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KEV. DR. TALMAGE.
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(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
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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.
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{ 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.
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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