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1* REVTOK/fALMAGE. ~ {THR BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. [Subject: "Launch Oat Into the Deep." Text: Launch out into the deep."? Luke v., 4. Christ, starting on the campaign of the I work's conquest, was selecting His staff (Officers. There were plenty of students . with liiah foreheads, and white hands, and intellectual faces, and refined tastes in Rome '.ftnd in Jerusalem. Christ might have called ,into the apDstleship twelve bookworms, or .twelve rhetoricians, or twelve artists. Instead He takes a group of men who had never made a speech: never taken a lesson .in beileslettres; never been sick enough to ,make them look delicate?their hands broad, clumsy and hard knuckled. He chose fisher!men, amonz other reasons, I think, because ithey were physically hardy. Rowing makes strong arms and stout chests. Much climb' '? ? I 1 .4. 1 ? 1 mg oc ratlines niaxes one s uetui st/esujr. --x Galilee tem nest wrestled men into gymnasts. The opening work of the church wasrou^h wort. Christ did not want twelve invalids [hanging about Him, complaining all the .time how badly they felt. He leaves the [delicate students at "Jerusalem and Rome for their mothers and aunt? to take ore of, and goes down to tne seashore, and out of the toughest material makes an apostleship. ;The ministry need more corporeal vigor than any other clas?. Fine minds and good intentions are imnortant, but there must be ^physical force to back them. The intellectual mill wheel may be well built and the grist good, but there must be enough blood in the mill race to turn the one and to grind jthe other. ? He chose; fishermen also because tnev were used to hard knocks. The man who cannot igtand assault is not fit for the ministry. It always has been and always will be rough iwork, and the man who, at every censure or caricature, sits oowd to cry naa oetier oe as some other work. It is no place for ecclesi astical doll babies. A. man who cannot preach because he has forgotten his manuscript or lost his spectacles ought not to preach at all. Heaven deliver the church from a ministry that preach in kid gloves and from sermons in black morocco covers! These fishermen were rough and ready. They had been in the sternest of all colleges. ' When they were knocked over by the main ;boom of the ship they entered theSophomore. (when washed off by a great wave, they entered the Junior: when floating for two days [without food or drink on a plank they came to the Senior, and when at last their ship dashed on the beach in a midnight hurricane [they graduated with the first hocor. My test finds Jesus c*me aboard with one of these bronzed meD, Simon by name. This fisherman had been sweeping his net in shoal /water. "Push our," says Christ, ' what is the use of hugging the shore in this boat? JHera is a laice twelve mues long ana six wiae. aud it is all populated just waiting for the a weep of your net. Launch out into the deep." t The advice that ray Lord gave to Simon u as appropriate for us all -in a spiritunl sense. Toe fact is that most of us are just ipaddling along t he shore. We are afraid to .venture out into the great deaps of God and iChristian experience. We think that the iboat will be upset, or that we cannot "clew down the niizzen topsail," and our cowardice makes us poor fishermen. I think I hear the voice of Christ commanding us, as He did iSimon on that day when bright Galilee set an among the green hills of Palestine, like water flashing in an emerald cup, "Launch .out into the deep." This divine counsel comes first to all those who are paddling in the margin ot Bible reIsenrcb. . My father read the Bible through [three times after he was eighty years of age land without sD?Ctacle3? not for the mere purpose of saying he bad been through it so softeD, but for his eternal profit. John Wolby, jthe brother-in-law of Daniel Webster, learned to read after ho was eighty-four years of age in order that he might become acquainted with the Scriptures. There is no oootc in the world that demands so much of our attention as the Bible. Yet nint[tenths of Christian men get no mora than ankle deep. They think it is a good sign not to venture too far. Taey never ask how or why, and if they se? some Christian becoming inquisitive about the deep things of God they say: 4'3e careful; you had better not go out so far from shore." i My answer is: The farther you go from shore the better if you have the right kind of ship. If you have worldly philosophy for the hulk, and pride for a sail, and self conceit for the helm, the first squall will destroy you. But if you take the 3ible for your craft, the farther you go the better, and after you have gone ten thousand furlongs Christ will still command. ''Launch out into the deep.n Ask some such question as "Who is God?" and go on for ten years asking it. Ask it at the gate of every parable; amid the excitement of every miracle; by tne sol - tariness of every patriarchal tnrasaing noor, amid the waite faces of Sennacherib's slain turned up into the moonlight; amid the flying chariots of the Golden City. Ask wbo Jesus is, and keep on asking it of every Bible liiy. of every raven, of every star, ot every crazed brain cured, of every blind man come to sunlight, of every coin in a fish's mouth, of every loaf that got to be five loaves, of every wrathful sea pacified, of every pulseless arm stretched forth in gratulatioa; ask it of His mother, of Augustus, of Herod, 0[ cue oyroiphosnician woman, of the darasal that woke ud from the death sleep, of Joseph, who had !Him buried, of the angel posted as sentinel 'at His tomtx of the dumb earth that shook and groaned and thundered when He died. A missionary in France offered a Bible in an humble dwelling. The man took it, tore out a dozen pages and with them began to flight his pipe. Some years after the missionary happened in the same house The family ihad just lost their son in the Crimeau war, and his Bible had been sent back home. The missionary took it qd and saw- that it was the very same Bible that he had left in the house and from which the leaves had been torn. The dying soldier had written on one of the leaves of the Bible, "Rejected and scoffed at. but finally believed in and saved." The BTfcre may oe usea to light tile pipe of witticism by some, but for us it is a staff in life, a pillow in death and our joy for eterJiitv. Wall* all im onr? rtawn t.hie Rihla rlnmnin t Try every path. Plunge In at the prophecies an J come out at the epistles. Go with the patriarchs until you meet the evangelists. Rummage ana ransack, as children who are not satisfied when they come to a new house until they know what is in every room and into what every door open?. Open every jewel casket. Examine the skylights. Forever be asking questions. Put to a higher use than was intended the oriental proverb, "Hold all the skirts of thy mantle extended when heaven is raining gold." Passing from Bonn to Coblentz on the Rhine, the scenery is comparatively tame. But from Coblentz. to Mayence it is enchanting. You sit on oeck and fee! as if this last flash of beauty must exhaust the scene; but in a moment there is a turn of the river, which covers up the former view with more luxuriant vineyards, and more defiant castles, and bolder bluffs, vine wreathed, and grapes so ripe that if the hills be touched thev would bleed their rich life away into the bowls of Bin^en and Hockheimer. Here and th ere there are streams of water melting into the river, like smaller joys swallowed in the bosom of a great gladness. And when night begins to throw its black mantle over tbe shoulder of the .hills, and you are approaching disembarkation at Mayence, the lights along the shore fairly bewitch the scene with their beauty, giving one a thrill that he feels but once, yet that lasts him forever. So this river of God's word is not a straight stream, but a winding splendor?at every turn new won'Jers to attract, still riper vintage pressing to the brink ad crowded with castles of strength?Stolzeofels and Johannisberger as nothing compared with the strong tower into which the righteous run and arc saved?and our disembarkation at last in the evening amid the Rights that gleam from the shore of neaven. SSe trouble is that the vast majority of Bible [voyages stop at Coblentz, where the chief glories begin. : The sea of God's Word is not like GenInessaret, twelve miles by six, but boundflftsa. and in any one direction you can sail 'on forever. Why then confine yourself to 'a short psalm or to a fevr versos of an f epistle? The largest flah are not near the ^fitiore. Hoist all sail to the winds of heaven. Take bold of both oars and pull away. Be like some of the whalers that went out from New Bedford or Portsmouth to be gone for two or three years. Yea, calculate on a lifetime voyage. You do not want to land Ijintil you land in heaven. Sail away, O ye manner?, ror etarmny! LiauacU oat late the deep! The text is appropriate to all Christians of shallow experience. Doubts and fears liava in our day been almost elected to tha Diiriiament of Christian grace.'!. Some consider ic a bad sign not to have any doubts. Doubts and fears are not signs of health, but festers and carbuncles. You have a valuable house or farm. It is suggested that the title is not good. You employ counsel. You have the deeds examine:!. You search the record for mortgages, judgments and liens. You are not satisfied until vou have a certificate, signed by the great seal of the State, assuring you that the title is good. Yet how many leave their title to heaven an undecided matter I Why do you not go to the records ani find out? Give yourself no rest, day or night, until you can read your title clear to man"I'vno in tliQ ulrtAC oivma iu vuv utkiw. Christian character is to come up to higher standards. We have now to hunt through our librarv to find one Robert M'Cheyne, or one E Iward Fayson, or one HarJan Page. The time will come when we will find half a dozan of them sitting in the same seat with us. The grace of Gj i can make a great deal better men than those I have mentioned. Christians seem afraid they will get heterodox by going too far. They do not believe in Christian perfectiou. There is no danger of your being perfect for some time yet. .1 will keep watch an i give you notice in time, if you set too near perfection for the safety of your theology. One-half of you Christians are simply stuck in the mud. Whv not cut loose from everything but God? Give not to Him that formal petition made up of "O's"?"O Lord" this and "O Lord" that. When people are cold and have nothing to say to Go J ?DpZ.?Str3nr *heir Pra7ers with "O's" an-J A.- \Sk C(Q1 auu c?Ol, AUlDtl, aud IU1U^5 WJ fill up. Tell God what you want with the fooling that He is ready to give it, and believe that you will receive, and you Bhall have it. Shed that old prayer you have been making these ten year3. It is high time that yeu outgrew it. Throw it aside with your old ledgers, and your old hats, and your old shoes. Take a review of vour present wants, of your present sins and of your present blessings. With a sharp blade cut sway your past half ani half Christian life, and with new determination, and new plans, and new expectations launch out into the deep. The text is appropriate to all the unfor| given. Every sinner would c>ine to God if he thought he might come just as he is. ! Pflnnlft t.ollr ac fhrttin?h fha aP were a narrow river, like the Kennebec or the Thames, and that their sins draw too much water to enter it. No; it is not a rivet* nor a bay, but a sea. I should like to persuade you to launch out into the great deep of God's mercy. I am a merchant. I have bought a cargo of spices in India. I have, through a bill of exchange, paid for tho whole cargo. You are a ship captain. I give you the orders and sav, ' 'Bring me those spices." You land in India. You go to the trader and say, "Here are the orders," and you tind everything all right. You do not stop to pay the money yourself. It is not your business to pay it. The arrangements were made before you started. So Christ purchases your pardon. He puts the papers, or the promises, into your hand. Is ih visa fnsfnn nnri sav %4T rannnt nav for my redemption?1' God does not ask you to pay. Relying on what has been done, launch out into the deep. The Bible's promises join hands, and the circle they make will compass all your sins, and all your temptations, and all your sorrows. The round table of King Arthur and his knights had room for only thirteen banqueters, but the round table of God's supply is large enough for all the present inhabitants Of "nr'kqn'i hpivn tO-Sifc nL AndJar the stOl migntier popuIalionsThaFare yet to be. Do not sail coastwise along your old habits and old sins. Keep clear of the shore. Go out where the water is deepest. Oh, for tbe mid sea of God's mercy! Be it known unto you, men and brethren, that through this Man is preached unto you1 forgiveness of sins." I preach it with as much confidence to the eightv-yaar-old transgressor as to the maiden. Though your sins were blood red they shall be snow white. The more ragged tbe prodigal, tbd more compassionate the Father. Do you say that you are too bad? HI W:_t. i.._ 1, io i UtJ Ul^li VVUW3I Uldl A VL VUU a pat uvu ig higher than all your transgrassions. "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin." Do you say that your heart is hard!1 Suppose it were ten times harder. Do you say that your iniquity is long continued? Suppose it were ten times longer. Djs you say that your crimes are black? Suppose that they were ten times blacker. Is there auy lion that this Samson cannot slay? Is there any fortress that this Conqueror cannot take? Is there any sin that this Redeemer cannot pardon? It is said that when Charlemagne's host was overpowered by the three armies of the Saracens in the pas3 of Roncesvalies his warrior, Roland, in terrible earnestness seized a trumpet and blew it with such terrific strength that the opposing army reeled back with terror, but at the third blast of the trumpet it broke in two. I see your soul fiercely assailed by all the powers of earth and hell. I put the mightier trumpet of the Gospel to my lips and I blow it three times. I blast the first?"Whosoever win, let mm come." Blast the second?"Seek ye the Lord while He may be found." Blast the third?"Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation." Does not the host of your sins fall back?< But the trumpet does not, like that of RDland, break in two. As it was handed down to us from the lips of our fathers, we hand it down to the lips "of our children, and tell them to sound it when we are dead, that all the gen* erations of men may know that our God is a pardoning God?a sympathetic God?a loving God?and that more to Him than the anthems of heaven; more to Him than the throne on which He sits; more to Him than are the temples of celestial worship is the joy of seeing the wanderer putting his hand on the door latch of his Father's house. Hear it, all ye Nations f Bread for the worst hunger. Medicine for the worst sickness. Light for the thickest darkness. Harbor for the worst storm. Dr. Prime, in his book of wonderful intera.**;* "AfnnnfJ tiha XFnrlfl M dAWibftS a tomb in India of marvelous architecture. Twenty thousand men were twenty-two fears in erecting that and the buildings around it. Standing in that tomb, if you speak or sing, after you have ceased you hear the echo coming from a height of one hundred and fifty fast. It is not like other echoes. The sound is drawn out in sweet prolongation, as though the angels of God were chanting on the wing. How many souls in the tomb of sin will lift up the voice of penitence and prayer? If now they would cry unto God the echo would drop from afar, not struck from the marble cupola of an earthly mausoleum, but sounding back from th? warm heart of angels flying the news, for there is joy among the angels God over one sinner that repenteth I The God-Beetle of the Nile. Scarabreus, "the god-beetle of the Lower Nile,*' has been worshiped, petted and feared by several benighted sects of Egypt since the time "when the mind and history of man runneth not to the contrary." Like the other sacred creatures of idolatrous countries, several mythical fancies aro woven around this entomological rarity. The number of its toes, thirty, wa9 supposed to symbolize the average number of days in a month. On each new moon-day it deposited a ball containing 360 eggs, which the Egyptian piiests assured their followers referred to the number of days in tho Twor thp brilliant ffolden color of " jv"*> ? ci the ball itself personifying the bud. In ancient times this curious beetle was declared to be of but one sex, the male, but modern investigation has exploded that one myth at least. Id connection with the Egyptian Nations, the Gnostics, as well a3 some of the early Christian fathers, speak of Christ as th? sca:aba-us and symbolize ^ Him as a man with a beetle's head. The Egyptians always embalmed this sacred insect.?St. Louis Republic. Dicky Proudfit?Huh; I can't see why you never put on your Sunday clothes I Bobby Poore?But I does. I wears 'em seven days in the week. -Puck. i \ TEMPERANCE. CHOLERA AND TOTAL. AilSTAINERS. In an editorial upon the cholera in th? * ? ? t flio fnllnwinir- 44A L0DQUI1 IliJUil tfi, vU'Uta wuc 4V?V.....0. ? very remarkable statement was made or I Monday by the madical offic?r at Havre, j and it is one that should ba carefully noted i in view of the danger that still threatens us. ' He said that taking victims all round, the proportion of recoveries iu the abstainers from alcoholic drinks was as high as nino out of ten who were attacked. On the other hand, nine out of ten who were drinkers died." THE CCRK IS TOTAL A3STINBXCE. That inebriety is a disease of a physical nature is sus-captible of the clearest demonstration. and is generally rccognized. There it now no ouestion or doubt of its being hereditary, and no one doubts that it is acquired by social customs. That it is also a uisease of the moral nature, engendered by allowing the intellectual faculties to remain inactive, by not exercising the power of conscience and will, by permitting the power of appetite and passions to dominate over conscience, bj *he Jack of a po.-itive character, by defective moral education, and by the want of self-culture, is equally as certain, and can be aa cieany proved.? Dr. DSy. A NOBLE THING TO DO. It *?as a noble thing for the youthful Danisl to refuse the king's wine, but we lately saw a young telegrapher, holding his first position on the road, decline to drink with a superintendent who proffered it to him as a courtesy. And we doubt if the young man remembered the fact twentyfour hour?. Character and fixedness of principle are under tne power ot the gospel taken for granted. Mtf. Browning was right when she said that there is more ot chivalry and more of romance in our par. lors than ever upon field of knightly arms. Heroism under the gospel becomes not a meteor but a polar star.?New York Ob DRINK PROPAGANDISTS. The brewers, beyond all other representatives of the liquor traffic, are active drink propagandists. At the seventh congress of the German Brewers' Association, held recently at Hamburg, one feature of the proceedings was the public reception of Mr. Katzeumayer.of New York City, Secretary of the United States Brewers'Association, who was present specially to invite a deputation from the German Brewers' Association to an International Brewers' Congress to be held in Chicago dunng the World's Columbian Exposition. The matter was referred to the Executive Committee, and a delegation of German brewers will be in attendance at Chicago. It was announced also that the Swedish Brewers' Association will be officially represented at Chicago, and the President of the German Brewer^' Association took occasion to say that "it would be to the best interest of all concerned if we communicate with them, so that the Swedish and German brewers may travel and inspect the great brewing industry of the United States in company." It will need the influence of the World's Temperance Congress at Chicago to offset and neutralize that of the proposed International Congress of the great beer propagandists of our own ani other countries.?National Temperance Aivocate. THE CCRK Or IXEBRIETT. Tbo dawning truth tbat the drink ovil is a disease, and curable as other diseases are, has Dassod the firs; period of neglect, indifference, and Ueniai, and has come to the second stage of partial recognition and acceptance. The same army of the credulous, tne enthusiasts, and marvel-hunters are welcoming this fact, and the same wild expectations ot its practical possibilities fill the air. This is followed by the same old charlatanism and empiric efforts to make personal profit out of these truths by the use of the same old quackish means and methods. These efforts are prominent by the same assumption of superior knowledge of discovery of new facts, o? new remedies, and new methods, all of which are concealed. Then follow claims of extraordinary cures under extraordinary conditions, the proof of which depends alone on the statements of the cured. Then comes the old story of persecution by physicians and scientists, and of posing as martyrs, public benefactors, and pioneer discovurersj with indirect appeals for sympathy from the brond and liberal minded," Back of all this is a pecuniary field actively tilled which yields rich har vests, and altogether it is the same old family history of empiricism, which is always to be found on the advancing frontiers of science.?Popular Science Monthly. teetotalers' jubilee. A jubilee in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Order of the Sons of Temperance filled every seat in Carnegie Music Hall last evening. The audience was made up' largely of members of the Order, but there were many present who had no connection with it. On the platJ> ? ? J -3 fkft hanca ufapa 1UX LB auu QUlbtClDH l/uiva^u wuu uvuao ?w4v some 200 members of the National Division, who were present as the guests oC the Division of Eastern New York. They had come from all parts of the Union and the British Provinces. Among those on the platform were John W. Oliver, of Yonkers. and George McKioben, the only survivors of the band of sixteen which met in a little upper room in Division street half a century ago aud founded the organization from which the oresont Order has grown. Their appearanc? and introduction were greeted with shouts, and every mention of their names brought forth applause. The original charter, granted to the Division of Eastern New York by the National Division early in 1843, got a noisy receptiou when it was brougac down the aisle and placed against the speakers' table, and so did the Chelsea Subordinate Division and its corps of cadets 400 in all. as it merched into the hall to music. The long programme was plentifully interspersed with music, and the addresses all iiad the advantage oc brevity. The Rev. C. H. Bosworth, Grand Chaplain of the Grand Division of Eastern New York, opened the exercises with prayer, and N. J. Stearns, wno presided, made the opening remarks. The Rev. Stephen Merritt delivered the aduress of welcome, and Edward Crummey responded briefly in behalf of the visitors. After the "Song of Jubilee,'1 especially composed tor the occasion by Edward Carswell, ot Canada, bad been sung, the Rev. Dr. T. L. Cuyler spose and was foilowei by Mr. Oliver. Addresses by Gencial Louis Wagner, of Philadelphia; Benjamin R. Jewell, of Massachusetts, anl General Samuel F. Cary, of Ohio, followed. Sir Ijnmr.H Tillnv Governor of New Bruus wicK, hau been expected to represeut CaaaJa ou the platform, but was uuible to be present. His place was taken by Mr. Crtrawell, whose references to tne American and British flags which hnag on eituer side ot the stage were loudly applauded.?Ofe.v Yori Times. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Canada temperance people are agitating for a direct vote of the people on the matter of prohibition. Great Britain spends an average ol twenty shillings for clrmk lor every naifcrown it gives for religion. One district in Liverpool having saloons has one pauper to every"eighty-five iuuabitants, while the adjoining district, witnout a saloon, has Out one pauper to every iOJU persons. Sir Henry Thompson, of .3ugland, 3ays that out of ev^ry ten patients wuo cam* under his knite, nine would never havj uono so had it not been tor errors of eating ani drinking. At the International exhibition held on Isle of Man. in July, no liquor was sold. Tuis was due to the chief director, who resisted all temptations from within anu wituwut to let liquor in. General .booth, of the Salvation Army, has 380 men. mostly broken-down drunkards at one time, working on his farm a row miles out of Lonaon, and they are described as a decent, industrious, useful and en cliu; iastic lot of people now. The rapid growth of the habit of sobriety and temp9rance is one of the characteristics of the American railway service, the use of intoxicants becoming more and more the exception, although it is said to be the rule in the English service. It was subject for comment in an English railway publication re oentiy, that the 500 laborer* who were em* ' ployed in changing the grade of the Great Western railway were not allowed to ro fresh themselves during working hours with anything stronger than oatmeal water. SABBATH SCHOOL I.VIEKNATIONAL LESSON FOR OCTOBER 23. Lesson Text: ''Peter at Ce3area," Acts x., :iO-4S?Golden Text: Acts x., 43?Commentary. 30. It seems to be a Scriptural principle that if we would obtain definite blessing irom God in any form we must seek it with the whole hearr. "Ye shall seek Me and find Me when ye shall search for Me with all your heart" (Jer. xxix., 13). Jesus also taught that certain diseases could be overcome by prayer and fasting (Math, xvii., 121). Cornelius being thus in earnest receives a visit lrom an angel31. The angel brings tidings from heaven that both Cornelius's prayers and alms have been heard and regarded by God. Compare Daniel's tasting and praying and the message sent to him by an angel (Dan. x., 12, 19). See also Zacharias aud the angel Gabriel (Luke i., 13). The angels are ministering spirits who wait upon the heirs of salvation (Heb. i., 14). vs. xsenoia tao intimate auquaiautucts <jl angels with our name, tha house we live in, the town in which we sojourn, our occupation, etc. Observe how plain and full the directions given to the servants. Both the law of God and the visions of God are written plainly (Deut. xxvii., 8; Hab. ii., 2) that the one who reads may ooey. See also Ps. xxvii., 11. 33. Cornelius having briefly replied to Peter's question, "For what intent have ye sent for me?' (verse 29* and having gratefully commended him for his promptness, then adds, "Now therefore are we all here present before God to bear all things that are commanded thee of God." It is God and not Peter whom Cornelius expects to hear from; it is the presence of God. not of Peter, that awes them. 34. "Of a tmth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons." thus reter oegan nia aduress. fie might have learned this from the law (Deut. x.. 17; II Chron. xix., 7: Job xxxiv.,) but he needed a vision to convince him. Some people now would need a vision to convince them that God actually can and does love and work through those who don't belong to their church. 35. "In nvery nation he that feareth Him and worketh righteousness is accepted with HimFor Peter to put a Gentile on n level with a Jew as to acceptance with God was surely the Spirit speaking in Peter, for a little while before he thought very differently. 8ee verse 28. 3fi. Although the peace preachei by Jesus Christ was first for Israel, yet Isaiah had hinted at its being for Gentiles also when he wrote, "Peace, peace to him that is far off and to him that is near" (Isa. lvii., 19). And Paul so preached it in Eph. ii., 13, 14; Col. i., 20, insisting that "The same Lord over all is rich unto all that Cill upon Him" (Rom. x., 12). 37. Petor insisted that they knew this word which began to be preached in Galilee and afterward in all Judea, but he could not have added that it wns because of the Saviour's command to preach the Gospel to every creature and the apostles' faithfulness in obeying it. 33. Here is a most concise and yet comprehensive statement of the commission, power and work of our Lord Jesus Christ. Her? is ciearlv the fact of the Trinity? Father, Hon and Holy Spirit unitedly working on behalf of opposed humanity and apainst the devil. H'J. The Bible i9 the great and wholly inspired (yes, even verbally inspired) record of God and His Son; but so few, evek of those who possess the Bible, care much or know much auout its testimony. Therefore God has appointed living uien and women who shall be living, walking, speaking Bibles, known and read of all men, filled with the Spirit, honoring the Lord Jesus (II Cor. iv., 11). 40. Our vercal testimony is to the great fact that Jetus died and rose again?delivered for our offenses, raised again for our justification (Rom. iv., 35). The testimony of our lives is, or should b?, to the fact that we died with Him, by faith in Him, and are now alive unto God walking in newness of life, our affections set upon things above (Rom. vi? ti; Gal. ii., 20; OoL iii., 1, 2). 41. Jesus, after His resurrection, appeared some ten or eleven times, but only unto the disciple*, and perhaps not to all of them. Many know that Jesas died for them who know little or nothing of the power of His resurrection, and to whom He is as one outside the door pleading for entrance to His own bouse (Rev. iii., 20). 48. Tbe same Jesus who died and rose again is to be our Judge. He offers Himself to all now as their Saviour, promising to cast out none who come to Him (John vi., 37), but as surelv as He is a Saviour now, He will soon be J udge, first of His redeemed, then of the living nations and lastly of all the rest of the dead. It will be a dav of a thousand years beginning and ending with jndgment (Acta xvii., 31; Rom. xiv., 10; Math xxv., 31, 32; Rev. xx., 11, 12). 4::. It is. the privilege or all who receive Jesus Christ as their Saviour to know that they have even now the forgiveness of sins, and shall never come into judgment for their sins (1 John ii., 12; Isa. xxxviiL, 17; xliii., 35; Acts xiii., 38, 39 I John i., 7, 9). 44. It is evident that as Peter spoke tbe words they were received by those who heard them, and right on the spot in the mirtct nt the service, while Peter was speak ing, the Holy Spirit, came upon them, God thus sealing the preaching of Peter and manifesting His approval (Mark xvi, 20). 45. It seems that the brethren from Joppa who accompanied Peter (versa 23) were Jews or circumcision, as we might have expected. no Gentiles or uncircumcision having yet been received. And now they are indeed astonished to see uncircumcisea Gentiles receive the same gift trom God as the circumcised Jews had received at Pentecost and afterward (chapters ii., 4; iv., #.). 46. The power to speak various langauges and thereby magnify God was instantly panted to them. We know that even now God does wonderfully helo in the study of a language, but fancy "what a boon to outgoing missionaries this gift would be to-day. Will some one tell why we have it not? 47. Having received Jesus, and having received a wondrous manifestation of the Holy Spirit, the next step is the public confession of the same in baptism, signifying thus that henceforth rhey are dead to the world and alive unto Goa, and wholly devoted to Jesus Christ as their leader. 4S. Having been baptized, they then desire further instruction and press Peter to tarry, which he evidently aia. vve can luucjr uun he would tsach them to suffer with Christ, while thoy rejoiced in being a royal priesthood unto Him, how he would tell them of a possible abundant entrance into the kingdom, and of the glorious appearing.?Lesson Helper. e^olanu, spam and Italy aro said to have entered Into an arrangement for partitioning Morocco among themselves. Of coarse no objections to the process which Morocco herself may raise will.receive attention. No Interests of hers will be considered. But France, Russia and Germany may one all have some remonstrances to present, somo Interests to urgo against the scheme. If so, tho objections will be heeded. Possibly th? long-expected genoral war in Europe may corns oy way or Ainca. Merchants of Zanesville, Ohio, cut rates with so lusty a slash that corsets, first sold at a cent apiece, were thrown into the streets, where ladies, for thus they are designated In tho dispatches, scrambled after to the loss of disrnitv and the sore rending of garb. It must have been an edifying spectacle, and each lady having mended her rainment torn in the heat of the controversy, should put on a charity corset and hasten in a congratulatory spirit to shake hands with herself. In China they tie a red cord around a baby's wrists, so that it may grow up quiet and obedient. Should a child turn oat bad, they say: "HU parents forgot to bind his wrista." I RELIGIOUS READING. ONWARD AND SUSWA'iO. Others shnll siug the sons;, Others shall right the v.rong, Finish what I begin. And all I fail of win. What matter I or they I Mine or another's day. tio the rijilit word is said, Aud iife the sweeter made. Hail to tlie coming singers! Hail totlie brave l'gbt-bringcr9! Forward I reach and share All that tlicy sing and dare. I feel the earth move sunward, I join the great march onward, And take by faith, while living, My freehold of thanksgiving. ?[Whittier. YOU Nil MRS, BE 3T30 JfG. Lord Beaconsfield once wrote, "Aluio?-, everytliing that is great has been done by youth," and proceeded to prove this sweeping statement?a statement calculated to kindle the ambition of every young man?by instancing John of Austria among conquerors, Cortes among explorers, Pascal in literature, and Luther and Wesley in re ligion. Although we are living in an era notable for its "grand old men," as witness the leading statesmen of Europe today, it is still true that the hope of the world centrcs in its young men. The chief characteristics of young manhood is its ambition, and when this can be captured for God, and all the powers of life won for him, the life i9 lifted into a beauty and grandeur which cannot otherwise be reached, and the door opens through which we enter into true success. Success I This is the young man's word; he wants to make the most of his life, yet there is a larger word than "success," and that is "character," and in the long run the one is conditioned by the other. It is worthy of note that we find ihe word "success" but once in the Bible,yet this one mention of the word carries with it the open secret of its attainment: "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shall meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have goon success." The life founded and built on the Book is that which stands amid the npheava's of all the earthquakes of circumstances and the shocks of temptation. Only one life have we; wasted lives are thick about us; the supreme question of the: +hn?rr1,tfi,1 io ?Ttnur m*v T make the most of mine, and shun the rocks whereon eo many good ships have struck?" Faith iu God and a brave heart! "Only be thou strong and very courageous." There is a story told of England's greatest admiral that when he was leading his fleet to attick the French ships at the battle of the Nile there lay the long line of the French line-ofbnttle ships. Says Mr. \V. S. Allen. M. P., "Their decks were cleared for action, the guns were loaded, the gunners were at their posts. The low sand-hills of Egypt were crowded with Arabs looking on at the coming battle; and just then, impressed with the scene, his flag-captain said to him, 'If we succeed what will th^world say?' and Nelson replied, 'If! There iB no if in the case: we si all succeed!'" There speaks the brave heart, which itself is a halt-won battle. God has no promises for cowards, but for those who trust and dare the benediction of a Godgiven success is sure. Faith in God is the root of a true life. Faith is the synonym for power. Jt is so when a man's faith has himself for its odject, much more so when he believes in the living God. Staunch old Admiral Farragut, he of the true heart and iron will, said to another officer of the navy, "Dupont. do you kna#v why you didn't set into Charleston with your ironclads?" "Oh, it was because thechannel was crooked." "No, uo, Dupont. it was not that.'' ''Well, the rebel fire was perfectly horrible.*' "Yes, but it wasn't that." "What was it, then?v "It was because you didn't believe vou could get in." To the young man whose life's faith is fixed oo God, "all things are possible.'-' There is much whining and self-pity, and blaming of circumstances about us; we need more faith-filled hearts if life is to become to us a rapture and a success, and not a disappointment and irretrievable loss.? [The Christian. RECEIVE CHRIST INTO VOfR ItOCSE. Have you thought what a pleasure it would be to receive Christ into the flesh as a guest at your house? Suppose you hail lived in Jerusalem when be was there. Would you not have liked for your house to be the house of Martha and Mary and Lazarus, where the Lord loved to stop and rest when on one of bis long journeys;'' Ah! what serving. You would have given him the best seat; the first place at the table, the choice piece of mutton, and the best bed. You would not have been content for him to drink any water but that whicn was brought fresh from the spring by vourown hand. At his * -* **A on* on/* Vmirul him talk ICCL you WUUiU uutc qub uuu mwm.v ..... for hours, and never have grown weary. It would have been your delight to wash bis feet, or to have performed any service to make him comfortable. Now remember that you are not deprived of such privileges. The opportunity is in your reach?at vour very door. You may have the blessed Lord as a guest, and he will be pleased with all the honors you may coufer upon him. Do not pine because you may not receive him for you may. While he was here, he said to his disciples that which is true in all time. "lie that receiveth you receiveth me, and be that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me." "And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you be shall in no wise lose his reward." "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these! my brethren, ? nntn m<? " Vniv. dearlv be > r uarc nunc ?v u*??v , m loved brethren, do not content yourselves with entertaining Christ spiritually hs a guest in your hearts, nor console yourselves with the thoughts of what you would have done, but receive him iuto your houses by receiving his servants. When you honor them you honor him.?[.Selected. KAITH .VXD SIGHT. t hear men praying everywhere for mort. faith, but when I listen to* thein carefully and get at the real heart of their prayers, " : " if oil fhof thflv i very orren 11 is uui muic nim vU?. >uv.> are wanting, but a change from faith to # ?ht. "Whatshall I do with this sorrow that (ioil has sent me?" "Take it up and hear it. and get a strength and blessing out of it."' ''All, if I only knew what blessing there was In it. if 1 saw how it would help me. then I could bear it like a plume." "What shall I do with this bard, hateful duty which Christ has laid right in my way?" "Do it. and grow by doing it." "Ah. yes; if 1 could only see that it would make ine grow." [u both these cases do you not see that which you are begging for is not more faith, although you think it is, but sight? You want to "see for yourself the blessing in the sorrow, the strength in the hatd and hateful task. Faith says not, "I see that it is eood for me, and so God must have sent It," but "God sent it, and so it must Degoou ior me. Faith walking in the dark with God only prays hira to clasp its hand more closely .does not even ask hira for the lifting of the darkness so that the man may find the way himself. Mary is all faith when she says, "Do what he tells yoii. and all must come right, oimplv because he is he." Blessed the heart that has learned such a faith and can stai?d among men in all their doubts, and darkness, and just point to Jesus Christ, and say, "Do his will, and everything must come right with you. I do not know how. but I know him. God forbid that I should try to lead you, but I can put your hand in his hand and bid you go where he shall carry you!"?[Phillips Brooks. Ik late years the pacer has advanced rapidly in respectability as a race-horse. There was a time when the swinging gait was treated with contempt on the track, although always recognizcd as slightly faster than square trotting. Now our best pacers, bred as such, command big. Drices. In England they do not chew gum, looking at the habit as vulgar and low, but the Australians have already taken kindly to It and are tnduhring freely. WHY WOMEN LIKE WOMEN NOVELISTS. Most ladies prefer to read a novel written by a woman, because she always pays particular attention to the dress of aer heroine. A man will send his heroine on a long journey without changing her dress, although she may have just come in from a horseback ride. Dress to a woman is part of her personality, and every shade of feeling and 9verv new situation must have a dress to correspond.?New York Mercury. ENCOUKAQED HIB 8TAB-GAZING. Professor Asaph Hall, of Washington, who fifteen years ago beat the astronomers of the world in the discovery of the moons of Mar3, says that but for the encouragement given him by his wife, who urged him to perseveringly continue his search for the unknown bodies, when ifter long and fruitless endeavors he had tlmost despaired of finding them, his ultimate success might have been materially deferred, even though he had Bnally triumphed.?New Orleans Picafune. BIVALED FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. The London Chronicle oontains a letter from M. Zerlendi, a British mer chant in Persia, describing the norrors of the cholera epidemic in that country. M. Zerlendi says: "The conduct of Miss Bradford, the American lady who came to Tauris for the American missions, itands forth in such striking relief as to be worthy of note. In the face of the general panic, when everybody was deserting the cholera-stricken town, she worked with calm, unremitting attention under great difficulties, nursing cholera patients and encouraging others under awful disease. I do not think it an exaggeration to state that hundreds of Persians owe their lives to the courage and devotion of this heroic woman. GETTING ALONG WITH 0?E DRESS. If you are limited as to means, and must make one dress serve many needs, choose a color that is not striking?none of those that register themselves each time on the retina or stimulate the unfriendly to counting the number of times you have appeared in it. With certain change in the dressing of the neck, fresh knots of ribbon, lace or some pretty conceit of your own, a single frock in it? time can play many parks. It is one of those touches of the homely that Ho?velle sometimes uses with such skill, when " * util. -U ..'J. L ID speaKing Ot two utile oiu maiua, ue told how their black silk dresses, from many makings over, retained the lines of email holes where the thread wa3 ripped out, and how they wore them high at the throat when they went on their littie shopping expeditions, and at night turned them in" if they went out to tea. Even if there is a touch of pathos about all this, they were undoubtedly ingenious and resourceful -little people. ?New York World. REVIVAL OF THE APRON. The revival of the apron is orie of the predictions, and although the ornamental apron has apparently no special use, except to display its prettiness, it serves one practical purpose: it keeps the front of a handsome house-dress from becoming worn and shabby when the rest of the dress is still in good condition. If Parisian reports are true, we may soon see the dainty brocaded aprons it is plaia.?New York Tribune. PIG RAISING FOR LADIES. Pig raising for ladies has been commended. "iE3thctics ot Pig Keeping, or Culture," in which pigsties built of art tiles were so attractively pictured that, within our own knowledge, several art piggeries were established, and one of these, at least, has prospered. The only difficulty about raising pigs is that one becomes so fond of them that the pain of parting overcomes the desire for gain. The little pig is one of the most lovable of animals. It is noisy, but affectionate, playful. The pig, moreover, is dainty in its tastes, and with a preference for cleanliness. Its reputation otherwise is due to evil circumstances. A physician has said that of all animals the skin and flesh of a pig ?re most liko those of man. He preserves through all circumstances the traditions of cleanliness. He must have his bath, and if he takes it in a mud hole it is because no other place is provided. No other creature is brought up at so little expense, and is such clear gain when all is over. Two girls who concluded to stop on the farm instead of becoming typewriters went into pig culture. They .bad the solid ground floors as carefully laid out nd drained as a tennis ground. This, neatly enclosed, was the stye, and so arranged that it could be flooded and kept clean. The piga were al1 ?5 Iao/va "or if Kin tKa on_ 1QWCU bU IUU an n?vmu vuo uu? i closed space and a bathing was given them suitable to their natural tastes. All tFat the family did not eat they ate. Special varieties of weeds were cultivated for their uae. There wire halcyon 1 . ? . J-w days spent ia gathering acrons and ground nuts. Neither food nor com was bought for them. They were not fattened to be sold by the pound, bat kept healthy, clean and appropriately lean. When the painful moment ar- . v/ilj rived that they were considered ripe . they were not sold to the butcher, nor to the dealer in hogs; they were con. tracted for by individuals who knew of their careful rearing. There were seventeen pigs in all having cost comparatively nothing; they brought in Tne young women who make this report say that the money does not express the pleasure of their open air life, of the companio nahip,the friendship and affection they experienced in this, their first attempt at pig culture. In the pain of * separation their consolation was that their pigs did not go to strangers, but were eaten and appreciated by acquaintances.?New York Sun. FA8HIOH NOTES. Velvet sleeves are a feature of both coats and gowns of cloth. The combination of tau, black and white is one much favored in Europe. ? ..... i ? ? * JBroadciotti is a rivai or iweea ana cheviot for tailor costumes for tlie promenade. Quite a number of white wool go wax display sleeves of green velvet, that being the only bit of color ia the costume. In the sell-tied De Joinville, or its - \ made-up reproduction, the scarfpio must pierce the cross folds at the intersection. The latest novelties in stockings are those of shot silk, made in all the colors now worn, and harmonizing with each costume. Smoking sets ot frosted silver arc ornamented .with flowers in enamel. The fancy is for such delicate blossoms as tha Mayflower. ' jai One of the mjBt novel and striking fashions of the season is ftiat of combin- < - '/ ing black summer satin with nearly every sort of costume. Some of the French pattern gowns ar? a very effective, with borders of vivid colors, mixed with gold. Not a fe? show bands of fur also. The always popular foot bands for skirts are to be of fur, velvet, gimps, or simply bands of the goods stitched on in several rows of stitching. ' & t?i*ima ViQtro act-nil wnrlc ?flfc nblinuelv *"US' ?? ? .-M.~-.~- > , in small diamonds, with a large colored r pearl set in the center. This u a ne? and very pretty fashion. Velvet sleeves have come into favoi again, and, oddly enough, are seen ii tea gowns aad dressy home toilets oi delicately tinted lawn. Large oral sleeve buttons of white lu? terless enamel are powdered with tinj 7 j gold disks. This is one of the hand* somest of the new designs. # Quaint hat pins are seen among tha French novelty jewelry. They consist of little Japanese beads, made of paper mache, with hair on them. The little mink beads that snuggled under all the pretty girls' chins last winter, attached to a band of the fur, hava again made their appearance. Very full-plaited collarettes of lace, mull, crepe lisse and other thin fabrics are mounted on ribbon bands and ' trimmed with long loops and ends of rihhon. Many of the materials used for even? ing wear are jeweled, or the designs are outlined with a tinsel thread, and this ia uausually pretty upon the popular blaok grenadines. Dresses for little girls still remain long, some ot them almost touohiag the floor. These, however, are more used for house dresses, street garments being shorter and much less elaborate. Some of the new bonnets are masses of velvet ribbon, velvet flowers and passementerie. A number of models are S3 heavy that it would be almost cruelty to expect a woman to wear them. All the new mantles are exceedingly long affairs; many have short bodies, with full petticoats, but all are long and very ornate, of silk, velvet or cloth, elaborately trimmed and equally elaborately lined. A draped skirts, with blouse of wash- ^ silk, a cutawa/ jacket which extends not quite to the waistline at the back, - - - -t ?ii-l and sleeves reacning to tne eioows, wim the blouse sleeves betow, is a prettj style for a young girl. , This is the reign of the feather bca. Instead of its popularity being on the wane, it would seem that it is increasing. Some new ones are short, and of cardinal coque plume. Cardinal is to be one of the leading colors this year. Falls of wide lace in bretelle fashion are worn. Some of them are so wide thaft thaw sno^est a caDe: and when the laced with frills. and ribbon trimmed, which were a regular feature of the house-dress a generation ago. However this may be, it is the part of every housekeeper to keep a goodly supply on hand, and even the much-derded ging bam apron should find a place in the kitchen where there is any rough work to do; and the maid of all work should be taught to make use of such aprons in order to keep her dress presentable on other occasions. The best material for ordinary white aprons, which mistresses quite often supply, to their maids, is American cambric. A housemaid's apron should bo severely plain, finished with a deep hem, but without laoe or embroidery. The apron of a nurse, on the contrary, may be as elaborate and fanciful as the taste and the purse of the mistress may dictate, providing always that it is large enough. It should certainly be two yards wide, and reach nearly to the bottom of the dress. A housemaid's apron should be as wide but not quite so long. A housemaid's cap. like her apron,is in be9t taste when lace is carried arouad over the should^ era and across the back of the neck be* low the collar, it almost takes the plac# of a dress wrap. New princess dresses for home wear are made with skirts slashed at each side, and with graceful Eton or Russian jacket-fronts, close coat sleeves with wide puff or slashed Hungarian cap at the top, and a slightly open Medici collar of velvet?of which the jacket fronts are made. The new tailor-made gown has all thfr seams lapped, and is trimmed with a new kind of braid that has some tinsel in it. The basque ha3 a roll collar and cuffs, and is lined throughout with silk. Ladies who are tired of the severity of the tailor gowns are bordering them with novelty furs for the coming season. It is quite the custom now for the intimate friends of a bride-elect to present 1 her with the exquisitely fine bed linen now included among the essentials of the fashionable trousseau. These sheets and pillowslips are all made with hemstitched hems and * embroidery of the interlaced inicials of the bride's maiden name. To the collection each of the girl cronies contributes one set, which insures a variety of embroidery designs. rut