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^!v- i KEY. DR. TALLAGE, [THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "Useful Suffering." Text: "It behoved Christ to suffer."? Luke xxiv., 46. I There have been scholars who hav? ventured the assertion that the pains of our T\rura Tm if woo > shoe king waste of tears and blood and ag ony, unless some great enl ware to be reached. If men can prove that no good result comes of it, then the character of Goi is impoached, and the universe must stand abhoreat and denunciatory at tk<* fact that the Fattier allowed the butchery of His only begotten Sou. We all admire the brave six hundred men described by Tennyson as dashing into the conflict when they knew they must die, and knew at the same time that" *'some one had blunder'd;'' but we are abhorrent of the man who made the blunler and who caused the sacritice of those brave men for no use. But I sfcail show you, if the Lord will help me, this morning that for &ood reasons Cnrist went through the torture. In other words, "It behooved Christ to suffer." In tue first place, I remark that Christ's lacerations were necessary, because man's rescue was an impossibility except by the payment of some great sacrifice. Outraged law had thundered against iniquity. Man must die unless a substitute can intercept that death. Let Gabriel step forth. He refuses Lee Michael the archangel step forth. He refuses. No Roman citizin, no Athenian, no Corinthiau, no reformer, no angel Tolunteered. Christ then bared His heart 10 the i-ang. He paid for our redemption in tears and blood and wounded feet and courged shoulders and torn brow. "It is done." nnd p?rth ViAard thA on an of the prison bar. Sinai ciased to quake with wrath tbe moment that Calvary began t? rock in crucifixion.. Christ had suffered. "Oh," says some man, "I don't like that doctrine of substitution; let every man bear his #to burdens, and weep his own tears, and fight iiis own battles!" Why, my brother, there is vicarious suffering all over the wor.d. Did not your parents suffer for you? Do you not sometimes suffer for your children? Does not the patriot suffer for his country? Did not Grace Darling suffer for the drowning sailors? Vicarious suffering on all sides! But how insignificant compared with tnie scene of vicarious suffering! Waa it for crime? that I had dona lie croaned upon tho tree? Amazing pur. grace uQknovrn, And love beyond degree. Christ must suffer to pay the price of our redemption. But I remark again, the sufferings of Christ were necessary in order that the world's sympathies might be aroused. Men are won to the right and good through their ympathies. The world must feel aright before it can act aright. So the cross was allowed to be lifted that the world's sympathies might be arousal. Men who have been obdurated by the cruelties they have enacted, the massacres they have inflicted, by the horrors of which they have been milhr hnuo homma lit.f.lo philHr^n in thA ?resjnce of this dying Saviour. ? What the swords could not do, what Juggernauts could not subdue, the wounded pand of Christ has accomplished. There pe this moment millions or people held unJer tne spell of that one sacrifice. The hampers that struck the spikes into the cross pave broken the rocky neart of the world. Nothing but the agonies of a Saviour'3 death throe could rousa the world's sympathies. \ I remark again, "It behoved Christ to suffer," that tha strength and persistence of the diviue love might be demonstrated. Was tt the applause of the world that induced Christ on that crusade from Heaven? Why, SI th? uuiverse was at His feet. Could the mquest of this insignificant planet have paia Him for His career of pain if it had been a mere matter ot applause? All tbe honors of heaven surging at His feet. Would your queen give up her throne that he mignt rute a miserable trib9 in Africa? .Woula the Lord Jesus Christ ou the throne of the universe come down to our planet if (t were a mere matter of applause and acclamation? i Nor was it an expedition undertaken for the accumulation of vast wealth. What could all the harvests and the diamonds of our little world do for Him whose are the f[lories of infinitude and eternity? Nor was r or* ?,mnrnv?flnt on offamnf, fcn QhnW whllt He could do *ith the hard hearted racs. He who wheels the stars in their courses and holds the pillars of the universe on the tips of His lingers neede-J to make no experiment to find what He could do. Ob, I will tell you, my friends, wnat it was. It was undisguised, unlimited, all conquering, all consuming, infinite, eternal, omnipotent love that opened the gate, that started the star in the east, with fluger of light pointing down to the manager, that arrayed she Christmas choir above Bethlehem, that opened the stable door where Christ was born, that lifted Him on the cross. Love jthirsty at the well. Love at the sick man's couch. Love at the cripple's crutch. Love sweating in the garden. Love dying on the cross. Love wrapped in the grave. You cannot mistake it. The blindest eye must ee it. The hardest heart must feel it. The deafest ear must bear it. Parable and miracle, wayside talk and seaside interview, all the scenes of His life, all the sufferings of is death, proving beyond controversy that ??1Vino 0Aaraa/1 nrihk Hf yur WU I?U uv/u uoo j wu uwv* ??* ? Kupendous and inextinguishable love. I But I remark again, "It behoved Christ to gutter," that th9 nature of human guil' , might be demonstrated. There is not a com moa sansa man in the house to-day that wil r not admit that the machinery of society li out of gear,4that the human mind and tht [human heart are disorganized, that some thing ought to be done right away for its re , pair and readjustment. But the height anc > depth and length and breadth and hate anc (recklessness and infernal energy of the jluman heart for sin would not have been '.demonstrated if against the holy and innooent one of the cross it had not bsen hurled in one bolt of tire. i Christ was not the first man tbat had bean > put to death. There had been many before * Him put to death, but they had their whims, the r follies, taeir sins, their inconsistencies. But waen the mob outside of Jerusalem howled at the Son of God it was hate against goodness, it was blasohemy against virtue, It was earth against heaven. What was it in that innocent and lovin; face o' Christ that excited the vituperation and the coatnmnlv find nnorn of man' If Rn ha'J Kan. tered them to come on, if He had laughed them into derision, if He had denounced them as the vagabonds that tUey were, wp could understand their ferocity, but it was against inoffensiveoess that they brandished their soear?, and shook thair fist?, an 1 ground their teeth, and howled and scoffed and jeered and mocked. What evil had He done? Who39 eyesight had He rat out? None; but He given vision to the blind. Whose chiid had tie sliin? None; but He restored the dead dimsel to her mother. What law had He broken? None; but He had inculcated obedience to government. What foul plot had He enacted against the happiness or the race? none; tie had come to save a world. The only cruelty He ever enacted was to heal the sick. The only ostentation He ever displayed was to sit with publicans and sinners ana wash the disciples' feet. The only selfishness He ever exhibited was to give His life for His enemies. And yet all the wrath of the world surged against His holy heart, Hear the redhot Bcorn of the world Hissing in the pools of a Saviour's blood! An i standing there to day let us see what an unreasonable, loath- I some, hateful, blasting, damning thing is the iniquity of the human heart. Unloos-id, what will not sin do? It will scale any height, it will fathom the very depth of hell, it will revel in all lasciviousuess. Thera is no blasphemy it will not utter, there are no cruelties on wh'ch it will not eorze itself. It wi'l wallow in tilth, it wi;; areatne the air o? charnelhouses of corruption and call the n aroma, it will quaff the blood of immortal fouls and call it nectar. f When sin murdered Christ onthecnwsit ^howed what it would do with the Lord God^Almighty if it could get at Him. The prophet had declared?I think it was Jeremiah?had declared centuries before the truth, but not until sin shot out its forked tongue at the crucifix and tossel its sting iftto the soul ot" a martyred Jesus was it illustrated, that "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked." Again, "It behoved Christ to so ffer," that our affections might be excited Christward. Why, sirs, the behavior of our Lord has stirred tbe affections of all those who have ever heard of It. It has been the art galleries o* the world with such pictures as | Ghirlandaio's " WorshiD of the Magi," Giotto's "Baptism ot Christ," Holman Hunt's "Christ in the Temple," Tintorei's "A^onv in the Garden," Angelo's "Crucifixion," and it has called out Handel's Messiah," an i rung sweetest chimes in Youug's '\Xight Thoughts," and filled the psalmody of the world with the penitential notes of sorrow and the hosannos of Christian triu.nph. Show me any other king who has so many subjects. T^That is th9 most potent name to-day in the United States, in France, in England, in Scotland, in Ireland? Jesus. Other kings have had many subjects, but where is the king who has so many admiring subjects as Christ? Show me a regi merit or a ttiousanci men in tumr urmv auu I will show you a battalion of ten thousaul men in Christ's army. Show me in history where one man has given uis property ana nis me tor any one else, aud 1 will show you in history hundreds and thousands oi men who hare cheerfully died that Christ might rei?n. Aye, there are a hundred men in this house who, if need were, would seep out and die for Jesus. Their faith may now seem to be faint, and sometimes they may be inconsistent, but let the fires of martyrdom be kindled, throw them into the pit, cover them with poisonous serpents, pound them, flail them, crush thera, and i will tell you what their last cry would be, "Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly!" Oh, yes! the Lord Jesus has won th9 affections of many of us. There are some of us who can say this mornipg, "Lord Jesus, my light and my song; my hope tor time, my expectation for eternity." Altogether lovely Thou art. My soul is ravished with the vision. Thou art mine. Come let me clasp Theet Come life, come death, come scorn and pain, come whirlwiud and darkness Lord Jesus. I cannot give Thee up. I hav heard Thy voice. 1 have seen Thy bleedinj side. Lord Jesus, if I had some garlani plucked from heavenly gardens I wouli wreath it for Thy brow. If I had somi pem worthy of the place I would set it ii Tby crown. If I had seraphic barp I woulc strike it in Thy praise. But I come lost anc ruined and undone to throw myself at Thj feat. No price I bring; Simply to Thy cross I cling. Thou knowast all things. Thou knowes' that I love Thee. But I remark again, "It behoved Christ tc suffer," that the world might learn how to suffer. Sometimes people suffer because they cannot help themselves, but Christ had in His hands all the weapons to ounish Hi; enemies, and yet in quiescence He endured all outrage. He might have hurled the rocks of Golgotha uoon His pursuers: H-; might nave elect tna earth until He swallowed up His assailants; He might have called in reinforcement or taken any thunderbolt from the armory of God Omnipotent and hurled it seething and fiery among His foes, but He answere i not a?ain. Oh, my hearers! has there ever been in the history o" the world such an example of enduring patience as we find in the cross? Some of you suffer physical distresses, some of you have lifelong ailments and th?y make you fretful. Sometim?s you think that God has given you a cup too de3p and too brimming. Sometimes you see the world laughing and romping on the highways of life, and you look out of the winlow while seated in invalid's chair. I want to show you this morning one who hai worse pain3 in the head toan you hava ever had, whose back was scourged, who was wounded in the hands and wounded in the feet, and suffered ail over; and I want that example to make you more enduriug in your suffering, and to make you say, "Father, not My will but Thine be done." You never have had any bodily pain, and you will never have any bodily pain that equaled Christ's torture. "It behoved Christ to suffer," that He might show you how physically to suffer. Some of you are persecuted. There are those who hate you. They criticise you. They would be glad to see you stumble and fall. They have done unaccountable meannesses toward you. Sometimes you feel anery. You feel ss if you would like to retort. Stop! Look at the closed lips, look at the still hand, look at the beautiful demeanor or your luuru. ouuua, uw agam. Ob, if you could only appreciate what He endured in the way of persecution vou never would complain of persecution. The words of Christ would be your words, "Father, if it he possible, let this cup pass from Me; but if not, Thy will be done." "It behoved Christ to suffer" persecution, that He might show you how to endure persecution. Some of you ara bereft. It is no random remark, because there is hardly a family here that has not passed under the shadow. You have been bereft. Your house is a different place from what it used to be. The same furniture, the sacue books, the same pictures, but there has been a voice hushed there. The face that used to light up the whole dwelling has vanished. The pattering of the other feet does not break up the loneliness. The wave has gone over your soul, and you have sometimes thought what you would tell him when he comes back; but then the thought has flashed upon you, be will never come back. Ah! my brother, my sister, Christ has sounded all that depth, Jesus oi the bereft soul is here to-day. Behold Him! He knows what it is to weep at the tomb. It seems to me as if all the storms of the world's sorrow were compressed into one sob, and that sob were uttered in two words, "Jesus wept." I close my sermon with a doxology: "Blessing and glory and honor an i power b6 unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, forever. Amen and amen P Japanese Fans. "Japunere fans, only a cent." This was the sry of a street peddler one day last week, and he had very little trouble in disposing of his wares. The fans were strongly made of twenty-five strips of bamboo with two thicker ones at the ends, the latter having on them a polish of black lacquer. The strips were held together by a rivet, forming a hinge on which the tan opened and closed. The upper ends of the strips were covered with two layers of touch paper, painted in four colors representing flowers, the top edge touched with another color. And all for one cent. ? The Mail and Express man asked a dealer how such a fan could be made and brought from Japan to New York, here 3o!d at so low a price and yet give the peddler a profit. "Bamboo," said he, "grows in Japan as plentiful as cattails in New Jersey. It is easily split by a hand-and-foot-machine aud hundreds of thousands strips can be made in a day. The Japanese excel in the making of strong or tough paper, and iu painting rapidly, by a stamping process, the flowers upon it. The putting 'ogether of the fan is done by machinery, and the cost of the labor is almost nothing when compared with the pay of American workmen. The cheap fan3 are used as packing for more expensive goods, auch a3 porcelain jars, and as they pack closely a lur^e number can go inside and around one umbrella stand. "The porcelain bears the expense of freight, which would amount to ju3t as much without the nackin? as with. This packing help* to preserve the more valuable article. So there is no cost for the lreight of the fans. Although there is thirty-five per cent, duty on both the porcelaiu and packing, the iuvoice price of the latter is so small that the duty amounts to little. The fan packing is tlieu sold here in job lots, and the peddlers get them for mere nothing. That is why tiiev cau sell them so cheaply. Even at one cent, the realized price is much higher than the Japanese charge for them in lar^e quantities."?New York Mail and Express. Yaluable Carved Rubies. The French crown jewels are said to have once included among their number a perfect dragon two inches in length, cirved from a ruby of the first water. When the Summer Palace at Pekin was s.tcked a head of Buddha carved from a magnifi?nt ruby feli to the Duke of Brunswick as his share of tve spoils. After his death it sold for $30,000.?San Frauciso Chronicle. '" ' ' ; .* -v ?' " --V - v RELIGIOUS READING. THK V.VLt'K OK HOME TRAINING. >onie things we learn from our parents will stay by us in later years, however much the world may encroach upon our hearts and Tl?n io truth a llliirlifv force of its own when taught in love. The child mind is in si plastic stute and the impressions made by the truth spoken by fsither and mother are likely to endure, when love seals evev word. This fict has a pleasant illustration in the following simple event. It was related by a Presbyterian minister at a Sabbath convention in ltinghampton, X. Y. It appears that a Christian family highly esteemed, in a Western New York village, removed abont two years aeo to Michigan. Guy. an industrious, conscientious lad of this family, wishing to become helpful to his parents, was hired by the publishers of a leading paper to sell the daily issues in that town. After the bargain had Ween made, he was told that he would be expected to sell on Sundays as well as week days. This he had not taken into the account, and it troubled him exceedingly. He was very anxious to have the situation, but could not see bow he coufd spend his Satibaths in that way. He appealed to his parents who very wisely told him "to think the matter over," knowing that the principles which they bad inculcated would lead him to a correct decision. At first he thought of hiring another boy to do the Sunday work, but after a little thought concluded this would not be right. Finally he determined to give up the position altp>cether, and so informed the editor of the paper. "I can't work on Sunday," said Guy. "Oh," replied the editor, "I used to feel so too, but now we all work on Sunday, and you had better continue with this.'' I "No," he firmly answered, "if I must sell papers ou Sunday, I'll stop altogether." This noble stand taken by the young lad must have caused his employer to think of j earlier days, and perhaps of his own mother, for be soon tesponded: "You need not give up your position. Keep il and I promise you 1 will stop print ing a Sunday edition of my paper." Guy went away delighted, of course, and I the editor has kept his word, although his paper had a large circulation. That is what a boy may accomplish.? [Wesleyan Methodist. THE MINISTRY OF SORROW. There is nothing from which we slirlnK instinctively more than from sorrow. We are too apt to regard it as a manifestation of God's anger toward ns, and not to remember that "whom He loveth he chastenetb." It may be in the tenderest Jove that he sends the'sorrow, which for the time indeed seemeth to be grievous. Tbere is no gain, either spiritual or material, without cost. The sculptor could not free the beautiful statue without repeated blows upon the rough marble block; the diamond would be nothing hut a rough pebble if it were not polished Into brilliant beauty; and there is much in the human heart that can only be developed by suffering. Tbis thought ought to help us to suffpr natientlv. since oainful thouirh the pro cess niay be, it tends to our higher development and growth in grace. For the sake of becoming better and purer, as we shall become If we bear sorrow nrisht, we can endure the cloud which shuts the sunshine out of our lives for the time. There is a higher thought than this to comfort us, however. If we suffer, and learn through our suffering how tender and compassionate our Heavenly Father is when his children are in trouble, then we can carry the comfort wherewith we have been comforted to others in affliction, and become ministering angels to those who Horrow. "Whoso suffereth much hatb much to give.'' It is not worth while to suffer, sinco through that suffering we may be enabled to give royally to those who need our help? It we have learned for ourselves the sweet lessons of comfort, we can whisper them to others who have not perhaps learned to know the Saviour's love. If they know that you speak from the depths of your own heart-experience, they will listen far more readily than If they think that you nre bringing tbem comfort from other sources. Surelv the ministry of sorrow is a blessed one, aW though we may shrink from it at first. If we think of it ns God's appointment for us, we can accept it submissively and strive not to lose its blessings, but let it work out its gracious ministry without murmuring at its presence.?[A. M. Ness. RELIGION IX THE HOME. Zome is one of the relics of Paradise. It has had a place in all ages and in all nationalities. but the Christian home is the creation of Christ. Its idea of personal purity, of the dignity of womanhood, of the consecration of childhood, of the rooting of human love in divine love, of the traimtigurlng of human relationships in the light of the eternal world, is the offspring of Christianity. The spiritual presence of Christ in the home has made it a holier, stronger and sweeter spot. A spiritual home is a veritable gospel. It proclaims, as no sermon can ever do, what Christ is in grace and love and power. It is a bright witness for Christ. And poor Robert Burns was not far from the truth when he sang: To mak" a happy fireside clime, for weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime of human life. On the subject of "God's Forgiveness" the Christian Union has these true words: None are excluded: "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth;" "Through bis name every one that believeth on him L-ii :? eina ?? A nrl tha Miaji rrucivc iciuiboivu ui oiua. ?MW . voice of the Christ Bays, ''Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." He not only pardons the sins of the part, but gives strength to resist preient temptations. We not only receive mercy, but we find grace to help in time of need. The promise is conditioned. We must ask forgiveness in the name of Christ, for none other will avail. We must come with humility, confessing our sins. We must prove our repentance by forsaking our sins. If we have accepted pardon through Christ, we surely ought, through him, to "offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually?that i??, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name." We ought also to heed his command concerning the "blood of the covenant which is shed for many unto remission of sins." "This do in remembrance of mp." And still another duty is ours. Like the. starving lepers in the Syrian eatnp. we should realize that this is a day of iroort tidings, and we do not well to bold our peace. Tbe "exceeding great and precious promises" are not for us alone, but lor all men, and so many have never heard even one of tbora. "Repentance and remission of sins should he preicbed in His name unto* all the nations." We have been forgiven much; we should love much. Let us "prove our love by our efforts to nmke known God's promise of forgiveness throughout the world. Luther was so afraid he might love possessions that he prayed for poverty, saying: '*1 thank Thee, 0 God, that thou hastmaile me a poor man upon earth." When the elector Bent him a valuable present he wrote back ho could not refuse what had been given by tbe prince, but begged him to xen^ no more, as he already possessed thirty dollars and was afraiil he should be numbered with 'hose whose portion is in this world. On the eve of Napoleon's departure for his Russian campaign he detailed his bchemes to a noble l idy so arrogantly thai she tned to check hfm, sajing: "Sir. man proposes, but God disposes." "Madam, 1 propose, and dispose too,'* the emperor liamrtuuy repnea. A few month's later the disastrous retreat trom Moscow, and the loss of his crown, armv an?J liberty, vindicated the power of God. The Philadelphia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animate has discovered that when a street car horse in'that city shows signs of be- j Ing overcome by the heat the driver doses the beast with copious draughts of whisky. Philadelphia has long been known as a bad, wicked town, but nobody ever suspected that she had descended to such depths as this. The demon of intemperance is after her at a lively gait?and he seems to be traveling on horseback, too. 1 SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 4. Lesson Text: "Philip Preaching at Samaria " Ants viii.. 5-25?Golden Text: Act* viii., 5?Commentary. 5. "Th6ti Philip went down to the city of Samaris, and preached Christ unto them." By comparing verses 4,12, 25 with this verse we obtain considerable light as to what was preached in those days; the Word, the Gospel, Christ, the things concerning the kingdom; and if we compare chapters ii., 28; x., 36, 32, 43; xvif., 18, 32. we will find that their preaching included repentance, forgiveness, peace, resurrection and judgment. 6. "And the people with one accord gave heed." Just eleven times in this book do we find the phrase "with one accord" (i., 14; ii., 1, 46; iv.,'24; v.. 12; vii.,57; viii., 6; xii., 20; xv., 25; xviii,, 12; xix., 29); and only once elsewhere in the New Testament is the word used (Rom. xv., 6, R. V). Seven times in the Acts it is "one accord" for good, and these seven make$ most profitable study. It is the manifest power of the Holy Spirit. 7. "Many taken with palsies ana that were lame were healed." These, in addition to the unclean spirits which were cast out, area sample of the miracles wrought by God through Philip, which contained the people to give heed to his words. 8. "And there was great joy in that city." This is always the result of receiving Jesus. Those who believe?that i<?, receive?Him (John i., 12) will be filled with joy and peace (Rom. xv., 13). and it is His pleasure that we should be full of joy (John xv., 11; xvi., 24). 9. "But there was a certain man called Simon giving out that himself was som? great one." The adversary is always busy, and you can always recogniza him by the prominence he gives himself. This is the spirit or auticnrist. see uan. viu., n, 30; xi., 36; Luke iv., 6, 7. The spirit of Jesm is to abase self and honor God (John viii., 23, SO: xvii., 4i. 10. "To whom they all gave head, from the least to the greatest, saying. This mm is tne great power of God." A great following is no proof that a man is right, nor are few followers necessarily an evidence that a man is wrong. Consider Noah. Jeremiah and the prophets, and think of Jesus Himself (John >i., 68). 11. "He had bewitched them with sorceries." So it has been, is and will be till Jesus comes. Jesus speaks-of signs by falsa teachers in the last days that shall if possible deceive the elect (Math, xxiv., 24), and we read in Rev. xiii., 3, 8, of multitudes worshiping the beast, and in II Thess, ii-, 7-12 of those who prefer a lie to the truth. 12. "But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning- the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesu* Christ, they were baptized, both men and women." The reception of tne truth is the cure for all deception. They not only heard, but they received the truth, or rather they received Jesus, who is me irutn touun xiv., ?; x uuuu v., 11, 12.) The entrance of the wordgivefci light (Ps. cxix., 130.) 13. "Then Simon himself believed also; and when be w&f baptized he continued with Philip." The power of God is able to break the hardest heart. Some doubt whether this was a real case of true conversion or not. We shall meet him again, bnt now observe that he believed, was baptizad and continued. 14, 15. "Peter and John prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Gho3t." Word having reached Jerusalem of the great work going on in Samaria, Peter and John were sent to help, and inasmuch as they had received the word, they give themselves to prayer that they may now receive the Holy Spirit. 16. "For as yet He was fallen upon none of them; onlv they were baptized in the name o? the Lord Jesus." Having believed and been baptized they were consequently saved (Markxvi., 16; John i., 12; iii., 16; v., 24.) But we are saved to serve an Hive unto God (I Thess. i., 9; II Cor. v., 15), and for this life and service we need the special gift of the Holy Spirit, which so few care about. 17. "Then laid tney their hands on them, and they receiveu the Holy Ghost.!' So also at Epbesus Paul laid his hands on twelve men who had believed and they received the Holy Ghost and prophesied (chapter xix., tf, 7l. There is evidently a gift of tie Spirit for saved people for service of which we hear comparatively little; and yet there is a plain command to "Be filled with the Spirit" (Eph. v., 18). See tbe way in Luke xi., 13. 18. 19. "Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands he may receive the Holy Ghost." We now return to Simon, of whom we read in verse 13 that be believed, was baptized and continued with Philip wondering and beholding. And now he offers money taat he may obtain this power to confer the spirit. 'He does not seek power to serve God in humility ixx, 19), but rather seeks to be a great due and have power to give. 20. "Thy money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift oC God may be purchased with money." He did not know Isaiah lv., 1, nor Luke xi., 13, and yet he was like a great many even now who think that by doing so much or giving so much they can obtain gifts from God. Many members of churches seem not to understand the grace of God (Rom. iii., 4; Epli. i., 0, 7) 21. "Thou bast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy heart is not right in the light of God." If he had no part in Christ he was not saved; but if Peter meant that he had no part in this gift of the Holy Spirit, he was just in the condition in which most of our church members are, and in reference to serving God his heart was not right. 22. "Repent therefore of this thy wickedness; and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven tbee." Praise God for His forgiveness and merer and plenteous redemption (Ps. exxx., 4, 7; ciii.. 8). He also give* repentance (chapter v., 3D. Notice that thoughts must be forgiven, for the thought of foolishness is sin (Prov. xxiv., 9). 23. "For 1 perceive that thou art in the eall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity." If he was truly saved it would seem that he would have peace instead of bitter* ' ? -? * '? rtiiK of hia ness ana rejoice m me iniquities (Isa. xxiviii., 17; xliii., 25). 24. "Pray ye the Lord for me that none of these thiogs which ye have spoken come upon me." This request of Simon's to be prayed for gives us some encouragement, out the object of his request makes us wonder if we shall meet him. He is not a comfortable study, and alas! he has many followers. It is himself from first to last. 25. "Preached the word of the Lord, preached the Gospel." Thus did Peter and Johaon their way back to Jerusalem. They have no thought of themselves, but only a consuming desire to make Jesus known. This is the mark of a true disciple.?Lesson Helper. Census bulletin 194 details tho population of color, sex and general nativity for 1890. The arrangement Is in geographical divisions, North and South Atlantic, North and South Central, and Western divisions. Texas is in the South Central and stands first in population among the 1 eight thus grouped. In this State the population amounts to 2,235,523; af this the colored proportion is 489,588. This embraces all colored races, xne population 01 tuts eutuc country is put at 02,622,250 and the percentage is as follows: Native white, 73.24; foreign white, 14.56; colored, 12.20, the per cent, of the latter in 1880 being 13.46. The slight increase of per cent, in foreign white and the decrease in the ratio of the colored races would seem to indicate that this country is in no immediate danger of being dominated by either, and whatever is the status in certain sections, the entire country is in the hands of the native born Anglo-Saxon. Nothing is so fortunately built as a fly. It can stand on one leg and scratch itself anywhere with five legi at once.?Atchison Globe. ' i > : , temperangi THF. WATER DRINKER'S DAT. In the old days total abstainers were scoffed at, and we almost had to apologize for drinking water; now we tind constantly people murmuring something like an apology for drinking wine in our presence. The change is coming slowly and steadily, and when we are beginning to be disheartened in our individual effort, we must look to the change that is taking place all over the world, take courage and tnank God.?Canon Wilberforce. A STRIKING CONTRAST. In Mendocino County, Wis., there is a lumbering village of 1100 population, and there are thirteen saloons. The pay roll of the mill company amounts to $9000 a month. And of tnis sum it i9 estimated that $5000, or more than one-balf, is spent at the saloons. On the other hand, at another 'itlaee a few miles distant, the pay roll is $1200 a month, and not a cent of it is known to go for liquor. The mill company owe the town site and allow no saloons. The responsibility of corporations and companies for safe guarding as much as possible the men in their employ, though obvious enough, is too little rezarded. man's nature in his cups. So with the popular belief that the real nature of a man comes out when he is in his cup?. Sometimes it does, but quite as often the real nature of the man is not simply obscured, but it is absolutely obliterated, or as completely changed as if the mau had suddenly received a terrible injury to the brain tbrorgh physical violence or disease. Nine men out of tea, when in their cups, are silly or lugubriously tedious, no matter how robust in understanding or vivacious in intellect they may be when sober. If the truth comes out in the wine, then silliness and opacity of mind is the natural state of mankind. The truth is that the truth no more comes out in the wine than the truth comes out when any other form of transient insanity or partial paralysis of the mental powers is produced by another agent tban alcohol.?Seattle (Was'a.) Post. intoxicants, poverty, vice, and crime. I like to put myself on record also as saying that all the poverty, all the crimp, ani all the vice which attract publlcattention in Boston among what we call the poorer flaw, may be ascribed to the free use of intoxicating liquors. I have said a hundred times, and I am willing to say it again, that if anybody will tike coarse of all the poverty and critf.e which results from drunkenness, the South Congregational Church, of which I have the honor to be the minister, will alone take charge of all the rost of the mui/iu ralioft7 in t.ha JJUVCI C>J WI'IVU uwuo vuwiwi V..W. city of Boston. If that church could satisfy its conscience with as small work as that, it would certainly relievo its visiting forces and its treasury of a very considerable part of the demands now made upon, them.?Ed* ward Everett Hale. LIQUOR IN JACKSON PARK. "Two saloons have already been estab lished inside of Jackson Park where the great white palaces rise so grandly, and intoxicants are openly sold to the thousands of workingmen employed on the grounds. Just outside the entrance on Sixty-tMrd street, within the sacred limits of the Hyde Park prohibition district, still other places have been opened, and all kinds of anti-prohibitopy beverages are retailed over public bars. Between five and six hundred of the men employed on the great Manufacturer*' Building are paid off on Saturday night, and a trip through Sixty-third street groggeriefe showed how easy it is to accumulate an alooholic exhilaration and get rid of bard* earned wages at the same time. Ground has been broken for a Moorish palace two hundred feet square. It is a reproduction of the Alhambra. It will have a capacity for one thousand guests, and the right to sell beer." These manifestations are reported to us by the Chicago press, and show that the trail of the serpent is already over the Eien of tne Fair.?umcago union ei^naj. THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS. The Herald of Health gives the following startling result of a study of the posterity in ten families of drinkers and ten families of non-drinkers. The direct posterity of the ten familes of drinkers included fifty-seven children. Of these twenty-five died in the first weeks and i months of their life, six were idiots, in five children a striking backwardness of tbeir longitudinal growth was' observed, five were effected with epilepsy, five with inborn diseases. One boy was taken with cholera and became idiotic. Thus of the fifty-seven children of drinkers only ten, or 17.5 per cent., showed a normal constitution and development. The ten sober families had sixty-one children, five only dying in the first weeks; four were affected with curable I diseases of the nervous system; two only I presented inborn defects. The remaining I fifty?81.9 per cent.?wero normal in their constitution and development" This is a striking revelation. Out of fiftyseven children in ten families of drinker* only ten showed a normal constitution, the rest revealing epilepsy, idiocy, inborn diseases of various kinds, while out Of sixtyone children of non-irinkers there were but eleven that did not snow a normal development. Think of what this means for the ?*T _ J_ a.i nation, lor ttie worm: ?v e uu uui uccu w assume that these statistics, gleaned from a comparison of twenty families only, would hold precisely true if a careful investigation were made on an extensive scale; but we know that the conditions revealed in this comoarison do hold true, in an appalling degree, wherever the drink habit has fixed itself. if there is a living outrage anywhere upon God's green earth it is a child bora with such a heritage. It is an affront to nature, a Jibel upon God. Nothing more pitiful, no injustice more cruel, is known among the among the children of men. The custom of the Hindoo women who threw their children into the Ginges to be devoured by crocodiles was almost like a har nless civilized pastime compared to this widespread custom of transmitting epilepsy, idiocy and general constitutional depravity to the children of Christian America.?The Voice. TEMPERANCE NKWS AND NOTES. Elizabeth, N. J., has one saloon for every 190 persons there. It is because young men drink that there are so many old drunkards. Temperance means the rizht use of right thin??. There can be no right usa of wrong things. The Nova Scotii Baptists have not one church where fermented wine is u3eJ at com* munioD. The last vestige of tlio Stata debt of Iowa has recently been liquidate J. Iowa, it will be remembered, is a frohioitioa State. Out of the 2700 Congregational ministers in En 'land and Wales at least 16J0 are abstainers; of 3ol stuients, 32 J are abstainers. Temperance reform hes now been made a plank in the platform of the Woman's Liberal L?agui of England, and Lady Henry Somerset is a member of its central council. "I know a man," said Eli Perkins, "who was meaner than a dog. This man an 1 dog went into a salooa together, but tne man got beastly drunk while the dog went noma like a gentleman." The figures of the license vote of 1891 in Boston reveal many interesting facts. Sixty , precincts voted no license, and in seventytwo otheis the majority for licansa was less than ten per cent, of the registration. There is said to be an abstinenca society in St. Petersburg with 6 X) mem oars, whose activity has consisted iu establishing no less than eight tea houses in that purt of the city where drinking places mos; abouni. An inebriates' asyiu n is also contemplated. The Methodist ministers of Iowa have organized a Haddock Temperance League with headquarters at Jefferson, iowa. Tne object is to raise lands for the enforcement of the prohibitory law, ana 10 ajjfjjj a jjbi > o(the money to the erection of a monument to the memory of the Kev. George C. Had. dock, who was murdered by saloon men at Sioux City. "This is ttie tirst poem I ever wrote, sir," said the caller, handing a manuscript to the editor. "Then I could not lor a moment think of taking it from you," replied the generous editor, handing it back.?Brooklyn TJ fa. "Witat! Do you dine in thai fourth-rate place?" "Only when 1 am not hungry. What is the use of wasting good food on a poor appetite?"?Indianapolis Journal. ( ' >-0: Vf;. THE USE OF GRAIN CHAFF. Tlic chaff of grain is Nature's way of protecting seed between the time it falls to the ground and that for it to grow again. Now that grain is stored in bacns or 3tacks the chaff is scarcely less necessary. It is often noted in threshing damp grain that the straw may be almost rotted where the band went around the bundle, yet the grain will shell out with littl# apparent > injury.?Boston Cultivator. v NOT GOOD FOB FOWLS. Atry substance that gives off gaseous matter for several days is 'unsuitable for use in the poultry house a9 a disinfectant. For this reason the chloride of lime is not recommended, as the chloride gas which it gives off for d while is injurious to the hens. The best way to disinlect it is by the burning of sulphur, as has been suggested before, or by the use ot some solution. A three per cent. solution of carbolic acid sprayed over every portion of the poultry house once a week is one of the beat and cheapest modes of disinfecting, ^ and the method is harmless to tho fowls.?New York Herald. TO KEEP MILK SWEET IN HOT WEATHER. The milk dairyman Is often at hit ' ^its' end to prevent souring of the milk in the hot season, when the moisture in the air causes the heat to become more than usually intolerable. To keep the milk sweet then, every precaution must be taken. It is not a serious adulteration to add a small quantity of carbonate of soda, or potash, to the milk, to neutralize the slightly acid change produced in the milk by the heat aad bacteria, and the small quantity required has no' apI preciable effect on the milk. The carbonate of soda in the milk is changed into lactate, pnd the carbonic acid is given off, while the lactic acid is neutralized, and the milk is kept from flouring. Dissolving an ounce of the soda in some of the milk and then mixing the solution through a forty-gallon* canful, may save the whole from loss during times of excessive heat.?Ajnerican Agriculturist. SCABBY LEGS IN POULTRT. TVio imnirrViHtr lumna in fVlfl ftnrl "8? j r~ - ?- -? legs of poultry are due to the presence of a minute insect or mite very much in size and habits like the itch mito in sheep, causing a disease known as scab. Ii you will remove some of the scabs from the feet of your fowls and examine them under a magnifying lens of fair power you will see the mites in great numbers. These mites feed upon the spongy deposit in the scabby growths, and can be readily destroyed by almost any of the common itch ointments or liniments of an oily nature. Equal part) of common lard, sulphur and kerosene will destroy thorn, or an ointment made of one ounce of carbolic acid and twenty ounces of lard is equally as efficacious, and readily t applied with a small paint brush. You [ should also smear the roosts with tbe same ointment, or wash them thoroughly with carbolic acid and water, in order to kill any mites that may be in the cracks of the wood. Clean out the hencoops and hennery, and after whitewash ing all the woodwork scatter flowers or sulphur over the floor and some on the ground at the entrance. As soon as the mites are killed the scabs will drop of! from the feet and legs and there will bo a return to normal condition.?New York Sun. 1 WASHING SHEEP. 60 much depends upon the condition of the wool as to cleanliness that it would be difficult to say too much on the necessity of thorough washing. One of our subscribers, a few days since was greatly disappointed by the low price his wool brought in the Chicago market. The reason was that the wool was heavy with dirt. One or two' fleeces on top were washed. This will not answer. Th<? pnmmiiMtnn men and esDeciallv our National Co-operative .Club go to the bottom and expect to find all alike. Of course the wool cau be sold if dirty, but it will bring perhaps twelve or fourteen cents, whereas" first-class wool or that same wool well cleansed would bring twenty-two cents or more. Sometimes it is asked what is the best way to wash. We answer almost any way that is honest and removes ali the dirt. As to whether the washing should be before or after shearing experienced sheep raisers disagroe. Jt is much pleasanter work to shear sheep thnt hare beeu well washed. The practice in the East has been to wash always before shearing. But in that case it would be better to have the washing done a week or two before the shearing. It is better to allow time for the oil to cook back into the fleece. There is to our mind no better way than to take the sheep into a running stream and wash by hand every part of the fleece. Ut course ine saeep snouiu not be placed in any dusty or muddy yard immediately after, but in a clean pasture. If there is any patent way for an honest farmer in this matter of washing sheep and preparing his fleece to get the highest price in the market wc do not know it.?Farm, Field and Stockman. EASY WAYS wirit CUTTINGS. A convenient propagating frame may be easily made as follows: With a hogshead or barrel hoop laid on the ground as a guide set in a close row of halfwidth shinties in a circle just fnside the hoop. They can be hammered firmly in place, and should be left at an even height of nine inches above ground. These form the upright part of the frame from which, if rightly made, the hoop may now be lifted, though it should fit rather closely. To make the cover, stretch one thick- J ncss of white cotton cloth tightly across the hoop, bringing the edges inward, and sewing It firmly, the thread paaMiy,' over and over tho hoop, as in winding. * ' The frame may be made in any open sunny place in the garden, as the cloth cover tempers the light so that osaailj - - '1 i J-J A do oiaer proteiuiuu is iieeuwu. auvuut consideratiin^io slight one to a busy or y forgetful gardener, is that evaporation is ' <''* retarded, thu3 making an e very-day watering needless. The cuttings to be rooted may be set in pots or in the earth under the frame with equally good results. For a few slips the former is the better way; but the lrame will hold a great many more if they are set close together in the earth. Make the soil mellow for a foot id depth, add water, and mix till the whole is a stiff mud. Cuttings set in thiawill need no further watering for a long time. When rooted the earth is so compact that by cutting out a square bit around v <| each they may be lifted and transplanted without disturbing the root? in the least. The frame is recommended for all kinds of cuttings, but is especially good for propagating hardy shrubs, most of which strike root readily if outtings are made in early summer. < p. The beautiful variegated Weigeliafs easily rooted and the other Weigelias, the Forsythia, the Deutzia, single sad double, the hardy Hydrangea, the Byringa and others. The calycanthus, or 'Strawberry Shrub," has been tried without success. When the young - '^j snrubs are well rooted, remove the cover and leave them in the frame for protection all winter, setting them the nest spring where they are to remain.?-New York Independent. FARM AND GARDKIT H0TKS. Don't let your tomatoes grow too much vine. The well fed horse Is always at pre* ' mlum. The garden pays the best of any patch on the farm. In applying liquid manure do not put it on tho plant. Gire the boys and girls a chance to raise chickens. Lettuce is a good sedative and is used as such in medicine. v By milking a cow gently, more fit globules are given oil and a better quality of milk procured. The late Charles Dowiyng is reported to have said: "If I could hare but one pear I would take the Sheldon." Bantams are kept almost entitelj tot amusement and their small sile. Sep* tember is the best time to batch them.. When carbolic acid is used either i& the food or water care must be taken not to use too much, as it is a deadly poison. Over fat hens are a nuisance. They are always lazy, generally broody, and lay few if any eggs. Better market or eat ihem. * Corn has a tendency to produce fat rather than milk, but oatmeal is better than cornmeal to quickly fatten old cow? or steers. Probably one of the best uses for de? horned cattle is that they can come closer together in manger without injur* ing each'other. AU of the poultry drinking vessels, feeding troughs or feeding boards should be thoroughly scalded and washed oft every week or ten days. English gooseberries, if not in a shady place, should be mulched to keep the roots cool. They do better if planted in the shade of large trees. It is not very well to have the chickens on the roost and make the ducks and geese stand under them. Better it Is to provide quarters for them alone. The Golden Queen raspberry is a delicious fruit, bat so delicate in color and flavor that it soon spoils after picking, and is therefore unsuited for maket* ing. A hen cannot secure enough lime in her grain lood to form the shell of aa / egg. If broken oyster shells are liber* ally supplied you will have no more solt*shell eggs. i Stimulating food is needed by the fowls during the moulting season. Wheat, oats and Unseed meal, with * liberal supply of bone meal, is better than corn. Hens, at least, should have as much liberty as possible this season. They will do little, if any, duiiage, while they will pick up much that would otherwise go to waste. It may be a little trouble to place dropping-boards in tho hen house, but the time saved in cleaning the house when they are put up will more thaa pay for twice the trouble. From elaborate experiments c&rricd out at the Alabama station the con elusions are that no change of color was observable in the butter from feeding either cottonseed or cottonseed meal. Guineas are an excellent help to farmers. A small flock will .forage over a good-sized farm and keep the injurious insects at bay. It would be well for farmers to keep a flock for this purpose aloie. Both corn and potatoes send out from the young plants loug roots which reach quite a wide circumferoncc; so in making hills of earth around the plants be careful to avoid cutting off the ends of these roots. rrv. i% i ? r/ ,17? ? iu J/rani liiijuci ciuv* The commercial societies of Holland have petitioned the Government to exnmiae again the project to drain toe Zuyder Zee and to carry them into effect, if possible, thus adding about 759 square miles to the territory of Holland. The total co3t of the work would be about 190,000,000 of florins, beside3 the cost of chauging the coast defeuces of the country to meet the changed conditions. In 1S75 the Dutch Chamber voted the equivalent of about $47,500,000 for the work, which would involve the erection of a dike twenty-six feet high above the water and twenty-five milts long.?-Boston Transcript,