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-REV. DR. TALMAGE. < (THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON IfinOJect: "The Coliseum of Rome/ r Text: "I am rendu to preach the. gosoel fa you that are at Rome also."?Romans (* . 15. r Rome! What a city It was when Paul isitedit! What a city it is nowl Rome! The place where Virgil sang and Horace , jaatirized. and Terence laughed and Catiline conspired, and Ovid dramatized and Nero fiddled, and Vesnasian prosecuted and Sulla (legislated, and Cicero thundered, and 4-urel[ins and Decius and Caligula and Julian and Uadnaa ana i;onstancine aau au^iuiiu] reigned, and Paul the Apostle preached the goepeL I am not mnch of a draftsman, but I have In my memorandum book a sketch which 1 made in the winter of 1839, when I went out to the gate through which Paul entered Rome and w&lked up the very street he ? , walked up to see somewhat how the city must have looked to him as he came in on the gospel errand proposed in the text. [Palaces on either side of the street through .which the little missionary advanced. Piled tip wickedness. Enthroned aceursedness. Templed cruelties. Altars to sham deities. Glorified delusions. Pillared, arched, domed, turreted abominations. Wickedness of all sorts at a high premium and righteousness 99% per cent. off. And now he passes my the foundations of a building which is to be almost unparalleled for vastness. You can see by the walls which have begun to rise, that here is to be something enough stupendous to astound the centuries. Aye, j it is the Coliseum started. *L- af Uftlifttmo wJiora PahI I UI UIO IUCAM o cav muuvouo w fought with wild beasts, the temple of Diana, of the Parthenoo, of Pharaoh's palace at Memphis and of other great buildings, the rains of which I have seen, it has been my privilege to address you, but a member of j my family asked me recently why ? had not ipoken to you of the Coliseum at Rome, since its moral and religious lessons are so impressive. 1 Perhaps while in Rome the law of contrast wrought upon me. I had visited the Mam* ertine dungeon where Paul was incarcerated 1 had measured the opening at the top of the dungeon through which Paul had been let down, and it was twenty-three Inches by twenty-six. The ceiling at its highest point was seven feet from the floor, bat at the sides of the room the ceiling was five feet seven inches. The room at the widest was fifteen feet. There was a seat of rock feet high. There was a shelf four fe^t high. The only furniture was a spider's ; web suspended from the roof, wh:ch I saw by the torchlight I carried. There was the mbterraneous passage from the dungeon to tbe Roman forum, so that the prisoner could be taken directly from prison to trial. I The dungeon was built out oC volcanic tone from the Albano Mountains. Oh, it f*as a dismal and terrific place. Ton never ?aw coal hole so dark or so forbidden. The Iplace was to me a nervous shock, for I remember that was the best thing that the world would afford the most illustrious Delng, except one, that I ever saw, and that from that place Paul went out to die. From rthat spot I visited the Coliseum?otfb of the <mo6t astounding miracles of architecture jthat the world ever saw. Indeed, I saw it mru-ninir noon and nieht, for it threw a jspeli onrne from which I' could not break way. ? Although now a vast ruin, the Coliseum is so well preserved that we can stand in the loenter and recall all that it once was. It is In shape ellipsoidal, oval, oblong. It is at lite greatest length 612 feet. After it had [furnished seats for S7.000 people It had room tfor 15,000 more to stand, so that 100,000 peo jple could sit and stand transfixed by its Scenes of courage and martyrdom and brutality aod horror. I Instead of our moiern tickets of admission, they entered by ivory check, and a check dug up near Rome within a few years [was marked "Section 6, Lowest Tier, Seat [No. 13." You understand that the building was not constructed for an audience to be (addressed by human voice, although I tested jit with some friends and could be heard across it, but it was made only for seeing land was circular, and at any point allowed (full view of the spectacle. ? The arena in the centre in olden times was strewn with pounded stone or sand, so as not |to<b? too slippery with human blood, for if jit were too shppary it would spoil the fun. [The sand flashed here and there with park lea of silver and gold, and Nero added (cinnabar and Caligula added chrysocolla. The sides cf the arena were composed of .smooth marble eleven feet high, so that the |wUd blasts of the arena could not climb up Onto the aadience. On the top of theee sides of smooth marble was a metal railing, havdnp wooden rollers, which easily revolved. BOthat it a panther should leap high enough to scale the wall and with his paw toach any one of those rollers it would revolve and drop him back again into the arsna. > Bac; oL this marble wall surrounding the arena was a level platform of stone, adorned with statues of gods and godesses and the artistic efilgies of monarchs and conquerers. Hare wete movable seats for the emperor the imperial swin9 and swinesses with which he surrounded himself. Before tha place where the emperor sat the gladiators would walk immediatelr after entering the arena, crying: "Hail, Caesar 1 Those about to die salute thee." ' The different ranks of spectators were di? tlriderl by partitions stuidei with mosaics of emerald and beryl and ruby' and diamond. Qreat masts of wood arose from all sid?s of the building, from which festoons of flowers ware suspended, crossing tha build in?, or in time of rain avninjs of silk wwe suspended, the Coliseum having no roof. The outside wall was incrusted with marble and had four ranges, and the three lower ranges had 80 columns each and arches after arches, land on each arch an exquisite statue of a god or a hero. ( Into 180 feet of altitude soared the Coliseum. It glittered and flashed and shone (with whole sunrises and sunsete of dazzlepnent. After the audience had assembled aromatic liquids ooz*i from tubes distilled tfrom pipe3 and rained gently on the multitudes and filled the air with odors of hyajcinth and heliotrope and frankincense and iwuaam ana myrrn ana sauroa, no uaat uu(can, the poet, says of it: jl At once ten thoound uffron cnrrenta flow jl And ntn their odow on tne crowi below. r But where wa3 the sport to coaia from? (Well, I went into the cellars opening off prom the arena, and I saw tae place wnere they kept the hyenas an 1 lions and panthers mnd wild boars and beastly violenc93 of al# . ports without food or water until made fierce enough for the arena, and I saw the under[ground rooms where the gladiators were Uncustomed to wait until the claDainarof the [people outside dernan led that 'cbsy* com? Corth armed?to murder or be murdered. (All the arrangements ware complete, as jsnou^b of the cellars and galleries still re(maiu to indicate. What fan they must have ihad turning lions without food or drink up. on an unarmed disciple of Jesus Christ! At the dedication of this Coliseum 9000 fwild beasts and 10,009 immortal men were ifdain, so that blooi of men and beast was not [a brook, but a river; not a pool, but a lake. (Having been in tha 5 way delicate J, be not mrprised when I tell you that Enpsror Pro* DDI oa oneoccviiun Biro" iuiij wiiioi sui wi the Coliseum 100) stags, 1000 bows and 1000 ostriches. What fan it must have been?the mod of trumpets, the roar of wild beasts and the groans of dying men while in the gallery the wires and children of tboae down under the lion's paw wrun j their hands and hrieked out in widowhood and orphanage, while 100,000 peoole clapped their bands, and there was a "Ha! ha I" wide as Rome and deep as perdition I > Ihe corpses of that arena were put on a oart or dragged by a hooi: out through what was called the Gate of Deatb. What an excitement it must have been when two cobrbatants eutererl the arena, tne oaa with sword and shield an I the other with net and spear. The swordsman strikes at ths jnan with the net and shear. He dodges the sword and then flings the net over the head vl vue bworusLuan an i jjrus aim mj i/ua u\>ar of the arena, an-.t the man who flung the net puts his foot on the neck of the fallan swordsman, and spear in hani looks up to the galleries, as much as to say, "Shall I let him up, or shall I plunge this spear into his body until he is dead?" The audience had two signs, either of rwhlch they might give. If they wavei their flag?, it meant spare the fallen contestant. 'If they turned their thumbs down, it meant slay him. Occasionally the audience would wave their flags, and the ffdlen would be let up, but that was too tame sport for most ocxjasions, and generally the thumbs from the V-. galleries were turned dowi, and with that sign would be heard tho 9coompanyinc shout of "Kill!Kill! KilltKtll!" ? Yet it was far from being a monotone oC & sport, for there was a change of programme w in that wondrous Coliseum. Under a strange and powerful machinery, beyond anything * of modern invention, the floor of the arena would begin to rock and roll and then give 2 away, and there would appear a lake of P1 brignt water, and on its banks trees would ? spring up rustling with foliage, and tigers appeared among the jungles, and armed P1 men would come forth, and there would be *t a tiger hunt. Then on the lake in the Colls- ai eum armed ships would float, and there would be a sea fight. What fun! What ai lots of fun 1 When pestilence came, in order tl *1./* In thio nrtliuiiiin rsiiopI. (T1 IV ap^COOO IUQ MA WUIO w flee would be made, and the people would tt throng that great amphitheatre, shontinz. "The Christians to the wild beasts!" and h< there would be a crackling of human bouea tt in the jaws of leonine ferocity. sa But all this was to be stopped. By the is' outraged sense of public decency? No. There is only one thing that has ever stopped " cruelty and sin, and that is Christianity, and TI it was Christianity, whether you like its 41 form or not, that stopp9d this massacre of centuries. One day while in the Coliseum nt a Roman victory was being celebrated, and " 100,000 enraptured spectators were looking az down upon tmo gladiators in the arena stab- qi bing and slicing each other to death, an c Asiatic monk of the name of Telemachas to wa3 so overcome by tbe cruelty that he ar leaped from the gallery into the arena and ran in between the two swordsmen and re pushed first one back and then tbe other ss back and broke up the contest. tfa Of course the audience was affronted at ^ having their sport stopped, and they hurled se stones at the head of Telemachus until he w "-* 1 J nh fell dead in the arena, cut wuou bun was passed, and the passions of the people ec ! bad cooled off, they deplored the martyrdom cl of the brave and Christian Telemachus, and as a result of the overdone cruelty the ol human sacrifices of the Coliseum were for- hi ever abolished. se What a good thing, say you, that such tb cruelties have ceased. My friends, the same ai spirit of ruinous amusements and of moral w sacrifioe is abroad in the world to-day, ai- at though it takes other shapas. Last summer cc in our southwest there occurred a scene of to pugilism on which all Christendom looked ai down, for I saw the papers on the other side to of the Atlantic Ocean giving whole column) tb of it. Will some one tell me in what respect d< that brutaiity of last summer was suoerior in to the brutality of a Roman Coliseum? In ol some respects it was worse by so much as st the Nineteenth Century pretends to be more at merciful and more decent than the Fifth fa Century. af That pugilism is winning admiration in 1 te this country is positively proved by the fact or that years ago such collision was reported in tb a half dozen lines of newspaper, if reported ed at all, and now it takes the whole side of a pi newspaper to tell what transpired between J the first blood drawn by one loafer and the throwing np of the sponge by the other in loafer, and it is not the newspaper's fault, tb | for the newspapers give only what the peo- fr pie want, and when newspapers put carrion tc on your table it is b?caus9 you prefer car- A non. m The same spirit of brutality is seen to-day 7 in many an ecclesiastical court when a rainister is put on trial Look at the counteaances of the prosecuting minister*, and not in all cases, but in many cxssj, you wdl find * " ? ? i : -U ? " nOCQing OUt aiauoiiaui uispura moui, aubt let oat oa one pour minister who c.xnnot defend himself the lioa of ecclesiasticicm and the tiger of bigjjotry, aad the wild boar of jealousy, and it they can set the offending ?' minister flat oa hi* back S3me one puts his feet oa the neck of the overthrown go3pel- 10 izer aad looks up, spear la haad, to see a> whether the galleries and ecclesiastics would 8( have him let up or slaia. Aad, lo! many of n< the thumbs aro down. Ia the worldly realms look at the brutalities of the prasideatial election eight yoars A ago. Reaa the biographies of Daniel Webster aad Alexander H. Stephens aad Horace | Greeley aad Charles Sumner aad Lucius * Qaintus Cincinnati Lamar an 1 Jams* G-. blaine, and if the story of defamation and calumny aad scandalizitioa and diatnba aad scurrility and lampooa aad billiaragats w and damuable perfidy be accurately re* N corded, tell me ia what respects our politioal . ' arena aad the howliaz tad blaspheming 01 galleries that again aad agaia look dowa w upoa it are better thaa the Roman Colls- tv eum. Ill When I read a few days ago that the Su- R preme Court of the United States had ap- D propriately adjourned to pay honors to the i two last distinguished men mentioned, and o* American journalism North, South, East di and West went into lamentations over their a! departure and said all complimentary ai things in regard to them, I asked: "When qi did the Nation lie about tbese menf Was it n< when during their life it gave them male* tr diction or no? since their death when be* dj stowing upon them beatification?" The same soirit of cruelty that you do- tl plore in the Roman Coliseum is seen in tbe dt sharp appetite the world seems to have for es tbe downfall of good men, and in the divorce rc nf thnw whose marital life was thought ac cordant, and in the absconding of a- bank t< cashier. Ota, my friends, the world wants bi mora of the spint of "Let him ap" and les9 hi of the spirit of 'Thumbs down 1" There are hundreds of men in the prisons of America 01 who ought to be discharged, becauss they ?> were the victims of circumstances or have a suffered enough. st There are in alt professions and occupa- t! tlons. men who are domineered over by tl others, and whose life is a struggle with k montrous opposition, and circumstances hare their heel upon the throbbing and f< broken hearts. For God's sake, let them P up I Away with the spirit of "Thumbs T down!" What the world wants is 1090 men P like Telemachus to leap out of ttae gallery into the arena, whether he bs a Roman 31 Catholic mon';, or a Methodist steward, or *j Presbyterian elder, and go in between the ' * contestants. "Blessed are the peacemaker*, 7 for thev shall be called the children of God!" One-half of tne world is down and the a' other half is up, and the half that is up has ?J its heel on the half that is down. If you. as " a boss workman, or as a contractor, or as a . Bishop.or as a State or National official,or as J* a potent factor in sxial life, or in any way are oppressing any oae, know that the same devil that possessed the Roman Coliseum oppresses you. The Diocletiaui are not all dead. The cellars leading into the arena of life's struggle are not all emptied of their _ tigers. The vivisection by young doctors " of dogs and cats and birds most ot the time adds nothing to human discovery, but is only a continuation of Vaspasian's Coliseum. ft The cruelties of the world generally begin in nurseries, and in home circles, and In day ki schools. The child that transfixes a fly with jg a pin, or the low feeling that sets two dogs into combat, or that bullies a weak or crip- ln pled playmate, or the indifference that starves a canary bird, needs only to be developed in order to make a first class Nero q or a full armed ApoUyon. it wouia Da a Rood sentence to be written on tha top line of a child's book, and a tit iascription to be A embroidered in the arm chair of the sitting jji room, and an appropriate motto for judge ^ and jury and district attorney and sheriff to ^ look at in the court house, "Blessed are the ^ merciful, for they shall obtain mercy 1" ? And so the roin9 of that Coliseum preach y to me. Indeed th? most impressive things J on earth are ruins. The four greatest struc- j; tures ever built are in ruins. The Parthe- f non in ruins, the temple of Diana in rains, the temDle of Jerusalem in ruins, the Colt- < seum in ruins. Indeed the earth itself will s yet be a pile of ruins, the mountains in '. ruins, the seas in ruins, the cities in ruins, the hemispheres in ruins. Yea, further * than that, all uo and down the heavens are worlds burned up, worlds wrecked, worlds extinct, worlds abandoned. Worlds on y worlds in ruins I ' _ But I am glad to sav it is the same old | heaven, and in all that world there is not one ruin and never will he a ruin. Not one J? of the pearly Rates will ever become unhinged. Not on? of the amethystine tower* | f will ever fall. Kit one of the mansions will . e"er decay. Not one oi the chariots will ever be unwheeled. Not one of the thrones will ever rock down. Ob, make sure of * heaven, for it is an everlasting heaven. Through Christ the Lord get ready for xvoislanna in thn a^pn?l tialaces. xne last livening befora leaving Roma for Brindisi and Athena and Ejyot and Pales- si tine I went alone to the Coliseum. There ja was not a Jiving soul in all the immense area. Even those accustomed to sell curios n; at the four entrances of the building had if gone away. The place was so overwhelmingly silent I could hear ray own heart beat w with the emotions aroused by the place and a hour. I paced the arena. I walked down into the dens where the hyenas were once P1 kept. I ascended to the place where the s< emperor used to sit. I climbed up on the j. galleries from which the mighty throngs of people hrtd gazed in enchantment. ft To break the silence I shouted, and that ietned to awaken the echoes, echo upon :ho. And those awakened echoes seemed > address me, saying: "Men die, but their ork lives on. Gaudentius, the architect 'ho planned this structure; the 60,000 enaved Jews Drought by Titus from Jerus[em, and who toiled on these walls, the ladiators who fought in this arena, the emiron and empresses who had place on yon3r platform, the millions who during ceniries sat and rose in these galleries, have use! away, but enongh of the Coliseum ands to tell the story of cruelty and pomp id power?500 years of bloodshed." Then, as I stood there, there came to me lother burst of echoes, which seemed trobbing with the prayers and songs and roans of Christians who had expired in * ? ? ' '1 now Haw iat arena, SQQ lav/ ggaiusu ?u on/* . uch it coat to serve God in ages past, and >w thankful modern centuries ought to be tat the persecution which reddened the .nds of this amphitheater have been abolhed." And then I questioned the echoes, saying, Where is Emperor Titus, who sat here?" he answer came, "Gone to judgment" Where is Emperor Trajan, who sat heref lone to judgment." "Where is Maximi13, who sat here?" "Gone to judgment." Where are all the multitudes wbo olappad id shouted and waved flags to let the vaolished up, or to have them slain put lumbsdown?" The echoes answered, "Gone i judgment." I inquired, "All?" And they iswered "All." And I looked up to the sky above the tins, and it was full of clouds scurrying riftiy past, and those clouds seemed as ough they had faces, and some of. the faces oiled and some of them frowned, and they emed to have wings, and some of the logs were moongilt and others thunder targed, and the voice overpowered the hoes beneath. "Behold He cometh with ouds, and every eye shall see Him." < Aqd as I stood looking up along the walls ! the Coliseum they rose higher and higher, gher and higher, until the amphitheatre flllad with all the Nations of f IB past, and all the Nations of the present, id all the Nations ot the future, those who ant down under the paws of wild baasts, id those who sat waring: flags to let up the raquered, and thosa who held thumbs down > command their assassination, and small id great, and emperor and slave, and pasr and people, ana righteous and wiosed, le amphitheatre seeming to rise to in* (finite heights on all sides of me, and the center of that amphitheatre, instead ! the arena of combatants, a great throne ood, rising higher and higher, higher id higher, and on it sat the Christ ir whom the martyrs died and gainst whom the Diocletian* plotd their persecutions, and waring le hand toward the piled op splendors to ie right of Htm He cried, "uozne, ye blessI," and waring the other hand toward the led up glooms on the left of Him He cried. Depart, ye cursed." And so the Coliseum of Borne that erang of 1889 seemed enlarged into theamphiieater of the last judgment, and I passed om under the arch of that mighty struoire, mighty eren in its ruins, praying to Imighty God, throujh Jesus Christ, for ftrr.v in that dar for which all other days ere made, sad that as I expected mercy om God I might exercise marcy toward iters aad have more and more of the lirit "Let him up" and Ion of the spir.c of rhumbs downf We may not all be able to do a sum in gher mathematics but there is a sum in le first role of gospel arithmetic which we 1 -ay do. It is a sum in simple addition; A.ad to your faith virtue, and to virtue lowledga, and to knowledge temperance, id to temperance patience, and to patlenoe xiltness, and to godliness brotherly kind* *8, and to brotherly kindness charity." .NEW HAMPSHIRE HOEEOE, orty-ionr Persons Burned. in the Dover Insane Asylum. The insane asylum of Strafford County orkhousa, sbout four miles oat of Dover,; . H., was entirely destroyed by fire a few ghts ago, and forty-four of the inmates ere burned to death. The building was a ro-story wooden affair, 130x35, and burned ce tinder, and only three of tbe inmates? ose Sanborn, James Dailey and Frank uoharme?were reecued. In makiag bis rounds shortly after 10 clock Night Watchman Wilbur Cbesley soovered the fire, fie at once gave an arm, and William P. Drlscoll, the keeper, id attendants rushed through tbe inmates' lartera, which were mainly on the second x>r. They burst the locks to the cells and ied to arouse the inmates to th9ir serious inger. re- h.ri nminnri a ranid headwav and id majority oFthe inmates were so bewil-' srod and confused that they stoppsd the' cape of the others. The scene was heart?nmng, Keeper Driscoll used every possible effort > liberate the inmates and remained in the uilding until he was obliged to jump for is life. He sprang from a second-story window in rder to save himself. A messenger was at ace despatcned to Dover for assistance, and steamer and part of the department was >nt to the scene. Before assistance arrived le building was in ruins. By the efforts of xe firemen tfce main building of the county istitution was saved. The fire brightly illuminated the country >r many miles. The in ma tea could be lainly seen as they tossed about in tbe fire, he fire was first discovered in a cell occuied by a woman named L> Fomlan. It 'as very Bmall, but Watchman Chesley lys that it spread with a rapidity that was stonishinsr, and before he had (riven the [arm to Keeper Driscoll it was almost bsond control. The two broke the locks of the fifty cells, ad then one of them got bis wife and two lildren, who lived in the building, out in leir night clothing. The smoking ruins showed the charred odies still laving on their b9da. How tho uilding caught fire is a mystery. THE CHILEAN AWAKD. eneficiarles Receive Saras Ranging From $10,000 to $300. The Secretary of the Nary has approve I 0 Qndinjrs ia regard to the distribution of ie Chilean award for the families of those ilei and injured at Valpariso, October 16, 191, in the attack on the asatnen of the Balmore. The Board arranged the casualties to four olaasas, and assigned a proportion ? amonnt of the #75,039 as follows: To the families of those killed, namely, harles W. Riggin, boatswain's mate, and fm. Turnoull, coal heaver, $10,000 each. To those seriously injured: Jeremiah nderson, coal beaver, $5500; John Hamton, carpenter's mate, <5000; John. 1. Talbot, seaman's apprentice, WOO; John H. Davidson, landsian, 53XK); George Panter, coal heaver, J500; William Lacey, coal heaver, $2000; ierman Fredericks, seaman, $1500; Henry C. arrett, seaman, $1500; John MoBride, oiler, 1500; John Butler, seaman apprentice, 1500. To those assaulted an 1 detained in prison, izhteen in nu nber, sums ranging from 120) nowa to $700. To those arrested or iigatly iojurai, twenty-three in number, ioig ranzm_' frjui $5JO down to $300. The Emperor of (Jsrminy is practicing be alarm system on the Berlin Fire Briade. Accompanied 07 Priucs Henry of Vussia and the U-rani Duse of Hesse, he ives alarms waentaey are leist expictei, nd then closeiy watch the results. His lsjesty the other day improvised a drill ir tne entire salvage orpJ, and trie firemen 1 the central Uepic at Liaddaic.'.tiSi, aud, Cter reviewing the forcj, singled out aujl raised several of the man. ULDEU nations wno sueer u,u amenin art never saw a real tony butcher lop in this country. Some of the .ndscapes done with a knife on the ink of a steer cannot be duplicated i any European gallery, while a deer ith branching horns, all framed in lace work of snowy fat that apaars on a haunch of mutton, is >mething the most renowned artist i the Old World would nob even ttempt. TEMPERANCE. A STUPENDOUS SUM FOR DRINK. Archbishop Ireland statoa the figures beef, when he says "that an average of $15 per 1 day is by no means an unrea?onable estimate of the sum paid to each saloon in tha country for drink." Multiply this by 250,000, the Dumber of saloons, and we have the grand total of 13,750.000 per day, or for 365 days (Sunday being the best day) the stupendous sum of $1,368,7-50,000 in one year. TRADING ON TBKIK WEAKNESS. Something should be done to puaish tho men who trade on tho weakness for strong drink of the Mojave Indians. All along the desert are white men who are suspected of selling liquor to the Indian*, and it is W duty of the authorities to see to it that tuS vile traffic is ended. The Indian agents are generally at fault, but under toe present system of appointment it is difficult to get any efficient work done by those officials, who usually obtain positions f sr the chances of making money and not lor the sake oC helping the Indians. ?San Francisco Chronicle. THE HOG'S PROTEST. I feel indignant, sir, because I am made an object of comparison with sundry depraveo specimens of the genus homo. The hired man came home from town one day so drunk he could scarcely move. When he attempted to feed me he tumbled into my stye, and I had to root him out of the way to get my corn Now, I never in my life acted in any such disgraceful wajr; so what on earth did my master mean when he told the hired man that he acted like a hog? Why, I was so mad at the insult to my kind that I grunted as hard and vehemently as I Af /vkuran Koinir atiIit a hntr I WUIU. VI VVUIOC, udiuj^ wui J mm ? couldn't swear, as a mao would have done; but the idea of my getting drunk as that fool of a hired man aid! vVhy( when he tumbled into my pen and his bottle of whisky fell out of his pocket and got brokeD, do you suppose I would touch tbe nasty stuff? Not much. I prefer good, wholesome swill.?Farmer's Review. kippers, beware. The "Hospital," a medical periodical not specially inclined to temperance, say*: "x'he custom of taking wine, or spirits or beer between meals on an empty stomacii?in one word, the pernicious habit of "nipping"?is highly injurious, The morning nip, between breakfast and the midday meal, which is frequently taken by domestic servants, nurses, work people and "city men," renders thb taker less St for his daily woric than he would otherwise be, and is often the first fatal step toward dram drinking and the shameful life of the woman drunkard, of which we are-hearing so much at the present time. The flushing of the tac?, caused by the dilatation of the small blood-vessels usually induced by alcohol when taken alone, is symptomatic of what takes place in the stomach. The direct action of alcohol on the mucus membrane is to produce temporary congestion or blushing of tbe internal surface of the stomach. The congestion ultimately becomes chronic if nips or drams of spirits are indulged in, with the result r.hn mucus membrane becomes thick ened and indurated, a quantity of tenacious mucus is secreted, the digestive ferment is paralyzed or destroyed, and alcoholic dyspepsia is established." woiild's temperance congress. J. N. Stearnf, of Now York, Secret try af the National Temperance Society, has Oeen in Chicago making final arrangements for the W or Id's Temperance Congress to convene in that city during the week commencing June 5, under the auspices of the World's Congress Auxiliary. In submitting his report Mr. Stearns gives assurance that the congress will be the largest of tbo kind ever con vent d. He says that papers have been invited from some of the most eminent writers of the world. These papers embrace the scientific, religious, social, politica', medical, legislative and economic aspects of the temperance question, together with hours of work, cotfee-houses, the alliance, total abstinence and other phases of the question. Writers have been invited from every great temperance organization on the globe, and from every country a sketch of the temperance movement within its borders The Department of State was asked to tend out a series of questions relating to the temperance cause and its extent and progress to all American Consuls, and cheerfully responded to the request. The National Tavern Association ot Great Britain, has appointed sixty delegates, who will arrive in Chicago, June 1, and are booked to stop at the Moody Institute. The National Temperance Society has asked every church in Chicago to set apart Sunday, June 11, to be known hs Temperance Sunday, wheu a large number of the leading advocates of the cause will be in the city. an englt3h temperance reformer's plan. . The Rev. Hugh Price Hughes recently held the first of a series of Sunday afternoon conferences on licensing reform in St. Jamek'j Hall, London. He said the liquor traffic was a very strong power, ana it would naturally in the coming conflict hare the support of evory betting man, every scoundrel and every criminal. On the other hand, the cause of temperance would secure the support of the churches, which were roused ac last. He knew cf no subject which met with suoh a quick reapposa as temperance reform on any Christian platform. Then, aga'in, they had the women of ?nglahd on their side, who, although they had do votes at present, when they did get them would u?e them on the side of social reform. He believed they were going to see a great insurrection of women against this drink monster. Then they had a third method: they could pray. lhat was their weapon alone. He did not suppose the most vivid imagination could picture a man praying for the success of the drink traffic. He thought that before they were twelve months older they would give the liqaor traffic such a blow as it has uever had before, and one from which it would nevar recover.- Dealing with some proposed remedies, Mr. Hughes advocated as a beginning the limitation of one public house to every 1000 persons. This would close b0,000 out of the 120,000 at present in existence. If the Government simply tinkered with the question the liquor interest would kick themoutof office, for thev (the temperance people) would not be there to help them. After dealing with various methods for the limitation of the drink traffic, Mr. Hughes said they would discover, after trying all sorts of methods, that the only way to improve it was to improve it off the face of the earth altogether. ntuntoivptvnra wnTES. When whisky wa9 invented tho devil began to hope. Whisky and idleness ara two of the main pillars upon which the tnrone of the devli rests. . It is a wrong impression a man gets when he thinks he can pull himself out of trouble with a corkscrew. Women are employed at railway switchei and crossings in Italy because they do not get intoxicated so otten. One million two hundred thousand members of the Salvation Army have declared that they will neitner taste, touch nor ban* die intoxicating beverage*. ' Many thieves go down red lane" is the old proverb, meaning mat we swallow many things that steal our comfort and happiness. Red lane is a goo J name for the throat. Railroad men wao drink will uo longer be employed by President Austin Cjrbin. Men already employed woo are toun 1 drinking in business nours will be discharged. That action will f>e one of the most powerful temperance lessons ever delivered. There are said to be tbiee countries in Atrica in which the liquor trsftic has been 11 Thau* apa thtt pi aubiuaiij uuuiu?uv.u. -Mw- ? - - ? Orange Free Stat-, tue British territory in hasuto Land, uuder the government of Sir Marshall Clarice, ami tne iNortu Bachuanaiund, under Kaa.ua, tha native Christian king. An interesting observation is mentioned by a Franca me lieai journal. in tne purisu o( Kauborn, Prussia, ar<j several distilleries of alcohol, and the inuabitants o. the place nre very larg?ly idiots and all Sorts of imbeciles, wuion is in striking contrast to tne healtnruiness of the popu ation in neignborins villages, woich havo no distilleries. Last year a saloon keeper made ttie attempt to import bar toaiJs from London. Twenty-four nours alter tuis announcement was made, telegrams and letters ha l gone to the white rioboners urging them to concentrate against this new outrage upon w? man. Tneir petitions were immediately drawn up and lssu9d by Mrs. Mary T. Burt, President of tne New ?ork State W. C. T. U., and her sturay elan?i2,000 women of tbe Empire State?concentrated their efforts upon Albany and a law was passed prohibiting the hire ui women in the urarnshops of that commonwealta. RELIGIOUS READING. GOD'S APPOINTMENTS. This thing on whicb thy heart was set, this thing that cannot be, This weary, disappointing day, that dawns, my friend, (or thee; Be comforted; God knoweth best, the God whose name is Love, Whose tender care is evermore our passing lives above. He sends thee disappointments? Well, then, take it from nis baud, Shall God's appointment seem less good than what tbynelf had planned? 'Twas in thy mind to go abroad. He bids thee stay at borne? Oh! happy home; thrice happy if to it thy guest he come. , Twas in thy mind thy friend too see. The Lord says, "Nay, not yet." Be confident;" the meeting-time thy Lord will not forget. 'Twas in thy mind to work for bim. Hi? will is, ''Child! sit still;" And surely 'tis thy blessedness to mind the Master's will; Accept thy disappointment, friend, thy gift from God's own hnnd. Shall God's appointment seem less good than what thyself l?nd planned? bo, day oy day ana step oy step, sustain my failing strength. From strength to strength, indeed, go on through all the journey's length. God bids thee tarry now and then, torbear the weak complaint; God's leisure brings the weary rest, and cordial gives the faint. God bids thee labor, and the place is thick with thorn and brier; But be will share the hardest task, until be calls thee higher. So take each disappointment, friend; 'tis at tbv Lord's command! Shall Go'd's appointment seem less good then what thyself had planned? ?[Margaret E. Sangster, in S. S. Times. one saved. Some years ago a homeward bound vessel was wrecked ou the southwest coast of England. Brave men manned the life-boat, and after a long light with the sea they returned with the rescued. When they reached the coast, it was found that one man was left clinging to the wreck; for the captain said: "We were exhausted and should all have perished if we bad remained five minutes longer attempting to save him." John Holden threw himself on the shingle, and lifted up a prayer to God, louder than the storm, that he would put it iuto the hearts of some of these DeODle to tro to the rascue of this one man. When lie had cea*ed praying, six men volunteered to accompany him. But another difficulty arosr; the mother of John Holden threw ber arms aroand his neck, and besought him not to risk his life; for his father had been drowned at sea. and it was two years since his brother William had been beard from, be, doubtless, having been lost also. But God's pity was in John's heart and he said: "Mother, God has put it into my heart to go, and if I perish, be will take care of you." And away he" went. After a while the life-boat returned, and when itnearedthe coast a loud voice was raised: "Hi! Hi! John, have you saved the man?" John answered in a trumpet voice: "Yes, we have saved the man; and tell my mother it Is my brother William we have saved." Among tbe publications of the Women's Executive Committee of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church there is a leaflet, entitled, "Her Son," giving the experience of a Indv who had never realized the importance of home missionary work until suddenly called to a border town by tbe severe illness of her idolized son. Here she awakened to the fact of tbe absolute destitution of every personal comfort, of every Christian guard or home restraint which those suffer who go to theae unevangelized regions in search of health or earthly treusnre. A comfortable cottage home, in view of a pretty little church on the hillside, hail been the picture of ber immaginatlon. Instead of this, she drove up to a rough hotel in a murderous settlement, where no Sabbath' " " Ufa oeu ever grocuru i.un cat, ?uu .. of one known to possess gold or jewels was hardly .safe; where fighting and drunken* ness and open wickedness reigned, and her beloved' son bad come here, perbap* tp-die. A missionary bad been sent to the town, but the saloon-keepers save him only a few hours to escape with bis life, and the evil had since reigned supreme. Debarred from all Christian companionship, wbile her loved one was hanging between life and death, with no gentle ministry of pastor or of Christian womanhood for the sake of one so dear, she learned what the evangelization of the great West meant for others. She learned that, perhaps to her own son. In time of direst need, might come through these instrumentalities comfort, salvation, cheer, and even physical healing.?[Philadelphia Presby tei ian. the secret of peace. We torture ourselves with questions aa to whether we have not committed tbis sin, whether our motives are pure, whether our feelings for Ood are what they were in the past, till the inner life becomes one long agony of distressful doubt, and the peace of God is lost. No one, of course, ougbt to make no inquiries into nis spiritual life,, or assume that he is in harmony with God. Self-questioning is wise at times; but to make it the business of life to be always groping among our sins is simply to accustom ourselves to the touch of dccay, to the taste of evil and to root restlessness in our nature. Rather look out of Jourself to. God. Fix your thoughts, opes, aspirations on bis holiness, love and peace. Fix your love on Christ, the image of God's character, the ideal of your human life. That is the way to escape from overcarefulness, and to avoid at the same time the danger of carelessness of sin. For he who gazes on God in Christ, and loves him upon whom ne gazes, cannot sin. for he is nrr.na t.ovp mnvpq liim irresistiblv to do ail things that will please him whom he loves. Love of God is the true opposite of this corroding anxiety about the soul. "Fear hath torment." "He that feareth is not made perfect in love, but perfect love casteth out fear."?[Rev. Stopford A. Brooke. A HARD WORKER. I met a lavmati about a month ago. a class leader in a Methodist churcb. whom I would like to have near me nil tbe time. A busy man; full of duties every day in the year; with a fairly large family which he watches with great care; a wise townsman looking after all concerns of public good about him, and apparently always composed, patient, hopeful and helpful. He carries about the broadest shou ders of any man I happen to know. He seems never to decline a service that is asked of him, and succeeds in doing all so that everyone esteems him. And tbe reason for this I think I discovered in an answer I heard him make to one who was complaining of the burdens be bad to carry. "Why! that's what we're here for. We've nothing else to do but to bear responsibilities." This was his philosophy of life. Understanding that, one could see" how he applied himself so readily to beimx useful, and how he could be so contented and happy in it. That was his idea of living. no got hia satisfaction that way, and no one could watch him without feeling that he was getting more solid good out of life than most people. I wish we bad more such, aud believe that we would have if it could be appreciated that this makes the richest, happiest life ill the world.?[Advance. A dos disguised in a lamb-skin may look Ilk" a sheep, but be will tell you what he is the minute be gets sight of a bone. I" Noivrn D Alt IT A. Prohibition <jems to he a surprising sauces* in North Dakota, from the liquor dealers' viewpoint. Bishop John Stanley, of flint State say t: "Wholesale liquor dealers have informed mo tint their sales in this State ore nearly three times greater now than formerly. " Railroad and express men bear testimour t<> the truth of th9 liquor dealers' statement. Commercial travelers tell the same story. Hotel men, who have no "blind pig" annex, scarcely know wbaS to do with tho empty whisky oottles left in the rooms by guest?. Farmer?, who formerly took a drink or two while in town, now keep a'Jug or live gallon kej at home ami tipple continually." This has a familiar .onund, as of an ecio from the pins woods of Mains aud t je prairies of Populist Kansas. SABBATH SCHOOL th INTERNATIONAL LK5SON FOR to MARCH 5. an ni Wesson Text* "Keeping the Saob?tb,"Neh. xili, 15-22-Uoll. * en Text- Exodus xx., 8? Commentary. oC This chapter gives "an account of the dfs- ro cipline of Nehemiah in separating from Is- ? rael tte mixedmultitude, -and in cleansing' Israel from all strangers with whom they had become entangled by marriage (rersea ol 3, 30). It tells also of the discipline in' reference to Sabbath desecration, which is our special lesson for the day; but before taking ? this up consider the dangers of being en- 'e tangled and hindered by a mixed multitude, pi When Israel left Egypt a company of that kind went with them, and caused them much , trouble (Ex. xii., 38; Num. xi., 4). Much trouble in the church to-day arises from the ol people who are half and half?the worldly church members who are neither one thing flAr tha Afkar If any think that the restoration under b< Zerubbabel and the reformation of Ezra and ac Nehemiah fulfilled the prophecies concerniog restoration, let them compare Isa. xiv., 1-3. with Neh. ix., 36, 37. If any think that M we are now in the millennial age, or that the at church with her present zeal wilt bring that ^ age, let them be honest enough to believe * what is written, and they will surely see that the Lord Himself must come for Isreal'a te restoration and to introduce the millennial at age (Ps. cil;, 18; Acts iii., 19-21i. fe 15. "In those days sawl in Jadah some .. treading wine presses on the'Sabbath." 11 Then he enumerates their other deeds of b< Sabbath breaking and says that be testified hi against them. The Sabbath was instituted -( in Eden before ever sin entered this world, and when God wrote with His finger the P* Ten Commandments on two tablets of stons ti He said, "Remember the Sabbath day." That man should give onto God one-seventh of bis time is a law from the beginning and of perpetual.obligation. ta 16. "There dwelt men of Tyre, also, who in sold on the Sabbath unto the children of Jadah, and in Jerusalem." God gives His ~ laws to His children because they are His children. He gave no laws to Israel until He had redeemed them from Egypt. No man can bfe saved by the deeds of the law, but only by the grace of God, but being saved through Jesus Christ, who is the end oft*elaw for righteousness for everyone that beiievetb, it is then,: and only then, ' that the righteousness of the law can be fulfilled in us who walk not after the fleeh, but after the Spirit (Rom. iii., 30, 24; x, 4; vili., 4). Those who know not God know no Sabbath, but the people of Jadah should have shown the men ot Tyre that they kept UaIw O aV\k? ?U r%l w /1a/( UKJIJ WC oauuauu UOUOUOO UL bUOU UVU? There can be no trade with no buyers, and unless the people of Jerusalem had bouzht the men of Tyre bad not sold. 17. "Then 1 contended with the nobles of Judah and said unto them. What evil thing is this that ye do and profane the Sabbatti day?" In verse 11 we read that he contended with them because they hod forsaken the house of God. The house of God was Israel's center, and the laws of God their especial delight, if they were Israelites indeed; but they were prone to forsake His houw and despise Bis word (II Chron. xxxvi., 16), and for this they went to Babylon. Now that they have returned from captivity and left their idols their hearts still wander from God and His laws. And so it was long after, a in the days of Malachi, when they robbed God in tithes and offerings and said that it . was vain to serve Go:l (MaJ. ill, 8, 14). c 18. "Did not our fathers thus? Yet ye ? bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath." Although judgment bal overtaken their fathers, yet they continue in the same sin?, for not until the Ethiopian i can change his skin and the leopard his { spots can those do good who are accustomed . to do evil (Jer. xiiiT, 23i. "An empty m&n ' will get understanding when a wild ass's colt is born a man" (Job. xi? 12, R. V., ? margin). Nothing will make man what he ought to be but a new heart, a birth from above, and this is a new creation accomplished by the word and the spir.t of God. It is the gift of God (Bz*k. xxxvi., 26), anl nothing can deprive one of it but refusal to receive it. J 19. "And some of mjr servants set I at the. j gates, that there should be no burden brought in on the Sabbath .day." There is such a thing as compelling law breakers to 1 be obedient, and if oar city rulers had the ] spirit of Nehemiah there would not be toe , Sabbath desecration which is increasingly and alarmingly prevalent in all our cities. God will hold our rulers responsiole for alt < that they can prevent of evil and do not. i But to be personal, there are such oommands as these for believers. "L)t us lay , adde every weight and the sin which doth ' so easily beset as." "Lst us cleanse our- i selves from all fllthlnes* of the flesh and j spirit." ''Put off the old man, with his deeds" (Heb. xii., 1; II Cor. vii., I,Col. iii., 9). And these we are bound to obey if we would know in our daily life anything of the meaning of true Sabbath rest. 20. "So the merchants and sellers o! all' kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.*' The perseverance of the doers pf evil ought to put to sha me the fol lowers of Jesus. Those who desire- to do *w?t with the Sabbath are otttlmes more J united and persevering than those who bear the name ot Jesus ana ought to stand tor His holy day. Ob, to be filled with the Spirit of God and have at heart the interests of His kingdom 1 21. "From that time forth came they no more on the Sabbath.- He testined against them and threatened to lay hands on them, then they saw that he meant it, and deslated. We live in the Nineteenth Century, in the most advanced period of the world's history, but where are the Nehemiahs and the Daniels, and the men who have at heart above all things the honor and glory of God? To oome again to the topic of a little while ago?the Sabbath is the soul of a believer? we will not know it until we stand as decidedly agaiost every besetting sin and every phase of the self life as did Nehemiah against these Sabbath breakers. 22. "Remember me, Oh my God, concern* ( ing this also, and spare me according to the greatness of Thy mercy." The proper men ' were set apart to see that the Sabbath should be santifled, and they wer e men ceremoni- j ally clean. We must be clean in heart and . life if we would be of use to our Lord against evil and evildoers. As to keeping His holy ' day, be sure that our own ways or pleasure < or words are not in order on that day, but | the whole day is for Him and Him oaly (Isa. Iviii., 13, 14). See how Nehemiah, after all his efforts in the service of God, takes refuge \ in the mercy of God. By ?race are we j saved, in gracs we stand, and it is grace that snail be brought unto us at the revela* tion of Jesus Christ. Salvation from begin- j Ding to end is all of grace, but for our works we shall be rewarded if done uuto Him (Eph. ii., 8, It); Rom. iv., 5; xiv., 10; I Cor. j iii., 11-15).?Lesson Heloer. i 1 ( Miss Ella Knowles was a candidate for Attorney General of Montana. Being a woman of brains and J character, and a good lawyer, she came near being elected upon her merits. Since the election letters ^ have been pouring to her address containing offers of marriage from i ovnrir ?t.vln nt masrnHne idiot whom the asylums of the country have neglected. The circumstance affords opportunity for comment, but deference to members of the gentler sex naturally impels the leaving of this pleasant duty to them, "Let us take cotton as an example," exclaimcd a tariff debater. "Or, for that matter, let us take tobacco. Or, better still, let us take whisky!" And the chair immediately declared a recess at the debater's expense.? Budget. Edwin Gottld has collected about 20,000 home and foreign newspaper notices upon Jay Gould's (bis father) death- What he will do with them is a gorgeous mystery. Can he intend to open a "Chamberof Horrors.* 1 The Kangaroo as a Boxer. Among tbo recent developments in e world ot sports, in Australia, is the lining of the kiuigaroo to stand up id spar or box with a human antagost. We give an illustration which we id in a recent number of Black and Tiite# An exhibition of this coricua nd of combat now takes place regurly at the Rojal Aquarium, London, id it attracts many spectators. The way in which the natural kanga10 spars in the bush, his birtbplace, is iculiar. He places his front paws gently almost lovingly?upon the shoulder* ' his antagonist, and then proceeds to sembowel him with a sadden and en~ S getic movement of one of his hind et. From this ingenious method of racticing "the noble art of set-defense" ie kangaroo at'the Royal Aquarium is been weaned. The clever instructor ' this ingenious marsupial has trained to conduct a contest under the condions known as the Marquis of Queensjrry'a rules. It cannot be said that it Iheres to these regulations quite as rigily as the combatants who pummel one lother at the National Sporting Club e required to do. On the contrary, it mnot wholly disabuse itself of the idea, vored by the French, though dtscoannanced by the English, that those who ' e attacked have as good a right to de- i ; *1. tk*:. i? ?rlfVi ' UU VUCIAIBOI CO nivu buou tgck cma ntuu ieir fists. However, no harm has yet sea done, and the encounter between uman and marsupial is spirited and arel, and admirably illustrates the jwer of man to bend the brute creaon to his will. A. writer in a recent dumber of the verland Monthly advocates the imporition and domestication of the kangaroo l this country. He .gives authorities howing the --feasibility of the project, j Ad believes the animal could be mtrolaced and raised here with profit. The lesh of the kangaroo is highly esteemed a a food, and from the hides a valuable eather is made. These are legitimate ises of the animal. But it is shocking o think of degrading so useful a crea- . vj ure down to the lerel and equal of a jrutal human prize fighter.?Scientific Imerican. Ingenious Hot Water fountain. - % ; > V Every one in Paris has noticed the aew fountains, similar in form to the Mogris columna, that hare been erected i V.fJ principally In the most populous quarters aad in the aeighhood of the hade -1 itands. If one desires to know the putpose of this new construction and approaches one of them he can read upon the plate in front the follo?ring: "Pot carriages, kitchens, washing, baths, hot water." A. button is plainly seen and a slot for :he introduction of. a piece of money, wd the directiqos indicate that by pressing the button a pail of hot water caa be obtained at any hour. The water flows A. AWM&- ' ::S ^1 oss op the roqwrAiira. __ 3ut of a little tube ia the nicne made at the lower part of the front. This is certainly a new and useful innovation, and will render great services for housekeeping and for hot bath9 that iave been so much talked of for two :enta whea it id decided to establish them. The ingenious mechanism never fails :o keep its promise engraved upon the front.?Inter-Ocean. Barbarous Methods of Killing Deer. A barbarous method of killing deer in the vicinity of Lake Coeurd'Alene is thus described: "All that is required is a pack )f hounds, a boat, two men, and a club. They start the hounds after the deer, which soon takes to water. The men in the boat overtake it and knock the poor ;hing's brains out with a club." ? 4 The Rialto at Venice, designed by Michael Angelo and erected in 1588, has i single span of ninety-eight feet, with :weaty-three feet rise. The New Ones. "Where yor beeD, Chimray?" "A bloke 3ent me ter buy a dozea1 joatage atamp8."?Life.