apt to ba prizsd when it is too late. Let us who have the word of God ask ourselves 1 how much wepriza it. If vou had 110 Bible, ; ! and could not get one in your town, knowing I j what it is, how far would you go to get one? Two-thirds of the people on earth are suft'err ine and dying without the word of God. l What do you care! What are you doing to give them the bread of life? Do you pray r tor your pastor that he may give you liviug I bread, or are you satisfied with stones instead i of bread!' , 14. 'They that swear by the siu of Sat maria, and say, Thy God, 0 Dan, 'heth; t and, The manner of Bsersheba liveth; even > they shall fall, and never rise up again." j In Deut. ix., 21r the golden calf which [ Aaron made is called Israel's sin. The calves t of Jeroboam at Dan and Bethel were also , Israel's sin, and are here called the sin of r Samaria. While there is a great and j glorious future for Israel as a nation, all [ individuals who sin against God and die t imDenitent, whether Jews or Gentiles, shall | surely perish. The only way to Have me L? now, real life consisting of forgiveness of sin and fellowship with God, and be able to look b forward with joy to the future, is to be in f I Christ by simple faith in Hitn, and turning e i away from all idols, abide in Hiiu and in His love.?Lesson Helper. The growth of most of the Oerman jltiea, according to the census lately somplete, is nothing short of marvel>ns. It rivals, and in several cases exi seeds, the increase of population of the ? shief cities of the United States, and it 3 | leaves all recent European precedents | (ar behind. _ ti , { The principle ot tile compressed ' paper car -wheels, which are *>o wiuei.y Used throughout the world, ia applied In France to the manufacture of pul(. leys for power transmission. The i. J pulleys are said to be very light, cheap I ind serviceable in ?y?ry resect. a - - " Trf'i ii iiii temperance; r- ??? BEGINNING AT THE RIGHT END. Scientific instruction on the evils attendant on the use of alcoholic stimulants is novr irivon in thirhr-throo flfot/vi Tl%i? J- v?-j? 0- ? ? mmmmm wj WW WTOIM, 1 UU) 10 UtJglU'" ning temperance work at the right end. All that can be done to save the slaves of strong drink should be done. It is better work, however, to prevent souls from being thus enslaved than to rescue those in chains. Here, surely, in the effort to train the young, is an opportunity for common union in temperance work. To this all fcemperanca workers should direct their earnest attention.?New York Observer. _.'A TOTAL ABSTINENCE IN INDIA. . Mr. W. 8. Caino, of England, has returned from his tour througu India, impressed with the temperance zeal that is aflame throughout the southern part of that country. A powerful propaganda of total abstinence principles has been set on foot, the chief apostle being a Hindoo ascetic who' has exchanged religious contemplation for this more useful work, and promises in his way to be as successful In effecting conversions to temnsrwioA as Vavior wu In nm. raoting Christianity in India. In all directions guilds and castes are exacting the total abstinence pledge from their members. The movement nas brought together adherent* of opposing religions, and everything prove* the remarkable progress already made. d A VAST ARMY OF LIQUOB SSLLER9. The number of retail liquor defers in th? United States, according to the official r?> turns of the officers of the internal revenue for the year ending May 1,1890, was 185,868, or one liquor deafer to every 275 inhabitants, on the basis of the census of 1880. In New York there was one retail dealer in distilled liquors to every 130 inhabitants; in New Jersey, 1 to 175; in Ohio, 1 to 330; ia Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, 1 to 400; in Indiana, 1 to 335; in Delaware, 1 to 160; and in California, 1 to 75. The average in all the States. which have general license laws is one dram shop to 250 inhabitants. In Maine there is one dealer in distilled liquors to avflrv 7.V) inhnhifcfl.ntn* in Vwmnnt 1 830; in Iowa, 1 to 520. and in Kansas,' 1 to ^ 800. I.VTEMPEHAXCK AMONG WOKE*. " ' Archdeacon Watkins, at the convention of the British Women's Temperance Association lately hold in Sunderland, England, deploring the fact of the spread of * the evil of intemperance among women, even the socalled higher and middle classes, repeats the statement, "that no small part of the evil, - . at least in certain classes of English society, is to be traced t ^ ;rocers' licenses." Lady Henry Somerset spoite strong words of encouragement to all temperance workers. She said that hope beat high in their hearts; there were better times coming when the tide had set in which would sweep before it all that had so long been an obstacle^. Tha year had been a memorable one. For tha very first time those who knew nothing of the forces that were gathered around the cause, were obliged to recognize the invincible power of the few; for in all great moral questions it was not majorities that were going to prevail, but the men of conviction against the men of theory. She hoped to see the time when women would voteside by siae witn men, tor taen toey should have a true sentiment on great social questions. It had been found that during three hours on one Sunday night in London 86,008 human beings?48,805 men, 30,784 women and 7018 children entered 200 public houses. If that was the case with 200, how many in the same period entered the 10,000public hoiuaa which disgraced the metropolis; LAW AN") THE LIOtfOR IK4.mC. . The Pittsburg Christian Advocate, commenting upon the legalization of the liquor traffic, says: , We have made laws to authorize base men,' if they pay twenty-five dollars a year in somtf States, and a thousand dollars a year in others, to set up in all towns and cities their vice producing, drunkard making establishments! And so we do what a heathen Chi' nese Emperor refused to do?we run our municipal governments and our State and national governments largely by the great revenues which are collected from the vices and crimes of our people. And now we have millions on millions of money invested in wineries, distilleries and brewerie?, and iri | nuuicsaiu auu xcuiii uuiucs, auu uiiuions on millions in the immense stocks of liquors. It has come to be a gigantic business. It is strong and mighty. It has been established by legislation. It cannot be destroyed without legislation, We have permitted it by law, we must prohibit it by law. It exists in village and town. in city and State and nation, by the sanctions of law and the protection of the Government. It stands to reason that, in order to abolish it, we must take away the shield of law and the protection of the Ooverment everywhere, and enact prohibition laws and Constitutional amendments. Men make the laws which legalize the liquor traffic; only a minority of such men, and of those who elect them to be legislators, are total abstainers. To change these liquor selling laws, the men who authorize tnem must somehow be reached and converted. How shall it be done*?National Advocate. drinking; habits. "There are a great many meu wao ara overworked and underfed," said a physician; "they think they are too busy to eat lunch at midday, and resort to stimulants as a substitute for food. It only takes a minute to' step into a barroom and take a drink. This makes them feel better for the time, but the effect soon passes away and another is taken to get rid of the empty feeling. The habit grows until it takes eight, tan, or more drinks a day to keep them going. Alcoholic stimulants are the worst thing in the world for an empty stomach, finally causing catarrh of the 3tomach, interfering with the secre? tions of the liver and destroying the ability to assimilate food. When a man comes to, me in this condition the first thing I do is to cut off his whisky or whatever form of stimulant he is addicted to, and substitute food j for it. I can't substitute solid food, because' ** --1-- -? T htm tiis stomacn won t reuiiu it,, x uut So. u.. to take something that will. This is where hot milk and vichy comes in. Cold milk is' too harsh. It shocks his weakened stomach, i Hence I give it to him hot. Vichy lightens and livens it; makes it more easily digested, j I tell him to take a glass two-thirds milk, one-third vichy, twice a day; to order itj over a bar, anywhere he can get it, and to j let whisky and all stimulants severely alone. ' If he obeys the orders I will cure him and : safe his lifo. A good many men among my own patients, fast growing prematurely old and bringing upon themselves a multitude i of ills by the steady use of alcoholic stimu lants instead of the nutritious food which j they should take, have been reclaimed by tha use of hot milk and vichy. If you find you are losing your appetite for food and coxt&spondingly gaining that for alcoholic stimulants, try it. It will do you good."?New Oilai'.ns Picayune. TEMPERANCE NEWS AWD SUlta. Corn in the field is shocked, and when it is node into whisky it is shocking. When a man is driven to drink, it is be| cause be has himself loosened the brake. | According to Dr. Norman Kerr, the two things to guard againsc in case of the approach of cholera are panic and alcohol. J A petition against the employment of ! founc girls as barmaids, has been presented j the King of Sweden. The pstition had 10,000 signatures. The British canteen system has been adopted in the barracks of Germany, with a view to keeping the soldiers away from the liquor shops. In Ireland the number of arrests for drunkenness steadily increases. In 1887, there I were 79,000 arrests for that cause; in io?o. the number reaches 87,030, and in 1889, climbs up to yi,000. The W. C. T. U. of Baltimore has purchased a building iu tfcat city which is being fitted up for their headquarters. The building witu its furnishings will cost about $30,' 000, of which sum ?21,000 has already been subscribed. One of the best moves the devil can make, says the Ham's Horn, is to persuade a bigheaded man to trust in his own strength. There isn't a drunkard on earth to-day who cfoT-f nnf with the idea that ho could I drink or let it alone. Dr. Nansen, iu his recently published volume, says that his experience during the crossing of Greenland led him to 4 'take a de cided stand against the use of stimulants and narcotics of all kinds, from tea and coffee on the one hand to tobacco and alcoholic driaka on the other." __ -' * ^ / ' : ^ ^ *" % -