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j KEY. DR. TALMAGE. ?THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S 9UN DAY SERMON. Subject: "Heavenly Congratulations." I Text: "Likewise joy shall be in heaven, over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance?Luke xv., 7. A lost sheep I Nothing can be more thoroughly lost. 1 look through the window of ? chcnhnrrf's house at ni?ht. The candles are lighted. The shepherd has just placed his .staff against the mantle. He has taken off his coat, shaken out of it the dust and hung it up. I see by the candle light that there are neighbors who have come in. The shepherd, fagged out with the long tramp, site down on a bencb, and tbe wife and the ohildreu and tbe neighbors say to him, "Come, now, tell us how you found the poor thing.'' "Well." be says, "this morning I went out to the yard to look at the flock. "No sooner had I looked over the fence than I saw something wrong. The fact was they did cot count right. Ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine?only ninety-nine McDonald, you know we had a hundred. And ljwonder which one was gone, and I began agaia, and I counted ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven, uinety-eight, ninety-niue. W el). I whistled up the dogs, and* I started on the fields and across the bridges, and I tracked the moors, and I leaped the gullies, bit no bleating of the poor thing did I hear. I said to my3elf, The lamb must havt fallen into a ditch, or a pack of wolveJ from the mountain must have torn it n pieces and sucked its life out.' But 1 could not give it up. You see it was a pet lamb. It was that one with] the black spot on the right shouter that used to 1 ? U 1 V~ r (-UaAaU come uuu lie* uiy uauu u j. ci uscu mo uuu, and somehow I could ndt give it up. 80 I went on and on and on Intil after awhile I heard the dogs bark, aid I said, 'What's that? Then I hasteoeJ to the top of the hill, and I looked down aid there I saw the poor lamb. It had faiWn into the ditch and as I came where it tns and bent over the ditch and stooped do*n to lift the poor 1 th.ng out, I wish you coijd have seea the loving aud imploring am tender way it looked at me. X lifted it lit, and it was all covered with the slush amlr.he mud. It was an awful thing to do, but 11 ifted it out, and it was so lame and so weak It could not walk alone, so I threw it ove)i my shoulder and I started homeward, and the condition of that lamb you may judge of from the coat which l have just dvo*; up. cue 1 tramped ou and on until ft is safe in the yard, poor thing! Thank God, thank God!" Then the shepherd's wif?? spread the table and brought out tbe best fare that the cabin could afford, and they sat up very late that night, and they talked, and they laughed,and they sang, and they ate, and tney drank,and they danced, and told over and over again the story of the lost sheep that was found. With such tenderness and r.xsticity of illustration does Christ represent the soul's going off and the soul's coming back, when He says, "Likewise there is joy in heaven among th? angels of God over one sinner that reDenteth. more than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance." To repent is to feel that you are bad, and to be sorry about it, and to turn over a newleaf, and to pray for forgiveness and help. Just as soon as a man does that, they hear right away of it in heaven. There are no gossips in glory going around' to chatter ana laugh when a man fails, but there are many souls in glory who are glad to run about and tell it when a man is saved. Tbe news goes very quick from gate to gate, and from north wail to south wall, and from east wall to west wall, and in three minutes every citizen of heaven has heard of it, for "there is joy iin heaven among the angels of God over i one sinner that repentetn." ' I can very easily understand how there should be joy in heaven over a Pentecost wi+.h fKwio t.KnuconH cnnlc cavA') in r*ia Hqtt ?no mystery about thai* I can understand how there should be joy in heaven pver the Parish ot Schotts, when four hun-lred souls were saved under one sermon of Mr. [Livingston, I can understand how there should be joy in heaven over the great awakening in the time of Harland Page, when ia one year four hundred and seventy-three thousand souls were brought to God in the United States; lean understand very cosily how there should be joy in heaven over five hundred thousand souls converted in 1857, in this country; but mark ycu, my text announces there is joy in heaven among the I angels of God over one, just one, sinner that repenteth. Soma cathedrals have one tower; some cathedrals have two, three, four to^wers. Did you ever hear them all ring at onde? I am told tbat the bell in fche cathedral of St. Paul rings only on rare occasions, for instance, at the death or the birth of a king. Have you seen a cathedral with four towers, and have you heard them jill strike into one great chime of gladness? Here is a man wbo is moral. He is an example to a great many professors of religion in some things; he never did a mean thing in his life; ne pays all his debts, and is a good citizen and a good neighbor, but he says he is not a Christian. Some day the Holy Spirit comes into his heart and he see* tnat be cannot depend upon his morality for salyation. He says: "O Lord God I nave been depending upon my good works; I find I am a sinner, and I want Thy salvation. Lord, for Jesus's sake, I have mercy on mef And God pardons him, and immediately one of the tower* of neaven strikes a silvery chime, for there 'are four towers to the heavenly temple. ; Here is a man who is bad; he knows he is bad, and everybody else knows he is bad, but ' he is not an outcast^far from belne; an oatcast. He moves in resectable circles. Gut | one day, by the power "of the Holy Ghost, \ he rouses up to see his sinfulness and he says: v ' 0 Lord, have mercy! I am a wanderar. ' and without Thee I perish. Have mercy I" i God hears him, and immediately two of the y towers o: heaven strike a silver? chime. But here is an outcast. Ho was picked op < k last night out of the gutter and carried to t the police station. He has been in the penitentiary three times. He is covered and soaked with loathsomeness and abomination. Arousing from his debauch, he cries out: '*'0 God, have mercy on me. Thou who didgtpardon the penitent thief, hear me cry for mercy." And the Lord listens and pardons, and no sooner is the poor wretch pardoned than three of the great towers ot heaven strike up a silvery chime. But here is a waif of the street. She passes under the gaslight, and your soul shudders with a great norror. no pity ior nor. no commiseration for her. As she passes down the street she hears a song in a midnight mission, and she listens to tnat song she hears: AU tnnr come, whoever will. This Man receives poor sinners still She puts into that harbor, she kneels by the roueh bench near th9 door; she says: "0 Lord! Thou who didst have mercy on Mary Magdalen, take my blistered feet off the rad hot pavement of hell." God says, "My daughter, thy sins are forgiven thee; go in peace." Now, all the four to war3 of heaven strike a suvery cQlme, and they who pass through the celestial streets say "What's that? Why, the worst sinner must hare been saved. Hear all the four towers ring and ring and ring 1" "And there is joy in heaven among toe angels of God over one sinner that repenteth." My subject impresses you, I think, with the thought that it is possible for us to augment the happiness of heaven. People thiok that souls before the throne are a3 happy as they can be. I deny it. Look at that mother 1 before the throne of God. When she died she left her son in this world a vagabond. That son repentad of his iniquities and came to God. The report of that salvation has reached heaven. Do you tell me that mother before the throne of God has not her joy richly augmented? Thero is ma ay a man in this house to-day who oould go out with a torch and kindle a ne^r bonfire of victory on the hills of heaven. If you would this day rep9nt and come to God, the news of I your salvation would reacn heaven, and then, hark! to the shout of the ransomed. Your little child went away from you into the good land. While she was here you brought her all kinds of beautiful presents. Sometimes you came home at nightfall with your pockets full of gifts for her, and [ no sooner did you put your night key into the latch than she began at you, saying; "Father, what have you brought me?" She is now before the throne of God. Can you bring har a gift to-day? You may. Coming to Christ ana repenting of sin, the tidings will go up to the throne of God and your ohild will bear of it. Oh. what a gift for her soul to-day I She will skip with new glad ness oa the evarlastiag hills when she hears of it My subject also impresses me with the idea that heaven and earth are in close sympathy. People talk of heaven as though it were a great way off. They say it is hundreds of thousands of mile3 before you reach the first star, and then you go hundreds of thousands of miles before you get to toe second star, and then it is millions of miles before you reach heaven. They say heaven is the center of the universe and we are on the rim of the universe. That is not the idea of my text. I think the heart of heaven beats very close to our world. We J--*- ?? fV?a ti ma tftlffln fcf) measure uuiauua i/j ?< ?? traverse those distances. It used to be a long distance to San Francisco. Many weeks and months were passed before you could reach that city. Now it is six or seven days. It used to be six weeks before you could voy age from here to Liverpool. Now you can go that distance is sir or seven days. And so I measure the distance between earth and heaven, and I find it is only a flash. It is one instant here and another instant there. It is very near today. Do you not feel the breath of heaven on your face? Christ says in one place it is not twenty-four hours' distance, when He says to the penitent thief, "This day, this day, shalt thou be with Me in paradise." It is not a day, it is not an hour, it is not a minute, it is not a second. Oh, how near heaven is to earth. By oceanic cables you send a message. As it is expensive to send a message, you compress a great deal of meaning in a few words. Sometimes in two words you can put vast meaning. And it saems to me tnat the angels of God who carry news from earth to heaven need to take up this hour in re* gard to your soul, only two words in order to kindle with gladness all the redeemed before the throne, onlv two words, "Father saved." "mother saved." "son saved" "daughter savod." And "there is joy 'in hPAVAn am on? tho anirels of God over one inner that repenteth." My subject also impresses me with the fact that the salvation of the soul is of vast importance. If you should make $200,000 this year, do you suDpose that news would be carried to heaven? It would not be of enough importance or significance to be carried heavenward. If at the next quadrennial election you are made President of the United States, do you suppose that news would be carried to heaven? Do you suppose that the news of a revolution in France or Spain would be carried to heaven? These things are not of enough importance, but there is one item that is sure to be carried. It is the salvation of your soul. It is your repentance before God. The flying hoofs of God's couriers clash through the gates and tbe newj goe3 rrom gate to mansion, and from mansion to temple, and from temple to throne, and "there is joy in heaven" among th9 angels of God over one sinner forgiven. It must be of vast importance to be of any moment in heaven, your salvation in that land where gladnesses ire the every day occurrence, in that land where the common stones of the field are jasper and emerald and chrysoprasos and sarbuncle and sardonyx. And yet the news of your salvation makes joy before the throne of God. Having found in my own experience that this religion is a comfort and a joy, I stand aere to commend it to you. In the days of tnv infancy I was carried by Christian parents to the house of God, and consecrated in baptism to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost; but that did not save me. In after time I was taught to kneel at the Christian family altar with father and mother and brothers and sisters, the most of I them now in glory; but that did not save one. In after time I lead Doddridge's "Kiss and Progress" and Baxter's "Call to the Unconverted," and all the religious book9 sround my father's household, but that did Dot save me. But one day the voice of Christ came into my heart saying, "Repent, repent* believe, believe," and I accepted the offer of mercy, and though no douot there was joy in heaven over the conversion of other souls because of their far-reaching influence, I verily believe when I gave my heart to God there were some spirits in heaven the gladder for the deed. . "There is joy in heaven among the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth." Turn this day to the Lord who bought you. Let this whole audience surrender themselves to Jesus Christ, jf for ten, twenty, fifty years you have not prayed, begin now to pray. "Oh," you say, "I can't pray." Can you not say, "God be merciful to me, a sinner?' "No," you say, "I can't say that." Then -* 1 * ? /vf maporV ?AU TOU not IOU& LU LUC tux VUO vrt uav?vj "No,'' you say, "I can't look up.'' Can you not give some signal like that which was given by the lad iu the hospital? He was sick and suffering and dying, and wanted speedily to go away from all suffering and pain, and ho said to his comrades in the hospital, "It is strange to me that Jesus doesn't tee me when He goes through here nights and takes othere to Himself. He goes through here and He doesn't see me. 1 must be asleep and He doesn't know I want to go. "Now, I tell you how Til arrange it. I'll go to sleep with my hands up, and then when Jesus comes through the hospital by night He will see my hand lifted, and He will know that I want to go with Him." So it was done. For that night Jeeus went through the hospital and took the suffering lad, and the next morning the nurse passing through the wards of the hospital saw a dead hand fitted braced on one side against the pillow, and the left hand holding the elbow " *? T?min k>H sun f.hft aiim?l OIIQB nguo urn. - - = , and answered it. Oh, sick soul, wounded soul, dying soul, canst thou not give some signal? Wlit thou not lift one hand or one prayer? God grant that this day there may be joy in heaven among the an&els ot God ever your noul forgiven 1 New Jersey has a million and a half dwellers, and is one of the wealthiest of American States. It is all the more surprising then that the cause of popular education languishes in this part of the Republic. According to the census given out the nt.her dav there are 430.279 childreD of school age, of whom 137,814, or more than a third of the total, are not enrolled in any educational institution. In comparing the illiteracy of the country, the South is singled out as derelict in educating its young, but here is a proud Northern State with more wealth than any composing the Southern group of commonwealths, that is allowing a vast number of its children to grow up without schooling of any kind. In this age of enlightment it is nothing less than crime for any State to allow a considerable part of her population to grow up in ignorance when education can be so easily obtained. The injury inhicted through the ignoramus policy falls hardest upon the most deserving '?ihe honest wage-earners. Their (Children of all others should not be deprived of the benefits of an education. To deny that handicaps them iin the race for preferment in all the aivenues open to the industrious and ambitious, and detracts materially fi-om the happiness of life in a number of ways. New Jersey owes it to vi.-nsvl# fVi/iuo twVin nponlp V?f?r appna ilVlSClX, tUUOVy M? v^w aid to the nation that she pass such laWs as will prevent every third person within her borders from becoming a aunce as well as a reproach to American civilization. More than 300 Baltimore girls have abandoned corsets as injurious to tboth health and beauty. The Balmoie girls may yet convince their sisFars everywhere that what is beautil Min art is beautiful in life. The VuBa de Medici statue has not a tajBwaist and it is the highest and befj^^ype of female beauty that art ha& dPren the world. Joter L. Sullivan has signed the pledgje again. His autographs at the foot ipf temperance pledges are only exceeded In number by his 9Drees. ' ' " , vi i . . SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR MARCH 13. Lesson Text: "Promise of a New Heart," Kzekiel mvi., 25-38? Golden Text: Ezekiel xxxvl., 20?Commentary. 25. "Then will I^sprinkle clean water upon you, auu yv suau uo uieau, num an your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you." Six lessons in Isaiah, four in Jeremiah and one in Ezekiel give U3 but the merest glance at the 186 chapters of those three books, and yet the teaching of these lessons is in perfect accord with all prophecy. The words of this verse refer primarily to the yet future cleansing of the nation of Israel (verses 23-24; Jer. xxxiii., 7, 8), and yet may apply in a sense to every true believer. 26. "A new heart also will 1 give you, and a new spirit will I put within you." The seat of all our difficulties being within us, there must be a change there before anything can be right. 27. "And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes." The same spirit who spake and wrought in Christ, and in prophets and apostles, God iri 11 rrixTQ tn Tern o I nnrl triVAQ Tinw trt avartr believer. Our part is to welcome Him, and surrender to Him our whole being and He will do the rest. (John xiv.. 16, 17, 26; xv., 26: xvi., 13.) 28. "And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be My people and 1 will be your God." There is no way of applying the first part of this verse to the church or to bslievers now; it is peculiarly and only for Israel in the future. The church has no special land, her inheritance is heavenly, the New Jerusalem, from which she shall reign with Christ over the whole earth. The last part ot the verse may be spiritually applied to the church. See II Cor. vi., 16-18. 29. "I will also save you from all your uncleannesses; and lay no famine upon you." No good thing will He withold from them that walk uprightly (Ps., lxxxiv., 11), anl while Jesus, by His great work of atonement. saves from the wrath to come. He also saves by His present power and by His word and Spirit in us, from daily sins (Math. i., 21; Rom. v., 10; Judge xxiv., R. V.). 30. "And 1 will multiply the fruit of the tree, that ye shall receive no more reproach among the heathen." Peculiarly for Israel, and jet when a believer is seen longing for and enjoying the things of this world that are not of God (I John ii.. 1517), then it is as if he said, "Jesus cannot satisfy me; I must have the world too," and thus the manifest famine in such'a soul is a reproach to God. 31. "Then shall ye remember, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities." The Lord will pour upon them the spirit of grace and of supplications, and there shall be true repentance when they see their long reiected Kjn? (Zech. xiL, 10). The sight of the King in His glory always causes loathing of self (Isa. vi., 5; Job xiii., 5, 6; Dan. x.. 8). Pride or self esteem is a proof that we have not seen Jesus. 06. llUb&UA J'UUi UUl LUIS, B?Uta LLia Lord God, be it known unto you." Israel was not in the first place chosen for any good that was in them, but all was done for them because of God's promises to Abraham and to David (Deut. ix., 5, 6, 24; I King xi., 32, 34; Mic. vii., 20;. Jesus of Nazareth is a Son of Da^id,Son of Abraham, the promised seed (Math i., I; Gal. iii., 16), and all who are in Him have all things made sure to them for His sake (Gal. iii., 29). 33. ''Thus saith the Lord God, I will also cause you to dwell in the cities and the wastes shall be builded." Compare Zech. viii., 7, 8. Cleansing first and then restoration?this is always the order. If you have lost fellowship with God through sin, the sin most be confessed and forgiven before the communion can be restored. 34. "And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lav desolate in the sieht of all that passed by." Its desolateness was reproach to God, and a constant advertisement of Israel's sin. as believers, glorify God only when we bear much fruit (John xv., 8). If our lives are selfish and self indulgent we are then like Israel in her rebellion and sinfulness. (Hos. x.,1,2; xi.,7.) 35. "And they shall say, Th s land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden." That will cause people to praise the God of Israel, and thus other nations will be drawn to God, even as the Queen of Sheba was drawn to Jerusalem by the fame of Solomon. 36. "Then the heathen that are left around about you shall know that I, the Lord, build the ruined places. I, the Lord, have spoken and I will do .it." Multitudes out of the nations shall perish in the judgments pre ceding Israel's national conversion, or in connection therewith, but some shall be left, and these shall go up to Jerusalem from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts (Zech. xiv., 16). The hand of the Lord shall be so manifest that all shall see It. 37. "Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet lor cms os inquired 01 07 cue tiouse ui israei to do it for mem." He will prepare their hearts to pray for the blessing He is about to give. This is His way. While He is ever ready to give every good thing, He will have us feel our need and ask Him. When we are specially led therefore to pray for anF thing or lor any one, we may sately conclude that the spirit is leading us to ask for that which He is ready to give us. 38. "As the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks or men, and they shall know that I am the Lord.'' Or, aocording to Zech. i., 17, "My cades through prosperity shall yet bespread abroad; and the Lord shall yet comfort ZioD, and shall yet choose Jerusalem." And Zech. ii., 4, "Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein." These days are already dawning, and tlie full accomplishment must be near. Oh, believer, make full surrender to and have perfect trust in the Lord, that He may make the most of you this little while, and make Himself known through you. One of the clearest evidences that Israel will soon be restored to her own land is that the restoration has already begun, and even now the population of Jerusalem has overflown the walls of the city, and numerous buildings are being erected on the very lines men tioned in Jer. xxxi., 38-40. Jesus said that ."Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled" (Luke ixi., 24). When a city is visibly being built up and about to become a railroad center, it cannot well bo said to be trodden down any longer We there fore know without a doubt that the times ot the Gentiles are about fulfilled, Israel's redemption is near (though the tribulation must first come), and the elect church must be well nigh completed. Let us be consumed with zeal to bring in the remaining few and hasten the kingdom.?Lesson Helper. A new cure for Inebriety Is annonuced, although its nature is not made known. Its owner ha9 confidence enough in it to undertake the founding of a great institution at Washington, evidently believing that he will find more patients there than anywhere else. The remedy is a liquid, like the Keeley cure, but is said to resemble the latter in no other particular. If institutions for destroying the uproarious taste which leads to painting towns red are to spring up like this at every center of population, determined topers will have to migrate to some kindlier scene where one may drink until he sees snakes in hisr boots without having any other remedy otrerea mm Dnan "a hair of the dog which bit him." Philadelphia women have met and resolved that the nude shall be rigidly excluded from the approaching exhibitioi at the Academy of Fine Arts unless it be in the form of portraits of ladies of the highest fashion attired for the opera. jceTr rx>TK acnooiteMiitn. New York City employs 3,543 public schoolteachers. .. , RELIGIOUS HEADING. SAFELY HOME. I am home in Heaven, dear ones, un so nappy, anu so ungm: There is perfect joy and beauty In this everlasting light. All the pain and grief are over; Every restless tossing passed; I am now at peace forever. Safely Homo in Heaven at last! Did you wonder I so camly Trod the valley of the shade? Ah! but Jesus' love illumined Every dark and fearful glade. And he came himself to meet me In that way so hard to tread; And with Jesus' arm to lean on, Could I have one doubt or dread? Then you must not grieve so sorely For I love you dearly still; ^ oVtnrlnwo in l/'/ 1V/UIW UCJ UtIU CU1 VU 9 ouauvnof fray to trust our Father's will. There is a work still waiting for you So you must not idly stand; Do it'now while life femaineth? t You shall rest in Jesus' laud. When tbat work is all completed, He will gently call you home: Ob, the rapture of that meeting: Oh, the joy to see you come! ? [Chariotte Murray KIGHT 18 MIGHT. As sure as God iivetb, as the Holy one of Israel is the Lord of Hosts, the Almighty, right is might, and ever was and ever shall be so. Holiness is might; meekness is might; !>atience is might; humility is might; faith s might; love is might; every gift of the spirit is might. The cross was two pieces of dead wood, and a helpless unresisting man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will triumnh over it. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but no pure holy deed, or word, or thought. On the other hand, might, that which the sOiilrJrnn nf nnrf-h <y?ll an t.he Htrmiflr willH. the earthquake, the fire perishes through its own violence, self-exhausted and self-consumed. RESOLUTIONS OF I.AVATEH. I will never, either in the morning or evening, proceed to any buRineas, until I have first retired, atleastfor a few moments, to a private place, and Implored God for his assistance anu his blesping. I will neither do nor undertake anything which I would abstain from doing if Jesus Cnrist were standing visibly before me, nor ?nvthinor ftf nrhiph T t>lilllr l't. i.O tlOHsihlfi I shall repent in the uncertain hour of my certain death. I will, with the divine aid, accustom myself to do everything, without exception, in the name of Jesus Christ, and as his disciple; to sigh to God continually for the Holy Ghost; aud to preierve myself in a constant disposition for prayer. Every day snali be distinguished by at least one particular wish of love. TIM T r !lt T,-?*r tn CJa/1 fVio( n uctcTci x f;uji mu utsv pn?? w *-? I may commit no sin there, but be the cause of some good. I will never lay mc down to sleep without prayer; nor, when I am in health, sleep, at most, longer than eight hours. I will every evening examine my conduct through the'dayby these rules, and faithfully note down in my journal, how often I oftelid against them. 0 God! Thou secst what I have here written. May 1 be able to read these my rcsumuuns evtjj.y uimum^ nnu omwi??j, and every evening with joy and the cicar approbation of my conscience. THE SABBATH A KETEND. 1. To Education.?Compare countries with and without the Sabbath, Its ministrations powerfully quicken and invigorate the human intellect, while a vast amount of knowledge is accumui&tcd. 2. To Government.?Wbere are honored Sabbaths and despotism co-existent? It sbowH tbe nature of human rights?adapts laws to the actual wants and circumstancea ot raen?creates a conscience that sustains laws and qualifies men to make as well as to obey them. 3. To Health.?By promoting clcanlincss. by furnishing needful rest for the body and mind, by promoting cheerfulness and elasticity of spirits through its power to produce a peaceful conscience and by ifs sublime in alienee over idk uaieiui |msau>j;n ui uucu. 4. To Good Morals.?By keeping iu si^ht tbe character of God,by uufolding the claims of his holy law, by creating a distaste for unlawful "pleasures, a public sentiment that frowns upon immorality, and through that sentiment cniuiirig wise" and effectual Jaws for the suppression of vice and crime. 5. To Piety.?By causing a right view of God to prevail. by constantly pouring on men's minds those grcat elements of piety, the divine truths of Revelation, by thus generating al! right afTectious towardH God and man. by shadowing forth and pointing men to the Sabbath of heaven. Therefore, the Sabbath is the friend of tbe nation, the family, everybody's friend, and never fails to repay true and devoted friend ship for it with the most precious blessings for time and eternity. signs that wk auk in cnltiST. 1. A sense of personal sinfulness and ill desert, connected with a view of the all sufficiency of Christ and the Atonement. The prodigal affords an illustration of this.? After he came to himseir, ne tnougnt 01 me kindness of hie father, and the abundant supplies of his house, which led him to return and acknowledge his guilt.?His feelings were such that the father at once accepted him will) the assurance of pardon. 2. A neni?e of our tin worthiness, connected with a sense of Christ's infinite worthiness. ?The centurion who felt hi9 unwortbiness that Christ should come under his roof, had great faith in the Saviour, and thus afforded good evidence that lie was a child of God. 3. A serse of personal weakness, connected with a view of Christ's infinite strength. See tbis illustrated in the case of the Syro-Pboonician woman who begged mercy for herself and daughter. 4. A mind and determination to walk in all the commands and ordinances of the Lord.?"Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected; berebv know we that we are in him." 5. Consciuus pleasure in performing Christian duties "I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, ll?v law is within my heart." t>. Warm and peculiar alFeetion for God's people. This affection must arise, not from their natural aimiubloness of character and ?? ? *^?jAnol ta vnr whlrh i wiu u p.i.^vitai *W(W? ?tmiv? they have done us,?hut from a discovered resemblance which Christians bear to their .heavenly Father. "Bv this we know that , we have passed from Hcat.li unto life because we love - lie brethren." 1 7. A disposition to run to Christ often, and especially in seasons of trial and afllietion.?"Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the word* of eternal lite." "What time < 1 am afraid, 1 will trust in thee." "'Is any attliited? let hiui pray. 8. A mind much occupied wtih thoughts of Christ?his character and works?his example and instructions. 9. Care ulness and watchfulness against sin, and disobedience to God, and rebellion against bis government. A watchfulness against it, in thought, word and deed. 10. Thoughts muca on heaven, as the. . place where God manifests his g^ory, aud imparts perfect happiness to the good. 11. A steady, onward course in all religious duties. A "patient continuance in welldoing, seeking for glory, and honor, aud immortality." 12. Meekness unaer. injuries anu auuses.? "Charity suffereth long, and is kind; beareth all things; endureth all things; never failetb."?[N. y. Observer. there are two remarkable things about the death of the late Khedive of Egypt. One is that he died in his bed and is not suspected of having been murdered or committed suicide. The other is that his death is deeply mourned by the poor peasantry of Egypt. Man would be very wise if they could Just learn as much as their boys think they could teach them. n . i? THE QUALITY OK HAT. 1 Out "West the experience of farmers with wild, uncultivated grasses haa impressed them with the difference that exists in quality of hay. But cultivation is not the oniy course of difference. A soil rich and dry produces a better quality of hay, even though the nominal variety be the same, than a soil poor,' thin or filled with stagnant water. The best grasses will not live where they have wet feet most of the year. As they disappear the wild grasses of poorer quality take their places.?Boston Cultivator. THE BARNYARD. Out of the barnyard are the issues of crops. poem isrmers cave no Darnyards, and they are the ones who complain of hard times. The no barnyard system of farming will answer only in 1 those places where the soil is still rich 1 with the virgin fertility, and they are ' getting, like the bison, to be a rare thing in this country. Save the manure. Waste your swill, and let the apples de- ' cay upon the ground, if you will, but save the manure. Let us look into a 1 man's barnyard in wiuter, and there will 1 be no trouble in determing about the : size and fullness of the granary, and ' how the daily table is supplied with ' food. Build the whole farm upon the barnyard. ?American Agriculturist. KILLING 8AESAKRA.3 BUSHES. Sassafras sprouts are often very trouble- j some, for their root9 are not easily de- ( stoyed because they go down bejond ( the reach of the plow or grubbing hoe. , Cutting off or grubbing up should al- . way8 be done in the summer when the j bushes are in full leaf and have nearly | completed the season's growth. If cut , off a little below the surface of the j ground in summer the operation severely j checks the vitality of the roots and frequently kills them. But spring or fall cutting and grubbing only tends to increase the number of buds and sprouts, just as a good pruning will insure a more c vigorous growth of old fruit trees. Cut down the sassafras bushes .close to or < just under the surface of the ground during the month of August, and then, if ( salt is cheap?with you?throw a hand- i ful on the stump of each bush as cut off. Yon may have to repeat the cutting ot , the bushes and sprouts the following j year or even longer, but if persistent you will succeed in killing out tho plants. Where there are old trees in the neigh- j borhood the birds will eit the berries in the fall and drop the seeds in your field and elsewhere, and in this way sassafras ] is often distributed over wide areas of < _ -VT "XT 1_ a..? country.?x^ew xur& oua. i HOW DEEP SHOULD THE PLOWING BE? I As a rale the l&Dd should be plowed 1 as deep as it is fertile and the plow can * be made to go. It is thought by some that plants that are what is called shal- ; low-rooted, as oats, barley and wheat, ; do not need deep plowing, but this is f not at all a necessity for them. For the I least deep-rooted plant sends its roots down as far as food may be found, and , the deeper the soil the more the food is ] increased. The roots of wheat have been i found eighteen inches below the surface, , and ^corn roots go down two or three feet, and yet some farmers think ] this plant does not need deep plowing. Good practice consists in fertilising the | land as deeply as possible, and to do this ^ the plowing should be a little deeper than the manure goes. But it is not advisable to put the plow any deeper at 1 any time than it is possible to manure : the land. And as a deep rich soil should be the aim of every farmer it 9hould be a rule to plow a little deeper every year . until there is a full foot of fertile soil for the plow to work in. Nor is it necessary to obtain this to plow that depth every year; once in a rotation is enough, as the soil will not become compact in the intervals between the crops. To get down to this depth, subsoiliug will be required, and this should be done before the grass seeding. The whole of the soil does not need to be turned, but the bottom only broken up and loosened.? Ynrk Times. SPRAYING IN HORTICULTURE. Spraying to destroy injurious insects and *.gi has now comc to be a necessity in fruit growing and vegetable gardening. Much of its success, however, depends upon the operator. On this subject the Horticulturist of the Cornell (N. Y.) station recommends, above all things, to be ready and begin to spray the moment the first injury is seen or , even before. Study the question during , winter and buy the materials before , spring opens. Always use the finest and most forcible spray which will reach the . desired height. _ There are two leading insecticides? 1 the arsenites and kerosene emulsion. The arsenites are Paris green and London purple. One pound to 200 gallons of water is a good proportion for apples, ? nftftrs. notatoes. etc.; one pound of Paris |? r-?7 i green to 300 or 350 gallons of water shouid be used on peaches. Says the 1 same authority, never use London purple 1 alone on peaches. For apple worm, be- 1 p;in to spray just as soon as the blossoms ' fall. ; Kerosene emulsion is the weapoa to i use against all kinds of plant lice out of < doors. The formula given is: Soft soap, one quart; kerosene, one pint; hot water, ( two quarts. Churn the materials by t pumping back into the pail 1'or several j minutes. Dilute two or three times. i There are two leading fupgicides? ; ammoniacal carbonate of copper and i Bordeaux mixture. For Bordeaux mix- 1 ture use six pounds sulphate copper, i four pounds lime, twenty-two gallons ;water. The only successful combination , of insecticides and fungicides yet found . is made of the arsenites and Bordeaux I mixture. When arsenites and ammoni- ( * ' " rtArtikinorl i acal carbonate 01 uuppci mc wuuiuiu ^ the foliage is usually seriously injured. ; ?New York World. A STUDY OF PUMPKINS. The puDipkin was found here by the early settler*, cultivated by the Indians, ' among corn, as now. It is of a tropical origin, and flourishes best in sunshine, as ia shown by the finest specimens grow ing around the edges of the field. When planting alone on rich soil, to which a little phosphate has been added, enormous crop3 may be obtained. A curious fact in its history is the presence of its now useless tendrils, proving that in its native haunts the pumpkin vine was more aspiring in its'habits of growth. This vine is so prolific and its fruit so immense with little attention that there has been no necessity of improving the original "pie pumpkin;" indeed, it ia good enough for most people after having been manipulated by a dainty cook. Many of the pumpkins grown are not of this variety,being either worthless crosses with squashes, which have little or ? on/1 A*a <^an?amna LIU iUUU YOlUO auu qio uau^oivua ?v? 3tock on account of their homey rinds, or the variety with shiny, bright orangecolored slrins. The latter are greatly inferior to the pie variety, in not having as thick, fine grained, well flavored flesh, and in not being as good keepers. The pie variety may always be recognized by its dull jaLjon-yellow rind with a bloom. The pumpkin mixes readily with the squash, producing useless mongrels, hence seeds af both grown in the same patch are worthless. Man; dairymen think highly Df pumpkins as food for milch cows. Fed immediately after milking they do not impart a flavor to the milk, are thought to impress its color and to increase the low. There is a longstanding prejudice against feeding the seeds to milch :ows, but it is doubtful if they do harm; they may have been contoundod with watermelon seeds in their effect, which is diuretic; however, the matter has nqt been sufficiently investigated. The pie oumnkin will keep into January if care fully handled and stored in a dry, cool, frostproof place.?New York Tribune. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. A perfect apple should be of medium tize, not large. The principal needs in melon culture ire a rich, light soil and pure seeds. Be careful in handling young fruit :rees to see that I he roots are not exposed ? either sun or wind. The Frederick Clap, of comparatively recent introduction, is a promising pear :hat ripens in October. The Windsor cherry, one of the beat imong the newer varieties, ripens late, rhe fruit is large, black and firm. Haw meat rubbed on the trunk of ^oung trees is better than poison, because it prevents the rabbit's first nibble. In pruning small orchards the thumb ind finger were declared to be the very best implements that can be used at she California State Horticultural So* :iety. Does your plow need a new handle, pour hay-rake a new tooth? May be fou need a plank or scanting drag, or some gates. "In time of peace prepare for war." It will be a great saving of labor to spread manure as it is hauled on the and where it is to be used. Thore will ue no loss in quantity or quality of the nanure. Many towns are now paying more money for poor roads than good ones lost, simply because they don't understand how to build right and don't realize what a tax poor roads are. Mr. Powell savs that stable manure. supplemented with wood ashes or some fertilizer containing a good percentage of phosphoric acid and potash, is the obst fertilizer for apple orchards and most fruits. Some asparagus growers claims that aa improvement of fllty per cent, can be made in the asparagus bed by selecting two-year-old plants that bear no seed. These are males, and - the shoots from them will be earlier and larger. The Rural New Yorker says: We believe the grape grower who would put up eight-pound boxes of grapes of assorted varieties, red, white and purple, would find the experiment pay. Will some ot our growers try it and report? It has not been found to pay the cost to cook food for pigs. When mangles are used, and pulped, the grain should be ground and mixed with the roots. Or the roots may be fed whole by themselves, and the whole grain separately. Wood ashes are excellent to use in the orchard, but should not be heaped around the trunk of the tree, as trees have been known to be killed in that way; they should be evenly distributed over the soil under which lie the roots of tfce trpflS. A nurseryman says that he prevents borers by bottling one gallon of soap and iddiog to it one teaspooaful of turpen:ino. This is mixed with water until ;bin. He thea takes a brush and paints :he body of the tree with, the solution ibout March before the foliage begins to itart. There are no disadvantages to be citcd igainst obtaining seeds, trees, etc., from points considerably north of where the planting is done. We are not so certain :hat the reserve of this rule, iu going to???'? * *>?? omifttor for 'r>lantincr stocks. n,?'uo ?1 ? r s equally true, says the American 3ardeu. Now comes a fruit grower that says :hat the apples from trees that were :reated to a good supply of wood ashes n the spring will Keep good throughout :he winter, while from trees where no ._!?- ?...?d fi>o fruit rnta badlv. This ibUCa WCIC UOCU huv ?* m 3 a disputed point, and it is very doubtful it the ashes have anything to do with :he keeping qualities of the fruit. A calf with three teats only cannot be is good a dairy animal as one fully supplied with these indispeusible organs. The udder has four distinct parts, to iach of which the teat is indispeusible ai the outlet for the milk. If the udder is in this normal condition the absence of the teat would certainly cause mischief when the calf becomes a cow, for the milk must have an outlet or there will be trouble. It would hardly be desirable to rear such an animal far the dairy. . y-v v A New Decorative Plant. A beautiful plant, splendidly adapted for the decoration of the drawing-room. and halls, as it stands drought and dust with impunity, is the sanseviera. It Si grown extensively in Cuba and many parts of the West and East ladies. The leaves, as shown in the cut, grow to a length of three to four feet" and are beautifully striped crosswise with broad wane variegHbiuua uu a uotil grem ground. It is a rare and beautiful plant, which should be abundantly grown for positions out of the reach of sunlight, where other plants will not thrive. When you consider th%t it may be placed iu any position in any room and do well, its great usefulness is &n once appearent. It has a singular beauty for decorative purposes which other plants do not possess, and it is useful both winter and sum- V'pl mer. Though grown mainly for the beauty A of its foliage, it is by no means an inslgnificani flowering plant. It blooms -.. t usually during May and June, sending up great plume-like spikes a foot or more in length. The flowers are numerous and composed of long narrow petals, which recurve gracefully and are of a creamy white color. ; It is difficult to flnd a more unique or ornamental plant than this, especially > / r. when it is in bloom. For rases or baskets it mukes a fine centre-piece, and it grows splendidly out of door3 during thrt anmmflp mnnt'ns.?NflW York World. ??I California's English TFalanta. The large profit there is ia the English /' walnut crop in Southern California year after year is becoming better known,and there has never been so much interest in the growing of these nuts as this season. The fact that eleven ranchmen over in the Down ey( and Rivera locality have again this year cleared from $300 to $35 U aa acre on English walnuts is attracting attention, it seems taut, mejr uuve uvu got less than $300 an acre for the crop in eight or nine years, and so great is the demand for their crop that they aro solicited to contract to sell the walnut* even three or four months before the harvest. The English walnui crop of California amounts to a million and s half pounds annuully, and it is increasing very rapidly. This crop represents & total income to the growers of about $170,000.?Pomona (Cal.) Progress. The Latest in Ladies' Hair Dressing. The tendency at present is for wavy hair. Fringes are unquestionably growing smaller, and those worn quite pointed. over the forehead are the kind affected by ladies who want the correct style and who have high foreheads and long, slim faces. The coiffure shown in theaccom COIFFURE WITH POINTED FRINGE. panying illustration gives a very stylish arrangement of the back hair acd also of the pointed fringe. Not only is the fringe pointed, but the coil at the back forms a slightly pointed crown which gives height to the wearer. If, however, you have a low forehead - - ' ?^ l I and round face, ana want to uv m mo very latest fashion, you must part your hair in the middle. Do not make a pronounced parting, and do not try to do away entirely with your fringe. Wear your hair waved on both sides and wear a very slight fr'nge. It is almost impossible to wear a parting if one's hair is thick on the temples. The Grecian style seems to have almost worn itself out. There are adaptations of it, however, still , worn. At some of the recent wedding*, ia place of the conventional flat wreath of orange blossoms for brides, tiaras ofmixed white flowers have been worn, which are lighter aud vastly more becoming. They are almost the same shape as diamond tiaras, the flowers being made to stand by wire.?Mail and Express. How to Keep Your Friends. Souie one asked a great writer how it ~1nPVAr WcAS tQ2tt UC IVC|jI (IU iiU3 ttlbuuowuu uw t v> made an enemy. "By the observance of two axioms/' said he: 4-First, that all things are possible, and secondly thst everybody is right."?New York Herald. ( The slumbers of the .aithful King of Spain are carefully watched over by a body of men called the Monteros <le Espinosa, who guard the royal palacc from sunset to sunrise. Recent statistics show that the total horse power represented bj the world'a machinery is 324,000.000.