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; REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINES SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: "Sailing Up the Nile." Text: "The River Is Mine and I Hav Made lt.n?Ezakiel xxix., 9. Aha I This is the River Nile. A brown 01 .yellow or silver cord on which Are hunj 'more jewels of thrilling interest than on an] (river that was ever twisted in the sunshine 1 It ripples through the book of Ezekiel, anc [flashes in the books of Deuteronomy anc ? Isaiah and Zecharia and Nahum, and on itbanks stood the mighties of many ages. It ! was the crystal cradle of Mose.-*, and on it: | banks, Mary, the refugee, carried the infapt Jesus. To hnd the birthplace of this river jwas the lascination and defeat of expedi'tions without number. ^ Not many years ago Bayard Taylor, out Eeat American traveler, wrote, "Since (Jombus first looked upon San Salvador, the earth has but one emotion ot triumph left .for her bestowal, and that she reserves for :him who shall first drink from the fountains of the White Nile under the snow fields of 'Kilimanjaro." But the discovery of the isources ot the Nile by most people was considered an impossibility. The malarias, the wild beasts, the savages, the unclimable steeps, the vast distances, stopped all the expeditions for ages. An intelligent native said to Sir Samuel ;W. Baker and wife as they were on their way to accomplish that in which others had failed: "Give up the mad scheme of the Nile source. How would it be possible for a lady voung and delicate to endure what would .kill the strongest man? Give it up." But Us* work went on until Speke and Grant and Baker found the two lakes which are the source of what was called the Whito Nile, and baptized these two lakes with the names of Victoria and Albert. These two lakes, filled by great rainfalls and by accumulated snows from the mountains, pour their 'waters, laden with agricultural wealth such |as blesses no other river, on down over the cataracts, on between frowning mountains, on between cities living and cities dead, on for four thousand miles and through a continent. ika U'VtifA Vila trnnM Hrt li'HJo frtP Egypt if this were all. It woutd keep its banks and Egypt would remain a desert. Bat from Abyssinia there comes what is called the Blue Nile, which, though dry or nearly dry half the year, under tremendous rains about the middle of June rises to great momentum, and this Blue Nile dashes with sudden influx into the White Nile, which in conseqn?nce rises thirty feet and their combined waters inundate Egypt with a rich soil which drops on all the fields and gardens as it is conducted by ditches and sluices and canals every whither. , The greatest damage that ever came to Egypt came by the drying up of the River Nile, and the greatest blessing by its healthful and abundant flow. The famine in Joseph's time came from the lack of sufficient Inundation lrom the Nile. Not enough Nile is drought; too much Nile is freshet and pfit^ue. The rivers of the earth are the mothers of its prosperity. If by some convulsion of nature the Mississippi should be taken from North America, or the Amazon from South America, or the Danube from Europe, or tbe Yenisei from Asia?what hemispheric calamity I Still, there are other rivers that could tertilize and save these countries. As we start where the Nile empties into the Mediterranean Sea, we behold a wonderful fulfillment of prophecy. The Nile in very ancient times used to have seven mouths. As the great river approached the sea at seven different places. Isaiah prophesied, "The Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea and shall smite it in the seven streams." The fact is they are all destroyed but two, and Herodotus said these two remaining are artiticial. up tne Nile we shall go; part of the way by Egyotian rail traia and then by boat, and we shall understand why the Bible gives such prominence to thisriver, which is the largest river of all the earth with one exception. But before we board the train we must take a look at Alexandria. It was founded by Alexander the Great, and was once the New York, the Paris, the London of the world. Tempi es, palaces, fountains, gardens, pillared and efflorescent with all architectural and Edenic grandeur and sweetness. Apollos, the eloquent, whom in the New Testament times some people tried to make a rival tq,St. Paul, lived here. Here Mark, the author of the second book of the New .Testament, expired under Nero's anathema. [From here the ship sailed that left Paul and the crew struggling in the breakers of Helita. Pompey's pillar is here, about one hundred feet high, its base surrounded by so much filth and squalor I was glad to escape into an air that was breathable. But Alexandria, lascinating for this or that thing, according to the taste of the vis ltor, was no me most enienammg oecause 11 - had been the site of the greatest library that the world ever saw, considering the 'fact that the art of printing bad not bean invented. Seven hundred thousand volumes and all the wort of a slow pen. But down it all went under the torch of beseigers. ' Built again and destroyed again. Built again, but the Arabs came along for its !final demolition and the four thousand baths of the city were heated with those volumes, the fuel lasting six months, and were cvei .fires kindled at such fearful cost? Wha1 ' holocausts of the world's literature! Wha1 martyrdom of books! How many of then have gone down under the rage of nations. Only one book has bean able to withstand the bombardment.and that has gone throturl without smell of fire on its lids. No sword or spear or musket for its defense. An unarmed New Testament. An unarmed Old Testament. Yet invulnerable and triumphant. There must be something supernatural about it. Conqueror of books! Monarch of books] All the books of all the ages in all the libraries outshone by this one book which you and I carry to church in a 1?4. i3? thn AfihAB UV UiUVUUU^UU BUUU VUW ?*<9uw w? Alexandrian libraries. But all aboard the Egyptian rail train going up the banks of the Nile! Look out of the window and see those camels kneeling for the imposition of their load. And I think we might take from them a lesson, and. instead of trying to stand upright in our own strength, become conscious of our weakness and need of divine help before we take upon us the heavy duties of the year or the week or the day, and so kneel for the burden. We meet procsssions of men and beasts on the way from their day's work, but alas, for the nomes to which the poor inhabitants are going, lor the most part hovels of mud. But there is something in the scene that thoroughly enlists u?. It is the novelty of wretchedness and a scene of picturesque rags. For thousands of years this land nas been under a very damnation to taxes. Nothing but Christian civilization will roll back the influences which are "spoiling the Egyptians." There are gardens ana palaces, but they beiong to the rulers This ride along the Nile is one of the mo3t solemn and impressive rides of all my life time, and our emotions deepened as the curtains of the night fall upon all surroundings. But we suall not be satisfied until we can ta&e a snip ana pass rignt out upon these wondrous waters and between the banks crowned with the story of empires. According to the lead pencil mark in my Bible it was Thanksgiving day morning, . November 29, 18S9, that with my family and friends we stepped aboard the steamer on the Nile. The Mohammedan call to prayers had been sounded by the priests of that religion, the Muezzins, from the four huudred mosques of Cairo as the cry went out: "God is great. I bear witness that there is no God but God. I bear witness that Mohammed is the apostle of God. Come to prayers. Come to salvation. God is great. There is no other but God. Prayers are better than sleep." The sky and city and palm groves and river shipping were bached in the light. It was not much of a craft that vs boarded. It would not be hailed ou any o? our rivers with any rapture of admiration, it fortunately had but little speed, for twics we ran aground and the sailors jumped into tho water and on their shoulders pushed her out. But what yacht of gayest sportsman, what deck of swittest ocean queen could give such thrill of rapture as a sail on the Nile? The pyramids in sight, tae remains of cities that are now only a name, the villages thronged with population. Both banks crowded with historical deeds of forty or sixty centuries. Oh, what a boot the Bible is when read on the Nilel As we slowly move up the majestic river I see on each bank the wheels, the pumps, the buckets for irrigation, and s^e a man with his foot on the treadle of a wheel tbat fetches up the water for a garden, and then for the first time I understand that passage in Douteronomy which says or the Israelites ' after they had got back from Egypt, "The 1 land whither thou goest in to possess it is not i 1 as the land of E^ypt. from whence ye came , . out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot." Then I under- ; ?j ,-,>h I Stood DOW 106 i 31111 u^uiu us waici ou mvu the foot. How do you suppose I felt when on the deck of that steamer on the Nile I looked off upon the canals and ditches and eloicee through which the fields are irrit gated by that river, aud then read in Isaiab, 'The burden of Egypt?the river shall be r wasted and dried up, and they shall turn the . rivers far away and the brooks of defense ' shall be emptied and dried up; and they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all j that make sluices and ponds for fish." [ "While sailing on this river or stopping at 5 one of the villages, we see peeple on the ; banks who verify the Bible description, for 5 I thev are now as they were in iiibiB time?:. ; Shoes are now taken off in reverence to 1 sacred places. Children carried astride the mother's shoulder as in Hagar's time. Women with profusion of jewelry as when Re becca was affianced. Lentils shelled into the pottage, as when Esau sold his birthright to i get such a dish. The same habits of saluta; tion as when Joseph and his brethren fell on each other's necks. Courts of law held under big trees as in olden times. People mak1 iag bricks without straw, compelled by i circumstances to use stubble instead of straw Flying over or standing on the banks as in Scripture days are flamingoes, ospreys, eagles, pelicans, herons, cuckoos ana bullfinches. On all sides of this river sepulchers. Villages ol sepuicuers. oiues ui oo^u?v-u?? Nations of seonlchers. A.nd one i? tempted to call it an empire of tombs. I never saw , such a place as Egypt is for graves. Ani now we understand the complaining sarcasm of the Israelites when they were on the way j from E^ypt to Canaan, "Because there are i no graves in Egypt hast thou taken us away ; to die in the wilderness." Down the river . bank come the buffalo and the cattle of kine j jo drink. And it was the ancestors of these ( cattle that inspired Pharoah's dream of the leau kine and the fat kine. Here we disembark a little while for Memphis, off the Nile to the right. Memphis founded by the first king of Egypt and for a long time the capital. A city of marble and gold. Home of the Pharaohs. City of nineteen miles in circumference. Vast colonnades through which imposing processions marched. Here stood the Temple of the Sun. itself in brilliancy a sun shone on by another sun. Thebes in power over a thousand and hundre 1 years, or nearly ten times as long as the United States have existed. I a MMimhont.dtar.ua COUAnt.V.H 7A fopt. 1 ? long. Bronzed gateways. A necropolis J called ,"the haven of the blest." Here j; Joseph was prime minister. Hera Pharaoh ' received Jacob. All possible splendors were j ? built up into this royal city. Hosea, Ezekiel, Jeremiah ana Isaiah speak of it as something wonderful. Never did I visit a city with such exalted anticipations, and never did my anticipations drop so flat. Not a pillar stands. Not I a wall is unbroken. Not a foundation tosses a in the sun. Even the ruins have been ruined \ and all that remains are chips of marble, I small piecss of fractured sculpture and splin- c tered human bones. Here and there a letter j of some elaborate inscription, a toe or ear \ of a statue that once stood in niche of palace t wall. Ezekiel prophesied its blotting out, 'J and the prophecy has been fulfilled. "'Ride c on," Isaid to our party, "and don't wait for <j me." And as I stood there alone the city of I Memphis in tbe glory of past centuries re- t turned. And I heara the rush of her chari- t ots, and the dash of her fountains, and the | conviviality of her palaces, and saw the i drunken nobles roil on the floors of mosaic, .s while in startling contrast amid all the re- I galities of the place I saw Pharaoh look up n into the face o? aged rustic Jacob, the shep- t herd, saying, "How old art thou*1 <] But back to the Nile and on and up till you I reach Thebes, in Scripture called the City of c No. Hundred gated Thebes. A quadran- a gular city four miles from limit to limit, g Four great temples, two of them Karnac J and Luxor, once mountains of exquisite i sculpture aud gorgeous dreams solidified in t stone. Statue of Kameses II, eight hundred o and eighty-seven tons in weight and seven- (i tv-flve feet high, but now fallen and scat- I tered. Walla abloom with the battlefields ot J centuries. 1 The surrounding hills of rock hollowed into sepulchers on the wall of which are r chiseled in picture and hieroglyphics the c confirmation of JJible story in regard to the n treatment of the Israelites in Egypt so that, j as explorations go on with tde work, the t walls of these sepulchers become com- r mentaries of the Bible, the Scriptures r originally written -upon parchment here cut t into everlasting stone. Th'ebas mighty and c dominant five hundred years. Then she went \ down in fulfillment ot Ezekiel's prophecy 6 i concerning the City of No, which was another i name for Thebes' "I will execute judgment s in No. I will cut off the multitudes of Ko." J Jeremiah also prophesied, 'Thus saith the g ' Lord, I will punish the multitudes of No." \ This city of Thebes and all the other dead t > cities ot Egypt iterate and reiterate the I g veracity of the Scriptures, telling the same c i story which Moses and the prophets told. ? Have you noticed how God kept back these t i archaeological confirmations of the Bible un- c i til our time, when the air is full of nnbelief _ about the truthfulness of the dear old book? . ; He waited until the printing press had been t s i set up in its perfected shape, and the subma- j v i rine cable was laid, and the world was in- | _ i telligent enough to appreciate the testimony, ir ' and then He resurrected the dead cities of 1 5 the earth, and commanded them, saying: ' "Open your long sealed lips and speak! i Memphis and Thebes is the Bible true?" "Truer' responds Memphis and Thebes. I "Babylon, is the Book of Daniel true?" a ? "Truer1 responds Babylon. "Ruins of Pal- s jetine and Syria, is the New Testament 11 true?' "TrueT respond the ruin3 all tho ^ way from Joppa to the Dead Sea and from j; , Jerusalem to Damascus. J I What a mercy that this testimony of the ? ! dead cities should come at a time when the Bible is especially assailed. And this work , will go on until the veracity of the Scrip- ; ' turos will be as certain to all sensible men and women as that two and two makes tour, as that an isosceles triangle is one which has two of its sides equal, as that the diameter ! of a circle is a line drawn through the centre , end terminated by the circumference, as certain as any mathematical demonstration. Tho.-e ancient citie3 lacked nothing but good morals. Dissipation and sin slew them, and unless dissipation and sin are halted, they will some day slay our modern cities, j and leave our palaces of merchandise anl j. our galleries of art and our city hall as Hat in the dust as we found Mem phis on the after- ' noon of that Thanksgiving day. And if the i cities go down, the ration will go down, j "Oh," you say. "that is impossible; we have stood so long?yea, over a hundred years as ! a nation." Why, what of that? Thebes stood live hundred years. Mempdis stood a . thousand yeurs. God does not forget. One day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a tnousand years a3 one day. Rum and debauchery and bad politics are , more rapidly working the destruction of our American cities that sin of any kind and all kinds worked for the destruction of the cities of Africa, once so mighty and now so prostrate. But their gods were idols, and could ; v do nothing except for debasement. Our God made the heavens and sent His Son to redeem the nations. And our cities will not go down, and our nations will not perish because the gospel is going to triumph. Forward! all schools and colleges and churches! Forward! all reformatory and missionary organizations. Forward I all the influences j marshaled to bless the world. Let our mod- ! ern European and American cities listen to i the voice of those ancient cities resurrected, 1 and by hammer aud chisel and crowbar be ' coraoelled to speak. j I notice the voice of those ancient cities is hoir.se from the exposure of forty centurie3 I and they accentuate slowly with lips that ' were palsied for ages, but all together those . cities aloiig the Nile intone these words: i "Hear us, for we are very old, aud it is hard for us to speak. We were wise lone before Athens learned her first lessan. We sailed our ships while yet navigation was unborn. These obelisks, these pyramids, these fallen pillars, tiiese wrecked te:nples, these colossi of black granite, the50 wrecked sarcophagi under tli3 brow of the hills, tell you of what I was in grandeur and of what I am comintr down to be. We sinned aud we fell. Our learning could not save u*. those; half obliterated hieroglyphics on yonder I wall. Oar architecture could not save us. Sea the painted columns PuiljB, and the shattered temple of Esneu. Our heroes could not- save us. Witness Menes, Diodorus, Rameses and Ptolemy. Our Gods Ammon and Osiris could not save us. Saa their fallen temples all along the four thousand miles of Nile.' Oh, ye modern cities get some other God; a God who cau help, a God who cau pardon, a God who can save. Called up as we aro for a little while to give testimony, again the sands of the i desert will bury us. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust!" And as tbesa voices of porphyry and granite ceased, all the sarcophagi under the bills responded, "Ashes to ashos!" and the capital of a lofty column fell grinding itself to powder among the rocks, and responding, "Dust to dust?" _ nrnnTAiio nrnrkTiTn ftJDLlulUL'u llLAJLUlMjr. NOT DK.V1R. It is not death to die, To leave this weary road. And 'mid^t the brotherhood on high, To be at home with God. i 1 It is not death to close The eyes long dimmed by tears, And wake in glorious repose To spend eternal years. It is not death to bear J The wrench that sets us free From dungeon chain, to breathe the air Of boundless liberty. It is not death to fling I Aside this siuful dust, t And rise on strong exalted wing ^ To live auiong the just. I ? Jesus, thou Prince of Life, Thv chosen canuot die: r Like'thee, they conquer in the strife J To reign with thee on high. k ?[George"W. Iiethune. o " g PERSONALITIES. jj Keep clear of personalities in ceneral con- c ersauon. laiK. t>i iaiu^?i, uuieuui, cuuu^uio. ^ The smallest minds occupy themselves with *, lersonalities. Personalities must sometimes ^ it talked because we have to learn and find j. mt men's characteristic* for legitimate a )bjects; but it Js to be with confidential a >ersons. Do not needlessly report ill of >thers. There are times when we are com- M Jelled to say, "1 do ndt think Bouncer is a j rue and honest man." But when there is no fj leed to express an opinion let poor Bouncer ei iwagger away. Othera will take his measurs, ^ 10 doubt, and save you the trouble of analyz- f( ng him and instructing them. And as far p is possible dwell on the (rood side of human j >eings. There are family boards where a C| constant process of depreciating, assigning I( notives and cutting up character goes for- j Tard. They are not pleasant places. One vho is bealthv does not wish to dine at a n lissecting table. There is evil enough in j nan, God knows 1 But it is not the mission a, ?f every young man and woman to detail and n eport it all.- Keep the atmosphere as pure g( is possible and fr.igrant with gentleness and ti harity.?[John Ilall, D. D. tj ? t THE WORD OF GOD. W That is true faith in God, and loyalty to Iim, which is faith in God's words, and " ibides by it, and acts accordingly. And it T vas by such use of God's word that onr c> jord put Satan to flight, and not by an array 01 f angels or any cxercise of supernatural ? tower,but by doing what He knew to be the F viJl of God,"as it was written; by drinking he cup which the Father bad given Him. w Thus was cast out the grent dragon, "that >ld serpent called the devil and Satan,which 84 leceiveth the whole world." Our blessed -<ord migflt have launched at hii? a single hundcr-bolt, and transfixed him in that botomless pit, from whence, by mysterious ? emission, he had broken loose, aud was cj tow ranging up and down Judea ? cekiug whom he might devour, tl le might have set Michael the ? rcnangel, again upon him to re- ?j >uke him. or remand him under chains of cl larkness to the judgment of the great day; 81 >ut Ho simply smote him with the "sword ei >f the Sprit, "which is the word of God," a ,nd that was enough. He used no other ar- ? ^i;nent, no other compulsion, than that of ri livine truth, in the simplest, plainest anlouncement of the will ot God. He gave J 10 other reason but this, that God says it, J* >nd that settled the muttef. Even so, His 01 lisciples were to overcome the accuser, the , * ^iabolis of mankind, ''by the- blood of tho f ??-*- 1 I..- - ? ^ J f a/ifImt? 't I I( jUIUU; anu uy IUC wuru ui tucu iceumuu;) ; oviiig not their lives unto the death. It was an example for us all, for the | a ninistry. for the churches, in the conflct j d igainst'sin and Satan. We must throw our- " elves on God's word, and use it, and apply | n t not as the word of man. but as it is in a ruth, the very word of God only. We are j lot to be afraid of it, not to play at blind- 1 b nan's buff with it (sec 2 Cor. 4:4); we are not ' f o doubt it. we are not to withhold it nor | 11 oncealitjwe are neither to suffer its per- ! n ersion, nor to thrust it as a sword Into the ' a cabbard, Instead of into men's hearts and a niquities; but we are to draw it forth and t! mite with it on every side. : * Neither man's expediency nor pcrmision is to be the rule, but only God's vord. "Thy word have I hid in m ine heart, ? bat I might not sin against Thee." No emer- * ;ency could have happened, no mischiev- j? ua contingency been brought about by 11 latnn to which our blessed Lord would not u lave instantly applied some pertinent or I . ommandiug passage or example. "For the * rord of God is quick and powerful t nd sharper than any two-edged sword. t )ur Lord needed no other library, no other 0 weapon, no olher education; neither needs jj ny Christian, for that is all and In all.? From Dr. Geo. B. Checver. t t c SPIRITUAL POWER VS. MACHINERY. C The Rev. C. C. Cook, in the course of an a rticle contributed to the New York Ob- t crver, makes some observations upon the I lecessity of spiritual power for the accora- ^ )!ishment of spiritual results that are most si icrtinent to our times. For we are in some f< langer of substituting machinery for the , (1 orce without which it cannot be* effective, i ie says: tl It is a fact that in Fanl self was crucified, ! n Jhrist was supreme. "lam crucitied with w Christ, yet nevertheless I live, yet not I, but u Jhilst livetb in me." Willi Iiim "tbe excel- J ence of man's wisdom was nothing, culture & was nothing, methods were nothing, ? machinery * Was nothing, organisation was numbers were tl nothing, material i>. -!tv was nothing | si (comparatively spenUiiifor the salvation J ?f the world, but Christ ami His power were sverything, and sufficien* for all things. "I it ietermined not to know auy tiling k imoug you save Jesus Christ ind Him " crucified." I can do a I tl th:ncs through Christ, who strengthened a me." Now look at the records of church of 11 this one man; then turn to the accomplishments for Christ and the church of today, a ind its ullied organizations for Christian enieavor. In comparison with the means em- w ployed, in comparison with the achieve- si ments of the Apostle Paul and a few other C men of kindred faith and spirit, who have w appeared at different times during the Chris- ri tian centuries, arc they not, even yet, inade- J [plate? tl Instead of the masses being won by all this v machinery and ail these workers, to Christ iiul the church, they are still too much ilicnatcd from both; so much so is this the c Base th-it Christian conventions are freque.f- e Iv called to consider tne matter, and one of r tlie greatest problems of the day among religious workers i? ,;IIow to reach the masses." We have seen come into being ? within the last few years numbers of Chris- ? tian societies for the prosecution of work. They all seem good. Tnev nil appear to be of w LJod*. Some of them already have si large membership: many of them have proved * eminently helpful to the cause of Christ and 1 ret the problem remains unsolved. There S bas been uo rccent great influx of spiritual power. 6 The la>t ten years, for Instance, m which j there has been the greatest nctnity in Chris- ^ .ian endeavor since the beginning of the :entury. have been productive of no marked j idvauce in the coming of Christ's kingdom ? in these United State1 of America. What is the reason? Among oilier thing* is it not that consecration has not kept pace with organization? Have not the followers e jf Christ too much faith in machinery. * means, methods and numbers, u.nl too little il uf the indwelling Christ. wh?? actuated and j ,'avc power to the Apostle ? . And if these things are true. i> it not fime that the attention of all Christian endeavor- o its of every inline and organization i?e directed to ttoe facts? ? "When you buy Dickens' works for i dollar you are getting brain work nighty cheap," says the Boston News. c similarly, it might have added, when ^ p-ou pay several times as much for a e ;opy of "Society as I Have Found It," b you are getting mighty cheap brain c work. _ Ji c i nn itit rnrrnnr CADDA1I1 dbllUVLu INTERNATIONAL LK.SSON FOI* AOVEMBEK 13. Le ison Text: "Christ's Prayer For His Disciples," John xvii., 1-19 ?Golden Text: Hcb. vil., 25?Commentary. 1. "These words spake Jesus, and lifted ip His eyes to Heaven and said, Father, the iour is come; glorify Thy Sod, then Thy son also may glorify Thee." These words? ;he words ot chapters xiv., iv., xviM which He had just spoken to them beginning with Let not your heart be troubled," and closngwitb, "Be of good cheer." And now He urns to His Fatner for Himself and for ;hem and for us. This is truly "the Lord's Prayer." 2. "As Thou hast Riven them power over ill flesh that He should give eternal life to as nany as Thou hast given Him." See how 3e acknowledges all things as given Him'by he Father; here He speaks of power, and in -erse S of the words which the Father gave iim. We are most like Him when we thus ;lorify God. 3. "And this is Life Eternal, that they oight know Thee, the only true God, and esus Christ, whom Thou hast sent." To now God is better than wisdom, or might, r riches, and is the only thing worth ;lori1ying in. 4. "I have glorified Thee on the earth; I ave finished the work which Thou gaveth le to do." One of His last words on the ross was, "It is finished" (xix., 30). He ere seems to anticipate that which would be ully accomplished. Because of this finished rori: God raised Him from the dead and gave lim glory (I Pet. i., 21). His life, death nd resurrection completes the work of tonemeat. 5. "And now, O Father, glorify Thou Me rith Thine own Self, with the glory which had with Thee before the world was/' 'his is to me one of the simplest and strong3t proofs of the divinity of Christ. He ere says that He has with the Father be ire the world was and shared ills glory, 'utwith this John, L, 1-3, Col. i., 16,17, [eb. i., 2, 8, and I fail to see how any one m doubt that Christ was God without most jarful perversion of the words of Scripture, er. 33, 36. 6. '*1 have manifested Thy name unto the len which Thou gavest Me out of the world, hine they were and Thou gavest them Me, nd they nave kept Thy word." Jesus did ot manifest Himself but the Father. He jught not His own glory, but the glory of le Father (chapter viii., 29. 50). Herevealed tie Father to those whom the Father had iven unto Him (chapter)., 18). And the ighest testimony He could give of them a?, "They have kept Thy word." 7. "Now they have known that all things hatsoever Thou hast given Me are of hee." He bad made it so plain to His disiples, both by words and deeds, that He ttly said what the Father told Him to say, ad that all His works were simply the atber working through Him (chapters zii, ); xiv., 10). that they could not but believe lat He was sent of Ood, and that the inisible God, whom no man hath seen, nor can >? mnnifpst in Him If Tim_ vi.. IB- iii.. 5; John xiv., U. 8. "For I have given unto them the words hichThou gavest Me-, and they have reeved them, and have known surely that I une out from Thee, and they have believed iat Thou didst send Me." How kindly in jis prayer the Saviour passes by the unelief of His disciples, making mention only C their faith. 80 in the letters to the aurches in Rev. ii., iii.. He first approves nd commends all tQat He possibly can in acb. We would be more like Jesus if we ctea so with other?, and were more ready to h:, and speak well of, tbelr good points ither than pick out tbeir failures. 9. "I pray for them. I pray net for the orld, but for them which Thou bast given [e; for they are Thine." Not only when a earth did He pray for His disciples (Luke xii., 32), but now at the right hand of the ather He ever liveth to make intercession jr us. 10. "And all Mine are Thine and Thine re Mine; and I am glorified in them." He elights to reassure us that we who believe 1 Him are not only His but th9 Father's, ot only the Father's gift to Him but His nd the Father's together (chapter x., 29.) 11. "And now 1 am no more in the world, ut these^ are in the world, and I come to bee.'' Jf'or twrty-tnree years ne naa oeeu 1 the world. "God manifest in the flesh;" off He would be no longer visible personllv, but only in the lives of His followers; nd as He had revealei tbe Father, so in bese mortal bodies He would have us reeal Him in words and deeds to a world bat cannot see spiritual things. "Holy Father, keep through Thine own ame tdose whom Tbou hasc given Me. that hey may be one. as we are." We are com* aitted to Him who is able to keep us from ailing (Jude 24), or as in the R. V., "Guard s from stumbling." 12. "While I was with them in the world I :ept < hem in Thy name." He provided for hem in things temporal and spiritual. He aught them of heavenly things. He kept hem from all barm, He gave them power ver all the power of the enemy, He led them a the right way. 13. "And now come I to Tbee; and these hings I speak in the world, that they might lave My joy tulfllled in themselves." In hapter xv., 11, He desired them to be full >f joy, also in xvi., 24; yet in xvi., 33, He issures them of tribulation, but exhorts hem to be of good cheer. Paul learned to ,'lory in tribulation and infirmities (Rom. r., 3; II Cor. xii., 9, 10). but his arm was to ' ?^ ai a n DOW IOrLQ me power ui UUI isl, aivi mo wu.art was the glory to be revealed (Rom. viii., 18). 14. "I have eiven them Thy word, and tie world hath nated them, because they ara ot of the world, even as I am not of the rorld." It is His word received that give* 8 the new birth to begin with (I Pet. i, 23; as. i.. 18), and as we continue to receive and it His word we are brought into ever inreasintj opposition to the world. 15. "I pray not that Thou ahouldst take liem out of the world, but that Thou louldst keep them from the evil." In I ohn v., 19. K. V., it is written that the 'hole world lieth in the evil one. Our p:>s;ion then is in the world, not of the world, ept by the power of God from the evil one. lur part is to put on and constantly wear de whole armor of God that thus we stand eain3t the wiles of the devil (Eph. vi., 11, 3). 1C. "They are not of the world, even as I m not of the world." It is very manifest U-M- ni'ne r\f fKfl ATlH Rfl LltlU UUII9V noo uvw vi. huu ??w? ?, ras cordially hated by the world. But conider for a moment who it was that so hated Ihriet and you will see that it was not the rorld as we generally understand it, but the eligious people who prided themselves on heir righteousness, and whom Jesus called he world and the caildren of the devil (John iii., 44). 17. "Sancify them through Thy truth: 'hy word is truth." Thac which will leanse us and separate us from this present vil world is the word ot' God dwelling in us ichly. 18. "As Thou hast sent Me into the world, ven so have I also sent them into the world." [e told them in chapter xv? 9, that as the ather loved Hitn so He loved them, but now le adds that as the Father sent Him so He ?nds them. 19. "And for their sakes 1 sanctify Myself hat they also might be sanctified through he truth." He was sanctified or set apart a bo ever about His Father's business, to do [is Father's will, to always please His Fathr, and to make atonement for the sins of the rorid. In all but the last we may bo like lim, aai ;n reference to the last we may lay own or pour out our lives in making that tonement known to others. To this end le cries, "Whom shall I send and who will o for us?" Let each one say, "Here am I, end me" (Isa. vi., 3).?Lesson Helper. "When some men pay their preachr they feel as though they were payig a gas bill," remarks the Ram's lorn. Well, with all due respect to he many brilliant clergymen who ccupy American pulpits, possibly 3tnc of these men are right regard- i ag the others. Jacob Kahn, ^Philadelphian, reently escaped a horrible death by eason of his thinness. A switch enine drawing flvo freight cars knockd him down and passed over him, ut by huggiLg the ties closely he ame out of the ordeal without iniry. POPULAR SCIENCE. A torpedo costs ?1600. Rome will be lighted bj electricity. There are about sixty species of sharks. The barking of dogs on the earth can be heard in a balloon at an elevation ot four miles. Ti V ^ _ t J ? 3 T* 1 3 it uas ueea uiacoveruu in x^ugiaau that, smokeless powder is unsafe for small arms. The salmon placed in the Hudson River by the fish commission are increasing very rapidly. 1 The Government is about to begin the work of preparing a hydrographic survey of the Great Lakes. Dr. Higgins, the celebrated English astronomer, says the stars are red, white and blue according to their age, the first being the youngest. The Frenck have planned works at Havre for utilizing the ebb and flow of the tide to work Turbine wheels to generate power for the dynamo to supply Paris with licht. 0 Blood travels from the heart through the arteries, ordinarily, at the rate of about twelve inches per second; its speed through the capillaries is at the rate of three one-hundredtfis of an inch per second. ; Sir William Tanner, who ha? made a careful study of the whale, calculates that one of eighty feet in length, in order to attain a speed of twelve miles an hour, would have to exercise a propelling force of 145 horse power. Tofineasuring coal oil an J* gelatine there has been recently invented a faucet 'that measures each quart that passes through the cylinder of which the appajatu. L made. A lever is attached to ^he cylinder, and by one movement of it the oil is discharged, the cylinder retilled and the quantity registered on a toothed disk. The Honey of fae'MaTEa bees has long been noted both tor its purity and for its 'delicious flavor. A writer in the Mediterranean JSaturalist says the flavor is [largely due to the extensive crops of , sulla (clover) that are annually raised throughout the islands, from which the ,bees derive the largest proportion of ( .their material. The successful treatment of hysterical, rheumatic and neurasmatic affections by illuminating the surfaces with the electric light is reported, in a foreign medical journal, by Dr. Von Stein. His apparatus consists of an-incaudescent light ,of twelve volts supplied with a reflector 'and handle. Illuminating a painful joint or nerve, as sciatica, for two to five 'minutes has yielded him surprising results. Aluminium has been substituted for castiron in the specifications for tho dome of the tower of Philadelphia's new City Hall. It will save the constant expense of painting and 'reduce the weight of the tower about 400 tens. The bronze statue of Penn that is to surmount the tower is to be thirty-seven feet in height and about 40,000 pounds in weight. The clock face is to be twenty-three feet in diameter. The system of riveting by hydraulic power is being successfully applied to the shell plating of vessels now in course 'of construction in a Tyneside ship-building yard. In this district the application of machine riveting to ship con- 1 strucfion has hitherto made little pro- ' gress, but it would seem that attention is , now being more strongly directed to the , subject, with the result that the advan- I tages of machine riveting are being ap- J predated. All sounds, whether high or low, loud or soft, travel at precisely the same rate ?i. e., about 1100 feet a second. Were this not so the different notes of music would reach the ear at different times, and the result would be confusion instead ot melody. If the ?un gave forth sounds loud enough to rcach the earth, such sounds inste*d of reaching us ia the space of about eight minutes as light does, would only arrive alter a period of nearly fourteen years. * x-? m 4. A lien iremuiKut tut ourjii, la oae of the hospitals at Berlin a new treatment for bums has been tried with great success. The advantages of this new treatment are quicker recovery ?nd less suffering from the wound. The wound is first thoroughly wcshed *rith a solution of three per cent, of carbolic acid, or similar disinfectants used for this purpose. The blisters are then carefully opened so that none ot the fiesh beneath is injured, and the surface covered with finely powdered subnitrate of bismuth. A thick layer of soft cotton wool is then placed over the pondered surface, and left ia position until it is moistened with the watery discharges. This dressing should be changed as often as the cotton bandages get moist. In exceptionally bad burns ointment of bismuth is substituted for the dry powder, and the suffering in this casa is greatly reduced. In the many ca;e3 treated in the German hospital no symptom of poisoning from tbe bismuth have yet been discovered, while the treatment seems in other respects to be far superior to the old methods.?Neva York Tilt(jram. The Spaniel Was n Strategist. This story comes from Stone Lake, Ind.: "A gentleman living on the lanks of the lake has a small spaniel dog that is (he pet of the family. A neighbor owned a vicious English bulldog that seemed anxious to light and kill the li*.- J tie spaniel at any opportunity. Strenuous efforts were made to keep the dogs 1 apart, but through the thoughtlessness j of some little children the doga met on the banks of the lake, and the little . spaniel began his fight for life. He adroitly managed to get the bulldog to th^ edge of the water and then got him where he had to swim. After this display of intelligence his battle was a good deal more than half won, for he j had the bulldog at his mercy ancl in a very short time had him drowned."? ( .iVfctf York Journal. , Biting the N.'.ils. , Biting the uails is not only a in"?3t i disagreeable practice, but an excS^Tgc affirms that it is also exceedingly dan- ' gerous, as the biter never knows when i to stop, and is liable to bite into "the < quick" and cause blood poisoning. Even when the utruo3t care is taken of the teeth, a poisonous secretion is apt to col- I lect on tiiem, and the entrance of a min- i ute portion ot this into the circulation < may prove as certainly fatal as the pus ' on a surgeon's scalpel.?Brooklyn : Citizen. 1 " WOMAN'S WORLD. j I'iiEASANT LITERATURE FOR l FEMININE READERS. < t AN AGILE QUEEN*. When Queen Margaret, of Italy, goes upon her climbing tours through the mountains of Gressoney she adopt3 the oostume of the mountain peasants, which J consists of stout boots, a short red skirt * and a black bodice. This rustic attire c suits to perfection her striking beauty, c and it is no wonder that the simple c country people worship her. The Queen E is an indefatigable worker, and her love' 4 for this exercise is of great amusement a to her attendants. "Why, I assure you," s jaid one of them the other day, "that a Ber Majesty actually climbed up a rock ' with her hands when all the time she* 0 might have got round by a path.?Bald- . mare American. 1 . t PREACHING DRESS REFORM TO WOMEN. * c Miss Millington Lathbury, who gained for herself great distinction at Oxford a ^ jhort time since, is delivering free lec- j tures at the British Museum. The sub- t ject of the iirst is to be Greek dress, and Miss Lathbury is to have a lay figure to t issist her. The figure will be clad in those flowing robes which are the dream of every tall, graceful woman, but which cannot be worn by short ones. The subject of the second lecture is no less interesting. It is marriage and life of the women in ancient Greece. The third treats of Greek ideas of death and Greek funeral costumes. Miss Lathbury is pretty and has a sweet voice. So she is pretty sure to be a public [success.? Chicago Post. A PBINCESSS FAVORITE TBHTKET. Any one who cherishes the honor of being informally received in the boudoir of the Princess of Wales may notice, nestled in the corner of her jewel casket, a little bijou which is seldom worn by its royal owner, owing to its sacred preservation as one of the dearest relics of her happy youth, it is in toe saape 01 a colored gold bracelet, richly set j, with diamonds and comprising eight f compartments, each having a miniature q of one of her bridesmaids, with their g initials in diamonds on enameled blue lids, which can be closed to conceal their faces from view. This trinket was presented to the beautiful Alexandra by the eight daughters of peers who had tbe honor of waiting upon her at the time of her marriage, in 1863. a PIONEER FEMININE STENOGRAPHER. E Recently paragraphs hare .appeared in (his column regarding pioneers among f American women in the business of court reporting and stenography in gen- t eral. Here aro some interesting facts ibout an Englishwoman whose career Has opened the way for others of her { sex. Some'years ago?perhaps it would be ungallant to say just how many? Miss Marie Bethel Beauclerc became the i shorthand amanuensis of the editor of 1 * ^ -9 1 ir flkA tne uirmingQam jjlvtimiij j.iouua. uuc was subsequently engaged to report the c weekly lectures at the Parry Barr Insti- f tute. She also reported many other lectures, public meetings, etc., including fl the proceedings of seven important con- t ferences, one at Nottingham, the others at Birmingham. f Her great work as a reporter was in connection with the T Church of the Saviour at Birmingham. v Nine large volumes have been published c of her reports of the pastor's sermons and prayers. Miss Beauclerc was the T firat of hef sex in England to become a c stenographic reporter.?Chicago Post. s ADJUSTABLE ENGAGEMENT BCTO. a The following incidents happened at s Oroville, Cal. It was a handsome soli- fl UUIC} auu OUV V?*V*VMW?J ?VW?. wjeweler to know that it was her engage- s ment ring. t s 4'I would like to have this ring cut 1 down tojsuit my finger," said the handsomest heart smasher, as she flourished ? the brilliant ring before the eyes of the t jeweler. "? a The jeweler took the ring and smiled ?he had seen it before. 4'I can fix that in a minute," he re- t plied. Screwing a magnifying glass in his eye, and taking a small, sharp-point- g ed instrument in his hand, he touched a minute button on the inside of the ring and made it the exact size, saying, as he placed it on her finger, 4lYou see, these c rings are made in this manner for the a reason that they are worn by so many a different people; it is a great convenience. " e The young lady sailed out of the store a burning with indignation, and the rea- s son she did not fly was because she [ didn't have the wings. What did she c think? You know; and it is only necessary to state that she did not wear the e ring. Another girl has it now, but this } time the jeweler was not permitted to s touch the button?the young man did it t himself. ?Jeweler a' Circular. r HOUSE DRBS9E3. y No matter what may be the sea3on, I p the tea gown and the house dress must i t always be of interest to the woman who h likes to look nice in the house as well as fa out of doors. In these days of steam-heated and ^ comfortably warmed apartments one does v not want to make the house dress any v warmer in winter than in summer, bo- ^ cause the temperature is at summer heat all the year round. Therefore a greater ,j latitude is afforded to a woman in buy- j ing her house dresses thai} in buying her street dresses. . At a luncheon which was given a short time ago by a young society woman who bad just returned from Lenox and ? wished to entertain a few of hor lady P friends before starting on an autumnal *T trip, the prettiest gown of all was that which was worn by the hostess herself. j* She had no intention of being elaborately dressed, and therefore the material which she selected was plain white tl cashmere. The bodice was square-necked P and tight-fitting to the waist line. Below ci that it was slashed all around. The h 3kirc was perfectly plain, and hung full s< both front and back. To relieve the ai clinging appearance it was lined with o: silk, anl this gave it a more grace- ja ful hang and an appearance of heaviness. I g The sleeves of this gown wore of the ( same white cashmere aad consisted of j b one big puff. Over the cashmere there ' ti were bauds of white satin ribbon. I v There was a broad, white satin collar j w trimmed with white Valenciennes lace, | a and a little of the lace edged the front i d i?f the bodice and took the place of a belt, j S The effect was lovely, and so much ad- ; p miration did the grown provoke that the I 1< hostess declared that she felt quite em- | ti - ... . i,': . barrassed at wearing so pretty a gown* s 13 if she hod tried to outdress her guests.: The sume gown in two shades of bio*-''': s quite as pretty, and by reason of its :olor is not as dressy in effect and make* in admirable luncheon gown.?Htm\\ Yorlc World. THE PHANTOM PAETT. The old "phantom party" idea, reno-^ rated by the witchery of a "web ate," is with us again. The phantonr^? :ostume consists, as every one knows^y;'^ if a large enveloping sheet, a pillow' -? ase with apertures for the eyes, or aask shrouded with a pillow case aboafe/J] he head. Costumed in this ghostijjtfm .ttire the hostess receives her guests h* [h ilence. She greets them without wordf^J ,nd motions them to the toilet rooflwjjffl rom which they emerge clad in the whitest lisguises. Each phantom guest receives on enter^'Ji ng the parlor a single bright thread he ;'web of fate." This thread is of the- $ right-colored twine now to be pttr?'3jj :hased in the shops, and is about twenty** P raras in lengca. 11 is suspeaueu. irotn ome conspicuous place over the chaode^Ji ier, the doorway, or 'a picture, and hence pursues its intricate and windinggj vay over doorways, behind bookcases,'? ip stairways and down again, even out >f doors and into kitchens, until finaUy^aj n some secret place it is tied about lidden "fate." These "fates" are written upon rolls ofr.'j japer, and set forth the destiny of jerson for whom each is prepared. Ostj; .vj he cleverness of the hostess in writinj^S >rophecies in accordance with the whim*| ^ md hobbies of each guest, as well u iumor and wit desirable in the composi- . S ion, depends the success of the, enter-^sj ainment. Quotations are also made to\':3 lo duty in this capacity when originaUt^v| md ingenuity are lacking. Eacji of trings in the net must be Of a decided^ int contrasting with all the others aa ;c hey cross and recross many times in the < I isentangling. They must also be of ame length, as a prize is. given to t$iS| ihantom who first discovers* the roUJNpH The guest is pursued in silence, whick/|3 3 broken only when the fates are ouna sou reau aiouu w mo aoocun/tj.-i'j ?hen there are unmasking and ;alore.?New York Sun. FASHION NOTES. Muffs are large; some abnormally a?.<[$} The Bourbon lily is a favorite desigiL//3| Glace kid slippers are very lashion^||8 Crowns having large polka dots are | aade of feathers. New crepe-finished wools are importatjrafl or winter tailor gowns. The cornflower blue shade is among1;^ he assortment of felt shapes. Jewel beads are to be seen on miUiln^fl iry, as usual, but in lesser quantity, thia^fi leason. The gray moufflon 13 another prettjrv| larae for lamb's wool, and is exceeding^? White gloves with blaci embroideiy? >n the back are still worn, but not so \ Some of the new and dainty purses^ ire made .of white kid and have a fram*JS if French gilt. The prettiest of all the ribbons is tha^^ vhich is shot with a gold thread one V.; ?ay, making a very pretty shimmetiqrag Eaglish suitings for traveling anfl 'M talking costumes repeat the brokflo^ ihecks and irregular stripes ol The most charming of beaded bonnefit>|| ,re those of beaded felt, white tudded over with fine jets being moafr ,-^ ittractive. Graduated bows, seven in number, mall silver beads and fastened with quare clasp are suitable for young girl^jpj it night they look like pearls. Blanketing plaids appear this season n rich colorings and in fabrics that, al- '' hough coarse and shaggy in appearance, ,re soft and silky to the touch. -\i Stained ivory if beautifully applied ta"^ , set of oyster forks. The forks iubmS ridentshaped, though few in number^ ,nd have fish-hook terminations, a happj - md sensible idea. The juxtaposition of fur with dainty ^ vening silks and laces is a new Parisian ; leparture, Narrow borders of mink: h nd sable surround the bottom of sUnfiB ,nd edge the bodices of ball dresses. ^ Waists of cloth dresses continue to bt; xtremely fancy. Black velvet is exten- -4 ivelj used for trimming them. Entire . \ lcevcs are made of it, also vests aa?;1? tortions of the waist, so that very little | if the cloth is seen. $*$1 Very pale gray gloves are worn witajli'j ntire white costumes. The effect is * ^ ittle odd, inasmuch as the hands look a hade darker than does the upper part ot he arm, and consequently have what Kn oo I \ar\ o ^itarv lnnlr Ul^Ub i/b vc?fc*w\* u ?wwm. The large real white lace veiU that are J irorn by a few women will, it is said, be ^ iopular during the winter months with-^ he large white felt hats that promise tojfy iide the view of the stage from everj*-> iody who loves to go to the theatre. ii| Pattern or robe dresses arc sent orer 3 boxes in camel's hair, Henrietta cloth;' igogne and drap d'ete. These are ? roven with curved borders, gra duating .fjjj i size and pattern as they near the opi'^ osite selvage which is the top of tho : ?] in de siecle" skirt. These dreasea are "yjjl ich, stylish and expensive. Circular earrings the size of twenty- |$ ve cent pieces are seen every few >teps J1 lis fall. Sometimes they are set withj|8 ood sized diamonds with spaces of gg lain gold; again they are wheels of ^ jpaz, and again rings of repousse gold. 'hey arc a decided innovation on tho nobtusive styles of earring that har?: | een worn for so long. v;-$|3 Loves and doves riot over everything lat is used for lovely woman in her '-Sj ersonal adornment?on her brushes, ;^ :>mb3, hand-glasses, shoe-horns, parasol ,/j andles. The most dainty adaptation is :en on her card-case of white vellum. -Jl nd undressed kid. In the former tho rnament is illuminated, on the latter is raised ornament lightly touched with >2| old. The prevailing mode for an e7enitt? odicc is similar to that worn during the me of Lincoln, and seen to such ad- 5 antage in the numerous portraits of hia rife. It is cut perfectly round, front |a ad back, and iinished with h face of ' cop lace, carried over the shoulders. % oruetimes the lace is tacked to form a uffed sleeve, but more otten it "-Haqga M joselv and drapes the upper portion of I he aria. 'Kyffiim Jim