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REV. DR. TALMAGE. / [THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. .Subject: "Heaven's Redeemed Multitude. " (i'reaclied in Londoo). Text: "After this I beheld, and lo! a Great multitude which no man could num oer, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne. <mid before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and nalms in their hands. and cried with a loudvoice, saying, Salvation to our Cod rvhich sitteth upon the throne, and *into the Lamb."?Revelation viL, 9, 10 It is impossible to come ia contact with i anything grand or beautiful in art, nature or religion without being profited and elevated. We go into the Hrt gallery and our soul meets the soul of the painter, and we hear the hum of his forests and the clash of hi3 conflicts and see the cloud blossoming of the sky and the loam blossoming of the ocean, and we come out from the gallery better men than when we went in. We go into the concert of music and are lifted into enchantment; for days after our soul seems to rock with a very tumult of joy, as the sea, after a long stress of weather, rolls and rocks and surges a great while before it comes back to its ordinary calm. On the same principle it is profitable to think of heaven, and look off upon that landscape of joy and light which St. John depicts?the rivers of gladness, the trees of life, the thrones of power, the comminglings of everlasting love. I wish this morning that I could bring heaven from the list of intangibles and make it seem to you as it ,,really is?the groat fact in all history, the :j depot of all ages, the parlor of God's unipjvfSChis account in my text gives a picture of *-$mvem as it is on a holiday. Now, if a man ??une to New York for the first time on the ;hat Kossuth arrived from Hungary, and he saw the arches lifted, and the flowers flung in the streets, and he heard th9 sons booming, he would have been very foolish to suppose that that was the ordinary I appearance of the city. While heaven is always grana ana always oeauuim, jl tnicut my text speaks of a gala day in heaven. it is a time of great celebration?perhaps of the birth or the resurrection of Jesus, perhaps of the downfall of some despotism, perhaps because of the rushing in of the millennium. I know not what, but it does seem to me in reading this passage as if it were a holiday in heaven: ''After this I beheld, and lot a great multitude which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands, and cried with a loud voice, saying. Salvation to our Qod which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb." I shall speak to you of the glorified in heaven?their number, their antecedents, their drees, their symbols and their song. But how sball I begin by telling you of the numbers of those in heaven? I have seen a curious estimate by an ingenious man who calculates how long the world was going to last, and how many people there are in each generation, and then sums up the whole matter, and says he thinks there will be twenty-seven trillions of souls in glory. I have no faith in his estimate. I simply take the plain announcement of the text?it is "a great multitude, which no man can number." One of the most impressive things 1 have looked upon is an army. Standing upon a v hillside you see forty thousand or fifty thou[, sand men pass along. You can hardly imagine the impression if you have not actu ally felt it. But you may take all the armies that the earth has ever seen?tha legions of 8ennacherib and Cyrus and Caesar, Xerxes and Alexander and Napoleon, and all or modern forces and put them in [ one great array, and then on some swift steea you may ride along the line and ' review the troops; and that accumulated 1 host from all ages seems like a half formed f regiment compared with the great array of the redeemed. I stood one day at Williamsport, and saw on the opposite side of the Potomac the forces coming down, regiment after regiment, and brigade after brigade. It seemed as though tbare was no end to the procession. Bub I now let me take the field glass of St. John and look off upon the hosts of heaven? thousands upon thousands, ten thousand times tea thousand, one hundred and forty* L and four thousand, and thousands of thousands. until I put down the field glass and k say, "I cannot estimate it?a great multi1 fcude that no man can number." } You may tax your imagination and torture your ingenuity and break down your I' powers of calculation in attempting to express the multitudes of the released from earth aud the enraptured of heaven, and talk of hundreds of hundreds of hundreds, of thousands of thousands of thousands, of millions of millions of millions, until your head aches and your heart faints, ana exhausted and overburdened you exclaim: "I cannot count them?a great multitude that no man can number." But my subject advance, and tells you of their antecedents, "of all nations and kindreds aud tongues." Some of them 3ooke Scotch, lrisD, German, English, Italian, Spanisn, Tamil, Choctaw, Burmese. After men have been long in the land you can tell by their accentuation from what nationality they came, and 1 suppose in the great throng arc una the throne it will not be difficult to tell lrom what part of the earth they came. The*? reaped Sicilian wheat fields and I those picked cottcn from the pods. These under blistering skies gathered tamarinds ana yarns, i nose crossea iua uesgrt. on camels, and those glanced over the snow, ' drawn bj Siberian (logs, and these milked the goats far up on the Swiss crags. Tbesa fought the walrus and white bear in regions of everlasting snow, and those beard the song of fiery-winged birds in African thickets. They were white. They were black. I They were red. They were copoer color. From all lands, from all ages. They wera . plunged into Austrian dungeons. They "v passed through Spanish inquisitions. They were confined in London Tower. They follght with beasts in the amphitheater. They were Moravians. They were Waldenses. They were Albigenses. They were Scotch Covenanters. They were Sandwich Islander.'. In tbis world men prefer different kinds of government. The United States wants a republic. The British Government nee?*? to 1 be a constitutional monarchy. Austria wants absolutism. But when they come up from earth from different nationalities they wiU prefer one great monarchy ?King Jesus ruler oyer it. And if that monarchy were [disbanded and it were submitted to an tne hosts of heaven who would rule, then by the nmnimous suffrages of all the redeems i Christ would become the president of the whole universe. Magna Cnartis, bills of right, bouses of burgesses, triumvirate*, congresses, parliaments?nothing in the Sresence of Christ's scepter swaying over all tie people who have entered upon the great glory. Oh I can you imagine it? What a strange conmingling of tastes, of histories, of nationalities, "of all Nations anl kindreds and people and tongue*." My subject advancjs and talis vou of the dress of tbos# in heaven. Th9 object of drass in this world is not only to veil thi body but to adorn it. The God woo dreeses up the spring morning with blue ribbon of 8kv around the brow and earnings of dew drops hung from tree branch and mantle ol crimson cloud flung over the shoulder and thi rioletted slipp?rs of the grass for her feet?i know that God does not despisi beau tit ii apparel. Well, what shall we wear io heaven? "I saw a great multitude clothed in white robes." It is white! In this world we had sometimes to have on working ap parol. Bright and lustrous jaraiaats would D0 ridiculously out of placa sweltering amid | forges, or mixing paints, or plastering ceil lags, or binding books. I In this world we must have the workin; day apparel sometimes, and we care nothon coarse it is. It is appropriate: but wh?n all the toil of earth is past and there is no moro drudgery and no more weariness, we shall stand before the throne robed in whit?. Oc earth we sometimes had to wear mourning apparel?black scarf for the arai, black veil for the fas-?, black gloves for th9 hands, black band for the hat. Abraham mourning for Sarah; Isaac mourning for R?b?cca, Rachel mourning for her children; David mourning for Absalom; Mary mourning for Lazarus. Every second of every minute of every hour of every day a heart breaks. i The earth from zona to zone and from pole to pole is cleft with sepulchral rent, and the earth can easily afifocd to bloom and blossom when it is so rich with molderinz life. GravesJ graves 1 graves.! But when th?se bereavements have all passed, and there are no more grayes to dig, and no aacre cofiku to mata and no more sorrow to suffer, we shall pull off this mournin; and be robed in white. I sea a soul going right up from all this scene of sin aui trouble into glory. I seem to hear him say I journey forth rejoicing From this dark val? of teari To heavenly joy aod t reedom, ifrom earthly care and feirs. When Christ my Lord shall gather All His redeemed again. His kingdom to inherit? Good-night till then. I hear my Uavlonr caning: The joyful hour has come: Toe angel guards are ready To galde me to oar home. ^ hen Christ oar Lord sii&i gather All His redeemed again, His kingdom to inherit? Good-night till then. My subject advancas, and tells you of the symbols they carry. If my text had repre seated the good ia Leaven as carrying cypress branches, that would have meant sorrow. If my text had represented the good in heaven as carrying nightshade, that would have meant sin. But it is a palm branch they carry, and that is victory. When the peoplo came home from war in olden times the conqueror rode at the head of his troop?, and there were triumphal arches, and people would come out with branches of tue palm tree and wave them all along the host. What a significant type this of the greeting and of the joy of the redeemed in heaven! On earth they were condemned, and were put out of polite circles. They had infamous hands strike them on both cheeks. Infernal spite spat in their faces. Their back ached with sorrow. Tneir brow reaked with unalleviatad toil. How weary they were! Sometimes they broke the heart of the midnight in the midst of all their anguish, crying out,"OGodin But hark now to the shout of the delivered captives, as thev lift their arms from the shackles and they cry out, "Free! free!" T&ey look back upon all the trials through which they have passed, the battles they have fought, the burdens they carried, the misrepresentations they sufferad, and because they are delivered from all these they stand before God waving their palms. They come to the feet of Christ, and they look up into His face, and they remember Hi3 sorrows, and they remember His pain, and they remember His groan*, and they say: ' Why, I was saved by that Christ. He pardoned my sins, He soothed my sorrows," and standing there they shall be exultant, waving cneir paims. That hand once held the implement of toll or wielded the swor 1 of war, bat now it plucks down branches frfxn the tree of life as they staud before the throne waving their palms. Once he was a pilgrim on earth; he crunched the hard crusts?he walked the weary way, but it is all gone now; the sin j gone, the weariness gone, the sickness gone, the sorrow gone. As Christ stands up before the great array of the saved and re counts His victories it will be like the rocking and tossing of a forest in a tempest, as all the redeemed rise up, host beyond host, rank beyond rank, waving their palms. My subject makes another advancement, and speaks of the song th9y sing. Dr. Dick, in a very learned work, says that among other things ia heaven he thinks they will give a great deal of time to the study of arithmetic and th9 higher branches of mathematics. I do not believe it. It would upset my idea of heaven if I thought so; I never liked mathematics; and I would rather take the representation of my text, which describes the occupatian of heaven as being joyful psalmody. '"They cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation unto our God." In this world we have secular songs, nursery songs, boatmen's songs, harvest songs, sentimental songs; but la heaven we will have taste for only one song, and that will be the song of salvation from an eternal death to an eternal heaven through the kl/v%f4 r\f fho T.QmK f.hof. wag Qltiin In this world we have plaintive songs? songs tremulous with sorrow, gongs dirgeful for the dead; but in heaven there will be no aighinz oE winds, no wailing of anguish, no weeping symphony. The tamest song will be balleluiah?the dullest tune a triumphal march. Joy amonc the cherubim! Joy among the seraphim! Joy among the ransomed! Joy forever! On earth the music in churches is often poor, because there is no interest in it or bej cause there is no barmcfay. Some would not sing, some could not sing, some sang too high, some sang too low, some sang by fits and starts, but in the great audience of the redeemed on high all voices will be accordant, and the man who on earth could not tell a plantation melody from the "Dead March in Saul" will lift an anthem that the Mendelssohns and BeethovensandtheSchumanns of earth never imagined, and you may stand through all eternity and listen and there will not be one discord in the great anthem that forever rolls up against the great heart of . God. It will not be a solo, it will not be a duet, it will not be a quintet, but an innumerable host before the throne, crying, ''Salvation unto our God and unto the Lamb." They crowd all the temples, they bend over the battlements, they fill all the heights and depths and lengths and breadths of heaven with their ho3annas. When people were taken into the Temple of Diana it was such a brilliant room coat they were always put 011 their guard. Some people had lost their sight by just looking on the brilliancy of that room, and so the janitor when he brought a stranger to the door and let him in would always charge him, "Take heed of your eyes." Oh! when I think of the s6ng that goes up around the thrwie of God, so jubilant, many voiced, multitudinous, 1 feel like saying, "Take heed of your ears." It is so loud a song. It is so blessed an anthem. They sing a rock song, saying, "Who is He that sheltered us in the wilderness, and shadow^ us in a weary land?' And the chorus comes in, "Christ the shadow of a rock in a weary land." They sing a stur song saying, "Who i3 He that guided us through the thick night, and when all other lights went out arose in the sky the morning star, pouring light on the soul's darkness?" And the chorus will come in, "Christ, the morning star,shining on the soul's darkness." They will sing a flower song, saying, "Who is He that brightened | all our way, and breathe i sweetness u-jon our soul, and bloomed through frost and tempest?" And the chorus will come in, "Christ, the lily of the vallev, blooming through frost and tempest." "Thay sing a water song:, saying, "Who is He that gleamed to us from the frowning crag, and lightened the darkest ravine of trouble, and brought cooling to the temples and rafreshment to the lip, and was a fountain in the midst of the wilderness!1" and then the chorus will come in, "Christ,the fountain in the midst of the wilderness." My friends, will you join that anthem? Shall we make rehearsal this morning? If we cannot sing that song on earth we will not be able to sing it in heaven. Can it be that our good triends in that land will walk all through that great throng of which I speak looking for us and not finding us. Will they come down to the gate and ask if we have passed through, and not find us reported as having come? Will they look through the folios of eternal light and find our names unrecorded? Is all this a representation or a land we shall never see^ of a song we shall never 3ini* ? Rough on the Bovine. During the reccnt cyclone in Kanjas a cow was lifted from the ground, carried to the top of a house and deposited on the angle of the roof, where jhe could neither fall nor be taken *nwn So t.hfiv had to co un on th? roof and kill her. Give New York due honor?she has raised the full amount required to build the Grant Motiument. She has been sharply criticised for her tardiness, but, having accomplished the task, only expressions of commendation are in order. Almost every one in the world is foolish enough at times to dream of receiving a vast amount of money from some unkown friend. When a man sits and smiles to himself, he is thinking of how he will spend il when he gets it. Work and play are seeming antipodes, yet without play work will be unprofitable, and without work play will be unpleasurable. .... , TEMPERANCE. CHURCH 3ALOOX3. The agitation caused by Dr. Riins ford's advocacy of the church establishing saloons for toe sale of intoxicating liquor, calls to mind an incident related of Dr. John Pierpoint's church in Boston, some fifty years ago. In the basement was stored a large number of barrels of liquor, and some wag, passing by the church, wrote th9 following lines upon the door: "There is a spirit above and a spirit below, There is a spirit of love and a spirit of woe; The spirit above is the spirit divine. The spirit below is the spirit of wine." TTinMMOin I THE rnam.-'? uajs A young shorthand writer was once told to report a speech by Sir John McDonald. Now it happened that the Caandian premier had com? to the House from a dinner party, and his speech in matter and form was of a docideiiy' postprandial character. Tha youthful reporter, however, could not believe *'t possible that Sir John should want editing, and took down every word. His editor, on seeing the copy, told him it would not do. and as it was not wanted for the next morning he was advisod to go and see Sir John and get him t?> correct it. The reporter, on bein? shown in, found Sir John as usual, exceedingly affable. Having explained the object of his visit, the reporter was desired to read his notes aloud. This he did, while Sir John lay on a sofa listening with a face of extreme solemnity to his own Incoherencies and correcting them as occasion required. When the notes were finished the premier rose, laid his hand on the young man's shoulder, and began in the most fatherly of tones; "I see exactly what has happened. Now, my dear young friend, I am an old man and >? <?? TminT mnn and vou will there- | fore not mind if I give you a piece of advica as to tlie practice of your profession. My advice is this: Never attempt to report a speech uoless you are perfectly sure that you are sober." With this Sir John bowed out his visitor. ?Spare Moments. THE ALCOHOLIC APPETITE. A Philadelphia medical journal, the Times and Register,recently devoted almost an entire number to the discussion of the alcoholic question, including the Keeley Cure, and other methods of dealing with inebriety. The contributors to this medical symposium are well,, known physicians. Among the suggestive and valuable articles is one by Dr. L. Chenery,o? Boston,entitled "Thoughts on the Alconal Disease," from which we quote the following: "This magazine of appetite in the humau breast will not explode unless strucic by the lightning of alcohol,and then it is as sure to go off as a keg of powder with live coal thrown into it. "Therefore the whole natureof the thiug, whether in Incipiency or in actual development, makes for the exclusion of liquor. There is no such thing as the two being brought together without the effect; they must be separated. And which is the most reasonable to do, which is most consistent with ethical and Christian consideration, to jug the man or to jug the rum? We can tax t.h? rwmle and build asvlums, aad put the inebriates in and keep them there, or we can do what is infinitely better, we can put their bane far from them and let them go about as good and useful citizens, to be a blessing to their home and friends, anl not a perpetual curse. Moreover, this latter course has the advantage over all others; it will cure and permanently cure three-tairds of such cases, aud in generations to come, will weed out the chief inherited proclivities tor this, as almost to every other craz*. Wha*. child does not know better than to try tc cure a burnt finger, while that finger is still held in the fire? What makes drunkenness is rum. What will cure drunkenness is net the learned disquisitions about the effects ul alcohol?the alcohol disease?but the stamp ingout of the cause, the putting away of the liquor itself." it is an encouraginz sign of the times that an influential medical journal of the standing of the Times and Register is disposed to devote so much of its space to the scientific consideration of the alcohol problem. A 8AL00M KEEPER'S ADVERTI3EHEVT. A saloon keeper of Lima, Ohio, not desiring to deceive anybody as to the quality of the goods he handles, put out the lotlowing card as an advertisement 01 ms uiuiutas, I "Friends and Neighbors: "Grateful for past patronage, and having a new stock of choice wines, spirits and lager beer, i continue to make drunkards and beggars out of sober, industrious people. My liquors excite riot, robbery and bloodshed, diminish comforts, increase expenses, shorten lives, are sure to multiply fatal accidents and distressing diseases, and liable to render these latter incurable. "They will cost soim of you life, some of you reason, many of you character and all of you peace; will mane fathers and mothers fiends, wives widows, children orphans, and all poor. I train the young to ignorance, infidelity, dissipation, lewdness and every vfbe; corrupt the ministers of religion and members of the church, hinder the gospel and send huudrkls to temporal and spiritual death. I will accommodate the public even at a cost of my soul, for I have a family to support, and the trade pays, for the public encourages it. "I have a license; my traffic it therefore lawful and Christians even countenance it, and if I do not sell drink somebody else will. 1 know the Bible says 'Thou sbalt not kill.' 'Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink,' and not to 'put a stumbling block in a hrr,t-.Viar>a WAV1 I also read that 'no drunk ard shall enter the Kingdom of God,' and X suppose a drunkard maker will not shara any better fate; but I want a lazy living, and have made up my mind tnat my ini? quity pays very good wages. I shall therelore carry on my trade and do my best to decrease the wealth, impair thb health aad endanger the safety or the people. As my traffic flourishes in proportion to your ignorance and indulgence, i must do all I can to pre7ent your mental culture, moral purity, social happiness and eternal welfare. "For proof of my ability I refer you to the pawnshops, the polica office, the hospital, lunatic asylum, jail and the gallows, whither many of my customers have gone. "I teach young and old to drink and charge only for the materials. "A very few lessons are enough. 'Yours till dead."?New York Herald. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES, f'anorlo Tamiarftnna Aefc is nOW iu force in thirty-three countioa in the Dominion. During the last fiscal year there were produced in the United States 117,lot/, 114 gallons of distilled spirits. There are now upwards of 500 churches in Scotland where unfermented wine alone is us?d for the communion. Franca had, in 1891, 4,311,300 acres of vineyard?, which yieldeid an average of loi gallons of wine per acre of land. At Elgin, 111., twenty-nine saloon keepers have taken out license for the coining year, paying $101)0 each fcr the privilege. Father Nugent, of Liverpoo!, a pronounced temperance advocate, has been appointed Domestic Prelate to the Pope. The Boston representative of Bonfort's Wine and Spirit Circular says the demand for New England rum is "increasing." Half a million persons it is said, are in one way or another employed on the Sabbath in j connection with the drink traffic, anl 200,000 of these are young womec. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, in recalling the hard names that have been and still are hurled at *amivrnnpA raformers. reminds them, in his ?>ual happy style, that "/fanatics are earnest men in a minority, and a fad.Jist is one w ;o knows something uiore than the rest of the people. t Arcubishop Ireland says: "He is ignorant of human nature who does not see that a thousand will drink when temptation presses upou them for the hundred who will put themselves to some difficulty to seek out liquor. Our working classes are, we might say, compelled to driuk and became drunkards, so strong are the temptations with which we are beset." Charles Lamb, looking back upon his childhood, wrote this as a warning to others: "Could the youth to whom the flavor of bis first glass was delicious look into my desolation and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man feels himself going down a precipice, with open eye and a passive will, to see his destruction aud not to have power of will to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating from himself. to perceive all goodness emptied out of him, and yet not be able to forget the time when it. was otherwise?how li9 would avoid the first temptation to drinK." ; KiiLtWUL'S KMD1WG.I HT3 N'AMK. Pint, the promise in the calyx, And then the pink breaks through th? areen, And next, the sepals curve away, And then the folded rose is sfeen; Then down the outer petals curl, And there the bud in blushes grows, Until the pink leaves, one by one, Have turned the bud into the rose. Then sweet, as ever flower waa sweet, And heavy all about your hand, The perfume of the rose, and aweet Acr&ss the path of summer land. O, thoughts of him unfold and grow, Expand unto one matchless whole, That finds expression but in this, "Jesus!' breathed by the longing soul. Ah, never yet could one of bis Tell half the Spirit shows of him, Nor all the change he works within Rv Iava. his frrpftt name's svnonvm. J w "7 O ?? " ? J We cannot?yet, how much we tell Who speak his name and speak no more! In "Jesu9l" 0. what loft^ power, What earnest of the things in store! He knows bis own and will receive All tiat we would, but cannot sayHe will-accept his name from us, The cry with which our hearts give way. And sweeter far than we may know Is that to him from whom it camels that we feel, but cannot tell, Those thoughts that burst into his name. ? [Clara A. Sands. "SAVED." "I wish my son to be educated and his character developed;" "I desire him to be trained;" "I am striving for his reformation, and want to keep him from bad ways "I am aiming at the right moulding of my dauguter's life;" "I wish my children rightly started in life"?such aspirations we often hear uttered more or less articulately by parents and friends concerning others, or by the aspirants themselves. They are laudable; but they are all included as to their cssence in one word not so often employed. That word is "saved"?in the Bible sense, no merely from ignorance, bad habits, failure in life, and the like, but ''saved," body and spirit, for time and eternity. To be saved Is to be freed from an accusing conscience, the dominion of sin, its ill consequences and the fear of them; to be content, at peace, even full ot nope as to me great unknown future. It is to have the day of judgment divested of terror. It is to have positive gain and peact of conscience, freedom from the mastery of the world, an abiding, elevating, purifying motive toward well-doing, which acts within, and is not dependent on human observation, and a hope which offsets present limitations like grief, poverty and pain, and actually converts them into benefits. It is to have a hope, realized in due time, of all that is involved? and how,much that is eternitycan disclose?in "eternal life." The ordinary mind can see how much this heart-believing implies. was sinful, gniltv; God's law was broken by me, and 1 was under its penalty. Christ bore it and brought in righteousness. It is a free gift to me. I love God, who pitied me. I love Jeaus who saved me. I know his work is ftnrttiL h fnr fJod raised him from the dead. I will be grateful as long as I live. I will try to please him, to honor him. I can never repay him, but in every way that he desfrss and shows me I will try to please him." Now. one of the ways in which he can bo pleased and honored is the owning of him before men. When the Bulgarian intriguers got Prince Alexander out of the way, the soldiers and subjects who were loyal to him felt bound to acknowledge him, stand up for him, call bim their prince, and respect his government. What else could they do and be honest, manly, and true to theirconvictions? When the Son of Man is cast out. rejected, disowned by men in this world, and rivals are set up in his place, what should, what could his friends do but confess bim? The believing with the heart is the privilege grace gives; the open confession is the duty inseparable from it. The two are put together. "With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the m^uth confession is made? unto salvation." Having accepted the grace he assumes the duty. The duty is the evidence and the heart has accepted the grace. They are together in the prescription, but on different grounds. No special genius is necessary to the understanding of this. "Here," s-?ys the doctor to a patient shaking in disease, "is the specific for yonr malady. Take it and keep as quiet as possible." The fjuitt may not be perfect, is not specific. So it is with the confession. Hence the strong language of the Master: "Whoever shall confess before men him, will I confess also before my father which is in heaven." ncaaer, ure jou uumg m?c htw ? . believing and confessing? He who cannot ' lie says that they who do these things?two and yet one?do them "unto salvation." This means never fails of the end. The investment is never a failure. The remedy is never without the hoped-for relief. The being saved is not, therefore, a mere sentiment. hope, or line of religious conduct; it carries the very man along, and makes right with God, and it brings, therefore, in its train the present well-doing.?fRev. J. Hall, D. D., in Congregationalism The following quotation from Dr. Norman McLeod will be instructive and helpful to not a few souls: "My life is not what I would have chosen. "I often long for quiet, for reading and for thought. It seems to me a very paradise to be able to read, to think,go deep into things,gather the glorious riches of intellectual culture. . . . God has forbidden it in bis providence. I must 8[>end hours iu receiving people who wish to npeak to me about all manner ottrifles; must reply to letters about nothing; must engage in public work on everything; employ my life on what seems uncongenial, vanishing, temporary, waste. Yet God knows me better than I know mysplf. He knows my gifts, my powers, my failings, and my weaknesses; what canl do and what not do. So I desire to be led and not to lead. And I am quite sure that he has thus enabled me to do a great deal more in ways which seemed to me almost a waste of life, in advancing his kingdom, that I would have done in any other way. I am sure of that." It is a great mistake for a m^n who thus gives himself up to a life of service, in the doing of little things, in performing the numerous small duties of life, to suppose that he is sacrificing anything either in hap piness or usefulness. The aggregate of results in such service may be very great, and ot incalculable benefit to the world. The followers of Christ will notonly share In His triumph, but it is their privilege to assist it. Sometimes we feel like asking why Christ did not convert men by a miracle as He raised the dead. Why does He put on us the coSt of preachintr His truth, of going as missionaries, of enormous sacrifices for His sake? Why did He not do it all Himself, and give us victory of His kingdom -ill won? Apart from the conclusive reason that power does not convert men to glad allegiance to Christ, we can see how much our effort for His cause does to make us rpal sharers in His final triumph. The citizens who witnessed the final review of the Union army in Washington before disbandment, on the 23d, 24th and 2.1th of May. 1805, fe.t the exaltation of the triumph, but to the soldiers, who had borne the Ion? marches, the shock of battle, the experience of the hospital, that victory had entered their souls, they felt it and shared it in their inner lift*. The sacrifices we make for Christ's kingdom are making the "crowning day," towanls which the world hastens, full of srlory for us.?[Watch. Itlver Depth*. An ingenious apparatus for ascertaining the depth of rivers and smaller streams has recently been successfully tried on the Kibe. It consists of a curved arm, hinged at its upper extremity, and of a length sufficient for the lower curved por tion to trail on the bed of the stream. The greater the depth of the stream the more will the arm be inclined, and hence, by suitable recording mechanism, the depth can be automatically registered. SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR JULY 31. Lesson Text: "Peter and John Before the Council," Acts ir., 1-18 ?Golden Text:, Acts i*.t IS?Commentary. 1. "And asthey'spako unto the people, the priests and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon' them." Peter was preaohing to the people who came together because of the healing of the lame mau, that Jesus whom they had crucified was indeed the Christ, and that God had borne witness to the fact by raising Him from the dead, and that therefore they should receive Him, obtain forgiveneas and wait for His return to restore all thiags of which the prophets have spoken (chapter iii., 19, 21). 2. "Being grieved that they taught the people and preached tbrouzh Jesus the resurrection Irom the dead." The Sadducees did not believe in a resurrection (Math, xxii., 23; Acts xxiii, 8). but observe here the expression "from the dead," and compare Phil, iii., 11, R. V. As the resurrection of Jesus and those who rose with Him (Math, xxvii., 52, F\'\\ traa a racii "-<* ? '""'".""U <-" M'UW, UIUJ iroriuj others still asleep as to their bodies, so shall it beat Hjs coming (I Thess. iv., 1c-1S; Rev. *x., 5). 3. "And they laid hands on them, and put them in bold unto the next day, for it was now eventide." Jesus hai told them th*t it would be even so (John xv., 20; xvi., 2) therefore it is probable that they were not surprised at this treatment. Compare Jer. xxxviii., 6; Heb. xi.. 36, 37. 4. "Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed, and the numbar of the men was about five thousand." As it was, so it will be in all this age; some believe and some believe not (Acts xxviii., 34), but His word will accomplish His pleasure and God will be glorified (Isa. lv? 12; II Cor. ii., 15, 16.) Put this 5000 -with the 3000 of ii., 41, and consider the work o? the Spirit as loretold in John xvi., 8. Notice that all these converts were Jews, Where is this power to-daj ? 5-7. "And it came to pass on the morrow that their rulers and elders and scribes, when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power or by what name have ye done this? So also they, asked Jesus in Math, xxi., 23, not that they wanted such power for themselves, but they hated all that proceeded not from themselves. There are many such in the church to-day who cannot tolerate anything that does not Kill- if ia I U? iuoio t? uu mom, uuv av nou ws i o member ibat all that does not originate with God shall come to naught. 8, 9. "Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them. Ye rulerSot the people and elders of Israel." Mark now the lulfUlment of that great promise in Math, z., 19, 20, and remember also such encouragements as Jer. i., 17, 19; Ezk. ii., 6, 7. See bow a man filled with the Spirit fears not the face of rulers or elders, eveu though the man be one who had not long before basely denied his Master. 10. "Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by Him doth this man stand before you whole." This is the whole story briefly and yet in full: Jesus died, Jesus lives, Jesus has all power to forgive sins and also to heal bodies, and He is ready to manifest that power on behalf of those who are willing to be His faithful witnesses, for II Chron. xvi., 9, is as true to-day as ever, and I do not know any hindrance to the manifestation of the power of Christ so great as our lack of faith and consecration (Mai. iii., 10; Eph. iii., 20). 11. "This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner." Read here Gen. xlix., 24; Isa. viii., 14; xxviii., 16; Ps. cxviii., 22; Zech. iii., 9; iv,, 7< I Pet. ii., 4-8, and see what a fruitful simile you have in tais stone, which so wondroufly speaks of Christ Fail not 1o read also Dan. iL, 44, 45. And see D?i. frrtm I mail yuu Ol C IU uuo &vuva auu UJ iuaiUg ? V?M it (Ex. xxxlii., 22; Isa. xxvi., 4, margin; I Cor. x., 4). 12. "Neither is there salvation ia any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must ce saved." Other foundation can no man lav than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ (I Cor. iii.. 11), and be who builds on aught else is building on the sand. Israel's mistake was that, being ignorant of God's righteousness, they sought to establish their own, which was only filthy rags in God's sight (Horn, x., 3, 4; Isa. lxiv., 6; Math, vii., 2427*. 13. "They took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus." Like their master they had not been taught in the schools; they bad not the wisdom of man, but they had the power of God which made itself manifest in them. God uses the weak things and reveals Himself to babes. 14. "And beholding the man wnich was healed standing with them, they could say ?il-; ,> ? THrt nower of Christ UUILUU? agaiuov r __ __ manifest in us is the strongest kind of preach- I ing, and when they saw it not only in the I apostles hut in this poor helpless beggar, | their mouths were shut. As God was glori- i fled in these and in Paul, so He desires to be' in us (GaL i., 24; iCor. vi., 19, 20). 15, ltt. "What shall we do to these men." The apostles being sent aside that the council might confer together, we can fancy bow in their hearts, at least, it not yet aloud because of their keepers, they rejoiced in Christ who had so honored them; and it would not be strange if they continued preacaing Jesus to those wao had them in charge. As to the council they could not deny the miracle, but they thought possibly they might put a stop to any more such manifestations. How they did love the poor and the suffering (?) these lovely righteous people, who have still so many followers. What will become of theji (Matt, vti., 2123)? 17. "But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name." As well stand by a river and tell it to stop flowing. Why do the people imagine a vain thing and the rulers take counsel against the Lord? He that sitteth in the Heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall, have them in derision (Ps. ii., 1-4; Isa. viii., % 10). Whatever is of God cannot be stopped, yet there are many who fight against Him. 18. "And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach *' -' " dnH t.ha?4 were tho in iae aiiiuu ul u nm. --? foremost religious people of the day with the high priest of Israel at their head (verse 6); the priest whose lips should keep knowledge, and who ought to have been the messenger of the Lard of Hosts (Mil. ii.. 7). Let any one now preach the wholo truth concerning Jesus and the resurrection as these apostles did and he will not fail to find Erominent religious rulers who will if possilestop that kind of teaching. But let all faithful preach?rs and teachers eat lEzak. :i., 6-7) and "dimimsa not a word" {Jer. xxvi., 2).?L;sson Helper. General Miles is becoming an enthusiast on the subject of the bicycle for army use. He has followed up his experiment of sending a message by relay riders to New Yoflc by another trial of the wheel, iu which regular soldiers were sent out, carrying covering, provisions and cooking implements in addition to their arms and accouterments. The ride from Pullman to Chicago seems to have been more of a success from a practi:al standpoint than that from ChiJago to New York. The ten soldiers made the trip from Pullman in one and one-half hours, a distance for which the regular infantry would require tlve hours. Apparently the only obstacle to the use of the bicycle by the army in this country is the villainous condition of the roads. It must be admitted, however, that iu the two trials already made much mud and sand were encountered and passed through without serious delay. General Miles' championship of the bicycle is sure to have practical tralue in one way. An attempt to use the whcii* "or a serious purpose is ^ure to cause more or leas' agitation iq favor q? better country roads. 1 ?^^> TROOPS AT HOMESTEAD. Ttto Brigades of Militia Guard Carnegie's Mills. The Townspeople Give the Soldiers a Peaceful Welcome. Governor Pattison, being convinced that Sheriff MctJleary was unable to restore order at Hoibestead, ordered out the entire National Guard?3500 man?all the available military force of the State, to Homestead for service. The action of the Governor was taken up on receipt of the following despatch; Pittsbixro^ Penn., July 10. To Robert E. Pattison, Governor, Harrisburg, Penn.; The situation at Homestead has not improved. While all is quiet there, the strikers are in control and openly express to me and to the public their determination that the works shall not be operated unless by themselves. After making all efforts in my power I have failed to secure a. posse respectable enough in numbers to accomplish anything, and i am satisfied that no posse raised by civil authority can do anything to change the condition of affairs, and tnat any attempt by an inadequate force to restore the right of law will only result in further armed resistance and consequent loss of life. Only a large military force will enable me to control matters. I believe if such foroe is sent the disorderly element will be overawed and order will ba restored. I there- I fore call upon you'to furnish me such assistance. ' ! Willi am EL itcCLBA.Br. Sheriff. Governor Patterson, as Commander-inChief of the National Guard, at once issued the following order: George R. Snowden, Major-General Commanding National Guard of Pennsylvania; Put the division under arm3 and move at once with ammunition to the support of the Sheriff of Allegheny County at Homestead. Maintain the peace, protect all persons in their rights under the Constitution and law^ of the State. Communicate with me. Robsrt E. Pattison, Governor. The following telegram was sent to tha Sheriff: William H. McCleary, Sheriff of Alleghany County, Pittsburg: I have ordered Major-General Georga R. Snowden with the division of tha Nations 1 Guard of Pennsylvania to your support at once. Put yourself in communication with him. Communicate with me further particulars. Kobert E. Pattison", Governor. General Snowden, with the Ad jutant-General and Quartermaster General, at once proceeded to formulate the orders for the mobilization of the Guard. The National Guard is splendidly equipped, and a3 preparations have been ia progress for seven weeks for the annual encampments of the different commands, they are in admirable shape to go into the field. The Guard consists of .three brigades of infantry, three troow of cavalry, and three batteries of artillery, .making a well disciplined army of S500 men. There are sir gatling guns in the three batteries, and the troops are all armed with the latest improved Springfield rifles, 1 breech loaders, 45-calibre, and each man can carry 100 rounds of ammunition. The National Guard of lata baa bsen devoting a great deal of attention to sharpshooting, and thera is not a company in which the majority of members are not qualified marksmen, many of them having won sharpshooters' medals. Troops on Guard. The five-million-dollar mills of the Carnegie Company (Limited) have been formally turnel over in writing to their owner3 by the Sheriff of Allegheny County, to do with them as thev please, an i 7000 soldiers nf th? Kevstone State, under General George P. Sno wdeo, encamped on either bank of the Monon?ahela, armed with Getting guns and Springfield rides, to keep them in possession. Shortly after 9 o'clock a. st the PennsyiI vania Militia marched into Homestead. The oldiers were well received, by the strikers. The troops arrived uaexpactediy from the East via special trains on the Pittsburg, McKeesport and YoughiogJi9ny Railroad, and left the cars at the station closa by the fence of the steel works. Major-General Snowden and Adjutant Greenland were in command. The Eighteenth Regiment was the first to I arrive. There were two trains containing i the Fifth, Tenth, Twelfth and Eighteenth Regiments, a number of freight trains with sixty horse?, and two gondola cars with three Gatling guns and two cannon. There were few persons in the station when the train arrived. They were nearly all locked out' men. They watched the soldiers sullenly while they unloaded their arms and cannon. In a few minutes the 1 * ?J flnrtbuhd Ahnnfc news spreau aua the station and remained there while the troops went into camp. Several companies wero placed on guard over the works, and Eighth avenue from City Farm Jans to Munhall was closed to civilians. The Advisory Committee of the locked-out men met and decided to wait upon tbe officers in charge of the troops, in order to ascertain what restrictions would be placed upon private citizens. Captain Coon, an ex-military officer, acting as spokesman, told tho General that the delegation represented the citizens of Home| stead and the Amalgamated Association, who wished to assure the State authority of their desire to co-operate with it in main! taining order. General Snowden Interrupted Captain Coon to say that he did not recognize the j Amalgamated Association, or any other au! thonty, except that of the Governor of Pennj sylvania and the Sheriff of Allegheny County. Tbe people of Homestead, he said, could best co-operate with the State troop3 by behaving themselves. The position of the troops on Munhall was strong. They held the sides and the top of a broad bill tbat rises at quite a steep angle from the edge of the town. The town was ffat at their feet and they could almost count every roof in it. The Carnegie Steel Works lay near the base of the hill, and the * * *--t- -1 - ?nninf fhait* soldiers coma iook uuwu uu ??.. rifles into the big deserted yards. Simultaneously with the placing of troops at Homestead a camo wasestablisned on the opposite shore of the Monongahela River consisting of the Tenth and Fourteenth Regiments and Battery C, forming a provisional brigade, under the command of Colonel HawkiD?, of the Tenth. Major-General Snowden established his division headquarters in the large Carnegij school building on the crest of Carnegie Hill, on a point overlooking the town and valley, from which nearly every portion of the vast iron-work* is in plain view. Ha gave the name to the encampment of Camp Colonel Sam Black, in honor of th9 soldier who fell in the late war while commanding the Sixtysecond Pennsylvania Volunteers. The site, apart from its picturesquenesa, is admirably selected as it completely commands the rtwn and the mills and every Dossjble ap proach to them by land or water. 'I'bo preparations all indicated the purpo3e of a protracted occupation of Homestead. The Homestead expedition of the militia was an expensive undertaking, and cost the State a good round sura of money. The National Guard of Pennsylvania consists of 8470 members, of which fully 8003 responded to the Governor's calL Of thesa 600 were commissioned officers. It was thought that it would cost the State about $22,000 per day until the troops were recalled. The House Committee appointed to investigate the present labor troubles and outbreak at Homestead arrived in Pittsburg and went direcMv to tha Monongahela House. CheArman Dates said that it was the committee's desire to get down to work as soon as possible. H. C. Frick was the first witness called. The committee visited the scene of ihe riot. Coroner McDowell began tho icqueat on the death of J. W. Kline, the Pinkerton detective, and other victims of the tijnt at Homestead. Chicago's new water tunnel is completed. It is eight feet in diameter, thirty feet low the surface of the Jake and begins to take watt r four miles out. It cost over a million dollars, and will supply one hundred And thirty million gallons per day to the city, thus bringing Chicago's daily water upply up to three hundred million gallons* i X m ' ' 9 . ' ? POPULAR SCIENCE. Many of the animals in the deep sea have no eyes. German railway officials are experimenting with rails made of paper. An unsuccessful attempt was lately made to cultivate oysters in the Baltic. | By adopting the basic process of making stael castings there is leas phosphorus. Microscopists recently showed that a drop of milk contained several million animalculse. The best road, acrording to Parisian experts, for hardness and unwearable service is made of volcanic scoria. The incandescent electric light is claimed by authorities to be the most satisfactory artificial- light known to science. The Interstate Elevated Railway of Kansas City is to be changed from a steam to an electric system at a cost of 1500,000. Ligh'.ning flashed into an Eastern Pennsylvania coal mine the other day and shocked a man who was 1200 feet below the surface. American lifeboats are to be furnished with an electric motor and. propeller, which will provide not only power but a search light. ' " <$'& According to Sappy, the famous physiologist, the stomach contains*5,000,000 glands, which are constantly secreting gastric juice. instead of the alloy of zinc and silver which was first chosen for the production of "Areas plating," one containing cadmium is now preferred. In testing the conditions of the atmoe.' phere inside a petroleum tank, if the air at the bottom is found not inflammable or explosive, the air above is sure nofto ? be so. Scientists estimate that every year a layer equal to fourteen feet deep of the aiii*faoA r\f oil A^arfno an/1 Vi or Kn^ioa nf wut a taw' vi an \j\*\3Ckiu auu vvuvi wuivv v* water is taken up into the atmosphere as vapor. A new cure for hydrophobia was successfully tried in the Pasteur Institute at Milan, Italy. It consisted of a subcutaneous injection of the virus in its ' fixed form." There are said to be 13,972 artesian ^ wells west of the ninety-seventh meridian, which irrigate more than 100,000 acres of land;; 2,000,000 gallons of water often flow from a single well. M. le Chatelier states that by means of his pyrometer he ha3 discovered that tha temperatures which occur in melting steel and in other industrial operations have been overestimated. A new combination washer and nut- | lock for railroad use has recently proved * itself very useful. The nut can be released or tightened up with the greatest ease, and the washer can be rinsed frequently. ( Some experiments in connection with the artificial production of clouds by burning cases of resinous matter were lately mado in Paris, but were only partially successful, on account of the wind carrying the clouds away as soon a* formed. A Curious Tar Forest. Seated at the Grand Hotel the other night was George E. Mitchell, now of Port Angele^ but who was born in Manilla, and who has had a varied experience in many parts of the world. Hi* father was the British CodsuI at Manilla, and in the lapse of time became interit! lnvna onfornriiM TTo inM rrnnsia WWU 1U idlgw Vutvi|/twwHi MV ww?w gvvwr in many different parts of Europe and Asia, where he had agencies established. j: The son succeeded to this business, but at length in one of the financial depressions be lost his fortune, by that time large. He came to San Francisco, married a California young lady, tiia daughter of D. Milton Jones, Sheriff for many years of Siskiyou County. A year or two ago he went to the moet northern part of the State of Washington, ' overlooking the Straits of Fuca. There he secured quite an area of land, built him a cabin and settled down. When his friends savfr him at the Grand they asked him what on earth he was going to do in that country, since they understood it was a wilderness. He surprised them by what he said. '"1" fa* " rpnlifld he. "uruiu^j bur UJUikv - "You needn't look skeptical. There are acres and acres of magnificent trees there, too much permeated with tho tar to be of any use for wood. Cut one of those forest giants down, and the next day you can go to the stump and with a small board rake off inches and inches of tho thick amber-colored ooze. Como back a little while afterward and you can do it again. "Cut a tree half of! and sot your cant properly so as to catch this, and.you get gallons upon gallons, not to say barrels, of it in a short time. Then you can put up your works and go into the tar business and make a fortune, the same as they do in the Carolinas and elsewhere in the world. 'You have got your pitch, your resin, tar. turpentine and everything else that comes from a tar forest. It'a a novel industry, I know, for within thousands of miles it has dot been developed, but with prices high for tar, turpentine, resin and pitch, and with freights to keep them so for some time, no such a tield for money-making is offered as this. I am going to stay by it."?San Francisco Examiner. When Insects Plaj. It fa well known that several of our notable as well as notorious human, social, and civic customs find their prehistoric prototypes in the insect kingdom. The monarchical institution sees its singular prophecy in the domestic economy of the bees. War and slavery have always been carriad on systematically and effectually by ants, and,according to Huber and other authorities,agriculture, gardening, and an industry very fni-minnr haul hppn time-llOn liuc uuii j iniiuiu^ uwi v ored customs among this same wise and thrifty insect tribe, whose claim to thoughtful consideration was so long ago voiced by Solomon of proverbial fame. Thevenot mentions "Solomon's ant'' as .among the "beasts which shall enter paradise." Iudeed, the human saint a* well as sluggard may "go to the ant" for many suggestive hints and commentaries. Wiiliam Hamilton Gibson believes that insects also have their merrymakings, their garden parties, and their picnics, and he is going to attempt to prove it in a forthcoming article.?New York Witness. It is estimated that twenty-five tons of gold are mined every week throughout the world. 9 v-'" '"ii - iSLs... _ . | ' 'i