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p fllEV. DR.TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN| DAY SERMO.V. r Subject: "The March of Christ Through the Centuries." Text: "On His head were many crowns."?Revelations xix., 12. May your ears be alert and your thoughts concentrated and all the powers of your sou! aroused while I speak to tou of "'the march of Christ through the centuries." You say, "Give us, then, a good start in rooms of vermillion and on floors of mosaic and amid corridors of porphyry and under canopies dyed in all the splendors of the setting sun." You can have no such startin?: p!ac". At the time our Chieftain was born there were castles on the beach of Galilee and palaces at Jerusalem and imperial bathrooms at Jericho and obelisks at Cairo and the Pantheon at Rome, with its Corinthian portico and its sixteen granite columns, and the Parthenon at Athens, with its glistening coronet of temples, and there were mountains of fine architecture in many parts of the world, but none of them was to be the starting plar* of the Chieftain I celebrate. A cow's stall, a winter month, an atmosphere in which are the moan ot camels, and the baainc of sheep, and the barking of dogs, and the rough bauter of host dries. He takes His first journey before He could walk. Armed desperadoes, with bands of blooa, werj ready to snatch Him down into butchery. Rev. William H. Thompson, the vete?"" KoWmI rv whom I saw Aau auu weiv**4?.vu>VMw.^T this last mouth in Denver," in bis eightysixth year, has describe.!, in his volumne entitle;!, "The Land and the Book," Bethlehem as he saw it. "Winter before last I walked up and down the pray hills of Jura limestone on which the village now re? The fact that King David had been born there, had not during ages elevated the village into auy special attention. The other fact that it was the birthplace of our Chiettian did not keep the place in after years from special dishonor. for Hadrian built there the Grove of Adonis, and for one hundred and eighty years the religion observed there was the most abhorrent debauchery the world has ever seen. Our Chieftain was considered dangerous from the start* The world had put suspicions eyes upon Him because at the time of His birth th'j astrologers bad seen stellar commotions?a world out of its place and shooting down toward a caravansary. Star divination was a science. As late as the Eighteenth century it had its votaries. At tie Court of Catherine de Medici it was honored. . Kepler, one of the wisest philosophers that the world ever saw, declared it was a true pcier.ce. As late as the reign of Charles II, Liliy, an astrologer, was callfd before the House of Commons in England to give his opinion as to future events. For ages the bright appearance of Mars meant war; of Jupiter, meant power, of the Pleiades, meant storms at sea. And, as history moves in circle?, I do not know but that after a while it may be found that, as the moon lifts the tides "of the sea and the sun affects the growth or blasting of crops, other worlds besides those two worlds may have something rirt Tcit.h the destiny of individuals and na tions in this world. I do not wonder that the commotions in the heavens excited the wise men on the night our Chieftain was born. As He came from another world and after thirty-three years was again to exchange worlds, it does not seem strange to me that astronomy should have felt the effect of His coming. And instead of being unbelieving about the one star that stooped I wonder that all the worlds in the heavens did not that Christmas night make some special demonstration. Why should they leave to one world or meteor the bearing of the news of the humanization of Christ? Where was Mars that night that it did not indicate the roizhty wars that were to come between righteousness and iniquity? Where was Jupiter that night that it did not celebrate omnipotence incarnated? Where was the Pleiades that night that they did not announce the storms of persecutiou that would assail our Chieftian? In watching this march of Christ through the centuries, we must not walk before Him or beside Him, for that would not be reverential or worshipful. So we walk behind Him. We follow Him while not yet in His teen?, up a Jerusalem terrace, to a Duuaing six hundred feet long and six hundred feet wide, and under the hovering splendor of gateways, and by a pillar crowned with capital chiseled into the shape of flowers ana leaves, and along by walls of beveled masonry and near a mar"ble screen, until a group of white-haired philosophers and theologians gather around * llim, and then the boy bewilders and confounds and overwhelms these scholarly septuagenarians with questions they can not answer, and under His qu'ck whys and whyfors and hows and whens they pull their white beards with embarrassment and rub their wrinkled foreheads in confusion, and, 'putting their staffs hard down on th9 marble jfloor as they arise to go, they must feel like chiding the boldness that allows twelve years of age to ask seventy-five years of age such puzzlers. Out of this building we follow Him into the Quarantania. the mountain of temptation, its side to this day black with robbjrs' dens. Look! Up the side of this mountain come all the forces of perdition to effect our Chieftain's capture. But although weakened by lorty days and forty nights of abstinence. He hurls all Pandemonium down the rocks, suggestive of how He can hurl into helplessness all oar temptations. And now we climb right atter Him up the tough sides of the "Mount of Beatitudes," and on the highest pulpit of rocks, the Valley of Hatin before Him, the Lake of Galilee to the right of Him; the Mediterranean sea to the left of Him, and He preaches a sermon that yet will transform the world with its aoplied sentiment. Now we follow our Chieftain on Lake Galilee. We must keep to the beach, for our feet are not shod with the supernatural, and we remember what poor work Peter made of it when he tried to walk the water. Christ our leader is on the top of the tossing waves, and it is about half past three in the morning, and it is the darkest time just before daybreak. But by the flashes of lightning we see Hun putting His feet on ine crest oc me wave, stepping iro:n crcso to crest, walking the white surf solid as though it were trez?u snow. Tne sailors think a ghost is striding the tempest, but He cheers tnem into placidity, showing Himself to be a great Christ lor sailors. And He walks the Atlantic and tho Pacific and the Mediteraneau and Adriatic now, and if exhausted and aftirigate J voyagers will listen for His voice at half past taraa o'clock in the morniug oil any s?a, indeed at any hour, tbey will hear i-Iis voice of compassion and encouragement. We continue to follow our Chieftain, and hc-re is- a blind m?ui by tao wayside. It is not from cataract of the eya or from ophthalmia, the eye extinguisher of the east, but he was born biind. "Be opened!" He cries, and first th?r^ is a smarting of the eyerids, and then a twilight, an i th?n a midnoon, and tuen a shout, "i sec! Ise?l" Tell it to all tho blind, and they at least can appreciate it. And here is the widow's dead son, and here is the expired damsel, and here is Lazarus. "Live!" our Chieftain cries, and they live. Toll it through all the bereft households, tell it among the graves. And here around Him gather the deuf, and the dumb, and the sick*, and at His word they turn on their couches and blush from awful pallow of helpless illnss3 to rubicund health, and the swollen foot of the dropsical sufferer becomes fleet as a roe on the mountains. The music of the grove and household wakens the deaf ear, and lunatic and maniac return into bright intelligence, and tho lepar's breath becomes as sweee as the breath of a child, an 1 tha flesh as rotate. Tell it to ail the> sick, through all the homes, through all tha hospitals. Tell it at twelve o'clock at night; tell it at two o'clock in the morning; tell it at half-past three, an l in the last watch of the night that Jesus walks the tempest. Still we follow our Chieitain until tho government that gavo Him no protection in'sists that He pay tax, and, too poor to raise i the requisite two dollars and seventy-five | cents, He orders Peter to catch a fi?h that has iin Its mouth a Roman state, which is a (bright coin (and you know that flsh naturally bite at anything bright), but it was a miracle ,that Peter should have caught it at the first haul. Now we follow our Chieftain until for .the paltry sum of fifteen dollars Judas I sells Him to his pursuers. Tell it to all the 'betrayed! If for ten thousand dollars, or for five hundred dollars, or for one hun'dred dollars your interests were sold out, consider for how much cheaper a sum the Lord of earth and heaven was surrendered 1 to humiliation and death. But here, while I following Him on a spring night between ! eleven ana twelve ociock, wo saw tuo uasu of torches and lanterns, and we hear the cry of a mob of nihilists. They are breaking in on the quietude of Gethsemane with clubslike a mob with sticks chasing a mad dog. It is a herd of Jerusalem '"roughs" lea on by Judas to arrest Christ and punish Him for being tho loveliest and best being that ever lived. But rioters are liable to assail the wrong man. How were they to be sure which one was Jesus? "I will kiss Him," says Judas," "and by that signal you will know on whom to lay your hands of arrest." So the kis3 which throughout the human race and for all time God intended as the most sacrsd demonstration of affection, for Paul writes to the Romans, and the Corinthians, and the Thessalonians concerning the ''holy kiss," and Peter ' celebrates tho kiss of charity, and with that conjunction of lips Laban met Jacob, and Joseoh met his brethren, and Aaron met Moses, and Samuel met Saul, and Jonathan met David,, and Orpah parted from Naomi, and Paul separated from his friends I at Ephesus, and the father in the parabie greeted the returning prodigal, and when tue millennium shall come we are told righteousness and peace will kiss AfKar onrl all t.Vift wnrlrl 1Q invito to kiss Christ as inspiration cries out, "Kis3 the Son, lest He be angry and ye perish | from the way"?that the most sacred demonstration of reunion and affection was desecrated as the filthy lips of Judas touched the pure cheek of Christ, and the horrid smack of that kiss has its fi?ho la tha treachery and debasement and hypocrisy of all ages. As in December, 18S9, I walked on the Way , from Bethany, and at the foot of Mount j ; Olivet, a half mile from the wall of Jerus- | I alem, through the Garden of Gethsemane ) , and under the eight venerable olive trees , now standing, their pomological ancestors , having been witnesses of the occurrences ( spoken of, the scane of horror and of crimo | came back to me, until I shuddered with the , historical reminiscence. In further following our great Chieftain's march through the centuries, I find myself ! in a crowd in front of Herod's palace in ( Jerusalem, and on a moveable platform ( I placed uoon a tasselated pavement. Pontius Pilate sits. And as once a year a condemned criminal is pardoned, Pilate lets the peo- ' , j plo choose whether it shall be an as- j I sassin or our Chieftian, and they all cry i \ out for tho liberation of the assassin, | thus declaring they prefer a murderer to the [ i salvation of the world. Pilate took a basin j . cf water in front of these psople and trie.l j to wash off the blood of this murder from j ins Danas, out ae couiu not. jl aey are smi i | lifted, and I see them looming up through ! all the ages, eight fingers and two thumbs i I standing out red with the carnage. I Still following our Chieftain, I asc?nd the i hill which General Gordon, the great Eng- i lish oxplorer aud arbiter, made a clay model ! ' of. It is hard climbing for our Chieftain, j I for He has not only two heavy timbers to | i cany on His back, the upright and horizon- i I tal pieces of the crcss, but He is suffering from exhaustion caused by lack of food, j ! mountain chiils, desort heats, whippings with j j elmwood rods and years of maltreatment. It took our party in 1SS9 only fifteen i i minutes to climb to the top of the hill and i j reach that limestone rock in yonder wall, ! which I rolled down from the apex of ilouut j Calvary. But I thiuk our Chieftan must j have taken a long time for the ascent, for ! He had all earth and all heaven and all hell | on His back as He climbed from base to ; summit and there endured what William i Cowper and John Milton and Charles j Wesley and Isaac Watts and James Monti gomery and all the other sacrei poets have | attempted to put in versa, and Anjjelo and : Raphael and Titian and Leonardo aa Vinci | and all the great Italian and German and i Spanish and French artists have attempted j to painr, and Bossue^ and Maaillon and George Whitefleld and Thomas Chalmers I have attempted to preach. SJnmpthin'T of its nvorwhplminc nivftil- i ness you may estimate from the fact that I the sum which shines in the heavens could not endure it; the sun which unflinchingly looked upon the deluge that drownel the world, which without blinking looked upon the ruins of earthquakes which swallowed Lisbon and Caraccas, and has looked unblanched on the battlefields of Arbela, Blenheim, Megiddo and Esdraelon, and all the : scenes of carnage that have e^er scalded and drenched the earth with human gore? that sun could not look upon the s-aae. The sun dropped over its face a veil of cloud. It withdrew. It hid itself. It said to the midnight, "I resign to thee this sp^cta'jlo upon which I have no strength to gaze; thou art blind, 0 midnight and for that reason I commit to thee this tragedy!" Then the night; hawk and the bat flew by, and the jackal I howled in the ravines. Now we follow our Chieftain as they i carry His limp and lacerated form amid the ! flowers and trees of a garden,the gladioluses, j the oleanders, the lilies, the goraniums, the I mandrakes,down five or six steps to an aislo I of granite, where He sleeps. But only a little while He siejpsthsre. lor there is an earthquake in ali that region, leaving the ! rocks to this day in their aslant and rup| tured state declarative of the fact that i uimp'hiii'r A-r+raor.-linftrv thpfi* Viannnru^ And we so3 our Chief tain arouse from His brie.' slu:nber and wrestle down the ruflian Death, who would keep Him im? J prisoned in that cavern, an J put both heals ! i on the monster, and coming forth with a j i cry that will not ceasa to be echoed until on : the great resurrection day the door of trie j lost sepulcher shall be unhinged and tlun;* ; clansiug into the debris of demolished ceme| teries. I Now we follow our Chieftain to the | shoulder of Mount 0;ivat, and without { wings He rises, the disciples clutching for His j ! robe3 too late to reach them, and across the j 1 great gulfs of spaee with one bound He gains , i that world which for tbirtv-three years had ' been denied His companionship, and all | I heaven lifted a shout of welcome ; ! as He entered, and of' coronation a3 | I up the mediatorial throne He mounted. I It was the greatest day heaven j had ever seen. They had Him back again I rrom tears, rrom wounas, irom ins, irora a j worldthat never appreciated Him to a world ! in which He was the chief delight. In all the ! libretto of celestial music it was hard to find j an anthem enough conjubiiant to celebrate j the joy saintly, seraphic, arch-angelic, deific. j But stil! we follow our Chieftain in His ! march through the centuries, for invisibly ! He still walks the earth, and by the eye of J faith wo still follow Him. You can tell i where Ho walks by the churches, and hosj pita's, and reformatory institutions, and j houses of mercy that spring up along the j way. I heir His tread iii the sick room and in the abodes of bereavement. He marches j on and the nations are gathering ! around Him. The islands of the sea are ! hearing His voice. Th'j continents are feelj ing His power. America will be His! Europe j will bo His! Asia will Ik; His! Africa will be | His! Australia will be His! New Zealand will i be Kis! AH the earth will be His! Do you realize that uutil now it was impossible for the world to be converted? Not until very recently has t'.ie world been found. The Bible talks abont "the ends of the j earth" and the "uttermost parts of the | world'' as beinz saved, but not until now have tho "ends of the earth" been disI coverel, and not until now havo the i "uttermost parts of the world" been revealed. The navigator did his work, the explorer did his work, the scientist did j his work, find now for th<s first time sino^? the world has bsen created has the world been knowu, measured off and geocraphized, the lost, hidden and unknown tract has been mapped out, and now the work ot' evangelization will be h?gun with an earnestness and velocity as yet unim ' maeined. The steamships are ready; th'j i lightning express traius are reaiiy; the print- , ing presses are ready; tho telegraph and ' telephone are ready. millions of Christians ; I are readv and now see Christ marching on I through the centuries. Marching on! March , ! ing on! One by ont* governments will fall into line ' j and constitutions and literaturas will adore 1 ! His name. More honored and worshiped is 1 : He in this year of 1S9L than at any time ( since the year one,and the day hastens when all nations will join one procession "following tho Lamb whither soever He goeth." Marchincon! Marching on! * This dear old world whose back as been i scourged, who33 eyas have been blin'lei, j whose heart has been wrung, will yet rival heaven. This planet's torn robe of pain and < crime and dementia will come oil and the white and spotless and glittering robe of holiness and happiness will come on. The last wound will have stung tcT the last time; the last grief will have wiped its last tear; i the last" criminal will have repented of his | last crime and our world that has | been a straggler among worlds, a lost , star, a wayward planet, a rebellious globo, a ( .. y / miscreant satellite, will boar the voice tnac uttered childish plaint in Bethlehem and agonized prayer in Gethsemane and dying groan on Golgotha, and this voice cries, "Come," our world will return from its wandering never again to stray. Marching on! Marching on! Then this world's joy will be so great that other worlds besides heaven may be glad to reioice with us. iJy the aia or powerzni telescopes, year by year becoming mora Kwtrful, mountains in other stars have an discovered and chasms and volcanoes and canals, and the style of atmosphere, and this will go on, and mightier and mightier telescopes will bo invented until I should not wonder we will be able to exchange signals with other planets. And as I have no doubt other worlds are inhabited, for Goi would not have built such magnificent world houses to have them stand without tenants or occupants, in the final joy of earth's redemption all astronomy I think will take part, we signaling other worlds and they in turn signaling their stellar neighbors. Oh, what a day in heaven that will be when this march of Christ is finished! I know that on the cross Christ said: "It is finished." but He meant His saorificial work was finished. All earth and all heaven knows that evangelization is not finished, but there will come a day in heaven most rapturous. It may be after our world, which is thought to have about fiftsen hundred million people shall have on its decks twice its present population, namely three thousand million souls and all redeemed, and it will be after this world shall be so damaged by conflagration that no human foot can tread its surface and no human being can breathe its air, but most certainly the day will come when heaven will be finished and the last of the twelve gates of the eterual city shall have clanged shut, never to open except for the admission of some celestial embassage returning from some other world, and Christ may strike His scarred but healed hand in emphasis on the arm of the amethystine throne and say in substance, "All My ransomed oaes are gathered; the work is done; I have finished My maroh through the conturiea." Wheu in 1813, after tha battle of Lsipsio, which decided tlio fate of the Nineteenth in aimo rAan?r?h; th? mrtsfc tramand dous hattle ever fought, the bridge down, the river incarnadined, the street choked with.the wounded, the fields for mile3 around Btrewn with a dead soldiery froji whom all traces or humanity had been dashei out, there met in the public square of that city of L3ipsic the allied conquerors and kings who had gained the victory?the king oc Prussia, the emperor of Russia, the crown prince of Sweden?followed by tha chiefs o' their armies. With drawn swords these monarch saluted each other and cheered for the continental victory they had together gained. History has made the sceni metnoraole. Greater and more thrilling will be the spectacle when the world is all conquered for the truth, and in front of the palace of heaven the kings and conquerors ot all the allied powers of Christian usefulness shall Balute each other and recount the struggles by which they gained the triumph, and then hand over their swords to Him who is the chief of the conquerors, crying: "Thine, oh, Christ, is the kingdom, lake the crown of victory, the crown of dominion, the crown of grace, the crown of glory." "On iais head were many crowns." A Modern Samson. John "Whitman, the man who lifts 60C pounds with his teeth, pushed a freight car weighing 30,000 pounds along a switch ou JNorth street, near j)iaaison, in the presence of about 300 people. He got between the car be was to push and another, the brakes of which were down. Seating himself upon the second car, ho placed his feet against the forward car, and, after taking a deep breath, gave it one mighty push with them. The car quivered and then went forward several leet. He did this several times, but owing to the car being on a grade he could not move it very far. A car weighing 23,600 pounds he moved with ease. Mr. Dunn, the yardmaster, said the cars moved would take the efforts of at least eight ordinary men. In the afternoon "Whitman gave an exhibition of his strength at the gymnasium at the Central Police Station. He handled a hundred-pound dumb-bell as if it weighed five pounds. Captain Farnan aad one of his officers then got on Whitman's back, who stooped over, and with his teeth picked up two dumb-bells tied together, weighing 109 pounds, and at the same time lifted a hundred-pound bell in each hand. The bells and men on his back in all weighed 600 pounds. Whitman also lifted 200 pounds by his teeth. Laying out flat on the floor, he strapped a fifty-pound bell to his foot, and then raised it up slowly, stopping at intervals. One of the most remarkable feats he did was to tie a twenty-pound beli on the end of a strap, the other end of which ho held in his teeth. He then swung the bell around, and when he got it high in the air he jerked it back with his teeth. Whitman, the wonder, was at one time on the New York police force.?Baltimore American. A Famous Bulgaria i Festiral. "One of ihe most interesting and remarkable of Bulgarian national festivals has just taken place," 6?js the cor 1 ? e il,? T vn/] AH ana .Qa. rUSpUQUClIL UL LUC Ul/uuuu jl *wwo t?w wwtia, "in the heart of a remote forest, amid the wild solitudes of the Balkans. Midway between the Shipka Pass and the almo3t equally famous defile of Hainkoi, by which Gourko penetrated into Eastern Roumelia, a narrow path lcad3 up the mountain side to a lonely spot, upon which no Bulgarian patriot can gaza without a feeling of the keenest emotion. Here, on a verdant slope thickly studded with magnificent beech trees. Hadji Dimitr and his companions, the first Bulgarians who for centuries bad dared to meet the Ottoman conqueror in the open field, made their last stand against overwhelming numbers; here they fell, fighting to the last, and here they lie, with no other memorial than a few little wooden crossts, roughly hewn from the adjoining wood, but with a lasting record in the hearts of their countrymcn. Every year thousands of the peasantry from either side of the Balkans assemble on this spot, together with deputations from the towns of North and South Bulgaria, bringing with them wreatli3 and crosses to lay upon the graves of these martyrs to the cause of freedom." Ths H:irlh Groivin? in \Vel?lit. It hardly seems possible that the earth could increase in weight appreciably from the meteoric hail to which it i9 subjected. The few shooting stars one sees seem utterly incapable of producing any noticeable increase. It is not these, of which even a clos3 observer could scarcely count an average of four an hour on a clear night, but the myriads of leaser ones that arc never seen, unless, accidentally crossing the field of an observer's telescope, that produce the result. These lesser ones are of such slight weight tiiat the small amount of light caused by their combustion in the earth's Atmosphere is not visible to the uaked eye. However, these little fellows are continually bombarding the earth day and night, year in, year out, finally reaching the surface as a fine dust. This inciease in weight amounts to about ninety thousand tons a year at a very moderate calculation.?Neio York Rezovtitr. I SABBATH SCHOOL B INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOU OCTOBER 18. I W Th I Lesson Text: "Washing the Disciples Ca Feet," John xiil., 1-17?Golden j ^ rnu. 11. o? jvi Commentary. Ar Ar Hr 1. "Now before the feast of the passovcr, * when Jesus knew that His hour was come -iy that He should depart out of this world unto the Father." This is that passover concern j .y iug which He had said that He heartily de- | sired to eat it with them before He suffered ' -r?. (Luke xxii., 15). When we read of the passover we should always think of the words, -ry "Christ our passover is sacrificed for us" (I T> Cor. v.. 7). "Having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end." rn. Knowing all about them, and how one would 'leny Him and all forsake Him, yot He loved them with an everlasting, unchanging love. ^ Tudas never was really His, but the others, with all their sins, were His own. I Ar 2. "And supper being ended,the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, \\r Simon's son. to betray him." The revised of version says "during supper." As to the Ar character of Judas trom the very first, 3ee , To chapter vi., 70, "Have I not chosen you Ar twelve, and one of you is a devil?" Profess- Jh ing to be a disciple of Christ, he was in reality a disciple of the devil. Oh 3. "Jesus knowing that the Father had En given all things into His hands, and that He He was come from God and went to God." H( Nothing will enable us to have a true spirit He of humility like the consciousness that we H< are the children of God and joint heirs with Th Christ, one with Him who is possessor of Ar heaven and earth. 4. "He riseth from supper, and laid aside iy His garments, and took a towel and girded ^ ' Himself " Jesus could not do anything im- Jj, perfectly. The laying aside of His garments K reminds us of Israel's high priest, who on the . * day of atonement laid aside his garments of glory and beauty that, clothed only in white A,, linen, he might go into the holy of holies to make atonement for the sins of the nation (Lev. xvi., 4). It also suggests to us that Jesus laid aside the glory which He had with , the Father before the world was, that He might bccome our atonement to cleanse us * from all sin ill Cor. viii., 9; v. 21). 5. "Alter that He poureth water into a , basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, V? and to wipe them with the towel wherewith ''.f He was girded." "When John saw Him in .M vision on the isle of Patmos He was still the girded one, "Girt about the breast3 with a golden girdle" (Rev. i., 13). The girdle indicates sex-vice. When on earth in His hu- ".'l miliation He said: "I am among you as He ^ that serveth." " "2 fi. "Then cometh He to Simon Peter, and ! Peter saith unto Him, Lord, dost Thou wash Z,1 my feet." Peter's thought probably was j that he could not think of having his Lord stoop to do for him so msnial a service. He did not as yet know the true spirit of Christ. t11 That this feet washing was the most menial niJ service, see the request of Abigail when _ David offered to maKe her his wite (I Sam. ' xxv., 41). 7. "Jesus answered and said unto him, What 1 do thou knowest not now; but thou i shalt know hereafter." This verse is often jie used to comfort those who are in perplexity ! concerning God's dealiugs with them in this ( j present life, and they are told that they shall jr( know hereafter?that is, in the world to -m . TA. *.11 4 ? J.J* aiA <~uiuc. lb o an u"ue iuau > uai ia uuvt uui n. and mysterious shall be clearly known in the j(lj j kingdom, for "Now we seo through a glass ' I darkly, but then face to face; now we know ^ in part, but then shall we know even as W9 j are known" (I Cor. siii., 12). These words ?0 I to Peter may, however, have meant that he would know a little later that very evening, i l after Jesus had finished the feet washing (see u I verses 14,15). ttj I 8. "Peter saith uuto Him, Thou shalt j never wash my feet." This may seem like 3^ i humility, but it is in reality resisting the j loving and all wise Saviour. Bather P1* ! shoula Peter have said, "fie it unto me as j Thou wilt." * j "Jesus answered him, If I wash thae now *H | thou hast no part with Me." Whatever we j' may be morally or religiously, if we are not 7" I washed from our sins by His blood we have 'a no part with Him. c? 9. "3imon Peter saith unio Him, Lord not P1 my feet only, but also ray hands and my Kn head." The thought of having to part witu ar Jesus makes Peter anxious to bo thoroughly Pa washed. 1/1 eolf Wii fllQf lO tin iv. wcjua caiuu uubvi utui, mw vuw . ? washed needeth not save to wash his feet, 111 but is clean every whit." When we receive | sa: Jesus as cur Saviour we are immediately ac- j 11 * ceptedin Him, and are washed, justified and i sanctified, complete in Him, so that by His tel finished work we are made perfectly whole j as to our standing before God and accept- dr I ance with God. an 10,11. "And ye are c'.ean, but not all. cr' For He knew who should betray Him; therefore said He, Ye are not all ciean." Judas ha never was clean; he was only a disciple in name: he was ot the number of the twelve *1 (Luke sxiL, 3), but never really of the twelve. As to the other eleven, who were P'1 disciples indeed,although in themselves weak G< ! and sinful, yet in Christ they were clean, tci and by His merits made meet for the in- ha heritance of the saints in light (Col. i., 12). 1"? 12. "So after He had washed their feet, pr and had taken His garments, and was set an d6wn again, He said unto them, Know ye on what I have.done to you?" "He is now about I lit 16 make good His word to Peter. 'Thou shalt I I know hereafter, or after these things' (verse sn 7). Teaching by object lessons begun in l?den pr with the Tivc of Lift", the cliorubim and the flaming swor . 18. "Ye call Me Master and Lord; and ye say well, lor so I nni." He hadtaugnt them 1 ja that He was their Master, and He only, and W( that they wer-> not to call each other master y (Math, xxiii., 8,10). Master signifies teacher, ' gi. and is so translate i in John iii., 2, and else- . whore. Lord signifies a ru er or possessor or , proprietor. In the Old Testament, Lord, | when all in capitals, is the great name Jeho- i ' . vah, the sell' assistant, the Righteous, but ' when only tho L is a capital and the ord . small letters, then it is "Adonai. signifying 9" possessor or proprietor, and is first found in 1 Gen. :cv., 2, in connection with Jehovah (for I God all in capitals is also Jehovah), where [ e, Abraham recognizes the possessor of heaven 8 and earth as his possessor, wno is right- | eou-. I I;0 14. 1!If I. thon, your Lord and Master, | 3E have washed your foe!", ye also ought to ; wash one another's feet." Our whole busi- I ne.-s here is to reproduce in these bodies y1 something of the life ot' Jesus (II Cor. iv., Vr 11), that He whiie un-ean by the world may itbe seen in us. This can never bo done by auy efforts of ours, but only by yielding to w< ! Him, that He may live in us. i 15. "For I have given you an example. '>* that ye should do as I have done to you." tli: We cannot bo saved by trying to follow His example, but being saved by His precious no blood we can then by His spirit in us follow th His example, for He left us au example that an we should follow His steps (I Pet ii.. 21). ;>1] As to this feet washing, we may do it by ad- wi tnonishing each other of faults and sins. We sh may correct and cleanse eacu other by the sel Word of Gol. pr 1G. V erily, verily, 1 say unto you, The w< servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than He taat sent if'1 him." We are to serve as tho servants of CI: ChriuL doing the will of God from the heart pr (Eph. vi. 6) Being made free from sin and w< become servants to God, we ar<; to have our in fruit unto holiness (Horn. vi.. S-!'. ab 17. '"if ye know these things, nappy are ye Bi if ye do them." To know and not to do is w( only to bring upon ourselves greater condem- in nation (Luke xil., 47< 48). The gospels aro a G< record of the things that Jesus began to do an and teach (Actsi., 1); and that is the order tin in which we have it in this lesson, first the in doing and then the teaching. Yield fully to of Him, rejoice in oneness with Him, and He T1 by His Spirit in you will do all things.? lai Lesion Helper. frt ? an M.vxy of the fools tliink they can CIt beat the lawyer in expounding the law; one-half think thoy cau beat the doctor in healing the sick; two-thirds th of them think they can beat the miuis- ad ter preaching the gospel; and all oi de them know they can beat the editor in en making a newspaper. th oo Tiie catacombs of Rome contain the th renmins of about 0,000,1)00 human th beings, and tho?e of Paris about th 3,000,000. The latter were formerly Bij stone quarries. Many of the victims ^ of the revolution of 1792-4 are buiied there. ?* RELIGIOUS READING. HE CABKTn. hat can it mean? Is it aught to Him tat the nights are long and the days are dim? n He be touched by the griefs I bear, g_ men Hauaeu me ucan auu wuuen cue hair? gk >out Ilis throne ore eternal calms, id strong, glad music of happy psalms, id bliss, unruffled by any strife? ?g >w can He care for my little life? 1 id yet I want Him to care for me bile I live in the world where the sorrows be, lieu the lights die down from the path I take. hen strength is feeble anil friends forsake, hen love and music that once did b'esa S1< ive left me to silence and loneliness, td my life sons ebuuges to sobbing pray- n era, ien my heart cries out for a God who cares. hen shadows hang over the whole day W long. H< id my spirit is bowed with shame and wrong, hen I am not good, and the deeper shade conscious sin makes my heart afraid, Aj id the busy world lias too much to do stay in its courses to help me through, T1 id I lon?c for a Saviour?can it be iat the God of the universe cares for me? i, wonderful story of deathless love! Fj ch child is dear to that Heart above: i fights for me when I cannot fis;ht, Ni i comforfs me in the glooin of uight, i lifts the burden, for He is strong, g< ! stills the sigh and awakes the song; ie sorrow that bows me down Hertiears, td loves and pardons because he cares! II t all who are sad take heart again, e arc not alone in our hours of pain; ir Father stoops lrora His throne above ^ soothe and quiet us with his iove; i leaves us not when the storm is high, id we have safety, for He is nigh; n it be trouble which He doth share? j] i, rest in peace, for the Lord will care! [s IS HIS JfAMK. IVliv do Christians so commonly ask, jr Jesus' sake?" Where in His Word are j>] ! taught to use this common formula? hy not retain the phrase that Jesus Him- p( 1 gave us? The devout soul loves the iguagc of the Lord, and denied the original g >rds, insists all the more strongly upou the :egrity of the thought. Thus: "Whatever sfiall ask in My name, that will I do, that : Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye all ask anything in My name, I will doit." ohn xiv., 13.14.) "Hitherto have ye asked thine in My name," (John x'vi., ?4.) Vila soever ye shall nsk of the Father, He f< II give to you iu My name," (John xvi., tl ) "In that day ye shall ask in My nnme," ti ohn xvi., 26.) Can we doubt Christ's cor- 8( :t choice of words with which to express si is meaning? Begin today to ask "in His 0: me" and experience the smile of blessing g lich your careful lovowill quickly receive. g [Horace Waters, in the Voice. h ii resigning the rl'dder. q [t was a prayer of George Herbert's that j, might wholly be led to resign the rudder & his life to the sacred will of Ood, to be 0 jvod "as Thy love shall sway."' How much a ;tting. how "much worry it would spare us ^ if we asked our heavenly Father that He js juld cause us to lean utterly, In perfect r( ith, in cheerful, unquestioning obedience, 0 ion His will and wisdom, whether n life's trivial concerns or in t> osp shades of darkness from which we re- ^ il in fear? We can ask Him nothing bend His power. Some of us know the fling, "In all hut this I could say 'thy will done,'" bat if we only tell the story at s feet, poui ing out our hearts before Him, si ? shall be able to trust our Father, even to al ioice in Him, through every changeful b; thwny. " ir Not long ago a Christian visitor called upon w joor woman who had just beeu told by the aj itron of the hospital of the incura'e nature tl her complaint. The poor sufferer tearfully n clared she accepted God's will patiently, so w E as hef own pain and death were con- j< rne3, Kut she cffuld not biar the thought p her motherless ehiicjjen. JJfibodv could p dues fcef, she said, as coliferniug the chU* * en. to feel patient and resigned. It was ft s infal scene. The visitor could not re- w onstrate wirh her upon her spirit of Ti ipatiencc and mumuring. hut felt as p ttngh she must weep with her, as she s1 3d: ''Yours is untold sorrow, beyond mv d idcrstnnding even, but God knows all p out it; God understands. Will you not ^ II HIra just how you feel; tell Ilim what h u have told me, all your pain, anxiety,and n cad of leaving your little ones alone? I tl a going now to tell the leader of our pray- d meeting about you; tomorrow, from three si half-past, prayers will arise on your be- G ilf. Will you not at the same time be on p ur knees before God aud tell Him all?" o je sufferer promised. n Next day, relates the visitor, earnest, ci ending supplications laid her case before jd, and what was the result? The next inrview found that woman as calm as she d been impatient. She had poured out r own heart in prayer, and others had ay6d for her, and she told th.; visitor: '"I S1 1"just Icavintr everything with God; not F ly whether I live or die, but each of my 11 tie children. Everything is hafe with Him. a' feel it, I know it." Verily our God is the S1 me now as in past ages, prayer-hearing, n ayer-answcrlng.?[The Quiver. ir KEEP V0Cr.S2I.VES. Ti A. physician found apatient shut up in a mp, chii'y room. He said to him, "No )nacr mac you are sick jij ?m;u a piacu. )u don't need medicine, but fresh air, sun- # ine, and exercise." He took that hypo- u ondriac out of doors. He made him walk Pj d ride about. Soon be was well again, ol d the doctor left him. Rut in a little aile be was sent for. His morbid and perrse patient was lying in the close, damp ? amber as before, "shivering and moaning. ? )b. doctor." he cried, "that sure cure of urs has failed, and I am just as bad as ? er!" liDid you keep yourself in the sunine?" '-No, I thought that I had taken ^ ough of it, not only to make me well, but 'ifl keep me so, and then f came b.id: to bed ? ain." g Just, like this imaginnry invalid arc many j. las, how many!) of tile pitients of the ?i. eat Physician. They read of IIis wonoils love: they oeliev'e it: they rejoice in o( It kindles in their souls a hope that is Sfl II of jrlory. Hut. having "tasted the good X, )rd of God ami the powers of the woild to |j me," they return to the weak and beggar- jj, cletnenls of this world. Hence thcylose ^ at blessed hope. Thev become colil and ti j, and then they wonder why (5od does tt it'-keep them in perfect peace." Alas! w ey foru'et that God cannot make evil good rl irood evil. He has created an atmosere ol love. He offers it freely to all who II live in it. I'ut if we fail to do so?if we lit ourselves up in the caves or cellars of ftilmcss. refining to enjoy what God has ~ ovidtd for sustaining the new life?cau we glider that we are weak and sickly? Sl Hut how should we keep ourselves in the roof God? l.y study, by mi dilation, by h: iristian communion." and. above all, by tc aver. We don't read the Kihle enough; jilon't think enough about what we read it: we don't talk enough with each other Jo out. our heavenly Father, our Elder other, ami our ee!e?ti:il bonie; we don't ^ >rk enough for Christ to keep our heart ^ a glow; we dcrft unitminc enough with c. jd. Our reading, thinking, toiling, talking ^ d praying will not create th* atmosphere nt our spirits need, but they will keep lis 4, it. They will enable us to c!imh up out *9 the dampness and gloom of unbelief. ril icy will help us to asccnd the mount of Itli. On it we will find the land ol Beulah, J? )tu which we can ve the walls and gates. d almost hear the scngs of the golden v.?[Interior. gi nj m a Some time since It was discovered ^ at certain insuranco companies had | ded situ stroke to tho causes .of T< ath, a list of which is printed in very lall type in their yolicie*, for which ti! ey will not be responsible. Now a pi mpanv has |:>laced asphyxiation in Ut e same list. There is no reason for ^ e exception of either ailment from w e operation of the polioies and it is nply a bit of sharp practice which tb e courts should rebuke at the first tfc portunity, _ ^ TEMPERANCE. T ODE TO COLD WATER. Itsel fair is the virgin Lymph, fresh from the S fountain, f Sleeping in crystal well. Leaping in shady dells, A issuing clear from t.'j3 depth of the moun- at t ._??? hou y-maueu, remieu,em uu a uuucau i/au^uiu * Not the hot kiss of wine E Is half so divine t the sip of thy lip, inspiring Cold Water! , 1 i chaste as the snows on the sky-piercing 01 1 Alpine top? J\ Now sparkling in dews, a Now nearing the hues the rainbow, born of the ray and the g?e rain-drop, met health ana in sickness, all seasons, all _ weather, ^ ?n may quaff thee, and laugh, and be a ca happy together. abu see, how all Nature claps hand and re- *em joices! ? What greenness and gladness, a For brownness and sadness! , * hat music and mirth from infinite voices! Cim ;rds lowing, cocks crowing, ten thousand citii birds staging. Sweet murmuring rills, _ ? And splasbings of mills, nies ad foaming cascades, gems and jewels up- maj flinging; . ie wind?, ail tha leaves from their sick ? slum oers waking, bac With whispers and kisses, 7 And breathing of blisse.-, om the blooms all pertumes on the buxom y36 air shaking; in ? ew beauty returning to grass, tree, and gra, flower, > soon as the thirsty earth drinks in tho 683 shower. T ie great gift of God, and the joy of crea- ^at tion? cro Ajs needful as air, wh Like it, everywhere, wjj s essential, potential, its blest operation? ae innocent source of health and hilarity; The friend of long life, j Tho foe of all strife, v . ie pledge of good fellowsnip, friendship, . and charity, nan Water, pure Water?it makes the heart tub gladaer fou Than wine, the fierce balker, The merciless mocker, eas bat bites like a serpent, and stings like the j adder; or devil-born revel, and hollow brier I laughter, * | ma; ave gnasbings of teeth and wailings hereafter. a . ?Abraham Coles, in National Advocate. unt GERMANY'S AFFLICTION*. ^ It is mentioned that the official returns of ^C( licides committed in Berlin during the first has srtniglit of July show a total of 147, and of ? lat the cause of this enormous self-destruc- ^a_ on is attribute! chiefly to drink. It is also :ated that: "Impressed with recent official ?tistics concerning the growth of criminal >] ffenses and suicides arising from drink, the . overnment has opened an inquiry in re- Dec ard thereto, and is drawing evidence from coo ospital and other medical sources concern- as t ig the increasing use of potato spirits and tner impure alcohols, and how far the use f these spirits may be regarded as a leading 1 ictor in crime." All this goes to show quite air. snclusively that, despite the protestations , f the beer propagandists, and those Ameri- ' an travelers who "see no drunkenness," nec wit Germany, the chief of beer countries, but i afflicted with drunkenness, and is seeking slief from the crime which is the inevitable utcome of its drinking usages. In Ger- 8&0 lany, as In America, abstinence alone will gas e found a sovereign remedy.?National e[ej I dtocate. i j fllfl DOCTORS WHO DP.!?;.: AND THE LAW. " Hard-drinking phvsicians, if there are any ich in Georgia, will now have a disagreeale time of it, as a statute has been passed wei y iuu jucj^wiauuio ui uuaw uiabo uioijuluu.j hill ig any medical man from further practice , ho has once been convicted of drunkenness, ad imposing a heavy penalty upon the man lik< ius disqualified if he attempts to practice , ledicine again. It may not be knowi that e have also a law in New York on this sub- rec ;ct, but it concerns itself with the drinking ten hysician only in case he does harm to a ^g, atient while intoxicated, and he can other- . 1 rise drink as much aa he likes, being only tlG abject to the laws sovejning ^11 ^jitizeqg oa 'fiatever calling. The following is the New p0j Tork statute; "A physician or surgeon, or *1. erson practicing as such, who, being in a :ate of intoxication, administers any poison, eye rug or medicine, or does any other act as a tel< hysician or surgeon to another person, by . rhich the life of the latter is endangered or 1 is health seriously affected, is guilty of a Vei lisdemeanor." Another section declares {jri oat if,under like circumstances, the patient's .. eath results, the physician is guilty of man- * aughter. The penalty imposed by the out reorgians upon a drunken physician may Jm erhaps not be too severe, but the passage a_c t such u law by the Legislature is in the * ature of a deliberate insult to the physi- log ians of that State.?Medical Record. are the J abl DRUNKENNESS IN SOCIETY. j gy{ "I can find no stronger word in our Ian- , uage than brutalizing to convey to your 1 tinds the hideous ana poisonous nature of got itoxicating drinks," says a zealous temper- jg ace lecturer recently. "Composed of inredients, which by liature are oftentimes * ink poison, it is not surprising that liquor, tbe hen consumed in large quantities, produces ing most baneful effect. It inflames the imag- 0_e iation, stupifles the will, and stagnates the sason; it wrecks the system, corrupts the ro" eart, and in a short time makes man a mere Th< lassof brutalized humanity. Man's sys>m, being composed of a most delicate ormism. has therefore great need of man's tmost care and consideration. When well COD rotected, man enjoys a most perfect state : health and happiness, but when abused id neglected, it becomes in a short time a irse and burden to its unhappy possessor; iC3 diseased or corrupted, it now demands long ser.es of medical investigation, it On I Hits for every possible care and solace, but ccn a3! for the body ruined by the excesses of ijUf itoxication there is but one remedy, the >ld and silent grave. True it is, there nave me' ?en cases in which medical aid has given so- "wid ceto a despondent patient, but then the ger 'stem;was on iy.injured, it was not destroyed, . . it once the vitals of our nature have beea 0 jvoured by intoxicating liquors, none but non le great physiciau, its,Creator, can ?ive it the tior sired and wished-for salvation, Hundreds j:.. ! cases could be cited to prove what I have dd: hundreds who row fill drunkard's *'?* aves would bear mo out in my assertion, the id even to-Jay, in our own city, there are 1Qt( andreds ol! men and woman, who have tremlous and wrecked constitutions, and all lis because they have cast to the ground all cou ieir self-respect aud shame, to become slaves and id dupes to the intoxicating cup." eXp pro at i TEMPEP.A.NCE XEW.i A.XD JT0TE3. the Of seventv-two members of Parliament for and cotland, fifty are pledged to vote for a eye cottish Permissive bill. ' The "Women's Temperance Union in Canada , is a sect'on composed of those who promise 0Q i deal only with "temperance grocers. the Boston shipped to Africa during the last spol seal year over eight huu Ired thousand gal- iint. ns ot ruai. valued at nearly $1,000,000. Mrs. R. A. Green, who has been the efflpnt ReeordingJSecretary of Honolulu W.C. coa . U., will attend the World's W. O. T. 17. 1 invention in Bjston as a delegate from the of 1 awaiian Islands auxiliary. yeK Mrs. M. C. Learitt savs that in Tasmania pj,, ere is not a single descendant of the abo- * ? ^ines left, and that the destruction of the boll sople is, in a lar^e measure, due to ths furt rong drink introduced by civilized na- antj ot:S. In view of the serious disappointment to ?8a lests at the dinner taoles of total abstt- ; 'Ln0 >nce jHjon.e on Htvling that there is no wine, j ll total abstinence hostess in London now i tha! rites her invitations witu "no w.n *" at the )tto::;. I not; in connection with the British Wo nen'j J osoi ;im>erunce Association there are lour i mui >;nes ror inebriate women, tUr.<u *11 which j hou nvard of three hundre t an I iiity-iive pa- i on(J ?nts hive pissed, many of wnoui are thorigiily reclaiiue i and mr><t grateful for the j uac< sip while resident therein. j cud R v. Dr. McCarthy. Roman Catholic i niu; isnop of Cloyne, has ir-sued a letter in | ni hich he strictly forbids uuy priest of the i ' j oceio to say mass in ai y House where He i a ids drink has been distribute I or atteu I tnot ie funeral of the deceased, and requiring by tat on their ministry at t.ie house or funeral te priest shall exnet a promise taac no di'iu^ ill be distributed. ' - <\ . -i-' t',V''.V V,-. POPULAR SCIENCE < J|| lie population of the earth double* | If in 200 years. almon, pike and goldfish are said tar he only fish that never sleep, .thunderstorm in hot weather trerdi -'"M he average rate of thirty miles an. < lach of the four cables upon which Brooklyn Bridge rests has a capacity 2,000 tons. . French electrician puts out ISO 4s j-written vrords a minute over a si?wire?the capacity of his improved hod of telegraphy. entists have discovered that tartarr.,-|I .Icareous deposit on the teeth,is mortf ndant in persons of highly nervom yi perament than in any others. i company "Eas been formed in Ohio ' % >ipe Lake Erie water through to Ciaiati, taking in the most importannft v pj? flnH tnurnq nlonor thfl rntifp [any of the Pittsburg glass cotnptr 4 i are placing plants in position to ce gas, the natural-gas supply having, p2d. out. The object is to avoid going J k to solid fuel nstantanoous photography has been d to record the movements of the lip* $3 tpeaking, and by putting the photophs in a zcetrope a deaf mute caa $5 ily read the words. rhe shell of an oyster in it* native J| >itat is always a little open, and mi- .% scopic, w aving hairs setup curreati 'M ich carry the food plants to its moalb,tiffl ere they are engulfed and afterwuds ; ^ ested. L carcful examination of the aqueoon nor of the eyes of cattle will deter-, ^ le whether they are^ suffering from :-fa iercle or not. The bacilli will be M nd there in all case3 where the diae exists. y. disinfectant which combines cheapr. , || s with general worth is found in peraganate of potash. One ounce wilt 'Jl ke a bucketful of disinfectant, ft* ;"'If rystal, and can be kept in this state <1 ;il ready for use. Uachua Lake, a sheet of water .a. ^,1 )rgia, almost fifteen miles in length*; run completly dry, leaving thousands iead fish and inert alligators on thifcr j? iks. This is the second time ginCM^Jftfl !3 that this phenomenon has occurred. . ; .'here is less dew on a cloudy nighty. 38 ause clouds prevent the earth from. Vling. They obstruct the rays of heat. ;hese pass over the earth {and turn. ;'! m back, thus preserving the equality y<^| itmosphere between the earth and tha )xygen is a gas whose presence is \;^2 cssary before the phenomenon of jy ning can tike place, and hydrogen is that burns with a pale blue Harney - M I yet the combination of these two es forms water, which is the opposing- :,;^; ment of fire. in examination of mussels has shows - <$ t when poisonous they invariably hav? ' arged livers and brittle shells. Intigation of the manner in which they^v|| re obtained points to the fact that srels which are taken from waters ;'? ich contain sewage matter are most ? ely to be poisonous. '^S rhe new departure in photography, at - -'i ently applied to telescopes, has exded our information to a wonderfo!?#jg >ree already, especially in the delineaa of the moon's surface, and has opened-3->l wide field for astronomers. Many nt3~are cTeary shown on the negativa/::^ - -t. J. V- ?:.V knm? ICQ cauziui/ uc sccu mm cuc i even when using the powerful Lick ^ iscope. ^ /; Besides the large planets, Mercuryj ;;J% aus, the Earth, Mare, Jupiter, Saturn, : J mus and Neptune, there are probably usands of others revolving around th* f/ji i in orbits between those of Mars aad * jiter. Up to date over two hundred* I fifty have been discovered and cat?- 'j ued. Yesta, Ceres, Pallas and JtMHKv among the more important of thear, fir3t-mentioned being, under favor- - ^ e circumstances, visible to the naked I I L new scientific instrument has been J ten up by Professor Bigelow, which, y called the aurora-inclinometor. By g ensive researches he has found that ' :|S same law which underlies the work-"'; 1 of electricity and magnetism i? rating on the sun, and that sun-eartii 'vij ites as does the armature of a dynamo. i instrument will be sent to Alaska, . jre it will be used in the study of tba J ora, and it is there seen in the best; i ditions. IVIiere Franklin Flew Ilia KTfc. Vhen the Iitccrd building was erected the site where it now stands the un- \ scious granite pile was unwittingly, not inappropriately, made to com- , noratc an historic event of world- ? ^ le celcbrity. On June 15, 1752, Dr. liamin Franklin, decolv convinced " unable to demonstrate that the paeaenon of lightuinij was a manifests1 of electrical energy, and somewhat -ij ;rustful of his ability to pull, down ' itning from the clouds and establish. ? identity his acutc aud philosophical illect led him to suspect, came a little. r out of built-up Philadelphia into the ntry in the neighborhood of Tenth Ctiestuut streets, to try his simple eriment. It was so simple that lie ' bably thought he might be laughed n case of failure. Everybody knows J story of Dr. Franklin and his kite, there is no need to repeat that; bat rbody does not know that Franklin >d about where the Mercantile Library Tenth street now stands, and held cord while his kite hovered over the t now covered by the Record bui lding .* il the lightning answered to his irnons, and in a dash theory had been verted into ascertained fact. 'his statement rests on the authority the late John F. Frazer, of the Unisity of Pennsylvania, whose k&owle of the history of Philadelphia was h remarkable and accurate; and it is her vouched for by Professor Stille v '.'3 Professor Thompson. To the latter tieman the Record is indebted for the wledge of the facts herein stated. t 'vas an exceedingly happy accident ; ou the spot selecte 1 oy the most ?ble of American printers and philVuers to establish teiegraphio eotalieatiou with the sky a great printiag?e should have been erected more than hundred years afterward to disiemii uews day by day brought from tha s of the eartu on the win^s of lightIf it ha 1 been proposed to buili " J lonument to commemorate the uam? lame of Franklin, could anything e appropriate have been conceived the wit of man??R.iUuleljj.'iiu Jit- ' h I.