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r ? t THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. k JUfcT JWSCOUIISE. J {Bnbjectt'The Dark Side of City Life." T s ' v , Text: </ie darkness He called t WujrAf.''?Gtaneais i.t 5. p h Two grand divisions of time. The one of 8 sunlight, the other of shadow; the one for c |work, the other for rest; the one a type of ? ,everything: glad and beautiful, the other used in all languages as a type of sadness c and affliction and sin. These two divisions ? Oi uaui may; uave uuuieuuiotuic ui uuuiau invention, b?it the darkness held up its dusky e brow to the Lord, and He bapt:z?d it, the r dew dripping from His fingers as He gave it name, "Andf the darkness Be called night." ? My subject is Eiidnight in town. The thunder of. the city has rolled out of the air. The slightest sounds cut the night with ?uch distinctness as to attract your attention. The tinkling of the bell of the street car' in the distance and the baying of the dogr The stamp of a horse in the next street. The slamming of a saloon door. This hiccough of the drunkard. The shrieks of the steam whistles five mile3 away. Ob, how suggestive, my friends? midnight ?n town! There afre honest men passing up and down the streett. Here is a city missionary who > has been carrying a scuttle of coal to that poor famply in that dark place. Here is an uadertatyer going up the steps of a building > from wbjich there comes a bitter cry wnicu a indicates that the destroying angel has smit- 1 ten the first born. Here is a minister of religion who has been giving the sacrament i to a dying Christian. Here is a physician v passing s along in great haste, the messen- r ger a 'few steps ahead harrying on to t the household. Nearly all the lights t have gene out in the dwelling. That light \ in the window is the light of the watcher, r for tha medicines must be administered, and t the fewer must be watched, and the restless t tossinr off of the coverlid must be resisted, t and tme ice must be kept on the hot torn- f pies, iind the perpetual prayer nyxst go up o from jhearts soon to be broken. Ob, the s midnight in town! What a stupendous u thought?a whole city at rest! v Weary arm preparing for to-morrow's toil. I Hot brain being; cooled off. Rigid j musales relaxed. Excited nerves soothed. g The /white hair of the octogenarian in thin g drifts across the pillow, fresh fall of flakes on sfnow already fallen. Childhood with its a dim/pled hands thrown out on the pillow, and t with every breath taking in a new store of d funJ and frolic. God's slumberless eye will a loom Let one great wave of refreshing h slufh^roll over the heart ot the great p tom^ubmerging care and anxiety and wqrriment and pain. u Let the city sleep; but, my friends, be not a deceived. Tnere will b9 thousands to-night r who will not sleep at all. Go np that dark b alley and be cautions where you tread lest c you fail over the prostrate form of a drank- d aird lying on his own doorstep. Look about I you lest you feel the garroter's hug. Look b through the broken window pane and see a what you can see. Yoa say, "Nothing." Then listen. "What is it? "ttod help us I" Ho footlights, but tragedy ghastlier and [ mightier than Ristori or Edwin Booth ever fa enacted. No light, no fire, no bread, no C hope. Shivering in the cold, they have had f do fooi for 24 hours. You say, "Why don't a /they beg?' They do, but they cat nothing, b /You say, "Why don't they deliver them- g i selves over to the almshouse?" Ah, you j would not ask that if you ever heard the t bitter cry of a man or a child when told he g : must go to the almshouse. g "Ob," you sav, "they are the vicious poor, t ' and therefore they do not demand our sym- ii / pathy." Are they vicious? So much more p need they your pity. The Christian poor, , ? God helps them. Through their night there |< twinkles the round, merry star of hope, and ' | through the broken window pane they see a ' the crystals of heaven, but the vicious poor, they are more to be pitied. Their last light v has gone out. You excuse yourself from it helping thorn by saying they are so bad they a brought this trouble on themselves. I re- v ply, where I give 10 prayers for the iano- j: cant who are suffering I will give 30 prayers t for the guilty who are suffering. t The fisherman, when he sees a vessel dash- j ing into the breakers, comes out from his d hut and wraps the warmest flannels around t those who are most chilled and most braised and most battered in the wreck. And I t ? want you to know tnat these vicious poor c have nad two shipwrecks?shipwreck of the t Iwvlv ahinwrpnk of the soul?shinwreck for t time, shipwreck for eternity. Pity, by ail means, the innocent who are Buffering, but pity more the guilty. Pass on throuxn the alley. Open the door. 4<Oh," you say, "it is locked." No, it is not locked; it has never been locked. No burglar would be tempted to 20 in there to ste&l anything. The door is never locked. Only a broken chair stands against the door. Shove it back. Go in. Strike a match. Now look. Beastliness and rags. See those glaring eyeballs. Be careful now what you say. Do not utter any Insult, do not ntter any suspicion, it you value your lite. w bat is that red mark on the wall? It is the mark of a murderer's hand! Look at th03e two eyes rising up out of the darkness and out from the straw in the corner coming toward you, and as thev come near you ycur light goes out. Strike another match. Ah! this is a babe, not like the beautiful children of your household, or the beautiful children smiling around these altars on baptismal day. This little one never smiled; it never will smile. A flower flung on an awtully barren bsach. O Heavenly Shepherd fold that little one in Thin9 arms! "Wrap around you your shawl or coat tighter, tor ths cold night wind sweeps through. oiriKe anotner matcn. aims itpossioje that that young woman's scarred and bruifoi face was ever looked into by maternal tenderness? Utter no scorn, utter so harsh word. No ray of hope has dawned on that brow for many a year. No ray of hoDe ever will dawn on that brow. But the light has gom out. Do not stride another light, it would ba mockery to kindle another light in sue a a ptaci as that. Pass out and pass down the street. Our cities of Brooklyn and New Yor* and all our great cities are full of such homes, and the worst ? time the midnight. Do you know it is in ? the midnight that criminals do their worst ' work? ? At half past 8 o'clock you will find them 3 in tbe drinking saloon, but toward 12 J o'clock they go to their garrets, they get 1 out their tools, toen they start on the street. c Watchiug on either side for the police, they * go to their work ol darkness. This is a bur- J glar. and the false key will swn touch tbe 1 store lock. This is an incendiary, and be- s fore morning tbere will be a ligdt ou the f sky and cry of "fire! Fire!" This is an assassin, and to-morrow morning there will be J a dead body in one of the vacant lots. Dur- 1 ing the daytime these villains in our cities 1 lounge about, some asleep and some awake, I but when the third watch of the night arrive?, their eye keen, their brain cool, their arm strong, their foot fl jet to fly or pursu?, thev are ready. Many of these poor creatures were brought up in that way. They were born in a thieves' garret. Their childish toy was a burglar's dark lantern. The first thing they remem ber was their mother bandaging the brow of their father, struck by the police club. They began by robhin; bays' pockets, and now they have come to dig the underground passage to tie cellar of the bank and are preparing to blast the gold vault. Just so long as there are neglected children of the street, just so long we will have these desperadoes. Some one, wishing to make a good Christian point and to quote a passage of Scripture, expecting to get a Script jral passage in ansver, oaid to one of thesa poor lads, cast but and wretched, "W'heu your father and mother forsake you, who then will take you up?" and the boy said, "Tae perlice, the periice." in the midnight gambling does its worst worlr. What thoug'a the hours be slipping: away and though the wife be waiting in the cheerless home? Stir up the fire. Bring on more drinks. JFut up more stakes. mat commercial house that onlv a little while r ago put out a sign of copartnership will this season be wrecked on a gambler's table. ^ There will be many a money till that will t spring a leak. A Member of Congress fc gambled with a Member-elect and won n $120,003. The old way of getting a living i3 v so slow. The old way of getting a fortune is n so stupid. Come, let us toss up and see who h shall have it. And so the work eoes on, 3 from the wheezing wretches pitching pen- * nies in a rum grocery up to the millionaire gambler in the stock market. In the midnight hour pas3 down the streets t< of our American cities, and you hear the . click of the dice and the sharp, keen tap of the poolroom ticker. At thes3 places mar tiant princes dismount, and legislators tired b if making laws, take a respite in breaking h hem. All classes of people are robbed by tl his crime, the importer of foreign silks and S he dealer in Chatham street pocket hand- q :ercbiefs. The clerks of the store take a a land after the shutters are put up, and the fflcers of the court while away their time * rhile the jury is oat. w In Baden-Baden, when that city was the p Tea test of all gambling places on earth, it 5 fas no unusual thing the next morning in ? he woods around that city to find the sus- j, landed bodies of suicides. Whatever be the a plendor of the surroundings, there is no ex- j use for this crime. The thunders of eter- jj lal destruction roll in the deep rumble of T hat gambling tenpin alley, and as men ? ome out tD join the long procession of sin Bl 11 the drums of woe beat the dead march j f a thousand souls. In one year in the v ity of New York there were $7,000,000 sac- r ificed at the gaming table. 0 Perhaps some of your friends have been ^ mitten of this sin. Perhaps some of you jj lave been smitten by it. Perhaps there may n ie a stranger in the house this morning s rtmn from some of the hotels. Look out for ( t hose agents of iniquity who tarry around bout the hotels and ask you, "Would you like r oseetbecltyf Yes, "Have you ever seen u hat splendid building uptown?" No. Then l he villain will undertake to show you wh?t le calls the "lions" and the "elephants" md after a young man, through morbid . uriosityor through badness of soul, has een the "lions" an J the "elephants1' he will ? >e on enchanted ground. Look out for ? hese men who move around the hotels with leek hats?always sleek hats?and patronzing air and unaccountable interest abou^ ? 'our welfare and entertainment. Yon are i fool if yon cannot see through it. They f rant'your money. In Chestnut street, Philadelphia, while I g raa living in that city, an incident occurred ? rhlch was familiar to us there. In Chest- 0 tut street, a young man went into a gam- t )Iine saloon, lost all his property, then blew d lis brains out, and before the blood was h L Ha ma!H fchfl nnm asLieu i* uui wuc mm... ?? ades were shuffling cards again. Ton see p here is more mercy in the highwayman for 0 he belated traveler on whose body he heaps t, he stones; there is more mercy in the frosc <j or the flower that it kills; there is more f aercy in the hurricane that shivers the fj teamer on the Long Island coast than there 3 mercy in the heart of a gambler for his ictim. n In the midnight hour also, drunkenness J oes its worst. The drinking will ba re- h pectable at 8 o'clock in th9 evening, a little I lushed at 9, talkative and garrulous at 10, c it 11 blasphemous, at 12 the hat falls off and ? he man falls to the floor asking for more t] [rink. Strewn throuzh the drinking d aloons of the city?fathers, , brothers, lusbands, sons, as good as you are by nature, lerhaps tetter. * In tne high circles of society it is hushed ip. A merchant pribce, if he gets noisy a 1 uncontrollable, is taken by nis fellow evelera, who try to get him to bed, or take iim home, where he falls flat in the'entry. Do iot wake up the children. They have had lisgrace enough. Do not let them know it. lush it up. But sometimes it cannot be lushed up?when the rum touches the brain nd the man becomes thoroughly frenzied. Ob, if the rum touches the brain, you can- g lothushitup. You do not see the worst. n the midnight meetings a great multitude lave been saved. We want a few hundred t Christian men and women to come down kUkaof rtf oAf*{af.v tn tftii lUlii bu<7 V.4V.W Vk ww.vv ? w?? mid these wandering and destitute ones and 9 indie up a light in the dark alley, even the ladnessof heaven. , Do Dot go from your well filled tables with 1 he idea that pious talk is going to stop the nawing of an empty stomach or to warm 0 tockingiess feet. Take bread, take raiment, aka medicine as well as take prayer. There i a great deal of common sense in what the t oor woman said to the city missionary rhen he was telling her how she ought to sve God and serve Him. "Oh!" said she. a If you were as poor and cold as I am, and s hungry, you could think of nothing else." A great deal of what is called Christian c 7ork goes for nothing for the simple reason I is not practice, as after the battle of Lntietaai a man got out of an ambulance ' rith a bag of tracts, and be went distribute ng the tracte, and George Stuart, one of he best Christian men in this oountry, said shim: "What are you distributing tracts f or now? There are 3000 men bleeding to leath. Bind up their wounds, and then disribute the tracts." * We want more common sense in Chris- a ian work, taking the bread of this life in me hand, and the bread of the next life in he other hand. No such inapt work as hat done by the Christian man who, during r he war, went into a hospital with tracts, ind coming to the bed of a man whose lega c Lad been amputated, gave aim a tract ou v be sin of dancing! 1 rejoice before God hat never are sympathetic words uttered, lever a prayer offered, never a Christian c Jmsgiving indulged in but it is blessed. ii Tnere ia a place in Switzerland, I have >een told, where the utterance of one word , riil bring back a score of echoes, and I have c o tell you this morning that a sympathetic rord, a kind word, a generous word, a helpul word uttered in the dark place of the own will bring back ten thousand echoes rom all the thrones of heaven. Are there in this assemblage this morning 8 hose who know by experience the tragedies 8 if midnight in town? 1 am not here to 0 hru3t you back with one hard word. Take , he bandage from your bruised soul and put 1 in it the soothing salve of Christ's gospel ' ,nd of God's compassion. Many have cotne. * see others coming to Gjd this morning, a ired of sinful life. Cry up the news to leaven. Set all the bells ringing. Spread ' he banquet under the arches. Let thd a rowned beads come down and sit at. the l iibilee. ^ I tell you there is more delight in heaven t >ver one man that gets reformed by the J jrace of God than over ninety and nine that t lever got off the track. I could give vou 1 he history In a minute of one of the beet ' 'riends I ever had. Outside of my own e 'amily I never had a better friend. He _ welcomed me to my home at the west. He *as of splendid person xl appearance, and E le had an ardor of soul and a warmth of af s that muria ma lova him like a V jrotber. I saw men oomlng oat of the saloons and c rambling hell?, and they surrounded my 0 riend, and they took him at the weak point, a lis social nature, and I saw him going down, j ind I bad a f iir talk with bim, .for I never ret saw a man you could not talk with on 1 ;he subject of his habits if you talked with s lim in the right way. I said to him, "Why _ lon't you give up your bad habits and be- , ?me a Christian?' I remember now just low be looked, leaning over his counter, as u lereplied:- ''I wish I could. Oh, sir, I j| hould like to be a Christian, but 1 have r jone so far astray I can't get back." fi So the time went on. After awhile the c lay of sickness came. I was summoned to a lis sickbed. I hastened. It took me but a Y rery few moments to get there. I was but- . irised as I went in. I saw him in his 11 irdinary clotnes, fully dre?ei, lying on the t x>p of the bed. I gave him my hand, and le seized it convulsively and said: "On, low glad I am to see you! Sit down there." [ sat down, and he said: "Mr. Talmage, jusc where you sit now my mothar sat last t light. She has been dead 20 years. Now, I ? don't want you to think I am out of my * nind, or that I am superstitious; but, sir, he sat there last night just as cartainly as d ron sit there now?the same cap, and apron t md spectacles. It was my old mother?she v at there." 13 Then he turned to his wife and said: "I t vish you would take these strings off the o >ed. Somebody is wrapping strings around n ne all the time. I wish you would stop that ? Lnnovanee." She said. "There is nothing ' lere." Then I saw it was delirium. He said: c Just where you sit now ray mother sat, c ind she said, 'Roswell, I wish you would do >ettei?I wish you would do better.' I said, a Mother, Lwisn I could do better. I try to lo better, uuc I can't. Mother, you used to f lelp rae. Why can't you help me now? Ind, sir, I got out of be ), for it was reality, md I wunt to her and threw my ar us aroani ler neck, and i said: Wlother, I will do het- t er, but you must help. I cau't do this a uoue!'" 1 Knelt down and prayed. That light his soul went to tin Lord that made it. 1 Arrangements were made for the obse- u 1?U*. H..n.4!nn rn.n KnioAjl rohaftlOV* I n [U1C3. X Lie UUWHWU Iiaa taiaou Tuwbuwt J j hey should bring hitn to church. Some- I | lody sauJ, "You can't brine; such a dissolute nan as that into the church." I said: "You v rill brin^ him in ihe church? He stood by ( ae when he was alive, and I will stand by a im wheu he is dead. Bring him ."As I a tood in the pulpit and saw them carryinz he body up the aisle, I felt as if I could reep tears of bio ad. On one side of the pulpit sat his little child . f eight years, a sweet, beautiful little girl n hat I had seen nim hu; convulsively in his v\ etter moments. He put on her all jewels, _ 11 diamonds, and gave her all pictures and ^ ays, and then he would go away as if ounded by an evil spirit to bis enps and ouse of shame, a fool to the correction of tie stocks. She looked up woaderingly. he knew not what It all meant. She was ot old enough to understand the sorrow of n orphan child. On the other side the pulpit sat the men rho had ruined him. They were the men rho had poured wormwood into the orhan's cup; they were the men who had ound him hand and foot. I knew them, low did they seem to feel? Did they weep? To. Did they say, "What a pity that such generous man should be destroyed?" No. lid they sigh repentingly over what they ad done? No; they sat there, looking as ultures look at the carcass of the lamb rhose heart they have ripped our. So they it and looked at the coffin lid, and told them the judgment of God upon those rho had destroyed their fellows. Did th6y aform? I was told they were In the places f iniquity that night after my friend was lid in Oakwood cemetery, and they blaaemed, and they drank. Oh, how merciless len are, especially after they have detroyed you! Da not look to men for ooinnrt or helo. Look to God. Bat there is a man who will not reform, le say a: "I won't reform." Well, then, aw many acts are there to a tragedy? I elieve five. Act the First of the Tragedy?A young lan starting off from home. Parents and [stars weeping to have him go. Wagon ising over the hill. Farewell kiss flung ack. Ring the bell and let the curtain all. Act the Second?The marriage altar. Fall rgan. Bright lights. Long white veil railing through the aisle. Prayer and conratulation and exclamation of "How well ha looks P' Act Third?A woman waiting for stagering steps. Old garments stuck into the iroken window pane. Marts of hardship n the face. The biting of the nails of loodless fingers. Neglect and cruelty and espair.. Ring the bell and let the curtain rop. Act the Fourth?Threa graves in a dark lace?grave of the child that died for lack C medicine, grave of the wife that died of a roken heart, crave of the man that died of Isslpation. Oh, what a blasting heath of hree graves! Plenty of weeds, but no ovrers. Ring the bail and let the curtain rop. Act the Fifth?A. destroyed soul's eterity. No light No music. No ho^e. ingaifih coiling its serpenu arouna ma eart. Blackness of darkness forever. But cannot look any longer. Woel Woal I lose my eyes to this last act of the tragedy, (nickI Quick! Ring the bell and let the urtain drop. "Rejoice, O young man, in fciy youth and let thy heart rejoice in the ays of thy youth, but know now that for 11 these things God will bring you into adgment." 'There is a way that seemeth ight to a bntthe end thereof is death." WORDS OF WISDOM. Birds laugh in song. Death is the half way point. ^ Fragrance is what the flower thinks. Drop a sentiment in the slot and get ictioau Soma hearts wither before tbej doom. A laugh is worth a hundred groans in ,ny market. Sleep is the hone; in the comb ol lealthful labor. Thunder is the bass drum in the music if the elements. A man does wrong for the same reason hat wolves steal sheep. Spring is the angel that rolls the stone .way from nature's tomb. If you do not pay down there comes a lay when you must pay up. Never was a voice of conscienc* liiencea without retrioucion. Observe thyself as thy greatest cnemj ?so shalt thou become thy greatest riend. There are two freedoms?the false, rhere one is free to do what he likes, ,nd the true, where he is free to do rhat he ought. The man who sells his soul for great iches would be less satisfied with the leal if he could foresee how speedily his ihildren will refuad the money. Stint yourself as you think good, in ither things; but don't scruple freedom a brightening home. Gay furniture ,nd a brillia<vt garden are a sight day by lay, and mate life blither. Iu Russian Barracks. "Shall we take a look at the barracks?" uggested the colonel. "Nothing would uit me better," I answered; so leaving ?ur horses iu charge of the Cossack, Jhumski led the way through a series of rast spaces occupied mainly by little' Ko/lfl P.onK lifflo hoH hoH nn if *UUUCU ugua* M(?VU liwtv. ww?? MW>? vu , bard mattress, a pillow and a coarse roolen blanket. Beneath eacb bed was , box, in which the soldier's kit was ;ept, and at short intervals throughout he buildings were chromo portraits of he Czar, and very gaudy pictures of lussian saints. The barracks were enirely of wood, the ceilings low and the rindows infrequent, yet so clean wai verything kept that I detected no disgreeable odor. In the kitchen I helped ayself to a taste of the soup that was immering in vast cauldrons over the rick oven, and made up my mind that I ould stand a pretty long canoe cruise if ay food were no worse than this. There re two fast-days in the week?Wednes* lay and Friday?aDd this was oae of hem, so that all they had was lentil oup. Black bread went with the soup -not such very bad bread either. They iad a drink that suggested the mead we use at harvest-time, consisting of water a which rye bread had been absorbed. >f this I drank a whole glass with relish. >o far, then, I had stumbled on nothing bout the Rnssian soldier's life that rould have discouraged me from eniniinxa Vin/j T VtAAn KfAUnfK tin lauusj, uau * w?u he Czar's word as law. "Do you have much desertion?" I sked. "Not manyiu my regiment,"answered he colonel, complacently; "my men are retty well cared for." * * * As we galloped home to the noon-day Imner, I noticcd that my colonel greeted he men of other regiments than his own >y merely conforming to the usual miliary requirements; but when he met any if his 170th, he shouted out a hearty ;ood-day to them, which they answered pith a burse of strange sound intended to onvey the cotion, "we are glad to have >ur colonel's greeting." This struck me ,s a very pleasant interchange of civility ?much better than the silent and perunctory ordeal in vogue among western rmies. Ia the German army, the Emteror still greets his Grenadier Guards >y a hearty "Good-morning;" and is nswered as heartily, as in Russia. But his is, in Germany, as historically inique as the "beet-eaters'1 at the Tower of Londo. Iu Russia, the life ol the people is what it was ia England vhen Queeu Bess boxed the ears of her avorites?an odd medley of barbarism nd parental gentleness. ? Harper's lagazine. Minnie?"Houesuy, now, didn't, e drive with one hand as soon as you rere out of town? Mamie?No. He -he drove with the other hand.?Inianapolis Journal. RELIGIOUS READING, DO SOMETHING EVERY DAY. When tbe late William Ladd, of precioua memory, commenced his enterprise as the udvocate of peace, and tbe originator of peace societies, he stood almost alone. The grtat majority regarded his views and projects as ridiculous, and treated them with uncourteous levity. Of the few who respected his motives, and acknowledged tne importance of his object, nearly every one pronounced his scheme impracticable end declined to co-operate. He was not easily discouraged; but sometimes, when be saw that he was making apparently no impression, and that among Christians, where he expected aym pathy, he found very little to cheer him "onward his spirit was oppressed, and he feared that he might be compelled to abandon his undertaking. At such times be wonid go down from his residence at Minot, to Portland, wbere, in Dr. Payson, he ever found a cordial and steadfast friend. In one of these visits', he described to Dr. P. some of the difficulties that beset bis patb, and solicited advice. "My <'ear brother," said the Doctor, "your case is not peculiar. Every man who undertakes to make the world better, has to meet similar trials and discouragements. Do something every day, and before you die you will find your cause has made progress. "That expression," said Mr. Ladd, jast before his death?"That expression?"Do something every day'?was worth everything to me. Not a day bas passed without my thinking of it. I have done something every day since Tor the cause of peace, and, blessed be Qod, it has not been in vain. Let Ministers and all others who are laboring for the jjood of mankind, and who feel oppressed and disheartened in view of their limited efficiency, remember this lesson. Let them rmtlenHv nrflmerl. (lolncr some thing every day, and after a series of years they will find that much has been accomplished.?[Christian Wat. THE TRUE SOURCE OF HAPPINESS. The way to happiness does not lie in attempting to bring our circumstances up to our minas, but our minds down to our circumstances. Many birds wear a finer coat than tbe lark, nor is there any that dwell in a lowlier home; yet which of the feathered songsters soars so high or sings so merrily, or teaches man so weil how to leave the day's cares and labors for tbe bosom'ot bis family, as when, neither envying the peacock bis splendid plumage, nor tbe proud eagle her lofty realm, it drops singing into its grassy nest, to caress its young, and with its wini?s to shield them from from the cold dews of the night? To indulge an unsanctified and insatiable ambitiou, to attempt to bring our circumstances up to our minds, is to fill a sieve with water, or the grave with de: d, or the f?ea with rivers. The passions that in such a case seek gratification are like the wretched drunkard's thirst; they burn tbe fiercer for indulgence, and crave for more tbe more they get. It is often difficult. I grant, to bring onr minds down to our circumstances, but be attemps not a difficult but an impossible thins; who attempts to bring his circumstances up to tbe height of bis ambition. Nature, says an old adage, is contented with little, grace with less, lust with nothing. And ours be tbe happiness of bim who, content with less than lirtle, pleased with whatever pleases the Father, careful for nothing, cnanKiui lor anytmng, prayeriui id everything, can say, with St. Paul, I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content*?[Thomas Gathrie, D. D. CHRISTIANITT. Bless God that you are born Christians.? Either there is no true religion, no tie connecting man with man, nor men with the eternal Author of all things, if Christianity, ibe religion of love, of brotherly kindness, and of equality, whence we^erive duty as well as right, is not the true religion. Compare the Christian with the other nations of the earth, and see how deeply humanity is its debtor. The marvellous conquests of man over nature, fruits of science aod of the applications of science; the advancement of public and individual well-being; in a word we are indebted to it for all the blessings that elevate our civilization so much above that of tl<e ancients, and that of all whom the gospel has not yet enlightened. Manv eviJs have undoubtedly mingled with these Innumerable benefits; but the benefits proceed from Christianity, whence they directly flow; while the evils come from those who have perverted the doctrine of the Master, or violated his holy precepts; they result from the inevitable imperfection of external forms subjected to the actions of men, and the necessities of times and occasions from the fact that tbey who have perverted Christianity attaching their terrestriil interests to the variable forms which are in many respects dependent' on them, have gradually identified those forms with Christiauity itself, and thus rendered the immutable and imperishable soul subordinate to the chanstini^and imperishable body. the heavenly mansion. There is an Indian legend of a king who resolved to build the most beautiful palace ever erected on this earth. To this end he emiilnved .Takoob. the builder, (riving him a great huiu of money and sending btai awn; among the Himalayan, tberc to erect the wonderful palace. When Jakoob came to the place he found the people there suffering from a sore famine, and many ol them dving. He took the king's money and all of his own and provided foot! for the starving multitude, thereby saving many lives. Bv and by ' the king came to see his palace, but found nothing done toward it. He sent for Jakoob and learned why he had uot obeyed his command. He was very angry and cost him into prison, paying that oii the morrow he must die. That night the king had a dream. He was taken to heaven, and saw there a wonderful palace, more wonderful than any he had ever bebeld on earth. He asked what palttce it was. and was told tbat it was built 'or him by Jakoob, the builder. In spending the king's money for the relief of suffering ones on the earth, be had reared this palace inside of heaven's gates. The king awoke, and, sending for the builder, told him his dream and pardoned him. ?[A Cluster of Pearls. HEAVEN BEGUN. It was said of in old Puritan that heaven was in him before he was in heaven. Tbat is necexsnrv for us all; we must have heaven in us before we get in heaven. If we do not get to heaven before we die we shall never get there afterward. An old Scotchman was asked whether he expected to go to heaven. "Why, man, i live mere, ' was uis quuiiu reply. Let us all live in those spiritual things which are the essential features of heaven. Often go there before you go to stay there. If you come down to-morrow morning, knowing and realizing that heaven is yours, and that you will soon Imj there, those children will' not worry you j half so much. When you go out to your business or to your work you will not be half so discontented when you know that this is not your rest, but that you have a rest on the hills eternal whither your heart has already gone, and that there your portion is in the "everlasting dwellings. "Lay hold on eternal lire." *'Get hold of it now." It is a thing of the future, and it is a thing of the i resent: and even your part of it that is future enn be, by faith, so realized aud grasped as to be actually enjoyed while you are yet here.?[C. H. Spurceon. Be not anxious about to-Tor:ow. Do today's duty, tight today's temptation, and do not weaken and district yourself by looking forward to tilings whicli >ou cannot ?r?u could not understand if you saw tbcui.? [Charles Kin^slev. Teaciteu?JoliQQie, do you thiuk if you had cut down your father's cherry tree you would have told the truth about it? Johnny (slowly)? No, I don:t believe I would. Teacaer ?What! you would not tell a falsehood? Johnnie (apologetically)? Well, ma'am, yer see I don't believe Washington's father was just the same sort of feller "as mine."?Harper's Bazar. Jj'EW men wno go into maple-syrup manufacture malce an unadulterated success of it.?Troy Press. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR APRIL 30. Lesson Text: "Wisdom's Warning,' Prov. i.. 20-33 ? Golden Text: Heb. xii., 12?Commentary. 20. "Wisdom crieth without: flhe uttereth her voice in the streets." When wb read la the New Testaament such words as these. "Christ the Wisdom of God," Who of God 2 a :.j? ii /T /i? j ha oa. ui liiuuo uuuj us vnsuum uur. mi, we have no difficulty in understanding who is meant in this book by wisdom. Just as Jesus Christ is both the living personal word and also the written word, so He is wisdom as to His penon and as to Sis utterances. It is no wonder, then, that it is written, *4 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom" (lv? 7). 21. "She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gate*. In the city sbe uttereth her words, saying." The great multitude are in the broad way of self and pelf pleasing, with little or no thought of a hereafter and a day of judgment. They care not for the fact that "whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap," and their only thought is pleasure and prosperity here and now (Math, vii., 13; Gal, v., 7). Wisdom is represented as calling unto them as they hurry along their downward road. 22. ''How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity, and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools bate knowledge?" Simple ones, if they believe the devil, are easily led astray. If they believe Ood, they are easily led aright. If they go astray, they are soon among the scorners and the fools. Yet wisdom loves them and cries unto them: "How long?" "flaw long shail thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?" "clow long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before Me" (Jer. iv., 14; Ex. *..3)? 23. "Turn you at My reproor; oeaoia l will pour out My Spirit unto you; -I will make known-My words untj you." He calls so lovingly, so natiently. so perseveringly. "Come unto Me: return unto the Lord; turn. O backsliding children; take with you words and turn to the Lord." These are some of the many words of the Lord to the erring ones as He entreats them to come unto Him (Isa. lv., 3, 7; Jer. ilL, 1, 7,12, 14; Ho?.xiv.,2). He only ask* us to turn to Him, and He will do all the rest giving His words and His Spirit,. His words whicfL are Spirit and Life (John vl? 63). 24/ "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out My hand, and no man regardedIt does not seem possible that a people who had been so wondrously dealt with could fo treat such love, butthehumau heart Is still the same, and the lame love on His part is turned away from by those to whom His hands are imp oringly stretched out. How is it with you? 25. "But ye have set at naught all . My counsel, and would none of My reproof." They mocked the messengers of Goo, and despised His words, and misused His prophets until th9 wrath of the Lord arose asrainst His people, till there was no remedy. (IT Oaron. zxzvi., 16). They even went so far as to say, "We have made a convenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves" (Isa. xxviii, 15). Like the men before the flood, whose houses God filled with good things, they said unto God/ "Depart from us; wnac can the Almighty do for us" (Job xxii., 15* 18)? 26. "I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh." What soever a man sowetb, that shall he also reap, and he chat soweth the wind shall reap tne whirlwind" (Gal. vi., 7; Hos. viii., 7). Concerning all who take counsel against Hiin it is written, "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision" (Ps. ii., 4), and if His loving invitations are persistently despised we must remember His words, "None of those men which were bidden shall taste of My supper" (Luke xiv., 24). 27. "When your fear cometh as desolation and your destruction as a Whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you." In due time these tnings will come upon all who despise His love and make light of His salvation. Because there is wrath, beware lest He take thee away with His stroke, then a great ransom cannot deliver thee (Job xzxvi., 18). 23. "Then shall' they oall upon Me, but I will not answer; they shall aeak&e early, but they shall not find Me." Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but He will not haar them; He will even hide His faca from them at that time, as they behaved themselves ill in their doings (Mic. iii, 4). He told Jeremiah t'oat the intercession of Mosei ani Samuel could not save the Nation, ani H i told Ezakiel toat the presence of Nnan, Daniel and Job would be of no avail (Jar. xv? 1; Ezsk. xiv,, 14, 20). Sin may become so great that nothing will do but judgment. 29. "For that they hated knowledge and did not choosd the fear of the Lord." They say unto God, Depart from u?, for we desira not the knowledge of Thy ways (Job xxi., 14). The tear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, a foun Jation of life, a great treasure (Prov. i.. 7; ix., 10; xiv., 27; fsa. xxxiii., ? | J ? /1A.I HA 0). -DU6 tuey uau uu ioihcum iui uuu, uu respect for His ways, no gratitude for His ' gifts. The fool says there is no God, and many a one whp would not say this wisoes that there was no God. The carnal mind is enmity against God (Ram. viii., 7). 30. "They would none of My counsel; they despised all My reproof." Our Lord Jesus said that whosoever heard His words, but did them not, was lilce a man buildiug on ? sand, only to have everything swept away (Math, vii., 26, 27). 31. "Therefore, shall they eat of the fruit ot their own way acd be tilled with their own devices." Their own wickedness will correct them and their backsliding reprove them. Hear, 0 earta; behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thougat?, because they have not hearkened unto mv words (Jer. ii.. 19; vL, 19). If people will not receive the truth, God will let them receive delusion and a lie (II Thass. ii., 10-12). Heflimply lets them have their own way, with its consequences, if they insist on having it. 32. "For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them." To turn way from God is to turn one's back on the only source of love and light. It is to choose darkness rather than light (John ill., 1?). 33. "But whoso harkeneth unto Me shall dwell safely aud shall be quiet from fear of evil." What a wonderful salvation our wonderful Lord has provided for His enemies if they will only turn to Him in t.-ue penitence. Life, eternal life, abun lant pardon, forgiveness of all sins, with the assurance of there being no mora rememberiu, an inheritance incorruotlble, a joint heirship with Jesus Christ, with the proui\>a of ali things temporal and spiritual that w? can possibly need.? Lasson Helper. TIPPLING AMONG WOMEN. In its iWdrtmeut of '\-ione an 1 Societr," the New York Tribune, in a recent issu.\ say.-: "A good deai of comment has been ruaae this wiuter on the o&vieus increase of tipplinsj Hinoiijc wo nen of sociecv. and wo uen who delight iu the agreeable stimulus that coampagne gives to their soirits aud conversation sooald beware less thay pass tae Pi.uc)icon and find tni ns^lv^s viccims of a moat terribie disease. ' The sanu paragraphias quotes ''a tnan of tn* world" as asking: '*Uo you Know the difference between the English woman who ilriuKS too much and the American woo Moe-i the sime?" an i li9 mowers nis owa question ny saytuij: { " rhu RmHijIl dmnnilois It brutallv frailldv. I and is a \$ood teilon' anion? men, an 1 she eituer doe^ not care to conceal it or could not if she wou d; whereas to an Americiu it luvariaolv causes tremen^us djpressijn of spirits, vr icn gives an exous? to ttie laruily doctor to ca 1 it by any nam i he like?." in Certain society circ!e< of the fast an I extra .rashioivibJe type rhern U t.io :nu : i ream i t.? fear that uae Tribuui's representation of increasing urtnking uattits a nong wo nen is true, its warning agiinst passing tho Ruoicon in toy matter ot caanipun-) ilrinKin; ruay well hj mide to rsad against tampering with alcoholic beverages of any kind at any time.?National Temperance Advocate. NOT A DRUNKEN 11U33ELHAN*. Mahomot's injunction against the U3e ot anient spirits is so well obeyed, eved at this late clay, that it is an extremely rare sight to see a drunken Mussulman. A lady who has been mak.n^ a tour ot Egypt, says that during a long stay in Cairo none of her party saw an intoxicated man. Slie says that she asked her dragoman it! he ever under any provocation indulged in scion j drink, and he answure 1: '*IC my wife were dying and the doccor ordered her to tase brandy and sha died wit& that brandy ia her stomach UoJ would not receive her in heaven." 1 ' / FASHIONS FOR GHILOREN. ! 3 * C [LLUSTBATED SUGGESTIONS OP : , ( What to Make For the Little Ones. J Sailor Suits For Small Boys. 6 t t. 0^ UCH arc the possibil * /GV i*?>? . ities of dyeing and ??li1'-r^y cleaning processes e V&y -s * that a woman may _ 2? -j) indulge in the rich- _ est and most delicate . fabrics, and know ? k'-ffiigBiPs* t'iat 9^e *3 n0^ only ? . tbe better dressed ; S^^Sssl therefore. hnt that c is actually economicaL When she does buy a gown it V*%; ~ will be of a light col- , ^ or, and usually of V some novelty goods of the best quality. She i will always nave a recoureeful wardrobe, l and will nave plenty of solid color in light j! and darvk dresses. She will never be at a loss Tor a gown, and will always have yards and yards of soft crepe stuffs for * draping. The things that she has on hand always match or harmonize with other things. Each neat little bundle tells iust the possibilities of the stuff inside and that it ."goes ' with" such and such another stuffy She { never nas a thing cleaned the color of which DRESS FOB GIRL OF 4 OR 5 TEARS. is not available with something already on 1 hand. The unavailable odd bits and yards < nil cm intn'thp '-black baa." and when l there is enough for the gown or cloak, or 1 botb, she happens to want, away it is sent i to the dyers and comes oat black, with 1 feathers and ribbon enough, and even stockings and gloves, to make one of hex lovely black "confections." Another time worn expedient for utilizing old materials which worn or soiled in parts < is to make them over for children's gar - -PIE sailor's suit. ments. Some of my readers may infer from these illustrations that I am leading up tc that method,but the garments are described so that each can be made at home, and the maker can suit her own taste and purse witt most of them in the source of her material; The pretty crocheted jacket which the babe of the initial wears is made of white zephyi wool and trimmed with a pink border. Th? jacket is begun at the bottom of the bacl above the colored border by foundatior loops of the required length, and then crocheted back and forth, one single crochet and one loop. The single crochets are pu1 in every second foundation loop, then ic every loop. At the top each part is crochet m DRES3 FOR LITTLE OIRL3 OF 4 TO 8 YEARS. ed alone, but attention mnst be paid to the pointed opening. When the ironts are finished about eight rcws are crocheted to the necK, wmcn torms tno toundation for the sailor color. In every loop must be put two single crochets and tnis must be continued to the outer edge of the collar, which is crocheted in one with the jacket. From there the fronts and back are continued in addition to the collar. The border is composed of five rows of pink and six of white zephyr. Careful attention must be given to the corners where the stitcher are gained. When the back and fronts are done they are joined, commencing four inches from the bottom, but sufficient spnce should be left for the sleeve. The latter is crocheted around and around into this ODenins: and Jhe border is the same as that on the jacket. The hist row of the white is made of picots and the same edge is put all around the jacket. It is tied with astrsti.t and casaels of pink zephyr. The srring is made of chain stitches and Is 12V inches iti length. A dress for a little girl of 4 or 5, having a blouse at once easy to make and comfortable for the wearer is to be seen in the next sketch. It is of tartan cloth in red and blue with straw colored stripes. The blouse is red cloth embroidered with straw colpred twist. It is particularly suitable tor scnwt wear. Saiior's suits are so often selected for email boys that there in little of novelty in them, but fhev nlwavs have a dressy look, pas jo Xi-m-iba b a.\Bq 0} aoucqo u apaojjn luatuaiiiiKijn stqj, utj[[od aqi q}aau japan suoutiq auu t{jia\ asnojq aq; 01 suaj -sbj pun "3-fooi si uojjs?![i1 aqj, -pm?q ipati aqi 01 pauouuq aq u?o pun asoof st j?[ -;oo aqj, -no rfuuuul tit tuoi Sutaq jt siiia* -atd pus 'A|qtRiAtii pattojinq sr qotq.u \iiq -pa aqi .wo[?iq i||s t? s?q astiorq aqj uontuj -snju aqj tuoij tiajs aq lit a 'PDsnja tj}t.n vtxs ?qj tfr paiaqjM pan putflf ?qj mo to ?nd st pan'sauwaqj japan ?[ao sraBas mq njioqs aao oqi jo ?enojq aqx bmohb/ Hjjil mp 9q; jo mbj 3jo*f uopBjtrat 93*01 >1 ' iajBJi 3q? aodn suos Jtaq} jo iqtfnoqj aqi f? iujbj qsotniB pidom oqM 'aiaqjom Atnna )s ep89[ ?sq? pvj siqj aq jstinx 11 -ajqaaotA las i[a/ijaa 'a? iaqiw iauu?add? ajtq*. ilaatrons. The trousers are trimmed with ;old buttons. There is a di ess for a little girl from four o eight years old in the fourth picture, agd line woolen stuff vould be a good material --M or it, with the yoke and sleeves of red and >lue plaid. It is more dressy than my other xample of the mixture of tartan and plain aaterial, being a little more elaborate, bat lot much more difficult to make. It would ie equally as pretty if velvet took the place if the plaid in the yoke and sleeves, bat the 'eivet should be black or several shades larker than the woolen goods. NEW STYLE OF GIRLS CLOAK. '>. -v.: For the little maid who rebels against ? ireenaway a dear little cloak is made, foe ust this season. The broad-waisted bodiot Its smoothly and is a little short-waistod .M Phe skirt of the cloak falls fall from it jaat ') >elow the kaees. The sleeves are fall and ^ _ j^ wp . | c snd at the wrist in a round caff. Any soft _ 'A Mshmere in bright red. or clear green,i? the f: & jroper goods.. The bodice is embroidered '* jtifF with close black braiding. The skirt md sleeves are accordeon pleated, and the ' :nffs are braided to match the bodice. The ~ latter is lined with a bright contrasting silk f green has been chosen for the cool, or trixh black if red is the color. With ' the :loak the dearest little bonnet, jost Qke the jld-fashioned pictures, can be worn; one ;hat fits close about the face and that has a :ouple of quaint bows at the top, and the s' >h jottom in the back, to say nothing of the . J >ne nnder the chin. The bonnet qhoold natch the color of the cloak.* The little feet shonld hare solid and low-heeled shoes. ! '?'j md stockings must, of coarse, be blsck,ana warm, that the ankles may not be cold. A Handsome Public Document. : fSSl Secretary Oresham and J. A. W. Grip, the Swedish Minister, recently exDenartment in. VS %mw -?v _____ , ? , . Washington, ratified copies of the extra* dition treaty between the United States ind Sweden, concluded on January 14 {, :f4 last. The copy presented by Mr. Orip if /i altogether the handsomest and moat in* v'fjf trinaically valuable document in the (X archives of the department. The text . ^ of the treaty (which is in, English and not in French, the common language ot diplomacy) is printed on the finest parchment. The ratification and certification preceding and succeeding the text are engrossed in fancy script and *: s-i signed by the King in a plain, round hand, "Oscac." The countersignature ' aT| isbyC. Lewenbaupt, the Minhrter of v j Foreign Affairs. The parchment is bound in leaves of heavy cardboard, covered with the richest of royal purple velvet, and lined with heavy watered silk. Across the inside of each leaf lie two bands of | vari- colored ribbon. The great seal of > state is embossed over two cords of giit, silver, red and blue strands, terminating in tassels of the same. The seal is of red wax, inches in diameter and half an inch thick.' It is inclosed in a silver case, on the face of which a gold fac 1 simile Of the coat of arms of Sweden it . ? engraved in high relief. The whole if - Inclosed in a white-birch box, polished to the highest degree, and fastened with brass clasps.?New York Times. Artificially Colored Flower?. Aniline-scarlet, dissolved in water to about the transparency of claret, his a very rapid action on flowers, coloring them pink and scarlet. Indigo-carmine produces beautiful blue tints. The two combined dye various shades of purple, with curious mottled effects, some parta of the flowers becoming pink and other parts blue and purple. Greens are produced by U3ing the blue dye with yellow, ladigo and cochineal are not very satisfactory. JAmong some of the effects produced are the following: Lily-ofthe-valley flowers became beautifully tinged with pink or blue in six hours; narcissuses are changed from pure white to deep scarlet in twelve hours, and delicate shades of pink are imparted to them in a very short time. Yellow Hnffiviila are beautifullv striped with dark scarlet ia twelve hours; the edges of the corona also become deeply tinged, and the reining of '.he perianth strongly marked- It is well to note that it ia by the passage of the colored dotations through the vascular tissue of the flow era that the effect is produced; and the effect is beautifully seen in white tulips, which in a few hours become prettilymarked with pink, blue or whatever the color of the solution may be.?London Gardeners' Chronicle. t ???? ^ Distribution ot Foreigners. Generalizing regarding the leading , Nationalities, it may be broadly stated that the Irish are found mainly in New York. The Germans are widely distributed, mainly in the cities from New York through the Northern States to the Dakotas. The Italians live mainly in the Northeastern States and in New Orleans. The Scandinavians are found mainly in Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas. The Hungarians, Bohemeians and Poles are found mainly iu the ?reat cities and in the mining regions of the North. The French Canadians have swarmed over the border into New Eagland and New York, where they have largely replaced the Irish as faciory banda.?St. Louis Republic. A French statistician figures oat that in 3,000 years man will be but fifteen inches high. It is quite possible. Even now, men not infrequently find themselves becomingalarmingly short Fifty-six children were killed by folding beds in New York City ;asfc year. Here is an opportunity fur tha baeoilli man to suggest a remedy.