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** -J ' ??????? REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON fiabjeo*: "God Among the Contn* riea." Text: "Consider the years of many generations?Deuteronomy xxxii., 7. At 12 o'clock last nieht, while no manv good people were watching, an old friend passed out of our homes and a stranger en? tered. The old friend making valedictory was 189-2: the stranger arriving is 1893. The old friend was garrulous with the occurrences of many days, but the stranzer put his finger over his lio and said nothing and seemed charged with many secrets and mysteries. I did not see either the departure or . ttie arrival, nut was sound asleeD, thinking that was for me the be?* wav to be wide awake now. Goodbv, 1892! Welcome, 1893! As an army is divided into brigades and regiments and companies, and they observe ? this order in their march and their tread is majestic, so the time of the world's existence is divided into an armv divinely commanded; the eras are the brigades, the centuries are the regiments, and the years are the companies. Forward into'the "ternitv past, out of the eternitv to come! Forward u the command, and nothine can halt them, even though the world should die. While obeving my text, "Consider the years of manv eenerations," I r?rooose to soeak of the "Chronology of the Bible,or God Amonz the Centuries." We make a rr. tinction between time and eternity, but time is only a Diece of eternitv, and chropolozy has been engaged in th-1 sublime work of dividinr up this portion of eternity that we call time into compartments and puttine events in their rkrht compartment. It is as much an injustice against tbe past to wrongly arranee its events as it would be an injustice if. throueb neglect of chronoloeical accuracv, it should in the far distant future be said that America wa? discovered in 1776, and the Declaration of Independence was sizned in 1492, and Washington born on the 23d of March, And the Civil War of the United States wai fought in 1849. As God puts all the events of time in the I right Dlace. let us be careful that we do not put them in_the wrong place. The chron | -oio^y or ttie iiible takes six steps, but thev are steps so long it makes us hoH our breath as we watch the movement. Prom Adam to Abraham. Prom Abraham to the exodus out of Egypt. Prom the exodus to the foundation of Solomon's temple. From the foundation of Solomon's temple to the destruction of that temple. From the destruction of the temple to the return from Baby> lonish captivity. Prom Babylonish captivity to the birth of Christ". Chronology takes pen and pencil, and call* ing astronomy and history to help says: "Let us fix one event from which to calculate everything. Let it be a star, the Bethl^u m? -? " - louuiu g?i, mo uunnbuios star.'* aqci irora that we eo back and see the world was created 4004 years before Christ; the deluge carae 2348 years before Christ; the exodus out of Egypt occurred 1491 years before Christ, and Solomon's temple was destroyed , 586 years before Christ. Chronology enters the first chapter of Genesis and says the day mentioned there is not a day of twenty-four hours, but or ages, the word there translated as "day" in other places meaning ages, and so the Bible account of the creation and the geologists' account of the creation are completely harmonious. Chronology enters the book of Daniel and says that the words "time and ? half' mean a year and a half. Chronology enters at another point and shows us that the reasons of the year were then only two?summer and winter. We find that the Bible year was 380 days instead of 365; that the day was calculated from 6 o'clock in the morning to 6 o'clock at night; that the night was divided into four watches ?namely, the late watch, the midnight, the , cock crowing, the early watch. The clock 'A and watch were invented so long after the world began their mission that the dav was not very sharply divided in Bible times. Ahaz had a sundial, or a flight of stairs with a column at the top, and the shadow which that column threw on the steps beneath in 1L - .L * " ? uiuaicu iuo uvur, luo sa&aow lengtaening . or withdrawing from step to step, r Bat the events of life and the events of the world moved so slowly for the most part in Bible times that they had no need of suco timepieces as we stand on our mantels or carry in our pockets in an age , when a man may have a half dozen or a dozen engagements for one day and needs to know tha exact minate for each one of them. The earth itself in Bible times was the chief timepiece, and it turned once on its axis and that was a day, and once arounti the sun and that was a year. It was not until the Fourteenth Century that the almanac was born, tbe almanac that we toss carelessly about, not realizing that it took the accumulated ingenuity of more than 5fJ00 years to make one. Chronology bad to bring into its service the monuments of Egypt and the cylinders of Assyria, and the bricks of Babylon and the pottery of Nineveh, and the metals struck at An laoca ror u?e cattle or Actium, and all tbe hieroglyphics that could be deciphered, and had to go into the extremely delicate business of asking the ages of Adam and Seth and Enoch and Methuselah, who after their 300th year wanted to be thought young. I think it must have been in recognition of the stupendous work of making an alrnas nac that all the days of the week are named after the gods. Sunday, after the sun, -which was of old worshiped as a god. Monday, after the moon, which was also worshiped as a god. Tuesday, after Tuesco, the goa of war. Wednes<lay1 after Woden, the chief god of the Scandinavians. Thursday, after Thor, the god of thunder. Friday, after Frea, the goddess of marriage. And Saturday after Saturn. The old Bible year began with the 23th of March. Not until 1752 did the first of the month of January get the honor in legal documents in England of being called the first day of the year. Improvements all along have been made in chronology until the calendar and the almanac, and the clock, and the watch seem to have reached perfection, and all tho Nations of Christendom have similarity of time ' calculations and have adopted what is called "new style." except Russia, which keeps what is called the "old style" and is twelve days different, so that, writing from there, it you wish to be accurate, you date vour letter January 1 and January 13, or December 10 and December 22. 15 is something to thank God for that the modes are so complete for calculating the cycles, the centuries, the decade?, the years, the months, the days, the hours, the seconds. Think of making appointments as in the Bible days for the time of the new moon. Thinlc of making one of the watches of the night in Bible times a rooster crowing. The Bible says: "Before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice," "If the Master cometh at the cockcrowing," and that was the way the midnight watch was indicated. The crowing of that barnyard bird has always been most uncertain. The crowing is mt the lowest temperature of the night, and the amount of dew and the direction of the wind may bring the lowest temperature at 11 o'clock at night or 2 o'clock in the morning, and at any one of six hours. Just before a rain the crowing of chanticleer in the night is almost perpetual. Compare these modes of marking time with our modes of marking time, when 11 o'clock is 12 o'clock, and 6 o'clock is 6 o'clock, and 10 o'clock is 10 o'clock, and independent of all weathers, and then thank God that you live now. But notwithstanding all the imperfect- modes of marking hours or years or centuries Bible chronology never trips up, never falters, never contradicts itself, and herre is one of the best arguments for the authenticity of the Scriptures. I If you can prove an alibi in the court?, f and you can prove beyond doubt that you were in some particular place at the time 1 you were charged with doing or saying aomettjlnc: In quite another place, you eaia ' tflrtfnrTT infl/JfllifTT Kae fn ni*A?*4 an alibi by contenriinz that events and circumstances in the Bible ascribed to certain times must have taken place at some other time, if they took place at all. Bnt this book's chronology has never been eaueht at fault. It has been oroved that when the Hebrews went into Egypt there were only seventy of them, and that when they came out there were 3,000,000 of them. "Now," says infidelity, with a suffaw thai it cannot suppress, "what aa absurdity! They went down into Efcypt seventy and came out 3,000,000. That is a falsehood on the face of it. Nations do not increase in that ratio." But, my skeptical friend, hold a moment. The Bible says that the Jews , were 430 years io Ejjjypt, and that exolatns the increase from seventy persons to 3.00&? 00">, for it Is no raor<\ bat rather less, than the ordinary increase of nations. The Pilgrim Fathers cime to America in the Mayflower. one small shipload of passengers, leas than 300 years ago, and now we nave a nation of 60.030,000. Where, then, is so called impossibility that the seventy Jews who went into E^ypt in 430 years became 3.003,000? Infidelity wrong and Bible chronology right. Now stop and reflect. Whv is it that this sublims subject of Bible chronology has been so neglected, and that the most of you have never given ten rainute3 to the consideration of it, and that this is the first sermon ever preached on this stupendous and overwhelming tbeme? W? have stood by the half day or the whole at grand reviews and seen armie3 pass. * ?J rm fhn AgtXiU. auu a^niu auu up-<?u w vuv Champs Elysees Frenchmen by th? hundreds of thousands have stood and etched the bannered armies go by, and the huzzs has been three miles long: and until the populace were so hoarse they could huzza no longer. Again and again and again the Germans by hundreds of thousands have stood on the palaced and statued Under den Linden, BerliD, and strewn garlands under the feet of uniformed hosts led on bv Vod Moltke or Blucher or Frederick the Great. When Wellington and Ponsonby and the Scots Grays came back from Waterloo, or Wolseley from Ejrypt, or Marlborough from Blenheim, what military processions through Regent street and along by the palaces of London and over the bridges of the Thames 1 What almost interminable lines of military on the streets of our American capitals, while Mayors and Governors and Presidents, with uncovered heads, looked on 1 But put all those grand reviews tozether, and they are tame compare! with the review which on New Year's day you from the pew and I from the pulpit witness. Hear them paw in chronological order? -* - * ? it - r? _ _ ji 11 all tbe years Decora me noouj an mo /oau since the flood; decades abreast; centurie3 abreast; epochs abreast* millenniums abreast; Egyptian civilization, Babylonian population?, Assyrian dominions; armies of Persian, Grecian, Peloponnesian and Roman wars; Byzantine empire, Saracenic hosts, crusaders of the first, the second, third And the last avalanche of men; Dark Ages in somber epaulets and brighter ages with shields of silver and helmets of gold; Italy, Spain, France, Russia, Germany, England and America, past and present; dynasties, feudal domain?, despotisms, monarchies, republics, ages on ages, ages on ages, passing to-day in a chronological review, until one has no more power to look upon the advancing columns, now brilliant, now squalid, now earlaudei with peace, now crimson with slaughter, now horrid with ghastllness, now radiant with love and joy This chronological study affords, amon* other practical thought-*, especially two? the one encouraging to the 'ast degree and ul fr*u8!a*vln? . Tfae encouraging thought is that the main drift of the contunes has been toward betterment, with only here and there a stout reversal. Grecian civilization was a vast imnroveKLX *7ptfa?,olvIU,aUo?. and Roman H?n a V j i!nl?rovement on Grecian civilization, and Christian civilization is a wot, {mnrrtffamonf An D. i.; wu iwjnmu civilization. What was the boasted a<re of Pericle* compared with the a^e ot Longfellow and Tennyton? What was Qaeen Elizabeth as a specimen of moral womanhooi cimpared with Qaeen Victoria? What were the cruel warriors of olden times compared with the most distinguished warriors of the last halt century, all of them as much distinguished for kindness and good morals as for prowls ?the two military leaders of our Civil War on northern and southern side communicant members of Christian churches, and their home life as pure as their public life? Nothing impresses me in this chronologic cat review more than the fact that the regiments of years are better and better regiments as the troops move on. I thank God that you and I were not born any rooner than we were born. How could we have endure! the disaster of being born in the Eighteenth or Seventeenth or Sixteenth Century? Glad am I that we are in the regiment now passing the reviewing stand, and that our children will pass the stand in a still better xeglraeat. God did not build tois world for a slaughter house or a den of infamy. A good deal of cleaning house will be necessary before this world becomes as clean and sweet as is ought to be, but the brooms and the scrubbing brushes, and the upholsterers and plumbers are already bmy. and when the world gets fired up, as it will be, if Adam and Ere ever visit it, as 1 expect they wilt, they will say to each other, "Well, this beats paradise when we lived there, and the pears and plums are better than we plucked from the first trees, and the wardrobes are more complete and the climate is better." Since I settled in my own mind the fact that God was stronger than the devil I have never lost faith in the emparadi?ation of this planet. With the exception of a retrogression in the Dark Ages, the movement of the world ha? been on an ! on. and qd and up, and I have two jubilant hojannas?one for the closing year and the other for tht new year. But the other thought coming out of this subject is that Biblical chronology, and indeed all chronology, is urging the world to more punctuality and immediateness. What an unsatisfactory and indefinite thing it must have been for two business men in the time of Ahaz to make an aDpointraent, saying, "We will settle that business matter tomorrow when the shadow on the dial of Ahaz reaches the tenth step from th9 toD," or "I will meet you in the street called Straight in Damascus in the time of the new moon," or when asked in a courtroom what time an occur rone 3 took place should answer, "It was during the time of the latter rain," or "It was at the time of tbe third crowirfg of the barnyard 1" Tou and I remember when ministers of the Gospel in the country, giving out a notice of an evening service, instead of saying at 6 or 7 or 8 o'clock, would say: "The service will begin at early candle light" Thank God for. chronological achievements which have ushered in calendars .and almanacs and clocics and watches, and at so cheap a rate all may possess them! Chronology, beginning by appreciating the value of years and the value or days, has kept on until it ?rie* ont. *'Man. immortal: woman. immortal; look out for that minute; look out for that second!" We talk a great deal about the value of time, but will never fully appreciate its value until the last fragment of it has passed out of our possession forever. The greatest fraud a man can commit is to rob another of his time. Hear it, ya laggards and repent! All the finders of chronology pointto punctuality as one of the graces. The minister or the lecturer or business man who comes to his placa ten minutes after the appointed time commits a crime the enormity of which can only be estimated by multiplying the number of persons present by ten. If the engagement be made with five per son?, he has stolen fifty minutes, for he la ten minutes too late, and he has robbed each of the five persons pf ten minutes apiece^ and ten times five are fifty. If there be 500 persons present and he be ten minutes too late, he has committed a robbery of 5TOO minutes, for ten time 500 are 5000, and 5000 minutes are eighty-three hours, which make more than three days. The thief of dry goods, the thief of baak bills, i* not half bo bad as the thief of time. Dr. Rush, the greatest and busiest phyrician of his day, appreciated the value of time, and when asked h^w he had been able to eather so much information for his books and lectures he replied: "I have been able to do it by economizing my time. I nave not spent una uum iu amui^uivu. ... thirty years." And taking a blankbook from his Docket be said, "I fill a book like this every week with thoughts that occur to me and facts collected in the rooms of my patients." Napoleon appreciated the value of time when the sun was sinking upon "Waterloo, and be thought that a little more time would retrieve his fortune?, and he pointed to the sinking sun ana said, "What would I not give to be this day possessed of the power of Joshua and enabled to retard thy march for two hours !" The good old woman appreciated the value of time when at ninety-three years of age she said, "The Judge of all the earth does not mean w?? * shall have any excuse for not being prepared to meet Him." Voltaire, the blatant infidel, appreciated the value of time when in his dying moments he said to his docto-. * lI will give you half of what I am worth if you will give me six months of life," and when told that he could not live six weeks he burst into tears and said, "Then I shall go to hell f John Wesley appreciated the value of time when he stood on his steps watering for a delayed carriage to take nim to an appointment, raying, "I have lost ten minutes forever." Lard Nelson appreciated the value of time when he said, "I owe everything in the world to being always a quarter of an hour beforehand." V > J??' Vvfear.' A doc It maker in one of the old Easjliah towns appreciated the value of time when he put on the front of the town clock the words, "Now or when?" Mitchell, the astronomer, appreciated the value of time when be said, "I have heen in the habit of calculating the value of a thousandth part of a second.n That minister of the G-osoel did not appreciate the value of time who, < during a season of illness, insteado! employing his time in useful reading or writing, wrote a silly religious romance, which in some unknown way came into the possession of the famous Joe Smitb, who introduced the book as a divine revelation, which be came the founlatioa of Mormonism, the most beastly abomination of all time. They best appreciate the value of time whose Sabbaths have been wasted and whose opportunities of repentance and usefulness are all gone, and who have nothing left but memories, baleful and elegiac. They stand in the bleak September, with bare feet, on the sharo stubble of a reaped wheat field, crying, "The harvest is past!" And the sough of an autumal equinox moans forth in echo. urhe harvest is past!' But do not let us get an impression from chronology that because the years of time h&ve been so long in procession they are to go on forever. Matter is not eternal. No, not If you watch half a day, or a whole day or two days,' as I once did to. see a military procession, you remember the last brigade, and the last regiment, and the last company Anally passed on, and as we rose to go we said to each other, "It is all over." So this mighty procession of earthly years will terminate. Just when I have no power to prognosticate, but science confirms the Bible prophecy that the earth cannot always last. 'Indeed there has been a fatality of worlds. The moon is merely the corpse of what it once wa?, and scientists have again and again gone up in their observatories to attend the deathbed of dying worlds, and have seen them cremated. So I am certain, both from the W ord of Q-od and science, tbat the world's chronology will sooner or later come to its last chapter. The final century will arrive and pass on. and then will come the final decaae, and flna] and tha final month- and the final day. The last spring will swing its censer of apple blossoms and the last winter bank its snows. The last sunset will burn like Moscow and the last morning radiate the hills. The clocks will strike their lasi hour, and the watches will tick their last second. No incendiaries will be needed to run hither and yon with torches to set the world on fire. Chemistry teaches us that there is a very inflammable element in water. While oxygen makes up a part of the water, the other part of the water is hydrogen, and that is very combustible. Tbe oxygen drawn out from the water, the inflammable hydrogen will put instantly into conflagration the Hudson* and Savannahs and Mis&ssippis and Rhines and Urals and Danubes, and Atlantic and Pacific and Indian and Mediterranean seas. And then the angel of G-od, descsnding from the throne, might put one foot on the surf of the sea and tne other on the beach and cry to the four winds of heaven, "Time was, but time shall be no loDger!" Yet, found in UhrisD, paraonea and sanctified, we shall welcome the day with more gladness ch&n you ever welcomed a Cnristmas or New Year's morn. When wrapt In lire the realm; of ether glow And heaven'a last thunder shakes tho earth bs* low, Thon, nnaUmajed, nhalt o'er thj rain smile And light toy torch at nature's funeral pile. The Hot-Wator Cure for Dyspepsia. The hot-water cure for dyspepsia, indigestion and kindred ailments is by no means a novelty, but the manner in which it is habitually practiced at the couutry home of a wealthy New York business man is certainly out of the ordinary. The country home aforesaid is not more than half an hour's ride by rail from New York, and it is a very attractive resort for the young friends of its hospitable owner. A few weeks ago a member of one ot the athletic clubs iu this city, a young giant la stature and a second Gladstone ia physical health and vigor, received a cordial invitation to spend a few days at this country mansion. He acceptod with alacrity and presented himself before his host and hostess at the appointed time. He had a most agreeable time, but in narrating his experience to a chum a few days after hi3 return to the city he said: "It was a jolly visit. Everybody there was as nioe as could be, and Mr. M.'s hospitality is simply delicious. But there was one thing that staggered me at the outset? I ."oo nmtnm /-?f Hrinlfinrr nlear Hitt'* ntw bui/ii v? hot water. Each night before the family and guests dispersed to their respective rooms a servant would appear in the drawing-room with a pitcher of hot water and a lot of goblets. Everybody was expected to drink a goblet full of that exhilarating beverage, because the hot-water cure is the special fad of the host. Well, of course I had no use for hot water taken internally, but I drank it, of coursc, as each of the others did. A. second dose of the same liquid was served to us in our rooms each morning while we were dressing for breakfast. A servant came around just after the rising bell was rung and left a small pitcher of hot water and a goblet at cach room. I quietly poured my morning allowance down the wastepipe of the washstand." ?JNew x oric Times. , A Hundrel Tears A?o. The bride and bridegroom of a century ago were dressed in a slightly different fashion to that of the present ' time. To begin with the lady. Her locks were trained upward over an immense cushion, that sat like an incubus on her head, and plastered over with pomatum and then sprinkled over with a shower of white powder. The height of this . -r - -i. r\ tower was somewnai over a 1001. vuc single white rosebud lay on its top like an eagle on .a haystack. O^er her neck and bosom was folded a lacehankerchief, fastened in front by a bosom pin containing her grandfather's miniature set in virgin gold. Her airy form was braced up iu a satin dress, the sleeves as tight as the natural skin of the arm, with a waist formed by a bod Ice, worn outside, from whence the skirt flowed off, and was distended at the top by an ample hoop. Shoes of white kid with peaked toes, and heels with two or three inches elevation, inclosed her feet, and rrHMoroH with anancrlea as her little l)3dal members peeped curiously out. Now for the swain. His hair wai sleeked back and plentifully befloured, while his queue projected like the handles of a skillet. His coat was a sky-blue, lined with yel'ow; hi3 long vest of white satin, embroidered with gold lace; his breeches of the same material tied at the knees with ribbons. White silk stockings and pump?, with la.-tna t%r\A fwia af Hio an mn Viiim TilAft ruffles clustered around his wrist, and a portentous frill, worked in correspondence and bearing the minature of his bfr loved, finished his genteel ippearance.? Yankee Blade. "I think I'll have an oil portrait made," said Mr. Derrick, who had become suddenly rich tn petroleum. "There you go talking shop again!" exclaimed his wife, who was taking lessons In culture.?Piu-.u. The enraged bulls in a Mexican Amphitheater charged on the spectators at a bull-flght, but the spectators did not applaud this sort of "sport." i RELIGIOUS HEADING. I ? . I A TRAMP S THINKIN. A cramp uau oeeu uomg iwnic luiumut:* "Thinkin' don't seem to agree with yer^" said one who saw him. ' Naw! it don't?it's like this, d'ye see. I'm a tramp. Now, my old schoolmate, Bill, is just what I'm not!" "How's that?" ' Well, Bill is the president of a bank; he's got as pretty and handsome a home as you'd Pfce to see; there's music in that home; there's flowers there, and there's a pretty wife and some bloomin', happy, curly-headed children; there's a carriage"and servants, and people cill bim 'Mister.' He's twice been elected mayor, and everything is coming bin way all the time, arid then look at me?different, ain't it?" "How'd he strike it rich like that?" ilI can't think of any other name for it now but good sense. \Ve were boys together and while 1 was foo'in' around havin' a good time, Bill, he sorter seemed to look ahead. He didn't drink or smoke; I did. He didn't i-are for style, and it co?t me to Eut it on that same money that be saved, [e was fond of reading and I'd rather play cards and have fun with tbe rest of the boys. When I was loafin' on tbe strert corners and in beer saloons, Bill was putting in his time at school. I blew in my money on cards. Bill saved his, an' I remember now how I used ter guy Bill ?n' call him good-goody, and tell bim how he was a foolin' of his life away without having any fun?but say! I was a colorin' my nose; I was getting to play a good game of cards; I was cultivating a fine stock of bad habits?among 'em was love for budge; ter make it snort, pard, I' was giving myself a fine education fpr this here business, and ain't I succeeded at it nroftrr woll^1' "I "should say !" "Well! now look at Bill. Who's having the good time now? He doesn't have dogs set on him; he ain't pulled in every once in a while for beina; a tramp; he doesn't have to move on when his fret's sore, and he don't go hungry and have ter saw a big Eile of wood to get a meal, and sleep under aystacks, and mor'n all he hasn't got the awfu', awful thirst I've got, and doesn't live in hell as I do, because he can't get liquor. He's got manhood; wot have I got? He'a got character; wot have I got? He's got friends; who's mine? Not one since I broke my dear old mother's heart, which laid her in her grave. Ain't that a record? Why shouldn't I do some thinkin'?" THE NEED OF ATONEMENT. A distinguished and successful missionary of the Reformed Church, in Indja, the Rev. ur. jacoo uaaoioeriain, tens ui meeting a Hindoo devotee who had spent forty-five years in wandering from one shrine to another in the hope of obtaining some real assurance of forgiveness and redemption. His soul was oppressed with a feeling of jruilt and fears of a retribution to come. His moral intuitions testified beyond contradiction to a holy Jaw violated and to the absolute necessity of an expiation. How to propitinte outraged justice and to secure pardon was for this poor and wretched pilgrim the J one problem of his existence. He bas freely bestowed all his worldly possessions in alms and upon the priests of various temple?. He had, like a measuring worm, advauced by throwing himself lengthwise along the road for millions of times, until the distant altar had been reached where relief was prom'sed. He had srarved his appetite and lacerated bis body and spent whole nights in vigils aud prayers; had done everything; been everyt biug; and yet all in vain. No sense of peace came to lift the heavy burden from bis conscience. Hts soul was still remorseful and still harrowed with doubt and apprehensions. When the missionary told of the one and everlasting expiation made for sin by the atonement of Calvary, a new light burst upon this man's vision. Here whs exactly the remedy his case,needed. His listening heart sprang upward from despair to hop^ The idea of a divine being who bad the infinite love to make such a sacrifice and the infinite virtue to render it efficacious, filled his mind with delight and thanksgiving. He believed, prayed, obeyed, and found rest at once and forever for his hitherto disturbed spirit. Here was a typical case. Human nature demands expiation for sin. It is the prnfoundest want of our race. APPROPRIATING CHRIST. "This Is my Beloved, and this is roy Friend. 0 daughters of Jerusalem !" Since he is so amiable, be must'be ''my Beloved;" my heart clings to bim. Since he is so ad* mirable. I rejoice that be is "my Friend;" my soul trusts in bim. The beart that most appreciates Jesus is the most eager to appropriate him. He who beholds Jesus as "altogether lovely'' will never rest till he is altogether sure that Jesus is altogether bis own. I tbink I may also add that appreciation is in great measure the seal of appropriation, for the soul that values Christ most is the soul that hath most surely taken possession of Christ. Sometimes a heart prizes the Lord very highly, and tremblingly longs ror Him; but it is my conviction that the very fact of prizing Him argues a measure of possession of bim. Jesus never wins a heart to which he refuses his love. If tbou lovest him, He loves the; be sure of that. No soul ever cries, "Yea, he is altogether lovely," without sooner or later addinir, "This is my Beloved and this is my Friend."? [Spurgeon. PADDLING AND PRAYING. Saiil Thomas Jones, an old colored preach er: "When I was escaping from slavery, and found myself out on the ocean, I prayed God to help me and he did help me. I found some hoards and got on to them. Well, what did I do then? Did I stop praying, and think because I had got a few boards I could go alone now, and I didn't need the Lord's help any more? No! I kept on praying, and held on to the boards. I did not sit still, like those who have a name to live, and are dead; but I juat went to paddling and I did not forget to pray; and by paddling and praying 1 got through. So God expects us to pray and also to paddle, and not to wait for him to do the work that he has set us to do/' There in sound philosophy in the old man's talk. Paddling is needful, as well as praying; and a more anccnt teacher once declared that "Faith without works is dead., being alone."? [The Light-Bearer. THE SECRET OF SUCCESS. A fine illustration of the value of keeping one's word, which boys do well to profit by. is given'lu the case of "Mr. Wilder, the first president of the American Tract Society He became a very wealthy man, but was, in e:irlv life, he<ul clerk for a large firm in Cliarlestown, He promised a customer one day to deliver a bale of poods at a certain hour. lie had to go to Boston to make the purchase, and engaged the porter to take the goods over at once in a wheelbarrow'. The man was overcome with the heat, and stopped on the bridge to rest. Mr. Wilder finding him there, promptly trundled off with the wheelbarrow himself rather than break his word to the cus-tomer. A wealthy mercnam. WHO nappenea 10 01 servo me aci, went to Mr. Wilder'3 employer and said, "Tell that young man when be wishes to go into business for himself, my name is at his service for thirty thousand dollars."? [The Christian at Work. Ti e English Baptist missions now extend 1000 miles into the Congo interior. 200 miles further than any Nation. Protestant or Catholic, and the ltev. Mr. Sims, missionary of the American Baptist Missionary Union, writes to "The independent" tnai ne Dears that each of these mu-sion stations bids fair to become a big centre to its tribe, money only being forthcoming. "In that way," be says, "live or six acre9 are occupied.' * PK07. ITuxley thiuks that results often attributed to overwork arc sometimes due to under oxygenation, and consequent accumulation ol waste matter which operates as a poison. "The depression of overworked organizations is very commonly the operation of some physiological candlo stuff not property burned." Those who have kept track of our article on auto toxaemia will see that Prof. Huxley's idea is in full agreement with our own, TEMPERANCE. 'tis true as troth. My boy?, come listen .while I teach A leason true as truth. A lesson that you all sootxld learn By hearc in early youth. 'Tis thip, there's naught upon the e&rtli, Th*t, Vianlfvu hnmn nan cheer. "Where but five cents is spent for bread To fifty spent for beer. The wife and mother, though she bo As patient as the best, Wears on her face a look that tells Of nights unknown to rest. The children shiver oft with cold, And tremble oft with fear, Wbere but five cents is spent for bread To fifty spent for beer. The holidays bring but fresh grief. Fresh want, and added care. And while, around it. happy soug3 And laughter fill the air, The sound of curse?, sigh?, and sobs Is ail that one can bear, W here but five cents is spent for bread To fifty spent for beer. And boys, I beg von, let my words On fruitful soil be sown, So when you've left your boyhood's days And are to manhooi grown. No one can speak of homes you've made As places poor and drear, Where but five cants is spent for bread lO nity apoDL tor ueer . , ?f itroit Free Press. AN ARMY SLAIN BY DRINK. The number of deaths from the use of strong drink has been variously estimated in the United States to be from 60,000 to 100,? 000 a year. Dr. Norman Kerr, an eminent scientist of England, has for some fifteen years been pursuing an inquiry into the matter in connection with several medical experts, and, according to their deductions, the latest estimate of deaths of adult3 annually caused by intemperence is: In Great Britain, 120,C00; in France, 142,000, and in the United States 80,000, or nearly half a million in an aggregate of 120,000,000 of people. If yellow fever and cholera, which carry off a few thousand each year, are so feared and shunned, what shall be done with the drink which'slays its half million? BRANDY AND DIPHTHERIA. Dr. Alfred Carpenter, commenting upon the use of brandy in the treatment of diphthera, says: "I have frequently met with cases of diphtheria which have been treated with brandy, either as soon as exhaustion super vcuou, mi uuui uuo voi y tuuiuiouuouiouK ui the disease. Most of these cases ended fatally. 1 wish to suggest that this kind of treatment is radically wrong. Some may have recovered to whom brandy has been freely administered; but they are few, and did so, in my opinion, in spite of the remedy rather tnan in consequence of it." Such testimony as this from the authority of so eminent a physician and scientist should suffice to make it quite clear that not only is brandy not needea in the treatment of diphtheria, but tbat if administered it is likely to lesaen rather than to improve the chanoee of recovery.?Temperance Advocate DANGEROUS MBDICISXS. Professor Virchow, the foremost me dical authority of the German Empire, has repeatedly urged moderation in the use of drastio drugs, and holds that some medicines, so-called, have, on the whole, done more mischief than good, and ought to be dropped from the list of remedial agents. It would be a good plan to begin with alcoholic drugs. A single prescription of medicated brandy has in many cases led to the relapse of half-reformed drunkards and rekindled the flames smothered by years of heroic self-control. Tonic bir-ers have also frequently initiated tbe alcohol habit, and tbe nistory of all epidemics proves that the victims oi strong stimulants are especially liable to the risk of contagion. In Southern Asia the plague rages with special virulence , among the opium eaters, and in the yellow* fever epidemics of the West lndie3 the mortality among dram-drinkers is about twice as Iar<e as those of total abstainers. The Mexican Indians, who detest alcohdlio drinks, are almost fever proof, while the bibulous Creoles die by thousands, in spite of abundant opportunities for becoming aoclimatized. THE DISEASE Or DBUfKIKG. Tke disease of drinking among women is fully confirmed by the facts of heredity. In families of moderate and excessive drinking parents, the girls rarely become inebriates, while the bovs, as a rule, develop the parents' maladies. Numerous instances like the following are within the common observation of everyone: One or both parents may use wine on the table daily. The father may use wine to excess, at intervals or continuously, and the mother be a nervous and neurotic woman. Tha boya will drink to excess sooner or later, and the girls will have a defective nervous system, and turn to narcotiioltnv nnltim nSInrnl a# nthflp drugs. The children of these girls will develop inebrity and similar diseases from th? slightest exposure. Alcoholism may appear in the female side, but it will be exceptionally,and naturally merge into - drag-taking or other disease. It may appear In a paroxysmal form, and apparently start from irregularities of life and llrlng, but it will always be found associated with nerve and brain defects. The direct alcoholic heredity running through the male line Is changed and diverted in the female side. This heredity always leaves the females with defective vi tal force and unstable brain vigor, also with weak power of oontrol. The strain of the reDroauatire Deiiod brings on central ex haustion, with a strong tendency to organic disease. The female neurotic may use alcohol tor the exhilaration which it brings, bnt only until she discovers some other drug wita more pleasing effects. The emancipation of women from the slavery of caste and ignorance, and the steady upward movement in mental and physical development,' will prevent any general increase of alcoholism or inebriety. Psychological drink-waves may come and go, and tides of degenerative immigrants may bring an increase of' inebriety for a brief time, but remedial forces will qulcklv neutra iz-j and readjust the race marca from the lower to the higaar. Many causes wbiob seemingly are very active in Europe, increasing the number of female inebriates, writes Dr. T. I). C rot tiers in'the .North American Review, do not exist here. Inebriety over there is a condition more or less fixed, here it is an accident and and incident constantly changing. TEMPERANCE NEWS AM) NOTES. The first glass has the most poison in it. Out of a total of 245 mayors in England forty-lour are total abstainers. "Rags and bottles!" shouts the itinerant junkman. The astute peddler knows that the two go together. The chief of police of Baltimore says he never found boys in the saloons until lager beer was introduced and games prepared to entice them in. In a small English village $75 is given to the poor at Christmas time. A vicar marked the coins last year and traced 950 to the village ale house the next day. The abolition or the Government opium monoDolv in India would make an annual loss to the already tottering revenue of that empire of from 520,000,000 to $25,OCO,COO. A declaration a<> to the use of alcouol as a medicine is going the rounds of the British Medical Association, it is said that over six hundred name* have been obtained agaiusc its use. A proposed gigantic beer combination is announced by wnich the Rothschilds, of Hncland. with a caoital stock of J40.000.000 and bonds to the amount of $200,000,000. would practically control the beer market of the world. In some recently published results of a mes3 room census a. French journalist implies that out of 410 army officers but thirtyfour could boast of abstinence from the habit of absinthe drinking, tho most deadly in its results of all forms ot alcoholism. It is said that one of the severest liquor laws ever passed is that of the dramshon act m Mississippi. A liquor dealer can only do hnoinoco ir* t.hft frrtnf. of hie ahrin on I it. i?4 *" , ? ? ?"ri ? "" ~ counted a misdemeanor to put up a screen. There are many and heavy fines for any infringement of the law. Switzerland is not drinking mora liquor this year than last, and has not increased in her consumption of alcoholics for three years past. There the Government controls the sale of liquor, and the profits are divided among the cantons A third goej toward remedying the effects of alcohol. SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LK?I80N FOR JANUARY 22. Lesson Text: "Joshua the High Priest," Zech. ill., 1-10?Gold, en Text: Hebrews iv., 11?Commentary. By comparing verses 14 and 15 with verse 1 of flag. i. it will bo seen that in about three weeks after his first message the work was resumed. Then he had other messages for them in the seventh and ninth months of the same year (Sag. it, L, 10, 30). The first message came to Zechariah in the eighth month of the same year (Zach. i., 1), and on the night of the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month he receives a series of seven or eight visions which ar* recorded in uuapier ]., i, w vi.f 10. uur icasoa is the I fourth of these visions, tbe first three teaching that the hosts of heaven act on behalf of I God's people; that for every destroyer there is a repairer, and that God, having chosen Jerusalem, will surely perform all His pleasure concerning her. 1. "And he showed me Joshua, the hlzh priest, standing before the angel of tne Lord, and satan standing at his right hand to resist him." A prophet represents Gol to the people, while a priest, represents the people before God. This high priest represents tbe nation of Israel as appearing before God for a blessing, and th9 great adversary is there also to prevent this blessing if be possibly can. I suppose that no individual or nation ever came to God without knowing something of the resistance of the adversary. 2. "And the Lord said unto satan: The Lord rebuke thee. 0 satan: even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee. Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?" See chapter ii., 12; Pa. cxxxii., 18. Goi had chosen Israel and Jerusalem, and that settled it. Ananias thought that Saul of Tarsus was too desperately wicked to expect anything good from, but God's "Go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel unto- Me," settled all that (Acta ix., 15). God knows Bis instruments before He chooses them, and is prepared to cleanse and qualify for His service at any cost. 8. "Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel." Here is the ground of satan's resistance. Israel could not deny her filthy garments; no more can we., We must cry oat with Isaiah, "Woe is me, for I am a man of unclean lips," (Isa. vi., 5), and with Job, "I abhor myself' (Job xluM 6), for "all our righteousnesses (our very best things) are as filthy rags" (Isa. lxiv., 6), Every mouth must be stopped and all the world plead "guilty" before God 'Rom. lit, 19). 4. "Take away the filthv garments from him. And unto him He said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from th?e, and I will clothe tnee with change of raiment." Tnus He will yet remove the Iniquity of that land and of that people in one day (verse 9). and thev shall be all risrhteous (Isa. lx., 21), Tflua Be now forgives sins and says to every true penitent who con* fesses all and bides nothing "Son, dauzhter, tby sins are forgiven thee" (Math. i?., 2,22). All our efforts at goodness are like Adam and Eve's fig leaf aprons compared with the garments ot light which they lost. But the Lord God provides garments of salvation, and we have only to drop our fig leaf aprons, cast aside all our own righteousness and gladly accept God's provision, and then sing Isa, lii., 10. 5. "So they set a fair qjiter upon his bead and clothed him with garments, and t.fiA antral nt t.Ho Tiwrl cfivwl Ktr " Tha mtfiu* was the linen headdress worn by the priest, the most conspicuous part of which was the golden plate or crown, upon which was inscribed, "Holiness Unto the Lord" (Ex. xxviii., 36-88). In the days of Israel's restoration and salvation Jesud, their king, will be "A Priest Upon His Tarone*' (chaptar.vi., 13), a priest Jdng after the order of Melchizodec. The church will reign with Him as priests and kings, for such are we even now bj faith in Him (Rev. v., 9, 10; L, 0). 6, 7. "And the angel of the Lord protested onto Joshua, saving. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, If thou wile" walk in Mv ways, and if thou wilt keep My charge." Salvation from beginning to end is of the Lord. Ha alone Is the author and the finisher, and we are the recipients. But being plucked from the burning and cleansed and separated unto God, Israel is to walk with Him and snow forth Hispower and glory. So with the believer. He is saved not amply to escape the wrath of God and reach heaven at'deatn, but to abide here in a mortal body amid conflict and trial as long as it please tbe Lord, showin? fnrth Mia lifA nf .Tnsna in Fi? mortal flesh (Tf Cor. tv.; 10, 11). This is to the natural man impossible; bat what Christ has done in a mortal body He can sorely do again, and one of the Christian's mottoes is, "Hot I, but Christ, wno lireth in me" (Gal. if., 20), 8. "Hear, now, O Jokbua, the high priest, Behold 1 will bring forta My servant, The Branch." While the words o? the Book have to do with the time when the words were spoken, there is always a looking forward to the grand consummation when Jesu3 shall come in power and glory for the oomplete overthrow of all enemies and the permanent establishment of His tcindom on the earth. In connection with His name, The Branca, I hope you will look up chapters vi., 12; Isa. iv., 2; Jer. xxiii., 5; xxxui., 15. Here He is the servant lullv seen in Marie's Gospel; in Jer. xxiii., 5, He is the King of Matthew's Gospel; in Zecb. vi., He is the man of Lukefa Gospel, while in Isa. iv., 2, He is the beauty and glory of John's Gospel. He is alpha ana omega, the altogether lovely one, in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. 9. "For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes." He is the stone of Israel, despised by the builders and rejected, and yet to be head cornerstone. He is the stone cut out without hands who shall break in pieces all kingdoms and fill the earth with His glory (Gen. xlix? 24* Pa xxvllt., 3; lsa. vii., 14; xxviii.,. 10, I ret. ii., 6-8; Math. xxL, 42; Dan. ii., 44, 45), The seven ayes suggests omniscience, as the seven horns and eyes of Rev. v.. 6, suggests both omnipotence and omniscience. The engraving suggests the righteousness of the law graven by God. upon tables of stone, and which was fiulfllled in Him and shall be in Israel when their iniquity shall be taken away 10. "In that day, saith the Lard of Hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree." In I Kings iv., 25, this language describes the peace and prosperity of the kingdom | under Solomon. Here and in Mic. iv., 4, it describes the tranquil prosperity and millennial blessedness of the coming kingdom under a greater man than Solomon, of the increase of whose government and peace there shbll be no end upon the throne of David and upon bis kingdom, to order It and to establish it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth even forever. The seal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this (.Iaa. ix, 7).?Lesson Helper. Knranta Terrible Indeed. In the Caucasus Mountains there are many wild, uncivilized tribes of people whose terribly rough ways would make the heart of a civilized mother stand still with fear if her child were to be treated as the people ~ ? ^1? f Viaii* r?V? i 1H pon I 01 bllU V-/CIULHSU3 t:cau uucu tunu?vu every day. ? The first thing that a Caucasus baby is given for a plaything is a dagger. This is presented to him as soon as he can waik For an hour or two each day his mother spends her time teaching him how to use the weapon, so that he will some day become an expert He is taught to stab water so that it makes no splash and is made to hurl his dagger at a mark again and again, until he eannot miss his aim. And all this is clone during the time that other boys are spinning tops and studying a spelling book. When the Caucasian? boy grows up he knows just one thing?how to use a dagger?while civilized boys knows?well, some of Llieiu KIJUVY it giCUb ucai. i/aimuv TimesFbank?"I'll never forget that Jolly dinner at the club Jim gave us before he was married." Tom?"You won't, eh! Why, you forgot all about It before the dinner was over."?Life. '1 * t ' WORDS OP WISDOM. Pear is the child of wrong doing. A starving man won't find taultwithl the table cloth. I You cannot buy a man honest if it is< against his nature. A successful hypocrite is never a suc-i' cess at anything else. The villain likes to be called by names ^ that sound respectable. As soon as a sin begins to pay it seem*| to become better looking. j Some men tire themselves almost to I death looking for an easy place. . Some women seem to think that haT-'j ing a grievance adds to their attractive-1 neea. Don't look for much growth in grace J long as you keep your hands in your < pockets. There are reformers who never think; it worth while to work at their trade oai themselves. If we had no troubles but real trouble* there wouldn't be a round shouldered' man in this world. It takes a strong man to hold his own. thoughts so much in subjection that they* will not worry him. We ate bora to bo sociable to one ^ another; therefore either reform the world, or bear with it. True culture has been compactly defined aa learning one's relative position! o, and importance in the world. The world would hare less cranks if children were taught the difference betffeea^ntimestjmdjHiscinlfe v,' . v-^ .All censure or otners is oorojue praotp of self. It is uttered in order to sho#| the superiority of the speaker. It has an invidiousness of self praise, and all the1 ill desert of a falsehood. ?? ?i i tjt i_J s never torges wait s man una hiu w yon when he vu angry. It be has . charged you with anything, you had better look it up. Anger u a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not. The talent of turning man into ridf-t cnle and exposing to laughter those one converses With is the qualification of little minds and-ungenerous tempers. A' young man with this cast of mind cats himself off from all manner of-improve-' meat. ' / The Biggest of Hailstones. A Gay Hill (Texas) letter to the Gal* ?.? -?r ruj? ? mmh^ Y69tUli llOWBj UOKUUUi^ m iowvuv m? ? storm at that place, says: ' . ^ A few minutes after the raia commenced small hailstones fell, and each moment larger ones fell than the precedj ing, until they reached the size of smpIE ;jj hen eggs. After falling for about flftaehj minutes the hail and rain ceased for probably two minutes. Then it commenced again to rain heavily and oon-< . kj tinned probably ten minutes, with a, . higher wind, and it was dnring this in- ' ; ^ terval that the wonderfully large hiil-i . -? j: . oiruuca icn. . , . Tbu remarkable hail fell in large lamps, ranging from three to six inches in diameter. I heard of one piece,? I eight inches in diameter,which weighed 5 four ponnda. They were, at a rule, spherical in form, but some were somewhat flat, and nearly all were covered . with oval knobs. They fell in small' areas about two feet apart, while in other places, only one would fall in a v :?)<! <"><* ftvAnfn nnnfire. The average " j 1 - ? under my observation was about one hailstone to every three feet aquare.', ' The earth was thoroughly saturated with water, and some of the large pieces penetrated the ground in soft places] about three inches. I gathered about a bushel of the' largest pieces after the rain ceased, and! in a very little while I placed them in a| . sack, which I put in a box and packed' bay around without special care. Some of the pieces I exhibited in Brenham, . for the reason that I preferred to give ocular demonstration in proof of the statement I made in relation to the size, of the hail. After forty-two hours several of the pieces were seven inches in circumference. At this date (eleven days after it fell) about a quart of the hail remains. Its density is so great... that 1 believe it win itetp buuuiu ju? wish a sample. A most remarkable fact in correction with these large hailstone* is that some of them have particles of; dirt in the centre. The question is, how did they get there? The Muffler as a Throat Proteetor. One hears a great deal about mufflers and of their deleterious effect in the waj of producing diseases of the throat, lungj troubles, weakening the contents of the chest, etc. In this, says Dr. Ingram in the New Tork World, there is aa Amount of superstition rivalling the old time ghost-story. The throat and under-chin are delicate and susceptible tochanges in the atmosphere in greater degree than other portions of the anatomy./ In cold weather the throat needs a protection or covering which will insure itoj insulation from external influences. The muffler accomplishes all that Id wished for in the way of - furnishing at sensible covering aod a garment whichj can be worn one day and laid away the; mL 1?? ? rr?nffi?or next, iue wcunu^ ui ? not mean a weakened throat or debill-tated cheat; when judiciously employed] it is simply aa extra collar to keep ou4cold. It is comfortable, easily applied,), becoming and sensible. The muffler should be of silk, if fash-) ionable kinds of apparel are alone to be' considered, but for comfort and general, utility nothing can equal the muffler of} mixed cotton, wool and silk or of plaini wool. The latter can be bought at almost any store at a very small cost and! is as durable us it is healthful. For children, especially, the muffler it! a most commenaaDie arucie 01 uatu>% It gives them the glow of the cheeksj which means health and which so dit-l Tributes the circulating blood that the heart does not suffer from external influences, nor does the throat become so expo?ed as to materially affect its composition. : In cold and stormy weather put aJ muffler on your children, the same as yom wear a boa yourself. The latter has noti been criticised, although it is the coun- > terpart of the former. Largest Battle Ship Afloat. There was launched recently thai Koftio nhin in thft world, named! airic, belonging to the Russian Govern-, tent. This vessel is 435 feet long and us a displacement of ll,OU0 tons. She js expected to steam 19,000 miles at ? <oeed of ten knots an hour without recjaling in 7000 miles?more than anyj war vessel vet afloat can accomplish.?4 "*T ' ( | 1\CW vrieaiia 4iv#/uuo# j y+r .