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\ REV. DR. TALMAG&. I ' JJTHE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNv * DAY SERMON, ^Subject: "Reliffion and. Business." If'' \ r Text: "In all thy icaus acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy path Pifoverbs iii., 6. t *'A promise good enough for many kZnds of life, but not for my kind of life," says ,Bome business man; "the law of supply and 1 'demand controls the business world." But I have reason to say that it is a promise to Mil} persons in any kind of honest business. . Tnere is no war between rsiigion and busi.n?ss, between ledgers and Bibles, between ofaurcbes and counting houses. On the contrary religion accelerates business, sharpens men s wits, sweetens acerbity (if disposition, fillips the blood of phlegmatic!, ana throws more velocity into the wheels o.' hard work. It" gives better balancing to tt.e judgment, more strength to tha will, re are muscle to industry and throws into euthusiam a mora consecrated fire. You cannot in all the round of the world show me a man whose honest business has been despoiled by religion. The industrial classes are divided into three groups?producers, manufacturers, traders. Producers, such as farmers and miners. Manufacturers, such as those who turn corn into food, and wool and flax into apparel. Traders, such as make profit out of the transfer and exchange of all that which is produced and manufactured. A business man may belong to any one or all of these classes, and not one is independent of any other. TV hen the prince imperial of France fell on the Zulu battlefield because the strap fastening th& stirrup to the saddle broke as he clung to it, his comrades all escaping, but he falling under the lances of the savages, a great many people blamed the empress for allowing htr son to go forth into that battlefield, and others blamed the English Government for accepting the sacrifice, and others blamed the Zulusfor their barbarism. The one most to blame was the harness maker who fashioned that strap of the stirrup out of shoddy and Imperfect material, as it was iound to have been afterward. If the strap had held, the prince imperial would probably have been alive to-day. But the strap broke. Ifoprince independent of a harness maker. High, low, wise, ignorant, you in one occupation, 1 m another, all bound together. So that there must be one continuous line of sympathy with each other's work. But whatever your vocation, if you have a multiplicity of engagements, if into your lite there come losses and annoyances and perturbations as well as percentages and dividends, if you are pursued from Monday morning until Saturday night, and from January to January bv inexorable obligation and duty, then you are a business man or you are a business woman, and my subSect is appropriate to your case. We are under the impression that the moil and tug of business life are a prison into which a man is thrust, or that it is an unequal strife where unarmed a mangoes forth to contend. I shall show you that business life was intended of God for grand and glorious education and discipline, and if I shall be helped to say what I want to say, I shall rub some of the wrinkles of care out of your "brow and unstrap some of the burdens from your back. [ am not talking to an abstraction. Though never have been in business life, I know all about business men. In my first parish at Belleville, New Jer eey, ten miias trom JMew xorK, a large portion of ray audience was made up of iN'ew York merchants. Than I went to Syracuse, a place of intense commercial activity, and then I went to Philadelphia and lived long among the merchants of. that city, than whom there are no better men on earth, and for more than twenty-two years I have Btood in this presence, Sabbath by Sabbath, preaching to audiences, the majority of whom are business men and business women. It is not an abstraction to which 1 speak, but a reality with which I am well acquainted. In the first place, I remark that business life was intended as a school of energy. God gives us a certain amount of raw material out of which weai* to hew our character. Our faculties are Jto be reset, rounded and sharpened up. Our young folks having graduated from school or college, need a higher education, that which the rasping and collision of everyday life alone can effect. Energy is wrought out only in a fire. After a man has been in business activity ten, twenty, thirty years, his energy is not to be measured by weights or plummets or ladders. There is no height it cannot scale, rand there is no depth it cannot fathom, and there is no obstacle it cannot thrash. Now, my brother, whydid God put you in that school of energy? Was it merely that you might he a yardstick to measure cloth or a steelyard to weigh flour? Was it merely that you might be better qualified to chaffer and niggle? No. God placed you in that school of energy that you might be developed tor Christian worn. If the undeveloped taients in the Christian churches of to-day were brought out and thoroughly harnessed, I believe the whole world would Be converted to God in a short time. There are so many deep streams that are turning no mill wheels and that are harnessed to no factory bands. Now God demands the best lamb out of every flock. He demands the richest sheaf of every harvest. He demands the best man of every generation. A cause in which Newton and Loc.ce and Mansfield toiled you and I can afford to toil iD. Oh, for fewer idlers in the cause of Christ aua lor more Christian workers?men who shall take the same energy that from Monday morning to Saturday night tney put forth for the achievement of a livelihood or the gathering of a fortune, and on Sabbath days put it forth to the advantage of Christ's kingdom and the bringing of men to the LorJ. Dr. Duff, in South Wales,saw a man who had inherited a great fortune. The man said to bun: "I had to be very busy for many years of my life getting my livelihood. Atter awhile my fortune came to me, and there has oeen no Dece3sitv that I toil siuce. There came a time when I said to myself, *Shall 1 now retire from business, or shall I go on and serve the Lord in my worldly occupation? " He said: "I resolved on the latter, and I have been more industrious in commercial circles than I ever was before, and since that hour I have never kept a farthing for myself. I have thca^'it it to be a great ! shame if I couldn't toil as hard for thi Lord as I had toiled for myself, and all the products of ray factories and my commercial establishments to the last farthing have gone for the building of Christian institutions and supporting the church of God." Oh, if the same energy put forth for the world could be put forth for God! Oh, if a thousand men in these great cities who have achieved a fortune could see it their duty to do all business for Christ and the alleviation of the world's suffering. Again, 1 remark, that business life is a school of patience. In your everyday life how many things to annoy and to disquiet! Bargains will rub. Commercial men will sometimes fail to meet their engagements. pAiih hrwilr iinrl mnnpv rfrawpp will snmpfimpit quarrel. Goods ordered for a special eme - j gency will come too late or be damaged in I the transportation. People intending noi harm will go shopping without any intention [ of purchase, overturning great stocks of, gooas ana insisting that you break the dozen. More bad debts on the ledger. More counterfeit bills in the drawer. More debts to pay for other people. More meannesses on th< part of partners in business. Annoyance after annoyance, vexation aftter vexation and loss after loss. All that process will either break you dowu or brighten you up. It is a school of patience. You have known men under the process to become petulant and choleric and angry and pugnacious and cross and sour an i queer, and they lost their customers, and tneir name became a detestation. Other men have been brightened up under the process. They were toughened by the exposure. They vere like rocks, all the more valuable for "being blasted. At first they had to choke down their wrath, at first ttaev had to bite their lip, at first they thought ol some stinging retort they would like to make, but they conquered their impatience. They have kind words now for the sarcastic flings. They have gentle behavior now for unmannerly t> customers. They are patient now with unfortunate debtors. They have Christian reflections now for sudden reverses. Where did they get that patience? By hearing a minister preach concerning it on Sabfcath? Oh, no. They got it just wnere you will get it?if you ever ge e it at all?3elling hats, discounting notes, turning banisters, plotting corn, tinning roofs, pleading causes, ? Oh, that amid the turmoil ami anxiety auH exasperation of everyday life you mi?ht i haar the voice of God saying: "lu pillience L possess your souL Let patience hawe her perfect work." f I I ! m I remark again that busiuessli fa is a sfchool of useful knowledge. Merchants ao not read many books and do not study lexijbons. iThey do not dive into profounds of learninM and yet nearly all through their occupation come to understand questions of finance &1* politics and eeography and jurisprudence and ethics. Business is .severe schoolmistress. If pupils will not learn, she strikes tbe?n 0Ver the head and the heart with saverei losses. You put $5000 into an enterprise. II Is all gone. You say, "That is a dead loss#' Ofa( no. You are paying the schooling? That was only tuition, very large tuitionM_l told you it was a severe schoolmistre^tbut it was worth it. You learned things ut*]or that process you would not have learnedJ in any other way. M Traders in grain come to know ??nething | about foreign harvests; traders in fruit come to know something about the prospects of tropical production; manufaethers of American goods come to underRand the tariff on imported articles; pOMishers of books must come to understand ttm new law of copyright; owners of ship* come to know windsand shoals and nATi^Eion; and every uaio kjl wuiuu^auu J ^?ia?u wwu, and every tea box, and everyjujluster of bananas is so much literature foA business man. Now, my brother, what #e you going to do with the intelligence? ?o you suppose God put you in this school fcf information merely that you might1 be fharper in a trade, that you might be injore successful as a worldling? Oh, no; it w&s thit you might take that useful information anji use it for Jesus Christ. i I Can it be that you havejbeenfdealing with foreign lands and never had the missionary spirit, wishing the salvation otj foreizn people? Can it be that yoju ha>e become acquainted with all the outrage inflicted in business life, and that yoil ha*e never tried to bring to bear that Gkispel Which is to extripate all evil and corrept al| wrongs and illumine all darkness and lift pp all wretchedness and save men for I this world and the world to come? Can it pe thjt understanding all the intricacies ot bus^ess you know nothing about those things vhich will last long after all bills of eichanje and! consignments and invoices and] rent rolis shall have crumpled up and been consigned in the flre3 of the last great day? (Can It be that a man will be wise for time apd a lool for eternity? 1 remark, also, that btsiness life is a school for integrity. No Aan knows what will nrhon Kq 1 a fAtTnfa'1 Thorn nra thousauds of men whta lifre kept their integrity merely because the,- never have been tested. A man was electee treasurer of th9 State of Maine some yearsago. He was distinguished for his br.nnst,-, usefulness and uprightness, but before oife year had passed be had taken of the public funds for his own private uss, and was hurljd out of office in disgrace. Distinguished (or virtue before. Distinguished for crime a'ter. You can call over the names of men just like that, in whose honesty you had complete confidence, but placed in certain crges of temptation they went overboard. J In ever so many temptations to scoundrelism as now. Not a law ^ the statute bookbut has some back dooi through which a miscreant can escape. ,'4,h! how many dei?ont.inns in t,hn fanrifi i If cr? plundering in commerc^ life, that it a man talk about living a lift of complete com mercial accuracy the-e are those who ascribe it to greencess and lack ot tact. More need; of hojesty now than ever before?tried hopesty, < complete honesty, more than in those tirnj3 when business was a plain affair, and Rolens were woolem and silks were si^ks ana men were men. . How many mam do ypu suppose there are in commercial life whofcould say truthfully, "In all the sales jl havj ever made I have never overstated the jalue of goods; in all the sales I havd ererj made fhage never covered up an imperfection in the fabric; of all the thousands of Hollars I have ever made I have n?t^ tak|a one dishonest farthing." Ther?fere ml^ however, who can say it?hundr?ls wh^ can say it, thousands who can say it are more nonest than when they soli t&eir [first tierce of rice, or t'aeir first 'ftrkw 0f butter, because their honesty ana integrity have been tested, tried j ana carried out triumphant. But thley rei ember a time when they couldl bavi robbed a partner, or afcsconQj wjth the funds of a buMk, 1 sprung a snap judgment, or iade a false assignment, ,Bor >rrowed illimitably without any?^for\,'payment, or got a man into a shar corn* ana fleeced him. But thev never Itrwik un shin nn t.hat r>Ht,Vi wftx* of hell-flre. I They can say their prayers without heaj-iog te clink of dishonest dollars. Theyl can ead their Bible without thinking orithe titp when with a lie on their soul in the cuswn house they kissed the Book. Tbfey casthink of death and the judgment that ccnts after it without any flinching?*hat dry when all charlatans and cheats aofi jocfeys and frauds shall be doubly dJmnedjlt does not make their knees kncJbk togiher and It does not make their teeta chattxf to read "as the partridge sitteth onl eggs )nd hatcheth them not, so he that rertethi-iches, and not by right, shall leave their in the midst of his days . and at hijs end siall be a fool." Oh, wttat a sqooI of integrity business life is! If y?u havt ever been tempted tn let your integrity ringe before present advantage: if Jyou hare ever wakened up in some embarrAssmen and said: "Now I'll step a little aside froi tbe right path and no one will knir.v it, a.d I'll come all right again. Itisonlfy once.' Oh, that only once has ruined liens of housands of men for this life and blasted thir souls for eternity. It is a tremendous sooo). business life?a school of integrity. Anerchant in Liverpool got a five pound Beik of England note, and holding it /up tow rd the light he saw some interlineatAons in 'hat seamed red ink. | He jfinally (eciphered the letters, and found out chat th v.riting had been made by a saying 111 suostance, ' WHOever pets thi oank note will please to inform my brother, John Dean,living near Carlisle, that I 1 am a slave of the bey of Algiers." The rnerchait sent word, employed Govern* men^ officer and found who this man was spokan of a this bank bill. After awhile the hian wa rescued, who for eleven years had ibeen a lave of the bey of Algiers. He wa? immeciately emancipated, but was so wor n out tajr hardship and exposure he soon after died Oh, if some of the bank bills tha'c comethrough your hands could tell all the soenesthrough which they have passed, it gx>uld lie a tragedy eclipsing any drama of jShakes>eare, mightier than King Lear or Mdcbetb. I J&a 1 gopn in this subject, 1 am impressed with the importance of our having more syjmpathj with business men. Is it not a sqamo ttyt we in our pulpits do not oftener preach aiout their struggles, their trials and their tenptations? Men who toil with the hk:id arenot apt to be very sympathetic with those wlt> toil with the brain. The farmers who raife tha corn, and the oats, and the wheat s?netimes are tempted to thiuk that 2rain uerehants have an easy time, and *et thei- profits without giving any equivalent. Iln to and Aristotle were so opposed no merchandise that th?y declared commerce ;tobe tV d curse of the nations, and they adj vised ti,at cities be built at least ten "miles from tile seacoast. But, you and I know that there are no moro industrious or high minded men than those who move in the world of traffic. Borne/ of them carrying burdens heavier than hods of brick, and are exnose l to sruirpijr tilings than tne east wind, and climb mountains higher than the Alps or Himalayas, and if they are faithful Christ will at las't say to theiu: "Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful oven a few things, I will make thee ruler ! ovei| many things. Enter thou into the joy l.'iof thy Lord." \ve talk about the martyrs of the Pied? I mont irollov And the martvrs amoner the i Scotch highlands, and tha martyrs at Oxforrt. There was just as certainly martyrs 1 Of Wall street aud State street, martyrs* of h^ulton street and Broadway, martyrs of At'antic street and Chestnut street, going j thii0U2-h hotter fires, or having their necks un^er sharper axes. Then it behooves us to banish all fret'ulness from our lives if this subject be true. We look back to the time wlien we were at school, and we remember t^e rod, aud we remember the hard tasks, a4d we complained grievously, but now we S5leit was for the bes.. Business life is a qhool. and the tasks are hard, and the chastisements sometimes are very grievous, but do not complain. The hotter the fire the better the refining. There are men before the throne of God this day in triumph who on earth ware Cheated out of everything but their cotfia. they were iued, they were imprisoned for 9 t", they n ere throttled by a whole pack >? constables with writs, they were sold out by the sheriffs, they had no compromise with their creditors, they had to make assignments. Their dying hours were annoyed by the sharp ringing or the door-bell by some impetuous creditor who thought it was outrageous and impudent that a man should dare to die before he paid the last three shillings and sixpence. I had a friend who had many misfortunes. Everything went against him. Ha had good business quality and was of the best morals, but he was one of those men, such as you havs sometimes seen, for whom everything seems to go wrong. His life became to iiim a plague. When! heard he was dead I said, "Good; got rid of the sheriffs!" Who are those lustrous souls before the throne? When the question is asked, "Who are they?" the angel? standing on the sea of glass respond, "These are they who came out of great business trouble and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb." A man arose in Fulton street prayer meeting and said: "I wish publicly to acknowledge the goodness of God. I was in business trouble. I bad money to pay, and I had no means to pay it, and I was in utter despair of all human help, and I laid this matter before the Lord, and this morning I went down among some old business friends 1 had not seen in many years?iust to make a call? and one said to me: 'Why, I am so glad to see you: walk in. We hare some money on our books due you a good while, but we didn't know where you were, and therefore not haying your address we could not send it. We are very glad you have come.'" And the man standing in Fulton street prayer meeting said, "rue amount they paid me was six times what I owed." You say it I only happened so. You are an infidel. God I answered that man's prayer. Oh, you want I business grace. Commercial ethics, business honors, lawa of trade, are all very good in their place, but there are times when you want something more than this world will give you. You want God. For the lack of Him some that you have known have consented to forge, and to maltreat tnetr mends, and to curse their enemies, and their names have been bulletined among scoundrels, and they have been ground to powder, while other men you have known have gone through the very same stress of circumstances triumphant. There are men here to-day who fought the battle and gained the victorv. People come out of that man's store, and they say, "Well, if there ever was a Christian trader, that is one." Integrity kept the books and waited on customers. Light from the eternal world flashed through the show windows. Love to God and love to man presided in ttiat storehouse. Some dav people going through the street notice that the shutters of the window are not down. The bar of that store door has not been removed. People say, "What is the matter?" You go up a little closer, and you see written on the card of that window, "Closed on account of the death of one of the firm." That day all through the circles of business there is talk about how a good man has gone. Boards of Trade pas3 resolutions nt o?h nKnrMiiw rtf fihrist Drav. VJU OJT y UUU VUU* VMW ? V* I ' Help, Lord, for the godly man ceased." He has made his last bargain, he has suffered his last loss, he has ached with the last fatigue. His children will get the result of his industry, or, if through misfortune there be no dollars left, they will have an estate of j prayer and Christian example which will be everlasting. Heavenly rewards for earthly discipline. There "the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest." WORDS OF WISDOM. Molasses is honey to the contented man. Marrying for money has its drawbacks. A million dollars covereth a multitude of sins. Tale-bearers are just as bad as the talemakers. There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred. Discontent is the peg in your shoe that hurts. Even a sheepskin isn't a yard wide and all wool. Nothing is more difficult than to re turn thanks neatly. I A woman's smile is the little poem wo find in the prose of life. Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. We never read a novel that we don't liken ourselves to some one of the characters. The only vice that, cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. Some ,men are grasping enough to want to subdivide the clay they are made of and sell it for town lots. Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; aad if he be sensible of this he would not be ignorant. Peat is a Vegetable. Peat is a vegetable substance, consisting of roots and fibres in different stages of decomposition, acquired from the growth and partial decay of various aquatic plants, and is fouud as a kind of turf or bog in low swampy situations, sometimes in beds of great depths. It is always more or less saturated with water, which totally unfits it for any profitable use in vegetation while in its natural state. "When thrown out of its bed and dried it in often used for fuel, or as an absorbent, or for composting with animal mamires. In tbe United States it is but little known south of the State of New York. Some bogs are found in the north part of the State, in New England, and west and north to Iowa, Minnesota and Canada. There are immense bodies of peat in Ireland and Scotland, where from its carbanaceous quality it is extensively used as fuel. Darwin says that in the southern hemisphere forty-five degrees marks its nearest approach to the equator.?New York World. The First Electric Tower Clock. Los Angeles, Cal., boasts the first tower clock, actuated by electricity, in I LIU UUUUU . liicic aic 1UU1 JUllgO dials on the tower, and twenty smaller clocks are distributed throughout the magnificent new court house just completed there, all operated by tue electric current. The regulator is a large eightday clock. When its second hand reaches the end of it3 round an electric contact is established which closes the electric circuit in which all the other clocks are arranged and causes them to indicate the lapse of a minute. The source of electricity is a large number of cells. The completing of the circuit, made by the second hand on the regulator reaching the contact point, causes the current to flow through the windings of the armatures, provided for each clock, magnetizes the soft iron core, which results in the release of a lever, allowing the cog wheels a fraction of a turn.?Boston Transcript: Found $20 in a Horse's Hoof. Something out of the drift of events common is graciously furnished by the nariative of a blacksmith, plying his hammer aud bellows on Chestnut street near Thirteenth. This brawny son of Yulcan relates that while shoeing an inrliffprpnf-1 v pnnsfrurffifl linrsfi n. fpw rlara ? J ? ?? - " ?J w ago he came across a gold double eagle embedded in the hoof of the auimal.-? Philadelphia Record* Riches do not seem to lengthen life. The man who is so rich he can go Korth in summer and South in winter, docs not live any longer than the poor fellow who has to stay at home and shiver or sweat with every | change of weather. i ~:c': 'i;v K-\ I SABBATH SCHOOL I INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR JANUARY 10. Lesson Text: "A Sons ot Salvation,"' Isaiah, xxvl., 1-10 ? Goldeu Tex?.: Isa'iah, xxvi., 4? Commentary. L "In that day shall this song be suntj in th^land of Judah. ^ We have a strong city; salvation win uoa appoint ior wans ana bulwarks." This, like chapter xii., will be one of Israel's millennial songs. See the phrase "that day" seven times between xxiv., 21 andxxvii., 13, and note its connections, Especially observe xxiv., 23, xxvii., 13, and you cannot fail to see the reference to Israel's restoration and glory in coming days, now perhaps very near. "Tha name | of the city from that day shall be the Lord is there." "It shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever." The Lord 1 will be unto her a wall of flre round about, and the glory in the midst of her. He will J be her strength and salvation (Ezek. xlviii., 35; Jer. xxxi., 40; Zech. if., 5; Isa. xii., 1, 2). 2. "Open ye the gates, that the righteous I nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.'' Thu is the righteous nation of isa. lx., 21; Jer. xxxL, 34. The nation shall be born at once, their iniquity purged in one day, for they shall Iook upon their long rejected King when He shall come in His power and glory (Isa. lxvi., 8; Zech. iii.f 9. xii., 10; xiii., 1). The city sball ba a city of truth, for the God of Truth shall be her King (Zech. viii., 3; Isa. Ixv., 16). As to opening the gates see Ps. xxiv., 7-10, cxviii., 19, and note carefully lor your own soul the King of Glory longing to enter (Rev. iii., 20). 3. "Thou wilt keep him in psrfect peace, whose mind is staid on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee." The Scriptures everywhere speak of Israel's restoration and future glory as preceded by a time of great trouble. See verses 20, 21; also chapters xxxiv., 28: xxxv., 4: Dan. xii., 1, 2; Matt, xxiv., 21, 29, 30. But however great the tritfulation, either then or now, the one who trusts in God need never be disturbed, and the mind that is stayed on Him will have Serfect peace (Ps. xlvi., 1, 3; Matt, xxiv"., 6: ohnxiv., 1, 27; xvi. 33) 4. "Trust ye in the Lord forever, for In the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength." The peculiar name "Lord Jehovah,"or "Jah Jehovah" {R. V. margin), is found only here and in the other millennial song, Isa. xii., 2. Its full significance shall be seen in that day. Everlasting strength, or Rock of Ages (Margin), makes me think of Moses in the cleft of ttie rock covered with God's hand (Ex. xxxiii., 22), and of the perfect and eternal safety of all whose lives are hid with Christ in God. Col. iii., 3. Therefore let us trust in Him at all times (Ps. Ixii., 8). 5. "For He bringeth down them that dwell on high, the lofty city. He layeth it low: He layeth it low even to the eround; He oringeth it even to the dust." Here is haughtiness humbled, and this is the record throughout the whole book, whether applied to a nation, a city or a person. We often see it now, but it shall be fully seen in that day. The proud and ungodly may prosper for a time, but let the righteous, though for a time opposed, have faith and patience. Note carefully Isa. ii., 11, 17, with the context, also the songs of Hanah and Mary, I Sam. ii., 1-10; Luke i., 46-55. 6. "The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of tne needy." Here is humility exalted. "Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (Math, v., 3). "Ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, sa th the Lord of Hosts" (Mai. iv., 8). See, also Ps. lxxii., 4, 12, and fret not thyself because of evil doers, but be patient, wait on the Lord and keep His way and He shall exalt thee to inherit the earth. (Ps. xxxii., 1, 7,9, 11, 34). 7. "The way of the Jnstis uprightness. Thou most upright dost weigh the path of the just." The righteous Lord loveth righteousness, His countenance doth behold nnmViit i~Pa. -ri 7i_ No cood thine: will vuv U|/?<tu? \* ? -/ O r, , He behold from them that walk uprightly (Ps. lxxxiv., 11). But we must remember that He not only weighs our path, but also our actions, and He trieth heart and reins (I Sam. ii., 8; Jer. xvii., 10). If we are only sincere before Him we shall share His glory. 8. "Yea, in the way of Thy judgments, 0 Lord, have we waited for Thee; the desire of our soul is to Thy nam?, and to the r j- j membranes of Thee." in chapter xxv., 9, we read, "And it shall be said in that day, Lo this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us; this is the Lord; wj have waited for Him; we shall be glaiiaud rejoice in His salvation." Jacob, on his death bed, looking forward to the last days, said: "I have waited for Thy salvatiOD, O Lord" (Gen. xlix., 1, IS). None shall be ashamed that wait upon Him and for Him. He commands us to wait upon Him. We therefore do well to say, AIv soul, wait thou only upon God" (Isa. xxx., 18; xliv., 83; Zeph. Ui., S; Ps. lxii., 5) 9. "With my soul have I desired Thee in the night; yea; with my spirit within me will I seek Then early; for when Thy judgments are in the earth the inhabitants of the world will learn righteous." The first part | of the verse reminds us of Ps. lxiii., 1; xlii., I 1 o nnrl fhn rtff. ranflnrftr] "Him whom DOV soul loveth," of Cant, iii., 1-4. God Himself is our salvation, joy and strength now, as He will be to Israel in that day; therefore see and follow "Jesus only." 'ine last part of th9 verse points to the great gathering unto God when He shall b:gin to pour out His judgments in the last days, after the church is translated, then shall be grathered out of tbe great tribulation the multitude of Rev. viiv 9-17, too late for the honors of the first company of translated ones for Rev. v., 9, 10, but not too late to be present at the marriage of the Lamb (Rev., xix., 1-10.) 10. "Let favor be showed to the wicked J ret will he not learn righteousness; in the and of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord." Some can only be humbled and led to see the grace and love of God by affliction, but God tries every way to win men to Himself (Job. xxxiii., 2$ 30; II Peter iii. 9). There are some who will not'submit,, except feignedly, even in the millenium (Ps. xlvi., 3, margin). These shall follow Satan at the end of the thousand years, and being destroyed with him shall never see the majesty of the Lord in the new earth (Rev. xx., 7-9). Blessed are all who now receive the grace of God and walk humbly and sincerely with Him. "VVe need not wonder that in this present time many followers of the wicked one shall for their own ends seek and find an entrance into the nominal church. In tbe early church there was a Judas, an Ananias and Sapphira, a Demas and many others who though receiving favor would not learn righteousness, and it has been so ever since.?Lesson Helper. When- the grippe epidemic made its second appearance last year, the general conclusion reached among physicians was that the affliction had become chronic, ^ow a new problem presents itself as to the prevention or cure of prolonged and unnatural sleep, I a ? various eases ui which iiu?e puiin-u the medical fraternity during the present year. The latest reported is that of a Munith (Mich.) school teacher who has been slumbering for over 130 days. As in the majority of cases of this kind, the sleeper enjoyed good health previous to her lengthy nap, but is now only able to take liquid nourishment, and is rapidly wasting away. Will not the brethren of the mcdlcal profession get thoir heads together and find a means of awakening those thus overcome by this sleep unto ripath? A ferson in a Wilmington theater the other night arose in his seat and demanded that the performance cease unless it could be conducted according to his own ideas. The re mainder of the audience were in some doubt as to whether he was a dramatic critic or a popular clergyman, but be proved to be an ordinary crank. ' !v?v 1.: ' religiousjeadim. CHRISTMAS DELLS. I heard the bells on Christmas day Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good will to men! And thonght how, as the dav had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along Thfe unbroken sonar Of peace on earth, good will to men! Till ringing, singing on its way The world revolved from night to day, A voice, a chime, A chant sublime, Of peace on earth, good will to men! Rut in deannir T hnwflil mv head? "There is no peace on earth," I said; ' For hate is strong And moc^s the song Of peace on earth, good will to men? Then pealed the bells mo.re .loud and.deep, ' God Is not dead, nor doth he sleep! The wrong shall fail, ,The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men!" ? [Henry W.Longfellow. The queex and the casket. It is said tbat Queen Victoria once presented herself before the keeper of the treasure chamber in Windsor Castle with a request for the richer of tbe two small caskets in his custody, made each of one'solid crystal, exquisite in workmanship and very costly. Selecting the richer and finer of the two she drew from her pocket a copy of the Bible and locked it in the casket, which was then returned to its place richer than ever for the new treasure it contained. The Bible stored in that shrine was General Gordon's. It bad been his dailv support and solace, and was with him at Khartoum. It was worn and marked with the thousaud notes of daily use and daily study, which indicated the relation of its hero owner to it and what it had been to him. We give the story as we have heard it Treat it as we will, a's parable or as history, it is a striking illustration oI what gives su " t?! l.1 1 un preme vaiue 10 ioe uioie uuu ui no nut lion to men. It was not a new copy ol Scripture, fresh, unsoiled and unused, that was thus royally set: it was not selected for the beauty of the binding, the richness ol the material, or the excellence of the workmanship. It was chosen because it had oncc borne the relation it did to a heroic life. It had helped to create that life, to raise if, high, to make it pure and strong, to fill it witli faith and light aud hop*?. The queer's acl was a commemoration of a great victory and a service, the greatest service that can b? rendered to a man in helping him to develop his character, to be what he is made to be and to do what be is made to do. This is tb< place the Bible holds in the history of tb( nations which have loved it and lived by it This is the place it is destined to hold in tb( life of the race redeemed. Redeemed an<] sanctified humanity is to be the crvsta shrine of the well-used Bible, which*wil have guided, supported and inspired it through the long years of its warfare.?[Indi penaenc. THE EVERLASTING AEM3. "When are the everlasting arms under neatb us? The only answer is, now and forever more. Now, at this moment, beloved the everlasting arms are underneath us, The life of a Christian described as w&lkins by faith, and to my mind walking by faitl is the most extraordiuary miracle ever beheld beneath the sun. Walking upon th? waves, as Peter did, it a type of the life ol every Christian. I have sometimes likened it to amending an invisible staircase far up into the clouds. You cannot see a step before you, but you wind up towards the light. "When you fool downward all is dark, but before you lief nothing visible but cloud, while beneath yoi yawns a fathomless abyss. Yet we hav< climbed some of us, now lor years up this perpetually asccuding stair, never seeing an inct before us. "We nave often paused almost in horror, and ask in wonder, 'What next, anc what next?' yet what we thought was clouc has proved to'be solid rock; darkness has beer light before us, and slippery places hav< l ? T? nnm nn/1 fhpn thf urcn oiiic. juiti j hvm ?4.<m ? darkness has been denser than usual, a darkness which might be felt, when all the pasl behind us has vanished, and nothing has beet seen but the one step we stood on, we hare said, 'How did I come here? What a strange mysterious life mine has been!" We have almost wished ouiselves down on the leve among the worldlings, who can almost sec their way and know what is underneati tbcm; but faith has come to our help again; we have believed, and believing we have seen the invisible and grasped the eternal; and then we have gone on, have put oai foot down again, and anon have run up the shining way with joy. What an ascent we have sometimes made on that laddei of light, so that we have companied with angels, and left the world fai down beneath U3! Now and then we have enjoyed a glimpse through the thick darkness of the jewelled walls of the eternal city, which needeth no candle, neither light of the sun; we have seen. I say, its brightness, and determined still to climb the mysterious way. Well, believer,at this moment though thou canst not see thy way, yet since tbou art walking by faith 'underneath are everlasting arms.' [Spurgeon. Sabbath visiting. The Sabbath is in a special manner the Lord's day; a d*y in which we are to lay aside our "accustomed secular pursuits, to * ^?1 ciyirltiic.1 imnrnvft WOrSDip UUU, IL/ occa uuHi <4M|>*VIV ment. "Ye shall keep my Sabb9th and reverenc< roy sanctuarv," is " one of God's requirements, a requirement tbat. is still in force. We are to "remember tbe Sabbath day tc keep it holy." On it we must not seek "out own worldly pleasures, nor do our owe worldly business. Our Creator has drawn a broad line between the Sabbath and the other days of the week, over which we may not recklessly pass. We are forbidden to employ the llours of this day in secular labor, only so far as is necessary, not may we" employ them in visiting oui friends and neighbors. To do this, is not to keep the day holy, as God requires. But large numbers. aud ainonsr them not a few of the professed friends of Christ, thus desecrate it. Although God has kindly given theui six days in which they may find ample time for this purpose, "they decline to take It, and appropriate to it the hours that he more especially calls his own. And thus are they guilty of robbing God. They rob him (f the time that he would have "them devote in a special manner to his scrvice. Those sacred hours that he would have them spend in spiritual meditation, in prayer, in reading his holy Word and in the worship of the Sanctuary, they spend in visiting for their own gratification And thus the day kindly given with a design to their highest Jo tA tliifl oml. TliPV linvp 1I11CX C9ty 43 *wow IU ung "..v.. - rived no spiritual benetit from its precious privileges. They are 110 better prepared by means of tbeni to live or to die. And not only so; not only has the day b?en lost to themselves, but they have been tbe occasion of its being a lost day in a large measur* to others; to those with whom their vMt has been the occasion, it may be, of detaining them from the house of God, and of occupying time that they might have devoted to tetter uses. The Sabbath, on the part of both parties, has thus been largely if not wholly, a lost Sabbath. God has b-en forgotVn, and their own spiritual interests have been neglected. The spiritual minded ChrlstaJn wiaue* neither to make, nor receive visits on the Lord's day. It is rather his desire to enjoy a communion with God and with heaven. It is the language of his heart, ' In holy duties let the day, In holy pleasures pass away; How sweet a Sabbath thus to spend, I41 how of one that ne'er shall end." f?Clericus. Ax Illinois man has invented an automatic telephone exchange, and the dear girls who continually chew gum, never answer your rings and forever and ever cut you off in the I midst of a conversation, must go. It is to be hoped that this automatic exchange is not a fake. It Is quite appropriate that the Independence race-track should he kiteshaped. That is certainly a good | shape for flyers. * . * " . . -' ' .' POPULAR SCIENCE. France has a mine 4000 feet deep. Plowing is done by electricity in Spain. Electric headlights are used on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Professor Huxley says that an oyster is a far more complicated piece of machinery than the finest Swiss watch. It is estimated that 19,000 electric lamps, aggregating 10,000,000 candle power, will be required for the Chicago World's Fajr. The bee can draw twenty times its own weight, can fly more than four miles an hour and will seek food at a distance of four miles. A mflafnrlnn'fl tnntVi f*m inrhpa 1on<?_ seven inches from the crown to the roots, and weighing five and a quarter pounds, was found by a prospector on Goble Creek, Oregon a few da?s ago. Compressed air delivered from a flexible hose with a small nozzle at a pressure of fifty pounds to the square inch, is very effective in cleaning plush cushions. It is so used on the Union Pacific Company's road. Carp are very fond of the lame of mosquitoes, and as these lish thrive in the only bind of water in which the larvae of tbe mosquito can live, it is sugs gested that they might be employed to . exterminate this pestiferous insect. The steamer Rbynland has taken to ' ^Antwerp, from the United States Fish Commission, 500 catfish, consigned to i the Belgian Government, which will attempt to propagate them in the sluggish ' waters that abound in that country. A company has been formed in Geri many to erect works for the production of the new explosive, dahmenite, which p is especially adapted for mine use, hav< ing more power than dynamite, at the same time being perfectly harmless under , ordinary circumstances. ! A remarkable change is said to be ' about to take place in the manner of ! giving the warning lights to mariners, t In England,electric lights experimentally J turned vertically toward the sky have | given extraordinary results. The light , of the Eddystone Lighthouse can be seen ) seventeen and a half miles on a clear ' night, but a vertical beam of light of far ! less power is visible twice as far, and can [ surmount an ordinary fog. ' Experiments conducted on shore under t the auspices sometimes of a Government and sometimes of a railway company show that color blindness is extremely common, and that those who are color blind are often entirely ignorant of the ! defect in their vision until the tests are , I made. The same thing must necessarily I h? trufl of sailors, who seldom hare anv [ occasion to teat their vision by scientific . methods, and who are confident in the ; belief, if they think of the matter at all, | that their vision is normal. A mollusk, only known hitherto as a fossil of the Miocene age, has been found , in a living condition, having been , dredged in Drake's Bay at a depth of i twenty-five fathoms. Considering the ! upheavals and depressions that have ocj curred along the Pacific Coast, one i might think that there had been some I change in "environment" during all the J time since the long, long ago Miocene , age, and that the shell and its owner ; would have long since changed its ; character if "environment" had much tr ; say in the matter. i ? >' Cooking For a Commodore, i Antonio Doliviera 'Botheilhle, chief ' at the Quiney House, Boston, saio. the | other day: "I think one of tne oes' [ schools for a man who would pleas* l many fastidious tastes in copking is ot board a "United States steamship on i ' cruise to foreign parts. I was born in the Azores, but I didn't hare mud I cxpeience until I went around in the | United States ship Constellation. I wa; ' not cook for the sailors, nor for the I officers, but for one man. That was the : commodore. My experience is that a commodore is usually a hard man to , please in the matter of cooking. I t cooked for several commodores?about 1 half a dozen?in my service of six or seven years. Generally a commodore is a man of good taste in the matter of , food, and quite as generally he is a man of decided opinion in regard to certain dishes. He has a great deal of time to devote in the course of a cruise to the > matter of dining and he becomes an expert after a while. Then, again, he visits many foreign pcrts, and he become ! acquainted with foreign dishes and i foreign methods of cooking. He oom> municates his knowledge to his cook, and on the return journey the cook is supposed to give examples of the newly acquired knowledge. The cook in a \ foreign port learns for himself the native ; methods, and if he is a bright man he can do much to make himself mdispen6able to his Commodore. My practice wes to learn as much as-I could about French and German and Italian and i Spanish and other dishes, and very often in the middle of a dreary return voyage | I have suprised the Commodore with a much admired dish after the mtfst approved Italian method. There is noth1 ing that will dissipate ennui so rapidly and completely a? the proper appeal to an enducated and sensitive stomach, and there is 110 occasion sd iavoraoie 13 such an appeal as in the weary hours on shipboard.?San Fraacisc) Chronicle. A Tremendous Barley Farm. "We have now secured 250,000 acres of land in North Dakota lor barley farms, and next spring w3 will send thousands of German emigrants to that State from Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana," said Colonel O. JL Towner last evening, as he discussed the future of this great Northern State. Colonel Towner is manager of what is best known as the Barley Syndicate of Chicago. During the last two or three months the company has succeeded in securing 250,000 acres of land in North Dakota, on which it is proposed to place German farmers to raise barley for malt purposes. These lands have been purchased iu Nelson, Normau, Towner, Iiamsey, Steele and Bottineau Counties. It is the opinion of the managers of this cumpuuv tuau uai it > van WMVWW*fully grown in that State, and they have the conviction of their belief sufficiently to purchase these lauds and to send out emigrants from other States. The Germans are chosen on acconnt of their knowledge cf barley culture for this pur pose. These emigrants will not be tenants, but owners of the land, it being sold to them on easy terms. The crops will be bought by the company aud shipped to all points where there is a demand for barley for brewing purposes.? St. Paul Pionetr-Prm, Y ^ A LIOK-TAME^ JOHN COOPER, THE TRAINER OlK. 2000 FELINES. X. : He Flourishes Still at the Age oi Filty-One?His Methods, His Career and His Numerous Perils and Escapes. Lion taming is a very ancient industry. Marc Antony is reported to have driven about Rome in a chariot drawn by a pair 1 of lions. Other great personages had lions which licked their cheeks and made themselves socially agreeable. Early in this century in England the exhibition of trained lions became very \ popular, and tbe industry was revived strongly. In London a man of the name of Atkins performed with a lion, a tigress and a hybrid cub, their offspring. The man rolled over the ani< mals, and then the two large ones lay down while the cub rolled over him. Then the famous circus man, Wombwell, conceived that lion and dog fights would be a pleasing diversion for a jaded public. A lion called Nero was first confronted with six bulldogs. The lion* however, was good-tempered,, and the , M sporting qualities of the dogs appeared to have deserted them for the occasion. Later another lion, Wallace, was brought out and killed six dogs in short order. As a dog seldom came out of one of these fights alive, they were too expensive and were not continued. The man-and-tiger fights of another showman proved more profitable. The tiger was a large and intelligent dog, who submitted under compuUioa to be ' sewn up in a false tiger's skin. The most famous lion-tamer now living is said to be John Cooper, an English man. He is now fifty-one years old, and ; &S in the active exercise of his profession. A famous tamer who flourished before him was the Dutchman, Van Amburge, who is surrounded by his lionrin a fa mous picture by Landseer, says the Lon don Strand. Cooper is a strongly built, good-looking man of quiet manners. At the age of ten, after a wide and thorough experience in the taming of mice, rats and rabbits, he obtained employment in a circus. When he was twelve years old he went into the cage of a most turbulent lion, who had got free of his collar and was about to break down the cage, and calmly put the collar on again anil chained him up securely. His employer, a miserable man of the name of Batty, spanked him for this, but shortly after-. ward advertised him as the boy liontamer, the wondor of the world. After working in several menageries he acquired .one of Ms own. >. He had a ;y great career as a tamer on the European Continent, Victor Emmanuel of Italy having invited him to,s9e his own menag- * erie. Cooper offered to go among the lions, who had never mfcde the acquaintanceof a.tamer before, and did so. In recognition of this the King presented him with a pipe. At St. Petersburg after a performance before the present uzir, uzarowitz, aa officer, s member of the auite, paid as attendant to pull aside the shatters of a lioness's cage. The animal promptly put out her. paw and tore the' officer's arm, which had to be amputated. Cooper ^ left the Province for a time, bnf an inquiry righted him. The offieer was years afterward sent to Siberia as a Nihilist. In France the late Prince Imperial was filled with a desire to go into the cage ot one of the animals, which was not gratified. -t n Cooper put the lions which had killed 5 two trainers, McCarty and Lucas,through, a performance for the benefit of this letter's widow immediately after bis death. He has spent his life in this perilous jV^I business, aud is still souud ia health and ' .J>? limb, but the trademarks of it are plentifully scattered about him. For instance, be Lost the top of his finger at the hands of a wolf when he j 'xl was ten. The third finger of his left hand is shortened, and the nail grows over the top towards the paim, lma : <: was done accideatly ia Italy by a lion ^ whom he was persuading to open his jaws. In connection with this incident, rjp Cooper denies the good old tradition ?^jj that the taste of blood infuriates a wild beast. This lion, he says, spat out the blood and piece of finger and showed evident signs of distaste. Once when he was at Hamburg it was necessary to add two new lions to his t -j stock. He had never hesitated to go amojg strange animals in public. A ; & fierce fight began between an old lion % and one of the new ones. Cooper went in with a whip to quiet matters. He 'yM struck at the old one, but hit the new <$$ one, who responded with a blow of the paw on the tamer's shoulder, tearing the 1 flesh from that and the breast. With his right arm he attempted to '< 'vyS drive off the beast, but it seized that and bared the bone from elbow to wrist. Jj The other lions drew round and began to chew him surreptitiously in the legs and elsewhere. Still he retained his presence of mind, continued to hammer T; 3 J* at the lions, savea ms owa me uiu quelled his friends?the enemy for this v occasion only. The injuries would have killed a man of ^ss streugth and vigor, but in three months he was well again and performing, without even having lost one of his mutilated arras. The new Hon became one of hia most attached and faithful animals. In training Cooper's object is to make the animals fear hitn and to treat them kindly, because familiarity teaches contempt of the punishment which man f is able to inflict on a ton of muscle, bane and sinew. He can tell the temper of an animal and the bent of its miad by a glauce at its face. Some lions like to U,. Iithara rp<r"if. if; He finds UC OtJ. UVUV?W lions better tempered and also more reliable than tigers. He does not carry on ia the lion's cage like a bad actor, nor does he remain perpetually upright with his eyes lixed on them. He consider.* it very * ' important that a liou tamer should always enter the ca^re sober. The playfulness of the feline is apt at I times to be embarrassing to the truiuer. A young lioness two or tares years ago gave Cooper a tap as he,passed her and I removed the tlesn from nij arm for a foot of its length. If a trainer, teaching ' an auimal, for instance, to jump on his shoulder, budges a point, it may slip and claw him. To be knocked down in accident or in play is daugerous in tha extreme. The leliue method of walsing may be fatal to a person lyiug on the floor. The veteran Cooper has trained 2000 members of the feline lamily and manj elephants and other anion i*. ' -4