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~REOE. TALMAGE. i the brooklyn divine's sun day sermon. i ________ r Subject: "The Greatest Name of AIL" / Tzxt. "77ie noma which is above every name."?Philippians il.t 9. IPauJ is here making; rapturous and enthusiastic description of the name of Christ. There are merely worldly names that sometimes thrill you through and through. Such was the name of Henry Clay to a Kentuck1 -?l * TCNli:?TO Wi.f frw a Virgin anil, iuc uaiuu vi ?? moui ??**v w ? - ? q?. Ian, the name of Daniel Webster to a New England er. By common proverb we have come to believe that "there is nothing in a name:" and o parents sometimes at the baptismal altar gives titles to their children reckless of the fact that that title, that name, will be a lifetime hindrance or a lifetime help. You have no right to give your child a name lacking either in euphony or moral meaning It is a sin to call a child Jehoiakim or Tiglath-pileser?or by anything that is disagreeable. Because you have had an exasperating name yourself is no reason why you should inflict it upon your progeny. And yet bow often it is that we see a name full of jarjjon rattling down from generation to generation simply because a long while ago some one happened to be afflicted with it. Institutions and great enterprises sometimes without sufficient deliberation take , nomenclature. Mighty destinies have been . decided by a name. While we may by a long course of Christian behavior get oyer the misfortune of having been baptized with the name of a despot or a cheat, now much tetter it would have been if we could have all started life without any such incumbrance! When Paul, in my text and in other passages of Scripture, burst forth in aspirations of admiration for the name of Christ, I want to innuire what are the characteristics of that appellation, ''The name which is above every Dame." In the first place, speaking to you in regard to the Dame of Christ. I want to tell ycu it is an easy name. You are sometimes introduced to people with long and unpronounceable names, and you have to listen cautiously to get the names, and you have to hear them pronounced two or three times before you risk trying to utter them, bu; within the firdt two years the little child folds its hands and looks upward and says "Jesus." Can it be tbatin all this church this more* fng there are representatives of any household where the children are familiar with the names ot the father and mother and brother and sister, yet know nothing about "that I same which is above every name*" Sometimes you forget the name of a quits familiar friend, and you have to think and think be- | fore you get it, but can you imagine any freak of intellect by which you should forget the name of Jesus? That word seems to fit the tongue in every dialect. Down to old age, when the voice is tremulous and uncertain and indistinct, even then this regal word finds potent utterance. When an aged father was dying one of the children came and said, "Father, do you know me?" and in the delirium of the last sickness he said, "No, I aon't know you." Another child came and said, "Father, do you know me?" "No," he said, "I don't know vou." Then the village pastor came in and said, "Dou you know me?" He said, "No; I don't think lever saw you." Then said the minister, "Do you know Jesus?' "Oh, ves!" said the dying man, "I know Jesus; Chief among ten thousand is fie. and the One altogether lovely." Yes, for ail ages and for all languages, and for all conditions is an easy name. Jeeus, I love Thy charming name, 'lie music to my ear; Faiu would I sound it out so loud That heaven and earth might hear. But I remark further in regard to this Dame of Christ, that it is a baauti.ul name. Now you have noticed that you cannot disI associate a name from the caaracter of the person who has it. There are some names, for instance, that are repulsive to my ear. Those names are attractive to your ear. "What is the difference? Why, I happened to know some persons of that name who were cross or sour, or queer oruosympathetic, and the persons you have happened \ to know of that name were kind and genlaL Since, then, we cannot disassociate a name I from the character of the person who has \ the name, that consideration makes the > name of Jtsus unspeakably beautiful. I cannot pronounce the name in your presence, but you think of Bethlehem and ( Oetbsemane and Golgotha, and you see His loving face, and you near His tender voice, Iand you feel His gentle touch. As soon as 1 pronounce His name in your presence you thinu of Him who banqueted with heavenly hierarchy yet came down aud breakfasted - - - "-> t-J-t. L 1 OH IUB USU vvuitu tun luugu uinu uiuisu uu> of Genesaret;you think of Him who, though the clouds are the dust of Bis feet; walked footsore on the road to Emmaus. I cannot speak His name in your hearing this moring, but you think right away of the shining one who restored the centurion's daughter, and who helped the blind man to sunlight, and who made the cripple's crutch useless, and who looked down into the laughing eyes of the babe UDtil it struggled to go to Him; then, flinging His arms around it, ' and impressing a kiss upon its beautiful brow, said: ''Of such is the kingdom of heaven." Oh, beautiful name, the name of Jesus, which stands for love, for patience, for self sacrifice, for magnanimity, for everything that is good and glorious and tender and sympathetic and .land! it is aromatic with I all odors. It ii accordant with all harmonies. Sometimes when I look at that name of Jesus Christ it seems as if the letters were made of tears, and then they seem to \>e gleaming crowns. Sometimes that name seems to be twisted out of the straw on which He lay, and then it seems to be built \ out ot tbe tnrones on wmcn nu peopie are ( to reign. Sometimes I sound that word I Jesus, and I hear in it the sob of Gethsemane \ and the groan of Calvary, and then I speak \ His name and it is all a ripple with gladness , \ and a ring with bosanna. Glorious name] \ Take all the glories of bookbindery and \ put them around the page on which that \name is printed. On Christmas morning yreatheiton tbe walL Let it drip from harp's string and let it thunder out in organ's diapason. Son ad it often, sound it well, until every star shall seem to shine it, and every flower shall seem to breathe it, and mountain and sea, and day and night, and earth and heaven acclaim in full chant, "Blessed be His glorious name forever." "The name which is above every name." Have you ever heard in a Methodist church, during a time of revival, a score of I souls come to the aitar and cry out for mercy under tbe power of just two lines of glorious old John Wesley? IJesn*, tho name high oyer all. In heaven, or earth, or skjr. To the repenting soul, to the exhausted ipI valid, to the Sunday-school girl, to the snow wbite octogenarian it is beautiful. Tbe aged man comes in from a long walk, and he tremulously opens the door of nis home, and he hangs his hat on the old nail, and he puts his cane in the usual place, and he lies on his couch, and he says to his children and his grandchildren, "My dears, I a ongoing away from you ." Ana tney say, wuuro are you going, grandfather?" "Ota, he says, "I am going to Jesus;" and so the old man faints away into heaven. And the little child comes in from play and she flings herself in your lap, and she says, "Mamma, I'm bo sick, I'm so very sick;" and you put her to bed, and the fever is worse and worse, and 3ome midnight, while you are shaking up the pillow and giving the medicine, she looks up in your face and says, "Mamma, I'm goin? away from J on." You say, "5Vhy, where are you go ig, my darling?' Aud she says, "I am going to Jesus." And the red chees that you take to be the mark of the fever turns out to be enlv the carnation bloom of heaven. Oh, was it not' beautitul when a little en lid beard that her playmate was dying, and she went to the bouse, and she clambered upon the bed of her dying playmate. "Where are you going to?" and the dying k girl said, "I'm going to Jesus." Then said the little girl that was well as she bent over to give the parting kiss to her dying 'playmate, "WeTJ,then,if you are going to Jesus, give my love to Him." It is a beautiful same, whether on the lips of childhood or on the lips of the old man .When my father was dying the village minister said to him. quoting over hi* pillow this passage, "This is a faithful saying and worthy of all act ceptation?that Christ Jesus cams into the world to save sinners,"and there he stopped. Then my father finished the quotation by aaying. "of whom I am chief." Bat I remark again, in regard to this same of Christ, that it is a mighty nam*. Rothschild it ft name mighty m-tb* com 2 ': f. * $5 ' : mercial world, Silliman Is a name mighty in the scientific world, Irving is a name mighty in the literary world, Washington is a name mighty in the political world, Wellington is a name mighty in the military world, but where in all the earth is a name so potent to lift and thrill and arouse and rally and bless as the name Jesus? Why, the sound of that odo name uahorsed Saul and threw Newton on his face on ship's deck, and that one name to-day, while I speak, holds a hundred million souls under omnipotent spell. That name in England to,day means more than Victoria. In Germany that name to-day means more than Emperor William. Oh, mighty name! I have seen a man bound hand and foot of the devil and captive of all evil habits, at the sound of that name dash down his A??f #ArAtrai? froa T hftVA 9DtlClilt? BWI uiuvuuua seen a man overcome of misfortune and trial, every kind of trouble bad he; but at the sound of that name the sea dropped, and the clouds parted, and the sunburst of eternal gladness poured upon his souL I have seen a man hardened in infidelity, defiant of God, full of Jeer and scoff, jocase of the judgment day, recti e*3 of eternity, at the sound of that name blanch and cower and groan and kneel and weep and rep9nt and pray and believe and rejoice and triumph. Oh, it is a mighty name. Under its power the last temple of superstition will come down and the last Juggernaut of iniquity will be shattered to pieces. The red horse of carnage, spoken of in apocalyptic vision, and the black horse of death must come back on their haunches, while the white horse of victory goes forth mounted of Him who hath the moon under His feet and the stars of heaven for His tiara. Mighty name! It will make the whole earth tremble, and then it will make all the nations sing. Mighty name! Other dominions seem to be giving way; France had to give up some of her favorite provinces; Spain has lost a great deal of her power; many of the thrones of the world are being lowered, many of the scepters of the world are being shortened, but every tract distributer, every Bible printer, every Christian institution esta bushel spreads abroa l the mighty name of Christ. It has already been heard under the Chinese wall, I and in the Siberian snow castle, and in the I Brazilian grove and in the eastern pagoaa. That name will swallow up all other names. I That crown will yet cover up all other crowns. That empire will yet compass all I dominations. All crimes shall cease and ancient frauds shall fall, Returning justice lift aloft her scale; | Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend. And white-robed Innocence from heaven descend. But I remark again, taking a step forward in this subject, that the name of Christ ia an enduring name. You get over the fence of the graveyard and you pull the weeds back from the name that ha* nearly faded from the tombstone, 'and you wish that Walter Scott's "Old Mortality" would come along and rechisel it so that you might really! find out what the name is. Why, that was the name of the greatest man in all the town, in all the country, in all the State, now almost faded from the tombstone. And so the greatest names of this world either have perished or are perishing^ Gregory VI., Sancho of Spain, Conrad I. of Germany, Ricoard I. of England. Catherine of Russia. Those names were onc9 mighty, and they made the earth tremble. Who cares for them now? None so poor as to do them reverence. But the name of Christ is enduring forever. It will be preserved io the world's fine art. There will be other BelUnis to aketch the Madonna, and other Ghirlandaajos to present the baptism of Christ, and other Bronzinos to show Christ visiting the spirits in prison, and other Giottos to appal the vision with the Crucifixion. It will be preserved in the world's literature. There will be other Alexander Popes to write the "Messiah," and other Dr. Youngs to celebrate His triumph, and other Cowpers to sing His love. It will be preserved in the world's grand and elaborate architecture, and Protestanism shall yet have it3 St . Mark's and its St. Peter's. It shall be preserved in the world's literature, for there will be other Paleys to write the "Evidences of Christianity.'' More than all, it will be embalmed in the hearts of all the good of earth and all the great ones of heaven. Shall the emancipated bondsman ever forget who set him free? Shall the blind man ever forget the Divine Physician who gave him sight? Shall the lost and wandering ever forget who brought them home* Why, to make the world forget that name would be to burn up all the Bible3 and burn down all the churches, and then in the spirit of universal arson go through the gate of heaven and put the torch to all the temples and mansions and palaces until in the awful conflagration all heaven went down and the people come out to look upon the charred ruins; but even then they would hear the name of Christ in the thunder of falling towers and in the crash of temple walls, and see it interwoven into the flying banners of flame, and the redeemed of heaven would say, "Let the temples an i the palaces burn; let them burn; we have Jesus left." Blessed be His glorious name forever. "The name which is above every name." fTMonrio h?v? vnu mads uo Your mind by what name you will accost Christ when you seo Him in heaven? Now that is a practical question. For you will see Him, child of God, just as certainly as you sit there and I stand here. By what name have you made up your mind to call Christ when you first meet Him in heaven? Will you call Him " Anointed One," or "Messiah?" or will you take some one of the symbolic terms which you read in your Bible on earth?terms by which Christ was designated? Some day perhaps you will be wandering among the gardens of God on higb, the place abloom with eternal springtime, infinite lux* ury of lily an'l rose ana amarath, and perhaps you will look up into the face of Christ ' and say, "My Lord, Thou art the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley." Some time there will be a new soul come into heaven to take its place in the firmament and shine as the stars forever and ever, and the luster of a useful life will shine lorth tremulous and beautiful, anl you will look up into the face of Christ and sav, "My Lord, Thou art a brighter star, the Morning Star, the Star of Jacob, the Star of the Redeemer." Wrt.no von will bfl walkine anion? the fountains that toss in the sunlight, falling in crash of pearl and amethjst' into golden and crystalline urn, and wandering up the round banked river to the place where the water first tinkles in silver on the rock, and from chalices of love you will be drinking to honor and everlasting joy. and you will look up into the face of Christ and say, "My Lord. myLord, Thou art the Fountain of Living Water." Some day you will be wandering among tbe lambs and sheep of heaven feeding by the rock, rejoicing in the care of Him who brought you out of the I wilderness world into the sheepfold, and you will look up lhto His face and say, "My Lorn, my Lord, Thou art the Shepherd of I the Evsnasting Hills." But there is another name by which yon can call Him. Perhaps that will be the name 1 have not mentioned yet. I imagine that heaven is all full. Every throne has its king. Every harp has its harper. All the wealth of the universe has come into heaven. There is nothing to be added* The s-owr r'ilL The rants full. Tha mw* sions all full Heaven full. The sun will set afire with its splepdor the domes of the temple, and burnisn the golden streets into a blaze, and be reflected back from the solid pearl of the twelve gates, and it will be noon in heaven. Noon on the river. Noon on the hills. Noon in the valleys. High noon. And then you will look up, gradually accustoming your vision to tbe sight, shading your eyes at the first leet they be extinguished with the insufferable splendor, until after awhile you can look upon the full irradiation, and you will cry out, "My Lord, my Lord, Thou art the Sua that Never Sets." But at this point I am staggered with the thought that there may be persons in this house for whom this name has no charm, though it is so easy, though it is so beautiful, though it is so potent, though it is so enduring. Oh, come to-day and see whether there is anything in Christ 1 I challenge you to test with me this morning whether Goi is good, and whether Christ is precious, and whether the Boly Ghost is omnipotent. Come, my brother, I challenge you. Come, an 1 we will "kneel at the altar of mercv. You kneel on the one side of the altar and I will kneel on the other side of the altar of mercy, and we will not get up from our knees until our sins are pardoned and wa are able to ascribe all honor to the name? you pronouncing it and I pronouncing it? "the name which is above every nams." His worth If all the nations knew. Sure the whoie earth would lovo him too. I pray God that He may move upon this assemblage now, that we may see Him walking through all these aisles, that the Holy Spirit may spread His wings over this auditory. Now is your time for heavan.,, Qbr my friends 1 meeting once, perhaps never Tv-'^'V'' /.. .';*'' * I-'?;' . '.".5' !" ' again until the books are opened, what shall we say of this morning's service? Have I told you the whole truth! Have you listened to the whole truth? Now i* your time for heaven. Come into the king lom. If you never had an invitation before, I give it to you now. I do not ask what your sin has been or what your wandering. That is not pertinent to the question. The only thing is ' ?u?r.?t Phrlafc Oom? in. the wuobucl jwu nauif ??. farthest off. Come, the nearest by. "Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound." Is there in all this augu9t assemblage a man who feels he is too wicked to come? You are mistaken. Come now. "Now Is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation." O ye who are young, come now I It Is no gloomy religion that I preach. It will take no lustre from your eye. It will)take no color from your cheek. It will take no spring from your step. I know what I am talking about. I have felt the consolation of this grace in my own heart. It is not a theory with me. I know in whom I believe, and He has been so good a friend to me, I have a right this morning to oommend His friendship to all the people. Oh, come into the Kingdom! Do not say you are too bad. "Let the wicked forsake nia way and the unrighteous man his thoughts." "Look unto Me, all ye ends of the earth." How is He going to do?drive you into the kingdom? fie will not do It. If you get in at all it will be because yon are drawn in by His love. What does He say? "Look unto Me, all ye ends of the earth." He was lifted up. What for? To drive? No I lifted up to draw. Oh, come now, come now into the kingdom of our Lord Jeeus!. *ou uave heard of that warrior ot ancient times who went into battle against Christ. He hated Christ and he went into battle knf in fha knft: 1a hft ffOt U?UlLU? WUiUi^ vuv au mw 0 wounded, be was struck by tbe arrow and fell, and as be lay with his face up to the sun and tbe life blood was oozing away, he put his band to his heart and toolc a handful of blood from the wound and held it up to the sun and cried out, "Ob, Jesus! Thou hast conquered." And if to-day, my hearer, struck through by the arrow of God's gracious Spirit, you realize the truth of what I hare been saying, you would surrender yourself to the Lord who bought you, you would say: "I will no longer battle against Christ's mercy. Lord Jesus, Thou hast conquered." Glorious name. I know not what you will do with it; but I will tell you one thing before I stop?I must tell it. I will tell you one thing here and now, that I take Him to be my juora, my vruu, my im uuu, mj ?j cOmfort, my salvation, my heaven. Blessed be His glorious name forever. "Ihe name which is above every name." Cta Plants See? The candid observer cannot help admitting, if he wishes to be fair in the base degree,that a greao many plants and creeping vines act as though they had the faculty of sight. This may sound queer to botanists and scientists who have made the study of plant structure a specialty, but to "Ye Notes for the Curious Man," whose time and taste limit his studies to odd, peculiar things only, there is nothing incongruous in the question used as a headline to this "note." Even the botanist, as well as the other "scientific feller," must acknowledge that they manage to find food and support (this latter remark refers to vines only) by aid of some special sense, which to the unscientific mind is sight and nothing less. I find support of this somewhat novel theory in several works at hand, most notably in the writings of Mrs. L. T. King, who has resided several years in India, "the land of plants and serpents." In describing a very curious instance of a vine looking out for support, she says: "My husband has broached a remarkable theory, one I cannot remember having met with before, namely That Creeping plants can see! He may not have described their curious faculty as real sight; at any rate, he says that they have a sense that no other term but a umII fit-. ftriM mnrnincr (oguoo v/i otj^uv n ?? v >? ? 9 he was sitting in the veranda with one foot against a large pillar, near to which grows a species of creeping vine, a convolvus. Its tendrils were leaning^ over into the veranda, and to Robert's surprise he presently noticed that they were visibly turning toward his leg, and in A very short time they had actually entwined it. At breakfast he told rae of his interesting discovery, and we determined to make further experiment;. When we went out to the veranda the tendrils had turned back to the railing in disgust. Then we commenced our experiments. First, we got a pole and fKfl rvillflr a fllll icauou lb up Q^aiuob ? *??? twelve inches from the nearest spray of the viae. la a few moments they had began to curve towards the pole, acting exactly as you might fancy a very slow snake would do. Soon the upper tendrils had beut down and the side ones had curved themselves until they had touched the pole, and within a few hours they had entirely entwined it. The support we had put up was on the side away from the light, and, excepting the faculty of sight, we can think of no other i means by which the tendrils could be aware that the polo had been placed there. Thev had to turn away from the light to reach it, and they set themselves in motion visibly within a few seconds after the object was put 'in sight.' "? St. Louis Republic. The Beal Importer of Sparrows. A number of old-time residents of Germantown deny that the sparrows were brought into this country from England by ex-City Treasurer John Bardsley. It was a John Bardsley,however, that introduced these pests into this country, through the instrumentality of William F. Smith, at that time a Councilman from Germantown, to destroy the multitudes of measuring worms that covered the trees in Philadelphia ana suburbs. The original John Bardsley was a well-known resident of Germantown, living at Upsal and Main streets, and was familiarly known as ''Sparrow {Jack." He was a native of England and was selected by Councils to secure these birds. He was a great spiritualist, and, in fact, wa3 a leader nmong that sect, and had a summer d(veiling at Parkland, where spiritualistic meeting were held. There are families in Germantown that have sparrow potpie frequently. They don't shoot the birds aad till them with shot, but trap them instead.?PhiUdelDhia Record. One of the questions which are agitating Paris at present is whether a druggist is justified in declining to fill the prescription of a physician which he believes to have been made tn ignorance of the dangerous char cter of the drug prescribed, or in which a mistake has been made as to i the proper dose. The doctors hold that it is the druggist's duty to All the prescription and permit the patient to be killed, secundum artem, j leaving the responsibility with the prescribing physician. The druggists are in doubt. According to a recent estimate there are uodej ditch in the West 18,533,107 i tcxeir Of this Colorado has 3,009,050. i,* RELIGIOUS READING. THY WILL BE DONE. Not in dumb resignation We lift our hand9 on high; Nor like the nerveless fatalist. Content to trust and die. Our faith spriugs like the eagle Who soars to meet the sun, And cries exulting unto Thee, O Lord, Thy will be done! When tyrant feet are trampling Upon the common weal, Thou dost not bid us bend and writhe Beneath the iron heel. In Thy name we assert our right, By sword or tongue or pen, And even the headsman's axe may flasl Thy message unto men. Thy will! It bids the weak be strong; It bids the strong be just; No lip to fawu, no hand to beg. No brow to seek the dust. \y ntrevtr uiau upyresnco mm Beneath Thy liberal sun, 0 Lord, be there thine arm made bare, Thy righteous will be done! ?[John Hay, in Harper's \fagazina " HABIT IN RELIGION. 1 remember visiting the Grotto del Cane near Naples, a natuial cavern, which is partly charged with a highly poisonous atmosphere. The carbonic acia gas, however, being heavier than common air, rests upon the ground, reaching only to a height of about three or four feet; the consequence being, that whilst a man may walk upright through the cave uninjured, yet if he stoops or lies down in it, a few seconds will prove fatal. So, if you keep your head up toward heaven, and above the poisonous miasma that surrounds you, vou may walk uninjured through the world; but if you rest in it, and breathe in it, your very life is in peril. I do not say that tbere is no nope for your aoul, unless you read a chapter, and kneei down to prayer every morning at six or seven, and every eveuirig about ten?no; but I do say that it is most im * * ?Uaii1/1 V? nwo i f if r ? nf punum iUBi yun ruuuiu daily devotion, and not allow anything to interfere with the due culture of your spiritual life. Come, now, he honest; are not some of you prepared to confess that, from the date of your giving up regular seasons of private devotion, you have gone back spiritually, and have lo9t the inward joy and glowing hope you once possessed? I am not surprised you "do not come to communion. Young man! to-night, it may be, at your bedroom door, on the third floor, you will think you hear a gentle knock. "Come in!" Ah ! there is no one there but He who knocked at Samuel's door, and would not let him sleep; it Is Jesus, the young man's friend, saying, "Wilt though forget me? Wilt thou cast off thy Saviour?' Else, brother, and take your Bible out of the trunk, if it is still stowed away. Down upon your knees and say, 'Mv father's God, my mother's God, thou | shalt be my God, too"; henceforth I will live for thee, and openly confess tbee. What dotb hinder me to join myself unto thy people?"?[J. Thain Davidson, D. D., in "Sure to Succeed." "AMONG WHOM YE SHI5E AS LIGHTS." Holiness is self-demonstrative. He whose heart is pure surrounds himself with a spiritual atmosphere, and adorns his life with a constant succession of godly and benevolent actions. As a man travelling to a distant country thinks, reads and talks of the land he longs to see, so the holy man thinks, reads and speaks of the city of God whither be is journeying, hoping to receive an inheritance in that dwelling-place of sinless souls, "he purifieth himself as be is pure." The strongest desire of his soul is expressed in these lines of St. Ambrose: "Meet for thy realm in heaven, Make me, 0 holy King! That through the ages be it given To me thy praise to sing." When visitine a gentleman in England, I observed a fine canary. Admiring bis beauty, the gentleman replied: "Yes. he is beautiful, but he bas lost nis voice. He used to be a fine siDger; but I was in the liablt of hanging bis cage oat of the window; the spnrro <V8 came around with their incessant chirping; gradually he ceased to sing and learned their twitter, and now all he can do is to twitter, twitter." Oh, how truly does this represent the case of many Christians! Tbev used to delight in the songs of Zion, but tbry come iuto close association with those whose notes never rise so high, until, at la?t, like the canary, they do nothing but twitter, twitter.[?D. L. Moody. OCR ECHO. Yon remember the story of the toy who went out into the woods ana cnea oui "Hello!" and echo said "Hello!" The boy got mad, thought he was being made fun or. andbesnid, "I hate you!" Echo said, "I hate you!" His anger increased, and he cried "out, "I'll bit you!" Again Echo says, "I'll hit you!" The little fellow, indignant, went into the house and told his mother that a boy out in the woods was going to hit bim, and that he hated him, and so on. The motoersaw the secret and said to him, "Now, my son, if you will go out into the woods and cry out, 'I love you,' you will find that the boy will say he loves you." So out he went and said. "I love you!" and Echo immediately replied, 'Ilove you!" When we go out into tbe church, into tbe world,* with this life of love in us producing harmony of all our faculties, we can project into our environments or circumstances this life of love, and by it make men love us. and beget in the lives of men this life of love. EXPECTATION. The less we expect from this world, the better for us. The less we expect from our fellow-men, whether of Mpiritual belp or of inspiring example, the smaller will be our disappointment. He that leans on his own strength leans on a broken reed. We are always going to be something stronger, purer and holier. Somewhere in the future thero alwars bangs in the air a golden ideal of a higher life that we are going to reach; but aa we move on the dream of better things moves on before us also. It is like the child's running over behind the hill to catch the rainbow. When be gets on the hilltop the rainbow is as far off as ever. Thus does our day-dream of a higher Christian life keep floating away from usand we are left to realize what" frail, unreliable creatures we are, when we rest our expectations of growth and victory over evil in ourselves. "My soul, wait thou only upon God! Mv expectation is only from Him."?[Dr. T. L. Cuyler. Tinskin savs of Darwinism: "We may sufficiently represent the general manner of conclusion in the Darwinian system by the statement, that if you fasten a hair brush to a mill-wheel, with the handle of the brush forward, so as to develop itself into a neck by moving always in the same direction, and within continual hearing of a steam whistle, after a certain number of revolutions the hair brush will fall in love with the whistle and they will marry and lay an egg, which will hatch out into a nightingale!" Rev. Dr. A. had preached in the college chapel one'Sunday morning, and though his discourse was good it had little or no connection with the text with which he introduced it. When Professor B. was asked his opinion of the sermon, the answer was, "It wastruJy Apostolic, for he took a text aud then went everywhere spreading the gospel." On a similar occasion, when Dr. Azel Backus was asked what he thought of ju*t such a discourse, his reply was : ''Well, I thought if the text bad the small pox the sermou would never catch it!" now to see Cutler Trator. A lens for seeing under water is described as produciug an effect which is both astonishing and delightful. It gives distinct vision to objects from twenty to thirty feet below the surface, and which arc usuany uut ui uiuiumjr c^o-taugv. The eye's loss of extended vision when under water is owing to the fact that an entirely different focus i* required. The spectacles which can adjust this focus are made by putting two watoh crystals back to back or with the concavities outward. Try it and be surprised.?8t. Louis Republic. 1 V * A-.v : . ' L. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR MAY 22. Lesson Text: "Daniel and His Companions," Daniel t., 8-21?Golden Text: Daniel 8? Commentary. 8. "Bat Daniel purposed in bis heart that he would not deflfe himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank." This portion of the first Terse of nnr lA&onn ic f.ha flnlHon #ai? we therefore give a little extra space to it. We see Daniel, one of a company of young Jews, carried .captive in the third year ot Jehoiakim,in the palace of the kin? of Babylon, in training to stand in due time before the king as one of his wise men. While being taught the wisdom of the Chaldeans they are to be nourished with food and wine from the king's table. Daniel determines that he and his companions will not detile themselves with food which has been offered to idols, for they are true worshipers of the only living and true God, and understand that whatever is not offered to Him is offered to devils (Lev. xvii., 7; Deut xxxii., 17; I Cor. x., 20). All true believers are commanded to do all things, even their eating and drinking, to the glory of God (I Cor. x., 31), and this one command covers the whole temperance question for the Chri?tian. 9. "Now God had brought Daniel into favor and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs." When any one determines to glorify God and serve Him only, the way will be prepared. When a man's ways please the Lord He maketh even bis enemies to be at peace with him (Prov. xvi, 7). See the story of Joseph, Gen. xxxix.. 21; Acts vii.. 9, 10. and remember that the eyes of the Lord ran to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of all who trost in Him (II Chron. xvi., 9). 10. "And the prince of the eunuchs Mid unto Daniel, I fear my lord, the king." Daniel feared no man, neither did he fear death, but he did fear to offend his God. The fear of man bringeth a snare, but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe (Prov. xrix., 25). How often the fear of man or the disire to please man leads people into sin; the only remedy is to know the living God and live only to please Him. 11,12. "Prove Thy servants, I beseech Thee, ten days, and let them sire us pulse to eat and water to drink." A.simple vegetable fare which they could be sure had not come-from the king's table, nor been dedicated to devils. On such food Daniel felt he could ask the blessing of his God and expect it. Let Christians test all tbeir eating and drinking, all their home entertainments and church entertainments, by t he honest question from the heart, Can I conscientiously ask the blessing of God upon this* Ana it will tend to make oil these more simple and for the glory of God. Daniel's conduct made him seem very peculiar in the eyes of some others, but he remembered that Israel was to be a peculiar treasure unto God above all people (Ex. xix., 5). And he sought above all things to piease God 13. "Then let our countenances be looked upon before Thee, and as Thou seest, deal with Thy servant." The child of God may be sure that the blessing of God shall be made manifest, so that others shall be compelled to behold it. As surelr as the work of the devil is manifest in those who are given to strong drink, so surely shall the work of God be manifest in those who honor Him even in their eating and drinking. The testimony of Jeeus is, ''If any man serve Me, him will My Father honor" (John xii., 26). 14. "So he consented to them in this matter and proved, them ten days." The church at Smyrna was to be tried ten days (Rev. JL, 10), signifying a perfect trial. The ten plagues upon Egypt, the parables of the ten pounds and the tea virgins seem to indicate responsibilty, and judgment in proportion to responsibility. As the nuqsber seven indicates perfection iq reference to God, it may be that the numbers fonr, ten, twelve refer to perfect dealing with man in various ways. ? 15. 16. "And at the end of tan days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children." The blessing of God will be manifest even in our bodies. It is marvelously manifest in the appearance of those whose bodies were onoe given to strong drink and sin in the service of the devil, but who have been rescued by the grace of God and made servants of Christ. Being made free from sin and become servants to God, they now bear rrnit unto holiness and are ashamed of the former things, the end of which was death (Rom. vi.,21, '22). Aa to tha manifestation of Christ in such as are possessed by Him, see bow they glorified God in Paul iGal. J., 16, 24) and how they took knowledge of the apostles that they had been with Jesus ( Acta iv., 13). 17. "As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams." No doubt they studied, but He that is perfect in kno wledge was with them (Job zxzvi,, 4) and helped them and taught them many things not to be found in any Books of the Chaldeans. Gcd is no, respecter of persons. He still giveth wisdom to all who sincerely ask Him (Jas. i, 5;. There is no capital that can compare with a heart and head right with God, a pure heart and a clear head sanctified and enlightened by the Holy Spirit through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ is the greatest of blessings. But this no one can have who is given to much win? (Eph. v., IS; I Cor. vi., 19). 18, 19. "Now at the end of the days, the {irince of the eunuchs brought them in beore Nebuchadnezzar, and among them all was found none like Daniel. Hananiah, Michael and Azoriah; therefore stood they before the king." The food and wine from "> WnnJo f-ahln and all the wisdom of Babv Ion, could not do for the others vrhat the God of Daniel could and did do for those who relied upon Him and yielded their bodies to Him. Happy are those who can truly say, "My soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from Him (Ps. lxii., 5). Then as to standing before the king of Babylon, they were conscious thit they, stood also before the Kino: of Kinjre, and. could say. with Elijah, "The Lord God of Israel iiveth before whom I stand" (1 Kings xvii., 1. See also Lute L, 19). 20. "And in all matters of wisdom he ' found them ten times better than all the ma- j gicians and astrologers that were in all bis realm." In reference to the dreams on the! wall of chapters ii.. iv.,v., there was no comparison, for all the magicians failed, and, 1? Al? UfViA irtfarnrotq oaiy IQO WlUUt uca>cu uuu tian through His servant Daniel. There are those who think that a little stimulant in j the form of strong drink does help a man's i mind and brain; but the only stimulant that; Daniel knew or used was "The power ofi God and tbe wisdom of God" (I Cor. i., 24). | All who seek Him shall excel now as then.?1 Lesson Helper. i Almost everybody eats too much ond is the better for a little absti- I nence. Men have lived healthy lives on one-half what our idlers consume. | Soldiers have made long marches and fought desperate battles on a regimen which a dry goods clerk would con- ' sider inadequate. The stomach can handle so much nitrogenous matter, 10 much fat and so much of one of the various carbohydrates. More is m?.ninanTn r?lA<ra t.h? machine anrl OUl^lUOU^Vf vtvgv/ V? ? ? I embarrasses the excretory organs. The electric-light trust, that demanded $33.50 per arc lamp for illuminating the World's Fair grounds, admits that it made a mistake. What It meant to demand was $20. There Is a general suspicion that all It could get was about the size of the figure that the trust was after. The idea of Yale authorities In admitting women to postgraduate courses only is probably founded upo rloairo t.n lf?t. t.hf? vniincr cpnMfi UU at UV/OH \y wv v.-w ^ ? ?'"O O tnen who knocked down an actress with a hard snowball finish their course before ladies are invited to enter. I r i ... > . ...i; v , TEMPERANCE. TO THX B1 SCOTS. Dark is the sky of midnight, Calmly night's hours have sped; But, lo! mad shouts are ringing, And flames burst forth o'er head; There's a tramp of gathering thousands, And hot ana stifling air, And ghastly are the faces That gleam amid the glare. 0 grief to see the spoilage The Fire Fiend strives to take, But deeper now the wailing. For human life's at stake; Yet still the sturdy fireman Seeks peril not to shun, Again he's sought the conflict And fought with death, and won Reformers to the Rescue! Ob, hear that cry so dire, "IntemDerance is rarinc A wild consuming fire." Oh, bear tbe shrieks of victims; Haste at that anguish cry; For wrecks of love and virtue, In ashes soon may lie. Reformers to the Rescue. And shall the rallying cry Ring vainly through oar army, Nor temperance men reply? O hand, ye are not weary? Nor plighted lips grow dumb; For a thousand lives re-echo, "In God's great name we come." Then on, ye rescuing army, True blows each sword must smite: Till earth one field of triumph) No foe is left to fight; Then, when o'er each endeavor Success complete we see. Blessed in the land forever, Our righteous cause shall be. ?Harriet Glazebrook, in Advocate. GOOD EXAMPLE. We are all liable to mingle with those who have inherited or have acquired a diseased appetite lor alcohol, though we may not know it. The influence of our example may strengthen or may destroy them. Sometime ago a company of travelers were journeying in a Pullman car over the mountains to San Francisco. The heat and the dust of the alkali plains almost overcome them. At last, as the train stopped at a station, several bottles of chamoagn* were brought in which the thirsty excursionists felt unable to decline, in the car were a stranger and his wife, and not long after the latter was observed trying in vain to restrain her tears. On being asked the cause, she said that her husband had fallen into intemperance but after terrible experiences had recovered. He might have overcome the special temptation, she thought, but seeing men of Chris tian character take the wine, he had said: "If they do it, I will," and she had been unable to prevent him. She expected that he would fall again into his former habit. One of the party who heard it, who was not accustomed to drink; said if he bad known the stranger's condition he would rather have paid the entire expenses of the journey for the party than to have touched the wins. Yet we are liable to be often in the company of those who may be upheld or cast down by our example. DRINK A!?D HTRXDITT. From a recent address of 0. C. Smith, A. M., M. D., President of the Indiana State Medical Society, we ciip the following quotations "That the abuse of alcohol has grown to be one of the most gigantic evils of the age no longer can be denied. The damaging influence on tutu re generations is more farreaching and deleterious than we have heretofore been willing to concede To arrest tbis evil, or to reduce it to a minimum, even, will require a most heroic effort?the combined labor, in fact? of ail good people. "We cannot escape individual responsibility when the public health, the general welfare, and the future happiness of our race are at stake. We cannot fold our own clean hands about us and say that as for me and mine we have no responsibility. The individual who can do this and shirk the responsibilities of life, who is not willing to lend a heiping hand to sinking humanity, and labor for it so that the world may be better for his havine lived in it is a misan thrope and bad bettir naver have been born. But there is probably no man so far debased that he does not love his own flesh and blood, if he hare no interest in humanity in general, his single aim in life being to pro* vide for his own descendants and make tnem happy. Bat he cannot accomplish this with certainty, for his neighbor may be an inebriate whose descendants may marry his children and his grandchildren may be epileptic or insane, his great-grandchildren criminals or paupers and die upon the scaffold, be inmates of the penitentiary or almshouse, and Anally be buried in the potter's field. Truly, he that does not provide for his own household Is worse than an infidel. "The time has come when this question muse meet its solution. With the knowledge which the medical profession possesses upon me 3uujocu uiiuw uuuukuuu, no v?unot occupy a neutral poeition. We cannot do so ana discharge our duty to ourselves our immediate descendants or humanity in general. Our voices must be heard in the land, giving forth no uncertain sound. W< know that the improper use or abuse of alcohol is a frequent and fruitful source of insanity. We know that inebriety, epilepsy, crime and pauperism, and a host of other diseases too numerous to mention individually, can be traced directly or Indirectly to its door. We know that all these conditions when once acquired are transmitted by heredity to future generations. We know that when a man is simply drunk he is temporarily insane, and that it may be dangerous to the community for him to be at large. We know that when the State furnishes tnr means which makes this individual crazy; or, what is practically the same thing, makes it legally practicable for him to obtain it, she makes herself particeps criminis, and is an accessory before the fact ia any crime which may be committed, aijd when she punishes the criminal, she is p4ftishing a part of herself for her own crimfe and is occupying a position so absurd that 10 cannot be explained by any process of logic lrnnnrr> f/v fKtt ?M>AOAnf (TAriKTViHnn ^ TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. There are 32.000 families homeless in London through intemperauca. Forty-one out of the seventy-four counties in the State of Mississippi are under prohibition. Five hundred children under ten years of age were arrested in London last year for drunkenness The saloon-keepers of St. Josaph, Mo., have formed an organization for the promotion of temperance. The juvenile branches of the Church of England Temperance Society number 3469, with 416,280 members. It is computed that no less a sum than ?15,000,000 is annually spant on Sunday drinking alone in the United Kingdom. Twenty-eight of the large breweries of Chicago, representing a capital or fsu.uuu,000, have combined against the English breweries' syndicate. One of the most active and best-informed Glasgow ministers has given it as his solid conviction that some thirty thousand men and women go to bed drunk in Glasgow every Saturday night. The quiet little town of Hennepin, HI., ha? had an awakening in the temperance cause. James M. Dunn,of! Milwaukee, has been holding meetings crowded to overflowing. More than three hundred men and women signed the pledge. The Central Woman's Christian Temperance Union of MinneiDolis has just opened a lunch room in the midst of a nest o? saloons. It keeps open from 1'3 to 12 o'clock, and its coffee cart furnishes coffee free. So the liquor traffic has its own weapons turned against it. The two causes which are credited with awakening the G-ermau people to the necessity of the temperance reform are, first, the conviction that beer drinking is weakening the moral and obysicial qualities of the Nation, and, second, the necessity of turning the beer material into bread. Statistics show that Germany devotes about a quarter of her productive energy to the liquof traffic and that tbe "demand tor bread can only be met by the denial of beer." n i_ u,ii??nn. I OlLKJNUJi. ia uuii aivtaya luuikdui'i of wisdom. Many a maD keeps hii mouth closed for fear his breath wiU give him away. ' WOBLD'8 FAIB NOTES. The woolen manufacturer* hare revived ' MM to make a- united exhibit at the Fair. Chauicciy m. Dzpkw has bees elected V'v$ President ol New York7* vVorid'l Fair Board. _ A Racixx (Wis.) firm is planning to haro B WU^WW MUUIOIJ |/UMIV "4 uywawwu WV VI" It is reported that one hundrad tons of exhibits for the Exposition hare already been collected and are awaiting shipment a* , . .3 Lima and Callaa A company from the National Military Institute of Columbia, South America,wants to attend the Exposition and camp on the World's Fair grounds. A monster panorama, 445 feet Ions and 51 :!??? feet high, representing the JBaroeM Alps, with ,;-$Sj the Jungfrau in the background, has beat painted for exhibition at the Fair. Bavaria, will send to the World's Fair two profeaeors from its institute of tech- - ^ nology to report on the progress of the --a? United States in technical matters. Owing to the recent increase of Great Britain's World's Fair appropriation to 9300,000, British exhibitors will not ba ' -?3 charged for space, as at first determined. Leioh S. Lynch, World's Fair Commis- 1' ;.v% sionar to the South Sea Islands, has cabled that he has completed arrangements for an exhibit from the Phillipine Islands, and is . .-.v ?J now devoting his attantion to Java. The lofty stone monolith, which Wisconsin will exhibit at the Fair, will remain at '** Jackson Park permanently, the park oomr 1 -l>ia missioners having given their consent. The r monolith is 107 feet high and cut from* solid block of stone. Baron dx jrcni's valuable collection of *. prehistoric relics, it is believed, will be se- : ; cured for exhibition at the Fa'r. It comprises many rare specimens from caves in France. DeMaret, who made the collection, f.i?? spent twenty-five years in the work. - " Mr. Rorert S. McCormick, Resident 4* Commissioner for the World's Fair. at Lou- . don, has received word that an influential committee in Geneva is actively promoting the formation of a creditable timaa section at the Fair, and is meeting with gratifying --JgjM success. ? mhc< tiawa Kami !*f frt* +1?4? AMI. _ J ^ Uiy 1 tiALAD UU V U uttu 1UU ii*?IIUU IWU1 " struction of tbe Casino, Music Hall tod v raffia connecting peristyle, which together will be a conspicuous feature in the foreground of : tbe Administration building and near the shore end of the lake pier. The contract* , , aggregate $279,73^. Costa Rica has one of the largest and :-r^ finest archaeological collections in tbe world. >/WaaS showing many Columbian relics and hie- " toric data relating to the difcorery of Amer- , lea. This collection goes to Madrid this year Tfv?| for tbe Spanish Exposition, and will- after*. wards go to Chicago. Ah effort is being made to ooQect 828,000 ' with which to build at the Exposition a headquarters for tbe Sunday-schools of the ? United States. The scheme contemplate? asking each school to contribute an amount equal to ten cents for each officer and teach* ; ec, and one cent for each pupil. Karl Haginbick, famous for his ability in taming wild animals, is devoting his time . -ft In Hamburg to a group of lions, tigara, jaguars and hyenas that he expects to bring - ,'V to the Fair. This group consists of fifty 4^9 animals, all to be kept in one big cage. 'raa Hagenbeck has already spent a fortune oo Thx scene which the Exposition grounds . ''jgaB' now afford, with most of the buildings near-".: V. ing completion and the construction bet^g pushed forward by more than 6000 workmen. is accounted so interesting and wonderful 'I'M that from 1000 to 5000 visitors a day' will- ' .'.'y/jB lnglypay the admission fee of twenty-fire ^ . 1^ ; - ..- ' iilaBi ueuu> iu nivuwBib, Bishop J. L. Spauldhtg, of Peoria, PreaIdent of the Catholic educational axhibit,announcas that Cardinal Gibbons tad the arch- : jgSM bishops of the United State* have requested Brother Maurelian, President of the Chris- ~ * J tian Brothers' College, Memphis, Teon., to x' act as Secretary ana Manager of the Cath- -."'ft olJc educational exhibit. Thz contract for the erection of the Texas : - r4S building has been let to a Waco oontractor tor $100,000. The building will be In Spanish V' yjfflfl renaissance style, will measora eighty-lira ; : V?ff by 250 feet, and have four towers. The ex- terior will be covered with staff and rendered very ornamental. The interior will ?. be handsomely tlmshed with native Texas . A ctBCTTLAB has been inued by the Expo- ':' ^ sition authorities to all the railway passdn- .'/' M ger associations of the TJoited States and individal roads, asking that a materially r?- . gw daced rate be made by the railroads on the occasion of the dedicatory osremonles ;vs? ' October. It is believed that 500,000 visitor* will be in Chicago from different parts of tae country. President Diaz has recommended to the ,\:Jm Mexican Congress that October 12th of this year be made a National holiday in commemoration of the landing of Columbus in the New World. He says in his message that the work of collecting the Mexican ex dibit is progressing rapidly, and that a display of .. & Mexican troops will be made at tha dedica- . , tory exercises. As an illustration of the rapidity with i :.$M which the work of erecting the Exposition buildings is being pushed at Jackaon Park it ,/S| may be stated that on March L, sketches were made for a building to serve a* perma- jga neat accommodations for the Construction Bureau, the Columbian guards, emergency hospital, central fire alarm service, etc. Tha contract was let on April 2. and on April ~ ? SO the building was finished and occupied. The structure measures 200 by 300 feet, is covered and ornamented with ataff, and is k '';3?j substantially put up. Thi women of North Carolina art organ- . 3 Izlng throughout the State for tba purpose \ of raising $10,000 with which to erect that ?/i State's buildlnjj at the Exposition. Tha building will be a reproduction of tha iJE "Tryon Palace," a celebrated structure which was the home of the Governors in colonial days. The women also contemplate , - ."ir? placing in the Women's building a memorial of Virginia Dare, claimed to be the first white female cbua Dora in Amervca, mum nu|iiiar ? ing the fact that the first American woman :,% was born on North Carolina soil. Thx construction of the Exposition build- , ;r^ ings is progressing in the most satisfactory manner, and there is no .reason for doubt that all will be completed in time for dedication. The rough carpentry work is practically llnished on all or the large" structures % except Machinery Hall and the Manufacturers' building, and on these it is in an advanced stage. Six or seven of the buildings hare the interior appearance almost of finished structures, and look like imposing marble palaces. Tbe erection of a number of the Stats buildings is now progressing. Landscape gardening and other worlc of beautifying tbe grounds is being pushed by a large force of men, and sodding, walkmaking and the planting of thousands of trees, 3hrubs, etc., is in progress. *f| WATEB TBANSPOBTATIOH. Statistics Regarding Che Freight Fleet ot tbe United State*. The Census Office issued a bulletin on tfa? water transportation in the United States -? during the census year 1890. This is the first census that has undertaken to gather, compile and furnish full statistics concerning all classes of transportation bj water. Tho ?. transportation fleet numbered 25,540 steamers, sailing vessels and unrigged craft, whose gross tonnage was 7,638,676 tons, the estimated commercial value oeing 1215,069.306. Other figures show that during the preceding year the freight movement by the whole operating American fleet amounted to 172,110,423 ton8 of all commodities. Exclusive of pleasure craft on the Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexico, 1C4.436 persons were employed as complementary crqws, the amount paid out in salaries being 136,667,305. LOCUSTS IN AFEI0A. v*>ivAK An> Veiutimr on thn Pests. V Advices from South Africa show that : locusts are ravaging the country. A swarm of the insects six miles wide recently passed over the country near Graham's Town, Cape Colony. They were flying seaward. The mealie crop in the Orange Free State has been destroyed by the locusts. The natives in a wide section, including a part of the Orange Free State, are feasting - on the locusts, which have destroyed the crops. The locusts are pounded into a sort of meal and cooked. .'*gg >>-. . .. _