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V REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: '"God Among the Stars." - Text: "It i* He that buildeth His stories in the heaven."?Amos ix., 6. Precedinz the sermon the congregation ?ang Isaac Watts's hymD: The heavena declare Thy (jlorr. Lord. In every star Thy wUdom abbea. * *" fi*Am A moo tfia herdsman. While guarding his flocks at night he got watching the heavenp. He saw stars above stars, and the universe seemed to him like a great mansion many stories high, silver room above silver room, silver pillars beside silver pillars, and win dows of silver and doors of silver, and turrets and domes of silver rising into the immensities, and the prophet's sanctified Imagination walks through that great silver palace of the universe, through the first story, through the second story, through the third story, through the twentieth story, through the hundreth story, through the thousandth story, and realizing that God is the architect and carpenter and mason of nil that upheaved splendor, he cries oat in the words of the text. "It is He that buildeth His stories in the heaven." My hearer?, it is time that we widened out and heightened our religious thoughts. In our pulpits and Sabbath classes and Christian work of all sorts we ring the changes on a few verses of Scripture until they excite no interest. Many of the best parts of the Bible have never yet been preached lrom or indeed even noticed. Hence I to-day begin a series of sermons, not for consecutive Sabbath mornings, but as often as I think it best for variety's sake, on the astronomy of the Bible, or God among the stars; the geology of the Bible, or God among the rocks; the ornithology >><? Ri'hlo r>r HyvI nmnntr the birds; the ichthyology of the Bible, or god among the fishes; the pomology of the Bible of Gocl among the orchards: the precious stones of the Bible,or God among the amethysts; the conchology of the Bible, or God amon? the shells; the botany of the Bible, or God among the flowers; the chronology of the Bibln, or God among the centuries. The fact is that we have all spent too much time on one storv of the great mansion of God's universe. "We need occasionally to go upstairs or down stairs in this mansion; downstairs and in the cellar study the rocks, or up stairs and see God in some of the higher stories ani learn the meaning of the text when it says, "It is He that buildeth His stories in the heaven." Astronomy was born in Chaldea. Its mcther was astrology, or the science of foretelling events by juxtaposition of stars. The { orientals, living much out of doors and in a "very clear atmosphere, through which the { stars shone especially lustrous, got the habit of studying the night heavens. In the hot seasons caravans journeyed chiefly at night, i and that gave travelers much opportunity of stellar information. On the first page of the J Bible the sun and moon and stars roll in. The sun, a body of nearly three million miles . in circumference and more than twelve thousand times as large as our earth; the moon, more than two thousanl miles in di- ; ameter. But God is used to doin; things on such | an omnipotent scale that H<> ta<ea only one j versa to tell of this stellar and lunar manu- j facture. Yea, in three words all the other < worlds are thrown *n. The record says, i *- ??m Tl ~1D0 stars aiSOl AL WU) nuum (lags: tui ! a man to extol the making of a telescope or microscope, or a magnetic telegraph or a , threshing machine, or to describe a fine painting or statue, but it was so easy for God to hang the celestial upholstery that the story is compassed in one verse: "God made ! two great lightst the greater light to rule J the day and the lesser light to rale the night. The stars also P' . ! Astronomers have been trying to call the roll of them ever since, ani they have counted multitudes of them passing in review before the observatories built at vast expense, and the size ani number of those heavenly bodies have taxed to tho utmost the scientists of all ages. ' But God finishes all He has to say aboatthem in three words, ? * -I >? Tk-* HT.m. _>U If V "AUO 31WB ttisy I Auayu4Mianivutvtuwi? than fifty-five million square miles, and Venus with its mora than one hundred and ninety-one million square miles, and ' Saturn with its more than nineteen billion square miles, and Jupiter with its more than twenty-four billion cquare miles, and all the plaaets of our .lystem of more than seventy-eight biliion square miles, and th03e stars of our system when compared with the stars of the ? MM A # ? 1 A# ?nn/j nn^h oil Kil/Lltjr BjraicuiS) as a uauiuiuvi oauu ntvu ?u the Rocky Mountains and all the Alps, <*Tbe stars also I" For brevity, for ponderosity, for splendor, for suzgestireness, for sublimity piled on sublimity, these words excel all that human speech ever uttered or human imagination ever soared after. "Thestars also!" It is put in as you write a postscript?something you thought of afterward, as hardly worth putting into the body of a letter. "The stars alsor Read on m your Bibles, and after awhile the bible flashes with tbe aurora borealis or northern lights, that strange illumination, as mysterious and undefined now as when in the book o' Job it was written: "Men sa<) not tbe bright light which is in the clouds. Fair weather cometh out of the North." While all tbe nations supposed that tae eartu was built on a foundation of some sort, and many supposed that it stood on a huge turtle, or some other great marine creature, * Job knew enough of astronomy to say it had no foundation, but was suspended on the in* visible arm of the Almighty, declaring that ^' "He hangeth the earth upon nothing." W hita all noHftna t.hrvnorhf. tha Oftrhh level, the sky spread over it like a tent over a flat surface, Isaiah declared the world to be globular, circular, saying of God, "Ha sitteth upon the circle ot the earth." See them glitter in the scriptural sky?Arcturus, Orion, the Pleiades and the "Bear with her young." While running your finders among the leaves of your Bible with the astronomical thought in your rniad, you see two worlds stop?the sun and the moon. But what does that Christian know about that miracle who does not understand something of those two luminaries? Unless you watcn modern astronomy put those two worlds in its steelyards and weigh them you are as ignorant ?s a Hottentot about tne stupen iousness of tbnt aceriA in the life of Josaui. The sun over three hundred thousand times as heavy as our earth and goiti^ t&ousauds of miles an hour. Think of stopping that and starting it again without the shipwreck of th3 universe I But 1 can easily believe it. What confounds me is not that He could st3^and I 8Wb tfcguiu IUU30 L*?U nui iVU iU wv/duua> > " time,bat that He coald have made the wheel of worlds of which th-3 sua and mooa are only co^h, and keep that wheel rolling for thousands of years?the fly whael of all eternity. If an engineer can start a long train, it is not surprising that h? caa stop it. if God could make and mova the universe, which is an express train drawn by an omnipotent engine, I am not surprised that for a part of a day He could put down the brakes on two pieces of therotating machinery. Infidelity 13 hard no for grouud of complaint against the Scripture* when it finds fault with thac t cessation of stellar and lunar travelHere is my watch. I could not make a watch if I tried, but I can stop it and stare it again. My difficulty is not that God oould stop two worlds and start them again, but that He could make tbem at all as fie did make ' ~ them. W hot pleases me and astounds me kiore and more is that eacb one of the millions ol worlds has a God given name. Only a comparatively small numoeror mem nave tames given them by scientists. If astronomers can give a name to a whole constellation or galaxy they think they do well, but God has a name (or each star in all immensity. Inspired David declares of God, "He j telleth the nnmber of the stars; He calleth them all by their names." They are not orohans that have never been christened. They are not waifs of the night. They are not unknown shins on the high seas of immensity. They belong to a f family of which Goi is the Father, and as i you call yonr cmiaren Benjamin or xaary or f Bertha or Addison or Joseohine so He calls all the infant worlds and all the adult worlds by their first name, and they know it as well as thouzh they were onlv one child of | light in all the divine family. "He calleth i them all by their names," and when He calls j 1 warrant they come. [ Ob, the stars! Those restal fires kept 1 burning on infinite altars. Those lighthouses ' - on the coast of eternity. Tie hands and - weights and pendulum of the great clock of the universe. According to Herschel, the so called flxad atari are not fixed at all, but each one a sun with a mighty system of worlds rolling round it, ana this whole system with all the other syatems rolling: on around some other great center?millions and millions, billions and billions, trillion* and trillions, quadrillions and quadrillions! But what gladdens me, and at the same time overwhelms me, is that those worlds are inhabited. The Bible says so, and what a small idea you must have of God and His dominion if you think it only extends across this chip of a world which you and I now inhabit. Have you taken this idea of all the other worlds beinjt inhabited as human guess-work? Read Isaiah, forty-fifth chapter, eighteenth versa, "Thus saith th9 Lord that created the heavens, God himself that *Vin narfch and made it; He hath es tablished it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited." Now, If He inhabited the earth so that it would not be created ia vain, would He make worlds hundreds and thousands of times larger and not have them inhabited? Speaking of the inhabitants of this world, he says, "The nations are as the drop of a bucket" If all the inhabitants of this world are as a drop of a buoket, where are the other drops of the bucket? Again aud again tie Bible speaks of the host of heavi*\ and the word "host" means living creatures, not inert masses, and the expression "hosts of hoovan" mnnfc moan inhabitants of other worlds. The psalmist crie3 out, 'Thy mercy is great above the heavens." If there were no inhaoitants above the heavens, what use of any mercy? Again, the Bible exclaims, "Thy goodness is great above the heavens." What could be the use of His goodness above the heavens if there were no inhabftants to enjoy it? Again, the Bible says, "He has set thy glory above the heavens." And here my text comes in with its idea of a mansion of many stories, "It is He that buildeth His storiesit? the heaven/' Is it possible that we who live on the ground noor of'this many storied building are the only tenants, and that the larger rooms and the more gorgeously upholstered rooms, and the more brilliantly chanieiiered -1 ?RoqMoo rooms HUUVD lu ai a uuuiuauuoui this we are positively told in the Bible that two other worlds are inhabited?the world angelic and the world diabolic. These two worlds added to onr own make it positive that three worlds are inhabited. Wny then stop with three worlds of living beings when there are not only millions bnt billions of worlds? Are they all standing like expensively furnished houses in time of financial panic marked "To Let," and no one to take them? All arouad us in this world we see economy of omnipotence. If Christ was going to feel the hungry seven thousand ia the wilderness, He made use of the boy's five loaves and two fistw**4 expending no more of creative power thill was needed. "Waste not," Goi hath written all over this world. And do yon sappose that God would wasce world matiarwl m our solar system to the amount of what has been estimated as seven hundred trflliaft miles of solid contents, and that only a small part as compared with other syAami which go to make up this many storied bkaa> sion of the test, where it says, "It is H#thiA 1 buildieth His stories in the heavens?" Did Professor Hersshel and his sistof^ > Catharine, in finding worlds find, oatf, worlds uninhabited and a waste? Is CtfH, > which Piazzi discovered in 1301, wasted? W> Vesta, that* Olb ars discovered in ; 1807. ; wasted? Is Prosparine, which Protaaor Luther discovered in 1353, wasted? Is rT?P"aHindi Hiin uiauio, rw Uivu A vi?w?>/. 1851, wasted? Is Pandora, discovtrtd in 185S by Professor Ssarle, wasted? An (ha If teen thousand stars recorded in onp year in the observatory at Washington wasted? [sail except the billionth part of mil perse wasted? My hearer^ is it poaribiM that God would ruu such a splendid puniger train of parlor cars through the b?WM in i keep it running if thera war a no gers? Juicing from the extent of the otlfMpl I Jo you thinlc God would put all Hiifsmty on such limits as this world markif If a king have a palace of one bundrea room, trill he put all his princes and prinOMM in one comparatively small room? Af -he hicheat haoDiness is in malcin? othen is it not "certain that God would oaocpjr larger places than our small earta wit* b#. ings capable of happiness? Bestdas why all the worlds farthest on ailftfM up covered with light? What is thavsoC light it there are no eyes of Inhabitants to enjoy and employ that light? I admit that scientific exploration Ins discovered that around many world* ;h?ra is an atmosphere in which lungs like oars could not breathe, and there afo h Ate or colds that physique like ours ooslt not endure. But do you suppose that mttefM the only kind of lungs ttiat God'on oak*? Do our bodies exhaust divine ingenuity, and must He make all the intelligent crwturM with our respiration or pulsation or rastfr ? or Of tint V* ? T 1 -- ,7. make them at all? Because organiami Uke ours cannot live in Mercury of datutt or Jupiter or the sun we have no right te conclude that those globes are lif elaiu Without any telescope and withoit any observatory and without any aitroQCmioal calculation, I know that tha attar worlds are inhabited, because my Bibto aadooot* mon sens9 tell me so. It has bt^ that in the worlds belonging h\ir** pr' system there is room for at leaafcfcv^BijrWra; trillion of population. And { MaraAlBftU , occupied or will be occupied by itttaligent beings. Goi will taot flU them irittl He would certainly put into ttum worm beings intelligent enough to appreciate the arcniteciure, vaecuiunuj, nu?|mm,... beauty, the uarmony of tneir surroocdmga. Yea, tha inhabitants of those worids bar# capacity of loco motion like oars, far they would not have had zuch spatfoos opportunity for movement if they QMtaoc powers of motion. Yea, they hare sighl^alM why the light and hearing; else hbwget oa with necessary language and how dear themselves from advancing perils Yea, M God made our human raca in Sis own imago He probably made the inhabitants of other worlds in His own image?in other words, it is as near demonstration as I oare to have it, that while the inhabitants of othsf worlds have adaptations of bodily structure to the particular climate in whicli they dwell, there is yet similarity of montU and spiritual characteristics among ail tha inhabitants of the universe of Goi, and made in His image they are male wonderfully alike. Now what should be the praetiea'. result of this discussion founded on Scripturs and common sense? It is first of all to 'anlarca our ideas of God and so intanstfjr our admiration and worship. Uoier sach&nsideration how much mora graphic thHBibla question, which seems to rollback t^Biave of the Almighty and say, "Hast an arm like God?' The contemplation Hf encourages us with the thought that^Kfod made all these worlds and popnwte^^asm It will not be very much of an attd^Hclag for Him to make our little world orlragain and reconstruct the character of ite populations as by graoa taey are to be recoc tructe W hat a monstrosity of igoonaoe that the mnSnritv of Christian d&odI# listea not to the voices of other worlds, although the book says, "The heavens declare the glory of Gtod," and again, "The works of the Lor J are great and to be sought out." How araah have you sought them out? 1 Too hare been satisfying yourself with somft things a boot Christ, but have you noticed that Paul sails you to consider Christ as the creator of other w?rlds, "by whom also Ha made the worlds." It is time you Christians start on a world hunt. That is the chief reaaoo why Go I makes the nieht?that you may see other worlds. Go out to-ni?ht and look upat the great cloc* of the heavens. Litton to the silvery chime of the midnight eky. Be* that your children nnd grandchildren mount the neavens with telescope for alpcnietook, leap* ing from acclivity of light to acolmty of light. What a beautiful and sublime thing that John Quinc/ Adams, the ex-preddent. borne flown witti years unaetrwo<. ? mi* peril of his life the journey from Washington to Cincinnati that he might lay the cornerstone of the pier of the great refracting telescope and there making hit last oration. What a service for all mankind when in 1839 Lord Roese lifted on the lawn of his castle, eighty miles from Dublin, a telescope that revealed worlds as fast as ther-ooud roll in, and that started an enthusiasm Which this moment concenters the eyes of many of the most devout in all carta of the earth on celestial discovery. Thank* God that we now know where our own world b bounded on all sides bv realms of salary, instead of beiog where Hesiod In his poetry described it to be?namely, half way between heaven and hell, an anvil hurled oat of heaven, taking: ten days to strike the earth, and hurled out of earth, taking ten more days to strike perdition: From tbe high heaven * brwn aovtt cast. Nine day* and nizhts In rapid whirls would lut And reach the earth the tenth; wfenee streogl/ horled. The same the passage to th' in tarsal woM. I lllll )' j ' 1 I thank God fctufc we have foand ont that onr world is not tolf way between heaven and bell, but is lna sixterhoo I of light, and , that this sisterhod joins all the other sister1 hoodB of world.?, noving round some great I homestead, whiclisno doubt heaven, where I God is and our ODarted Christian friends are, and we ouralvej through pardoning mercy expect to bcome permanent resident?. Furthermore, Iget now from all this an answer to the qiBation which every intelliI - ? Waman ainna fha north haa I gOUb uiau auii rr/>ui%u viuvw vuw ?? >? Uw? I stood has asked ind received no answerwhy did Goi let lin and sorrow come into the world when He coald have prevented them from coning? I wish reverently vo say I think I hivo found the reason. To keep the univerte loyal to a Holy God. it was important ii some world somewhere to demonstrate tie gigantic disasters that would come upn any world that allowed sin to enter. Which world should it be? Well, the smaller the world the better, for less mrnbers would suffer. So our world wa; selected. The stage was plenty large eiough for -the enactment of the tragedy, inter on the stage sin, followed by murder, pain, theft, fraud, impurity, falsehoJd, masaacre, war and all the abominations and/horrdrd and agonies of centuries. Altioutfh Wtinow comparatively little about ths othar worlds lest we become completely daaatfefled with our own, no doubt tb? ofchw worlds have heard and are now hearing dl about this world in the awful exparimeii of sin which the human race has been making. la soma waf lntarscenar commumcaoon is open, and w vorlda either by wiag of flying spirit or by direct communication frgra Qod, ate learning that disloyalty and disobajkooe doom end damn everything they tenet, and the spectacle practically says to all oto?r worlds: "Obey God, keep holy and. ttaji in tha orbit where yon were intended to swing, or you will suffer that whiofcthatreareant world out yonder has been sufferiig for thousands of years." It is no longw tome a;mystery why so small a world as om wm ohosen for the tragedy. A chemist cm demonstrate all the laws of earth and h**?a a small laboratory, ten feet by uf\ and our world was not too small to aimonitrate to the universe the awful chMratrr of uprighteousness, its exnloairaan' Hfioa'and oonsumiag power. ' I do not felleva that there is a world that I has baeola azistenco from the time when Coperniaqf the astronomer, knocked oa the door at heaven, Co the world thr.t last week Jama within sight of the observatory SO Greenwica, but has heard of oar temflo terrestial experiment, and the awful objest lesson has thrilled the multimliLkms of stellar population, especially when the/ ieard that in order to arrest the "fWMtsr of oenturies the World Maker and vlte Wad ilarter and the World Upholder must ctrs \p HJs only Son to assassination to expiate usd restore and save the victims : of the platutary shipwreck. Oa tbe t>w?r of Pharos, Ezypt, a metallic mirror wis raised which reflected all that ooeurret both; on land and sea for a distance of ton* Iran idrad miles, and so Egypt was Itttmed of the coming of her enemies long before their arrival? By what proceeds I know not,, bat in someway this snip oc a struggling rtb, I think, is mirrored to worlds. Surely'this one experiment of a ?brid unloosing itself from God will beaodbgh for all worlds and all eternities, ? Bat hotice that as other worlds roiled in* totheflrst took of tha Bibla, the book of Genesis, they also appaar in the last book of tha Bible, the boot of Revelation. They wilt tace part in the scenes of that occasion, ttUofe shall be the earth's winding up and a tramendoug occasion for you ana me per* oaally. My father was on the turnpike road between Trenton and Bound Brook, IWr Jersey. He was oorning tnrough the lrom the legislative halls, wnere he wteaerving his State, to his home, where ther* was sickness, i often heard bim tell about it. It was the night of tbe 12th and **-- 1 * iftkk -? 1QQQ I WlffiOraiU'^ Ui bUO iouu ui Aiwf ouiuoit Awwt The sky was cloudless and the air ciear. fhiddanly the whole heavens became a scene never to be forgotten. From the constellation Leo meteors began to shoot ont in all directions. For the two hoofs between four and la th* morning it was estimated thai a thousand meteors a minute flashed and expired. It grew lighter than noonday. Arrows of fire. Balls of fire. Trails of fire. Showers of fire. Some of the appearances were larger than the fall moon. All around the heavens explosion followed explosion. Sounds as well as sight?. The air filled with uproar. AU the luminaries of the sky deemed to have received marching orders. The heavens ribbed and interlaced and gar 1- ?1-~ Uoaea wit a mewonc uii|iuijr, nvm > ? .son to horizon everything in oombuxtion nd conflagration. The spectacle caased not until the rising 8n of the November morning eclipsed it, d the whole American nation sat down exhausted with the agitations of a night to be memorable until the earth itself shall become a falling star. The Bible closes with such a scene of falling lights?not only fidgety meteors* but grave old stars. St. . John saw it in prospact and wrote, "The stars of heaven fall unto the earth, even as ; a fl* tree cartelh her untimely figs when nhe is shaken of a mighty wind." What a time there will be wnen worlds drop! Rain of planets. Gravitation letting loose her grip on worlds. Constellations flying apart. Galaxies dissolved. The great orchard of the universe, swept by thelast hurricane, letting down the stars like ripened fruit. Our -old earth will go with the rest, and let it go, for it will have existed long enough to complete its tremendous experiment. But there will be enough worlds left to make a heaven out of it, if any more heaven needs to be built. That day finding us in Cnrist, oar nature regenerated I * "" knna fwitim. ana oar Bins pvuuuni, uu uu> uupw phant, we will feel no more alarm than when in September, passing through an orchard, you hear the apple* thump to the ground, or through a conservatory and yon hear an untimely flg drop on the floor. You will only go upstairs into another story, a better Lighted story, a better furnished story, a better ventilated story, a better pictured story, and into a story where already many of your fcindred are waiting for you and where prophets and and apostles and martyrs will pay you celestial visitation, and where, with a rapture beyond the most radiant anticipation, yoa hall bovr before Him that "buildeth Bis ftoriee in the hnaveas, a New York citizen, In suggesting In the Tribune that a liberal space be alloted in the World's Fair for the growth and exhibition of woods and plants containing valuable fibers, contributes some general points on tbo subject that are of public interest. A new system of disintegration has overcome the exclusive importance of cotton and made practicable the utilization of the many fibrous plants that have heretofore rotted in our fields, forests and swamps. By using the substitutes growing around us we might save nine-tenths of the 140,000,000 yearly sent to Europe for fibers. Cotton stalks could be used instead of burned. So could the million tons of flax straw annually produced and destroyed annually. In Europe, laat year, 600,000 tons of flax straw were used. We allow to go to waste materials which wouia taKe the place of the hundred thousand ton9 of fiber imported yearly for grain binding twine and the 05,000 tons of wrappings used for baling reach cotton crop. "What is stated should be enough to awaken concern lh the great sources of wealth allowed to go to waste through ignorance nd neglect A New "Xoek woman has "brought nit for breacrn of promise, alleging pioni; other things that the pangs of lcjve unrequited had caused her to lbse forty-two pounds of her 160. The surmise Is natural that this statement will weaken her case. Other women have been driven to banting and to anti-fat compounds #vth resuU* not half as satisfactory. v a drinki^q-sonq to be popular hould be written with a rest at the ban?Chicago Inter Oceaji. ' '^1 1 t m Mi i * RELIGIOUS READING. EMMANUEL. No need we fondly traverse back The ancient centuries through, m xihl witn Jerusalem a wonueriug mrous We may see Jesus, too. 0 eyes so blind! 0 ears so deaf! To this great teaching li#t? The wide world echoes endlessly With that strange life of Christ! To all the air is tremulous WitVi ITIu fltroot vi'nrilu nf <rrnrp The rythmic hints of God-like speech In the wild winds we trace; Still in her rocky heart, earth hears The echo of His tread, And listens with a mute delight To all the Master says. To all the air, so tremulous With His sweet words of grace, Still pulsates u ith the rndiance Of His love-lucent face. And the vast ether-world that hears The news from sun to sun. Bids all its radiant wiuged steeds On this new errand run. 0 worlds! ye cannot shine too bright, Nor sing too joyously, Nor up your infinite highways March too triumphantly 1 And some day God may eive me leave To go where visions shine, 1 i 4l i.-la. .4 tt:m A ~ 11 [ja A IA ^\I1U LUC Ui .mill uuu mi lie uiu Shall tben. ray soul, be thine. ?[From "Reliques of the Christ." PREPARATION FOR THE WEEK OF PRAYER. vVe think that we earnestly desire for ourselves God's best gift's; we think that for the cburch we wish blessiugs as great as anv tbat are promised; we are hoping for much good to result from the coming days of prayer. Yet it is certain tbat this season does pass in many a church, leaving it like Gideon's fleece when that remained dry while dew surrounded it. There are certain conditions on which the blessing partly depends. and on earnest wish for tbe blessing will Inn/I /% uaot?/)K fnr #ko TV QTT in U'hij'h ti> secure it. There roust be a deep sense of our need and of definite needs that we wish to have supplied. The plea of the friend at midnight was granted because it was definite and urgent; he knew wliat he wanted, and how much, and wby and what he would do with it. If our requests were to be as definite, we should have to make a more thorough study of our failings and our longings than most, per baps, bave yet made. Tbere must be a profound conviction that God is u6t only able, but eager, to arrant all .that we can ask for. There should be a conviction of the power of united prayer rising from hearts oound together in Christian love, so strong that it shall constrain each one to seek the assembly of Christians and i to join his prayers to tbeirs. These needsj are axioms in the Christian life, and yet in such simple conditions lies the secret of tbe mightiest movements that have abakcn the eartb; and the thought of what, by God's grace, has thus been effected in other days will have a powerful influence in Jeauing 10 greater results now. The Week of-Prayer means beseeching God to comesmong us with new power; then we must make room for the heavenly Guest, room in our hearts, room in our time, room in our thoughts. The wees implies faith tb8t we are to receive something; the hand that expects to receive is open, not fast closed so as to keep a firm grip on something else, Tbe occasion means th:<t we are asking and expecting God to speak to us; then we must hush tbe din of worldly employments that we may hear his gentlest word. If we are to ask for bis presence in a special degree, we must certainly be willing to take tbe time to go where he bas especially promised to be, and we must be so much absorbed in the prospect of his coming that tbe thought of it shall be uppermost in our minds. Nor do we truly wish onr Father's presence if we are not filled with his longing tbat bis coming sball draw in tbosa who have been holding themselves aloof from the circle of bis children.?[Golden Rule. THE FRIGHTENED BC8HRANGER. A goi/u c ergyman was Once sent for to a wilt! and dangerous part of Australia, on some errand of duty and mercy. He travelled up too poor to be in any great danger from bushrangers or robbers, but as he came buck be bad to bring in bis saddlf-bags a large sum of money not of bis own, but belonging to tbe dying man be bad been sent for to comfort. He knew tbat a dangerous robber wa* aware that he was riding along this lonely track through the bush with all this money about bim, and when be got to one part ot the road he felt so frightened that be thought he was not trusting God as a Christian should. He wanted a little quiet, so he got off his horse and stood by it, k.'a avAO ohoHa^ oarnfnwf" If nrivlnff fOT ITIIU Ui? DUUU\W MgfiurK ?! r?- J ?n faith and courage not to be afraid or the bushranger robbers, and to be guarded against them. He prayed till be felt calm enough to ride on, and then he mounted hia horse, and reached the town in safety with the money which he bail in charge. Some time later he was once more called to visit a man on a sick bed, and be recognized him as tbeiobberof whom he bad been so afraid in his ride. This man had told him he bad felt he could not die without confessing that on that day be bad followed him, intending to rob and murder him. but could get no opportunity. ' Why did you not do it when I got ofl my horse?" asked the clergyman in surprise. "I could not tben," said" the bushranger; "there were too many of you." "What do you mean," said the clergyman; ,fI was quite alone in the bushstanding with my bead resting neainst my horse's side for a long time. You could have killed me then." "You were not alone," said the bushranger "I saw you standing as you describe, but there was a man standing pn each side of vou." Cfertainlv there had been no other men with the clergyman in that hour of terror when be cried to God, but it is just possible that God really did open the robber's eyes and show him His angels guarding His servant as he went on his dangerous duty, as Elisha's servant's eyes were opened to see celestial guardians around his master. But. whatever may be the explanation, God did send bis angels to frighten away the robber, and by so doing bo saved him from a Seat clime aswcllasllie goon clergyman om death.?[The Christian Herald. AN OrEX SECRET. Amo/nrthe "Ten Rules of Thomas Jetierdon,'' whiih include such excellent maxims a9. "Never spend your money before you have it," -'Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap?it will be dear to you." "Never trouble another for what you can do for yourcelf," "Piit'e cools more thin hunger, thirst and cold," "Take things alwavs by the smooth handle," "Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly"?on each of whi' h a long essay might be written?we were specially strucK wun ice mm. At contains a deep philosophy and one of constant practical application. It ia the secret of a happy life, thetsseuceof the truest and higheat christian experience. He whose will is in perfect harmony with God's, so that whatsoever conies to him to do he does willingly and lieai tily, loving it for the sake of the Father who sends it, Hinds nothing realty troublesome, and so lives in perpetual clover'. It is an open secret, but not one matl in ten millions seems to find itout practically, rue trouD.e, very frequently, ia that men, even good Christian men, cannot, bring themselves to do everything willingly, because they fail to Bee that everything which they are obliged to do Is God's will, and so ob?fc against it as being mere human compulsion. Thus through their mistaken theories people make themselves miserable when they might rejoice with a joy unspeakuble all theday long. What a pity!?[Christian Standard. THOUSAJTOS OF iaiuaiua'13. "There are no Jess than 6000 intoxicants of different kinds kaovm to the Custom House officials," said an attache of the Customs Collection Department. "Ninety-five per cent, of tfae foreigners in this country drink, and none of them have ever heard o<f total abstinence. Tbey have all their native liqaara, which often cannot be procured in this country, and they soon make arrangement* to bare their favorite tipple sent to thuo. In this way the Custom House psoee accumulate a very wide knowledge of toxlOMitfc"?Philadelphia Record. "I am getting tired of this injus I H1QC, BttiU liic UI JggOl IA9 UllO %JOk 11U1. "You are the one who get9 loaded, p and-then I get pulled on account of It-Indianapolis JournaL v, X TEMPERANCE. TOE LOKG BATTLE. We boast not or our thousands slain, Of ruins, spoil?, or teirs, But e'er the rescued we rejoice, The saved of fifty years. Of souls regained, of wrecks restored, Of sunshine to the sad. Of mothers who rejoice to-night, Of little ones maue glad. For these we thank the Lord and sh out Away with doubts and fears'. TVe still will trust in Him who blest Our cause for fltty years. For fifty yean1; ye?, fifty year?, We've fought the hosts of sin; And if it takes yet fiity years, "We'll battle till we win. WHISKY'S AWFtJL WOES. Whisky ma e Stephen Htte a*?ari>rer, his wife a widow and bis beautiful little daughter fatherless. The time he should have SDent in the SOfiifltv of a cr-inrl wifn ?nH pretty child he put in with vicious comrades in a barroom. On the night of September 20, 1891, Hite was drinking with Albert BaurmaD. The two men quarreled. Hite struck fiaurman with his cane. The latter retaliated with his fist. Hite then drew a large pocket knife and pluuged it into the stomach of Baurman, who fell dead. Hito was at once arrested and made a game but hopeless fight for life in the courts. He was sentenced to death and the sentence hat been carried out. ?Courier-Journal. EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL Off TBX BRAIN. The specific action of alcohol, while producing a general disturbance of and injury to all the vital organs, is especially detrimental to the brain, which Is composed of numerous minute cells, of a gray, fatty substance, with a large proportion of water. Alcohol lias a stront affinity for water, and when taken in the stomach," being very volatile, a portion of it goes immediately toward tho brain, and disturbs the finely ar ranged nerve-fibers and blood vessels so as to impair their inability to noorish this fatty substance. In this way it renders the brain incapable of continuous logical thought or action. ai>d the man is said to be more or less "drunk," which is another way of saying that the man's brain is paralyzed, or parched with inflammation and congestion. Tois effect can be tested by putting a drop of alcohol on the tongue; the smartin?, stinging sensation proves that it is parched by the alcohol's eagerness to absorb or get at the water in the tongue; and this irritating effect is the same on an ine organs o? tue body, besides producing a craving thirst.?Demorest's Family Magazine. TBS DISEASE OF INEBRIETY-. Dr. T. D. Crowthers, writing in the North American Review on the question "Is Alcoholism Increasing Among American Women," ,?ay&: "Statistics of persons arrested for inebriety, extending over long periods, will point to certain years in whica a maxi mum in numbers was reached followed by a retrogade movement back to a minimum. This tide like movement is sometimes clear, then obscure. Often it is marked by both epidemic and endemic waves, and is traced in the prevalence of inebriety in towns and cities, and in the reaction noted by temperance revival?. This psychological ebb and flow was pointed out by Dr. Westphal in (Sweden many years ago, and an interval of seventeen years was indicated as the time between tbe maximum and minimum periods of inebriety in that country Shorter periods have been noted by many observers in different countries. "Many very startling facts point to this womieriul cycle and drink orbit, and help to explain tbe strange temperance revivals whicb spring up and sweep over the country, dyinz away with the same mystery and suddenness?. Such movement* aru undoubtedly the backward swing oi hig.i tides of inebriety. The histories of large cities and towns supply many startling confirmatory facts of periods of inebriety and intense temperance revivals following each other with a strange, fascinating mystery. Like the ebb and low in politics, religion and the great social movements, these flnrnc cycles or waves point to ranges of cause* and con ditions awaiting future discovery. "While many of the causes of Inebriety as seen in tbe individual are both preventable and curable, there are other unknown pay etiological ana physical rorc?s tuat control the form and direction of tho inebriety of bothsexef. Whatever iniebritty is in Europe or may bare been in the past, it is in this country a brain and nerve disease, marked by mental and physical failure- exhaustion and central degeneration." BE KNEW WHEN TO QUIT. "No, boys; I am going to quit?this tims for good," said a melancholy young man to a crowd of cronies, as they stopped him in front of a saloon and askel him to "take something.'' "You know I have been with you for years and the 'painting' we nave done has given this town a vermilion hue. Buz I must quit now. It may go a little bard with me at first, but in a short while I guess I will be able to rid myself of all desire for those jolly rants ani revels that we have had together. Yes, the resolution is a srudden one. but it is none the le3s firm. ' You see, after 1 was married I quit you fellows for along time and then gravitated back to vou. It was not that I lovad my wife any the less; I just! got careless and thoughtless Somehow I seemed to thinlc that since I was providing her with all the material luxuries of life she ought to be satisfied. I didn't intend to neglect her, you know, and thought that she wouldn't care if I did come down-town occasionally at night. "iince these nocturnal absences from home have become so frequent 1 notice that J nofnya Hpr a caatige uas appotioj m u? sparkling vivacity that used to charm and electrify me has commenced to wane. Still she strives hard to appear happy. But she is not the womon she used to be. Her face has grown wane, her cheeks have sunken and the merry gleam has left her eye. When 1 arise in the morning with reddened eyes and no appetite she looks at me pityingly and hugs the baby closer to her bosom than I ever noticed her do before. "No, she has never spoken to ma about it. You see that's the worst of it. If she would just pitch in and give me a tongue lashing her sorrowing look wouldn't make we feel so like a dog. She just looks?that's all. Oh, no, she doesn't fear for herself except as I am affected. That look tells me - *?I . T till. plainer ctiau woros mm. sue iccia * ??i?? ?... jng myself and will scon be lost to her. This morning she told baby to kiss papa goadby. There was a strange pathos in her voice wben she spoke the words that I never heard before. "Ani then she tnrne 1 away ani broke into low sobs that sha tried to bide from me. Good God, boys! I didn't think those things ever existed" out of novels or off the stage. That's the reason I tall you that I have quit. I like you all, Vnow you are splenlid fellows, and that you are my friends, but?but?ar?3he's the best friend I ever had or expect to have, and?and? well, X'.n going^o be her friend, too." The crowd dispersed. Nobody "too;; anything." ?Chicago News. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. The .Uanarajah of Baroda and his whole cour: are stricc teetotalers. The recent reports of the increase of the drink habit among women in London are now lollowed by similar reports from a Police Judge in New York. Jo .? tv i f K I'nninAd War* ^ r? f, thougn corianders, almond cuke, an* gelica root, liquorice, eardamon?, cassia, cinnamon, grains of paradise, cayeuno pepper and other substances are often used, together with aium, sulphate of ziuc and acetate oi lead. Switzerland is not drinking more liquor this year than last, and has not increased in her consumption ol alcoholics for three years past, 'ineretiie Government controls tho sale of nquor, and the profits are divided among the cantons. A third goes toward remeuying the eff icts of alcohol. The thirty-flfth report of the Commissioners of Inland Rweuue showed an increase of 5.49 per cent, in the consumption of spirits in the un.tad kingdom. Ot the 3,600,* (.100 gallons exported in the year ending March 31, 1892. almost 400,000 gallons were shipped to the west coast of Africa and 200,. 000 to South A trica. There has been quite a temperance reviral in New Haven under the lead of Thomas Edward Murphy, son of the famous orator, Franc's Murphy. Pour audience?, in number over 10,000, were addressed in ona day, and in them alone lOCO converts to temperance were 'secured, a hundred Yale students being anions the number. In all over 5C0G converts have been made during a stay of three weeki. ' ' A GREAT SHAFT. LARGEST MONOLITH IN THE WORLD FOR THE FAIR. A Wisconsin Stone Which Will Bo a Striking Feature of the Columbian Exposition?It is 115 Feet Long, some time past the Y residents of Northern I | i Wisconsin have turned L/ their thoughts and in^JTl terests toward the ' iiRaw^ great brownstone monolith which will stand in Jackson Park during the World's c^|f" Fair as a witness of /Z^^iT what is contained in J* W the vast quarries located in Wisconsin along the shores of Lake Superior. An Ashland (Wis.) letter to the Chicago Herald sayc This obelisk, which claims the title of being the largest on earth, can trace its conception to a jocular remark made by a Frederick Prentice, X] V owner of the large J quarries here, to ex- 1 I , J Governor Sam S. FiJ | jj field. While confersI i 51 : ??i? I AlifS UUL uiacicio A cm 4 tive to monster pU; | lars of stone in the $ shape of obelisks, Mr. Prentice remarked that he could surpass the largest ^ Egyptian production from among his quarries situated in 1 close proximity to . | this oity on the BayI field shore of Che* \ ! 1 quamegon Bay, or I on one of the num | I eroos Apostle Isl-1 J | sands. To Mr. fml li/|JPifleI<i 11 hardly If/Mil II If 8eemec* feasible, but Ml Ili IB the earnestness of kha 1Ir- Prentice and his ll d declaration that if Itklili*^ SSfl l.he State ot WificonVoRlIjL - L jw' would accept and erect the mono* lith he would deliver /ff.'Mm'.* it to me suie wiuiout cost, for$ State &yt?agfc.? exhibit at the ^Nl* 7 World's Fair, so TfflS MONOLITH. impre88ed ^ J*]. field that he opened communicatioa with the Board of World's Pair Managers. This correspondence, although appearing to the commission to suggest an impossibility, led them to make a visit to Ashland and, in company with Mr. Prentice, to view the quarries. After looking over the ground they practically fefe?fl88 BREAKING THE MONO! ??% J If. DilAnfiAa'a rranomilQ tfln(1<*f I BCCOpiCU JJ11 X &ouwiuv a ^wuwkvww and agreed to take the stone as soon as it was broken from its bed and more and erect the same on the grounds to be designated by the Fair officials at Chicago. Accordingly, work was commenced at once with tire steam channelers and about forty men on the 1st of August last. Work was first pursued on the Wilson Island quarry, and after some time had been spent in uncovering the top layer without finding a body of rock which met Mr. Prentice's approval the work was transferred to the quarries at Hough ton Point, in Bayfield County. It took but a few days there to locate rock of the desired quality and size, and a few days after the explorations began men were busily engaged in uncovering and marking out the monolith. The work went steadily on, and on November 10th Mr. Prentice was able to make the gratifying statement that a stone of the required size lay open to inspection and all that was yet needed for him to fulfill his agreement was the breaking of it from the mass of which it had been a part. The announcement was mado by Mr. Prentice that the monolith would be loosened on Friday, November 18th, and on that day the public were invited to the quarry to witness the event. Then November 18th came a large assemblage of citizens boarded the ferryboats and were transferred to Houghton Point, where the quarry is located and where the brown stone monster was waiting to be broken from its resting place. Previous to the day of raising, the workmen of the quarry had carefully * * - J morlnroo an that on starceu iub puiuu^ ? the appointed day all that was necessary to complete the task Mr. Prentice had uudertaken was the successful driving of the wedges. Along each side of the monolith, which had been sawed at either end, werestarted about 400 feather wedges, all partly driven. Arriving at the quarry, all that remained to be done was the giving of the signal to besin driving the wedges. At 11 o'clock Mr. Prentice lined the men on each side of the monolith and took his position on the top. There were fifty men on each side standing with mauls uplifted waiting for the word to be given to tap the entered wedges. At a signal irom Mr. Prentice the mauls fell, and ' ti^work had begun. With the preeiniwn of clock work the men drove the wedges, at each succeeding blow ad*' vancing to the next wedge. From base to apex the men walked, each.' step aa<ll each blow driving the feathered wedgesi nearer the spot which would loosen itl from the bed of rock where it lay. Af! of one accord the maals were raised and* I.J. 1- 11 i.1 ' -3 ill _ A. I-.X let iau upon tue weages unui at lass,, with a slight quiver, the huge rock V . * FREDERICK Pit ENTICE. parted in its entirety from the mass and lay at the bottom of the pit ready to be delivered to tbe State Commission, to be trimmed to the desired size. After the work bad been completed three rousing cheers were given by those present in honor of Mr. Prentice, and they were given with a will which showed that the citizens appreciated his generodty and public spirit. Dr. Edwin Ellis, of this city, then mounted the stone and delivered a short speech to the assemblage. Dr. Ellis spoke of the monolith as it really ifc the largest single stone ever quarried. Of the three great monoliths now standing < ' Dr. Ellis spoke, and said that the one at Rome, which is 105 feet high, is the largest In tbe world outstae tae one just quarried in the wilds of badgerdoau Mr. Prentice now says that next spring he intends channeling out twenty feet more from the quarry, and that if he then desires he can safely agree to furnish a monolith twenty feet longer than the one now quarried. ' . > The monolith is of Lake Superior brown stone, an analysis of which made by Professor 0. T. Chandler, Ph. D., of the school of mines, Columbia College,' New York, showed it to contain the fol- y lowing ingredients: Silica, 91.40; farric oxide; 2.00; alumina, 3.53; lime, .25; magnesia, none; potash, 2.36; soda, 14; sulphur, none; carbonic acidj none; moisture, .05; a total of 99.75 per cent. I IP jITH FROK ITS BED. and has an average weight of 150 poaads to the cubic foot and showing a compression of strength of 7491 pounds per square inch. **- fi?of TM>finm5tir?n to fur JJJLl ? ? lOUVlW O Uluw ( nish the monolith was for a atone just a trifle larger than the Egyptian obeliak, which is 105 feet wren inches exclusive of the foundation, and nine fe?t square at the base. He first intended the monolith to be 106 feet in length and nine feet two inches at the base, but, upon a later consideration decided to have it 115 feet long, ten feet at the base and four feet square at the top. The apex will be about five feet long 5 and will be tapered to about a six inch i A tip. Tbe entire monolith will rest upon a foundation of granite ten feet high and twelve feet square. Strange. Thia globe is full of ocean3 aad of lakes, both large and small, bat the mill pond down near urandpa'a farm I can-* not find at all.?Puck.' In nearly all cases it pays to feed growing poultry liberally. This is - necessary if a vigorous, thrifty growth is maintained. A stunted fowl is no better in proportion than a stunted pig or ' _ _ 1 r can. The area of the coal vein discover^ at Fairhaven, Washington, is estima to be 1000 acres, and believed to tain 1,000,000 tons of coal. Mr. Gladstone's favorite poem is said to be the last hjm* 0 , * dead in the "Lay of the Last .