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r KEV. DR. TALMAGE. v (THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. rSubJect: "Seraphic Postures and Human lmj>erfections." Test: "With twain he covered his face, tsith tivain he covered his feet, and with. Sisain he did Jiy."?Isaiah vi., 2. In a hospital of leprosy good Km? Uzziah had died, and the whole land was shadowed jwicn soiemmry, ana cneoiogitm auu etic Is-aiah was thinking about religious jthines, as one is apt to do m time of great national bereavement, and forgetting the presence of his wife and two sons, who made |up his family, he had a dream, not like the (dreams of ordinary character, which generally co-.e from indigestion, but a vision imost instructive, and under the touch of , 'the han<i of the Almighty. 1 The place?the ancient temple: building ?grand, awful, majestic. Within that temple a throne higher and grander than "that occupied by any czir, or suitan or emperor. On that throne th? eternal Christ. I" linoc rmrmin iinc thnf, thrnnft the britrht" est celestials, not the cherubim, but higher than they, the most exquisite and radiant Of the heavenly innabitauts, the seraphim. 'They are called burners because they look Jike fire. Lips of fire, eyes of fire, feet of :fire. In addition to the features and the limb?, 'which suggest a human being, thera are p.nions, which suggest the lightest, the swittest, the most buoyant and most inspiring of all intelligent creation?a bird. Each seraph had six wings, each two of the Wings lor a different purpos?. Isaiah's dreain quivers and flashes with these pinicns. Now folded, now spread, now beaten in locomotion. "With twain he covered his feet, with twain he covered his face, anl with twain he did fly." . The probability is that these wings were not all used at oi>ce. The seraph standing there near the throne overwhelmed at the in significance of the paths his feet liad trodden as compared with the paths trodden by the feet of God, and with the lameness of his locomotion amounting almost to decrepitude as compared with the divine velocity, with feathery veil of angelic mo.Iesty hides the feet. "With twain be did cover his feet.'" Standing there overpowered by the overmatching splendors of God's glory, aniunah!e longer with the eyes to loos upon tLem, and wishing those eyes shaded from the insufferable glory, th? pinions gather over the countenance. "With twain he did cover the face " Then as God tells this seraph to go to the farthest outpost of immensity on message of light and love and joy, and get back before the first anthem, it does not take the seraph a great while to spread himself upon the air with unimagined celerity; one stroke of the wins equal to ten thousand leagues of air '-With twain he did fly." MiMf r\r*ar*t i/-?o | on i 11?Af?l 1>SSOn for you and me, when we see the seraph spreading his wings over the feet, is a lesson of humility at imperiection. Tbe bright st Angels of God are i-o tar beneath Qod ttiat He caarges them with folly. The seraph so far teneath God, and we so far beneath the Berapn in service we ought to be plunged in humility, utter and complete. Our feet, howlaggard they have been in the divine service! Our leet. how many missteps they have taken! Our feet, in how many paths of worldliness and tolly they nave walned! neither God nor seraph interned to put any dishonor upon that which is one of the masterpieces or Almighty God?the human foot. Physiologist and anatomist arj over wneimea at tae wuuum ui jus ui^auiuuvu. ,lThe Bridgewater Treatise," written by Sir Charles Bell, ou itie wisdom and goodness of God, as illustrated in the human band, was a result o; the $40,000 bequeathed in tha last will and testament of the Earl of Bri-lRewater lor the encourangeraent of Christian literature. The world could afford to forgive his eccentricities', though he had two cogs seated at liis tab.e, and though ha put six r.ogs alone in an equipage drawn by four horses and attended by two footmen. With h">s jarge bequest inducing Sir Chanes Bell to write so valuable a book on the wisoom oZ God in the structure of the human hand, the wond could afford to lorgive nis oddities. And the world couid now afford to have another Earl of Bridgewater, however idiosyncratic, if he would induce come other Sir Chanes Bell to write a boo<c on the wisdom and goexiness of liod in th9 construction oi the human foot?the articulation of its bones, tue lubrication of its joint?, the graceiumess ot its noes, tut) mgenuuv oc its cartilages, tha delicacy of its veins, the rapidity ot its muscular contraction, the sensitiveness of its nerves. I >ouna ttle praises of the human foot "With tnat we halt or climb or march. It is the loundation ot tne physical tabric. it is the base oc a God poised column. With it the warrior braces himself lor battle. VVith it the orator plants himself tor eulogium. Witb it the toiler reaches hiswonc. iVith it ttie outraged stamps his indignation, its loss an Irreparable disa ster. Its health an invaluable equipment. If you want to know its VAiue, asK the mau whose foot paralysis hath shriveled, or machinery hath crustied, or surgeon's knife hatn amputated. ,The Bible honors it Especial care, "Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone;" "ha wiu not suffer thy foot to De moved;" "thy leet shall not stumble." Especial charge. 4'Keep thy loot when thon goest to tbe house of God." Especial peril, "Iheir feet shall slide in due time." Connected with the world's dissolution, "He shall set one toot on tbe sea and tbe other on thi> earth.' Give me the history of your toot ami I will gire you the history of your lifetime Tell me ui? what steps ?t natu gon^, Uo<vn what declivities, and in what roads and in what directions, and I will know mora about you than I waut to know. Nona of us coul I endure the scrutiny. Our feet not alwiysin ;paths of God. Sometimes in oaths of worldliness. Our feet, a divine an 1 glorious machinery for usefulness an J work, so often making missteps, so often going in the wrong direction. Go i knowins every stap, the patriarch saying, 'Thou settest a print on the heels of my feet." Cnmw of the hand, crimes ot the tongue, crimes of thi ye. crimes of the ear uot wor.se than tha crimes of th"? toot. Oh, wa want the winga of humility"^ cover the feet. Oujht we not to go into self abeznation betora the all searching, all scrutinizing, all trying eye oI God? The seraphs do. How muca mora we? "With twain he coveradthe feet." All this talk about the dignity of human nature is braggadocio and a sin. Our nature started as the hand of Godregil, but it has been pauperized. There is a well in Belgium which onca had very pure water, and it was stoutlv masanai with stone and brick; but that well afterward bicama tin centre of the bat:le of Waterloo. At the opening of the battle the soldiars witi their sabers compelled toe gardeuer. William Von Kyisooj, to draw water out of the well for them, and it was very pure water. But the battle raged, and throe hundreJ dead and half dead were llunj into the well for quick and easy burial, so that toe wall of refreshment became the well of death, and long alter people loo'ie 1 down into the well, and they saw the bleached skulls, but no water. So the human soul was a well of good, bnt the armies of sin have fought around it, anl fou;ht across it and been slain, and it has become a well of skeletons. Dead hopes, dead resolutions, dead opportunities, dead ambitions. An abandoned well unless Christ shall reopen and purify and All it as the well of Belgium never was. Unclean, unclean! _Another seraphic posture in the text, "With twain he covered the face." That meanrrevercffe<rt?oxwarj. rrever so muua irrevcrenca abroa i in the world as to-day. You see it in the defaced statuary, in the cutting out of figures from tine paintings, in the chipping of monuments for a memento, in the fact that a military guard must stand at the graves of Grant and Garfield, and that old shade trees mu-t "e cut down for firewood, though fifty George P. Morrises bug the w^odm^u to spare the treo. and t^t fall?" a corpse a cadaver, ani that sprats or death as going over to tiie majority, and substitutes for t:ie rcvarent terms, father and mother, "the old nnn'' and "che old woman," and tinds nothing impressive in the ruins of Baalbec or the columns of Karnnc, and se3s n3 difference in the Sabbath from any other days except it allows more dissipation, and reads tbe Bible in what is called higher criticism, making it not the Word of God. but a good book with some fine things in it. Irreverence never so mucu abroad. How many take the name of God in vain, how many trivial tuings said about the Almighty. Not willing to have Go J in the world, they roll up an idea of sentimentality and humanitarianism and impudence imbecility and call it God. No wings of reverence over the face, no taking off of shoes on holy ground. You can tell from the way they talk they could hare made a better world than this, and that the God of the Bible shocks every smse of propriety. They talk of the love of God in a way chat shows you they believe it does not make any difference how bad a man is here, he will come ia at tie shining gate. They talk of the love of Goi in su sti a way whicn 6hows you they think it is a general jtiil delivery tor all ttie abandoned and the scoundrelisra of the universe. No punishment hereafter for any wroa* done here. The Bible gives two descriptions of CtoI, and they are just opposit?, and they are both true. In one place tne Bible says Goi Is love. In another placa the Bible says God is a consuming fire. The explanation is plain as plain can be. God through Christ is love. God out o? Christ is lire. To win the oneani to escape the other we have only to throw ourselves, body, raiad ani soul into Christ's keeping. 'Vfo," says Irrever. ance, "I want no atonement, I want no pardon, 1 want no intervention; I will go up an I face God, and I will challenge Him, and I will defy Him, and I will ask Him what He wants to do with me." So th9 finite confronts the infinite, so a tack hammer tries to break a thunderbolt, so the breath of human nostrils defies the everlasting God, while tha hierarchs of heaven bow the head and bend the knee as the King's chariot goes by, and th) archangel turns away because he cannot endure the splendor, and the chorus of all the empires of heaven comes in with fuli L.I? U^Ultl djanasou, "noiy, uoiy, uuij . Reverence lor sham, reverence for the old merely because it is old, reverence for stupidity howevdr learned, reverence for incapacity, however finely inaugrurated, I have none. But we want moro reverence for God, more reverence for the sacraments, more revereucj for the Bible, more reverence for the pure, more reverence for the good. Reverence a characteristic of all great natures. You he*r it in the roll of the master oratorios. You see it in the Riphaelsand Titiansand Ghirlandijos. You study ic in the architecture of the Aholiabs and Cnristopner Wren*. Do not be flippant about God. Do not joke about death Do not make fun of the Bible. Do not deride the Etarnal. The brightest and mightiest seraph cannot look unabashed upon Him. Involuntarily the wings come up. "With tw.un he covered his face." Another seraphic posture in the text. The seraph must not always stand still. Ho must move squ id must uh wimuuo wuwmness. '1 here must be celerity and beauty in the movement. "'With twain he did fly." Correction, exhilaration. Correction at our slow gait, lor we only crawl in the service when we ou;ht to fly at the divine biddi ng. Exhilaration in the fact that the soul has wings as thef seraphs have wings. What is a wing? An instrument of locomotion. They may not be liice seraph's wing, they may not be like bird's win?, but the soul has wings. God says so. "He shall mount up on wings as eagles." We are made in the divine image, and Gel has wings. The Bible says so. "Healing in His win-rs." "Under the shadow of His wings." "Under whose wings thou hast come to trust." We have folded wing now, wounded wing, broken win?, bleeding * ?; a i r Kott/? if. rirrn* wing, cased maj, n.ya *. ?!<*?? .., Caged within bars of bone and under cur. tains of fle>h, but or.o day to be free. I h9a^ the rustle of pinions in Seagrave's poem, which we often sing; Rise, mysoal, and atretc'.i thy wlnjjs. I hear the rustle of pinions in Alexander Pope's stanza, whicii says. I raDtint. I fir: O De*th, where is thy victory? A dying Christian not long ajo cried out, "Wings, wing*, wings J" The air is lull of them, coming and going, coming and going. You have seen how the dull, sluggish chrysalid becomes the bright butterfly; the dull, and the stupid, and the lethargic turned into the alertaud the beautiful. Well, my friends, in this world we are in the chrysalii state. D >ath wi 1 unfurl the wings. Oh, if we could only realize wnat a gran 1 thing it will be to pet rid oi: tae old clod of a body and mount the heavens, neither seagull nor lark nor | albatross nor falcon nor cjaior pitching from highest range oi Andes, so buoyant or bo majestic of stroke. v See that eagle in the mountain nest. It, looks so sick, so ragged featiisra.l, so worn out and so half asleep. Is that eagle dying? No, The ornithologist wilt tell you it is molting season with that bird. Not dying, but molting. You sse that Christian sicic and weary and worn out and seaming about to expire on what is called his deathbed. The world says he is dying. I say it is the molting season for his soul?the body dropping away, the celestial pinions coming on. Not dying, but molting. Molting out of darkness and sin and struggle into glory and into Goi. Why do you uot shout? Why do you sit shivering at the thought of death and trying to hold back and wishing you could stay h?re forever, and speak of departure as tnough the subject were filled with skeletons and the varnish of coffins, and as though you preferred lamo foot to swift wing? O people of God, let us stop playing the fool and precare tor rapturous flight. When your soul stands on the verge of this life au4 - *- ?^anaofK onrl onrw tnere are vasu jji cv,iuu<^;> u^un?u au.. ?r phired domes above, wuicu way will you fly? Will you swoop or will you soar! Will you fly downward or will you fly upward? Everything on the wing this morning bidding us aspire. Holy Spirit on tha wing. Angel of tha new covenant on the wing. Time on the wing, flyin? away from us. Eternity on the wing, flying toward us. Wing?, wings, winss! Live so near to Christ that when you are dead people standing by your lifeless body will not fioliloauize, saying: "What a dis? appointment life was to him; bow averse he was to departure; what a pity it was he had to die; what an awful calamity.'' Rather standing there mar thay sea a sign more vivid on your still face than tha vastiges of pain, something that will indicate that it was a happy exit?the clearance from op pressive quarantine, the cast off chrysalid, the molting of the faded and useless and the ascent from malarial valleys to bright, ohinincr mountain tops, and be led to say as they stand there contemplating your humility and your reverence in life and your happiness in death, "With twain he covered the feet, with twain he cohered the face, with twain he did fly." Wings! Wings I Wings | Daub c?jr*? Painting-Boat. Daubigny wished to be free from following oa foot the banks of rivers, to be independent of hotels, to be on hand at sunrise and sunset, when the effects were mo3t enchanting, and to move about stream at will. With this desire he went to see his friend Baillet, the boat-builder, at Asnleres, and explained his project. "Hold!" said Baillet, "I have just what you I 1 * ~ _ ,1 ~ J Wallb) a UUaU lutcuucu tu uu usuu iui a ferry." Daubignv, who was accompanied by his son Karl, looked over the boat, which was some twentyeight feet long, six feet beam, flatbottomed, and drew only eighteen inches of water. Ballet agreed to complete it, so that three or six rowers could be used, and a 6ail at will. At tho 6tern was to be placed a cabin in pine sufficiently large to work and sleep in, with lockers on each side to contain bedding, cooking utensils, provisions, and artist's materials. Thus equipped, with a plentiful supply of provisions oa board, and accompanied by his son Karl, other pupils, or a chance friend, Daubigny made extensive voyages on the Botin?for so was this curi .us little craft christened bv an imriudeut rustic?alonar the Oise, Seine, Marne, and adjoining rivers. Here, freed from material cares, living close to nature, he produced those marvelous studies of river life by which he is perhaps most widely known.?Century. After having become convinced that her drinking water is filled with sewage and must he boiled before it is drank, Chicago is now trying to find a safe way of disposing of her garbage, xnese evidences or a desire to improve tha sanitary condition of the World's Fair city ought to be gratifying to the thousands of persons who contemplate a visit to the place next summer. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOK SEPTEMBER 18. Lesson Text: Quarterly ReviewGolden A'ext; Kpl?. if., -O? Commentary. Home Readings.?The fii-3t eizht chapters of Act?, entire, containing the lesson passages of the Quarter. Luss n" 1.?Topic, "The Ascension of ' Christ" (Acts i., 1-12). Golden Text. "When He had spoken theso things, while tliev beheld He was tak?n up. and a cloud Him nut. nf tilp.il' sicllt" f Acts i.. I 9). '1 he Gospels tell what Jesus bepa.ii to do and teach; the Acts tell what He continued to do and teach through His apostles. They were to rely upon the Holy Spirit as their only power, and their one business was to testify of Jesus. Their joy was that the same Jesus would return in due time to restore the kingdom to Israel. He will come in person, His saints will meet Him on the war and return with Him (L Thes?. iv., 16, 17; iti., 13; iv., 14). Lesson II.?Topic, "lhe Descent of the Spirit'' (Acts ii., 1-12). Golden Text, "When He, the Spirit of Truth, is come. He will guide you into all truth" (Johu xiv., 18). They prayerfully and expectantly waited from day to day tor the orooiised Comforter. See John xiv., 16, 26; xv? 26;xvi., 13. If Jesus had not ascended. He would not have come (John xvi., 7), and the disciples might have labored in vain. But when the Spirit of God works or speaKs tQon wortc is done and to some purpose. Our wisdom and power is nothing, but He who at creation brought light out of darkness and order and truitfulness instead of chaos and emptiness can shine in men's hearts and give the knowelcge of God (Gen. i., 2; 2 Cor. iv. 6; John xvi., 8). Lesson III.?Topic. "The First Christian ChurcU" (Acts ii., 37-47). Golden Text, "l'he Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved" (Acts ii., 47.) As Peter spoke the word in the power of the Spirit and testified of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, the people were convinced of their sin and earnestly asked vraat to do. Thus began to be formed the Church or Body of Christ (Eph.'i., 23, 23), of woich He is tho Mead, and which when completed will be brougut to Him as Eve was to Adam. Then the marriage of the Lamb, and after tfcat the kingdom (Rev. xix). Lesson IV.?Topic, "Ths Lame Man Healed (Acts iii., 1-16). Golden Text, "And iiis name, through laith in His name, bath made this man strong" (Acte iii., 16.; Jesus, though absent in body and invisible, has ail power in heaven and on earth (Matt, xxviii., 18). and is pleased by His Spirit in His people to snovr ms power un Ut-iun Ui our bodies as well as our souls. Oti.-erre that again Peter preaches a risen Christ iverse 15). Lesson* V.?Topic, "Petter and John Bei fore the Council" (Acts iv., 1-18). Golden Text, rtIhere is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved" (Acts iv.. 12). The preaching of the resurrection of Jesus so enraged the religious rulers, ana especially the Sadducees, who did not believe in a resurrection, that Peter and John were imprisoned and the next brought before the council. Again Peter boldly proclaimed that Jesus whom they had crucified was alive, and that the healing of the lame man was His doing. If the power of a risen, living Christ was seen in us, people would learn of Jesus through us. Lesson VI.?'Topic, ' The Apostles' Con Science in God" (Acts iv., 18-31.) Golden Text, "'lhey spake the Word of Goi with boldness (Actsiv., 31i. The council having threatened them and commanded them to sptak no more in Jesus's name, let them go. The apostles said that they must speak in His name, an.l departing went to the other believers and told their story. The result was prayer and praise and another mighty baptism of the Holy Spirit and increased testimony to a risen Christ. Lesson VII.?Topic, "Ananias and Sapphira" (Acts v., 1-llj. Golden Text, "be not deceived, God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man s-oweth, that shall he also reap" (Gal. vi? 7). We have thus far seen the power of tne Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, in holy and true men who were faithful witnesses; but now we seethe de-' ceitfumess ot the humau heart in a man and his wire who thought they couiu aeceird God and not be found out. Keeping back part of the price, Jacit of whole-hearted consecration to God, is the great hindrance in the church tc-iay. Lesson VIII.?Topic, -'The Apostles Per secuted" (Acts v., 2t-4l) Golden Text, "We ought to oLey God rather than men" Acts v, 29). So many mighty works were wrought by the apostles that the rage of Satan again caused their imprisonment, but the Lord by an angel set them Iree in th< nijht, and told them to keep on preaching. They are lound in the temple at their wortf, are arrested and brought before the council and again testify to a risen Christ. The council are reaay to kill them; Gamaliel ad vises moderation, so they are beaten and lei go. Lessok IX.?Topic. "The First Christian Martyr" (Acts yii,, 54-60). Golden Text, "He kneeled down and oried with a loud oice. Lord, lay not this sin to their charge" (Acts vii., 60). Out o? seven men, full of faith and the Holv Spirit, who were chosen to see to the temporal affairs of the church. Stephen so spake and wrought miracles and accused the council of the murder of Jesus, that what they thought to have done to Peter and John they actually did to Stephen, and stoned him to death, Saul being a witness to the deed and cons enting to it. Lisson X.?Topic, "Philip Preaching at Samaria" (Acts viii., 5-35). * Golden Text. "And there was great joy in that city" (Acts viii., 8). The command of Jesus was to testify of Him in Judea, Samaria and unto the ends of the earth (chapter i., 8), but up to the death of Stephen they had not done so. After that the believers were scattered everywhere, preaching the Word, and Philip, another of the seven, had such success in Samaria that Peter and John weiM sent from Jerusalem that the believers might receive the gift of tho Holy Ghoi<t. Then is revealed the heart of Simon the Sorcerer, who thought that money could buy the gift. Compare this with the sin of Ananias. Lesson* XI.?Topic, "Philip and the Ethiopian" (Acts viii., 26-40). Golden Text, k PTo tKof Koiiovaf.K rvr* thn Ann lint.Vi ounr. lasting life'' (John iii., 36). Philip iB called from the great work in Samaria to visit the desert and lead the Ethiopian eunuch to Jesue. Our business as servants of Christ is not to seek great things for ourselves (Jer. xlv., 5), but to obey Him and follow where He leadeth. We cannot estimate the value of one soul, and as we ara laborers with God, not he with u?, He must have full control of us.?Lesson Heloer. The rusting of rails, especially in the sulphurous air of long tunnels, forms a not unimportant item of railway loss. In the Altenburg tunnel. which is 1.230 feet lone and lo cated on a curve of 2,950 feet radiU9, the rails have been laid eleven years, and were found to be covered with hard scales of iron sulphide to a depth of sixteen to twenty-four hundredths of an inch. The weight of the rails had been much reduced, al though their thickness had increased on actfount of the flakiness of the r"' ? J I rusu xae new rails are nuw pumieu every six months with a protective tar mixture. In the Brandleite tunnel, about ten thousand feet long and on a 1 per cent, grade, the rails depreciate as much from rust as from wear, and metal ties lo3e an average of a pound a year. "Maud, run over to Mrs. Do Swelle's and tell her her chimney is on fire." "I can't papa. This is Wednesday, and Mrs. De Swelle's dav is Thursday. I'll go to-morrow." ?Harper's Bazar. I First Mamma?"I see you have got your boys some pretty suits." Second Mamma?"Yes, that's the only way ] can keep them in check." ? Texas Siftlngs. J .4' , " v'.V t \ { RELIGIOUS READING.! CHILDREN*. Everything that constitutes any considerable pUrt of ;i man's prosperity required to be kept and nourished?his house, his pictures, his garden, his fields, his money, his friendships. his position in life, his "character?all need money and watching continually. Let him play the sluggard with any of them, and tbpy arc so far lost, for they are parts of a world that "never continueth in one stay." It is eminently so with children. We lose them every day, even when ?e have them, if we do not keep them as a man keeps his treasure. They can only be kept by training, growth, development. They are houses?little "hamjneting houses"?where our loves ami noprs nave swteiesi enienamment. But if they are not kept, you will soon see the weather-stain, the gaping rent, the incipient decay. If the house is to wear snd retain '*tlie similitude of a palace," it must be "polished" day by day. They are little pictures, fairer than human handever painted, in which the gazing eye will fiud tar depths, rich colorings, the endless play of light and shadow, the mantling of tbe individual expression, and a living beauty th-ough the whole cannot be described. But as the most . valuable pictures grow vile with blots when hung within touch of the rude and careless, or hideous with cobwebs and dust when left in a deserted room; so those sweet living pictures soon catch the stains of rude commerce and careless society when loo much exposed to tliem: soon darten ana degenerate. If they are hut neglected. They are gardens, fairer and more fragrant than Solomon's in which he "planted trees of all kinds of fruit." But you will soon seethe-weed, the wildness, the overgrowth, if you do not dig. and cut, and bend, and train, and water. It is instructive that the best flowers and plants of the garden are mostly the ultimate forms and products of far simpler and wilder things. The beauty and the fruitfulness, the deep coloring, the double blossoming, the affluent size, the luscious flavor? these arc all refinements and elaborations of skill and taste. Well, a family is just a garden of God wliers are those living plants called children?who all have something of the wildness of nature in them and by gracious he.'p we are to nurture and raise them up into finer and nobler formi of grace. We are to labor until we have them so that ,4*n onmp into wv oon WUl UCOb miv/tvu kv ...? His Garden to rat His pleasant fruits."? [Alexrnder Raleigh, D. D. PAKJ.SII.WORK AMONG THE LONDON POOR The parish system provides everything; for the men, clubs; for the women, nursing in sickness, friendly counsel always; help in trouble; the girls are brought together and kept out of mischief, nnd encouraged in selfrespect by ladies who know what they want and how "they look at things; the grown lads nre taken from the streets, and, with the younger boys, are ought arts and crafts, and are trained in manly exerc ises just as if ihey were boys of Eton nnd Harrow. Tlie church services,' which used to be everything, are now only a part of the parish work. The ol<Tgv are at once servants of ?\*AflrtUA??3 tonnliava nlmnnpra tijc ami, yitiitucir, ituuuwcj m*??w~i leaders in all kinds of societies and clubs and providers of amusement* and recreation. Tlie people look on, hoid out their nands, receive, at tirst indifferently; but presently, one by one, awaken ?o a new sense. As they receive, I hey cannot choose but to discover that these ladies have given up their luxurious homes ai.d the lite of ease in order to work anions thi-iu. They also discover that these young gentlemen, who "run" the clubs, tench the boys pymnastics, boximr, drawing, carving, and the rest, give up for this all their evenings?the flower of the dnv in the flower of life. What for? What do they get for it? Not In this parish only, but in every parish the same kind of things go on, and spread daily. This ?observe?is the last step but "one of charity. For the progress of charity is as* follows: First" there Is the pitiful do'e to the bepgir; then the bequest to monk and monastery; then the foundings of the almshouse una the pamn cnaruy; then the EnMer and the Christinas offerings; then the gift to the almoner; then the cheque to a society; i.ext?latest and best?personal servicc among the poor. This is both flower ami fruit of charity. One thing only remains. And before long this thing also sh'I come to t?ass ns well. Those who live in the dens and witness thtfe things done diiily must l/C stocks and stones if they were not moved by theni. They are rot stocks and stones; they are actually, though slowly, moved by them.? [From "A .Riverside Parish." by Walter Besant, in the August (Fiction "Number) Scrihner. SELF-SACRIFICE. There are those who are constantly saying that Christianity has lost its power; that we i never hear ot any old time conviction and conversion; that ciirisi.ans no not ieci iuemselves called upon to make sacrifices, such as they diil in Mmes past, for conscience's sake ana for God. We are ulnd to lie ?ble to give such charges flat denial; for we are constantly w.tnessing the work of theSpiritin a most riiarked and wonderful degree, both in the conviction and in the conversion of men, old and young. That the Spirit of God, working in the hearts of his people, does bring about illustrious examples of self-sacrifice is a'so true. We have in mind two men, who, within a few months, have become Christians, one of them, at the time of hi* conversion. occupying a conspicuous and lucrative position upon the staff of one of our largest d.iily papers, bringing him an income of from three to four thousand dollars jt year. The other a man, who, fot years, having spent his life in tbe sportfno ?rr>r!il htid attained amons his class an enviable reputation, and whose earnings wen from seventy-fi'e to one hundred dollars a week. For conscience's sake and for God, the first one laid aside bin position, because he found it inconsistent with his allegiance to Christ to hold it, and hns taken a position at probably fifteen dollars a week; and this he has done gladly. The other in giving up his old sporting tife, with his large income, is today in a day-laborer's place, earning scarcely a dollar a day. These are not fanciml-cases, but have come under our own pastoral eye, and we thank God for them. For, as a friend has said, they give our own faitb a great uplift. No doubt there are thousands of just such esses, did the church and the world know them; but it is a characteristic of this kind of consecration modestly to hide itself f-om the eves of the world.? [Words and Weapons. THAT "PERFECT WILL OF GOD." To Christians who live in constant jeopardy of their lives, the injunction to present their bodies a living merifice to God must have bad a tbriHint; import. We are not now called upon to lay down our lives for Christ, as some of those Roman Christians were. If we were I hope we should be willing to do it. S< me one has said that we are ready to write for the truth, to tight for it, to die for it?any thing hut live for it. Is this true? Christ now needs those who will lend lives unspotted from the world a* much as he once ueeded those who would Inv down life at his call. Shall we fail him? Tin. norfp/it will of f!<?d" meant to manv a Roman Christian I09S of uroperty and friends, to some bonds and imprisonment, to some death itself. To Christians living in the proud capital of the world among those wlio.se onlv object in life seemed to he enjoyment, and who were engaged in all the lascivious rites of heathen woi ship, the command to "Ins not conformed to the world" must have had a momentous meaning. Does it mean less to us? lie sendeth forth his command upon earth: llis word runneth very swift v.? [Psalm cj lvii., 15. mr3. Ya;?* Crugkr?"It strikes me, ray dour, that flirting has bccorac almost ?i scienc2. It reminds me ol chiiss." Edith Theodora ? "Yes. mamma, that's so. You can't get along without the men, you know." ?Boston Budget ' Blackburn, the English chess champion, feels his defeat by Lasker very acutely, because he Is only a new player and but 24 years of age. A veteran rarely relishes a beating j hy a novice. i V >-?/A-.. 7 TEMPERANCE. THK THRIFTT FARMER. He ne^er had a lawsuit to take him to town, For the vary simple reason thare are no fences down; The barroom in the villaga for him has no charm: I can always fled my neighbor on his fortyacre farm. ?Atlanta Constitution. A DOCTOR'S' DrTGSrOSIS. After very large experience of our life Insurance companies, of our benefit societies, the experience of all theso is entirely in this direction, that life is shortened and disease induced, and th? body, even, very materially injured by indulgence in alcoholic liquors.? "W B. Carpenter, M. D. TESTIMONY AT HALIFAX. Before the Prohibition Commission in Halifax the other day the governor of Rockhead prison said that in hia twelve years' ex perieuce be never knew a case or vagrancy, disorderly conduct; or assault that was caused otherwise tban by liquor, in face, liquor was thy cause of about every prisoner being sent to prisoD. There would be no trouole if not tor drink?no crime, no poor asylums, no prisons or any such institutions. He thought prohibition desirable, and that it could be carried out in Nova Scotia, except in Halifax. The reason it could not be carri ed out in Halifax was because Halifax was the Gibraltar of rum. "PROTECTION" AGA.INST THE LAWS. The liquor dealers of Chicago have a protective association. In a recant report made by the Secretary the association is congratulated on the fact that it has so successfully defended its members against prosecution for violation of the laws, that only one in sixteen has been molestei by the Citizens' League, while among the outside dealers one in every eight has been prosecuted. This in the last year. The Secretary boasts that this fact indicates that the agents of the Citizens' League do not relish the idea of at-' tacking a man who has this association at bis back." He adds "it is the strongest recommendation to those engaged in the trade who have not as yet joined our ranks to come in out of th* rain at once." Think of it! Ana ;sociation of tradesmen openly boasting bet ore the world of the success with which they have terrorized the community so taat they can violate lnws with comparative immunity'. In the World's Fair.ci.tZ, too!=-.Tha Yoica. startling facts. Dr. B. W. Richardson, the noted phy8ican, says that he was once enabled to preach an effectual temperance lecture by means of a scientific experiment. An acquaintance was singing the praises of wine, and declared that ne could not get through the day without it. "Will you be good enough to feel ray pulse, as 1 stand here?' asked Doctor Richardson. The man did so. "Count it carefully. What does it say?' "Seventy-four." The physician then went and laid dow? on a sofa, and asked the gentleman to count his pulse again. it. hue <rnne down to sixtv-four." he said. in astonishment. "What an extraordinary thing!" "When you lie down at night," said the physician, "that is the way nature takes to give your heart rest. You may kaow nothing aoout it, but the organ is resting to thac extent; and if you reckon the rate, it involves a good deal of rest, because, in lying down, the heart is doing tea strokes less a minute. "Multiply that by sixty, and it is six hundrea; multiply it oy eight hours and, within a fraction, there is a difference of five thousand strokes; aud as the heart is throwing six 01 ncas of blood at every stroke, it makes u difference of thirty thousand ounces of life during the night. When I lie down *- -i?i?i ?i,? at IllgHt WltQOUt UHJT BICUUUI, I/Uav u uis rest my heart jjets. "But when I take wine or grog, I do not allow that re.u, for the influence of alcohol is to increase tne number of strokes. Instead of getting repose, the man who uses alcohol put on something like fifteen thousand extra strokes, and ha rises quite unfit for the next day's work, until he has taken a little more of that 'ruddy bumper,' which h* calls 'th* soul of man below."' not a:: issue this yz\r. The amount of fermented liquors consumed in the United States for the year ending J una. 30, 1392, was 977,479,761 gallons. Counting 231 cubic inches to the gallon, this amount of beer would make a canal ten feet deep, fifty feet wide, and over forty-five miles lonjr. The number of "hard drinkers" who die (from all causes) every year in tha United btates is, at a conservative estimate, 120,000. By "aard drinkers" we mean those who drink themseivej drunk. Place their corpses lengthwise in line, allowing five feet ten inches to eaco. and ihey would form a continuous line of corpses about 134 miles long ?enough to put a line on each bank of the canal and anotuer down tae middlp. And this would be tae woru of a single year! Tho nnmhpr nt "nqrd drinkers" llvinsr to day in the United States is carefully estimated at 2,500,000. Stand them side oy side with arms outstretched, htni touching hand, and. allowing five lest tea incaes to each, they would lorm a continuous line nearly 30,000 miles in leugtb, enouzh to belt the giohe, and to go around one-fifth of the distancs a second timp. This .s the multitude the United States alone turnlshes. Great Britain furnishes about an equal numoer. Counting Chat for each "jard drinker" there are on an average four othere who, as immediate relatives, leel the pangs of sorrow, want and statue th.it result, and we have a multitude of 12,500, '<00 wao are today smitt?n by this curse?enough to belt tne globe with outstrutchei arms six time?, or to put sixty-eight continuous lines of living, sorrowing, suffering Humanity across the United States, i.i a straight line, from the Atlantic to the Pacific! And yet two old parties and one new one tell us: 'Thi* isn't an issua tuu year;"? Tne Voice. tkmperajix'k news a:mu auiu. Cincinnati has forbidden its saloons to employ barmaids. The city of Loudon has 14,000 policemen and 14,000 groj-shops. The Hawaiian Queen banishes liquors of all kinds from ber tables at ber receptions. The great breweries of Scotland reduced the price of beer in order to deleit Gladstone. The whisky smugglers of Alaska have recently killed one missionary and maltreated snuilier. Arcobishop Vaugban has accepted tfie Presidency of tha Catholic Total Aostinence League of the Cross. The Dominion Government has recently diccovered vary extensive whisky 8.nujgiin^ in the prbvlncj of Quebec. The London Lancet notes the discovers in St. Petersburg of tbe fact that the driuwng of petroleum is a cure for drunkenness. The Women's Christian Temperance Union has established a free milk booth on Franklin square, Pniladclphia. It is well pata-onized. A recent return shows that thera were 3203 arrests tor drunkenness m xrdiaau uu Sundays between May 1, 15*91, and April 30, 1892. An active Christian worker in the slums of New York city, when asked how he decided where was the best place to locate his mission, promptly replied, "By the smell. Where whisky smells strongest, there is the most need of mission work." The son of Joachim, the violin player, was reduced to the ranks in the German army because his father played at a concert la tne city wnere the young officer was quartered. His Colonel requested the degradation on the ground that his father's concertplaying was lowering the dignity of the German uniform. Perhaps the idolatry of militarism could not be better, and at the same time more absurdly, illustrated. The pen is mightier than thf sword; and does a good deal more cutting, too. ' ; v.: ' ' *' ' " i ' >' ??????? THE REALM OF FASHION WHAT TO WEAR AND HOW THEY MAKE IT. Costumes Will Hold Onto Gauzy Effects ' to the Lost. jgglfft n OING, going, all 'oat yXfl I ^ gone! Such is the cry oi iiisuiuu a uuwwu | cer, now engaged in selling off the few remnants of time in which the devotee of modes may display any gowns of het summer outfit yet remaining unseen. With the end of this month will come thoughts of autumn styles, and visions of theater and opera costumes. But up to the last moment,costumes will preserve their delightful gauzy effects. Sleeves will continue to swell, while lace, draped, pendant, festooned and cascaded, ? - will cover the bodice, and ribbons wound around and around the ? _s? f?;. loHioo nf fashion the llgUlC Will give IUC 1UII 4HU.V. w. look of latter-day mummies, swathed up in gossamer tissues, tied with ribbons and en- | wrapped in lace. In the initial cut you see one of the latest styles of scalloped lace berthas, surmounted by a chiffon collarette. The gown is a pink mauve crepe de chine. The sleeves are of mauve silk muslin, accordion pleated, ending at the elbow with a LAW!? PARTY COSTUMES. ribbon band. Lace figaroa in old Irish guipure are very modish. They must fit the figure and there should be a broad ribbon belt in Scotch ribbon, cream, pink and green. In many cases sleeves are mere epaulets, below which there is a lace sleeve run with a ribbon at the elbow. J-ace berthas are double, the first reaching to the bust line, and the second almost to the belt or corselet Corselets seem quite as popular as ever. A new style is toha?ethe skirt, corselet and sleeves of one material, and the entire top of a plain bodice closely covered with lace or guipure, with a deep frill of lace over the sleeve. " The newest tailor AN* AFTERX00X TOILETTE. madea have cutaway coats, curving gracefully at tne hips and falling to a moderate length in square tails. ine swaiiow-taiis reaching almost to the ground are merely a passing agony, and will not be seen this fall in town. t There will be no end of lawn parties as the season draws to a close. Batiste is largely used for lawn party dresses, either stamp, ed or embroidered. Mauve and white are favorite colors, and Irish guipure the lace most used. The dres? is usually cut in one j piece, the folds being held at the waist by a ribbon belt, tied in front. At the top, the corsage is composed of a crossed fichu in plain batiste and the front of the dress is so - *?1^1. trimmed with lace as to mane iuc uwu iuu& i like a yoke. The epaulets are of the embroidered batiste, and the lower sleeves of the plain. The cuffs are of the guipure. The costume pictured in the illustration is in pink crepon. The skirt is finished with two rows of broad galoon, through which you pass moss green ribbon as indicated. Between the rows ofgaloon is placed vertical fancy stitching. The corsage has the same scheme of ornamentation. The broad ribbon belt has a band of the galoon at the top. The puffed sleeves are also encircled [ by a band of the galoon; below they are J tight-fitting: The illustration depicts a tasteful afternoon toilette. The feature of the'costume is the figaro corsage over a silk b'mi?e. heit. ffHty A GARDEN HAT. ed in with a corselet which, like the collar is either embroidered or covered with passe menterie. In the matter of headgear there is apparent at times, ail inclination to run to the highly picturesque, but the persistance wrltb which the broad-brimmed sailor hat has held place has really quite disconcerted the t summer girl. She has considerable courage bat she does not care to stand up like Arnold Winkleried, one against a thousand. For those longing for something picturesque the large white chip hat. trimmed with long white ostrich feathers has come in verd ooDortunelv. Urav hats in the fame line are likewise becoming, there being two long gray feathers fastened in front with a small white wing and a crystal buckle. Instead of the wing you may substitute a pointed bow of gray velvet ribbon. The picture shows a very pretty garden hat. The trimming is of pleated crepe set off with lace, and surmounted by a twisted roll of the crepe with a crest of the same material ornamented with a sprig of rosa* nrnnnc ad meiinir V TVS 1*1V c VTliJVViU.* . ).#i Don't live an aimless life. Obedience is the proof of faith. Nothing is so trustworthy as love. Too much help is as bad as no help. The real battle is always fought before a gun is fired. Joy that isn't shared with somebody else dies young. Pray that you may not .think evil, and thon you will not speak it. The man who looks at everything, through money never sees far. That day is a failure in which you do not try to make somebody happy. One of the saddest conditions in life is to have nothing good to live for. The prodigal had to come to himself before he could come to his father. Courage will never be rightly under* stood until we can look into the hearts of men. remaps tne time wnen a woman morc . feels that she is the full equal of any! * man is when she ha3 begun to feel at] home on a bicycle.?Indianapolis (Tnd.)l Ram's Horn. Children Can Make These Baskets. Basket making, which used to be practiced more or less in every village, is now relegated almost entirely to machinery; and yet it is very easy, and children even may become very expert in its manipulation. Even the rudest and most primitive of hand-made baskets make a pretty present if filled with mosses and growing ferns. At a water- ' ;1 y ing place, this summer, a clever woman set some children at work on baskets for a charitable fair which was on the carpet, and these baskets, filled in the way already suggested, iound a ready sale, and brought in quite a nice little sum. Shoots of willow were used in this instance. These were cut, soaked in water, and afterward peeled. Strong pieces were laid across each other and woven togeiuer iu uin&c wa uutwui, ua ends haviDg been left sufficiently long to turn up when the foundation was large enougn to form the uprights for the sides. Thinner strips were then woveo in and out, thus forming a thick wicker* work. The edges were formed by the uprights or ribs being turned down and woven in. This is the rudest kind of basket; but every one knows what dainty things are woven out of bark and scented grasses. It is such pretty and / .3\ easy work that it would bo a popular handicraft for idle summer hours it once adopted by the busy bees of society. If an old basket is taken apart and woven together again it will give a practical knowledge of ics construction which. i nrnnlrl hp than anv directions that W **"~ "* rf ~ ,i g could be given.?New York Tribuae. Hatchiri^ Silk Worms. Silk worms are reared in Italy whereever mulberry trees can grow. Tending / the worm3 and picking the leaves givo employment to many persons. It is a tedious and arduous labor, for the worms ^ are ravenous in their appetite, and must be watched night and day during the entire pupa period before entering the cocoon. The leaves are plucked either early in the morning ur after three in the afternoon. This work is generally done by children, who gather them in baskets and bring thera to the bouse. .. . ' s From the time the eggs are hatched until the moth leaves the coco^i is about two months, and if they are not constantly supplied with food they will wander away in search of their favorite \ :.33j diet. Every member of the family takes his or her turn as guard. All the watching, hard work and weariness are forgotten when the cocoons are fine and good price paid for them. Sometimes I oiiL- ia 'thrown" before selling, then mv s.._ ? a, a higher sum is paid per pound, but few families have the apparatus for thia work. / I la the large hatching establishments the workmen receive only 1.50 fr. a day, and the women 0.50 fr. to 0.75. All hands must take their turn at night work, but they do not earn any extra wages for it. 1 The Marreloa9 Nile. The Nile has a fall of but six inches to the 1000 miles I The overflow commences in June every year and continues until August, attaining an elevation of from twenty-four to twenty-aix feet above inm orator mark_ and flowiner through the UUW. ? AUUCllV?au A. (tilUvtt It is altogether useless to try to talk politics to the man who was married only a week ago.?burner* ville Journal. __ 'Valley of Egypt" ia a turbulent body twelve miles wide. During the last 1001) years there has been but one sudden rise of the Nile, that ol 1829, when 30,U0U people were drowned. A fter the water? recede each year the exhalations from the mud are simply intolerable to all except natives. This mud deposit adds about sight inches to the soil every century, and throws a muddy embankment from twelve to fifteen feet into the seas every year. This being the case, it is plaio that the mouth of the river is thousands -of feet further north now than it was in the time of the Ptolemies, and it is only ? muxh'nn nf r.'mfl when tha sediment will make a dam entirely across the Mediterranean Sea.?New Orleans Picayune. Earache. At the first symptoms of earaohe, lie on the bed with the painful ear uppermost. Fold a thick towel and tuck ifc round the neck; then with a teaspoonfui fill the ear with warm water. Continue this for fifteen or twenty minutes. The water fills the orifice of the ear but overflows on the towel. Afterward turn your head, let the water run out, and plug the ear with warm glycerine on raw cotton. Do this for an hour or twcf and relief will be obtained. It is an invariable cure, and will certainly prevent acute inflammation. Let the water be as warm as possible, but bj* no means scald