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e.?v7djr7 taimage.~ "THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: "Gleaners in Life's Field." (Pmarhpd at Glen wood. Col.) Text: 41And she went and came ana aleaned in the field after the reapers; and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kin dred of Elimelcch."?Ruthii., 3. Within a few weeks I have been in North Carolina, Virginia, ? Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Canada, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and they are one great harvest field, and no season can be more enchanting ia any country than the season of harvest. The time that Ruth and Naomi arrive .at Bethlehem is harvest time. It was the old custom when a sheaf fell from a load in the harvest field for the reacers to refuse to gather it up; that was to be left for the poor who might haopen to come that way. If there were handfuls of grain scattered across the field after the main harvest had been reaped, instead of raking it, as farmers do now, it was, by the custom of the land, left in its place, so that the poor coming along that way might glean it and get their bread. But, you say, "What is the use of all these harvest fields to Ruth and Naomi? Naomi is too old and feeble to go out and toil in the sun; and can you expect that Ruth, the youig and the beautiful, should tan her cheeks and blister ber hands in the harvest field!" Boaz owns a large farm, and he goes out to see tbe reapers gather in the grain. Coming there, right behind the swarthy, sunbrowned reapers, he beholds a bsautiful woman gleaning?a woman more fit to bend to a harp or sit upon a throne than to stoop among the sheaves. Ah, that was an eventful day! It was love at first sight. Boaz forms an attachment for the womanly gleaner?an attachment full of undying interest to the Church of God in all ages: while Ruth, with an epbah, or nearly a bushel of barley, goes home to Naomi to tell her the successes and adventures of the day. That Euth. who left her native land of "Moab in darkness, and journeyed through an undying affection for her mother-in-law, is in the harvest field of Boaz, is affianced to one of the test families in Judah, and becomes In after time the ancestress of Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory! Out of so dark a night did there ever dawn so bright a morning? I learn in the first place from this subject bow trouble develops character. It was bereavement, poverty and exile that developed, Illustrated and announced to all ages the subtimity of Ruth's character. That is a very unfortunate man who has no trouble. It was sorrow that made John Bunyan the better dreamer, and Dr. Young the better poet, and O'Connell the better orator, and Bishop Hall the better preacher, and HaveJock the better soldier, and Kitto the better encyclopedist, and Ruth the better daughterin-law. 1 once asked an aged man in regard to his castor, who was a very brilliant man: "Why is it that your pastor, so very brilliant, eeems to have so little tenderness in his sermons?" "Well," he replied, "the reason is our pastor has never had any trouble. When misfortune comes upon him bis style will be different." After awhile the Lord took a child out of that pastor's house, and though the preacher was just as brilliant as he was before, oh, the warmth, the tenderness of his discourses! The fact is ( that trouble is a great edu- ( cator. You Fee sometimes a musician sit down at an instrument, and his execution 4s cold and formal and unfeeling. The reason is that all his life he has been prospered. But let misfortune or bereavement come to that man, and he sits down at the instrument, and yen discover the pathos in the first sweep of the keys. Misfortune and trials are great educators. A young doctor comes into a sickroom where there is a dying child. Perhaps he is very rough in his prescription, and very rough in his manner, and rough in the feeling of the pulse, and rough in his answer to the mother's anxious question, tut the years roll on and there, has been one dead in his own house, and now he comes into the sick room, and with t3arful eye be ' ' * ? 'IJ 1 liAL looks at tne aymg caua aaa u? says, vyu, bow this reminds me of my Charlie P' Trouble, the great educator! Sorrow?I see its touch in the grandest painting; I hear its tremor in the sweetest song; I feel Its power in the mightiest argument. Grecian mythology said that the foundation of Hippocrene was struck out by the foot of the winged horse, Pegasus. 1 have often noticed in life that the brightest aDd most beautiful fountains of Christian comfort and spiritual life have been struck out by the iron shod hoof of disaster and calamity. I see Daniel's courage best by the flash of Nebuchadnezzar's lurnace. I see Paul's prowess best when I find him on the foundering ship under the glare of the lightning in the breakers of Melita. God crowns His children amid the howling oi wild beasts and the chopping of blood splashed guillotine and the crackling fires of martyrdom. It took all our past national distresses, and it takes all our present national sorrows, to lift up our nation on that high career whera it will march along alter the foreign despotisms that have mocked and the tyrannies that have jeered shall be ewept down under the omnipotent wrath of God. who hates oppression, and who, by the strength of His own red right arm, will make all men free. And so it is individually, and in the family, and in the church, and in the world, that throusrh darkness and storm and trouble men, women, churches, nations, are develoDed. Again, I see in my text the beauty of unfaltering friendship. I suppose there were plenty of friends for Naomi while she was in prosperity. But of all her acquaintance?, how many were willing to trudge off with her toward Judea, when she had to make that lonely journey? One?the heroine of my text. One?absolutely one. I suppose when Naomi's husband was living. and they bad plenty of money, and all things went well, they had a great many callers. But I suppose that after her husband died, and her property went, and she got old and poor, she was not troubled very much with callers. All the birds that sang in the bower while the sun shone have gone to their nests, now the night has fallen. In this world, so full of heartlessness and hypocrisy, how thrilling it is to find some friend as faithful in days of adversity as in days of prosperity! David had such a friend in Hushai; the Jews had such a friend in Mordecai. who never forgot their cause: Paul had such a friend in Onr?inh orus, who visited him In jail; Christ had such in the Marys, who adhered to Him on the cross; Naomi had such a oao in Ruth, who cried out, "Entreat rao not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest will 1 die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death part th9e and me." , Again, I learn from this subject that paths which open in hardship end darkness often come out in places of joy. When Ruth started from Moab toward Jerusalem, to go along with her mother-in-law, I suppose the people s&id: '"Oh. what a foolish creature to go away from her father's horse, to go off with a Door old woman toward the land of Judea! lhey won't live to get across the desert. They will be drowned in the sea, or the jackals of the wilderness will destroy them." It was a very dark morning when Ruth started off with Naomi; but behold her in my text in the harvest field of Boaz, to be affianced to one of the lords of the land, and become one of the grandmothers of Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. And so it often is that a path which starts very darkly ends very brightly. It was very hard for Noah to endure the scoffing of ibe people in hi3 day, while ha was trying to build the ark, and was every morning quizzed about his old boat that would never be of any practical use. But when the deluge came, and the tops of the mountains disappeared like the backs of sea monsters, and the element?, lashed up in fury, clapped their hands over a drowned world, then Noah in the ark rejoiced in hi3 own safety and in the safety of hi3 family, and looked out on the wreck of a ruined earth. Christ, hounded of persecutors, denied a pillow, worse maltreated than the thieves on either side of the cross, human hate smacking its lips in satisfaction after it had been draining His last drop of blood, the sheeted dead bursting from 'the sepulchers at His crucifixion. Tell me. O Getnsemane and Golgotha! were there ever darker time*, than those? Like the booming of the mid- . night sea against the rock, the <rargsa of1 \ Christ's anguish beat asjainst the gates of eternity,to be echoed hack by all the throne3 of heaven and all the dungeons of hell. But the day of reward conies from Christ; all the DomD and dominion of this world are to be hung oil His throne, uncrowned heads are to bow before Hicn on whose head there are many crowns, and all the celestial worship is to come up at His feet like the humming of the forest, like the rushing of th? waters, like the thundering of the seas, while all heaven, rising on their thrones, beat time with their scepters: "Hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth Again, I learn from my subject that events which seem to be most insignificant may ba momentous. Can you imagine anything more unimportant than the coming of a poor woman from Moab to Jkzdea? Can you imagine anything more trivial than the fact that this Ruth just happened to I alight ? as they say ? just happened | to alight on that field of Boaz? Yet j all ages, all generations, have an interest in the fact that she was to become an ancestress of the Lord Jesus Christ, and all nations and kingdoms must look at that one little incident with a thrill of unspeakable and eternal satisfaction. So it is iu your history and in m ne; events that you thought of no importancs at all have been of very great moment. That casual conversation, that accidental meeting?you did not think of it again for a long while; but how it changed all the current of your life! It seemed to be of no importance that Jubal invented rude instruments of music, calling them harp and organ, but they were the introduction of all tne world's minstrelsy. And as you hear the vibration of J qttot, nftflp tha finzers a SLniJiitKA iusi/1 uu*^t*u? ? ^ have been takeu away from it, so all music now of lute and drum and cornet is only the long continued strains of Jubal's harp ana Jubal's organ. It seemed to be a matter of very little importance that Tubal Cain learned the uses of copper and iron, but that rude foundry of ancient days has its echo in the rattle of Birmingham machinery and the roar and bang of factories on the Merrimac. Again, I see in my subject an illustration of the beauty of female industry. Behold Ruth toiling in the harvest field under the hot sun, or at noon taking plain bread with the reapers, or eating the parched corn which Boaz handed to her. The customs of society of course have changed, and without the hardships and exposure to which Ruth was subjected, every intelligent woman will find something to do. I know there is a sickly sentimentalitv on this subject. In some families there are persons of no practical service to the househnlH nr tnnnif-.tr anrl t.h r\nrrh thora nra su mtujy woes au around aoout them in the world they spend their time lanquishing over a new- pattern or bursting into tears at midnight over the story of some lover who shot himself! They would not deign to look at Ruth carrying back the barley oa her way home to her mother-in-law, Naomi. Madame de Stael did a world of work in her time; and one day, while she was seated amid instrumeuts of music, all of which she had mastered, and amid manuscript books which she had written some one said to her, "How do you And time to attend to all of these things?'' "Oh," she replied, "these are not the things I am proud of. My chief boast is in the fact that I have seventeen trades, by any one of which I could make a livelihood if necessary." And if in secular spheres there is so much to be done, in spiritual work how vast the field! Eow many dying ail arouni about us without one word of 'comfort! We want more Abigails, more Hannahs, more Rebeccas, more Marys, more Doborahs consecrated?body, mind, soul?to the Lord whn hnii<rht t.h?m Once more I learn from my subject the value of gleaning. Ruth going into that harvest field might have said: "There is a straw and there is a straw, but what is a straw? I can't get any barley for myself or my mother-in-law out of these separate straws." Not so said beautiful Ruth. She gathered two straws and she put them together, and more straws until she got enough to make a sheaf. Putting that down she went and gathered more straws until she had another sheaf, and another and another and another, and then she brought them altogether and she threshed them out. and she had an ephah of barley, nigh a bushel Oh, that we all might be gleaners! Elihu Burritt learned many things while toiling in a blacksmith's shop. Abercrombie, the world renowned philosopher, was a physician in Scotland, and he got his philosophy, or the chief part of it, while as & physician he was waiting for the door of the sick room to open. Yet how many there are in this day who say they are so busy they have no "time for mental or spiritual improvement; the great duties of life cross the field like strong reapers and carry off all the hours, and there is only here and there a fragment left that is not worth gleaning. An, my friends, you could go into the busiest day and busiest week of your life and find golden opportunities, which gathered might at last make a whole sheaf for the Lord's garner. It is the stray opportunities and the stray privileges which taken up and bound together and beaten out will at last fill you with much joy. There are a few moments left worth the gleaning. Now, Ruth, to the field! May each one have a measure full and running over! Oh, you gleaners, to the field! And if there be in your household an aged or a sick relative that is not strong enough to come forth and toil in the field,t ien let Ruth take home to feebla Naomi this sheaf of gleaning. "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." May the Lord God of Ruth aui Naomi be our "portion forevar 1 A sad story with a moral comes from Aurora. 111., Forty years ago a young lady, now Mrs. King-Hammond, and a young man named "Welch were engaged to be married. Opposition of pcrents prevented the match, and Welch went away to Texas, where he has since resided. But a continuous correspondence has been kept up, and recently the couple decided to pass their declining days together. Mr. Welch came on to Aurora, accordingly, but when his intended saw him she fainted away and refused to have anything to do with him. Instead of the rosy, athlofcin vrvnt.Vi frnm whom sh? had narted a lifetime before, and of whom she had been dreaming all these years, there stood before her a bald, wrinkled, toothless old man. Perils, as Mr. Welch has found it impossible to remain always a young man, it is just as well that he never married his first love. A lot more foolish people have gon< off prying about the icebergs to find and bring home the north pole or a splinter of it. It may be all right, and laudable, and brave, but the pole isn't going to do anyone any good if they do find it, and the chances are that some of the members of the expedition will be left up there so stiff and cold in death that they won't even be able to arise at the forthcoming sound of the final trump. The rest will have frozen ears and chilblains, and things anyhow, and the whole affair is decidedly expensive. If anybody is dying to explore, why don't he explore around some place where he may find something of value. The Prince of Wales nor no other man occupying exalted place could have carried on his excesses and hald his place in good society in the United Btates. Tho public press would have roasted him and served him done, long ago. The English press is doing a good ; deal of roastine as the case stands. "When a woman goes away to make a three weeks' visit, the probabilities are that she will stay six. A man will start out to stay six, and be back at the end ol a week. Men do not enjoy visiting, and they are such restless creatures that no one'likes to have them for visitors. 1 TEMPERANCE. AND THE RIGHT SHALL WIS. We arefizhtinga mighty battle 'Gainst liquordom's dread array; TVe are waging a deadlv conflict, But we know we shall win the day I Though the odds are often against us. We'll labor and work and pray; Our rallying-cry soars above war's din? "We fight for the right, and the right shall win! We have captured some spoil from our foamen, Some citadels counted so strong, We are battering stiil at his strongholds. We will conquer them all ere long! We have planted our flag on his ramparts, 'Mid music and shout and song, Our triumph means victory o'er drink-caused sin, We fight for the right, and the right shall win! We fight 'gainst the desecration That marketh God's holy day; We fight 'gainst tha daily traffic In poison?, that myriads slay. We fight 'gainst the drinking customs? The customs that lure astray, 'Gainst the foes of our friends, our kith and kin? We fight for the right, and the right shall win! ?National Temperance Advocate. TWO CHILDREN KILLED BY WHISKY. At Walkerville, Montana, one night recently, two children, Michael J. and Mary Jillen Downey, aged four and three years respectively. died from the effects of drinking whisky. That morning Mrs. Downey stepped out to a naignoors nouse. a netgnoor cauea during her absence and saw on the kitchen floor a demijohn of whisky. The boy and girl had been drinking the liquor. When the mother returned the boy was quite intoxicated and soon fell limp to the floor. Emetics were given and a physician applied restoratives to keep the heart beating. The girl died about 11:30 at night and the boy breathed his last an hour later. drinking and longevity. A medical authority, says an English paper, has advised life-insurance companies to issue policies to reformed inebriates only at the same rates as to old men in order that financially they may be prcperly guarded. It is held that a man of forty-eight who had been a hard drinker, but had abandoned the practice, would probably have longevity so far impaired as to warrant a life-insurance company in dealing with him as though he were from sixty-five to seventy years old. It wilt be seen from this that the chances of longevity are promoted by abstinence in early life as well as in later years; that in the matter of using strong drink it is better, as Dr. Cuyler with much pertinence has said, to "stop before you begin." strychnine vs. alcohol. An analysis of the vaunted Russian specific for the redemption of inebriates has confirmed the fact that total abstinence is, after all, the best cure, as well as the best prei-kf nlnnhrvlicm thft nlon nf dr Fedor Portugaleff consists in treating topers to a subcutaneous injection of a fluid which now proves to consist of a rather strong solution of strychnine. Experience seems to show that repeated doses of the antidote actually beget an indifference, and at last a positive aversion, to alcohol, but also that the patient becomes dependent upon the tonic effect of the counter-poison. In other words, the supposed remedy delivers the reformed toper into the bands of another poison habit. We might as well recommend the introduction of French roulette to prevent the spread of the baccarat epidemic.? Foice. POISOKTSD BT GIN. Anderghem and Boitsford, two small villages near Brussels, were not long ago the scene of a remarkable epidemic, which caused the greatest alarm among: the inhabitants. Twenty-seven persons, only one of whom was a woman, died in twenty-three days. The victims were all between forty and fifty | years of age. The following were the principal symptoms noted: After a few days of vagne illness, the patients were suddenly seized with acute pain unaccompanied by diarrhoea or vomiting, headache, impairment of vision going on to complete blindness. and finally symptoms of passive congestion and asphyxia. In two cases a postmortem examination was made, but threw no light on the cause or nature of the disease. Besides the twenty-seven fatal cases, fifteen others occurred, mostly in patients younger than those who died. The cause of the "epidemic" was at last traced to gin. AU the patients were known to be drunkards, and the disease came on as a rule from twelve to twenty-four hours after potations of gin No information is given as to the composition of the incriminated fluid, further than that it was of "inferior quality," nor is it stated that a chemical analysis of it was made. The good people of Anderghem andBoitsford appear to have been quite satisfied with the clinical evidence; they gave up drinking gin ana rue "epidemic suaucm; I ceased.?British Medical Journal. ALCOHOL DEADENS THE CONSCIENCE. Tolstoi, the Russian novelist, in Contemporary Review, writes: "People explain their use of stimulants and narcotics, such as brandy, wine, beer, tobacco, hashish, opium, morphia, ether, etc., by saying 'It i3 pleasant; every one drinks; it keeps up the spirits;' or To drive away melancholy; the habit is universal; everyoody smokes,' etc. But it must be ver/ evident that the man who,1 placed by circumstances or his own acts, in a position that forces him to choose between the infliction of hardship and misery upon the family that is dear to him, on the one hand, and absence from stupifying stimulants and narcotics on the other, chooses the former alternative, is impelled to the choice by something far more potent than the desire to keep up his spirits, or the speculative consideration that every one else does the same. "The real reason for the extensive use of * ? U t&ese stimulants &qu nurujuus u mai stupefy and deaden the conscience, and conceal from one's self its records. "A sober man scruples to do that which a drunken man will execute without hesitation. People enjoy stimulants and narcotics either for the purpose of stifling remorse after having performed an action disapproved of by their conscience, or else in order to induce a state of mind in which they shall be capable of doing something contrary to the dictates of their conscience, and to which the animal nature of man is impelling him. "A sober man has conscientious scruples about stealing or committing murder. A drunken man, on the contrary, is troubled with no such scruples. Hence it is that if a person wishes to do something which hia conscience forbids he first stupsfies his faculties. The courage inspired by drink is j sponsible for nine-tenths of the total number J of crimes that stain humanity. "It is well known that alcohol deadens the voice of conscience, and people delibsr- j atelymake use of it for this purpose." ( i TEMPERANCE TOWS AND NOTES. ] According to Wheeling, cyclists prefer to ] patronize coffee-shops to public-houses and J the majority of riders are abstainers. The temoeranc9 women in convention at j Lake Bluff, near Chicago, have decided to "combine the newspapers. and temperance ( work." ( The Legislature of North Carolina has set aside a portion of the Western North Carolina Hospital for the care and treatment of j inebriates. i The Chicago Public Library is opening free reading rooms in different parts of the ! city, hoping that they may be au antidote to the saloons. j A bill for the suppression of inebriety is being prepared for the German Parliament. It is said that the Emperor takes the liveliest interest in the scheme to check drunkenness. The story comes from Vincennes, Indiana, of a saloon-keeper who became crazsdby the closing of his saloon on Sunday. It' it had been one of his customers who had been crazed by leaving it open on Sunday, nobody would have thought anything about it. Miss Mary Allen West reports the great success of the Chautauqua Assembly held recently in Chester, III. Miss West, Mrs. Zerelda Wallace, Mrs. Marv Holmes and other well-known W. C. T. if. women were in attendance and took part in the exercises. Alcohol has not any microbe; but the grand total of its mortality will exceed the combined effect of all the bacteria that have ever passed the microscopic fleld or developed in the culture-tube of the bacteriologist. The subject is now, however, beginning to receive some of the attention it de- J serves.?Popular Science Monthly. _ ' SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LKSSON FOR AUGUST 23. Lesson Text: "Christ the Rread of | JLile," John vi., 20-40?Golden Text: John vi., 34?Commentary. 2(5. "Jesus answered thorn and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you. Ye saek Me. not because ye saw the miracle?, but because ye | did eat of the loaves and were filled.'" Having | fed the hungry thousands He sent His disciples away by boat across the sea while He went away alone into a mountain to pray. Later He went to them walking on the sea, in the midst of a great storm, and as soou as they received Him into the boat they were at the land. Next day the multitudes return across the sea seeking Him, and having found Him they ask, "Rabbi, when earnest Thnu hither'" 27. "Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which ondureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall give unto you." Wo are reminded of the question in Isa. lv., 2, "Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? And your labor for that which satisfietb not? Hearken diligently unto Me, and eat ye that which is good, anil let your soul delight itself in latnesjv' Also Ps. lxiii., 5, "My soul shall be satisfied, as with marrow and fatness." "For Him hath God the Father sealed." This is given as the reason why tpe Son of Man is qualified to give the meat which endureth. 24*. "Then said they unto Him, What shall we. do that we might work the works of God?" He spoke of giving them enduring meat as His gift. They talk of doing something, so blind were they and so blind are we to God's way. How much had they done in the matter of being fed a little while before on the otber side of the sea? Just so much could they do and no more in reference to vuhuituu^ buio vuuuiiug iiicabi 29. "Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He bath sent/' They spoke of doing the works of God. He speaks of tho work of God, for it is impossible for God to work through instruments which He does not control. To believe on Him is to receive Him (John i., 12), and no amount of knowledge of Him will give life apart from receiving: Him as God's gift to us. I, oO. "They said, therefore, unto Him, What sign showest Thou, then, that we may seo and believe Thee? What dost thou work?" It does not seem possible that those who had so recently witnessed the multiplication of five loaves and two fishes to feed five thousand men could ask for a sign, or that those who had seen so many of His miracles (verse two) could say, "-What dost Thou work?'1 Had they not seen enough? And yet they ask that they may see. Are they blind? Yes, truly! their heart is waxed ( gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed lest they soould see and hear and understand, and be converted and nealed. SI. "Our fathers did cat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave tbem bread from heaven to eat." Reminding Him that in the wilderness the people were fed with manna every day, and doubtless saying in their hearts, "You fed us yesterday, it is true, but now fwrl lis ntrain tn.rlnr- no did our fathers." Thus they proved that the testimony of Jesus concerning them was > true iverso 26>, that they sought Him only because He fed them with lood tor their bodies. 32. ''Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you. Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but My Father giveth you the true bread from heaven." He would direct their thoughts not to Moses, nor even to Himself, but to the Father in heaven. This He always did. ;"3. "For the bread of God is He which cometh down from heaveu and giveth life unto the world." Bread is mentioned in this chapter sixteen times, and at least ten times it refers to the True Bread. By considering verses 32, 33. 34, 35, 41, 4-S, 50, 51, 58 and their context, it will be seen that He is Himself the True Bread, and that we are to eat Hin\ or eat His flrsh and drink His blood (verses 53-56). which, by comparing verses 54 and 47. will be seen to mean that wo are to believe on Him, for there are not two ways ui wuieuiuii? eieruai in?, 34. "lhen sairl they unto Him, Lord, evermora give us this bmd." Like the woman at the well, wno s-aid. "3ir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw" (chapter iv., 15), she thought only of natural water, and they think only of natural bread. Our temptation is to think more of the gifts than of the giver, and to be ever asking Kir.i for that which we have in Him. y??. "And Jesus said unto them, 1 am the bread of life, he that eometh to Me shall never hunger, and he that belie vet h on Me shall never thirst.'' Continuing the thoughts ot the last verse that He is our forgiveness, our peace, our assurance, our salvation, read such words as Eph. i., ti. 7; ii. 14; 11^Tim i., 12; Isa., xii., L', and do as the people did with toe words of Hezekiah, rest yourself upon these words (It Chron. xxxii.. 8) and you will know the meaning of this verse of our jf?son. "Hunger and thrist" is a phrase embracing all individual needs and unsatisfied desires of man, in all their variety. .'!(>. "But 1 said unto you. That ye also have s?eti Me and believe not. 'There are some of you that believe not.'' "Ye will not come to Me." 4'How citen would I, and ye would not." "In returning and rest shall ye bo saved, and ye would not." "They despised the pleasant land; they believed not His word.*' "They could not enter in bo cause of unbelief'verse 64; chapter v., 4f>. Matt, xxiii., 37; Isa. xxx., 15; Ps. cvi., Heb. iii., 19). fcSuch is the sad refrain all through Scripture, while the loving, tender heart of God is seen in such words as these: "Ob, that My people had hearkened unto Me, and Israel had walked in My ways! * ** I He shoul d have fed them also with the finest of the wheat, and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee" (Ps. Ixxxi., 13-16). 37. 'All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me; and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out." The last part of this verse is familiar to all Bible readers and gospel hearers, and has given rest to many a soul which, having come to Christ, has gone on rejoicing and saying, "Thank God I am nctcastout, I have His word for it; and if not cast out I am cast in, I am saved." But the first part we do not hear so much about, for it seems to teach an election, some given and some not given, and this troubles many who will not open their eyes to see the whole truth. 3-S "For I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me." He sought not His own, will but che will of God the Father, which Ho delighted to do 'Ps. *1., 8). Ho sought not His own glory, but in all things glorified God (chap, viii., 50; xvii., 4). 3!?. "And this is the Father's will which hath sent Me, that of all which He hath givan Me I should lose uothiug, but should raise it up ajiain at the last day." The elect will not enjoy perfect redemption till the resurrection of the just at the coming of Christ for His saints (Luke xiv., 14; I Thess. iv., 15IS). They may have perfect peace here and now; they w'uihave at death as perfect bliss is an unclothed spirit can have, but only at the first rasurrection wdl they have a redeemed body and fully enjoy perfected redemption (I John iii., 3; Rom. viii., 23). 40. "And this is the will of Him that sent Me, that every one which seeth the Son ami believeth on Him may have everlasling life, and I will raise him up at the last day." Tho Lord is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance (II Pet. iii., 9). He has provided redemption for all in the gift of His Sin, that whosoever believeth should not perish, but have everlasting life (John iii., 1(J).?Lesson Helper. That young minister at St. Catherines, Ontario, who ordered a crying j baby to be removed from his church, may not have committed heresy, but he has at least struck a hornet':} nest. And yet there is a precedent. It was Charles Lamb, was it not, who when disturbed by a vociferous infant, suggested the drinking of a toast to Herod? About the most lonesome place on j earth is a farm house on a rainy day. If you dislike rain, feel thankful thai you are in town, and not on a farm with the men tracking in the mud and sitting around in the way all day. REL1GI0US_READING. 0 souls that bear a daily cross. Half-fainting, questioning, bearing still, Some time your lesson shall be learned, Aud ye shall understand God's will. 0 eyes that weep through hours of night, And veil your wistful pain by day, Joy yet shall come with morning light, Ye shall not weep in vain aiway. 0 willing feet that hourly run On ceaseless errands here and there, So tired, yet ye shall tiud a goal And cease your weary aching there. 0 patient hands that toil so hard To meet the needs of every day, 8ome timetbe work will all be'done, And ye in rest soft-folded lay. 0 hearts where nootl and ill contend. Sinning, repenting, vexed with life And all its cares, fresh cuuragc take. For victory shall follow strife. 0 souls that bear a daily cross! 0 hearts that strive 1 Oh eyes that weep! The time wiil surely come when God Shall give to "ilia beloved sleep." Anil every bruise shall find its balm, Good deeds a full and sure reward, Pain, toil, and grief be overpast, And peace shall follow?afterward? which side nr; is on. llev. B. F. Mills, the evangelist, who recently conducted a successful revival at Elgin, III., took occasion at one of his meetings to refer to the liquor question as follows : I would like to give a little sermon on temperance, and E would like to make it so plain that everybody could understand. Sometimes a person will insult me by asking me which side of the temuerance or prohibition question I "am on. Which side am Ion? Weil, you go to the drunkards and thieves, and burglars and gamblers, and saloon-keepers and the makers of the accursed stuff, and find out which side they are on.nnd then put me down on the other side. As you go down to th..t wretched hovel, where that poor woman, worse than widowed, sits with her wor>e than orphaned babe at her breast, her heart's !)lood dripping away drop by drop, put your ear down close to her heart, and hear which side she is on, and then put me down on her side. Why is it that these accursed saloons exist in Elgin to-day? Because men worship the god that favors hades. Suppose a man should come here today and take one of your fairest and brightest children, and" by making a few passes over it convert it into an idiot, the whole community would be after bim. Millions rf dollars would not induce you to license bim to do such a tbing if he could do it in ten minutes, and it is only a question of five years, cr possibly ieu K.r twenty, auu yuu win auuw mm iv that very thine and for only a paltry few hundred dollars. I will sav one thing more; if I have ever, Hince the day I gave my heart to God. by voicc or rote, or influence withheld, given the weight of one finger in support of the accursed traffic, I should deserve to have my sonfilla drunkard's grave or to give my daughter into the foul embrace of one of the loathsome products of the business. Now if anyone does not understand this let him now rise up and say so. rational Lira. There could be no greater privilege than to have our lives linked with the divine life and infinite erace of Jesus the Son of God. What God calls us to in the Gospel is fellowship with His Son. Living at a lower level than that of divine communion is living below our possibilities and our powers. Life apart from Christ would be noble and adequate enough were we creatures of an inferior order, without instincts for the holy, the supersensuous, the eternal, but made for God we need to live for God to be worthy of ourselves. JrreJigif>n is thus irrational. There is no fitness between our capacities on the one hand and temporal conditions and surroundings on the other. It is not until the spiritual element becomes in us the superior and regulating element that we live in harmony with the constitution with wbich we have come into the world. We have hivther necessities and faculties than the phvsicial and intellectual, and the soul panting for God is the soul panting for its native air. ' In the recognition and worship of the Eternal the highest elements of our being are evoked. It is as we strive to enter in at the straight gate that the divine within us is touched into'lile. Christ was not the first to link the perfect character and the supreme destiny with religion and with God. The ancien world had a perception of this truth. Plato divided human beings into three classes. He placed the unjust and the dissolute in the lowest class, as deserving to be transformed after their death into wolves atid apes. The second class was made up of the moral and well-behaved, who, while temperate and upright, lacked the spiritual sense, and held noncommunication with the Eternal; these he pronounced well qualified for transmigration into wasps and ants. It was only those belonging to the third class, those who < er.ipied their lives with the contemplation or the Eternal, and departed this world free from stain of every sort, who were, after their death, to be admitted among the gods. Thus was anticipated. as one nas remarKeu, the Christian truth that not mere morality of conduct but inward and spiritual righteousness leads to blessedness Hnd fellowship with the Eternal.?[John Baird. RECREATIONS TESTED. Every recreation which makes me strongei in body, happier in mind, and purer in heart is beneficial. Every amusement which is not an excitement, but the means of healthful recreation and improvement is allowable for a Christian. I stand upon my Christian right in reference to them all; a healthy conscience enlightened of God, is to be tbe best judge. No Chr stiin should ever take part in any entertainments from which he cannot conscientiously turn to his Bible and hi* closet. No Christian should frequent any place which Jesus Christ would forbid if he were personally on earth; nor should he be seen in places so questionable thatjirrelifcious persons would be startled in dnuina him there. ' Abst'in," my friend, ''from all appearance of evil." Finally, let me remind you of the best ?nil?fl ni 1' a Tfnrp it U ''Whether ve eat or drink, or whatever ye do,'' in work or pleasure, l,do all to theglorv of God." Then, when all your activities are in full play for God and your whole brain nt work in blessed schemes for studying and honoring hiui.your whole hands occupied in leading men" in paths of purity and truth, your whole self happy in your work, your principles, your recreations ?that "is life, oh: that is life! You and I have heard sometimes a military band approaching from the distance. We tirst catch the notes of the hon\, then the rich swell of tin buffle; then, as the band comes nearer, the finer, gentler and more delicate instruments mingle in with their harmony, until at length they come upon us with full burst, in the splendid airs of Meyerbeer or Bellini. The ear feeds on the exquisite accordance as the bee feeds on the honey of Hymettus. So a man who says, "whatever I do, i will do for the glory of God." finds in one act a beautiful melody; in the next, a sweet harmony; in the next, a delicious joy; and so he goes on in full p'ay and full work, nobly blending power with power, affection with affection, and all with God; and, making life a joyous procession to the sound of horn, timbrel, and trumpet, he sweeps in at last through the heavenly gates to the raptures of Paradise. 0 blessed Savior! let thy service be my unending recreation?thy presence my everlasting delight.?[Rev. T. L. Cuyler, D. D., in the National Baptist. A max of the name of Rosander, residence Stockholm, has discovered a new lymph cure for cancer. If it is parallel in its results with Dr. Koch's great discovery it may in time become as certain a oure for pain and disease as a dose of strychnine, or an ax, or a revolver. It takes a sailing vessel 125 days to go from Philadelphia to San Francisco." Well, why isn't it sensible enough to ail from some port with go to it ? HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. ANTS. It is about the time of the year for these pesta to make their appearance. Few pests are more annoying when they are once well established in your cup boards and drawers. They infest every crevice, and nothing seems to be out of their reach. First pour boiling water into all the crevices, then sprinkle the shelves with whole cloves. If they get onto the dining table, as they sometimes do, 5 )u can remedy this by putting saucers of water under each leg.?Detroit Free Press. i UTILIZING COLO MEATS. A serious question with every housekeeper is how to utilize cold meat. The boarding-house methods of preparing ha ah and stew have brought these dishes into dispute. The French have taught us that there is much in the name, especially in the culinaty department. Do not provide a stew for dinner, have rarr/Mit fVio rimo will rvrorliannQP fa.m_ ilj in favor of the dish. The name, ( however, is not sufficient; the ragout | must be properly prepared. Cut a pint of cold meat into half-inch dice, remove | the fat, bone and gristle. Put the meat . into the sauoepan, cover with cold water, and allow it to simmer slowly for two or three hours, or until tender; add naif a can of mushrooms, cut .fine, and two tablespoonfuls of wine; season with salt and pepper, thicken with a tablespoonful 1 of flour moistened with a little cold water, cook for about ten minutes, and i serve on a platter with a border of mashed i potato or boiled rice.?New York U orld. i MACABSUI, ITALIAN STYLE. I A dish of macaroni served in Italian 1 style is one of the most delicious we | have. Genuine Italian tomato-sauce may be purchased of dealers in Italian delicacies. It comes in tiny porcelain \ cans, and is made of a tomato which is grown especially for the purpose in Italy. Boil half a pound of spaghetti or small macaroni in abundance of watei ! for twenty-five minutes,then pour off the water, shake the macaroni to make it perfectly dry, as you would potatoes, : and turn it into a hot dish. Sprinkle ; three tablespoonsfuls of grated Parmesan ' cheese over it, pour a liitle hot tomatosauce over this, and serve the whole 1 with a dish of grated cheese accompany- ' ing it. Though the genuine tomato* ] sauce is believed by Italians to be a 1 specialty of their country, equally deli* j cious sauce is made from a small tomato [ grown here, which, like the Italian tomato used for this purpose, has a large proportion of pulp to seed.?-New York ' w i : SANDWICHES. Whether for picnics, teas, receptions, weddings, or a simple lunch, there is nothing more enjoyable, declares Carrie May Ashtoo, in the New York Observer, than dainty sandwiches. The old-fash- j ioned way to make sandwiches was to cul huge slices of bre.id, spread them thickly with butter, and place between them i large slices of cold meat, usually ham or ^ beef. No wonder people grew tired ol ( them, and preferred almost anything else. To-day they are entirely different. T*?^ lArtflk AQTTO AM ta rnrtnlrn^ I 0rcau QU icoau unu uojo v?u m 4v\^m4?w? for them, but it must be moist and nice. | Cut very thin slices from the loaf, with a very sharp knife, and spread them j thinly with nice fresh batter, and then { with a filling of meat. Cut them in small, odd shapes?diamonds squares, octagons, etc. Wrap them all op in a large napkin that has previously been ( wruog out in cold water, and put away , in a moist, cool place until ready to , serve. No crusts should be used. Tiny | rolled sandwiches are dainty and pretty | for weddings or receptions, and easily , maae. Chicken Sandwiches?Spread your bread with butter and then with the following filling: Chop the light meat left from the fowl you had for dinner very fine, until it is almost a paste. Moisten this sufficiently so that it will spread easily, with melted butter, add a little I salt and pepper, and mustard, if you desire, but it does not require the two latter ingredients. Cold turkey can be used in the same way. ( Veal Sandwiches?Chop the small ' pieces that are left from a veal roast, and ' moisten with veal gravy, spread between | thin slices of bread that have been buttered and cut in odd shapes. Corn-beef (Sandwiches ? Chop fine gome corn-beef, add a tablespoonful of vinegar or lemoa iuice and a pinch of mustard. Spread as you "would other sandwiches. Lamb Sandwiches?Chop very fine some cold lamb, seasoned with salt, and add enough melted butter or hot gravy to mako perfectly smooth and easy to ^spread. This makes a delicious filling. Ham Sandwiches?Melt three ounces of butter in a saucepan and stir it until it becomes creamy, then add the yolk of an egg, a little salt, pepper and mustard, and half a pouad of lean ham finely chopped. Remove from the fire and cool before spreading between your sandwiches. Tongue Sandwiches?Chop fine some cold tongue. Take the yolks of two hardboiled eggs and rub smooth with a littlo cream, add a little salt, cayenne pepper and a teaspoonful of mustard. Mix well with the,chopped tongue and add enough ' cream to make perfectly smooth. Spread this on thin buttered slices of bread, press together and cut in the desired ' shapes. ' Egg Sandwiches?Remove the shells ! from four or five hard-boiled eggs and 1 cut in very thin slices, season well with 1 salt and place between slices of buttered bread. 1 Nut Sandwiches?Chop English wal- 1 nuts, almond, butternuts, hickory nuts ' or anything else that is nice in the way I of nuts very fine and moisten with melted ] butter or a little sweet cream. Spread 1 between thin slices of buttered bread. ] L'erve with coffee, tea or cocoa for receptions. These are delicious. Mixed nuts ' can be used or only one kind according 1 to one's indication. i Sweet Sandwiches?Spread your bread with butter and then with raspberry, strawberry, blackberry, currant, peach or grnpe jelly or jam, and either roll or put on another slice of buttered bread j and cut in faucy shapes. These are among , the latest''fads''for afternoon receptions and parties. Sometimes sponges or cream . cake is used instead of bread for these dainty sandwiches, but it is liable to 1 crumble and bread is always surer. It is 1 wise for every housewife to have something on hand from which she can prepare sandwiches in a very short time in case of emergency, for she is often called j upon to pet up a lunch for a pisaic, party j I or sociable. _ __ | * *v.-wr la fs&i'tt..Lstefti*.'' WORDS OF WISDOM. Nothing can cost so much as a In. No man has a right to be a cursa tgt his neighbor. No man can live low who is alwaj?^ looting High. People never get the big head becaam ' v they know too much. A lie is one degree worse than the sis which it tries to conceal. If there is death in your heart them will be death in your life. The evil that is the most dangerous it the one that looks most harmless. Nothing can make us richer except that which makes us more thankful. A poet is a man who lets other peopfo look at things through his spectacles. The only joys which live and groir are those which are Bhared with others.. ,\k It is a? xtmch murder to kill a man ' with a pill as it is to do it with a cannon . ball. Pull of! the masks that people ind nobody would know his next door, ' neighbor. Spend as much time in counting yoar . blessings as you do in worrying ortt :* your troubles and yoo will soon be licit. * '? ?Indianapolis (2nd.) Ram't Horn. A Master of Tongues. /... One of the finest linguists in the coon* try is the fifteen-year-old son of Mftr Dieulafait, Baltimore, Md., whose pow- v ers are described by the papers of tha& city. The boy is a very intelligent lad, r&j, with a mania for acquiring languages and now speaks eleven, including Bog* d lish. His parents are of French and 'i German birth, so that Henri has spoksa '>f'< the native tongue of both sintfe a child;. Latin and Greek he learned at school^ while an intimate friend, an Italian/'% taught him that language. Visiting the 'J i, [ndian Territory for the restoration of. , 3 bis health, after a severe illness,-, ha learned to speak Choctaw and Cheroke^^j? Spanish was taught him by a tutor and / Portuguese by a sailor employed as a ?sr? ^ rant at one time by his father, while from a Polish music teacher he acquired'* Russian. Young Dieulafait claims that it is no trouble for him to master ft ; v< tongue and that it has never, taken more, ' than three months for him to acquire any ' 'V| oi tnose ne speaKs so nuensiy. uis pft~ ; ; rents, who are very proud of his attain- * /? ments, propose sending him on an exfcenrive tour through the-civilized world he may further gratify his lingmatitt . ^. tastes. The boy is a modest, we!14>0* $ haved lad, inclined to bo studious, exhibiting fine business talents and df-f'tVi voting only such time to his hobby as h? would give to any other recreation, I San Franeitco Examiner. Hunting the Kangaroo. '*J?. Away the quarry goes, propelled ,bjr: his great muscular tail, in a series of enormous leaps, and on his track two or three dogs of a breed known as kangaroo-' '*% hounds, half greyhound and half wotfhound, and after them the riders. U btffsB can be run down on the sand plain lab -fy doom is certain, but if he can get into 'K\-i the bush, where the trees are thick and' many fallen trunks, or an extent oi rocky1 r ground will delay his pursuers, be may escape. His bounds are wonderful; Mit<, impediment can stop him. But the doga $ and horses that are after him are nearljr^v? as well accustomed to the bush as lie is, and can last longer. They are gaining on him now.' game is up. As he feels the hopelessness $j?| of his escape he suddenly s^pps and1 stands at bay, with his back against a . ~ tree. Now he is a most formidftle foo ../i for the hounds, which try to seize hint by the throat, wita the great nail witfe which his middle toe is furnished he rip* -Jsj their bodies down, and they fall help- > less by his side. But just a3 he see ma ia . i fair way to demolish the last of thaw enemies, up ride the huntsmen, and hie 5ae run and noble fight are ignominious- >' [y rewarded by the dashing out of bit J brains with a stirrup iron.?Ocerlansi ;? Monthly. Luxurious Life in the Army. ' ? Said a prominent army officer in th?;Y^ Southern Hotel recently-to a group ^f ufficera and civilians: "Service in the * irmy for the private soldier is a delight to what it used to be before the war. rhere is not a post, scarcely, in tb* country, not accessible" by railroad, ' which has not-a daily mail. The quar* $S tera or barracks to which he is now a*> 7^ signed are simply palatial. At Fort Riley,, for instance, the men's barracks am :;CBplendidly arranged and handsomely fur- ^ oished. Each company quarters is fur* nished with a library, billiard room, . ^ gymnasium, marble tub bath rooms; tha" i; Bquad rooms or dormitories are nicely furnished with iron bedsteads, and tha walls are hung with pictures about army -''J life on the march or in battle. The mm v? hall at Fort Riley seats 1000 men at each - ( meal. The chef de cuisine is a civilian ? I?:-j Cuen ??u a h.n rrq: smuncu aw ^iuy a uliuuvu. a iuoco imu of a like capacity is to be built at Port Leavenworth, and the posts, Fort Sheridan at Chicago and Fort Logan, near 4>! Denver, are being built with every con* ; '<? venience. Jefferson barracks, near this city, also is to be pat in thorough repair ' and modernized."?$t. Louis 6Hobe-Den?ocrat. An Armadillo Found In Texas. % Mr. E. C. Cullen, who resides aboot- v^| eight miles from Austin, near Williamjon Creek and Oatmanvillo, brought to J town this morning a tough looking cos- ' ij tomer in the shap*} of an armadillo. Its . " back resembles that of a tortoise. It hm * i nose resembling an alligator or oposraxs. . ind has long claws, which resemble those > of a bear. The armadillo burrows in the ground like a ground hog and is peculiar to the South American country, whoee inhabitants esteem it good food. It is rather an odd find in this country, though. Mr. Cullen says there arc a good many jf them to be seen on Williamson Creek ;n this county.?Fort Worth (Texas) Oar- . Ktte. . :% . V He Learned From the Yultares. We have a bird man among us, writes 1 Paris coiTespoudent, who asserts that tie has invented a perfect flying machine. To make studies he went to Africa and cvatched carefully the flight of vultures. Prom them, he says, he learned entirely new theories?among others why a biitl vj :aunot rise without taking a run, letting the air come under its wings. The motor is in the body and is worked bj steam. At the hec.d are a screw and rudder. He has already spent $120,000 and asks the Minister of Public Works to let him have the use of a large build*- ~*i inc.?1Sew York Herald. !( >JS