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HEV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- j DAY SERMON. Subject: "The Mother of All." Text: "As one whom hi* mother comfort-eth, so ioill I comfort you."?Isaiah lxvi.,13 The Bible is a warm letter of affection *? a r>hild nnri vat there are i many who see chiefly the severer passages. As there may be fifty or sixty nights of gentle dew in one summer that will not cause as much remark as one hailstorm of half an hour, so there are those who are more struck by those passages of the Bible that an. nounce the indignation of God than by those that announce His affection. There may come to a household twenty or fifty letters t.hft rpar and tflflV will Ui aum vivu VIUt.ub ?? j .w, ^ not make as much excitement in that home as one sheriffs writ, and so there are people -who are mora attentive to those passages which announce the judgment of God than to those which announce His mercy and His favor God is a lion, John says in the book of Revdelation. God is a breaker, Micah announces in his prophecy. God is a rock. God is -a king. But hear also that God is lova. A father and his child are walking out in the fields on a summer's day and there comes up a thunderstorm, and there is a flash of lightning that startles the child, and the father says, "My dear, that is God's eye." There comes a peal of thunder, and the father say?, "My dear, that is God's voice." But the clouds go off the sky. and the storm is gone, and light floods the heavens and floods the landscape, and the father forgets tr. ohtt '-That is God's smile." The text of this morning bends with great gentleness and lore over all who are prostrate in sin and trouble. It lights up with compassion. It melts with tenderness. It breathes upon us the hush of an eternal lul- I laby, for it announces that God is our I mother. "As one whom his mother com- j forteth. so will I comfort you." I remark, in the first place, that God has > mother's simplicity of instruction. A father does not know how to teach a child the ABC. Men are not skillful in the primary department, but a mother has so much patience that she will tell a child for the hundredth time the differenca between F and G and between I and J. Sometimes it is by blocks; sometimes by the worsted work; sometimes by the slate; sometimes by the book. She thus teaches the child and has no awkwardness of condescension in so doing. So God, our Jlottier, stoops down to our infantile minds. Though we are told a thing a thousand times and -we do not understand it, our heavenly Mother goes on, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little. God has been teaching some of us -thirty years and some o* us sixty years one word of one syllable, and we do not know it yet?faith, faith. When we come to that word we stumble, we halt, we lose our place, we pronounce it wrong. * ~ " --- ?i t.j still U0CT8 panencois uuii exuauiLtKi. uuu, oar Mother, puts us in the school of prosperity, and the letters are in sunshine, and we cannot spell them. Goi puts us into the school of adversity, and the letters are black and we cannot spell them. If God ware merely a long He would punish us; if He were simply a father He would whip as; , bat God is a mother, and so we are born .. ? with and helped all the way through. A mother teaches her child chieny by pictores. If she wants to set forth to her child the hideou3ness of a quarrelsome spirit, instead of giving a lecture upon that subject she turns over a leaf and' shows the cnild twn hovs in a wrangle, and says, "Does not that look horrible?'' it she wants to teach her child the awfulness of war she turns over the picture book and shows the war charger, the headless trunks of butchered men, the wild, bloodshot eye of battle rolling under lids of flame, and she says, "That is war!" The child understands it. In a great many books the bast parts are the pictures. The style may be insipid, the type poor, but a picture always attracts a child's attention. Now God, our Mother, teaches us almost everything by pictures. Is the divine goodness to be set forth? How does Go.), our Mother, teach us? By an ?utumnal picture. The barns are full. The wheat stacks are rounded. Th9 cattle are chewing the cud lazily in the sun. The orchards are dropping the ripe pippins into the lap of the farmer. The natural world that has been busy all summer seems now to be resting in great abuudance. We look at the picture and say, 'Thou crowne?t the year with Thy goodness, and Thy paths drop fatness." Our family comes around the breakfast table, It has bean a very cold nizht, but the children are all bright because they slept under thick coverlets, and they are now in the warm blast of the open register, and their app9tita3 makes luxuries out of the plainest fare, and we look at the olcture and say, "Bless the Lord, O my soul!" God wishes to set forth the fact that in the judgment the good will be divide! from i the wicked. How is it done? By a picture; | by a parable?a fishing scene. A group ol! hardy men, long bearaed, geared for standing to the waist in water; sleeves rolled up. Long oar, sun giit; boat nattered as though it had been a playmate of tha storm. A full net thumping about with the fish, which have just discovered tfceir captivity, the worthless moss bunkers and tha useful flounders all in the same net. The fisherman puts his hand do wo amid the squirming fins, takes out the mossbunkers and throws them into the water and gathers the good fish in to the pail. so, says jurist, it suau us an the end of the world- The bad He will cast mway, and the good Hi will keep. Anothar picture. God, oar Mother, wanted to set forth the duty of neighborly love, and it is done by a picture. A heap of wounds on the road to Jericho. A traveler has been fl;htin? a robber. The robber stabbad him anl knocked him down. Two ministers come long. They look at the poor fellow, but do not help him. A traveler comes along? a Samaritan. He says "Whoal" to the beast he is riding and dismounts. He examines the wounds; he take out soma wine, and with it washes the wounds, and then he takes some oil and puts that in to make the wounds stop smarting, and then he tears off a piece of his own garment for a bandage. Then he helps the wounded man upon tbe beast and walks by the side, holding him on until they come to a tavern. He ooitq rn rho landlord. ''Here is munav to nav the man's board for two days; take care of him: if it coats anything: mora charge it to me, and will pay it." Picture?''The Gool Samaritan, or Who Is Your Neighbor?" Does God, our Mother, want to set forth what a foolish thing it is to go away from the right, and how glad divine mercy is to take back the wanderer? How is it done? By a picture. A good father. Lir^e farai with tat saeep and oxen. Fine hoiuas with exquisite wardrobe. Discontented boy. Goes away. Sharpers fleece him. Feeds dogs. Gets homesick. Starts back. Sees an old man running. It is father! The hand, torn - - ? ? t mu. m of t be tiusRi, gew a nag. iuu ioul, iu* i flamed and bleeding, gets a sandal. The I bar! shoulder, showing through the tatters, gets a robe. The stomach, gnawi ng itself with hunger, gets a full platter'smoking with meat. The father cannot eat for looking at the returned adventurer. Tears running down the face until they come to a smile? the night dew melting into the morn ing. No work on the farm that day, for when a bad boy repents an I comes back promising to do better, God knows that is enough for one day, "And they began to be merry." Picture?".Prodigal Son Returned From the Wilderness." So Go1, our Mother, teach an as everything by pictures. The sinner is a lost sheep. Jesus is the bridegroom. The useless man a barren fig tres. The Gospel is a great supper. Satan, a sower of tares. Truth, a mustard seed. That which we could nob have understood in the abstract ? i ai?m \fntVtar nrosanfa tn T1Q Bratttuieuv VJIVU, wui _ -- ? i in *hi* Bible album of pictures, God engraved. Is not tbe divine maternity ever thus teaching us? I remark again thst God has a mother's favoritism. A father sometimes showsa sort of favoritism. Here is a boy?stronsr,well,of high forehead and quick intellect The father savs, "I will take that boy into my firm yet," or, "I will give him the very best possible educationThere are instances where, for the culture of the one boy, all the others have been robbe l. A sad favoritism, but that is not tbe mother'* favorite. I will tell you her favorite. There is a child who at two yean of age > He has never got over it The rer muffled his hearing. He is not nco was. That child has caused r more anxious nights than all the iren. It he coughs in the night ; out of a sound sleep and goes to him. The last thins: she does when going out of the hou9e is to give a charge in regard to him. The first thing on coming in is to ask in regard to him. Why. the children of the family all knovr that he is the favorite and say: "Mother, you et him do just as he pleases, and you give him a great many things which you do not give us. He is your favorite." The mother smiles; she knows it is so. So he ought to be, for if there is any one in the world that needs sympathy more than another it is an invalid child, weary on the first mile of life* s journey?carrying an aahing head, a weak side, I an irritated lunsr. So the mother ought to make him a favorite. God. our Mother, has favorite?. "Whom th9 Lord loveth He chasteneth"?that is, oue whom He especially loves He chasteneth. God loves us all, but there is one weak and sick and sore an i wounded and suffering and faint? That is the one who lies nearest and more perpetually on the great loving heart of God. Why, it never coughs but our Mother?Goi?hears it. It never stirs a weary limb in the bed but our Mother ?God?knows of it. There is no such a watcher as God. The best nurse may be overborne by fatigue and fall asleep in the ?1?ami* Wnfhop A.ft?p helntr un tuttU , uui/ vnru, uui w?? ??w _r a year of nights with & suffering child, never alambers or sleeps. "Oh," says one, "1 cannot anderstand all that about affliction!" A refiner of silver once explained it to a Ctiristain lady: '*1 pat the silver in the fire, and I keep refining it and trying it till I can see my face in it, and 1 then take it out." Just so it is that God keeps His dear children in the furnace till the divine image may be seen in the31; then they are taken out of the fire. "Well," says some one, "if that is the way that God treats His ravorites, I do not want to be a favorite." There is a barren field on an autumn day just wanting to be let alone, mere is a bang at the oar and a rattle of whifllstrees and clevises. The field says, " What is the farmer going to do with ma nowf The farmer puts tbe plow in the ground, shouts to the horsey the oolter goes tearing through the sod, and the furrow reaches from fence to fenc?. Next day there is a bang at the | bars anl a rattle of whiffl9t;ree3 again. The field says, "I wonder what the farmer is going to do now?" The farmer hitches the horses to the barrow, and it goe3 bounding and tearing across tbe field. Next day there is a rattle at the bars again, and the field says, "What is the farmer going to do now?" He walks heavily across the field, scattering seed as he walks. A'fa" ? ftlmH mmiw The field savs. "What, more troubleP* It begins to rain. After awhile the wind chaoses to the northeast and it begins to snow. Says the field: ''Is it not enough that I have been torn and trampled upon and drovrned? Must I now be saowei unierf After awhile spring cornea out of the gates of the south, and warmth and gladness come with it. A green scarf bandages the gash of the wheat field, and the July morning drops a crown of gold on the head of the grain. "Oh." savs the field "now I know the use of the plow, of the harrow, of the heavy foot, of the shower aud of the snowstorm. It is well enough to be trodden aod trampled and drowned and snowed under if in the end I can yield such a glorious harvest." "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless com9 again with rejoicing, bringing hij sheaves with him." , When I see GFod especially busy in troubling and trying a Christian, I know that out of that Christian's character there la to ' como SUIIIO WJIOUUU guuu, A jluu** goes down into tha excavation, and with s^-ong handed machinery boras into tha rock. Tha rock say*, "what do you do thatforf He puts powder in; he lights a fuse. There is a thundering crash. The rock says, "Why, the whole mountain is going to pieces." The crowbar is plunged; the rock is dragged out. After awhile it is tafcen into tha artist's studio. It says, "Well, now I have got a good, warm, comfortable place at last." But the sculptor takes the chisel an ] mallet, and he digs for the eyes, and ha cuts for the mouth, and he boras for the ear, and ha rubs it w'th sandpaper, Until the rock says, "When will this tortura be ended?" A sheet is thrown over it. It stands in darkness. Aicer awaue it ia bas.ou uui>. lugwvonug is removed. It stands in the sunlight, in the presence of ten thousand applauding people, as thej greet the statute of the poet, or the prince, or the conqueror. "Ah," says the stone, "now I understand it 1 am a great deal batter off now standing as a statue of a conqueror than I would have been down in the quarry." 80 God finds a man down in the quarry of ignorance and sin. How to get him up? He must be bored and blasted and chiseled and scoured and stand sometimes in the darkness. But after awhile the mantle of affliction will fall off, and his soul will be,greeted by the one hundred and torty-four thousand and the thousands of thousands as more than conqueror. Oh, my friends, God, our Motner, is just as kind in our afflictions as in our prosperities. God never touches us but for our good. If a field clean and cul tured Is better on toau a oarren neia, ana it a stone that has become a statue is better off than the marble in the quarry, then that soul that God chastens may be His favorite. Ob, the rocking of the soul is not the rocking of an earthquake, but the rocking of God's cradie. "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." I have ? *^1'' fka nnai*l In an AVafAl* 4a UCTJU WiU VUOV wuu> JA??? M* VJ tfirw. merely the result of a wound or a sickness inflicted upon it, aad I do not know but that the brightest gems of heaven will be found to have been the wounds of earth kindled into the jeweled brightness of eternal glory. I remark that Goi hv? a mother's capacity for attending to little hurts. The father ia shocked at the broken bone of the ohild or at the sic iness that sets ths era lie on flra with fever, but it takes the mother to sympathise with all the little ailments and little bruises of the ohild. If the ohild have a splinter in it} hind it wants the mother to take it out and not the father. The father says, "Ob, that is nothing," but the mother knows it is something, and that a little hurt sometimes is very great. 80 with Go 3, our Mother; all our annoyances are important enough to look at and sympathize with. Nothing with God is something. There are no ciphers in God's arithmetic. And if we were only good enough of sight we could see as much through a microscope as through a telescope. Those things that may be palpable and iaunitesimal to us may be pronounced and infinite to Goi. A mathematical point is defined as having no parts, no magnitude. It is so small you canif a nrl T7Afc n mftthflmaticil point may ba a starting point for a great eternity. God's surveyors carry a vary long chain. A scale must be very delicate thac can weign a grain, but Grod'a scale is so deli* cate that He can weigh with it that whica is so small that a grain is a million times ue&viur. When John Kitto, a poor boy on a back street of Plymouth, cat his foot wittt a piece of glass, God bound it up so succ3s3~ fully that he became the great Christian geographer and a commentator known among all nations. So every wound of the soul, however insignificant, God is willing to bind up. As at the flr3t cry of the child the mother rushes to kiss the wound, so God, our Mother, takes the smallest wound of Uie heart and presses it to the lips of divine sympathy. "As one whom his mother oomfortetb, so will I comfort yon." I remark further that God has a mother's patience for the erring. If one doe* wrong first his associates in life cast him off< if h? goes in the wron? way his business partner casta him off, if he goes on his best friends cast him off?his father casts him off. But after all others have cast him off, whewi does he go? Who holds no grudge and forgives the last time a? well as the first? Who sits by the murderer's counsel all through IAMM t Whrt fha 1 Anrvoaf* af IiUD 1VSIJ? UWM. ?? HW wuit ?vj vuw *ww?wv WW the windows of a culprit's cell? Who, when all others think ill of a man, keeps on thinking well of him t It is his mother. God bless her pray hairs if she be still alive, and i bless her grave if she be gone! And bless the rockine chair in which she U3ed to sit, and bless the cradle that she usod to rock, and ble3s the Bible she used to read I Sn fJrtH nnr MntW hit? nafcinnM for all the erring. After everybody else has cast a man off God, our Mother, comas to th*e3cue. God leaps to take charge of a bad case. After all the other doctors have got through the heavenly Physician comes in. Human sympathy at such a time does not amount to much. Even the sympathy of the church, I am sorry to say, "often does not amount to much. I have seen the most harsh and bit* ter treatment on the part of those who professed faith in Christ toward those who were waverin? and ernne. They tried on the wanderer sarcasm ana billingsgate and caricature, and they tried tittle tattle. There was one thing they did not try, and that was forgiveness A soldier in Engiani was brought by a sergeant to the colonel. "What," says th? | oolonel, "bringing the man here again I Wo have tried everything with him." "Oh, no," says the sargeant; "there is one thin; von hnvA not tri<vL I would Hlr? vmi to trv that." "What i9 that?" says the colonei. Said tbe man, "Forgiveness." The case had not gone so far but tnat it might take that turn, and so the colonel said: "Well, vounq man, you have done so and so. What is your excuse?" "I have no excuse, but I am very sorry," Baid the man. "We have made up our minds to forgive you," said tbe colonel. The tears started. He had never been accosted in that way before. His life was informed, and that was the starting point for a positively Christian life. O church of God, quit your sarcasm when a man falls 1 Quit your irony, quit your tittle tattle, and try forgiveness, (rod, your Mother, triea it all the time. A man's sin may be like a continent, but God's forgiveness Is like the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, bounding it on both sides. TKa Qi kl <1 Un.J J. uo viwu wniva awuu uuu o UBUU> I wonder how it looks. Ton remember distinctly how your mother's hand looked, though thirty years ago it withered away. It was different from your father's hand. When you were to be chastised you had rather have mother punish you than father. It did not hurt bo much. And father's hand was different from mother's, partly because it had outdoor toil, and partly because G-od intended it to be different. The knuckles were more firmly set, and the palm was calloused. But mother's hand was more delicate. There were blue veins running through the back of it. Though the fingers, some of them, were picked with a needle, the palm of it was soft. Oh, it was very soft! Was there ever any poultice like that to take pain out of a wound? So God's hand is a mother's hand. What it touches it heals. It it smite you it does not hurt as if it were another hand. Ob, you poor wandering soul in oin it", ia nr\h. a KoillfPo Vianrl fV?nf anirraa you to-day! It is not a hard hand. It Is not an unsympathetic hand. It fa not a cold hand. It is not an enemy'3 hand. No. It is a gentle hand, a loving hand, a sympathetic hand, a soft hand, a mother's hand. "As ona whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." I want to say finally that God has a mother's way of putting a child to sleep. You know there is no cradle song like a mother's. After the excitement of the even? ing it is almost impossible to get the child to sleep. If the rocking chair stop a moment the eyes are wide open; but tha mother's patience and the mother's soothing manner keep on uatil after awhile th9 angel of slumber puts his wing over the pillow. \ Well, my dear brothers and sisters in Christ; the time will come when we will be wanting to be put to sleep. The day of our life wlu be done, and the shadows of the night of death will b3 gathering around us. Then we want God to soothe us, to hush us to sleep. Let the music at our going not be the dirge of the orgao, or the knell of the church tower, or the drumming of a "dead march," but let It be> the hush of a mother's lullaby. Oh, the cradle of the grave will be soft with the pillow of all the promises I When we are being rocked into that last slumber I want this to be the cradle song, "As one whom a mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." Asleep In Jesas! Far from thee Thy kindred and taeir graves may Da; But thtno Is stU! a blessad Bleep From which none ever wake to weep. A Scotch man was dying. His daughter Nellie sat by the bedside. It was Sunday evening, and .the bell of the ohuroh was ringing, colling the people to church. The good old man, in his dying dream, thought that he was on the way to church, as he used to be whea he went in the sleigh acroes the river, and as the evening bell struck up in his dying dream he thought it was the call to church. He said, "Hark, children, the bells are ringing; we shall be late; we most make the mare step out quick!*' He shivered, and then said: "Full the buffalo robe up closer, my lass t It is oold crossing the river, but we will soon be there, Nellie; we will soon be there." And he smiled and said, "Just there now." No wonder he smiled. The good old man had got to church. Not the old country church, out the temples in the skies. Just across the river. How comfortablv did God hush the old man to sleep! As one whom his mot bar oomfortoth, so Qod oomforted him. How the Chinese Beckoa Time. , The Chinese aad Babylonian calendars, in fact, are identical in structure, although the underljiag principle of both is much more clearly set forth iu its Chinese than its Accadiaa form. The Ohiaese calendar is typical for all calendars, and introduces us at once to the rationale of tbe most primitive method of notating time and thought. Iq accordaace with the vivid imagination of a period in human history when the creative far outstrips the critical instinct, night and day were the first parents of time. The Chinese calendar builds upon this simple antithesis to give the impetus of life to the procession of days. The aim and moon, as father and mother of time, stand at the threshold ot the year, and impose the law of their duality upon the hour, day, mouth, year and cycle. This idea is extended throughout the entire Chinese time table, which, by the way, with the exception of the sixty-year cycle, is singularly like our own: THE CHINESE TIME TABLE. 60 ''married" or 120 "single" minutes, 1 hour 12 " " 24 " hours, 1 day. 15 "30(or29)" . days, I month. 12 ' " 24 months, 1 year. 60 M " 120 " years, 1 cycle. The year begins with the first new moon after the sun enters the water sign of "Aquarius," and consists of tweWe months of alternately thirty and twenty* nine days, with, a full moon falling in the middle of each month. Formerly the days ot the month were notated in China as in Babylon by moon stars, fancied to be pods upon the sacred tree.? Harper's Magazine. The Largest Monolith. The enormous pillar of stone tint will be the wonder of thousands upon thousands of people who will visit the World's Fair was broken from its bed at the Houghton quarry, Ashland, Wis., one day recently, amid the cheers of the throng who visited the quarry to wit* nesA the breaking of the monster from its bed. The stone had been sawed at ^ ? J A A?r] f Ka KnffAm eucu BUU UUU SIUO) auu uua auu U??uu> remained to be brokea from the bed of which It was a part. Oa the bottom wodges to the number o( about 200 on each side had been entered and only the igoal to drive them further remained. At 11 o'clock Frederick Prentice, donor of the monolith, from a place oa the rock gave the signal to drive the Tvarlrras. and flftv workmen bojau at tbe *'VV*5W1*? " "V ^ - o lower end to drive them. Thea like clockwork the fifty mauls of the mea rose and fell as they moved from the base to the apex of the stone step by step. Slowly a crevico appeared at th? lower end of tho stono which, with each succeeding blow, became larger and larger, until the stone lay brokon from tho mass to which it had been a portion. The huge stone lies at the bottom of the quarry, and weighs in its present state BOO tons, but when dressed down will weigh about 420 tons. Is it any wonder that men are driven insane when they foolishly attempt to match a piece of silk for their wives and the dry goods man tells them that there are seventeen thousand styles of the fabric known to the trade? With Patti a few thousand dollars is more or less than "a mere song."? Boston Courier.^ RELIGIOUS READING. YOUNG PEOPLK AND OLD FOLKS. i\uueri o i>uruune, iu? uuruonsi, preauncs this bit of a sermon in the New York Herald to the young people wbo arc unwilling to unite with the "old folks" in church work: Are you quite sure that you flock together because you can do so much more work by yourselves, or because the old people make you tired ? Lt it because your zeal outruns the slow movements ot the old people, or is it a little bit because you can have so much better times by yourselves? Well, you do ro mnch faster than the old fogies in the church as well as in the society, but remember some of these heavy-footed old saints were on the road forty* or fifty years before you were born. Some'of them are intolerably slow and deliberate, I know. But this is because they are waiting in Beulah land, and you will find when you get there that people don't have to hurry so much in Beulah as they do between the Slouch and the "Wicket Gate. If you are going to "so run that you may obtain." my son, you want to make your record right on the part of the road you are on now, and then you won't have to run so hard on the last quarter. . . . That's the only complaint I have to make again-t you?your neglect of the old people in your zeal for evei7body. I am aware that old people are liable to become pros? and tiresome to you. I know that Matthew and Mercy and James and Prudcuce and Joseph and Samuel naturally get tired of poor sighing Little Faith and groaning old Mr. Despondency and limping old Ready-toHalt. Even o'd Mr. Honest is sometimes a bit wearing and overlong in his speeches and Valiant-for-Truth is painfully particular about little things. But they seem to need you and thev certainly want you. I don't know "how much or how little , young people need the old folks bat 1 do know how the old folks need you. ' And they not infrequently want a great deal more than they get, which is one of the privileges of old age. And, ray little children, while the long, prosy speeches of the old saints make you yawn in prayer meetings remember that it makes the old saints frown to hear you giggle and see you whisper. The spirit of dissension is essentially a spirit of hatred and distrust. It is the very opposite of what Chris* teaches. The Gospel is a message of love; it is the good tidings of peace add good will towards men. I knew a chiirch where the young people hnd their own prayer meetings. I had a curiosity to attend, but was told that the presence of Mr. Fearing and Little Faith threw a restraint on tl.e spirit of the meetings. So the old folks kept up the regular prayer meeting of the church. If there was a man under forty who took part in it you never neara mm. ine iresn yeung iaies, the a* eet young voices in the singing.the faltering words ot young disciples telling with tremulous utterance and broken sei teuces, of bopes and fears, of conflict and victory? all this the old folks missed. THE GOSPEL OF DOUBT. In closing a sermon before Cornell University, Dr. J. M. Buckiey gave the following i lii??rarton of the workings of the gospel of unbelief: 4 nf ?nrmr\n? wqq nilhliQhprl in Scotland, teaching that almost everything held to be fundamental to Christian faith had, by the researches of modern scholarship, been found untenable, and speakiugof wbat remains in an indefinite way. Thes e discourses were republished in the United States. Among those who read and accepted them wusa woman in the city of New York, of great intelligence and intellectuality ana of hige culture. A year or two later she removed to a suburb upon the Hudson .River, continuing to attend the Presbyterian Church, but frankly informed the"pastor that she had lost faith, and attributiug the cbangc to those discourses. Afterwards she became ill and died of a lingering disease. "During the months of steady but not rapid progress to the grave, the pastor frequently visited her, making every effort to re-establish her faith in the simple provisions of the Gospel, but in vain. To the last she sail] she know nothing, and was not able to believe anythiug positively. So mucb bad been shaken that she was not certain there was anything that could not be shaken. ' Less than a year, after her death, the author of those sermons was summoned to trial for heresy. When the chargrs were submitted, he usked a little time for reconsideration. and submitted a statement that when be prepared those discourses be believed them, but further reflection had convinced bitn that be bad erred in talciug many things lor granted that had not been proved, deducting conclusions that were not warranted even by bis premises, and expressing himself in an unguarded manner, and tbat be desired to retract several of the discourses in whole, and in part all but one or two. "But the woman who bad given up her faitb to tbe essentials of the Gospel for faith in bin), bad died in darkness." It is better for a man tbat a millstone thould be banged about bis neck, and he be cast in the midst of tbe sea, than that he should offend one of Christ's little ones. It is ? crrpat calamitr to nnv man to have a mind so shallow that he cannot bold his tongue, suspend his judgment, and wait till he really knows what he does believe. "A fool uttereth all his mind, but a wise man kecpeth it back till afterwards." Many a man has scattered broadcast doubts and uncertainties, which were afterwards dissolved and dissipated; but though his own mind was cleared from the difficulties in which be had been involved, this uid^not undo the mischief he bad wrought in the minds of others, by the publication of bte ill-digested crudities and half-formed doubts and disbeliefs.?[Anuory. THE POWER OF THE BIBLE. Fifty years before Columbus 9ailed from Palos, Guttenhurg and Faust bad forged the bammer which was to lireak the bonds of superstition and open the prison doors of the mind. They bad iuvented the printing press and movable types. The prior adoption of a cheap process for the manufacture of paper at once utilized the press. Its first service, like all it* succeeding efforts, was for the people. Tbe universities and the schoolmen, the privileged and tbe learned few of that age, wete longing for tbe revalation and preservation of the classic treasures of antiquity, hidden and yet insecure in monastic c'elfs and libraries. But the firstborn of the marvelous creations of these primitive printers of ftayence wa9 tbe printed Bible. Tlie priceless contributions of Greece and Rome to tb? intellectual training and development of the modern wor.d came afterward through the same wondrous machine. The force, bovever, which made possible America and ita reflex influence upon Europe, whs the open Bible by the family fireside.?fFrom Columbian Oration by C. M. Depew. 1HK CHRISTIAN LIFE. What was the charm of life to Paul? I will tell you.'No; I'll let him tell you: "For me to live is Christ." "I live." No; "not I, but Christ livetb in me." "I rejoice In tribulations." Nothing like weariness there. No grumbling; no forlorn sighing for an easier lot; no unmanly whimper. No^ nothing but the serene joy of a warrior, every inch of whose armor is marked by weapon* of an obdurate foe, whose harness is soiled with dust stains of a hundred battlefield*. and whose form flashed in the forefrntif. nf a hitnrirp?l Paul weary of livinit? Paul h failure? Paul ever wretched? Why! I'd just a* soon think of a lark wailing a funeral dirge at the gates of heaven. Paul did not live in externals, as I am afraid too many of us do. He lived in internals, a d he counted it a joy when he was perfectly exhausted. never grew weary of living. "For nie to live is Christ." ? [Dr. Theodore L. Cuvler. UNCLE SAM'S PART. Speaking of the exhibit to be made at the tr onu s r air oy ine liquor trade of America, Bonfort's Wine and Spirit Circular says: "The best matured goods only should be exhibited; small souvenir bottles should be given away, or solil at a nominal price, and literature should be distributed in several foreign languages." If the business of dmnlrnrvl-maM.. <= ? " ? good thing for the material and moral prosperity of the country, then it is right that the World's Fair should be made to extend the business in this way. But there is one thing we suggest ouaht to be done, and that ia that the name of Uncle Sam (U. 3., us) be printed on all the labels used, as a partner in the business. He gives more to it and takes more out of it than anybody else, ?The I Voice. | TEMPERANCE. ' WHICH SHALL IT BK ? A tidy little home for Betay and me. With just enough room for one, two or three? Or a tumble-down hut with a broken gate, And a sad-eyed woman toiling early and ? late? , , Which shall it be For mine and me? A five-cent glass of beer for me. Or a five-cent loaf for all of us three? Beer or baby?wine or wife, Which do 1 hold more precious than life? Which shall it be For mine and me? / Potatoes and salt with a crust of bread For the best little woman the Lord evar 9 - uiaur, ^ While the ram-seller's wife feeds on turkey and wine, > . Bought with my money?if I so incline, 11 This shall it be fit For mice and met m Tatters and rags for my little one, My fair, comely baby, my own darling son; a While the rumseller's children gt> warm and C well clad On my earnings, wrested from my bonnie lad. 8C This shall it be A For minn m?f J Well, man, do you think ma a whole-eyed ^ fool, ii Blindly to serve as. the rumseller's tool? ji Ah! How can 1 hesitate which to choose, tf When it'* all to gain?or to lose; n For mine and me, ^ For mine and me I p ri TJNSAFE BUILniNOS. ^ The Nebraska City Evangellstr says there w Is quite an excitement about unsafe build- p inga in that city. It adds: "Many ot the tl unsafe buildings can easily be avoided by .. reading the signs ou them, such as 'Saloon,' 'Wine-Room,' 'Beer-Room,' 'Sample-Room,' ? etc." We fear there are a great many such dc "unsafe" buildings which are not avoided si in all our large cities. a st DRAKE'S COLtTMRrr.51 nPTWtnwn vnmtmnr n f At a cost of 115,030 Jjhn B. Drake, pro* at prietor of the Grand Pacific Hotel, and one of Chicago's leading citizens, is just completing in that city a public drinking fountain, which is regarded as one of the most ornamental creations of its kind in the world. The design is Gothic in style and the material is a fine, warm-tinted Coral granite from Italy. The structure occupies a space on the north side of Washington street, between the city and county buildings, and is thirty-two feet in height Be low the platform is a chamber which will hold three tons of ice, effectually cooling the water, which flows through colls of pipe below and around the ice. Mr. Drake has long felt that public drinking fountains in the populous parts of great cities would promote the cause of temperance in the best possible way. Let Mr. Drake's good example be followed by citizens of other cities and towns.?Scientific American. A. SUCCESSOR TO GOUQH. Daring the recent session of the Congre Rational Union in England, Mr. J. G. vVoolley addresse 1 the temperance meeting in what was reported as a very impressive speech, giving a sketch of his life. The v British Weekly, spsakingof him, says: "He is not at alt Hxe the celebrated orator, John B. Gougb, to whom he is compared. The point of similarity bet wean them lies not in voice, nor figure, nor style of address, bat in the common experience of the evil against S( which thevdevoted their lives. Mr. Woolley f( is like Gough, at any rate, in this?that he knows the grip of the spirit demon on bia P own throat, and so can speak with a voice ? full of tears and a soul aching with the pas- A sion of an unspeakable memory. Tae*e are e] the men who c in lay hold of the undecided, and convert the drunken. It was hard to 8< withstand an appeal backed by ^uc'a an ex- a xrience as was sketched before our eyes in tl ..-.de terse sentence?, every letter of which seemed tipped with lire." Seeing that Mr. 7: Goueh has been called awav. it is well that " Mr. Woolley has been raised up to carry on t] the same work. Indeed, Mr. Woolley is ^ doing a far more positively temperance work G than Mr. Gouzh engaged in during the last few years of Hid life.?New York Oo*erver ei ,f< n pocndkd into sobriety. Rev. H. C. Fitzhu^h. of London, who was at the Palmer House yesterday, told a good story of bis work in the slums of that great 11 city. He sai^; p "i have alwava made it a point to assist in ^ any way I could any man who is afflicted ! with the liquor haolt and have us 3d in that work all the means of salvation that seemed ' to me available. I had in hand at one time 1( a rough, but wheu sober, a kind hearted L. *U l.'-U-li ? L! tM uiau, auu *raa, at wuo ouuuiu&uiuu Ul uis Wilt), trying to effect a reformation. When I first P went to him I found him in an amiable ai mood, and having just recovered from a g drank saw how foolish he had been, and it , was an easy matter to secure his signature to a Dledge for a month. : w "He kept the pledge, hut in the second it month he again started out on a spree. His ^ nrifa flnnAatoH maanrl T twnk in quir/?K e\f him. Finally I found him at a tabfe in a n groggery with a party of companions. I E spoke to him and drew my chair up to the _ table and joined the party. My friend avoided talking much with me, but after a little 1 started upon my mission trying to induce him to terminate hi? spree and sign another pledge. This time, however, it was o easy sailing, and the object of my solicitations began using profane language in his abuse of me. Then I reasoned with him ^ that it was not fair to use such language to \ me. I insisted that he knew I was a minis- . k tor and could not retaliate in th?*ame way. ! I 'It would be a parallel case,' I said, 'if you, f a man who has two hands, should offer to < fight a man with none.' By this speech I had gotten myself into a tight place. The man jumped up, evidently nigmy elated. 'You have two hAnds,' ne cried, "and so have I. We'll settle the matter in that way.' His companions then laughe 1 at my uneasiness, while I protested that I did not w want to fi.{ht with him. Then their derisive . laughter made my position all the more '1( ridiculous, and I knew if I backed out I in would be looked upon witti scorn by all the p] men. and I wanted their respect. I was m< quite a boxer when at school, and I was satisfied that I could whip the man, so I finally 10 consented to have it out with him in the ol style he had suggested. We retired to an alley, and there, after a lively struggle, I administered to him a good pounding. But w I won his respect and that of bis companions, who were the only witnesses, and sub- pi sequently all the men, throu?h my solicita- t tious, gave up drinking and nave joinsd the -I ti _nu(J: UUUIOU. vuiuatv 4-awi <*?** ? d< nc TEMPERANCE NEWS AND N0TK3. M About all the average drunkard has to pi support him is a lean on a lamp-post. ^ Russia produce! in the past ten rears, it p. is said, 87^680,400 gallons of pure alcohol. There were in the United States la*t year W 36 3, 'J35 putjiic school teachers, and 204.391 liquor dealer*. at Whisky may be made from molasses, p< beetroot, potatoes, tomatoes and many ac other substances. ^ In Norway the Government runs the . saloons. In some other countries the saloons run the Government. G The Lucy Webb W. C. T. U., of Minneapolis, contemplates building a home for ec newsboys of that city. hi The more liquid a man puts down his ar throat tbe less cnance thero seems to be of T? -? ! VI. ?.-I-- iQ drowning UU VUIUS. lUUtCIJUMXMUJUU, The late Woman's Christian Temperance P8 Union Convention decreed to make the mat* so ter of liquor selling at the World's Fair the lji main line of work for the next six months, The highest statistical authority in the United States, David A. Wells, declares that the yearly waste in the United States, through drink, is at least f50D,003,000. In re forty years $10,000,000,000 has been thus m wBBtei. This Is equal to the whole savings L of the people from 1783 to 1857. The New York Sun estimates that 20,000 flasks were emptied during the recent foot- co ball game in that city betwean Yale and dc Princeton. "Altogether, it was the greatest m day, for public drinking that New York has seen. There is nothing like it on any other Pr day of the year Even the girla took pulls pe at flasks offered by their cavaliers and not a pe Bingle case of drunkenness called for police i ? attention." . . | ar 'THE PEARL OF ASIA" IX-MINISTER CHIfiD OS SIAM AND THE SIAMESE. [in Presentation to King Chulalonjtkorn?Customs of toe People? . No Kissing in Siam ? He sources of the Country. ^.JpHE Hod. Jacob T. I Child's work oa Siam \J* l baa been published ^vmM_ 3[V| under the title of J0my "Tbe Pearl of Asia." .(Z-j Y y ^ | Mr. Child represented tbe United States at le Court of Siam five years, and was iven every opportunity to feather laterial for just such a work on the )untry as be has published. In a chapter escribing his presentation to King nuiaiongsorn, ei-aamiscer uoiia says: "At the hour named (5 p. m.) a hand* )tne open carriage, drawn by foar .ustralian horses, with outriderj sod rivers dressed ia livery, drove up to le entrance of the Legation, and a leadig official who spoke English fluently, iformed me that he had been deputized > convey Dr. McDonald, the Vice onsul General, and myself to the alaco, whereupon we entered the carage. The outriders galloped in front, le driver cracked his whip and away e went at a rattling rate, scattering eueaunaua uu au siutas, uoauou tuiuugu ie gateway in the city, walls, the intinela saluting us, and after a drive f about three miles, turned from the tain highway into the esplanade that arts the palace walls. As soon as our irriage made its appearance, a battery :ationed near the main entrance ta the alace grounds commenced firing a ilute of forty guns." RESIDENCE OF AMERICAN Thoy passed between long lines of >ldiere, and in the court of the palace >und the royal white elephants on dress wade and a band of musicians greeted lem with the "Star Spangled Banner." t the palace they were received by aerral princes, and after tea had been irved Minister Child wrote bis name in couple of albums, adding iu one of *i._ u:? nr >> 1CU1 bUO uaio Ul 1I1J UUI?U? K DU^/JJWov, lys Mr. Child, "that the latter was for le purpose of allowing the court as ologers to cast my horoscope and see rhether I would be antagonistic to their Government." From here he was uahred into the throne-room in which he )und assembled most t>f the kingdom's obles in court costume, the gold belts ashing with gems. The King stood on platform at one end and was dressed 1 a Prince Albert coat, plum colored aunug and white stockings. Mr. Child ills the rest of the story as follows; "Bowing three times to his Majesty, rho returned the salutation, I laid the itter of President Cleveland on a silver ipod and waited for the court interreter to introduce me, which he did in a oration of considerable length in iamese. The letter of President Cleveind was then handed to the King, who elcomed me to Siam and spoke feeligly of the warm friendship that existed etween the two countries, to which I >sponded in a similar manner. The !ing then asked me a number of ques0' Q kino and queen of 8iak. oqs in regard to my trip, which were terpreted to me, and after I had re^/>*a/iafn11w an^ raf{pa/^ iCUj UQ UUTTOU giautiuiij UUVA be audience was over, and I wjis then trodaced.to a number of the brothers : the King and Governors ?f provinces, ext day a copy of the King's speech, ith the translation, was snt me. Mr. Ohild says that dressed in his ain suit of black he looked like a crow nong a flock of tropical birds. King hulalongkom understands English, but jesn't speak the language, or at least >t on State occusions. According to r. Child, he ia "a wise, humane, rudent and brainy monarch." One of ie King's brothers is a graduate of imbridge, and several of his children ere educated in England. Siam is larger than Texas and has >out 10,000,000 inhabitants. The exerts arfl nrinflinallv rice.>cattle. SUffar '? r r??* r ? ? w id paper. The country is out of debt, it the people are nevertheless heavily zed. The taxes are collected, not by overument officials, but by contractors, e collection of the taxes in the differit districts being let to the highest dders. Among the principal imports e American Hour and canned goods. . the city of Bangkok are twenty-four iddy or rice mills run by steam and me of them furnished with clectric jhts. The first improvements ol this nd were by aa American. The city is ailed in with a wall twelve feet high, j iiddhiam is the State religion, but all i ligions are tolerated and the Christian 1 issionaries are doing good work in the i ngdom. Toe natives ai;e, as a rule, indent, and spend much of their time in i ck fighting and gambling. The women - ? nnr) f TVall I uiust Ul buc nuiaj auu u u&aiwu n w? ake good wive9. Polygamy is uot acticed much among the commja lople. Theatres are numerou?, bat the irformances are very tame. Women e the performers, as a rule, and pos# x turin-j is their forte. Mr. Child taatifieB that they are very graceful and all that, but he preferi something besidea posturing when he goes to a theatre. CROWN PRINCE OF 8FAM. The common people sit on the floor and eat with their fingers, but chairs and knives and forks are being grad- 'J| ually introduced into the country. Many of the natives arc born artists in making statuary and pottery, aod in working in gold and silver. The country is priest (Buddhist) ridden and there is more superstition in Siam than perhaps in any other country in the world. Beggars are numerous around the temples, but they aria mostly lepers, leprosy prevailing iu the country to aa alarming extent, as also cholera and smallpox the yew - Q round. Siam is a silver country,-gold currency being almost unknown. The > dead are cremated instead of buried. Popular education extends only to reading, writing and arithmetic. Everybody reads a g^eat deal, but the publi- '? -K- . ' J ipglp1 n^arr MINUTER AT BMfQlOK. cations are mostly trashy novels of the worst cl&ss, and as for newspapers,. theyi ha7a always been a . failure in Siam. A good many have been started, but in almost every instance the paper was com?n?j ] i. - ii?i. _k;i4> ?? ?. pciicu m ouojiouu iu t* uttiv nuue wu ?m#~ ?v? count of something published about some foreign Minister or some member of the Siamese court. There are .now two papers printed in English in Siam, but they don't amount to much. One u a weekly and the other a semi-weekly. The head wife of King Cbulalongkora is the Queen of Siam. Her dress is the regulation Siamese kind, a sort of bifurcated. skirt. The wives and daughters of the nobles of Siam are refined and j handsome, Mr. Child says, but there are few handsome women in the lower nlaeoaa Thfl OlIAfln M A Hfcfclft WniTUB. as, in fact, most of the females of the country are. Kissing is not indulged in. even between near relatives or lovers.. Instead, howevef, they rub ttoir faces together as if they were smelling. One of the* chapters of the volume * describes the ceremony declaring the Crown Prince heir to the throne. The ceremony lasted four days, and fully .< 500,0u0 people turned out ia holiday attire on the final day. The young Prince, ten years old, was carried on a ? - -? - W? goiaen cnair co me turuue, prei-cuou uj five little girls Pressed as angels. Tho boy was dressed in white silk and the tuft of hair on the top of his head was ' encircled with a coronet of diamonds set in silver. His title is now Somdetch Phra Borotn Orotsaterat Chow Fa Maha Chaeron Tit Aditoasa Chulalongkorn Bodiatara Tetwaraugooa Baromagnda-arensoon Bottesa Devawong Ookretapoag Warosutochat Tanzartrk Weratreebooo J Serepepat Narwesoot, Crown Prince of Siam. Mr. Child thinks that Siam has a great future, es the country is progressing very rapidly under the present King, and the Crown Prince is being given a liberal education. Yerj Much Attached. "I say, mister, you seem attached to that balloon." "Oh, yes, I'm just carried away it."?Life. - - L rRhodonite is Somewhat Bar?. Rhodonite is a somewhat rare stone of the malachite variety, <vhica comes from the Ural Mountains. It is not green, like malachite, but a beautiful mottled rose color. Entire library sets have beea made up of this beautiful 3tone, including inkstands, penholders, paper weights and trays. A complete set is valued at $500.?New York Tribune. New Zealand exports produce every year to the value of $75 for each head of the population. The net increase in such exports has been from $23,800,000 in 1881, to almost $50,000,000 in 189?