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w*< -vc REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: "Half a Planet." Text: "Lift up thine eyes westward."Deuteronomy iii., 27. So God said to Moses in .Sible times, an' so He said to Cristoforo Colombo, the son ol a wool comber of Genoa, more than foui hundred yarsaeo. The Nations had beer booking chiefly towar 1 the east. | But while Columbus, as his name wa called after it was Latiniz?d. stood studying maps and examining globe* and reading cos ? ?:J I.:~ .,r> fhin< Iliuerapijv, uou saiu i?> imu, ^y ?..u. eyes toward the west" The fact was it mus1 have seemed to Columbus a very lopsided worli?like a cart with one wheel, like a scissors with one blade, like a sack on oik side of a camel, needing a sack on the other side to balance it. Here was a bride of th* world with no bridegroom. I I do not wonder that Columbus was not satisfied with half a world, and so went tc .work to find the other half. The pieces of carded wood that were floated to the shores of Europe by a westerly gale, and two dead human faces, unlike anything he had sear before, likewise floated from the west were to him the voice of God saying, "Lift up thine eyes toward the west." i Old navigators said to youne Columbus. **" " nv._ ? KIJ "it catvc D6 aone." iao nu'ivuu ui ucuua said, "It can't be don*." Alphonso V. said, ;"It can't be done." A comm ttee on maritime affairs, to whom the subject was submitted, declared, "It can't be done." Venetians said, "It can't be done." After awhile the story of this poor hut ambitious Columbus reaches the ear of Queen Isabella, and she pays eighty dollars to buy bim a decant suit of clothes, so that he may be fit to appear before loyalty. , The interview in the palace was successful. Money enouch was borrowed to fit out the expedition. There they are, the three ships, in the Gulf of Cadiz. Spain. If you ask me which hare been the most famous boats of the world, I would, saj% first Noah's ship, that wharfed on Mount Ararat: second, the boat of bulrushes, in which Moses floated the Nile: third, the Mayflower, that ^ ?i. t ni H, P.lm-im put OUb lrum X xy rnuuuu ntuu t/uw * ?1&4 ??. Fathers, and now these three vessels that on this the Friday morning, August 3, 1492, are rocking on the ripples. There is the Santa Maria, only ninety foet long, with four masts and eight anchors. The captain walking the deck is fifty-seven years old, bis hair white, for at thirty-five he was gray, and his face is round, his nose aquiline and his stature a little taller than the average. There are two doctors in this ?l?et of ships and a few landsmen, adventurers who are ready to risk their necks in a wild expedition. There are enough provisions for a year. "Captain Columbus, where are you cn.iliri7 for?" "I do not know." "Howlonz before you will get there?" "I cannot say." "Alt ashore that are going!" is heard, and those who wish to remain go t<0the land. For sixteen days the wind is dead east, and that pleases the captain because it blows them farther and farther away from the European coast and farther on toward the shore of another country, if there is any. To add interest to the voyage on the twentieth day out a violent storm sweeps the sea, and the Atlantic ocean tries what it can do with the Santa Maria, the JPinta and the Nina. The mutinous crew would have killed Columbus had it not been for the general opinion on shipboard that he was the only one that could take them back home in safety. The promise of a silk waistcoat and forty dollars in money to the man who should first discover land appeased them somewhat, but the indignation and blasphemy and threats -01 assassiDauuu uiiuiuavo tou a>r>u>. On Friday morning at 2 o'clock, just long enough xfter Thursday to make it sura that it was Friday, and so give another blow at the world's idea of unlucky days?on Friday morning. October 12, 1492, a gun from the Pintasignaled "land ahead." Tnen the ships lay to and the boats were lowered, and Captain Christopher Columbui first stepped upon the shore amid the song of birds and the air a surge of redolence and took possession in the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Ghost. & > the voyage that began with the sacra ment ended with "Jloria in Excelsis Dio." From that day onward you say there can be nothing tor Columbus but honors, rewoi-dc T-aiihcr\HiA<; iml&cas and world wide applause. No! no! On his way back to Spain the ship was so wrenched by the tempest and so threatened with destruction that he wrote a brief account of his discovery and put it in a cask and threw it overboard that the world might not lose the advantage of his adventures. Honors awaited him on the bcach,bat he undertook a second voyage, and with it came all maligning and persecution and denunciation and poverty. He was called a land grabber, a bar, a cheat, a fraud, a dec?iver of Nations. Speculators robbed him of his good name, courtiers depreciated his discoveries, and there came to him ruined health and imprisonment and chains, of which he said while he rattled them on his wrists, "X will weai- them as a memento of the gratitude of princes.1' Amid keen appreciation of the world's abuse and cruelty, and with body writhing in tbe tortures of gout, he groaned out his last words, "In manus tuns Domine commendo spiritum meuai" ?"Into Thy hands, 0 Lord, I commend my spirit." Of course he had regal obsequies. That is the way the world tries to atone for its mean treatment of great benefactors. First lburiol '.in the church of Santa Maria. Seveu y sars afterward removed to Seville. TwenS-three years afterward removed to Ban omingo. Finally removed to Cuba. Fouj postmortem journeys from sepulcher U sepulcber. What most impresses me in all thai mnnctrnns lifp. which for the next twelvt months we will be commemorating by sermon and song and military parade auc World's Fair and congress of Nations, L something I have never heard stated, aac that is that the discovery o* Americi was * religious discovery and in the name o Goo. Columbus, by the studv of the oropb ?:ies;"anT oy wnat Zecnariaa ana jjui&irand David and Isiah had said about the "ends ol the earth," was persuaded to go out and tiud the "ends of the earth," and he feit hiinsell called by God to carry Christianity to th: "ends ot the earth.'' Atheisin has no right here; infidelity has no right here; vagabondism has no right here. And as God is not apt to fail in anj of His undertakings (at any rats 1 have nevei heard of His having anything to do with a failure), America is going to be Gospelize-J, and from the Golden Gate of Caw fornia to the Narrows of New York harbor and from the top of North America to *hi foot of South America, from Bering strait to Cape Horn, this is going to be immanue.'i land. A divine influence will yet swe^p the con tinent that will make iniquity drop likt slacked lime, and make the most blatant in fidelity declare it was only joking when i' said the Bible was not true, and the wors atheism announce that it always did be Ueve in the God of Nations. It would not do for our world in its losi and ruined state to have communicatioi with other worlds. It would spoil theii morals. But wait until this world is fullj redeemed, as it will be, and then perhaps interstellar correspondence may be opened The great Italian navigator also impresse,1 me with the idea that when one does t good thine he cannot appreciate its ramifi cations. To the moment of his death Co ]cmbus never knew that he had discoverec America, but thought that Cuba was a par of Asia. He thought the Island Hi? paniola was the Ophir of Solomon. H thought he had only opened a new way t< old Asia. Had he known what North am South America were and are, and that h< had found a country three thousand mile wide, ten thousand miles long, of seventeei million square rimes auu <.uui umu.i ^ as Europe, the happiness would have beei too much for mortal man to endure. He had no idea that the time would com< when a Nation of sixty million people 01 this side of the sea would be joined by all th intelligent Nations on the other side the sei for the most part of a year reciting bis won derful deeds. It took centuries to reveal th result of that one transatlantic voyage. When Manhattan Island was sold to th Dutch for twenty-four dollars neither the; who sold or bought could have foreseei New York, the commercial metropolis o America, that now stands on it. Can a mar who preaches a sermon, or a woman wh< distributes tracts; or a teacher who instruct a class, or a passerby who utters encourag ing words realize the infinitudes of usefn result? .a very move you make for God, however insignificant in your own eyes or in the eyes of others, touches worlcU larger the one Columbus discovered. Why talk about unimportant things* There are no unimpor tant things. Infinity is made up of infinitesmals. After the battle of Copenhagen, Nelson, the Admiral, went into a hospital and halted at the bed of a wounded sailor who had Io3t his arm and said, ''Well, Jack, what is the matter with you?" and the sailor reulied, *? ' ? ?- i >/ ?,i xr^i "iiOSC tny ngac arm, your uouur, uau kci- i sod looked down at his own empty sleove j and Paid: "Well, Jack, then you and I are both spoiled for fishermen. Cheer up, my brave fellow!" and that sympathetic word " cheered the entire hospital. 1 While studying the life of this Italian navigator, I am also reminded of the fact that 3 while we are diligently looking for one ' thing we find another. Columbus started to find India, but found Amarica. Go on ! and do your duty diligently and prayerfully, I and if you do not find what you looked lor you will find something better, j Hargreaves, by the upsetting of a mal chine and the motion of its wheels whilo up"* " 3 -IrtMnir Sn m TT S9p, QlSCUVCrou tuo jtuuj. wf ?^ friend, go on faithfully and promptly with your work, and if you do not get the success J you seek, and your plans upset, you will get , something just as good and perhaps batter. Another look at that career of the admiral of the Santa Maria persuades me that it is not to be expected that this world will do its hard workers full jusbico. If any man ought to have bean treated well from first " > IT_ U.J kic fo.ilfo to last It was ^OIULLIUUS. HO Lltt'J Let others depict them. But a greater. soul the canturie? have not proJucad. 1 TUls continent ought to hava bean called Columbia, after tho hero who discovered it, or Isabelliana, after the queen who furnished the means for the expedition. No. The world did not do him justice while he was alive, and why should it be expected to do him justice after he was dead? Columbus in a dungeon! What a thought? Columbus in irons! What a spectacle! In one of the last letters which Columbus sent to bis son, he wrote this lamentation: | "I receive nothing of the revenue due me. Hive by borrowing. Little have I profited by twenty years of service with such toils and perils, since at present I do not own a roof in Spain. If I desire to eat or sleep, I have no recourse but the inn, and for the most times have not wherewithal to pay my bill." Be not surprised, my hearer, it you suffer injustice. Let us be sure that we have the right pilot, and the right chart; and the rieht captain and that we start in the right di rection. It will be to each of us who love the Lord a voyage more wonderful for discover/ than that which Columbus took. Aye, fellow mariners, over the rough sea of this life, through the fogs and mists of earth, sae you not already the outline of the better country! Land ahead! Laud ahead! Nearer and nearer we come to heavenly wharfage. Throw out the p anks, and st9p ashora into the arms of your kindreJ, who have been waiting and watching for the hour of your disembarkation. Through the rich graces of Christ, our Lord, may we all hava such blissful arrival I Picturesque Plant Life of California. hae h#>rnme the Daradisc of vauivtu?M ? f the rosarian, the seed-grower, the hybridizer imd the nurseryman. The wild grape is used as a stock for wine and raisin grapes, and, in some cases that I know of, men have grafted Italian chestnuts upon one species of the native oaks. All the hillsides of the tree region, when not too steep to plow, nor too far above the sea-level, will grow the fruits and varied horticultural products of Spain, Portugal, Italy and southern France. Tho nnmerrrftiifite is a irarden shrub iu t O <-> many districts, and the almond is a road* side tree. The drooping, acacia-like leaves of the scarlet-fruitcd pepper tree grow with magnolias, palms and cedars of Lebanon. Oranges and lemoos stani in many an orchard with apples and peaches. Among the notable plants of the St3te are many adopted species, such as the acacias and eucalyptuses of Australia, and the bamboos and persimmon? of Japan. When Americans came to California, they were surprised at the variations that they observed in familiar plants. Tho elderberry, which is only slightly different from the elderberrvbush of the Atlantic slope, often becomes a tree of from two to four feet in diameter and thirty or forty feet high. This is merely i~ Innol Moirnnmiint rinh soil ( a iLauci vi iuvui vuiuwww*?H.| -? and shelter; the same species is a mere shrub on the rocky hillsides of the Coast Range. The bronze-leaved Ricinus, which makes a semi-tiopic summer garden in front of many an Atlantic coast cottage, grows for year after year in California, until a section of its stem a j foot and a half in diameter can be obtained by any collector of vegetable curiosities. Geraniums, nasturtiums, tomatoes and many other plants, useful i and otherwise, escape from cultivation, ' modify their hnbit3 of growth, and soon ' become wild again. Many plants of Mexico, Peru, Chile, the Hawaiian Isl> ands, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Mediterranean coast have already become dangerous weeds. The t Ioquat, a choice fruit of Japan, is already 3 growing wild in some canons where pic[ nic parties have left the seeds. Apricots, 5 peaches, cherries, aud Eaglish walnuts 1 have been found in the forests?chance J seedlings, growing with the madronos . and mauzinitas.?Century. I j 1 i An Astonishing Piece of Knavery. E . . j 4lThe slickest piece of knavery ever perpetrated in the world was the work of ' a t'rencnman," saia Liouis .uaireie, jomr ing ia the discussion of coincidence in progress at the Laclede. "In 183? I was 1 employed in tbe private banking e3tablishment of Jaques Barere, at Toulon. Barere was called to Paris on business, * expecting to be absent three days. On * the second day be returned, stating that 3 he must have at once 2,000,000 francs, - with which to close an important trans? action he had on hand. There was not [ so much cash in the vaults, and he at c once opened negotiations with the other - banks to supply it. Not a soul suspected him. I entered his private office on an t errand, his large St. Bernard dog trot\ ting at ray heels. When he saw his r master, instead of springing forward to i greet him as was his wont, he uttered a vicious growl and began barking at him. * Barere turned to me and demanded: 'Why do you bring your dog in here?' 'It is your dog, monsieur,' I replied, in J some surprise. I went back to my desk " with a feeling of uneasiness I could scarcs ?. define, I noticed that B;?rere wore his ' liat in tne omce, sometnmg unusual ior , him, and that he gave mo evasive anR swera when I asked for instructions. I i was seized with a desire to have Barere s take his hat off. I scarce knew why I 3 wanted it removed, for doubt of his iaen8 tity had not taken tangible shape in my i mind. I again entered his office with a 9 paper for his signature, and as a I placed a it on his desk I managed, by seeming ac0 cident, to knock his hat off. It was not Barere! The resemblance, so marked 0 when he wore his hat, entirely disap[ peared when it was removed. He replaced it hurriedly and I retired. I comj municated my discovery to the cashier, 3 and an officer was summoned, but when 3 he entered the office the impostor was 1 gone. He had escaped through a *ide doorv?St. I#ui3 Globe-Democrat. TEMPERANCE KINO ALCOHOL'S DECREE. The old serpent of all who has a largo brooi, And all of such evil renown, Decided that he who could do the most ill Should receive the reward of a crown. Mv name is King Alcohol, proudly ho said. My children I call half a s>core; Whisky, brandy, rum, gin, little cider and wine, in T hnvA m?nv mnp?. Now millions of souls I have won from the King, They gave up themselves to my power: But so many escape! he who captures the crowd Shall receive a magnificent dower. Whisky, beer, brandy, gin, rum, each put in a claim, "Tens o? thousands we've captured," they said: ' t While the rosy wine said, "I rule o'er the kings And the great ones who are not afraid." Then came little cider, a sharp, wiry elf, "Stand aside, ye old dotards," said he; "You all must confess that the crown which we seek Belongs dv iair ngacs unro me. Who teaches the first steps? without them who would Go at all in the way you desire? 'Harmless cider' they call me, yet I am the one Who lights the unquenchable fire. The thirst which I kindle no whisky can slake, Its cry is forever 'give more;' Till the souls I have won crois the river of death, And their time for repentance is o'er." "Take the crown, little cider," King Alcohol said, "Lure the little ones into th9 snare; In their safe, happy home, light the fires that burn In the depths of oternal despair." ?Mrs. Richmond, in National Advocate. WHAT RUM IS DOING. Rum in tho United States is doing as much barm to the souls and bodies of the people as opium is doing to the Chinese. But who is asking the Pope to make inhibiting declarations against it? The prelates who might do so use it themselves?in moderation of course. Yes, of course. 0 yes! Most of them, as well as the clergy under them, use it in their homos?oh, moderately and decently, of course. Yes, of course I How can they ask Rome to order or adopt zealously all measures directed to extirpate the abuse of rum? They can't do it, you know?^ So the ruin of souls can go on. May Goi send doubts about tho use of rum as He did opium.?Catholic Mirror. MISS WILLARD ABROAD. Miss Frances E. Willard's visit to England gives occasion for a laudatory mention of her in the Pall Mall Gazette. It is twentyfive years since she was in England before, and she finds that there has been great progress since then. Then temperance sentiment hardly existed in England; now it has actually got its principles embodied in the platform of a victorious political party. Their local option plank is one of the evidences that the English Liberals are the party of the future. Miss Willard says that these twenty-live years have shown nnito ?c err oat. a nrnsTftss in tha United States. During tbis time the Woman's Christian Temperance Union has been organized, and now has 200,000 members. We have Prohibition in five States; anti-tobacco legislation in thirty-four, and woman's suffrage in one. She emphatically declares that adopting woman's suffrage has given strength to the woman's temperance movement.?Independent. THE DBUNKARD'3 ENT>. One beautiful afternoon in August there came to me the heart-broken wife of a State prison convict. We tried to plan for his pardon and restoration to home and the world. It was a very sad case. He was the only surviving son of a very noble manone who lived only to serve the poor, the tempted, and the criminal. All he had, all he was he gave unreservedly to help thieves and drunkards. His house was their home. His name their bail to save them from prison. His reward their reformation. It was a happy hour to hear him tell of the hundreds he bad shielded from the contamination and evil example of prisons, and of the large proportion he had good reason to believe permanently savei. Out of hunireds, he once told me, only two left him to pay their bail, forfeited by neglect to show themselves at court according to agreement? only two! Bred under such a roof, the son started in life with a generous heart, noble dreams, and high purpose. Ten years of prosperity, fairly earned by energy, industry, and character, ended in a bankruptcy, as is often the case in our risky and changing trade; then came a struggle for business, for bread ? temptation?despair?intemperance. He could not safely pass the open doors that tempted him to indulgence, forgetfulness, and crime. How hard his wife wrought and struggled to save him from indulgence, and then to shield him from exposure 1 How Ion z wife, and sister, and friends labored to avert conviction and the State prison! "I would spare him gladly," wrote the prosecuting attorney, "if ho would stop drinking. He shall never go to prison if he will be a sober man. But all this wretchedness and crime came from rum." Manfully did the young man struggle to resist the appetite. A^ain and again did he promise, and keep his promise perhaps a month, then fall. He could not walk the streets and earn his bread soberly while so many open doors?opened by men who sought to coin gold out of their neighbor's viceslured him to indulgence. So, rightfully, the State pressed on, and he went to prisoD. An honored name disgraced, a loving home broken up, a wide circle of kindred sorely pained, a worthy, well-meaning man wrecked. Sorrow and crime "all come from rum," said the keen-sighted lawyer. As 1 parted from the sad wife on my doorstep I looked beyond, and close by the laughing sea stood a handsome cottage. "The grounds were laid out expensively and with great taste. Over tho t>road piazza hun<* lazily an Eastern hammock, while all arouua were richly painted chairs and lounges of every aasy and tempting form. Overhead were quaint vases ot beautiful tiowers, and the delicious lawn was bordered with tliein. On tlift l.'iwn itanlf crnilv ilrptiKAil wr>m?n laujhed merrily over croquet, and noisy children played near. A span ot superD horses pawed tbe earth impatiently at the gate while gay salutations passed between the croquet players and the fashionable equipages that rolled by. It was a comfortaole home as well as luxurious one. Nature, taste and wealth had done their best. It was a scene ot beauty, comforr, taste, luxury and wealth. All came from rum. Silks and diamonds, flowers, and equipage, stately roof and costly attendance, all came from \ rum. The owner was one who in a great \ city coined his gold out of the vices ot his fellowmen. To me it was a dissolving view. I lost sight ot the gay women, the frolicsome children, the impatient horses, and the oce&h rolling up to the lawn. I saw instead the pal? convict in his ceil twelve feet by nine, the sad wife going from judge to at torney, from court to Governor'* Council, begging mercy for her overtempted husband. I heard above the children's noisa, the croquet, laugh, and the surf waves, that lawyer's stern reason for exacting the full penalty of the law. All this comes from rum. Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink. Woe unto him that buildeth his house by uprighteousness and his chamber by wrong, for the stone shall cry out of the wall and the beam out of the timber shall I answer it.?Wendell Phillips. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND N0T3S. London has 414 clubs In w"&ich intoxicants are sold. There are about seventy temperance representatives in the Swedish Parliament. There are eighteen brewers in the new British Parliament, six less t lan in its predecessor. The duties on spirits in India increassd fmm millinn rnr>?A? in W70 tit ninths' million!) in 1889. The total amount of British investments in American breweries aggregated, September 1st, $91,203,830. The quantity of cider-apples used in Massachusetts iu 1891 was greater by 153,920 bushels than in 189i>. At tne first temperance council over held by the Indians of the Omaha Reservation they unanimously voted to set aside $2900 from their pasture money to be used in the temperauce work. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, of Chicago, has placed a "slotdrinking machine" in the postoffice building of that city. A penny puc in the slot causes it to hand out a drink of cool water, SABBATH SCHOOL. Ml INTEHNATIO.?.*.li h KSSON FOR OCTOBER 30. Lesson Te*J: 'The Gospel Preached at Antinch," Acts xi., l!)-30? Golden Text: Acts xi., 21 ? Commentary. 10. "They which were scattered abroad*traveled preaching the Word to none but unto the Jews only." This takes us baclc to chapter viii., 14, where we learn that all except the apostles were scattered abroad by persecution and went everywhere preaching the Word; but they had not learned that "every creature" (Mark xvi., 15> meant Gentilps as well as J^ws. They went under the orders of Math, x., 5, 0, rather than the late orders, not understanding that the kingdom being postponed the Gospel is now for nl), that out of Jews and the Gentiles the new man, the body or church, may be formed. 'JO. "And some of them spake unto the Grecians preaching the Lord Je3us." This was at cAntioch. in Syria. Grecians ar* mentioned again in chapters vi., 1- ix., 20. and are said by Yo;jug to include all Jews born out of Canaan. The preaching in these days was wholly concerning the Lori Jesus; there was no lecturing by the preachers upon the topics of the day. 21. "And the hand of the Lord was with theu:, and a great number believed and turfled to the Lord." Ezra learned even in bis day that "The hatrl oE our (iod is upon all them for good that sea* Him but His power and His wrath is against all them that forsake Him" (Ezra viii., 22). See the latter clause illustrated in Acts xiii., 11. As to the good hand, or the hand lor good, remember the words of Jesus, "Without Me ve can do nothing," and be strengthened by Isa xii., 13. 23. "They sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antiocn." Tidings of the work of the Spirit of Antioch having reached Jerusalem, this son of consolation, who had given himself wholly to the Lord (Acts iv., 3?, 37!, is sent forth to streogt-.en and comfort them. Barnabas bad lett all for Jesu?, bad put himself and his property, too, in the Lord's hands for His service. 13. "Who when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord." No sinner deserves to be saved; if we had our just deserts we would all be sent into the outer darkness, away lrom God forever. But the graca or uudeserved favor of God brought Jesus to Calvary in our stead, and every sinner saved is a manifestation of the grace of God. Being saved by His ?race our lifelong business is to cleave unto Him a3 Ruth to Naomi, or a? Ittai to David (Ruth i., 16, 17; 11 Sam. xv., 21.) We are not to follow people nor cleave unto tnem, rue laying asiue every wmgui and besetting sin, run with patieno?, looking unto Jesus iHeb. xii., 1, 2./ 34. "For he was a good man and full of the Holy Gtoodt and of faith; and muci people was added unto the Lord." Such another man was Stephen (Actsvi., 5,) the light of whose life was so bright that the self righteous hated him unto death. When we are tilled with the Holy Spirit God will be seen in us (Gal. i., 24) and people will be drawn to Him. Not ail will be drawn in this age of election; whosoever will may come, and all whom God has given to Christ wi'l come (Johniii., 16; vi., 37.) 25. "Tnen departed Barnabas to Tardus for to seek SauL" A glance at the map will show Tarsus to be across the bay from Antioch, perhaps fifty miles distant. When Saul first came to Jerusalem after nis conversion, and the disciples were all afraid of him, it was Barnabas that took him and testified on his behalf and gave the others coaU ktM. ? rt-nw roUtsth rabirnaH frt UUCULTJ IU UIUI, cuvot nuivu ? Tarsus (Acts ix? 26-30;. It wa3 but natural that now Barnaoa?, being so near to turn, should seeK him out as a fellow laoorer. 26. ' And when he bad touad him he brought him unto Antioch." The three points in this verse are the return to Antioch; the year's work thare and the nauie "Christian" first used. We are not tol 1 ol! a special wort of the Spirit at Tarsus, and yet we cannot think of Saul being idle there. "The wind bloweth where it listeth." Believers are at first only babes in Christ, and need to be instructed and built up; this the brethren did during their year at Antioch, and no doubt rnauy more wera added to the; Lord. The name of Christ became so prominenc in these oays (for it was Paul's manner to prove from the Scriptures that Jesus was the Chrisr, ix.,-2*2) that t!>e believer* were called Christians. See the name elsewhere only in Acts xxvi., 28; I Pet. ir., 10. 27. "And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antiooh." A prophet frtf (inr\ wnrv rAnr^s^nts 43 UUD TTUW opgunj 4t/? v>wv>^ .^r. God before the people, carrying a message tor God. "l'he prophet that hath a dream let I him tell a dream, and he that bath my word let him speak my word faithfully." "Tnon Kike Haggai, the Lord's messenger, in the rd's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith tne Lora" (Jer. xxin., 36; Hag.!., 13;. You are His prophet if you bear a message trom Him. I 88. "And there stood up one of them named Agabu?, and signified by the Spirit [ that there should be great dearth throughout ail the world, which came to pass in tha cU.ys or Claudius Caisar." Whatever the Spirit says will surely como to pass, for "The council of the Lord standeth forever, the | thoughts of His neart for all generations." "The Lord of Hosts hath sworn, >aying, [ Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed s< suall it btana" (Ps. xxxni., 11; lsa. xiv,, Zi,. Jesui had said that this whole age till He come again Wculd be characterized by war, famine, pestilence, etc., but that His people are not to be troubled (Math, xiv., 6, 9). 29. "Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send I relief unto the bremren wnicn nwmi iu Ji'.dea." Thus the members of the household of God minister to each other, some in spiritual things and some in temporal I things. The love that does not love to give is not the love of God, for "God so loved that He gave." It is not the quantity we jjive that God notes so mucn as the heart that gives it. "If there be first a willing mind it is accepted according to that a man hath and not according to that he hath not1' (II Cor. viii., K). 3.). "Which also they did, and sent it to tb? elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul." There was not only a readiness to will, but also a performance of the same. The religion that only promises but never performs, that vows but uever pay?, that says but never docs, is only a false religion. I n uKhnnc works and therefore JLU 13 iUHU "?vuvuv dead: it is hypocrisy. See Jas. iM -2; 11., 15-17; I John lii., 17, ii'3. Christ manifested His love by givinp? liimseif for us. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of His il John iii?, 16). - Lesson Helper. A. new syndicate has been formed In France to complete the Panama Canal. That enterprise has already sunk many millions of francs, and it 6eems doubtful whether it can be completed successfully. If it can, that is only an additional reason why i this Government should give all the aid necessary for the completion as soon as possible of the Nicaragua Canal?a waterway far better than the Panama Canal, even if the latter should be finished. A Califouxia money lender has secured judgment for $013 iuterest on a $125 note, although the justice who gave it denounced th? proceedings as outrageous. Every once in a ! while something occurs to show that Shyloclc was a comparatively genial and easy-going gentleman, despite a prejudice aeainst his stvle. Bangs and trains must go. This edict ha3 been Issued by the fashion autocrats of Europe, and lovely woman, "who stoops to conquer," must govern herself accordingly. Lovkll?This marrying a rich wife is of no use. Markham?Why not? Lovcll?Because even after she's fast asleep you can't fiad. U*r ? New York Herald. RELIGIOUS READING. TIfE MOTHER'S CRADLE 80N*d. The following beautiful hymn is a trans Jation from the "Home Songs" of Sweden it i8 croned by the mother as she is put ting her little ones toslesy: 0, little child, lie still and sleep; .Jesus is near, thou needst not fear; no one neea iear wnom v*ua uum Keep, Both day or nigbt, Then lay thee aown in sumber deep Till morning light. O, little child, be still and re9t; He sweetly sleeps whom Jesus keeps, And in the morning wake so bleat His child to be; Love every one. but love him bestHe first loved thee. O, little child, when thou mu9t die, Fear nothing then, but say "Amen" To Ood'9 demand, and quiet lie In his kind hand, Until be say: "Dear child, come fly To heaven's bright land." Then, when thy work on earth is done, Thou shalt ascend to meet tby Friend; Jesus the little child will own, Safe nt his side; And tbou shalt dwell before the throne? For he bath died. "LIFE 18 HEAL ?LIFE IS EARNEST." There is a Diviue sacredness in work. Religion el-vates and dignifies labor. He wbc says, "Not slothful in business," would never have given his sanction to a life of inactive, dreamy pietism. His was a mind farthest removed from the dogma that when a man becomes religious he must shun hi* fellows?desert the market and exchange, close bis ledger, put an arrest on the wheels of industry, and bid his neighbor and hi* work farewell.?[J. R. McDuff, D. D. READINESS IX THE PERFORMANCE OF DUTY. The 17th of May, 1780, was remarkably dark in Connecticut. Candles were lighted in many bouses. The birds were silent, and many domestic fowls retired to roost. Th? people were impressed by the idea that the day of judgment was at hand. This opinion was entertained bv the legislature, at that time sitting at Hartford. The house ol representatives adjourned; the council proposed to follow the example. Colonel Davenport objected. ,;The day of judgment." h? said, "is either approaching or it is not. II It is not, there is no cause for au adjournment; if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish, therefore, that candles may be brought."?[Biblical Museum. CHURCH AMUSEMENTS. The Rev. Dr. A. J. Gordon has this to say on "Chromo Christianity": "How much we are coming to lean on mere human agencies! upon art and architecture, upon music and rhetoric, and social attractions ? If we would draw the people to church thai we may win them to Christ, the first question with scores of Christians now-a-days isj what new turn can be given to the kaleidoscope of entertainment ? What new stop can we insert in our organ, and what richer and more exquisite strain can we reach by our quartette ? What fresh novelty in the way of social attraction can we introduce? or what new coruscation cau be left off from the pulpit to dazzle and captivate the people? WHITE HARVEST FIELDS. In the heathen world there are about 000,000,000 souls; 30,000,000 a year go int? eternity without God. Our Lord said, "Gc ye into'all the world and preach the Gospe' to every creature." Oat ?>,000,000 Protestant church-members on* about 6(00 havi obeyed this command, one in every 5800. Evangelized, 116,000,000; unevangeliz'ed, 1,W0,000t000. In heathen lands there isone ordained missionary for every 320,000 souls; Including lay workers, one for every 165,000; Including native helpers, one for every 25,000, and there is only one Christian in evei7 1500 persons. But how shall they believe in whom they have not heard? Of the church's contributions, two per cent, is set apart for foreizn missions, wuere there is the greatest need"; 98 per cent, is spent at home. One cent nnnuallv is given for each heathen to bring them to Christ.?[Christian Statesman. SUPERIORITY OF CHRIST. "Everything in Christ astonishes me. Hia spirit overawes me and His will confounds me. Ilis ideas and his sentiments, th? truths which He announces, His manner of convincing arc not explained either by human observation or the nature of things. His birth and the history of His life; th? profundity of His doctrine, which grapplei the mightiest difficulties, and which is ol those difficulties the most admirable solution; His gospel, His apparition, His emoire, His march across the ages and the realms?everything is foi mea prodigy, a mystery insoluble, which plunges me into a reverie from which I cannot cscape?a mystery which is there before my eyes, a mystery which 1 can neither deny nor explain. " Here I see nothing human. The nearer I approach the more carefully I examine. Everything is above me. Everything remains grand?of a grandeur which overnowcrs. His religion is a revelation from an intelligence which certainly is not that of man." [Napoleon 1. PARABLE OF SLOTHFULN'EoS. Anione; the disciples of Hillel, the wise teacher of the sons of Israel, was one named Saboth, who gave himse'f up to idleness. Hillel was grieved, aud resolved to cure him of his fault. He took him to the vallev ol Hinnoni by Jerusalem, where was a standing pool full of suakcs and vermin, and covered with muddy weeds. "Here," said Hillel, 'let us rest." "Not here" said the youth. "Dost tliou not perceive what pois'onous vapors it exhales?" "Thou art right, my son: this bog is like the soul of a slothfu.' man.'' Hillel then took the youtt to a waste tield producing thorns and thistles. "This," said he. "has good soil to produce all that is good and pleasant; but it Is forgotten and neglected. A little while ago thou didst see the soul, now behold the life of an idle man." Saboth was so impressd that he began to lead a new life. Then Hillel took him into a fertile val ley. by the side of a clear brook, which flowed meandering between fruitful trets flowery meadow* and shady shrubberies and said: "This is the picture of thy new industrious life. Nature, which will re ward thee. Her benuty and grace can only give joy to hini who sees iu her life & pictur? of his own.*'?K rummacher. Joul winuers must be wise. The wisdon. which cometh from above will tind way t? the centre of the hardest heart. A Presbyterian pastor once visited a wealthy neigbbot who was said to be unapproachable on the subject of religion. Following hint into hit beautiful garden, the faithful pastor begar by discussing the fruits and flowers wit! which he found himself surrounded, and having talked his host iuto a good humor, boldly told his errand. The old man re 8ponded with an air of injured dignity: "Sir. my religiou lies between me and my God. When I feel the need of other aid 1 will senc' for you." A weaker man would have been repulsed by such a response, but the zealoupreacher, grasping the old man's hand, said I with evident emotion: "My friend, you am 1 may be in eternity before that time. 1 1 " nnnt -iffnnl tn wait if vou can." Ill tbm ' minutes the sinner of sixty years was weei> irnr like a child. He had been striving wi h the Spirit for week*, and it only needed a brave and wise Christian ett'ort to win him , to Christ.?fChristian Advocate. Mrs. Friendly?"What did your husband say to you to make you feel so bad?" Mrs. Newlywed?"I told him that he hadn't been to church aince we were married, and he?boo hoo?said, -No wonder?a?a?burnt child dreads the tire'?buo-hoo."? Texas Siftings. Ik a man's conscience troubles him at night he can easoit so successfully by resolving to get up at 5 o'clock to do good that he will sleep sound until i. ' ' THE REALM OF FASHION WHAT TO WEAR AND HOW THEY KAK2 IT. Pretty Hats For the Period Before Winter Styles At a Set. tICH but not gaudy, for the apparel oft proclaims the man," said Polonius. And ha might have added the woman, too. Proba. bly no article of apparel is more subject to ridicule than a hat, bence there's a deep philosophy in that current query: Where did you get that bat? provided you put great emphasis on the "did." A mistake that many tall women are aDt to make is to wear a very small hat. thinking thereby to disguise their great height, when in reality it has the very opposite effect?it accentuates it. AN INDIAN SUMMER HAT. Some very pretty hats are oat. SHitable for the supplemental season?that indefinable space of time which lies so charmingly between the end of summer and the advent of cold weather. Take, for instance, the piquant bit of headgear in the initial illustration, a biege straw trimmed with chestnut brown ribbon, forming a large bow, the strings starting from the crown. Under the flaring crown which is lined with velvet, there is set a bunch of ostrich tips to the left of the center. A pretty bat for Indian summer is shown in tho picture. It is a white rice straw with a lace butterfly bow, and an aigrette of pink plumes, but I warn the fuli-nedgea gin w be careful how she seeks to prolong her reign. She had better give up her role of Juliet and try saucy Kate. With the coming in of cold weather there will be a strongly developed liking for the genuine long wrap. These garments will be longs cloaks in good earnest, completely covering the gown, and the mat.-rial will be richly lined with bright colored silk. DRESSES TOR CHK.ERS!?. Velvet promises to bo in high favor the coming season for dress garniture applied as bands, lapels, collars, cufls, yokes and lower sleeves, the upper sleeves being in itv ffl8?SI< AN OUTING COSTUME. one or two puffs. The iower sleeve is usually left open a little at the wrist and then filled in with lace. In other cases it is widened so as to fall quite over the hand. Gauged ruches are to be worn both for corsages and the bottom of skirts. As usual, the new colors have fantastic names given them, such as Paradise for bright yellow, Eminence for deep red purple, Sulammbo for brilliant red, Argent, Nickel and Plantina for three shades of gray, and Floxine for reddish lilac. It is hard to say who is the more to be dreaded, the man or the woman with a camera, but there is this about it: In summer you may hide behind a clump of bushes when you see the camera fiend hove in sight but not so in fall days when you hunt the sunshine on exposed highways. There is r no escape. She snaps her camera at you, and you are fixed forever, like a butterfly, pinned against tbe wall.or some unfortunate tadpole or lizard in alcohol. It is too bad ' ' I tliat we 3lioui?i ue muuu iu ic.tvc uoiing impre-sions against onr will. However, possibly there are young men who would not object to be snapped at by such a charming-looking fiend as is presented in the illustration. Her gown is made up of a striped and embroidered zephyr, the stripes being cream and mauve and the flowerets black. The skirt is nut bias aud grazas tb? gronnd, and may be left quite plain'or be 'tr* ornamented with a ruffle fashioned from ft ., double fold of tbe material. Inside the bottom of the skirt you put a satinette flounce. . The blouse is made of fitted lining and books in the middle. The jabot-like raffle falls almost to tbe waist, and is make from strips cut straight as are also the puffed Sleeves. For rough usage at the country * club, such as nutting parties, mountain climbing, and the like, you need a gray or tan tweed, with which you wear no underskirts, but in place of them a pair of tweed knickerbockers made pretty full, and well under the skirt, a sort of divided garment whic^towever dre9s-reform-like it may ,.-78 sound when described, is admirably adapted for walking. The skirt itself should be .i made very plainly and should be finished all around to a depth of four inches with tan leather. Thus gowned you need not fear wind or weather. v#J The illustrntion shows the front and back view of a very pretty dress for a child, the " material being a pale rose pongee, with sash jiM of the same shade with figured design in . green, and deep lace drapery around the neck and bottom ol the slcirt. WORDS OP WISD03L Cold prayers never bring warm blesf^ Success that is not deserved cannot be Beware ot the man who apologizes toi any kind of sin. J Who kills the man when he worrieff himself to death? If some of as would pray more wo would grumble less. Every man who does right is helping J some boy to be good.. ! It doesn't take very much money to make a good man rich. Love needs no law. Being loyal ii -da heart it is loyal in hand. 1 Love is the only thing man needs thai he can not get for himself. ' ; It is the man who is willing to difl vfij daily who will always live. i pa It is hard to remember the good qtafr ities of those who forget as. We would all do more lifting up if 'V:jfg would do more looking up. "'i jjj The days are never long enough foi . -v?h he man who loves his work. One secret of living long is to learn how to live one day at a time. j I . To want to be good is the sorest '^$8 prophecy that we shall be good. The man who is satisfied with himseli is always being disappointed with otha We never find out how bright the ' '$& light is until we have been for awhile in the dark. A man with a good backbone will "^Kj often win more battles than one who ; has a bigger head. ( * One reason why some people never do '/**? much good, is because they are not will-j ing to do a little at a time. ' _ People who have the least sympathy *' , for othen are those who have been the least tried and tempted themselves.?^ : Indianapolis (Ind.) Ram's Horn. Safety of Fast Trains. , , / I Superintendent Darlington of the ' Pennsylvania lines is of the opinion thai v ;V? fast trains are the safest, and unless there A is a defect in the track an accident aeU . dom happens to them. "Our No. 7,'* vjj says he, "is known to be an exceedingly! <&| foaf fmin on<4 prprv one keens out of its vSS way. At Kaightatown, for instancej ' where our last trains pass through at? nearly sixty miles an hour, no one has evei} t :.i$ been hurt. The people know the train cannot be stopped in a second and govern! '.v themselves accordingly. It is in towns where there are slow ordinances that thei people are hurt. They know the trains ?3 are compelled to run slow and take theii; l*j time about getting across the track. The experience of railroad men is that fast v*J trains are the safest. In the event of cattle on the track it is better, too, to hit them hard than easy. 2 was on the engine of a freight train once: when we ran into a flock of sheep. The: yjj, animals were huddled together around the bell wether and my hair began to: rise. I thought sure we would be. thrown from the track. The engineer] |$ put on a full head of steam and struck the flock at great speed. The engine threw the sheep to one side like chaff. Had he tried to stop or run. slow the en-i gine would have been derailed. Twoi years a cow was seen in the middle of the Monon track ia the front of a train. The engineer tried to stop, and the re-' suit was the locomotive was derailed and! the engineer killed." A. few month? ' )V<-$j ago the writer was riding on aa engine) on the Chicago division of the Pennsyl-j vania, and a herd of cattle got oa the track. The train was running almost forty miles an hour, but when the engineer saw them uhe threw her wide open" and went into them at full seventy-fiver miles an hour. No damage was done except to "muss up" the eugine extensively. The engine man was asked why he had thrown on the extra speed. His reply was that, had he been running . slow it was eight chances to ten that he would have left the track.?Indianapolis (Ind.) News. Wanton Killing of liuffalo. John Kirker is a handsome steamboat captain who has been master of a great many vesseli in Southern waters. I sat with him in his comfortable quarters ia the steamer State of Kansas last June, as we pushed up stream toward Fort Leavenworth. 'This is my first trip np this river fj since 1657," he said, "when I came up here as a cabin boy. I have been en> * - U ? ? K gaged ior coe season uu i>uu uu? iranw I have been ia command of her all through the South. When I came up I here the last time every man on board j had firearms for hunting purposes. Several times each trip we were forced to stop, in order to permit herds of buffalo to swim across the river. Buffalo are fine swimmers, and the sight was some* thing very impressive. Hundreds of the J grand, shaggy fellows were shot in the I, water. Sometimes they were killed, but ' often they floated down stream wounded, or scrambled ashore to die in the undergrowth. It was a fearful slaughter. Everybody ha3 heard of the wanton shooting that was indulged in from car windows, but I believe the public generally has not been told of the many hundreds of ani mals that were killed while swimming the river in the old days of steamboating."?Detroit Free Press. The United Stated &s more than 500,? 0U0 bearing banana plants, 200,000 bearing lemon trees, 4,000,000 orangetrees and 21,000,000 pineapple trses?^j