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imv. diyaitiage RHcHE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S ?UNW& DAY SERMON. H Subject: ''Evils of Idleness.'1 -1 BM Text: "77te slothful man roasteth not which he took in hunting?Prov IS XII., Hi. >avid and Jeremiah and Ezekel and Micah 1 Solomon of the text showed that some e tbej had been out on a hunting exition. Spears, lancef, swords ana nets e employed in this service. A deep pit would be digzed. In the center oc it re was some raised ground with a pole on ich a lamb would be fastened, and the i beast not seeing the pitfall, but only ne the lamb would plunge for its prey dash down, itself captured. Birds were ! ght in gins or pierced with arrows. The iters in olden time bad two missions?one lear the land of ferocious beasts, and the ?r to obtain meat for themselves and r families. The occupation and habit of ters are a favorite Bible simile. David ; he was hunted by his enemy like a parge upon the mountain. My text is a ting scene. sportsman arrayed in a garb approprito the wild chase lets slip the bloodsty hounds from their kennels, and anting his fleet horse, with a halloo and veil of the greyhound pack they are tnd away, through brake and dell, over sh and moor, across chasms where a tep would hurl horse and rider to death, ging into mire up to the haunches or inrift streams up to the bit, till the game I1 is tracked by dripping roam ana oiooa, tmu the antlers crack oa the rocks, and the hooter has just time to be io at the death. Yet, after all the baste and peril of the chase, my text represents this sportsman as being too indoleDt to dress the game and prepare it for food. He lets it lie in the dooryard of his home and become a portion for vermin and beaks of prey. Thus by one master stroke Solomon gives a picture of laziness, when he says, "The slothfol man roasteth not that which he took io hunting." The most of hunters have the game they hot or entrapped cooked the same evening or the next day, but not so with this laggard of the text. Too lazy to rip off the hide. Too lazy to kindle the fire and put the gridiron on the coals. >. The first picture I ever bought was an engraving of Thorwaldsea's "Autumn." The clusters of grapes are ripe on the vine of the homestead, ana the returned hounds, panting from the chase, are lying on the doorsill and the hunter is unsaouldering the ^ame, wtiiie tne nousewue is auum wj a portion of it and prepare it for the evening meal. Unlike the person of the text, she was enough industrious to roast that which had been taken in hunting. But the world ha? had many a specimen since Solomon's time of those whose lassitude and improvidence and absurdity were doplcted in my text. The most of those who hare made a dead failure of life can look back and see a time when a great opportunity opened, but they did not know it. They were not as wise as George Stephenson, "the father of railways^" who, when at sfacteen years of age he received an appointment to work at a pumping engina for twelve shillings a week, cried out: "Now, I am a made man for life." God gives to most men at least one good opportunity. A great Grecian general was met by a group of beggars, ana he said to them: "If you want beasts to plow your land I will lend you some. If you want land I will give you some. If you want seod to sow your land, I will see that you get it. But I will encourage none in idleness." So God gives to most people an opportunity of extrication from ,, depressed circumstances. As if to create in us a hatred for indolence, God has made those animals which are sluggish to appear loathsome in our eyes, while those which are fleet and active he has clothed with attractiveness. The tortoise, the sloth, the snail, the crocodile repel us, while the deer and the gazelle are as pleasing as they are fleet, ana from the swift wings of innumerable birds God has spared no purple or gold or jet or crimson or snowy whiteness. Besides all this the Bible is constantly assaulting the vioeof laziness. Solomed seems to order the idler i out of bis sight as beyond all human instruction when be says, "Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways and be wise." And Panl seems to drive him up from his dining (table before he gets through with the first course of food with the assertion, "If any will cot work, neither shall he eat." Now, what are the causes of laziness and what are its evil results* I knew a man who was never up to time. It seemed impossible for bim to meet an engagement. When he was to be married he missed the traio. His watch seemed to take on the habits of its owner, and was always too slow. He had a constitutional lethargy for which he did not seem responsible. Ho indolence often arises from the natural temperament. I do not know but there is a constitutional tendency to this vice in every man. However active you may generally be, have you not on some warm spring day felt a touch of this feeling: on you, although you may have shaken it off as you would a reptile? But some are so powerfully tempted to this by their bodily ' constitution that all the work of their life has keen accomplished with this lethargy hanging on their back or treading on their heels. You sometimes behold it in childhood, i The child moping and longing within doors while bis brothers and sisters are at play, or if be join them he is behind in every race and beaten in every game. His nerves, his muscles, his bones are smitten with this jl palsy. He vegetates rather than lives, 9 creeps rather than walks, yawns rather than breathes. The animal in his nature is stronger than the intellectual. He it gen* 5 eraliy a great eater and active only when A he cannot digest what he has eatan. It rea quires as much effort for him to walk as for V others to run. Languor and drowsiness are \ his natural inheritance. He is built for a .1 alow sailing vessel, a heavy hulk and an m\ sufficient cutwater. Place an active man Yin such a bodily structure and the latter Would be shacken to pieces in one day. Kvery law of physiology demands that he bA supine. Such a one is not responsible for k?c nnwerful tendency of his nature. His greikt duty is resistance. \V\ben I see a mau tightinjr an unfortunate temperament all my sympathies are aroused, and ikhink of Victor Hugo's account of a scene c^n a warship, where, in the midst of a storm at sea, a great cannon got loose, and it was crashing this way and that and would have destroyed the ship; and the chief gunner, at the almost certain destruction of his own life, rushed at it with a. handspike to thrust between the spokes of the wheel of the rolling cannoo, and by a fortunate leverage v arrested the gun till it could be lashed fast. But that struggle did not seem so disheartening as that man entors upon who attempts to fight bis natural temperament, whether it be too fast of too slow, too nervous or too lymphatic. God help him, for God only can. Furthermore, indolence is often the result of easy circumstances. Rough experience in earlier life seems to be necessary in order to make a man active and enterprising. Mountaineers are nearly always swarthy, and thote who have toiled among mountains of trouble get the most nerve and muscla - and brain. Those who have become the deliverer* oC nations, once had not where to lay their heads. Locusts and wild honey have been the fare of many a John the Baptist while those who had been fondled of fortune and petted and praised hare often grown up lethargic. They have none of that heroism which comes from fighting one's own battled. The warm summer sun of prosperity has weakened and relaxed them. Born among the J luxuries of life, exertion has been unneces- I aary, and therefore they spend their time in taking it easy. They may enter into busii neca, out they are not fitted for its application, its hardships, for its repulses, and after i having lost the most of that which they have ! invested, go back to thorough inaction. This costly yacht may do well enough on the ' smooth, glassy bay, but cannot Hve an hour | amid a chopped sea. I Another cause of indolence is severe disft couragement. There are those around us | who started life with the most sanguine expectation. Their entarprise excited the remark of all compeers. But some sudden and overwhelming misfortune met them, and henceforth t&9y have been inactive. Trouble, instead of making them more determined, have overthrown them. They I have lost all self-relia\ce. They imagine that P all men and all occurrence are against them. I They hang their heads when once they I walked upright. They never loo'c yoa up in the eyes. Tney become misanthropic aai pronounce all men liars and scaundral*. They go melancholic and threa J bare to their Cve?. You cannot^rouse them to action by most glittering ofifar. In most cases thes? persons have bsen honorable and upright all their live?, for ro;ue* never get discouraged, as there is always some o:her plot they hare not laid and some other trap they have not sprung. There are out rew saaaer sisjats iaan a man ui and tact and undoubted capacity giving up life as a failure, like a line of magnificent steamers rotting against wharves, from which they ought to have been carrying the exports of a nation. Every great financial panic produces a large crop of such men. In the great establishments where they W6re partners in business they are now weighers or draymen or clerks on small salary. Reverie is also a cause of indolence. There are multitudes of men who expect to aohieve great success in life, who are entirely unwilling to put forth any physical, moral or intellectual effort. They have a great many eloquent theories of life. They are all the wtuie expecting something to turn up. They have read in light literature how men suddenly and unexpectedly cam? to large estates, or found a pot of buried gold at the foot of the rainbow of Good Luck, or had some great offer made them. They have passed their lives in reverie. Notwithstanding he is pinched with pov- J ertv. and anv ether man would b9 downcast at the forlorn prospect, he is always cheerful and sanguine and jovial, for he does not know but that he may be within a day or two of astoundin? success. You cannot but be entertained with bis cheerfulness of temper. All the world wishes him well, for he ' never did anybody harm. At last he dies in I just the same condition in which he lived, -sorrowful only because be must leave the | world just at the time when his long-thoughtof plans were about to be successful. Let noyouagman begin life with reverie. There is nothing accomplished without hard work. Do not in idleness expect something to turn up. It will turn down. Indolence and wickedness always make bad luck. These people of reverie are always about to begin. They say, "Walt a little." So with the child who had a cage containing a beautiful canary, and the door of the cage was open and a cat was in the room. ''Better shut the door of the cage," said the mother. "Wait a minute," said the boy. While he was waiting the feline creature with one spring took the canary. The way that many lose the opportunity of a lifetime is by the same principle. They say, "Wait a minute." My advice is not to wait at all. Again, bad habits are a fruitful source of indolence. Sinful indulgences shut a man's shop and dull his tools and steal his profits. Dissoluteness is generally the end of industry. There are those who have the rare faculty of devoting occasionally a day or a week to loose indulgences, and at the expiration of that time go back with bleared eves and tremulous hands and bloated cheeks to the faithful and successful per formance of their duties. Indeed their employers and neighbors expect this amusement or occasional season of frolic and wassail. Some of the best workmen and most skillful artisans have this mode of conducting themselves, but as the time rolls on the saason of dissipation becomes more protracted and the season of steadiness and sobriety more limited, until the employer? become disgusted and the man is given up to a continual and rninous idleness, when that point has arrived he rushes to destruction with astonishing velocity. When a man with strong proclivities of appetite has nothing to do, no former self respect or moral restraint or the besaechings of kindred can savehim. The only safety for a man who feels himself under the fascination of any form of temptation is an employment which affords neither recreation nor holiday. Nothing can be more unfortunate for a man or eru inclination tuau &u uutupatiuu whiCh keeps him exceedingly busy during a part of the year %nd then leaves him for weeks and months entirely unemployed. There are many men who cannot endure protracted leisure. They are like fractious steeds that must constantly be kept to the load, for a week's quiet makes them intractable and. uncontrollable. Bad habits produce idleness, and idleness prodnca# bad habits. The probability is that you will either have to (jive up your loose indulgences or else give up your occupation. Sin will take all enthusiasm out of your work and make you sick of life's drudgery, and though now and then between your seasons of dissipations you may rouse up to a sudden activity and start again in the chase of some high and noble end, even though you catch th? game you will sink back into slothfulnes* before you have roasted that which yon took iuhuntihg. Bad habits unfit a man for anything but politics. Now, what are the results of indolence? A marked consequence of this vice is physical disease. The Healthiness of the whole natural world depends upon activity. The winds, tossed and driven in endless circuits, scattering the mists from the mountains, and scooping out death damps from the caves, and blasting the miasma of swamps, and hnrliner back the fetid atmosDhere of great cities, are healthy jast because of their swiftness and uncontrollableness of sweep. But. after awhile, the wind falls and the hot sua pours through it, and when the leaves are still and the grain fields beui not once all day lonjr, then pestilence smites its victims and digs trenches for the dead. All the healthy beauty of that which we see and hear in the natural world is dependent upon activity and unrest. Men will be healthy?intellectually, morally and physically?only upon the condition of an active industry, i know men die every day of overwork. They drop down in coal pita," and amoog the spindles of Northern factories, and on the cotton plantations of the South. In every city and town and village you find men groaning under burdens as, in the Eist, the camels stagger aaderthnir loads between Aleppo and Damascus. Lite is crushed out every day at counters and workbenches and aim IS. out mors tiro uuuei uiuii>auut? nuu die from mere inertia. Indulgences ever; day are contracting disease beyond the catbolicon of allopathy and homeopathy and hydropathy and eclecticism. Rather than work they rush upon lancets anl scalpels. I Nature has provided for thos3 w.io violate her laws by inactivity?what rheum for the eyes, and what gout for the feat, and what curvature for the spine, and what strictures for the chest, and what tubercles for the lungs, aud what rheumatism for the muscles, and what ueuralgias for the nerves. Nature in time arraigns ever; such culprit at her bar, and presents against him an indictment of one hundred counts, and convicts him on each one of them. The laws of nature will not stop their action because men may be ignorant of them. Disease, when it comes to do its work, does not ask whether you understand hygiene or pathology or materia , medica. If there were not so many lies written on tombstones and in obituaries you would see what multituies of the world's inhabitants are slain in their attempts to escape the necessity of toil. Men cross oceans and continents, and climb the Alps, and sit under the sky of Italy or the shadow of Egyptian n /loom inhrk onoianf ruins [ JTJiauiiu, auu and bathe at Baden Baden, and come home | with the same shortness of breath, and the same poor digestion, and the sam* twitching of the nerves, when at home with their own spade they might have dug health out of the ground, or with their own axe hewn health out of a log, or with their own scythe garnered health from the grain field. There are rnanr who estimate the respectability of an occupation by the llttls exertion it demands, ana would not have their children enter any employment where their hands may be soiled, forgetting that a laborer's overalls are just as honorable as a priest's robes and an anvil is just as respectable as a pulpit. Health flies from the bed of down and sayB. "I cannot sleep here;" and from the table spread with ptarmigan and epicurean viands, saying. "I cannot eat here;" and from the vehicle of soft cushions and easy spring*, saying, "I cannot ride here;" and from houses luxuriously warmed and upholstered, saying, "I cannot live here;" and some day you meet health, who declined all these luxuriant places, walking in the plow's Furrow, or sweltering beside the hissing forge, or spinning among the looms, or driving a dray, or tinning a roof, or carrying hods of brick up the ladder of a wall. Furthermore, notice that indolence endangers the soul. Satan make3 his chief conquests over men who either have uoth in? to do, or, it tney nave, reruse to qo it. There is a legend that St. Thomas, years after Christ's resurrection, began again to doubt, and he went to the Apostles and told them about his doubts. Each Apostle looked at him with surprise and then said be must be excused, for ne had no time to listen any longer. Then St. Thomas went to the derout women of his time and expresssd his doubts. They said they were sorry, but they had no time to listen. Then St. Thomas concluded that it was because they were so busy that the Apostl es and the devout women had no doubts. Idleness not only leads a man into associations which harm his morals, but often thrust* upon him the worst kind of skepticism. Loafers are almost always infidels, ' or fast getting to be. Consam mate idlers never read the Bible, and If the/ appear in church can be distinguished in an audience of a thousand by their listlessness, for they are too lazy to hear. It is uot so much among occupied merchants, industrious mechanics and professional men always busy that you hear the religion of Jesus maligned, as in public lounging places, given Bp to profanity ana dissoluteness, iney nave no sympathy with the Book that says, 'Let him that stole steal no more; but rattier let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth." I never knew a man given np to thorough idleness that wa3 converted. Simon and Andrew were converted while fishing, and Lydia while selling purple, and the shepherds of Bethlehem watching their flooka-heard the voice of angels, and Gideon was thrashing on tne tnrasntng floor, but no one was ever converted with his hands in his pockets. Let me teU the idler that there is no hopt for him either in this world or in the world which is to come. If the Son of God, who owned the whole universe, worked in the carpenter shop of Joseph, surely we, who own so little, yet want ao much, ought to be busy. The redeemed in heaven are nevet idle. What exciting songs they sing! On what messages of love they fly through all the universe, fulfilling God's high behests ani taking worlds in one circuit; rushing with infinite fierceness against sin ana cruelty and oppression, and making the gates of hell to quake at the overthrow of the principalities of darkness, and in the same twinkle of an eye speeding back to their thrones with the news of sinners repentant. The River of Life is ever flowing, and the palms ever waving, and the hallelujahs ever rising, and the harps ever sounding, and temple tJways op9n, and the golden streets always a-rush withohariots of salvation, and the last place which you ought ever to want to go to is heaven, unless you want to be busy. Al?a VM TT kAAMAVO f K ? f In f Kl'o TT7/"VT*1 A f.Vl Qra Ul^ ucutg. o, vuav iu vuia uvt vuv.w should be so many loungers and so few workers. We eo Into the vineyard of the church and we near the arbor groan under the heft of the vines and the clusters hanging down, large and thick and ripe, cluster and cluster, fairer than the bunches of Sshcol and Engedi, and at a touch they will turn into wine more ruddy than that of Libanus and Helbon. But where are the men to gather the vintage and tread the wine press? There comes to your ear a sound of a thousand wheat fields ready for the sickle. The grain is ready. It is tall, it is full, it is golden. It waves in the sunlight. Itrustles in the wind. It'would fill the barns. It would crowd the garners. After a while it will lodge, or the mildew and the rust will smite it. Oh, where are the reapers to bind the heaves 1 The enemies of God are marshaled. You see the glitter of their busklers. Tou hear the pawing of their chargers, and All along the line of battle is heard the shout of their jjreat captain, and at the Armies of the living God they hurl their defiance. They come, not in numbers like the hosts of Sennacherib, but their multitude is like the leaves of the forest, and tho sound of their voices like the thunder of the sea. Mailed in hell's impenetrable armor, they advance wicn cna waving oi iuw uauum? and the dancing of their plumes. Their ranks are not easily to be broken, for tbe batteries of hell will open to help them and ten thousand angels of darkness mingle in the fight. Where are the chosen few who will throw themselves into the jaws of this conflict* King James gava to Sir John Scott, for his courage, a charter of arms with a number of spears for the crest and the motto. 'Ready I aye, ready!" and yet, when God calls us to the work and the cause demands our espousal and interests dreadful as the judgment and solemn as eternity tremble in the balance, how few of us are willing to throw ourselves into th> breach, crying, "Ready I aye, ready I" Oh, I should like to sea God arise for the defense of His own cause and the disenthralment of a world in bondage! How the fetters would snap and how tbe darkness would fly, and how heaven would Ring. You have never seen an army like that which God shall gather from the four winds of heaven to flght His battles. They shall oover every hilltop and stretch through every valley and man the vessels on every sea. There shall neither be uproar nor wrath nor smoke nor bloodshed. Harvests shall not lie waste in the track nor cities be consumed. Instead of the groans of captives shall oome the song of those redeemed. Yet the conquest shall be none the lees complete, for if in that hour when all should be vlcrilant the church of God should neglect to seize the prize aad the cause should seem to fall from the graveyards and cemeteries of all Christendom the good aad faithful of the past would spring to their feet in time to save the cause, and though the sun might not again stand still above Gibeon, or the moon in the valley of Ajalon, the day would be Ion; enough to gain a decisive vie* tory for God and the truth. But my text is descriptive also of those who hunt for opportunities, and when they get them do not use them. The rabbit they overcame by an early morning tramp lies for weeks uncooked in the dooryard. The deer that they brought down after long and exhausting pursuit in the Adirondacks lies on the doorsill undressed, and the savory venison becomes a malodorous carcass. They roast not that which they took In bunting. Opportunities laborously captured, yet useless, and that which came in invitingly, like a string of plover and quail and wild duok hung oyer a hunter's shoulder, turns to something worse than nothing. So with Agripoa when almost persuaded to be a Christian. So with the lovely young man who went away from Christ very sorrowful. So with ten8 of thousands who have whole hands full, whole skies full of LI_U tkam winged opportunities wuiuu i?uu> vuou. nothing at all, because they roast not that which they took in hunting. Oh, make out of this oaptured moment a banquet for eternity. The greatest prize in the universe to tie won la the lore and pardon of Christ. Win that and you can say: Now 1 hvre found a Friend Wbose lore shall sever end. Jeaas U mine! The short and sensational career ol the two Chicago Board of Trade clerks, Whittaker and Smith, Is only another illustration of the dangers of too great prosperity. These two young gentlemen had always borne good reputations until they made a phenomenally successful speculation in wheat. On an original investment of $50 they cleared up $32,000. The hair oi tnis amount), carei.uii,y mvested in any legitimate business, would have made the nucleus of a fortune for either of the young speculators. But their heads were completely turned. They imagined that they saw millions within easy reach, and the money disappeared in a few months, part of it going whence it] came, and the rest of it being spent in riotous living. Then followed dishonesty. They U3ed their employers' money to speculate with, and ara both now fleeing from the law. Nine men out of ten who have been ruined by speculation have seen times when they might have quit very much ahead of the game. It's the same old story, so tersely expressed by Daniel Drew: "I'd 'a' been all right," he once said, "if I'd only draw'd. out when I orter.' You think you have a quick head on your shoulders. What would you do if a lamp should explode? What would be your first move if your baby should choke until it got black in the face? If a man should be stricken down in a fit, would you leave him to die while you ran for a doctor?) Could you restore a man who is apparently dead from drowning? If a child should set itself on fire, waiiI/1 ?aii mmomKoi* tViof q 1 i fA Ha. TTUUiU JVU 1 ^LUVUlU^l UUUV w v?v/ pends on what you do at once? Is there any one who is quick-headed enough to do anything in a case of emergency except to scream for help? ... .V ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ \ ^ SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL TjKSSOX FOR 1U/1 X lil. Lesson Text: "A Song of Praise," Psalm eiii., 1-22?Golden Text Psalm eiii., 2?Commentary. 1. "Bless the Lord, 0 my soul, and all that is within me bless His holy name." On 9 has called this a Psalm of David when carried out of himself up to heaven. 3. "Bless the Lord, O my sou1, and forget not all His benefits. ' Consider how great things He hath done for you (I Sam. xii., 24). but think chiefly of tne gift of His Son and all things that are yours in Him (John iii., 16; Rom. viii., 32). Then say with Jeremiah even in darkest days, 'The Lord is my portion, saith my soul." , 3. who iorgivetn an mine iniquities; who heateth all thy diseases." Having received Jesus Christ, the Lord, as our own personal Saviour, it is our privilege to know that we have the forgiveness of all our sins, and sball in due time have a body that disease and death shall never touch (Eph. i., ?, 7:1 John ii., 12; Isa. xliii.. 35 (Phil, ill, 20, 31; I John iii., 3; Rom. viii., 33). 4. ,lWho redeemeth thy life from destruction, who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies." See in Job xxxiii., 14-30, how many things God does to deliver us from going down to the pit. He is not vrilling that any should perish, and His mercies are new unto us every morning (II Pet. iii,. 9; Lam. iii., 32, 23). 5. "Who satisfleth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renowxl like the eagle's." Here is the way of perpetual fresh* ness, like the tree of Ps. i., 3: Jer. xvii, 8. And hpm is Alan the onlv true satisfaction (Ps. TTTvi., 8; lxv., 4; evil., ,9; Deutxxziii., 23) 6. "The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed." David could testify as to God's dealings with himself, for he had learned to leave all his aJTiiri to God (I Sam. in., 6; II Sam. xvi., 12). He also thought of God's deliverance ut Israel for the oppression of Egypt. 7. "He made known His ways unto Moses, His acts anto the children of Israel." All could see His acts, but only those near to Him as Moses could understand His ways. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him, and He will show them His covenant (rs. xxv., i*). 8. "The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and plenteous in mercy." See Hi9 name as proclaimed to Moses in Ex. xxxiv., 6, 7, and think of Jesus Christ as God manifest in the flesh, full of grace and truth (I Tim. iii.. 16, John i., 14). Paul says that in his case the grace of God was exceedingly abundant (I Tim. L, 14, 15). 9. "He will not always chide, neither will He keep His anger forever." bee Isa. Ivii., 16; Mic. vii., 18, 19, as a commentary jupon this verse, and think of the time when the whole of Israel shall sing, "Thine anger is turned away and Thou comfortedst me" (Isa. xii.,1). 10. "He hath not dwelt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities." And why! Because He has found a ransom and dealt with another in our stead (Job xxxiii., 24; Lev. xvii., 11; lsa. liii., 5, 6). Sin must oe dftalt with, but our substitute having suffered nn our stead we are free in Him. 11. "For as heaven is . high above the eartb, eo great is His mercy toward them that fear Him.'1 His ways and thoughts are also as high as heauen above ours (Isa. lv., 8, 9). This being the case, what folly it is to indulge in our thoughts concerning His great salvation. Rather let us just believe TTi_ 1 1 rns every wuru auuui>ii> auu lejuiue. 12. "As far as the east Is from the west; so far hath He removed oar transgressions from us." Read with this Isa. xxxviiL, 17; xliii,, 25; Mic. vii., 19, and by the same Holy Spirit in the New Testament - (I John ii., 12; i., 7; Col. i., 14), and it these words do not make your soul cry out "Bless the Lord!" then it is evident that you do not believe them. 13. "Like as a father pitieth his children, eo the Lord pitieth them that fear Him." This, with Isa. lxvi., 13, -'As one whom his mother comforteth so will I comfort you," {a tnralv mnrathftn anrnicrh fcn mnlrA ctIa/1 t.ha heart of every true child of God. Come close and trust Him fully. 14. "For He knoweth our frame. He reraembereth that we are duit." To . sin He cannot be lenient; but to the sinner saved by His grace He is very pitiful, recognizing the weakness of the flesh and making full provision for our constant cleansing (Mark xiv., 38, I John i., 9). 15. "As for mac, his days are as grass, as a flower of the held so he flourishet. Compare Isa. *1., 6-8, and observe that 'The word of our God endureth forever." See also in I John it, 17, that "He that doeth the will of God abideth forever.'-' Let us choose the eternal. 16. "for the wind passeth over it and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more." All true of the mere natural man, the unsaved man, who dies in his sins; but if a child of God. having God in him, and being thus one with God, he is eternal. 17. "But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him, and His righteousness unto children's children." All who despise and reject His mercy have only themselves to blame. See Prov. L, 23-33. Only accept Him and His eternity and righteousness are yours. If*. "To such as keep His covenant, and to those that remember His commandments to do tbem." There are no works but those of Christ connected with the obtaining of salvation (Rom. iv., 5; Eph. ii., S, 9;, but having received Christ we must necessarily work, for the absence of works is a proof that we have not received Him (Math, vii,, 21; Jas. i., 22). " )9. "The Lord hath prepared His throne in the Heavens; -and His kingdom ruleth over all." The tide will come when the Son of Mao shall sit on the throne or nia giorv, anu then shall the overcomers sit with Him on His throne and rule with Him (Math, xxi,, 31 j Rev. iii., 21; v., 9, 10). 20. "Bless the Lord, ye His angels that excel in strength, that do His commandments, hearkening unto the voice of His word." Angels shall rejoice with all the redeemed when the kingdom comes and God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven; and meantime they rejoice in every sinner that comes to Je3U8 (Rev. v., 11, 12; Luke xv? 10). 21. "Bless ye the Lord, all ye His hosts; ye ministers of His that do His pleasure." Observe two things about these angels and hosts, they hear His word and do His pleasure. Let us give ourselves wholly to that and we shall have heaven upon earth. Self renounced and Christ enthroned will give a miniature kingdom in our hearts. "22. "Bless the Lord, all His works, in all J :-u-* Klaoo fKa T O places 01 X119 auiuiuiuu, "I"" M?? ? ? my soul." Ohservd in verses 1,2, 20, 21, 22, the sixfold "Bless tbe Lord," and let your heart say, "I will bless the Lord at all times" (Ps. xxxiv., 1).?Lesson Helper. In the Nineteenth Century J. N. Lockyer explains the appearance of the new star in the constellation Auriga as due to the collision of meteof swarms instead of the "two solid bodies" which many astronomical thinkers have supposed to (five by their impact the fervent heat necessary tc cause the outburst of brilliancy which attracts attention at our immense distance from the nearest of those objects. He says this explanation will also account for the disappearance ol those new stars when the high temperature resulting from the collision of those meteor swarms has diminished. It is fair to say that Mr. Lockyer some years ago committed himself to the meteoric hypothesis as explaining pretty much all that we see in the firmament, and nearly all the humjin eve has seen in the Dast or will 3ee in the future. Exception ha9 been taken to that theory by some sound thinkers, and they will not necessarily concede without several grains of salt its application to the case in point. Still the explanation is the best yet advanced for this particular instance, and for the reason that it is the first in the field it will command much attention. RELIGIOUS READING. 8TILL SHINING. (dedicated to Mrs. H. Spurgeon.) One star moves slowly on thro' cloud and n,*bt' I ^ w Where,for a little while, twq^boneso bright; And in our eyes there comes? mist of tears Whene'er we think of ail the golden ye^rs TKao mirrlif Kor?n mr\vnA fntrfithpf hfld Crfwl UJijpUV ML* V V- UUVTVU VV^VKUVAJ ?? ? ? ? willed. God'9 will is lore, He can not do a wrong, Hi9 hand ia gentle, tho' 30 firm and strong; He lifted one to shine beside His throne. And left the other here to shine alone, Yet doubt not that His love knows what is best. We know not why 'twaa done; perhaps He knew That each would be more faithful, strong and true, If one wa9 lifted into glorious light. The other left to shine on thro' the night, And lighten up the darkness of the world. Shine on, lone star, and may your beams abound Wherever other saddened hearts and lives are found; May your great sorrow make you tender, kind, To all who suffer. May your eager mind Be helped to see that God knows what is best. ?[Mrs. D. E. W. Spratt, in National Baptist, . THE BIBLK AND THS WORJ.V. /An Sewton used to say. remarks the Glasgow Leader, that he read the New Testament to see how God loved the world, and the newspaper to see how He governed the world. John Henry Newman says to look at the world after readh.g the Bible brings terror on his heart as if be turned to the mirror and found no reflection of bis own face there, for he sees God in the Bible but no reflection of Him in the world which should mirror His glary. So there seems no sympathy between nature and goodness; nature becomes terrible the moment you attempt to connect it with a moral idea; the world Ifeth in the wicked one whether by the horrible things done in the East or the heartless things done in the West. BIBLE STUDY. "Tby Word is a lamp unto my feet," said tbe psalmist of old. You want your lamp to burn as brightly as possible. You trim the wick; you wash, dry and polish the glass chimncy; you keep the shade clean. Let the dust gather and the smoke make its sooty deposit, and the wick becomes crisp aud hard and black, and tbe light upon the open page is flickering and weak. The lamp is your friend but you most take good care of it. It will treat you as you treat it. The figure may be homely, but it is true. What the Bible brings to you will depend, in large measure, upon what you bring to it. You may have a crumb, or a loaf, or a granary full to bursting, just as you ?hoose.. There is gold on it< surtace, there are jewels in its mines, there are royal pearls in its depths. All are not equally equipped for its study; but every one of us can do his utmost in its patient, loving study, and no labors will bring a surer or a richer reward. ?[Dr. A. J. F. Behrends. 8ALVATI0N1. Salvation * first a great rescue, and, secondly, a welcome home. Years ago a railway train sped over the land bearing the members of many families to their several destinations. Some were conversing, some were reading, some sleeping, some fondling their children, all hastening home or hastening abroad with no thought of danger. But the route lay over a bridge with a draw, and the draw in the bridge was turned to allow the passage of a vessel. The warning signal was flving, bat. owing to the direction of the wind, only its edge was presented to the engineer of the train, and he did not see it. On came the train! One man who saw it coming on to certain ruin fainted away under the rush of emotion! But now a puff of wind struck the flag, and, presenting it> side to the coming train, exposed the danger to the engineer, and in an instant down went the brakes, but on came the train toward the g.ulf of death! On it came, grinding and crunching along, slower and slower, hut still coming on! The locomotive went over; the tender went over; the baggage-car went over; and there the rain stopped, the baggaee-car actually hanging into the gulf without falling! It'was s glorious, a wonderful, a moat merciful rescue ! What emotions shook those passengers when the truth as to their peril and rescue broke upon them? Aud religion is a great rescue from a plunge into a gulf that is bottomless. But it is also a welcome home. Twenty miles farther ou a family are waiting for a husband and father in that train. Tidings of his peril and rescue have reached them over the wires, and how the hearts throb at the sound of the shrill whistle announcing his approach! And aa he enters, what a welcome of joy and tears greets bim! Ah! so shall it be with the rescued sinner as he enters heaven. Loved ones are waiting for him there, and no such joys on earth can hnman hearts over know as thrill the soul under that welcome home .'--[Sunday Sohool Times. / LAUNCHED OUT IN'TO THE DEEP. Lloyds' agents report, concerning a late gale, that ''the casualties are con tinea to the coasters." This is often the case upon the sea of religious life. Those who hug the shores of tne world, and never lose sight of Its associations, are very liable to be blown on the rocks when the storms are out. They have to study men, circumstances, profits and losses, and these are as rocks or quicksands to their integrity. Brave men have quitted the inviting but fatal coasts, and have sailed away to the deep seas of true trust in the * I'ving God. and theae tind scaroom in che gale, and ride out every storm. In the late tempests of heresy, it will be found, on reference to the wreck register, that great havoc has been made among the fleet of coasters, whose avocation has always been in the shallows. These know nothing of chart and compass, for they never go out of sight of the cliffs of society, anil therefore are quite unable to keep clear 01 toe uungers wuu wmtu mc? uu ??* 'v..a been flirting. If men only knew the more than earthly joy of being alone with God. and out of xig'ht and sound of humau reliance aud influence, they would up with the anchor and seek the glorious main, where apparent danger is real safety, and manifest solitude is the truest company. Farewell, ye sandy shores of human trust! Adieu, ye green hills of human admiration! At last, we lose sight of even you, ye highest peaks of trusted attachment! Now our soul waits only upon God. and our expectation is from Him. Aiiove. beneath, around, ia the Godhead's luthomless sea. God the horizon, and the zenith, and the who'e circle! Now we dare fly before the wind and leap the billows with delight. There are no rocks or quicksands here! 0, coasters! could yc but know this liberty and life, ye, too. would tly your present fancied" safety.?fSpurgeon, ia Sword and Trowel. Reiigion is r? necessary and indispensable element in any great human character. There is no living without it. Religion ia the tie that connects ntau wilh his Creator ??i him m His throne. If that tie be all sundered, all broken, lie floats nwny, a worthless atom in the universe, its proper attractions all sone, its destiny thwarted, and its whole future nothing; but darkness, desolation :<nd death.?[Webster. It is the man who studies the Bible most who limls most in the Bible wtiich is worthy or' study.?[S. S. Times. When a woman says a man takes his wife's death "hard," she means that he groans, and moans, and screams, and tears his hair. If he sits dumb under his affliction, she says he is not affected very mucn, ana that he will be married again in a few months. The emotional sort of grief appeals to the women so much that if a man screams when his wife Is burled, and'marrtes again the next day, they say that his great sorrow affected his min3, and that he is Irresponsible. TEMPERANCE. HOW LONG* Recently a Brooklyn father went home drunk, and picking up an axe, struck his aaugnier wiiq it u toe isuv, aiuiuau uutuu^ off her nose. A second blow on the back of her head knocked her unconscious, and whan the neighbors came in and overpowered him, he was belaboring bis unconscious victim with a heavy pieco of wood! This drunken criminal, temporarily locked up, was a criminal undoubtedly, because crazed*and frenzied with alcohol. How long shall such tragedies continue by the authority and with the toleration of otherwise good citizens who sustain the iniquitous license system? ?National Temperance-Advocate. FIGHT FOR SOBROTr. Before the big village of Hyde Park was annexed to Chicago that handsome and wellbehaved suburb of the great Western city was run on a strictly prohibition plan, and iwhen it consented to cast its lot with the .'larger municipality the right to keep out 'spoons was reserved. Now the good people ' - m rt_j. n._i ? A ;M _ L--J - - !OL nyae rtxru. Hie uugagcu lu a uwu siru^io to maintain the unique character of tbeir section as a temperance oasis in the desert of dramshops and drnukenness around it. They deserve the sympathies of all friends of sobriety and good order, for It is an exceedingly difficult thing to keep saloons out of < any part of.Chicago, and they will win tbeir flgnt, if they win it at all, against heavy odds. Just as an object lesson, and in order that comparisons may be possible, it is to be hoped that Hyde Park can be kept "dry" for many years' to come.?Cleveland Leader. DAILY OROWING IN STRENGTH. Lady Henry Somerset, who recently returned to England from an extended visit to the United Statee>addres8ed the Temperance Assembly in Liverpool. In replying to several addresses of welcome she said that the dawn of the day had arrived which would bring their cause a great victory. The temperance party In the United Stages, continued Lady Somerset, was daily growing in strength and import ance. Bhe bad found daring Her trip to the United States a universally sober womanhood. She had been present at a number of social affairs at which intoxicating drinks were among the refreshments offered to the guests, and she had seen only one woman partake of wine or liquor. The temperance work in the United States was conducted on a grand soale, and 'the Woman's Christian Temperance Union was i wielding a powerful influence throughout the whole country. Lady Somerset declared that it was not true that the cause of prohibition was a failure iu the State of Maine. The illicit traffic in intoxicants was very limited, and as a proof that the excise laws were strictly enforced she said that sha herself was cognizant of cases which happened within the last thnwmonths where quantities of liquor had been seizad b^the officials and the sellers of the prohibited goods had been convicted and sentenced to jail for the term 01 imprisonment prescriDea dj Law. THE DRINK HABIT T.f SCOTLAND. Drinking both moderate and immoderate, is much more common in the British Isles than in the United States. The fact is, the church, and this is especially true in Scotland, has not yet cast out this curse of the nineteenth century. Brewers and saloon keepers are permitted not onlj to be members, but office holders in the ctmrch in Scotland. Two or three months ago, at the * installation dinner, given to the pastor of the Edinburgh churches (the banquet was held at a "temperance" hotel) wins was provided for all the guests. Not long ago the papers reported that a member orthe Glasgow Preeoytery had introduced a resolution that license holders, or saloon keepers, should not be permitted to hold office in the church. He found only two members to support his resolution. The consequence of all this is apparent in the habits of the people. Tou cannot walk through the streets on Saturday evening without meeting dozens of men, and often women, reeling along the sidewalk. Drinking amonz women is much more common in the British Isles than in the United Mtatee. cm nonaari it is no uncommon thing to see the saloons half fall of women. About two-thirds of the groceries in Edinburgh sell liquor. This has greatly increased drinking at home, as many women order liquor with their groceries wno would not enter a saloon to buy. During the cold months of November and December you see dozens of barefooted, ragged, hungry-looking children running the streets. Yet, no less than *650,000 is annually expended in charity in Edinburgh. "But," says Mr. D. Lewis, "the drink traffic has counteracted our labors to an almost incredible extent."?The Voice. BEER AND BOOZE. No one knows just what strong drink will do to a person, for two reasons. First, no one knows just how a particular constitution will be affected, and second, no one knows just woat infernal drugs and poisons the rum seller may have mixed in that particular lot of booze, in addition to the regular "bottled devil" it contains. Says a physician: "Persons who are heavy and lethargic should never touch beer?I do not mean physically, but for its mental effect. If I drink half a glass of beer at din ner noiamg on earm uiuxesu mo w hour afterward but an easy chair, slippers and a quiet nap. If my wife, oa the other haad, drinks a glass of beer, it sets her nerves tiogling and she wants to dress and go to the theatre or a dog show. There is no telling exactly what the effect of drinking beer will be on a man, but it is always interesting to me in traveling to note the lifferences in the faces of people who drink various beverages. In tne West, for in: tance, whisky is the staple; the men are snarp, active, nervous, lean, thin and intense. T&ey can get along with six hours sleep, be ause they take a cocktail before breakfast which stirs up the energy which the short aours of sleep have taken away. In Berlin, >vbere they drink beerall the time, the men ire heavy, stout and loggy. They sleep nine hours a night, and very frequently take anhour's nap in a chair in a beer garden during i le day. In Prance, where they drink wine, che men have sallow skin and wrinkled races. The wine has a slightly stimulating -ffact, but not as much a one as the whisky ?c our nobility of tbe West. Tne best thing nr a man to drink is water. Never make my mistake about that I am not a teetoraller, but I am able to look at the thing nearly, and I know, as every >other man ot the world does, that nioe-tentns of the mischief in society comes from drink. Many a woman goes wrong who would never have thought of it if it had not been for the preliminary champagne. Besides, it is the best opinion of medical experts everywhere in the world that a man is healthier without wines or liquors of any sort than he ia with them ."?Safeguard. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. The biggest river in this world is the river of rum. r nnHnn h?o lonfr hftfln in (inanition in Finland, with the result that, as a rule, in the rural'districts there are no public houses whatever. Jacob A. Riis, in his article on "The Poor Children of New York," in Scribner'j, says that "drunkenness is the vice that wrecks about half of the homes of the poor which do not cause it." Mrs. Hitchcock, President of the Nebraska Woman's Christian Temperance Union, writes that they Have the names of 8000 children on the pledge cards, waich will be used to decorate the white-ribbon department of the Columbian Exposition. The Dukes of Richmond, Hamilton; Athole, Sutherland and Fife; the Marquises of Dute, Alisa, Breadalbaae; ttie Earls of Rosebery, Aberdeen, Moray, Z9tlaud, Haddington* Elgin, Wemyss, Stair and Galloway, are all interested in the liquor traffic in England. Dr. Dawson i3urnes\in his annual letter on the drink consumption in Great Britain, I 1 SII'JWS U y Wai iy trA. ;r.iuii.ui o poi uwa ul cue I population, counting caildren. of seventy I shillings, which indicates that the habit of drink continues to grow, but at & 3iower rate than previously in rjcent years. Those who advocate the use of light wines as a preventive of drumcennesj, and point to France as an illustration, saould read an article iu a recent issu3 of tin Petit Journal, Paris, which declares that of all the dangers menacing the agricultural population of France, the gravest and most difficult to tight is alcohol power. ' : v ..iSS'itK, V...il ; WOELD'8 FATB NOTES. \ E. S. Dihtsoic, of Alamada County, Cal A - J intends toto the Exposition a pumpktiil lif the Michigan exhibit will 1m ft reprssentationin wax of 600 specimens of utdl which grow in the State. J-aj Thi women of Missouri intend to fumta^ : the State Building with carpet^ rugs, etaJ , ; made of Missouri grown wool. Thz women of Springfield and Sangaawj i ':!T County, IU., are punning to make an bv? y tensive exhibit of Linoolns relic at the Pair J < . LrEDTKWA.irr Biub, reoentlv Special Exposition CommUiloner at Medoo, estimate* ' ? tihat fully 10,000 Mexicans will attend th? Miss Alice Ridkout, of San Frandsoaki :'d has been awarded the contract for sculptural work on the Woman's Building. She will ; ^ receive <8200. Prince Qkobox. of Wales, who, if h* - Jra lives, will some dav be kinz of Kn?1?iwi. will - J visit the Exposition, a cablsgramlrom'Loo- -1^1 don annooncee. ! Thi number of man working on the Ex- I position buildings is now more than 6000. -i fii On some of the buildings work is prooeeding day and night CiTLOff will hare at the Exposition! several tea kiosks formed of native timber, including specimens of its exquisitely beautiful cabinet woods, A cokpuctx "collection of Ohio birda, i?- ' v'>eluding every variety known to live withi* the boundaries of tha State, will be an hi bit at the Exposition. The Committees on Mines and Mining oCi both the National Commission and tte) Directory will make a tour in May of tk? - ' % principal mining States with * view or stimulating interest in the mining depart- _ Ajgffli mens. Mhs. Amy M. Bkbch, of Boston, will pr?> - .^1 para an original magical composition tote /r1 rendered at the dedloation of the Womonls Building. Theodore ThomM will condaafc " the presentation and Professor Tomlins will organize the chorus ot 400 Toloee. President Nunez, of Colqmbia, it Is aa-j : ? nounced, has declared his intention of being' present at the ceremonies dedicatory of tfes Exposition buildings next October. Sir .t,n Julian Pacncefote, British Minister sfe > Washington, will be present to represent : : Great Britain. Sue Miguel Couirrr, New Mexico, fm planning to place in the Woman's Buildnur an emblem typical of the Territory. It wiV , . be aMnonument of notire stone, opon which.! - " . , $3 is carved in relief the ooofc of arms of tfc* v'vgjg Territory, and the various fruits and grains | i'-M Ot the county. Tbkb trunks for the colonnades of As ffiM forestry uuuaing bare been receirea rrooa Wisconsin, Montana, West Virginia, California, Indiana, Ohio, Delaware^, New Mexico, North Carolina and Connecticut. gi Thirty of the States will make' contribution* of this character. The Legislature of Ohio has approplatad. $25,000 for a monnment typifying the great ness of that State. The monnmsnt executed in bronze, will be seventeen feet high, ft . .*}& will be put ap in front of the Ohio Building ' :'M and after the fair removed to Cofatmbos and ."? erected in front of the capital. Or the 75.560,000 feet of lumber require*. Vjl, for the Exposition buildings, docks and) 'C electric subways, 54,875,800 hare bean placed. . j Of iron and steel 38,480*900 pound#,br nearly M 20,000 tons, are required. .Of this nearly :i. half is in its place, and the remainder witt . f all be in position before the ilrpt of June. Tax Legislature of Texas has taken actios : looking toward holding an "Auxiliary Workfs Fair" at Galreston the coming fall, ' and inviting Central and Soutn American r countries to participate. The enterprise it < intended to be preparatory to the Btaiete participation in the Exposition at Chiqago. < "s* Thk upper Michigan peninsula has mpplied for 30,000 square feet of space, and- will nil it with mineral and timber products. It is proposed to show several cords of natural copper as it comes out of the mine, and ales ;:? the various sorts of iron. A complete work tag model of a mime with reduction works . s also promised. 1 The Salt Manufacturers' Asndatioa or ' As Michigan has agreed ta make the salt exhibit for the State, ana will get up a display which, doubtless, will attract a gnat deal oc . vijuB attention. It is the Intention to have mod- ;:0J? els of all salt manufacturing apparatus xmd. from the earliest dayirdown to the present -1' time, and in connection with the models show all the processes now practiced In produe ing salt. Thc exhibit of the harnessmakers, which > ' 'M is in charge of the Wholesale Saddlery Association, will include not only a trade exhibit, embracing specimens of the finest , work, but also a collection of harnMB. trap?'? " -"J tMaiN tknwinir tnn mo. IjiUgg auu vuj^uavw ??'?|i"1 7?l , utlon of the harness industry from, tarty times to the present. The sum of 135,(TO will be expended on this latter feature. la the collection will be a saddle used by Na- ^8 poleoa Bonaparte. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Emperor Wilhelm has a mania for being $8 photographed. The estate left by the late Walt Whitmaa is stated to have been about 18500. Dr. Frotoe succeeds the lata Dr. Freeman as professor of history at Oxford (England) University. Baron voir Felder, of Vienna, Austria, M has sold his famous collection of butterflies to Lord Rotbschild, of London, for 125,000. Fanny Crosby, who is over ?xty-flv? years olA is said to have written more thaa three thousand hymns, some of which art gg famous. . It is said that in England there are 109 lives of Gladstone in manuscript, ready to ba - :;$? rushed to the printer the day the Grand Old Man dies. g A ORAirrrz sepulchre of the late J. I. Casei of Racine, Wis., the famous horse breeder. is about to be constructed from Vermont granite at a cost of 918,000. Georoe Augustus Sala, the veteran. London journalist says his market value is . - 325 an hour. This, with an eight-hour day, would give him $66,000 annually. Secretary Rusk cays that his Wisconsin farm has 900 acres, and that he can get mora fun out of it in a week than he oan out aC his life at Washington in six months. 1 Dr. John Miquel, the present German Minister of Finance, and next to the Chancellor the most important member of the Imperial Cabinet, is of French parentage. Ex-Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, is rewriting his novel, the manuscript ot which. was lost by the lire that destroyed his , vgj library. It will treat of Washington life. * Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, , has the appearance of an Italian, though b* * ';*? is a Marylander bj birth and of ScotcH de? scent. He is a little more than six feet tail and very fine looking. John Huston Finlxt, the new head of Knox College, is the youngest college President in the United States, being only twenty-eight years of age.I.fit is ScotchIrish in descent and energy F. C. Sessions, the Columbus (Ohio) bank- ' '{. .'J er, who recently died at Ashenlla, N. C_ * provided in his will for the establishment o? an academy of arts in Columbus. Real estate valued at a half million dollars is left ' for this purpose. Governor Russell observes the custom established by former Chief Magistrates of Massachusetts of using a new quill pen to * sign each legislative bill which meets with bis approval These quills are used only once and are then eageny sought for by relic huntenr in Boston Professor Henry W. Eliot is Secretary Blaine's great authority upon matters pertaining to seals and the questloa of the fisheries. fie is quite a young looking man, though he is forty-five years of age, and his slight figure, luxuriant mustache and brown hair causes many to think he is not abova thirty years old. General Rkina Barrios, new President of Guatemala, was educated at West Point (N. Y.) Military Academy, and lived for some years in San Francisco. His wile is an American lady, and he is quite in sympathy with American ideals, looking especially to the public school system as Ihe basis of growth for the country. The work of installing the Hebrew Immigrants in the Argentine Republio is being actively carried on. A branch railway haa been constructed to what la known as the Mauricie Colony, where the Hebrews are being established, and 300 families are already comfortably settled and engaged La the cultivation of the soil. ,,Vv - - .... - . . .