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? r . I lREY.DE. TALMAGE."" 5lHE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNs DAY SERMON. p ' ? TSubject: "The New Tabernacle." I j v / Text: "What mean ve by these stonestm U-Joshua iv? G. ' I The Jordan, like the Mississippi, has bluffi OH the one side and flats on the other. Here Imd there a sycamore shadows it. Here and there a willow dips into it. It was only a I- little over waist deep in Decemberas I waded through it, butinth9 months of April and May toe snows on Mount Lebanon thaw and L flow down into the valley, and then the Jori dan overflows its banks. Than it is wide, ? deep, raging and impetuous. At this season r of the year I hear the tramp of forty thou* oanrl mon mrninir Hmrn to CrOSS the ! P |riv*. You say, why 3o they not go up I jnearer the mo of the river at the old camel ; iford? Ah! my friends, it is because it is not r ikafe to go around when the Lord tells us to ,go ahead. The Israelites had been going 'around forty years, and they had enough of it. I do not know how it is with you, my (brethren, but I have always got into trouble ? when I went around, but always got into safety when I went ahead. There spreads out the Jordan, a raging ? torrent, much of it snow water just come down from the mountain top; and I see some of the Israelites shivering at the idea of plunging in, and one soldier saya to his com- ' rade, "Joseph, can you swim?"' And another ' aays: "If we get across the stream we will | get there with wet clothes aud with damaged I ' * armor, and the Canaanitea will slash us to j pieces with their swords before we getuptna | p' other bank." But it is no time to halt. The great host marches on. The priests carrying the ark go ahead, the i! people follow. I hear the tramp of the great ' multitude. The priests have now come withJ?\ in a stone's throw of the water. Yet still > there is no abatement of the flood. Now they have come within four or five feet of the stream; but there is no abatement of the ' flood, fiad prospect t It seems as if these ! Israelites that crossed the desert are no w going to be drowned in sight of Canaan. But . "Forward i" is the cry. The command ring* all along the line of the host. "Forward!" [ Now the priests have come within one step i j of the river. This time they lift their feet j from the solid ground and put the 1 down r into ine racing stream, nu owuw ?*? feet there than Jordan flies. On the right hand God piles up a great mountain of floods; on the left the water flows off toward the sea. The great river foi hours halts and rears. The Dack waters, not being able to flow over the passing I? raelites. pile wave on wave until perhaps a sea bird would find some difficulty in scaJiug t the water cliff. Now the priests and all th< people have gone over on dry. land. Th? , water on the left hand aide by this time hal reached the sea; and now that the miraculous passage has been made, stand back and see this stupendous pile of waters leap. * Goo ! takes His hand from that walls of floods,and : like a hundred cataracts they plunge and I ' wioi- in thunilomiiu Ixilimnh to the SGfi. I Hew are they to celebrate this passage) g; Shall it be with music? I suppose the tram | pets and cymbals were all worn out befon this. Shall it be with banners waving? Oh, no; they are all faded and torn. Joshna < cries out, "I will tell you how to celebrat< this?build a monument here to commemo rate the event," and every priest puts t | heavy stone on his shoulder and marches out and "drops that stone in the divinely ap | , y' pointed place. I see the pile growing u j ' height, in breadth, in significance; and, it fafter years, men went by that spot and saw j this monument, and cried out one to another, in fulfillment of the prophecy of the text; "What meant ye by these stones?" ; f Blessed be God, He did not leave our church 1 .In the wilderness! We have been wandering 1 ' about for a year and a half worshiping in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, ana th? I {Academy of Music, New York. And some | 1 thought we would never reach the promised j 1 'land. Some said we had better take this ! j p' route and others that. Some said we had ! better go back, and some said there were ! ' sons of Arak in the way that would eat ui ' up, and before the smoke had cleared awaj j irom me any aiwr our uiueruiujio uu uro. ; cons.'.tned, people stood on the very sita ol : the place and said: "This church will nev<r gain be built." We came down to the banb of Jordan; we looked off upon tho waters, | Some of the svmpnthy that was expressed | . turned out to be snow water melted from th? | ! top of Lebanon. Some said: "You had bet- i tar not go in; you will get your feet wet." : I But we waded in, pastor and people, farthei and farther, and in some way, the Lord only knows how, we got through; and to-night J ?o all around about this great house, erected y your prayers and sympathies and sacrifices, and cry out in the words of my text: "What mean ye by these stones?' - It is an outrage to build a house like this, , so vast and so magnificent, unless there be some tremendous reasons for doing it; and 80, my friends, I pursue you to-night with -the question of my text, and I demand of these trustees and of these elders and of all who have contributed in the building of this structure, "What mean ye by these stones?" ' But before I get your answer to my question you interrupt me and point to the memorial wall at the side of this pulpit, and say, "Explain that unusual group of memorials, What mean you by those atones?" By permission of the DeoDle of my beloved charge I i . - .recently visited the Holy Lands, and having in mind by day and night during my absence this rising hou9eof prayer, I bethought myself, "What can I do to make that place significant and glorious?" On the morning of December the 3d we were at the foot or the most sacred mountain of all the earth, Mount Calvary. There is no more doubt of the locality than of , Mount Washington or Mount Blanc. On the | bluff of this mountain, which is the shape of , the human skull, and so called in the Bible, "The place of the skull," there is room for three crosses. There I saw a stone so suggestive I rolled it down the hill and transported it. It is at the top of this wall, a , white stone, with crimson veins running through it?tue white typical of purity the crimson suggestive of the blood that paid the price or our redemption. We place it at the top of the memorial wall, for above all in this church for all time, in sermon and ouz and prayer, shall be the sacrafice of Mount Cavalry. Look at it. That stone was one of the rocks rent at the crucifixion. That beard the cry. "It is finished." Was ever any church on earth honored with such a memorial? Beneath it are two tables of stone which I had brought from Mount Sinai where ths law was given. Three camels were three weeks crossing the desert to fetch them. When at Cairo, Egypt, I proposed to the Christian Arab that he bring one stone from Mount Sinai, he said, "We can easier bring two rocks than one, for one must balance them on the back of the camel," and I did not think until the day of their arrival how much more suggestive would be the two, because the law was written on two tablets of stone. Those stones marked with the words "*? "Mount Sinai" felt the earthquake that shook the mountains when the law was given. The lower stone of the wall is from Mars Hill, the place where Paul stood when he preached that famous sermon ou the brotherhood of the human race, declaring ' 'God bath made of one blood all nations." Since Lord Elgin took the famous statuary from the Acropolis, the hill adjoining Mar3 JJ.UJ, IUO VT4 COH. unj> CI ULUOUt AU1?/U9* sible to transport to other lands any antiquities and armed soldiers guard not only the Acropolis, but Mars Hill. That stone I obtained by special permission from the Queen of Greece, a most gracious and brilliant woman, who received us as though we had been old acquaintances, and through Mr. Tricoupis, the Prime Minister of Greece, _ and Mr. Snowdeu, our American Minister Plenipotentiary, and Dr. Manatt, our American Consul, that suggestive tablet was sawed from tho pulpit of rock on which Paul preached. Now you understand why we have marked it l,The Gospel." Long after rrw lins shall utter to this church their last message, these Iip3 of stone will tell of the Law, and the Sacrifice, and the Gospel. This day I present them to the church and to all who shall gaze upon them. Thusyou have my answer to the question, "what mean you by these stoneaP' But you cannot divert me from the question of the text as I first put it. I have interpreted these four memorials on my right hand, but there are nunarea-s 01 swanks iu these surrounding walls and underneath us, in the foundations, and rising above us in the towers. The quarries of this and transatlantic countries at the call of crowbar and chisel have contributed toward this structure. "What mean ye by these stones?" You mean araonz other things that they shall be an earthly residence for Christ. Christ did not have much of a home when He waa hero. Who and where is that child crying? It Is Jesus, born In an outhouse. Where is that hard breathing* It is Jesus, asleep on a rock. Who is that in the back part of a fishing smack, with a sailor's rough overcoat tnrown over Him? It is Jesus, ihe worn out voyager. 0, Jesus! is it not time that Thou hadst a house? We give Thee this. Thou didst give it to us Knf n?a witTQ if- Kor?!r tn TIipp It is too good for us, t>ut not half good enough for Thee. Oh! come in and take the besi seat iere. Walk up and down all these aisles. Speak through these organ pipes. Throw thine arm over us in these arche3. In the laming of these brackets ot fire speak to us, saving, "I am the light of the world." O King! make this thine audience chamber. Here proclaim righteousness and make treaties. We clap our hands, we uncover Dur heads, we lift our ensigns, we cry with multitudinous acclamatiou until tne place rings and the heavens listen, "0 King'live forever I" IS li not tima turn a? ?uu uwm >. stranger's hous? and buried in a stranger's grave should have an earthly house? Come in, 0 Je3us! not the corpse of a buried Christ, but a radiant and trumphant Jesu3, conqueror of earth and heaven and helL He live:, all g ory to His name, He Uvea, my Jejae, still the game, Oh. the sweet joy this sentence gives? I know that my Redeemer Urea. Blessed b9 His glorious name forever! Again, if any one asks the question of the text, "What mean ye by these stones?" the reply is we mean the communion of saints. Do you know that there is not a single denomination of Christians in Brooklyn that has not contributed something toward the building of this house? And if ever, standing in this place, there shall be a man who shall try by anything he says to stir up bitterness between different denominations of Christians, may his tongue falter, and his cheek blanch, and his heart stop! Mr friends, if there is any church on eartn where theVe is a mingling of all denominations it is our church. I just wish that John Calvin and Arminius, if they were not too busy, would come out on the battlements and see us. Sometimes in our prayer meetings I have heard brethren us9 the phrases of a beautiful liturgy, and we Know wnere tuay wiuo u uui, and fn the same prayer meetings I have heard brethren made audible ejaculation^ "Amen!" "Praise ye the Lord I" and we did ot have to guess twice where they came from. When a man knocks at our church door, if he comes from a sect where they will not givo him a certificate, we say: "Come in by confession of faith." While Adoniram Jndson, the Baptist, and John Wesley, the Methodist, and John Knox, the glorious old Scotch Presbyterian, aro shaking hands in heaven, all churches on earth can afford to come into close communication: "One Lord, one faith, one baptism." Oh, my brethren, we have had enough of Big Bethel fights?the Fourteenth New York regiment fighting the Fifteenth Massachusetts regiment. Now, let all those who are for Christ and stand on the same side go shonlder to shoulder, and this church, instead of having a sprinkling of the divine blessing, go clear under the wave in one glorious immertion in the name of the Father and of the Sen and of the Holv Ghost. I saw a little child once, in its dying hour, put one arm around its father's neck and the bther arm around its mother's neck and bring them close down to its dying lips an1 jive a last kiss. Oh, I said, those two perjons will stand very near to each other always after such an interlocking. The dying Christ puts one arm around this denomina inn of Christiana and the other arm aroui j I :hat denomination of Christians, and Ho I Diinjs them down to His dying lips whilo He | jives them this parting kiss: "My peace I i eave with you. My peace 1 give unto you. j How swift the heavenly coarse they ran, Whose hearts and faith and hopes are one. I heard a Baptist minister once say that ie thought in the millennium it would be l11 one great Baptist church; and 1 heard i Methodist minister say that be thought n the great millennial day it would be all >ne great Methodist church; and I have cnDwn a Presbyterian minister who bought that in the millennial day it would je all one great Presbyterian church. Now ! think they are all mistaken. I think th< milennial caurca wm uo a composite :hurch; and just as you may take the best rnrts of five or six tunes, ani under the skilful hands of Handel, Mozart or Beethoven jntwine them into one grand and overpower* ng symphony, so, I suppose, in the latter lays of the world, God will take the be3t parts of all denominations of Christians,and iveave them into one great ecclesiastical harmony, broad as the earth and high as tha aeavens, and that will be the church of tha [uture. Or, as mosaic is made or jasper ana | agate and many precious stones cemented together?mosaic a thousand feet square in St Mark's, or mosaic hoisted ia colossal seraphim in St. Sophia's?so I suppose (Jod will make, after a while, one great blending Df all creeds, and all faiths, and all Christian sentiments, the amythest and the jasper, and the chalcedony of all different experiences and belief, cemeted side by side in the great mosaic of the ages: aud while the nations look upon the columns and architraves of the stupendous churcli of the future, and cry out, "What mean ye by these stones 1" there shall be innumerable voices to re 3pond, "We mean the Lord God omnipotent reigneth." Still further, you mean by these stones the salvation jof the people. We did not build this church for mere worldly reforms, or for an educational institution, or as a platform on whioh to read essays and philosophical disquisitions, but a place for the tremendous work of soul saving. Oil, I had rather be the means in this church of having one soul prepared for a joyful eternity than five thousand souls prepared for mere. worldly success. All churches are in two clas3es, all ivimmnnitiwi in two classea. all the race in two ciasse3?believers and unbelievers. To augment the number of the one and subtract from the number of the other we built this church, and toward that supreme and eternal idea we dedicate all our sermons, all our songs, all our prayers, all our Sabbath handshakings. We want to throw defection intothe enemy's ranks. We want to make them either surrender uncDnditioually to Christ or else fly in front, scattering the way witti canteens, blankets and knapsacks. We want to popularize Christ. We would like to tell the story of His love here until men would feel that they had rather die than live another hour without His sympathy and J love and mercy. We want to rouse up an enthusiasm for Him greater than was felt for Nathaniel Lyou when he rode along the ranks; greater than was exhibited for Well ington wheu he came back from Waterloo; greater than was expressed for Napoleon when he stepped ashore from Elba. We really believe in this place Christ will enact the same scenes that were enacted by Him when He landei in the orient, and there will be such an opening of blind eyes and unstopping of deaf ears and casting out of uacleau spirits?such silencing bestormed Gennesarets as shall make this house memorable five hundred years after you and I are dead and forgotten. Oh, my frieuds, we want but one revival in this church, that beginning dow and running on to cue aay wnen tne cnisei 01 time, that brings down even St. Paul's and the Pyramids, shall bring this house into ths dust. Oh, that this day of dedication might be the day of emancipation of all imprisoned souls. My friends, do not make the blundet of the ship carpenters in Noah's time, who helped to ouild the ark, but did not get into it. God forbid that you who have been so generous in building this church should not get under its influences. "Come thou and all thy house into the ark." Do you think a man is safe out of Christ? Not one day, not one hour, not one minute, not one second. Three or four years ago. you remember, a rail train broke down a bridge on the way to Albany, and after the catastrophe they were looking around among the timbers of the crushed bridge and the fallen train and found the conductor. He was dying, aad had only ? -kl- *? ? ~ fho f TTQC sireu?i>u iaj any uu5 tuiu^, auu ?uo> .?, "Hoist the flag for the next train." So there come to us to-night, from the eternal word, voices of God, voices of angels, voices of departed spirits, crying: "Lift the warning. Blow the trumpet. Give the alarm. Hoist the flag for the next train." Oh, that to-night my Lord Jesus would sweep His arm around the great audience and take you all to His holy heart. You will never see no good a time for personal consecration as now. "What mean ye bv these stones?" We mean your redemption from sin and death and hell by the power of an omnipotent gospel. Well, the Brooklyn Tabernacle is erected again. We came nere to-m^nc am, lu ueducate it. That was done this morning. Tonight we dedicate ourselves. In the Episcopal and Methodist churches they have a railing around the altar, and the people come and kneel down at that railing and get the sacramental blessing. Well, my friends, it would take more than a night to gather you in circlcs around this altar. Then just bow where you are for the blessing. Aged men, 'i his is the last church that you will ever dedicate. May the God who comforted Jacob the Patriarch, and Paul the aged, i make this house to you the gate of heaven; and wheD, in your old days, you put on your spectacles to read the hymn or the Scripture * lesson, may you get preparation for that land where you shall no more see through a glass darkly. May the warm sunshine of heaven thaw the snow off your foreheads! * ? Men in middle life, do you know that this is the place where you are going to get your fatigues rested and your sorrows appeased and your souls saved? Do you know that at this altar your sons and daughters will take j upon themselves the vows of the Christian, [ and from this place you will carry out, some I of you, your precious dead? Between this ai ; baptismal font and this communion table you [c will have some of the tenderest of life's ex- bi periences. God bless you, old and young and ai middle aged. The money you have given to 31 this church to-day will be, I hope, the best financial investment you have ever made. ? Your worldly investments may depend upon ^ the whims of the money market, or the honeaty of business associates, but the money P( you have given to the house of the Lord shall jje yield you large percentage, and declare eter- ~ nal dividends long after the noonday sun ~ shall have gone out like a spark from a v' smitten anvil and all the stars are dead. w POPULAR SCIENCE. m Electricity increases mine production. ^ The most unalterable of water colors tb has been found to be yellow ochre, terra G I sienna, sepia and blues. b( It is said that during June and July the insect life in New York State is ^ ? j :.j i.i | mucti more numerous auu vuncu iuau m 0l any tropical country. b? M. Germain See has discovered a treatment for tuberculosis. It requires the th patient to be wrapped in bandages siturated with creosote four or five hours j" daily. S One of the features of the grand parade in Des Moines during the Iowa State Fair I was an electrically propelled buggy, the ta ' current beiug furnished by storage bati ter'e8, Ki I An arc lamp with four carbons ar- tb j ranged radially ia a nearly horizontal l? 1 plane, but having their centrally meeting ri points slightly depressed, has lately ap- pi peared in Paris. tb Six mile3 off the Ladrone Islands, in (i the Pacific Ocean, a Russian vessel took ai soundings a few weeks ago and found a ^ depth of five miles, the deepest spot yet b( found in any ocean. al The lowest body of water on the globe z} Thr, koon M US 1/J1C voo^iau ucu. IbO H/Tvi UCH vvvu p? gradually lowering for centuries, and g< flow it is eighty-five feet below the level 5F of its neighbor, the Black Sea. ^ The latest terror discovered by the microscope is the acarus sacchari, which g looks like a crab, or even more so, and tr which has been discovered to the num- : E ber of 26S,U00 to the pound in cheap sugar. | There is very little ebb or flow of tide ! hi in the Arctic, but occasionally there are ^ very strong currents. All winter there is | * a general flow of tide and ice toward the tt south, while in summer this flow is north- as ward. g The English troopship Euphrates j ai illustrates the progiess of marine engi- j ^ neering. She was built with simple hor- j fe izontal engines, after which she was fit- I ts ted with compound vertical engines, and now she is to be provided with engines ^ of the triple-expansion type. * Ct An interesting and useful application g of electricity has recently appeared in a w device attached to a steering compass foi ! giving an alarm when a vessel is off hei , course. When the circuit is completed j J." a bell is rung which warn3 the steersman j tl or the Captain that the ship's direction a* lias been changed. It is a mistake to suppose that the j ci weather is colder the further north one " ? .. . . , I ti goes, 'l'lie nortnern poie 01 greatest coia Sl is only about three hundred miles north- Jr east of Yakutsk, Siberia, where the mean v annual temperature is a little lower than fc. in the highest latitudes reached byNarea and Greely 1000 miles further north. b< The world's telegraphic fleet?that is, ri the array of vessels engaged in laying and repairing submarine cables?is now t< composed of thirty-eight steamships, " ransrinsr in size from 300 to 5000 tons. 0 Two of these vessels belong to the French Government, one of each to the British, sl Indo-British, Italian and Chinese Govern- ? ments, and the others to private com- ^ panics?mostly British. | i The Pretty "Pennyweighter." ti Perhaps the cleverest of all shoplifters' tricks is the "pennyweighter" game. It i is known but to few and practised by a oi still smaller number, for it is a difficult one. It has been most successfully ? worked by a pretty little blonde with a w baby facc, blue eyes, curly hair and the onnooranro nf ft hftwitrhin? sou s1"""-' "rr? => ia brette. Her professional name is "Lit- 0] tie Scotty." Sue came to grief ia 13os- ki ton and was given three years. Her mode of working is to go to a jewelry ? store and ask to be shown loose diamonds xi on a tray. She pretends to be very ai shortsighted, and bends over and very close to the tray, examiuing the dia- m monds through an eye glass. She ex- fc poses her left hand so as not to be sus- fr pected, and at a propitious moment drops a one-carat diamond into the tray, and Sp with her tongue, on the point of which ol she has pulverized alum, she licks up a Pj two-carat diamond. She cannot find jj, the exact counterpart of the one she in wants to match (which she has not with her), and goes into another store, where she exchanges her two-carat diamond in w a similar manner for a three carat, and y< so on ad infinitum. When she was pj caught she had started with a one-carat | I diamond and had reached six and a halt ix I carats, rnakiog three or four hundred dollars in a few hours.?New York Herald. ~ 2i What One Novel Can Cost. n It was but recently that I happened to | be a party in a transaction which gives I an idea of what it costs to run a magazine nowadays, writes E. W. Bok. One of the popular magazines wanted the next novel of a well-known author. It Several periodicals were bidding for it, tl but finally it wa3 secured by my editorial t, friend for $10,000?this sum purchasing only the serial rights. From the author's ij home we went to the studio of an artist who was to illustrate the story. It was finnllv agreed that he would make fifteen J ~0 illustrations for the story at $100 each. Further than this I did not go into tho j* transaction except that the publisher of the magazine told me yesterday that he would spend at least $15,000 in advertising the etory, "for," he said, uyou know, its no use having such a thing un- " less you tell the public of it." It will B: cost at least $150 for engraving each of Q the fifteen illustrations to the story. If Thus, the total cost to this story to the tj magazine is not less than $28,750. ti There you have a single story, and how ? small a portion of a well-made magazine a is a piece of fiction nawadaysl? Cm- a mcrciai Advertise'.-. ^ " ii mm' ? SABBATH SCHOOL. NTERN ATIONAL LESSON FOR MAY 17. lesson Text: liSin the Cause of Sorrow," Hosea x., 1-15?Golden Text: Isaiah lix., 2?Commentary. 1. "Israel is an empty vine; he bringeth >rth fruit unto himself." In Pa. Ixxx., 9-1.1, ad Isa. v., 1-7, Israel is compared to a vine ir which everything possible has been done, at which after all yieldeth no fruit, or if ly, only sour grapes. In Matt, xxi., 33-41, ir Lord Jesus, in the parable of the vinelrd, describes God's love to Israel and her eatment of Him and His servants and His an. They were chosen as a people to make im a name, and that they might be a holy jople unto Him above all other nations, rving Him only, and thus making known > other nations the one only living and true od (Ex. xix., 5, 6; Deut. vii., 6; II. Sam. ii., 2J, 24). But all God's goodness to them lly caused them to multiply their idols and orship images (chap, ii., 8). 2. "Their heart is divided." "With their outh they show much love, but their heart jeth after their covetousness" (Ezek. sxiii., 31). They were like those who try i serve God and mammon, to love God and at le same time love the world that hates od. The opposite of a divided heart is a hole heart, and nothing less than whole jar ted service can be acceptable to Him. 3. "For now they shall say, We have no ng, because we feared not the Lord." ihovah was their king, He brought them it of Egypt, end they accepted Him as such; it when they wanted a king like other nasns then they were guilty of rejecting the ord as their king. Yet even after that, if ley had only with their king served the 3rd and kept His commandments, it might ive been well with them; but they left off take heed to the Lord, and became joined > their idols (chap, iv., 10, 17), and their dogs would not suffer them to turn unto their od. 4. "They have spoken words, swearing lsefy in making a covenant." In chapter 1, we read that Hosea prophesied in the lys of Uzziab, Jotham, Atiaz ana iiezeah; and in II. Chron. xxvi., 16, we read lat CJzziah, although for a while trusting God, afterward transgressed against the ard his God. And although Jotham did ght in the sight of the Lord, yet the peoe did corruptly (II. Chron. xxvii., 2?. In ie reign of the next king the Lord brought idah low because of Anaz, king of Israel I. Chron. xxviii., 19). and even the great id good Hezekiah failed sadly before he ed. 5. "The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear jcause of the calves of Beth-aven." The wunding judgment spoken of in the last ause of the previous verse (with which impares Amos vi., 12) would cause both iople and priests to turn to their idols, tha >lden calves at Dan and Bethel, hbrc ioken of as Beth-aven (the house of inility), but they would lind no help from era. C. "Eohraim shall receive shame, and Is lei shall be ashamed of his own counsel." phraim seems to stand here for the ten ibes, and Israel for the whole nation, phraim bad relied upon Jareb the Assyrian stead of upon Jehovah (chap, v., 13;, and j le result was that the Assyrian would re- ! >ive for himself that which Ephralm so ghly prized. If a child of God leans for >lp upon an enemy of God the result will > shame and confusion of face. 7. "As for Samaria her king is cut off as ie foam upon the water." Quickly cut off i the crest of the wave which is gone in a | onaent. In chap, vi., 4, the goodness of le nation is compared to a morning cloud I id the early dew. If we have Christ as our fe. and delight to trust in Him and do His ill, then come what may, nothing can afct our welfare; but the ungodly when iken from this present life lose everything. 8. "They shall say to the mountain. Cover j >; and to the hills, Fall on us." In I. Kings ii., 30, the calves at Dan and Bethel are illed a sin. While God may bear loag with n He will in due time surely destroy it. ither our sins must be destroyed or they ill destroy us. 9. "0 Israel, thou has sinned from the days i Gibeah." The earliest story of Gibeuh is i Judfr. xx., where the sinful people gained vo great victories over those who wanted le sin put away. The sense of this verse (ems to be that because God in mercy re rained His wratn, israei. insteau ui uum, y His goodness led to repentance, only in eased in sin and defied Him the more (Horn. 4, 5). As then, so now, "Because sendee against an evil work is not executed >eedily, therefore the heart of the sons of len is fully set in them to do evil" (Ecc!. 1 iii., ilj. 10. "It is iu my desire that I should chasse them." The last clause of the verse is i the R. \. trauslateJ, "When they are ouud to their two transgressions," refer- j insr, no doubt to Dan and Bethel as the two 1 inters of their idol worship. He will aasten them that He may win them hack ) Himself, as when He says in Amos iii., 2, *** '? 1?? ? * ? rtf nil fha fomilioc lou ouiy uitvo i huuwii ui cm uuu f the earth, therefore I will punish you for 11 your iniquities." 11. "I will mako Ephriam to ride, Julah iall plow and Jacob shall break his clods." lie H. V.says, "I will set a rider upon Iphriam." lhe people have been unsubued, left to themselves, enjoying God's .oodness to the full, but rebelling against [im. But now if they will not turn to tim, He will by their enemies subdue nem. 12. "Sow to yourselves in righteousness; eap in mercy; break up your fallow ground." 'he expression "fallow ground" is found aly here and in Jer. iv., 3; but the same ord is found in one other place and transited "tillage." "Much food is in the tillage f the poor, but there that is destroyed for ant of judgment" (Prov. xiii., 23). The ist clause of this verse just describes the ise in hand.^ "Mypeople are destroyed for ic& or Knowieage nos. iv., oj. naa cney ily been poor in spirit tbey would have aown the riches of His grace. "It is time to seek the Lord till He come ad rain righteousness upon you." "The ghteou3 Lord loveth righteousness" (Ps. i., 7), and the righteousness which He loves id requires of His people He provides for lem. He himself is our righteousness. 13. "Thou didst trust in thy way, in the ultitude of thy mighty men." And thereire they reaped iniquity and reaped the uit of lies. 14. "Therefore sball a tumult arise among iy people, and all thy fortresses shall be >/\i 1 '' Tlialr onrl Tfinrr i^ fVit* Prinna Peace; the Lord will bless feis people with jace; He wil! speak peace unto His people; it if they will not nave Him, and choose js instead of truth, they must accept tuult and spoilation as the consequence. 15. "So shall. Bethel do unto you because of >ur great wickedness, in the morning shall le king of Israel utterly be cut off." rhile this had a literal fulfillment a few :ars later, we are carried forward in lought to the great fulfillment wheu "the rince that shall come," "the man of sin," Iho one coming in his own name" (Dan., 36,27; II. Tness. ii., 3; John, v., 43), shall ake the seven years covenant with Israel, eak it after three and a half years, ami ring in the time of Jacob's trouble, after hich he (the beast of Rev. xi., 4-8; six., 3) shall go to the lake of fire, cut off in that lorning when Jesus shall appear in power nd glory as Israel's Messiah, and then shall [e bring in everlasting righteousness.? esson Helper. In consequence of the new French iw compelling seminarists to serve in le army the French bishops have moootiraa fnr their protection uring the trying period of service, 'here is to be a seminarist's home in very garrison town, where they will pend all their leisure moments. They 1*11, so far as possible, observe the ollege rules and continue their theojgical studies. s. iucmt woman oi Atnens detects nraqani\flinntantlvof anv feline that aters the room where she is. She eed not see nor hear the animal when ; enters, bnt has intimation of its disgreeable presence by strange sensaons that she invariably experiences rhen she is brought into contact with cat, and she entertains an unconuerable reDwraance to thaae animals. TEMPERANCE. DRUNKENNESS DEFINED. The late Cardinal McCabe said: "Drunkenness is the curse of the country, the bane of society, the terror of the family,the heartscald of the wife, the misfortune of the children, the shame of parents, the scandal to religion, the joy of demons, and the highway that conducts to hell. The unhappy a rank- < ard drinks to others' 'good health,' whilst he is robbing himself of health, corporal and < cnipif.nnl > ' I A RAILROAD'S GOOD WORK. The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company not only forbid their employes frequenting saloons, and requiro of them abstinence from intoxicants while on ' duty, but they have recently directed that trainmen employed on the road shall not" ! sign petitions that have been put; In circulation in towns along the line for signatures to secure licenses for saloons. Several train- ' men at Scranton, Penn., who signed license applications, were summarily discharged by the company. President Sloan is reported as sjivinc that t.hiu rnlo wrttild cavern everv section of the road, from Hobokea to Buffalo, in the future. The discharged trainmen at Scranton were told officially that they would be reinstated as soon as they withdrew their names from the license petitions, which they did promptly, and returned to their trains. The saloon is inimical both to the economic interests of the railroad company and to the safety of the traveling public. ?National Advocate. SOMETHING NEW ABOUT DRINKINO, An American doctor says: "Drinking men are usually fine looking men, physically considerod. Nothing is the matter with their stomachs. It would be better for the unfortunates if the disease did attack the digestive organs, but the truth is that alco- I hoi, considered as a poison, has, like other poisons, an elective affinity for a particular part of the body, and it selects the brain and nerves. Taken into the stomach, in three seconds it reaches the brain, and rasps upon the j fine substance of the terminal arteries which i spread over the convoluted folds of brain matter like a file. This produces congestion of the brain. Drinking, as a habit is due j largely to overwork, and a need for a stimulant. Liquor's effect is acute or temporary insanity, while chronic drinking brings on paralysis of the brain, and destroys the moral character of man. Dipsomania is always accompanied by loss of moral stamina, by cowardice and falsehood. Even the moderate drinker becomes debased." I FIRST PETITION FOR PROHIBITION. The first petition for prohibition in this country came from Passaconaway, Chief of ' the Penacooks, who lived on the Merrimac. He was a sagacious ruler, and seeing the demoralizing effect of drink upon his three IT 1 Ull. tnousana Draves, uusuugiio mo uu{juou ???ernment not to sell them flre-water. In 166S an English "trucking house" was opened among the Penacook3, and the ''drunken Indian" became so numerous that a delegation of chiefs journeyed to Piscataqua to enter their protest in parson against ' the sale of spiritous liquors to their tribe. Their wishes were not heeded. One more attempt vas made, when the chiefs carried their plea to the general court. All were disregarded. The aborigines of North America, the natives of India, and the denizens of Africa will rise up in judgment to pronounce the "woe upon him that putteth the bottle to his neighbor's lips to make him drinken," against the Euglish-speaking navtons that have debauched th&in.?W. C. T. Bulletin. ADVERTISING RUM IN AFRICA. The ingenuity employed by those who 6eek gain, even at the expense of tbe physical and moral destruction of their fellow-men, is | sometimes wonderful. We have before us, as we write, an Illustration of this in a cotton handkerchief, of fine texture and brilliant colors, prepared by the Scotch exporters as an advertisement for the rum and ' other liquors wh ich these dealers wish to entice the Africans to buy. These handkerchiefs are admirably calculated to please the fancy of the rude natires. In the centre of the handkerchief bottles are represented, ! each bearing a label of "Fine old Jamaica ; rum," etc. W. H. Rice, of Chicago, who sends us this handkerchief, says that it was forwarded to him from Scotland as a npsci- ; men of the articles which are given away to the natives of Africa by these Scotch dealers I in ardent spirits. Could anything be moro 1 diabolical? When will Cnristikn nations unite to prevent such outrages against the native races in Africa and India and the Southern Seas??Missionary Herald. I WHAT WE DRINK. I TVe are using more and more beer; are 1 steady in our use of distilled spirits and wine, j and use rather less of coffee and tea as compared with past years. This is an important studv. for it has a direct bearing upon the physical and social condition of the people. A simple presentation of the figures is so forcible as to require little comment. And ' here they are: PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION. , Beer. Spirits. Te a. Coffee. ] Year. Gals. Gala. Lbs. Lbs. . 1390 13.60 1.40 7.90 1.34 1889 12.73 1.32 9.20 1.30 1688 .'. 12.80 1.26 6.89 1.36 1887 12.23 1.21 8.36 1.46 1886 11.20 1.26 9.20 1.15 1885 10.62 1.26 9.45 1.15 1884 10.74 1.48 9.16 1.10 . 1883 10.27 1.46 8.83 1.28 1882 10.03 1.40 8.25 1.46 \ 1881 8.65 1.38 8.23 1.54 , The decrease in the per capita consumption of coffee during the past four years, as com- . nared with the four veal's. 1883-86. is due to the Increased coat of the article. jNotwith- ! standing tea has been cheap, it is not as freely used as it was ten years ago. On the other 1 hand, the use of beer steadily increases from j year to year, leaping within ten years from ' 8.60 to 13.66 gallons per capita. This meant, ( in 1890, the use of 855,792,335 gallons, all, ex- 5 cept 2,716,601 gallons, of domestic manufac- ' ture. The present consumption of foreign -J Moines is only about one-half the quantity, as ' compared with the quantity used during the pariod of 1870-74. The use of domestic wines has advanced from an average of about 20,000,000 gallons in 1S7S-82 to about 30,000,000 gallons annually for the past three years. 1 The consumers of the United States paid at retail, for the year 1890, the following sum c for drink: J Malt and spirituous liquors.... $900,000,000 * An increase of #200,000,000 in . four years. Coffee 122,500,000 J Tea 30,000,000 J $1,052,500,000 Here is spent for beverages over one bil- ? lion dollars annually, or about the amount 1 expended by the last Congress. Think of it ? ?two thousand millions per annum for beer, whisky, coffee, tea and a Congress. Truly s we are a great people ! ! The Government derives a revenue of $107,- ' 000,000 from liquor, wmcn is so,iww,wu less than is required to pay pensions. It looks ^ like robbing Peter to pay Paul.? American a Grocer. c v TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. j Mr. Barnum was a consistent and earnest 1 temperance man and opponent of the liquot J; traffic. It 13 said that the consumption of ira c ported beer in New York City has greatly t increased of late. 2 The Valparaiso (Ind.) Normal School hai expelled a dozen students for visiting saloom ? and playing pool. * Mrs. Helen Gougar says she has kept a re ord of the accounts of wife murder by a drunken husbands published in the daily ^ papers since January 1, ISSiJ. The aggregate j] number is 3004. * an ..?4 Ktt fT?na?1icli CIsxr. A "Olue UOOK isauoa iJjr m-? UU&,?U ernment shows that loOD drink shops are owned b7 peers of the realm. The "Right Reverend" Bishop of Llandaff is the owner _ of two "places." ? In Adel, Ga., they sell a beer which is called ^ rice beer. Its effects are peculiar. A mail tl may drink it and not feel its effects for o week afterwards, when he is liable to sudden- , ly become hilarious. * Dr. Louis D. Mason, of the Inebriate ^ Asylum, Fort Hamilton, New York, declares b that parents who are drinkers will product j nhvsical and mental degradation, weakness r ! and disease in their descendants. * Mr. Gladstone has said, in words which (3 have become a proverb, that the intemper- t jnce of the United Kingdom (England, Ire- , land, Scotland and Walee) is the source of more evils than war. rotUecm and famine. RELIGIOUS READING. CTIEISTC3 CONSOL.VTOn. Beside the dead I knelt for prayer, And felt a presence as I prayed. Lo! it was Jesus standing there, He smiled; "Be not afraid!" 'Lord. Thou hast conquered death,we know; Restore again to life," I said, 'This one who died an hour axo." He smiled: "She is not dead ".Asleep then, as Thyself didst say, Yet thou canst lift tbe lids that keep Her prisoned eyes from ours away!" He smiled: "She doth not sleep." ' Nay, then, tho' haply she do vakc, And look upon some fairer dawn, Restore her to our hearts that ache!" He smileil: "She is not gone!" ''Alas! too well we know our loss, Nor hope again our joy to touch Until the stream of death we cross.1' He smiled: "There is no such!" "Yet our beloved seem so lar, The while we yearn to fee! them near, Albeit with Thee we trust they are." He smiled: 'And I am here!" "Dear Lord, how shall we know that they Still walk unseen with us and Thee, N'or sleep, nor wander lar away?" He smiled: '-Abide in Me." ? [Rossiter W. Raymond. the bible. You find the Bible the patriot's charterbook, the child's delight, the old man's comfort and the young man's guide. In its pages the sick aud weary tiud the solnce which they need and the tempted meet with timely succor. Its words whisper hope and peace"to the dying, and minister daily food to the healthy and vigorous household. With the pious music "of its sublime or plaintive songs echo the roofs of ten thousand times ten thousand Christian temples, and the child's prayer, night and morn, is lisped forth in the simple and comprehensive words which were dictated by Him who is Its central light.?[Dr. Beard. a balance in the bank. The question of a balance iu the bank which we can draw udoii when thi3 world has been burned up, id of far more importance than a balance for our heirs to quarrel oyer when we cannot use it any longer. The truly rich man is he who is rich toward God, "whose treasure is laid up in heaven, where neither motb nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through ana 9teal.'' And these riches are within the rcnch of everyone. The capital for increasing their riches has been provided for all by the Lord Jesus Cbrist.and we are invited to participate in its benefits. And yet we run wild over corner lots, and new additions, and, seldom try to work the proble m Christ gave when he said, "For wbat shall it profit a uiau, if he shall crain the whole world and lose his owu soul?" 3 r-w* 1 f it 1!_1 / ,! 4_ ?l_ii.ansas jxemouisi ^aautauqua. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WRITE. Some persons are never easy until they are gossiping. Thev tell all they know, and write to their friends all the petty details of matters which do not at all concern them. But persons who tell all tbey know are sure ? to tell a great deal tbey do not kuow, and so j do great mischief. They gabble, and gossip, and tell tales, speaking of things which they do not half understand, aud no inevitably misrepresenting matters which they discuss, untii sensible people are afraid to Lave them in their homes. Any person admitted into a family should know" better than to talk or write about the affairs which pertain to the household, and persons who will acccpt tlit hospitalities of a home, and repay the privileges enjoyed by retailing the tittle-tattle and gossip which can be picked up in almost any family, prove themselves ignorant of what belongs"to good breeding, and unfit to Ik? trusted in society. A sensible man would as soou have a skunk in his yard as to have a gabblimr, tattling talebearer in the house who tells all she knows and guesses at and invents tho rest. | The person who hears but <locs not talk, ana i who is able to liokl his tongue and restrain his curiosity, stands like a massive brick ) wall in the midst of a devastating conflajration, which checks the progress of the fire, and saves trouble and ensures safety.? [The Christian. LITTLE GREAT MEN. Jesus never mentioned any of earth's rreat men, so called, with words of praise. There had been great conquerors before his time, like Alexander the Great, but He never illuded to them. There had been philosophers like Plato and Aristotle and Socrates, jut He never spoke of them. Rich men bad received the notice of their fellowmen, but he never mentioned one of them by name. None of those of whom human his:ory speaks most largely came in for a word )f commendation from Him or from his jpostles in later years. This should bid us pause and make us )top ?n<l think whether our human judgments are not totally faulty. Have we not put the seal of greatness where it does not aelong? In what respect is the world better ' -1 aT ?Ji?h mon 1 il'a ,OUiiy 4UI LL1C CA-lOUCiiUC v/1 11v.11 uivu Crojsus, of conqucrors like Alexander, of philosophers like Plato, of authors like Cicero? What rcaliy valuable thing should we lose bad such men never existed? Gather all the :onqucrors of the world together, and say whether lliey have been as useful to this world as one John Bunvan or one John Wesley. Put all your philosophical books together, .and declare whether they hare accomplished aa much for humanity as the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians. Maxell Bismark and Luther, and judge whether politician or preacher has the best of it in the ong run. On the other hand, if you blot nit Abraham. Joseph. Moses. David the itnger (not David the king), Elijah, Isaiah, lohn the Baptist, Paul, from human history. ?ou usher in blackness of darkness.?[A. F. 3ehau!fler, in S. S. Time9. "in a mincte.'' "Well, well, don't fret; I'll be there- in a niiuite." But, my friend, a minute means a sood leal, notwithstanding: you affect to hold it >f no consequence. Did you ever stop to hink what may .iappen in a minute!" No. Well, wnile you are murdering a minute 'or yourself aiid one for me. liefore you let eaclv to sit down to the business we nave ill land, I will amuse you by telling you some hings that will happen meantime. In a minute we shall be whirled around >n the outside of the earth by its diurnal notion a distance of thirteen miles. At the lame time we shall have gone along with he earth, in its grand journey around the un. 10f*0 miles. Pretty quick traveling, vou ay? Why that is slow work coniDared with he rate of travel of the light which just now ejected from that mirror, made you Wink, V minute ago that ray was 11,160,000 miles iway. ' In a minute, all over the world, about ighty new-born infants have etch raised a : vail of protest at the fates for thrusting exstence upon them, while as many more ' luman beings, weary with the struggles ol ife, have opened their lips to utter their nst sigh. In a minute the lowest sound your ear cm ot/*H Hqq Iman mnsfo htr QQrt inhibition a. while ? he highest toue reached you after making ,228,000 vibrations. In a minute an express train goes a mile, I nd a street car thirty-two rods; the fastest 1 rotting horse 147 9--13, and aa average , ralker has gotten over sixteen rods. In each minute in the United States, night j nd day, all the year around, twenty-four amis" of beer have to go down 12,096 i broats, and 4,830 bushels of grain have come > bin.?[Cleveland Press. i I j Atter the settlement of New En- , land by Puritans, and Maryland by latholics, there was a period of about birty years in which no new colonies rere planted. In this period occurred , lie great rebellion in England, in hich Charles L was beheaded, and , is son Charles II. was kept out ol i England by the Puritans under Olivei i /romwell. But, after Cromwell'i i eath, Charles II. was brought bach o the throne of England. This ia 1 ;nown as the Bestoratiao. It tool 1 >lace ia 1660. - ? -? I* v HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. ~"mmm t A BTJSSIAN DELICACY. -CL.^. Caviare is a Russian delicacy made from the roe of the sturgeon. It is served on toast at gentlemen's suppers and is also used as an entree. It is almost as unVnnwn tn-rla-r "tn the trenfifftlas it wnst when Shakespeare wrote his famous soliloquy, though it is sold at all large groceries at about fifty cents a can or box. It is always served on toast and a small box will be euough for twelve slices of toast. Heat the contents of a box in a saucepan with four tablespoonfuls of cream; and as soon as it is hot, pour it over a dozen small slices of nicely browned toast and serve is at once with quarters of lemon, if you wish.?New York Tribune. THE KITCHEN* RANGE. The management of the kitchen range is one of the housewife s accomplishments. The first necessity is cleanliness. A range clogged with ashes will never bake satisfactorily, neither can a clear, bright fire be kept up in it. The grates must be clear of cinders and ashes, and the fuel must be put in with some regard for uniformity. Do not pile the wood or coal All in one end, but place it even* ly, so as to distribute the fire over tha grate. Open fie dampers until the fire is well under way. No time is gained by trying tji anvA a fire nk the nntaet if r>nmA up briskly, and as soon as it is clear and bright close the dampers, and take care of it. In baking cake, the proper tempera* ture will brown the cake as soon as it has risen. The top should be even in color, and will not crack if the oven is right. If the oven is too hot, the cake will bake too rapidly at the edges, and as it must rise somewhere will burst in the middle, and sometimes pour over the already baked edges. Bread should never bake too rapidly / at first. Too much-heat prevents rising, and the bread will be soggy even though it is well done. Great care mu3t be taken that neither cake nor bread is dropped or jarred, as this is almost certain to cause a heavy ' streak through the loaf. To tell if the cake is done, thrust a clean broom straw into the middle. If it comes out dry and clean the cake is done. It is, however, best to leave it for a moment to become thoroughly done. Nothing is more unwholesome than halfbaked cake. Many cooks test cake by wetting the finger and. tapping the bottom of the pan. If the metal hisses the cake or bread is supposed to be done. Some cooks take bread or cake from the pan at once; others leave it for a moment to steam, when it will come out much more easily. It may be covered whq a ciotn ana leu 10 cooi. 11 cane u> to be frosted, it is well to have the frosting done at once. The most manageable frosting is made by breaking the whites of two eggs in a dish with a cup of powdered or conf?cttioner's sugar. Beat the sugar and eggs together and add sugar as long as it will be taken up by the egg. Put it upon the cake at once. This is the easiest and simplest way of making frosting, and one that the inexperienced will do well to adopt.?Jfev Fork Ledjer. RECIPES. Baked Potatoes?If you expect to have good baked potatoes don't out them in a :old oven or a warm one, but have the \rron and halra miiMrljr fhfin aprtrn y"-" I"- J , Ginger Crisps?Two eggs well-beaten, one cup of sugar, one of molasses, one of butter, one teaspoonful of baking powder, Due tablespoonful of ginger, sufficient Qour to make a dough to roll out; make them very thin and bake quickly. Dimples?Beat the whites of three egg? very stiff, add gradually three-quarters of a pound of white sugar and beat till it is well mixed; blanch almonds, cut ihem in pieces as small as peas and stir them into the eggs and sugar?threequarters of a pound of almonds for three eggs; drop the mixture in lumps as large as a half-penny on white paper upon a tin and bake in a cool oven. , Lemon Meringues?To two and a half tablespoonfuls of corn starch wet in a little cold water, stirring until thorrmorhlr mirnrt. While the corn starch is cooling beat together the yolks of three eggs, the juice of three lemons, a coffeecupf ul of sugar and a pinch of salt. Add this mixture to the corn starch, pour into cups and bake twenty minutes. When done cover with meringue as in the last recipe and brown. Sauce Piquante?Put a large spoonful of butter in a stewpan, slice into it two onions, two carrots, a little thyme, two cloves, two chalots and a bunch of parsley; add, if liked, a clove of garlic. Let them cook until the carrot is soft, then shake in a little flour; let it cook fire minutes more and add a cup of beef or veal stock and half a cup of strong vinegar; skim and strain through a sieve. A.dd salt and pepper when boiliug. This is nice with cold meat or broiled or boiled tish. Salad a la Russe?Cat up all kinds of vegetables, such as carrots, turnips, snap beans, potatoes, beets, etc. Boil each in salted water and a little butter until tender, drain aud season lightly with black pepper, salt and vinegar, add a few green peas, choked and well drained, put all in a salac'. dish ia the term of a pyramid and lightly cover it over with mayonnaise. If you have the hearts of artichokes put them around the dish as a wreath, with a little asparagus mixed in. Keep as ccol as possible until served. Blanc Mange?Boil a quart of milk, add half a teaspoonful of salt and half a cupful of sugar. Soak half a box of gelatine in half a cupful of cold milk for twenty minutes. Stir it into the boiling Wkon ontirol? HiqsaIwvI strain ind pour into cups wet with cold water. ft'hen cold and hard turn out upon a * platter. Eat with a sauce made of half ' i pint ot milk, half a pint of cream, and balf a cupful of sugar, stirred together. [f you have no cream, use milk, adding two tablespoonfuls of condensed milk. Truffled Chicken?Boil until tenders nice plump chicken. When cold, remove all the white meat and cut it into dice. Put one tablespoonful of butter in ? small sauceDau: when melted, add one tablcspoonful of flour, mix until Kj 3mooth; add a half pint of milk, stir routinually until it boils, add the chicken, M a half teaspoonful of salt, a dash of white pepper. When hot, add the yolk S of two eggs, a cup of finely chopped Kc mushrooms and four truffles cut into tiny B pieces. Cook oae aodsecre in H tke amaJi cups. ?"