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V MY. DR. TALMAGE. S / 0 <HE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN* 0 DAY SERMON. ? C \ Subject: "A Protecting Wing.1* t n ^'Tuxt: ".4a a hen ga*kereth her chicken* ) finder her wings, and ye would not."? r tBACUtew XXU1., Ji. I P Jerusalem was in sieht as Christ came to t the crest of Mount Olivet, a height of 700 g faet. The splendors of the re'igious capital c bf the whole earth irradiated the landscape. c There is the temple. Yonder is the kind's palace. Spread out before His eyes are the t porno, the wealth, the wickedness and the e pomiDC destruction of Jerusalem, and He o pnrst into tears at the thought of the ob- e , flaracy of a place that He would gladly hava b r caved. and apostrophises, saying, ''Oh. D Borusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I b pave gathered thv children togather. even y as a hen gathereth her chickens under her c Wine?, and ye would not." v If Why did Christ select hen and chicken as fl a simile* Next to the oppositeness of the t oomnarison I think it was to help all public t teacher' in the matter of illustration to get f down off their stilts and U9e comparisons a that all can understand. The plainest bird ii on earth is the barnyard fowl. Its only t adornments are the red comb in its head- c drees and the wattles under the throat. It $ has no grandeur of genealogy. All we know ' b that its ancestors came from India, some sf them from a height of 4000 feet on the * fides of the Himalays. It has no pretention n of nest like the eagle's eyrie. It has no luster j, nf nlnmncfl likp the poldflnfih. PnsaMfdnr t anatomy that allocs flight, yet aboat the t last thiaz that it wants to do is to fly, and t In retreat nses foot almost as much as winy. h Muscians have written out in musical ^ scale the song of lark and robin red breast b ?nd nizhtingale, yet the hen of my text a hath nothing that could be taken for a son?, ft but only cluck and cackle. Yet Chirst in Q the text.uttere<?, while looking upon doomed jj Jerusalem, declares that what He had _ /wished for that city was like what the hen ? does for her chickens. Christ wa3 thus sim- f( pie in His teachings. and yet how hard it is w for uf, who are Sunday-school instructors and editors and preachers and reformers, K nd those who would gain the ears of audi- ? races, to attain that heavenly and divine j art of simplicity. t| i We have to run a course of literary dis a orders as children a course of physical dis- . , orders. We come out of school and college 11 loaded down with Greek mythologies and * out of the theological seminary weighed ? down with what the learned fathers said, ? and we fly with wings of eagle* and flamin- c 1 * goes and albatrosses, and it talces a good a while before we can come down to Christ's rimilifudps. the candle under the hiuhe). the salt that has lost its savor, the net thrown 11 into the sea, the spittle on the eyes of the F blind man and the hen and chickens. j3 . There is not much poetry about this 1 winged creature ol God mentioned ia my * text, but she is more practical and more 11 motherly and more suggestive of good . things than many that fly higher and wear 1 brighter colors. She ia not a prima donna S of the skies nor a strut of beauty in the S aisle of the forest. She does not cut a circle 7 under the sun like the Rocky Mountain eagle, but stays at home to look after family J affair?. She does not swoop like the condor * of the Cordilleras to transport a rabbit from * .the valley to the top of the crag3, but just r scratches for a living. How vigorously with her claws she pulls away the ground 8 to bring up what is hidden beneath! When e the breakfast or dining hour arrives, she p begins to prepare the repast and calls all her t * young to partake. t I am in sympathy with the unpretentious c old fashioned hen, because, like most of us, t Bhe has to scratch for a living. She knows c at the start the lesson which most people of p good sense are slow to learn ?that the gain- c Ug of a livelihood implies work, and that r successes do not lie on the surface, but are to c be upturned by positive and continuous i effort. The reason that society, and the a rthurch. nnd the world are so full of failures. c to full of loafers, so fall of dead beats, is be- c cause people are not wise enough to take the lesson on which any hen would teach them? e that if they would find for themselves and i tor those dependent upon them anything i worth having they must scratch for it. f i. "Solomon said. "Go to the ant, thou slug- b gard." I say, "Go to the hen, thoa slu*- " s gard." In the Old Testament God compares ? Himself to an eagle stirring up her nest, an.i * In the New Testament the Holy Spirit is a compared to a descending dove, but Christ, t In a sermon that begins with cutting sar- t casm for hypocrites and ends with the i paroxysm of pathos in the text, compare 1 Himself to a hen. b One day in th9 country we saw sudden s consternation in the behavior of old Dom- s [nick'. Why the hen should be so disturbed we could not understand. We looked about g to see if a neighbor's dog wera invading the E farm- We looked up to see if a stormcloud t were hovering. We could sae nothing on t the ground that could terrorize, and we E could see nothing in the air to ruSfls the t feathers of the hen. but the loud, wild, af- t frighted cluck which brought all h9r brood ? at lull run under her feathers made us look t nrnin around us and above u?. whan we saw that high up and far away thera was a ra- ^ pacious bird wheeling round and round, and down and down, and not seeing us as we El in the shaiow it cams nearer and r until we saw its beak was carved from to tip, and it had two flames of fire for eye?, and it was a hawk. 1 But all the chickens were under old Dominick's wing, and either the bird of prey eaught a glimpse of u.s or not able to find the brood bundled under wing darted back Into the clouds. So Christ calls with great Barnesrness to the young. Why, what is the taatter? It is bright sunlight, and there can no danger. Health i9 there. A good home i* theirs. Plenty of fool is theirs. Prospect of long life i3 theirs. But Christ continues to cal', calls .with more emphasis and urges haste and 3ars not a eoond ought to be lo>t. Oh. do tell us what Is the matter 1 Ab, now I see. There are hawks of temptation in the air; there are inilturas wheeling for thair prey; there are beaks of death ready to plunge; there are olaws of allurement ready to clutch. Now I see the peril. Now I understand the urgency. Now I see the only safety. Would that Christ might this day take our sons and rl*nirht<>rs into His shalter. "as a hen crath- I ereth her chickens under her wing." * The fact is that tae mo3t of them will never find the shelter unless whlle~they are chicken8. It is a simple matter of inexorable statistics that most of those who do not come to Christ in youth never come at all. What chance is there for the young without divine protection? There "are the grog , shops. There are the gambling hells. There are the infidelities and immoralities of epiritualisu. There ara bad books. Thera are impurities. There are the business rascalities. And so numerous are these assailments that it is a wonder that honesty and virtue are not lost arts. The birds of prey, diurnal and nocturnal, of the natural world are ever 02 the alert. They are the assassins of the sky. They hava varieties of taste. The eagle prefers tae flesh of the living animal. The vulture pre* (era the carcass. The falcon kills with one ptroke, while other styles of beaks give prolongation of torture. And so the temptatloDSof this life are various. Soma make quick work of death, and others agonize the mini and body for manv years, and somi like the living blood, of great soul*, and Afhara nrofor ninoa aIpoq^V tfantJTflnftd. Bllt J for every style of youth there is a swooping 1 wing and * sharp beak an la cruel claw, i and what the rising generation needs is a 1 wing of protection. ' l? Fathers, mothers, older brothers and sis- ! tors and Sabbath-scimol taacher*. be quick 1 and earnest and prayerful and importunate ! and get the chickens under the wiiig. May the Sabbath-schools of America and Great 1 Britain within the next three months sweep all their scholars into the kingdom. Whom they have now under charge is uucertain. 1 Concerning that scrawny, puny chiid that tlay in the cradle many years ago. the father I dead, many remarked, "What a mercy if jthe Lord would take the child!" and tha mother really thought so too. But what a Igood thing that God spared that chilrt, for lit became world renowned in Christian iliterature and one o' God's most illustrious servants?John Todd. Remember, your children will remain children only a little while. What you do for them as children you must do quickly or never do at all. "Why have you never written a boo1*?" said some one to a talentel woman. She replied: "I am writing two and have been engaged on one work ten years and on the other five years?my two children. They arc my life work." When the house of John Wesley's father burned, and they got the eight children out, John Wetlsy the last beforj the ro3? fall in, the athersaid: "Let as kneel down and thank Jod. The children are all saved; let the rest >f the place go." My hearefa, if we secure the Drasent and verlasting welfare of our children, moat ither things belonging to us are of but little omparative importance Alexander the >reat allowed his soldiers to take their fannies with them to war, and he accounted for he bravery of his men by the fact that aany of them were born in camp and were ised to warlike scenes from the start. Vould God that all the children of our day night be bora into the army of the Lord! fo need of letting them go a long way on he wrong road beforothey turn around and ;o on the right roil. The only time to get hickens under wing is while they are hickens. Hannah Whitall Smith, the evangelist, ook her little child at two years of age rhen ill out of the crib and told her plainly f Christ, and the child believed and gave vidence of joyful trust, which grew with >er growth to womanhood. Two years are ntfnnTrtiinr. Thtt time will come when iy tbe faith of parents chil Jren will be Lorn a to this world and bora into the bosom of Jhrist at the same time. Soon we parents rill have to go and leave our children. We .glit their battles now, ani we stand beween them and harm, but our arm will afar a while get weat; and we cannot fljht or them, and our tongue will he palsied, nd we cannot speak for them. Are we gong to leave them out in the cold world to 1 ale their chances, or are we doing all wa an to get them under th9 wing of eternal afety? | But we all need the protecting wing. If ] ou had known when you entire! upon , lanhood and womanhood what was ahead it yoa, would you have dared to undertake ife? Mow much you hava been through! Yith most life has been a disappo intment; ' hey tell me so. They have Dot attained bat which they expected to attain. They ave not had the physical and mental vigor hay expected, or they have met with reuffs which they did not anticipate. Tou re not at 40 or 50 or 63 or 7 J or 80 years of ge where you thought you would be. I do ot know anyone excapt myself to whom fe has been a happy surprise I never exected anything, and ao when anything atne in th9 shape of tmmaa favor or com* srtable position or widening field of work it ras to me a surprise. I was told in tne theological seminary by jmeof my fellow students that I never rould gee anyooav to dear me preacn unless changed my atyl?, go that when I found nat some people did cooae to hear me it was happy surprise. But most paople, accordig to their own statement, have found life , disappointment. Indeed we all need sheler from its tempests. About 3 o'clock on a ot August afternoon you-have heard a rumde that you first took for a wagon crossing bridge, but afterward tWa wa3 a louler umbling, and you said, "Way. that is thun- ( .erf And sure enough the clouds were bang convoked for a fall diapason. A whole iark of artillery went rolling down the leavens, and the blinds of the windows in | he sky were closed. But the sounds above re re not more certain toaa the sounds be- f , leath. The cattle came to tha bars and. moaned | 1 or tham to be let down that they might | omo home to shelter, and the fowl, whether lark Brahma or Hamburg or Leghorn or , )ominick, began to call to its young, 'Cluck!" "Cluck 1" "CluckI" ani take theai mder the wagon housa or shed, and had j hem all hid under th9 soft feathers by the ( ime that the first plasn of rain sCrucK the , oof. 1 So there are sudden temptests for our ; ouls, and, oh 1 how dark it gets, and thraat- i ning clouds of bankruptcy or sickness or >ersecution or bereavment gather and t ;hicken and blacken, and some run for shel- ] er to a bank, but it is poor shelter, and < - - ii J?i ?A r?u IbQOrsrua W iricuiiljr auvuoi9? auu buuj lau o help, and others fly nowhere simply ba- ] ause they know not whera to go, aad they >erish in the blast, but others hear a divine all saying, "Come, for all things are now eady. "fhe Bpirit and the bride say ome." And while the heavens are thunder* ng terror the divine voice proffers mercy, md the soul comes under the brooding care if the Almighty "as a hen gathereta her hickens under her wing." The wings of my text suggest warmth, ,ud that it what most folks wane. The facs 9 that this is a cold world whether you take t literally or figuratively. We have a big [replace called the sun, and it has a vary lot fire, and the stokers keep the coals well tirred up, but much of the year we cannot ;et near enough to this fireplace to get rarmed. The world's extremities are cold Jl the time. Forget not tnat it is colder at he south pole than at the north pole, and hat the Arctic is not so destructive as the Intartic. Once in awhile the Arctic will et explorers come back, but th9 Autartic lardly ever. When at the south pole a ship ails in, the door of ice is almost sure to be hut against its return. So life to many millions of people at th9 outh and many millions of people at the torth is a prolonged shiver, but when I say his is a cold world I chiefly mean flguraively. If you want to know what is the neaning of the ordinary term of receiving he "cold shoulder," get out of money and , ry to borrow. The conversation may have | teen almost tropical for luxuriance of , bought and speech, but suggest your neces* | ities and sea the tbarmomater atop toou , legreej below zjro, and inthit which till a j noment before had beea a warm room. < fake what is an unpopular position on some | >ublic question, and sea your friends fly as | :haff before a windmill. As far as myself Is ooncerned, I have no word of complaint, but I look off day by lay and see communities freezing ouc men j ind women of whom tha world is not | worthy. JNow it takes after one and now iter another. It bacomea popular to deireciate and defame and execrate and lie ibout some people. This is the best world I i tver got into, but it is the meanest world i hat some people ever got into. The worst i ihing tbat ever happened to th9tn was their TacUe, and the best thing that will ever lappea to them wiil be their grave. What people want is warmth. Many years ago a man was floating down >n the ice of the Merrimac, and great efforts were made to rescue him. Twice be got hold )f a plank thrown to him and twice he slipped away from it, because that end of the plank was covered with ice, and he cried out, ''For God's Bake, give me the wooden end of the plank this time," and this done be was aauied to shore. The trouble is thit in our ifforts to save the soul there is too much coldness and icy formality, and so the im periled one slips off ana noats aowo. wive It the other end of the plank?warmth of sympathy, warmth of kindly association, warmth of genial surroundings. The world declines to give it, and in many cases has no power to give it, and here is where Christ comes in, and, as on a cold day, the rain beating and tne atmosphere full of sleet, the hen clucks her chickens under her wings, and the warmth of her own breast puts warmth into the wet feathers and the chilled feetof the infant group of the barnyard, so Christ says to those sick and frosted and disgusted and frozen of the world. Come in out of the March winds of the world's criticism; come in out of the sleet of the world's assault; come in out of a world that does not understandi you and does not want to understand you; 1 will comfort and I will soothe and I will be your warmth, "as a hen gatbereth her chickens under her wing." Ob, the warm heart of God is ready for all those to whom tbe world has given tbe cold shoulder. But notice that some one must take the storm for the chicken-. Ah! the hen takes the storm. I have watched her under the pelting rain. I have seen her in the pinching frosts almost frozjn to death or almost strangled in th? waters, and what a fight she makes for the young under wing if a log or hiwicor a man comes too new! Ani so the broaiing Christ takes the storm for u-?. What Ado 1 of anguish and tears that lid not dash uoon His i?olv soul! What ^aak of torture did not oierce His vitals! TTr'?4 1 U?ll TTTa3 nrth lah Uttl/ U*r \'UJ V.-CI UOl U? \JL UCll nt*o uww ?Wout upon Him from the kenn?ls! Wbst He endure 1. oh, who cm tell. To save oar souls from death and hall! 5Te3, the hen took the storm for the chickens, and Christ takes the storm for us. Once the temoe3t rose so suddenly the heu could not get with ber youa; back from the new ground to the barn, and there she is under the fence half dead. And now the rain turns to snow, and it is an awful night, and in the morning the whiteness about the gills and the beak down in the mud show that the mother is dead, and the young ones come out and cannot understand why the mother doss not scratch for them something to eat, and they walk over her wings and call with their tiny voices, but there is no answering cluck. She took the storm tor others and perished. Poor thing 1 Self sacrificing even unto death! And does it not make vou think of Him who endured oil for us? So the wings under which we coma for spiritual safety ars blood spattered wings, are night shattered wings, are tempest tora winsrs. In the isle of Wight I saw the grave of Princass Elizabeth, who (tied while a prisoner at Carisbrook castle, her finger on an open Bible and pointing to the words, "Come uito Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Oh, come under the wings! But now the summer day is almost passed, and the shadows of the house and barn and wagon shed have lengthened. The farmer, witn scythe or hoe on shoulder, is returning from the field?. The oxen are unyoked. The horses are crunching the oats at t&e full bin. The air is bewitched of honeysuckle and wild brier. The milkman, pail in hand, is approaching the barnyard. The fowls, keeping early hours, are collecting their young, "Cluck 1" "Cluck 1" "Cluck!" and soon all the eyes of that feathered nursery are closed. The bachelors of the winged tribe have ascended to their perch, buc tha hens, in a motherhood divinely appointed, take ail the risk of a slumber on the ground, and all night Ion? the wings will stay outspread, and the little ones will not utter a sound. Thus at sundown, lovingly, safely, completely, the ben broods her young. So, if we are the Lord's, the evening of our life will come. The heats of the day will have passed. There will be shadows; and we cannot see far. The work of life will be about ended. The hawks of temptation that hovered in the sky will have gone to the woods and folded their wings. Sweet silences will come down. The air will be redolent with the breath of whole arbors of promises sweeter than jasmine or evening primrose. The air may be a little chill, but Christ will call us, and we will know the voice and heed the call, and we will come under the wings for Che night?the strong wings, the soft wings, che warm wings?and without fear and in full sense of safety, and then we will rest from sundown to sunrise, "as a hen gather* eth her chickens under her wing." Dear me, how many souls the Lord nath thus brooded t Mothers, after watching over sick cradles and then watching afterwarJ over wayward sons and daughters, at last themselves taken care of by a motherly God. Business men, after a lifetime struggling with the uncertainties of money markets, and the change of tariffs, and the underselling of men who because of their dishonesties can afford to undersell, and years of disappointment and struggle, at last under wings where nothing can perturb them any more than a bird of rxrav whiflh is tArt mi For nff Hlctrirha a nhick at midnight brooded in a barnyard. My text has Its strongest application for people who were born in . the country, wherever yon may now live, and that is the majority of you. Ton cannot hear my text without having all the rustic scenes of the old farmhouse come back: to you.- Good old days they were. You knew nothing much of the world, for you had not seen the world. By law of association you cannot recall the orooding hen and her chickeas without seeing also the bam, and the haymow; and the wagon shed, aad the house, and the room where you played, and the firesidO/. with the big backlog before which you sat, and the neighbors, and the burial, aad the wedding, and the deep snowbanks, and hear the village bell that called you to worship, and seeing the horses which, after pulling you to church, stood around the ola clanboarded meeting house, and those who sat at either end of the church pew, and indeed all the scenes of the first 14 years, and you think of what you were then and of what you are now, and all these thoughts are aroused by the sight of the old hencoop. Soma of you had better go back ana start again. In thought return to that place and hear the cluck aud see the outspreal feathers and come under the wing and make the Lord your portion and shelter and warmth, preparing for everything that may come, and so avoid bein$ classed among those described by the closing words of my text, "as a hen gathereth her cnickens under her wing, and ye would not." Ah, that throws the resDonsibilitv upon us! "Ye would not." Alas, for 'the "would nots!" If the wandering broods of the farm heel not their slather's call and risk the hawk and dare the freshet and expose themselves to the frort and storm, surely their calamities ard not their mother's fault. "Ye would not!" God would, but how many would not! When a good man asked a young woman who had abandoned ber home and who was deploring her wretchedness why she did not return, the reply was: "I dare not go home. My father is so provoked-he would not receive me home.* "Then," said the Christaia man, "I will test this." And so he wrote to the father, and the replv same back and in a letter marked outside "Immediate," and inside saying, "Let her come at ones; all is forgiven." S3 God's invitation for you is marked "Immediate" on the outside, and inside it is written, "He will abundantly pardon." Ob, ye wanderers from God and happiness and home and heaven, come under the sheltering wing. Under this call I saa you turning from your old way to the new way, the living way, the gospel way. A vessel in the Bristol channel was nearing the rocks Balled Tae ' 'Steep Holmes." TJnder the tempest the vessel was unmanageable, ana tae inly hope was that the tide would change before she struck the rocks and went down, find so the captain stood on the deck, watch in hand. Captain and crew and passengers were pallid with terror. Taking anotuer look at his watcii and another look at the sea he shouted: 'Thank God, w? are saved I The tide has turned i One minute more and wa would have struck the rocks." Some of you have been a long while drifting in the tempest of sin and sorrow and have been making for the breakers. Thanic Sod, the tide has turned. Do you not feel the lift of the billow? The graca of God hat bringeth salvation his appeared to your >ul, and in the woivis of B >az to Ruth I i xncaend you to "the Lori Garl of Israel, aider whose wings thou hast coma to trust." Salem, Mass., rejoices in the presence of an "emeritus" bank cashier, who has earned the title by sixtyseven years of active service in what is now the First National Bank of that city. He took hold as cashier of the old Commercial Bank in 1826, which bccame the First National as one of the consequences of the war. Being now ninety years old, he desired to rest, but the directors unanimously asked him to be their emeritus. This was in graceful recognition of the fact that through his long term of service the standing of the bank was never doubted, and much 11. frtp this, in some times of trial, was due to the thorough confidence placed in him by the community. Mr. Edward H. Payson, the gentleman referred to, is probably the oldest bank cashier in this country and probably in the world, both In years and time of serrice, but he Is far from being the only "old-timer" in that region. Mr. G. L. Streeter.who succeeds him, has been with the bank for thirty-seven years, and the cashiers of the Salem and Mercantile Banks have occupied their respective positions so long that only citizens well advanced in life can remember that those offices were not always filled by them. The experiences of these men carry them far buck toward the time when Salem was a commercial power in the land, dominating trade with the East Indies and boasting itself over Bostou. Mrj. Emma P. Ewing, of a New York sanitarium, claims that she has fed fifty students at the rate of nine cents a meal, and furthermore avers that the meals were good and the students grew fat oq them. The plan of using separate tires for carriage wheels is regarded by many railroad meu iis representing the correct principle of soistruction. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Walter Q. gresha.it. Cleveland's Secre t-ary of State, arrived in New York from th West. He met ex-Secretary of State Foate and then visited the Cleveland cottage a Lakewood. The New Jersey Assembly at Trentoi passed the racing bill* over Governoi Werts's veto. It was announced from Lakewood. N. 'J. that Mr. Cleveland had selected Henry T Thurber, of Detroit, Mich., the law partnei of Don M. Dickinson, for the post of Privati Secretary. State Treasurer Morrison, of Penn sylvania, in his annual report for the flsca year ending November 30 last, shows the net debt or the commonwealth on that data tj be $3,606,592.23. A sensation was caused at Philadelphia Pen a., by theannouncement that the Co frode & Saylor Company, incorporated, and controlling the Reading Rolling Mills, was insolvent, and that receivers had beer applied for. The New Jersey Legislatura passed th( racing Mils over the Governor's veto. Nex1 day mass meetings were held in Jerse; City, Newark and many other cities am towns in New Jersey to protest against th< action. Prank H. Jenkins, of Roxbnry, Mass. a driver of an express wagon, shot four re volver bullets into the body of his wife Clara Jenkins, at the home of her mother making fatal wounds. He then killed him self. On the Passampsic division of the Bostoi and Maine, just above St. Johnsbun Centre, Vt., two through freights collide! at a culvert. Fred Clark, engineer of th< up train; Charles West, an engineer wh was riding on the same engine, and Frw Creen, fireman on the down train, wer killed. Three bills to repeal racetrack legislate were introduced in the New Jersey Xegisla ture at Trenton; Governor Werts sent in th name of Leon Abbett to be Associate Justic of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. A section hand shoveling *now on th New England Railroad, near Hopewel Junction, N. Y., stepped from tbe track b allow a train to pass, at the same time stick ing his shovel into a snowbank. The loco motive struck the handle of the shoval knocking tha man under t'ae wheels of thi ~ CTa inofonflty IHIIflHL South and Weft. Cobb Jacksox, son of Captain Henrj Jackson and a grandson of General Efeorj Jackson, and one of the most prominent anc popular yoaaj men in the South, shot ant killed hiiaaelf at Atlanta, Ga. He had beet greatly disturbed over the disappearance o his friend, Lewis Red wine, and nls trouble connected with the closing of the Gate Cit; National Bank. Rsdwine. the defaulting cashier of th< Gate Cicy National Bank, of Atlanta, G*? who absconded with soma $60,000, wa caught in the suburbs of that city. He re fused to talk and had no money with him At Nashville, Tenn., in the Crimins Court, Harvey Weakly, on trial for murdei fell daad In the witness stand. When aske if he had killed the victim, Weakly said h hoped God would strike him dead if he had Hardly had he spoken when he fell deadt the floor. Co.vrad Zapf, a mechanic, forty-flv years old and demented, was locked in th station house at Groveport, Ohio, for saf keeping. Same time during the night h heated a poker red hot, placed it against hi body and impaled himself upon it. He wa deal when found. A fire in St. Paul, Minn., oaused a loss o #313,OOJ; two firemen were badly injured. The Supreme Court of Kansas delivers an opinion in what is known as the Gum case, which incidentally involved the ques tlon of the constitutionality of the Republi ? n~? AWM?'??Wnn Thu maiorit CitU uuu? vsi&<*u>.tK.?.i.u. , , opinion of the court establish33 the legalit; of the Republican House. The Populists de cided that thay would give up their separat House and recognize the Republican or ganization. Ralph Davis, of Memphis, the Speakei of the Tennessee House at Nashville, wa disbarred by the Cirouit Court for accept ing bribes to influence a Criminal Juag with whom he had a "pull." Heisoni. twenty-eight years of age. Reports from all parts of Minnesota am the Dakotas indicated that the biggest blu zard of tbe winter was raging. A firs broke out in Pocahontas, Va which left about 400 people homeless an caused a loss of nearly <83,00!). It starta in the centre of the town and twenty woodei buildings were entirely destroyed. The in suranca is about 120,003. The members of the Kansas Populis House, in a body, took seat* in Repseaeata tive Hall at Topeka. The Democratic Convention at Chicagc 111., nominated Carter H. Harrison Io Mayor by on overwhelming majority. Miss Julia Forge, who killed her tw sisters at Atlanta, Lta., has been declare insane by a jury. Washington. The President approved the act grantrn a pension to th9 widow of th) late Majoi Qener&l Doubleday. Considerable interest attended the las meeting of tbe Daughters of the Revolutio at Washington. It was the closing day c the session. Mrs. Stevenson, the wife c the Vioe-Fresident eiecr, was cno3en irrea dent-General ia place of Mrs. Benjami Harrison, deceased. The resignations of E. EL Conger, Unite States Minister to Brazil, and John R Pit kio, Minister to the Argentine Republii were placed la the hanrtfo ot the President. Acting Secretary Wharto.y. of tfc State Department, accepted the offer of steamship company to brin; from Fajal t this country a gun used on the United Stat* vessel General Armstrong ia its battle wit a British fleet at Fayal in 1814. The gui known as "Loag Tom," was presented I this country by the King of Portugal. The Naval Appropriation bill was r norted to the Senate with an increase ( $531,800 to the House bill. As the bill pass? the House it carried aa appropriation < $21,530,331, and as reported to the Sena $22,083,131. Secretary Foster, of the Treasury D partuieut, was before the Ways and Meat Committee of the House for nearly tw hours explaining the condition of the Treai ury. He estimated a surplus of $17,000,9( on July 1 and a deficit in 1804. Accompanied by members of his famil and 125 friends Adlai E. Stevenson le Bloommgton, III., for 'Washington, on special train, to take the oath of office < Vice-President of the United States. Russia, and Italy have accapted the inv <*r fVi? United States to the naval n view and have promised to send some < their bent ships. Thr President returned to the Hon without his approval a bill prescribing tb number of district attorneys ?n?t marshy in the judicial district of the State of Al baraa. This was the first veto of the se sion. VlCE-PRESrOEVT LKVI P. MOITO* Wfl i nnna nt hia nradecassor3 bf UUUUICU a-> uvitw ... f been. The entire Senate, without diatin tion nf party, unit? I in tendering him complimentary dinner at the Arlington an in bearin? taatimony to the admirabl manner in which h? hai preRide.1 over tl deliberations of the Upper Chamber of Coi gress for the past four year.*. CAPTArV (tEORGK VV. SUMKRR, <*iui| ment officer of the New Yorli Navv Y->r was sVectel by Secretary Tracy as tb'? fir commHn ler o* the now t.riole-?crew cruis< Co utubia, buildin.: at ths Cramcw. Titk House of Representatives decided tl contested election case of McDuSle again Turpin, of the Fourth Alabama District, favor of the sitting member, who is a Dai; ocrat. Foreign. About :25!),00."> spindle* wara starteJ .? Gidbam, Eailan l, th9 cjtton spinnifi a: ceptin? a reduction of 2% per cent, i wages. ahe rrenca steamer Lnnnat was sunk i a collision near Saigon, France. Seven pai sous were drowned. M. julss Ferry hac baoa elected Prea dent of tno French Senata by a majority c 'IK. VOt-M. The English Liberals recaptured Cir enceater, their candidate having advocate Home Ruie for Ireland; the by-election at 1 Gateshead showed an increased majority J for the Gladstonians. Int2n.se cold prevails in Germany and - eastern Europe. In the province of Kalonga, e Central Russia, twelve children returning r from school were overtaken by a snow S ,t storm and frozen to death ia the highway. JJ A pa33engkr train running between T 1 Gorlitz, Prussian Silesia, and Dittersbach, r Bohemia, ran off the rails and two engines j and eight carriages were wrecked. Eight g , persons were killed and a number injured, j, Twenty-six Anarchists were arrested T while at work in a bomb factory in Rome, s Italy. F M. Jules Ferbt made a statesmanlike C and moderate speech upon taking his seat as F 1 President of the French Senate. ' ? ? LATER iraW?. J , Re ar-auicrr al Gherardi assumed com* mand at New York of the Naval Review 1 Fleet. 5 The Philadelphia and Readinz statement 6 for January showed a deficit of $289,734.59. U i A mass-meetino of leading lawyers, cler* |j ) gymen and educational teachers of New g Jersey was held in Trenton to protest 8] ? against the racetrack laws. " - P ' Two mad dogs were the cause of much n excitement io the northwestern portion of ? Chicago, 111., and before the police had sue- a x ceeded iu killing the brutes they h*d bitten si T five persons, in each case inflicting severe J' * injuries. I( 0 In the courts of Campbell County, Ken- * 1 tucky, at Newport two notable indictments ^ 9 came up for a hearing. They were againsl c a A. L. Berry, Repressntative-elect from the g r 8ixth Kentucky District, the successor o( a e John G. Carlisle. One indictment charged ? 3 bribery, the other oharged malfeasance in c office. The Judge of the Court ruled oat the * ? former and the Commonwealth Attorney j o cleared the docket of the latter by a nolle D - prosequi. v Cyrtts Lex's farmhouse, four miles north T 9 of Greenville, Ky., was burned, and Lee. hie I ? sister and brother, wife and child were ! ti burned to death. No one was left to tall tbe ? story of the fire. \ In executive session the Senate refused to I reconsider its rejection of John V. L. Find* lay. of Maryland, to be Chilean Arbitrator. i ! The President made the following noml- c 5 nations: Truxton Biale, of California, to * ^ be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- c j potentiary and Consul General of the United 1 States to Roumania, Servia and Greece; G. ' i M. Lam'oertson, of Nebraska, to be arbitra- * tor on the part of the United States under the v I treaty for a Claims Commission concluded o between the United States and Chile. i Levi P. and Mrs. Morton gave a recep- 1< ? tion in Washington to his successor, A. E. 0 Stevenson. t The President received General Cano- c 8 varo, the new Peruvian Minister, who pre- * ? sented his credentials from the President of a e Peru, and also Mr. Clement Haentjens, the b -s new Minister from Hayti, was also received J1 a formally. y President Harrison held his last to t formal public reception at the White House. r ^ It was the largest public function of this [ n character, in point of attendance, held by c - Mr. Harrison since the flr3t few days of his term as President. * y j The Senate in executive session confirmed e the nominations of Jame3 E. Cochraa, of ? Nebraska, to be Consul of San Salvador; J. E. Stone, of Massachusetts. Consul at Nor galea; W. Stanley Hollis, of Boston, Consul s at Mozambique., e Madame Jules Geevt, widow of the 7 former President of France, died. j Three thousand striking agricultural la- t borers created a riot near Bologna, Italy. [ A regiment of infantry restored order. 1 \ BONANZA MAOKAY SHOT. His Crank Assailant Then Fatally it Wounds Himself. k" John W. Mackay, the famous mining man and financier, was shot in the back just after | noon at San Francisco, Cat., by William O. Rippi, and narrowly escaped death. 0 Kippi, after firing one shot at 3 Mackay, shot himself through the left breast, inflicting a fatal wound. The shooting occurred in the paved court /back of the Lick House, which runs fro n Sutter to Post streats, between Montgomery ~ and Kearney. A white-haired man was r. noticed walking around Sutter street acting very nervously during the early por. tion of the morning, throwing his hand " | back toward his hip pocket. It is tae cusa. torn of John W. Mackay to go about noon time every day to the je Aelry store at , Sutton street and Lick Alley to compare the time of day, and he is always prompt. a As Mackay reached the end of tne' alley nearest Sutter street, and a few feet from d where the old man was standiug, the latter pulled out his revolver and fired on 3 shot. 1 ? I 'Pha huiiat atinc); M&cit&r in tae middle oi I the back. After firing, the would-be mur- J i9 derer turned the pistol on himself, and fired ? a a bullet into his own bo iy. The seif inflic ;ed 0 wound was s9rlou&, buc as long as he could jjj walk he followed Mackay, trying to fire at h him again, but he was so weaic ha could not a pull tbe trigger. He then threw up his oands, exclaiming: "My Gad, I am satisfied!" f Mackay put bis hanu behind his back and some one raised his coat. As he draw his v ?J hand out it was coverci with blood, and he ? ^ told a mead where the ball had taken F effect. Mackay was placed in a bu?gr and . 3* taken to the Palace Hotel, where he received ^ medical attention. Mackay'3 assailant f was taken to the City Receiving Hospital. I e- The murderous crank, Rippi, was born in * 19 Cincinnati, Onic, and leaves a wife and J. ro family there. At one time he was worth " 3- over <100,000, and made about $50,000 on c X) Corns toe*. He cime to San FrancUco and ?. bqgan gambling in stocks. His money soon " _ began to go. Having been crated on the v ft subject of stocKS, he had an imaginary E a grievance against the Bonanz \ King an<i M tried to kill him. *1 John W. Mackay was born in Dublin, Ira- 1 land, and came to New York iu his early ? l" youth. He was one time a shivering uaws- J* ?" ooy on Park Row. In 1845 he reache.i the J State of California, wnere he ainassed ' his colossal fortune. He was one * se of the four men wno made the bo- c ie nanza Arm?Mackay, Flood, O'Brien & tk Fair?and become one of ttie financial pow a- ers of the Pacific Coast. He owned fourf fifths of that firn^s property, and is known as the Bonanza King. Thy foundation of ls bis wealth came from the discovery o; the n l8 great wealth of the Comstock loie, whicj 7, n. yielded 1111,000,000. At one tira< a bis income from ms mines w? l(j put aowa at $800,000 a monta ? l0 His whole life has been a romance such as j? 19 was possiole p9naps in no otaer country ? 3. ou the globe. A few years before thadis- ? covery of gold iu California he was a saloon p keeper in Louisville. K7. He migrate 1 to ~ 3.~ the Golden West. Two other yaioonkeepers, . ' James C. Fiool ant Joan U'Brisn, wane with him. He became a coiuoiou miner in '' er Sierra County. tie amassed so ue money 1 ri and went to Virginia City, Nev. Later ai ie he lose all he hid in the Ojhir mine, st He went back to the picu an 1 suovel again, ia After varying fortunes he made his big n- strike in the Bonanza territory. It was in 1974 that the tide began to turn entirely his ^ own way. The world was astonished by the t strike tne iirrn mule. Mr.'. Macsoy has J lived of late years mostly in London. She i ?* was ambitious to shine in the social world. : Mackey is now worth about $5J,000,000. U A hand of conscripts began rioting in the j streets of Ghent, Belgium, and put to flight (iu ten gendarmes who triad to restore order. A force of fifty gendarmes eventually attacked I them and a hot fight followed. The gen- j ij. darmes charged with drawn sabres re- j ,f peatedly, but were driven back until fifteen conscripts had been wounded and twelve J had been captured. The rest of the con- f Boripts fled. Four gendarmes were injured. t RELIGIOUS READING. I S THY KINGDOM,COMB. IN"! oiDGtimrs a vision comes to me f what Thy world was meant to be: hy beauty all things shining through, hy love in all the works we do. Bhade my spirit's dazzled sight lefore the splendor of that light: larth crowned with heaven's pure.diadem, he bride, the new Jerusalem! n 'or this alone didst Thou descend, saa ' Son of God, man's glorious Friend. Jlw 'rom Thy dfar Father's throne of bliss;? Stat 'hat human life might be as His. Lea 9. 'by kingdom come, oar souls within! &11 Vhere Thou art, is no room for ain: thin ih, show us what our lives may be, be 1 ,ed home to Him, by following Thee. we ? [Lucy Larcom. Jew onJi Isra SPECIAL WORK. ^ There is a work for all of us. And there * ' i a work for each, work which I cannot do ^ 1 a crowd, or as one of a mass, but u one >an, acting singly, according to my own ifts, and under a sense of my personal re- 1( ponsibility. There is, no doubt, associated # rork forme to do; I must do ray work as ^ art of the world's great whole, or as a lember of some great body. But I have a ^ pecial work to do, as one individual who _ y God's plan and appointment has a separte position, separate responsibilities, and 1 En eparate work: if I do not do it, it must be coa ift undone. No one of my fellows can do bat special work for me, which I have come Q? j ito the world to do; be may do a higher old rork, a greater work, but he cannot wiai o my work. I cannot hand my rork over to biro, any more than I gin an hand over my responsibilities or my +L-, iflo. Nor can I delegate my work to any ssociation of men, however well ordered or h owerful. They have their own work to do, m nd it may be a very nob e one. But thev annot do my work for me. I must do it f ritb these hands or with these lips which X7 rod has given me. I may do little or I may omuch. That matters nor. It must be ay own work. And by doing my own Tuj, rork, poor as it may seem to some, I shall j euer luimi uotra win iu uiB&iug mo nu? , am, and more truly glorify bis name, than 1S ither if I were going out of my own sphere h * ? do the work of another, or calling in an- ^ tber into my sphere to do my work for me. i~f, -fRu.kin. S5 m?l god's way. drir "And He led tbem forth by a right way, pow bat they might go to a city of habitation.'1 mlg What a comforting thought it is that God wat an overrule even our mistakes and failures apo or our highest good! No one who has been 13 ver the Pennsylvania Railroad by daylight flgu an forget the wonderful horse-shoe bend. a m 'be first time I saw it. as I looked out of my woe rindow and watched the rear cars of our shif rain gliding along towards the curve in ex- in t ctly the opposite direction to that which I mai fas at that time pursuing, and realized that sam nly a few minutes before I was myself in flesl he same position, it flashed into my mind the bat this is the way in which God sometimes God ;ads his children. pow They put themselves into bis hands and own eek to follow his guidance, but he places bod hem in circumstances which seam to them He < infavorable to that development in grace tie t or which they long. Yet they know that 14 belr Heavenly Father canmake no mistake, plai nd, if they leave themselves in bis hands. It." e will bring them safely to their desired to g laven; and when they look back upon their frot Ives from the end they will see that at the rigt erv time wnen they fel t as if they were He: eing led out of the right pitth, they were whj eally hastening on their way to heaven, like )nlv let us be sure that we are letting Christ brii ?ad us, and we may safely leave the details the if tbe journey to him. Goc "As for God, his way is perfect." H - fall 'I know not the way I am going, whi But well do I know my Guide; hrjt With a childlike tfuatl rive my hand ' To the loving Friend by ray side. uj. The only thing I say to him As he takes it is, 'Hold it fast; br Suffer me not to lose my way, SJ And guide me home at last.'" fro| th? THOUGHTS OF HKAVEST. Is it not too common among us when we febi hink of heaven to think only of its joys and for. ts pleasures? When the unconverted thinK tho if it. they think only of its loveliness and chu ta splendor, its rest and its calm, its rivers iDg if pleasure and its fulness of joy. They onj hink not of the source of these ioys in a age loly God and of the holiness of nature i rhich the enjoyment of them presupposes. ?0(i This is the reaxon why so many who will ft" lever reach heaven as yet. in the time 0r< >f disappointment and in the hour of trial, ^ ilinging to the hope of it. They pie ill look upon it a* a rest after labor, as a ter- fha nination to all their trouble, as a quiet jfai laven in which their bark may rest after fcn( >eing tossed by winds and waves in a ]ju engthened voyage. While God's people do <jec tot overlook this view of heaven, they re- an( ;ard it also as a place free from sin. One t eason why the believer longs so much for leaven is. that it is a place of holiness. wo .Vhen in this present world, he feels not d0, inly the burden of pain and fear and an- tw ;uish, he feels still more, and above all, ^ he load of sin. l,We that are in this ] abernacle do groan, being burdened;'' gtQ ind, the chief part of our burden is this, ^ hat (tin is still cleaving to us. One ^ 1 bief reason leading the believer to long so nuch for the mansions of light is that there, lot only sorrow and sighing, but all sin and to' >ollutio3 pass away. He hopes not only for nu n end to all hi8 cares and privations, not ? inly for a blessedness such a? he bath never ^ K?en permitit'ii iu eujuv uu cmiu? ^ bat being freed from* all evil depositions erj nd the sins which beset liira, he shall be qg ioIv as the angels are holy.?[Dr. Met'osh. en( Ha 1 intoxicating liquors. no Dr. Edward Everett Ilale says: I like to >ut myself on record also as saying that all me be poverty, all the crime, and all tbe vice rhich attract public attention in Boston mong wbat we call the poorer classes may V* ie ascr bed to tbe free use of intoxicating *? iquors. I have said a hundred timrs tbnt P1? t anybody will take charge of all the poverty . "J ,nd crime which result from drunkenness, fr" be South Consregational church, of wblch llvt have the honor to be minister, will alone ?.nc ake charge of the poverty which needs out- ?n' loor relief in the city of Eoston. If that 9re hurch could satisfy its conscience with as .5 mall work as that, it would certainly re- P111 ieveits visiting forces and its treasury of a 1188 ery considerable part of tbe demands now P00 naae upon them. Tbe saloon breaks up homes, degrades n" ien, makes children wan-faced, and breaks ??? be hearts of mothers. But the saloon-keep- *Jr r thrives all the same, indeed, all the bet- | er. The greater the number of drunkards r?,1 e makes, the better he dresses his family, " be faster trotter he purchases, and tbe more ashin* his turnout. He thrives on the , alamities of wives, mothers and children. fasten to the wharf. 0&1 Au old sea captain riding with a young f iau on thecars, xaiii to him: "Hhereareyou ^ oinn?" "I am going to tbe city to live." def Have you letters of introduction ?" uYes," nua ?id tbe voung man, and he pulled out some nar "l .? ttw..* i ..ttZ vcl I lueiu. "Din uavc ytin n uuuiuu rcruuite?" "Oh, yes, but I did not suppose you cer esired to look at that." "Yes." said "the del jptain, "I want to see that. As soon as you fln each the city don't fail to present it to some hristian church. I am an old sailor, and I . ave been up and down in the world, and it i i a rule of mine, as noon as I get into port, an< ) fasten ray ships fore anil aft to the wharf, ja tfher than have my ships floating hither ad thither with the tide." reI in tu: Don yalxote. In the 227 years since "Dun Quixote" pre vas published 1,324 editions have bui jeen printed, of which 528 were Spanish, 304 English, 17'J French, 9'J wo Italian, 84 Portuguese, 45 German, yot ,8 Swedish, 9 Polish, 3 Danish, 0 4 Russian, 5 Greek, 3 Roumanian, 4 wil ^atalonian, 1 Basque aud 1 Latin. car ? ? wa Miss Plane?I think I would have nade a successful politician. I never 'orget a face. Miss Bute?Wouldn't rou to happier, dear, if you could 'orget your own??Indianapolis Jour- coi laL k?.' * ..' -4 ,i.....? SABBATH SCHOOL rER NATIONAL LESSON FORr MARCH 19. on Text: "Timely Admonition*," Pror. ixili.. 15-23?Ooldea Text: Kpb. t, 18? Commentary. i - i ote: A Misaiooary Law on has alio beea, zested tor this date. Title, "Gods That i Hake," Isaiah xliv.j 9-50. Rsv. Mr. iraa baa prepared his commentary in the 90a Helper for this lesson. Tbey that make a graven image are of then vanity, and their deleotable ig$ shall not profit." Jehovah will yet mown in all the world, and in so far as by word and deed make known that is is Jehovah, the only true God aad * r Saviour, we have the missionary spirit. -v.-,? wi ai. lei wiw vjtvu a wwjou trcuuiu w ?u? Qe88??, bat idols were witnesses unto naelves that they were vanity. Come verse 8 with this verse. Those who w not God may worship vanity, hut the pie of Qod are to worship Him in spirit . in truth. ). "Who hath formed a god or molte* raven image that is profitable for noth!" Sorely only those who are Mind and lish, and God mis pronounced a woe apoa inch (Hab. iL. 18, 19). Israel, His own pie, Ha commanded not to worship van images (Ex. xx., i. 5), and jet they took Him and did the very thing He unanded them not to do. He has com* ided us to be His witnesses in the power lis Holy Spirit (Acta L, 8), tailing its of that His work cannot be done by might or iom of man, but only by His Hplrtt * jh. iv., 6), yet we, like Israel, turn from i and think more of men and money a of Him. I. "Behold, all his fellows shall be imad; and the workmen, they are of ?.* Nothing but shame and oonfosioa attend those who torn from God to men, without God nothing can be done (John 5). Real work that will stand man be 1 working in as to will and to do Of His d pleasure; all else will oome to naught, le loftiness of man shall be bowed down, the haughtiness of men shall be made . and the Lord alone shall be exaltsd." 1. "He is hungry and bis strength CaUflth; Irinketh no water and is faint." This iv smith who with fire and hammer and n fashioned tha m?tal of the image to be shiped, bat his god which hit hands ce cannot strengthen him nor give him' ik. Contrast the true God, whogivsOh er to the faint and to them that have no. ht. He increaneth strength. He poors arunonhim that is thirstv and floods a the dry ground (Im. xL, 2fl; xliv., 8). I. "The carpenter maketh it after tha re of a man, aocording to the beauty of an. that it may remain in the house." A den man, made by a man, and yet wored as a god?and there are lots of them be world still. We profess to know a it who was also a carpenter, and at the e time true God?Sod manifest in the i; who died for us and roee again from dead and is now at the right hand of L truly God and truly man, baring all er. If we do really know Him as our' i Saviour and God, then He lives in oar (as as His abode, and being in the boos* sannotbe hid; but how is it He is so lit> Mi ieen? "He heweth him down cedars; ha iteth an ash, and the rain doth nourah He uses trees which the true God makes row, and which are nourished by rain n heaven, but knows nothing of traes of iteousness, the planting of the Lord, that might be glorified (Isa. 1x1., 3). And r? Because the men who ought to ba trees planted by the rivers of water, lging forth fruit in season, are forsaking only fountain and turning away from I (Pa. L, 3; Jer. ii., 13). 5. -'He maketh it a graven image and eth down theretc." The same wood with ch he warms himself and bakes his id ha worships as his god. He does not w who gives him life and breath and all. igs, and seems not to have heard of the Iwno fed Israel for forty years with ad from heaven. Jesus says to us that isthe^Bread of Life which came down in heaven, and that He gives Himself for life of the world (Johtvvi., 5). 3. "He eateth flesh, he roastoth roast and itisfied." Meat and drink and the nournent of bis animal life are all he cares , He lives like the brute ?easts, like ae to-day who say they have no time for irch and religion; they must earn a liv?J ii?* huvm jtri* ?. i SUCI VU1UE buau UUUIKO wh r for those who are aide and dying, or"?' d people and little chii'-reo. 7. "And the resiaue thereof he maketh a I, and worshipeth it, and prayeth onto Are we readlag of South Sea islander* >f people from the heart of Africa, who >w no better? No, wearereading of peonear to Israel, and of many in Israel, t Nation which God exalted above all Uooa, that through litem He might be >wn, and this tells how. they had fallent wait, 0 church of God, era yon conon tbem. Israel became an empty vine 1 brought forth truit unto himself (Hoe. 1). What are you doing mth your eotainmentsand lectures and flue music and rksof men's hearts and bands, bowing tra to these things and to people of cul e and influence, instead of bowing to God ne. 18. *rhey have not known nor under'? . od, for ae hath shut their eyes that they. inot see." The greatest thug on earte cbe knowledge of God: it is better than. ear Duly wisdom or ricnes or might (Jer. , 23, 24i. Jesus said, "This is lire eternal. Know Thee, the only tra? God, and Jesus rist, whom Thou hast sent" (John xvii. And Paul counted all things but loss the excellency of the knowledge of Jesos rist (Phil. iii., 8). Because Israel dnlibitelv ana willfully turned away from her d He therefore shut her eyes and bard?d her heart. Compare ua. vi., 9, 10; ith, xiii., 13. 9. "Ann none considereth in his heart." one seemed to have sense enough to say, re is wood of which I make a fire to warn , and balce my bread, aad roast my meat, 1 the rest I worship as a god, falling down Che stock of a tree. Whoa once men turn ay from the word of God, they an ready believe any delusion, and they will fln-1 aty (U Thess. ii? 10-13). 0. "He feedeth on ashes, a deceived heart ;h turned him aside that he can not deir his soul." If we heed not promptly I only the word of God, satan will contially deceive us and give us ashes for ad. See how the church is deceivad to\ fancying that she is Israel, and ttiat her isioa is to convert the world, and that she plenty of time to do it in. See how th? pie follow those who destroy the Word, *" ~ L leaven their food till it seems as if the ale was leavened already. Let us turn s and hearts to Him woo is "expecting His enemies be made His footstool" ib. x., 18), and filled with Hii spirit live nake Him known, ooeyiax u> the utmost command, "Go ye into all th# world and , ich the Gospel to every creature;" then II we realize His "JLio, I a.-n with you ay."?Lesson Holder How He Knew. Before the flsh commissioners of llfornia decided to stock the earns of the State with that much jpised but powerful flsh. the Ger in carp, they were greatly conned as to whether it would live io tain waters. The question was aated at several meetings, and was ally submitted to Professor H ? eminent authority. samples ut the water were obtained ~i turned over to the professor, who a short time submitted a favorable ?ort, and the carp were accordingly ned loose in the rivers. The commissioners wore greatly imissed by the professor's knowledge, t one of them had a question to ask. 'How could you be sure that carp uld live in the water submitted to 1?" he inquired. 'Why," answered the professor, ih an amused look, "I bought a p for ten cents and put it iutu tho ter. It lived." Fond Mamma?"My son is study; biology now." Mrs. Storker? uyology? Oh, I wish my daughter lid study that; it might teach her ff to shop!"?Princeton Tiger, A